Chapter 172 Audrey's Troubles
Count Hall's villa.
The dim sunlight was slipping out from the window.
In front of the desk, Audrey pouted slightly, her right elbow resting on the table, her palm supporting her fair face, and her left index finger unconsciously drawing circles on the table.
A little annoying, very annoying, very annoying.
Tonight she was going to the Glilint's house for a party.
This was decided many days ago, and this was also the first party after the Qilingos incident, so she had a lot of expectations for it.
But her father, Count Hall, got the news from nowhere and talked to her about it.
She thought Count Hall would stop her from going to Glilint's house for the party, but she didn't expect Count Hall to stop her. Instead, he asked her to say something to Mr. Hasta.
To be precise, he asked her to invite Mr. Hasta to her house.
This was originally a very normal social invitation, but when it came out of Count Hall's mouth, it gave people a very strange feeling.
If you really want to invite Mr. Hasta to your house, can't you just send an invitation?
Why make it so complicated and ask her to convey it on his behalf?
Her elder brother Hibbert also has a good relationship with Mr. Hasta, so it would be better for him to invite him than for herself, right?
What really gave her a headache was that she had no idea why Earl Hall wanted to invite Mr. Hasta to be his guest.
After thinking hard to no avail, Audrey looked at the golden retriever in the corner, who was flipping through the pages of a book with his paws raised. After a while, he said, "Susie, can you answer my questions?"
"Audrey, the book says that you should solve your own troubles by yourself, and this is the way to completely eradicate your troubles."
"Susie, you have read so many books, but there is no mention of helping friends in the books?"
"But the book also says that not all friends can be helped."
After a pause, Susie asked in confusion, "By the way, Audrey, are friends divided into different levels?"
Audrey's eyes lit up and she felt much happier. It was rare for Susie to take the initiative to seek help from her.
Since Susie devoted herself to her studies, it became increasingly difficult for her to feel superior to Susie.
She thought for a moment and said seriously: "Of course, according to the depth of friendship, it can be divided into nodding friends, ordinary friends, good friends, friends worth deep friendship, friends worth entrusting life and death, and friends beyond life and death."
"Then how to judge the depth of friendship between each other? What are the specific symbols? Or is there a quantifiable value? A value exceeding a certain scale means that the friendship between each other can be further improved?"
Audrey listened silently at first, then her mouth slowly opened and finally closed. She looked at Susie with a complicated expression and said earnestly: "Susie, you are just a dog."
"I know, Audrey, this does not need you to remind me, I know how to be a good dog better than anyone else."
"...I mean, you don't need to know too much about human things."
"The book says that because we are full of unknowns about the world, we need to learn to understand the world.
Audrey, is this sentence wrong?"
"..."
Audrey held her forehead with her hand. She felt that she had one more worry.
Perhaps from the beginning, I shouldn't have taught Susie to learn knowledge, and I shouldn't have let it learn by itself.
...
At night, at Grallint's house.
In the study on the second floor, Hastur, Grallint, Hugh, Fors, and Miss Audrey, who looked unhappy.
Hugh asked curiously: "Miss Audrey, you don't look very good?"
"I'm just in a bad mood recently."
Audrey smiled in response. She couldn't tell others that she was not as good as a dog, and was almost asked to collapse by a dog.
Grailint looked around and said with regret: "Audrey, why didn't you bring Susie tonight?"
"It has eaten too much recently and has severe indigestion. It is lying at home now." Audrey can guarantee that she is telling the truth.
Susie did eat too much, knowledge, and it ate too much messy knowledge, which led to indigestion.
"Is the situation serious? I can help with the diagnosis and treatment. I am very good at treating pets now."
"Grillant, thank you for your kindness. I have hired the best doctor for Susie."
Audrey refused with a smile. The doctor she mentioned was herself, and she was naturally very good.
In order to avoid others from asking about Susie again, Audrey said slowly: "In the last Qilingos incident, we perfectly thwarted his conspiracy to assassinate Duke Negan. In this regard, we can all be regarded as heroes who protect Backlund."
Xiu and Fors were a little embarrassed. They did not investigate too much useful information. In the end, they learned from reading the newspaper that Qilingos sneaked into Backlund to assassinate Duke Negan.
Audrey looked at Xiu and Fors and said with a smile: "Your information is very valuable and will help me make the right judgment. I am willing to pay you 500 gold pounds each for this."
How much? 500 gold pounds? !
Xiu and Fors opened their eyes wide at the same time, and their pupils shrank slightly. This is a 500 gold pound bounty!
The total bounties from all the missions they have completed in the past shouldn't be more than 500 gold pounds, right?
Miss Audrey is truly the epitome of generosity!
No, she is shining all over, she is the angel who saves the poor!
"Thank you for your generosity."
Xio and Forsi paused for a while before reacting.
"This is the reward you deserve."
Audrey had a smile on her face. The Zillinges incident brought her at least 20,000 gold pounds.
Paying the 1,000 gold pounds was not a problem for her.
Then, Audrey looked at Gray Lint, and also said that he was also rewarded with 200 gold pounds.
Originally, Audrey planned to pay 500 gold pounds as a reward for the risk he took against Gray Lint.
But it was difficult to explain this matter openly, so Gray Lint, who did not help with anything on the surface, could only receive less remuneration than Xio and Forsi.
As for Mr. Hastur...
Audrey's eyes fell on Hastur, and she did not propose to pay the relevant compensation.
They had already negotiated before, and what Mr. Hastur wanted was to be promoted to the nobility.
As for the remuneration, she knew that Mr. Hasta's financial situation was very good recently, so she had no idea of spending money to observe Mr. Hasta's reaction.
She also felt that it was a pity that as Mr. Hastur became richer, it became harder and harder for her to appreciate this simple pleasure.
After settling this matter, Audrey returned the stage to Gray Linte, who was already ready to make a move.
"Everyone, I recently got a magical dog, a dog that can do backflips."
Gray Linte said, stretched out his hand and shouted: "Laite, come here."
A golden retriever puppy squatting outside the door ran in and fawned over Gray Linte very intimately.
"Come on, shake hands."
The little golden retriever raised its right front paw, and then looked at Gray Lint. After Gray Lint stretched out his palm, he placed his right front paw on the palm of his hand.
"Lite, you did a great job."
Gray Lint was very satisfied with the performance of the little golden retriever. He reached out and touched its head twice, and then shouted: "Laite, do some backflips."
"Woof."
The little golden retriever barked and started backflips on the spot, and it was still backflips continuously.
This attracted the attention of Xio and Forsi, and even Audrey cast curious glances.
"Come on, do another front flip."
Gray Linte then directed the little golden retriever to perform other somewhat difficult actions.
After a lot of work, Gray Linte happily took out the meat strips and rewarded the little golden retriever who won applause for his efforts.
Forsi asked curiously: "Is this the extraordinary ability of the animal trainer?"
"Yes, I can now easily see through the inner thoughts of any animal. They are also willing to get close to me and obey my commands. It is not difficult for me to tame them, as if they were born this way. ” Gray Lint was happy to answer this.
Xiu sighed: "This is the charm of the extraordinary world."
"It's a pity that Backlund doesn't sell those more powerful pets, such as large lizards, two-headed flying dragons and other creatures."
Gray Lint felt regretful that he was no longer satisfied with just taming kittens and puppies. Things that were too simple could not bring him a sense of accomplishment.
Forsi was a little unsure and said: "Such creatures generally only exist in the primeval forests of the southern continent, right?"
"My second brother is currently in the Southern Continent. He once told me that there are indeed many magical creatures on the verge of extinction in the Southern Continent, such as a giant snake that can swallow an elephant in one bite, a giant ape that is seven or eight meters tall, etc. "Audrey briefly did some popular science.
"I really want to take a trip to the Southern Continent."
Gray Linte stroked the little golden retriever's head, his tone full of regret.
Hasta reminded with a smile: "The Southern Continent is not peaceful at the moment, you should give up this idea."
"I'm just thinking about it. Apart from the air, Backlund is fine. I don't want to go to the Southern Continent to suffer."
Gray Linte waved his hand to show that he was not stupid.
Then Xio also began to share what he saw and heard during this period, the most important of which revolved around the followers of the stars.
Gray Linte looked curious when he heard this, Forsi looked slightly strange and the smile on his face was a bit forced, and Hastur listened quietly and calmly.
Audrey, who took in the expressions of others, could not help but stay on Forsi for a while.