◇ Chapter 69 Information
After the doctor left, Imur tossed and turned in his bedroom, unable to sit still.
The Duke looked out the window at the moon and thought, "Have I gone too far?"
The teaching in the Duke's Mansion is strict, and the etiquette requirements for male servants are very high. One action is taught over and over again, and it is common for training to last until late at night.
With the doctor's personality, can he tolerate it?
Will he feel that it is a waste of time and never want to come to the Duke's Mansion again?
Imur hesitated. The doctor was his savior. It seemed a bit too much to make him a servant and force him to learn etiquette.
Just as he was struggling, he suddenly heard the regular sound of heels tapping on the ground outside the window. The silver-haired old butler hurriedly walked towards the Duke's bedroom. Yimuer paused and thought, "It's just in time. Why don't I talk to the old butler and ask him to let him go a little."
Anyway, put the doctor back in the first half of the night.
Just as Imur was about to speak, he saw the old butler sweating profusely and said hastily, "Grand Duke, the manservant you just selected, that manservant..."
He was old and weak, and he ran two more steps, panting as he spoke. Yimuer stood up suddenly and asked, "What happened to Bai Yu?"
The old housekeeper said: "He said he wanted to feed the cat and left immediately."
“…”
The Grand Duke held the teacup expressionlessly: "Leaving?"
The old butler wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "This matter is my fault for not thinking it through. When he chose the male servant, I gave him the token to enter and exit the Duke's Mansion, and then told him and another person to wait for the tutor there. As a result, he took the token and left the mansion directly, and..."
Ymur: "What other fable?"
The housekeeper didn't dare to look up: "There is also a note under the teacup, explaining where to go."
Imur's chest heaved: "Where's the note?"
The butler presented it respectfully.
Yimuer recognized Bai Yu's handwriting. The doctor's handwriting was as clean, elegant, cold and distant as his own. This was a note posted on the medicine. The doctor tore it off casually and wrote with a pen that was about to run out of ink: "Good night, sir. I'm sorry to leave without saying goodbye, but as you said, there are two kittens at home who need to be fed. I will be back soon. After feeding the kittens, I will confess my crime to you."
——Click.
The butler noted expressionlessly: Teacup loss +1, included in next month's purchase plan.
Imur's chest rose and fell, and he sneered, "Okay, that's great."
Seeing that the Grand Duke was on the verge of madness, the butler said hurriedly, "Duke, this servant really doesn't know what's good for him. He did something so rude. It would be better to remove him from the list first, put him in jail and teach him a lesson, and then..."
Imur didn't hear what he said at all. He held the tea tray tightly and gritted his teeth, "Okay, it's late at night, I'd rather walk home than feed the cats. I really want to know what kind of kittens are so cute."
housekeeper:"……"
Although they were both angry, why was there something wrong with the Duke's anger?
Imur paced in the bedroom. In the silence, he suddenly thought of something and turned his head abruptly: "Where is the investigation report of your personal guards?"
The housekeeper said: "When you selected the candidate, we sent them out to investigate. Please wait for a moment. There will be a result in two hours at the latest."
The Duke nodded slightly, showing a satisfied expression for the first time tonight.
The housekeeper cautiously probed: "Do you want me to send someone to punish Mr. Bai?"
Imur sneered: "You don't need to do anything. I came here in person. Didn't you say you would confess your guilt to me? I want to see how he confesses his guilt."
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Bai Yu walked alone on the streets of Illia, and the moonlight made his back look very long.
Ever since the Duke returned to the throne, a large number of guards have been deployed for night patrols, and the gangsters and hooligans have restrained themselves a lot. Although there are still gunfights and fights in the streets, no one dares to start a fight on the central street. It is quite safe here now.
66 stared at the dark place where the moonlight could not reach with fear, feeling that a guard would suddenly appear and knock the host to the ground. It was still terrified: "Are we just leaving like this?"
Bai Yu asked back: "What else?"
The doctor always knew clearly that his primary goal now was to get the Duke to order his execution. What he needed was the Duke's disgust, not his love. In this case, being a servant seriously was a negative benefit.
Instead of wasting time here, I might as well go back and feed the tabby and tortoiseshell cats with bowls of milk.
66: “Yes.”
Bai Yu actually placed enough food and water at home for the tabby hawksbill turtles, and left a small door on the first floor so that if the doctor did not return for a long time, they could go back to the street.
The so-called feeding of the cat was just an excuse to annoy the Duke.
Bai Yu walked to the door of the clinic and saw that the mailbox was full, so he opened it and wanted to get today's newspaper.
The original owner subscribed to a newspaper, which was delivered every morning by a newspaper boy. Later, Bai Yu also developed the habit of reading the newspaper every day. However, it was too early today and he didn't have time to pick it up.
As a result, as soon as I opened the mailbox, a letter suddenly fell into it.
Illia's technology is backward, and the delivery of many messages still relies on mail, but the original owner is obviously a solitary person. Ever since Bai Yu came here, his mailbox has been empty and there has never been anything in it.
Bai Yu leaned over and took out the letter. It was a printed advertisement, saying that a pub on Central Street had opened. The printer had obviously chosen the cheapest printing method. Some of the fonts were thick and some were thin. Some of the words were blurry. 66 glanced at it and yawned. "It seems there's nothing worth paying attention to."
Bai Yu read the letter from beginning to end, then spread it flat on the desk and pressed it with glass.
He said, "I went to a printing shop a few days ago. This is not the way low-quality printers leak ink. This letter was written deliberately like this. 66. Compare it with the Black Robe Society's code and try to decipher it."
Bai Yu had printed out some cat-finding notices before, but due to the original owner's identity and the chaotic situation in Illia, he had some reservations and ultimately did not post them. Now they are locked in a drawer.
66 paused, then floated over the table and compared it carefully. He found that the printing seemed messy, but in fact there was a pattern, which happened to correspond to the book. The system compared and analyzed them one by one:
"Well, it says, 'Raven, I heard that you have successfully passed the assessment and entered the Duke's Palace. Congratulations. It is reported that there is a forbidden area under the Duke's Palace garden. It is strictly controlled and anyone who enters without permission will be killed. It may involve the secrets of the Grand Duke. Please go and investigate. Any results, please report to the superiors on the 15th of next month.'"
Bai Yu: "Forbidden area?"
He remembered that the old butler had also reminded him not to wander around the Duke's Mansion, otherwise he might be killed.
The original owner died on the spot during the selection and did not receive the task, so the task fell on Bai Yu.
The doctor picked up the note and tore it clean in two strokes. He waited until it was into irreparable shreds before flushing it down the drain.
66 is curious: "Host, do you do it?"
Bai Yu: "I can't do it. I won't live to see the regular meeting next month."
He took out fresh red meat, which was food for tiger and hawksbill turtles, and then placed it on the chopping board and cut it into small pieces: "The Duke of Illia obviously doesn't have such a good temper. He must be very angry that I left the house halfway. I think my death will be today."
After saying that, Bai Yu continued to cut the porridge.
The tabby and hawksbill cats were sleeping huddled together. When they heard the noise, they came over from a distance.
Perhaps because they were rescued by Bai Yu, the two wild cats were not afraid of people. On the first day they came back, they turned over in front of the doctor. The doctor skillfully stroked their chins one by one and let them meow around the kitchen. Then he brought out food and let them eat freely.
The two kittens ate happily while Bai Yu tied his scarf and prepared to return to the Duke's Mansion.
It was almost dawn, but the Grand Duke's living room was still brightly lit.
Grand Duke Imur was very busy and often worked all night to handle official business, which was not uncommon. But at this moment, Grand Duke Chouyan's brows were lowered and his mood was terribly low. The butler and the guards stood by, and no one dared to speak.
On his desk was the investigation report of his personal guards.
The Black Robe Society was very clean and left no loopholes. In such a hurry, the guards were unable to find out anything but the basic outline.
The Duke is looking at the two cats that Bai Yu raises.
Both cats are wild cats, jumping around in the clinic. Anyone passing by the window can draw them.
Ymur looked at the pages critically.
The painter's personal guard painted the tortoise-tight tabby cats as two black coal balls, which looked black and stupid, just two stray cats with no redeeming features. Imur made a reserved comparison and felt that he was a thousand times better than them.
Imur glanced at the scroll: "Are they ugly?"
housekeeper:"……"
Guard: “…”
They looked at each other, but since there was no one else present, they could only ask them.
The two Ilria's upper class elites bowed their heads in unison: "Ugly, ugly."
In Ilria, pure colors have always been more noble than mixed colors, and nobles mostly keep white and black cats. The tabby and tortoiseshell coat colors determine that they are not liked by nobles. From this perspective, they can indeed be said to be ugly.
At the same time, platinum color is better than mixed colors. Whether in terms of hair volume or any angle, Imur looks better than them.
Then the Duke became even angrier.
Judging from the food purchased by the doctor every day, Bai Yu treated the kittens equally, feeding them similar types of food and similar amounts, and Tuanzi didn't even receive any favoritism from him.
Ymur began to scratch the desk.
Although he has no claws anymore, this is his habit.
The housekeeper and the personal guard who delivered the information were sweating profusely as they watched the Grand Duke look left and right at the portrait of two cats that contained no information at all, and then ignore the large stack of information at the back without turning the page. His expression was gloomy and it was unclear what he was thinking.
It was under such circumstances that Bai Yu stepped into the Duke's Mansion.
He had no sense of being a butler. As soon as he entered the room, he took off his windbreaker and hung it on the hanger. Then he saluted the Grand Duke with a lack of sincerity: "It happened suddenly. I have to leave for a moment. Please forgive me, Grand Duke."
The butler and the guards began to sweat again.
Imur raised his eyebrows and fixed his eyes on Bai Yu's bow tie.
The doctor petted the cat and rubbed the new cat fur.
——After owning the Duke, he still petted these two ugly little things.
Imur was furious, and he became more and more sarcastic: "Mr. Bai, you can come and go as you please in the Duke's Mansion. It's so comfortable. Why don't you sleep in the Duke's Mansion in the middle of the night and go home to feed the cat? What do you want to do as a servant?"
Bai Yu said coldly: "Please forgive me."
Ymur: "What if I don't accept it?"
Bai Yu: "Then please punish me."
The doctor's tone was nonchalant.
Yimuer lowered his eyes and looked at him steadily. Suddenly he smiled. His lake blue eyes were as cold as the ice sea in the polar regions. "Punishment, do you know what kind of punishment there is in the Duke's Mansion?"
Illia abolished torture after entering the industrial civilization, but as a duke, he always had privileges. The punishments in medieval Europe were no less severe than anywhere else, with things like pin boards and nail beds being used in a variety of ways. This was also the reason why Imur was so angry - if he was not the duke, Bai Yu would have dared to do this and would have died miserably hundreds of times.
Yimuer snorted coldly and turned the page: "Butler, talk to the doctor, what is the punishment?"
The butler bowed and said yes, then spoke.
66 listened in amazement.
If we excerpt the methods used by the Duke's Mansion, we can compile a book of the Ten Most Cruel Tortures of the Qing Dynasty.
Bai Yu's expression was calm. He had taken a European history course and had heard about these things.
Ymur was distraught.
It was impossible for him to use these methods on the doctor. He was just very angry and wanted to scare him, let him know how powerful he was, and force Bai Yu's cold face to show some other expression. But halfway through, Bai Yu didn't do anything yet, but he became sad first.
...Doctor, do you think he is very violent?
The Duke flipped through the documents impatiently, making a rustling sound on the thin book. When he turned to a certain part, he suddenly paused and stopped his fingers.
That was a testimony provided by the print shop owner.
"Mr. Bai once visited our printing shop and asked for a printout of... uh, 'Missing Cat Notice'."
"He wants to find a platinum-colored bantam kitten with lake blue eyes. It is said to be his pet. Mr. Bai said in the revelation that if anyone knows about it, he is willing to provide a ruby as a reward."
"Is it posted? I don't know."
Imur's finger stopped on that page and did not turn it for a long time.
Did the doctor see him?
Are you willing to pay a ruby as a price to find him?
The Duke is starting to wag his tail.
But he didn't have a tail now, so he could only cross his legs modestly and interrupt the butler's endless introduction: "Doctor, I saw the information, you also have a white and golden kitten?"
The butler who was introducing the soldering iron: "..."
Bai Yu said calmly: "Yes, but he got lost."
His expression was so cold that the Grand Duke didn't know whether the doctor was sad. Imur held his chin, looked at the doctor with his lake blue eyes, and suddenly asked an unrelated question:
"Do you like that kitten?"
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