Brielle Rose!
"Brill Rose?"
"Who is this?"
Halfway through the car, there was a car for women and a car for men. Baker, who was sitting in the passenger seat, heard the name, looked at the driver Richard Castle and said, "Your lover?"
"What's mine?"
Richard coughed suddenly, glanced at the open intercom, and hurriedly explained: "This Brielle Rose should be the childhood sweetheart of my two uncles."
"two?"
Baker thought for a moment: "Clive Rogers and Steve Rogers?"
Richard nodded: "I don't know if it's true or not. Anyway, Martha said that when she was young, the Steve family all settled in New Jersey, which is where we are going next. Went to Steve’s Manor.”
Baker raised his eyebrows: "Interesting."
Richard shrugged: "This is considered a Rogers family secret. After Steve Rogers disappeared, several elders decided to keep the news secret."
"It's understandable," Baker said.
Captain Steve Rogers disappeared because of saving the world. Just like many painters' paintings only appreciate in value after their death, Steve Rogers is no exception.
At that time, the public's attention fell on Peggy Carter, the unofficial widow of Steve Rogers. It was with the help of this public that Peggy Carter was able to break through the discrimination of the times and become the leader of S.H.I.E.L.D. One of the founders.
And over the years, Peggy Carter has been taking care of the Rogers family.
The Rogers family has made such a decision. People only need to know that Captain America Steve Rogers’ lover is Peggy Carter. There is no need to know anything else, even if they are just childhood sweethearts.
Cap's relationship history needs to be simple and clean.
so……
This Brielle Rose was selectively forgotten by the Rogers family who took advantage of the popularity of Captain America to enter the political field.
pity.
The Rogers family can obviously become a generational political family.
But I don’t know what happened. Ever since time stabilized after World War II, the direct men of the Rogers family have passed away one after another as if they were subject to some terrible curse. Now, the only one who can be related to Rogers is I'm afraid it's only the Richard Castle family now.
Richard smiled and said: "Martha sometimes often talks about this matter. If she hadn't moved to New York to pursue her dream of being an actress, I'm afraid she would have encountered some accidents."
Baker said: "Didn't you ask someone to investigate?"
Richard smiled and said: "It didn't happen before, but now it does."
"What?"
"I have always wanted to explore inside Rogers Manor. This time, we can fight side by side."
"..."
Baker glanced at Richard who said this, and after a moment of silence he said, "Um, can you put me down at the traffic light in front? I suddenly don't want to go."
Richard: "..."
Exploration is a sport, while vacationing is a leisure activity. Baker planned to follow Richard to Rogers Manor for a vacation and soak in the hot springs, but he had no intention of playing any manor adventure game.
And what’s worth exploring in a run-down manor?
Beck couldn't understand.
Of course.
Baker said before that the people who got off the bus at the red light intersection were just joking. At worst, they went to the manor, where he soaked in his hot springs and Richard played his father-daughter adventure game.
In the afternoon.
It was almost when the sun was about to set that the two cars drove one after another to the entrance of a manor that looked slightly dilapidated from the outside.
Baker got out of the car, waited until Alexis opened the iron door with the key to the manor, and then pulled the iron door to both sides to reveal the passage that allowed the car to drive into the manor. Then he raised his head and stared at the manor in front of him.
There is nothing special about the architecture of the manor. It is the same as other manors blooming in the Federation. After all, the history of the Federation is only so long. He wants to have a sense of history, but he is not willing to do it.
only……
The manor in front of me has an indescribable flavor compared to the ordinary manor. It seems that there is a kind of suppressed darkness.
However, the building is old, and it is normal for darkness to exist. After all, this is not a world with scientific values. Otherwise, why would there be so many legends about seeing evil spirits in the Federation.
And the darkness was not enough for Baker to be afraid of, so he didn't bother with it.
Open the door.
Alexis, whose face was full of anticipation for the mansion and manor that was about to belong to her, suddenly collapsed after seeing the scene inside the main hall of the manor.
Dirty and messy.
No one would object to saying that this was not a manor but an abandoned garbage dump.
Baker and others looked at each other for a while.
Kate stroked Alexis' little head and said, "Well, fortunately, we considered bringing the tent over."
The expression on Alexis's face became even more exciting.
Let’s talk about it.
Several people still started to move, dividing the work and working together. Baker and Richard rolled up their sleeves to clean up the house in the main hall, while the ladies set up a barbecue grill on the lush grass in front of the main hall.
Boom!
Baker pulled a half-angel statue with one hand and threw it towards the garbage collection point: "By the way, why are there so many angel statues in a manor?"
Performance Art?
Suppress evil spirits?
Richard struggled to move the angel statue in his hand: "Who knows, but after Clive Rogers inherited the Rogers Manor, his behavior became more and more weird."
Baker helped Richard throw the seventh angel statue over: "Weird, tell me?"
Working does not interfere with chatting. Some people say that the efficiency of working silently is very high, while others say it is very low. Baker feels that if he works silently, he will feel sleepy.
The most important thing.
Baker also became interested in the manor.
At the beginning, Baker could feel the darkness that seemed to be suppressed, but after a few of them set foot in the manor, the suppressed darkness seemed to be loosened.
Richard said: "In my memory, Uncle Clive Rogers was a very cheerful person. When I was young, I loved going to play with him. But since Clive Rogers moved into the manor, He gradually seemed to be a different person. Once, when I just got my driver's license and ran here, before I even got close to the manor, I was scolded by Clive Rogers and told me not to come back again. Him."
Baker raised his eyebrows: "That's really weird."
Richard shrugged: "I think so too, but he was young at that time, so he has cut off contact with Clive Rogers since then."
At this time.
Guaguagua!
A group of crows fluttered from the forest behind the manor. With the darkness that had just drawn down the curtain, the atmosphere suddenly became a little weird.
Baker looked at the place where the crows were flying: "Don't tell me what's in the forest. The hot spring is in the forest."
Richard said: "That's right, but the natural hot spring is on the other side of the forest. If I remember correctly, that side should be where the Rogers family cemetery is."
At the beginning, the Rogers family was just an ordinary family. With the sudden rise of Steve Rogers, the Rogers family also took advantage of it and annexed the land nearby, and then established this huge hotel with hot springs and Rogers Manor at the family cemetery.
Beck nodded.
No wonder.
In the cemetery, it is normal for some dark energy to exist, especially since Richard mentioned that over the years, the men of the Rogers family have died unexpectedly one after another.
Those who die accidentally are those who die violently and with resentment. Although the West does not pay attention to these things, if this is the case, it can explain why the suppressed darkness felt revived as soon as Richard entered the door.
Who let Richard Castle also have the blood of the Rogers family in his body?
eight pm.
The living room on the first floor of the main hall of the manor has been cleaned, the lights are on, and the firewood in the fireplace is burning. If you only look at the main hall, it is also a very warm living room.
Baker and others sat on the ground, eating the food in front of them, talking and laughing, and calculating the cost of repairing the manor.
Alexis already regretted it.
This manor is different from the manor she imagined. This is not an inheritance. This is simply inheriting a large amount of negative assets, just for next year’s property tax. If Richard doesn’t pay, Alexis will not only declare that she There is no alternative to bankruptcy.
It's not that Richard didn't think about asking Alexis to sell the manor to him, but Clive Rogers' will clearly stipulated that even if Alexis, the heir, died in the future, he could not sell the manor or Inherited by anyone with any blood ties to the Rogers family.
Alexis looked at Baker: "Uncle Morton, how about I sell it to you?"
Baker laughed: "I'm a New Yorker."
If he wanted to move to another place, would he let the remaining vampires act as scavengers in Manhattan? Besides, it's not that he didn't have a manor, it was just under renovation.
"So I have no choice but to give up the inheritance?"
Alexis sighed and said this. She had lived in New York since she was a child, and her friends and classmates were all New Yorkers. Compared to Baker, Alexis was a well-established New Yorker.
As for why you want to give up.
the reason is simple.
In Clive Rogers' will, in addition to the previous stipulation, there is also a clause that if Alexis chooses to accept the inheritance here, then Alexis must settle here.
Yes.
If Alexis did not choose to settle here, the Rogers Manor would be owned by the public.
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