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Every family has a difficult sutra to recite—
This is true for the Chinese and the British. Especially those big British families, they are even more intriguing and slandering gentlemen are more ruthless than wild beasts.
As the Howard family hereditary of the British Empire, Philip Howard himself is just the "second" in the family. He also has a big brother named Feliman Howard.
According to traditional procedures, Feliman, the eldest son of the family, was the candidate to inherit the Duke.
However, as the "second" Philip was unwilling to be under his feet by his elder brother for the rest of his life. Therefore, just like many palace dramas with endless conspiracies, a power battle for power was staged in the Howard family.
The result of this battle is obvious. As the eldest brother, Feliman was defeated and the second brother Philip took over.
Feliman, who lost his position as a parent, soon left the world in depressed state, leaving only his wife and son.
As a member of the Howard family and the son of the boss Feliman, Jarent Howard was only twelve years old that year.
After holding the funeral for his dear daddy, Jarenter was driven out of Howard Manor by his uncle Philip. In name, he was afraid that he would be hurt by the scene and arranged a good environment for him to grow.
In this way, the orphan and widowed mother left the luxurious Howard Manor and moved into a nearby small villa.
According to tradition, every month the Howard family spends part of the family fund as Jerrynt's growth expenses, including food, clothing, housing, and schooling, totaling 20,000 pounds, about 160,000 Hong Kong dollars.
Fortunately, the monthly fees will arrive on time.
Gradually, the expenses began to be reduced.
Twenty thousand pounds turned into 15 thousand pounds.
Ten thousand pounds became ten thousand pounds.
Philip, the patriarch of the Howard family, gave the reason that the family's investment business failed and now it is increasing revenue and reducing expenditure.
Well, Jarente and his mother believed this, after all, there is still 10,000 pounds to withdraw every month.
but--
Three months later, the 10,000 pounds directly turned into 3,000 pounds!
Three thousand pounds seemed a lot, but this was a bit stretched for Jarente and his son, who were used to living a wealthy life.
Especially Jarente's mother Sarah, who likes to consume, has learned to gambling in order to relieve the pain after her husband Feliman passed away.
She is often seen in casinos in London, England and even in Paris, France.
In the past, when she was 20,000 pounds a month, she lived a pretty good life. Now she is 3,000 pounds, and she doesn’t even have enough money to buy clothes.
The less money she had, the more she wanted to go for a gamble, and wanted to make a big fortune with small profits and make some big money back.
However, whether it is a casino in the UK or a casino in France, the result is the same, and gamblers are always losers.
Sarah is the same.
At the beginning, some players who played cards saw that she was rich, deliberately seduced her and asked her to take the bait. First, they lost some money to her, and then they made her lose a lot when she became addicted.
Anyone who is hiding in a casino will know this routine.
However, Sarah became a monk halfway through the journey and was born aristocratic. She was used to being rich and well-off, so she didn't have to do many things by herself or think about them. She had her servants to help her complete them. Therefore, in addition to being a little arrogant by nature, she also had a simple mind. She never thought that the outside society would be so sinister.
In this way, Ms. Sarah fell deeper and deeper.
In the end, not only did he lose all the monthly relief funds, but he also owed a lot of debts.
Logically, as a member of the Howard family, if you encounter such a thing, just go to the family patriarch to solve it.
But Sarah always thought it was Philip Howard who killed her husband, and she would never ask Philip for help.
In this way, in order to pay off the debt, Sarah was good at selling the villa where she and her son lived, raising 300,000 pounds, and repaying the usury she owed.
Who would have thought that she could poke a hornet's nest this time?
It turned out that the ownership of the villa did not belong to her. According to Philip, the patriarch of the Howard family, it was only for the mother and son to live in and use it temporarily.
Therefore, Sarah's act of selling the villa privately deeply hurt the feelings of the family and violated the power of the patriarch Duke Philip.
Immediately afterwards, Duke Philip made people dig deeper and soon dug out the fact that Sarah was betting a lot.
It's over!
The Howard family has always been a big family that pays great attention to reputation and is also one of the best nobles in the British Empire.
Such a big family and such a nobleman have produced a female gambler. How can this be reasonable?!
So, as the patriarch, Duke Philip proposed to convene a family meeting, in which the meeting was decided to cancel Sarah's identity and status in the Howard family based on a democratic voting decision. From then on, Rasha will no longer be a member of the Howard family!
Although Sarah was kicked out of the Howard family, she still had another bargaining chip - that is Jarente Howard, the child she and Feliman gave birth to!
According to family rules, when Jarente Howard grows up in the future, he can still inherit the inheritance of his father Feliman and never be influenced by others.
But is this really the case?
While Sarah was kicked out of the Howard family, Duke Philip contacted Sarah's creditors and negotiated with them privately to ask them to go and collect debts.
Sarah was surrounded, followed, and intimidated—a dead cat was hung in the eaves of the house, a blade was sent, and a threatening letter was sent...
How can a woman bear this?!
At this moment, Duke Philip pretended to be a good person and came to visit.
As soon as they met, Philip threw out the bait, helped Sarah pay off all the debts, and gave Sarah a huge sum of five million pounds. All Sarah had to do was to convince her son Jarente Howard to give up the inheritance of the family property.
Sarah is a woman, and she is also a woman who has lost her husband and has been cheated of a lot of money in a casino.
Faced with such temptation and the intimidation of those creditors, what can she do?
Of course I chose to sign.
In this way, Duke Philip obtained the inheritance Jarente would inherit in the future with a total value of up to 3 billion pounds!
After Sarah received the five million, she first paid off the debt she owed. At first, she wanted to buy a place to live and live a good life with her son.
But Philip still didn't let her go, and once again instructed the gamblers to seduce her, allowing her to sit at the gambling table again.
In this way, in less than three months, Sarah completely lost the five million she had!
To be precise, the five million were back in the hands of Duke Philip again.
Sarah, who had lost everything, then repented and knew that she had been fooled.
Chapter completed!