Volume 2 Chapter 65 Grizzly Bear Gamble
Now in the eyes of Marceau, the little villain in the castle of Stang, even if he is rich, is only a nouveau riche, even far worse than Greenspan, and Augustine also has this awareness, so when Miss Alice's luxury carriage passed by Black Swan Lake and took the initiative to invite him to the banquet at the forest villa, he did not take it seriously.
Brother Shi has a few carriages, the best one is the big red carriage given by the Count of Marseille, the owner of the orange of the law, but unfortunately this disputable Alpha City Lord is really not in good taste, the carriage was tossed by him to the point that it is nothing but spacious and luxurious, far less pleasing to the eye than the barbarian family, and he is attending the banquet today as Miss Alice's personal magician, riding in the carriage is not a violation of the rules, a triumphant knight or a romantic bard, accepting the affection and kindness of a noblewoman, placed in any city on the epic continent, is not a shame, but a beautiful talk。
Miss Alice's costume is the work of an old court tailor in the imperial capital, and the old butler Asa and the old Greenspan magic teacher Carver praise her as the crown jewel of the barbarians, not the courtesy of the nobility, and with their age and status, they have long lived the passionate years of lying down and sleeping and dreaming of climbing.
Alice's skin is fair, like a swan's neck around a string of rare black pearls, full and round, about this string of priceless pearls, in the imperial capital also caused a sensation, the barbarian and the sissy Helen, the two empire upstart families launched a round of fierce bidding in the auction hall, that time the sissy showed a rare toughness, the two almost fought on the spot, and finally the good old man Carolingian Marquis Carolingian who was present came forward to mediate, this is not all, the two families are also negotiating behind the scenes, called "Siren Tears" The black pearl necklace was taken away by Greenspan, so countless imperial capital salons were rumored that Helen, the first heir to the patron saint of the banking industry, wanted to express her love for Caterina, the housekeeper of the Rudolph family, so it was inevitable to have tears for the Siren. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a gold coin lost to the spear.
She was carefully looking at the private magic teacher sitting next to her all the way, her eyes were broken, she didn't dare to be wanton, she heard something interesting when chatting with Aunt Quentin, and she didn't dare to laugh as usual, even if the man sitting next to her told her to "fuck his nobles", Alice felt that the first sentence on the first page of the celebrity handbook "A 30-year-old beautiful slut should bow to a 60-year-old lady" is very reasonable.
Today, Augustine put on a brand new robe, and still could not see the clerical class, there were originally three sets of such robes, and he walked out of the monastery of Maidaiola except for a hand-copied "Teachings", two saints' hearts, and then only three sets of linen robes from the workshop, simple, durable, and without any carvings on the robes. The first set of religious robes was sewn and repaired during Augustine's Red Glove as the Night Watch, and finally completely scrapped in the bloody battle of "Kepler's gallows" on the border of the White Rose, Augustine's "butcher" and "reddest red glove" and other titles came from that bloody battle, and I am afraid that all heretics could not have imagined the unprovoked madness of this young executioner monk, a large part of which was simply due to the destruction of his robe in anger.
Even from the critical eye of Madame Quentin, Augustine was a handsome man, slender in stature, but not weak, with slender fingers, perhaps the unworldly ladies who could only learn about the outside world through court poetry and salon hymns, and at the same time facing Augustine, and Constantine, one of the twin stars of the Augs Song City, would fall in love with the latter at first sight, and then abandon the former with a little regret, but the experienced Madame Quentin was different, the man who was too aggressive in appearance did not suit the appetite of a mature woman like her, and the ladies often liked not a creamy face, but the strong body of knights, or the temperament of a poet, Mrs. Quentin often maliciously imagined why this consul did not follow the curve of the noblewoman's bed to save the country, and she believed that he would be a bestseller, comparable to the autobiography of the previous prime minister of the Titan Empire, "Flowers and Blood".
The Bird of Paradise Forest Villa is a magnificent villa, the most famous of which are two things, the hot springs and the white deer, and the villa at the foot of the mountain has a large bath, and a row of eight lion's heads from their mouths constantly flows with hot water all year round, and the ladies of Marceau County and the Condi family are proud to be able to bathe in the bath. It is said that more than 300 years ago, an emperor visited the Condi family, and met a white deer while hunting in the forest, and the white deer opened his mouth to speak, which is now popular, "Don't touch me, I belong to Caesar". And Caesar, the Caesar on Caesar's gold coin, is the founder of the Holy Empire, and the emperor of that empire was very excited and began to favor the Condi family, but the Condi family never changed the Bird of Paradise Villa into the White Deer Villa.
Before getting out of the carriage, the innocent and innocent Alice asked about this allusion, and Mrs. Quentin could not give a clear answer, and Augustine came from a family with a deeper roots than Condy, and there was a similar story in his now disinherited manor, except that the protagonist was replaced by another emperor and a female elf, so Augustine just calmly told Alice that it was a beautiful lie.
Alice, as Greenspan's representative, has a lot of tedious things to deal with. The faith and piety of the head of the Greenspan family doomed the barbarian not to be an heir to a flourishing family, and the Earl of Germania and his wife had three sons and one daughter, and the three male heirs were in the Titan battlefield on the southern border, The Saxon forests in the southeast and the Capricorn wastes in the west are all war maniacs, only the youngest daughter, Miss Alice, is most like a normal noble heir, so the Earl of Germania always likes to bring her little daughter, and Miss Alice's occasional achievements in playing the role of a family diplomat are also outstanding, so she is undoubtedly the most favored flower of the barbarians, and the most terrible thing is that her three brothers are famous for spoiling her, to the point of deformity, Jupiter City is surrounded by unlucky people with swords around their necks because of their proximity to Alice, and the good deeds began to bet on whether Alice could escape from her brothers in the future"Devil's Claw".
"Augustine, do you have lust or love for Alice?" Lady Quentin, as the newest crappy diplomat of Castle Stangégo, will of course follow Augustin's side. Her makeup is very ordinary, no different from the average noblewoman of Marceau, the only incongruity is probably that her chest is tightly covered by a high round neck, and it is difficult to reveal a large area of smooth and white scenery, with the scale of her breasts, she can definitely support a tempting deep groove, but unfortunately the unreasonable order chief next to her has spoken: Mrs. Quentin, you don't have the luxury of wearing a low collar at a dinner party in your life. In this regard, Mrs. Quentin only symbolically protested for a sentence or two, and there was no follow-up. And it seems that Mrs. Quentin, who has made countless old nobles feel that her clothes are too conservative along the way, is not lost. Walking beside Augustine, she asked a very serious question.
Augustine did not answer this question.
"And how do you deal with Alice's three brothers?" Lady Quentin did not give up.
Augustine still refused to answer, and he felt that it would be more practical to take the time to think about some of the deeper questions. Don't expect that a madman who dares to provoke the Todd family will know how to be humble, not to mention that the object is still three aristocratic knights with a strange view of love, and after dealing with heretics for a long time, Augustine has long been accustomed to aristocratic etiquette When it doesn't work, he will compare whose spear is longer and whose fist is harder.
There was still some time before the dinner, and the castle was full of meticulously dressed nobles, oily landowners, greedy bankers, richly robed bishops, knights with medals on their chests, and "industrious" people whose clothes were about to be more bloated and heavy than their bodies The noblewoman, the unmarried socialite who has been cruising and hunting, and some eye-catching and bombastic artists and poets, in Augustine's impression, whether it is the Duke's House of Rotonchilde or the adjacent palace of Prince Otis, all refuse all similar banquets, Augustine's family is peaceful, and the next door is gloomy, but both subconsciously reject vulgarity and noise. Mrs. Quentin saw him standing by the bookshelf on the periphery of a circle in a daze, and did not disturb, but took a book from the shelf, and prepared many reading works in the Bird of Paradise Villa, and gave the ladies some exquisite and beautiful poetry collections, and the latest works of the continental writers with eloquent and grand narratives were provided to the nobles and gentlemen, and brought them the inspiration for their high-minded speeches, and Augustine and Mrs. Quentin were in front of a circle of usurers, speculators, and bankers, and they were talking about topics derived from money, and of course, full of superiority, and they felt witty and witty。
"Has anyone placed a bet on the Grizzly Bear market in the Imperial Capital?" a successful speculator smiled. Whenever successful people outside Jupiter City talk about the especially xenophobic Jupiter City, they have an unavoidable sour grape mentality, and like to call it the imperial capital, but ordinary nobles are reluctant to declare the sacrosanct Jupiter City as the "imperial capital", for speculators, there is no such unnecessary awe, no matter how dark the sacramental ministry is, it is not boring to pursue such details.
"I lost 5 thousand Caesars. A fat man said with a ashamed expression, but there was no regret in his eyes.
Grizzly Bear, a casino that had not been around for a long time, was one of the fashion icons of Jupiter during this time, and the great figures of the imperial capital were honored to discuss the teachings with the archpriest Napoleon. Grizzly is a * project dedicated to that treason, with many categories, from whether the earliest Prince of Otis will be imprisoned by his own brother, to whether the poet duke will be judged as treason, followed by whether the duchess, who has three noble surnames, will use the power of her parents' two ancient families to interfere in the Holy Empire, and the latest bet, of course, is when the poor archon died in an "accident" , this gambling market has been crazy profitable, because it has been a bad news, Prince Otis is not only dead, but also hung a statue of St. Urban, the Rotonchild family is not only ruined, but also the duke and duchess have died safely, and the damned little priest is very uninteresting to live, Jupiter City has been a rare tolerant attitude towards the grizzly market, senior bankers estimate that this rising star in the casino industry has accumulated at least 8 million Caesar gold coins in less than a year, which is almost four-fifths of the empire's annual military expenditure, and the rich people in the imperial capital and the surrounding areas are proud of losing, because this is a hidden statement - I am disgusted with the little priest with a bad reputation. This attitude, apparently mainstream, is a panacea pass for closer relations between strange aristocrats.
The old nobles have one less partner who is qualified to sit at the same negotiating table and talk and grab gold coins, the middle-ranking families see that there is a precious position left in the upper echelons of power, and the rich people who are not nobles gloat see the desolate fate of the nobles, so they all have their own reasons to rejoice.
"I was a little less, and I lost only 3,000 Caesars. A banker man who has already done business in the Caucasus smiled elegantly.
"Gentlemen, with your wisdom, you have lost money?"
A voice that is not very in tune with the atmosphere sounded softly.