Working Prophet.

Chapter 99 Congrats and Guests

After getting Ilea's approval, Fausto temporarily put aside other matters and devoted himself to the preparations for the banquet.

Having served the Arias family for more than 160 years, the former head of Teacup Castle is already well-versed in handling such matters, plus most of the work has already been done before.

The date for the banquet was quickly set, and then people were sent to send invitation letters to the major families in the western region.

Although the Arias family is not considered powerful in the western region, their fief looks quite large, but one-third of it is swamp, and there is a group of very troublesome robbers living in that swamp. From time to time, it will pop up to loot.

At the same time, the land in other places is not very fertile, and what the whole family can afford is actually carrots, which are the most common food for commoners. Therefore, many nobles secretly ridicule them as bumpkins.

But no matter how you say it, they are still a force in the Western Territory after all.

And because the Arias family has always been a staunch follower of the Figuerola family, when Philip Snowpaw traveled thousands of miles to help Alexander I, the ancestors of the Arias family were also in the army.

The relationship between the two parties has made the Marquis of Cullen still look at the Arias family differently until now. This kind of treatment will never be enjoyed by the descendants of the western nobles who surrendered to Philip, no matter what they have shown in the past 900 years No matter how well-behaved.

Therefore, even if it was to save face for the Marquis of Cullen, no family in the western region would openly reject the banquet invitation of the new head of the Arias family.

Even if the head of the family does not come in person, he will usually send his immediate family members to go instead, and they will all bring congratulatory gifts.

After seeing those congratulatory gifts, Ilea felt that the depression she had contracted due to Jude and the lizardman during this period of time seemed to have improved a lot.

At the same time, she couldn't help regretting, well, if she knew that the banquet could make money, she should have held it earlier, preferably three or five times a year.

In fact, some lords have done this in order to make money, but mainly by constantly marrying wives and organizing weddings to squeeze out the wool of their vassals. After all, other families are not fools. If they do it once or twice, they will just give away something. Valuable things have been fooled.

But even if it is a vassal, if it is too much, it will turn people back.

So this idea just turned around in Ilea's head, and then she put it aside, and then Ilea saw the congratulatory gift from Li Yu again.

On the gift list, it was written crookedly that one bag of Wangzai snow cake + senbei, four packets of New Orleans barbecue sauce, two bottles of Laoganma, and two bottles of Great Wall wine.

She knew each word, but apart from the last wine, she couldn't tell what it was all connected together.

The girl wanted to ask Li Yu, but the latter just arrived last night, so he ran to the group of lizard people non-stop, saying that she had an appointment to continue preaching to the lizard people today.

Ilea could only temporarily put the pile of weird things aside.

She has a lot of things to do today, although Fausto and Yago are in charge of welcoming guests, but if you meet someone sent by a family close to the Arias family or some real big shots, Miss Rabbit will go out in person .

For example, the young man standing in front of her at the moment.

This is Baron Ferdinand from the Bathory family. Like Ilea, his parents passed away very early, but Ferdinand has no other brothers and sisters, so he became the Bathory family smoothly. the owner of the house.

His ears are small, almost covered by short black hair, his eyes are not big, the distance between them is slightly wide, there is light fluff under his nose, and he always likes to keep his mouth shut, which makes him look a little serious , but sometimes it also makes people feel that he is deliberately putting on airs.

However, Ilea knew that this was not intentional by the young baron. In fact, he had already looked like this when the two met for the first time more than ten years ago.

At that time, Ferdinand came to Teacup Castle with his father as a guest, and he had a similar expression from beginning to end, um, just like his father carved out of the same mold.

It wasn't until Ilea secretly added a few drops of fish gall into his drinking glass that she finally confirmed that this guy had other expressions.

However, the two have not seen each other since then.

When we meet again now, Miss Rabbit can't help but feel a touch of kindness.

900 years ago, the ancestors of the Arias family once did a great favor to the ancestors of the Bathory family. Since then, the two families have been friends for generations, and they have always advanced together and retreated together. They are considered hardcore allies.

On the other side, the young baron was also looking at Ilea, and after a while he said, "Very well, you are still the same as when you were a child."

Miss Rabbit wanted to say that you are ashamed to tell me that you yourself have not changed at all, but then Ferdinand continued, "You are still as childish as when you were a child."

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"Can the matter of asking for help be used for fun? After receiving your distress letter, I immediately summoned my vassals and troops to set off on the road. As a result, halfway through, someone from my family caught up with me and said I received your second letter, which said that you are fine." The young baron said with a straight face.

Well, it turned out that this was the matter, the girl was really at a loss, so she chose to endure it.

However, it’s fine for Ferdinand not to speak, as long as he talks, he can’t stop talking, “It’s fine to put fish gall in my cup, but don’t write the distress letter indiscriminately, or you will be in trouble when something happens in the future.” .”

"Hehe, you still can't forget what happened when you were a child." Ilea sneered upon hearing this.

Ferdinand shook his head, didn't say anything, and walked into the castle by himself.

He was striding forward, and the gust of wind caused the cloak on his body to be blown up, and a big otter pattern was embroidered on the most conspicuous position.

That is the family coat of arms of the Bathory family.

Not long after sending off Ferdinand, Miss Rabbit met another big shot, this time a real big shot, the representative of the Emmanuel family, the second largest family in the western region after the Figuerola family.

The visitor was Angela, the youngest daughter of the current head of the Emanuel family.

Emmanuel is a noble family born and raised in the Western Territory. As early as when the Enriquez family was still ruling the Western Territory, they were already a great nobleman in the Western Territory.

Not long after the war started, they voluntarily joined the Red Lion Empire, so after the war, their investment was rewarded, and they basically kept their territory and almost all the business on the territory.

Over the years, the Emmanuel family's business has grown bigger and bigger, making them the richest family in the western region, holding two towns in their hands, and the smaller Black Rock City is next door to Miss Rabbit.

Thinking that everyone would continue to do business in the future, Ilea was also very enthusiastic. When she saw Angela's carriage from a distance, she went up to meet her. However, after the latter got out of the carriage, she deliberately ignored Miss Rabbit in front of her.

Covering his mouth and nose with one hand, he asked the two maids beside him, "Where is the strange smell coming from, have you heard it?"

(End of this chapter)