Chapter 3: The Down-and-Out Aristocrats (2)
"Young Master, hurry up and eat, morning is the top priority of the whole day, hurry up and start training after eating!" Seeing that Leach, who had finished washing and was dressed neatly, but still had a scruffy beard, Lina smiled and said hello to Lena who was sitting at a large dining table large enough for more than a dozen people to eat at the same time.
"That's called the plan of the day in the morning, what's the most important thing......" couldn't help but complain, Leach pulled out the dining chair opposite Lena and sat down.
The black bread as hard as a stone, the white fresh milk, and the carefully modified heart-shaped omelette add up to a breakfast for two, which is not much better than the breakfast of an ordinary farmer's family, and it is really incompatible with the richly decorated dining room.
Not only that, except for the two of them, there was no one in the huge villa, and the dozen or so rooms in the entire villa were usually cleaned by Lena alone.
According to normal logic, the lives of Leach and Lena should not be so poor, even if they do not reach the level of extravagance of spending money. But because Leach's parents disappeared ten years ago, and the five-year-old Leach was still a little kid at the time, he didn't know anything but crying and shouting for his parents, and the burden of life was completely on the immature shoulders of Lena, who was only eight years old at the time.
Although he has the help of his father's best friend, Wright Richard, the lord of Ambrera, after all, as the city lord, he is usually busy with affairs and cannot do everything, so he can't replace his father's role at all, so Daquan is managed by Lena, who is also ignorant, who is also ignorant, for part of the time.
Blessings are incomparable, disasters are not one-way, and some mercenary merchants even scammers have targeted this pair of young men and girls sitting on Baoshan.
Somewhat conscientious, they would encourage Lena, who was bent on restoring the former glory of the Hoffman family, to invest in their business. But how could the simple-minded Lena be a rival to these cunning businessmen, who often spend huge sums of money and end up with only a small stake in them. However, Lena was also fooled into signing a legally protected contract with the other party, so that when she got the news later, Wright, who was willing to stand up for her, had nowhere to start.
This is not bad, although the input is not proportional to the output, but at least there is a return. What is even more hateful are those scammers with empty gloves and white wolves, who use all kinds of methods to defraud money. If it weren't for the fact that the enraged Lord of Wright had not been able to deter a group of petty criminals, the young siblings would have been deceived into nothing and ended up on the streets.
Even so, there are still a handful of scammers who take the risk and follow one after another like scented flies. This continued until Leach was sensible and able to take charge on his own, and then it disappeared.
What leaves Leach speechless is that despite being deceived countless times, Lena still has not learned any lessons from it, and will still be deceived by the so-called "big deal" that others portray as fanciful and flashy.
Moreover, through Lena's unremitting "efforts", the fortune of the Hoffman family, which was already seven out of ten, has shrunk seriously again. In order to save their money, Leach and Lena live a budget-conscious life.
All the servants in the house were dismissed, and all the household chores were taken care of by Lena, who was keen on it, and in her own words, these were the skills necessary for a good head maid.
After reducing the expenses, Lena put a small abacus on eating, and all the dining standards were at the minimum, as long as the nutrition could be kept up.
Not to mention, Lena, who is confused and lavish, really has a set of management in managing small money, and only needs to use half of other people's expenses to achieve the same living effect.
To Leach's relief, although she hated to break a Bailey (equivalent to a dollar) into a four-petaled flower, Lena had no idea of selling the expensive and unusual furniture decorations in her home. When some scammers who want to use it to pay for money make similar requests, she will not hesitate to refuse, no matter how yearning and desire she is for those "beautiful blueprints".
At this point, both Leach and Lena are surprisingly in agreement, that is, no matter what the cost, no part of the family can be changed in the slightest, and when father and mother return, they will be surprised to find that everything is as usual, as if time has stood still. Even if they need to spend a lot of extra maintenance costs for this livelihood, even if they need to suffer more for this, they will not hesitate to do so.
In addition, the great dream of becoming a good head maid is really not a matter of words, Lena is really talented in housework, which can be seen from the clean and tidy rooms and neat and vibrant courtyards, and it does not delay her from doing other things.
However, Lena's ability to cook is something that makes Leach completely flattering, and she doesn't know how her taste buds are formed, and the taste is so heavy that it is deadly. This is also what she admires the most, no matter how unpalatable things are, she can eat them like a delicacy.
Take the love omelette in front of you as an example, the appearance is simply not picky, the soft-hearted egg yolk with just the right heat, soft, springy, and jelly-like crystal clear egg white, makes people appetize.
But who can come out and explain what the hell is the thick layer of salt on top of this omelette, is it trying to salte people to death?
In the face of the beautiful dark cuisine on the table, Leach is calm and abnormal, and he doesn't even bother to complain, no way, he has long been used to it.
After picking up the "helmet and armored" love omelette and carefully washing it in a bowl of water specially prepared on the side, Leach enjoyed his breakfast with the brown bread that was still very hard after soaking in milk for a while.
"Well, sure enough, 'after the shower' tastes much better......" Leach thought to himself as he ate.
As for what he eats, Leach has always been as long as he can fill his stomach, and he is not picky about the taste at all, or rather, he has to make compromises and concessions at all, otherwise, he may not be qualified to grow up at all......
"Thank you to the amazing Sister Lina, I believe that no matter where I go, I will not starve to death because I can't eat something unpalatable......" Looking at Lena, who was eating an omelette that was enough to kill people but showing a cute expression of extreme happiness, Leach's heart swelled with a warm current, "Although I am not my own sister, but if it weren't for her, I might not have been able to hold on for a long time......"