Chapter 39:

During dinner, Felix rarely asked Wei Wei to take a walk after dinner, but invited Father Matthew to talk.

The two went to the study, and the servant brought herbal tea. Before Felix could think of how to speak, Father Matthew said, "I know what you are worried about, my child."

As an experienced elder, Ma Father Xiu could easily see Felix's emotional changes that he couldn't hide well, and at the dining table he noticed that Felix was looking at him wrongly.

He spoke calmly, his tone as always.

"I'm not going to mention the foreign lady to the church."

Felix was silent for a while, then said, "I don't think this guarantee is so convincing?"

"Why not? I think you probably don't know. I'm Eric's godfather."

Felix's eyes widened in surprise at the words of the priest. His own brother had a godfather, even himself, but the priest who baptized him died a long time ago.

The godfather who can become the family heir shows that the relationship between Father Matthew and his father should be very close.

But that didn't make Felix let down his guard, and it wasn't enough to convince him.

"A moderate amount of doubt is good, it can keep you vigilant, but too much doubt will only make you suspicious."

Father Matthew took a sip of herbal tea: "You know I'm very old, The reason why I took over the church in Sardinson was to avoid the chaos in the church and spend the rest of the time with my Lord leisurely, so like you, I don't want to have any trouble coming to the door."

Father Matthew He is indeed very old, his skin is full of folds, and age spots are everywhere. Although his spirit is still very good and his gait is very stable, his sixties are already the age that may attract death at any time.

Matthew likes to be called a priest by everyone, and he rarely talks about his past, so few people know that his background is actually very big.

Felix also knew when he communicated with his father that Father Matthew used to be a bishop of a diocese and managed a real power in a diocese, but he voluntarily stepped down to become the lead bishop (the protagonist who did not actually govern the diocese) and came to Sardinson County. He stayed in the chapel for five years, with no intention of returning to the center of power.

So he said boredom was real boredom, not to lie to Felix.

"I can't make you believe my promise, but I will abide by it. I will not mention Miss Weiwei to the church, and I will also keep silent about what I hear and see." The

priest smiled kindly: "After all, it is my duty. It's just spreading the blessings of God and raising donations, and it's the same for me whether it's money or something else in my hands."

So he doesn't care if the corn should be given to him, when, or what, as long as they Just pay your tithes.

And as far as the church is concerned, they prefer gold and silver coins that are easy to transport over food.

He was telling Felix that he was indeed on his side.

As for whether or not to believe it, only time will tell.

After talking about himself, he kindly reminded: "And I think you should be more worried about the coming guests than me."

Of course Felix knew that the coming guests would be troublesome.

Compared with Father Matthew, those talents are more likely to be the source of news.

"I'll take care of it."

After talking with Father Matthew, and barely having a satisfactory result, Felix went to Wei Wei.

Wei Wei always takes a bath after dinner. She has made a lot of skin care products with homemade essential oils and other things. However, for full body massage, it is better to use essential oils directly.

Of course, she didn't have the luxury to massage every day, so today Wei Wei just took a shower and came out.

With long hair that was not completely dry, she was lazy and only wore a pure white nightdress. She was wearing a cloak to cover the nightdress when she met Felix.

Wei Wei clenched her cloak silently: "Why are you here?"

Looking at her wet hair after bathing, even if the fire in the corridor couldn't show her true face, Felix could imagine that her whole body must be covered by this time. A touch of pink.

Swallowing with a grunt, Felix forced himself not to think wildly.

"I have something I want to talk to you about."

"Now?"

Felix nodded: "Yeah."

"Then go to my room and talk." Wei Wei felt that it would be fine if she was lazy and climbed upstairs in pajamas, and went out wearing it. Take a walk or talk to Felix somewhere else, forget it.

Although inviting him to the room is probably a more suggestive move at this time.

But Wei Wei was not afraid. She felt that Felix was really going to do something, and in the end, she was afraid that she would be beaten and disqualified from dating.

He didn't know the test he was about to face yet. Felix was indeed fanciful because of Wei Wei's invitation, but he quickly calmed down and figured out that with Wei Wei's character, she would not make such ambiguous hints.

Well, she really only let him in the room because she wanted to talk.

This is the first time Felix has entered Wei Wei's room. In the past, he just waited at the door for her to come out.

As soon as the door opened, two black cats who heard the noise had already run over and acted coquettishly around Wei Wei.

The cats who have grown up to catch mice are probably of British Shortness descent, friendly to people, and clingy. When Wei Wei is there, they always go around her, and they can follow her even when she's not there. The maids who take care of them play for a long time, and they are not cold at all.

After raising two little black cats, Wei Wei's room lacked a lot of furnishings and added a lot of cat toys and supplies. Among them was a cat litter box that Wei Wei asked a carpenter to make. Of course, it was not cat litter. , but real sand. After all, she doesn't have a pet store that sells cat litter here, so she can only aggrieve the two little cuties. The two little black cats are very receptive to the cat litter box. They are both the ones who are born to use cat litter. It may also be that when they were still in the wild, they were taught by the cat mother to bury them in soil. So Wei Wei is also afraid that they will be convenient in the room, the cat's food and water, and the sand in the cat litter box will be replaced regularly by other maids to ensure that there will be no smell in the room. The two little black cats are now good at catching mice. In this regard, they are obviously taught by the mother cat. Every night they have to scratch the door to let Wei Wei let them go out. Now let alone the floor where Wei Wei lives, Even on the downstairs floor, there are no traces of mice at all, because occasionally Butler Barton will borrow two cats to work in the room suspected of being infested by mice, with great results. As a result, when the two kittens visited Ye Ye, they would often bring one or two prey to Wei Wei. After the initial fright, Wei Wei is now numb when she sees the dead mouse. As long as the two cats step onto her bed and put the mouse on her bed, she can accept it. So that's why she didn't plan to let them go in and out of the room freely, lest one day she find such a terrible surprise in bed. But recently, she probably finally realized that Wei Wei doesn't eat mice, and the little black cats bring her gifts much less often, and I believe they won't bring them any more. After all, they can eat more delicious food here in Wei Wei. The mice can be killed when they are caught and played, and they don't need to be brought back as reserve food. However, the two little black cats are not completely domesticated pet cats in later generations. The wildness is still there. After they expressed their closeness to their masters, they turned their heads and ran out of the house to relax until dawn the next morning. None of them will come back. "come in."

After the two were seated, Qin poured water for Wei Wei, who was used to drinking a glass of warm water after bathing, and also gave Felix a glass, and then she retreated outside and guarded with Penny.

After drinking half a glass of warm water, Wei Wei looked up at the person next to her: "What do you want to say? What about corn?"

Felix briefly explained the content of his conversation with Father Matthew, and warned: "It will be similar in the future. Don't talk about the matter when there are a lot of people, especially in front of Father Matthew, he is a member of the church, if the church and others find out, you will be in trouble."

Wei Wei nodded: "I owe it to me . Thinking about it." The time

travel is too hasty, Wei Wei's three views and habits over the years are difficult to change so quickly, and she lacks enough social experience, the vigilance of people is not high enough, and she does not think enough about many things. This is something she will try to correct in the future.

Take the matter of planting in the garden before, she didn't do well enough, because she planned to use her interests to seize Willix and let him escort her, so she said early on that she would pay the harvest according to the tax here, but she didn't. Considering that perhaps Felix will greedily take all the harvest after seeing the yield, and make himself nothing.

Fortunately, she was lucky, and she did not meet such greedy people.

These thoughts circled in his mind, and Wei Wei began to think about the current problem.

"The priest is right. The guests will arrive in a few days. They will definitely be active in the garden at that time. It's really not good to be seen."

Although most of the nobles are not engaged in production, as long as they are not too stupid and incompetent A nobleman would not even know the harvest situation of the crops planted in his territory.

Not to mention, Wei Wei also planted a piece of wheat. Those wheats have now passed the stage of heading, flowering and pollination. In the next ten days, a grain will gradually grow on the wheat ear. At that time It's easy to spot the difference between these wheats.

After all, there are only a dozen or so grains on an ear of wheat and there are thirty or forty grains on an ear of wheat, so the difference can be seen at a glance.

Felix thought that Wei Wei was talking about corn, and didn't think of going anywhere else, so he said, "I'll have people fence the cornfield."

It's too late to build a wall now, but it's fine to make a taller wooden fence .

In addition, the room next to the cornfield had to let Barton pay attention not to arrange for guests to stay, and the rooms had to be locked to prevent accidents.

Felix thought about it for a while, and felt that only a small area was too conspicuous, so he simply surrounded all the areas that Wei Wei was messing with.

Wei Wei deliberately chose a more remote location when she first selected the land. Later, when it expanded, it was connected to a large area next to the cornfield. At first, the cornfield was a large area of flowers and trees that she asked the gardener to be responsible for, although the seeds Small, but the flowers and trees with a high germination rate occupy a very large area after they grow. Some plants with a short growth cycle have even entered the flowering period and expired. At a glance, they are colorful.

That's not all. After the temperature started to rise in April, Wei Wei planted the remaining seeds one after another. The slow-growing trees are fine, but the fast-growing fruits, vegetables and food crops occupy an unusual amount of land. Big, if most of them were not transplanted into the newly opened vegetable field behind the castle after the seedlings were raised, nearly one-fifth of the garden at this time would have been reduced to Wei Wei's planting area.

Of course, it's not too small for the current scale.

"Will it be too conspicuous if it is only surrounded by a wooden fence? You can put some vines outside and decorate it to make a vine wall, which is more suitable for the overall style of the garden. If there are vines, there are many in the woods, so it won't flower for decoration. Too much time."

"Okay, just do as you say."

The next day, Felix gave the order, and some of the serfs in service were sent to the woods to cut down trees and collect vines, and then send them to the Build a fence in the castle garden.

Not long after the fence was erected and the entire plantation was covered up, Sardinson County welcomed its first guest.

The first to arrive was the Baron Hunt family, whose territory was closest to Fort Sardinson.

This forty-year-old baron has an ordinary face and a slightly chubby body. He smiles more like a businessman, while his wife is a little stern.

In addition to gifts and luggage, they also brought a pair of children.

"The baroness looks like she is eager to be the mother-in-law of the Count." Penny combed Wei Wei's black hair, which has grown a lot, and said the gossip she heard from the other maids: "I want me to Said that the lady of the baron's family is not very good-looking, and she is a bit dull, and I don't know where she got her confidence."

Wei Wei is still a guest of the castle, so she naturally does not need to receive other guests when they come. , Even because of the level issue, Felix only met Baron Hunt's family in his spare time, and when they arrived it was already after dinner in the evening. After a friendly exchange, these people were handed over to Butler Patton to take a rest.

So Wei Wei didn't know that a guest had arrived until she woke up the next morning.

She looked at the maid behind her through the blurred mirror amusingly: "Have you seen her? Why doesn't she look good?"

"It was told by the maid in charge of serving that Miss Hunter. I heard that the baron The lady's shelf is bigger than the earl, and she complains about this and that all night, even her husband can't stand her."

The news between the castle servants always passed quickly, because they rested in the same area, What happened during the day and what happened during the night was always talked about as a conversation piece. Of course, the servants didn't dare to talk nonsense about the things that the master asked to keep secret. Just like Wei Wei's mistake before, those servants who knew the corn production had already been ordered to keep their mouths shut, so no one dared to talk about it no matter how excited they were. thing. Taking care of herself, Wei Wei got up and went downstairs to have breakfast. There were twice as many people at the table today, and it was naturally the Baron Hunter family that came out.

When Wei Wei came down, the baroness was trying to get Felix to invite her daughter for a walk, and her fifteen-year-old daughter, Miss Hunter, was obviously very fond of Felix, and was secretly blushing. He looked at Felix in the main seat, hoping he would invite him as his mother wanted.

The mother and daughter were next to Dolores, and the poor little girl was very nervous at the moment, but only in part because the baroness's high-pitched voice reminded her of Mrs. Bates, seen from the opposite side. The gaze coming over was the culprit that made her nervous.

On Felix's right hand, the first seated is still Father Matthew, and on the right of the priest is the Earl of Hunter and his son.

The look that made Dolores uncomfortable was the little Hunter's.

The seventeen-year-old boy not only inherited his mother's better looks, but also his shrewdness. When his family hit Felix, he aimed at Dolores, and he had heard of it before he came. This young lady of the earl's family is timid and afraid of life, but she is a beautiful woman. If she can marry her and have a relationship with the earl's family, it will be very beneficial to the future development of their family.

So although he hasn't caught up yet, Little Hunter is already trying to convey his admiration.

And Baron Hunt is naturally happy to see it, and has been laughing and singing with his wife, which makes Felix very disturbed.

If it wasn't for his chivalry that kept him from getting mad at women, Felix would really want to slap the table and leave.

"Am I late?"

Wei Wei appeared at this time.

The sound in the restaurant disappeared instantly, and everyone turned to look at the door of the restaurant.

The black-haired and shadowy girl made the baron's family who saw her for the first time be amazed, and completely forgot what she was saying before.

"Of course not, you came at the right time." The polite smile on Felix's face finally had a real emotion, he stood up, opened a chair for Wei Wei himself, and invited her to take a seat.

The vacant chair that the Hunt family cared about finally had its owner.

Realizing what Felix's apparent actions meant, Miss Hunt's face turned pale, and the Baroness was speechless like a duck strangled by her neck.

Baron Hunter was also able to ask her identity: "Lord Count, can you introduce this beautiful lady to us?"

"Of course, this is Wei Wei, an oriental noble from afar, and her country wants to come to you. I have also heard that it is the most powerful Seres (Silk Kingdom) on the Eastern Continent." Felix once said Wei Wei's name clearly.

At this time, there was no influx of porcelain in Europe, so the impression of European countries on Huaxia was its exquisite silk, and Huaxia, which produced silk, was also called the Silk Country.

So not only foreigners, but also foreign visitors so far away?

The baroness looked at Wei Wei with a hint of contempt, and her words became less pleasing.

"Only a name? Do the nobles of the silk country have no surnames?"

Maybe they are not nobles at all. How can a young lady from a noble family travel across the ocean to such a far place alone? And even if the identity is correct, seeing that she is single now, I am afraid that she is not taken in by the Count, and will be living on the street or even worse.

As for why she thought she was alone since she was a child, of course, if a large number of foreigners came to Sardinson County, they would not have received the news.

Thinking of this, the baroness became more and more contemptuous, and even her daughter's complexion became better. Although she did not have the appearance of the other party, compared to beauty, identity and dowry should be the criteria for a smart man to choose a good wife.

"No, Wei is the surname, Wei is the first name. In my country, the name is usually only two to four syllables." Wei Wei smiled at the baron friendly: "Our naming method is different from yours, ours There are tens of thousands of surnames, and with a first name, many people can have a name that will not be repeated with too many people."

In fact, it is still becoming more and more, but that is a matter of later generations. There are relatively few Huaxia surnames now, but it does not prevent her from saying it now and pretending to be forceful.

Not only the surname is repeated with many people, but even the first name is also called by many other people present: ...

Felix coughed: "I never heard you say this."

"It's just a trivial matter, after all, the total population of my country is about the same. There are more than 120 million people (the population of the Northern Song Dynasty was only more than 80 million in the Southern Song Dynasty), and it is normal to have many surnames."

At this time, the entire European population added up to less than 100 million.

Thinking of the people in their own country with a population of only 8 million: ...

this is probably not a good topic, at least the Baron's family didn't say anything about Wei Wei's identity after that. As for what they thought in private, it was unknown.

When the food was brought up, no one spoke.

Because we have to entertain guests, the meal this time is still the mainstream dishes at this time, but the taste is already different from before. The food cooked by the chef Bob is very satisfied even Wei Wei, not to mention he has never eaten it before. The baron's family, while praising the castle chef's good cooking skills, accelerated the speed of eating, and the silver fork was unquestionably accepted under Felix's demonstration.

After all, eating this way looks more elegant and decent. The Baron's family only thought that this was the way Felix brought back from the capital, and they also thought that they would have to prepare some after returning to keep up with the trend.

After the meal, the baroness again asked Felix to show them the castle.

Felix, of course, disagreed.

"I'm sorry, I still have some urgent documents to be processed today. If you want to visit, I can ask the butler to take you there." Felix nodded at Butler Patton, who stepped forward in time, facing the The guests bowed and saluted.

"Then can Miss Dolores show us a tour?" Little Hunter said suddenly: "Miss Dolores is about the same age as my sister Jenny, I think they will get along well?"

Before Felix could speak,

Wei Wei , who was tired of this little Hunter's eyes for a long time, said lightly: "I'm sorry, Dolores has to go to class later, I'm afraid I won't have time to show you." When Si heard this, her eyes lit up immediately: "Yes, today's class will start soon, I need to go to class." The

Baroness: "I wonder if Miss Weiwei has time to be with us?"

She wanted to take the opportunity to inquire Check out the news about this exotic girl.

Wei Wei smiled lightly at her, and when the latter thought she would agree, she said, "I am Dolores' tutor."