Hathaway will go to the Foreign Affairs Bureau to work for half a day every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday morning.
Basically, she signs some final decisions on foreign affairs. She does not have the right to make decisions, but she has the right to know, and there are some things that must be known to her before they can be implemented. This is part of her life.
Except for these three days, the wife of the consul of Ruyter City will basically stay in the castle.
She doesn't like listening to operas very much, nor does she like attending balls held by nobles. Even for afternoon teas between ladies, she will only agree to invitations on Tuesdays and Fridays.
She has to leave it to Suldak on the weekends. Although Suldak is so busy lately that he doesn't come home until very late every day, Hathaway still insists on doing so.
As the weather gradually became hotter, Hathaway, Beatrice, and Thea all changed into cool skirts in the castle. Sometimes everyone was in the back garden, and there were no restrictions in the gauze skirts.
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The huge swimming pool in the back garden has basically become Xia's territory. Looking at a thin line passing quickly on the clear water, you can tell that it is Xia speeding in the swimming pool. Her fastest swimming speed is faster than that of Harrier.
It flies across the sky faster.
Every time you swim, your body will be covered with this layer of light blue scales. When the three-color fish tail sways in the water, it looks more like a burning flame in the water...
Hathaway sometimes brings home documents that she can't finish signing.
At this time, she would lie on the wicker chair by the swimming pool, holding the document and pondering it word by word.
When she was unclear about something, she would also ask the people around her. Beatrice and Thea didn't understand these things, so she would occasionally ask the housekeeper to get some information from the side.
Sometimes I will ask Surdak when I encounter important matters that are difficult to decide. Often the opinions given by Surdak will be more pertinent.
Of course, Hathaway's current life is not so perfect.
She also had her own troubles. She stretched out her hand to cover her flat and smooth belly, and her green eyes revealed a slight hint of sadness.
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No matter how busy the city hall is, Suldak will not stay out on weekend nights.
He needs to find some time to spend with his family...
Suldak was sitting on a wicker chair in the back garden, still thinking about the design drawings one after another. Those were sent by Baron Martino. Many places were already in line with his inner thoughts, but there were still some
If the details are not done right, it is either too complicated or not refined enough.
He rubbed his forehead, looked at Thea who had drawn a huge whirlpool in the swimming pool, and asked casually: "Thea, have Charlie and Luke and their craftsmen arrived?"
Siya's body completed a beautiful leap in the pool, got into the water again, and then poked her head out from the edge of the pool at Suldak's feet, put her arms on the stone platform of the pool, and let her shoulders rest
He came out of the water, shook the water stains on his head vigorously, and said:
"The first batch of craftsmen arrived yesterday, but the fence over the slave market is currently being dismantled. I heard that the first batch of resettlement houses will be built over there?"
Surdak patted his forehead, picked up the juice on the small wooden table, took a big sip, and said:
"I almost forgot about it if you didn't mention it. Remember to remind me tomorrow morning to go to the slave pen to have a look..."
"I know, but I'm afraid it won't work tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning you have to go to the steel workshop to host an investment meeting." Siya said.
Siya rushed from the swimming pool to the shore. A maid put a bath towel on her body. The beautiful fish tail full of streamlines slowly transformed into two white legs in the water stains.
Surdak asked Siya: "Do the poor people who moved out early have any complaints?"
"Not bad, especially when I heard that the city hall promised to compensate them for a new house in the slave pen. Yesterday, many people went to the slave market to see the fence being demolished. I heard that the scene was very lively..." Siya raised her hand to wipe her wet hair.
The top of her head was rolled up into a ball, and her delicate and pure pretty face was covered with crystal water drops, glowing with a faint golden light under the setting sun.
At this time, the butler walked to Suldak and whispered: "The Ma Li family has sent an invitation to the ball. The ball will be held tomorrow night."
"If you refuse for me, just say... just find any reason, it's a little more natural!"
Surdak waved his hand impatiently and said.
Surdak rarely attends noble balls in Ruit City.
He prefers to sit in his study and read, or practice slashing and blocking in the back garden.
Although these basic moves are already a second-level powerhouse for him, the practice of swinging and slashing with a sword seems to be engraved in his bones, just like brushing his teeth every day. If he doesn't brush his mouth every day, he will feel uncomfortable.
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Occasionally Beatrice would have a duel with Surdak in the back garden with a wooden sword.
In terms of skills alone, Surdak, a knight born as a shield warrior, is not much better than Beatrice, a graduate of the Bena Advanced Swordsman Academy.
However, Surdak has recently learned Commander Felix's "White Heat". As long as the sword shines with the white holy light, it will shoot out five sword rays when swinging the sword, even though he knows the angle of Surdak's attack.
His speed and moves were all too clear to Beatrice, but she couldn't stop him every time.
In an instant, the long sword in Beatrice's hand will be knocked away, and it works every time.
However, for the two-headed ogre Gulitum, he is very disdainful of those fancy sword skills. He believes that these fancy sword skills will only lead a knight astray. The battle on the battlefield will always only last a few rounds.
between them, so only perfect suppression in terms of strength is the way to win.
Every time the competition fails, it will be the beginning of another battle for Beatrice.
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At the same time that the city hall announced that the demolition work in the slums would be supervised and implemented by the residents' committee, in fact the demolition work in the Ruit City slums had already begun with great vigor.
Almost all the poor families surrounding the steel workshops have received evacuation notices from the residents' committees, and their temporary residence is in the arena on the edge of the business district. Almost all the poor families who have moved from the steel workshops have to live there.
In that simple room.
The more than one hundred rooms under the arena's auditorium are enough to serve as temporary residences for the poor.
Under the leadership of Luke, the first Mukuso construction engineering team entered Luyite City in late May. The first team of craftsmen did not enter the open space of the steel workshop, but directly came to the increasingly prosperous slave market.
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With the advance cooperation of the security battalion, the slave market in Ruit City was sealed by a notice issued by the House of Representatives, declaring that it was an illegal building and would be demolished within a time limit.
The demolition team brought over by Luke had already been waiting beside a group of knights from the guard camp.
After Chief Nathaniel read aloud, the entire transaction in the slave market was terminated. All slave owners and their slaves were driven out of the slave market. Luke led a group of craftsmen to push all the fences around the slave market.
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The surrounding citizens swarmed in and collectively looted the walls, wooden cages, etc. in the slave market.
According to Suldak's request, a resettlement house will be built here as quickly as possible. For the Mukusuo First Construction Engineering Team, this task is not difficult.
If it is a masonry structure, it may take more than half a year to build.
But Luke followed Baron Martino's suggestion that these resettlement houses use half-brick and half-timber buildings, so the construction period will be reduced by two-thirds. Luke is confident that the first batch of poor people will be able to complete the construction before the end of next month.
move into their new home.
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Charlie brought the second group of craftsmen to Ruit from Mukuso City two days later than Luke's construction team.
They came to the clearing cleared by the steel workshop and immediately built a wooden frame on the slightly flat land. Twenty carpenters from Wall Village also spent two days under the leadership of Baron Martino.
A model of the food court was built in just one day.
Now it is placed on the roadside of the steel workshop...
The entire food court model is more than three meters long and is completely covered by a huge square magic protective cover.
It is said that the rune board of this magic shield alone is worth fifteen magic crystals. It is customized from Ruit's largest magic rune board business. If this magic rune board operates normally every day, it will burn two magic crystals.
It takes 1 magic crystal fragment to maintain the mask effect.
However, such a novel thing also attracted the attention of many citizens. Many people came to this empty field to see this huge wooden model.
The purpose of Surdak's doing this is just to attract the attention of citizens.
The food court designed by Martino has many design elements of garden architecture. The restaurants are almost one next to the other. Almost all of these restaurants have huge floor-to-ceiling glass windows. Some tables and chairs are even designed in these models.
, the pedestrian street of the square is paved with flat stone slabs, there are some benches at intervals in the center of the street, and statues and fountains can be seen everywhere.
Many citizens gathered around the sand table, and they immediately became dizzy. Someone said in the crowd:
“Is this how this place is going to be built in the future?”
"Probably, what are these shops? They look a bit like restaurants..."
"It must be a restaurant. Look at the pictures of barbecue and fried fish on the plaques. Oh! This should be a cold drink shop. It would be great to have a red bean smoothie shop here, but someone is really willing to open it here.
A restaurant? This is a slum area. Do the poor people who don’t even have enough to eat really have the spare money to patronize these restaurants?”
"Haven't you ever heard that the poor people around you have moved to the slave market?"
"I heard that this will become another commercial area of Ruit City, specially used to receive business groups who come to Ruit City from outside..."
"Will so many business groups come to our place in the future?"
"Actually, there are many now, but most business groups will not stop in Ruit City because Mukuso City is tax-free..."
There were some businessmen among the citizens, and everyone was talking about it. They immediately talked about the prospects of this restaurant plaza.
It is close to the Ruit Gate. With such a favorable geographical location, even ordinary residents can see the commercial value and market potential here...