Under the cold moonlight, Colin came to a balcony of the Red Castle.
Behind him, the maids were busily setting up the tables and chairs. They also brought in four glasses of champagne and a few plates of dried fruits before quietly leaving.
"Sit," Colin said to Eamon, Quincy, and Knight Charles with a smile.
"Yes, Master."
"Yes, Lord Viscounts."
The three of them sat down and raised their wine glasses, clinking them with Colin's.
After taking a sip of wine, Butler Eamon was about to report to Colin about the recent political situation in Icestone City when Colin raised his hand to stop him.
"Don't be in such a hurry. I have a question in my mind since returning from Silvermoon City. If I don't solve it, I probably won't be able to think about anything else."
"Master, what is it?"
Colin rubbed his chin and asked, "Count Oman's wife is the sister of the former Viscounts Su Duo, right?"
"Yes."
"Then what color is this Countess's pupils?"
Eamon turned to look at Quincy. Clearly, this old man who had been a tax official in Icestone City for decades should know.
"Lord Viscounts, the Countess's pupils are blue."
"Are you sure?"
"I'm sure! I watched her grow up. Even if I close my eyes, I can still recall her face. "
A smug smile appeared at the corner of Colin's mouth, as if a guess in his heart had been confirmed.
However, out of caution, he still asked, "Has there ever been a direct descendant of the Su Duo family with red pupils?"
"Red?" Quincy thought for a moment and shook his head. "No, red pupils are rather rare. As far as I know, no direct descendant of the Su Duo family has ever had pupils of this color."
"That's right!" Colin clapped his hands excitedly.
He finally understood what the little secret that Empress Mydella had only revealed half of in Silvermoon City was.
Eamon, Quincy, and Charles looked at each other. Clearly, none of them could follow Colin's train of thought.
Colin explained with a smile, "Count Oman had red pupils, while the Countess had blue pupils. Then why did the Viscounts Lawrence have red pupils?"
Butler Eamon frowned and became even more confused.
Quincy cautiously reminded him as well. "Milord, Viscounts Lawrence's red eyes were given to him by Count Oman. This … shouldn't be a problem, right? "
"No, there's a big problem!" Colin's lips curled into a mysterious smile.
However, Colin was a little worried about how to explain this genetic problem.
There was no pea-growing Mendel in this world. People's understanding of genetics was still very shallow, and they didn't know the difference between recessive genes and dominant genes.
In their understanding, it was normal for a father with red pupils to give birth to a son with red pupils.
However, if one understood the basic theory of genetics, they would understand that this was not necessarily the case.
Red pupils were rare, indicating that it was a recessive trait.
For a recessive trait to be expressed in a child, he had to obtain a corresponding recessive gene from both the father and mother.
In other words, Count Oman and the Countess had to both have the recessive gene of red eyes to give birth to a red-eyed son.
Count Oman had no problem. His family had always had the gene of red eyes. However, the Su Duo family did not!
What was even more interesting was that Earl Oman's most beloved lover, Penny, was red-eyed!
According to the laws of genetics, a child born of two red-eyed parents would definitely have red eyes.
Just like how if both parents had single eyelids, the child would also have single eyelids (excluding the factors of Old Wang's isolation and genetic mutation).
Thus, the color of the pupils of the Oman family's descendants was very interesting.
Viscounts Lawrence, who wasn't supposed to have red eyes, had red eyes.
Valla, who was supposed to have red eyes, had blue eyes.
Colin was still worried that he had remembered wrongly, so he confirmed with Eamon. "What is the color of my brother-in-law Valla's pupils?"
Eamon was confused, but he still replied, "It's blue, my lord."
As expected!
Colin was now sure.
Excluding the fact that there was also a neighboring Old Wang in the Count's castle and genetic mutation, this was an extremely small probability. According to the laws of genetics and the pupils of the Count's descendants,
Valla, the illegitimate child, was actually the child of Count Oman and the Countess!
Lawrence, on the other hand, should be the child of Count Oman and his lover, Penny!
Then why did Count Oman raise his son as an illegitimate child, while the illegitimate child was treated as the first heir to his title?
There was only one explanation for this behavior that defied common sense. Penny's identity was probably even nobler than the Countess of the Su Duo family!
Combined with what Queen Mydella had said, the St. Theon family that should have been cut off also had the red eye gene.
Then, the truth of the matter was not hard to guess.
Count Oman's lover, Penny, was probably a descendant of the St. Theon family!
Colin finally understood why Count Oman valued this illegitimate child so much. Not only did he help him marry the daughter of the Angele family, but he also tried to assassinate Colin and help Valla obtain a baron's family business.
If he was an ordinary illegitimate child of a noble, how could he have received such great help from his father?
Count Oman's actions were clearly due to his guilt towards his true son, and he wanted to make it up to him.
Thinking about it more deeply, Count Oman probably really did have bad intentions when he suggested to Duke St. Hilde to lure the enemy deep into their territory.
His original intention was to use this to incite internal strife in the Northern Frontier, so that the St. Theon family could take the opportunity to make a comeback and take revenge.
Unfortunately, the St. Hilde brothers were one step ahead and did not fall for his trick.
The current coup in Silverymoon City, as well as the current rebellion in the Northern Frontier, probably had something to do with the St. Theon family.
Colin had been suspicious about who had arranged for the Pegasus Legion to ambush the Black Cavalry in the Shadowy Canyon. The Duke Of St. Hilde could not have done this, but the St. Theon family could.
Three hundred years ago, it was the Dukes Of The North who led the army to defeat the main forces of the St. Theon family, thus opening the curtains to the decline of this paladin family.
With the unerasable hatred between them and the House of Saint Hilde, it was not difficult to gain the trust of the Eastern Region.
Thus, it could be inferred that the coup in Silverymoon City was related to the St. Theon family.
For example, the Savoy family might have been a pawn of the St. Theon family.
If one thought back to the time when the Savoy family fell, they would find that it was after the St. Theon family lost their power. Thus, the relationship between the two families was definitely not simple.
The more Colin thought about it, the more he felt that his conjecture was not far from the truth.
The only thing he was not sure about was what role the Duke Of St. Hilde had played in this series of conspiracies.
No matter how he looked at it, Colin did not think that he was a person who had been fooled by the St. Theon family.
Since Queen Mydella knew that the St. Theon family was hiding in the dark, there was no reason that her brother, the Duke Of St. Hilde, did not know.
Come to think of it, in the first conspiracy of the St. Theon family against the Northern Frontier, the Duke Of St. Hilde was actually the one who had benefited the most.
In the second conspiracy, the Duke Of St. Hilde did not lose too much. Although the destruction of the Black Cavalry had greatly reduced the military strength of the Northern Frontier, it had also helped him completely eliminate the internal threats.
The Duke Of St. Hilde had deliberately hidden his Sanctuary-level strength in order to stabilize the current situation.
As long as he could continue to stabilize the situation, perhaps he would still be the one who had the last laugh this time.
Of course, the St. Theon family would definitely not let the Duke Of St. Hilde have his way so easily. The Northern Frontier was bound to be turbulent.
Thinking of this, Colin suddenly asked, "By the way, do any of you remember what the St. Theon family emblem is?"
Quincy thought for a moment and answered.
"My Lord, it's the 'Colorful Tiger'!"
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