Chapter 17: Relatives [IG T!!! Additional Chapter]
The carriage moved a little, and when it drove out of Sailing Street, the speed suddenly increased, and soon it felt the Burton Manor, where his uncle Baron Stanley was.
"Master Wayne, it's here, Lord Stanley is waiting for you in the main hall, I wish you a happy luncheon." Arnold stepped out of the carriage and smiled and bent slightly.
"Hmm."
Wayne made a thank-you salute, and then hurried to the main hall.
Uncle Baron Stanley's house is basically the same as Wayne's, a standard Ceylone-style three-story townhouse with a spire, but it is much newer.
Wayne has lived here since he was 14 years old.
"Little Wayne, did you practice swordsmanship again and forget about the family dinner?"
As soon as I entered the door, my uncle's loud voice came.
On the side of the long black stone table, on the main seat, Baron Stanley, who was much more bloated than when he was young, was stroking his specially grown beard with a smile.
Like Wayne, with yellow skin, black hair and black eyes that are rare in the Southern Continent, coupled with that baby face, if it weren't for his beard, he probably looked younger than Wayne.
"I'm sorry, uncle, I'm late." Wayne nodded with an embarrassed expression.
"It's okay, come and sit down, I specially asked Arnold butler to make your favorite vanilla catfish today (Note 1)."
Baron Stanley took a sip of fruit wine, beckoned to Wayne, and said with a smile: "It's also a good thing to be addicted to swordsmanship, and there is still a month before the knight assessment, so it's good to be serious, if this stinky boy Aibo is so attentive on the knight's road, I can wake up with a smile in my dreams." β
"Hey, father, I'm not happy if you say that!" Abbot Stanley, who was next to him, complained and squeezed his eyebrows at Wayne: "Anyway, there is a sister here, your old title will not be heirless, I just want to be a scholar or a writer, and accumulate some culture for our Stanley family." β
The one who spoke was Wayne's cousin, who had lived with him since he was a child, with black hair and blue eyes, a standard mixed-race appearance, and a figure that was not particularly strong, and who had been studying with a linguist and wanted to become a writer.
However, Baron Stanley was not very supportive of his decision, and still wanted Abbott to follow the path of a knight.
"Yes, uncle, my cousin's talent in literature is also good." Successfully receiving the signal in Aibo's eyes, Wayne found a place to sit down and said a few words: "A few months ago, didn't the Floror morning newspaper publish a long poem by my cousin?!" β
"What kind of talent is that, isn't it just a poem, and I don't know what it means." Although Stanley said this, he couldn't help but smile on his face.
When Ebbot's long poem was included in the Florent Morning Post, he took a bundle of newspapers to his former comrades-in-arms and sent them one by one......
I ate a little vanilla catfish that didn't seem so delicious after eating the delicacies of the earth.
Wayne turned his head to look at the empty seat opposite: "Uncle, hasn't Cousin Fiona come back yet?" Hasn't she been sent to the Royal Knight Training Camp in the capital by the Florent Security Bureau? Why do you still have field missions? β
"You don't know her yet." Baron Stanley took a sip of wine, and his tone was a little helpless: "The city hall is going to expel a false god church called Shinrikyo from Florence, and when your cousin heard the news, she took the initiative to work overtime and go out to the field, leaving at 3 o'clock in the morning, and still hasn't come back." β
"Ahem...... Wayne coughed twice, looked around like a thief, and said in a low voice: "Uncle, if you want me to say, you should contact a friend from the Security Bureau and send your cousin to the capital in advance, it's not a way to pay for medical expenses like this." β
"Little Wayne, I think you want to learn swordsmanship with me again."
Coincidentally, Wayne's voice fell.
Fiona, with her long burgundy hair and slender figure, dressed in light armor, walked in with a smile on her handsome angular face and a creaky clenching of her palms.
This is Wayne's cousin.
She, Abbott and her uncle Stanley were Wayne's only relatives in Pandora, and her aunt was a standard Southcontinent native who died in childbirth while giving birth to her cousin Abbot.
"Ahem, cousin, you misunderstood, I definitely don't mean to learn swordsmanship with you." Wayne laughed twice and waved his hand repeatedly.
His cousin, who is a year older than Wayne and serves in the Florence Security Bureau, has a high talent in the knightly path since he was a child, and just passed the third-order knight assessment last year.
Every time he competed, Wayne was almost abused from childhood to adulthood.
Take it as an example, if you don't use the ability of a wizard, you will definitely not be able to beat her by hand-to-hand combat alone.
Fiona walked over to Wayne and sat down, and stretched out her hand to Baron Stanley very skillfully: "Father, I ask you to borrow 5 gold pounds, and I will pay you back when the bonus is sent this month." β
"Hurt someone again?" The corners of Baron Stanley's eyes twitched slightly: "What about your salary?" Stripped up again? β
These two 'again' words, Wayne had a toothache when he heard it.
This young lady Fiona has a penchant for breaking the limbs of those who resist when she catches criminals.
When it comes to breaking limbs, there are definitely a lot of people who break a limb......
In general, if serious bodily harm has been caused to a prisoner during the arrest process, and the prisoner is not guilty of death, the Floronic Security Bureau usually treats the prisoner's injuries at public expense.
But like Fiona, who catches a thief and shouts without looking back, rushes up and breaks people's limbs with two clicks, and catching a dozen thieves a day is obviously not among them. (The above funds also have quota indicators)
Therefore, the money used to treat prisoners for such reasons is usually deducted from Fiona's salary.
But I have to say that Fiona's way of dealing with it did make many old thieves who have not changed their ways, and after being released from prison, they wept bitterly and quit the thief industry.
(There's no way if you don't quit, Miss Fiona is not only jealous and hateful, but she has an excellent memory (very small heart), and the appearance of the prisoners she has caught in is almost engraved in her mind.)
Often, a thief who was caught by her, after being released, just wanted to step on the market, but happened to bump into Fiona who was patrolling, and the next second, rushed up, and there was a crisp sound of limbs).
"5 gold pounds......" Aibo couldn't help but whisper: "Sister, if you look for a husband in the future, you must find a rich man, otherwise, according to your method of catching criminals, you will have to go bankrupt sooner or later." β
"Little Aibo, what did you say, is it itchy again?" Fiona raised her eyebrows, lifted her hand to the ear, and twisted it into Ebbo's ear.
"Oh, it hurts, it hurts, sister, my ears are going to fall off, spare my life!"
"Let's see if you dare to talk nonsense next time."
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"Okay, how many adults are coming, it's still so noisy, hurry up and eat." Baron Stanley paused his glass with a smile and stopped the two siblings from fighting.
However, Wayne clearly felt just now that when Abbot just said that he would find a rich husband for Fiona, his uncle glanced at Wayne on the side with a rather regretful look.
"Thanks to the Principality of Ceylon for adding a new law ten years ago that cousins are not allowed to marry......"
Wayne wiped the sweat from his forehead slightly.
When his parents had an accident when he was a child, and his uncle Baron Stanley raised him, he had more than once wanted Wayne and Fiona to marry......
Fortunately, otherwise where would I have the money to do magic experiments now?
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[Vanilla Philippine catfish: chordates, bony fishes, catiformes.
The meat is delicious, the adult body is 18CM-21CM long, with a very magical seven-colored fish skin, which is called a holy relic by the three-armed alien race.
There is a small chance that the group will mutate and evolve into a transcendent life called [Split-toothed Multi-Milk], whose skin is peeled off and concocted by special means, which can change color according to the environment......]
ββExcerpt from "Pandora's Miraculous Life - Snake Fish Chapter"