Chapter 556: My friend’s daughter is used as a bargaining chip

At this moment, Verin finally couldn't help but speak, trying to resolve the suffocating awkward atmosphere: "Adams, Cronin, would you like to go for a walk outside."

Facing Verin's suggestion, Adams first bowed his head slightly and responded submissively: "I will follow your instructions."

Immediately afterwards, Cronin also echoed, his words full of respect: "I have no objection, everything will be according to your instructions."

Weilin seemed to notice their restraint, and he quickly smiled and waved his hands and said, "You don't have to be so polite. Your father and my father are close friends. We can treat each other as peers."

As soon as the words fell, Adams and Cronin glanced at each other in unison, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The originally tense nerves gradually relaxed, and the nervousness was relieved to a certain extent.

As time passed, the entire afternoon passed quietly. During this time, Weilin gradually became familiar with the two of them.

Through conversation, we learned that the two came from the Earl of Sliway, Baveda Province, Kingdom of Tiplano. As for their father, Blaise, he was not a count as Weilin imagined, but a contemporary Sri Lankan. The younger brother of the head of the Levi family.

At night, in a small courtyard of the manor, Weilin warmly entertained the two of them.

"Weilin, does your family really enforce such rules?" Cronin put down the bamboo stick in his hand, mustered up the courage to express his doubts.

"It's just as you think." Weilin replied with a smile, "Although this rule seems a bit cruel to you, in my opinion it can avoid family fighting to the greatest extent."

The three of them chatted slowly until nine o'clock in the evening.

After seeing the two of them off, Weilin didn't go to rest and went straight to find Angus.

"Father."

"Here we come." Angus raised his head and looked at Weilin who walked in, without stopping the writing pen in his hand.

Weilin came to sit on the sofa nearby and asked, "What does your friend want from you?"

Angus stopped what he was doing, put away the unfinished plan, made a pot of tea, put it on the table, and then sat in front of Weilin: "He didn't know where he got the news. He heard that I was in District 11, so I came here."

"His purpose is also obvious, he wants to get some inside information about this trade."

Verin stood up, poured a cup of tea for Angus, and then poured another cup for himself. Then he sat down and asked, "Father, what are you going to do?"

"It's not what I do, it's what you want to do." Angus picked up the teacup and took a sip, and said unhurriedly, "These are all things I got because of you, so naturally you should make the decision." ”

Weilin heard this and asked with a smile: "So, father, what price can he pay?"

"Sixteen crystal snow lotuses, plus his daughter."

Hearing his father's words, Weilin was stunned for a moment: "Father, did I hear wrongly?"

"You heard that right, his daughter is indeed part of the bargaining chip." Angus nodded and replied, "There are many reasons for this, and he didn't tell me in detail. According to my guess, he doesn't have many days left. , coupled with the internal changes in the family, this led him to use his own daughter as a bargaining chip. "

"However, whether you are willing or not depends entirely on your thoughts. If you don't agree to the deal, it's natural for your father to reject him."

Verin's respect for his father served him well.

After thinking for a moment, Weilin was still unable to make up his mind, so he temporarily said: "Father, give me three days, and I will give you an answer in three days."

"Then let's do this first."

"I understand, Father."

After seeing off Weilin, Angus stood in front of the window, looking at the bright moon with deep eyes.

Weilin eavesdropped during the day, and he found out, and Blaise naturally found out too.

However, both of them pretended it didn't exist.

"If you beg me, I will choose to lend a helping hand, but it's a pity that it's still like that. I want to save face."

After a long time, Angus turned off the lights in the room and began to rest.

On the other side, Verin returned to the room, lay on the bed, took out the Plata Stone, and held it above his head, glowing slightly under the moonlight.

"What kind of medicine is my father selling in his gourd? That Blaise is not his friend, so why does he stand by and watch? Is there some kind of conflict between the two of them?"

"Maybe my father is an old arrogant person who likes others to beg him."

Thinking of this, Weilin shook his head and threw this shocking idea out of his mind.

From what he knew about his father, he had always been rigid, serious, and even a little cold. He was definitely not such a person.

"Forget it, let's ask Shermia tomorrow and see what she thinks?"

Seeing the unresponsive Plata Stone, Verin put it back into the space ring, closed his eyes, and began to rest.

……

In a hotel in District 11, Blaise called his two children into the room and asked them face to face: "Adams, Cronin, and that Verin, what do you think?"

"Father, I think Master Weilin has a very easy-going attitude. He did not show any arrogance because of my sister and I's low strength. Instead, he talked to us two calmly and showed respect for you in his words." Adams was the first to answer. , expressed his opinion.

Cronin heard the words and said softly: "Father, I don't know, I can't see through him. Just like my brother, the other party's attitude is very easy-going, but I prefer to believe that this is his disguise."

"Being able to become a dragon knight, and become a titled dragon knight recognized by the Silver Dragon Berk Kingdom, I think things are not as simple as they seem on the surface."

Blaise waved his hand and said to the two of them: "Okay, you go back and rest first, and have more contact with Verin in the next few days."

"Yes, father." The two bowed their heads and saluted, then exited the room.

After the two left, Blaise looked at the moon in the sky and fell into deep thought.

I wonder if Angus is admiring the moon like me.

His situation within the family became increasingly embarrassing, and as his life span was coming to an end, he had to find a way out for his children.

His identity outside was given by himself. No one knew that when he said he volunteered to participate in the expeditionary war, he was actually a chess piece abandoned by his family. Fortunately, he was lucky, survived the battlefield, and made many acquaintances. Friends.

Over the years, thanks to his contribution, his two children have lived a pretty good life.

It's a pity that he is well aware of the dirty things within the family. If he can hold on for decades and wait for Adams and Cronin to be promoted to the Golden Knights, the situation will be much better.

He himself is a very contradictory person. On the one hand, he hates the Sliwai family extremely, but on the other hand, he protects the honor and interests of the family from the bottom of his heart.

If he could start his life over again, he would like to be a carefree adventurer, just like his friend the moon elf Hayes. Now that guy is not sure if he is drunk.

But without this guy, he wouldn't be able to enter Area 11 of Port Angela to find Angus.