Chapter Twenty-Six: Miss Lucy's Little Courage
"I'm sorry, little Lucy, I didn't recognize you just now!"
Karl had a good impression of this beautiful and enthusiastic little girl, and deliberately joked: "Because you are so beautiful today! Like a white lily that has just bloomed, so beautiful that I dare not recognize it." ”
Little Lucy's flushed face turned even redder, and she was embarrassed to look away, and said in a low voice, "Mr. Karl, please don't say that!"
"Why can't you say it, a beautiful girl, like a beautiful flower, should live under the gaze of appreciation, be praised and encouraged!"
Looking at the little girl's shy appearance, Carl couldn't help but feel good, full of confidence, and even had the interest to tease the little girl: "As an honest and responsible person, isn't it a virtue that should be praised when you see a beautiful girl and praise it calmly?"
Little Lucy's flushed face suddenly turned red to her ears, and her delicate and small ears like elves showed a transparent flush. She didn't dare to look up at Carl, nor was she embarrassed to speak, but just lowered her head to cut the cheese and sausages.
"Little Carl, what you just said is not a gentleman enough for a good girl!"
Uncle Tom, who saw this scene, couldn't help frowning, although he shouldn't care too much about things between young people. After all, little Lucy is also fifteen years old, and it is time to talk about marriage, what kind of person she likes, and which young man she wants to fall in love with, is her freedom.
But he and little Lucy's parents have been old friends for many years, and little Lucy has grown up after all, and looking at little Lucy is like seeing his own daughter, and can't bear him to go astray and like someone he shouldn't like.
If Carl Jr. is really an ordinary child of the Roland family, as he said, then he has no family inheritance, and in the future, he will get a job in the town hall, or become the personal staff or secretary of a certain big man, or become a famous scholar and artist.
Such a person, although he is already a decent person in the eyes of the civilian class, but after all, he is still a commoner, not a nobleman, if little Lucy likes him, and the two develop a beautiful love, it is still possible to get a happy result.
But judging from the noble and elegant demeanor and temperament that Karl inadvertently showed that only the royal family and the figure of the great nobles have, his identity obviously cannot be the concubine or illegitimate son of a simple knight family.
A prince, or the son of a big aristocratic family, even if he is not the son of the heir, will get a piece of territory because of his birth, and he will naturally become a nobleman.
Uncle John really knows too much about the character of the son of a big aristocratic family, and in his rich life experience, he has seen and heard too many commoner girls who have fantasies about love, falling in love with a noble son, and after the playboy gets tired of playing, he is tragically abandoned.
It's just that the body is toyed with, and the most terrible thing is that even the soul is toyed with, and the sweet girl who has tasted love is usually unbearable and mentally barren, and the rest of her life is often very painful.
And judging from Carl Jr.'s skillful tone of praise for girls, he is obviously a master who understands the preferences of girls and knows how to coax and please girls. For this kind of character of a noble-born son, Old John never had any hope.
What's more, old John knew very well the little Lucy he watched grow up, knew her thirst for knowledge and art, and knew how fatal the attraction of a knowledgeable, funny and humorous young man with a handsome appearance and good manners, without the arrogant posture of aristocrats.
Therefore, out of love for little Lucy, Uncle John couldn't help but blame Carl a little and said: "Little Lucy is a good girl, she has never provoked any young man, she would rather go to the dock to carry goods than be a waitress in the bar." Karl, as a gentleman with good manners, what you just said is a bit frivolous for a good girl!"
Karl couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and didn't react for a while. He had just habitually complimented little Lucy, which was a common thing in the other world. He is not a junior brother in love, so he naturally knows that girls like to listen to nice words, and he maintains the habit of casually praising girls, not necessarily to pursue a girl, but more to make himself more harmonious with colleagues or friends of the opposite sex, just an ordinary social skill.
However, looking at what Uncle John meant, he seems to have misunderstood something.
Little Lucy's face turned red to her neck, she hurriedly put down her knife and fork, and said in a panic: "Hug, sorry! Mr. Karl, I have already cut it, please use it slowly!"
After saying that, he hurried back to the back kitchen.
Carl then reacted that he was being teased and seduced by Uncle John. And seeing little Lucy so shy, flustered, and busy, it seems possible, a little bit like herself?
I'll go, when did I become a flirtatious girl?
Although he knows that there are some flirtatious old drivers, he can hook up with a girl in a few words, and he can open a room when he meets him. I have also heard that some rich and handsome people can drive a luxury car around the campus and meet countless girls to talk to.
But he didn't expect that one day he would be able to enjoy this kind of treatment.
However, if you think about it carefully, he does seem to have a little bit of potential to be rich and handsome now.
Tall, needless to say, he doesn't know how tall he is, but among the people he has seen along the way, he definitely belongs to the middle and upper class, and the blood of the nobility, even if it is an illegitimate child, in front of the commoners, it also properly belongs to the category of 'high'.
Rich, not yet, but Carl believes that with the knowledge he brought from the other world, it is only a simple thing to obtain wealth, not to mention, he also has a "princess" plug-in with him, and there is no shortage of ways to learn to gain power.
Handsome, obviously, his current body is much more handsome than in his previous life. With a handsome figure, a delicate face, a bookish atmosphere brought by reading all year round, and a clean and clean body and clothes, he simply stands out from the crowd of rude men who have not bathed for months and have a messy beard and hair.
"Oh yes!"
Carl raised his hands and sincerely confessed his mistake to Carl's father: "I shouldn't have talked to a little girl like this so frivolously. ”
Uncle John sighed, shook his head, and didn't say anything more, but after putting a lot of cleaned utensils into the cupboard, he turned back and said: "You can set off after breakfast, the public carriage station in the west of the city has two public carriages to the abbey of Saint-Soulel in the morning and evening, and it takes two coppers to go back and forth!"
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After a silent breakfast, and cheekily borrowing a few coppers from Uncle John, Karl walked out of the copper kettle tavern and prepared to go to the abbey of Saint-Soulamel for a new day.
The cool breeze with the smell of the sea sent by the harp sea, and the sober air full of water vapor, made him refreshed, and all the fatigue and embarrassment disappeared.
"Mr. Karl, please wait a minute!"
Just as Carl was about to take a step, a shout suddenly came from behind him.
I saw that the little girl Lucy, who had just shy hid in the back kitchen, ran out from behind the side door of the void, and ran to Carl in one breath, with a red fluttering face, a little worried, and a little embarrassed to say: "Mr. Carl, let me help you lead the way, Uncle John has not prepared enough ingredients, I am just going to the market in the west of the city to buy some, by the way, I can help you show the way." ”
Karl looked back at the tavern, and then at the shy and courageous little girl.
She is indeed a very beautiful girl, with long eyelashes, curved willow eyebrows, clear eyes like a lake, and a different kind of vitality in her tranquility. Her skin is fair and has a faint red pink, and the tip of her small and delicate nose is slightly upturned, which is playful and cute.
This is a little girl who is very fond of people at first glance, her beauty is not Princess Alicia's kind of stunning and shocking country and city, but has a unique charm, how to look at it may not be amazing enough, but the more you look at it, the more you look at it, the more you feel beautiful.