On Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings, Hathaway would spend half a day working at the Foreign Affairs Bureau.

Basically, she signed some final decisions on foreign affairs, she did not have the right to decide, but she had the right to know, and some things must be known before they could be implemented, which was part of her life.

With the exception of these three days, the lady of the Archon of Ruyt would basically stay in the castle.

She didn't like to listen to opera very much, she didn't like to go to the balls of the nobles, and even the afternoon tea between the ladies would only agree to the invitations on Tuesdays and Fridays.

She was left with Surdak on the weekends, and although Surdak had been so busy lately that he didn't come home until late every day, Hathaway insisted on doing so.

As the weather gradually became hotter, Hathaway, Beatrice, and Thea all changed into cool dresses in the castle, and sometimes everyone was in the back garden, and there was no restraint in the gauze skirt.

The huge pool in the back garden has basically become Thea's territory, and looking at a thin line flying across the clear water, you know that Thea is speeding in the pool, and her fastest swimming speed is faster than a harrier eagle skimming through the sky.

Every time you swim, your body is covered with this layer of pale blue scales, and the three-colored fishtail is more like a flame burning in the water when it sways in the water......

Hathaway would sometimes bring home unsigned papers.

At this time, she would lie on a wicker chair by the pool, holding a document and pondering it word by word.

If she doesn't know something, she will also ask the people around her, Beatrice and Thea don't understand this, she will occasionally ask the housekeeper to get some information from the side.

Sometimes when I encounter something important that is difficult to decide, I will ask Surdak, and often Surdak's advice will be more pertinent.

Of course, Hathaway's life is not so perfect now.

She also had her troubles, she reached out to cover her flat and smooth lower abdomen, and her blue eyes showed a slight melancholy.

……

Surdak doesn't stay out on weekend nights, no matter how busy the city hall is.

He needs to find some time to spend with his family......

Surdak sat on a wicker chair in the back garden, still pondering the design drawings that Baron Martino had sent, many of which were already in line with his thoughts, but there were still some details that were not in place, either too cumbersome or not refined enough.

He rubbed his forehead, looked at Thea, who had already drawn a huge whirlpool in the pool, and asked casually, "Thea, have Charlie and Luke their craftsmen arrived?" ”

Thea's body made a beautiful leap in the pool, and then he would poke his head out of the edge of the pool at Surdak's feet, put his arms on the pool platform, let himself above the shoulders above the water, shake the water stains on his head vigorously, and said:

"The first batch of craftsmen arrived yesterday, but the fence over the slave market is currently being demolished, and I heard that the first resettlement houses are going to be built there?"

Surdak patted his forehead, took a big sip of the juice on the small wooden table, and said:

"I almost forgot about it if you didn't mention it, remember to remind me tomorrow morning to go to the slave enclosure to see ......"

"I know, but I'm afraid it won't work tomorrow morning, tomorrow morning you will go to the steel factory to preside over the investment conference." Thea said.

Thea scurried out of the pool to the shore, where a maid draped a bath towel over her, and the beautiful fishtail full of streamlines slowly changed into two white legs in the water.

Surdak asked Thea, "Do the poor people who moved out early complain?" ”

"It's not bad, especially when I heard that the city hall promised to compensate them for a new house in the slave fence, and yesterday many people went to the slave market to see the fence removed, and I heard that the scene was very lively...... "Thea raised her hand to pull her wet hair into a ball on the top of her head, and her delicate and innocent pretty face was hung with crystal droplets, glowing faintly golden in the setting sun.

At this time, the butler walked up to Surdak's side and whispered, "The Mali family has sent an invitation to the ball, and the ball will be held tomorrow night. ”

"Help me refuse, just say...... Just find a reason to forget it, it's a little more natural! ”

Surdak waved his hand impatiently and said.

Surdak rarely attended the Noble Ball in Ruyt.

He prefers to sit in his study and read a book, or practice chopping and parrying in the back garden.

Although these basic moves are already a second-turn powerhouse for him, his practice of swinging the sword and slashing seems to be carved into his bones, just like insisting on brushing his teeth every day, and if he doesn't brush his mouth every day, he will feel uncomfortable......

Occasionally, Beatrice would take a wooden sword and Surdak in a fight in the back garden.

In terms of technique alone, Surdak, a knight who was a shield warrior, was not much more skilled than Ateris, who graduated from the Bednar High Swordsman Academy.

However, Surdak has recently learned the 'white heat' of Commander Felix, as long as the sword glows with blazing white holy light, when he swings the sword, he will split out five sword rays, knowing the angle and speed of Surdak's shot, and the move is also very clear in Beatrice's eyes, but every time it is unstoppable.

In an instant, the long sword in Beatrice's hand will be blown away, and it will be tried again and again.

However, for the two-headed ogre Gulitham, he is very disdainful of those fancy sword skills, believing that these fancy sword skills will only lead a knight astray, and that the battle on the battlefield is always only between a few rounds, so only perfect suppression in strength is the way to win.

Every time you lose a match, it will be the beginning of another battle for Beatrice.

……

At the same time that the city hall announced that the demolition of the slum would be supervised by the residents' committee, in fact, the demolition of the slum in Ruyt City had already been carried out vigorously.

Almost all of the poor families in the vicinity of the steelworks were notified to evacuate by the residents' committees, and their temporary residence was in the gladiatorial arena on the edge of the commercial district, where almost all the poor who had moved from the vicinity of the steelworks had to live in that simple room.

There were more than 100 rooms under the audience in the Colosseum, enough to serve as temporary dwellings for the poor.

Led by Luke, the 1st Construction Corps of Mucuso entered the city of Ruyt in late May, and the first team of craftsmen did not enter the open space of the steelworks, but went directly to the booming slave market.

With the advance cooperation of the guard battalion, the slave market in Ruyt City was seized by a proclamation issued by the Chamber of Deputies, declaring that it was an illegal building and would be demolished within a time limit.

The demolition team brought by Luke had been waiting for a long time by the side of a team of knights in the guard battalion.

After the Nathaniel chief read it aloud, the entire slave market was terminated, and all the slave owners and their slaves were driven out of the slave market, and Luke and a group of craftsmen pushed all the fences around the slave market.

The surrounding citizens flocked to the city, and they collectively looted the walls and wooden cages of the slave market.

According to Surdak's requirements, a resettlement house will be built here as quickly as possible, and this task will not be difficult for the Mukuso 1st construction engineering team.

If it is a brick and stone building, it may take more than half a year to build.

But Luke heeded Baron Martino's suggestion that the resettlement houses would be half-masonry and half-timber, so the construction period would be cut by two-thirds, and Luke was confident that the first poor people would be able to move into their new homes by the end of next month.

……

Charley arrived at Ruyt from Mucuso with a second group of craftsmen, two days later than Luke's construction team.

When they arrived at the clearing of the ironworks, they immediately erected wooden shelves on the slightly leveled land, and twenty carpenters from the village of Wo, led by Baron Martino, spent two days building a model of a food court.

Now it's on the side of the road in the steel factory......

The entire model of the food court is more than three meters long and is completely covered by a huge square magic shield.

It is said that the rune board of this magic shield alone is worth fifteen magic crystals, which is customized from Ruit's largest magic rune board firm, and if this magic rune board is running normally every day, two magic crystal fragments must be burned to maintain the effect of the light mask.

However, such a novel thing has also attracted the attention of many citizens, and many people have come to this empty field to see this huge wooden model.

And Surdak's purpose in doing this is just to attract the attention of the citizens.

Martino's food court has many elements of garden architecture, the restaurants are almost next to each other, almost all of these restaurants have huge floor-to-ceiling glass windows, these models even have some tables and chairs in the style, the pedestrian street of the square is paved with smooth stone slabs, and there are benches at intervals in the center of the street, statues and fountains are everywhere.

Many citizens gathered around the sand table, and immediately became a little dizzy, and someone said in the crowd:

"Is this what this place is going to look like in the future?"

"Probably, what are these shops, they look a bit like restaurants......"

"It must be a restaurant, look at the plaques with the image of barbecue and fried fish, oh! It's supposed to be a cold drink shop, and it would be nice to have a red bean smoothie here, but would anyone really want to open a restaurant here? This is a slum, and those who can't even eat enough can really have spare money to patronize these restaurants? ”

"Haven't you heard that the poor people around you have moved to the slave market?"

"I heard that this will be another commercial area of Ruyt, dedicated to the reception of merchants who come to Ruyt from outside......"

"Will so many merchant groups come to us in the future?"

"Actually, there are a lot of them now, but most of the caravans won't stop in Ruit City, because Mukuso City is duty-free ......."

The townspeople were mixed with some businessmen, and everyone was talking about it, and immediately talked about the prospect of this restaurant square.

The proximity to the Ruit Gate makes it such a privileged location that even ordinary residents can see the commercial value and market potential of this place......

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