Chapter 7 One-sided Words
Emmiway spent the morning familiarizing herself with the layout of the entire mansion. In addition to the main house, there are also a number www.biquge.info of warehouses, alchemies, stables and other miscellaneous independent houses in the mansion.
There were about thirty male and female servants in the entire mansion, plus grooms, guards, private tinkers, and cooks, and the Sinekar family alone numbered more than fifty people, and this was only the permanent part. According to the head maid Carly, the Sinekar family has a large chamber of commerce in the city, and the employees in it can be counted as servants of the Sinecal family. For example, the half-blood goblin who picked up Emmyway.
Outside the city there was also the manor house of the Sinecal family and the old castle, where there were also a number of loyal lords and servants.
In addition to Wendini, Carly, the head maid in the mansion has the most right to speak, from the captain of the guard to the wolf dog guarding the door, all of whom have to obey her arrangement. But now there is one more eldest lady, and Carly has one more master to obey.
"I've been working for the head of the family since I was 4 years old, in the old castle, since the head of the family decided to move to the city. I had the privilege of becoming the head maid. Carly looked proud as she talked about herself. Probably in terms of money, she was no poorer than the country aristocrats who nestled in the manor.
There wasn't much about Emmive's mother in the mansion, and according to Carly's description, her aunt Wendini had brought only a few portraits and stone statues from the old castle, and the rest had been left in the old castle for the sake of preserving the original thing.
Emmiway was more concerned about the old castle, where her mother had lived, after all. "Is the old castle far from the city?"
Interrupted by the memories, Carly was not angry, she was used to hiding expressions that shouldn't have appeared. She serves the great witch Wendini who will turn her face and reprimand others at any time, if she is not good at changing her face, how can she get to her current status.
"Miss Emmivi is going to the Old Castle, which is not far, and it takes about seven to eight hours by carriage, and a day if the roads are muddy. However, I personally recommend that you do not go for the time being, as malaria is currently epidemic in some villages outside the city, and although it has been controlled, it is still very dangerous. The people in the countryside are very unhygienic, and if you are unfortunate enough to be infected with any disease, I and all the people in the mansion cannot afford it. ”
Carly didn't know that the descendants of the Sinecal family were immune to the four causes of death, and she had the impression that witches could avoid more harm than ordinary people, but it should be no exception to infectious diseases, and she had heard of witches who had unfortunately died of tuberculosis. Wendyni's order was that Emmivi could move around the city as she pleased, and with her attitude towards the old castle, she would never allow Emmivi to pass now.
"Malaria? what's that?" was vaguely in her future memory, but it didn't seem like a dangerous disease. "Will there be dead people?"
"Of course, Miss Emmyway. You used to live in the far east and probably didn't know anything about malaria. More than 30 people have died from the disease since this spring. Maybe it's more than that, some people in the countryside live in the middle of nowhere, and no one knows when they die. There is also drug treatment for the mild degree, and the only way to see the will of God is for the severe degree, which is basically a dead end. Carly deliberately made the matter more serious, hoping that Emmivi would stop thinking about it.
When Emmiwei lived in Tubao, she had also heard of infectious diseases, and once she was discovered, she would be left behind and killed. The Mongols only use precious medicines on their own people, and their herbs don't always work. Therefore, she was more afraid of diseases, and listening to Carly's description, she was not sure whether the witch's physique was immune to that dangerous disease.
While the two were sitting together talking and chatting, a guard hurriedly approached. Carly leaned over to find out what was going on, but she didn't call Emmiway, and left with the guards alone.
"What's going on?" Emmiway, out of curiosity, didn't care about the unfinished cream biscuits, and quickly chased after her, and her intuition told her that someone very important was coming.
Skirting the fountain in the middle of the garden, Emmiway saw a carriage parked outside the gate, and Carly talking to an old gentleman. The other party looked seventy or eighty years old, with all white hair, but the tuxedo suit was dressed neatly, and there was an indescribable sense of decency in his gestures.
It was very normal for the other party to appear in the Sinecal mansion, and although it was the first time Emmivi had seen this old gentleman, she had a subjective judgment in her heart.
"Who is that...... Miss Emmivi returning from the Eastern Realm?" the other party bypassed the head maid, Carly, and walked straight towards Emmyway. "This must be the apparition of Lord Alice, and the old man can actually see Lady Sattilla's widow in his lifetime...... Thank...... There's nothing like this God-given treasure......"
The old gentleman walked up to Emmyway and wept excitedly, his cloudy eyes shining like a new life, as if he had been redeemed.
Kneeling on one knee, the old gentleman swore an oath to Emmyway with the courtesy of his subordinates. "Hail to the great ancestor Alice Sinekar, the old man is the steward who serves your mother, Lawrence, who is willing to put this old bone together and continue to serve you. Please give the old man a chance. ”
Emmyvi didn't understand what was going on at all, and from the information she had received from the mansion last night and this morning, there should be no housekeeper in the Sinecal family, only a head maid. And the first time they met, they would be kissed and hand-kissed, and Rao is Emmiwei couldn't help blushing, she hadn't been so close to the opposite sex since she could remember.
"This ...... What's going on?" Emmivi asked Carly in a panic, trying to get the head maid to explain. Just now, Carly also introduced the general situation in the mansion, and I didn't hear Carly mention the existence of a seventy or eighty-year-old butler.
Carly's eyes wandered, but before Emmivi could ask, she replied hesitantly, "Lawrence Steward is in charge of the old castle and the family's consular district outside the city. Until the death of Lord Shatilla, your mother, Steward Lawrence was in charge of the family's affairs. Mistress Wendini invited him to take up a position in the new mansion, but he refused because she only had the right to inherit temporarily and did not have the right to change the family foundation. I don't understand how an unfaithful knight like him could live to be 75 years old. What's so good about the old castle? If you buy a new broom, you have to take a carriage to the city, and you might as well move to the city altogether. ”
It was the first time Emmiway had encountered Carly with a look of disgust and insulting others to her face. Dealing with Minica's affairs in the morning, although she was heavy-handed, she was just pretending to be fierce. This time, Carly was visibly hostile to Lawrence's butler, who had suddenly arrived.
"Carly!Who allowed you to talk too much about the Sinecal family?!" Lawrence Butler unceremoniously rushed forward and knocked the head maid Carly to the ground. As if restraining himself, his right hand moved to the hilt of the saber at his waist, but he did not make any subsequent movements.
Emmivi will not be mistaken, the opponent's aged human body can achieve Emmyway's current eighty percent knife drawing speed, and Emmyway alone has reason to believe that the other party is a strong human in close combat.
"Are you allowed to have the family crest of the black-winged three-legged bird embroidered on your clothes? Remember, it's okay for you to humiliate me, if you dare to discredit the head of the Sinecal family in the slightest. The old man won't give you a chance to say another word!"
Lawrence proudly pointed to the golden family crest on the collar of his suit, looking excited.
"I'm sorry, Miss Emmyway. Let you see the immature side of the old man. Lawrence took out a bunch of copper keys from his bosom and stuffed them into Emmyway's hand. "This is the key to the castle in its entirety, and you are the rightful heir, now that you're back. It will be a great honor for us to wait respectfully with the rest of the servants of the castle for your visit. Please. ”
Bending down to salute, Lawrence turned and got into the carriage and departed from the gate of the mansion.
His presence gave Emmiway another feeling of coming home, and the set of keys in her hand was most likely something her mother had used. Just touching it gave her the illusion of familiarity, there was an indescribable gap in the mansion, and the moment she held the key, she really felt the warmth of home.
The key in her hand can open every door of her house, and Emmivi can't refuse Lawrence's invitation. She wanted to go to the castle.
As soon as she thought of it, she suddenly ran and rushed out of the gate at a speed that ordinary people couldn't imagine.
"Wait! I'm going back to the castle now!"
Steward Lawrence heard a shout from behind the carriage and quickly signaled the groom to stop. He poked his head out, only to see Emmiway leap to the carriage.
The old butler wept again with excitement, he could not have imagined that the daughter of the returning head of the previous family would graciously grant his wish.
"Please, welcome back. Miss Emily. ”
Lawrence stretched out his hand and pulled Amy into the carriage, but as for the guard and the head maid Carly, who were hurrying after them, the two of them automatically ignored them. There won't be many people who can catch up with the carriage like Emmivia.
"For some reason, after holding the keys, I felt the urge to go to the castle urgently. Emmivi scratched her head a little embarrassed, she really didn't fit to be enshrined like a princess. Although it may anger Aunt Wendini, Emmiway can't do that much, she just wants to see the environment where her mother lived before her death.
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Introduction:
Her full name is Wendini Sinekar
Also known as the Fallen Witch
Birthday: October 30th
Age 226 years
Gender: Female
Blood type AB
Height 168cm
Weight 51kg
Zodiac sign Scorpio
Subject country: Republic of Florence
Family coat of arms, black-winged three-legged bird
Weapon Staff
Magical attributes: Dark
Good at magic categories: mind control system, shadow department, **** system, etc
Make demons low-level demons
Suspicious and fickle
likes to dominate the will, accumulate money, and look at people to make a fool of themselves in public
Detailed Attributes:
Power C
Agile B
Constitution C+
Intelligence A
Perception A
Glamour A+
Overall rating B+
Witch level witch
Administrator of the Florence Region
Human-friendly
Church-friendly
"The pleasure of depravity is like fine wine, which makes people want to stop. 』
"I give the high-ranking servants **** and the low-level servants money. These two treasures are an inexhaustible source of strength for my reign over Florence. 』