The Defeated Dragon

离开 Thomas left the study room and lost heart. When he came downstairs, he stopped at the turn of the staircase and tried to pull out a cigarette, but found that the cigarette was hidden under the pillow.

Mr. Carter, the servant is strictly prohibited from smoking in the castle.

"Thomas, what are you doing here?" A maid came downstairs, about thirty years old, wearing a black and white maid skirt, carrying a mop and a bucket in his hand.

"It's nothing."

"Master doesn't let you wait for you?"

Thomas patted the wall annoyed: "Missy, why do you dislike me, Master, although I have not been a personal servant before, but I have been the first male servant for Viscount Roosevelt, I can do the job . "

"How do I know this, I'm not a maid at Tulip Castle, I have never seen a master before."

"I'm just asking you, is there anything I'm not doing enough."

"Then you should ask Mr. Carter, or Mrs. Morson ... and I don't think you have any worries. The master has only three male servants. Jesse is an assistant. Tom is clumsy and he can't serve the master at all. Maybe that's the character No one in this town is better suited to be a personal servant than you. "

Thomas cheered up a bit: "Yeah, I heard that the master was in Tulip Castle and was not valued by the earl. Maybe he was just a baron in the town of flowers and lived in a poor country."

"Perhaps."

"Mathy, do you regret coming here with the master?"

我 "I don't care. Life in the castle is even worse than going back to the farm to go hungry and waiting for death. I've sold it to the master and I don't need to think about regrets."

Thomas was about to speak, and somebody interrupted him: "Are you not required to work? Thomas, Maxie, pay attention to your actions, and don't whisper outside your bedroom and kitchen!" It was Carter, the steward of this humble little castle.

拿着 He is holding a bunch of keys and a bottle of red wine and is visiting the castle.

"Okay, Mr. Carter, I'll go to work now." Thomas and Maxie hurriedly left to go about their own affairs.

If the little aristocracy is the servant of the big aristocracy, then the male servant and the maid can be regarded as the servants of the housekeeper. The aristocratic system has always been so classical.

Although the castle is small, it has a lot of work.

Even if only a nobleman like Liszt needs to serve, the daily workload is huge. For example, sanitation, every morning and evening, clean inside and out. They also do laundry, heat water, prepare food, and clean the toilet. Most of the work is left to the men and maids.

But this does not mean that Carter does not need to work. On the contrary, Carter must be responsible for welcoming guests, pouring wine, supervising dishes, receiving and sending letters, keeping high-end tableware, managing underground wine cellars, and taking care of the most important guests. .

Old Carter is fifty years old this year, and in this age with an average age of less than 55, he is already 耄耋.

Dangdangdang.

He knocked on the door of the study.

请 "Please come in." The mild voice of Liszt sounded inside the door, with a popular "steel cavity" in high society. In the Iron and Steel Ridge Kingdom and its affiliates, countless nobles regarded the steel cavity as noble.

Old Carter took a deep breath.

在 He was in Tulip Castle and had not dealt with Liszt much, mainly in charge of the other house of the count. Earlier at the inauguration ceremony of Liszt, the earl assigned him to Liszt as steward. Promoted, steward is the ultimate goal of all servants.

But the treatment must have declined.

I just do n’t have any complaints from Carter. He has sold and joined the Tulip family since he was fifteen years old. It has been 35 years since he was married. He is one of them and has already regarded himself as a member of the Tulip family.

If you can follow the bloodline descendants of the Tulip family, Baron Liszt, after the last few years of life, it will undoubtedly be a happy ending.

"Master, watch your book at night and hurt your eyes. You need to pay more attention. No candle is as good as the sun during the day."

Lister smiled slightly, looking away from the thick paper book on the table, and looked at some old butlers: "Mr. Carter, have you checked all the rooms?"

"Except the room where servants have to work, all other rooms have been locked."

"Very well, then, let's have a drink together." Liszt had noticed Carter's red wine, and the nobles were so addicted to life that it became an unwritten convention. Have a few drinks together and talk about the castle.

Liszt does not like to drink, but his predecessor likes to drink so much that his body will need it.

However, the alcohol level here is very low, unless it is drunk like beer, it is difficult to keep him from getting drunk.

Hold a glass of wine for one person.

I touched it slightly.

Staggered, Liszt took a sip: "Can the cost in the castle support this year's tax?"

"I'm afraid it's a bit difficult. You haven't brought much wine from Tulip Castle. There isn't much wheat flour. The town of Flowers is very remote. No caravan is willing to come. Even if we have gold coins, it is difficult to buy wheat and drinks. But The good news is that there are many wild fruits in Thorns Ridge, so don't worry about eating no fruits. "

Liszt was not valued by the count, and naturally he didn't get much when he split.

According to his memory, when the elder sister Li Weiwei separated, the carriage was fully equipped with thirty carriages, and he ... there were no carriages, only a few horses and a team of husbands carrying luggage.

Treatment is different.

However, he did n’t have to show much affection, so he did n’t have to worry about how to express closeness to the Count of Coral Island.

"No wheat is fine." Liszt put down his glass and said in an unquestionable tone, "The town of flowers must develop as soon as possible, and the business road must be opened!"

面包 The staple food here is bread.

If there is no white bread made from wheat, UU reads www.uukanshu. Com can only eat rough bread made from rye and oats, which are rough and difficult to swallow. Liszt can no longer eat his favorite hometown food, and no longer can eat delicate white bread, he will starve to death.

"It is not easy to open up commercial roads. Thorns Ridge is too dangerous."

"You can rest assured, I will solve it. The future of the flower town will not be limited by poverty, and the castle will not be so simple, even without a name." Lisite solemnly said.

Only a magnificent castle can have a name. It is as simple as a Liszt castle. It is said that the castles are all elevated, and then they will be killed by other aristocratic jokes.

"Are the worms taken care of?"

"Very stable, sir."

"That's good."

完 finished with a glass of wine.

Old Carter's interesting resignation: "Master, take a rest early and wish you good night."

"Good night too, Mr. Carter."

When Carter left, Liszt read a thick paper book about the customs of the Grand Duchy of Sapphire for a while. The book was very thick, about the thickness of a dictionary. But the content is actually very small. The thick paper is worthy of its own name. The thickness of a piece of paper is almost as thick as that of pigskin.

"How was paper invented?" Liszt recalled, he found that he had a good memory and could remember the papermaking process that he had seen online. "When time comes, paper has to be invented ... The industrial revolution seems unlikely, but There are still many ways to get rich. "

Suddenly, he was out of a meeting.

The result is not the same, and the snake text composed of smoke emerges again in front of the eyes.

任务 "Mission: As a lord, you need to know everything about the territory. Please visit a circle of flowers towns, understand the crisis of the territory, and prepare for future development. Reward: sublime sublimation."