The Defeated Dragon

Thomas left the study, lost his mind, and as he went downstairs, he stopped at the turning point of the stairs and tried to pull out a cigarette light, but found it hidden under his pillow.

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

“Thomas, what are you doing here?” A maid came up downstairs, about thirty years old, wearing a black and white maid dress with a mop and bucket in her hand.

“Its nothing"

“Isn't the master going to let you go with him? ”

Thomas photographed the wall troubledly: "Maxie, you said," Why doesn't the master like me? I've never been a personal butler before, but I've been the first butler for Viscount Roosevelt, and I can handle the job. ”

“How do I know that? I'm not the maid of Tulip Chateau. I've never even met the master before. ”

“I'm just asking you if there's enough room for me to do. ”

“You should ask Mr Carter, or Mrs Morson... and I don't think you have anything to worry about. The master has only three servants, Jesse is an assistant, Tom is clumsy, and can't serve the master at all. Maybe that's the way the master is, in this town, nobody is better suited to be a close servant than you. ”

Thomas vibrated a little: “Yeah, I heard the lord was in Tulip Chamberlain, not valued by the Count, and probably lived in the poor countryside all his life just as a Flower Town Baron. ”

“Maybe. ”

“Maxie, do you regret following the master here? ”

“I don't care, life in the castle is worse than going back to the farm to starve and die. I have sold myself to the master, there is no need to think about regrets without regrets. ”

Thomas was about to talk, and it was cold enough to interrupt him: "Don't you need to work, Thomas, Maxie, watch your behavior, don't whisper outside your bedroom and kitchen!” Up the stairs comes Carter, the butler of this humble little castle.

He was touring the castle with a string of keys and a bottle of wine.

“Okay, Mr. Carter, I'm going to work.” Thomas and Maxie left in a hurry, each busy with their own business.

If the small nobility is the servant of the great nobility, the servants and maids are also the servants of the housekeepers, the nobility system has always been so classy.

The castle is small but has a lot of work to do.

Even if only a nobleman like Lester needs to serve, the daily workload is enormous. Hygiene, for example, is cleaned inside and out every morning and night. Laundry, hot water, food preparation, toilet cleaning, most of the work is entrusted to the butler and maid.

But that doesn't mean that Carter doesn't have to work; on the contrary, Carter is responsible for welcoming guests, pouring alcohol, overseeing the serving of food, receiving and distributing letters, keeping fine dining utensils, managing cellars in the basement, and caring for the most important guests.

Old Carter is 50 years old this year, and in an age of less than 55 years, he is already a fool.

When.

He knocked on the study door.

“Come in.” Inside the door is the sound of Listerweyne, with a mouthful of “steel cavity” popular in the uppermost society. In the Iron Ridge kingdom and its dependencies, countless nobles are honored with steel cavity.

Old Carter took a deep breath.

He did not deal much with Lester at Tulip Chambers, mainly in a different courtyard for the Count. At Lester's bar mitzvah a while back, the Count assigned him to Lester as a butler. Position elevated, butler is the ultimate goal of all servants.

But treatment must have declined.

It's just that Carter didn't complain, he sold himself into the Tulip family since he was fifteen years old, and it's been 35 years since he was married, alone, and has long considered himself part of the Tulip family.

If you follow the descendants of the Tulip family, Baron Lester, through the last years of your life, it will undoubtedly be a happy ending.

“Master, read the book at night and hurt your eyes, pay attention. More candles than daylight sunlight. ”

Lister smiled slightly and moved her eyes away from the thick paper book on the table, looking at some old butler: "Mr. Carter, have you checked all the rooms yet? ”

“Apart from the room where the servants have to work, the rest of the room has been locked. ”

“Very well, then, let's have a drink.” Lester has noticed Carter's red wine, the aristocratic alcoholism, so unwritten that the owner of the castle will have a few drinks with the butler before going to bed at night to talk about the castle.

Lester doesn't like drinking, but his predecessor loves drinking so much that his body needs it.

But the alcohol level here is low, so unless he drinks like a beer, it's hard to get him drunk.

a person and a glass of wine.

Touched gently.

Shaking, Lester took a small sip: "How much use is in the castle to support this year's taxes? ”

“I'm afraid it's a bit difficult, you haven't brought much wine from Tulip Chateau, you don't have much wheat flour, the town is very remote, no merchants are willing to come, even if we have gold coins, it's hard to get wheat and alcohol. But the good news is, there are a lot of wild fruits in Thorn Ridge, so don't worry about eating them without fruit. ”

Lester was not valued by the Count and naturally didn't get much when he split up.

According to his memory, when his sister Levera split the house, the carriage was fully equipped with thirty cars, and he… did not have a single carriage, only a few horses and a group of civil servants picked up some luggage.

difference between heaven and earth.

There was too much anger in his mind, but for him it was not a big deal, after all, he was not the Count's real son. At best, it's embarrassing to get tangled up in how to show intimacy when the father and son meet.

“Not without wheat.” Lester put down the glass and said in an unquestionable tone, "Flower Town must develop as soon as possible, the business road must open! ”

The staple food here is bread.

If you don't have white bread made of wheat, you can only eat black bread made of bare wheat and oatmeal that is rough and hard to swallow. Lester can no longer eat his favorite home-cooked dishes and can no longer eat fine white bread, he will starve to death.

“Opening up a business road is not an easy thing, Thorn Ridge is too dangerous. ”

“Don't worry about that, I'll fix it. The future of Flower Town will not be constrained by poverty, nor will the castle be so humble and have no name.” Lister solemnly said.

Only a magnificent castle can have a name, as simple as Lester's castle, saying that the castle is lifted, another name, will be killed by other noble jokes.

“Is Elf Worm taken care of? ”

“Very steady, sir. ”

“That's good. ”

Finish a glass of wine.

Old Carter's witty farewell: “Good night, sir. ”

“Good night, too, Mr. Carter. ”

When Carter left, Lester read a thick paper book about the terroir of the Grand Duchy of Sapphire. The book was thick, and Jomo had a dictionary thickness. But the content is actually very little. The thick paper is not worthy of its name. The thickness of one piece of paper is almost as thick as the pork skin.

“How was paper invented?” Lester remembers that he has a good memory and can remember the papermaking process he saw from the internet, "etc. In time, paper also had to be invented... The industrial revolution seems unlikely, but there are still many ways to become rich. ”

In a trance, he came out again.

If not, the serpent of smoke appears again in front of you.

“Mission: As a lord, you need to know everything about the territory. Please visit a circle of flower towns to understand the crisis in the territory and prepare for future development. Reward: The upliftment of the fighting temper. ”