Working Prophet.

Chapter 9 Suits can't be messed up

"Why should I bring you, an outsider, to attend the family meeting where the Arias family decides the successor?"

Ilea slept until the morning of the second day, and opened the door with two panda eyes. Before listening to Li Yu outside the door, she showed resistance and yawned as she spoke.

"Because I'm your advisor."

"........."

"This is what you told the captain of the guard named Levin yourself. Since you are going to do a show, it's best to do a complete set." Li Yu tidied up his suit and tie, and said calmly.

In his not-so-long career, he has seen too many inappropriate Party A and leaders and colleagues who were never prepared to be human. Miss Rabbit's little rebellion is really nothing.

If he couldn't even handle this, he would have been driven crazy by his previous jobs.

After a pause, Li Yu added, "It's fine if you don't take me with you, but remember to make this election public. I will go over and observe it myself, and help you when necessary."

"Why," Miss Rabbit subconsciously retorted, while completely ignoring Li Yu's so-called "help".

For this election, she has already made sufficient preparations, and from the bottom of her heart, she doesn't think that Li Yu, a foreigner with a suspicious background, can help.

What else can you expect from a person who can't even protect himself?

"This is a family matter of our Arias family. It would be embarrassing enough to bring it up to the Marquis. It can be resolved privately. Besides, I don't like to show up in front of so many strangers. I'm so nervous."

"You are going to be a lord, you'd better get used to this kind of thing early." Li Yu said, "And once there is a disagreement on the heir, no matter who the final winner is, there will inevitably be rumors in the future , although the public election process cannot completely eradicate those rumors, but at least your version of the story will have more supporters, and it will be more conducive to your future rule."

"It's a fact, not a story," Ilea corrected.

But then Miss Rabbit's eyes on Li Yu also changed a little, as if she got to know Li Yu again, looked him up and down, and said in admiration, "You obviously don't understand anything, but I didn't expect you to know anything. Can make decent suggestions."

Li Yu didn't care about Ilea's words, but reminded her again, "Remember to open the election process."

"I know, I know, I will mention this when we have dinner." Miss Rabbit nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

The so-called dinner is lunch, which is also the first meal of the day.

There is no such thing as breakfast in the Bratis Continent. Most people only eat two meals a day, and the low-level workers engaged in heavy physical work will eat some cold bread to pad their stomachs in the morning.

In addition, commoners and nobles sat separately when dining.

Li Yu didn't know how Ilea and the others were eating, anyway, the food on his table looked pretty good.

The staple food is freshly baked white bread, steaming hot and slightly burnt on the bottom.The side dishes include stewed pork, fried salmon, sausages, and pots of puddings that look suspiciously black and autumnal in appearance, and the drink is unlimited supply of mead.

These several dishes were served on the table together, and Li Yu soon encountered his first trouble—although the Marquis Mansion provided food, it did not provide tableware.

Almost everyone here carries a short knife, which is about nine inches long from the handle to the tip. Some handles are also carved with patterns and family crests. This is what they use to eat.

Such short knives are easy to cut bread and meat, and can also be used for self-defense when going out.

Li Yu doesn't have a knife, and it's not easy to use it directly in front of everyone.

Fortunately, someone soon relieved him, and a human maid walked towards him holding a beautiful knife inlaid with rubies on the handle.

"Miss Ilea asked me to tell you—I just borrowed it for you to use first, and you have to pay it back, hehe, don't lose it, or you won't be able to pay for it if you sell you."

I don't know if it was Miss Rabbit's advice, but the maid's message was authentic, without discount at all.

Li Yu took the ruby ​​knife, thanked the maid politely, went to the wooden table where the food was placed, and cut about a third of a piece of white bread, inserted two pieces of salmon with oily skin and a glass of mead, Find a place to sit on the bench beside you.

As for the stewed pork and sausages, Li Yu didn't know if the boars here had been eunuched, so he didn't dare to bet. In addition, the pot of black pudding was also skipped by Li Yu because the ingredients were unknown.

Fortunately, the taste of fried salmon is not bad. These salmon are 100% wild, and the meat is delicious. In Li Yu's world, the price of a piece is estimated to be more than [-]. If it is simply processed in a Japanese food store, it may cost another Second, most ordinary working-class people, including Li Yu, still feel a lot of pain after eating a meal.

Of course, it is not impossible to pick out a fly in the ointment. For example, there are relatively few condiments, except for salt, there is only a little symbolic crushed pepper.

But in this way, the umami taste of the salmon itself is preserved to the maximum extent.

However, Li Yu noticed that most of the people here did not show much enthusiasm for these salmon meat. It seems that they should not eat less on weekdays.

The taste of white bread is also good. Although the wheat variety is not the same as what Li Yu is familiar with, the gluten content is much lower, and the flour is not ground fine enough. Tired of eating, on the contrary, more and more people are beginning to favor coarse grains similar to simple processing.

In contrast, mead is much inferior. The alcohol content is not high, it is estimated that it does not exceed 5 degrees, and the most important thing is that it is too sweet.

It's quite miraculous to say that, so far, most of the things Li Yu has seen in this plane are actually things that he can call famous.

Even if you haven't seen it with your own eyes in your daily life, at least you have learned about it on TV and the Internet, except for those half-orcs who still retain some of the characteristics of beasts.

And there is no magic here, because the stay time is still short, Li Yu is not yet clear whether there are more strange creatures living on this continent named Bratis.

Perhaps because of the black suit that was incompatible with this place, the seat next to Li Yu was always empty when eating, and no one else sat down.

Even the other tables were already full.

The Marquis of Cullen doesn't have many immediate family members. Apart from his wife, there are only two sons and one daughter. However, there are nearly 100 people in the Marquis' mansion.

This includes guards, maids, cooks, grooms, literature, swordsmanship, and etiquette teachers for the three children, butlers, accountants, etc., plus a large number of entourage brought by the Arias family. It's still fun together.

And this also reflected the desertedness on Li Yu's side more and more. Many people were secretly looking at the strange person in this corner with complicated eyes.

However, the person involved didn't seem to be embarrassed by his situation, nor did he show any signs of discomfort, but just quietly ate the food on the plate.

Li Yu is still not quite used to this rough eating method of holding a knife in one hand and directly attacking with the other, and he has to guard against the oil stains on his suit.

After all, suits cannot be washed by hand, and if they get dirty, they have to be taken to the dry cleaners, if he can see the dry cleaners again for the rest of his life.

And if he can't go back, this set of clothes is almost the most precious property on his body now, and he must keep it well. If it is in good condition, he can exchange it for more money.

In short, Li Yu finished his first meal in this different world so unhurriedly, and when he put down the ruby ​​knife, a thoughtful look flashed in his eyes.

After the luncheon was over at Ilea's side, the Marquis' Mansion finally ushered in today's highlight - the ruling on the ownership of the green field inheritance.

Due to the unexpected death of Blood-Eyed Russ, the Arias family lost their patriarch. Russ' two heirs, the second daughter Ilea, and the youngest son Blanco both claimed the right to inherit the family fief Green Field.

The respective supporters of both sides were arguing together, and no one could convince the other.

And long before the first emperor of the Red Lion Empire, Alessandro, raised his troops, the ancestors of the Arias family had sworn allegiance to the Figuerola family for generations, so the battle for heirs finally came to the Marquis of Cullen. Come.

The latter upheld the respect for the Arias family, and did not lightly rule, but proposed to determine the final candidate through elections. The Marquis of Cullen himself only acted as a notary to ensure the fairness and justice of this election.

As for the seven people who have voting rights, they are all elders in the Arias family, and they are either well-known in the family or powerful.

Those seven voters were also endorsed by two candidates.Because no matter who will become the master of the green field in the future, if they want to rule this land well, they cannot do without their help.

(End of this chapter)