Chapter 1769: Summer in Fool's Village (18)

Talia's peripheral vision caught Merkel's furrowed brows. Dissatisfaction was already written on the butler's face. Talia knew what he was dissatisfied with.

This is a quite magnificent manor, and every decoration is written with the name of the upper class. And she just jumped down from the roof and landed in the garden. Any manor butler has the right to pick up a shotgun and shoot such an uninvited guest.

But Shiler opened the door to welcome her, and even served her wine and food. The topic he chose was also a common social topic in the upper class, chatting about a person known to both parties.

In this environment, all of Shiler's performances are normal, even tolerant and patient. But all of Talia's behaviors are like going crazy, and like the kind of going crazy caused by anger from groundless speculation and malicious association by someone with persecution delusion.

No matter how loud the alarm of Talia's intuition is, no matter how much her killer instinct tells her how dangerous Shiler is, no matter how many ways Talia imagined Shiler killing her in her mind, in the real world, Shiler did nothing, right?

This makes Talia's various excessive emotions very inappropriate, extremely untidy, and even completely rude and worth pointing out.

Talia tried her best to suppress her anger, but despite this, she still couldn't put on a smiling face and say sorry to Shiler.

Clearly it was Shiler who ignored her, why should she apologize?

Talia sat in place with a cold face, regardless of the red wine stains on the back of her hand and the table, picked up the wine glass and poured two sips of cold red wine, which made her brain a little clearer.

"Are you going to respond to my father's recruitment?" Talia could hear how stiff her tone was. This sounded like a warning with a personal threat.

Merkel had already stood into the room completely from the door, putting on a defensive posture, seeming to be guarding against this crazy woman going crazy further. But Talia gradually stopped feeling strange. She even understood Merkel's way of thinking.

He is just a butler who knows nothing, Talia thought. Hearing a guest speak to his master in such a tone, it is inevitable to guess that her next step is a blatant threat. And if things develop to this step, Merkel, in order to keep his job, must also invite the rude guest out.

"It's too early to call this recruitment, miss." Shiler sat back in his original position with an elegant posture. He gently put the handkerchief back into his pocket and still said in a calm tone: "We just exchanged views on this world slightly. Talking to your father is of great benefit to me. He is a knowledgeable person. If possible, I will visit him."

"You can't go!" Talia raised her tone immediately and said.

Shiler seemed to be startled again. Immediately after, he looked at Talia with that confused gaze.

A trace of pride rose in Talia's heart. She finally broke this calm man. Talia thought that Shiler must be wondering why she opposed it now.

"Don't worry, miss," Shiler said: "If you mind, I will try my best to avoid mentioning you in the process of communicating with your father."

Shiler chose to appease... How could he choose to appease?!

Talia was burning with anger again. This proves that Shiler chose to give up thinking about her thinking logic from the beginning, just wanting to appease her emotions.

This kind of situation usually only appears when adults choose to appease the crying of young children and deal with the barking of pet cats and dogs.

Because facing children who have no independent thinking ability and cats and dogs who cannot communicate at all, thinking about the thinking logic behind their crying is meaningless.

Just like people won't think about why dogs must go out to play, what is the happiness of playing frisbee for dogs, they only need to know the logic of dogs' behavior, that is, dogs will be very happy when they go out to play, and then decide whether to take them out to play when they bark.

When they decide not to take the dog out to play, they won't mutter "the weather is bad today so you can't go out" to the dog. They only do it to express an attitude to appease the noisy pet.

But if it is for clients at work or partners in life, they will definitely try their best to explain to the other party how bad the weather is, so that they cannot go out.

The reason why the sentence "calm down first" makes the other party even more angry is because it makes the person who hears this sentence feel a kind of humiliation brought by lack of attention, as if they have become that dog, thinking that the fundamental reason why the other party doesn't want to reason with them is that they have never regarded them as an equal intelligent creature. In this case, appeasement of emotions will only be counterproductive.

And the correct approach is naturally to apply it in reverse, that is, to focus on the other party's thinking logic, and ask them "what do you think" and "why do you want to think so".

Of course, there will also be people who speak incoherently and cannot express their thoughts clearly at all. At this time, you only need to be a repeater, constantly repeating "can you say it again? I didn't understand", until the other party is tired and runs away.

As for the accusations like "why are you so stupid" and "I explained it so clearly, you still don't understand, are you stupid" along the way, just accept them all. Once the vast majority of such people feel that you don't understand human language at all, you will never become a victim of their unbridled output of views again.

It is that as long as you take turns adhering to the two views of "you are crazy" and "I am crazy", interpersonal communication will never be difficult again.

And now, Shiler only wanted to appease Talia's emotions and didn't care about her thinking logic at all, which completely angered Talia, because this corroborated Talia's previous assumption that Shiler completely ignored her and might only treat her as a crying baby.

In fact, Talia is very good at dealing with various dangerous confrontations, because she has rich experience, but she has almost never dealt with the situation where others completely ignore her.

From a realistic point of view, Talia is indeed not a person who is easy to be ignored. She is very beautiful and full of aggression. Cowardly men imagine her, and brave men pursue her.

Even if Bruce only treats her as a pure enemy, he has to carefully arrange a banquet, create a toxin that Talia won't detect, and even call accomplices to make full preparations.

Precisely because Talia is not easy to deal with in all aspects, she has never experienced the situation where the other party treats her as a baby without the strength to truss a chicken.

Talia felt a kind of absurd ridiculousness. Why does Shiler dare to treat her like this? Does he think that she has no weaknesses, so she doesn't need to worry about others becoming her target?

Talia followed the dangerous thoughts in her heart and stood up. She rushed behind Merkel at a very fast speed and pinched his neck.

"Stand there and don't move," Talia said coldly.

And Shiler's face appeared again with the kind of confusion and doubt that made Talia burn with anger, as if he had done nothing, and Talia suddenly went crazy.

Talia realized that this was the case. Judging from the angry expression on the butler she was holding hostage, it seemed that in the eyes of others, it was she who was making trouble unreasonably.

Shiler also stood up from the sofa. He said with a helpless attitude that made Talia crazy: "This is a bit overstepping, miss. Even if my words were offensive, you shouldn't implicate my butler. He is just an ordinary person. Please let him go, okay?"

Talia just wanted to say something, but Shiler interrupted her and said: "Calm down, miss. I know you might just be impulsive. I apologize for my offense again."

Talia felt the muscles in her throat twitching constantly. The unbearable sourness and the pressure that kept surging up made her not know what to say. Why is Shiler still appeasing her emotions?! Why doesn't he focus on the reason why she did this?!

Talia felt that she might have stood in place and thought for a long time, because when she came back to her senses, a trace of cold anger finally appeared on Shiler's face.

Is he going to do it? Talia's fingers pinched a little tighter. She felt nervous and excited. She didn't think she could win against this man, but a battle was the best way to solve the current confusing situation.

But Shiler didn't do it. He just walked quickly to the telephone stand next to him with a slightly angry look. While dialing, he looked at Talia and said: "I'm afraid I must tell your father about your rudeness, Miss Talia. This will make me reconsider the necessity of cooperating with your father..."

Talia froze in place. She looked down at Merkel's neck she was holding, and then looked at Shiler's dialing action, and almost screamed: "Why don't you attack me?! I kidnapped your butler!!!"

Shiler just shook his head and sighed helplessly. After the call was connected, he said to the other side as if suppressing his anger: "Mr. Ra's al Ghul, I'm very sorry to contact you again so soon. There are some situations about your daughter that I have to..."

Shiler paused when he said this, and Talia could clearly hear that it was Ra's al Ghul who interrupted her.

"Oh, yes, I remember you mentioned the cooperation... No, I'm afraid we can't talk about this topic for the time being, because your daughter has done some very rude things in my manor. She is even holding my butler hostage now..."

Shiler scanned Talia with his peripheral vision while talking, and soon he took the phone receiver and said to Talia: "Miss Talia, your father wants you to answer the phone."

"Tell him I won't answer!"

Shiler's slightly widened eyes seemed as if he had been startled again. Talia really couldn't stand it anymore. She didn't want to see Shiler's innocent attitude of acting as if he had done nothing and was just dealing with a lunatic unilaterally. So she threw Merkel aside and rushed forward to take the phone receiver.

Talia had already couldn't help but point out the hostile relationship between the League of Assassins and Shiler, and then blatantly attacked him.

But Ra's al Ghul on the other end of the phone said in a low voice: "Go and apologize to Professor Rodriguez."

Talia opened her eyes wide, standing still like an ice sculpture beside the phone receiver, and then she couldn't help but roar: "What on earth are you doing? Aren't we..."

"Don't say stupid things, you idiot! Professor Rodriguez is our future partner, and you actually stupidly held his butler hostage. Now go and apologize to him!"

"Absolutely impossible!!!" Talia screamed.

"This is an order!" Ra's al Ghul's voice had no emotion. He said: "You know the consequences of disobeying orders, and we will talk about your reckless punishment when we come back."

At this time, Talia realized a cold reality—her dignity was not worth mentioning compared to the benefits Shiler could bring to the League of Assassins.

Although Talia thought she had long been used to the fact that nothing in Ra's al Ghul's eyes could be greater than his ideals, when this knife stabbed into her heart in an unprecedentedly cold way, she still felt a pain and chill that invaded her whole body.

She hung up the phone with somewhat slow movements and stood by the phone stand for a long time without speaking.

Suddenly, Talia turned her head and saw Shiler, who had sent Merkel out of the room, standing in the center of the room again, silent like a high mountain.

Talia pulled up the corners of her mouth somewhat stiffly, wanting to maintain her last decency with a smile. She said as if she didn't care: "You know he doesn't care..."

She could hear the trembling in her own tone, like a vase shattered by a dart.

Talia imagined that Shiler must be very proud now, because his attitude towards her was completely correct. Ra's al Ghul's indifferent attitude proved that even a biological father would abandon her in the face of interests, so who would have to value her?

"Thank you for letting go of my butler, miss."

Shiler turned to take the air conditioner remote control on the table, looked up to adjust the air conditioner temperature with the buttons, and then put one hand on the back of the sofa and looked at Talia, saying:

"I see you are trembling. Perhaps the temperature of the air conditioner is too low. Do you still feel cold now?"

Talia just gathered her shoulders, hugged her arms and lowered her head, shaking her head silently, while Shiler walked to his desk.

Talia looked at his back, thinking of the metaphor that had angered her before.

At this moment, she tasted another meaning from it—compared to the master who only needs a vicious dog to bite the enemy, at least the man in front of her will appease her, right? ===== CHAPTER 1770 =====

At this moment, however, she sensed another layer of meaning in it—compared to a master who only needs a vicious dog to tear apart enemies, at least the man before her would still soothe her, wouldn't he?