Groom's Troubles Goblin's Melancholy

Hearing that the butler said that Viscount Truss was visiting, Sol thought he had a hearing problem.

He glanced at the enamel clock on the fireplace, the hour hand pointed between the numbers 11 and 12.

"Is he alone?"

"As far as I'm concerned, yes."

"...invite him in."

When Truss walked into the living room, Sol thought for a moment that he saw a lost child, and his eyes revealed panic and anxiety like a lost lamb.

After a brief greeting, Saul couldn't help asking, "Did the Duke do something?"

Truss flatly denied: "No! He was very good to me."

Saul felt a little relieved.

Truss made a request awkwardly: "I know it's very presumptuous, but I really can't think of anyone to look for. I just want you to do me a favor."

"I can't promise you anything," Thor replied cautiously. "But please say, I will do my best."

Truss hesitated for a while, took a breath and said, "I want to leave here for a while."

"Do you want to leave here for a while or leave the Duke for a while?" Sol asked immediately.

Truss didn't speak.

Sol thought for a while, and said tactfully, "If it's financial difficulties, I can find a way for you."

"I'm not in debt!" Truss was a little anxious.

He shook his head again, "Well, there is a little bit, but it's not important or much, and it won't trouble him. Ah, I'm not talking about that."

Truss was anxious about his lack of expression, "I just need time to think through it."

Sol patted him on the shoulder to stabilize his emotions, "Okay, okay, don't worry. No problem, you can think about it slowly here."

He was about to ring the bell to ask the butler to order some drinks when he heard the sound of a carriage braking suddenly outside the window.

After a while, a roar-like roar was heard in the corridor: "Where is he!!!" Then came the sound of heavy footsteps, and at the end there was a loud shout: "Who dares to stop me?"

Dilan rushed into the earl's manor angrily, begging for someone, completely ignoring the way of a noble gentleman.

Truss glanced at Sol with a sad look on his face, and Sol's face became ugly.

Originally, he just sent a letter to the housekeeper to the duke's mansion, informing Dilan Telas that he was here, and told him to stay calm, and he would go back when he figured it out.I didn't expect Di Lan to be so impatient, and rushed here without sleeping.

Truss forced a smile, and didn't make it difficult for Sol, and shouted to the door: "Don't make noise, I'm here!"

As he walked out the door, he murmured with a wry smile: "I don't blame you, in your eyes I'm just a male favorite of the Duke."

Saul frowned and was about to argue, but Truss had already walked quickly to stop Dylan and pushed him away.

"Don't grab me, I'll walk by myself." Truss withdrew his restrained hand with a cold face.

"Why, don't you want to go? Are you willing to go back now?" Di Lan let him go and said aggressively.

Truss didn't want to show a joke to the count, so he got into the carriage silently without making a sound.

Di Lan jumped into the carriage and ordered the groom to drive the carriage.The road out of the manor was uneventful, and Truss kept looking out of the dark window, the two of them were relatively silent.

Di Lan sat on pins and needles for a while, and finally she was very angry: "You are bored and want to find a lover, you just need to say, I can find any kind of person for you, just don't go away so quietly gone."

"I left a note for you." Truss was still facing the car window.

"What kind of note is that! It's like a last word! You just need to say what you want, what can't I give you?"

Truss bit his lip and said nothing.

"I said that you can do whatever you want, but you can't leave me. I won't forgive you for this alone!"

Truss turned his head and stared at Dylan: "There is no place for me by your side, I can't do anything for you, except sex." He said self-destructively.

"You still want to leave!? Where do you think you can escape to?" Di Lan was furious, "Whether you want to treat yourself as a free male prostitute is up to you. There is nowhere to go!"

"Stop!!!" Truss slapped the carriage hard, and the groom was so frightened that he pulled the reins hard, and the horse was suddenly pulled back. Immediately, its front hooves stood high, and it neighed sharply, and almost collided with the carriage that hadn't stopped yet. .

The two people in the carriage were shaken unsteadily.Truss opened the car door one step faster and jumped down, walking in the opposite direction of Charleston Castle alone.

Di Lan also jumped out of the car, "Stop!"

Truss didn't seem to hear, and ran wildly in the night without looking back.

Dilan, who was furious, watched Truss' figure disappear from his field of vision.

At this time, Di Lan never thought about it. After this night, Truss, just like his nickname "Fairy", never appeared again.

The life of the two sharing the same bed in the castle is like an unreal dream.

The room where Truss once lived became a taboo in the Duke's castle.

Only the bluebells blooming outside the windows reminded the servants that a young man as beautiful as a goblin once lived here.

For countless days and nights in the past three years, Di Lan carefully recalled the actions of Truss that night, trying to find clues about his whereabouts.

However, no matter which clue he followed, it was in vain.

He was extremely remorseful, and kept thinking about which thing he did wrong, which sentence he said wrongly, which caused such a result.

He thought about it, and when he thought that Truss had abandoned him so ruthlessly, he was filled with anger, as if his internal organs were burned.

Sometimes I thought about it, thinking whether he was in danger and was trying to ask himself for help, but I didn't know anything about it, and suddenly felt extremely heartbroken, like a piercing heart.

Longing and resentment, like an endless war, tortured Di Lan to such an emaciated state that there was no sign of a demon at all.

Sometimes he even thought about simply going back to the previous life of drinking, drinking, and sensuality. Although it was empty and boring, at least it was much easier.

But I found that I didn't even have the strength to write the invitation letter.

Before he knew it, he had forgotten what life was like without Tesla.

Obviously they didn't spend that long together.

The Duke is not the only one who is concerned about the Viscount's disappearance, but Her Majesty the Queen may be more concerned than his family's indifference.It's a pity that there are too many people vying for His Majesty's attention and favor. Her Majesty the Queen was sentimental for a while, and gradually forgot about it after the ministers who were talking about consoling her was trying to persuade her.It's just that when I occasionally saw the lost Duke, I couldn't bear it, and turned to explain him a few words.

When the Duke had an audience, Her Majesty the Queen looked at him and sighed in a low voice: "Why is the Duke so emaciated?"

Di Lan just replied flatly: "Half of my soul has been taken away by the goblin."

"Hehe, then what he took away must be the half that belongs to the devil." Her Majesty held the lace fan to cover her face and shook her head.

Now the Duke has almost completely reborn into a truly respected gentleman. Not only is he enthusiastic about charity, he has donated huge sums of money to the orphanage, and he himself adopted an orphan.

Dilan made up countless reasons for Telas's departure, including the retribution he got for giving up all the time.

So he had a whim, hoping to make atonement to those who had hurt them in the past by making up for them.It's a pity that God didn't give him a chance.

Dilan attracts bees and butterflies regardless of gender, but seldom actually gets involved with ladies and ladies. He just clicks to arouse their love, of course, it is only because it is too troublesome to deal with the follow-up.

And most of the courtesans who surrounded him were just flirting with the nobles with a complacent attitude as a way to show off. Even if they had a physical relationship, they still kept a line of heart.After leaving Di Lan, they soon found a new love.

Even so, Di Lan still thought that he would always have a few illegitimate children, even though he couldn't even remember the names of the few prostitutes he had met.However, he asked someone to investigate openly and unannounced, but he didn't expect that there really wasn't one.

Maybe it's a problem with her ability to reproduce, or maybe it's the result of being too promiscuous, Di Lan thought to herself.

When Di Lan finally gave up the idea of ​​looking for someone for atonement, a 5 or 6-year-old child who claimed to be the Duke's illegitimate son came to his door.But he didn't have any evidence on him except for a golden button of the Duke's family emblem. Obviously, he came to fish in troubled waters after hearing the news.Dilan's secretary disagrees with keeping the child and suggests sending him to an orphanage.

Di Lan called the child to him, presumably an adult taught him in advance, but the child blatantly clung to him and called him Dad, making him dumbfounded.But after a closer look, I realized that although the child didn't look like me at all, his big water-blue eyes looked a bit like Terrasse, so he took him in without further ado.

The child's name is Ricky, he is like a little angel without making noise, and Dilan wants to spoil him to the sky.But the child is a child after all, and soon revealed his mischievous nature.Getting into trouble in the castle, she hid in Dilan's arms and hugged his neck to act like a spoiled child after being scolded.

Seeing this child whose temperament is exactly like his awkward lover, Di Lan loves him more and more.

It wasn't until the housekeeper told him that the child almost burned Telas's room down that Di Lan was really angry and beat the child's butt with a ruler himself.

"Do you want to burn everyone! Why do you want to do that!"

Ricky cried and said aggrievedly: "Woooooo... Dad always sits in this room alone... I want to light the fireplace so that Dad won't be cold..."

"Where did you get the matches? And why did you ruin the clothes in the closet?"

Seeing that the clothes worn by Truss were torn into rags, Dylan was very heartbroken.

"I, I went to the kitchen to get it. I saw the cook use a rag to light the fire..."

"That can't be..." Looking at the child's crying face, Di Lan finally calmed down, "Forget it, let the servants figure out the fire in the future, you know, children can't play with fire!"

Ricky still couldn't stop crying.

"Mom is gone, and my mother-in-law said I was disobedient and didn't want me, so I went to find my dad. If my dad didn't want me, I would feed me to the dog... Dad doesn't have a beard, it's not dad... Ricky doesn't want to feed the dog... ... woo woo woo..."

Dylan wondered why he trembled with fear at the sight of the hounds when he took the boy hunting.

He had already found out the origin of the child. He didn't need to hire a private detective. He went to the brothel he had visited before and paid some money to find out the truth.

Ricky was secretly born and raised by a lady in a brothel, and the mother-in-law Ricky talks about is actually the old bustard in the brothel.

After the lady got sick and died, the madam didn't want to take in any more children. As soon as she heard that the Duke was looking for an illegitimate child, she conceived a plan to get rid of this burden, forcing the child to take the button that the Duke accidentally left behind during a visit. .

I'm afraid I still plan to blackmail the child after he grows up in the Duke's mansion. It's really a wishful thinking.

The secretary found the madam with the huge amount of hush money given by the duke, and threatened to tear down the brothel if she dared to do something wrong. The candy whip was used in two ways, and the madam shut up sensibly.

Dilan grabbed the child with tears and snot, pointed to the portrait of Truss and told him, "That's right, I'm not your father, then, that's your father."

"But he doesn't have a big beard either." The child sobbed. "Mom said Daddy has a big beard."

Di Lan smiled and wiped away the tears and snot on his face with a handkerchief, "He looks like this after he shaved off his beard."

To this day, Di Lan still can't help but smile when he thinks of that time. In his heart, he raised Ricky as his sweetheart's child.

He never regretted adopting Ricky, on the contrary, he was glad that Ricky was there so that the huge castle would not look too empty.

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