Grant Grant hung the water-soaked flannel in her hand on a wooden shelf on the side, picked up a dry flannel, and continued to wipe her pink hair to absorb the excess moisture.

According to her usual habits, it is enough to wipe it once with an ordinary cloth, but for the sake of pleasing herself, Luo Ming likes the touch of stroking her hair very much, and she will not refuse these specially prepared for her.

However, she politely declined Luo Ming's suggestion to send a maid to help.

Although Luo Ming's subordinates will not lack one or two maids, she feels that it is more comfortable to do this kind of thing by herself.

Luo Ming actually often worries about manpower, that is, during this time, he gained a large number of mountain people, and only eased it a little.

In Granty's view, it is better to do something else than to serve oneself. And even if she wanted a servant, she would rather have a knight servant who could help maintain her armor and weapons.

After all, she Grant Palatina, although she was also of noble birth and her grandfather had doted on her for a while, but since she was six years old when she expressed her interest in swords, she has never been pampered again, and has been living a simple life as a paladin ever since.

When her hair was almost dry, she wrapped herself in a bathrobe and walked out of the bathroom with a horn comb in hand.

Luo Ming was sitting at a small desk, reading a slightly curled piece of parchment by candlelight.

He seemed a little embarrassed at the moment, holding his chin with his right hand for a while, and then pressing the first knuckle of his thumb between his eyes, exerting a slight supporting force on his forehead, obviously thinking about a not so simple matter.

Granty stood beside him, brushing her hair and glancing over the letter.

The tip of Luo Ming's nose twitched slightly, and the familiar body fragrance finally brought him back to his senses, and he directly handed the letter paper to Granty's hand.

In addition to the polite words and pleasantries, the essence is distilled, and this is probably the case - Charlotte applies to Princess Victoria for a vacation, and is going to return to Van Shee County for a while, and asks Lormin to prepare for her, so that she can wash the dust.

"What do you think?" asked Login at Granty.

"Me?" said Granty, stopping the horn comb in her hand, pondering for a moment, and then replying, "I remember that in previous letters it was mentioned that the princess valued Miss Charlotte very much, and was even ready to make her a full-time female officer, why did she suddenly get on leave and let her come back?"

There may or may not be hidden in this, and it is impossible to make a conclusion for the time being, but it is better for us to be prepared. ”

Today's Granty, although he doesn't fully know what Luo Ming wants to do (such as the part of His Highness the Black Sun), most of them are involved and understood, so he naturally considers the problem from his point of view.

In fact, Luo Ming has never been a pure minister. Even to His Highness the Black Sun, he does not have that kind of pure loyalty, one-third of which is the dedication of the earthlings in the twenty-first century to their superiors, one-third is the spring of retribution to the benefactor, and one-third is just the desire to achieve a win-win situation with the partners.

As for the principality, there is no loyalty at all - no, the "words" themselves are, and Luo Ming can also say a lot of things if he shouts slogans, but it is a little difficult for him to actually implement his loyalty unconditionally with his actions.

If he is really a loyal servant of the principality, how can he form a gang in the county like he is now, ready to run his own one-third of an acre of land into an iron bucket, instead of using his talents to serve the royal family and the country?

As for Granty, although she still has a strong respect for the traditional virtue of loyalty, she can also accept Login's statement-

First of all, the principality did not have much kindness to Luo Ming, he was a foreign visitor, and the title was not a reward, but as a due reward from Charlotte personally, just one hand to pay and the other hand to deliver, no grace, no hatred, no debt.

Secondly, the best development can only be achieved if Luo Ming is in charge of the house himself. Otherwise, there is a superior nobleman above his head who can point fingers and hinder people everywhere, so he must not be tired to death? One of the reasons why Grant followed Luo Ming was that he thought that he could create a great cause, and Ze was born, even if he wanted to play a clear banner to divide one side or play independence or something, as long as he could get closer to that dream, she would silently support it.

After listening to Granty's answer, Luo Ming nodded: "You think so too." While I hate to doubt Charlotte herself, it's hard to keep things that pure once you get to that Princess Victoria. ”

Thinking of the princess, he couldn't help but shrug his shoulders.

Over the past year, Luo Ming's development speed has exceeded ordinary people's imagination, last year - the year 982 of the Principality calendar, he was a knight when he returned to his hometown at the end of June, and today is June 13 of 983, he has become a viscount with real power.

In terms of the size of the territory alone, it is almost 1,900 square kilometers - the entire county of Van Xi is only about 2,700 square kilometers, which is already one percent of the area of the principality.

But Princess Victoria, who was nicknamed "Little Fox" by Luo Ming, is not bad, and she has basically belonged to the state of "Prince Prison" this year, presiding over most of the government affairs.

Most of them were skilful, though occasionally a little immature, but they were complemented by the quickness and daring of a young man, almost no less than that of her great grandmother, Archduchess Victoria I.

Luo Ming didn't pay much attention to the outside world during this time, but through the channels of the Brotherhood of Blades, he still got some information: the princess had performed well during the year and had suppressed many people who had doubts about her.

By the way, five members of the Brotherhood of Swords simply came to serve under Luo Ming one after another, alleviating the problem of the shortage of officials under him, and also bringing the message of the royal capital Brandon clearly, Luo Ming can ask them face-to-face, so the amount of information he can obtain is far more than the amount of information exchanged in ordinary letters.

Luo Ming's triple jump to become a viscount within a year has indeed become a hot topic, and even in the royal capital Brandon, many people know him as a rising star.

But when it comes to the heat of the topic, Her Royal Highness the princess with excellent skills is a hundred times that of him.

For example, the "Edict on the Responsibility of the Nobles of the Northwest Counties to Defend the Land and the System of Rewards and Punishments" was very successful in dealing with the crisis at the beginning of the year, and won her a lot of praise and awe.

It's mid-June and the autumn harvest is approaching, and it makes perfect sense for Charlotte to come back to preside over the harvest. Luo Ming didn't plan to actually take over her Miana.