Chapter 261 Are all immortal witches so curly now?
There was a sigh above her head, and then a hug wrapped around Chris.
Lin Xi didn't say anything.
She felt the girl in her arms trembling, and sighed again that human experiments were a heinous crime.
She could tell whether the little girl was crying sincerely or not. If she was so sad but not acting coquettishly, she must be crying sincerely.
Fake crying makes people laugh and cry, while real crying makes people feel more pity.
"Chris..." she said, patting her on the back. "Don't worry, Karasuma Renya's wish won't come true. I told you, he's almost buried, and his death is near."
"Even after the human experiments..."
She was about to say that there wouldn't be another one, but then she thought of something, paused, and changed her words: "It won't appear for a long time."
"I know, sir..." Chris sniffed and secretly wiped her tears onto Lin Xi's pajamas. "Your will is my wish. I will work hard to achieve what you hope for. I will be your strength..."
"Then I hope Chris is happy and strong enough to take charge of her own life," Lin Xi said. "What I want to do isn't important; what you want to do is what matters most."
Chris's tears flowed even harder.
Mr. Ghost is so cunning... Even if she said that, Chris would still want to fulfill her wish.
He had his own purpose for everything he did, whether it was asking the nobles to help introduce servants or taking her out of the research institute.
Chris had to do something for her, and this time she was no longer forced - Mr. Ghost wanted her to do it willingly.
Chris wiped her tears on Lin Xi's clothes again.
Lin Xi felt helpless.
If this continues, she'll have to change into her pajamas.
Fortunately, the little girl calmed down after a while.
Only the tear marks and red nose proved that she had cried before.
"Sir," she said calmly, "if the second young master of the Karasuma family you favor is truly capable, he wouldn't miss the opportunity to place spies in your home. So, I'm going to show my panic and fear. While I await further instructions from the eldest young master's group, I also need to let the second young master's people notice something's amiss and lure him out to contact me."
"This will help me mediate between the two factions and give me the opportunity to interact with the Second Young Master. You think highly of him, so I'm sure he's a smart man. I'll appear smart enough to him so he'll take me seriously."
"Will you cooperate with me, sir?"
"Of course." Lin Xi nodded and said, "Little Chris is amazing."
Chris was suddenly praised and pursed her lips. She couldn't help but act coquettishly towards Lin Xi again: "Sir, I haven't done anything yet!"
"If I do what you want me to do, will there be any reward?"
Shui Yingying, who had just cried, stared at Lin Xi with her blue eyes, like a cloudless sky.
Lin Xi couldn't help but smile, "What do you want?"
"I want you to stay with me all the time."
The water-blue eyes held a hint of stubbornness.
Lin Xi was silent for a moment and sighed: "I promise you, little Chris, I will always be with you before I leave."
Chris was a little annoyed.
What do you mean by accompanying her before leaving...isn't this a complete refusal to agree?
She understood that she must not have enough chips.
"I can do more for you." She said seriously, "I can do everything, and I will definitely be able to get you to accompany me!"
Lin Xi's mouth twitched.
Why does this sound so strange?
Also, how would she explain to Chris that not everything in this world is a business, and not everything can be obtained through exchange?
Finally, she just gently changed the subject: "Chris, now you should do another important thing."
"Hmm? What's up?"
"You should go to bed." Lin Xi looked at the dark circles under Chris's eyes and said helplessly, "Postpone today's lessons until tomorrow. Go get some rest first... I'll call you for lunch."
Chris chuckled, nodded obediently, put her arms around Lin Xi's neck and gave her a kiss.
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Kitchen.
Seeing the maid passing by with a bouquet of flowers, the pastry chef who was preparing desserts in the kitchen asked curiously, "Where did you get the flowers?"
"Ah, the young lady asked me to throw this away." The maid said with a little regret, "What a beautiful flower, it's still in full bloom."
"Don't you like it, miss?"
"Yes, she clearly liked it when the master visited the garden with her before..."
The pastry chef put down his tools and wiped his hands. "I think it's a bit of a shame, too. How about you go ahead and do your work? I'll put this flower in the kitchen and throw it away for you when it's completely withered?"
"Eh? But if the young lady sees this, will she be angry..."
"The young lady won't come to the kitchen unless the master wants to cook again." The pastry chef had already reached out and took the bouquet from the maid's hand. "Okay, you can go back to your work and leave the flowers to me. When you're done, you can come to the kitchen to see the flowers."
The maid nodded gratefully.
After watching the maid leave, the pastry chef opened the bouquet and took out the rolled-up paper inside.
He unfolded the paper.
The ink on it has been smudged by the dew between the bouquets, and the blurred handwriting seems to reveal the owner's uneasy mood.
After reading Chris's reply, the pastry chef's mouth corners slowly rose.
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Chris rubbed her eyes.
She looked at the strong sunlight shining through the curtains and felt like she had slept for more than two hours.
The sun is about to burn my butt.
She yawned, her gaze slowly moved, her pupils shrank, and she woke up instantly.
——On the bedside table stood a bouquet of gorgeous fresh flowers, the same kind that she had ordered the maid to throw away earlier, only they were fresher and one could tell at a glance that they had been picked just today.
Her heart beat uncontrollably: that spy was so bold as to walk into her room while she was sleeping!
After calming down, Chris stood up, flipped through the bouquet, and found the new card in it.
"Number 3."
Go find the contract document for xx Minerals and steal it.
We know you have access to his study.
P.S.: The file you are looking for will have these words and icons.
In case Chris doesn’t understand Japanese, Japanese words and icons are thoughtfully included on the card.
Chris took the card and went straight to find Lin Xi.
"Sir, is this contract they want the one for the cooperative project you recently established with the second young master of the Karasuma family?"
Lin Xi nodded, took out a stack of documents from the drawer and handed them to Chris.
"A new mineral deposit has been discovered in Gunma Prefecture. If invested in mining, it can bring in lucrative returns. However, it would require a large amount of capital to acquire the entire deposit, and the Karasuma family does not have that much cash."
"I have the funds, but no connections. I need the Karasuma family's status as a long-established noble and their connections to help me. This is how I teamed up with Karasuma Shigeharu—I provide the funds, and he provides the connections."
"If this deal is successful, the profits will be huge. For Karasuma Moharu, it will also be a demonstration of his ability, which is something the Second Young Master and his faction don't want to see."
"They let you steal the contract in order to sabotage our cooperation."
Hearing this, Chris was a little nervous: "So, will the loss of this document affect you?"
"Yes. The bidding will end next week. Without this contract, we might not win the bid and the cooperation will fall through."
"Then you still..."
"I believe you." Lin Xi stuffed the contract into the little girl's hand. "Besides, even if the contract is really lost, it doesn't matter. Before the bidding ends, I can go find Karasuma Moharu to re-draft it. It's just a little troublesome."
"Also, I already know who brought this card into your room, and who the eldest and second young masters are in my house."
Lin Xi shook the card and smiled brightly.
There are no pinhole cameras in this era, but the fact that there are no pinhole cameras in this era does not mean that Lin Xi does not have them.
With this gadget that's ahead of its time, she discovered that hidden eyeliners were not a problem at all... no, she discovered that the two people she was looking for among a pile of eyeliners were not a problem at all.
She had previously placed cameras in every corner of the house. She just took the cameras and retrieved the records, and successfully found the two spies.
Lin Xi told the little girl the identities of the two spies and returned the card to her.
"Come on, Chris."
The little girl nodded vigorously.
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Oda was pruning the branches carefully.
Cutting off unnecessary branches, watering the flowers, applying insect repellent, and removing weeds - this is what he has done every day for the past month.
He has always done a good job, like a real gardener.
But he was always more than just a gardener.
He served the Karasuma family, the most powerful noble family in Kyoto. To be more precise, he served the second young master of the Karasuma family who was rumored to be an illegitimate child.
He was a loyal subordinate and had no complaints even if he was sent here to be someone's servant.
The young master values the owner of this house very much, so he sent him here because he is the most reliable and the young master feels most at ease sending him here.
However, being a servant in the house of this nouveau riche from China was so popular that when he arrived, the only position left was that of a gardener.
His original plan was to be his assistant or valet, or at worst, a butler, but all those positions were already filled, and with such a good resume, he only got the position of gardener.
Is it so curvy now? He thought to himself.
Fortunately, being a gardener has its advantages.
He put away the big shears, picked up the larger branches that had been pruned, and placed them together with the wilted bouquet of flowers that the pastry chef had just given him, preparing to throw them away later.
Yesterday, the pastry chef in the mansion told him that Mr. Shibahara liked bouquets of flowers and asked him to cut some fresh bouquets for him, which he would take to the master's room.
Oda soon discovered that the pastry chef was lying.
Because he saw with his own eyes the pastry chef sneakily slip a card into the middle of the bouquet through the kitchen window - being a gardener also has its advantages, no one would be wary of the occasional glance from the honest master who was pruning branches among the flowers.
Who would put a card in a flower? Could it be that the pastry chef, with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, wanted to seduce the daughter of the Shibahara family, and the card was filled with "touching" love words?
Oda, the spy, suddenly became alert.
Later, he went to the maid and asked indirectly, and got the information that "there was an extra bouquet of flowers in the lady's room."
OK, Oda thought about the sneaky look of the pastry chef and complained in his heart, I didn’t expect the pastry chef is not good-looking, but his thoughts are quite beautiful.
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