Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 157: The Gift of Lady Maria

Claude finds himself suddenly busy, sending his sister to school every day and picking her up this afternoon. Go back to the woods to take care of your mother and watch your brother before something happens to this bear child. There will also be a tour of the forest farm, and three meals a day will be done on time. You can no longer fool around like you used to. Just cook three meals a day for your family, feed your little snow dog, and take more chores with you.

Claude also had to arrange a new bedroom for her own mother, with new wallcloths and curtains, furniture and beds, single sofas, all designed by Claude herself to take the drawings to the town furniture store for customization and send them to the woodland to decorate herself in an effort to give her a new home environment that would make her body a little better.

All the furniture in the parents' bedroom at the big red brick house was not brought to the woodland just because they were afraid that their mother would see things. It's just that the money was spent quickly, and the last time I bought the alchemy magic test material from the Black Snake Club, the rest was pretty much the same. However, the mother's body is like a day. It is true that the forest environment is very good for her body rest. After more than ten days, the mother can get out of bed slowly, but she has no strength...

When April arrived, Mother called Claude into her room and gave him an account book at the National Bank containing 44 gold kroner and three silver tallers. Mother said that this was left by Father. He was going to use this money to do business in Dongshan. I just didn't think he would have this chance...

After grieving for a while, the mother removed a sheepskin file bag from under her pillow, containing more than a dozen contract agreements. Claude, at first glance, mostly rental agreements.

According to the mother, after the transformation of the large red brick house by the father into an apartment for rent, it consisted of six large bedrooms and two small attic buildings, under which two large shops and two small storefronts were available for rent of 11 silver tall and two riazos per month. In addition, about 25 gold crowns of rental income per year, minus expenses related to the repair and maintenance of the house, were deposited into the bank account by the father almost fifteen gold crowns per year.

The rent is basically quarterly, and now April is coming up, and the renters are getting ready to rent again. My mother used to take care of this, and now she's not feeling well, so she's entrusted it all to Claude.

So Claude was busy collecting the rent for the big red brick house, and then he worked for three days, cleaning up his own house, and then renting it out. Thus, the rental income of this large red brick house reaches about three gold kroner per month, almost the total income of a civilian for a year. Claude estimated that as long as the big red brick house was there, the mother, sister and brother wouldn't have to worry about spending their lives learning about it, and they'd have a good life.

It's just that during this time, Kevin used to drive the Mermaid's Tavern delivery wagon to the woods to find Claude, and for nothing else, he stayed quietly with Claude to watch him do his job, and sometimes helped do his chores. Even if Claude wasn't there, she talked to her mother well, took her out to sunbathe, or strolled in the woods, and even her little brother, Brooke, often gave him a good impression of the big sister.

This led to the result that every time Caffrey left, her mother always spoke of Caffrey's good behavior in front of Claude, which meant that Baffrey Claude immediately went to propose to the girl and led her in the door the next day. Anyway, the Kingdom sets the age of marriage at eighteen for both young men and women, and both Claude and Keffany have reached that age.

Just as Claude was tired of his mother always nagging about the benefits of early family formation in front of him, Lutheran housekeeper Dusty's servant arrived at the woodland, and he brought a letter to Claude from Mrs. Maria.

In her letter, Mrs. Maria stated that she had learned of the tragedy of Mr. Morsan's suicide and was deeply saddened by his courage and sacrifice for his family, as well as by the Claudes. It was only during this time that she was unable to leave the King and come to mourn herself. She could only write to express her condolences.

Ludhan's housekeeper came to Bai Lu Town to do two things, the first being that Lady Maria gave Claude the woodland cabin along with more than 300 acres of woodland a week as a gift for his adulthood. That is, if Claude agrees, the cabin and the large woodland next to it become Claude's private property and no longer belong to the Normanly Forest Farm.

It was an unexpected gift from Claude, and Lady Maria split the cabin from the woodland villa estate and gave it to Claude along with a hilly forest next to her, where Claude stood for a while.

“Young Master Claude, Madame has arranged everything, and the proof and documents required have been brought. Once you sign, I'll go to the town hall to help you with the rest of the formalities.” Lutheran Butler did not understand why Mrs. Maria valued the teenager so much, even though he had studied pharmacology with her and knew that he was a magician, but was no more than a magician in the field. But this did not prevent him from completing the task entrusted to him by his wife.

“Well," Claude nodded, putting the matter aside before continuing to look down at the letter.

The second thing Mrs Maria said was that she had appointed Lutheran housekeepers not just to give Claude presents, but that Mrs Maria had raised more than 300 gold crowns and asked Claude to assist Lutheran housekeepers in purchasing land in White Deer Town, as much as possible. Nor did she hide it from Claude, telling him directly that Sterling X had made a resolution to transfer White Deer Town from the three southwestern counties to the king's command, and to upgrade White Deer Town to become the main base of the naval fleet of newly formed storms.

That's almost telling Claude that Sterling X fully embraced Chancellor Creeus. The programme proposed by the Duke of Man Duncan, which is to be developed on a large scale into a naval fleet base alongside the military city of Port Nero, is responsible for the navigation and safety of new routes with the continent of Nubian.

It is conceivable that, once the programme is made public, Bai Lu Town will be given a great opportunity to grow, not to mention that land prices alone can rise several times. And so Mrs Maria said quite frankly in her letter that she was not interested in getting involved in the obscenities of the struggle to split a cup, which were politicians and aristocrats, so she cared. She wanted to make some clean money to buy some precious test materials, so she could use her first chance to get information to Lutheran Butler to buy real estate in White Deer Town and sell it after the Kingdom announced its development plan for White Deer Town, so that the money she earned would be enough.

Although the development programme for Bai Lu Town will be announced after the Kingdom Training Council in mid-May, the King has a number of important departments that have secretly prepared to send people to Bai Lu Town for mapping and exploring public opinion. To the best of Mrs Maria's knowledge, that special department of the Kingdom, the Public Special Safety and Security Inspectorate of the Kingdom of Ovilas, will soon be stationed in White Deer Town to set up a branch office. Each military town and special unit of the military base is staffed to prevent reconnaissance and sabotage by evil magicians.

So Mrs. Maria warned Claude in her letter not to inadvertently expose herself as a magician. After all, he is a magistrate in the field, not a registered magistrate registered in a special department. Once targeted by that special department, it means unlimited trouble, and many of the special department's branch leaders prefer to hunt down magicians in the wild, because that's the best way for them to get credit.

Giving Claude the cabin, along with a small piece of hill behind him, was also Mrs. Maria's wish for peace. White Deer Town had a mysterious magician who had killed a lot of underground gangs. Perhaps Wang's special department didn't care about such small things as the death of a few rogues in a remote town, but after the underground magic market got a report from Julian, the head of the White Deer Town acquisition point, he went to great lengths to find that Claude Hooled teacher.

Lady Maria naturally got the news as a regular visitor to the underground magic market, and she knew who did it as soon as she heard. In her letter to Claude, she warned that the previous killings with those underground associations would be over, but when that special department of the kingdom arrived in Bai Lu Town, you should be honest with me. Don't use a little magical power to show off. If something goes wrong, even if she can save Claude's life, Claude certainly won't want to be imprisoned by the Special Branch until the end of the day...

Letting go of the letter Claude was a bit of a disappointment, although I appreciate Mrs. Maria's reminder, but he was disappointed that he could not rob the Black Snake in the future, especially since he was always ready to go to Bill, the big Black Snake Butcher.

“Young Master Claude, Madame warned you that it would be better to burn it after reading the letter.” Lutheran Butler said respectfully beside him.

That's right, if it falls into the hands of someone else, it's Mrs. Maria's business. Claude lit a fire and put the letter up.

It wasn't until the letter became ash that Lutheran Butler opened the pack he had brought, pulling out one document at a time.

“This is the title document for the cabin and the hillside behind it and the pine forest in the hillside next to it, please sign it...

This is a shared use of Forest Farm Hill Road, you sign here...

This is a gift note from Madame and needs your signature...

This is the proxy power of attorney, you sign here and I can go to the town hall to go through the formalities.

By the way, here too, Madame has called you another 20 gold kroner in the National Bank account, and you will be responsible for the monthly salary of Mr and Mrs Theori Lin in the future. You will need to sign your name on this payroll... "

Claude signed his name on a dozen documents, and Lutheran's housekeeper packed all the documents on the table in his own packet: “Master Claude, I'll be at the town hall in a minute, in about two or three days. I will send these completed title documents to you. ”

Now Claude is also a private man, although he is only 18 years old, but has owned nearly 300 acres of mountain forest and a cabin in the Normanly Forest Farm, valued at no less than 7,800 gold kroner, and is considered a middle class in White Deer Town.

Claude also knew why Mrs. Maria had divided the Normanly Forest Farm into small pieces for him. One is to appreciate the talent, Mrs. Maria thinks he has a great future, so the blood book cages him, which is, of course, just an excuse to be on the bright side. The aim was to let the people of White Deer Town know that Claude had hugged the rough legs of the Normanly family and that he was also a backstage figure in order to avoid bullying the Fields family, which had fallen into the civilian class after Mr. Morsan's death.

The real reason is simple, too, in return for Mrs. Maria. Last year, when Lady Maria returned to Wangdu, Claude handed her a magical array of four symbolic spells, including the Hand of Magic, in an envelope. Mrs. Maria said that Claude's five grammars are forbidden nowadays, at least one or two hundred gold kroner each, and we need luck to get them from the underground magic market. She didn't have the financial resources to learn these four puzzles from Claude.

Claude handed these four spells over to Mrs. Maria, mostly in recognition of her Tan City and her careful instruction to him. Claude was truly grateful to Lady Maria, the first woman he had ever met, although she was only a registered magician, for opening the door to true magical mystery. From her, he learned a lot about common sense of magic and the magical state of the kingdom, which is many times stronger than his closed-door car.

He knew the nature of Mrs. Maria, so when he gave it to her, he specifically stated in the letter that this was the advance payment he had asked Mrs. Maria to find him suitable combat magic at the Wangdu underground magic test site, which Mrs. Maria had only accepted.

But now it seems that Mrs. Maria must not have found any fighting spells and that she was reluctant to owe Claude anything, but could not afford it. Imagine how embarrassing her economy was when she could only raise more than 300 gold kroner to buy property in Bai Lu Town, so she simply split up her own woodland and gave it to Claude. A mu of mountain forest is now worth about two to three gold kroner, and 300 mu has exceeded the price of those four symbols.