In the summer without cooling tools, it’s not a good feeling to be stuck in the house.
Today is another good day, and you can already feel the heat of midsummer in the early part of the Thunder Moon. Although the outside of the house is open, even if you open the windows, you cannot let the wind pass back and forth, and you have to worry about the city's fog affecting your health. Outsiders do not
Being accustomed to this kind of life, the efficiency of reading when I am restless has been reduced.
But fortunately, he had mastered the new thaumaturgy. As the temperature continued to rise near noon, Shade finally decided to try to actively cool down the room.
Seeing Mia lying on the desk in the study not wanting to move, he got up and brought the basin and bucket from home, and put newspapers under these containers. Then he closed the study door, closed the windows and closed the curtains tightly.
As the spirit activates the elements, and the elements affect reality, snowflakes fall from the ceiling, and then fall into the basin and bucket. A small part slips from the edge, and because of the existence of the newspaper, it will not leave traces on the study floor.
Even though it has just snowed now, seeing this scene already makes me feel a lot cooler.
"Meow~"
The cat squinted at Luoxue's study. When Shade wasn't paying attention, the cat jumped out of the desk and fell into the bucket. It probably just wanted to play in the snow.
Mia made a "screaming" sound and bumped around in the bucket. By the time Shade rescued the cat from the bucket, it was no longer interested in those white things. Probably, at least within a few dozen minutes.
Because I was not in good spirits, I just spent the whole day reading or looking at the detective reports left behind by Detective Sparrow. I read those past investigation reports as detective novels.
I went out to eat at noon and took a rare nap after returning home. When I woke up, I felt much clearer and the headache I felt when I woke up in the morning had almost completely disappeared.
I returned to the study room again, reading books while it was snowing, and preparing for the exam at the end of July. At three o'clock in the afternoon, the sound of the bell finally came from downstairs.
Shade looked out from the living room window and saw a carriage parked in front of his house, and knew that this was the arrival of the servant Miss Carina had arranged to teach him.
Of course, it was impossible for Duchess Carina's personal maid Tifa to do this specifically, so those who came to No. 6 Saint Teresa Square in a carriage were an old tailor and a female apprentice carrying a metal toolbox.
A teacher of etiquette wearing a white wig and old-style court clothes and his young entourage.
The old tailor and apprentice came to measure Shade's clothes, and then simply cut the formal clothes that had been made. The etiquette teacher came to teach him some speaking skills to prevent him from doing things he shouldn't do.
The clothes thing is easy to talk about, but the conversation and rules between nobles are really cumbersome. When Shade was in his hometown, he knew how cumbersome and boring this set of things was, but this afternoon he realized that he still underestimated it greatly.
The annoying level of aristocratic etiquette.
When the sun went down, Shade barely escaped from the tedious etiquette study and put on the black formal suit made by the tailor and apprentice.
Another carriage stopped at the door of No. 6 Saint Teresa Square, this time it was Miss Carina's personal maid, Miss Tifa Servit.
"Miss Servit."
Shade walked out of the door and stood on the steps to greet the maid. While talking, he adjusted his tight collar. He rarely wore such loose clothes in his hometown. He just complained a little to the old tailor.
The old tailor "threatened" that men now wear stockings as a fashion. So he shut up.
The black-haired maid was a little surprised:
"You actually know my last name. It seems you have some skills as a detective."
In fact, Shade heard Miss Louisa mention it.
"The lady asked me to pick you up. You get in the carriage at the back."
Of course, it was impossible for a single maid of a duchess to ride in a carriage with a strange man. Miss Tifa Servit pointed out the location of the carriage to Shad, and she saw the orange cat poking its head behind Shad.
Generally speaking, Mia would not take the initiative to leave the house, and she never ran out when Shade opened the door. It noticed that the woman in the carriage was paying attention to it, so it roared, and then quickly hid behind
Behind Shade's legs.
This made the black-haired maid smile, and then asked the detective who was taking out the key and preparing to lock the door:
"Check to see if you have that card."
"Yes."
Shade patted his chest, waved goodbye to the cat in the house, and then closed the door.
"Okay, let's go now. After the Rhodes game, there will be a salon hosted by the Duke. You don't have to worry about being hungry. Detective Hamilton, get in the car. I hope you can help the lady win tonight's bet."
The location of this game was not the noble club in Tobesk or the manor outside the city of the old Duke Lux. The game was arranged at Duke Lucas' mansion in the southern district of Tobesk.
The nobles and wealthy people of Tobesk usually live in the south and east of the city, and the nobles tend to be more south-oriented. However, the south city and the central city are generally considered to be the most prosperous areas of the Pearl of the North, and the university district of Tobesk
, is sandwiched in the middle of Nancheng and Central City in a curved ring shape.
After going uphill for a while, the carriage slowed down and finally stopped at the door of Duke Lucas's residence in the city. There was a courtyard surrounding the mansion, and a middle-aged man dressed as a butler was already standing in the hazy place with his servants.
Waiting in the night.
The maid got out of the car first and chatted with the butler. When Shade got out of the car wearing a black bowler hat, the maid Tifa Servitt introduced the protagonist of the night to the butler. The one with a strong Tobesk accent.
The steward expressed his respect to Shade.
He was followed by a team of servants, followed by the old housekeeper and the maid, and walked through the not-so-large courtyard towards the mansion. He thought he would go to see Miss Carina first, but he didn't expect to pass through the slightly deserted mansion door.
After entering the hall, he actually went directly to the second floor and met a group of people from the Prophet Association.
"The guests have arrived and are now waiting in the banquet hall on the third floor. Oh, Mr. Liming, this place hasn't been so lively for a long time."
The old housekeeper sighed and opened the door for Shad. People in the room turned to look inside the door. Shad had never seen most of the people from the Prophet Association, but he saw Vice President Cyndia Mark at a glance. Mark
The gentleman smiled and shook hands with Shade, then took Shade's deck for appraisal to ensure that all the cards used in tonight's game were genuine.
"Oh, [Ancient Fairy Tale·Match Girl] and [Northern City·Coldwater Port City]? In just a few days, Mr. Hamilton, you actually got so many new cards?"
Mr. Mark said happily that all fans would be so excited to see Rhodes cards that they had never seen before.