The Defeated Dragon

    Thomas left the study and his heart was lost. When he went downstairs, he stopped at the stairway and tried to pick up a cigarette, but only found the smoke hidden under the pillow.

    Mr. Carter, it is strictly forbidden for servants to smoke in the castle.

    "Thomas, what are you doing here?"A maid came upstairs down to the age of thirty, wearing a black and white maid skirt with a mop and bucket.

    Nothing

    "Master still doesn't let you take care of you?"

    Thomas took a look at the wall: "Mc., you said, why the lord doesn't like me. I have never worked as a personal servant before, but I used to be the first servant for Viscount Roosevelt. I am qualified for this job. ."

    "How do I know that I am not a maid of the Fort Tulip, I have never seen a lord before."

    "I just asked you if I have enough to do."

    "You should ask Mr. Carter, or Mrs. Mawson…And I don't think you have any worries. The master has only three male servants. Jesse is an assistant. Tom is clumsy and can't wait for the lord. Perhaps the old character is like this. In this small town, no one is more suitable for being a personal servant than you. ”

    Thomas revamped a little: "Yeah, I heard that the Master is in the Fort of Tulips and is not valued by the Earl. Maybe he will only be the Baron of Flower Town for a lifetime, living in a poor country."

    Maybe

    "Mc., do you regret following the lord here?"

    "I don't care, the life in the castle is worse, and it is better than going back to the farm to go hungry." I have sold my body to the lord, there is no need to think about anything and regret it. ”

    Thomas is preparing to speak, and there is no way to interrupt him: "Do you need to work, Thomas, McMug, pay attention to your behavior, don't whisper outside your bedroom and kitchen!"Going up the stairs, the man is the butler of this simple castle.

    He is holding a bunch of keys in his hand, and a bottle of red wine, is inspecting the entire castle.

    "Okay, Mr. Carter, I am going to work."Thomas and McMug hurriedly left and went to their respective affairs.

    If the little aristocracy is the servant of the great aristocracy, then the male servant and the maid can be regarded as the servants of the housekeeper. The aristocratic system has always been such a class.

    The castle is small and has a lot of work.

    Even if only Liszt is a nobleman to serve, the daily workload is huge. For example, sanitation, every morning and night, you have to clean it inside and out. Also wash clothes, burn hot water, prepare food, clean the toilet, and most of the work is handed over to the servant and maid.

    But this does not mean that Carter does not need to work. On the contrary, in addition to managing servants, Carter is also responsible for welcoming guests, drinking alcohol, supervising serving, receiving letters, keeping high-end tableware, managing underground cellars, and caring for the most important guests. .

    Old Carter is 50 years old this year, and in this era of average age less than 55, he is already a sly person.

    Dangdang.

    He knocked on the door of the study.

    Please come inThe sound of Liszt sounds in the door, and there is a popular "steel cavity" in the upper class. In Steel Steel Kingdom and its territories, countless nobles are distinguished by steel chambers.

    Old Carter took a deep breath.

    He was in the Fort Tulip, and he did not deal with Liszt, mainly in charge of a different house of the Earl. Earlier, Liszt's rite of passage, the count assigned him to Liszt as a housekeeper. The position has improved, and the butler is the ultimate goal of all servants.

    But the treatment must have dropped.

    It’s just that Carter didn’t complain. He sold himself to the tulip family from the age of fifteen. It’s been thirty-five years since he was married. He’s got married and he’s a part of the tulip family.

    If you can follow the blood of the tulip family, Baron Liszt, the last few years of life, is undoubtedly a happy ending.

    "Master, reading your eyes at night, you have to pay more attention. There are more candles, not as much as the daylight. ”

    Liszt smiled slightly, his eyes moving away from the thick paper books on the table, looking at some old butlers: "Mr. Carter, have you checked all the rooms?"

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

    "Good, then, have a drink together."Liszt has noticed the red wine in Carter's hands, and the aristocrats are so addicted that they form an unwritten tradition. The owner of the castle will drink a few cups with the butler before going to sleep at night to talk about the castle.

    Liszt doesn't like to drink, but his predecessor, likes to drink, so that the body will have a demand for wine.

    However, the alcohol level here is very low, unless it is as mad as drinking beer, otherwise it is difficult to let him get drunk.

    One person with a glass of wine.

    Gently touched it.

    Shaking and shaking, Liszt took a sip: "Does the cost in the castle support this year's tax?"

    "I'm afraid it's a little difficult. You don't have much wine from the tulip. There is not much wheat flour. The location of Flower Town is very remote. No caravans are willing to come. Even if we have gold coins, it is difficult to buy wheat and wine. But the good news is that Thorns Ridge has a lot of wild fruits, so don't worry about not eating fruit. ”

    Liszt is not valued by the Earl, and when he is separated, he naturally does not get much.

    According to his memory, when her sister Li Weila was separated, the carriage was completely loaded with 30 cars, and he…There is no carriage, only a few horses and a team of people pick up some luggage.

    The treatment is different.

    There is too much resentment in the body and mind, but for him, this is not a big deal. After all, he is not the real son of the count. At most when the father and son met, it was entangled in how to express closeness, quite awkward.

    "No wheat is not enough."Liszt put down the glass and said in an unquestionable tone, "Flower Town should develop as soon as possible, and the business road must be opened!"

    The staple food here is bread.

    If you don't have white bread made from wheat, you can only eat brown bread made from rye and oatmeal, which is hard to swallow. Liszt can't eat the favorite hometown food, and can't eat the delicate white bread, he will starve to death.

    “It’s not easy to open up the road, and Thorns Ridge is too dangerous.”

    "You can rest assured that I will solve it. The future of Flower Town will not be restricted by poverty, and the castle will not be so simple, not even a name. ”Liszt is solemn.

    Only the palatial castle can have a name, such as Liszt's castle, saying that the castle is a lift, and then a name, will be jokes by other nobles.

    "Is the sprite worm taken care of?"

    "It's very stable, lord."

    "That's good."

    Drink a glass of wine.

    Old Carter’s acquaintance: “Master, take a break early, I wish you good night.”

    "You are good night too, Mr. Carter."

    When Carter leaves, Liszt looks at a thick paper book about the Grand Duke of Sapphire. The book is thick and has a dictionary thickness. But the content is actually very few, the thick paper does not have its own name, and the thickness of a piece of paper is as thick as pig skin.

    "How was paper invented?"Liszt recalls that he found that his memory is not bad. He can remember the papermaking process that he has seen online. "When there is time, paper has to be invented…The industrial revolution seems unlikely, but there are still many ways to get rich. ”

    In the meantime, he came out again.

    Sure enough, smoke serpentine emerges again.

    "mission: As a lord, you need to understand everything about the territory. Please patrol the Flower Town to understand the crisis in the territory and prepare for future development. Reward: Sublimation of qi. ”