Chapter 188: It's a natural anti-guest
As a family that has never been left alone, Gunnhild naturally owns a large mansion in Mondstadt, and today, due to the scarcity of family members, only the acting head Jean and the hired maid live here on weekdays.
Naturally, Jean is not the only one who remains in Mondstadt, and the famous idol Barbara Peggy has the same blood as Jean.
However, due to the divorce and separation of her parents, Barbara, who followed her father Simon as a child, lived in the church more often.
And today, the pastor who is full of longing for his sister has once again stepped into a strange home after a long time.
"Brigade... Traveler, do you want to drink fruit juice, or tea? No, it's tea? β
Touching Barbara's flaxen-colored hair, who was slightly nervous, Ying was very understanding and guided her to sit down on the sofa, refused the help offered by the maid, and personally made a cup of tea for the girl idol.
At the same time, he also poured the insulating pepper powder he took from Xiangling into it.
"Thank you travelers, it's my favorite taste...... How do you know? β
"It's nothing, I learned a little bit of observation skills with a lawyer named Yanfei in Liyue, but unfortunately that lawyer's anti-reconnaissance skills are not very good."
With a gentle smile on her face, she took Barbara's hand like a gentle grandmother and patted it gently, "You can treat this place as your home, don't be too nervous, take a deep breath." β
"Good. Whewβ"
The maid looked at the honorary knight who had successfully rebelled, raised her head and her lips squirmed a few times, and the second lady who did so made her hesitate to speak.
"Are you relaxed now?"
"It seems that this is indeed the case! I did make this my home, and it suddenly felt so familiar, like I had lived here as a child..."
Barbara said in surprise.
"Thank you so much, Traveler."
The fingers groped the back of the girl idol's delicate hand, waved her hand, and said with a smile: "Don't get in the way, don't get in the way." β
Second Miss, are you so nervous that you can be fooled? β¦β¦ The maid sighed inwardly, and she couldn't help but rejoice that at least one of the other guests was normal, and it was the standard mode of visiting after entering the mansion.
"Well, I have an impression of this knight's sword, it should be the twenty-seventh generation head of the Gunnhild family who chased me with this sword and cut it."
Standing in front of the knight's sword that could be called an antiquity hanging on the wall, Zhishui folded his arms around his chest, and shook his head with great emotion:
"At that time, I didn't speak as restrained as I do now, so the process of the strategy was always slowed down because of boredom, and she wasn't the first head of the house to do so."
After sighing for a while, Zhishui came to the corridor where the portraits of the Gunnhild family were hung again, except for the front one and the last part, the faces in the rest of the portraits were still somewhat familiar.
"Well, I remember this kid when he traveled all the way to Liyue and grabbed a handful of Cecilia flowers, and ended up fighting with the same ill-intentioned Deceased Hall Master.
"Speaking of which, I didn't use a female avatar when I met and made friends with him, did I?"
"It seems that it is not for nothing that you have been dubbed "scum" in Gunnhilde's family motto."
Paimon floated over and sat on Shisui's shoulder, holding the cleaned apple and taking a bite, the sweet juice running through her mouth, making her squint happily.
"You deserve it!"
"I can't say the same, at least I've been very helpful to their growth and mental firmness."
Lowering his head and pondering for a while, Zhishui stretched out his hand and pointed to the position of the sofa in the living room, and retorted: "One of them was trained by me to be extremely smart, and even I was accidentally locked up by the iron cage he set up. β
"Hmm~ I haven't seen the big bad guy look like when you're smart, Paimon doesn't feel surprised, but then?"
"How can an ordinary iron cage trap me? Actually, it's my fault to say it, that kid is smart, but the best is really the best, I don't have much motivation when I communicate with him, maybe it's because of this......"
"Oh, Paimon sees."
As a maid who grew up with Fredrica, the mother of the Poplar Knight, who is also the Dandelion Knight, she still has some swordsmanship and martial arts.
The facial features of a warrior are generally sharper than those of ordinary people, and the maid is the best among them, at least until the birth of the eldest and second misses, she can hear the slight wind in the lady's room every night.
This is used as a disguise...... It's usually on one, three, five, six, and occasionally it's the whole week, after all, Archbishop Simon was an adventurer before, and he was still a big adventurer among them, and he could keep up with the physical strength of a knight.
Coupled with the fact that the conversation between the two was never disguised, the maid was really a companion of Bennett's adventure party - unable to make a sound.
She didn't know if it was true or not, after all, this gentleman didn't have the same conspicuous physical features as Ms. Alice, so it was hard to decide whether he was a long-lived breed...
"By the way, big bad guy, what are we going to eat tonight? It seems that there are not enough dishes in the kitchen, is it because Jean always doesn't eat at home? β
"There are still some ingredients in the gossip treasure bag, wait for me to cook, in fact, you can also go to the Knights' cafeteria to participate in the celebration dinner, but I don't recommend it, a group of drunk drunks, you never know how shocking the scene of vomiting together is."
His face sank slightly, and the bad memories in his mind were evoked, and Zhishui was still annoyed that Bartobas hadn't stopped him from adding fire water to the tea eight hundred years ago.
That's your knight!
"Paimon, go outside and pick some Mufeng mushrooms."
"Why should I go?"
"Because I don't want to climb the wall."
β
"Woo... The taste is as good as ever, Mr. Zhishui is really sorry, obviously you are a guest, but you want you to cook, in fact, I can come..."
"It's okay, it's just a matter of cooking a few more people's meals, come, eat it while it's hot."
"Good..."
The maid looked around the dΓ©cor of the living room, making sure that it was the same as she remembered, that it was still the mansion of the Gunnhild family, and then looked at the slightly restrained eldest and second misses.
The movements of the three guests are extremely natural and calm, why do you, as the host of the house, seem to be overly nervous?
And Miss, you look like you have a budding heart, do you know?
"Qin, this is your home, don't be so nervous and restrained, your appearance reminds me of when I had dinner with your ancestors, they were also so nervous."
The same is true of the dinner with Archbishop Simon before the lady becomes the lady...... The maid complained silently.
Jean's legs were pressed together, and the mushroom-scented pizza could not relieve the tension in her heart, "Okay...... Mr. Zhishui, what were my ancestors like? β
"Well, although Gunnhild is generally a very old-fashioned knight, there are differences in personality and handling methods, in fact, I can't remember too many details, but there are still some impressive things."
"I remember that more than nine hundred years ago, when bad messages against Lawrence began to circulate, and the people of Mondstadt began to be hostile for a long time.
"The Gunnhilde at the time pressed down with a thunderous force, and even severely punished a few of the leading guys, and she wouldn't let the commission to find the cat sit on her desk......"
Jean whimpered in a low voice, "Mr. Zhishui, I will learn." β
Paimon struggled to swallow the food in his mouth and asked in surprise, "Based on the history we know in Mondstadt, wasn't Lawrence a bad aristocrat before him?" Why didn't Jean's ancestors allow the people of Mondstadt to be hostile? β
"I remember this very well, after all, it had something to do with my almost sudden death, but in fact, the Lawrence blood left in Mondstadt is the one who rebelled against the tyranny of the family."
Filling Paimon with the juice in the cup, a hint of mockery seemed to flash in Shisui's eyes, and he said flatly:
Lawrence, who imposed tyranny, had long since been driven out of Mondstadt by Vanessa and wandered among the Seven Kingdoms, while the heroic hero Lawrence was surrounded by his people.
Unfortunately, Mondstadt's freedom did not allow them to record history, and with the passing of two generations, the heroic Lawrence and the aristocrat Lawrence were equated.
"Heh~ When the Knights of Favonius were first established, I once advised Lawrence not to stay in Mondstadt, and that having time to be free would erase everything.
"The reason why the Lawrence family is like this now is probably because after experiencing hostility, there are fools who also believe in the existence of the equal sign and forget the true source of their bloodline."