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In the morning, Audrey wakes up from the servant's room, ready to start her day's work.

Servants were to be found at all times in the mansions of the nobles, and as personal servants, no matter what time the master got up, they had to wake up earlier, memorize all the things that were going to be on the floor for the rest of the day, and also take on the task of sending and receiving invitations.

The next step in the promotion of a personal servant is that of a housekeeper, so it is necessary to know how to communicate with people, as well as master a variety of skills.

Of course, it is very difficult to become a housekeeper, and the value of a housekeeper increases with age and the people served.

According to Audrey's observations, the assistant butler in Viscount Conrad's mansion would not retire for at least ten years, and no matter how hard the few competing personal servants tried, it would not be helpful in the current years.

However, as an outsider's maid, Audrey would not and could not have the qualifications to compete, she lowered her posture, directly withdrew herself, and happily watched the competition in the Viscount's mansion, which had already declined.

Finished at one o'clock in the evening and went to bed, and got up at five in the morning, Susie was just a "young lady" who had just arrived, and no one would take the initiative to establish a social relationship with her, but Viscount Conrad wished that someone would be engaged to Susie immediately, so that he could earn the remaining hundreds of thousands of pounds. Therefore, she still had to be taken out to some tea parties and dances, and to be introduced to others in a small circle.

…… I go out once a day, send and receive invitations, polite replies, and contact the tailor to make new clothes...... I've only used these things for so long, so when I was Miss Hall, wouldn't Anne not have time to sleep at night?

No, no, Anne is my personal maid, but she's not the only one working.

Audrey understood after a little thought, because when she first arrived, almost all the affairs that required personal service were pressed on her, and the viscount only played a friendly role in front of people, and even the tailor had to contact her herself, so she felt busy.

Thinking about it, she looked around her quarters.

It is a normal servant's room, next to the master, separated by a wall that is not too thick, so that the lady can call to serve at any time if she needs to.

"But the room where Susie lived was a little checked...... Well, slightly, probably because the furnishings that were supposed to be there have been sold by Viscount Conrad. She guessed calmly and sarcastically, "In this way, it is unlikely that Susie will be given the same treatment as Miss Viscount, and it will be good that the more servants hired will also be paid with the money Susie has brought." ”

With the New Year just a week away, the aristocrats tend to start preparing for the New Year's dinner a month or even earlier. There are several cars parked at the back of the mansion, new furniture, furnishings, and a lot of expensive ingredients, among which Audrey suspects are redeemed artworks.

It is clear that Susie's arrival will make Viscount Conrad as generous as in previous years.

After calculating the expenses a little, Audrey couldn't help frowning - 300,000 pounds is definitely not a small number, these activity funds can allow her to directly revitalize the economy of a southern mainland city, but at the moment, it may only be enough for His Excellency the viscount to pay off all the arrears and hold a New Year's party to dispel the suspicion of bankruptcy. As for whether it will run out or have a surplus...... She also didn't know how much money the other party owed.

Waste...... What a waste.

"How can a viscount, who is already in debt for more than hundreds of thousands, spend so uncontrollably? He had barely made his money, the land was all deserted, and the money he could have used to save a small city from economic crisis, and even to build most of the housing facilities in my district, was spent on nothing but to show off luxury......"

"What's more, this money doesn't belong to him, it was brought by Susie, even if he spends a little bit to invest in stocks, I still have a little brain...... Now, I can't breathe because of his stupidity, impudence, and short-sightedness. ”

She couldn't help but feel a little angry, not only did her mood deteriorate uncontrollably, but even the hand that tied her apron brought strength.

For a moment, Audrey simply wanted to use her own power to control the other party, stop this stupid act of burning money in vain, just need some psychological hints, and don't need to completely control the other party at all.

But after a few seconds, she silently suppressed her emotions and took a deep breath to calm her mind again.

"It's not time yet...... Even if she did want to do it, it would have to be Susie's doing, and I might have been noticed by Herwin Lambis, and it would have been reasonable for Susie to hypnotize her on the grounds of 'saving money', but it shouldn't have belonged to a vain young girl who was 'spending a lot of money and trying to squeeze into the aristocracy'. ”

Audrey rubbed her eyebrows with a headache, she joked in her heart that she was probably infected by Mr. Richard, and she felt not only heartache but also a lingering anger when she saw a large amount of money being spent meaninglessly.

Is it the mask of "rage" that is quietly influencing me? Amplify my emotions because I'm already upset?

She sat still for a while, slowly gathering her mind. Then, after washing up, arranging her hair, and simply applying a light makeup, she tidied up her clothes and made sure that her appearance was all right, before she chose to leave the room and go to the dining room where the servants dined.

The demigods don't go hungry, and Audrey simply takes two loaves of bread and a portion of butter.

She had to eat quickly, Susie would "wake up" at half past seven in the morning, and then go with Viscount Conrad to the dining room used by the masters, and then her personal maid would stand at the table and serve each other.

At this time, several maids came over, and when they saw Audrey, who was quickly eliminating breakfast, the smile on their faces suddenly became mocking.

"Minnie, why do you smell weird?"

As she passed by Audrey's side, the maid in charge of the wardrobe frowned visibly and made a fanning motion, her eyes so obvious that her disdain and malice could not be more obvious.

The maid in charge of the shoes glanced at Audrey, "Minnie may have gone to help in the garden yesterday, I heard that the people of Fenerport like to walk around on the dirt floor and play with those flowers and plants, so they always smell of dirt on their bodies." ”

"That's right, Minnie should be a gardener." Someone chimed in with a grin.

…… It's too low-level...... Audrey wanted to be expressionless, but when she thought that her persona was just a little introverted and untalkative, she just smiled flatteringly and lowered her head.

Seeing her so cowardly, the other servants who had been watching also showed their enthusiasm for mocking her.

"Has her clothes been changed? How does it feel like it was yesterday, oh my God, she really seems to have some smell on her, and she doesn't wear perfume, can that Miss Susie stand her personal maid so unclean? ”

"Perhaps, Miss Susie herself...... Grew up in Fenerport? ”

A servant of higher status winked his eyes at his companion, signaling that it was best not to say "It's a Fenepoter" directly.

"It looks dirty." Others disgusted, "Let's stay away from her." ”

"Don't you think her skin is much darker than ours?"

"It must be in the sun, if they really work in the fields—they don't look like nobles at all."

"What if it's not sunburned? In winter, the sun is not so good, and I don't go out often, so my skin will be whiter...... Her skin color is a bit like that of the Southlanders I've ever seen, maybe ......."

said to be far away from her, but in fact, as time went by, there seemed to be more and more people around Audrey, so that Audrey no longer needed to maintain her "personality". Although she was not angry at this kind of low-level xenophobia, these meaningless rumors and smears also made her already bad mood even worse.

She was bored and didn't want to stay in this place any longer.

In the eyes of others, it was this young maid named Minnie who did not refute or justify everything around her, but just lowered her head and silently ate the most inconspicuous bread in the restaurant.

Probably because she was so quiet, so inconspicuous that no one knew when Minnie had disappeared, only the rumors and chatters about her grew louder and louder, and became a topic that every servant who came to dinner had to talk about.

……

"Minnie, what's wrong with you? You don't seem to be in a good mood. ”

In the restaurant, Susie saw Audrey, and although the other party's expression looked the same as usual, as a "spectator", she was keenly aware of the subtle awareness.

At the same time, she finally restrained her instinct and didn't try to climb a few steps on the ground every day when she first woke up.

Audrey tied a napkin for Susie, set up a knife and fork, and replied jokingly:

"Something little happened, but the thought of having to spend another half a year with this viscount makes me feel like my patience is a little insufficient."

Their communication was almost entirely expressed in subtle lip and body movements, unaware of Viscount Conrad, who was sitting on the other side of the long table eating silently. Of course, as long as Susie didn't go outside and announce to everyone that the viscount was going bankrupt, he wouldn't care about anything.

Susie elegantly slices of bread and omelette on a plate with a knife and fork, slicing them into her mouth.

Viscount Conrad glanced at her, admiring the young girl's beauty, manners, and interpersonal skills, and thought that she must be a favored daughter with a fairly good upbringing, but when he thought of the other's origin and bloodline, he bowed his head in disinterest.

Audrey brought Susie some fresh meat and mashed potatoes from the waiter's plate, carefully conveying the message:

"How's it going?"

Susie's lips moved imperceptibly:

"When I showed that I wanted to go to the church of Mother Earth God to pray, the viscount showed a certain resistance."

She ate some bread and meat, as well as vegetables, and masked her lips with a chewing motion:

"But for the sake of my money, he compromised, but asked me to bring a hat and veil when I went, so that no one would see that it was his 'adopted daughter' who went to the church of Mother Earth to pray, and he would not send anyone to accompany me, but only to send me to the street."

You're going to have to walk over by yourself...... This was to be expected by Audrey.

It's just that, knowing that the relationship between believers is strained, let two young young ladies go to church on their own? I don't know what Viscount Conrad is, but now Audrey has to think about whether he will find a way to take the 300,000 pounds if Susie dies unexpectedly...... But he shouldn't have done that if he had a modicum of wisdom.

"Which church to pray at will affect your plans?"

"......," Audrey thought for a moment, "I haven't made a decision yet. ”

The easiest way to make Rune's social situation unstable is already in front of her, and she only needs to add fuel to the fire with a gentle fiddle. At the same time, if you only look at efficiency and effectiveness, and give up your conscience and bottom line - according to Audrey's intelligence gathering in recent days, the Harvest Church is the best choice.

The church and its surrounding residents have had several frictions with the Holy Wind Cathedral of the Thunder Church, and several newspaper reports have been related to this church. Both sides have accumulated a lot of anger, and it is the only choice to add fuel to the fire.

However, the head of the Harvest Church is Mr. Emlyn White.

At the last tarot meeting, I also heard the other party express their love and recognition for this job.

Do you want to do that?

Audrey couldn't make a decision, because she really felt that Mr. Emlyn White was the best place to break through, and at the same time—she could vaguely feel that it wasn't just her own eyes on him, there should be a lot of people at the same time, all thinking about how to use him to add fuel to the fire.

This sent chills down Audrey's body.

In this case, does she really want to use the other party for efficiency?

……

"Let's pack up tonight." The old woman said to her students, "We've been here long enough, we're going back for this year's New Year." You haven't met your ancestors yet, maybe I'll have a chance to introduce you when I go back. ”

"Okay."

The young man nodded obediently, and when he looked out of the window, he saw that the green-eyed gentleman had also appeared near the church today.

Sometimes he would sit on a bench in the town square, quietly write something, read a few books of poetry borrowed from the library, or practice the harmonica he had learned from others, and sometimes he would watch the mute painter Mr. Anderson draw his work. He rarely communicates with other people in Utopia, and seems to shy away from it. But more often than not, he would appear on the pews of St. Merlin's Cathedral, sitting quietly facing the emblem of the "Fool", neither like a confession nor a prayer, as if he was waiting for something with perseverance.

Everett had sneaked in with the teacher while he was not paying attention, and with a box of biscuits, he chatted cautiously with the gentleman for a while.

Although he was very disobedient to contact the other party, but he was not completely disobedient, did not ask the slightest thing about the "fool", and in the end, he only knew that this gentleman was a Rune man, and he had come all the way here to wait for a friend.

This friend must be a believer in the "Fool", otherwise why would he have to wait near the church?

The snowflakes were flying, and in a blink of an eye, Everett vaguely saw that there was suddenly another person next to the other party, and there was an old gentleman in a strange costume.

The old gentleman winked at him, and a snowflake flew in front of his eyes, and the figure of the other man disappeared like a hallucination.

……

Edward took a sip of Gwadar, which he had bought from Byron, and turned his gaze back to the northern continent.

“…… If the High Priest really mobilized the whole nation to dig this river, as He said, it would probably be done in a month without two months. But he probably won't blindly rush to catch up, and if a country wants to die so perfectly, there are still a lot of things to finish. ”

After a while, He looked at the streets that were noticeably more crowded than usual, and it suddenly thought:

"Hey, there's still a week, isn't it the New Year?"

"Time flies."

"The New Year of 1360 is coming, and according to human calculations, there are still 17 years before the barrier is completely broken, but it doesn't seem that long before the human soothsayers can predict the consequences of the frequent death and change of the gods......

If the people who currently possess essentia, such as the Demon of Knowledge and the God, don't repair the barrier, and the God of Thunder and the Tributaries of the River of Eternal Darkness are not interested in this matter - well, the God of Thunder will most likely not be interested in touching the "Sea of Chaos".

If you don't go, the state is average at most, but if you go, you will be directly pulled into the sea by the water ghosts inside.

The demon of knowledge has no sense of belonging to the outside world, nor does he have this planet, maybe the spaceships on the West Continent have already been built - then the current barrier should only last for about ten years.

Ten years, a time that is not too long for a human being, and almost everyone who is alive now can see that day. If the two essentia parts of the "Destruction of the Natural Disaster" were to have some occult reactions, the barrier might disappear even faster.

Edward took another sip of "Gwadar", and drank a small icy drink in the cold air, which felt quite good.

He imagined that the barrier would completely collapse one day in the future, and in an instant, everyone in the whole world would see the sky crack open, and countless pairs of eyes would observe these tiny human beings...... At that time, no matter how "incomprehensible" it is, it is time to realize that the things in the sky are terrifying and cannot be looked at, and then at the moment of realizing this, these humans who react quickly should all die.

"This time last year, it seems that a witch came to have a nice party, is there something going on for them this year?"

TBC

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Good night!

(End of chapter)