201 'Common' aristocratic gatherings
Godoy Saka: "Hui, are you ready for a new life for the nobility?" Sizzle. ”
Yang: "Of course, I've been preparing for this for a few years. Sizzle. ”
"Dai Li went grocery shopping, take advantage of this effort, I will teach you to learn some basic etiquette of nobles, this is not the hard board teaching of those online videos, the real imperial nobles, when watching those Internet celebrity videos, it is the same as watching clowns. Sizzle. ”
"But," Yang Luo stopped snorting at the sweet, delicious, and piping hot liquid food in the bowl and frowned, "Do all the nobles of the empire eat like this?" ”
"It's for concealment, concealment, you know?"
Godoy Saka emphasized:
"Listen, my overly wealthy son, we're going to hide it from everyone and carry out our plan from now on."
"I took your commission, this commission is very important to me, of course, if the family's reputation can not be ruined in my hands, then try to pass it on."
You don't want to be sent to the aristocratic court as a commoner, do you? They could sentence you to decades in prison! We must be cautious and cautious.
"This is the most secluded place, even if some agent group snoops on us with remote equipment, this dining table surrounded by a metal structure can block out most of the signal."
"I've been thinking about this for a long time. Sizzle. ”
Yang Luo silently took out a badge in his jacket pocket and pinned it to Viscount Saka's chest, Godoy was stunned, and then saw himself and the dry young man in front of him, wrapped in a faint light at the same time.
"Something special for business negotiations," Yang Luo said indifferently, "I have already prepared." ”
The two people who were squatting under the table calmly climbed out and drank the nutritious porridge carefully cooked by Madame Dai Li.
Yang Luo has little demand for food, but he has been here for less than a whole day and has already obtained the satisfaction brought by food.
"It's strange," said Viscount Saka, "that you already have so much, money, material, and respect from others, I mean, why would your little secretary bother with such a useless reputation?" ”
Yang Luo smiled: "What do I lack now?" ”
"Knighthood?"
"People's desires are very strange, the more they lack something, the more they want to get something," Yang Luo said slowly, "I want people to have new pursuits in life." ”
"Okay, then I'll start teaching you some details."
Viscount Saka pointed to his head:
"First of all, you have to change your hairstyle, change to a more offensive hairstyle, you have to make people feel that you are not comfortable and cramped with your new identity, you are acting too calmly now, not at all like a young man who has just entered an aristocratic family from a poor environment."
"If your own acting skills are not up to par, it will be a disaster for both of us."
"Understood, I'll look for a feeling."
Yang Luo thought carefully, and his eyes soon changed, becoming eager and fully restrained, with a rare sense of maturity disguised.
"yes, that's it, your acting skills are great."
"Necessary skills for business activities," Yang Luo quickly adjusted back.
Viscount Saka drank all the food in the bowl and smacked his lips with unfinished eyes: "The greatest achievement in my life is to marry my wife, she is very good, right?" ”
"A gentle and intellectual woman," Yang Luo responded warmly.
"Here's what I'm going to do next."
Viscount Saka said slowly:
"First of all, we have to get along like this for a month or two, and fully cover up people's eyes."
"We're going to have some family conflicts, the arrival of an illegitimate child will definitely have a huge impact on the original family relationship, we are going to declare to the outside world that you are my lady's distant nephew, and I will take you to the Saka Star Nobles Dinner held twice and a half months, this is the process of letting the nobles of this planet know you."
"Don't rush it, we have to deny the relationship first, and let the boring guys think about it themselves."
"Based on what I know about them, if I were to say generously that you are my illegitimate son, then they will definitely suspect that I am reselling the title for the price."
But if I try my best to deny that you are my illegitimate son, they will point fingers at me behind my back, saying that I, a down-and-out viscount of a down-and-out family, can afford to have an extra son.
"A little bit of a detour."
Yang gave a thumbs up: "I completely agree. ”
"And I'm going to wronged you later."
Viscount Saka smiled:
"Many nobles know my predicament, I will give you my most decent coat, and I will seriously recommend you in front of several uncles, and I want to arrange a decent job for you."
"There is a high probability that this job can be obtained, and my ancestors have also been brilliant."
"After the two gatherings, we will spread some rumors of family discord, I will find an opportunity to take you to this planet, the current president of the Council of Nobles is my own uncle, you don't have to worry, as long as we do it seamlessly, everything will go well."
Yang Luo nodded.
He could feel that the uncle in front of him with white sideburns wanted to facilitate this transaction.
"I'm at your disposal."
Viscount Saka smiled and went to the built-in refrigerator and grabbed two beers.
"Let's go, I'll take you to a good place, come over here."
A few minutes later.
The two appeared on the terrace of the manor villa, looking out at the gloomy and gray city ahead.
It's like a jungle of steel, there is not much light to see, and at a glance, you can only see a few buildings with more than half of the windows lit up, and most of the rest of the buildings have only a few lonely lights.
Under the light red sky, you can vaguely see dense high-rise buildings.
The flickering lights at the top of the tall buildings formed a red curtain of light, making the already gloomy sky even less starless.
The two moons of this planet are small and far away, and only two inconspicuous faint stars can be seen, which are as faint as the bodies of those tall buildings.
Viscount Saka introduces the history of the city and tells the rise and fall of a family.
Yang Luo and Viscount Saka sat on the steps on the edge, their four legs dangling back and forth, and the two bottles of alcoholic beverages soon only left the bottom cap, and then they held them in their hands, as if no one bothered to go down and take two more.
"This planet is called Saka, because before?" Yang Luo asked with some curiosity.
"This was my ancestral fiefdom," laughed Viscount Saka, "and about two hundred years ago, it was the twenty-fifth largest industrial base in the Empire, with a well-developed heavy industry, the thirteenth largest shipyard in the Empire, and my great-grandfather was a local earl. ”
Yang Luo didn't plan to ask any further.
From the hereditary earl with the fief to the down-and-out viscount barren manor, the gap between this is really too big.
But the viscount beside him started talking about sex, sighed softly, and said slowly:
"It all started when my great-grandfather was unwilling to let this planet fall."
"In fact, this planet is just an ordinary planet, otherwise it is unlikely to be classified as the territory of the earl, although there are not many hereditary counts in the empire, there are still many powerful factions."
"In order to maintain the economic prosperity of this planet, for the sake of those beautiful statistics, and the flattery of others when the great nobles gather every year, he is desperate to accelerate the development of this planet's resources."
"However, under the uninterrupted excavation of the past thousand years, the resources of this planet and several resource planets near this planet have rapidly approached depletion, and the environment has irreversibly deteriorated."
"Capital began to flee, the shipyard was planned to relocate, and my great-grandfather desperately wanted to save it all, to make the planet continue to prosper, to gamble everything in our family, to do economic transformation, but after more than ten years of hard work, it is still full of devastation."
"The planet went down almost overnight."
High-quality assets have fled, talent has been lost rapidly, and the value of fixed assets has plummeted, and the value of this planet is only 4 or 5 percent of what it was at its peak.
"The most ridiculous thing is that according to the aristocratic laws of the Empire, when we work hard to run this planet, the Empire will not increase your fiefdom or enhance your title, but when you mismanage and cause public resentment to boil, the Empire will take back your fief and let your family title be degraded."
"My grandfather is the worst, one of the few counts in the history of the empire who have lost their titles and fiefs, and they have suffered an unknown number of eyes and ridicule."
"By my generation, I've actually come out of that shadow, and that's nothing, right? It's just a different path in life. ”
Yang Luo sighed: "Let's talk about my younger brothers and sisters." ”
One of them is eleven years old, the other thirteen, the age of rebellion," Viscount Saka shrugged, "I know that in their eyes I am a useless aristocratic father, but I have given them the best I can give. ”
Yang asked, "Can't aristocrats work in high-paying jobs?" ”
"Of course not," said Viscount Saka, "but the empire has developed to this day, and many conventions have been formed, and the noble class and the commoner class are clearly distinguished, and as the empire continues to tighten the promotion channels of the nobles, the lives of the commoners have become more and more stable. ”
The viscount was obviously a little helpless:
My father ran a large business, but because of his poor management, he fell into the trap of other nobles.
"I used to work hard to learn hull design and shipbuilding technology, and I wanted to be a senior engineer, but when I went to the unit I applied for, I didn't want to recruit a noble lord who needed to be supported."
"I tried to get a loan from the bank, and the bank is a place that doesn't look at your title and connections, they only review the value of your assets, and then uh-huh."
"If it weren't for the fact that I could take on some design outsourcing work through the Internet, and Dai Li also worked incognito in a clerical job, my family would not be able to function."
You see, there are more than 20 rooms in this building, and we only have a maximum of five rooms lit up all year round, but fortunately, the noble boarding schools are all free and only accept anonymous donations, otherwise my children may not have a suitable school to learn knowledge.
"The best part is that this estate is my private domain, and I don't need to pay property fees and land management fees."
"In the past 20 years, my family has been like a withered yellow leaf floating on the water, and with a little extra weight, the leaf will sink to the bottom."
"Ugh."
Yang Luo sighed softly: "Our empire is so powerful, the imperial aristocracy is called the galactic aristocracy, I didn't expect it"
Viscount Saka smiled: "In fact, many ancient families have passed away, and now six percent of the commoners in the empire have received knighthoods from their ancestors. According to the policy of the Empire, if I give up the title of viscount, my family will be able to get a large amount of consolation money, about more than three million Imperial Coins, which is also my last retreat. ”
Outside the manor, Mrs. Dai Li wore a trench coat and carried two bags of hearty ingredients to the gate of the manor.
Viscount Saka hurriedly turned around and hid in the blind spot below.
Yang Luo smiled: "What's wrong?" ”
"She'll misunderstand that I'm going to jump off the building," Viscount Saka muttered, "Okay, you come over too, and I'll tell you about the aristocratic gathering, which is actually a noble gathering, but in fact they are all relatives of our family, most of them are barons, there are also two respected old viscounts, and occasionally there are a few nobles from other families, but most of them are here to show off their might." ”
Yang Luo blinked.
How can there be a feeling that there is going to be some bloody bridge soon.
For example, what: Yo, isn't this Godoy, I haven't seen him for a few years, why is it getting more and more pulled. ‘
Or: 'Godoy, your nephew looks so ordinary, this is a gathering of nobles, is he qualified to attend?' ’
Wait a minute.
If this is the only way to take a shortcut to get the knighthood, Yang Luo will go down with his nose pinched.
However, no one paid any attention to them.
Seven galactic days later.
For the first time, Viscount Saka took Yang Luo to a gathering of nobles.
Nothing happened in the first half of the reception.
Even, Yang Luo also felt the love of several hundred and thirty or forty-year-old grandfathers and grandmothers, and these grandfathers and grandmothers gave him some commemorative gifts.
In addition, Yang Luo sat in the corner of the hotel lobby with Godoy, eating a delicious buffet and watching a few proud nobles socialize everywhere.
Many young girls are accompanied by middle-aged uncles;
Many handsome guys will also look at those bejeweled old babes gently.
There are aristocratic erosions here, as well as various rules in the social arena, and Yang Luo has even seen the exchange of female partners to dance together, and there is more than one case.
"Don't be discouraged," said Viscount Godoy Saka, "although no one has bothered us today, probably because we are not dressed decently, and when we prepare a little more next time, you will definitely fit into this circle." ”
Yang Luo: I don't really want to mess with these guys.
The main thing is that the quality of their female companions is not very high.
Yang Luo said softly, "They're talking about us." ”
"You're a little more cramped, yes, a little cramped."
Yang Luo's gaze began to wander around.
/ To this extent today," Godoy Saka took the fruit in front of him and sipped it lightly, "When the nobles start to leave, we will leave, and maybe we can rub the car of an acquaintance." ”
Yang Luo then remembered that they came by intercity express.
026 has been following the neighborhood though.
Well?
The tip of Yang Luo's nose twitched slightly, and he suddenly smelled a familiar smell.
Above the lobby, in the corridor on the left side of the second floor of the hotel, there is a subtle smell of a large amount of human blood being scattered.
"Uncle, let's leave first," Yang Luo said softly.
Godoy Saka said: "It's not good, we wait until someone is gone before leaving. ”
I'm a little sleepy," Yang Luo yawned. ”
He didn't want to get involved in strange things at this juncture, which would only increase the risk of exposure for himself.
But Godoy had just hesitated, and before he could nod his head, a shrill scream suddenly came from above, followed by the sound of glass bottles being shattered.
Yes, I can't go.