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

The queen, who always disliked noise, couldn't stand it any longer. She put down her teacup and yelled at the maid who ran over here and gasped for breath:

"Didn't I tell you? No one can come into my garden without my permission!"

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty." The maid quickly knelt down to the queen, lowered her head and dared not say anything more.

Seeing this, the Duke turned around and looked at the maid, and said something to save the situation: "Uh, did something happen? You can tell me, don't hold it in."

The maid still lowered her head:

"There's someone outside the door looking for the Duke."

The Duke stood up, a little confused: "Huh?"

The maid hesitated for a moment, then finally said:

"The man who came claimed to be a butler in the Duke's palace. He said he witnessed the whole process of Viscount Roman poisoning the tea that the Duke gave to Master Ester.

"He also added that Viscount Roman found out something and wanted to pin the blame for this accident on Duke Haines."

After hearing what the maid said, the Duke was stunned. The Queen was also confused by this bizarre turn of events, and her anger quickly subsided.

At this moment, the queen's excitement surged in her heart.

She said to her maid:

"Forget it, considering that you really have something wrong this time, I won't punish you."

The maid knelt down to the queen and said, "Thank you, Queen, for your generosity."

The Queen said to the Duke calmly, "You'd better deal with this matter quickly. Hurry up."

-

After hearing the maid's message, the Duke followed several guards to the servants' room.

After the Duke's men pushed the door open, only a young man in a black cloak stood inside.

"Have you searched him and confirmed that he won't hurt me? You wait for me outside the door." The Duke ordered his guard knights.

Soon, the Duke and the mysterious young man were the only ones left in the small, dark servant's room.

The young man bowed humbly to the Duke, then gently took off the hood of his cloak:

"Hello, Your Excellency the Duke."

The Duke was stunned:

"Leon?"

Of course the Duke remembered that Leon was a low-ranking male servant who had joined the company a few years ago. Since Leon's business ability was not very good, he was indeed a small and transparent character among the servants.

But what surprised the Duke was that he hadn't seen Leon during this period of time. Judging from the situation, Leon should have escaped.

"After all, the Duke's Mansion has so many people, it would be hard to notice if there was a small, invisible person missing."

At this moment, Leon's legs softened and he knelt down in front of the Duke:

"Please forgive my rudeness, Your Excellency!

"I really ran away because I was too scared. I didn't run away because I was disloyal to Haines. I ran away because I was afraid of being killed by Viscount Roman!"

The Duke was not able to be fazed by Leon's words for a while:

"Are you...are you afraid of being killed...by Viscount Roman?"

The Duke suddenly remembered why he came here:

"Oh, I remember now. You said you witnessed Viscount Roman adding poison to tea leaves and trying to frame me?"

Leon was trembling all over, but he was too weak to stand up. He just lowered his head and said in a low and panicked voice:

"Yes, I saw...

"On the day when Master Ivan trained Blaney, I didn't run away... I didn't run away... At that time, I was in the Knights' Equipment Room and witnessed the whole process of the Viscount's second son being defeated by Master Ivan..."

Leon's face was covered with sweat, but he didn't care too much:

"I saw that after the viscount's second son was defeated, he seemed to whisper something to the viscount's third son when he left..."

The Duke's attention was drawn when he heard this:

Billy, the third son of Viscount Roman, is the manager of the tea industry under Haynes.

In the morning, the Duke was still talking about business with Viscount Roman. When he heard that the Lord was going to reward Ivan with a box of new black tea, Viscount Roman said happily:

"Don't bother you, Duke. I'll ask my third son to bring a new box over right away."

Therefore, the tea that the Duke gave to Ivan was indeed handled by the Roman family.

(The Duke's thoughts end)

Leon swallowed his saliva and continued to speak tremblingly:

"I am not an unknown person, am I? I just heard the conversation between the second and third sons. He seemed to say something like 'I saw Ivan discover the secret that the contract was forged, and he told the lord how to decrypt it. Tell the eldest brother right away.'"

The Duke was stunned - it turned out that Ivan had discovered the secret of his forged contract and told the Lord, which was why the Lord succeeded...

its not right,

"Then why would I kill Ivan? I've already lost money, there's no point in killing him?!"

The Duke realized it later, "So after Charlie's affair was exposed, Viscount Roman was even more determined to put Ivan to death?!

"And because Ivan caused me to hand over my business to Alex, so... they're using me as a scapegoat?!"

When the Duke learned the truth, he was devastated:

"My subordinate whom I have valued for many years actually wants to use Ivan's life to stab me in the back?!"

The Duke clenched his left fist, burning with anger—

“They are really tired of living!”

"My Lord, I am really sorry," Leon continued to say timidly.

"If I hadn't run away, maybe Master Ivan wouldn't have gotten into trouble, and I would have been able to prove your innocence in public...

"sorry Sorry..."

From the tone of Leon's voice, the Duke felt that Leon was about to cry.

He took a few steps forward and patted Leon on the head:

"It's okay, it's okay. As long as you tell the truth, you are a good child.

"At most, I just suffered a few days of injustice. If you didn't run away, you might have lost your life."

The Duke was silent for a moment, and decided to give Leon a consolation reward:

"Let's do this. I will secretly investigate the Roman family in the next few days. As long as I find the tools they used to poison me, I can prove my innocence.

"You can bear with it for a few more days, young man. Once the evidence is solid and you testify in court, no one will be able to do anything to you."

Leon looked up in disbelief:

"Really?"

"certainly,"

The Duke straightened up and nodded confidently.

"You are my witness now, and you are under the protection of the Duke. No matter how arrogant the Roman family is, they cannot withstand the authority of the Duke's family."

Leon's eyes lit up quickly, and he kowtowed to the Duke:

"Thank you, thank you for your protection, my Lord Duke!"

......

The Duke placed Leon in a small farmhouse and set up some guards to protect him.

Then he walked away humming a tune.

The Queen's words echoed in the Duke's ears -

"Hains has so many retainers, can't we just find someone we don't like to take the blame?"

"Haha," the Duke laughed strangely

It is very likely that Viscount Roman destroyed the evidence after completing all these acts of frame-up.

"but..."

"If I can just create some false evidence and make others believe that there is indeed a Sweeney in Viscount Roman's house... can't I let the Viscount take the blame for me?"

The Duke had made up his mind.

No matter how cunning Viscount Roman is, he has to send them out and convict them!