Mystery: The Stars Returner

On the second floor, Hastur and Audrey stood at the railing, overlooking the cat and dog below.

Seeing that Susie actually imitated her own graceful steps and even showed off her steps, Audrey couldn't hold back at all.

"You know, Susie, well, it always likes to imitate, because it is very smart, so sometimes it will imitate my walking."

"I really didn't teach him how to step his feet in sequence or the appropriate height to raise his feet."

Audrey's cheeks turned slightly red. Seeing her efforts to explain, it seemed more like she was confirming that she had taught Susie how to walk gracefully.

"Mr. Hastur, let's go inside and talk."

Audrey took a deep breath, pretending that nothing had happened, and calmly dealt with what had just happened.

In her heart, she regretted that she should not have taught Susie how to walk gracefully on a whim.

When she thought about how she carefully taught Susie to raise her legs and step, she felt like her cheeks were burning.

"Susie is really smart."

Hasta gave a comment and led the way. When he came to the door of the study, he said again: "Susie walks so elegantly. Miss Audrey must have worked hard to teach her, right?"

"..."

Audrey was stunned in place. After Hastur had entered the study for a while, she realized what she was doing. She tried her best to suppress her shyness. At least she looked calm and was not disturbed by those words at all.

"Mr. Hastur, your joke is not funny."

"Well, I just have reasonable doubt."

"You always do interesting things when you are young. Was Mr. Hastur always so calm and wise before?"

Audrey calmed down and answered the question openly so as not to be too embarrassed.

Speaking of which, teaching Susie to walk gracefully is also an honor for the master.

Seeing that Audrey had regained her composure, Hastur had no intention of continuing the topic, and instead said: "I recently got a new batch of Russell's diaries, but some of them haven't been thoroughly studied yet, so I can only sell a few of them first. "

"can."

As long as the water flows, Audrey is not disgusted with this kind of transaction.

Hastur pulled out four Russell diaries from the drawer and handed them to Audrey. Seeing her looking like she had found a treasure, he felt a little guilty.

These four diaries of Russell were all imitated by him at that time. There are not many specific contents, but there are a lot of stories about Russell's romantic affairs.

I hope Mr. Fool can hold on. Anyway, he doesn’t want to watch it a second time to avoid contaminating his eyes.

"Is it still the original price?"

Audrey's sudden "ha" made Hastur stunned for a while. Will the always heroic Miss Audrey also learn to negotiate with herself?

Hasta was silent for a while, then tried his best to choose his words and said, "If Miss Audrey is in financial difficulty, the price of each diary is not non-negotiable."

“What if I’m in a very, very difficult financial situation right now?”

"...100 gold pounds for a copy of Russell's diary?"

After Audrey said this, Hastur directly gave him a half.

"Mr. Hastur is so generous. Okay, deal."

Audrey didn't give Hasta the slightest chance to go back on her word, and directly finalized the deal.

Although he still made 400 gold pounds, Hasta always felt that he had lost 400 gold pounds.

Judging from Audrey's cheerfulness in paying, she didn't feel financially strapped at all.

"I'm not deceiving Mr. Hastur. A few days ago, I invested in a new project according to Earl Hall's arrangement." Audrey explained softly.

Hastur frowned slightly and said: "With Earl Hall's wisdom, you shouldn't need to spend a penny of your own money, but directly apply for a mortgage loan from the bank, right?"

"..."

Audrey looked embarrassed and her eyes were a little wandering.

She did invest in new projects, and she did not spend a penny.

The reason why she just said that was to enjoy the fun of making money from Mr. Hastur, even though the money was originally hers.

Seeing Mr. Hastur staring at her, Audrey pretended to be calm and said: "Mr. Hastur, I have a literary salon to attend later. I will leave today. We will talk when we have time later."

"..."

What could Hastur say?

He could only send Audrey, who was obviously holding back her smile, out of the study and down the stairs.

In the lobby on the first floor, Azshara, who was asking Susie for advice on how to be more elegant, stiffened slightly, shook out the black hair on her body, ran to Hastur's feet, and put her little feet on his trousers.

Hastur bent down and hugged Azshara. Susie on the other side glanced at the indifferent Audrey with a resentful look, turned around silently, and walked towards the door step by step.

At this moment, its figure seemed full of vicissitudes of life, as if countless stories had happened to it.

Audrey's eyelids twitched slightly, she knew that Susie's addiction to drama was coming back.

But it's okay, as long as you don't pay attention to it, it will return to normal after a while.

"Susie, Emperor Russell once said: Life is a lonely journey that is not understood. Only by learning to enjoy loneliness can you go further."

Hastur's voice made Audrey's heart skip a beat, and sure enough, Susie made a sound that was almost a whimper, and then walked out of the door without looking back.

"..."

Audrey was startled. She didn't know if this sentence came from the mouth of Emperor Russell, but Susie, you are a dog. Why are you so easily touched by other people's words?

"Susie, she is really smart. She easily understood what I said."

Hastur had a slight smile on his face, as if he admired Susie.

"Mr. Hastur has also read "The Complete Collection of Sayings of Emperor Russell, right?"

"No."

Hastur answered this question very honestly. He said it casually and then mentioned Russell's name.

Audrey didn't say much and led the two maids away.

When they arrived at the gate, Susie was lying on the ground, wagging her tail lazily.

Audrey wanted to laugh, but she suppressed her laughter and pretended to be stern: "Susie, don't you want to enjoy the lonely journey alone?"

"Wang!"

Susie immediately got up from the ground, came to Audrey, and started to please her.

The general idea is: Although the lonely journey is good, I have Audrey to accompany me.

"Hmph, let's go."

Audrey raised her chin slightly, with a smile flowing from the corner of her mouth. It was truly a happy afternoon.

After sending Audrey away, Hastur looked down at Azshara, who was pretending to be dead, stretched out a finger to tease its little head, woke it up, and then said:

"Didn't you just learn how to walk gracefully from Susie? Come on, let me see how you're doing."

"Meow."

"Don't deny it, I've seen it from the second floor."

"Meow……"

Azshara whispered, and then jumped out of Hastur's arms when he wasn't paying attention, and ran away.

……

At night, Hastur was getting ready to go to bed. He came to the window and found a line of words on the paper crane given by Will: Double the ice cream.

"Is there something good you want to inform yourself about?"

Hastur understood the meaning of Will's words very well, so he took off the paper crane, put it on the palm of his hand, and then went to bed and fell asleep.

In his sleep, Will appears in a wheelchair, pushing the wheel forward.

Hasta asked curiously: "Aren't you already discharged from the hospital?"

"Can't I use a wheelchair after being discharged from hospital?"

"Of course, do you need my help?"

"No need, I can support myself."

Hastur laughed, then walked over, pushed Will's wheelchair, and said, "If that's the case, then you should be able to make your own ice cream."

"You can eat for free, so why should I waste my time?"

Will rolled his eyes at Hastur, as if wondering how he could ask such a question.

After chatting for a while, Will revealed the reason for his visit tonight.

That Earl of Gill, who has been so angry with his unfilial descendants these days, will probably die in bed tomorrow night.

If you want to seize the extraordinary characteristics of the Corrupted Baron from Count Gill, tomorrow night will be an opportunity.

"Although this is a bit immoral, I have been waiting for this day for a long time."

Hastur is in a good mood, and his briber's potion has almost been digested. He only needs to take away Count Gil's extraordinary characteristics, and then he can be promoted to Sequence 6.

"Didn't you lose things like morality when you chose this extraordinary path?"

"Will, you are right, so I have decided that if you want to eat ice cream from now on, you can figure it out yourself."

"??"

"Because I have no morals, I naturally won't follow the principle of repaying kindness."

A black line flashed across Will's forehead, and he changed the subject and said, "I have another thing to discuss with you tonight."

"Will, you actually used the word "discuss"?"

Hastur's expression became solemn, but Will rarely spoke to him in such a tone.

"The thing is, I've been used to eating chocolate ice cream and strawberry ice cream recently. I want to change a few flavors. I heard that a rainbow ice cream is popular recently. Each color has a different flavor. I also I want to taste it.”

"...This is the main reason why you came to me tonight, right?"

"You can't say that. This is a side reward."

Will smiled awkwardly, left a message to remember to bring rainbow ice cream, and then disappeared.