Marianne declined Pedoro's invitation and took her companion to a rental steam car.

After getting on the train, Lily reported the address, and the steam car slowly started, leaving the train station in the suburbs, and heading towards the inner city.

The majestic obelisk can be seen from the window of the steam engine from afar, and the reason why Rand became the capital of Castile is probably located in the middle of the southern region, and the transportation is convenient.

The rand's obelisk is significantly taller than the obelisk in Port Mousse, and although it is still not as good as the first obelisk on the mainland in the imperial capital, it is not far behind.

The streets of the inner city of Rand are wide and straight, dividing each block into small squares, and the houses along the streets are exactly the same square, multi-storey brick buildings.

More than 80 years ago, Rand bulldozed the inner city to rebuild, built the first boxy brick buildings in the empire, and the first batch of cement roads that could not be pressed into ruts, sweeping away the chaotic small streets and alleys of the past, and became the most neat city at that time.

Some people think that this kind of orderly planning is a beauty, while others think that such a city has no personality.

There is a legend that the city plan of the Rand was made by the great inventor Lee Baptiste, but he did not admit it himself, after all, his political position was closer to the royal family of the imperial capital.

The steam car arrived at its destination, an inconspicuous five-story brick building with no yard and three gates along the street, which should have been owned by three households, and the interior was separated, each occupying a third.

The luggage for five people was simple, and Jacques unloaded several boxes with the help of the driver, most of which were Marianne's belongings.

Lily knocked on the door, followed by the other girls, leaving Jacques to guard the roadside's luggage.

The servant opened the door, said a few words to Lily, and then turned and went in to inform his master.

Jacques was bored on the side of the road, a steam cart drove in front of him, stopped not far ahead, the door opened, and a fair woman swayed her waist and got out of the car. The door next door opened suddenly, and a group of people poured out, hugging each other, shouting and asking for warmth, taking luggage, and opening the road ahead, busy and happy.

Important, hehe, but Jacques recognized the woman as the one who was in the same car with them, and changed seats because of Fat Orange.

There was a lot of noise next door, and now Lily's uncle, Dan Naselli, came out to greet her.

When they entered the house, the luggage was left to the servants to carry it.

As Dan Naselli arrives in the living room, Jacques discovers that Lily's father, Mr. Naselli, is not there, and asks Lily in a low voice to find out that Mr. Naselli is teaching little Kay in the underground training room, and the two will arrive later.

Everyone sat down, Marianne next to Lily, Alyssa and Emma on the side, and Jacques quietly in the corner.

Dan Naselli was only a few years older than Lily's father, but the Shaper had not broken through the Grandmaster, and looked even older, as if he was a dozen or twenty years older than his brother.

Jacques had long known that although the old gentleman inherited the title of Count of Naseri, he did not inherit much land, and even the Fabian family as a viscount was not as good, and the Fabian family occupied half of a town, which was really a fertile land.

Probably because they had gone through many separations, the Naseri's land was also divided many times, which was a common problem of the great nobles who liked to marry, and they could not support their important heirs, and it was difficult to abide by the tradition of inheriting the land with the title.

For example, the youngest son who does not inherit the title marries the daughter of another earl, for both parties, this marriage is a symbol of the alliance between the two parties, and it is a common operation to set aside thousands of acres of land for each couple to give to the couple, after all, in those years, there was no other property other than land that could bring long-term benefits.

That is, in recent decades, commerce and industry have developed, and the income of some factories far exceeds the harvest of land, and even some rental apartments or shops in good locations will be higher than the income of 1,000 acres of land, and some big aristocrats have begun to use these industries to replace land to give divisions.

The fief of Count Dan Naselli, more than 200 li's miles from the Rand, was now administered by his son, who had only recently retired as a high-ranking official in the Ministry of the Interior due to his former service in the Castilian government, and who had contributed more to the family by sitting in Rand than by retiring in the countryside.

The Count was very enthusiastic about Lily, and according to him, Lily was her favorite niece, and she was naturally happy to be lost, and if she had not learned from Mr. Naselli that she had survived the explosion, she would have cried tears of joy and tears.

However, Count Dan Naselli didn't give Jacques any good faces, and Lily only nodded when she introduced her, but she was very enthusiastic about Alyssia, and it seemed that she was also an old acquaintance with Lord Astori.

Of course, Jacques knew why the Count didn't treat him well, but he didn't believe that Robert was responsible for the explosion at that time, thinking that Jacques took the opportunity to rescue Lily and cheated his niece away and ruined a marriage, otherwise the Naselli family would be Shousuke's in-laws!

The other point has nothing to do with Robert, even if Lily can't marry Robert, she is also a member of the Nasrid family, when will it be the turn of the nobles to make their own decisions? Lily is so good, less than twenty-five years old, the peak of the plastic, what is the difficulty of finding a family with the right family?

Of course, these were the thoughts of the Count of Naselli himself, and in his opinion, everyone in the family should have the best interests of the family as their highest purpose.

His younger brother, Lily's father, fled to the New World, and returned to his hometown when he was almost forty years old and became a grandmaster. It was precisely because the younger brother became a grandmaster that their father was not good at speaking, so he was allowed to marry a commoner woman.

However, since he has not contributed to the family, the family does not support him much, and the Transcendent Guild, which has been in Musai Port for more than 20 years, is not allowed to be promoted.

For his niece, Count Naselli has high hopes, especially when he heard that the only son of her and Count Baptiste is a childhood sweetheart, and what he didn't expect was that little Robert soared into the sky, first made a train and railroad company, and then served as an auxiliary minister, in charge of finance.

By this time, the earl had already begun to worry, his niece marrying the earl's son was a good match, and marrying one of the four major auxiliary governments was obviously high, so he used his energy to push the two families to get married as soon as possible, but he didn't expect the niece herself to be delaying again and again.

Then came the unexpected explosion, where Shousuke died, and Robert took the opportunity to become the new Shousuke.

The Count cried quietly several times over his niece's fate, and regretted that the Nasrid family had lost the opportunity to soar.

Until a year ago, my younger brother resigned as the head of the guild and defected to him with a little girl of unknown origin. After many inquiries, the younger brother told the truth, and the niece actually escaped in the explosion, but he thought that Robert was the culprit of the explosion, and did not dare to show his face and left the New World.

Not to mention how Lord Shoufu could be the mastermind behind that explosion, he would rather not know the news! What's even more infuriating is that the younger brother also said that his niece has found his own happiness, and the boy is not only a commoner, but also her apprentice!

In terms of transcendentals, the age difference is a few years, on the surface, the difference is not big, and the marriage between master and apprentice is not a big deal, but the earl didn't expect that how the niece, who has always been well-behaved, would choose another commoner like his younger brother!

I really regret that I didn't make up my mind to take my niece to my side to cultivate earlier, it seems that I was greatly influenced by my younger brother, and I didn't have the consciousness of the nobility at all.

Count Naselli didn't expect that his niece, who was said to be still in the New World, would suddenly appear at the door of his house today, and he would still take that kid with him, except for his appearance, he was mediocre and very annoying!

Jacques knew that he was not welcomed, and had hid in a corner, but he did not know that the Count thought of him in this way.

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