Chapter 51 Quick, save him, his life is in danger
"Brother Alphonse has sister An." Little Lissen said: "You can consider marrying me. I will go to Paris to be a general in the future."
"I don't like you, you're just a little brat." Little Betty complained.
"Do I just like you?" Xiao Lisen was furious.
"Sir, the band is here." Fortunately, Alfred brought the band at this time.
"Let's start playing, and let's start eating too." Alphonse quickly changed the subject. Why do you think people in this era talk about strange topics? Moreover, the conversation was so open when the parents were present. Even if the parents were not there, there would be an accident.
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Everyone just listened to the music and started eating. Armand started to cook again. Even though he was wearing a tie, he still stuffed the napkin around his neck, which made people very worried that he would choke to death after eating. Then he picked up the napkin again.
I clinked the knife and fork a few times with what I thought was a beautiful rhythm, and carefully cut the fish fillet, as if I was performing surgery on a patient.
Then he changed the style of painting: he directly grabbed the minced meat on the table and put it on the bread with his hands. Even Xiao Lisen was shocked by him; then he pushed the wig on his head and tied the wig with a hairpin.
Use the hairpin to pick out the caviar and put it in your mouth...
"Is your dining style the current popular style among nobles?" On the contrary, Veronica looked at it very seriously and even had the urge to learn.
"Ah, have you noticed? I learned this from the guests from Paris at the Vicomte's house." Armand started to whistle again: "I have to say, this way of dining is...ahem...ah...ahem...
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Armand, who was finally choked, grabbed Alphonse beside him with all his strength, covering his throat with one hand, and his whole face quickly turned red!
"Quick, Uncle Will, save Brother Armand, his life is in danger!" Veronica was lucky to have the doctor Will Morty present today, but she was caught by Alphonse, who was holding Armand's arm.
Armand pulled off his neckwear, sat down and continued eating, waving his hands to everyone and saying indifferently: "Don't worry, this is just an impromptu performance. Armand used to like to play pranks like this at home.
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"Ahem, it's true." In fact, Armand, who almost choked to death, was slightly dissatisfied with Alphonse's attitude, but considering the noble's face, he had to admit that it was just a prank.
"You scared us to death." Mrs. Desai rolled her eyes at Alphonse. Of course she didn't believe the nonsense Alphonse said. She only saw that Alphonse's clothes were obviously wrinkled by Armand, and she knew that he had just
How hard...
"Such a prank is not good." Veronica realized that she was overreacting and quickly sat down with a red face and said.
"Quick, Uncle Will, save brother Armand, his life is in danger!" Little Liesen deliberately pinched his throat and imitated what Veronica had just said, making little Betty laugh, and Veronica's
I couldn't bear to lose my face, and I wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl in right away...
After seeing off the two guests, Alphonse grabbed Armand by the collar and said, "I suggest you look back. Winnie is only 13 years old."
"I don't know what you are talking about." Armand pushed Alphonse's hand away with a guilty conscience.
"I have to remind you that you just spent 500 livres on my clothing today, most of which was to please your wife." Alphonse walked inside and said: "I hope you know, regardless of this amount
Money is worth nothing to me, but to you, it is worth more than half a year’s income of the entire manor.”
"What do you want to say? Drive me away?" Armand said dissatisfied: "Just because little Betty told you that you have hundreds of thousands of livres?"
"I can responsibly tell you that I have one million livres, right now." Alphonse pointed at Armand and said, "But it has nothing to do with you. If you go bankrupt, I can keep you here."
, you will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life, this is brotherhood, but I will not pay for your luxurious life."
"You can't do this to me! Since you were little, your parents have always favored you. Your mother even left all her inheritance to you. This is unfair!" Armand said angrily: "From the time I came to this day, I have asked you for something.
A sou? Yes, I sold my pocket watch, but even so, I didn’t ask you for a penny, right?"
"Well, let me ask you, have you ever spent a penny of your own money when you came to Calais?" Alphonse turned back and stared at Armand and said: "You said it's unfair, that's very simple, let's change it.
House, workshop, you choose, you give me the manor."
"I..." Armand meant that it was impossible to give up the manor. It is true that the output of the manor is relatively low, but it is an expensive fixed asset. The villa alone is worth tens of thousands of livres!
Then there are the furniture, decorations, murals and even tableware and fabrics inside, which are worth tens of thousands of livres in total; then there are the land, mills, and farmland of the manor, which are worth at least tens of thousands of livres. As long as Armand decides to sell them
It can easily be sold for more than 50,000 livres, but what Alphonse inherited was less than 10,000 livres...
"So it is brotherhood that allows you to argue with me here. It is best to remember what I said: I will not pay for you or your wife's luxurious life." Alphonse turned around and said:
"Tomorrow is Saturday, you can go around Calais by yourself; I have something to go to the workshop tomorrow, and I will ask them to make the wooden prototype of the frame for you as soon as possible; if Uncle Darren hasn't come back by Monday, you can
Bring me something back to the manor."
"I don't have a luxurious life." Armand replied dissatisfied, and then added: "It's Miss Charles. I want to remind you that you are a noble, and you must at least find a girl from a noble family to marry."
"I don't need you to worry about my affairs. You should take care of yourself first." Alphonse, who was worried by Armand, went straight back to the study and closed the door with a bang.
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Alphonse, who had been sitting all night until dawn, told Old Andal very early in the morning that he could take Armand around, but he was not allowed to contact his customers, he was not allowed to take him to the workshop, and he was not allowed to see him again.
Veronica Desai! If anything goes wrong, immediately grab Armand into the carriage and take him home!
Contrary to his own expectations, Alphonse only slept for about four hours in the morning. He woke up before 10 o'clock. Since he had nothing else to do, he ate breakfast and found a place in Moller Manor.
The new coachman who arrived took him to the glass workshop to see the production of flat glass.
"I remember... you are a child of the old Watt family, right? What were you doing at the manor?" The young man driving the car was actually not familiar with the roads in Calais, so Alphonse gave directions while talking to the man named "Artou?"
Watt" young people chatting.
"Yes, sir, I am mainly responsible for raising horses at the manor." Artou was a somewhat dull man, and he exposed his shortcomings: "Sir, Sir, he thought I didn't take good care of the horses, so he sent me to Calais.
Here’s a job for you.”
"Then have you taken good care of the horse?" Alphonse asked with a smile.
"I really took good care of it. I told Sir that it was an old war horse and it would suffer from diarrhea if it only ate grass." Artu replied: "But Sir, Sir, he only gave me a handful of beans.
Let me find a way to make it full."
"So it has loose stools?" Alphonse understood immediately. Armand, a cheater, wanted a horse to plow the fields again, and he was reluctant to part with horse feed. If the horse didn't die, it would be a fortune.
"Yes, it is very sick. Sir Sir wants me to pay 400 livres." Artu replied with a sad face: "I have no choice. He also said that you are recruiting workers. It's 15 livres a month. I'll do it."
If so, two and a half years of wages can cover the debt."
Very good. Of the 20 livres I said, Armand only had 15 livres left. This was done after I gave him another 200 livres for labor. He swallowed up 20 people in a year.
1,200 livres wages!
"Then what is your current job? Mr. Alfred arranged for you to drive the carriage?" Alphonse asked again.
"I'm in charge of all the horses. Mr. Anda doesn't know how to take care of the horses. They're all dirty. I just gave them a bath when I came." Artu replied.
Damn old Anda, let him work as a coachman and still manage the horse without washing it. It has been several months. The horse is not dead thanks to the fact that it is summer during this period, and it often rains to give the horse a shower...
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"Then which two horses are pulling our cart now?" Alphonse asked.
"The one with some white hair on the head is Bugil, and the one with the red face next to him is Alita." Artu pointed to the two horses and started to introduce: "Alita likes Bugil, but Bugil likes Manny, but Manny
It already belongs to the Demon King; if you put Boogie with Manny or the Demon King, the Demon King will definitely bully Boogie when you return to the stable."
Alphonse was also speechless. Apart from knowing that the Demon King was Badis's mount, he didn't remember the names of the other horses. Who would have thought that Artu had only been here for a day and had already figured out the love triangle. He should be the exclusive one.
Groom…
The Sparkling Glass Workshop is a dirty and dilapidated small workshop. Before Alphonse's arrival, they were barely surviving in Calais with a little business of lanterns and glass cups. Alphonse's arrival brought them
It’s a spring like everyone else: first I ordered a batch of goblets and wine vessels, then glass lamps, then glass bottles, and yesterday I received an order for flat glass.
But spring comes again. For old Al, the workshop owner and chief craftsman, Mr. Moller has been forcing people to do things: the first time the workshop made goblets, the first time it made glass lamps, and the first time it made glass bottles.
, they were all forced out by the shiny Lever, and now they are forcing him to make plate glass for the first time. But he has only learned to blow glass bottles in his life...
Therefore, when Alfons came in, he saw Al's cool operation: put a hot glass hose on the mold to blow an oval-bottomed conical flask, cut off the circumference of the bottle after blowing it, leaving only the bottom of the bottle, and then use iron
Chapter completed!