Chapter 63:
When I came, I brought a whole box of cosmetics, and when I went back, I didn't even have the box.
A woman's desire to buy is terrifying. Although Wei Wei didn't intend to bring back the box of things, she was still a little alarmed in the face of a group of people fighting for it.
Because there are so many things, the result that everyone wants is that the scene is almost the same as the auction, because Wei Wei does not sell the same as the black heart, but sells a whole set.
In the end, it is a matching thing. It is useless if it is alone. It is better to auction the whole set together. The person with the highest price will get it. The person who gets it in the end can help her spread the word.
Of course, she didn't take the initiative to say this, but in the end, the ladies came up with it. Wei Wei just did what they wanted.
The final winner, unexpectedly and unexpectedly, was Countess Nelson.
Wei Wei has investigated before, the countess and the queen are really not on the right side, any time they collide, it is a war. If it is not for their status, the two will definitely be one over the other. situation that will arise.
So unless it is necessary, everyone in the noble circle knows that it is best to invite only one of them, or wait for a women's war to be staged.
This time, Queen Mirabelle made a big splash at the birthday banquet. If she hadn't left the venue too early and didn't collide with Count Nelson, she would have ridiculed Countess Nelson all over her body at that time.
This is something Mrs Nelson absolutely does not want to see!
Of course, in addition to thinking about herself, Countess Nelson is also thinking about her niece. Daisy was raised by her side, and she has been together for many years. It is not without affection. No one cares about her niece who is seventeen years old. It was a headache for her, and she even considered whether to choose a good candidate for her husband from among her husband's knights. Otherwise, if Daisy couldn't get married when she was older, she would have to go to the monastery.
But after covering up the freckles on her face, Countess Nelson found that her niece was still very good-looking. If she had such a face, it was not impossible to find a good fiancé.
So she is bound to get those cosmetics.
In the end, Countess Nelson spent three hundred and eighty gold coins to buy everything, including the expensive hand mirror.
Although the money is a bit distressing, after all, those things are used, although not many, they are considered second-hand goods, and the price of nearly 400 gold coins is really high.
But when she thought that Wei Wei gave her the most expensive perfume other than the hand mirror, Countess Nelson felt that she had earned it,so she felt distressed, and she would buy it again.
She even thought about the use. She could give Daisy the concealer and foundation. She could also give her the eyeshadow and lipstick she used today. The rest is hers. Anyway, as long as the little girl can cover up the freckles, A little light makeup looks good, and she is still young and her skin is good. Wherever she needs to maintain, essential oils and homemade masks are enough.
Every day Wei Wei said, is the formula of one of the facial masks specially designed to lighten spots? Daisy uses that one.
This lady hopes that these things will last until Sardinson County starts selling cosmetics, otherwise if she is seen by the woman Mila Belle, she still doesn't know how to mock her.
After the ownership of the cosmetics was determined, the ladies who didn't grab them could only suppress their frustration and jealousy and discuss various makeup techniques with Wei Wei with a smile.Among them, the maids of Earl Nelson's family listened very carefully, because the work of applying makeup for the two hostess will definitely fall on their heads, so it is obviously impossible for them to practice precious cosmetics, if they are wasted. , even if they sell it, they can't afford it.At the end of the party, Countess Nelson took her niece to personally send Wei Wei away, very reluctant to part: "See you at the next banquet.""Goodbye." Wei Weiexchanged a close kiss with them before getting on the carriage .
The coachman flicked his whip, and the carriage began to run.
The nobles of the royal capital basically live in the central area. Earl Nelson's house is an old-fashioned aristocrat. The mansion is very close to the palace in the central area, while the mansion bought by Felix is closer to the periphery. Although there is a certain distance between them because one is in the east and the other is in the west, it takes less than half an hour to drive around the main road of the palace by horse-drawn carriage, which can be said to be very close.
So this time, Wei Wei didn't take many people with her, except for Penny, the personal maid, there was only one driver, and even Qin was left to work in the house by her.
Countess Nelson's salon was arranged in the afternoon, and it ended at about four o'clock in the afternoon. Because it was winter, the days were short and the nights were long.
Wei Wei was sitting in the carriage, listening to Penny talking excitedly. Even though she seemed calm in the salon just now, she was actually nervous. Now that she left, she couldn't stop talking.
Wei Wei didn't stop her either. Anyway, there was no one else around. It was interesting to hear her thoughts on those ladies.
"Did you see Miss Clive's expression at that time, she must have thought you would choose her."
Suddenly, the carriage stopped, but according to the time, they should not have returned home.
Wei Wei lifted the curtain of the car: "What's wrong?"
"Miss." The driver sitting in the driver's seat lowered his head and replied, "The road ahead is blocked, do we need to detour?"
Wei Wei stepped forward a Look, this section of the road is the main road next to the palace, one side is the palace wall, the other side is the walls of other nobles' mansions, and there is an overturned carriage on the road between the two, and there are several people standing beside the carriage. In the case of the horses and the car, two of the well-dressed women stood shivering on the side, not knowing whether they were frightened or cold.
Indistinctly, several people who inspected the carriage could still be heard saying that the legs and axles of the horse were broken, and there was no way to go back now but to wait for someone to come.
At this time, she can choose to take a detour and go back from the other side, or she can step up to help out of humanitarianism, such as inviting the two ladies who should look like nobles to get on the bus. After all, it is still snowing in the sky and it is cold outside.
And this road is close to the palace. There are only some alleys between the noble houses for the servants and the delivery carriages. If the carriages want to detour, the fastest way is to pass through those alleys. The entrance to the alley closest to them was where the carriage overturned.
But Wei Wei looked at the group, looked at the snow-covered ground again, and said decisively to the driver: "Don't detour, we'll go back to the palace!
"Let the carriage turn around on the road and go back.
Wei Wei took a last look at those people, her eyes turned to the direction of the carriage, and she looked alert.
Seeing that her face was wrong, Penny panicked: "What's wrong, miss?"
"Maybe I overreacted, but those people may be robbers." Wei Wei stared at the road, noticing every alley that the carriage passed by, Sheexplained, "It's so coincidental that they appeared, and those people don't look right, we have to be careful,"
her voice did not hide, not only Penny heard it, but even the driver who was driving the car vaguely heard it. Even the driver was nervous, and the speed of the carriage immediately accelerated.
Penny was even more frightened. She moved to the opposite side of Wei Wei and secretly opened the curtain a little to look back at those people.
The arc-shaped road made the carriage quickly disappear from the eyes of the other party. In the last scene, Penny saw that the few people had already stopped their original actions and were all staring at their carriage.
Penny covered her mouth: "God, they really have a problem!"
Even after leaving the accident scene, Wei Wei didn't relax. She kept staring at those alleys, worried that someone would be ambushed in them, and suddenly rushed out after finding them .
But fortunately, the other party probably thought that they would take a detour at the scene of the carriage accident according to their plan, but they didn't expect that they would turn around and leave, so there were no accomplices in ambush in the remaining alleys.
"Don't worry too much, this is the central area after all, and even robbers don't dare to be too rampant."
Under the driver's escape, they quickly arrived at the gate of the palace.
When the guards guarding the gate saw the carriage running rampant, they thought they were attacked by the enemy and raised their weapons.
If he hadn't seen the aristocratic family crest on the carriage, I'm afraid those weapons would have stabbed mercilessly.
The guards shouted: "Stop! Quickly stop! The forbidden area of the palace, you are not allowed to approach without permission!"
Fortunately, although the carriage looked like it was about to slam into the gate, under the control of the driver, the carriage stopped smoothly. at a safe distance.
As soon as the carriage stopped, the guards surrounded him, and the driver in the carriage was so frightened that he was too frightened to speak when faced with so many sharp spears.
Wei Wei, who almost thought she was about to overturn the car, opened the car door immediately and said to the guards, "We belong to Earl Williams' family."
Although the guards have not seen her, a few days ago, the family of Earl Williams' family carriage continued to travel in the palace for several days, and they naturally wrote down the earl's family crest, and Wei Wei's strange appearance different from the Prady people has long been spread throughout the aristocratic circle, and these guards have naturally heard of it.
After confirming their identities, the leading guard captain motioned everyone to put away their weapons and saluted Wei Wei: "Dear Miss, what happened?" Wei Wei
pointed to the way they came: "We are going home. , an overturned carriage blocked the road on the road, and the ladies in the car seemed to be frightened, can you please send someone over to help?"
She did not express her doubts, after all, it was something that was not yet determined.
As soon as he heard that something had happened, and it was likely that something had happened to the nobles, the captain of the guard nodded immediately: "Of course, I am happy to serve you."
He turned around and asked the guards to find a team of guards who had not changed their shifts. He led the team and went in the direction Wei Wei said.
The guards left, but Wei Wei didn't leave. First, she wanted to make sure that those people really had a problem, and secondly, she was worried about whether the road on the other side would agree to an ambush.
After all, this main road is a ring road around the palace. The Earl Williams mansion is on the other side. people, then the possibility of an ambush on both sides is too great.
It's just that she didn't offend anyone, so why did this happen all of a sudden?
With this thought, she suddenly thought of Miss Clive.
At this time, Penny also came over and said nervously and in a low voice,
"Miss, could it be the Clive family who did it?" Only that lady was hostile to Wei Wei.
"It's unlikely." Wei Wei shook her head: "We only officially met today. Even if she was hostile to me before, it was impossible to set an ambush. If it is said that this kind of thing will happen after today, it is still possible, but this was premeditated, but it is unlikely that it was her."
Penny wondered, "Why do you think it was premeditated?" Wei Wei said
, "Have you paid attention to the ground where the carriage crashed?"
Penny thought After thinking about it, I didn't expect anything wrong, so I shook my head: "What's wrong with the ground?"
"There are no wheel marks on the ground." Wei Wei pointed out a problem: "The carriage looks very heavy, you see there are six of them. , There are so many people sitting on the carriage, but there are no wheel marks on the ground. Although it is snowing now, it is impossible to cover up the wheel marks so quickly, right?"
Penny nodded, indicating that it was true.
"Of course, it's also possible that they came from the other side, so we didn't see the traces of the wheels, but did you notice how they were dressed?"
This Penny knows: "There are six people, two ladies, and the remaining four men should be servants."
"Yes, only two of the six are ladies with status, and the rest are servants, but you are looking at their carriage, does it look like there are four servants in the driver's seat?"
Penny's eyes widened: "Of course not, it's not bad that the small carriage can squeeze three people."
Wei Wei nodded: "Yeah, not to mention that the four men look quite sturdy. I think it's almost enough for two to sit in the driver's seat of the carriage, so here comes the problem. There are four male servants, two in the driver's seat, Where are the other two sittings?"
"In the carriage?" Penny replied subconsciously, and quickly responded, "Impossible, there are two ladies in the carriage, how could they let the servants sit in the carriage? Inside!"Yes, everyone knows that noble ladies are very particular. The only people who ride together can be maids and men of the same status. Those men don't seem to have such status."In addition, the two Although the noble lady is dressed gorgeously and looks like she is going to a banquet, it is too strange to stand in the snow on such a heavy snowy day without a cloak. Of course, it could also be that the accident happened too suddenly and they forgot, but this accident was weird inside and out, and Wei Wei would rather suspect them with the greatest malice than take the risk." Anyway, there seem to be too many suspicious places, we just need to be careful," she concluded. Penny nodded, and Wei Wei could just believe whatever she said. After another period, the captain of the guard came back with someone, and he told Wei Wei that there were indeed traces of the overturned carriage ahead, but there was nothing there now."It should have been repaired and left."Is that so?" Wei Wei said with a sigh of relief: "That's great, I heard them say that the horse broke its leg and the axle was broken since it's fine. That's nice."
Hearing this, the captain of the guard frowned, and immediately thought to himself that if what this lady heard was correct, how did the carriage leave?
He became suspicious, but he didn't show it on his face, but asked Wei Wei: "You seem to be quite frightened, why don't you ask my guard to escort you back."
Wei Wei originally wanted to ask him to send a guard went to the Earl's Mansion and called someone to pick him up. Hearing that he offered to escort him, he was naturally too happy.
So I quickly thanked myself: "Thank you so much! I don't know what to call you?"
"You are too polite, I'm Buck Green." As the captain of the palace guard, Buck Green has met countless nobles. But it was the first time he had met such a polite noble lady, and she was still such a beautiful lady, and he was at a loss when facing Wei Wei.
"Okay, Mr Green, then please send someone to take us back."
Buck Green sent Wei Wei the guards he had just brought to check and sent them back to the Earl's House.
There were no problems along the way, and Wei Wei returned home smoothly.
The guards were about to leave after completing the task. Wei Wei quickly asked Penny to take a gold coin and gave it to them to thank them for their help.
A gold coin is a lot of money, but after escorting a short distance, there is such a windfall. The guards did not delay, took the gold coin, and saluted Wei Wei before leaving.
They left, and the carriage drove through the courtyard gate and stopped in front of the gate of the house. Felix, who was notified, drove out from the inside.
"What happened? The guard said that the royal guard sent you back."
"Go in and talk." Wei Wei took Felix's hand and got out of the carriage.
The two walked into the room hand in hand and sat on the chairs. Wei Wei explained what happened on the road and finally said, "I suspect they came to me on purpose, but I don't know why."
reason? Felix immediately thought of his own business, his brows were wrinkled, and his blue eyes were like the sea before the storm, black and pressed: "If I don't want to catch you and threaten me, I just want to extract essential oils from you. The recipe."
Other than that, Felix couldn't think of any other reason.
As for why Wei Wei was found, in addition to her being his fiancee, many people are now afraid that they have already guessed that the development of Sardinson County and her inability to get rid of it, it is not a secret that the formula of the essential oil originally belonged to her. , as long as you inquire a little in Sardinson County, you can find out, and now, the cosmetics that Wei Wei gave to the queen are also the focus of attention, and everyone can see the interests represented, and these are enough to make many people take risks.
Wei Wei suddenly said, "You mean they might be in the same group as the people who stole from the essential oil store?"
Felix nodded: "It's very possible, but it may also be another group of people. There are quite a few people who have concerns."
He then asked: "Do you still remember their appearance?"
Wei Wei has a good memory, and at that time, because she was suspicious, she looked at them specially, and naturally, she remembered: "I drew it for you, but it is not ruled out that they are disguised. Possibly."
Although their plans did not seem to be very thorough, Wei Wei felt that the other party might have revealed their flaws because they despised her too much. She got up and took a pen and paper to draw the faces of the six people. If it was someone else, they would probably be a little far away and the sky was dark and it was difficult to see clearly, but Wei Wei has good eyesight and good night vision. The light in the evening is enough for her to see clearly. After drawing the appearance of six people, Wei Wei looked at the faces of the two noble ladies, and she was more and more sure that she was not suspicious."These two should be disguised as women." I didn't notice it when I saw it before, but when I think about it now, the faces of the two people don't look like women.
"I will send someone to investigate. You and Dolores should pay special attention to safety during this time." Felix put away the portraits and made up his mind to send them more staff, especially Wei Wei. It is best to go out in the future. with him.
After thinking about the next few banquets, there is no restriction like today, only ladies can attend, and Felix can be with them, so it is no wonder that those people are going to start today.
"You remember to report the case." Wei Wei reminded: "These people are too bold to carry out kidnapping near the palace. For the safety of other nobles and even the royal family, we are obliged to report the case."
Felix immediately Laughs, Wei Wei's words are plain to say that he is actually using other nobles and even the royal family to intimidate the mastermind behind the scenes. If the matter rises to the point of threatening the royal family, the king will not stand by and watch. If he sends someone to investigate, it will be better than Felix. It is much more convenient for this foreign noble to send someone to investigate.
"I know how to do it."
The next day, Felix went to the sheriff to report the case with the portrait that the artist had recreated.
When the person in charge of the Sheriff's Office saw the recently famous Earl, he was very startled, and when he knew that he was here to report the case, he was even more frightened, and he broke out in cold sweat.
Felix's tone was low, and the noble's air was high: "If it weren't for the help of the Royal Guard, my fiancee might have suffered an accident. This kind of thing happened in the royal capital, or in the central area where the nobles lived. It's your dereliction of duty." The
sheriffs did not dare to refute that the city guards were responsible for the security of the royal capital, especially the central area, and they were actually in charge of ordinary people and nobles in the central and lower urban areas. It's simply not their turn to deal with it.
But no one dared to say that at this time, they could only keep apologizing to Felix: "Yes, yes, it's all our dereliction of duty, please rest assured, we will arrest these prisoners as quickly as possible. !"
Anyway, at this time, all the problems should be dealt with, as for how to deal with them later, of course, let the city guards worry.
Felix left with satisfaction.
Not long after that, the news that there were kidnappers in the central area of the capital city, and the kidnappers seemed to be ambushed and kidnapping by noble ladies and ladies who specially picked out the line, and the news quickly spread to the ears of all the nobles, and these kidnappers She has not been arrested so far, which made all the ladies worry about their safety.
For a time, while everyone increased the number of guards travelling, they also issued an ultimatum to the city guards, asking them to catch the prisoner as soon as possible.
As a result, it was not only the sheriff and the city guard who had a headache, but the mastermind behind the scenes even smashed his study angrily.