For two days, Minna's mood was very depressed, and the unhappiness of Alec's father T+ still lingered in her heart that night, so much so that she couldn't even read a book, let alone go out to play.

Jenny expressed great incomprehension of her behavior, how could anyone stay at home in a daze on May Day? She gave Minna a big beating, and continued to go out with her sweetheart.

Marcie returned home, and Winnie seemed to have a suitor lately, and occasionally someone asked her out, and seeing Minna's listlessness, he persuaded her to go out to breathe.

Minna looked at the empty house and shook her head, as if to shake off all the depression. She secretly clenched her fists, she couldn't be depressed any longer, anyway, the friend she was going to make was Alex, not his father, what did his father say!

The mood seemed to be a little lighter, and she decided to go to her little cousin. Felder seemed to be angry with her that day, and she had better work hard to coax him back.

She picked out a few items from her collection, sorted them out, and went out. When they arrived at the Kado mansion, the housekeeper informed Elon that both Bevin and Bevin were out, and that Beryl returned to the academy while Felder played pool in the recreation room.

When she came to the recreation room, she saw Felder wearing a gorgeous white shirt with lace trim, a black satin vest and slim trousers of his peers, and a little aristocratic gentleman, holding a club that was only slightly shorter than himself, and was casually looking at the ball on the table, and when she caught a glimpse of her entering the door, she just snorted twice, and took the club and aimed at a ball.

Minna raised her eyebrows, didn't say anything, just casually found a sofa to sit down, took out a few things prepared from the ring, and said casually: "The magic juice jar newly produced by the magic capital of Shaonan this year, you only need to put the fruit in it, and you can make delicious juice in a blink of an eye, I remember it seems to be someone's favorite drink, but he is probably not interested, right?" I'd better take it home. ”

Felder slammed a ball off, flattened his mouth, and went to aim for the second.

Minna picks up a beautiful quill pen... It's exactly the kind of face that Felder likes... He continued: "There is a talking quill in this world, and if you make a mistake when writing, it will immediately tell you the correct way to write. It's the most fashionable commodity now, I heard that because it's too popular, it has just been launched in Italy, and it has been sold out, and even Shaonan is in short supply, and my one may be the only one in the whole East, even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it. ”

Felder was short of breath, just trying to maintain the arrogant mask of nobility, his chin raised high, his hand rubbing the top of the club, but his eyes couldn't help but look at Minna's hand.

Minna put down her quill pen. He shook off a three-meter-long fishing rod with a "poof". Continue to sigh, "The dwarves have carefully crafted above-ground fishing rods. Although it is made of stainless steel. but it was as light as if it had no weight. It can stretch up to five meters long. The silk thread is also the toughest. I heard that as long as you take it, you have enough manpower. You can even catch sharks! Most preciously. It has a fish stone embedded in its hook. Even if there is no bait. The fish will come up one by one. ”

Felder immediately put aside all aristocratic reserves. Excitedly rushed up and grabbed the fishing rod. Staring at the hook with wide eyes. There was a hint of disbelief in his tone: "It's actually a fish stone?!" My grandfather said it was a favorite among fishing enthusiasts. I've already fried 600 gold coins on the black market! It can't be real, right? ”

"Of course it's true." Minna smiled and pulled him to sit down. "And this isn't a Xindi Fish Stone. That kind of thing just attracts all the fish. There's no fishing fun at all. This is a boiled ground fish stone. Because it can be used as a magic material. So I specifically picked it out of the dregs. I hired a special craftsman to polish it into a hook floor. There you have it. You'll catch big fish every time. And you don't have to worry about the fish swarming over. Isn't it great? ”

Felder just nodded mechanically. Staring straight at the fishing rod. After taking a closer look at the entire rod. Only then did he realize that he seemed to have "given in". puffed up the bun face again. Glancing at Minna. Unconvinced, he said, "Do you give me everything?" What about the box that can catch mosquitoes? And the talking puppets? ”

Minna smiled, "Don't worry. I've written to a friend. It will be sent to the ground soon. These are my apologetic gifts. Don't be angry with me anymore. Good no good? ”

Felder lifted his chin again. Snorted a few times in his nose: "Forget it this time." I'm a gentleman. Don't quarrel with the ladies. As he spoke, he pulled all three items over. Look at it over and over again. A smile gradually appeared on his face. I asked Minna how to use it in detail. Minna showed him how to do it herself. He was playing with great interest again. Wait until four sheets of paper are written. The quill also began to speak weakly. The juice was so much that ten people couldn't drink it. He just stopped trying. Then he pretended to be disdainful and said, "It's okay." Let's be my toy for the time being. ”

Minna snickered and asked, "Why don't you go out today?" Didn't you say that there was a dance every day? ”

When Felder heard this, his face was full of faces

"Don't mention it, forget it before, it's become very boring to go to a commoner's dance party or a banquet held by a nobleman's house with you. Etiquette must be observed when talking and eating, and the movements when dancing must also follow the standard, what arms cannot be raised over the shoulders, what must be kept at a distance of more than ten centimeters from the dance partner, each dance, how wide the distance between the feet should be, how hard the ground should be stepped on, and before inviting the young ladies, consider her identity and family background, and the relationship with our family. Anyway, it's annoying, it's not like a street dance party at all, you can dance as much as you want, and you can dance with whomever you like. ”

Minna listened to his complaints in amazement, and said in her heart that the balls she had attended before were far from this standard, and she was so lucky, so she patted her little cousin on the shoulder sympathetically: "Poor Felder, if you don't like it, don't go to this kind of ball, come to me, and we can dance in the streets again." ”

Felder sighed: "Mother will be angry, there's no way I won't attend." If you think about it, those balls weren't really that dull, at least there were a lot of beauties, but unfortunately the beauties didn't dance with me, they danced with me with shriveled little girls. ”

Minna said cautiously, "But... You're a little boy too..."

"What do you know?!" Felder gave her a blank look, "Only the big sisters can be considered beauties, such as Bianca, as well as the eldest sister and the second sister, and Princess Sarah is okay." After a pause, he glanced at Minna and said reluctantly, "Of course, you are the same as Cousin Minna." ”

Minna smiled: "Should I say thank you for the compliment?" Little ghost? She twisted the little boy's tender little face, and the little boy struggled to dodge, but suddenly stood up straight, bowed his head very politely, and said, "Mother." ”

Minna turned around and saw that it was Lilith who had come, so she got up and greeted her with a smile, "Good day, aunt." ”

Lilith nodded lightly in response, and said to her youngest son, "I'm going to Sente's house for a tea party, you can go with me." ”

Felder's little face suddenly drooped, and he responded weakly: "Yes, mother..."

Minna rolled her eyes, then put her arms around him and smiled at Lilith, "Felder has just made an appointment with me to visit the Rose Garden, Auntie, can you let him go back with me?" ”

Felder stole a glance at her, and then looked at his mother hopefully, but Lilith coldly refused: "I have decided, he can go later." Felder, go upstairs and change your clothes! ”

Felder put away his things in frustration and left, Minna had no choice but to quietly apologize to him, but heard Lilith's cold words from behind him: "Minna, Felder is young and ignorant, as a cousin, you should educate him more, instead of looking around for some indiscriminate toys for him to play with, and taking him to a non-trivial place." ”

Minna paused, and when she turned around, there was a smile on her face: "May I ask Auntie, what is a non-trivial toy?" What's the place of inconsistencies? What I gave him were very precious Shaonan magic products, and my Rose Garden was not a place to go. ”

"Anyway, just don't play with him anymore, I will teach my child well, and don't interfere with one of your side daughters, let my son be distracted."

Minna raised an eyebrow: "I thought it was the responsibility of the head of the lineage family to unite all the side families, not to keep them out. Am I mistaken? I remember that my aunt wrote a letter to my mother last year, mentioning the great responsibility of the lineage, and saying that as a sideline, I should also fulfill my responsibilities and contribute my strength to the lineage. My mother had been worried about this for a long time, after all, although Merton's production was quite rich at that time, there was not much left over in order to build the territory, and she finally took out her savings to make up for it. Unexpectedly, my aunt forgot her duties today and asked the side to stay away. ”

"You—" Lilith glanced around quickly, and saw a few servants outside the door with suspicious expressions, her face turned blue suddenly, and she dropped a sentence of "I don't know what you're talking about" and turned away. Minna pursed her lips and went straight to Manda to talk.

Later, Felder got his father's permission to come to the Rose Garden, and Minna learned that someone had told her uncle Elon what she had said that night, and the latter had a quarrel with his wife, so he went to the study to write a letter, and sent someone to send it to Merton overnight, and asked Felder to hand over a few checks, the amount of which was also thousands of gold coins, and explained that he did not know about his wife's letter in advance, and once wondered why his brother would suddenly send him money. Minna smiled and asked Felder to bring the check back. Her father made a decision, and she didn't plan to change anything.

After this incident, Minna went back to the Kado mansion, and Lilith's attitude was much better, although there was still some resentment in her eyes, but at least she was no longer cynical. However, her control over her children became stricter again, and Felder only went to the Rose Garden once, and then was forced by his mother to go back and forth at various balls and banquets, and there was no time to spare.

Minna could only sympathize with her little cousin's complaints, but could not do anything. Fortunately, the May Festival soon passed, and even the craze of the market on the Heroes' Square gradually subsided, and people began to return to normal life

At the same time, I was secretly looking forward to the arrival of the King's birthday celebration in June.

Minna also began to work in the Dark Nest.

The backyard of the Rose Garden was divided in half, half of which was built into a hut, and an old couple moved in just after the May Festival. The man is a carpenter, and the woman sews and mends people, which looks very ordinary, but Minna knows that they are actually the secret threads of the Security Department, but now they are old and semi-retired.

They were responsible for guarding the tunnel crossing, and they did not go out to look for work again, and all their daily necessities were sent by the Security Department. Minna planted weeds in half of their yard and asked them to help take care of them, and in return she paid a little money a month to make up for it. The old couple are both human spirits, and on the surface they are honest and honest, but in fact, they are vigilant against anyone who approaches the small courtyard, even if it is from Minna's family, which makes Minna very relieved.

Underneath the hut, there is a newly opened entrance and exit, from which you can access the secret passages that you once walked. After the renovation of the Security Department, the secret passage has become dry and tidy, all rooms are placed with documents or weapons, painted with a magic array to prevent moisture, insects and fires, and added hidden vents on the top of the corridor, and installed lights. Minna walked in the secret passage, and she no longer felt the darkness and stuffiness.

At the fork of the secret road, there is a special person to guard, it is said that the collapsed end is under construction, but Minna doesn't know what they are going to do, only know that the abandoned house at the other exit has become the target of the Security Bureau, and has arrested a few people, but they are all mercenaries who have received money to do things, and they don't know anything about the mastermind behind the scenes, so they have to continue to interrogate while sending people to the abandoned house to wait for the rabbit, and at the same time use those mercenaries as clues to track down all the people who have been in contact with them.

The tunnels leading to the Department of Security have been remodeled to be more spacious, flat and dry. Minna walked to the bottom, into a small newly dug stone room, and up the stairs to the basement of a small building. This is the secret nest of the Intelligence Section.

Because it has just been established, there are still very few staff members in the dark nest. In addition to Minna, there were only three middle-aged and older agents, and Minna recognized only one of them as a training instructor, one as the former secretary general of the secretary's office, who was retired, and a stranger who claimed to be from the Southern Intelligence Division.

Until the personnel are fully assembled, Minna's job is to familiarize herself with the information and then conduct a preliminary analysis. She had to find out what was useful from the reports sent by the grassroots intelligence officers, and then organize them into documents and report them to Melori in different categories.

Originally, this was all the work of the intelligence department, but because the identities of some intelligence officers were secret, it was inconvenient for those nobles to know, and Melori could only handle the information himself with two deputies, and the work was too heavy, so that his identity was getting worse and worse, and now that it was handed over to Minna and others, it was much easier for him.

Minna, on the other hand, got busy. At first, she only spent two or three hours a day here, and the rest of the time she could freely allocate to go to Kado, or stay at home to read books and be a magic monster, but gradually, she had to increase the time she spent in the dark nest.

After getting acquainted with the work of intelligence collation, Mallory assigned her a new task, which was to analyze "what happened", to "why this happened", and then to "what is the impact of this kind of thing" and "how to solve the problem"

Minna began to feel breathless, and couldn't figure out why Mallory gave her more work than everyone else, and she was just here to help. But when she saw Mallory begging for more work with her haggard old face, she relented. Later, she also saw that Melori was doing it on purpose! She glared at him hatefully, and boiled him a magic mushroom that was very beneficial to his body but tasted terrible, and her heart was really happy to see his face twisted into a twist every time he was forcibly poured with it.

Get well, Brain of the Security Agency, and get back to your work!

In the midst of the busyness, the time hurried to the end of May, and when Minna saw from the report that the missions of various countries had entered the territory of East, she remembered that Alex's father's wedding date was approaching.

What the hell is Alex doing? Why haven't you come back yet? Tomorrow is the wedding, did he have any accidents?

She was a little absent-minded, and finished her day's work early, but instead of returning to the tunnel, she walked out of the street from the small building and walked in the direction of the Mandheling family's mansion. She wanted to make sure if Alec hadn't really come back yet.

As soon as she walked a short distance, she was blocked by a large crowd of people who seemed to be standing on the side of the road watching something. She asked someone, and the man said, "It's the Noga Mission!" They brought a lot of gifts, which was so much fun! ”

Noga Mission? Minna frowned, thinking to herself that this mission seemed to be coming sooner than expected, why didn't the intelligence officer in the central region report it?

She looked around, and walking in front of the mission was a former friend and enemy, Duke Jada of Nogar.

(It's out, though it's only one sentence...) ）