HBWnovel Chapter 1689 is very, very long.
Chapter 1689 is very, very long.
The three of them soon arrived at John's doorstep.
Although John is gone, Lyon has more than one driver; the one who took over John's job is a young man in his twenties.
He was also an elite agent of the intelligence agency.
He had learned about John's situation before he came.
He naturally knew that his predecessor had sacrificed himself to protect the leader's daughter.
Therefore, the risk factor of this job increases dramatically.
But he wasn't afraid at all.
What's so scary about doing this job?
From the very first day of taking up the post, one must be prepared to face death.
At the graduation ceremony for senior intelligence agents, Hans would personally give them a speech.
The sentence that left the deepest impression on the driver was...
"You are the most elite agents in the intelligence agency, and also the most vulnerable to being killed."
Because you are going to carry out the most dangerous mission, living is a luxury for you. You have survived today, but you are hoping for tomorrow.
Because neither today nor tomorrow has come easily..."
Therefore, they were prepared to sacrifice themselves long ago; sacrifice was the most ordinary thing for them.
But for Yun Li, a flower raised in a greenhouse, she never thought that sacrifice was a normal thing.
The three men knocked on John's door.
"Boom boom boom!"
A little girl, about seven or eight years old, opened the door and looked outside warily, only to find three people standing at the door.
The little girl was initially confused.
My brother looks like this? Wait a minute, my brother isn't married yet, and who is this little girl? Wait a minute, why do they look so much like the leader and his wife?
But why would the leader's family come to her house?
Are there still people impersonating leaders these days?
A brainstorming session was brewing in the little girl's mind.
Lyon then spoke up.
"Little girl, don't you recognize me?"
Upon hearing Leon's voice, the little girl became so excited that she became incoherent.
"You are the leader!"
The little girl excitedly rushed into the house, shouting and yelling.
"Mom, the leader has arrived!"
The next second, the sound of breaking glass came from inside the house.
Lyon went inside immediately.
Then they saw John's mother break a bowl.
John's mother was just in the kitchen preparing dinner when she heard that Leon had arrived, and then she knew everything.
A leader doesn't show up at someone's house for no reason.
Moreover, his son is a high-ranking intelligence agent.
If something is wrong, it's likely that Hans will come and explain it to them personally.
But if the leader comes, there will only be one outcome.
That means my child is dead...
If his own child were still alive, Leon would never have appeared.
Seeing John's mother's distraught expression, Leon guessed what the woman was thinking.
"Hello, Auntie, we're here..."
Before Leon could finish speaking, John's mother smiled.
"I know, John's job transfer must have been due to some merit, otherwise you wouldn't have come here. Has John been transferred to a classified unit and won't be back for the next few years?"
John's mother knew, of course, that she couldn't say all this in front of her two children.
That's why she used such a euphemistic way of putting it.
Listening to what John's mother said, he naturally knew there was more to it than met the eye.
But he won't point it out.
Because he didn't want the young child to suffer a serious injury.
The two little girls' eyes were filled with hope.
Because the two of them believed their mother's story.
They truly believed that their brother had made a great contribution and was being transferred elsewhere.
But reality is different.
The reality is that their brother has already sacrificed himself forever.
I will never return to this home, never stroke their heads again, and never take them out to enjoy delicious food again.
When they were little, they longed for their older brothers to take them out for delicious food, but reality was different.
At that time, her family was very poor, and her father worked in the mine.
The mother earned a meager living in a handicraft workshop, but it was never enough to feed the family.
Miners back then were completely different from those today; they were people who never had enough to eat.
Every time I received my salary, after being stripped down through layers of deductions, it was less than what my mother earned from doing handicrafts.
Although my mother's salary is low, she is not exploited.
Two people support three people.
And John had already gone out to work at that time.
Because he knew he would only be a burden at home.
At that time, John's monthly salary was only two silver coins.
The two younger sisters were crying for milk.
It's not that John's mother didn't want to have a boy, but rather that she happened to have twin daughters.
Unlike Leon's previous life, this era was one of male chauvinism.
A man and a woman are completely unequal.
Even with its vast territory, the Holy Empire still lacked a large population.
Otherwise, emperors throughout history would not have been afraid during each Northern Expedition.
What he feared was not failure, but excessive casualties.
Defeat is not terrible; what is terrible is the excessive casualties, which the emperor simply cannot accept.
Even with the preference for sons over daughters, people like John from the lower classes didn't earn much money.
Miners are exploited after their wages are paid, and their wages are directly exploited.
Let me be frank, I pay you very little.
But take it or leave it. There are so many people in the Sin Leader's office. If you don't do it, plenty of others will.
This was the situation in ancient times; ordinary people had no human rights, and human rights were a luxury for them.
Because their lives are nothing but trash in the eyes of those in power...
"Leader, when is my brother coming back?"
Looking at the two twins in front of him, Leon patted their heads.
"He's been transferred to the Eastern Continent for classified work and won't be back for a long time..."
"How long is 'very long'?"
"Very long..."