industrial lord

Chapter 198 Pen pals
Frederick's ship did not catch up with the large army in the lowland area, but turned a corner and came to the place where old Earl Wesson died in battle.

At that time, the location of this logistics camp was quite sophisticated. It was a small basin surrounded by mountains on three sides, and a large river flowed in front of the basin.

Four years have passed since that war, and now this is a sheep pasture. A group of sheep are gnawing on the last bit of hay. The shepherd took a look at the carriage and clothing of the visitor and determined that they were not here to steal the sheep, so he ignored it.

Not far from the creek stands a three-meter-high stone tablet. On the front is written in Gallic script "Passer, please tell the world that a warrior is here to set an example for loyalty with his life", and on the back is also written in Gallic script about the deeds of old Lord Wesson.

Frederick stood quietly in front of the stele, without saying a word for a long time.

He only brought Tony here today.

When Tony's father was seriously ill, he was sponsored by the old Earl Wesson. After his father recovered from his illness, he went to the city of Wessenburg to repay his kindness. Later, he joined the guard cavalry company and is now in charge of Frederick's bodyguard.

When Frederick was about to leave, Tony whispered, "Master, someone is here."

At this time, a carriage was parked on the road by the river, and a girl in a red silk skirt got off the carriage and walked slowly.

The girl was between 14 and 15 years old, tall, and Frederick felt like he had seen it somewhere before.

She walked up to Frederick and said happily in Gaul, "You really will come here."

Frederick thought for a while, then asked in Gaul in surprise, "Are you Françoise?"

A bright smile appeared on Françoise's pretty face, and she nodded excitedly.

Frederick did not expect to meet a pen pal from the Kingdom of Gaul here, and he wrote a letter to her before he left for the expedition, saying that he would write to her after he settled down.

He asked happily: "Why did you come here? How is your elder brother Armand doing?"

Françoise smiled and said: "Because of your help, I have a lot of money now, so I bought some land here. I guess you will come over, so I want to meet you and take a look at the land I bought. "

Frederick kept a smile on his face and sighed inwardly because of the message contained in her words.

The war four years ago was essentially the alliance of the Rhine and the Kingdom of Gaul over control of the lowlands, and the Kingdom of Gaul won, so now their nobles can come here to buy land.

If it was the Rhine Union that won four years ago, it would be the Fredericks who came to buy the land.

There is no war for no reason, and the root cause of all wars is the conflict of economic interests.

Françoise blushed slightly, and asked Frederick: "May I have the honor to invite you to my manor as a guest?"

Frederick nodded and agreed, and asked Tony to tell Psyche and the others that he would stay here for a few days and let them play in Amstel for a while.

Françoise laughed immediately, went to take Frederick's hand and walked to the carriage.

There are some mountains in the east of the lowland area, and some cultivated land around the mountains, and the other three sides are basically low flat lands and swamps, and there are very few places that can be cultivated.

Françoise is the general agent of Wessen paper products in the Gaul Kingdom. Frederick originally wanted to use her family to establish a sales channel, but this girl did it by herself.

Her method is very simple, she found a bunch of big nobles as regional agents, she only sells to them, and they don't care how they sell.

So Françoise has money now, but the money came a bit late, and she couldn't buy a good place. She only bought land on a slightly higher seaside more than 20 kilometers west of Amstel, surrounded by wetlands.

The manor owner's house is at the highest point. Standing on the terrace on the third floor, you can see the whole manor and the sea to the west.

Chestnut trees are planted around the manor as a border. Now is the season when chestnuts are ripe, and many people can be seen beating chestnuts.

Françoise said to Frederick with some pride: "Tomorrow I will prepare delicious food for you personally."

Frederick was flattered, and immediately said solemnly: "Then I will not eat anything from now on, looking forward to tomorrow's delicious meal."

Françoise was amused by his words, and after laughing, she said: "That's a pity, I also made today's dinner myself."

"Oh?" Frederick said immediately, "Then I'm looking forward to tonight's delicious meal."

In the afternoon, Françoise asked Frederick to help himself, and went to the kitchen to get busy.

Frederick was a little curious, so he followed to the kitchen and found that there were two kitchens here, one dedicated to Françoise and the other where the servants were busy.

In the special kitchen, he saw a purple lobster lying in a large basin.

Françoise just went to change into a cook's clothes, put on an apron, and tied up a scarf to wrap her golden waterfall-like hair.

She opened a wine barrel, poured high wine into a basin, and drunk the lobster to death.

She then expertly de-shells the lobster with professional-looking tools to remove the meat and marinate it in white wine, salt and pepper.

During this time she preheated the oven, chopped the onions, and heated the oil in a pan.

The marinated lobster was fried in the oil pan for a while, and she handled it skillfully and cautiously, not letting the oil splash out.

After the lobster meat is fried and taken out, she puts butter in another pan to heat, puts the diced onion in and sautés until fragrant, then puts the lobster meat in and stirs well.

Finally, Françoise took out the lobster meat and onions and put them in the grill pan, sprinkled with grated cheese and baked them in the oven until the surface was slightly burnt.

Frederick watched quietly from the side, and saw that she was attentive from beginning to end, the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, looking very happy, and her sapphire eyes seemed to be shining.

"Huh?" At this moment, Françoise noticed that the way Frederick looked at her was a little different from when they were chatting just now, "What's wrong?"

Frederick subconsciously said, "You are beautiful when you concentrate."

Françoise blushed slightly, pushed him out of the kitchen door, and told him to wait in the dining room.

Frederick followed the servants to the dining room and waited for dinner not long after.

When Françoise came to the restaurant, she changed into a plain blue home clothes. After the dinner started, she watched nervously as Frederick cut off a piece of lobster meat with melted cheese and slowly put it in his mouth.

After Frederick finished eating, she immediately asked, "How does it taste?"

Frederick smiled and nodded, "It's a delicacy I've never enjoyed before."

Françoise laughed immediately, her smile was particularly bright, and she could see that she was happy from the bottom of her heart.

(End of this chapter)