The Secret Code of Monsters.

Chapter 516 Ambition
"Of course you didn't."

Roland pushed the cup of tea that he had just emptied forward.

This action put Mason Lyle in a difficult position: if he gave the golden-eyed gentleman a drink, he would have to drink one less drink later. But the man looked respectable, had a gun, and used words like the "gentlemen" he had met...

Roland didn't realize that his action had put the man in trouble, so he just kept talking: "Welcome to London, sir. Your stay in London means that my sister can often see the performances of the Mud Ball Circus, right?"

Lyle was somewhat pleased to see that he was not obsessed with the tea: "Of course! Of course! If you like these little monsters, I would be happy to let them perform for you - perhaps individually!"

He rubbed his hands, realizing that this could be a big deal: "We can hire a long covered carriage, put on thick clothes, and go to your house..."

Roland brought the topic back.

He really didn't want to deal with this peacock anymore.

"So, my friend, Halida, where is she?"

Mason Lyle said bitterly, "I don't know, sir. You see, the child was lost in just one night. She came to my tent crying and talking nonsense. What should I do?"

He spoke.

"I asked someone to search the surrounding woods for an entire afternoon. You don't know, the child doesn't cry..."

Halida's brother 'disappeared' first.

Next, it was Halida.

The siblings disappeared within days of each other.

Roland had a guess.

Fernandez said this before.

The man who stole an eight-month-old baby from a South Side couple and dug up several graves.

He might be the culprit.

And Halida?

The brother is missing, and the circus owner is unwilling to put in the effort, so naturally the sister will go look for him herself.

Then...

Where is Halida now?
On the bright side, she was probably shivering in a cold corner of London.

Think of the worst...

Just like how she had walked barefoot from the suburbs across half the city to meet herself at the station at the other end in order to find a doctor for her brother.

Roland didn't show too much emotion in front of the peacock. He nodded and stood up to say goodbye.

"I'll send someone to look for her, sir." Before leaving, Roland suddenly asked, "It seems you didn't call the police."

"You can't call the police!" Mason Lyle said in shock, "If you call the police, those people will come and try to take another layer of skin from me! Please, sir! I promise, I promise to send Anto to go around the city..."

The man rolled his eyes and said, "How about I give it to you? You look like an important person and have an extraordinary friendship with that lovely girl, right? I'll pay for it! How about two shillings? Then, I will definitely thank you very much!"

A puff of Golden Smoke's cigar costs more than two shillings.

Roland didn't bother to pay attention to the miser, so he said goodbye hastily and left the tent.

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After Roland left, Mason Lyle quickly changed his clothes, sneakily closed the tent, and went to the coachmen's gathering place to call a carriage.

He had a small house in the West District, right next to the cross street that bordered the East District - you could say it was the West District or the East District.

The reason for saying East District is that the actual land belongs to East District. If you go to the police, they will also treat it as East District. Including various taxes, the specific location used by others to describe, and,

There aren't that many reasons why it's called the West District.

One.

It was considered the West District thirty years ago, but later the policy was changed and it was designated as the East District - but the people living there still think that their houses, and themselves, belong to the West District.

Because this policy is so "painless", some people who are short of money but desperately need land to cover up their shabby dignity and empty pockets can take advantage of it.

Like Mason Lyle.

Yes.

He is about to earn a lot of money, or a magical self, for 'some reason'. So.

He planned to settle down in the City of London and end the wandering life of a circus owner - as for the circus?

He found a new business to do.

"Freak Show, how about that name?"

The handsome man took off his shirt and leaned against the bare side of the bed. The woman in his arms leaned against him as he leaned against the side of the bed.

She has long, not-quite-pure brown hair and wooden eyes.

Mei is a maid in a family.

Now she is a maid in a family and the lover of Mason Lyle.

No matter how lowly the owner of the Mud Ball Circus was, he would never marry a lowly maid - everyone knew that maids and governesses were not much cleaner than women who haunted the night sky.

Like the women in their arms, they knew each other well.

Just 'having an affair'.

"...Freak show?" Mei muttered, took out a long cigarette and bit it, letting the man light a match, tempting her to stretch her neck like teasing a pet dog, and then lit the cigarette butt just before it burned her fingers.

The maid lay in her arms, puffing away at the cigarette, her two rabbit-like front teeth treading on the cigarette holder.

Mason Lyle liked her look like this, and that was why he fell in love with this girl.

of course.

Later, when he heard that she was serving a not-too-old widow with a large sum of gold pounds, his "infatuation" turned into "determination to win her over."

"You want me to help you 'deliver' messages again, Mason." The maid blew out a puff of hot smoke and threw a tantrum in the man's arms: "The lady is very interested in you, but I can't always mention you in front of her. It's too weird."

"Yes, yes, of course not. I have to consider you, Mei." Lyle hugged her and flicked her earlobe with his index finger, making the maid tremble. "It's up to you to think about it. You decide everything, okay?"

He gently rubbed her forehead with his chin and kissed her hair which was slightly sweaty and lustful. "Then, I will be the master of the Burns family. Think about it, think carefully, Mei, my love. What kind of life will you live then?"

The maid put her arms around his neck and said, "Will it be better than it is now?"

Mason Lyle chuckled, "They used to use mine to ring the bell."

This dirty talk made the woman in his arms laugh. She stretched out her hand, flicked off the ash, and rubbed her cheek against her lover: "...I've been waiting for you for too long. Why didn't you come earlier? I should have asked the driver to go around and buy some potatoes and fish sauce..."

Mason Lyle was a little surprised: "You hired a carriage?"

The maid realized that she had said something wrong, so she turned over silently and threw the cigarette into the teacup.

Turned back and hugged him.

"Okay, that's not much money."

"That's a lot of money, Mei." Lyle was a little dissatisfied: "Look, you have big feet, flat feet, and are good at walking. We don't have to take a bath, so why not walk? We are not in a hurry, you just need to walk over and buy potatoes and fish sauce along the way..."

"Maybe you can even see the scenery of London."

“Thinking about things I don’t normally think about…”

"Frugality. Mei, you must learn to be frugal. This is the best virtue of human beings."

It was obviously not the first time that the maid named Mei had listened to his long speech.

The reason why she could endure it, in addition to the love she had for his face, was partly because this man was indeed somewhat charming - she meant that he had a chance to capture Ms. Burns's charm.

If she succeeds, not to mention her weekly salary (given the man's personality, his own weekly salary won't increase), at least her status will be different - she has worked as a maid for the lady for a while, so she naturally knows how much money she can make with her new identity after her status changes.

"And you, Mason, my dear," she asked, half-jokingly, taking the man's face in her hands, "you came in a carriage, too, didn't you?"

"How can I be the same? I have something important to do..." As the man came under the quilt, his eyes gradually became ambiguous: "Look, something big is coming..."

He was about to turn over, but the woman below him suddenly thought of something and pushed him with her arm.

"Lamb intestines have a new... Mason..."

"It's a waste, dear, it's a waste. Use the ones just now, they're still a little smoother... You see, if a box is seven pence... we can save... Let me do the math..."

The maid rolled her eyes, opened the door and said nothing more.

(End of this chapter)