November 4, 10 a.m., Frederick Kingdom, Saxony, Fleiberg.

Thick smoke drifted into the sky with a whistle, and a steam train from the direction of Mosk pulled into the Fleberg station, and as soon as the car came to a standstill, a little girl with two braids could not wait to push open the door and jump onto the platform.

"Emma, don't run too fast."

The man's voice came from the carriage, and soon, a pair of leather shoes stepped onto the platform, and a brown-haired young man stepped out of the carriage, grabbed the little girl who had just jumped off the train, and slowly surveyed the environment on the platform with dark green eyes as he walked forward.

The city of Fleberg, a city in central Saxony, 12 kilometers south of this city, has a small village called Rissa, which is directly under the domain of King Wilhelm V, and the village of Rissa....

It is also the birthplace of the Manstein family.

"Big brother!"

A young man with a dark red walnut cane, a tuxedo, and a top hat got off the train in the crowd, followed by a young man who looked a little similar to him and the brown-haired young man, and a butler, who was dressed exquisitely and exquisitely, attracting the attention of many people.

"Felix, Jonas, hurry up."

The brown-haired young man who was pulling the little girl with braids didn't look back and said, "We have to continue our journey." ”

"Got it." The young man named Felix answered, dragged Jonas in a daze, and asked, "What's wrong with you?" ”

“.... It's okay. ”

Jonas, who came to his senses, shook his head: "It's just that I haven't been back for a long time." ”

"Get in the car and sigh again, hurry up! Big brother stopped the car! ”

Felix hurried towards the outside of the station, where the brown-haired young man at the front had stopped a carriage and was negotiating the price with the coachman.

The price of the trip from Fleberg to the village of Risa was not cheap, and the coachman offered 50 puffins for 1 mark, but Mavi was only willing to pay 1 silver mark.

After some haggling, the coachman agreed to Mavi's price, and after accepting a silver Mark coin with the portrait of William V on the front and a two-winged eagle on the back, the coachman helped the butler Yannick carry the box to the top of the carriage, tied it firmly with a belt, and then rang the bell in front of the carriage and grabbed the reins.

"Drive!"

The carriage moved along the road, and the not very spacious carriage barely sat five people, which was a little cramped, but it was also in line with the current situation of the Manstein family.

After the carriage left the city and drove into the sparsely populated country road, the few people in the carriage breathed a sigh of relief and became much more casual.

"Whew.... boss。 ”

"Call me big brother."

“.... Eldest brother. The communication with a walnut cane changed its name and asked in Germanic: "Why should we go to the village of Rissa, since His Majesty Wilhelm V said in his letter that he had arranged everything for us?" Isn't that redundant? ”

Daniel, Edward, and Unia all looked at Mavi to hear his explanation.

"If you don't see it with your own eyes, do you know what the situation is in the village of Rissa?" Ma Wei looked at the golden farmland flashing out the window, and said in a calm tone: "The nature of the state is different from that of small civil organizations, and the existence of being able to get in touch with the king and enter the core decision-making circle of the country is innocent, which is the so-called political review. ”

"It is impossible for people who are not qualified to enter the core decision-making circle, that is to say, it is useless for us to just disguise ourselves as someone, and the Kingdom of Windsor will definitely send someone to investigate our identity, background, and origin on the spot."

"In such a situation, how do we clear ourselves of suspicion? In addition to realizing the prepared background, we must live in the local area for a while, get to know the customs, folklore and customs of the place.... That's why I brought you here. ”

Daniel, who was armed with a thin sword at his waist, thought for a moment and said, "Teacher.... What the eldest brother said is actually right, although my father has prepared all the details of our identity for us, but the specific situation in the local area can only be known by experiencing it in person. ”

"You've all said so.... I don't have much of an opinion. Lai Wen spread his hands: "How long are we going to stay here?" ”

"Half a month, half a month will be almost familiar." His gaze swept over the faces of Wen and the others, and Ma Wei emphasized: "Don't take it lightly, the place we are going to next is the base camp of the Church of the Three Goddesses of Destiny, the royal capital of the Windsor Kingdom, London!" ”

"Once our identities are revealed, the Church of the Three Goddesses of Destiny will not let us go, so no matter what, you have to make yourself a real Junker noble!"

The Manstein family is real, and it is indeed the ancient Junker aristocracy, but the family is in the middle of the road, loses the title of nobility, and has been living in the village of Lisa, this information is all true, all can be found, and there is no fraud.

What is really false is the story of the three brothers of the Manstein family, the Manstein family died three years ago, the last head of the family died in a high fever, the mansion was completely deserted, there was no successor, and it has completely withdrawn from the political scene.

But because the Manstein family has long since declined, out of the vision of the nobles, there have not been many people who know about it, and it is not a new thing for the fallen nobles to be extinct, and everyone has long been accustomed to it.

It was precisely this that William V seized on this, forged the identities of the Mavi and the others, and portrayed them as the last heirs of the Manstein family, after the ancient Junker nobility, with the blood of the nobility in his veins....

After the identity was confirmed, Wilhelm V, together with Prime Minister Bismarck, used the ability of the blood clan to deceive people's minds to brainwash the villagers of Rissa, and melted the existence of the three Manstein brothers into the memories of the villagers.

Without the help of Wilhelm V and Bismarck, this would never have been possible, but fortunately, Wilhelm V had a good sense of Mavi and was willing to leave a way back for Frederick's royal family.

The carriage staggered along the country road, and it was close to noon that Mavi and the others saw the outline of the village of Rissa.

It is a small village nestled deep in the Erz Mountains, with more than 100 families living with little specialty, and the villagers have always lived a self-sufficient life by relying on agriculture and hunting for their livelihood.

Because there is no commercial need, there are very few outsiders in the village of Lisa, and even the city's public carriages do not pass through here, and if it were not for the close proximity to the city of Fleberg, it may be difficult to buy many daily necessities.

The carriage stopped at the entrance of the village, the coachman unloaded the suitcase on the roof of the car, raised his hat and saluted Ma Wei, and drove away, a middle-aged woman who was drying clothes saw Ma Wei, stunned for a while, and suddenly shouted: "Nicholas?!" ”

Before Ma Wei could speak, a middle-aged woman wearing a red apron hurriedly rushed into the village, shouting emotionally, "Come out quickly!" Nicholas: they're back in the village! ”

Seeing that the middle-aged woman was so enthusiastic, Ma Wei couldn't help but look at Edward in a housekeeper's uniform and asked, "What memories have you instilled in these villagers?" ”

"It's nothing, it just means that you are very prestigious in the village and are very loved by everyone, especially as the eldest son, you graduated from the Technical University of Flleberg, and you have made a lot of money doing business abroad over the years, and often send some back...."Edward glanced at Ma Wei: "The villagers are still waiting for you to build roads for them." ”

"Repair... Road?! ”

"Well, because the last time you wrote back and said that you were going home this time to donate money to the village, to build a good road to Fleberg, and to establish the Manstein Charitable Foundation to help the children in the village go to school." Edward said: "When you were a child, your family was poor, and the villagers paid for you to go to college. ”

Ma Wei subconsciously touched his pocket, he was not stingy with money and reluctant to build roads for the villagers, but he was thinking about whether he had enough funds....

Before leaving, Dino prepared 100,000 rubles for him, equivalent to 10,000 gold pounds of start-up capital, which is not much, but it is already a huge amount of money for the Church of Truth, which is currently in financial straits.

The 100,000 rubles were exchanged by Dino for the gold mark used by the Frederick Kingdom, which had three currencies, copper finnig, silver and gold marks.

According to the currency exchange rate of the previous days, 1 gold pound in the Kingdom of Windsor can be exchanged for 5 gold marks, 100,000 rubles, and a full 50,000 gold marks can be exchanged for a universal ticket, issued by the Central Bank of Berlin, which can be exchanged for cash in any bank, which is a hard currency, and as long as the economy of the Kingdom of Frederick does not collapse, the general ticket can be used for all time.

"Do you think I'm deliberately cheating you?"

Seeing Ma Wei bow his head and count the money, Edward suddenly said: "I didn't cheat you, the blood clan can tamper with the memories of humans, but if the tampered person itself is very resistant, the tampered memory will be flawed, in order to make the villagers accept the existence of your three brothers, I can only promise to be good, so that they will not doubt it, and even force themselves to believe it." ”

In order to make the villagers accept the existence of the three Manstein brothers, Edward brought them what they needed - money.

Because the appearance of the three Manstein brothers will bring wealth to the village of Lisa, the villagers are willing to believe that the three brothers are real, and firmly believe this in their hearts, and the tampered memories will naturally not be flawed.

The tricks are mediocre, but the results are surprisingly good.

Especially after Ma Wei saw the villagers happily rushing towards him, he had no doubts about the effect of the donation.

"Nicholas! Nicholas! ”

An old man on crutches came to Ma Wei, grabbed his wrist, and his beard trembled with excitement: "You are back!" Everyone thinks about you! ”

Ma Wei opened his mouth and hesitated for a long time before saying, "Ah.... Well, I'm back. ”

"It's good to come back, it's good to come back, let's go, come home with me first, I have a lot to say to you three brothers!"

At the warm invitation of the old man, Ma Wei and the others were surrounded by the villagers into the village, it was lunch time, every household was cooking, the smoke rose from the chimney, accompanied by the aroma of the food, but no one cared about eating, and the attention was focused on the three Manstein brothers.

I'm afraid they'll run away.

It's okay to skip a meal, but if the money is gone, then it's really gone.

"Nicholas, you don't know, during the time you left, everyone was thinking about you, you are the only one in the village who has gone to college, and you are our hope!"

The old man grunted while pulling Ma Wei forward, and then Ma Wei noticed that the old man's accent had a very strong southern atmosphere, and there was a big gap between the accent taught by Daniel.

Especially in terms of the end tone, the gap is not ordinarily large.

The old man took Ma Wei and the others to his house, which was a house made of wood and stone, with a stone abutment and a solid wood body, on which the years had left mottled marks.

In front of the burning fire, the old man brought roast pork sausages, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, and a basket of sliced bread, and after signaling Ma Wei and the others to defecate themselves, he took out a pipe and put it in his mouth, and smoked it, the wrinkles between his eyebrows were twisted together, and he looked preoccupied.

Before coming to Lisa Village, Mavi had obtained the personal information of the villagers, and the old man in front of him was the village chief here, Dimu.

Picking up a sausage that was charred on the outside and tender on the inside, Ma Wei took a bite, he was indeed a little hungry, and from morning to noon, he had not eaten anything.

"Chief Diem...."

After lunch, Ma Wei took out a stack of marker tickets, counted a few and put them on the table, and said in a calm tone: "Here is 5,000 gold marks, please accept it, part of it will be used to build roads, and part of it will be used to establish a charitable foundation, this is the promise I made in the letter." ”

Looking at the mark ticket on the table, the village chief of Dimu did not stretch out his hand immediately, but held a pipe in his mouth, and looked at Ma Wei's face, with a hint of scrutiny in his cloudy eyes.

"I can't remember a little .... Nicholas, you three brothers, are you really the children of the Mansteins? ”

Edward, who was sitting on the side, had vague eyes and was about to step forward to use his strength, but was stopped by Ma Wei.

Ma Wei looked at the old man with a puzzled look, smiled and said, "Village Chief Diem, do you think that we are not like the children of the Manstein family?" ”

"It's not a question of whether it's like it, it's but...."The old man's brows furrowed even deeper: "I don't know how to say it, it's just a little strange, as if you shouldn't be here." ”

"Don't you approve of us?"

"I don't know why you came back all of a sudden." The old man was still confused: "In my memory, your existence has always been very model, there has never been a fixed image, I don't remember what you looked like when you were a child, and I don't remember when you left the village.... But I do remember you, Nicholas, Felix, Jonas.... And Emma. ”

Tampering with memories is an extremely difficult thing, at least in Ma Wei's cognition, even the behind-the-scenes forces behind the Freedom Society must first bury history before they can tamper with the truth.

You know, the forces behind the scenes represent the ancient gods!

The more important the thing, the clearer and more profound the memory, and for the village chief Dim, the village of Risa is his everything, and it is not surprising that he can realize the strangeness of the Mavi people.

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"Chief Diem, can I take a walk around the village?"

Ma Wei suddenly said: "I haven't been back for a long time, and there are some things that I can't remember clearly, maybe I can remember them after a walk." ”

The old man stared into Ma Wei's eyes, nodded after a while, and said in a hoarse voice:

"Okay."