Chapter 565: A little bit of catching up
Ask, of all the forces in the world,
What is the simplest and most complex power that all people can acquire?
If I had to answer it - it should be 'economic'.
To put it bluntly, it's money.
It itself has no material value, but under the will of the common concept of the whole society, it has the power to buy, possess, determine status, and even manipulate people's life and death.
In the manor near Milan, the black suit sat on the chair in the garden afternoon tea pavilion, Fang Ran crossed his legs and supported his cheek on the armrest with his left hand, and the whole person leaned on the comfortable chair and watched the servants in the entire manor below with some distraction.
Gold, or should I say the power of money, is really powerful,
This beautiful estate in a good location has been his, since last night.
Frightened by the last moment, Viscount Barrotfei sent all the formalities as quickly as he could, and then left Milan in a hurry with a group of his personal servants, leaving only a few ordinary servants who had been hired normally to take care of the garden, the cleaning, and the kitchen.
This should have been a hassle, from the initial negotiation to the bargaining, to the final decision and deal and the signing of the contract...
But the gold at a high premium made it easy, and he had even the city of Milan rehired proper butlers and maids before it got dark last night, though it might seem extravagant and foolish to the glad-suckers who had money far beyond what they could get.
But Fang Ran didn't care, after all, a piece of gold and a box of gold were only 1% and 5% for him, which didn't take long.
"Young master, I have prepared black tea for you, please use it slowly."
The head maid, one of the newly hired maids, walked under the gazebo with a plate, and gently put the enamel teacup on the table next to Fang Ran, she didn't take the dessert cake needed for afternoon tea, because the girl sitting on the chair on the other side was eating the chiffon cake with soft cream with a fork.
By the way, that chiffon cake is also 1%.
"Ah, thank you, Sharon."
The woman named Sharon is a typical European female face, and when she saw the price offered by Fang Ran, she took the initiative to apply for the maid, and she could also serve as a housekeeper, not to mention how beautiful and ordinary she looked, but she had good facial features, and she had taken over the manor for Fang Ran and Ling since yesterday, and she handled it in an orderly manner, which is really a rare talent in this industry.
Although they couldn't understand each other, Fang Ran still instinctively said thank you, in fact, he hadn't been served so much from morning to night, and to be honest, he hadn't seen so much gold he threw out yesterday.
Speaking of which, how much money did he spend in the past two days?
I don't know the exact price in this era, but Fang Ran doesn't care, and tells himself to get used to it, because the night he left Il with Ling in his arms, he was determined to give Ling the best life in this era, and for that he had to throw away his unaccustomed cringe.
Perhaps a boy is a creature that always takes responsibility and matures for the happiness of others.
Until now, Fang Ran was finally captured by the 'temptation' that Veronica had been showing to him, and he understood more clearly what height his 'same kind' figure was standing at, and understood the power brought by 'money'.
So what does it feel like?
To give some very real examples, you don't have to sacrifice your health for money, you don't have to waste time to save money, and in the materialistic era, you can feel free to say boldly to the girl you like, 'I'll raise you!'" ’。
There is no choice phobia, you can have what you want, and if you don't like it, you can put it aside instead of continuing to keep or eat it with distressed prices.
More secure, no matter what you do, you are more calm, confident and confident, pedaling the bicycle and looking at the luxury cars on the side of the road, but there will be no inferiority at all.
You don't have to fight, you don't have to grab, you don't have to socialize for the sake of socializing, someone will naturally come to know you, and learning is only out of voluntariness and self-improvement, not to find a job.
In the morning, I saw a place with a particularly good view of a foreign country on the news, and in the afternoon, I took a plane to play, took a small bag and went wherever I wanted, what I lacked to buy, and the souvenirs were mailed home directly, purely for enjoyment.
Such a big and wonderful world, to do what you love, to go to a stable job where you have to go to work every day,
..
...
Life is not survival, but life,
That's about it.
It's incredible that these things now feel like they can do all of them.
For the first time, I really felt this kind of feeling, and I felt the power of 'money' to give me.
Independent of the 'battle', it is also the power of the participants.
Vaguely, he felt that he was a little close to the point of Ye Sheng and the other people in the bureau, not that the night of the hot night in the city felt that everyone was in the same world, but from some unspeakable place,
He felt like he had caught up with everyone in the game a little,
I feel like I'm a little bit more of a participant.
Maybe this is the purpose of Su Qun asking for resuscitation and throwing him to the Sacred Heart Hospital for a day,
Although he did it a little late.
Suddenly, Fang Ran looked at the manor villa in the early twentieth century, and thought of the garden in the foaming water, the words of the figure.
Grow?
A little helplessly laughed and sighed, recovering from a state of daze, Fang Ran looked at the girl sitting in the cool shade of the gothic skirt, wearing black stockings in cowhide boots and gently shaking on the seat.
"Na, Ling, do you want to go outside?"
Fang Ran put the teacup on the plate, propped his arms on the table and looked at the girl who was extremely surprised by the taste of the creamy chiffon cake on the side, blinked his eyes and smiled and proposed, and the purpose of his saying this was not because of anything else, but because...
Living in such a large estate, the life of a rich aristocrat is really boring.
Because the oil painting-like life texture and exquisite and elegant life attitude you see in the movie are all things that the nobles of this era dare not figure out every day.
Well, it may be an exaggeration to say this, but Fang Ran thinks that this is really the case, because the description from Sharon (translated by Ling to him), the people in the noble family where she worked before,
It is to dress up, drink tea, chat, read books, buy things, enjoy what you can enjoy, and improve yourself and the quality of life day by day, which should be the silhouette of the vast majority of the so-called 'nobles' in this era and this country.
No wonder World War I Italy fought like that...
Thinking so in his heart, Fang Ran saw Ling who had eaten the last piece of cake with a silver fork, blinked his eyes wide, and then jumped down from the chair lightly, and walked in front of him obediently,
Fang Ran looked at the cream on the corner of her mouth and smiled helplessly, squatted down with the napkin on the table to wipe her clean, then took her hand and got up, and said to the head maid who had been standing behind them:
"Sharon, help me prepare the carriage."
Ling, who was holding his hand, looked up at him with a delicate little face, and then remembered that Sharon didn't understand what he was saying, and then this time the girl turned to look at the smiling Sharon and said lightly:
"Sharon, help us prepare the carriage."
The head maid, who had been smiling and standing behind the two of them, bowed slightly elegantly and spoke:
"Okay, young lady, young master, I'll go and tell the coachman to prepare."