My One-month Marriage With Mr. Hawkins

Chapter 943: Nonsense and Lies

Theodore wanted to let Ernest understand through this open family meeting that he, Theodore Turner, was still in charge of the Turner family. Even Ernest was the young master. He didn't had any power yet and couldn’t do anything.

Hence, Theodore believed it was beneficial for him.

By suppressing Ernest’s force through the family meeting, he would be free of internal troubles. Then, he would use all his forces to deal with the Fraser family to resolve the external problem.

The vault had been opened. Although he only had a few days to use the treasures and documents, he believed the Turner family’s strength would upgrade. It would be much easier for them to crush the Fraser family.

After the Fraser family was doomed and the antidote was obtained, Theodore decided to select another obedient nephew to inherit the family and continue the bloodline.

Ernest was always disobedient, so Theodore decided not to tolerate him any longer.

Theodore was in a good mood.

He thundered, “We hadn’t held an open family meeting in the past decades. You are invited here today because there’s a complex problem inside our family. We need all of you to participate in making the decision. Please don’t feel stressed. The purpose of the meeting is to make the Turner family better. Hence, you have to be impartial and make the best decision for the Turner family.”

His opening remark demonstrated grace and authority.

The several thousand of attendees were sitting more upright with solemn looks as if they were assigned an extremely critical task, and they would complete this task wholeheartedly.

Then, the Third Elder stood up with a big book in his hands.

With a stern look, he read the lines from the book aloud, “Now, I’ll inform you the matter for the decision making. noveldrama

“You all are the Turner family members, so you should know our family has the tradition to marry the Fraser family to unite. There must be a marriage between the two families almost every few generations.

“This isn’t because the two families were close. In fact, the ancestor of the Fraser family played some dirty tricks when our ancestor was drugged. Hence, the later generations of our family is plagued by a genetic disease that could cause death. The only solution was to marry the someone from the Fraser family.

“In the past hundreds of years, the Turner family has always at the service of the Fraser family so as to survive. To let our descendants live, we have to marry a Fraser.”

His words rose an uproar in the attendees.

Although they didn’t hop up or snap, their eyes showed how angry they were.

They were all proud people from the Turner family. How could they bear the bully for hundreds of years?

“Bastard! That's not what it is!”

Finley almost threw over the table in anger. He was so angry that he stood up and wanted to retort.

Kevin pressed him down. “Don’t act recklessly. Let them speak first. If you retort them now, others would think you were bribed by the Fraser family. The situation will become worse.”

“But we can’t just sit and listen to their nonsense without doing anything, can we?”

Finley was so furious.

Kevin said, “Young Master knows what to do. Please be patient.”

Finley turned around to look at Ernest, who was sitting calmly as if he had the faith to win.

Finley couldn’t figure out what was in Ernest’s mind.

However, he trusted Ernest. Curling his lips, Finley suppressed his anger in silence.

The third elder saw that all the attendees had been incited as expected, smiling at Theodore.

Then he continued, “You might not know it. The vault of our family has been opened recently. We’ve obtained all the treasures. Now our strength has been greatly improved. Relying on those treasures, we’ll become the only top family in the world soon.

“We’ll become the master of the world. Now, our family should be the ruler as we are so powerful. How can we be threatened and suppressed by the Fraser family?

“We are strong, but under the Fraser family’s threat, we’ve been licking the dust for hundreds of years. Later, they'll make more unreasonable demands on us. Will they ask us to share our treasures with them and make them become the ruler of the world?”

Seeing that their interests might be harmed, the audience resonated with his words resonated in an instant.

They couldn’t keep calm any longer.

Someone said, “We can’t let them do that!”

“Those treasures belong to our Turner family, which were from our ancestors. Why should we share it with the Fraser family?”

“The Fraser family has gone too far. We can’t bear it.”

They all echoed each other excitedly.

Looking at this scene, Theodore smiled in satisfaction but didn’t stop them.

After the attendees had become too angry, the Third Elder said, “Calm down. Quiet.”

He continued, “For the sake of our descendants, even if the Fraser family would bully and humiliate us and ask us to share our treasures with them, we have to tolerate and agree.

“But now, everything is different. Our ancestors had the antidote to cure the genetic disease once and for all. After taking it, we will recover and never be threatened and suppressed by the Fraser family again.

“The bad news is, the antidote had been stolen by the ancestor of the Fraser family. It’s stored in their house now.

“If we want to break free from their suppression and ensure the safety of our later generations, we must get the antidote back. Do you agree?”

“Yes! Yes! Yes!” all the attendees answered so loudly as if their voices would lift the roof.

Finley watched the scene, looking annoyed. Those attendees had been brainwashed by theThird Elder.

He was worried that they would vote for Theodore for sure.

It wasn’t an open family meeting but Theodore’s brain-wash meeting.

The Third Elder watched the scene happily and let them roar for a while.

Then he raised his voice, “However, right now, we have arguments within our family.”

He suddenly jerked his head around to look at Ernest, and added, “As you all know, our young master Ernest Hawkins is engaged to Florence Fraser, the daughter of the Fraser family. They are in love.

“As a human, he wants to protect his fiancée.

“Hence, Young Master is unwilling to attack the Fraser family. He wants the two families to continue to unite by marriage in the future.

“Of course, I guess Young Master is willing to give the Turner family’s treasure to his future in-laws.

“In front of his love and marriage, he can even bear to let the Turner family be bullied by the Fraser family.”

He seemed to be thinking in Ernest’s shoes, but his words were full of sarcasm.

All the attendees looked over at Ernest in shock, surprise, and disbelief, but they were evidently unhappy with him.

Ernest was the young master of the Turner family. How could he be so selfish? He only cared about his love and marriage but ignored the Turner family’s interests.

Hence, all the attendees’ interests and dignities were hurt.