Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 167 Explanation

“By the way, why hasn't Kevin been here for two days? Actually, Claude, you and Caffrey are grown up, so why don't you just do the both of you while you're still at home?” Mother turned to Claude's lifelong concerns.

Claude's numb scalp, the failed marriage of his previous life and the subsequent experience of an old driver gave him a strong sense of distrust for women and a sense of fear for marriage. Even if Kevin is a really nice girl and a daughter-in-law that her mother loves, she feels deeply for him. But he wasn't prepared to be a family now. Are you kidding me? I'm only eighteen. Besides, he's about to join the army. It's hard to predict his future and his death. He doesn't want to tie Caffrey's future to himself like this.

“Mother, Kevin has been busy reviewing bills for building materials with Lutheran Butler for two days, and the 15th is almost here, and the company needs to register the salaries of more than 1,000 people, and go to the bank to coordinate financial preparations to be released by then, so she is busy not being able to turn over, so there is no time to run to our house to play. As for my personal affairs, it's not urgent right now. If I come back as a lieutenant officer after three years, I'll do as you say...” Claude can only do this to his mother.

After dinner, Claude packed his own tableware and table. Mother took the account book upstairs to find a place to store it, which was the most money she had ever seen in her life, and had to hide it somewhere nice to rest assured.

Sister Anna accompanied her brother, Little Booker, and little Snow Dog on the grass in front of the villa, and Claude called them all back. The sky is already dark, there are lots of mosquito flies on the grass, and accidentally you get a lot of tingling, itching and sore.

Claude caught them taking a bath in the bathroom for half a day after playing with his brother, Little Booker, and the snow dog. It was almost 10: 00 p.m., and his mother went to bed. Claude went to the study after sending his brother to lie down in bed and letting the little snow dog lie down beside him. Soon, sister Anna arrived as usual.

“Anna, how was your gun practice today?” Because of Claude's overtime, sister.

Mother picked it up today in a new carriage and went to the open market to buy some ingredients and condiments.

“Twenty shots today, and I shot fourteen.” My sister answered with some pride.

“Nice, keep it up.” Claude took a file bag out of his backpack.

“Anna, I opened an account for you with 3,000 gold kroner in it. Remember, this is for you to buy magic materials later. If there's any future emergency at home, you can also get help from here, but you can't tell your mother, lest she hide it, you know what I'm saying? ”

My sister nodded knowingly.

“Rest assured, I also opened an account with my mother, which contained 1,000 gold kroner and the rent for that big red brick house, enough to keep her at home. Besides, I asked where Albert was, and he was said to have left White Deer on the day his father died. I don't know if he'll suddenly come home after I'm out. You need to keep an eye out at home. If he comes home to eat, drink and drink, don't worry about him, but don't let him cheat on his mother's bank account. Do you understand what I'm saying? ”

Sister Anna suddenly leaves tears with her big eyes open: “Brother Er, I don't want you to go...”

Claude grinned and touched her head: "It's impossible not to leave, or my brother will be arrested for hard labour. Don't worry, I promise you, I'll be back in peace. You're fifteen years old, you're about to grow up to be a big girl. After I leave, I'm counting on you. My mother is not well. You have to take care of her more. ”

“Well, I'll drive the wagon, and I can drive the wagon to school myself later without my mom picking it up.” The sister nodded her head a little arrogantly and said that tears were still hanging from her face, which looked ridiculous.

Reach out and wipe the tears off your sister's face: "OK, then you'll go to school in the wagon that we just bought. The mare I bought, Wendy, had a very gentle personality and was safer up and down the hill, so don't worry about what happened. ”

Claude handed the account book of the National Bank to her sister and gave her another wallet with a drum bag: “The money in the bank account, you don't move now, you can use that alchemy magic charm array when you become a cyclical grammar, then use it when you need to buy some magic test material. Remember, that's why I asked you to study pharmacology. Many of the magic and pharmacological test materials are generic, and no one doubts that you will be magical if you buy them in the name of the drug test. ”

“I remember.” The sister nodded and opened her wallet, full of surprises: “So many gold and silver coins...”

“Well, this is for your usual smallpox, worth thirty gold crowns.” Claude said, "Usually put some money around, occasionally buy your classmates a good meal, so they can easily make friends, and they won't be crowded out at school. Save it. Don't think it's a big waste of money, you know? ”

“Hmm, I'm not a kid. ”

“Go back to your room and find a place to hide your account book and wallet and don't let Little Book and Snow Dog spot you easily. ”

“One more thing," Claude opened the file bag again: "I bought a piece of land in your name at the Old Street entrance, right next to the naval base, and was about to build four buildings. I have agreed with Boa's father, Mr. Rubiewell, to entrust him with the sole responsibility of building and renting out the building, and the design and construction drawings, as well as the funds, have been given to him.

Besides, the shop on the ground floor of the building on the street had been pre-leased to him, and he was ready to move their main shop there when the building was built. In the future, he will charge you the rent for four buildings every year, and the property documents have been notarized at the administrative center and are now in your custody. ”

“Does Mom know?” The sister looked at the real estate documents in her hand and asked.

Claude touched her head again, rubbing her hair all messy, and her sister was very dissatisfied and "hummed” and twisted her head to the side.

“Mom doesn't know about this.” Claude smiled, “Don't forget what I just said, I bought the land in your name and built the four buildings in your name. I have an appointment with Mr. Rubiewell to take care of all the affairs of these four buildings before you reach the age of eighteen, and hand them over to you when you reach the age of majority, or you can continue to entrust them to him. If you grow up to marry, these four buildings will be your dowry. Huh...”

“I'm not getting married!” My sister's ears are red and she's shy, but she's still holding these real estate documents tightly in her hand. This is her personal property. In this world, this means that as a girl, she can spend her whole life worrying about her own life.

“Did you spend a lot of money? Brother Er..."

Many, nearly 4,000 gold kroner, Bai Lu Town upgraded to the city, and a major development plan, with house prices almost tripling. Claude bought the land for public use, which had previously been taken without 500 gold kroner, and now cost more than 1,600, which was easily obtained through a mid-week spin by Lieutenant Ewes, the deputy chief of Felidos.

Mr. Rubiewell, the father's businessman, was then entrusted with full representation, and funds for the construction of the building also amounted to more than 2,000 gold crowns. The design and construction drawings were done by Claude himself, adopting the Hogo architectural style of his own big red brick house, the only difference being that each suite has two more large balconies. Mainly the people of the world also like to let the sun come and get their quilts and clothes. Tenants in big red brick houses complain that there is no place to sun things. Claude is tired of hearing words...

That adds up to almost 4,000 gold kroner, giving 1,000 to his mother, 3,000 to his sister, and more than 1,000 gold kroner left in Claude's own bank account, which is enough for him to spend after his military service. Even if he buys his comrades a big meal and drink every day, he can spill it for a long time.

“It's all right, Anna, your brother's rich, it's all dividends from the company's shares, just earnings. It's late, go back to your room and bring your stuff back. Don't forget to practice meditation before bed. ”

“Well, Second Brother, I'll go back to my room.” My sister walked away very nicely.

Claude touched his face and listened to his sister walk up the stairs. Then bend over and pull out a large black animal leather bag from under the bookcase next to it, open it, remove the black robe and mask towel, and remove a few bottle jars from the table.

First remove a large chunk of white grease from the bottle where the pig badger oil is placed, then spoon out the color seasoning from the other bottle can and start stirring until the stirring is evenly applied to the back of the hand and Claude comes out with the right pigment shortly thereafter.

Claude began spraying the group into brown badger oil on his face, hands and all bare skin. Soon his skin became bronze, looking just like the crew and sailors who were exposed to the wind and rain at sea.

And then there's the hair, which requires a special alchemy, which is good enough that before Claude used to refine a bottle based on Master Landers' magic notes, but what Claude doesn't understand is, for whom was the hair dye alchemy refined by Master Landers in that time of magic civilization? Was it true that the magician had a taste for dressing up as an instrument?

Hair dyed with alchemy changed from brown and black to dark gold, and Claude cut off some hair and trimmed it into two beautiful eight-word beards. Put a fake mustache on his lips, and look in the mirror, this time it was Claude, the mature man that Mother couldn't recognize for a while.

Put on the leather shoes and pants removed from the black beast bag, then put on the robe, put on another backpack, put on the bottle of whiskey you brought back, Claude snuck out of the study, opened the door, and flashed out of the cabin. Mother and brother are asleep, sister may be practicing meditation, they don't even know Claude snuck out. The deaf little snowdog whimpered a few times and took off a few bedroom doors, but he should have heard something from Claude and stopped talking very quickly.

Down the hill, Claude continued along the old route into town smoothly. Since the naval base covers almost the entire ghetto, both the yard of the Catherine sisters' two-story small building and the grocery store of this fat old man, Julian, are subject to relocation. Inspired by the community projects built by the Normanly Real Estate Development Corporation, Chief Felidos has earned him a wide reputation for plotting wasteland directly outside the town's west gate and preparing to build a rudimentary housing complex to accommodate the evicted poor.

But now the overall design plan for the naval base in the western part of the ghetto has not come out, mainly because the competent official, the Viscount Venice, has an idea a day, and today's plan will be overturned by him tomorrow. Until this is decided, the ghettos who have nowhere to go will still live here, except that the community appears colder and quieter.

Claude was going to the Old Street, the Old Street Feng Moon Land was still there, without the control of the Black Snake Club, this Feng Moon Land appeared to be more lively and flourishing, after all, no street woman was willing to let the Black Snake Club split half of their hard earned skin money, and of course now their clients are turning from the old customers of the town to the strong sailors of the Navy fleet.