Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 139: Albert's Mind

All right, Albert, this bastard came home as soon as he heard that his father had been released from prison, and walked in with Mr. Morsan's feet in his arms and cried. Mother also resented Albert's taking away her jewellery, but quickly made it easy for Mother to forgive him for his robbery with a fabricated mantra.

Albert said that since he learned that his father was being held in a military camp in White Deer Town, he had made every effort to find a way to meet his father. Then came a man who claimed to be the deputy head of the logistics unit of the county guard battalion, who told Albert that Mr. Morsan had been tortured and severely injured in the barracks, and that Mr. Morsan would most likely have died if his family had not sent a courier to look after him as soon as possible.

After this news, Albert's heart was cut like a knife, his heartbroken father was tortured in the barracks, and hatred could not be treated as one another. But the situation was critical, and all he could do was save his father's life, so he handed over all the money to the deputy supervisor and asked him to give Mr. Morsan some convenience in the barracks.

But the deputy supervisor said it wasn't enough to send out the guards in the barracks, and Albert had to do something else. He wanted to talk to his mother and collect some more money from home. But I'm afraid Claude made a mistake, and after his father was arrested, Claude stopped looking at his brother and threatened to use force if he couldn't move.

So Albert said that he was helpless, so he had to do something about it. He grabbed his mother's jewelry from home and sold it to the deputy supervisor first, just to protect his father from abuse in the military camp. Those jewelry were no longer precious and his life was important...

Fortunately, the deputy director of the logistics unit of that guard battalion was in charge, and the jewellery returned good news to Albert two days after he was handed over to him, saying that Mr. Morsan was no longer guilty in the barracks and that his injuries were mostly healed. It's just that Albert has some difficulties if he wants to see him. After all, he only called the cell guards the last time, and more money is needed to pass the patrol inspection and interrogation.

Albert said he had been out collecting money for some time and had to go to the barracks to meet his father no matter how much he spent. I didn't expect to hear suddenly that my father had been acquitted today. Sometimes I felt strange. I rushed to the deputy head of the logistics department of the security camp and found out that the man was missing. He went to the barracks again to inquire. The answer was that there was no such person in the barracks, which made him realize that he had been deceived...

Claude was speechless, and he looked at Mr. Morsan, and he looked at his mother, and finally he looked at Albert, lying on the ground with his father's feet and crying. Obviously it's a trick. Can't you hear how many loopholes there are in this shit?

Mother couldn't help it, it was out of love, she was always willing to believe her eldest son, willing to give him another chance even if she did something wrong. What about my father? You've always had a reputation as an old traitor. Albert, this is such a simple trick and deception. You wouldn't believe it so easily...

Claude was just disappointed. He watched his father sigh and reached out one hand to touch Albert's hair. He said to the goods in a gentle tone: "Get up, it's no big deal. If someone fools you with jewellery, fool me. I'll buy you another one if I have money. Don't cry, go wash your face, you are 22 years old, as an adult, you should pay attention in the future, don't be so easily fooled..."

“You, you believe what he says so easily?” Albert went to wash his face, Claude was angry and questioned Mr. Morsan.

Mr. Morsan did not immediately reply and was silent for a while before slowly saying: "I do not believe what can be done. After all, he is also my child, your brother. Remember, we are a family, and we all have the same blood. ”

Claude was angry, but he couldn't teach Albert a hard lesson in front of his parents, his mother was ill, and he feared that she would be stimulated to go back to bed. Father became a little strange, looked a lot older, didn't like to talk, but often smoked a pipe and looked out the window silently, his eyes filled with anxiety.

Forget it. Let Albert go this time. In the past, Claude used to read novels that he didn't understand how villains in books shaped by authors could do such bad things. Indeed, in the eyes of normal people, those villains really had some perverse anti-human feelings. Anyway, in Claude's mind, it's hard to imagine that when a man breaks the moral threshold of being a human being, what he does is basically animal-like and animal-like.

In a previous life, the boss had discussed a topic with the passers-by, which was that the moral standards of Chinese and foreigners were higher than those of who were foreigners, and foreigners here referred to nationals who called themselves Western civilizations. The boss firmly believes that the moral standards of the Chinese are an insult to the Chinese compared to those of the foreigners who do not know how many streets they have dumped.

The passers-by were strange. At that time, the consistent tone of society was that foreigners had better qualities than Chinese people, and the degree of civilization was higher than that of Chinese people. Why was the boss thinking the exact opposite?

The old man took a nasty bite and said, "Don't listen to the foolishness of the brick family called the beast. Those people have never touched the real bottom people of Western countries. They just saw the surface and didn't see the filth inside." He said that he had lived abroad for several years and had been in contact with people in the lower echelons of the country and had been able to see through.

Don't look at the books, the media say all kinds of bad things about us Chinese people, accuse our people of all kinds of bad things, but in fact, these shortcomings are there for foreigners, just nobody says it. And we in China have a moral bottom line with more shortcomings and problems, which is a precious legacy of more than 2,000 years of civilization. For example, the Confucian family, even if it is not, has taught us Chinese people to respect the virtues of old and young, to respect their parents and to respect their master.

But foreigners don't have this moral bottom line. Don't look at the Virgin Mary on their side making a scene, saying that what is politically correct is hypocritical. Seriously, they are distant cannibal natives, but they don't love their neighbors next to their homes, and a little inconsistency comes to court. On the face of it, justice and democratic freedom prevail, and all that is behind it is shady and selfish deception.

When a person loses the moral threshold, then he does bad things that are even more unscrupulous, perverse and inhuman. If you don't believe me, the boss said it at the time, whether the civilized countries of the West were exposed to a high crime rate or our China crime rate, and counting our population base compared to the population size of their countries, we could easily draw a conclusion.

I don't know how many times the crime rate in Western countries is higher than we are, or if the population is several times smaller than in our country, I don't know how those bricklayers called beasts can face saying that foreigners are better qualified than us, and that social development is more civilized than us.

The transcender was convinced, as if he had crossed into the other world and become Claude, that he had followed the moral values that previous generations had brought to him. Honoring parents, caring for younger brothers and younger sisters, standing up when the family is in a difficult situation and shouldering the burden of the family. Instead of flying around like his brother Albert, he had no idea what to do for his family...

Claude thought Albert was shameless, wolf-hearted, and in fact Albert's approach was the most normal. Anyway, Albert is also the number one graduate of literature in the country, and he is not stupid enough to know exactly what he wants.

As the chief administrative officer of White Deer Town, Mr. Morsan knew exactly how convenient his father's position would be. Just as he became Lord Fox's personal secretary, much of this was due to Mr. Morsan's face, and only a small fraction of it was due to his own efforts and agility that Sir Fox was appreciated.

At that time, Albert thought very simply, as long as he picked up his father's class and became a family member of the Fields family in the future, everything in the family would belong to him, be it the big red brick house or the return on his father's investment elsewhere.

He therefore hated his brothers and sisters very much, believing that they were both opponents and compensators of his future inheritance, but could barely restrain themselves because of fear of his father.

But Albert panicked after Mr. Morsan was arrested by the county guard camp on charges of endangering the security of the kingdom. He was well aware of the seriousness of the crime, which was second only to the great crime of treason and mass rebellion, and all he had to do was take himself out first and not get involved because of his father's crimes.

If Mr. Morsan is found guilty, then it is inevitable that his family will be seized and deprived of his national identity, and if Albert is not implicated, then there are only two options waiting for him: to become a family member of the Fields family, to shoulder the burden of the family, and to take care of his mother and minor siblings.

The second option was to leave the Fields and become a separate family, after all, he was 22 years old and had already been registered as a civilian household in the town hall. Although he had never paid a penny tax for his civilian status, which his parents had paid for him, that did not prevent him from severing ties with the Fields family.

The laws of the Kingdom provide for the independent establishment of civil registries in order to facilitate the collection of taxes and conscription for military service upon reaching adulthood. So Albert can totally refuse to be the new family member of the Fields family, so he doesn't have to worry about his mother, his underage brother and sister. That way, the rest of the Fields' estate had nothing to do with him, and that was the last thing he wanted.

However, Mr. Morsan was not convicted and sentenced immediately after his arrest, and Albert had to wait. In the meantime, he thought very thoroughly that he could get as much from home as he wanted, and that his hands were all his own. So first he cheated on his mother's private room money, then he hit the idea on her jewellery. These are all floats. If a father is found guilty of being ransacked, they will be copied away. You might as well get them first.

Albert knew very well that the biggest asset in the family was the big red brick house, followed by his father's investments in town. However, these are the property of the father, who was arrested, which belongs to frozen property and, like the father's account with the National Bank, has no means of extracting money from it.

In Albert's mind, he had no idea that his father could get away with the crime of endangering the kingdom and could easily be associated with relatives. He also hoped, however, that the best outcome would be the conviction of the father, who would not seize the family property under his name. Then he would go to the town hall, register himself as a family member of the Fields family, inherit his father's property, and kick the adult Claude out of the family.

By then, he had the big red brick house and the property his father left behind, enough to make him a comfortable civilian for the rest of his life. As for mothers and sisters, they could be their own servants, and that spoiled brother, Little Booker, dragged him into adulthood at the age of eighteen and drove him out of his family for independence, as Claude did. And that little snow dog, he can pull to the market and sell some money, and I hear it's worth a few silver tallers.

It's just that Albert didn't expect his father to be released from prison and removed from public office. This is a nightmare for him, but after thinking about it, he decided to go home and admit to his parents that he was wrong, play the role of a good first-born son, and describe everything he did as what he did to save his father. He was just unlucky and met a liar...

Mother easily believed Albert's words and Mr. Morsan excused his mistakes by sighing a few sighs. Claude was the only one who looked at the product with flaming eyes, but Albert ignored Claude again, and he knew that what was important now was to please his parents and restore his impression in their hearts.