"Well, Moriarty, why are you back so soon? Didn't I just say that you don't need to help with the housework these days?" Seeing Moriarty enter the mage tower, Heyna, who was busy in the kitchen, immediately muttered.
He opened his mouth and said slightly annoyed.
"Haha, I came back because I missed you." Moriarty rolled up the sleeves of his mage robe and walked towards the black-haired girl with a smile.
"Humph, you know how to say nice things." She glared at Moriarty lightly, and then continued to work with her head down, but there was a smile in her eyes.
"What's for dinner tonight? It smells so good." Moriarty came to the kitchen and rinsed some carrots to be washed in another sink.
"Pork trotters stewed with beans and vegetable salad, and the staple food is thin noodles." Heyana cleaned her hands, took out a white apron from the cabinet on the side, and carefully tied it around Moriarty's waist.
"Haha, I like them all." Moriarty smiled at the girl.
"Yeah, what can I do?" Haiyana deliberately showed a helpless expression, but it only lasted a few seconds before she couldn't help laughing again: "Speaking of which, a few days ago, my father told me
I complained once, saying that the food I cook has become more and more Erathian-flavored recently, and it’s really too biased.”
"Really? It seems that uncle also has an opinion." Moriarty looked at Heyna's happy face and smiled.
After a year of getting along day and night, Moriarty has come to know and understand Schmidt and Heyana quite well. Although the middle-level mage always has a serious expression on his face and is unsmiling, Moriarty still remains the same.
From some clues in his daily behavior, we can detect that his father-daughter love for Heyena is real. In Moriarty's view, Schmidt may just not know how to express and communicate.
"I can't say what my opinion is. I think Dad might be a bit..." At this point, Haiyana suddenly paused and stopped talking.
"What's there?" Moriarty asked, taking the washed carrots out of the sink and cutting them into thin slices with a knife on the countertop. Because he had the foundation of a first-class warrior and constant swordsmanship practice, Moriarty cut out
The carrot slices are very neat and uniform in thickness, which is quite beautiful.
"It's nothing." In fact, Heyana was thinking of the word "jealous", but it was hard to express such words to Moriarty, so she could only vaguely say: "By the way, I just learned from the book
When I came out of the college, I met Mr. Lloyd. He said that a Mr. Rupp from Erathia came to visit you in the afternoon. But he just waited outside the college for a while and then left, but left two letters.
.”
"Rupp?" Moriarty's heart moved and he stopped what he was doing.
"Here." Heyana opened a drawer, took out two envelopes, one large and one small, and handed them to Moriarty.
Moriarty wiped his hands and took it. He saw that the big one was just a light yellow kraft paper envelope, with the Ensberg family crest sealed in red melted wax on the seal; the other envelope was pink.
It has a faint fragrance of roses, but there is no signature.
"Whose letter is this?" Heyena stood leaning against Moriarty, her eyes fixed on the pale pink envelope.
"This should be from my father. I have been waiting for a long time. If his letter doesn't arrive again, I'm afraid I won't have the money to pay next year's tuition." Moriarty patted the brown paper envelope, shook his head and said,
Pointing to the pink one: "As for this, it should be Mathiere's letter. She is a young lady from Viscount Salk's family. Because she likes gardening, she has written with me before to discuss some tips on growing flowers."
"Miss Mathile? A noble lady also knows how to grow flowers?" Heyana asked in disbelief.
"She's just a beginner." Moriarty smiled faintly, and then handed the pink envelope directly to Heyna: "You can open it for me. I want to read my father's letter first."
"This... okay." After a slight hesitation, the black-haired girl took Mathil's letter again and opened it.
Ignoring Heyana's slightly proud expression, Moriarty broke the seal of the large envelope and took out the letter contents. There were two pieces of paper in total. One of them was a letter written by Baron Ensberg.
The other was a promissory note from Casillas with a face value of nine thousand Erathian gold coins.
Putting away the cashier's note, Moriarty read his father's letter. Speaking of which, this was the first time he received a letter from the baron after arriving in Bracada.
The content of the letter was very simple. Apart from a few greetings, the baron mainly told Moriarty that his wedding to Miss Farasha had been postponed for some reasons and was planned to be held in the spring of next year. If Moriarty
If you like, you can return to Ivy Manor to watch the ceremony.
"We're finally getting married." Moriarty quickly read the baron's letter, folded it, and sighed lightly.
Although such a result had been expected, Moriarty still felt an inexplicable anger rising in his heart. Perhaps this was a trace of instinctive emotion that still remained in this body.
"Morty, your letter." At this time, Heyana also quickly "reviewed" Matil's letter, and then handed it back to Moriarty obediently.
"Yeah." Moriarty took it and read it again.
Unlike Baron Ensberg's scholarly and elegant handwriting, Mathil's handwriting is much more beautiful and charming, just like herself. In the letter, Mathil first expressed her apology to Moriarty and explained that she
The reason why I sent this first letter a year later is because the political situation in Kent County is too chaotic, so it has been inconvenient to contact Moriarty hastily.
It turned out that one month after Moriarty left Erathia, Viscount Salk suddenly asked Viscount McLellan to publicly apologize to the nobles in the county on the grounds that he failed to catch the thieves, and claimed that Salk's side would re-open the thief.
Taking over the job of hunting down the female sand thief. As for the "slander" and "difficulty" issued by Salk, Viscount McLellan certainly would not give in. Instead, he accused the other party of being indecisive on the issue of executing the captured thief.
Benevolence, which in turn caused the hearts of Kent County to fluctuate and the situation to be unstable.
Faced with the fierce conflict between the two viscounts, the Kent nobles, after weighing their respective family interests, actively or passively joined the two camps. But it is very interesting and interesting.
What is puzzling is that Baron Ensborg, who was previously reported to be joining forces with the Salk family to jointly open the Kent Racecourse, did not clearly stand on the same side as Salk. Instead, he prepared to join forces with Farrar.
Xia family marriage matter as an excuse to stay neutrally out of the matter. On the contrary, the Luo Yanta family, which had been trying to get closer to Salk, unexpectedly threw themselves under the command of Viscount McLellan in this "twin wrestling", and even Luo Yan
Lord Tower also criticized Viscount Salk in public several times for his procrastination and irresponsibility in handling prisoners.
Because of the above background, Mathil, as the only daughter of the Salk family, could no longer communicate with Moriarty as freely as before. It was not until a year later that the political turmoil in Kent County finally subsided, and
When most of the nobles' attention was drawn to the upcoming wedding of Baron Ensberg, Mathil took the letter along the way through Rupp's caravan.
"Morty, is Baron Ensberg really going to get married? Then what are your plans?" Helena had just read Matil's letter and knew that it mainly talked about these contents. As for the rest,
Just some greetings and a small gardening exchange.
"Plan? Naturally, we are preparing for the annual assessment in three days." After putting away Mathil's letter, Moriarty's heart was already at peace, and there were no more twists and turns.
"What about Erathia?" Heyana also felt a little conflicted. She didn't want Moriarty to be distracted by some family matters, but she also felt that if she let things go unchecked, Moriarty's interests would definitely be damaged in the future.
will be damaged.
"There, it's okay." Just as planned from the beginning, Moriarty had no intention of starting a dispute with the Baron's father. This was not only stupid, but also impossible to succeed.
"Okay, I'll follow your decision." Haiyana nodded and said nothing more.
That night, Mr. Schmidt did not come down for dinner, but asked his daughter to send the food directly to the main floor of the tower. After seeing that there was no chance to dine with the mid-level mage, the other three mage assistants ate in a hurry and then returned.
to their respective rooms.
After clearing the dining table with Heyana, Moriarty returned to his assistant's room to meditate and rest as usual.
Three days later, Moriarty followed the college's instructions and came to a small laboratory on the fourth floor of the large teaching building, which was the examination room for his annual assessment.
After adjusting his appearance slightly, and then smiling at Heyna who was standing at the other end of the corridor not far away, Moriarty gently knocked on the door of the laboratory.
"Come in." As a voice sounded in the laboratory, the heavy laboratory door slowly opened, Moriarty walked in, and the door immediately closed again.
Entering the laboratory, Moriarty saw two mages, a man and a woman, sitting behind a test bench, looking at him. Moriarty knew these two people, but he had not had any communication with them.
Among them was a thirty-year-old man named Su Ke, with a professional level of Level 2; the female mage Michelle, with a level of professional level of 1, had just passed the promotion test and became an official mage half a year ago.
"Master Suk, Master Michelle, good morning. My name is Moriarty Ensberg." Although the other party was only a first-level or second-level mage, Moriarty could not be rude and first addressed the examiner.
Salute.
"Well, please sit down, apprentice Moriarty." Suk nodded and pointed to a chair in the center of the laboratory.
"Yes." Moriarty faced the two mages directly and sat down on the chair.
