Turning your gaze back to the imperial capital, St. Caron, this beautiful city with a lot of traffic still attracts countless warriors and merchants for nearly a hundred years, no matter how the situation changes in the empire. According to the official statistics of the Empire, the city of San Caron has a population of more than one million, and the walls are fifteen meters high and five meters thick.

The city is also home to the Empire's largest shipping port, the Leytai River, a large river that crosses the entire territory of the Empire, and even though the Empire has some friction with nearby countries, the ships that come to the port are still sailing, the vast amount of goods are brought in, and there are many fishing boats fishing for fish and shrimp, providing the needs of the millions of people in the city of Saint-Caron.

Under these conditions, the wealth of the entire continent of Calradia has been gathered in this city, and the people's lives are generally rich, and if people who do not know come to this city, they will think that the current empire is still prosperous. However, it is precisely because of this that the culture of the empire is even more admirable, and the scholars of the Imperial Academy of Letters can study and delve into knowledge with peace of mind to create beautiful articles.

After a hundred years of disturbances, the aristocracy has long since spread their residences all over the inner city. Along the neatly divided road, there are countless palatial residences, of different sizes but very different. The closer the nobleman's villa was to the palace, the more it represented the intimacy of his family's relationship with the imperial family. In the southeast corner of the palace, there is a beautiful building. This house is inhabited by the Hill family, which has been passed down for hundreds of years. The Hill family was one of the important families who assisted the founding emperor of the empire to unify the continent a hundred years ago, and the hundred years have passed in a flash, but the Hill family is deeply favored and still maintains the duke title bestowed by the royal family.

However, with the defeat of the empire in recent years and the prying eyes of the rest of the nobles on the authority held by the Hill family, the Hill family has been suppressed. A few years ago, after the death of the head of the Hill family, Mette Hirsa, the already sparsely populated Hill family, except for the relatives of the side branches, that is, the two still young sisters and brothers born by the remaining head of the family.

Carlos Hill slumped over his desk as usual, finishing the book he was going to read today. Then he got up, instructed the many servants waiting behind him, and said, "I'll go and visit my sister, so you don't have to come with me." With that, he hurried to his sister's room.

Unlike the carved beams on the outside of the house, the facilities inside the house are slightly old, which indicates that the Hill family is not as wealthy as the outside world has rumored, and the changes in the empire have also affected the wealth of the nobility.

Carlos knocked on her sister Charlotte's door, "Sister, it's me, is it convenient for me to come in?" "Please come in." A pleasant voice came from inside the door.

Carlos heard the words and entered the door and saw his sister wearing a long dress with wide sleeves and a sapphire headdress on her blonde hair, and she was arranging flowers with her sleeves rolled up. Seeing that her brother seemed to be about to speak and stopped, Charlotte already understood what Carlos meant, and said to her close maid, "I have something to say to Carlos, so you can go out first." ”

After the maids went out, Charlotte leaned over and poured a cup of tea, and said to Carlos with a smile: "This is a new drink that has recently come from the East, you should sit down and taste it." Carlos took the tea, sat on the chair and said sullenly: "Second uncle sent me a message today, saying that he will come to visit us tomorrow. ”

When Charlotte heard this, she frowned and said, "Since my father died, he has often come to harass us. He made such a big mistake, he was removed from his aristocratic status, and he shamelessly tried to embezzle our family's property. ”

Carlos said, "After all, I am still a minor, and there is no way to inherit the title of our family, but he is our nominal guardian. Let's see what kind of face he has tomorrow, if it's too much, I can only be ruthless. ”

As he spoke, he felt a little thirsty, picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea: "Poof, why is it so bitter!"

Charlotte stepped on his foot angrily and said angrily, "How can the tea I make not taste good?"