The storm was raging. When Huahua Town was swayed by the strong wind and dust was flying all over the sky, for a moment, the whole world suddenly became quiet.
Then, the bean-sized raindrops crackled on the top of the castle's spire, as if a basin of water had been poured down, and the water was everywhere when it landed.
In the kennel, there was trembling barking loudly.
In a room downstairs, Juan Fu was also yelling "creak", "creak".
There are two worlds outside the castle and inside the castle.
Listening attentively, Liszt could hear the servants chatting together in the kitchen and dining room downstairs—the rainstorm was coming, and there was nothing to do but chat.
Mr. Carter's footsteps, wandering upstairs and downstairs, he is always wandering around, checking every link of the castle. Mrs. Mawson, who was checking on the cleaning of the maids, met with Carter and seemed to chat for a few words, evaluating the work performance of the maids and servants.
The two housekeepers are doing their best.
Fifteen servants, not always so pleasant to get along with.
Thomas' attitude towards the servants was very bad, but he was Liszt's personal servant with a high status, so no one dared to say anything more.
Not only did he often find fault with the servants, and he said some sarcastic remarks from time to time, but sometimes he didn't respect Carter that much.
Carter has never been able to figure out why Liszt tolerated such a bad Thomas—Thomas destroyed the family atmosphere of the castle servants who loved each other.
can only say.
Carter and Liszt have different identities and look at problems from different angles.
Carter tried to make the castle full of harmony and friendship.
But Liszt didn't want that - if the servants were united, he, the master, would feel uncomfortable. Just imagine, a servant made a mistake, and all the servants helped to hide it because of the good relationship, wouldn't it be possible to fool Liszt as much as he wanted.
Without Thomas, the shit-stirring stick, the servants would grow more and more indulgent.
With Thomas watching and looking for faults at any time, the servants will work with trepidation.
Those in positions of power always have to place a few confidantes in the lower-level organizations. This is the reason. Even the school teachers know that they need to cultivate a few classmates who are good at small reports among the students.
There was no option to eavesdrop on how the servants were chatting.
Liszt's expression was slightly serious.
Thoughts fluttered: "In this world, do ghosts really exist?"
When the predecessor was a child, there were mentions of ghosts in the bedtime stories passed down by word of mouth. Legend has it that it is the soul that exists out of the body after death, without consciousness, just wandering aimlessly.
Almost no one has ever actually seen a ghost.
He searched all the memories of his predecessor, and Coral Island has never heard of anyone encountering a ghost. Among the more than 100 knight novels I have read recently, several have written about ghosts, but most of them are like vampires, werewolves, and mine zombies, which are relatively unpopular and infrequent appearances.
When I saw it before, I just passed it with a smile and didn't take it seriously.
The reason why he thinks about the ghost again now is because the smoke mission reminds him of the ghost.
"Mission: The old dilapidated shipwreck is exposed to the wind and sun by the sea, but the fishermen passing by the shipwreck often feel chills on their backs. It seems that there is something in the shipwreck staring at them, making them afraid to approach them. Please find out the reason. Reward: A broken skeleton."
The shipwreck with five treasure chests hidden there, Liszt didn't let someone chop it up and use it as firewood.
He felt that the shipwreck could barely be regarded as a tourist attraction, so he put it in Shenghao Village to increase the historical heritage of Shenghao Village. It is also planned that when there is time, people will take good care of the sunken ship.
Unexpectedly, this sunken ship still hides secrets.
"What will be in the sunken ship? When the patrol team searched for the treasure before, they have searched the whole ship inside and out. Except for some cloth, grain residues and five treasure chests, there is nothing else... Or, there is some kind of treasure chest. things, but not easy to see?"
It was easy for him to develop associations—ghosts, dirty things, shipwrecks, ghost ships, and finally the legendary things like ghosts.
Thunderbolt!
A bright light flashed outside the castle, followed by rumbling thunder.
The wind blows again, accompanied by the sound of raindrops, separating the castle from everything outside.
Walking to the window, he put down one of the wooden boards to block it, and watched the rain outside, Liszt felt as if he was isolated from the world. Loneliness came to my mind, and I realized that I have been here for half a year, from the world of technological civilization to the world of magic fighting spirit.
Can't say good or bad.
In his hometown, the standard of living is higher, but he is just a hard-working overtime dog.
Here, the standard of living is relatively poor, but he is an aristocrat with supreme power, and he has more fighting spirit to strengthen his body and prevent all diseases.
"Comparatively speaking, I like the current life more, and I like the picture of the maid busy in front of me..." There was a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he was not too entangled.
Soon my thoughts returned to the smoke task.
"If there is really a ghost in the sunken ship, then this ghost must be eradicated as soon as possible, so as not to endanger the lives of the fishermen... The mission reward is a broken skeleton, does this have anything to do with ghosts?"
He'd love to go to the wreck now, find out why, and finish the job.
But it was raining too much outside and it was difficult to go out.
Can only stay in the castle, waiting bored.
But wait.
That's three days.
Heavy rain from time to time caused the entire town to be submerged in stagnant water. Fortunately, the town-wide wooden house repairs were carried out in advance. The patrol team who patrolled in the rain has not yet found any wooden houses collapsed. The Cordyceps are also safe and sound, even the most vulnerable Solanum nigrum and Cordyceps are still intact because of the protection in place.
However, it rained heavily for three days, and two people died.
An old serf accidentally slipped and fell when he went out to pick vegetables, and never got up again. Another mother of three went to the beach in the rain to collect shells, only to return seriously ill and die.
"Picking up shells on the beach?"
Listening to Gao Ertai's report, Liszt's heart moved: "Could it have something to do with the sinking ship?"
He immediately asked: "Mr. Gao Ertai, the woman who died of illness, has the body been checked, is there anything wrong?"
"Examine the corpse. I'm sorry, my lord. I didn't examine the corpse. I thought it was just a serf who died of illness. This kind of thing happens very often."
Perhaps Liszt was too sensitive.
But he still decided to check the body of the woman who died of illness himself: "Mr. Gao Ertai, you must be sensitive. Recently, fishermen have reported that the sunken ship is very problematic, as if there is some kind of dirty thing. I suspect this woman death may be related to the shipwreck."
"Shipwreck?" Gao Ertai didn't know why.
He didn't hear similar news at all, but Liszt mentioned that he had to pay attention to standing up - he believed that Liszt had many contacts in Huahua Town, and nothing could escape Liszt's attention.
"Then my lord, I'll go over and make arrangements. Do you want to go to examine the corpse together?"
"Let's go together."