"Michelle, you're not good again, don't be naughty!"

Saxon reprimanded.

"Michelle is a good child, not naughty!" The little girl was aggrieved and pursed her lips.

"Don't say it's naughty, who went to the emperor's uncle's mansion a few days ago, and actually threw off all the guards and secretly ran to the next room? It hurt that Uncle Huang almost didn't turn the entire mansion over! ”

Saxon frowned.

The child didn't understand the worry behind the adult's reprimand, Michelle saw the Saxon's face, and immediately buried her head in Lin An's chest, and her two little hands were clenched into fists and put away, as if she could hide in a place where the Saxon couldn't see, so that she wouldn't be beaten in the palm of her hand.

may be because Lin An was present, she felt that there was a backstage, and she retorted in a milky voice:

"Michelle didn't run away, she went there to play with the children, she kept calling me!"

"You're lying again! Who taught you to learn to lie! Saxon got angry, "You don't know anyone at all, and there are no children in the Imperial Uncle's Mansion, where are the children!" ”

Speaking of the back, he slowly lowered his anger.

He remembered that Michelle had lived in the deep palace for a long time, and there were almost no playmates of the same age, and they were more or less busy with military affairs, and more or less ignored this child, Michelle would do this, maybe she just instinctively wanted to attract the attention of adults.

In the end, it was his brother who ignored her.

But Lin An didn't think so.

She sensed that Michelle was not lying, she was telling the truth.

Thinking of Michelle's words just now, Lin Anxin was touched, touched the little guy's head, straightened the little head buried in his arms, and asked seriously:

"Michelle, did you really hear someone calling you?"

The little guy may have been wronged badly in the past few days, his eyes were red next to him, and he was crying, it was rare for someone to believe her words, his eyes lit up, and his little head was about to fall off:

"Really, someone really called me!"

She stood up, grabbed Lin An's robe, puffed out her little face, and dragged Lin An like an old ox pulling a cart, "Teacher, I'll take you to her!" ”

Lin An stood up obediently and picked up the little guy, "Okay, the teacher will take you to your imperial uncle's mansion to find her." ”

Saxon was puzzled, but the emperor had been paying attention to Lin An's expression, saw something, and waved his hand, "You go with them." ”

At the same time, Lin An also happened to turn around and nodded to them, looking at the same meaning as the emperor.

Saxon's heart lifted up at once.

It was about Michelle, and his general style of helping the epidemic disappeared immediately, and he said goodbye to the emperor, and immediately followed Lin An and Michelle with his heart.

It took most of the magic from the Imperial Palace to the Five Princes' Mansion.

Due to the presence of guards in front of the station, York Yadan had already learned the news of their visit, and waited outside the main gate to greet them, and there was nothing unusual when they saw Lin An.

Lin An knew that although Yokoyadan was connected to the Tower of Doran, he was not a disciple of the Tower of Doran's inheritance and was not on the list of the Soul Contract, so he should still know nothing about the recent movements of the Hidden Inheritance.

I don't know if it was intended to show his familiarity with Lin An in the Saxon face, Yokjaran did not use the set of the social occasion, and directly omitted the honorific title, and asked:

"When did you come back, I didn't hear anything about it."

"Afternoon has just arrived, and it's not even two magic hours."

"Looks like you're not here to catch up with me, what's wrong?" York Yadan glanced at the little guy in Lin An's arms, and stretched out his hand gentlemanly and said, "I'll hug Michelle." ”

"I'll do it anyway."

The Saxons also reached out.

"Humph!"

Michelle remembered that he had wronged herself, and her little body twisted and threw herself into Yokjadan's arms.

Yokjaran didn't expect the little guy to give face so much, flattered, kissed the tender face of the little thing, put his hand under the little guy's armpit, and threw it high.

Michelle giggled all the way, her face was crimson, and when she entered the main building, she almost forgot the purpose of her trip.

Lin An had to interrupt the family fun of the two uncles and nephews, seeing that Michelle was hiccuping with laughter, he took her over, patted her back gently, and waited for Michelle to calm down for a while before asking:

"Michelle, did you hear anyone call you this time?"

Yokyadan was surprised, but he didn't say anything, the smile on his face faded a lot, and he looked at Lin An's master and apprentice with the same concern as the Saxons.

"No more!" Michelle also remembered her little friend, biting her fingers and tilting her head in confusion, "Why didn't she look for me?" ”

"Where did you find Michelle last time?" Lin An asked Yorkiadan, "Did you find anything?" ”

On the way here, Lin An had already induced a lot of situations, knowing that the last time Michelle was playing near the main building, she heard a faint call, so she followed the sound to find it.

A three-year-old child, whose ability to express himself to Michelle's level is already quite organized, Lin An couldn't ask Michelle to describe it in more detail, so he simply asked the owner of the mansion directly.

"I searched it on the spot, not to mention the lower room, and I couldn't find any children in the entire mansion." Yokyadan Road.

Michelle's disappearance caused a lot of noise, and it was not an exaggeration for Saxon to say that York-Artan had almost turned the mansion upside down.

Lin An also expected this result, if he found something abnormal, the Saxon would not always think that Michelle was lying.

"Then let's go see for ourselves."

Naturally, Yorkiadan had no objections.

He could see that Lin An was not here to trouble him, so he naturally cooperated, and called the housekeeper of the Prince's Mansion and asked him to gather all the servants in the mansion in the main courtyard to facilitate Lin An's inquiry.

The lower room is located in the west of the Prince's Mansion, separated from the back garden by a wall, and there is a small door to communicate with the Prince's Mansion.

Strictly speaking, this is no longer the scope of the Prince's Mansion, but the place where the hereditary servants of the Prince's Mansion live.

Because Yokjartan had been deeply favored and popular for more than ten years, the number of servants in his mansion was naturally very large, occupying nearly two streets, which was a symbol of power in an aristocratic district where every inch of land was valuable.

Although it is also a noble district, the place where the servants live cannot be compared with the aristocratic mansion, but it is also clean and clean, and the clothes on the people who enter and leave are much neater than most of the people in the civilian area, and there are almost no people with yellow faces and thin muscles who cannot eat enough.

The butler was gathering the servants, and the people were in a little hurry, but it was evident that they had been taught strict etiquette, and their every move seemed to have been measured by a ruler, and no matter how fast the lower body walked, the upper body was straight, and it seemed full of energy, without the slightest bit of depression.

Everyone recognized the owner of Yokjardan, and when they saw him appear with the crown prince, they all stood upright against the wall and bowed their heads.

After going back and forth in the alleyway of the lower room, Michelle never sensed it, and the group returned to the main courtyard, and the servants were already neatly arranged under the command of the butler.

Seeing them coming, a middle-aged butler in a black tuxedo came over, saluted the Saxon siblings and Lin An, and reported softly to Yorkyardan:

"Master, all the servants and family members are here, not including the guards and private soldiers, three hundred and seventy-two men in all, one hundred and ninety-seven males and one hundred and seventy-five females."

In the courtyard, the servants stood in eight columns, men and women.

The men wore linen shirts, black waistcoats, and black trousers, and the maids wore white aprons over their black skirts, which were the most common clothes worn by servants in aristocratic mansions.

"As a servant of the world, the people of my Earl's Court are far inferior to you." Lin An praised.

The servant is the face of the aristocracy, the most intuitive reflection of the spiritual outlook of a mansion, although Yorkyadan seems to have lost the battle for the throne, but as long as you have seen him as a subordinate of the house, you know that he is not completely down.

"The awards are all due to Jims." Yokyadan Road.

His butler stood aside with a straight face, and when he heard the praise, he only bowed.

Michelle still didn't feel it, Lin An thought about it, and asked Jims Butler: "In addition to the guest accident, are there any other outsiders who usually enter the mansion?" ”

"Yes."

The butler, who was well aware of the affairs of the mansion, glanced at Yorkyardan, who nodded, and replied scrupulously:

"There are trucks delivering food at the back door every three days, and usually, they use the produce of an out-of-town estate. However, if you come to the house on a temporary basis, you may need fresh ingredients at the same time, so you may be able to replenish fresh ingredients from the market on the day. ”

"And what about the day Michelle came?"

The butler said: "I remember that on the day of Her Royal Highness's arrival, the host changed the menu set the day before to a seafood meal, and the back kitchen was temporarily supplemented with sea bass, Sisilili lobster and gooseneck barnacles, so there used to be trucks transporting seafood. ”

Lin Anxin was overjoyed, and said quietly: "Which chamber of commerce is the person transporting the goods, is it a woman?" ”

Steward Jims didn't know.

Usually, the butlers of the aristocratic mansions are divided into internal and external butlers.

Jims is the external butler, the prime minister of the overall situation, and also manages the male servant and the guards in the house, and the housekeeper is usually responsible for the internal housekeeper such as managing the maid and the kitchen purchase, etc., and the Jims housekeeper can know the general situation in the house and is already very dutiful.

He summoned Mrs. Manila, the housekeeper of the prince's palace, and after asking, he replied to Lin An in surprise:

"Yes, Your Excellency, said Lady Manila, because there was not much seafood to be bought that day, and the seafood was delivered by two women in wooden barrels, and it seems that they should not be employees of the Chamber of Commerce, but temporary handymen."

Considering the cost of running a chamber of commerce, temporary workers are paid much less than permanent employees, and no matter how wealthy they are, they will hire temporary workers.

The seafood of the day was delivered to the back door, and after the handover, it was delivered to the back kitchen by the subordinates of the prince's mansion, and unidentified people were not allowed to enter the mansion casually, so the chamber of commerce did not attract much attention to the handyman to deliver it.

The butler inquired about several servants in the back kitchen, and only then did someone remember that the seafood had been delivered to the back kitchen that day, just before the York-Artan Mansion searched for Michelle's whereabouts.

"That's right."

Lin An verified what he thought in his heart, and there was a feeling that the stone had fallen to the ground, and said lightly, "Find those two temporary workers and bring them together - be careful, don't intimidate them, there should be a pregnant woman among them." ”

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