Chapter 472: The Eve of the Banquet
Considering that Sorges had been saying that time was pressing, Daphne set the time for the banquet to be held in the largest hotel in the imperial capital in three days, during which it was almost impossible to see Daphne at Brustein's house during the day, and she had been busy running around the mansions of her close friends, as for the reasons, there was no need to elaborate, in short, every time she came out of a mansion, she had a very thief smile on her face, which was almost the same as Sorges.
As for Lockhan, he is even more busy, he spent a sum of money in the past three days to buy a shop, the area of the shop is not very large, but in the imperial capital, where every inch of land is valuable, the cost is not a small number, plus the location is in a prime location, even with the decoration added up to about 10,000 gold coins, and its area is only about 300 square meters, so angry that Sojes scolded his loser.
"I said you're a loser! Do we need these means for our perfumes? Even if we open our shops in the slums, those nobles will have to roll over to me obediently as long as they want to use them to please their wives and lovers!" Sojess looked angry, Lockhan was really embarrassed this time, and kept whispering to Sojes, and he also secretly scolded himself in his heart for being stupid and not thinking flexibly.
Sojes's reprimand was only a few words, he knew that he couldn't blame Rock Khan too much, he could only say that too many things were piled up, Rock Khan's thinking was a little rigid, so he said a few words and passed, besides, considering that this shop was also equivalent to the face of the Dragon's Tooth Pirates and even the Brustein family, he also figured it out.
In addition to Daphne and Locke Khan, Raymond and Sojes Genevia are not very idle, and even the busiest of these people is Raymond, who has to deal with military affairs at the Navy Headquarters during the day, and has to come back at night to discuss with Sojes who to feast on, for these two violent elements who can do their hands as little as possible to make noise, this is much more troublesome than fighting.
During the time when Vargas was still there, the Brustein family rarely held banquets like this, so this time the nobles in the imperial capital were a little confused after receiving the invitation from the Brustan family, but it was the premier family of France, and they didn't want to give this face, but they thought they were smart enough to guess the reason, and felt that Bagas was no longer there, and Raymond wanted to stabilize the family's position, so he wanted to find some allies at this juncture.
It makes sense for them to think so, but unfortunately they forgot the existence of Shiva, so they all dressed up on the day of the banquet and rushed to the Brustein family's mansion with their families to show their attention to Raymond's invitation.
As the organizer of the Brustan family, their financial resources are still quite not weak, and they hold a large-scale banquet in their own home, banqueting all the powerful people in the imperial capital, and even the king has a banquet, but this time the king was unable to attend because of ill health, and only sent his most relied on eldest princess Laxiline Farella to participate on his behalf.
Laxiline is a rare princess in the history of major empires who has not been sent to choose to marry, not that she is not good enough, on the contrary, it is precisely because she is so good that no nobleman dares to marry at all! Although she is still so beautiful this year, she is close to forty years old, but she is a poor woman who has never even been in love, but she herself does not feel much regret, because she has outstanding magical talent, and when she was young, she did not study at the Flanc Academy, but went to the first magic academy of the Colt Empire, and the realm is similar to the current Sojes.
If it's just a strong force, then Laxiline will only make people want to conquer, but all the upper-class nobles know that it is not so much that she is strong, but that her political strength is more terrifying, she has begun to help the French emperor deal with government affairs before Sorjes went to sea, and now most of France's political affairs need to be watched by her, which weakens the power of the Cumberland family in disguise, and even the Cumberland family has been weakened bloodlessly, and the rest of the nobles dare not offend her, maybe it is so, No nobleman or even a foreign prince dared to marry this princess, and they were afraid that the eldest princess would secretly seek their power after marrying, if that was the case, it would really be impossible to prevent it.
As soon as the news came out, many nobles hurriedly re-selected the candidates to participate in the seminar, if you think that this is to select excellent juniors so that they can be favored by the eldest princess?
The banquet was held around 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and at 4 o'clock you could enter by invitation, and the nobles could be relatively calm, but Genevia seemed very nervous, she was just a small nobleman, and she usually had no chance to participate in high-class banquets, this was the first time in her life, if it was just like this, she would not be afraid, but she was worried about embarrassing Sojes, the more nervous, the more she had learned and maintained the aristocratic etiquette for many years, the more she couldn't remember, and she was almost crying in a hurry.
"Don't be afraid, everything has me, whoever dares to laugh, I'll slap him!"
Sojes looked at Genevia, who was crying and felt a little funny, it was the first time he had seen this girl like this in so many years, but even so, he still thought it was cute.
"You, you're still talking cool things, Blue, what should I do! I can't remember the etiquette or anything!" Genevia saw that Sojes was still saying witty things at this time, and her cheeks were a little bulging with anger, like a child, but then she spun around in a hurry.
"Rest assured, aristocratic etiquette is actually secondary in this situation, as long as you maintain a natural attitude, no one will laugh at you, the more you care about this, the more nervous you are, the easier it is to be laughed at by those people. Although Sojes did not show aristocratic etiquette, his every move seemed very natural, and the so-called aristocratic etiquette was actually just a set of actions, which was the most suitable set of relatively suitable for those etiquette masters in various countries after research. The etiquette that can best show the aristocratic bearing, but even if it is not used, it does not mean that there is no politeness, but those who obviously do not understand these etiquettes but insist on rigidly imitating them will be despised and ridiculed by the nobles.
"Really?" Genevia grabbed Sojerth by the sleeve as if she had grasped a straw.
"Why am I lying to you about this?" Sojes couldn't help but laugh, now Genevia was wearing the latest style of dress, which made her excellent figure, appearance and even temperament even better, even if he had been watching it for so many years, he still couldn't help but feel a little throbbing when Genevia wore this dress for the first time to show himself.
"Whew......" Genevia seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, loosened Sojes' sleeve, and stood in place and kept taking deep breaths, Sojes was funny, but he didn't speak, anyway, this kind of thing can't be forced, the more times she participates, she will naturally have experience, and the more she says now, it will make her nervous again when she finally calms down.
It was obviously not yet four o'clock, but in front of the largest hotel in the imperial capital, there was already a lot of traffic, and those valuable monster mounts and luxury carriages frequently appeared on the streets, and from them came down one by one noble men and women who behaved elegantly and dressed gorgeously and remarkably.
The time has not yet come, so those nobles are basically just talking at the door of the hotel, obviously very curious about the purpose of this banquet, but these people inexplicably chose to avoid this topic, although they are avoiding, but they are still knocking on the side to inquire about some things about the Brustein family, and finally some nobles learned from Belfast that Sojes came back a few days ago, so the topic shifted to Sojes, a topic who has almost stood on the cusp of the storm recently.
"You say, is this boy Sojes going to do something again?"
A young man in a military uniform said to Belfast, he was also a noble student of the same period as Sojes, like Belfast, he had long been no hostile to Sojes, and the original target was also because he was young and ignorant, and now seeing that Sojes had left himself far behind, his attitude changed from targeting to admiration, just admiration to admiration, after all, he was a former classmate, and of course his words were not as rigorous as those noble masters.
"Fairland, don't open your mouth again at the banquet, in case you accidentally offend him again, do you think you and your family can handle it?" Belfast looked at this friend who had grown up since he was a child, with a sad face on his face, although Fairland's family is not weak, but it also scores compared with whom, the earl who has no real power is almost the same in this imperial capital, even if it is not as much as a cow's hair, Sojers just gave them this invitation because of his classmates back then, with his current strength, if he wants to deal with him, he can kill seven in and seven out of Fairland's family by himself, and he doesn't need help from others.
"Of course I know, the seventh-order swordsman! Even Miles and Derek were slaughtered by him, how dare I talk nonsense!"
"It's good that you know. Belfast pursed his lips, indicating that he still had some disbelief.
There are a lot of conversations like this at the door of the hotel, either the dialogue between classmates and classmates, or the reprimand of those noble elders to the juniors, in short, except for a very few families, almost all of them are showing an attitude, that is, don't provoke Sojas, from the point of view of the style of doing things, this is simply a copy of Shiva, no, no, no, even Shiva is not as crazy as this kid, he did so many things when he was in the sixth order, and in the seventh order, he even gave Fiana an old and a young leader, he played older than Shiva!
As the organizer of this time, the Sojes family has been in the hotel for a long time, and the huge hotel has been completely occupied by the Brustein family, and now there are some waiters left on the first floor of the hotel except for a few of them, which looks extremely empty.
"Arlo, how much did it cost this time?" asked Sojess, speechless.
"Not a single copper plate has been spent!" said Lockhan with a smirk grin.
"No, what did you tell him?" Daphne listened to the answer, his face full of disbelief, and Raymond had a similar expression.
"I didn't say anything, the boss behind this house knew that I was a member of the Dragon's Tooth Pirate Regiment, and he came up and said that he would exempt all consumption, so that the Dragon's Tooth Pirate Regiment would be able to help their fleet in the future if they encountered a crisis at sea. Lockhan laughed.
With the scale of this hotel, the turnover at the end of the day is not 10,000 but 8,000, and its net profit is about 2,000 gold coins, and the cost of chartering the place will be nearly doubled, but this boss directly doesn't want it all, just to catch up with the Dragon Tooth Pirate Group, it can be seen that they are also very optimistic about this upstart on the sea.
"No wonder you're more flexible than the navy. Daphne hadn't reacted yet, but Raymond was suddenly aware that this result was reasonable.
"Sister-in-law, you've almost got all those perfumes, aren't you?" asked Sorges, turning to Daphne.
"Of course, except for my own bottle, there is not a single bottle left, by the way, even my eldest sister likes it!" Daphne smiled very happily, she had a very good relationship with Laxiline, after all, she was born to a mother, and her eldest sister was almost not interested in anything except politics, which made her sister very worried, but this time, she knew that Laxiline was going to attend this banquet in place of her father, so she sent a bottle of perfume over, but she didn't expect Laxiline to show a happy smile rarely, looking at her love-loving look, Daphne also felt a little funny while being happy, even her own sister was the first time to see her eldest sister like this。
"Oh, that's an honor!" Sojes was really surprised this time, he had seen this eldest princess who was famous for her outstanding abilities, and he didn't expect that this eldest princess, who was regarded as a devil by the nobles, would also be interested in perfume.
"But......" Daphne seemed to have something unspeakable, and looked at Sogers with a hesitant gaze.
"Sister-in-law, if you have something to say, just say it, it's all your own family here. Sorges motioned for her to speak directly.
"The eldest sister said that this time, she wants 20% of the net profit......"