This is a city that is always shrouded in mist, and the morning sun breaks through the clouds to bring a new day to the manor of Phantomhine.
The pure white skin-friendly silk shirt gently wraps the young man's fair skin, and a pair of plain hands fasten a row of buttons from bottom to top carefully and quickly on the open skirt, and a red ribbon is tied around the collar in front of the skirt. beautiful bow...
Charles sat on the edge of the bed holding black tea and lowered his head, watching the blond girl half-kneeling on the ground holding gray stockings to put on his legs, then fixed them with sock clips, and finally held his feet and put them on gently. With the skillful movement of putting on the boots and quickly tying the shoelaces, he narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Today... it's you who came here." When he said this, his tone was unclear.
However, the maid replied without hesitation: "Yes, the young master said yesterday that I will help you get up this morning." Her voice was soft and sweet, like a bird singing on a branch outside. When there is chaos, just listening to it makes people feel happy.
Hearing what she said, Charles finally thought about what he confessed on a whim yesterday, which led to the current situation.
— There was no deliberate comparison, but the boy couldn't help but evaluate his deacon and maid together.
Although Sebastian can also do this job perfectly, he is a man after all, and a man's wide palm will never be able to compare with a girl's soft onion fingers.
His eyes were on the girl's folded hands on her lower abdomen. Unlike Sebastian who always wore gloves, her small hands, which could easily be held in the palm of an adult man, were slender and delicate, with perfect proportions, neatly trimmed ten fingernails. Colored in healthy pink, round and lovely like pearls, such a pair of perfect bare hands is enough to drive most hand lovers crazy.
"Breakfast is ready, Mr. Deacon is waiting at the table. Is the young master going to eat?"
The maid's voice drew Charles' gaze from her hands back to her face. If her hands were perfect enough, then this face could be called flawless. The girl's face has the proportion of facial features that should be praised regardless of the aesthetics of the East and the West. It has both the soft lines of the Orientals and the deep facial features of the Westerners. Beautiful eyebrows and cherry lips, pure blue eyes like the sky, blond hair shining like a waterfall, healthy and ruddy skin without a trace of pores, under the sun, the eye feathers like crow wings are covered by a layer of semicircle because of the drooping eyelids of the owner Shaped transparent shadows.
Not to mention the extremely slender waist that was strangled by the black and white maid skirt. With just one look, Charles knew that this person was not tall like him but had a slender figure.
The most important thing is that she has a pure temperament all over her body, and her eyes are full of eyes that only reflect him, so clean... like a white paper that is not stained with impurities.
The boy's brows frowned even tighter. He put down his teacup, stood up from the bed, and walked to the door: "Pack up your things and go to the restaurant."
"Yes." The maid's brisk promise came from behind, as if she was happy because of his previous attention.
As the deacon of this family, Mr. Sebastian is still relatively busy. Although Mei Lu joined him to help him share most of the housekeeping work, he went out with the master to deal with various events and had to do the calculations for the master when he came back. Various issues on the accounts still took a lot of time.
Coupled with the malicious "troubleshooting" of the little master from time to time to embarrass him, he actually didn't have much time to learn various deacon skills from Ms. Meilu.
But even so, a devil is a devil after all, and as a new deacon, Sebastian's performance is as perfect as the naked eye can see. It was said that it took a year, but in fact it only took a few months to count the "class time", and he was completely out of the teacher.
"Thanks to Ms. Mei Lu's selfless cultivation, I was able to graduate so smoothly." Afterwards, the handsome deacon said so, and bowed his head to thank her without hesitation.
"I've never seen a student as smart as Mr. Deacon. It's really amazing to read everything." The maid responded, "In this way, if you go out with the young master, you can help If the young master is more busy, he will be happy."
Again, for the young master
The black-haired deacon raised his dark red eyes slightly, and glanced at her indistinctly. Before the maid noticed, he had already straightened up and smiled decently: "Speaking of the young master, I have something to tell Ms. Meilu. "
The maid raised her head to look at him, and the other party answered quickly without being too condescending.
"It's a bit difficult for us to take care of this mansion alone. You also saw it a few days ago. This manor is always inexplicably attacked by wild animals of unknown origin. It took a lot of time to clean up and restore it afterwards. Young Master It means that we need to recruit some more people to guard the house."
The deacon is smiling and orderly.
"In other words, you are going to be the head maid."
This time it was the blond maid's turn to stare.
But, speaking of being the head maid...
Under Mr. Deacon's eclectic way of recruiting talents, he found a chef who always blows up the kitchen when he cooks a meal, a gardener who destroys the entire courtyard directly by pulling weeds, and a person who often breaks countless plates and often throws all kinds of things. After the maid with glasses fell down, everyone including the master Shire felt that this matter had a long way to go.
"Baruto used to be a soldier with the title of sergeant and an expert in blasting. He is very good at tactics, but he likes to use weapons like flame throwers for cooking, which caused a lot of waste."
"Finny's strength is infinite, his feet are extremely fast, and his strong physical fitness allows him to be hit on the head by a heavy object without fainting or dying. However, because of his too much strength, he often ruins the garden when gardening."
"As for Mei Lin, as long as she takes off her glasses, she becomes a sniper with terrifying skills. No matter how far the prey escapes, they can't escape her bullets... It's just that after wearing the glasses given by the young master, her vision always has problems, and she can't do things well. .Although I think her problem is not her eyesight at all, but her head is always thinking about something."
This is how the deacon explained to the master when he brought back the servants he liked one by one.
"That is to say, they said they were servants, but they were actually bodyguards protecting the house." Sitting behind the desk, the young count rested his chin on his hands and made his conclusion.
"That's right." The deacon bowed his head.
There was a mocking smile on the corner of Charles's lips: "Are you sure you didn't trip up Mel? The housekeeping ability of those three people can be regarded as zero, or even negative, but you let her be the head maid to lead them. Yes Do you think she takes up too much of my time, or does she think she can kick me away after using it?"
Although he is away from home, Charles relies heavily on Sebastian, but as long as he returns to the house, no matter how good the deacon is, Charles still prefers to call Merlu to serve him. After all, compared to the not-so-perfect demon deacon, the blonde maid who is obviously gentler and less aggressive is more popular with children.
"I don't mean that. I respect Ms. Mei Lu very much. After all, she has taught me a lot. And for her, it is only a matter of time before the three of them are trained to become talents." The deacon didn't respond to the master's sarcasm at all. Not afraid, but lowered her head even more to express her humility, "I just... think she spoils you too much, young master."
"Huh?" The owner of the manor showed an angry expression.
"Master." The deacon bowed, but slightly raised his eyes to look at him, "You have...become fat recently."
"Melu, I'm hungry and want something sweet."
"Melu, for today's dessert I want to eat pineapple buns stuffed with mango."
"Melu, make me and Sebastian a new dress, I'm going to attend the banquet hosted by the Red Lady in a week."
"Melu..."
Melumelu Melumelu, young master, do you know that under the pampering of that maid, you have become more and more arrogant, like a child who can only act like a baby all day long.
… This is not okay, it will make you weaker and weaker.
What the devil wants is not such a soul, but more perfect and delicious food under his cultivation.
"Nonsense!" The boy scolded angrily from the study, "Get out!"
Under the contract, Sebastian couldn't drive the maid away directly, and he couldn't push her out of the house by obvious means under the means of the other party's more powerful servants. He could only find something for her to let her go. She didn't have that much time to act unprincipled "master first" in front of the young master, and she got used to this brat's lawlessness.
His method really worked. Being entangled by those three troublemakers who can ruin the house and garden from time to time, the head maid who was ordered by the young master to "make them qualified servants" really couldn't do it as before. Having time to show his presence in front of the young master also gave Sebastian the leeway to slowly correct his young master's spoiled habit.
However, such a day can only last for half a year.
And half a year later...
"Ah, Sebastian! Are you also here to help prepare dinner?"
In the kitchen, Finny, a young gardener with short blond hair, smiled and waved to the deacon. He was cutting potatoes on a chopping board with a kitchen knife.
"Is Sebastian coming over to help?" The red-haired glasses maid Mei Lin threw the carrot that was still in her hands, holding a blushing face and looking at him expectantly. A row of dishes she had just washed were neatly put aside.
"It's not necessary." Chef Baruto standing in front of the stove, with an unlit cigarette dangling from his mouth, looked back at the deacon at the door with distaste, and said while stirring the soup in the pot, "The kitchen depends on the three of us. That's enough, Sebastian, you'd better stay by the young master's side."
Feeney, who is so powerful and can pull up trees with his bare hands, has already broken several of the young master's civilized sticks, is chopping vegetables with normal strength. Mei Lin, who has poor eyesight and is clumsy, has never broken a plate again. The scorched Baruto was cooking the soup seriously, and it smelled good...
Really, I underestimated that woman too much.
"No, I'm here to look for Ms. Meilu." Putting on a gentle smile again, the deacon asked about the head maid's whereabouts, "Isn't she in the kitchen?"
"Are you looking for Lord Merle?" Gardener Fini was the first to call out, "I think I saw her go to the atrium before."
"It's time to pick roses. The roses are at their best at this time of year." Mentioning Meilu, even Mei Lin, who had been infatuated with the deacon before, expressed admiration, "Master Meilu is always so elegant and gentle. , doing everything so calmly, it will be great when I can be like her."
"Sebastian, do you have business with Master Melu?" Baruto also turned his head to look.
The three of them called Melu the honorific "Master", and they called him "Sebas".
The deacon didn't answer, but turned around and went to the atrium, where he found someone who was picking flowers in the rose garden with gardening scissors, cut off the white roses he liked, and put them in the basket beside him .
"This is the young master's favorite white rose. After removing the thorns on it, I will send them to the young master's bedroom. It would be great if he fell asleep in a good mood." Carefully staggered the flowers, the girl Turning to look at the old butler sitting not far away, "I gave you the rose essential oil before, how does Grandpa Tanaka feel after using it? Do you feel better?"
The old-age butler who was holding a teacup in the atrium laughed happily when he heard the words: "Hey, thanks to Miss Tomel, the insomnia has been relieved a lot recently, and I finally slept well these days. Thank you so much The handmade essential oils are specially made for me."
"That's good." The girl also frowned, "You are the only elder in this house, and being healthy all the time is the best thing for the young master and for us....Young master, Even though he is still so young, he has to work so hard, and he seldom smiles, it would be great if I could help him share a little more."
The shrewd old butler who has lived for most of his life can't tell that the girl's words are really from the heart, and the eyes he looks at the maid become softer. He holds the teacup and can't help but sigh: "The young master has suffered a lot, but after returning to this house In the future, he can meet Sebastian and you, and it would be great to have you by his side. Speaking of which, I am also very surprised that you can teach Baruto and others so well these days."
"Please don't say that, everyone likes the young master and this house very much. It's not just my credit for them becoming so good, it's because of everyone's hard work." The girl shook her head, "Everyone, I hope to help the young master. I'm just channeling this mind."
"It's really modest, as expected of the head maid of my Phantomhine family." The old man squinted and smiled, and looked up at the blue sky and white clouds above his head, "This house, and the Phantomhine family, will also be It will get better and better and become prosperous again."
"Yes, I will!"
In the garden, the old and the young chatted happily. Only in the shadow of a blind spot not far away, the black deacon's face was dim.
While he was still trying to find a way to alienate her and the young master, the maid had unknowingly gained a firm foothold in the house. Not only did the young master unconsciously favor her, but even the hearts of the servants were won over by her.