When Ryan and Sulia rode pure-blooded elf war horses to the commercial street in the wealthy district of Nuer, it happened to be about an hour before the start of the daily "afternoon tea" time.
The entire wealthy district has begun to get busy. Almost every noble mansion has carriages that are extremely gorgeously decorated with flowers, portraits and fine silks. They shuttle back and forth on the streets. Every carriage drives out.
Inside, there was a noble lady or noble lady dressed in a gorgeous dress.
Most of them wear fox fur coats or waistcoats, low-cut silk dresses, round-brimmed hats with many hat feathers, stockings and high heels.
The grand scene of Yan would indeed be refreshing, if it weren't for so many guards and servants following the carriage.
In this aspect alone, Nuer is different from Braunschweig. Braunschweig is relatively crowded, even in wealthy areas. If aristocratic ladies and aristocratic ladies do this, it will easily block traffic. In the end
It attracted the attention of the capital's army and the emperor, but for the military nobles of the empire, they were quite bored by this. Naturally, noble ladies and noble ladies did not dare to engage in such a big battle, and there were few large-scale gatherings.
Nuer is different. First, the ruler of Nuer was the regent Schroeder family before, and then the ruler was the Imperial Baroness Emmanuel. They were not very strict in this aspect. After all, Ai
Manoli, that is, Emilia herself is a woman. She is not involved much, but she can understand.
Second, the streets in Noor are much wider than those in Braunschweig, and they are very orderly, making it difficult to get jammed.
Therefore, the female nobles in the entire city have gained a certain degree of independent power, and they organize various activities all day long to kill boring time.
In Nuer, the entertainment life of female nobles is still very rich, including various art gatherings and activities at Nuer University, reading clubs, dinner parties, horseback riding outings and picnics, watching various competitions in the city, shopping, and working hard.
The most important traditional afternoon tea party for nobles.
A large number of female nobles drove directly to Nuer University in horse-drawn carriages. It seemed that there was some kind of reading meeting today. They could go there to listen to lectures, socialize, and also have afternoon tea.
This is a circle that countless women want to enter. Whenever women in the old world talk about the exquisite life of Nuer female nobles, they always look fascinated and it always takes a long time to wake up from their dreams.
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Because of this, Ryan never blamed the maid at Magritte State Guesthouse. Dreams always have to be had, what if they come true?
From this point of view, Duchess Sulia, who is riding a pure-blood elf war horse, looks quite different.
Lidya Su also felt this. The female knight today wore a satin-textured mocha warm forged blouse, a retro cherry burgundy late autumn woolen coat, a white lace striped one-step skirt, and a pair of slender and straight legs.
Wearing black opaque thick pantyhose and a pair of black high-heeled boots, the skirt fluttered slightly with the movement of the pure-blood elf war horse.
Even if Sulia is not wearing a noble dress, no one will doubt that this beautiful female knight is a real female noble, because her temperament is so outstanding that no one can be like Sulia.
With such a perfect blend of female heroic spirit, nobility, intellectuality and motherhood, her appearance has even attracted the attention of some male nobles in the wealthy area, but the Holy Grail Knight next to her is obviously her husband.
, I don’t dare to take the initiative to strike up a conversation just yet.
Sulia's fair and charming face had a hint of rosy. She rode a pure-blood elf war horse and said to her husband: "Think about it carefully, Ryan, there are really not many opportunities for us to go out alone like this. In my impression, the most
The interesting time was the mill and windmill in Curona, but unfortunately we were not alone for long before Mathubard and Fiona interrupted us... Now we even have Devonshire..."
"Why, madam, you also want to have an afternoon tea party?" Ryan's answer was meaningful.
"Ryan, you know that's not what I want." Sulia pulled the reins and signaled Richter to walk slower. She said angrily: "You did it on purpose!"
"Hehehe~" Ryan looked at the other end of the neat and clean stone street and sighed slightly: "It's because I have too many things... I also have too many women, and I don't spend enough time with you. This is...
My bad."
"This is a common problem among good men, Ryan." Lidya Su shook her head: "The same goes for my father. When he is busy, he rarely has time to spend with his mother... But this is the hero in my heart."
After finishing speaking, Lidya Su seemed to have thought of something, and she continued: "Okay, let's not talk about this anymore, Ryan, how will you arrange the next time?"
"Let's go to the Von Luck family's mansion first to see if there are any clues." Ryan nodded, and then he said, "Then you make the arrangements, and by the way we can also talk about what to do next."
"Go to the Lark family's mansion now?" Sulia thought for a moment, and the female knight quickly agreed with her husband's point of view. She continued: "Then we can go to the famous cafe in Nuer.
I also heard that there are activities at Nuer University in the evening? How about having dinner outside?"
"Of course, dear, I will listen to you." Ryan nodded with a smile.
Without further ado, the two of them rode their pure-blooded elf war horses directly towards the mansion of the Von-Lack family.
This family's mansion is located on the edge of the wealthy area of Noor. It is said to be a mansion, but it is actually just a three-story house with a basement and a small garden. There are only five rooms in the house, and the building structure is very narrow.
The floor area is only seventy or eighty square meters.
But such a small house was valued at five thousand gold marks. Based on an average peasant in the empire earning fifteen gold marks a year, he would have to go without food for more than three hundred years to save enough money to buy a house.
Ryan always has the illusion that it seems to be the same everywhere?
After the tragedy of Baron Werner, the mansion fell into a serious dispute. Two descendants of the von Rucker family fought for inheritance rights and have now resorted to the Noor Court and the city council.
, everyone is waiting for Emilia to make a decision.
Because of this, the door of the small house is currently locked and no one is visiting. The tall, dark-black painted ticket reads "No. 6 Reuben Street" and "Von Luck".
Turning over and dismounting, it was still very cold in Noor in February. Ryan walked to his wife and hugged her off the horse, then knocked on the door: "Is there anyone there?"
"Dong dong dong~"
"Is anyone here?" Ryan then knocked on the door, but no one answered for a long time.
Sulia reached out to the Sword of Lyonnais on her waist, and she nodded towards Ryan.
Ryan asked again: "Is there anyone there?"
After waiting for a minute, Ryan gave up. He took out the door key he got from Emilia and opened the door: "Excuse me!"
The small courtyard was only thirty to forty square meters in size, with some simple flowers and plants planted in it. Ryan and Sulia led the pure-blood elf war horses into the courtyard, and the high walls immediately blocked their sight.
There was a lot of snow falling in the courtyard. It was obvious that no one had cleaned it for a long time.
The couple stepped into the courtyard, and Sulia let go of the reins of her war horse, Marihit. The pure-blood elf war horse was obviously very dissatisfied with how small the courtyard was. It snorted and shook its head.
Use body language to show displeasure to his owner.
The same is true for Ryan's horse Grape. It also raised its hoof towards Ryan and pointed at the wall, indicating that you should push this wall down, otherwise it would be difficult to walk.
Ryan had no choice but to use Elvish and psychic powers to communicate with Grape, and signaled to Uncle Grape to calm down and ask you and your wife to stay here for a while while we go in and take a look.
That's right, Ryan's war horse Grape and Surya's war horse Hitt have given birth to several pure-blood elf foals.
After handing over the feed consisting of carrots, soybeans, black beans, peas, honey and corn, the two pure-blooded elf war horses calmed down. Grape snorted again, raised his hoof, and signaled you to go back quickly. We
Wait here.
"According to your calculation, this courtyard costs one thousand gold marks, which is enough to buy a pure-blood elf war horse in Britannia." Sulia stood on the steps, she had obviously thought of a lot: "
I think the land price in this city is enough to buy half of Britannia."
"Oh, so why is it forbidden to export pure-blooded elf war horses?" Ryan let go of the reins, walked up the steps, took his wife's little hand, and said gently: "You must know very well that the land price is fictitious, but the real price is real.
, if we really let go, the Nuer people can buy out all the pure-blooded elf war horses in Britannia tomorrow, and then all we will get is a few useless pieces of land."
With Sulia's intelligence, she has been deeply aware of the impact behind the high land prices in Nuer.
Such a shock would have been devastating to Brittania's estate economy and taxation in kind.
"But why is the land price in Nuer so expensive?" The female knight was still puzzled by the price of land in Nuer.
"What's so difficult to understand?" Ryan smiled: "The development of industry and commerce creates agglomeration and center effects, and land prices naturally rise. Nuer's chamber of commerce and the steel guilds have already reached various conditions with the local nobles.
As time goes by, land prices naturally continue to rise. Whether it is Braunschweig or Nuer, they are important cities that radiate throughout the empire and receive resources from the entire empire. Don’t forget, the empire is limited to these two cities.
There are military factories.”
"In addition, security is also a very important reason. Nuer's army and city defenses are too strong. Living here can make people feel safe. This is very important to the empire."
"Well, the citizens and nobles are also conflicted about this. For the landed citizens and nobles, the increase in land prices is a benefit to them, and these people occupy most of the real estate in Nuer City, so
Even if there are some objections outside, nothing can be done about it. As for your little maid, she is
As the largest landowner in Nuer, they will naturally not object. They like the land price to rise or at least not to fall, and they will even use their power to prevent the land price from falling." Sulia immediately figured it out, the female knight
He shook his head helplessly: "I always felt that you had the same idea in Musilon."
"You are so smart, my lady." Ryan held his wife's little hand and said with a smile: "At that time, I will be the largest landowner in Mousilon, and you will be the landowner's wife, and Devonshire will be the small landowner."
"Who wants to give you a landlady? What an unpleasant title!" Sulia's face turned red. She suddenly lowered her head and murmured to herself: "I once thought that I would be a countess or a duchess in the future, but I didn't expect...
"
"Isn't this good?" Ryan smiled and put Sulia's small hand on top of his big hand and said seriously: "You are worthy of the best in the world, my wife."
"Lian..." In the cold weather of February, Lidya Su looked at her husband affectionately, her face flushed with red.
Until the grapes snorted.
Uncle Grape neighed, raised his hoof and pointed, gesturing for you to come in. Why are you standing at the door? We are waiting for you!
Both Ryan and his wife were a little embarrassed. Duke Mousilon quickly reached out and pressed his hand on the door of the mansion. As the blue psychic power penetrated the cracks in the door, there was a sound of spring from behind the door, and the door opened.
Oncoming was a gust of hot wind, and the expressions of Ryan and Sulia immediately changed. Ryan held Thor's hammer with one hand, and Sulia's Leonese sword was immediately unsheathed, with white-gold flames on the sword body.
The bed was burning, and the two people stepped into the mansion cautiously without taking off their shoes.
As mentioned before, this mansion is very narrow. There is only a dining room and kitchen on the first floor. The floor is covered with fine carpets. Compared with the antique style of Brunswick, the decoration style adds a lot of Noor steel and gunpowder.
Elements, including some cannon sculptures and a golden griffin coat of arms.
"There are signs of fire in the kitchen, but it didn't happen recently." Ryan checked the kitchen. Since the window was open, a thin layer of ash had accumulated in the kitchen: "Strange, normally speaking, even if Baron Werner
He and a group of his men died in Braunschweig, but Noor's mansion is not left unmaintained? If no one lives in this kind of mansion, it will age very quickly."
"Is it a temporary cold treatment due to the fight for inheritance rights?" Sulia moved a pair of long black stocking legs to inspect the restaurant. The female knight carefully observed the silver tableware and some red wine locked in the cabinet: "This should be
No outsiders have come in, these are good red wines, if I were a thief, I would not let these go."
"What if they don't know the goods?" Ryan carefully inspected the interior of the restaurant. Hearing Sulia's opinion, he smiled casually: "Not every thief knows wine as well as my wife."
"But they have no reason not to take away the silver tableware." Sulia picked up a small silver spoon and waved it in front of Ryan's eyes: "This thing is easy to get rid of. You can collect it anywhere and put it in the stove to recast it.
For a moment, no one recognized the original owner."
"Hahaha, obviously, I was convinced by my wife." Ryan immediately said playfully: "Okay, let's go to the second floor and have a look."
The couple found nothing on the first floor, so they decided to go upstairs to take a look.
When they cautiously walked to the door of the second floor and saw the scene in front of them, both Ryan and Lidya Su frowned.
An old man wearing a butler's tuxedo was dead at the door of the living room on the second floor, with a purple dagger stuck in his back.
"It seems we are late." Sulia immediately squatted down to check the body of the deceased: "He has been dead for a few days, but the weather was cold and the flesh and blood were frozen, so no one found it."
Ryan also squatted down. He checked carefully and soon discovered something was wrong: "Lidya Su, look, he has a square scarf in his hand."
"Let me see." Taking the handkerchief out of the dead old butler's hand, Ryan gently opened it.
There is a special pattern printed on the square scarf, with the green siren in the middle, surrounded by her splayed twin tails. There are some coffee stains on the square scarf.
"Is this... the pattern of the Siren?" Sulia looked at the pattern and fell into deep thought.