Chapter 9 Dry Rice Man, Dry Rice Soul
As the two walked into the dining room, the aether crystal radio hanging on the wall was playing the morning news.
The content of the news quickly caught Charlotte's attention.
"Sophia Kingdom News Agency: According to the report of our correspondent in Frank Consulate, a strange incident occurred yesterday in Leiden Forest, north of Yerba Buena."
"Captain Daniel of the First Squad of the Frank Mounted Police lost his ability to be the Chosen One while on a mission to dispose of the Witch's Cocoon."
"According to the other Makeshift Guards, they have successfully completed their mission and brought back fragments of the Witch's Cocoon as evidence."
"However, this incident has also raised concerns about the competence of the members of the Mounted Police, and for this reason, Mr. Burton, a spokesman for the Mounted Police, told reporters that the phenomenon of witch rebellion is generally controllable in Frank's territory, and the Mounted Police will do its best to monitor the movements of the Witch Council to ensure that the witch feast will not affect the security of the homeland, so please do not worry too much......
Charlotte breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that although they had lost the memory of the day, the group of makeshift guards was quite smart and knew how to take the initiative to cover up.
They knew that they had lost the memory of the day, and that the carriage had been abandoned at the entrance to the forest, that must be a sign that something had happened, and that if Baron Frank pursued him, none of them would be able to eat and walk around.
As for Daniel, who has lost the value of combat power, I am afraid that he has now become an outcast of the Mounted Police Regiment.
When Charlotte finished listening to the news, she found that Ilya was already sitting at the table obediently, with stars in her eyes, staring directly at the barbecue on the table.
"Hiss~hiss~"
Her little nose greedily sucked at the smell of flesh in the air, as if she was afraid that the scent would drift away.
Venia came out of the kitchen and sat in the main seat, carrying a broken old glass bottle and pouring wine into the glass.
Charlotte frowned: "Sister Venia, you are going to be greedy again." ”
Venia smiled weakly: "When there are guests at home, naturally we have to take out the wine to entertain them, you see, we finally ate meat once, so don't be so strict." ”
This year's drought has caused poor harvests among the nobles' territories, and there are many hungry people in Fangcao Town, like the men who were sentenced to laughing punishment before, and many people in their families have starved to death.
So the delicacies that Venia entertained Ilya were already the best things she could take out at home.
"By the way, what about the money you earned working part-time in the Mounted Police Corps?"
"Ah......h
Charlotte embarrassedly showed Vinia's account for the magic guide, and there were only 5 copper coins left in it.
Not only did she not make any money, but even the money she gave Charlotte before was gone.
To avoid her sister's seizures, Charlotte explained:
"Oh, I used those copper coins to ......"
He couldn't tell the story of yesterday, and was thinking about how to get past it, when Ilya rolled his eyes and said, "That's the cost of the contract I signed with Mr. Charlotte." ”
Venia was suspicious.
Another contract? When I came back yesterday, I also said that the contract, is it......
"It's all my fault for my poor business, if I had escaped earlier, I wouldn't have let Mr. Charlotte break the bank."
With that, her face was full of horror and fear, and she pretended to wipe the corners of her eyes.
Break the fee, contract, escape......
Venia suddenly made up a tragic story in her mind: a girl imprisoned by a slave owner was bought back by a ruined brother who was interested in it with all the copper coins.
She looked at Ilya with more pity and pity, and took the other party in her arms, tears welling up in the corners of her eyes:
"Sister Ilya, don't worry, I will never let this stupid brother bully you."
Charlotte: "??? ”
Sister Venia seemed to have something wrong in her head, but he didn't bother to explain it, and Elija gave him a wicked smile that had succeeded in her scheming.
In the next part of the meal, since there was meat on the table, other things were basically ignored.
Charlotte and Elijah's forks stabbed at the largest chicken leg at the same time.
With a swipe on the ground, the turkey leg disappeared out of thin air like a trick.
Looking at it again, Ilya's two little cheeks were completely bulging and swallowing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The speed of this dry rice directly stunned Charlotte, who was really a dry rice person, a dry rice soul, and a dry rice person.
Charlotte sneered at the corners of her mouth, intending to tease Elijah, and snatched a piece of meat from under her fork with a faster hand speed.
Wherever her fork was raised, Charlotte grabbed it.
After a few moments, a mist had begun to fill up in Ilya's big Kazlan eyes.
Venia knocked Charlotte on the head with a spoon and reproached, "Don't steal anything with my sister!" ”
Good guy, in less than a day, you recognized a new sister?
After three glasses of wine, Venia was already slightly drunk, her face was ruddy, and she naturally began to talk more.
"Sister Ilya, don't worry, Hiccup, as long as you live in our house, no one will dare to bully you......
After all, I'm about to become the commissioner of this neighborhood. ”
The clerk is the sesame officer who is responsible for some daily chores in each block, which is equivalent to the director of the neighborhood committee, with a monthly salary of 50 copper coins, not counting the official bureaucracy of Frank Ling.
The purchasing power of this world, one copper coin can only buy a palm-sized loaf of bread, and 3 copper coins can buy an apple.
However, Venia applied to become the district affairs officer, not only for the 50 copper coins.
In fact, the Charlotte siblings lost their parents when they were young, and they were bullied by their neighbors in Yerba Buena.
Later, because Sophia had an unstable climate in recent years, she often encountered famine, and the Charlotte siblings were very industrious, plus some of the ancestral property left by their parents, so they were saved from famine.
In recent years, when there is a little surplus food at home, Vinia will use it to help the hungry neighbors, which makes them settle in this neighborhood, and even the reputation is reversed.
But Venia is not just a bad person, she is trying to win the hearts of the people in this neighborhood, paving the way for her next application for an affairs officer, as long as she becomes an affairs officer, she can accumulate more prestige for her sister and brother in Yerba Cao Town.
"Charlotte is too condescending to be a farmer in a small town all her life, and no matter what my sister says, she will have to grit her teeth and send you to Actor University for further study."
Aktor University, located in the seaport city of the eastern part of the mainland, is a well-known institution that students from all over the kingdom of Sophia are very eager for.
The "Aether Technological Revolution", which is famous throughout the Xiya continent, originated from this university.
Charlotte shook her head: "Forget it, Sister Venia, how difficult it is to get into Actor University, I'm afraid you know better than me, isn't this a bottomless pit." ”
Every year, many young people apply for the university of Actor, including the children of the royal nobles and the writers who came from a small town like Charlotte.
Therefore, the scores of the major colleges of Actor University have always been high.