Chapter 36 Goodbye Eddie
The mist was rising, and Feige hid his expression in it. Relying on the face of the devil, he can say anything without frowning or blushing, which is quite a powerful ability. His heart is not a devil, so when he chooses to hide something, he doesn't want to be exposed to Old Man Kiplin.
"The water vapor is so heavy, it's really hard to chat. The old man stood up: "You'd better soak for another half an hour, and at the same time think about what code name you want." Come to my room with Eddie in a moment, and I'll give you the paperwork related to the formalities. You can only keep the name Feige, and the surname Hall can only be put aside for the time being. β
Feige nodded, this can be seen clearly through the water vapor. Icecrest Fortress is not a prison, but it is still a penal colony. People who come here will lose their surnames to say goodbye to their old selves. The members here all use "Bingfeng" as their surname, and at the same time get a code name of their own mind.
For example, Old Man Kiplin, whose full name is actually "Kiplin Snow Owl Icepeak". Giles is "Giles Snowstorm Icepeak" and Kylie is "Kyle Frozen Fist Icepeak". Bingfeng is rarely used as a surname, and is only commonly found in the internal official documents of the Church of the Goddess of Truth and Thunder. When carrying out church missions, in order to avoid the destruction of the internal relationships of the team members due to the historical crimes represented by the names of the exiles, they are called code names.
The code names of Ice Peak Fortress members must be related to Ice and Rock, which can reduce the duplication of code names with other Fort members. Feige had long expected such a day, so he secretly thought of his codename: "Snowman".
Literally, the snowman is certainly not as fierce as the Snow Devil or the like, but he really wants to have a "human" in his codename, and it can be said that this "human" character is the premise of his codename. With the characteristics of a devil, he is more likely to degenerate into a devil than anyone else, and this sense of crisis makes him pay special attention to his "human" attributes.
Once the word "human" is determined, there are not many options that can be combined with it. The Iceman feels too cold, the Mountain Man has its own meaning and is not suitable for being used as a nickname, the Frost Man sounds easy to be swept away, and the Frozen Man is definitely a name only used by the villain, so it is slightly better to be a snowman.
The "snowman" soaked in the water, and the water became a little cold after a while. Eddie didn't wait for Feige to greet him, and walked in with a new bucket of hot water very voluntarily. "Young master, let me let me go a little, I'm going to pour water, don't burn it. β
"Oh, okay. Feiqi stood up directly and turned to look at Eddie: "Eddie, you must pay attention to safety on the way back, don't be reluctant to spend money, you have to ...... Huh?"
Feige had been in a meditative state, his soul taking on a flame-like state in his eyes. Eddie is a repressed, slowly and inadequately burning yellow-green flame - red men and green women, women are the color.
"Eddie, are you a woman?" Feige looked down at his non-existent outfit and immediately crouched back under the water. His voice trembled: "You...... You...... What a woman, Giles saw it when he first saw you, right?"
Eddie was holding the bucket of water, his cheeks flushed when he heard this, and he slowly lowered his head. In the middle of the night, in the mist of hot water, she nodded and admitted the incident. "My father wanted me to learn how to be a housekeeper, so he hid my gender ......"
"You...... I...... Why haven't I seen it all along...... Is it true that your age is true?" Feige looked Eddie up and down and muttered in a low voice, "The makeup skills of the TV series are too poor, and they are all cheats." There are really people who can pretend to be gender and can't tell the ......"
Eddie's body trembled slightly, and his face turned even redder: "I'm thirteen years old. It's just that I haven't dared to eat more, and I can lose weight when I'm hungry, so I can't see it......"
"Why pretend to be a man, women ...... too" Feige's question was halfway through, and he had already gotten the answer from Young Master Hall's memory. In the customs of the Principality of Aria there were no female butlers, only men.
In an aristocratic family, the duties of a steward were very important. Internally, the butler handles the affairs of the castle manor by directing the head gardener, the head maid, the head cook, the master of the stables, and others, while externally, the butler can send letters to other nobles on behalf of the earl family, do the work of ushering in the arrivals, and deal with the commoners. Very often, the butler appeared even more often than the Count himself.
Stewards are not in charge of those who have only the following duties: the count's subordinate nobles, the knights, the tax collectors, the grain officers, and the accountants. They represented the judicial, military, and financial powers, and therefore reported directly to the Count himself.
Because the housekeeper has more external affairs, in this country dominated by aristocrats and knights, male power is far stronger than female power. The aristocrats tacitly chose male butlers, so that they would not be "embarrassed" when dealing with each other.
Eddie's family has served the Hall family for generations, and Eddie, her father's only child, will most likely not be able to continue working in the position of housekeeper. But it's a pretty good job. Under the protection of the earl, his social status is not low, his income is quite good, and he does not have to go to the battlefield to risk or work hard to cultivate the land. Feige could understand Eddie's father's thoughts, but didn't understand that it really worked.
"Do you want to be the housekeeper of the family? You know you're going to find out sooner or later. β
"I know. It's impossible to be the housekeeper of the family, maybe it's a cousin of mine, or maybe someone else I don't know. Eddie put down the bucket, bowed his head and said, "My father wants me to learn some housekeeping skills and then marry a future housekeeper......"
"I remember you've been with me since you were seven years old, and you've had this kind of plan since then?"
"No......" Eddie just said no, and didn't want to say it later. Fei Qi leaned over, leaned on the edge of the bathtub, and asked vigorously before she said, "At that time, young master, you were still a very powerful young genius alchemist, and you had a great future. The Lord told my father that he wanted his two titles to be separated, with the Templars giving the eldest young master and the title of Royal Count leaving to you. I was sent after that. β
"My Father...... Does the Count know you're a woman?"
Eddie shook his head: "I don't know. I don't know what would have happened if he found out, but it certainly wouldn't have been as calm as it is now. β
"Okay, don't worry, I won't tell you your secretβas long as you help me pour the hot water first. Feige reached out and lifted the hot tub with Eddie, pouring it into the tub. He shivered from the heat and took the opportunity to make a grimace to amuse Eddie.
"Eddie, I didn't know you were a girl before, and I didn't shy away from you for all kinds of inappropriate things, don't be angry......! Why should I apologize to you?"
Eddie finally stopped putting his head down, and instead covered his mouth with his hands and snickered blatantly in front of Feige. Feige kept this expression in her mind and placed it on top of the memories of Eddie.
"My life is like this, I can only come to the Ice Peak Fortress to be exiled, I really missed a lot, and I made a lot of mistakes. Feige confessed to Eddie, "You took good care of me, even when I was the most asshole, and I won't forget that." After you go back, if this matter is found out and it leads to a bad situation, or if you encounter difficulties and problems, please remember that I am still in the Ice Peak Fortress, and you can and please come to me. Ah, maybe I'll need a housekeeper in the future, and I only look at ability, so I don't care if you're a man or a woman. β
Eddie blinked. She deliberately starved herself, causing her cheeks to be thin, so that her eyeballs appeared a little large, and she always felt unsteady when she blinked. But the meaning in her eyes was clear: Lie to me, right?
Fei Qi sighed: "It's not good to be hungry, it's not good, it will affect your health for the rest of your life." I...... I can only advise you, but you have to go your own way. Oh, knowing you're a woman, then please let me take a shower myself. In my room, there is a letter pressed on the bedside, which was just written yesterday, and you helped me carry it to my parents. β
Eddie nodded, waved his hand at Feige, and slowly withdrew. "Wait a minute. You can take a look at that letter, it is full of apologies and blessings, and it doesn't say that you are a girl. I'll keep your secret, unless you want to regain your identity as a girl and regain control of your own destiny. β
"Thank you, I believe in you. β
"No, I don't believe in myself! You'd better read it! I didn't close the letter, I was going to ask you for help to see if there were any mistakes. Hey, you're walking so fast, didn't you hear a squeak?"
Feige used all his senses, and he didn't hear a "squeak". He knew, though, that Eddie had agreed. Eddie is a woman?Feige sat in a basin of water, trying to digest this astonishing piece of information. He rummaged through his memory bank, figuring out what was not suitable for a girl to do, and what happened to him in front of Eddie.
I don't know if I don't look for it, and I'm shocked when I look for it. Eddie had been with him since he was seven years old, apprentices, attendants, most trusted stewards, and last servant, and there were things that Eddie didn't know about. If Eddie wants to write a book to make money one day, it is absolutely no problem to directly use his various black histories to string together a book "Playing with Pants and Two Less". (You really have this book, so it's an intentional typo)
But Eddie finally had to leave, leaving the penal colony of Icepeak Fortress and returning to the Earl's manor castle. Whether or not her identity will be revealed, Feige only wants her to be safe, happy, and happy.
Feige leaves the tub, wipes himself clean, and changes into his usual thick clothes. After taking a bath, even if the enhancement ceremony has gone through the whole process, his identity has been washed away from then on. From now on, the title "Master Hall" belongs only to the person in the mirror, and "Feige Snowman Icepeak" is his new name.
On this day, Feige has to say goodbye to many things, the surname is one, Eddie is one, and of course, Feige's parents. The stubborn Feige Hale of the past would never have written to Earl Hall and the Countess, but the current Feige Snowman is not so jerky.
Through memory alone, it is impossible for Yan Rui to bring Count Hall and his wife into the emotional position of his "parents", and it is estimated that it will never be, but this does not mean that he cannot distinguish between good and bad. Even if he was exiled and cut off from the family from then on, Count Hall was still paying for him by sending money and manor. This incident was experienced by Yan Rui himself, and it was impossible for him to remain indifferent.
So, he wrote a letter as Feige Hall, which was not only a farewell, but also an implicit apology and a promise of rehabilitation, which was something that a son should do for the man locked up in the mirror.
With this, he was able to stand calmly beside the old man Kiplin, and to the emblem of the goddess, he declared that he would abide by the rules and regulations of the guardians of the Eagle School of the Ice Peak Fortress, and become an official member of the place, a monster hunter who casts spells.