Putting the cat on the counter—to make up for disturbing its sleep last night—Jenkins said:
"Is daddy behind? I'll help him, please wait a moment, both of you."
But he quickly walked back, because the old man who was rummaging through the goods in the warehouse asked him to entertain the guests in front of him in a stern tone:
"Aren't you learning etiquette? Isn't letting guests sit there alone also what you learned?"
But Jenkins thinks Dad has other motives in driving him back.
The two beautiful girls rushed here without worrying about their sleep, so that their father could help them choose suitable gifts. The Queen of the Kingdom of Fidgetly will celebrate her birthday this month, which is also her 71st birthday.
Judging by the standards of this era, it is very surprising that even the royal family with superior living conditions can live to 71 years old. But every orthodox heir of the Fidetictli royal family-Middleton family, except for some who died early due to murder and other reasons, each of them lived to an amazing age.
According to the rules and etiquette, aristocratic families, large and small, must send a gift on the Queen's birthday, and families with financial means will also ask their adult heirs to also present gifts.
This is something that has to be done every year. There shouldn't have been any accidents, but the gift that was pre-ordered in the first half of this year was attacked by pirates on the way to Nolan City by sea. Hathaway and Miss Michel didn't know the news until last night, so they came to the antique shop early in the morning.
The three young people did not discuss more profound topics, but casually talked about some lace news or newspaper news.
Although Hathaway didn't say whether to mention the Sunday dinner in front of Miss Mihail, Jenkins sensibly didn't say anything about it.
Miss Mihail mentioned that the Nolan City Navy will make a big move. This is what she heard from Marquis Mihail by chance, while Hathaway seemed to talk about Miss Lindsay on purpose, that is, the leader of the organization. Noble Maiden of Soul Games:
"I saw her yesterday and she looked haggard."
"Really? Then let's visit her together in the afternoon. After all..."
She realized the reason why Hathaway mentioned this matter, and whispered softly:
"I have learned a lesson, and I will never rashly participate in such dangerous activities in the future. But that time, I invited Mr. Williams to go together, isn't it very safe?"
Jenkins pretended not to hear anything, he thought it was not suitable for him to get involved in this matter.
"you are always like this."
Hathaway said softly, judging from her expression, Jenkins thought that for a long time in the future, Miss Michelle would hear her friends repeating this incident.
This is of course a good thing. Ordinary people like Miss Michel should stay away from any supernatural events, which is good for everyone.
It took Dad three times longer than usual to find the right gift from the back warehouse. After seeing off the two noble ladies, he was lying in front of the counter while keeping accounts while talking to Jenkins about his spare time, while Jenkins stood up and prepared to pack the teacups.
This set of tea sets is the most expensive set of porcelain products in Dad's collection, and it is specially used to entertain distinguished guests.
It was still a somewhat boring day. After transcribing the tadpole essays in the morning, the old man planned to test whether Jenkins had practiced the new ritual alone recently. At this time, Mr. Schleich sent a message from Miss Bevanna, Jenkins' baptism ceremony has been re-fixed a new time - on the night of next Wednesday, the church will find someone to replace him in charge of the arithmetic class.
The location is still under the giant tree in the evergreen forest. It is said that because the believers of the new gods performed a complicated ceremony there, the spirit of life in the forest became more intense than before.
In fact, after the day when the [Undead] ability was obtained, Jenkins guessed that the church ceremony was part of the complete ability ceremony. He thought it might be useless to baptize again, but he couldn't find a good reason to refuse, so he could only accept such an arrangement.
With the deepening of Jenkins' study, Dad's courses have become more and more difficult recently. He has passed the stage of learning theoretical knowledge, and now the practice part becomes more.
The holding of the ceremony is of course dangerous, and the harm caused by improper operation is no less than that of smoking in a fireworks processing factory.
After eating at noon, Dad handed Jenkins a note with what he was going to learn today. After Jenkins read it, Dad immediately lit the note with a match.
He casually threw the ashes that were burned to the ground with only white edges left, and the two of them quietly watched it burn completely.
"Do you remember clearly?"
"Remember clearly, sir!"
After owning the Book of Memories, his memory has shown a great improvement, and five or six lines of letters are not a problem at all.
The ritual learned today is called [Disorientation]. It is a ritual that uses expensive materials but has a huge scope.
The core of the ceremony is a wooden ring. The trunk of a tree called monkey face tree is processed into a standard hollow ring through traditional handicrafts. Place the ring anywhere that can be considered an intersection, such as the fork in a mountain path, or the corner of a room corridor, and then arrange the rest of the ceremony within the ring. If all goes well, any creature passing through it will be rendered indistinguishable.
This is somewhat like the innate ability of evil spirits, or "ghosts hit the wall", but because the preparation materials are very cumbersome, it is only possible to use it as a roadblock in large-scale operations.
Papa's Antiques is in the city, so Jenkins needs to compress the scope of the ritual to keep it from causing trouble.
Together with his father, he built a simple maze with empty boxes in the warehouse, and then used a special spice to attract three greedy stray cats.
Jenkins set up the ritual in the center of a maze of small wooden boxes, and Dad sent them in to test if it worked.
The two worked all afternoon, but only two of Jenkins' three attempts succeeded.
The failure was the first attempt. At that time, the wild cat had not been attracted, and he was impatient to wait, so he used the chocolate that was taking a nap as the experimental sample.
The ceremony had no effect at all. Chocolate trotted from the leftmost end of the wooden box maze to the rightmost end very easily, without being affected by the ceremony, and did not even walk into any fork in the road.
This declared the first attempt a complete and utter failure, and Jenkins was greatly frustrated.