The time entered April, and on the fifth day after the wedding of Art and Lottie, as Baron Galvin and a group of relatives and friends left the valley to return to Sapp, the valley wooden castle that had been lively for half a month finally quieted down.

That morning, Art, who had been busy for nearly a month, had a rare sleep, and it was not until Lottie's maid Ollie knocked on the bedroom door and brought the sumptuous breakfast to the wooden table in the bedroom that Art opened her sleepy eyes.

And Lottie, who was a new wife, had already gotten up and wrote and drew on the table next to the wooden bed.

Art motioned for Ollie to put down her breakfast and retreat, then got up and put on her clothes, walked behind Lottie and squeezed her shoulder, and asked, "What are you writing about, dear?"

Lottie, who was very well written, put down the quill pen, turned her head to look up at Art, who had just woken up, the corners of her mouth rose, and replied, "My dear, I am calculating the money and supplies for the wedding. This piece of paper is the list of materials sent by Uncle Cooper this morning, I calculated it, plus the materials that my father brought from Sapp to prepare for the wedding, we have consumed nearly 30,000 pfennigh in half a month. ”

Then Lottie picked up another list of gifts, and said: "The list of gifts brought by the guests who came to the wedding has also come out, in addition to the wide range of pearls, agate and other jewelry, which can only be roughly estimated, and its cloth, wine, velvet, gold and silver utensils and agricultural tools and materials can be roughly worth fifteen thousand fennig, in addition, Uncle Cooper said that the Baron Antayas and the Viscount Pierre also gave a batch of weapons and equipment and a military horse, these things were directly assigned to the army, I did not calculate."

Art took the two lists in Lottie's hand, the cost of the wedding exceeded his budget, because there are frequent wars everywhere, and most of the items needed for the wedding are more luxurious materials, so the cost of the caravan to go out to buy is much exceeded, and Baron Galvin also brought a lot of materials from Sapp in order to reduce Art's burden. The guests who came to the wedding had eaten and drunk well, and after the wedding, the two of them were heartbroken and had their money spent.

However, looking at the gifts brought by the guests on the other list, Arte's heavy and complicated mind relaxed a lot. With the exception of Earl Balwin, the vice-chancellor of the court, who only symbolically presented a beautiful dagger, the rest of the invited guests came to the valley with rich gifts. Bishop Orlov sent Knight William, Bishop of Orlov's personal bodyguard, to bring Art six velvets, six raw silks, four fine brocade robes, and two sets of finely made silver cutlery, all of which together were worth nearly four thousand pfennigs; Then there were gifts from Baron Antayas, who brought him a ploughing ox, ten sheep, a military horse, and several pieces of weapon armor (cotton armor), and the Knight Chloe brought him five pigs, six hundred pounds of husked wheat, and a barrel helmet made of fine iron. Viscount Helice of Gerau in the east brought Artist cloth and jewels worth five hundred pfennigs, while Viscount Pierre of Tignets brought five broadswords, ten tomahawk hammers and chains, two infantry bows, two pairs of cotton armor, five suits of armed clothing, and six hundred pfennies as a gift, knowing that Viscount Pierre had given him these weapons and armor to remind Art not to forget his mission to eradicate bandits and maintain law and order. As for the gifts given by the guests who came to the valley from Sap to attend the wedding, Art did not take a closer look at them all, from cooking utensils, iron pots to emerald agate, and even a small squire of Sap gave Art an elderly herdsman......

Art put down two pieces of parchment, stroked Lottie's forehead, and said, "Lottie, thank you for your hard work." As you can see, my knighthood is more of a ruined slum than the rich Sappburg, and you will have to suffer with me in the future. ”

Lottie raised her hand and held Art's palm, and said, "My dear husband, what I pay for life is not money and wealth, when I fell in love with you at first sight, you were just a civilian patrolman, when I married you, you were already a knight with titles and territories, and I married a hard-working and tenacious heart." My father was rich, but he was so obsessed with money and wealth that he lost a brave heart, so I vowed to marry a true warrior, and I think my vow was fulfilled. ”

Rao is a two-life person, and Arte was also moved by Lottie's words, how could a noble only daughter like Lottie, who was born in a famous family and had countless family fortunes, be able to settle in Art's fate if she hadn't been married for a long time because she was "too old".

"Walk with one heart, and the two will not lose each other~" Art stroked Lottie's hair, and inadvertently whispered a lame sentence.

"What did you say, dear?" Lottie didn't understand what Art was saying affectionately.

Aware of the loss, Art changed his words: "It's nothing, I said thank you for trusting me."

"By the way, I still want to discuss something with you......" Art sat down to discuss something that Lottie had been thinking about for a long time.

"Let me go to school and teach the children?" Lottie listened to Art's words and felt incredulous. As a man born and raised in Sri Lanka, Lottie never imagined that secular women could go to church schools to teach children.

Lottie has been coming to the wooden castle for more than half a month, she knows that there is a parish school next to the chapel of the wooden castle, Art told others that it is a church school that Father Hamish took the initiative to set up, specializing in teaching a group of orphans rescued from outside, these school apprentices also served as a choir at the wedding, but now Art told Lottie that this group of orphans was actually specially recruited by him from outside, and they did not only receive theological education, but also literature, medical skills and even military training are the learning content of these apprentices, Now Art wants Lottie to teach the children business arithmetic...... The impact of these on Lottie's mind was too great, and she couldn't accept it for a while.

Art knew that Lottie, who had lived at the top since she was a child and had received a traditional education, was different from Cooper Otto and others, and that they would instinctively reject new things that were not universally recognized.

"Lottie, think about it, why is it bad that I let these orphans receive comprehensive training from an early age, so that when they grow up, they can serve God as clergy, they can also become learned scholars, and even those brave children can become commanders of armies, expelling demons and defending their homes. God created man to build a beautiful and peaceful Garden of Eden, and these children with the knowledge and skills of Confucius and courage have both the most devout faith in God and the power to benefit the world and defend justice. ”

"Honey, this~" Lottie couldn't refute it for a while, but she always felt that it was inappropriate.

Art also knew that this kind of thing was in a hurry, so he no longer tried to persuade Lottie with great reason, "Lottie, think about it, you have learned a lot of knowledge since you were a child with your father, especially with him learned a lot of arithmetic skills necessary for business, and you can't do business like that, wouldn't it be a pity if these skills can't be taught to others?" Besides, you're willing to sit in the inner house all day like you used to? You don't want to find yourself a place to have fun? ”

Arte's words reached Lottie's heart, and before she got married, her parents locked her in the inner house all day and didn't let her go out. And now that her husband has given her a job that can not only get out of the inner house, but also share the heavy responsibilities for her husband, Lottie is a little moved.

"But~But let a secular woman teach the church apprentices~this~" Lottie was still a little worried.

Art patted Lottie lightly on the shoulder and affirmed, "It's okay, I don't dare to say it elsewhere, but here, anything is possible!" And in the future, as my wife, the mistress of this territory, you can manage all the internal affairs as long as you wish. ”

Lottie was even more surprised, and asked with wide eyes, "Can I still manage the territory?"

"yes, why not? Uh, but I'm talking about territorial housekeeping~"

"For example?" Lottie became interested in Arte's proposal.

"Well, for example, to manage the marriages of the lords, to take care of my inner house accounts, to manage the three shops that your father gave me, to assist Cooper in managing taxes, to audit the accounts, and to pay the monthly salaries of the civil stewards......"

Lottie blinked, stared at Art and smiled, "You're just asking me to be Uncle Cooper's assistant?" It's good for you to marry a wife who will be your subordinate for free......"

The corners of Art's mouth lifted slightly, and he smiled knowingly.

Lottie tapped Yat on the shoulder and said, "I'll tell you one thing, there is still a lot of food left over from this wedding banquet, I want to take the uneaten food of those guests to the grain and distribute it to the people, many of them were unable to attend this wedding, I think we should share it with them......"

In order to make room for the guests, and to hide the strength of his territory, Art only allowed a few representatives of the lords to attend the banquet, and most of the others were forbidden to leave the valley, so they had not been able to share in the joyful atmosphere of their lord's wedding celebration. Lottie, who is now the hostess, can consider distributing food to the people, and Art agrees, of course, so as to win the hearts of the people and establish the image of the hostess's kindness and kindness.

"Of course, I agree with it, and I'll ask Cooper to arrange for us to go to the valley in the afternoon to share food with the people."

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