Durin's Diary

Chapter 701 The Dagger Appears
"But today I feel your kindness." Du Lin smiled and comforted Lid: "What do you want to eat tonight? I will make it for you."

In this family, Du Lin's cooking has become a ritual. The girl who is appeased by Du Lin has the power to designate a dish, and Du Lin will do his best to make it.

The girls all thought that Du Lin’s cooking was delicious.

"I want to eat the meat pie you made. I used to eat the ones made by Anta. Today I want to eat the one you made."

Reed gave Du Lin a question, and it was an interesting one.

"Okay." Du Lin nodded, acknowledging the legitimacy of Reed's request.

So she happily went to her sisters to take credit.

Lan En, who had been reading a book not far away, came over at this time. She looked at Du Lin and said: "Your great cause is truly awe-inspiring, my lord."

"What do you think?" Du Lin asked.

"It's terrifying and frightening, but to be honest, it's nothing to the people of Chang Tang. We've fought and killed evil gods, and annihilated the spirits that demanded child sacrifices in exchange for rain. For us, without justice, life has no meaning at all."

Just then, Tanya ran over and sat down across from Du Lin with a nervous look on her face. "Oh no, Du Lin, it's really just as you thought. Her church knows you refused the installment payment, and those who owed money are starting to make a commotion."

"It's just as you thought. Now it depends on how far she will go for her believers." Lan En sighed.

"Ah, Lan En, why are you here?" Tan Ya was stunned, then her eyes widened: "You just blocked my perception! How many levels of psychic power are you at!"

"Seventh Ring, the psychic book that Lord Durin retrieved for us is very effective. I've made the most progress. Lid loves playing every day, so her progress is the least." Lan En said this and looked at Tanya. "Durin and I have analyzed this. If the unrest escalates, her church will definitely intervene because too many believers are involved."

"But she's clearly a neutral deity. If she really chooses to interfere, doesn't she understand that the priesthood of wealth will become less pure if it leaves the neutral camp?"

"If she loses so many followers overnight, her power will also become precarious. She will have no other choice but death or slow death." Du Lin said this and stood up. "Okay, Tanya, tell your grandfather, my old Duke Alkin, to stop trying to fish in troubled waters in the futures market. I'm going to make another move. If a flood washes out the Dragon King Temple, I'll be embarrassed."

"The last time my grandfather heard you say that after making money from the Sidney Grain Group, he never went back in. He said that many of his friends in the north were watching his every move, and if he didn't take action, they would have left the futures market early."

Hearing this, Du Lin nodded in satisfaction: "That's good, well, today I'll give Lid a chance to make a wish. She said she wanted to eat the meat pie I made, so I have to satisfy her."

"You really like to pamper them." Tanya stood up with a smile. She followed Du Lin and reached out to rub Du Lin's face: "When will you pamper me too?"

"You're such a grown-up, yet you're still jealous of little girls." Du Lin rolled his eyes.

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Secretary Sora looked at the newspaper in his hand. There were people kneeling in front of the gate of the Church of the Goddess of Wealth in the central square of Paris.

He silently read the long article in the newspaper, finally looking at Secretary Ace, who hadn't noticed her old friend's scrutiny until his wife, Lady Anne, couldn't help but kick her. "Sora, what's wrong with you?" The old man, who was reading the latest chapter of Durin's Doctor and Detective, looked puzzled.

The latter pointed to the tragic scene of the family in the long shot in the newspaper and looked at his old friend: "Shouldn't we lend a hand?"

"Uh... who should we help?" Ace asked his old friend with a puzzled look on his face.

"Of course it's these... children kneeling on the ground." Sora really couldn't stand seeing so many little bastards kneeling there with their parents.

"Didn't Poole tell us this matter was related to Durin's cause, and told us to stay out of it? Look, we've executed it pretty well. If youngsters like us, barely grown, had entered the futures market, we'd have been wiped out long ago." At this point, Ace gasped. "My old friend, are you serious?"

"There are too many people. If we don't give them a chance, the bankruptcy of so many nobles and merchants may have a negative impact on our business investments and even our future plans." Sora frowned. "And have you ever thought about this, Ace? If so many people go bankrupt and the Sidney economy collapses, what will these impoverished people do?"

"What else can we do? The worst that can happen is war. I don't have any feelings for that family anyway." Mrs. Anne said calmly.

"But Sora is not wrong. Indeed, if it is not controlled and a large number of bankruptcies are caused, it is indeed a question whether banks and financial institutions in various countries can survive this step. But I also feel that with Durin's wisdom, he should have thought of this. Does he have other purposes?" Ace stood up when he said this, he walked to the blackboard in the office and wrote five words on it.

Church, debt, creditors, bankruptcy, Sidney Grain Group.

Then he wrote four more words.

Durin, the nobility, the goddess of wealth, the Eastern Grain Trust.

Dulin and the Eastern Grain Trust versus the creditors, debt and bankruptcy versus the nobility and the Sidney Grain Corporation, the Church versus the goddess of wealth.

"If I remember correctly, there are also many nobles and big businessmen holding shares in Durin's Eastern Grain Trust, right?" Ace turned his head to look at Sora.

"Yes, all the forest owners in the Great Forest, several dukes of the Eastern Elves, and us, all have shares in the Eastern Grain Trust." Sola nodded. He walked over to his old friend and looked at the contents on the blackboard. "Among them, quite a few family members also worship the Goddess of Wealth."

"Yes." Ace completed the connection between the Eastern Grain Trust and the Sidney Grain Group, then frowned at the connection. "I seem to have grasped the key to the problem, but this is too outrageous. I can't believe it."

Sora took the pencil from his old friend, circled the two names on the blackboard, and then wrote a very pure "she".

"No matter who wins or loses, no matter who she favors, all of this is undermining her prestige."

Throwing the pencil aside, Sora took a deep breath and then laughed.

See, Ace, our Durin is the real hunter.

(End of this chapter)