The Sin of Ludwigs

"Send the letter to the Duke of Lane as quickly as possible, and bring back the Duke's reply."

"Yes, my lord."

Watching Earl Elvis give such orders to his squires, I suddenly felt relieved.

Judging from the time spent on a one-way trip of ten days, I can see the reply from New Jersey as soon as around Christmas, that is, around the birthday celebrations of the two earls. Watching this grand celebration——if that's the case, Earl Ian, who has been unwilling to treat me as a nobleman, will probably be pissed off enough. It's very pleasant to think about it!Even if the time dragged on a bit longer, it was only in January, and although it was not a pleasant thing to take a ship across the ocean in the cold winter, just think about being able to leave this damn colony and see the two. Detested Ian William Haggs, a month or two's voyage back to my bustling, wealthy, and civilized Ludwigsburg is not unbearable—as for the Grand Duke's treatment of me before I left Ban, alas, let the Viscountess think of a way!

I even found a reason for Earl Elvis' behavior yesterday - it was all due to Earl Ian who forced me to dress up as a woman!Everyone has curiosity. It is not incomprehensible for Earl Elvis to try something new once in a while, but he still knows the importance of big things. Well, it must be like this, otherwise he would not have written to Duke Lane. Detain me directly, but keeping me is not good for the Haggs family; besides, I am not a beautiful girl who is overwhelmed by the country. !

Even so, I still made up an idea in my heart.

"My lord, you must have your own affairs to deal with, so I won't bother you. If you allow me, I want to wander around the castle by myself."

When I was writing letters, I observed some unopened letters on Elvis’s desk, and one or two of them even had familiar seals, which were the badges of aristocratic families that are quite famous in London and Paris .I guess Earl Ian's personality would never bother with these miscellaneous matters, so Elvis should still have quite a lot to deal with.

"can."

Sure enough, Elvis granted my request, and he even assigned a guy named George—another George! ——'s male attendant led me to visit the Frigou Manor.

The main building of Frigo Manor alone is so huge that it is impossible to walk it all in one day.Like all aristocratic mansions, except that the halls, flower halls, restaurants, etc. on the central line are shared, the owners who live in the left and right wings—whether they are brothers or husband and wife—are completely able to live in the same building. Not seeing each other, like my parents seeing each other more at dances at other people's houses than at their own.In this regard, all the nobles have a tacit understanding. In this comparison, Earl Ian, who has to run from his room to the other side of the manor to scare me after breakfast, is simply an anomaly.

George took me to visit the floor where my living room is located, and showed me several collection rooms full of various precious porcelain, gold and silver objects, famous prints and carvings, which I also learned from him. Well, it turns out that the suite Elvis lives in is directly below my floor, and there's even a shared internal staircase between us.

"Who lived in the living room I live in?" I suddenly thought of this question, and thought of all the overly luxurious decorations, so I couldn't help asking.

I can't blame me for being curious, after all, based on my limited knowledge, that living room is definitely not for entertaining ordinary guests.Among other things, the white ivory dressing table in the dressing room has thousands of ivory carvings of various shapes carved on it, and there are even multi-layered ivory balls that are ingenious and can rotate freely. It would take several families of Chinese craftsmen to spend a lifetime carving it, not to mention the exorbitant cost of transporting it from the far east to North America unscathed.In Ludwigsburg, I have only seen one similar dressing table a third of its size, and the owner of that dresser could have eclipsed all the diamond necklaces of other noble ladies with it alone.

"I regret to inform you, sir, that I do not know the answer to your question as I have not been with Your Excellency for a short time." George passed the subject lightly and deftly, just as we passed a In the corridor full of portraits, he pointed to the portrait in a large square gold-plated picture frame on the wall and said to me: "Look, this is the portrait of Lord Earl William of the previous generation. In fact, the two lords are very similar to Lord William. Similar, and very similar to the earls of the past."

I glanced at the majestic full-body portrait in Chinese clothes with a lack of interest, and then recalled the portraits of the other Earls of Haggis that I just saw—although they were of different ages, they were all the same Blonde hair and blue eyes, the difference is only in the delicacy of the facial features - a few perfunctory words: "Well, they are all very noble people, it seems that the power of noble blood is indeed extremely powerful."

After walking a few steps, I suddenly felt that something was not right, and I couldn't help but stare back at the portrait of Earl William for a while, and now I saw the problem, and I almost blurted out: "Is he particularly short?"

In the background of the full-length portrait can be vaguely seen a Chinese long-necked porcelain vase almost as tall as Earl William, and I clearly remember seeing the one only half a head shorter than me in my small drawing room in the morning Large vases adorned with ribbons, it is very difficult not to impress with a huge and very beautiful piece of precious porcelain.What's more embarrassing is that although the artist has made a clever cover-up, you can still see that Earl William in the portrait is actually standing on a step—and he is also stepping on red high heels like the famous portrait of the Sun King. !

"Huh? Uh, cough cough cough..."

George didn't expect me to say it so directly, and he coughed like he was choking.

"Cough cough...uh, actually, Sir Earl William once fell ill when he was a child, thanks to God's blessing, cough cough..."

If I could go back in time, I wish I could slap that unrestrained self to death—it’s really rude!If Mr. Shire heard about it, he might punish me for copying the family tree a hundred times!

With this embarrassing episode, both I and George were very uncomfortable during the following visits. When I excused that I was tired and wanted to go back to the living room to rest, the expression on the young man's face was simply forgiven by the Lord.

"You must be tired today, please rest well."

After George left, I rang the bell and called for the maid.

"Do you know who the original occupant of this apartment was?" I asked.

When George took me to visit the various rooms inside the building, I didn't notice it at first, until I saw the portrait of Earl William, and suddenly discovered that next to the portraits of the Earls of Haggs, there are often corresponding historical figures. There is nothing next to the portrait of the countess except the previous Earl William; Short stature due to illness, but I don't know who the original owner of this living room is?And when the Earl asked Miss Judy to arrange a room for me, Miss Judy behaved very strangely, as if she didn't expect that Elvis would let me live here!

Generally speaking, there should be a portrait of the owner in the living room or dressing room, but the egg-shaped frame in this living room is actually a landscape painting, leaving no trace of the previous owner at all. .Is this, then, the room in which the Countess William, who left no portrait, lived?If so, it would explain the extravagance of the arrangement, but the lady must have an untold story, and then I would have to carefully reassess Elvis' attitude towards me.

As I expected, after I asked this question, the maid's face suddenly changed.

"This, this, I only entered the castle last year, and I am usually only responsible for cleaning. I really don't know your question, sir."

I sighed.

"Well, I'm just curious, and it doesn't matter if I don't know the answer. Now, please find me a barber."

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A short chapter, run away after the update

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