Charles returned to the town with the five rescued men, and during the conversation, he learned that the middle-aged handsome uncle, named Brando, was the director of an orphanage, and the other four were all children in the orphanage.

The orphanage was not far east of the town, and Brando grew up there, and he took over the orphanage after the old director died.

It's just that recently the orphanage's funds have been extremely tight, and Brando has to take the risk of taking a few older children to the forest to catch mink and then skin them back for money.

Charles asked Brando what the situation was, and Brando smiled wryly and said, "Recently, the Grand Duke has raised the land tax, and we don't have enough money to pay the tax." ”

"Although the brothers managed to make up some, they were still close. ”

"If we don't pay our taxes in full and on time, the orphanage's land will be repossessed by the Grand Duke. ”

"So I had to take them out and take some risks. ”

Brando's voice was hoarse, as if his throat had been wounded.

Charles thought for a moment and asked, "Do you teach any life skills to your children?"

Brando still smiled wryly, and he said: "How can we afford to hire teachers, usually when my younger brothers and sisters grow up, I have to spend a lot of effort to find a place to have an apprentice." ”

Charles continued to think about it, and wondered if he should wait for Ellie and Healy to come out and let them teach cooking at the orphanage.

If the model of using orphanages as training bases works, it is also a good choice to promote it.

In this world, skilled chefs still have no worries about food and clothing, in addition to taverns and restaurants, many merchants and nobles need chefs in their homes.

The matter needed to be discussed in the long run, so he didn't mention it to Brando now.

As Charles pondered the question, they returned to the west gate of the town.

"Honey!"

A very nice and familiar voice interrupted Charles's thoughts, and then he saw Sister Maria, whom he had not seen for a long time, hurrying over.

At this time, the figure next to him flashed, and Brando also rushed out, and then the two hugged each other.

Charles stared dumbfounded at the two men who were throwing dog food at the town gate, one handsome and the other ridiculously ugly, one was an orphanage and the other was a retired saint, a combination that was more surprising than Artoria said she was going on a diet to lose weight.

He pulled a little brother aside and asked, "Your dean and Sister Maria know each other?"

The little brother said: "Brother Brando and Sister Maria are childhood sweethearts, when I first arrived at the orphanage, Sister Maria took care of me, and it didn't take long for her to leave with her teacher, and she could only come back once in two or three years." ”

Charles blinked, and suddenly remembered that Maria said that she was going back to her hometown to get married this time, and she also agreed to be a guest of the woman's party.

He quietly asked the little brother again, "I heard that Sister Maria will not leave this time when she comes back?"

The little brother said, "Yes, that's what she said when she wrote back before. ”

Then the little brother asked Charles, "Your Excellency, do you know Sister Maria?"

Charles nodded and said, "Your eldest sister Maria is a big man." ”

At this time, Maria and Brando finished talking for a while, and then looked over and found Charles.

She hurried over and said to Charles, "Charles, you're here, have you been waiting for a long time?"

Charles replied with a smile, "It's been a few days since you came, and you've worked hard along the way." ”

"Today I went out hunting, and I happened to meet Big Brother Brando outside, so we came back together. ”

He saw Brando winking at him behind Maria, and said nothing about the Black Rock Elephant.

Maria said happily: "Just now Pietran saw your message at the union, so he went to the hotel to look for you, and found that you were not there, and your Diana said that you were in the woods." ”

"I heard that Brando had also entered the woods, so I was waiting for you here, but I didn't expect you to come back together. ”

At this time, Charles saw a fat figure appear at the gate of the town, it was Pietran, and Billy was following him.

Pietran and Maria introduced them to the others, and Pietran's eyes lit up when she saw the mink skins that Brando and the others had brought back, and she was about to enter merchant mode.

At this time, Charles stopped him and said, "Master Pietran, these mink skins still have to be made of nitrate, I think you can buy them when Brother Brando finds someone to make the nitrate." ”

Brando also said: "There is a company in the town where the daughter-in-law of the owner of the tanning workshop is our sister, and we will go to their house until the fur is called, and the price is very fair, so you can wait, sir." ”

Pietran thought about it, he had no way to come here for the first time, and if he found the workshop himself, he would definitely be slaughtered, so he did good.

Then Charles invited everyone to the Big Tree Foot Hotel for dinner, and Brando was intimidated when he heard about the place, and he had only passed by the high-end places and never been there.

In the end, it was Maria who asked the other four brothers to take the mink skins to the tanning workshop, and Brando went with her to eat.

When a group of people gathered in the hotel's dining room, Charles discussed with the hotel's manager that the dinner would be moved to his suite.

His Royal Highness Charles's request was naturally agreed to by the steward, and after asking the number of people, the steward was about to go to the kitchen to let the cook start work, but Charles pulled him to the parking lot.

Looking at the two huge black rock elephants that appeared in front of him, the chief steward agreed to help deal with it according to the old rules, but Charles asked to leave the magic core to make a pair of necklaces this time, and all the elephant skins were made into leather armor, and the ivory was made into handicrafts and sent back to the Elven Tree Sea to honor Her Majesty the Queen and Her Royal Highness the Princess.

The chief immediately patted his chest and agreed, there were several skilled craftsmen of the elven clan on the side of Andorra City, and he immediately invited these masters over.

Eventually, Charles told him to call the elves to the caravan and invite Aubrey and Tonyo over for dinner tonight.

After finishing all this triviality, Charles slipped to the public bathroom to take a shower and change his clothes, and then returned to the suite.

The waiters had already moved the tables in, and the long tables and chairs almost filled the living room.

Charles, the original three of them, Gawain and the three of them who have come to eat every day recently, Ellie and Celi, who were so happy to see their master, future sister and little sister, Maria and Brando, who returned to their hometown, Pietran, who was stopped by Artoria, and Bili, who decided to follow him in the future, plus Aubrey and Donio, who arrived at the end, fourteen people crowded the small living room, and there was a reed who did not occupy a place on the ceiling.

After introducing each other, everyone chatted while eating.

Charles recounted what had happened since he took Sophia away that day, mainly for the two intelligence officers, Aubrey and Donio, and for the others to listen to as a story.

Then Pietran nagged about the sadness along the way, and lamented that it was not easy to do business.

Under Charles's hint, Aubrey gave Pietran a few tricks for Charles's face, which made the budding businessman suddenly open.

Finally, Maria announced that she would invite everyone to her wedding to Brando, which would take place three days later, which startled everyone, especially Aubrey and Donio, who knew her identity.

In general, it was a victorious dinner, a dinner of unity.

As the group was leaving, Aubrey and Donio called Charles out and took him to the rooftop, apparently familiar with the hotel.

Donio looked Charles up and down a few times and said, "Tut-tut...... Your kid picks up a little girl every time, and this time he not only picked up a sister flower, but also a queen, and the most incredible thing is that he also picked up a ghost. ”

Charles rolled his eyes at him.

Aubrey ignored the inside of the cooking cart and said to Charles solemnly: "Charles, you have been careful when walking in the south lately, and we have noticed that the smell of gunpowder in the south is very strong now. ”

Tonyo also retracted his hippie smile and said, "Many nobles in the south are now collecting taxes vigorously, and I am afraid that this is for the sake of war. ”

Charles frowned and asked, "Who is this going to beat?"

"The weirdest thing right now is that we don't even know who they're targeting," Aubrey said. ”