Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Majestic Brother
"Knock knock!"
"Charles, would you like to have breakfast together?"
"Okay, right away!...... How did you guys get in?"
It was a sunny morning, and it was time to lie down, but unfortunately Charles had to sigh and get up.
The door opened, and Olive walked in with her hands behind her back, followed by three maids-in-waiting, one of whom carried a large plate of clean clothes, and the other two maids each with a piece of food.
"Oh...... We've been helping you get dressed for so many years!Why, don't you need me now?"
Olive pouted aggrievedly, picked up clean clothes and began to help Charr put them on, her size could only reach Charles's shoulders, and the personal maid quickly helped her move the small bench to cushion her feet, and the whole process was extremely skillful.
Charles felt awkward at first, but the awkwardness was quickly dissolved by the warmth of affection, and he felt like he was about to melt as Olive and the maid lifted his thick calves and put them on her soft daily boots.
Charles crouched down and gently hugged the weak girl, her eyes moistening for the first time.
"Olive Live, my brother has recovered and can dress himself in the future, thank you...... Thank you for not disliking you stupid brother for so many years....."
Olive is much more emotional than Charles, and when she heard Charles's affectionate words, she immediately burst into tears, "I'm really useless, I can only help you do some small things, don't you even need me in the future?"
Charles was a little at a loss, and quickly wiped the tears from the girl's face with his fat palm, "How could Olive be useless......? I need beautiful, lovely Olive to accompany me for breakfast!"
Olive burst into tears and laughed, took Charles' hand happily, helped him to the table, poured him milk, laid out the bread, and cut the steak into small pieces with a knife and fork, and her beautiful and emaciated little face was full of bright colors.
The natural milk has a little fishy smell, the bread tastes average, and the steak is not Charles' favorite veal steak in his memory, but Charles really tastes the warm taste.
Olive eats very elegantly, but the speed is very fast, the small mouth can't stop opening and closing the bite, and in a short time a large piece of meat steak chew chew chew and swallow into the stomach.
Charles heard the sound of the maid spitting behind him, and in his memory it was a very faux pas for a maid, who was clearly hungry and waiting for Charles and Olive to finish their meal.
The maids of the nobles of the mainland countries do not have a main meal, they all eat the food left by the lord, if a nobleman always eats the plate cleanly, then he will not be able to get rid of the reputation of a miser. A generous nobleman will be very "wasteful" of food, and eating alone will have his subordinates prepare a meal for two people, and never finish it.
But there was noticeably less food on Olive today's plate, and when Olive finally stopped eating, Charles was keenly aware of her pent-up appetite.
Charles didn't give up his share of the steak to Olive as it would only make her feel ashamed in front of her subordinates, and after asking the maid to clean up the leftovers, he began to think of ways to make money.
can make the personal maid hungry and growl, it seems that the family is really short of money.
What can a fifteen-year-old girl do when she knows that her family is short of money?
It's impossible, thinking about the blood on Roy's arm yesterday, he can't collect taxes even from the first heir, and it's not too likely that such a large sum of money can be collected by the vassal nobles in a short period of time.
"Olive tell Lola to go to that Byrne later, take Horn Connor's head in exchange for a bounty, and improve the family's food, eh..... At least keep everyone fed!"
"Charles, you misunderstood, I added bread to my subordinates...... I just wanted to save some ......"
"Besides, I've asked Roy to do it just now, Lola doesn't want to deal with those bureaucrats, Roy will do his best. ”
"Well, that...... I also took an Englu captive, and he said he would pay us a ransom of three hundred gold pounds, and you can let Roy take care of it later. ”
"Okay, okay, I'll let Roy do it......" Olive chick nodded continuously, her aqua blue eyes tending to turn to gold.
Charles hesitated for a moment, but still didn't immediately say anything about the ransom of the fifty thousand livres he promised Foreman and the others, but just asked tentatively, "Oliv, that ....... How much money do we have?"
“........”
Olive was stunned, and then suddenly thought that Charles had lost his memory, and then suddenly said: "Charles, you may have forgotten, our family...... I don't have any money......"
"Don't you have any money......? Isn't it the great nobles of the Kingdom of Florence?"
Olive twitched a little little and said with a wry smile, "Brother, don't you really remember everything you did before you came to Spaya?"
"I ......"
Charles suddenly remembered something, and said curtly: "I remember spending a lot of money on armor and weapons to equip my knights and knights with ......."
"Brother, you gathered more than half of the knights in the territory, gave them three times the settling-in fee, emptied the treasury of the royal workshop at twice the price, and ........"
Seeing Charles's face getting more and more ugly, Olive took his hand, "Actually, I don't blame you, if it weren't for my soft-heartedness, if it weren't for the pity of those lords who died in battle with my father, and how many times the bereavement was cheated by those bastards..... Maybe our family won't be in debt either......"
"Our family...... Got in debt?"
Olive didn't speak, just nodded her little head slowly.
"How much do you owe?"
"Almost...... 50,000 gold Louis ......"
"What's Horn Connell's bounty?"
Olive shook her head, "I don't know, many victims have issued personal bounties about him, and the Flensian military also has them, and they should add up...... Forty or fifty thousand livres!"
"It's only forty or fifty thousand livres, that is, it's only more than two thousand gold louis, and it's still ......."
Charles's math is very good, and he quickly measured how much is 50,000 gold louis, and the bounty of a seventh-rank transcendent is only more than 2,000 gold louis, so how many transcendents will 50,000 gold louis have to slaughter?
Charles knew what was "cool and cool in his heart", he originally thought he was a national-level rich second generation, but he was going to become old in a blink of an eye?
"Charles, don't do that, I..... I'll find a way to pay off my debts, and now I've had several rich people who are willing to pay enough for the bride price......."
"Fart, I don't sell my sister if I starve to death!"
A tyrannical aura erupted in Charles' chest, causing Olive to shiver with fright.
Charles hugged his sister and said distressedly: "It's okay Olive Live, now that my body has recovered, it's just a little debt, don't take it to heart, believe me! It won't be long before our family becomes extremely rich....."
Although he was a little disappointed that he couldn't become a rich second generation, Charles quickly adjusted his mentality, who is he? Almighty traverser! Will the character with the halo of the protagonist be short of money? What are you kidding?
Lao Tzu plucked the hair of his legs...... An idea is worth a thousand dollars.
"Charles, I don't want our family to be rich, I just want you to live well, but if you can't, we will sell all Nasser's property, and I will move with you to live in Bayona....."
"Why do we want to move? Can the country estate be compared with the first-tier cities...... Besides, aren't you still studying at King's University? You can worry less about these things in the future and concentrate on your studies, huh...... Show me your homework every day in the future, although your father is gone, don't be lazy!"
“.........”
Olive froze again, and after a long moment, she asked uncertainly, "Charles, you want to see my ...... Homework?"
"What's wrong? no?" said Charles, trying to be more vicious, pretending to be a dignified brother.
"Oh..... Good!"
Olive nodded obediently, but her expression was very helpless.