Chapter 559: The Test from Klein (I)
"How should we contact and test Mr. Hastur?"
Klein, who had been collecting intelligence in Puning Port for several days, was currently living in a relatively high-end hotel as Dawn Downstairs, a businessman who came to do business.
According to the information he collected, Mr. Hasta is currently not in Puning Port, but staying in an old castle owned by his family in the countryside.
A big businessman would never run to the countryside unless there was something urgent. It was obviously not possible to meet him by chance through natural means.
Then we can only send a greeting directly, just to see what kind of attitude this Mr. Hasta has.
"I have to think about what we want to talk about when we meet..."
The next day, as an old friend of the great Backlund businessman Gahasta, Klein entrusted the officers stationed at Puning Port to submit his invitation to Grand Duke Hasta.
Two days later, Klein received a reply, which simply said: "Looking forward to your arrival."
On the same day, Klein hired a carriage and spent a considerable amount of money to have the coachman take him all the way to the small town in front of the castle in the countryside of Hastur. If he wanted to reach the last section of the road, he had to drive directly there. Hire.
After turning around and bumping for a long time, Klein finally arrived at the outer gate.
In order to create the persona of an ordinary businessman, his buttocks sitting on the carriage really suffered a lot.
Perhaps knowing his arrival, the door opened and a carriage was already waiting.
"Mr. Dawn Downstad, the Duke is waiting for your visit in the castle."
Klein just glanced at the driver, and then calmly got into the carriage.
The carriage moved slowly towards the castle, not at a very fast speed. Klein opened the curtain of the carriage and admired the surrounding scenery.
This is the countryside, where the land is relatively cheap and open. With such a large forest and fields intertwined, it is undoubtedly an excellent place for leisure.
Especially those forest trees, even the canopy of several dozen meters has been carefully taken care of, like pieces of exquisite horticultural art.
There is also the groom who is driving the car. He seems to be not simple, and he is definitely not an ordinary person.
About twenty minutes later, Klein got out of the car and arrived in front of the magnificent and ancient castle.
After passing through the vestibule and entering the castle, Hastur had someone preparing tea and waiting for him.
"Mr. Dawn Downstairs, my good friend in Backlund, welcome you here as a guest."
Hastur smiled and invited Klein to take a seat, and then asked everyone around him to go down first.
"If I had known that Mr. Hastur had such a leisure resort, I think I would come here every year to visit him for vacation."
"Welcome."
After a brief exchange of greetings, Klein took out a bottle of wine and two small cups from the wooden box he carried with him, and took the initiative to stir up the topic, "I know that Mr. Hastur is very knowledgeable about fine wine, so I specially asked him from Intis I will buy this fine wine that can only be enjoyed in the palace and let Mr. Hastur taste it.”
"It's my honor." Hastur had a smile on his face, watching Klein holding a wine flask to fill the glasses for himself and him.
He knew that the wine would never be that simple, so he sat and waited for Klein's next words.
"This wine has a name in Intis. It's called Palace Jade Wine. It was the wine that Emperor Russell liked to drink most when he was in power." Klein introduced it thoughtfully while observing Hastur carefully. expression.
One hundred and eighty glasses of palace jade wine... Hasta couldn't help but follow up, but his face showed a very curious look, "I want to taste the wine that Emperor Russell likes. "
Hastur picked up the small wine glass and glanced at the amber liquid. After one glass of wine, the taste was pretty good. It was much stronger than some wines sold on the market, but it did not make him feel amazing. After all, when it came to collecting, When it comes to fine wine, Greg is the real big collector.
"How is this wine?" Klein asked with a smile.
Listen to me blowing it to you... Hastur already knows what tricks Klein is playing. He is deliberately testing himself through this so-called palace jade liquor!
"The entrance is soft, mellow and long, the aroma is long, and there is a touch of sweetness. It is a very good wine." Hasta put down the wine glass and said: "But there are still some flaws, which should be caused by many mistakes during brewing. In Kaifeng, the ratio of brewing materials is somewhat problematic.”
Hasta analyzed it carefully, and then asked Butler Neil, who was not far away, to fetch the fine wine he had collected.
Could it be that Mr. Hastur couldn't hear the underlying meaning of my words?
Or has he never seen this well-known sketch?
Is it a time difference?
Even if they were hanging in the light gate above the gray mist on the same day, he might have been a little older when he crossed over. If Hastur was a few years younger than him, he might not have had much of an impression of the Spring Festival Gala skit that year.
Of course, it could also be that Mr. Hastur was too well disguised. He knew very well that this was his own test, so he acted calmly so that he could not see into his true psychological activities.
try again.
Klein picked up the wine glass and sighed: "This wine is good, but the price is a bit expensive. It costs one hundred and eighty glasses."
"One hundred and eighty cups?" Hastur showed a rather puzzled expression at the right time.
"Yes, such a small glass of wine costs one hundred and eighty pence."
Hasta showed a surprised expression, "So that's it. Although it can't have a taste that matches the price, we always have to give those middlemen some room for profit."
"Mr. Hastur is as generous as ever."
Seeing that Hastur showed no abnormal behavior from beginning to end, Klein did not continue to explore the topic of palace jade liquor.
"Mr. Dawn Downstairs, you also have a taste of my treasured wine."
"That's my luck."
After Klein slowly tasted a glass, he really felt that the taste of this wine was obviously on a higher level than the palace jade liquor he bought with a lot of money.
Although he is not good at tasting wine, he can still clearly distinguish between them in terms of taste and aroma.
"It's really an impeccable wine." Klein smiled and did not choose to ask about the price of this wine.
He estimated that the wine would cost at least 500 gold pounds. The bottle of wine he bought for 100 gold pounds had already caused him pain for a long time.
“No matter whether a wine is high or low, you can only drink it with the right person.”
The two of them drank wine and chatted about trivial matters. They occasionally talked about life insights, but they didn't talk about anything serious.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Klein took out a small stack of Russell's diaries from his arms and placed them on the table. He smiled and said, "I heard that Mr. Hastur is very interested in the diaries passed down by Emperor Russell, so I specially collected some. ,hope you'll like it."
Hastur's eyes lit up slightly and he said with a smile: "Mr. Dawn Downstad is really thoughtful. Studying the life of Emperor Russell and the objects he left behind has always been my hobby."
After a slight pause, Hastur asked with some confusion: "Aren't the notes passed down by Emperor Russell? How can Mr. Dawn Downstairs be sure that these are diaries?"
Not taken the bait?
Are you really cautious, or are you really ignorant?
Klein said with a smile: "I am also extremely interested in the life of Emperor Russell. After some serious research, I dare not say that I have completely cracked the secret, but I have deciphered part of the contents of Roselle's diary."
Hastur picked up a piece of Russell's diary and said with interest: "This has completely aroused my interest. It's embarrassing to say that I have been unable to decipher the contents of these strange words."
"I have only deciphered a small part."
Klein found a diary with a pattern from the diary of Russell, placed it on the table, pointed at the diary of Russell and said: "This should be a mathematical theorem discovered by Emperor Russell."
Hasta also cast his gaze over, glanced at it carefully, and suppressed the instinct to twitch the corners of his mouth.
"Odd and even changes remain unchanged, and the symbols look at the quadrants." Klein introduced seriously, "This is definitely a certain theorem suitable for mathematics. I believe that my deciphering method is correct."
You are really good at talking nonsense. If I hadn’t been able to understand Chinese characters, I would have listened to you... Hasta complained bitterly in his heart.
I saw that there was indeed a function image drawn on this Russell diary, and it was a trigonometric function!
There are also small words marked at the bottom. That line of small words reads: Are you smart or stupid?
The handwriting that was completely different from Russell's showed that this diary of Russell's was definitely a forgery by Klein himself. It might have been drawn just a few days ago.
Temptation is temptation, why do you still curse?
Hastur just listened silently to Klein's explanation of "the odd and even changes remain unchanged, and the symbols look at the quadrants" and how he discovered and deciphered this mathematical theorem.
"This is really a great discovery. I think you can use this to go to the Church of Steam in exchange for a large bounty. They have offered a large bounty for many years to decipher the method of writing this kind of writing." Hastur said slightly excited.
No, is this the reaction?
If you don’t understand odd and even variables, and how symbols look at quadrants, I can understand that you haven’t gone to school for a few days.
But I have already told you to your face that you are very smart!
Don't tell me you can't even understand such basic Chinese characters?
Even if the Chinese class is taught by a physical education teacher, he is not willing to take the blame.
Klein complained silently in his heart.