Lady of the Lord From the East

Baron Stoichkov is a very efficient person. The last time he came here and settled the tobacco business with Sardinson County, he did not want to wait for the tobacco to be planted in the coming year after returning, but took advantage of the mountain road before winter. When it was time to leave, I found several doctors to buy the tobacco they had on hand, packaged it up, and delivered it immediately.

He also didn't have much confidence in the sales of tobacco. He was worried that if something went wrong in the middle of the contract, Sardinson suddenly terminated the contract, then he would be the unlucky one, so he thought of sending a batch of past transactions first. Let's see what the duchess are going to do with the tobacco, and buy another batch of grain by the way.

When he went back, the food he had bought and sent to send away was still on the way, and the people of the territory saw him coming back alone with a group of mercenaries, and thought that the baron did not buy food, and they all thought they were in despair. To starve to death this winter, it was the baron's repeated explanations that convinced them that the food had been bought. It was only because they had to take a detour, so they came back slowly, but they could definitely send them back before they ran out of ammunition and food.

Buying food again doesn't mean that he didn't have enough food before, but the baron knows that the price of food in Soria has skyrocketed recently, and I am afraid it will rise even more in winter. He wants to take the opportunity to resell a batch to make more money to make up for this year The coffers that have become empty after taxes and food purchases.

In fact, the mountains at this time are already more dangerous than before. Baron Stoichkov hired a lot of mercenaries and brought a large number of slaves to help him transport the goods. Most of the animals in the crowded team did not It will come to provoke, as long as you are careful, there is not much danger.

Wei Wei didn't expect him to come again so soon, but she still welcomed the tobacco he sent.

These tobaccos are all harvested and dried according to the requirements. The leaves of the tobacco are very large. After drying and yellowing, they are neatly placed together, and then several leaves are bundled into a bundle, and then tied with hemp rope and placed in It was transported in sacks, and people who didn't know it might think that this was someone who wanted to pickle sauerkraut.

The total weight of the tobacco leaves that the baron brought this time was about 500 kilograms.

The price negotiated before was to pay him three silver coins per pound of tobacco leaves, which was one more silver coin than wheat, and the baron received the tobacco leaves from the doctor at a price of one silver coin per pound, and then sent the tobacco leaves to Sa Ding Sen, he exchanged 500 catties of tobacco leaves for 75 gold coins, of which 50 gold coins were pure profits.

Don't underestimate these fifty gold coins. Don't look at the dukes and couples of Sardinson who are always going in and out of tens of thousands of gold coins. The daily income is in gold coins, and they earn tens of thousands and tens of thousands. They are very rare exceptions in the whole of Europe, and the gap between the rich and the poor is always there.

In fact, the normal annual income of an earl who lives on the territory is only 5,000 gold coins. It is not bad for a baron to have 500 gold coins a year. Baron Stoichkov is a small lord in a poor place. He is only the oldest In good times, the income of the territory is only three hundred gold coins.

But it only took two days to deliver the goods across the mountains, and he earned one-sixth of his annual income in gold coins. When he put those gold coins into his purse, he was even more determined to build the road. idea.

After earning the money, the baron entrusted the task of buying food to his confidant, while he himself stayed in the castle, hoping to know how Wei Wei planned to use the tobacco leaves.

With tobacco leaves, cigars, hand-rolled cigarettes and pipe tobacco can be made. These are undoubtedly extremely profitable businesses, and Wei Wei is not afraid of others imitating her, although both hand-rolled cigars and pipes are very easy to copy. But that's all, anyone can grow their own tobacco, and there won't be so many different flavors of cigarettes on the market.

Like perfume, cigarettes also need to be flavored to bring different flavors and attractiveness. The correct flavoring method and formula can increase the flavor of cut tobacco and bring a variety of tastes. Only by mastering the flavoring technology and matching Only good quality tobacco can make the best cigars and cigarettes.

Wei Wei does not intend to occupy the entire tobacco market. She has already planned that in the future, they will take the route of high-end tobacco and only provide cigarettes with the best quality, and the supply target is of course the wealthy aristocratic group.

And the 500 catties of tobacco sent this time, she did not intend to use it for any kind of cigarette, but reserved it all for medicinal purposes.

So although Baron Stoichkov was very curious, what he finally saw was only the medicine Wei Wei made from tobacco.

But it is not without gain. At least the Baron learned more about the diseases that tobacco can treat from Wei Wei. Colleagues who opened their eyes also thought that this was the reason why she ordered tobacco.

There are so many wonderful tobaccos that can be used with different medicinal materials to treat different diseases, and the effect is remarkable. As long as such drugs are launched on the market, they will definitely sell well.

With this knowledge, the baron took some medicines from Wei Wei with confidence, and left Sardinson again, ready to go back to organize people to grow tobacco.

After that, the temperature in Sardinson gradually dropped. After entering December, the vegetation withered, the earth declined, the cold wind blew, and the footsteps of winter came quietly. Before you knew it, another year would pass.

In winter, the days are short and the nights are long. At three or four o’clock in the afternoon, the sky starts to get dark. The wind is getting colder every day. People put on thick winter clothes, and together with the winter wheat in the fields, they brought the first snow of the year.

The first snow was not big. The tiny snowflakes turned into icy raindrops as soon as they fell on the ground. No snow was left behind, but it continued to fall for several days without stopping.

Because of this rain and snow, the umbrella shop in Dingle Town once again welcomed a steady stream of customers. This shop sells ordinary bamboo oil-paper umbrellas and metal cloth umbrellas. The price is not expensive for civilians, so now almost every household will buy one or two. In addition to buying oil-paper umbrellas, the rich will also buy exquisite and gorgeous umbrellas, so that whether it is the sun or the rain , it's not a problem for them.

This is an era when white is beautiful, and the lady wished that she would never find the sun and keep her fair skin.

The business in the milk tea shop is also good. Although there are not many customers on the open-air tables and chairs outside the shop, people are used to going to the shop to buy several times hot drinks and delicious cakes to take home with their families. Sitting next to Rui together to share this sweet beauty, the arrival of winter has not made this land depressed, on the contrary, various shops are already preparing for this year's Christmas, and are gearing up to sell more in the days of Christmas. lots of cargo.

Since the Christmas of the previous year, the owners of the castle got together to celebrate the Christmas of a group member, and this day has become an important holiday in Sardinson. It has nothing to do with religion, but they reward themselves for their hard work for a year. Family and friends get together to celebrate the reunion festival.

And this year, the holiday notice has already come down, so everyone is looking forward to this day.

And the children are undoubtedly the happiest. It can even be said that they have been waiting for this day for almost a year. Whether it is a Christmas dinner or a Christmas gift, they have been longing for it for a long time, and at Christmas time, adults I will also leave work and take my family to go shopping in the town, and the family will have a good time for a day.

It couldn't have been more exciting than this.

So although there is still a long time before Christmas, December has just arrived, and many Sardinsons have begun to prepare for the festival.

They imitated the news from Sardinson Castle, went to the woodland to find a suitable Christmas tree, dragged it home and fixed it, and hung it with beautiful decorations. Christmas wreath and vines woven from red berries of the goosebone.

Like the commoners, the people in Sardinson Castle are already preparing for Christmas, but this year, they are not celebrating in the castle, but in Wei Wei's villa that has been vacant since it was built.

There are not many rooms in this villa, so Wei Wei still lives in the master bedroom with her son, Dolores and Caroline temporarily live in one room, Prince Edward and Miss Campbell each use the opinion room, and the rest of the customer service The house and the servants' room are allocated to the housekeeper couple and servants.

Before it snowed, Wei Wei had already moved here with her people, and the castle had begun to be renovated. Most of the ordinary servants stayed in the castle. The renovation of the workers had no effect on ordinary daily life. The treasury and warehouse in the castle still need to be looked after, so Wei Wei didn't bring too many servants. All the servants, including the cook and the servants doing the sundries, add up to less than 20 people, including her own maid. I only brought Penny and the three little maids. Qin and the other maids stayed at the castle because they had their own work. The three little maids were mainly to help her take care of her son, otherwise Wei Wei would take care of her son. The number of people will be reduced.

There is no way to do this. The villa is so big, and it is a bit excessive to live in more than 20 people. Except for the master, the servants are only able to live in a room with several people.

The whole villa has been set up by Butler Barton, and it fully brings out the atmosphere of Christmas. They not only set up the living room, but also everyone's room and all other areas, even the corridors are hung up. Christmas wreaths, red with green and gilded ornaments are the hues of the month, bringing life to the wind and snow.

Prince Edward and Miss Campbell were very interested in their Christmas guests. When they watched the servants decorate, they couldn't help but leaned in and asked. In the past winters, the crown princes spent their time in warm areas. And no matter day or night, he has to stay in bed, let alone go out, even walk around the house or make a fire by the fireplace, because the smell of fireworks will trigger his asthma, if one is bad, he may Say goodbye to this world some winter.

But this year, his condition has improved a lot. After the winter, he will not be the same as before, even if he wears more clothes, he will not be able to suppress the coldness of his body from the inside to the outside. As long as he wears warmer clothes, he can stay indoors. Walking around, even taking advantage of the absence of snow, I walked out of the room and strolled in the garden to see the snow scene, and the fireplace was burning smokeless charcoal specially made by Wei Wei, and the only finished products were all supplied. His Royal Highness, so that he can sit by the fireplace and gossip like everyone else, and enjoy the warmth and fun of the fire in a relaxed and leisurely manner.

In such days, the relationship between the crown prince and Campbell has been heating up. At the same time, they and the Williams family have also established a friendship behind them. Even an introverted girl like Dolores can occasionally chat and laugh with them. Make trouble, not to mention the little domineering Caroline, she now dares to take Prince Edward's good-natured, climbed into his arms and asks him to tell a story.

And the days of harmony and beauty also made Wei Wei miss Felix more and more when he went out.

Felix went to the north, and the climate was colder than that of Satinson. When they first snowed here, the land might have been frozen over there. Wei Wei was very worried about his safety, and also worried that he would not be able to catch up with this year. Christmas.

Although Felix wrote a letter back before saying that he would be back before Christmas, the weather recently made it impossible for carrier pigeons to deliver letters, so their correspondence was forced to be sent back by servants running errands. As a result, It would take several days for a letter to be delivered, and as the snow came, the delivery speed was getting slower and slower. Until recently, Wei Wei had not received any news from Felix for half a month.

So as Christmas drew nearer, she became more worried.

Although she knew that Felix was out with a large group, it was unlikely that anything would happen, but Wei Wei couldn't control it.

She would stand in front of the bedroom window every day, looking at the road in the distance, that is the route to the north, Felix took that road when he left, and will also go there when he came back, Wei Wei hopes that one day she will be there From the end of the road, you can see the team with the Williams family flag coming this way.

And this kind of anticipation was getting worse as Christmas approached, and she didn't want Felix to miss it, it would make her worry if he was delayed on the road by some accident.

But until the day before Christmas, Wei Wei didn't see his team come back.

This year's Christmas weather was not very good. Although it didn't snow, there was a rare fog in the morning. The fog was very thick, and the vision from ten meters away became very blurred. Wei Wei was wearing a thick rabbit The fur coat opened the curtains and only saw the thick fog outside the window, she sighed regretfully, turned back to the bed, picked up her son who had woken up from the crib, helped him change into a bright red Christmas outfit, and put on a little red riding hood. , dressed as a little Christmas angel.

She kissed her son's chubby cheek, and the clever little baby immediately came over and gave her a milky kiss.

"Son, your daddy didn't come back today. It seems that we can only spend Christmas by ourselves."

I don't know if he understood or not. Little Anthony nodded and said, "Daddy, come back!"

"Hey, if he doesn't come back today, our reunion banquet will be one less person."

Sharing her thoughts with her son, Wei Wei put away her worries and carried her son downstairs with a gentle smile.

Today is Christmas, so she can't let her bad mood affect everyone.

Early in the morning of Christmas, when everyone opened the presents, when Wei Wei came down, everyone else had already gathered under the Christmas tree in the living room, watching Caroline find herself in the pile of Christmas presents that were put away last night. of that.

Four-year-old Caroline can't read yet, so every time she picks up a gift box, she asks Dolores, "Is it this?"

"no."

"this is mine."

So she gave the gift box to Dolores.

"what about this?"

"Yes, this is yours, then see which ones are yours."

"Is it this one?"

"No, this is Mrs. Nancy's."

Another one was sent out.

"what about this?"

"This is Anthony's."

The little girl looked at Wei Wei who came downstairs, ran over with a light gift box, handed the gift to her, and went on to find her share.

Finally, after the adults deliberately got it all, Caroline distributed everyone's gifts before finding all her own.

Not one, but a lot. Every adult has prepared gifts for her and Anthony, so they have the most gifts.

Caroline, who had collected all the gifts, sat happily on the carpet and unwrapped the gifts. She didn't want anyone to help. She undid the ribbon a little impatiently, opened the box, and took out the gifts inside. Phew, and then holding a gift, whether expensive or cheap, softly thanked the gift giver, and the sweet smile sweetened everyone's heart.

Because Felix was away, all his gifts were placed in front of Wei Wei, and with Anthony's share, the gift boxes in front of her were piled up like a hill.

Children are probably very interested in opening gifts. Even though Anthony is still young, he is just as interested in those gifts as Caroline at one and a half years old. Sitting in Wei Wei's arms, he eagerly bends down and reaches out to get the ones on the ground. The gift box, Wei Wei had to put the person down and let him and Caroline toss the box together.

It's a pity that he is too young, and he hasn't mastered the way to untie the bow for the time being.

Before Anthony tried to remove it with brute force, Wei Wei gently and skillfully opened the knot.

Opening the box, Wei Wei was taken aback by the gift inside.

It was a wood carving, depicting a family of three, a handsome and mighty father in a suit, a noble and beautiful mother in a wedding dress, and a little baby dancing in the arms of the two.

It was them when they got married and Anthony when they were one year old.

"Master Felix carved this." Butler Patton came over and said softly, "In order to carve it, the young master specially asked a carpenter to learn it for a long time. He said that if he didn't come back for Christmas, he would let me hand over the gift to me. Madam you."

The housekeeper knew that the young master who didn't send the gift himself would be very sorry, but who made him not catch up.

Wei Wei smiled while stroking the wood carvings, which were obviously carefully polished, although the carvings were not very similar.

He always surprises her, before and now.

And the bigger surprise is yet to come.

With a bang, the door of the villa was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

A man wearing a cloak and covered in snow walked in, shook the snowflakes on his body, took off his hood, and revealed a handsome face that he hadn't seen for a long time.

His blue sky-like eyes looked at the black-haired woman in the pile of gifts, and in the surprised eyes of the other party, he raised a handsome, cheerful and gentle and pampering smile.

He spread his arms to meet his lover who rushed over.

"Honey, I'm back!"

"Welcome home."

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The author has something to say: I will write the main text here, otherwise I feel like I will repeat the plot of spring farming and autumn harvest again. Of course, the end of the main text does not mean the end of this article. It is convenient to cross time, so I will continue to update it tomorrow.

Yesterday, I went back to my mother's house to see my sister and niece, but only after the past did I know that I was going to visit relatives today, but I was dragged and refused to come back. The hard thing was that I didn't bring my computer, so I had to postpone the update. Fortunately, I borrowed it. I wrote a paragraph in my notebook, otherwise I thought I really had to come back at night to rush the draft until ten o'clock.

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