"Oh, I'm sorry to let you see the joke." Looking at the magnificent carriage heading towards the magnificent city at the end of the distant bluestone road, Matilda said softly with a sneer on the corner of her mouth, "My uncle, since marrying the eldest daughter of the Dess family, has always been a little too much in the understanding of family responsibilities. It's good to be responsible, but if it's too big, it will inevitably be a nuisance to us younger generations."

"As an elder, it is inevitable that you will have reservations about the ability of your juniors, especially when your direct juniors have taken on such a big responsibility, and it is normal for the elders of the branch to be worried and want to help your juniors share the burden." Finding that Babu and Monica were a little stunned, Judy smiled behind the bandage and replied lightly, "Don't bother, as long as you use the facts to show him, the juniors themselves can bear this burden, and he doesn't need to worry anymore, he will naturally let go of these unrealistic ideas and leave with peace of mind, after all, the husband of the eldest daughter is also a very promising identity."

"I see." Matilda was stunned, as if she was a little surprised that the person who spoke was Judy, but she said thoughtfully, "Then you can only do something that makes him no longer able to find a reason to be uneasy." Let him know that the juniors have grown up and don't need him to take the initiative anymore."

"Of course, it's good to be able to seize the opportunity to do this kind of thing, and the more complete the better, but ......," Judy asked, "The two masters are a little worried, if it is not only their own achievements, but other forces involved, will they be questioned by the elders?"

"It's all about the results, and the results are more convincing than anything else." Matilda didn't know what she understood, her puzzled look had faded, and she said with a reserved smile, "As for whether the process is carried out by itself, heh, with all the power that can be used, it is also our due ability, so whether it is made public or not will not matter." However, after all, I want to surprise the elders who have other ideas, and it will be more convincing to make it public when the matter is successful."

"Then we'll be relieved."

Judy nodded calmly, winked at Monica and Babu, and then took a half-step back, giving up the dominant position. Matilda naturally said to Babu and Monica, "This is a rare opportunity, why don't you come and sit at home? My mother should still be waiting for me to come back, and when I bring my new friends home, I should always introduce them to my mother first. Uncle Mondo, please go back and inform me first, and let Amber take care of the house with the highest specifications...... No, forget it, something big has just happened now, and it's not suitable for a high-profile greeting, so let me guide you, I hope you don't misunderstand that the Pinter family doesn't pay enough attention to everyone, please follow me."

As she spoke, Matilda turned around directly and led the way in front, leading a few people into the manor in front of her.

The manor house is large, with a fairly large lawn and garden inside the main entrance, dotted with several low buildings on both sides, and at the end of the garden, facing the direction of the gate, is the century-old mansion run by the Pinter family.

Without disturbing the sleeping old Mai janitor, Matilda led the way in front and introduced the buildings passed by along the way from time to time, really like a hospitable host taking a friend home. Monica stayed with Matilda, smiling politely and listening to her introduction, while Babu led the stumbling Anna and Judy more casually followed, as if taking care of the children, but kept talking to Judy in a low voice.

"It's nothing, she said that if this cooperation is successful, it will allow her to gain a foothold in the family, and all doubts can be silenced, both inside and outside. In addition, I asked if I wanted to hide our role in this matter, and she said no, just don't deliberately publicize it before it is done, and it doesn't matter after it is done. I don't know why she attaches so much importance to this exploration, probably because if she succeeds, the family will gain huge benefits."

"It should be more than that." Babu pouted, "If that's all there is to it, then all we need to do is work together to explore the art gallery." Since she has repeatedly emphasized in-depth cooperation, it means that she has other purposes, but these purposes are based on the first step of cooperation, so she has not talked about it in detail, and I guess she also wants to further wait and see what we can do."

Judy followed Babu without saying a word, holding her staff and hanging her head like a real maid, but after a moment of silence, she asked in a low voice, "So?"

"Huh?" Babu raised an eyebrow,

said with a smile, "A real maid may take the initiative to speak up for her master when it is inconvenient for her master to come forward to avoid embarrassment, but she will never take the initiative to care about what her master has to decide."

"The hostess is right, the man sometimes makes people want to give him a massage." Judy squinted at Babu and said in a stern voice, "It's a pity, I'm just worried that you will make the wrong decision and quickly lose all the money of the Chamber of Commerce, and finally have to sell all your assets to make ends meet, and it will be bad if you sell me when the time comes." So I need to secretly find out what decisions the owners are going to make, so that I know in advance before I am sold, so that I can run away in advance."

"Okay, good, sell it." "Actually, Monica and I both think it's acceptable, it's not what she gets, it's what we get. They contributed a part of their manpower, and they were responsible for the coolies and dangerous tasks, and in the end they took what they needed and took their part of the booty, which was quite reasonable. Although we can only consider ourselves unlucky if we don't get any gains, we can only consider ourselves unlucky, but that thing is a problem for us, and I don't think that the place I fancy can be missing valuable things."

Judy squinted at him, and ducked aside in disgust.

"It's useless to hide, your valuable things are hidden in your backpack, I've been looking at it for a long time." Babu moved her finger at Judy's backpack as if threatening, and then continued, "As for the future, she is watching, why don't we also wait and see, our ultimate goal is the knowledge of the gods, as long as we can meet this goal, there is nothing ......wrong with helping her achieve her wish."

As he spoke, a yellow figure suddenly ran out of the spur.

It looks like a little girl of about ten years old, wearing an earthy yellow robe similar to Matilda's, but the robe is dirty, and her face and hands are dirty, and she hasn't washed it for a long time. The girl held a basket of steaming white bread and ran out from the direction of the manor, looking back as she ran. Behind her was a sturdy middle-aged cook, holding a towel in her hand, snorting and panting while chasing.

The little girl turned all the way back, almost bumping into Matilda and Monica, who were leading the way, and only at the last moment did she turn around in time, passing by the group, leaving Matilda's shouts behind.

"Slow down, slow down, what are you doing again, let Mary chase you, be careful not to fall." Matilda showed a crying and laughing expression, and shouted to the fat cook who was chasing her, "Okay, okay, you can rest too, everyone is tired and there is no food at noon." Doesn't she often come to get bread? Why did you chase you all the way today?"

"Huhu, say yes, huh, say yes, give her a basket of bread, whew, wash her face and hands." The fat cook bent over and panted violently, "As a result, I picked up the basket and ran, and I couldn't call it back."

"Hahahaha, no wonder she runs, she doesn't like to wash her face the most." Matilda covered her mouth and laughed in a low voice, "Don't chase her, you can't catch up with her, let's hurry up and go back to cooking, there are guests at noon, cook something delicious." By the way, my mother and sister are up, are they in the living room?"

"Ah, huhu, you're finally back, and everyone is dying." The fat cook finally reacted, wiped her hands happily, turned her head and ran towards the manor, "Miss, you take the guests to the living room first, I'll inform Mrs., hey, you guys will run to Mrs. for me, Miss is back."

"Slow down, too." Matilda stretched out her hand in vain to the back of the cook, sighed and explained, "That child was an orphan of an ordinary farming family nearby, and her parents died at the same time in a battle two years ago, leaving her alone and looking for something to eat. Everyone saw her pitiful, never stopped her, she slowly treated this place as a restaurant, and came to get food every day. Alas, such a young child, there is no one to take care of her, she can only be alone, I really don't know how she survives every day."

"Fighting?" Babu didn't feel sympathy at all, but asked sensitively, "Why did an ordinary peasant die in battle? Did you encounter some kind of disaster?"

Matilda frowned and was silent for a while, then sighed and said, "It's a serious disaster, but it has nothing to do with our current affairs. relationship

I will go to some of the inside information that I don't want to mention in the city, and if I have the opportunity to do so when I have a spare time, I will explain it to a few people."

The three travelers looked at each other, each nodded, and did not delve into the matter further, the group had just approached the main house at the end of the vestibule, and a noisy sound sounded in front of them, and the heavy solid wooden door of the main house slowly opened, and eight servants rushed out to split the two sides, and then, a white-haired old man in a black dress ran out of one side, standing respectfully on one side, giving up the position in the center, waiting for Matilda to dominate it.

"Grandpa Ante, Mary ran too fast just now, and I didn't have time to explain, it seems that you have to prepare in vain. These friends are all marginal travelers, and they have been in a special situation lately, so let's keep it simple." Matilda and the Babu discussed in a low voice, then smiled and waved at the servants, "When the matter is over, no one cares, and we will have time to make up the welcome ceremony." I'll leave it to me to welcome the guests today, and now you go and pack up the 404 suites, the guests have not rested all night, and after lunch, we will rest for the night, and we will continue to go out of the city tomorrow morning."

As she spoke, Matilda smiled apologetically at the butler and the servants, took Monica's hand kindly, and walked through the queue of servants into the mansion, just passing by, the old butler really couldn't hold back, lowered his head and blushed and whispered, "Mondo, Dimi and them...... Can you still come back?"

"Heh, Grandpa Ante, don't worry." Before Mondo could speak, Matilda had already turned around and smiled, "Thanks to the help of these distinguished guests, Dimi is safe and sound, and they are driving from behind now, and they should be back in an hour."

"Lord Jeru, bless." The old man's eyes were red, he raised his head to the sky and muttered a few times, and then solemnly bowed deeply to the travelers.

"Isn't this dear Matilda? It makes me happy to see that you are safe and sound."

The position of the people was the doorway of the main house, and on both sides of the entrance were the stairs that rotated upward, and at this time, after a sad laugh, there was a sound of footsteps, and as soon as the Báb looked up, they saw a man and a woman walking down the stairs.

The woman was about forty years old, and her appearance was seven or eight points similar to Matilda, and a long black dress made her originally thin figure look even thinner. The woman always had an indifferent look on her face, and even when she saw Matilda return safely, she just nodded very calmly, and then smiled at the man next to her and made a gesture to ask for the first.

What appeared with the woman was a mature man less than thirty years old, his appearance was not much different from that of Ranster he had just met, and his words and deeds were elegant and polite gentlemanly style, but he vaguely gave people a cold feeling, and even his smile was cold.

Seeing this man, Matilda's face became very unnatural, her beautiful eyebrows were put together, and she said in a deep voice, "Glenn, what are you doing?"

"Hehe, of course Lady Emily invited me to discuss." Glenn smiled and gestured to the woman on the side, and said coldly, "Discuss how to help you get through the desperate situation, so that even the family property left by Uncle Pinter will be snatched away by people with ulterior motives."

As he spoke, Glenn ignored Matilda, whose face was even more ugly, and said with a smile on the woman beside him, "Lady Emily, the Presbyterian Council wants to change the time to tomorrow night, and this is not for me to decide, and our Rittery family does not have that much power to change the decision of the Presbyterian Council. However, as I just said, as long as you agree to my request, even if Matilda does not gain anything, our Ritry family will take the lead in supporting her nomination, otherwise, the Ritry family will only have to speak with a conscience, hehehe, there is still time, you can think about it again, and let dear Matilda think about it clearly."

"Don't forget, there's Lancet." Matilda said with a cold face.

"Lancet? Even if you and he do get married, wouldn't that be more exciting? What's more, they are only lovers, and they are not engaged." Glenn smiled ambiguously, suddenly smiled, and sneered, "I don't want to talk nonsense anymore, within fifteen days, the wedding of the two of us will be held, and the Ritry family will support you at the general meeting in fifteen days, otherwise, the Ritry family will never agree to your nomination." That's all there is to it, whether you want to sacrifice it or not, you think about it yourself."

As he spoke, he walked straight to the door of the manor, and when he passed by the travelers, Glenn sneered, stopped and turned back and said mockingly, "This is the rescuer you brought back from the edge? I told you, you're not a waste picker, don't pick up everything at home, recognize the reality, any garbage can be used as a lifesaver from time to time."

"This gentleman." Glenn was just about to continue leaving after speaking, when he heard someone talking behind him, and when he turned around, he found a man and a woman behind him staring at him strangely, and the man in it said with a smile, "I always think you don't seem to be very friendly to scavengers, is it my delusion?"

"Hmph, inexplicable." Glenn snorted coldly and brushed his sleeves away.