Chapter 347: Becoming Neighbors with the Queen
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Diana flashed her big blue eyes and said to Jin Muchen with a smile, her smile was full of cunning.
Jin Muchen snapped his fingers directly: "OK!" I agree! ”
Isn't it just renting an ancient castle? There is such a beautiful senior female companion to sleep, what could be more cost-effective than this, the key is that this woman really looks too much like the late princess, whenever Jin Muchen overrides her, there will always be a strange sense of conquest.
In these years, even if you find a senior stand-in, people may not be willing to do this, and even if people are willing to do this, there may not be this girl, this is bold......
In the afternoon of the same day, Jin Muchen left the room, asked Diana to go back and pack up a little, and simply packed his luggage, and at the same time packed the red sandalwood cabinet into his space, went out to rent a car, and then drove Diana all the way north.
After Hadrian's Wall, the boundary between England and Scotland, the weather cleared.
You must know that in the past few days in London, except for rain, it is cloudy, but Jin Muchen is very annoyed, and when he arrives in Scotland, the sky immediately begins to clear, which makes Jin Muchen's mood naturally much better.
This nature is really amazing, just crossing such a dividing line, it is as if you have entered another world.
Even though it's November and it's close to December, the scenery in Scotland is much better than in England.
The sky was sunny, although the temperature was still relatively low. But the mountains, the green grass, and the cattle and sheep in the distance. It looks very eye-catching, and in such an environment, even if you are depressed, you will immediately get better.
"This is your castle?"
Jin Muchen stood in front of this house known as a castle and asked, the 'castle' in front of him was really too unexpected for him, looking at the shape is indeed the shape of a castle, but if you talk about the area. But it is about the same as an ordinary country house, with an area of about five or six hundred square meters, and there is no yard in front and back. It's a jagged green meadow.
The villa is located on a raised hill, and from here you can see from afar, except for the mountains, there are meadows and cattle and sheep. Then you can see the other side. Another imposing manor about a mile away.
Looking at the manor over there, it is called a castle, which covers a much larger area than this castle, and the architectural momentum is also extraordinarily magnificent.
If you look at the castle in front of you, don't mention how shabby it is.
It's no wonder that after Jin Muchen got out of the car, he would ask such a question, indeed the castle in front of him. It's really too far from what he imagined.
"How else? The daily rent is only 500 pounds, what kind of castle do you think you can rent? ”
Diana, who got out of the car from the other side, rolled her eyes and said. Although she had a hint of lazy and chic style on her face at this time, the only feeling in Jin Muchen's heart at this time was: grass, she was deceived.
This 'castle' is an ancestral house that Diana's great-grandfather, the Duke of Kent, received from George V when the family was divided.
However, the 'ancestral house' shared with other brothers and sisters is much shabby, this 'castle' has a flat-bottom construction area, about 500 square meters, four stories high, and there are towers at the four corners, the main body is a granite structure building, which is very solid and solid.
There is also a large yard of about 1,000 square meters near the takeout, but now it is in the hands of Diana, and she rarely comes to live here on weekdays, so the courtyard outside has not been rested for a long time.
"This damn house, every year just for maintenance, the cost of cleaning is a lot of money, and the biggest headache for me every year is the property tax of this castle, although I usually rent it out, but I can't make much money by relying on these."
Jin Muchen carried the luggage of the two, followed Diana, and entered the castle, and Diana complained all the way.
"Then why don't you sell this castle? Now there are many rich people in the United States, all of whom are very good, and they like to buy such European castles to pretend to be emotional. ”
Entering the gate, the whole room seems a little dark and cramped, after all, this is a whole building, and when it was built, it was more considered as an avant-garde outpost of the big castle a mile away, so it paid more attention to the defensive function, so the lighting was not very good.
Before Diana brought Jin Muchen again, she had already found someone to clean the place, but even so, after entering the house, Jin Muchen still felt that the lighting here was very dim.
The house has undergone modern modifications and has been electrified, but because of the decline of the Duke of Kent family in recent years, these so-called modern modifications have only stopped at the modernization of the fifties and sixties of the last century.
"Do you think I don't want to, sell it? But the people of the royal family disagreed, and you saw the castle in the distance, right? The castle belonged to my aunt's house, the famous Balmer Castle, where Her Majesty and her family liked to come in the summer. ”
It turns out that this is the case, Jin Muchen seems to understand something, the queen's castle in this castle is too close, presumably Her Majesty the queen definitely doesn't like those cats and dogs who don't know the bottom to be their neighbors.
Even if Diana really wants to sell this castle, there must be a lot of small moves on the royal side, so that she can't make this deal.
Anyway, it won't let you sell it, and the royal family doesn't want to take back this castle, after all, taking back here means that a lot of property taxes have to be paid, as for the Duke of Kent, how to solve the tax problem of this castle, that is the Duke of Kent's business.
No wonder Diana was so reluctant to mention her aunt and grandmother, it turned out that she also had a grudge against Her Majesty in her heart!
"That's it, you can choose the room, this is the famous Carisbrook Castle."
Diana took Jin Muchen up to the third floor, which was full of bedrooms, and all of them were empty, she pointed to those rooms and said to Jin Muchen.
And Jin Muchen looked at her and smiled a little obscenely: "I live here, what about you?" ”
"Me? Of course I stayed upstairs, where is the location of the master room. But where I sleep at night depends on my mood. ”
Diana's answer was very cunning, and Jin Muchen also smiled, and the two of them had a heart.
Although the castle was not small, there were no servants, so the two had to do everything on their own, such as dinner, which was the steak that Diana cooked herself.
Not to mention, her craftsmanship is really good, although it is a simple steak, but the portion is sufficient, and the fried is very tender, the medium-rare steak, although it looks a little bloody, but not fishy, but also very full, the most important thing is that it can provide enough heat in this cold and wet winter.
After dinner, the two of them came to the stove in the large living room on the first floor with two glasses of red wine, lit the fireplace, watched TV for a while, and then started doing what they loved on the white wool carpet in front of the fireplace.
Maybe the steak at night is more supplemental, or maybe it's because here, don't worry about anyone complaining, so the two of them are very open this time.
Jin Muchen did his best to bring the power of China's heavy @ cannon to the extreme, and Diana also showed amazing flexibility and made various jaw-dropping movements and shapes.
It's a pity that she couldn't overcome the rigidity with softness in the end, and the Chinese heavy artillery finally blasted the British cows into a puddle of mud......
The next day, the two slept until three o'clock in the morning before getting up, Diana prepared two simple English breakfasts, and then took Jin Muchen up and down the castle to observe.
Then he found two shotguns from a room downstairs, plus two hunting outfits.
"Let's go, I've asked Terry and them to wait for us on the other side of Hampton Lake with their hounds, we can drive over there, change into horses over there, and let you experience the fun of hunting for the English nobles today."
"So what are you waiting for?"
Jin Muchen was excited when he heard it, this is a good time to hunt foxes and shoot wild ducks, the hunting grounds on the other side of Hampton Lake belong to the private property of the royal family, so hunting is not restricted by the British government.
As for Terry or something, it's the steward of the royal hunting grounds.
The two changed their equipment, and then went straight to the Hampton Lakes hunting ground thirty miles away, where Jin Muchen deeply experienced the fun of hunting by British nobles.
Dressed in a heavy woolen hunting suit, with a single-barreled shotgun in his hand, he was followed by a small man carrying a pot with water and bullets, and in front of him a group of hunting dogs, rushing into the bushes to help chase wild ducks and foxes.
He and Diana followed behind and fired a few shots from time to time, this Nima is really interesting, but compared to those landlords in China, who only hide in the pit at home and count the silver, burying the silver is much more interesting, and the British nobles will really enjoy it.
After playing for an afternoon, the two left the hunting ground with simple prey and rushed to the castle.
As soon as he arrived at the door of his house, he saw a convoy of trains coming in the distance, and the sky was already dark, but Jin Muchen could still see a series of Rolls-Royces coming over on the country road, Nima, which local tyrant is this, a convoy of more than a dozen Rolls-Royces, this is amazing.
The convoy flashed past their little castle and headed straight for the big castle behind.
"Hehe, you're lucky, it seems that my aunt and their family have come over for a vacation."
"You mean, the convoy is Her Majesty and her family?"
"It should be! I heard that my cousin's daughter was about to turn one year old, so the whole family came here to take a family photo! ”
Damn, this accident, I actually became a neighbor with the queen! (To be continued......)