"I only know that this tree was planted during the reign of King Kochani. The Baimu in reality became extinct much earlier. They chose this place to plant it in order to protect the seeds they dug out from the ruins with great difficulty."
"Then?"
"And as you can see, this Baimu tree is growing very well."
The boy looked up at the dense crown of the white tree.
"For Bai Mu to grow from bud to maturity, if there is sufficient spiritual nourishment, it will only take one year at the fastest. And this tree has been growing for nearly fifty years."
"In the past fifty years, it has participated in the flowering season every year. Do you see those white buds? ... Bai Mu blooms twice a year, once in spring and once in late autumn. Soon it will bloom again and spread its seeds."
"Then why..." Hitzfeld hesitated to speak, then why was Bai Mu so small?
"Because they can't survive." The boy smiled. "I don't know the reason... but the reality is that in the past fifty years, the big white mu has been sowing seeds on the land. Logically, this is the most popular place, and the small white mu should grow quickly and become a forest early, but the reality is what you see."
"Those saplings are the seeds it sowed during the spring flowering period. If nothing unexpected happens, they will all wither and die before the next flowering period."
This is truly unheard of.
Hitzfeld was surprised to hear this, she had never known such a phenomenon existed.
Of course - she had read a lot of books, but she didn't know everything. There were things in the world that she didn't know, so she was always willing to be humble to knowledgeable people.
Like this student, she can barely be considered a teacher and professor in Mengcheng, but this is not the attitude a teacher should have towards students.
"You know a lot." It was Xia Yibing who spoke up. She looked at the long-haired boy carefully and asked, "What's your name? Whose family are you from?"
Subconsciously, she was used to asking. Because of this appearance and his extraordinary conversation, she had the impression that he could only be a descendant of a wealthy family.
"Lon Barish," the boy answered, looking up at Hitzfeld.
"If I'm not mistaken, this person must be the legendary Aisuen Hitzfeld, the Count of Xieyang just conferred by His Majesty..."
"I just did something." Hitzfeld frowned slightly.
She would not feel happy if her achievements were directly boasted about because she has seen too many victims.
I, who am still alive, am praised, but what about those who are dead?
They should obviously be given higher rewards and the courage to sacrifice, but in the end many of them are destined to be forgotten.
She didn't even have the ability to clear the grievances of some of them, and she felt heavy-hearted when she thought about it.
There is also a difference in praise.
"Wait, you are Barish?" Xia Yibing raised her eyebrows, "Who is your father? Lu Lun?"
"Lulon Barish is indeed my father."
"Are you an extraordinary person?"
"Since I appear in this place, there is no need to ask about my identity."
"So you passed the review and have officially registered..." Xia Yibing murmured to herself, "I did hear that Barish has a younger son besides Heldim, but I didn't expect him to be so...young."
Young indeed.
The boy has extremely fair and tender skin. If he is not gifted with extraordinary talent, he can only have such a feminine face at the age of 14 or 5.
But in other words, he is a 14 or 5 year old extraordinary person, and he seems to be quite knowledgeable.
Doesn't Barish have excellent descendants? Why have I never heard Lu Lun brag about it?
Xia Yibing knew Lu Lun. As the director of security, she often dealt with nobles. It was not that she had to attend those salon cocktail parties...but some of the parties were hosted by the royal family, so she always had to go. After a few times, she became familiar with them.
I remember that Lu Lun always complained to others about how stupid and useless his son Hailtim was.
Now it seems that either this young man named Lang En has a problem with his background, or he is deliberately showing weakness.
If you tell others that the next generation of Barish is a waste, then naturally you won’t be targeted.
This is indeed different from other places. If people show weakness in other places, they will be eaten by many vicious parties, but the people of Wayne have their own pride and disdain to kill everyone.
"I know what you are curious about."
The young man sent a sentence in a light voice.
"Because my mother is a stolen 'race'."
what did he say?
Both of them were shocked.
Both for the truth and for the insensitive audacity of this child.
"My mother was born into a low-class family, and her elders were bought to work as servants in a mansion. But she was unwilling to let this continue for generations, so she found a way to steal my father's race... and that's how I was born."
"So you shouldn't have heard of me."
"Not only my father, but everyone there is ashamed of me."
"you……"
Xia Yibing paused.
"You tell everyone that?"
"No, but I trust Count Xiyang."
"You're quite interesting." Hitzfeld smiled and continued, "You said just now that this tree was planted during the time of Kochani?"
"Yes."
"Do you know who planted it?"
"Yes." Lang En nodded. "It was King Charuni when he was young."
"How do you know about this?" Xia Yibing frowned.
It was so long ago, and it was just such a trivial, private matter!
Even Alvin might not know, so how could he, a mere kid, know?
"Because King Charuni and another person planted it together."
"Another person? Who?"
"Richard Barish."
Ron stared up at the treetops.
“They planted it together.”
Chapter 52: Barish's Lost Pearls - One and Two in One
"My family doesn't like me, but apart from a few places that I'm strictly prohibited from going to, I'm free in other aspects."
Perhaps Lang En sensed their curiosity, so he paused and began to explain why he knew this secret.
"This freedom includes access to the study, which is very large and filled with all the books collected and accumulated since the rise of the Barrish family. Among them are the handwritten notes left by Richard Barrish, which allowed me to know this past event."
"Tell me in detail." Hitzfeld said to him in a polite but unyielding tone, "As compensation, I can give you some rewards."
"Reward?" Ron frowned.
"Money, land, and property deeds." Xia Yibing crossed his arms and said, "You can even become famous. We have ways to help you with that. But don't even think about other things. I'm afraid we can't do anything about it."
According to what Lang En said before, his mother stole Lu Lun's "race" to give birth to him. Doesn't that mean he is an illegitimate child, and the kind that cannot stand the light of day.
This statement has its origins. If Hitzfeld gives an example, she would say that it is similar to running a company in modern society. Even if the boss of the company is greedy for the body of a subordinate in the company, he cannot do anything about it.
Once this kind of thing is done, it means that personal feelings and official duties are confused. It is inevitable that the lover in private life will get convenience when working in the same field as the person. This kind of unfair promotion by physical attraction will have a bad influence on other employees, causing managers to follow suit and greatly undermine the work enthusiasm of those employees who only want to promote by ability.
The same is true for family management - there are many illegitimate children among Wayne nobles, which was originally prohibited by law, but the country is in urgent need of population, and the various departments are actually turning a blind eye to illegitimate children and extramarital affairs. Unless it is too much trouble, most of them will not care.
In this case, Ron, as an illegitimate child, and an excellent illegitimate child, was hidden by his family. The real reason was that his mother broke a taboo: servants could not sleep in the master's bed.
The petty nobles and local tycoons in the countryside may not care about such rules, but this is the case in Wayne.
The Barish family is considered a prominent family. If the story about Lang En were to spread, people would despise his mother and think that Lu Lun was indecent.
After all, you said it was a "stolen race", but that's just what you said. Who knows what the truth is?
A master who would lay hands on a maid at home, even if it was just a possibility, would be considered a great disgrace in this circle. At the very least, Barish might be despised and excluded. At worst, if the king was among the excluded people, then at least within this generation of royal rule, they would never be able to get any important position again.
But Lang En was definitely unwilling to accept this.
Such a young extraordinary person, with extensive knowledge and a calm mind, guessed her identity the moment she saw me and Aisuen... maybe he even guessed my identity.
Being so outstanding, is he willing to be an invisible man?
Most likely he would not agree, so Xia Yibing guessed that he must have something in mind. Combined with the fact that he had been calling "Earl Xiyang" since he appeared, and his focus was either on the tree or on Aisuen, it can be further guessed that he might want to surrender.
In this case, what she said made sense.
There is both a promise of what he desires and a warning that he might have other ideas.
If you want to break free from the shackles, you can. If Barish's family affairs get out of hand, it has nothing to do with me, and I'm not afraid of their revenge.
But you'd better keep a straight attitude and don't let your imagination run wild just because Count Xiyang is young and handsome.
"..." Hitzfeld was extremely speechless listening to this.
It's not that this is wrong... I'm of course happy that you care about me so much... but this attitude is a little...
I did my own haircut, so I can't blame him for that. I told James about this semi-publicly in the car, and I think it was about time to do that, so I can't blame him for that.
But isn’t it too outrageous to be like this when meeting someone?
It feels weird...
It’s hard to tell whether I feel more embarrassed or happy.
"I just want to be able to use my talents." Ron forced a smile.
Considering his always light tone, it's hard to tell whether he was laughing like that originally.
"If you want to know about this past, I'll tell you."
Then he paused, as if he was organizing his memories and words, and continued, "The notes did not have specific dates marked on them, and they looked old and dilapidated. If I had not been patient enough to read them word by word and infer the names of some key figures, I would probably not have realized that they were actually written by my legendary great-grandfather."
Hitzfeld couldn't help but frown when he heard this.
In just a few sentences, the amount of information contained was not small at all. This incident at least showed that the people in the Barish family did not like to read books, otherwise it would be impossible for such an important item to be left randomly and still be easily found by Lang En.
Anyway, it's impossible to replace her. The lady left her quite a few books, but they have been almost all read by her till today. Some books have even been read by her three times.
"King Kochani succeeded to the throne late, but he was not late in having children. Long before he disappeared and met with disaster, he had a total of four children."
Lang En continued his light tone, "King Charuni is the youngest child. According to my great-grandfather's description in his notebook, he is very playful and has tried everything in the White Shadow Palace. He even saw the two trees in the middle of the aisle and strung them together with soft vines, hanging on them and swinging back and forth like a monkey."
Hitzfeld: “…”
Xia Yibing: “…”
They recalled the old king's aged and thin face and could not reconcile this description with that image.
Through Langen's continued speech, in his description, King Charuni had a difficult childhood - this was actually because his mother died early, and he was too young to know how to deal with sadness correctly, so he could only act naughty, which was essentially a hope to get the love of other relatives.
But King Kochani did not see this, and neither did Charuni's brothers. They were either busy governing the country, handling government affairs, or taking small lessons from various famous teachers. They were either practicing swords today or shooting tomorrow, and had no time to pay attention to little Charuni.
"You can't blame His Majesty Kochani," Long En concluded, "because during the reign of King Kochani, the chaos in the country was extremely rampant."
"I know that the real large-scale evil disasters began to break out after King Charuni ascended the throne, but before that, although there were not so many, not so large, and not necessarily caused by humans, there were still a lot of troubles."
"We understand." Hitzfeld interrupted him, "...you don't have to go into so much detail."
Governing a country is not easy, let alone the evil disaster in this damn place of Sara. It would be equally troublesome in modern times without evil disasters.
"No! This is very important!" Unexpectedly, Lang En changed his tone and sounded extremely solemn. "This is related to why I want to approach you, Miss Countess."
"Oh?" Hitzfeld's eyebrows jumped. "Go on."
"During the reign of King Kochani, Sara was actually experiencing a currency crisis," said Langen.
"Currency crisis - do you understand this concept? The country has been in existence, and Sara had been established for nearly a hundred years. During this century, the value of the Sera gold banknotes has actually experienced very drastic fluctuations."
Hitzfeld could also understand this.
After all, she has received modern education... Even if the textbooks are relatively superficial, it is enough for her to have a basic understanding of the concept of monetary economics.
But Xia Yibing was at a loss. When Lang En said the word "currency crisis", Hitzfeld noticed that the woman's eyes widened significantly.
This couldn't be blamed on Xia Yibing. The knowledge she had been exposed to since she was a child was either swordplay or investigation skills. Economics? Was that something a Shadow Lion agent should be in charge of?
She looked a little funny... and a little cute... Hitzfeld couldn't help but help explain: "Because the value of the Sera gold note can't actually be anchored to gold."
