Aunt Natalie's third son is called Phaedra, who works as a clerk in a small business called Wolft. This business in the commercial district of the royal capital mostly sells mountain products and specialties from several villages near Kalebeng Village. It is for this reason that Aunt Natalie's eldest son, the current Kalebun Village Chief, can bring him to this position. The uneasy third brother was forced into this small business.
After saying goodbye to Lieutenant Colonel Manrich early in the morning, Claude took a large package and found a taxi to go to the business district. However, this small business called Wolft was a little difficult to find. Fortunately, Aunt Natalie gave her a specific address, and it took her more than an hour to find the front store of this small business, and then she waited for about half an hour before meeting this Fedela.
Compared with his sister Halbena, this Phaedra looks more delicate, but she smells a bit of a fool. He didn't pay much attention to the big package that his mother, Claude, brought him, and he didn't think of thanking Claude. If Claude hadn't reminded him, he wouldn't have even thought about writing a reply to his parents. He grabbed a piece of paper on the counter and hurriedly wrote a few words and handed it to Claude, then left impatiently.
Claude could only shake his head, put the note written by Fedra into his pocket, and planned to hand it to Aunt Natalie when he returned. The package delivery just now cost two Riasos just for the rental carriage. I haven't even gotten a word of thanks from Fedela. I will never do this kind of help again in the future. Claude didn't care about the cost, but Fedela's attitude made him feel very uncomfortable.
Next, Claude walked around the business district for a while. He wanted to buy some gifts before visiting Madam Maria. Claude still inherited the thinking from his previous life. He always felt that it would be impolite to come empty-handed for the first time.
Lieutenant Colonel Manrich was right. In the commercial district of the royal capital, you can indeed buy various products produced in the entire Farea continent. Claude also discovered the Binglan Saint fruit wine from the Icefield Peninsula in the northwest of the mainland in a trading house specializing in alcohol. This is a famous wine known as one of the three major fruit wines in the mainland. It is said that the output is rare, and the Binglan Saint fruit wine is produced every year. There are less than 8,000 bottles of fruit wine, and they have all been reserved by the princes and nobles of the mainland. I didn’t expect to see one bottle in this trading house.
Of course, the price is also very touching. The label below is a three-digit number, and the unit is gold crown. Claude thought about it for a long time, but gave up the intention of buying it. After all, it seemed a little inappropriate to send such an expensive gift to someone's door for the first time. It would make Madam Maria feel very embarrassed. She was just visiting, not asking for anything.
So Claude spent 11 gold crowns to buy two other bottles of famous wine as gifts for the visit. The price seemed very appropriate. It was neither particularly expensive nor frivolous. Even if Mrs. Maria took this in the future, It would not be rude to host a banquet with two bottles of famous wine to entertain visiting noble guests.
He called another taxi and headed to Baron Normanry's Mansion in the 18th District in the Second Ring Road of the Royal Capital. Half an hour later, the carriage was stopped. The carriage driver told Claude apologetically that this was the area where the nobles' mansions were located, and there were patrols inspecting them. Rental carriages like him operating in the royal capital would be inspected when entering this area...
However, Claude was wearing a military uniform, with a knighthood medal on his chest, and a military officer's ID card and identity document on his body. The patrolman who performed the inspection saluted and found that Claude's identity was correct. While apologizing, he diligently inquired about Claude's destination. After learning that Claude was going to the Baron Normandy's mansion, he sent a mounted police officer in the carriage. Leading the way, he saluted Claude and left until he reached his destination.
Lady Maria actually has two homes, because her husband is Viscount Katve and there is another Viscount residence. It's just that Viscount Cutoff's mother is still alive, and she single-handedly controls all the affairs of the Viscount's Mansion. In addition, Viscount Cutoff has two or three brothers and sisters who have no future and are living in the Viscount's Mansion. Therefore, Lady Maria rarely went to the Viscount's Palace, and even when her husband, Viscount Cartoff, came back, he mostly rested at the Baron's Palace in Normandy.
Lady Maria is the real head of the family here. Baron Normanry is a hereditary noble. It was Stirling X who personally decided to let Lady Maria inherit the title left by her father. This is a great blessing to her over the years. A commendation for serving as the Royal Apothecary.
The timing when Claude came to visit was not very coincidental, as Lady Maria was not at the Baron's residence. However, the Butler Lutheran who went out to welcome him was an old acquaintance. Even though he bankrupted the real estate development company, Lady Maria's trust in Butler Lutheran remained undiminished, and she still appointed him as the manager after he returned to the capital. The Grand Steward of the Baron's Mansion.
Butler Lutheran invited Claude to the reception room and accompanied him personally. He said that Mrs. Maria went to the palace and did not come back for two days. His Majesty the King, Stirling X, relapsed last year and was bedridden. Her condition seemed to have become more serious some time ago, so Mrs. Maria often went to the palace during this period, and it was common for her not to come back for two or three days.
Since Madam Maria was not here, Claude didn't want to stay any longer. He gave gifts and chatted with Butler Lutheran for a while before getting up and saying goodbye. However, he was pulled back by Butler Lutheran. The old steward was still worried about the fact that he opened and closed the real estate company. He wanted to ask Claude why Claude succeeded in the same business. And he failed...
Claude had no choice but to analyze the reasons for his failure with Butler Lutheran. While they were chatting enthusiastically, he saw a thin middle-aged soldier walking in. Steward Lutheran quickly stood up to greet him, but Claude hurriedly stood up to salute. There was no other way, but there were two golden suns on the shoulder straps of this middle-aged soldier, which was the official rank of lieutenant general in the kingdom.
This middle-aged soldier with the rank of lieutenant general is Lady Maria's husband, Viscount Katve. He is probably in his fifties and should be five or six years older than Lady Maria. After he returned home, he was surprised to find that Butler Lutheran was chatting very animatedly with a captain officer, so he came in curiously to take a look. As a result, after asking, I found out that this was Claude, the pharmacy disciple that my wife had mentioned in Bailu City, who later joined the army.
So Claude was retained by Viscount Cutoff again. Of course, Viscount Cutoff was not interested in the real estate business. What he was interested in was Claude's five years of war experience and the knighthood medal he wore on his chest. As a soldier of the kingdom and a general, Viscount Katf's greatest regret was that he was unable to go to the battlefield to show off his skills and gain new merits for his family in the war that swept the entire eastern region of the continent. As His Majesty the King's most trusted subordinate, he must assume the responsibility of staying in the royal capital.
Claude had no choice but to briefly recount his experience in the war. As a soldier, Viscount Cutoff was keenly aware of the role played by the Ranger Battalion in the war. Although it is not a full-scale attack on the enemy's defensive positions by marching in formation like a large army, it is very effective in dealing with the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry and suppressing the defensive firepower on the enemy's positions.
What Viscount Cutoff was most concerned about was the example of the Ranger Battalion ambushing the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry, and the battle to capture Wilf's Hill. He had seen it in the battle report, but didn't pay special attention to it. Now through Claude, a person who experienced it, Viscount Katve has learned about the real battle process, and he has a great understanding of the important matter currently being discussed by the Guards Corps to replace the Aubash Type III standard matchlock guns. passion and determination.
Claude also talked about his views on the precise aiming design of the Obash Type III matchlock. He believed that equipping this type of matchlock must be based on the traditional Continental Army’s tactics of marching in formation and firing in unison. Change. The ended war in the eastern region has shown that when the enemy is unwilling to engage in field battles with you, using the tactic of marching in formation and firing in unison to attack the enemy's well-established defensive positions will only bring heavy casualties.
Just like in this war between the Kingdom and the anti-Austrian alliance, although the Kingdom wiped out more than one million enemy coalition forces, it also suffered nearly 600,000 casualties. This is also the reason why the kingdom was ultimately unable to hold on and could only negotiate a truce. No one expected that the war would last for five years, and that all the wealth accumulated by the kingdom in more than twenty years would be consumed. In many places, compulsory conscription was carried out two or three times, and the new territories it occupied were reduced to ruins. Not only did the kingdom lose the wealth from the newly occupied territories, it also needed to invest more funds in reconstruction and development...
Viscount Cutoff and Claude had an extremely speculative conversation, and even had the idea of transferring Claude to serve in the Guards Corps. However, Claude still refused this request. After all, although the Guards Corps is known as the kingdom's first ace field regiment and the Royal Guards of the Sterling royal family, its internal personnel relations are extremely complicated. He was transferred to the post halfway and it is impossible to be reused. , obviously not as promising as the newly formed Rangers.
It was nearly noon, and Claude was ready to leave, but Viscount Katve forced him to stay. In order to show the importance he attached to Claude, Viscount Cartoff also specifically ordered Butler Lutheran to find his eldest son Hettinger and his second daughter Christie to dine with Claude. According to Viscount Cutoff, you young people should have a common language, make friends, and let my two useless children learn from you...
This may be due to the fact that Viscount Katve did not know the grudge between his two children and Claude. One is Anna, the sister who molested Claude and was almost beaten to paralysis. The other one was self-righteous and forcibly took back the cabin and the 300 acres of forestry that Lady Maria had given to Claude, causing her mother, Lady Maria, to completely fail in her plan to win over Claude...
This was also the first time Claude met Lady Maria and the two children of Viscount Katve. Judging from the appearance, the eldest son Hettinger is as old as Claude. It can be said that he has inherited all the advantages of both his parents' appearance. He is a very handsome man, but a bit feminine, gentle and slender. Piccolo Lord was a bit taller, and I had a very good impression of him when they first met. I thought he was a very polite and well-educated young man, and his conversation was very decent.
The elder brother is handsome, and the younger sister Christie is naturally not bad either. She has a voluptuous figure, bulging forward and backward, very sexy and fiery. She walks very eye-catchingly, but she has a cold and repulsive expression on her face. It’s true. She is a beautiful woman with eyes as high as her head. Claude only took a few glances and felt that his sister Anna was right. No matter how polite she was, she could not get rid of her own temperament that she thought she was noble and looked down on others.
However, Viscount Cutoff did not notice this. This is a common problem for every father. They only see the advantages of their children in front of them, and tend to ignore their shortcomings. What's more, Viscount Cutoff is busy with affairs most of the year, and he doesn't know his children as well as Butler Lutheran, a bystander.
Of course, in front of their fathers, Hettinger and Christie also performed perfectly. Even though they didn't understand why their father, a lieutenant general, valued this ordinary captain in front of them, this did not prevent them from showing their hospitality, courtesy and thoughtfulness. However, when Viscount Cartoff introduced Claude's identity, Claude was very satisfied to see Hettinger's face suddenly turn green and red, and his eyes flickered. It seemed that he had not forgotten the meal given to him by his sister Anna. beat up…
And that Christie acted like an aggressive rooster who had just met her opponent. Her hair seemed to stand on end, and her eyes when she looked at Claude suddenly became very wary.
But Viscount Cartoff didn't notice all this. On the contrary, during the meal, he asked Hettinger and Christie to have more time to communicate with Claude and not hang out with those bad friends outside. In the mouth of Viscount Cutoff, Claude was praised as the most outstanding young soldier in the kingdom today, with a bright future, and becoming a pillar of the kingdom is just around the corner...
Especially after hearing that Claude had gotten married and started a family in September last year, Viscount Cutoff felt very sorry. The implicit meaning of that statement was that if Claude was still single, he would like his daughter Christie to have more contact with Claude. It's just that Viscount Cutoff didn't notice that his two children were restless at the banquet. Hettinger was submissive and just wanted to get over the lunch. But Christie looked like an angry wild cat, with a cold face, and her eyes seemed to be blazing with anger when she looked at Claude.
After finally finishing his meal, Viscount Katve took Claude to his study again. Now he wanted to hear Claude tell about the entire battle process of the victory in Squirrel Village, and how he managed to defeat five soldiers with less than one brigade. The miracle of more than a thousand enemies.
It just happened that when Claude was halfway through his story, Viscount Katve received a notice asking him to go to the Guards Corps immediately to attend a meeting. Viscount Katve wanted to keep Claude in the house and wait for him to come back in the evening to continue the conversation. But Claude refused. Lieutenant Colonel Manrich had made an appointment to hold a family dinner for Claude tonight, and he might return to the military academy tomorrow.
In the end, Claude agreed to stay in the study and write down the entire battle so that Viscount Cutoff could review the battle on the map based on the battle report he wrote when he came back in the evening. This made Viscount Cutoff happy. He got up, summoned Butler Lutheran, and told him to entertain Claude before leaving in a hurry.
Next, Claude wrote hard and it took him almost an hour to write this battle report. When he was about to say goodbye to Butler Lutheran, he didn't expect Miss Christie to be waiting for him with an angry look on her face. Ask him what he wants to do as soon as they meet. Don't try to confuse his mother and father anymore. Take back the cabin and the three hundred acres of forest farm in Norman. It is her inheritance. She will never let Crowe take it back. De's plan succeeds...
Claude originally wanted to retaliate, but when he heard that this self-righteous young lady thought that the purpose of his visit to Madam Maria was to get back the cabin and the three hundred acres of forestry, he couldn't help but burst into laughter, and immediately turned off his voice. The eldest lady ignored the arrogant eldest lady because of her quarrel. She turned a blind eye and spoke to Butler Lutheran before leaving the Baron Normandy's residence.