If you have something on your mind, you will not live a stable life. What's more, it's something I don't want to happen. After receiving Frank's call, Zach had a very uncomfortable few days.
The person who discovered that Zach had a problem was actually Kate who came to Grande for an interview—she was the only reporter who knew about the transactions between Barton's funeral companies, and Zach gave her the inside story, wasn't it~
"I need more." Kate was a little dissatisfied. "The relationship between Grande and Allen is not good in the public eye. I need more details of the transaction so that readers can see that this is a transaction that both parties are satisfied with. It is not the result of a malicious business competition."
Zach was always absent-minded, "The relationship between Grande and Allen is not good, and it's not because of you. Don't let me take the blame for you." Remember, when Kate was still an ignorant reporter, in order to get revenge on Grande, De, ran to interview Allen. Allen, who was still human at the time, did not implicitly attack Grande.
But objectively speaking, Kate's concerns are justified. For Zach, the sale of the mill to Allen Funeral Home had nothing to do with the malicious competition from Ford Funeral Home. It was purely a layout that Zach made for Barton. But the layout must be seen. Do you understand? The most basic thing is that the Southern District Police Department needs to understand that this transaction is not about what Zach Grande lost, but that the Southern District Police Department wants to follow this transaction and try to The decision was made between taking control of the Southern District Police Station through the mill, and General Lance, who was about to come to Patton to attend James' wedding.
"I thought we had passed the stage of being unhappy with each other." Kate was very direct. "Are you going to destroy the balance I have finally found in my chaotic human life because of your inexplicable mood now?"
Kate can be said to have been heartbroken. This reporter has grown up in a storm, from hating Grande because of personal grudges, to accidentally falling in love with James, to shocking education when she learned about the existence of aliens, to escaping. In reality, I hid in Newton, and then I was stimulated by Miley to go to the middle of the country to find James... Finally, I can talk to Zach here on an equal footing.
Zach pursed his lips and found a copy of the contract sent by Allen, "Read the contract for yourself, and write whatever you can use."
As a reporter, to be able to cover a transaction with lots of insider information and actually get the contract directly is the pinnacle of my career. Kate took the contract with a speechless expression, "So, what's going on with you? Are you worried about what gifts to give James and me?"
Oh, by the way, the wedding date of James and Kate was announced yesterday and will be held at Mary Church next Monday. Today is Friday, and tomorrow guests from the west will come to Barton one after another. As a landowner, Kate needs to finish all the work at hand today, and tomorrow she will start to deal with those valuable guests.
"No." Zach answered directly, "Your gifts are ready."
"Tell me it's not a bottle of your blood." Kate showed no expression.
Zach curled his lips, "Even if you want it, I won't give away Toledo's blood randomly anymore." After speaking, he raised his hand and pointed to a certain wooden sculpture on the bookshelf, "That is your gift. "
Kate glanced at it and said, "What the hell?"
"'Jian' said that it was a statue of the god who was in charge of childbirth in the Republic. It is most suitable to be given to newlyweds."
Kate's mouth remained open for a long time without being able to comment. Taking a deep breath, "Then what are you worried about? You have been distracted since I came here."
Zach sighed anthropomorphically and glanced at Kate, "Let me ask you a question. When I say, 'pacifist,' what do you think of?"
"I will think of..." Kate was very cooperative and thought seriously, "When I was young, during the war 11 years ago, those people marched in the streets and asked the government to stop the war."
"Yeah." Zach nodded, "So if a person's career is to provide weapons for war, you can't regard this person as a pacifist, right?"
"of course not."
"But he is." Believe me, Zach didn't want to say that, but in the past few days, Zach continued to recall some of the words and deeds of Bob, the ancestor of the Zimishi family, and Roy, and he became more and more convinced of this, "Is the war going to happen?" The end has nothing to do with those people marching in the streets. I have no intention of belittling your experiences when you were young, but I’m sorry, but the reality is that the war between the Union and the North ended 11 years ago because both sides lost too many lives in the war. , the country stopped the war because it wanted to stop losses."
Kate waved her hand, "You don't have to apologize to me. I said I was young at the time. If those people were marching on the streets every day, I wouldn't know that my country was at war with its neighboring countries." This response was quite...real. , few people are willing to admit their ignorance of the national situation so directly.
Zach did not comment, "Do you know why both sides suffered such heavy losses in the war 11 years ago, huh." Zach shook his head, "After all, with the information you know now, you know that there is a newly rising Tsimi in the North Kingdom. Xi, our federation has the entire Sabbat to prove the west."
During the war 11 years ago, Zach was on the battlefield. When it comes to the lives lost in the war, no one has more say than Zach.
Kate frowned and said, "I don't know." She didn't try to guess too smartly.
"I know." Zach tilted his head. "The relationship between the Federation's military and the Sabbat Zmich has always been close. The largest industry of the Sabbat Cimich is also the manufacturing of weapons for the military. But in the war, Ci The way Mishi supports our federal military is to only provide weapons for human destruction." Zach paused, revealing something we had never understood before - "but did not provide the federal military with weapons at all. The most authentic guaranteed vampire blood.”
When Zach was sorting out the blood trading market in the west, he discovered information that the amount of vampire blood purchased by the military during the war was zero, but now in peacetime, it is increasing year by year.
Kate frowned, as if she was a little unsure of Zach's logic, "Do you mean to say that in order to end the war as soon as possible, Zmich of the Sabbat deliberately imported weapons that could cause damage to the battlefield without giving any weapons that could cause damage? The blood of a vampire that saves lives? Instead of saving people, end the war with casualties?" This logic is too weird.
Zach nodded, "Do you think this idea is ridiculous? Hum, there are similar examples in history. Do you know about the four centuries of colonial war? James should have told you about it. The human colonists won, But the aliens lost, and they lost miserably. Among the thirteen clans, the Tzimishi clan suffered the most tragic sacrifices, because they sacrificed their lives for the faith of the Holy Lord even when other clans could avoid Papa’s midnight creation, the werewolf. The war we launched, we faced the difficulties. Eventually the war ended, and the reason why I initiated the Secret Alliance to establish this country, the Federation, is that we vampires cannot continue to bear these losses."
Remember, what Bob said, Tsimich is a pacifist, but the war has irresistibly started (the colonial war was started by the Holy Lord by the thirteen clans), so Tsmich can only rush.
Still feel ridiculous
Kate looked confused and thought for a while, "Why do you suddenly start thinking about Zmich?"
"Because at any time, a certain Zmich may appear in Grande and ask for my asylum." Zach glanced at Kate, "And I haven't decided yet, how do I view this Zmich. Sympathy? Approved? Disliked? Despised? Still feeling indebted. Tsk.”
Kate's mouth opened and the corners of her eyes twitched for a moment, then she put away the contract that Zach gave her, "You decide slowly, I don't have time to accompany you. Goodbye, see you at the wedding." and left. (To be continued)