gentleman's servant

All of a sudden, thousands of waves were stirred up, and the banquet hall seemed to be suddenly flooded with tens of thousands of wasps. The noise was so loud that the roof was about to be lifted off. Some women even passed out with a scream. The gentlemen gathered in unanimous agreement, one by one. His face was pale, as if he had seen a ghost.

My father was leaning against me weakly, but now he slumped to the floor, covered his face with his blood-stained hands, and kept shouting: "Avril...Avril...God! How could such a terrible thing happen? Call the magistrate quickly, hurry up!"

There was blood on his face, hands, and clothes, and the wound on his forehead was also bleeding. People surrounded us and kept asking us what happened.

"I drank and wanted to go out to have a blast. Avril followed me... Who would have thought that someone jumped out suddenly and knocked me to the ground. I passed out. When I woke up again, I found that person was holding a stone. Fell on my wife and smashed her to pieces... If this servant hadn't suddenly appeared and saved me, I would have been killed by that devil! Oh God, why did you do this to me? My wife... What should I do? What should my children do?" The father cried out loudly while clearly telling what happened to him in an incoherent way.

These words caused waves of exclamation from the crowd, and someone shouted loudly on the spot: "Soldiers here, listen up, follow me to catch that robber!"

"Go and call the doctor and the magistrate, what are you doing in a daze!"

"Where are the servants dead? Help the baron to the room..."

No one believed that the one who killed Mrs. Avril was actually the bloody, weeping husband in front of him.

I stood aside in a daze, although my body was not stained with any blood, but I felt that my hands were full of blood.Suddenly, I found that there was still the mark of Mrs. Avril's teeth biting on my wrist. She bit so hard just now, but now the mark has become shallower and will disappear soon...

The father was still performing the scene with great emotion, crying with tears and snot, clutching his chest and wailing loudly.

I looked around for Oscar in the crowd, and then I saw him with a dull face...

He was originally standing in the crowded crowd, but suddenly turned and left.

I wanted to chase him, but my father grabbed me. He said, "Where are you going? Please stay by my side. I must thank you for saving your life."

"I want to report to my master." I pushed my father's hand away and chased after Oscar.

I ran downstairs to the lobby, but there was no sign of Oscar anywhere. At that moment, I thought he had left me... Yeah, my father and I killed someone... What should I do?

At this moment, a hand suddenly grabbed me and pulled me out of the gate.

Oscar's black windbreaker fluttered in the cold wind, making a rattling sound. He pushed me into a carriage and closed the carriage door before he asked me in a low voice, "What happened?"

"Oscar...I...I killed someone..." I said in panic.

"Calm down!" He suddenly sternly said, "As soon as you went out, Mrs. Avril found out and she went after you. In order not to be suspected, I didn't stop her. I planned to find another chance next time, but how could it happen? This kind of thing? Did you kill her? Were you injured?"

"Didn't you hear? Oscar! My father and I killed her, you...don't you hand me over to the sheriff?"

"What are you talking about!" He glared at me angrily, "So what if you accidentally killed her? She deserved it! Calm down and tell me what happened!"

"I don't know, it was too chaotic at the time, she grabbed us and wouldn't let us run, I knocked her out, and then my father...he raised a stone and killed her, he smashed it down, almost in the blink of an eye It's over, I... I can't stop him, we are finished, my father and I will be sent to the gallows..." I scratched my head, feeling that there was darkness in front of me.

"No! You won't be sent to the gallows, I won't let you be sent to the gallows! You didn't kill anyone, it was your father who did the murder, it has nothing to do with you, don't blame yourself!"

"I knocked her out, God, she's a nobleman! I couldn't stop him, I should have stopped him..."

"It's none of your business. If you want to blame it, you can also blame the woman herself. It was she who committed evil and ended up like this. Evil people should be punished!" Oscar grabbed my trembling hand and patted my cheek hard. , let me face him.

At this time, his expression was extremely serious, and his voice was full of irresistible majesty.

"Since it has already happened, it is useless to say anything. Survival is the most important thing now! Your father said that the robber killed Mrs. Avril, so you have to kill this too. The door here is open, so There is nothing wrong with outsiders breaking in. You calm me down immediately, then go back, and I will settle the rest."

"No...we killed her...we killed people...we should...should have told the sheriff..."

Oscar suddenly kissed me. His kiss was strong and powerful. After the kiss was over, he stared into my eyes and said, "Don't punish yourself for the bad results caused by bad people. If there is justice in this world, there will be no justice. Let innocent people be punished for defending themselves. If you are going to punish yourself for this, then what am I going to do? Are you leaving me?"

"Oscar..."

"If you love me, then do as I say!" He pushed me off the carriage extremely resolutely, his dark and deep eyes filled with determination.

"Go." He said, "Promise me, do as I say, didn't you say you would never leave me again? So do as I say!"

So, I fled back to my father in a hurry. My father is a very rational person. He made up a whole set of stories in a short period of time to make the development of the whole thing reasonable.And he is also very good at acting, the tears and painful expression on his face are not fake, almost everyone who comes to question him will see him crying for his wife, I just don't know where he came from So many tears.

Regarding what happened tonight, my father always had only one answer.

"It was so dark I couldn't see his face at all, I just remembered he was tall and strong, and he knocked me down... Oh, I beg you don't ask me any more, as soon as I think about it , I can’t wait to die with my wife, it’s too cruel...he smashed my wife with stones...Avril...Avril...haven’t you caught him yet..." He cried miserably Everyone had to wipe away bitter tears with him when they saw him, and then they didn't dare to ask any more questions.

I had no choice but to follow my father's tone and say: "It's too dark, I only saw the man's back, not his face."

The next day, the news that Baroness Uzak and his wife were attacked at the banquet spread all over the streets of the capital, and even made headlines in newspapers.My father took me to his estate, or the estate of the Baron Uzak.The baron's ancestors were once rich, so the manor is very large, and because of his love of paintings, he has collected countless famous paintings, which can be called rich and powerful.

Mrs. Avril has a son and a daughter. The eldest daughter is only ten years old, and the youngest son is only seven years old.My father told me that this little boy was actually the illegitimate child of Mrs. Avril Lavigne and the housekeeper.But the butler the father mentioned was not in the manor at all, only Mrs. Avril's son and daughter. The two children cried earth-shatteringly and kept calling for their mother.

Mrs. Avril rarely lets her children get close to my father, so he is not familiar with the two children, and the two children may even know that this person is not their father at all.

The father was full of disgust for the two children, and he ordered the servants to take them down and not allow them to leave the room casually.

"Don't let them appear before me," he said to the servants. "If they step out of the room, you will no longer be able to work on the manor."

My father told me that for the past eight years, he was locked in the room by Mrs. Avril Lavigne day and night.But this lady and her children, relying on the pain of his imprisonment, enjoy the glory and wealth with peace of mind.

"I want her child to experience the feeling of being locked up!" He said coldly, with deep hatred in his tone.

"Father, they're just two kids!" I argued with him.

"What do you know! For eight full years! I was locked in that small dark room by them. If it weren't for the auction of those paintings, she would never let me go out! Now she is finally dead, and I am a legitimate baron Now, everything here is ours! When I take your mother and sisters over, our family will live happily together, we will never be poor again, and we will live a prosperous life. That's right , By the way, I still want to send you to college, and you will become a gentleman in the future!" My father suddenly opened the window, opened his arms to the sky, took a deep breath, and suddenly burst out laughing.

"Look! Son, it's all ours now, you don't have to be a servant anymore, we won't be bullied anymore, only others will serve us, and our Eric family is also a classy person! Your mother What I have suffered with you is not in vain, look! look! look at this beautiful estate!"

I didn't miss the crazy look on my father's face. I discovered it the night he suddenly smashed and killed Mrs. Avril. Maybe it was because of years of imprisonment, maybe it was because of other reasons. In short, he has changed, and I don't know what to do face him.

"What? Are you unhappy?" My father looked at me and said, "Why are you so sad?"

"Father, I have something to ask you..."

"What's the matter? My dear son, we haven't seen each other for so many years, and we are almost strangers. You were only 12 years old when I left, but now you are all grown up. We should have a good talk. We have made up for the pain of our separation over the years..."

"Why did you kill her!" I directly interrupted my father's tender voice.

"What did you say……"

"Don't pretend that nothing happened! I obviously wanted to take you away, why did you kill her!" I said angrily.

My father kept looking at me, with indescribable emotions flashing in his blue eyes like mine. He suddenly sighed and said dejectedly: "I hate her! This reason is enough."

I said angrily: "Hate? We could have been reunited as a family, but you killed people like this. If we were sent to prison, what would mother and the others do? Have you ever thought about us!"

"I killed her just for you!"

"Nonsense! What nonsense!"

Just as we were arguing, someone knocked on the door.

The servant brought a startling news.

Robert, the steward of the estate, took us to court.