In the summer without cooling tools, it is not a good feeling to be stuck in the house.
Today is another good day. In the early morning of the Thunder Moon, you can already feel the heat of midsummer. Although the house is open outside, even if you open the windows, the wind can't blow back and forth, and you have to worry about the city fog affecting your health. Outsiders are not used to such a life, and their reading efficiency is reduced when they are restless.
But fortunately, he mastered a new magic trick. As the temperature continued to rise near noon, Shade finally decided to try to actively cool down the room.
Seeing Mia lying on the desk in the study and not wanting to move, he got up and fetched the basin and bucket at home, and put newspapers under these containers. Then he closed the door of the study, closed the windows and closed the curtains.
As the spirit moved the elements and the elements affected reality, snowflakes fell from the ceiling and landed in the basin and bucket. A small number of them slid down the edge, but because of the newspaper, they would not leave any traces on the floor of the study.
Even though it has just snowed, seeing this scene makes me feel a lot cooler.
"Meow~"
The cat squinted its eyes and looked at the study room with falling snow. When Xia De was not paying attention, the cat suddenly jumped out of the desk and fell into the bucket. It probably just wanted to play in the snow.
Mia screamed and thrashed around in the bucket. When Shade got the cat out of the bucket, it had no interest in the white stuff anymore. Probably, at least for a few dozen minutes.
Because I was not in good spirits, I just read books sporadically all day, or checked the detective reports left by Detective Sparrow. I read those past investigation reports as detective novels.
I went out for lunch at noon, and took a rare nap after returning home. When I woke up, I felt much clearer, and the headache I had when I woke up in the morning was almost completely gone.
I returned to the study room, flipping through books while the snow fell, preparing for the exam at the end of July. At three o'clock in the afternoon, the sound of a bell finally came from downstairs.
Xia De looked out of the living room window and saw a carriage parked in front of his house. He knew that it was the servant arranged by Miss Carina to teach him.
Of course, Duchess Carina's personal maid Tifa could not come here specifically for this purpose, so the people who came to No. 6 Saint Teresa's Square in a carriage were an old tailor and a female apprentice carrying a metal tool box, an etiquette teacher wearing a white wig and old court costume, and his young entourage.
The old tailor and his apprentice came to measure the size of Xia De's clothes, and then simply cut the ready-made formal clothes. The etiquette teacher was there to teach him some speaking skills to prevent him from doing things he shouldn't do.
The matter of clothes was easy to deal with, but the conversations and rules between nobles were really complicated. When Xia De was in his hometown, he knew how complicated and boring this set of things was, but he realized that afternoon that he had greatly underestimated the annoying degree of noble etiquette.
When the sun set, Shade barely escaped the tedious etiquette learning and put on the black formal suit made by the tailor and his apprentice.
Another carriage stopped at the door of number six St. Teresa's Square, this time it was Miss Carina's personal maid, Miss Tifa Servet.
"Miss Servet."
Xia De walked out of the door and stood on the steps to greet the maid, while talking, he adjusted his collar which was a bit tight. He rarely wore such loose clothes in his hometown. Just now, he complained a little to the old tailor, and the old tailor "threatened" that it was fashionable for men to wear stockings now. So he shut up.
The black-haired maid was a little surprised:
"You actually know my last name. It seems you have some skills as a detective."
In fact, Xia De heard about it from Miss Louisa.
"The young lady asked me to pick you up. Please get in the carriage at the back."
Of course, it was impossible for a maid of a single duchess to ride in a carriage with a strange man. Miss Tifa Servet pointed out the location of the carriage to Shade, and she saw the orange cat peeking out from behind Shade.
Normally, Mia would not take the initiative to leave the house, and she never rushed out when Shade opened the door. She noticed that the woman in the carriage was paying attention to her, so she meowed and growled, and then quickly hid behind Shade's legs.
This made the black-haired maid smile, and then she asked the detective who was taking out the key to lock the door:
"Confirm whether you have brought that card."
"Yes."
Shad patted his chest, waved goodbye to the cat in the house, and closed the door.
"Okay, let's go now. After the Rhodes card game, there will be a salon hosted by the Duke. You don't have to worry about being hungry, Detective Hamilton, get in the car, I hope you can help the lady win the bet tonight."
The venue of this game was not the aristocratic club in Tobesk or the old Duke Lucas's manor outside the city. The game was arranged in Duke Lucas's mansion in the southern part of Tobesk.
The nobles and wealthy people of Tobysk usually live in the south and east of the city, and the nobles prefer the south. However, the South City and the Central City are generally considered to be the most prosperous areas of the Northern Pearl. The university district of Tobysk is in the shape of a bend between the South City and the Central City.
After going uphill for a while, the carriage slowed down and finally stopped at the door of Duke Lucas's residence in the city. Outside the mansion was a courtyard, and a middle-aged man dressed as a butler had already been waiting with his servants in the dim night.
The maid got off the car first and exchanged pleasantries with the butler. When Shade got off the car wearing a black bowler hat, the maid Tifa Servet just happened to introduce the protagonist of the night to the butler. The butler, who had a strong Tobesk accent, expressed his respect to Shade.
He was followed by a team of servants, the old housekeeper and the maid, walking through the not very big courtyard towards the mansion. He thought he would meet Miss Carina first, but he didn't expect that after passing through the slightly deserted entrance hall of the mansion, he would go directly to the second floor and meet the people from the Prophet Association.
"The guests have arrived and are waiting in the banquet hall on the third floor. Oh, Mr. Liming, it has not been this lively here for a long time."
The old butler sighed and opened the door for Shade. The people in the room turned and looked inside. Shade had never seen most of the people from the Prophet Association, but he saw Vice President Cynthia Mark at a glance. Mr. Mark smiled and shook hands with Shade, then took Shade's deck for identification to ensure that all the cards used in tonight's game were authentic.
"Oh, the ancient fairy tale · Match Girl and the northern city · Coldwater Port? Mr. Hamilton, you got so many new cards in just a few days?"
Mr. Mark said happily that fans would be so excited to see the Rhodes cards they had never seen before.