After I became a real young master, I became famous for my bad behavior

When the retainers entered the house, they held many gifts in their hands:

For example, the best honey in the Empire held by Gray, the fruit basket full of fruits held by Reuben, and the high-end pillow held by Weisen...

In short, they are all high-end products.

Although the objects in their hands were different, the strange thing was that the expressions of the retainers were exactly the same.

They all came in with dark faces.

The Duke sat at the host's table and was stunned by the attitude of his retainers.

"No, I'm not sick. Why did you bring so many goodies?"

The retainers did not answer the Duke's question, but put the things in their hands on the shelf one by one, and then stood in a row a few steps away from the Duke.

Everyone looked at each other, until finally the most qualified patriarch stood up:

"Duke..."

"Until you lose the ability to run a business, please let us handle our own business."

Handle your own business...

Such a business, handling its own business - is tantamount to directly ignoring the Duke's management and then splitting into independent operators.

This is not possible!

"what?"

The Duke widened his eyes and cast a look of confusion at the retainer in front.

"What happened?"

"Our business has been on the rise during this period, why do you insist on asking us to 'handle it ourselves'? This is a violation of the contract!..."

Retainer No. 1 suddenly raised his voice:

“We also know that proposing this idea will affect your interests, but it would be stupid of us to allow a manager who does not even give us basic rights to act recklessly!

“Although sales are increasing, the wages you pay us are not even enough to support the workers in the workshop!”

"You are given two choices - the first is to let us operate independently,

The second is..."

"I shouldn't have argued with a fake duke like you!"

When the Duke heard the word "fake", his mind went blank.

"Hey, hey, hey! Frank, don't do this!" Retainer No. 2 quickly grabbed Retainer No. 1, and the other retainers also became confused.

"What I said is all the truth!"

The complaint of retainer No. 1 pierced the Duke's ears directly, "Arthur was the one who was going to inherit Haines from the beginning, we would never be treated like this!"

Charlie shouted to Retainer No. 1: "Hey, what do you mean, isn't Arthur dead..."

"Don't kid yourself, you're disgusting!"

Retainer No. 1 suddenly threw his resignation letter onto the table.

"If this problem is not properly resolved, then let me resign. I will quit!"

when!

When the resignation letter was thrown on the table, it happened to fall on the account book in the Duke's hand.

...

The Duke quickly and quietly withdrew his hand holding the account book:

"If they knew I erased a zero from the account book, I'd be dead!"

The Duke gritted his teeth in anger:

Now he was not only suspected by his subordinates, but also had his fig leaf torn off by them - it was such bad luck to mention Arthur at this very moment!

Now it was the Duke's turn to be upset.

The retainers' words hit the Duke's head like mosquitoes:

"Why don't you explain to us why the share we get is so small? Now we can't even pay the people who work for us, and the workers are dissatisfied!"

"That's right! I seriously suspect there's something wrong with the account book. Didn't we have to look at the account book details? Now at this point, we should know where the money went, right?"

"Duke, are you still stubborn?"

The Duke finally couldn't stand it anymore. He stood up suddenly and slammed his right hand on the table.

Bang!

"Stop arguing. There are no rules anymore, right?"

The retainers were silent for a moment, but when one word came out, people became angry again:

"People are starving to death, why bother with rules!"

Then there was another uproar...

"Hey, can you listen to my advice?"

Charlie raised his left hand and motioned everyone to turn towards him.

"Since you suspect the Duke, why don't we show you the details of the bill? If there is no problem with the bill, doesn't it mean that the Duke is innocent?"

The Duke listened to what Charles meant and quickly agreed:

"Alright, alright, you're just here to look at the account book, can't I just show it to you?"

The Duke covered his face with his right hand, waved his left hand helplessly, and then instructed Charles,

"Charlie, it's on the shelf behind you, can you take it down?"

"Okay, Duke." Charlie nodded.

Among those present, only the Duke and Charles knew that the account books on the bookshelf had been tampered with.

Charlie pretended to be calm and took out the account books gently, then spread them out casually, placed them on the table, and motioned for everyone to look at them.

The Duke had scrutinized these figures, and even Iven could not find any omissions in the bill.

Every penny of money comes from a legitimate source and is used for reasonable purposes.

This silenced the retainers present.

"It seems... we really did blame the Duke wrongly..."

"I'm really impressed. All this effort was wasted!"

The Duke heard the retainers' tone soften, he straightened up and chuckled at Charles.

Charlie could see that the Duke was very satisfied with his on-the-spot reaction this time.

After all the retainers had read the account books page by page, the Duke cleared his throat.

The Duke sighed with a "Madonna sentiment":

"Alright, alright. I've always known that you have some complaints against me. Just because I'm not of true orthodox blood, you're indulging all this anger towards me. I'm used to it."

"Think about it, I have been in this position for 20 years, but I have always been suspected by everyone. This is indeed a high-risk job~"

The retainers were inexplicably moved by the Duke's words, and their eyes were filled with guilt:

"I'm really sorry, I misunderstood you."

"Really? It seems that our expectations for this business were too high. I said that the Duke would have no problem..."

"I'm so sorry, I really—"

As the retainers were speaking well of the Duke one by one, a sound of impressive footsteps came straight into the office.

The Lord's words silenced everyone present:

"I say...you guys are too gullible, aren't you?"

Although the Lord was beaten up by Eve not long ago, he was still a member of the Haines family and had some therapists around him. So after the treatment, he was full of energy.

(However, the dark history of being beaten up by Eve was still suppressed)

The retainers listened to the lord's words with suspicion on their faces.

"Alex?" The Duke was confused by the Lord's foxy smile. He mistakenly thought that the Lord came to tell him about Arthur's movements.

And now, there were so many people in the small office - just the right time to get rid of the retainers.

"Ah, they came to see the contents of the account book. I showed it to them, and now they have dispelled their doubts and are preparing to leave..."

Before the Duke could finish his words, the Lord suddenly bypassed the retainers, rushed up to the Duke and slapped him in the face.

Snapped!