The past between Melissa and Mrs. Penelope is already an old story of the castle.
Mrs. Penelope scolded Melissa, thinking that Melissa could not tolerate her. With the Marquis at her back, she couldn't afford to provoke her, so she could only move out of Tulip Castle.
However, Liszt felt that Mrs. Penelope was actually too mean—more than ten years later, she was still complaining endlessly.
What's more, after more than ten years, Melissa passed away, and Mrs. Penelope still couldn't move in because she was at odds with the new countess' mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
"You are lucky to be back today. The daughter of the Baron's family is not in the castle, otherwise I would be the first to turn around and leave. The woman has a smell that makes me uncomfortable. That is, your father can tolerate her. Now the whole castle It's her smell, and I feel uncomfortable for a moment."
Li Weila was sitting next to Mrs. Penelope. Hearing that she wrapped her arms, she changed her usual strength and said in a coquettish tone: "Grandma, if you don't like Tulip Castle, you can come to my Falcon Town. There is a very beautiful manor and a hot spring, you will definitely like it."
"My little girl, as an aristocratic lady, she must have a seated appearance. Look at you, you are nineteen years old this year, and you haven't found a satisfactory partner yet, because you are not enough ladies."
"Grandmother is right, Li Weila, you have to learn to be a lady, instead of riding a horse and carrying a gun like us." Reeves teased, and then said to Mrs. Penelope, "Grandmother, if you think the castle smells bad OK, I can put some more freshener."
"This is not something that can be solved by fresheners. I have been exhausted by two women coming into the house. I don't want to come to the castle if it is not necessary." Mrs. Penelope said, then turned her head again, and turned to the butler Louis who was standing by the side. Said, "Louis, you will help me pass these words to the daughter of the Baron's family, right?"
Very provocative.
Louis smiled gently: "Madam, you know that I prefer to keep my mouth shut."
"Boring Louis, from young to old, has always been so boring."
Since Mrs. Penelope entered the castle, the whole conversation was centered on her, and of course, 80% of the conversation was said by herself.
Liszt just smiled awkwardly and politely.
It wasn't until the count came back from the outside and announced that the dinner party could begin that Liszt was freed from the awkward atmosphere.
The dinner at Tulip Fort is obviously not comparable to the dinner at the small castle in Flower Town.
There is no comparison in terms of numbers alone.
At tonight's dinner, the nobles in the castle were basically seated, including the earl's family, the tutor, the captain of the knight, and several followers of the earl who were guests in the castle. There were sixteen nobles in total. Baron, Viscount, Earl, you name it.
At the banquet, there was Mrs. Penelope, so naturally she would not be silent, and kept chatting all the time.
Liszt concentrates on enjoying the food. Although he has never been used to the western style of eating, compared to the rough food in Huahua Town, the food here can be called delicious. He didn't participate in the conversation very much, and few people came to talk to him, and he became a little transparent in the castle just as he remembered from his predecessor.
However, I wanted to interject before, but I couldn't intervene.
Now I don’t want to intervene at all. After all, he is just a traverser who has resurrected his body and cannot integrate himself into the Tulip family. He can only look at all this calmly like a bystander, do things in line with the times in a low-key manner, and then bury his head in development—maybe there will be so One day, no need to be low-key, just do whatever you want.
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On the second day after the dinner, Liszt got up early, because the three siblings had to set off with the fleet to visit the sick grandfather Merlin Marquis Changyu on Red Crab Island.
"Bring me my sincere greetings." The count also got up early and had breakfast with his three children.
As a son-in-law, he should have gone to visit him in person, but now that he is a former son-in-law, he is estranged from the Changyu family, so it is inconvenient to visit him again.
Mrs. Penelope had already come back from a walk, her tone was desolate: "Levi's, Rivera, Liszt, by the way, send my greetings to Marquis Merlin. In my memory, he was a handsome nobleman with a strong and outstanding body. I didn't expect that a few years had passed , has become too ill to work, and has even stepped down as the captain of the palace fleet."
"Birth, old age, sickness and death are the rules of operation between heaven and earth, mother, you don't have to worry about it."
"Are you trying to tell me I'm a damn old woman too?"
"Why do you think so, I hope you can live to be a hundred years old."
"From the two women you married, it can be seen that you have long hoped that I will die, so that you will be quiet. No one will disturb you to do anything on the coral island."
The Earl could only show an awkward yet polite smile.
Liszt took Marcus with him, followed by a servant of the castle who helped him with his luggage. After saying their goodbyes, the three siblings walked onto the pier together, which was part of Coral City. Speaking of a city, Liszt prefers to call it a "large toilet", and the streets and alleys are filled with the sour smell of fermented feces.
Because of this, a tulip with a strong aroma produced by the tulip family is widely welcomed by the public.
Citizens who go out will wear a tulip on their chests to dilute the disgusting smell on the street.
Leaving aside the smell of feces.
A big city like Coral City is not as majestic as a small county town in Liszt's hometown.
There are no high-rise buildings or mansions, just sporadic wooden houses next to stone houses, extending to the distance along the streets of different widths. There are various shops along the street, and pedestrians in a hurry will inevitably step on all kinds of excrement—citizens always like to dump excrement on the road.
If it's a piece of shit, of course you can choose to avoid it.
But if a street is full of shit, stepping on it with a frown is the correct way to open it.
As a result, layers of excrement, through continuous trampling, merged with the road surface, creating the unique "shit road" in the city, which naturally smells bad.
Why is hygiene so poor
Because civilians are busy with their livelihoods, they don't care about hygiene at all; nobles live in castles on the edge of the city, and don't care about the mess in the city.
The only good news is that Coral City is only a city on an island with a limited population, and the scale of excrement and urine produced can still be tolerated under the continuous weathering of nature.
If it is a larger city, I am afraid that feces and urine can flood the city.
"Could it be that the vision is limited by the abilities of the elves, and I can't think of using dung to farm?" When Liszt looked at Coral City, his mind was wide open. "Maybe I can collect the dung on the island and take all of them to Huahua Town. In the town... No, build a few digesters on the outskirts of the town."
He understands the principle of biogas pits, but it is a bit difficult to burn biogas for lighting and cooking.
After simple fermentation, using it to fertilize the field is the quickest way. The barren soil in Huahua Town, which is comparable to yellow land, really needs fertilizer urgently.
"It's just that the transportation is inconvenient. The cost of pulling a trip of dung by a horse-drawn cart is more valuable than the dung... Forget it, don't pollute my Huahua Town, the town's dung should be produced and sold on its own."