The steward had a bright smile on his face, and he looked extremely affectionate with Joseph, which made Joseph stunned. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, after looking closely at the steward's face with two moustaches, José thought about it carefully, and then recognized that this steward was the mustachioed butler of the Norman family who had given José a gift before.

"I have to say, you look really good tonight!" the mustachioed butler complimented Jose a few times, and then said with a smile, "Lord Norman knows that you will be here tonight, so he specially asked me to wait for you here." My lord said, "If Mr. Chaux arrives, let me take you to the back of the banquet hall, where the Duke of Casa is also in the back of the parlor, what do you think?"

Joseph nodded, and the steward smiled faintly, made a salute to Jose, and then walked inside with Joseph, Gould could only rest outside and wait for the dinner to end because his identity was not enough.

The mustachioed steward seemed to be quite sociable, and Joseph only casually chatted with him, and his attitude was also very respectful, as long as Joseph asked about something, he mostly answered it to Joseph in great detail.

At this time, Joseph learned from the mustachioed steward that this mansion was indeed only a property of the Norman family in the south of the city, and it was also managed by a special person in charge of the family on weekdays, and it was only used for some family meetings or important banquets.

According to the mustachioed steward, the Norman family's largest industry was not in the imperial capital's chambers of commerce and a few trading houses, because the Norman family's fiefdom was in the southern part of the empire, even close to the East China Sea Province.

According to the aristocratic system of the Bright Empire, the family can manage and collect the financial taxes in the fief, so the financial center of gravity of the Norman family is in the south. The specialties and trade of some of the Eastern Sea provinces were basically transported to the imperial capital by sea and land, and the Norman family could make a lot of profits in the fiefdom and imperial capital every year.

What he said was not a secret, and he could have known it with a little inquiry. José wanted to ask more, but the mustache was also very tactful, and he only said something about the Norman family properly, and as for some of the more internal information, he smiled and said nothing.

After asking a few casual questions, José didn't have the heart to ask any more, and the two quickly walked through the courtyard in front of the mansion one after the other, and saw a brightly lit hall in the distance, and there were many attendants and some guards at the door.

"This is the banquet hall, Mr. Chase, please come with me!" said to Josse with his mustache, then straightened his chest and led José into the hall.

Only then did Joseph notice that there were already quite a few people in this hall, and most of these people, except for some servants and attendants, were some celebrities and magnates dressed in gorgeous robes, or some ministers and officials of the imperial military.

Although there would be no strict rules for such a private banquet, after entering the door, the mustache still explained in a low voice to Joseph with a smile: According to the habits and traditions of banquets, guests of similar status and status will gather spontaneously, and like the inner city of the imperial capital, the big families and the rich and powerful often have their own place.

When Joseph heard him say this, he found that the guests gathered in the hall in twos and threes were indeed dressed differently.

From the red carpet in the center of the hall, these guests seem to be faintly gathered on both sides. Among the guests on the east side, apart from a few ladies and ladies in evening dresses, most of them were men dressed in the gowns of the generals of the Imperial Army. The dresses of these generals are very different from the noble dresses, and the cut is very decent, although those people are all smiling, but they also faintly reveal a bit of military temperament. Quite a few high-ranking officers' dresses also had such things as ribbons and badges, epaulettes and the like hung on the chest.

When Joseph glanced at it from a distance, he could already see many high-ranking officers with various badges on their chests, some of which had even reached the rank of general, and even more so officers like commanders.

On the other side of the red carpet, among the people who talked and laughed, there were mostly some wealthy aristocrats with calm demeanor and extraordinary bearing, many of whom Jose didn't know. But seeing that most of them wore their own family badges on their chests, and even more than seventy or eighty percent of the badges were obviously the standard of the imperial aristocracy, Qiao Se had to be secretly surprised in his heart:

Most of these wealthy nobles on this side of the carpet are officially orthodox nobles, and there are many high-level nobles such as earls and even marquises!

When the mustache saw Joseph's expression, he naturally knew that this young magician was probably rarely faced with such a scene, so he reminded him in a kind whisper on the side.

In fact, almost all magicians are withdrawn and unsociable, most of them have very eccentric temperaments, and they do not understand the etiquette of aristocratic banquets. There are even many nobles who are very disgusted with magicians participating in banquets, because most of them are some strange guys who don't like to deal with people, and some exquisite nobles will not even invite magicians to banquet guests, which is undoubtedly regarded as destroying the atmosphere!

However, the Mr. Magician beside him seemed to be an anomaly, at least the fellow seemed to be easy-going, and he didn't have any cold and eccentric temper - the mustachioed steward thought so, and the look on his face was a little more respectful.

José followed the mustache and continued to walk into the banquet, generally speaking, the host of the banquet and some high-status guests would be in the inner hall, and with the identity of Norman and Suya, they must have been in the inner hall of the banquet.

Sure enough, after bypassing the red carpet, José saw a group of people gathered in the center of the hall from a distance, led by the Norman duke, who was wearing a black military uniform dress, although there was no badge on his chest, but the star emblem on the epaulette on the military uniform was enough to prove the identity of the imperial military vice minister!

Norman just swept the hall at this time, and saw José coming in, and his eyes lit up immediately. The mustache on the side also stepped forward at this time, bowed his head respectfully and bowed his head to Norman, and then whispered: "Sir, I have brought Mr. Chaucher in as you instructed. ”

Joseph also smiled slightly at this time, stepped forward and walked sideways at Norman to salute the future, and then said with a smile: "Lord Duke, we meet again, thank you for your invitation and hospitality tonight!"

Norman squinted his eyes and glanced at Joseph, and nodded with a smile: "Since the last time I said goodbye to Master Joseph, I haven't had a chance to thank you properly, and this time there is a banquet in the house, so naturally the first thing I thought of inviting you, Mr. ......"