Chapter 106 Titanic (I)

"Master, are you awake?"

Yun Lan's eyes moved, and a male voice immediately sounded next to him, speaking standard English. His head hurt a little. The original owner seemed to have drank a lot. He said softly "Hmm". Yun Lan sorted out his thoughts. The person who spoke was his butler Leger, and he himself was the one who was taken away from the Titanic. Cuckold Carl Hockley.

Leger saw him getting up, and quickly went to the table to pour him a glass of water. Karl leaned on the bed, took the glass of water, rubbed his aching temples, and said, "Leger, my head hurts a little, and I want to lie down again." For a moment, please go out and don’t let anyone disturb me for an hour.”

Leger responded in a low voice, looked at him, and said hesitantly: "Master, do you want me to call Miss Ruth over? Maybe she regrets quarreling with you now."

Karl waved his hand and said indifferently: "No, I don't want to see her now. Remember not to let anyone come in and disturb me within an hour."

Leger respectfully withdrew, and Karl got down and locked the bedroom door, then sat on the bed and meditated and performed the exercises. Well, fortunately, the human body veins of foreigners are the same as those of Chinese people. In half an hour, he has been running the exercises for a small week. He opened his eyes and took a sip of spiritual spring water. Some toxins accumulated in his body due to years of smoking and drinking Everything had been cleared away, and the whole person suddenly felt much lighter.

After sorting through the memories, I found that I had just boarded the ship now. The quarrel between the original owner and Ruth was not because of anything serious. In fact, the two of them rarely had the same opinions when they got along. Ruth firmly believed that the original owner was a stinker and was unwilling to do so. Accept him and understand him, and the original owner is the heir of the Hockley family. He has his own pride. Even if he likes Ruth's energy and enthusiasm, he will not go out of his way to please her.

Now that he has traveled through time and become Karl, he doesn't want Ruth as his fiancée at all. He is comparable to Wang Zixuan in "Between Water and Clouds". It is not wrong to pursue novelty, but it is not wrong to forget one's own identity and responsibilities. Ruth relied on Karl's money to continue living a noble life and admired Picasso's paintings, but she always dismissed Karl in her heart, thinking that he was a profit-seeking businessman. She was really a self-contradictory woman.

Karl stood up and opened the safe, put the documents, jewelry, cash, and the most precious heart of the ocean into the space, and changed the password of the safe. Carl couldn't complain about Ruth's behavior of randomly taking a poor boy whom she had known for only two days to open the safe and play with the heart of the ocean. If she decided to pursue love with Jack, why would she feel so comfortable opening Carl's safe?

Looking at the time, it was almost an hour later. Karl remembered that there seemed to be a dinner party in the evening. When he opened the door and saw Leger standing not far away, Karl smiled with satisfaction. This butler is very good and can be cultivated as a confidant. As the Romans do in the countryside, Karl did not do it himself, but let the maids serve him to change clothes and eat meals. When he traveled to Haoxiang in the last time and space, there were also maids and servants to serve him, so he didn't feel uncomfortable at all. He just looked at Isshiki His foreign face is just a little bit unaccustomed to him.

It was almost time for the dinner. Rouf took Ruth's hand and walked slowly to Karl's room. Just as he was about to enter, the smile froze on his face. Rouf raised his chin slightly, narrowed his eyes and asked arrogantly: "What? What's wrong? We're going to the dinner party with Carl."

The maid lowered her head respectfully and replied: "Hello, madam, please wait a moment, I will go and pass the message first." After saying that, she bowed and entered the door. Rufu frowned and glanced at Ruth. In the past, when they came to Karl's room, where did they need to communicate? It seemed that she was very angry this time, and Ruth was too willful.

Ruth felt her mother holding her hand with a slight force, and she thought she was asking her to behave well in front of Karl. She felt very bored. She and Karl were from two different worlds. She yearned for a free and unrestrained life, and Karl has always adhered to the etiquette of aristocrats. Thinking of living with Karl for a lifetime, she had a premonition that she would go crazy.

Karl was sitting on the sofa reading the newspaper. After spending decades in the Qing Dynasty, it was really a pleasure to drink coffee with such a rich taste. Perhaps it was the boldness of a skilled man who was about to build a foundation when the ship sank. It was not difficult to set up a barrier to trap everyone, so he was not so anxious to find a way to prevent the captain from giving the order to speed up.

He thought that even if he could change everything, after the ship sank, he could save the lives of everyone on board, but the captain and the others would have to pay the price, whether it was ruined reputation or condemnation of conscience. They all deserve it.

Hearing the maid's request, Karl raised an eyebrow, took out the pocket watch in his coat pocket and looked at the time. There were still twenty minutes left, and the dinner was about to begin. This mother and daughter really know how to keep time, I have to say. , Ruf's idea was very good. She knew that Karl was obsessed with Ruth, and she also knew that men don't cherish things that are too easy to get, so Ruth's aloofness towards Karl was just enough to stimulate Karl's desire to conquer.

Karl knew that Ruth would commit suicide without him taking action. At that time, he could just follow the plot and cancel the engagement at the critical moment, and then he could get rid of the mother and daughter. There was no need to break up with them now. Asking the maid to invite Rufu and Ruth in, Carl was as gentlemanly and polite as usual.

Luffy saw Carl's expression and breathed a sigh of relief. She returned to her arrogant look and expressed dissatisfaction with the maid's behavior. Carl occasionally responded and walked to the restaurant first when Lejie reminded him to go to the restaurant. Ruth couldn't tell whether she was happy or disappointed. Carl didn't even look at her. Although Carl's attitude didn't seem to have changed, she felt like she was going to lose something.

There was no time for Ruth to think about it. Several people went to the restaurant and had dinner with Esme, the owner of the Titanic, engineer Andrew, and the lady Molly. In the luxurious restaurant of the first-class cabin, all the most prestigious people often gather together for meals. Rather than saying that this is a meal, it is better to say that it is a way of communication in the upper class, and the actual content of this communication is often filled with the display of power and wealth.

During the meal, Esme kept praising every detail of the Titanic, and exaggeratedly described his bold investment and cautious operation. Obviously, the success of the Titanic will bring him to the highest peak in his life. When Esme mentioned him, Andrew just modestly said that it was Esme's idea that led to the creation of the Titanic.

The compliments, heartfelt sighs, and meaningless echoes were intertwined, which was a common reaction in such occasions. Ruth sat next to Carl, but felt suffocated. She turned from indifference to disgust, but she couldn't leave the table without reason in such an occasion, which would be rude and uneducated. However, she was rebellious by nature and would never accept it without expression, so she lit a cigarette of Carl.

The reactions of the people at the table were different, but except Molly, no one would appreciate Ruth's impolite behavior. After all, a well-educated unmarried girl should not have such behavior. Ruth quickly reacted, frowned and approached her and said, "Ruth, you know I don't like this."

Ruth's answer was to blow all the smoke in Ruth's face. In response to her uneducated behavior, Carl did not put out his cigarette or order food for her as in the original drama. Instead, he frowned slightly, showing his dissatisfaction as her fiancé. Because Carl did not make a decision for Ruth, Molly did not challenge him, but changed the subject and asked about the name of the ship.

"Oh, yes, I came up with the name Titanic," Esme said, "I want to emphasize the huge hull, which means stability, majesty, luxury, and power..."

"Do you know Dr. Freud?" Ruth suddenly interrupted Esme and asked an irrelevant question. Obviously, Esme did not know who Freud was, so this question embarrassed him.

"He believes that men attach great importance to the size of their sexual organs... This is to conquer women," Ruth said seriously, "This theory must be interesting to you."

Esme was stunned and could not stand or sit, and was very embarrassed. Molly smiled knowingly. She always hated the hypocrisy of the nobility, so she admired Ruth's bold behavior. Everyone at the table was shocked. Ruth hurriedly stopped her daughter from talking: "What are you doing?"

Ruth stood up, said "Excuse me" and left in a hurry.

"I'm so sorry." Ruth apologized to everyone with a stiff face.

Carl sat there coldly, expressionless.

"She has a bad temper," Molly picked up a cherry with a fork and smiled at Carl, "I hope you can handle it."

Hearing the consolation in this sentence, Ruth's face became even uglier. Carl took the napkin and wiped the corner of his mouth, smiling: "Mrs. Brown is always very enthusiastic. It seems that you like Ruth very much. Maybe you can talk to each other."

Ruth was only concerned about embarrassing her fiancé, not caring about the reputation of her fiancé and her family. She was a rebellious teenage girl. I really don't know what Molly admired about her.

Molly's smile froze. Did Carl mean that she was the same as Ruth? Even if she liked Ruth more than these people, she knew that Ruth's behavior just now was very rude. She knew that these upper-class nobles looked down on her and were only polite to her on the surface, but she also looked down on these so-called nobles. She felt that people should live happily and freely. People like them who bound themselves with various rules and regulations were really tired.

The author has something to say: Speaking of which, isn't Ruth a noble lady? Even if she was dissatisfied with the engagement, she shouldn't have behaved like this in public? Didn't she never participate in aristocratic social activities when her father was alive? She would only ruin her family's reputation by doing this...