"Mining business?"
When Jenkins heard this phrase, his first reaction was Miss Fabrice, who he was running. But then I remembered that Robert was unlikely to be exposed to this matter, and with his knowledge of the industry, he would be able to find out that it was a scam even if he heard about it.
Seeing that Jenkins was still thinking, Robert persuaded again:
"I think you should also understand that only gold pounds in circulation are valuable gold pounds, otherwise they are just a bunch of nice paper."
His words were profound.
"I have some 'very valuable' investment projects in my hand, and the bidding will be called soon. If you are interested, I can think of some ways."
Robert is making it clear that he can influence the decision-making of mining companies to a certain extent.
"Besides, you are an aristocrat. This background is very useful. Just tax relief can add a lot of points to your partners."
Jenkins has been thinking about it lately, but he's still waiting for Mr. Augustus' legacy to be realized. After thinking for a moment, I thought it was indeed a good idea, so I nodded:
"That's good. But it will have to wait for a while. I will have a large sum of money coming in at the end of the year. It's not too late to invest at that time."
"It's up to you to decide. Adults have to make their own plans."
He spoke very mature words, but his hands under the table were secretly filling the amber liquid from the wine bottle into the glass. Mary's attention is still in the conversation between the two, so she doesn't notice her husband's childish behavior.
It was clear to Jenkins that after this conversation, when there was a silence at the dinner table, Mary would definitely start a conversation about marriage. So after denying chocolate as a new topic, he decided to direct the fire in other directions.
He lowered his head and handled the steak with a knife and fork, pretending to be very casual and said:
"How is John doing recently? As I recall, the school's end-of-year exams are about to begin."
"Oh, yes, John, tell your brother about yourself."
Mary enjoyed watching her sons communicate.
"It's okay, Mrs. Padley's math class is a bit difficult, but I really like the class on Introduction to Machining and Manufacturing..."
The tone of the young man's speech was a little lazy, and he seemed to have no spirit. Probably the whole day's review exhausted his energy, so the family didn't blame him.
After dinner, Jenkins chatted with Robert in the study for a while, then got up to leave. Before leaving, Mary gave him the woolen scarf and sweater she knitted. And asked him to pay attention to his health recently, this is already a high incidence of influenza.
The evening wind was bitter, and when we returned to St. George's Street, there was no gas lamp in any house in the whole street.
He shrank his head, opened the door and rushed out, but the temperature was not very high in the house where the fireplace hadn't been lit all day.
After a simple wash, he wrapped his quilt and sat on the sofa in front of the fireplace. Chocolate is still in good spirits now, and there is still an hour before its sleep time.
I had nothing to do at night, so I used the time before going to bed to check the final draft of "Frozen" one last time. He had written to his bookseller, Mr. Bro, inviting him to pick up the manuscript at Papa's Antiques next week.
If all goes well, the first edition should be in bookstores by the end of the last month of the year.
It felt as if he had just closed his eyes, and the crackling sound of burning wood in his ears had just sounded, when he heard someone ringing the bell outside the yard.
Before he could figure out what was going on, the visitor stepped up the steps through the small garden, and there was a perfunctory knock on the door.
It's Dad, the only one with the spare key to the Jenkins house.
It was two o'clock in the morning, and the father hurriedly asked Jenkins to change his clothes and go to church with him.
This is an emergency, but not a large number of wounded waiting for treatment.
The matter started in the morning, when the staff assigned by the Church of Knowledge and Books in the dock area discovered a strange skeleton from a small fishing boat that was fishing illegally.
The bone entered the church in the evening, and the gentlemen of the Special Items Disposal Office sealed it up according to the usual processing procedures, waiting for the keeper and his apprentices to identify it, but unexpectedly something went wrong in the middle of the night.
When Dad and Jenkins came to the main entrance of the church in a carriage, they found that there were at least three times more guards than before.
They were allowed to enter only after confirming their identities. Ordinary priests were strictly restricted to their own residences, and only the Bestowers were active in the corridors.
They followed the man who led the way to the courtyard behind the main hall, and then walked along the corridor and entered the large library through the back door.
The bookshelves that were originally neatly arranged were all moved to the wall at this time, and at least twenty scribes knelt on one knee in the open space with their hands raised. And under the central dome of the library, a golden sphere was floating quietly. The sphere was translucent, and Jenkins could see a milky-white skeleton wrapped inside.
He originally thought it was just a bone, but what was inside the ball of light was more like the skeleton of an unknown monster.
"Miss Bevanna is not in Nuo City now, and there are traces of blood-sucking species in Victor Town in the countryside. We need you to preside over the ceremony. Except for the Holy Son, only demigods and above are qualified to do so."
The old man said softly, and then Smith, the secret keeper wearing a sacrificial robe, walked over with a frown, and stuffed a note into Jenkins' hand.
"Remember this quickly, the current seal won't last long."
"OK."
He hastily put the sleepy kitten aside, then lowered his head to look at the densely packed small characters.
"You watch and listen while I tell you about the current situation."
The keeper spoke very fast, and the three of them walked to the wall together, and a team of scribes hurried past the door behind them.
"It's not a special item, it's a part of an extremely powerful creature's body."
Chocolate lazily opened one eye, glanced at it and then closed it immediately. It was not interested, after all, it was time to sleep.
"Theoretically speaking, the odds of appearing in any place are the same. On the mainland, the Orthodox Church can discover and deal with it in time, but it is much more difficult overseas. Therefore, there are many scattered in the endless ocean. There are many strange things that fell out of the strange world, I think you have not forgotten the A-10-1-0230 we brought back from overseas, [parchment from the future]."
Jenkins nodded, indicating that he understood.
"This bone should have come to the material world through a strange environment. It originally only showed strong water absorption, so it was temporarily stored in an ordinary safe. But after nightfall, it suddenly showed a living body. nature, broke through the containment site, and almost left the church. It is now clear that it can grow by absorbing water, and its current volume is more than ten times that of when we contained it!"