Chapter XVII: House Afternoon Tea
In the early morning, in the kitchen in the basement of Ian Mansion, the sound of stir-frying could be heard very early.
"Young master, what are you doing?!" Isha pushed open the door, put on her housekeeper's uniform in disheveled clothes, and looked at Ian, who was cooking in the kitchen: "Nobles won't go down to the kitchen by themselves!"
"Yo, morning, Sister Isa. Ian lifted the spatula, his face covered in smoke.
The mansions of this era do not like to install range hoods, and the traditional English breakfast does not have such a big smell of oil smoke, at most it is a small bread fried egg with bacon, and Ian is tired of eating it.
"What the hell are you doing?" the spell flashed, and all the fumes were swept out of the basement by the wind.
It turned out to be a humanoid self-propelled range hood. Ian sighed in his heart, then turned off the stove, put the dishes in the pot on the plate, and walked past Isha with a grin.
"Let's go, I've made breakfast. ”
"What is it?" Isha looked at the red and yellow soup in the bowl, and smelled quite good.
"Tomato scrambled eggs~"
The two walked back to the dining room, and then Ian washed up and changed into a new white shirt and leather tank top at Isa's urging, before being allowed to sit back in his seat.
"Aristocrats should have the appearance of nobility. Isha looked at Ian IV, who was eager to raise her spoon and feast on the tomato scrambled eggs in front of her, the smell of tomatoes irritating her nostrils, and she finally sat down to eat along.
"I thought you'd get up early. Ian beckoned Nemesis to sit down, and then said to Isha, "I'll get up at five o'clock, and when I see you're still sleeping, I'll go down to the kitchen myself." This is a dish I brought from another world, you can taste it, and we will buy some rice when we go back, this bibimbap is very delicious. ”
Yesterday, they made some purchases in the village, and the 100,000 yuan they earned was really fragrant, especially the dishes that Ian could see, all of which were bought.
In the past, in addition to being a soldier king, he was happiest when he made two dishes in his small kitchen and ate them with his girlfriend.
But now, sitting next to him, is Isha Sher.
It doesn't sink into the memories.
"Young master, I'm the housekeeper, and I'll get up earlier than you, but I don't do this kind of thing like breakfast. It turns out that there are servants in the mansion, and I ...... I usually look at the code for a while when you fall asleep, you look at my dark circles...... Master, have you been waking up too early lately? ”
"Hey, you don't understand how to stay up early. ”
"Raising ...... Raw?"
"Take your time and drink some hot water first. "Ian sits in the position of head of the house, but has the enthusiasm of a servant.
"Young Master, Young Master can't help it, Young Master!" Facing the current Young Master Ian, compared to Isha, he began to wonder if it was the right choice for him to come back from the Black Tower.
"Master Ian, look at this. Nemesis didn't watch them fight the whole time, silently finished eating the tomato scrambled eggs made by Ian, finished reading the newspaper in his hand, and then handed it over: "You are in the headlines again." ”
Ian took it, and a line was clearly printed on the front page: Ian IV is in a panic, and the sixteen-year-old Duke humiliates Duke Grant.
Turn two more pages, and the corner also reads: The Ian family is back in action, spending a lot of money on the outskirts of the capital to buy most of the town's properties.
"It seems that in this world, it is easier to be a journalist, after all, it is not guilty of exaggeration. Ian threw the newspaper back on the table and rubbed his eyebrows, "Isa, how's our panic?"
"Twenty thousand is worth fifty thousand, there are a little more people who believe you are telling the truth. Isha said, "It does have to do with your appearance." ”
"They'll believe I'm here to panic, to be God, not for the money. Ian said, "That's right, I don't like to lie, so I'll take the opportunity to make more money." ”
Nemesis and Isha looked at each other, but neither spoke.
"By the way, you just said that we have a servant at home?" Ian stood up and moved his body to prepare for today's itinerary: "Shall we hire another one?" or ......"
"Young master, our servant was found by your father with great difficulty, to be honest, those who can work in this mansion cannot be ordinary people. Otherwise, one day the mansion is attacked and someone assassinates, how can ordinary servants dare to show their heads?" Isha put on a coat for Ian, and planned to go out to buy something today: "At that time, the entire mansion only relied on two servants, they were elves, they knew the magic of the elf origin and the magic of the Black Tower, and they lived longer than us, and they were still very beautiful, right?"
"Just them?" Ian and Isha walked slowly to the study, picked up the picture frame, and on either side of their parents, stood a petite girl with a broom and a rag. In the photo, Ian is ten years old, and they are only slightly older than Ian, and they look like children.
"Yes, they belong to the forest elves, and your father met them in the southern forest and brought them back to the mansion. Luckily, they are all highly talented. ”
"I thought the elves were like Kars?" Ian asked, "which is this?"
"I belong to the Guardian Elves, young master. Kars fluttered his wings and came out of the void: "We are elves who specialize in serving nobles and drawing up protocols, and we have no offensive power. ”
"The true elves have been around for a long time. Isha took out a book from the study and handed it to Ian: "People identify with elves more than with magic, they believe that plants and trees have spirits, mountains and rivers have spirits, so they imagine them to be humans, so there are elves." The forest elves are petite and slender, and the rock elves are hard and stout, presumably. ”
"Where did they go?"
Ian asked the most crucial question, and Isha subconsciously wanted to open her mouth, but she stopped talking.
There was silence in the study, and Kars hid back into his own world, not daring to mingle blindly.
It's time to turn the dark into history again, and Ian sits, eyes raised and staring at Isha.
Lies are standard in Manda, but he at least wants the people around him not to lie to him, especially Isha, if necessary.
Because now, only Isha is relied on.
This taste is honestly not pleasant, because even in the previous generation, he relied on his own hard work for decades to achieve great achievements. And he will not be in a high position as soon as he comes up, but he will become the target of the public without the power of a chicken, and sooner or later he will be shot and killed.
"Isha, don't lie to me. ”
As if receiving some special signal, Isha's eyes flashed with a light, and then she stood in front of Ian and said, "On that day, they were the ones who should stay with your father the most, because it was your father who took them to the south. ”
"Why are you there?"
"After the winter vacation, there is a villa in the south, the sun is good, and ...... You went along. ”
Ian frowned, closing his eyes and recalling. He must now completely remove himself from the role of the previous life, not Chen Huazheng, but Ian IV, the youngest child of the Ian family.
Now he realized that the more he awakened the memories of his past life, the less he remembered this body.
Where was you before the accident?
South?
As if it were, it was indeed warm in my memory, with more towering trees, intricately designed treehouses and villas.
And empty nights.
"Like, it's really south...... But I don't remember those two people. ”
"They're strong, and if they encounter an enemy, they won't be still. ”
"But that night...... There really wasn't any movement. Ian struggled to figure it out, but didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. It was as if Ian IV had become a man from another world for no reason, and Ian in this world, along with his parents, had disappeared without a trace. Even the servants who had been following them were missing.
"I've always suspected that they were involved, but right now, I can't find them, or rather, I don't dare to look for them alone. ”
"Hmm......" Ian thought for a moment and asked again, "Can you beat them?"
"If it's just them, I'll be able to suppress them. Isha bowed slightly.
"Okay, keep this on the agenda, and we'll go out to find it in the next two weeks. ”
"Where are you going, young master, that villa has been ......"
"Go to the southern forest, where my father looked for them. Ian picked up the map of Manda and studied it carefully, connecting the location of the villa where Ian III was killed with the location of the southern forest, and began to make an itinerary.
Isha was on the side to help with the book, and everything about the elves was quickly figured out by Ian. These magical and long-lived elves were similar to what he knew, but finding them was probably not as simple as finding Isa.
At sunset, Nemesis burst into his study, holding an envelope studded with gold thread and stamped with clay seals.
Isa's eyes narrowed slightly, recognizing it as Lords' letterhead.
Ian took it, and sure enough, it was a tea party invitation. Three days later, in the afternoon, the House of Lords held a regular tea party, inviting Ian IV, Duke Hudrumman Ian, to the back garden of the Lords in the capital to participate in the tea party.
Attribution: Angel Charlie.
"Who is this?" asked Isa.
"This is the Prime Minister, you should have seen it last time. ”
Ian recalls the Lords riot, the middle-aged man sitting in the middle of the first column, with Germanic characteristics, seemingly shrewd but steady, rude but cunning in tone.
The prime minister of Manda Country, the people of the Charles family, can gain a firm foothold in the country only through political means, and it is inevitable that his family will have a share of the prime minister.
"Should I go?"
"Young master, you have to go after all, if you don't go, what you will send tomorrow may not be a letterhead. ”
"Will you come with me?"
Isha shook her head: "Your father has always gone to the tea party in the House of Lords by himself, and occasionally he will bring you, but he will not bring me and my wife." ”
"Before entering the House of Lords, Nemesis and you will be with me, and after the tea party, we will go to the two elven sisters. Suddenly, Ian changed his words: "But before that, although it is only three days, Sister Isha, can you teach me magic?"