The old Viscount Stott was a stubborn conservative nobleman.
Like most old and decadent nobles, he is proud of owning land and mainly relies on land rent income. He is conservative and not good at management.
Therefore, he was left behind by this age of steam and machinery, and he was left further and further behind, so that he became increasingly depressed.
In order to maintain the dignity of a nobleman and maintain a life worthy of his status, in addition to selling off some of his ancestral property, he had to find some alternative methods.
Secretly controlling the Blood Bottle Gang is one of them.
The other one is marriage.
Years ago, his second son fell in love at first sight with the daughter of a wealthy businessman and overcame numerous obstacles to get married. As a result, the old Viscount's family received a large and coveted dowry.
Relying on these less glorious but more obscure methods, the old Viscount Stout struggled to maintain his family's dignity.
Of course, it also attracted murderous intent to himself.
After reading the information, Varina immediately suspected that the client was the old Viscount's in-laws, the wealthy businessman who married his daughter.
If the old Viscount dies suddenly, in terms of title succession, the eldest son who is far away in the army in the southern continent will obviously not be able to compete with the favored second son. The second son who inherited the title would definitely be more susceptible to influence and control than the old Viscount, thus providing greater assistance to wealthy businessmen.
This is Varina's conjecture, and Phagoro also agrees.
But this is not important, they never care who the entruster is, what is important is the entrustment itself.
According to Phagoro, "You will understand in the future. No matter who is on our list, he deserves to die. No matter whether you do it or not, he will always die." There is no need to care about unnecessary things. Information, just kill and that's it.
Killing is easy, and it is not difficult to kill the old Viscount. But what is difficult is to kill the old Viscount in a reasonable and natural way.
For high-ranking officials such as viscounts, their death in any way will be reviewed by the official and church extraordinary people, in order to prevent assassination and conspiracy.
Varina needs to find a way to kill the old Viscount while ensuring that he will not be discovered by the censors.
This is the most difficult part of the entire task, and it is also the reason why it is inconvenient for a real "assassin" to take over this task.
Figuero said that the help the organization can provide regarding this task is to send him to the old Viscount's mansion and become an employed servant through the "Metropolitan Association for Helping Household Servants". What he needs to do is to find a way to make the old Viscount die seemingly naturally, preferably within a month.
Varina asked, would the difficulty of this task be too high?
Phagoro's explanation for this is:
In Backlund, with the exception of the East District, almost all missions require disguise to be completed, and the tasks in the East District are not difficult enough.
Among all commissioned tasks, the most selected targets are wealthy businessmen and middle-class people, especially middle- and upper-class wealthy businessmen. These tasks may not be less difficult to execute than the old Viscount, but they do not have as high added value as the old Viscount.
Moreover, although the disguise of the old Viscount's mission is indeed more difficult, the help provided by the organization is also substantial, which is enough to make up for the weakness in difficulty.
Wariner didn't know how true this statement was, but he was convinced.
In my memory, the famous murder cases that appeared in the original work were either committed by lunatics like Mr. A or by "devils". After they committed the crimes, they soon became unable to continue to establish a foothold in Backlund.
But the assassination organization he joined now is different. While the business is booming, his reputation is not prominent, which is indeed in line with Phagoro's statement.
After thinking about this, he agreed to take over the old Viscount's task.
Figuero told him that it would take some time to arrange his status as a servant in the Viscount's mansion, and asked him to come back in three days, and advised him to think about what means he could use to kill the old Viscount quietly during these three days.
In this way, Varina received this very difficult trial task.
Three days later, with the identity certificate given to him by Figero, he met with the housekeeper of the old Viscount Stout under the arrangement of the "Metropolitan Association of Helping Household Servants".
After a conversation similar to a job interview, the housekeeper was generally satisfied with Varina, so he approved him to succeed his predecessor and become the gardener of the old Viscount's family, with food and accommodation included, and an annual salary of 25 pounds.
Afterwards, he followed the housekeeper to the Viscount's mansion at No. 103 Berklund Street and moved into the row of bungalows for servants behind the main building.
After actually moving in, Varina had to sigh that he was indeed a respectable nobleman. Even the servant's room was a one-bedroom with a separate bathroom, which was better than the place he rented before.
On the second day after becoming a servant, Varina had a deeper understanding of the dignity of the nobles.
The main responsibility of him and the gardener is to be responsible for the health and beauty of the green plants in the yard. The actual workload cannot be said to be none, but pitifully little.
Do you need two people to be responsible for this? It was really hard for him to understand the decency of the nobility.
On the fifth day of becoming a servant, Varina finally figured out the routine of the old Viscount's family. He had an impression of the housekeeper, housekeeper, head maid, and servants with whom he had more contact, and no longer needed reminders from others.
Only then did he discover a major difficulty in completing his task - as a gardener, he rarely had the opportunity to enter the main building, let alone see the old Viscount himself.
It's hard to get close, so how can we deal with the old Viscount quietly?
It is with this in mind that Varina approaches her daily responsibilities.
In this way, the days passed day by day, until on the tenth day of becoming a servant, he finally ushered in a turning point——
Old Viscount Stott invited guests and held a grand social banquet at his home.
It wasn't until this day that Varina felt the special embarrassment of the old Viscount family that only belonged to the aristocratic class.
There are not enough servants.
Generally speaking, even if the host holds a banquet, it has nothing to do with a gardener like him. The busy ones should be the chef and maids, and at most the chore maids.
But during this banquet at the old Viscount's house, he and the gardener had to change their clothes and take over some of the valet's duties. Of course, the two of them still couldn't go to the main banquet hall where the guests were concentrated, so as not to be rude in front of the guests.
Taking advantage of this banquet, Varina finally had a clearer understanding of the layout of the main building.
After the banquet, a vague plan vaguely formed in Varina's mind.
In the following days, he refined and refined this plan while waiting for the next social banquet——
That was his chance to put his plan into action.
From a time point of view, I am afraid that within one month of the mission limit, that will be the last banquet, and it will also be the only chance he has.
