Xia Yibing had been watching in a daze ever since she squatted down and started doing the trick. Seeing this, she finally couldn't help laughing. She said, "Let me help you," and then she stepped forward, held the girl's buttocks, and raised her hand to send her up.
Then, grabbing her slender and delicate black silk ankles under Hitzfeld's shy gaze, and gently stroking them while secretly marveling at her to help her take off her shoes, Xia Yibing finally decided to let her go and let the girl pull up her two black silk feet.
"I'm not so confused as to figure out the situation." Xia Yibing was dissatisfied.
Except that I couldn't control myself at first, but that was because I was afraid you would leave me. When did I ever cross the line when I was doing something serious? Don't I always do something serious when I should be doing it, and only play with you when I don't have anything to do?
"It's not that I don't trust you." Hitzfeld didn't care about her and took off his coat and used it as a blanket to cover his whole body. "Tomorrow there may be a big movement. I advise you to get some sleep."
I'm not like you, who often stays up all day and sleeps the next day. It's common for Shadow Lion Agent to stay up for two days in a row.
Xia Yibing is 28 years old this year, at the peak of human physical strength and energy. She is also a transcendent, and her spiritual power is naturally stronger than others. Not to mention two days, even a week is not impossible. But she thought about it, this kind of "serious", "somewhat solemn atmosphere", "two people alone in an office and sleeping together" opportunity seems to be the first time she has had it.
Then she didn't hesitate and followed Hitzfeld's example by making a newspaper bed for herself on the floor...she then raised one end to act as a pillow, turned off the lights and lay down on it.
You know what, this softness is really comfortable.
She was afraid that the girl would catch a cold, so she got up and took her coat hanging on the hanger to cover her, but she found that she was not asleep yet.
"Is there anything else you want to say?"
As someone who knew her temper well, Xia Yibing knew that she must be thinking about the entire case at this moment.
"I told Alvin what I was thinking when I found her earlier."
Hitzfeld accepted the coat meekly, tucking it up by the collar, leaving only his head sticking out.
"She said that she chose to trust Count Jiyang no matter what. She believed in her comrades who had faced the evil god side by side. But I still feel..."
After a pause, Hitzfeld took a look at the box that had been re-chained, and swallowed the rest of his words.
"Are you under too much pressure?" Xia Yibing guessed that she would only worry about this kind of thing. "Are you afraid that you will make a wrong judgment?"
Yes, before, Aisuen was just a detective. At most, she was an agent, a specially dispatched detective. Then the judgments she made and the things that her decisions could affect were actually very limited.
Although she has broken through this limitation and saved the country many times with her determination and perseverance, the pressure she felt then was different from now.
Now she was a count, and her authority over confidential files was even higher than hers. She had a powerful investigation department in her hands, and she could directly mobilize the lower-level agents of the Security Bureau and the Review Team.
Coupled with Alwin's trust, this is really giving her power, and at the same time putting the heavy responsibility of the country on her shoulders.
Just like a few days ago, she not only went to the White Shadow Palace to have a secret talk with the king, and not only arranged a trap plan for Amora Doria, she also transferred a group of people from her own hands and the review team. Even Xia Yibing didn't know what she deployed these people to do.
So many lives are at stake...it's normal for her to be nervous, right?
How should I comfort her?
"It's not what you think."
But what surprised her was that Hitzfeld not only saw through her thoughts, but also seriously denied them word for word.
"I have never regretted any of the inferences I made during this operation." She heard the girl's firm voice, "Now that I have the power, I can no longer back down... I am willing to take responsibility for all of this. I have already thought about this."
"then you……"
"I'm just not sure if this is fair to Alwyn."
Hitzfeld lowered his eyes.
"I actually came here tonight... with some hope to verify it."
"I hope I'm wrong, and I hope I can overturn my previous inferences."
"but none."
"I just... don't want to see what's going to happen in the future."
Ah, she is saying something that is unclear but sounds powerful.
Sighing helplessly, the woman climbed up in the dark, lifted a corner of her coat and crawled in.
“Eh…! What…what are you doing up here!?”
"Don't move!"
The coat squirmed in the darkness, as if a small animal was struggling inside, but it was quickly subdued by the hunter, who held it tightly, unable to move.
"Are you still worried?"
"Uh... ah?"
Hitzfeld was hugged tightly from behind by the woman, with a dazed look on his face.
But it seems to be true.
Although it is very crowded to sleep like this, the extra body temperature can gradually calm my restless heart.
"If you think you are right, don't hesitate."
Xia Yibing murmured sleepily.
"Stop imagining this, okay?"
"Rest quickly."
There was another stir in the darkness, and then silence gradually returned.
The little blood crystal crow squatted on the top of the bookcase next to her and witnessed the whole process. She said nothing, but there was a hint of nostalgia in her eyes.
……
The next day, it was still dark.
Leon felt that Ebony Dodge and Rose Dodge did it on purpose, because the day agreed to hold the art exhibition happened to be on Sunday, and Wayne was shrouded in darkness for the whole day.
Is it to use this darkness to contain the Mechanical Sun? After all, the Mechanical Sun needs to be launched at this time, which will inevitably consume His Majesty's energy and to a certain extent prevent the Mechanical Sun from being used for other purposes.
“Basically everything has been investigated.”
A dusty middle-aged man suddenly rushed into the office, threw a telegram to Li Ang, picked up his cup and drank the water in big gulps.
"The Boca Chamber of Commerce has been vigorously supporting social welfare organizations since a year and a half ago. Dumont Punkville serves as the vice president of several foundations, and they have secretly engaged in illegal transactions with many nobles and officials, including but not limited to providing them with controlled weapons, smuggling artworks, and even helping them to illegally mint coins... Wait, illegal coinage?"
Li Ang was shocked after reading the contents of the telegram.
What the hell?
How dare you touch this kind of thing?
"They can't come up with the same level of alloy technology, but we can still imitate 70% of it."
The middle-aged man, Ethan, put down the cup.
"I think there is a spy inside, otherwise the process would not be so easily leaked... Even if I teach them step by step, they may not be able to replicate it, but this matter is very strange, very strange."
"Also, let me tell you that the Delita riot a few years ago was also secretly funded by the Boca Chamber of Commerce. Nearly 70% of their ships went to Talignan from that canal. I guess they must have discovered a gold mine somewhere in the west, otherwise such a large flow of gold would not have been discovered by the tree people."
"Are you going to tell me that they are using Delita for experiments?" Leon said in astonishment.
"And why are you here?"
Shouldn't this old guy be going on vacation?
"Someone needs me, so I'm here."
Ethan patted him on the shoulder and forced a smile that could be described as grim.
"And...where is Miss Bena-Laurence?"
"Those people are already gathering. It's time to send this person to the exhibition."
Chapter 92: Art Exhibition (Part 2)
Fast forward half an hour, in the reception room on the third floor of Barish's mansion on the outskirts of the city, Lulun Barish, the kingdom's finance minister, was receiving an elegant lady.
Baliu Cornerel, her origins are a mystery in the family intelligence. All we know is that she suddenly married a Shadow Lion agent who betrayed the family. The other party was once Cornerel's man. Some people suspect that the reason why she parted ways with her family was because of this woman.
Now that we know the background, there is no need to ask about the other party's intention.
"You are here for Earl Dodge, right, Madam?" Lu Lun frowned, trying his best to maintain his good manners. "Whether it is the Security Bureau or the Review Team, you have been visiting me quite often during this period... You even did some extremely rude things here, which can be regarded as insulting to an ancient noble, but I endured them all."
"But now that you are here again... As Mrs. Cornerel, I can't help but ask whether the Security Bureau intends to send someone to live here? To monitor my every move and that of my family members?"
"Don't be nervous, Mr. Barish." Bariu was not moved by his sentimentality at all. She picked up the teacup with both hands and drank the hot tea in small sips. "I am just here to ask you a few questions on behalf of someone else. I will leave after I finish asking you. I will not stay any longer."
She had the blessing of the ancient nether fruit tree, and was not afraid of any toxic nutrients. She dared to drink the clone of the little water man directly, so why would she be afraid of Barry poisoning her tea?
"Problem?" Lu Lun frowned, "What kind of problem is it?"
If the other party really answered "Yes, I am here to guard your house", he would feel more at ease, because that means the Security Bureau has not found anything and still needs to waste manpower here.
But now that Baliu acted so decisively, he suddenly became nervous and began to wonder if he had made any mistakes in the past few days.
What will she ask me?
During this period of investigation, they even caught that brat Lang En. Now the whole circle knows that Lu Lun slept with the maid in the family. Needless to say, Barish will definitely become the laughing stock of the whole city because of this.
As for the countermeasures... Lu Lun could only say that it was fortunate that the future policy he had previously formulated was to retreat and defend the status quo.
It was for this reason that he submitted his resignation to the White Shadow Palace ahead of schedule, just before the scandal of the illegitimate child broke out and the Barish family was dragged into this crazy political turmoil.
This is really a blessing, because if I hadn't caught up with this step, I would definitely not be able to hand in my resignation. By then, the accusations and infamy Barish would be ten times more severe than now... unless Rose and the others can really succeed.
"First question, I want to know why I have been here for so long, and you have taken me to so many places, but I have never seen your most outstanding eldest son? That Heltim?"
Baliu's first question made Lu Lun's face turn black.
It was not because he was petty and thought that the other party's description of "eldest son" was a mockery of him, but because he really didn't know where Heltim was now.
The eldest son... yes... his eldest son, his eldest son, his favorite and most promising Heltim, seemed like a different person when he came back a few days ago. Upon further questioning, it turned out that he had secretly read the secret letter that Rose had written to him.
Then he must have known all this. This child has been fond of daydreaming since he was young, and he does things in an unsystematic and unorganized manner. It is hard to imagine how he would view this matter after excessive contact with Rose. Lu Lun feels deeply uneasy about this.
In fact, it was for Heltim's sake that he was holding on.
He understood it all... How could he not understand it? In a country like Sara, facing such a situation, Barish, who had no power at all, was intervening in the reform... This was simply cutting off his retreat!
After reading the secret letter, his first thought was that Rose was crazy. How could she... How could she deny everything that countless people had done to build the country over the past few hundred years from that perspective? How could she just say "I think all this is meaningless" so casually?
No matter what her reasons and certainty were, the longer this matter was delayed - he meant that if Barish did not confess all the information he knew to Shadow Lion as soon as possible - the longer it was delayed, the more disadvantageous it would be for Barish's future.
He should have turned himself in. He should have told the woman in front of him everything.
No! He should have done this even a few days ago. When facing her husband, when facing the agent named Li Ang, he should have done this and he should have said it earlier!
But when he thought about the person who disappeared, most likely Heldim who was with Rose, he couldn't make up his mind.
Young people usually have to pay a price for their youth, he knows this, he was young once too.
But Heltim, the price he pays may be his own life.
"Feeling embarrassed?" Baliu tilted her head, apparently reading Lu Lun's answer from the silence.
She was not in a hurry. She just glanced at the clock and continued, "Then let's move on to the next question... Based on the clues we have so far, we found that even after the separation, Mrs. Dodge still maintained a good relationship with Barish."
"That's it."
Lu Lun nodded hurriedly, as if trying to make some kind of rescue.
"She has a good brain... For some issues that don't involve government affairs, I will discuss them with her."
If he had not submitted his resignation, he would not have dared to say so.
"Resigning voluntarily" and "being fired for being useless" are two different things. What will others think if this gets out... As the head of finance, he doesn't even have the ability to make independent decisions when managing a small family. How can we expect him to manage the country's finances?
But it doesn't matter now.
Now he can say that.
"Did Mrs. Dodge ever tell you which people Count Dodge has 'particularly good' relationships with?" Barriu asked, emphasizing the latter word.
Lu Lun frowned.
He hesitated again.
He wasn't sure if he could say such a thing.
"enough--!"
"Lon, what are you doing...come back here!"
There was a noise coming from outside the corridor, which seemed to be mixed with the sounds of quarrels and objects colliding and breaking.
"Don't think I'll keep quiet! That's enough! Can't you see? He's leading everyone to death!"
Rushing in while yelling, Lang En immediately pointed at his biological father.
