Under the cold moonlight, Colin came to a balcony in the Red Castle.
The maids behind were busy arranging the tables and chairs, brought four glasses of champagne and several plates of dried fruit, and then left lightly.
"Sit down." Colin smiled and said to Aemon, Quincy and the Shire knight.
"Yes, sir."
"Yes, Lord Viscount."
The three of them sat down as promised, raised their wine glasses and touched Ke Lin.
After taking a sip of his wine, the butler Aemon was about to report to Colin about the recent government affairs of Ice Rock City, but Colin raised his hand to stop him.
"Don't worry, this time I came back from Silvermoon City, and I have a doubt that has been lingering in my mind. If I don't solve it, I probably won't be able to think about other things."
"Master, what doubts do you have?"
Colin stroked his chin and asked, "Count Uman's wife is the former Viscount Su Duo's sister, right?"
"Yes."
"Then what color is the countess's pupils?"
Aemon turned his head to look at Quincy, obviously this old man who had worked as a tax officer in Ice Rock City for decades should know.
"My lord, the countess' pupils are blue."
"you sure?"
"I'm sure! I watched her grow up, even if I close my eyes, I can recall her face."
A smug smile appeared on the corner of Colin's mouth, as if a certain conjecture in his heart had been confirmed.
But out of caution, he still asked one more question: "Has there ever been a direct member of the Su Duo family with red pupils?"
"Red?" Quincy thought about it for a while, then shook his head and said, "No, red pupils are relatively rare. As far as I know, no pupils of this color have ever appeared among the direct descendants of the Su Duo family."
"That's right!" Colin clapped his hands excitedly.
He finally understood what the little secret that Queen Midella had only half revealed back in Silvermoon City was.
Aemon, Quincy, and Shire looked at each other, obviously not following Colin's train of thought.
Colin explained with a smile: "Count Uman has red pupils, but the Countess has blue pupils, so why did the Viscount Lawrence who was born have red pupils?"
Butler Aemon frowned, becoming even more puzzled.
Quincy also carefully reminded: "My lord, the red pupils of Viscount Lawrence were passed down to him by Count Uman. This... shouldn't be a problem."
"No, there's a big problem!" Colin put on a mysterious smile on the corner of his mouth.
However, Colin was a little worried about how to explain this genetic problem clearly.
There is no Mendel who grew peas in this world. People's understanding of heredity is still very rough, and they don't understand the difference between recessive genes and dominant genes at all.
In their understanding, it is normal for a father with red pupils to give birth to a son with red pupils.
But if you understand some basic theories of genetics, you will understand that this is not necessarily the case.
Red pupils are rare, suggesting that this is a recessively inherited trait.
If recessive genetic traits want to be expressed in the child, he must obtain a corresponding recessive gene from both the father and the mother.
In other words, Earl and Countess of Uman must have the recessive gene of red eyes at the same time in order to have a red-eyed son.
Earl Uman is fine, his family has always had the gene for red eyes, but the Su Duo family has not!
What's more interesting is that Earl Uman's favorite lover, Penny, has red eyes!
According to the law of inheritance, the child born of two red eyes must have red eyes.
Just like if both parents have single eyelids, the child must also have single eyelids (excluding the factors of the old Wang next door and genetic mutation).
Therefore, the pupil color of the descendants of the Uman family is very interesting.
It shouldn't be Red Eye's son-in-law, Viscount Lawrence, but it is Red Eye.
But the illegitimate son, Walra, who was supposed to be red-eyed, had blue eyes.
Colin was still worried that he had made a mistake, so he confirmed it again with Aemon: "My brother-in-law Valla, what is the color of his pupils?"
Although Aemon was confused, he still replied, "It's blue, my lord."
really!
Colin confirmed it now.
Excluding the fact that there is also an old king next door and genetic mutations in the earl's castle, this extremely low probability event is judged according to the genetic law and the pupil color of the earl's heir:
The illegitimate son Valla is actually the child of Earl Uman and the Countess!
And Lawrence, the legitimate son, should be the child of Earl Uman and his lover Penny!
Then why, Earl Uman wanted to raise his illegitimate son as an illegitimate son, but the illegitimate son was regarded as the first heir to his title
There can only be one explanation for this kind of unreasonable behavior - the identity of the lover Penny is probably more noble than the Countess who was born in the Su Duo family!
Combined with what Queen Midella said, the Saint Theon family, which should have cut off the inheritance, also has the red eye gene.
Then, the truth of the matter is not difficult to guess—
Earl Uman's lover, Penny, is probably a descendant of the San Theon family!
Only now did Colin understand why Earl Uman valued Valla's illegitimate son so much. Not only did he help him marry the prostitute of the Angelet family, but he also tried to assassinate Colin to help Valla obtain a baronial estate.
If it was an illegitimate child of an ordinary noble, how could it be possible to get such great help from his father
Earl Uman did this obviously out of guilt for his real son and wanted to make up for it.
Thinking about it further, when Earl Uman offered the Duke of St. Hilde a strategy to lure the enemy into the depths, he might have really had bad intentions.
His original intention should be to use this to induce chaos in the north, so that the Saint Sean family can take the opportunity to make a comeback and avenge their past.
It's a pity that the two St. Hilde brothers were superior in chess and were not fooled by him.
And this Silvermoon City coup, as well as the current rebellion that is breaking out in the northern border, may also have the shadow of the San Theon family.
Colin originally suspected that who could arrange for the Pegasus Legion to ambush the Black Cavalry in the Shadow Canyon. The Duke of St. Hilde could not do this, but the people of the St. Theon family had this ability.
For more than three hundred years, it was the Duke of the North who led the army to defeat the main force of the Santheon family, thus opening the prelude to the decline of the paladin family.
With the indelible hatred between them and the St. Hilde family, it is not difficult to win the trust of the Eastern Territory.
From this, it can be inferred that the coup d'etat in Silvermoon City may also have something to do with the San Theon family.
For example, the Savoy family, they may have always been pawns of the San Theon family.
If you think back to the time when the Savoy family fell, you will find that it was after the Santheon family lost power, so the relationship between these two families is definitely not simple.
The more Colin thought about it, the more he felt that his guess was not far from the truth of the matter.
The only thing that made him unsure was what role the Duke of St. Hilde played in this series of conspiracies.
No matter how he looked at it, Colin didn't think that he was just a person who was played around by the Santheon family.
Since Queen Midella knew that the Saint Theon family was hiding in the dark, there was no reason why her elder brother, the Duke of Saint Hilde, should not know.
Thinking about it carefully, the Duke of St. Hilde was actually the one who benefited the most from the first plot of the St. Theon family against the northern border.
In this second conspiracy, the Duke of St. Hilde actually did not suffer too much. Although the destruction of the Black Cavalry Army greatly reduced the military strength of the northern border, it also helped him completely eradicate internal hidden dangers.
The Duke of St. Hilde deliberately concealed the strength of the sanctuary, probably in order to stabilize the current situation.
As long as he can continue to hold on, maybe he will have the last laugh this time.
Of course, the Saint Theon family will definitely not allow the Duke of Saint Hilde to fulfill his wish easily, and the next northern border will definitely be turbulent.
Thinking of this, Colin suddenly asked: "By the way, does anyone of you remember what the family emblem of the San Theon family is?"
Quincy thought for a while and replied:
"My lord, it's the 'Beautiful Tiger'!"
(end of this chapter)