"The documents are still being sorted out. Don't you have more important work to do? Mr. Andrew, I think you should discuss the specific matters of the hearing the day after tomorrow in the principal's office with the vice principal." Percy packed up. He put some of the materials into a brown paper bag and tied it with string, stood up and faced Andrew respectfully next to him.
After the Chicago Port Incident, the appropriations and authorizations for spending money to block the port and buy out the land were signed by Andrew Gattuso. They were handled beautifully, including the impact of the rappelling of the armed helicopters on the Anthe, which was smoothed out by him. The younger generation of the Gattuso family has performed best recently.
He had only one sentence to say about Cassel College: These troublemakers never know that they are burning a lot of school board money. It was such a word of loyalty, coupled with his recent outstanding personal abilities, that made Frost Gattuso decide to send this young man with an excellent resume to handle this hearing.
The Board of Trustees of Kassel College felt reassured by Andrew Gattuso and gave him the highest power when he stayed at Kassel College. Just like the ancient Chinese emperor issued a Shangfang sword and a three-blade guillotine to him to judge cases, the Board of Trustees of Kassel College The charter has always been a violent charter, and he has the power to interpret and enforce this charter.
This means that as long as he wants, he can become the "Dolores Umbridge" of Cassel College, imposing an injunction within one day to curb bad atmosphere, and silence all the noise and resistance.
In fact, even the accompanying secretary Patsy felt that his superior would give the principal and vice-principal a slap on the wrist on the first day he arrived at the college, and slap the more than 130-year-old man hard with the Shangfang sword in his hand. The old guy's face has wrinkles like bark.
But Andrew Gattuso did not do this. His behavior was extremely abnormal and reasonable in Passi's eyes.
The abnormality is that before Andrew was appointed as the leader of the investigation team, he always followed the path of being young, talented and energetic. Young and promising and being brave and honest were his mottos. Such a young man with a proud heart and a sword of shangfang. When people come to Kassel College, which they have heard for a long time, they can either achieve great success and return to the Gattuso family and rise to the top all the way, or they can be beaten by the old hooligans as soon as they enter the door...or they can add a club and a mace. Knocked out, he picked up his collar and threw it out of the iron gate.
Passi felt that under normal circumstances there were only these two possibilities, but what was strange was that after Andrew Gattuso squeezed through the Chicago train station and boarded the CC1000 express train, his whole person suddenly became quiet and peaceful - he had originally His appearance and work style are indeed peaceful, but what really changed this time was his heart.
Passi has always been very accurate in reading people. Frost Gattuso once described this man's intuition as the "Assassin Wind" in his hands - so accurate that he can be sure that Andrew Gattuso is stepping on At the foot of Kassel College, this person's predictable arrogance and methods disappeared, and now they were replaced by someone unfamiliar to him, extremely calm and intellectual...
of what? Patsy always stops thinking when he thinks about this, and subconsciously gives up and continues to follow his intuition.
After arriving at Kassel College, this young man named Andrew Gattuso threw away all the prepared suppression methods, burned down all the reserved confrontational skills, and disguised himself as an enrolled student in the most low-key manner. After entering the college, he immediately went to the office of the director of the executive department. Before the other party could hardly use any of the prepared countermeasures, he presented the investigation order jointly signed by the school board of directors and took control of Cassel College. The most powerful violent institution.
This is extremely reasonable and the most genius move, just like pinching a snake and squeezing it seven inches. Even Frost Gattuso would recognize this young hero's courage and boldness when he saw it. But it is also abnormal. At least Passi thinks it is abnormal. After meeting Andrew Gattuso for less than half a day, he probably already had all the templates for this man's behavior in his mind, but in the end he implemented it in practice. When he got there, the other person instantly seemed to be a different person, making him feel unfamiliar.
strangeness? I really don’t know the words. Patsy had known Andrew for less than a week. He had never been familiar with him, so how could he be considered a stranger?
But intuition is intuition, and Patsy's intuition is very accurate.
But this time he was unable to follow his intuition and find the point of contradiction, which made all his subsequent actions in Kassel Academy seem conservative - at least much more conservative than before.
"Haven't you heard? There is a lot of commotion in the school on the ground right now. It is rumored that Caesar is publicly engaged to his girlfriend. Now they are planning to hold an all-night party in the Amber Pavilion. As a young man, you should not join in the fun. "Huh?" Andrew looked at Patsy and said gently.
Patsy met Andrew's eyes, then shook his head and said softly, "My work is not finished yet. At the agreed time of eight-thirty, the student named Xia Mi will come to visit Chu Zihang, Lu Mingfei and others who were detained and interrogated by the investigation team. People, I need to serve as a guide to monitor and ensure that there will be no accidents during the process that will affect the hearing process in the future."
"It's okay. I have seen the file of this student named Xia Mi. She is a very cute girl. She should not break the promise casually. If you are worried, let me lead her. You should take a rest. "You haven't had a real rest since you came to the academy, right?" Andrew's left hand gently tried to reach Patsy's shoulder, but Patsey happened to catch up and pick up the documents falling on the ground and missed it.
"I'm not going to attend the young master's engagement party." Patsy said after picking up the documents, "But if Mr. Andrew needs me to handle the remaining official duties in a better spirit, I will go and rest."
"Let me guess, the reason for not planning to attend is because the family has not officially recognized this marriage. The engagement party is probably just a carnival for Caesar himself and his followers?" Andrew Ban slowly took it back. Said Hand with a smile.
"Maybe this is something Mr. Frost should worry about, not us." Patsy said softly. Although he is Andrew's secretary, he often knows more than everyone else in the Gattuso family. The more he talks about it, the clearer he becomes about what should be discussed and who should and should not be discussed.
"I overstepped my bounds." Andrew paused for a moment, looked directly into Patsy's strange-colored pupils, and finally nodded and said, "But do you think that Caesar's public engagement at this time is a message to us?"
"Give us a message?"
"Nowadays, the public opinion of the outside world has always been in the hands of the night watchman. The vice-chancellor's control over public opinion is beyond my imagination. Originally, we wanted to irrigate the correctness of the hearing, but the momentum of vigorously targeting Lin Nian was The other party has suppressed us forcefully. Recently, there have even been accusations of trying to overthrow us. They have started to dig up dirt on the school boy association, and students have jointly protested against the hearing. In this situation, which is not good for us, Caesar chose The announcement of the engagement has attracted the focus of public opinion. Isn't this a powerful and effective crisis public relations for us? It is also like a long-lost show of goodwill to the family." Andrew rubbed his chin and thought,
"Could it be that Caesar wants his marriage to be blessed by his family, so he uses this opportunity to create focus and relieve us of the pressure of public opinion until the hearing begins? As long as public opinion can maintain the trend of entertainment to death as it is now, until the hearing, When Ange and Lin Nian were on the dock, it was almost impossible to save them."
Patsy quietly listened to Andrew's inferences and conjectures, and when the other party signaled him to express his position, he directly shook his head and denied all the above, "With all due respect, I'm afraid Caesar has never thought so much."
"Oh? What should I say? Indeed, you should know this family heir better than me. What do you think of him announcing the engagement ceremony at this point?"
"He wanted to do it so he did it."
"You thought today was a good day, so you announced your engagement? Or did you announce it secretly on your own account?" Andrew said jokingly.
"What does the almanac mean?" As an all-around secretary who is praised by everyone, Patsy is in a rare cultural desert.
"The Chinese calculation method of the sun and moon can also be called the Imperial Calendar or the Tongsheng Calendar. It coexists with the Gregorian calendar, the lunar calendar and the Ganzhi calendar. Because it also contains a lot of knowledge related to seeking good luck and avoiding evil, the Chinese often look at the almanac to make decisions. What date is suitable for doing something? For example, maybe Caesar took a look at today's almanac and found that it was suitable for marriage, so he announced his engagement." Andrew, an Italian, talked about traditional Chinese culture for Passi, who is also Italian.
"You are really... knowledgeable." Patsy nodded to praise his superior, but in fact
It’s not flattery. In fact, right now, he admires Andrew’s achievements in Chinese studies from the bottom of his heart. “But I think it’s most likely not the case... But your statement is indeed in line with Caesar’s character. I want to express This is what it means. Caesar has never been a person who pleases his family. If he feels that he must marry a girl, then the only people who are qualified to give him blessings are his close friends and he and his late mother. Will his beloved The girl who was brought to Milan Cathedral to exchange engagement rings under the watchful eye of her heavenly mother may be greater to him than the so-called family honor and everything else.”
"What a proud boy." Andrew chuckled. "He is so proud that it makes people feel cute."
"Maybe the young master doesn't like others calling him cute. Even if his actions this time are not intended to show favor to the family, we should try our best not to provoke him and let him choose to stand against us. After all, This is also half of Caesar's home court." Patsy suggested.
"I understand, you go and have a rest. I will handle the rest of the documents. Hilbert Jean Angers is indeed a difficult person to deal with. If you want to succeed in this hearing, you must start with Lin Nian."
"But...we haven't been able to find him." Patsy said, but then he paused and then said, "There is something I think I should report to you. I may have discovered something in the Garden of Eden during the day. There have been traces of him, but this cannot be used as conclusive evidence. He is indeed just as Mr. Frost described, a particularly difficult honey badger."
"Honey badger? Is this how Mr. Frost described him?" Andrew laughed dumbly. "It's quite appropriate. It's just like the description in the document. Brave, perseverant, tenacious, and very bold, but always so... One point and two, think straight, if someone messes with a honey badger, then wish yourself good luck, because he will still be with you even if you fly to the moon."
"You don't seem to care about his traces?" Patsy asked tentatively, considering Andrew's reaction.
"As long as he is still in school before the hearing, that is the greatest peace of mind for me. Other than that, what he does and where he goes is irrelevant." Andrew said with a smile.
"How about the conversation between Mr. Andrew and the Vice-Principal this afternoon? Has the Vice-Principal become more relaxed about the back-and-forth at the hearing the day after tomorrow?" Patsy brushed off the topic.
"Unfortunately, no. The vice-principal particularly likes drinking, and drinkers always like to stray from the topic. I'm not targeting people who drink. It's just that the vice-principal seems to me to be a bit drunk. I'm afraid I have to impeach him from the principal's position. He was crossed out from the final list of candidates. But I still like the old photo of him in Bolivia in 1934 in the investigation team's archives. He was really a cowboy lothario, with slender curly hair, a Greek nose, and The eyes that are charming and innocent capture people's hearts." Andrew said with emotion, "Time is really a butcher's knife, chasing every one of us fairly. The Dragon King cannot escape from his blade, and neither can the cowboy chasing the Dragon King. Now He’s almost got a bad nose!”
Patsy didn't know what to say, but it was always right to agree with his superiors, so he could only nodded to show that he agreed with Andrew's point of view. At least from his point of view, the vice-principal has indeed been dazzled by the years. Compared with Angers, who can still carry a folding knife and charge into battle in his old age, he may only be able to carry wine bottles now, and they have to be bottles of famous wines. .
But even so, this old cowboy with a beer belly cannot be underestimated, and no one will forget that he still carries the name "Flamel" to this day. So Andrew has been talking to the other party politely and courteously until now. The other party is playing tricks and drinking. Andrew can only accept the order. He doesn't know how the young leader of the investigation team got the wine from the old gangster. He walked away from the table and even now has a clear mind to help Patsy share the work.
"In short, all the unhappiness in this college will disappear within these three days. There is no need to worry and feel about so many things that will eventually pass away. Go and rest, Patsy, you will be required to attend the next hearing as the prosecutor." Andrew The second time he raised his hand to pat Patsy on the shoulder, but Patsy suddenly glanced at his wrist, took a step back, bowed slightly and said softly, "It seems that the time has almost reached the time agreed with that classmate Xia Mi. Alright, I'm going to go ahead of time
We will greet her in the Garden of Eden and will call you as soon as possible after the handover is completed. You only need to wait for Xia Mi's arrival on the ground floor of Euphrates. "
Andrew, who didn't take a picture of Patsy, took back his hand and nodded with satisfaction, praising, "You are such a good secretary. Mr. Frost has always had such a good eye."
"That's ridiculous." Passi responded to the compliment. After a slight greeting, he turned and left. He was clean and neat, without any sloppiness, like a precise and never-error mechanical watch. No wonder he has always been Frost Gattuso. Favorite tool.
Andrew stood in the office and watched Patsy disappear deep into the corridor. After a long time, he still kept a faint smile on his face and turned to look at the remaining unorganized files on the table and Patsy. There was still a swivel chair that Yu Wen sat on, and he lowered his head and said quietly, "She is really an excellent secretary."
