"I have to say that the former Turkish warlord was quite discerning." After parking the carriage at the entrance of the road, Bach briefly introduced it to Lawrence and the others while leading the way.
"The overall design of this villa was created by a very famous half-elf designer in the Great Lakes area, and it is located in a noble community rather than the nearby nouveau riche settlement."
"For example, a famous scholar from the White Eagle Federation lives on the left side of the villa, while on the right side is the property of Viscount Britton. So you can visit these neighbors if you have time."
"Ah, that sounds really good. Maybe we can have a party with them." Lawrence said. After all, he is a relatively well-known scholar, so he presumably has a lot in common with his two neighbors.
Soon, Bach led them through a small garden to the door of the villa. Then he handed the keys to Lawrence and the others.
"Mr. August, here is your key, and we have replaced everything inside with new ones. If you need anything else, go to the street entrance, where you can call for services from various service department personnel.
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"Very well, please." Lawrence took the key and watched Bach leave, then turned his attention to the not-so-big villa in front of him.
This villa is divided into two floors, and looks to be about 200 to 300 square meters. The style of the whole building is a traditional British red brick building, except that the lower part of the house and the corners are made of local
It is partially reinforced from a white, rough-surfaced rock.
However, in this way, the edges and door and window frames of the house inlaid with white stones have a special beauty.
After opening the door with the key, Lawrence found that the interior decoration of the entire room looked very consistent with the style of the exterior of the house. It was also the standard Brythonic style interior. Wallpaper, mahogany paneling, and a gilded bronze lamp.
Not bad. There are even some very well-cared wooden floors on the floor.
"It seems that there are professional servants cleaning this place every day, otherwise the room would not be so clean." After gently reaching out his hand with silk gloves and touching the cabinet, Saifei said
He turned to Lawrence and said, "But why didn't we keep any servants here after we arrived?"
"Ah - I think it might be because of the people who live here." After being mentioned by Sephiel, Lawrence realized there was something wrong with this house.
In this world where there are basically no time-saving and labor-saving appliances, considering the heavy workload of housework and the low cost of labor, anyone with some status will choose to hire one or several servants to complete part of the housework for their home.
At least according to Lawrence's previous life experience, even some white-collar workers would hire a servant at home, so the situation in a two-story villa without a servant like this is indeed a bit strange.
However, after a brief thought, Lawrence quickly found the answer: because this area is populated by wealthy businessmen, scholars or small nobles, and these people often have long-term fixed servants.
But this is a place for those people to relax, and the industry here is not like the nobles or richer businessmen who can hire a servant to take care of the empty room.
As a result, public servants will naturally appear in the entire community. As long as you pay a fee, they can help you maintain the building at ordinary times, or hire them to supplement the shortage of manpower when there are more guests.
The reason why Lawrence's current villa is so well-organized is naturally due to the servants who come to clean the room at regular intervals.
"Then what should we do now? Should we go out and hire a few servants temporarily?" After listening to Lawrence's story, Sephiel asked him in confusion.
After all, neither she nor Lawrence usually used servants, so they always felt a little uncomfortable when they thought of strangers in the house.
In the early days, Lawrence and Saphire were ordinary people living in the countryside. Although they had no worries about food and drink because of their status, they naturally did not have any servants to serve them.
Among them, Lawrence had been living with his adoptive father in the church, so he had to do all the work with his adoptive father. He only occasionally asked an aunt from the town to help with some sewing work.
Because they have a farm, the Seifer family has hired several women from the town to help the family and workers cook, mend clothes, or clean houses and dormitories. But this is not the same as those hired by rich people.
Servant is not a concept at all.
After Lawrence himself became a noble, he did have servants. However, considering the lack of personnel on New Saul Island, Lawrence directly sent those servants to various posts on the island.
After all, these servants were educated, knew how to write and do arithmetic, and were loyal to the August family. Rather than letting them do things like serving tea and water, it would be better to let them work as low-level civil servants.
At the beginning, several housekeepers in the family did persuade Lawrence. After all, for a powerful earl, it was really inappropriate to have no servants around him.
Fortunately, these stewards were later convinced by Lawrence that the interests of the August family were more important than all kinds of appearances.
So unlike most other areas in the world, Lawrence and the upper echelons of Sauer Island basically don’t have many servants. However, considering that everyone is very busy, Lawrence set up a special one on the island.
Service agencies handle daily chores for everyone.
Naturally, what Safir enjoyed after coming to the island was this kind of service that was quite similar to that of later generations of housekeeping companies. So when everyone didn't have time, they naturally thought of hiring public servants during this period.
ideas for completing various household tasks and gave Lawrence his opinions.
"No, we'd better not let outsiders in during this period." Lawrence waved his hand and said, "After all, we have to deal with a lot of information about those industries during this period, many of which are confidential.
Information. If you introduce some outsiders, there may be some security risks."
"As for the housework issue -" Lawrence said, flicking his fingers, and in an instant, five or six goblin shadows appeared around him. "These goblin shadows are flexible enough under my control.
At least the housework is no worse than that of well-trained servants."
"If that's the case, it seems like a good idea." Nora looked carefully at the milky white translucent shadows around her and said. Different from the dirty goblins she usually sees, these goblin shadows are different from each other.
She looked very neatly dressed and was wearing a beautiful tuxedo.
This is a small ability newly learned by Lawrence after his own extraordinary level was improved and he had more control over Bai Zetu. It can simply change some characteristics of the summoned monster shadows, such as the appearance of the monsters, or make certain aspects of those monsters
Some organs are further strengthened.
Now the goblins summoned by Lawrence are the improved ones. After cleaning up and putting on a beautiful suit, the phantoms of these goblins look very much like the house elves Lawrence saw in the movies in his previous life.
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Soon, these monster phantoms became busy under the command of Lawrence. Lawrence himself and Seifer opened a small box that Bach had given them before in the study, and then checked the contents in the box.
document.
According to the plan, they will stay here for a day or two to read all the information, and then go to those farms and factories to conduct on-site inspections in the next few days.