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Chapter 323 Recruiting staff
"Why did you boil the porridge again!"

After the woman screamed, there was a burst of scolding and the sound of someone being whipped with the sole of a shoe.

In the room on the second floor, Frederick stopped writing, moved his neck and waist, took a sip from the water glass, and looked out the window at the blue sky and sea and the purple flowers blooming on the beach.

In the beating of the pen tip, spring has arrived.

Frederick lived on the island to write books, so it was impossible to live with Françoise, so he rented a small building by the sea.

This small building is the property of a small noble family. The owner is a lawyer on the island, but he is not good at managing his life, so he rents out this small building to tourists with titles. The servant is Letizia at home. His wife and second son Buwanaba.

Buwanaba is nine years old. He was quite diligent and quick in doing housework at first, but after he and Frederick went shopping in the city and bought a math book and an exercise book, he started to mess up things constantly.

It was also at this time that Frederick smelled the smell of paste from the kitchen on the first floor, and he just shook his head slightly with a smile on his lips.

It was afternoon tea time, and the landlady, Mrs. Letizia, came over with refreshments. When Frederick walked downstairs, she had already set tea and refreshments in the gazebo in the garden.

When Frederick walked into the pavilion, a carriage stopped just in front of the door. Françoise got out of the carriage and walked towards the pavilion with a basket.

After a period of rest and treatment, Françoise's health improved, the color of her face returned, and she no longer had any problems in daily life and walking.

When Françoise came to the pavilion, she saw Bouwanaba standing by the table with his head lowered, Frederick was looking at an exercise book seriously, and Mrs. Letizia was a little uneasy beside her.

Frederick closed his homework, nodded with satisfaction and said, "That's right, everything is right, let's forget about it today."

Buwanaba breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, before being slapped on the back of the head by his mother.

Françoise wanted to come to the homework book, but she couldn't understand the straight lines, circles and triangles in it. I only knew that Frederick had praised several times that the child had a talent for mathematics, especially geometry, and he was very serious about his thinking. immeasurable.

She pretended to turn over two pages seriously, then turned her head and said to Buwanaba with a smile: "My brother is currently participating in the preparation of a new military academy. Would you like to study there?"

Before Buwanaba could reply, Mrs. Letizia immediately agreed with a smile on her face: "Yes, he is willing to go to Gaul!"

Mrs. Letizia was born in a small nobleman in the Principality of Liguria, Kingdom of Sardinia, so she is naturally familiar with such things as thigh hugging.

She already knew the identities of these two. Needless to say, the well-known Duke of Wesson, Miss Françoise's background is not simple. Her brother Armand is now the secretary of His Royal Highness Prince Henry of the Kingdom of Gaul.

It was rumored that His Majesty Louis, King of the Kingdom of Gaul, was old and began to form a team for His Highness Louis this year, and Armand was one of the prince's confidantes.

Now that Buwanaba is still young, it is estimated that ten years later when the king changes, it will be just the beginning of his career. It is natural to get twice the result with half the effort if he holds a golden thigh and makes contributions under the new king.

More importantly, Mrs. Letizia has many children.

Buwanaba is just an ordinary child, not a time traveler like Frederick. He behaves as ignorant as a normal child. After hesitating and hesitating, he asked a question in a bit of embarrassment: "The school there won't use it because of me." Are you laughing at me for writing with your left hand?"

He was left-handed, an outlier among children, and naturally became the object of ridicule by other children.

Bullying among children is commonplace these days, and the social atmosphere is for children to solve their own affairs. If they are bullied, they will beat them back. It is not said that bullying the young comes to the old.

Buwanabha has only one big brother to help, and he often loses and has a very unhappy life.

Françoise smiled and said: "No, there are only good students who laugh at those with bad grades."

When Buwanaba heard that no one would laugh at him, he immediately agreed and said confidently: "I guarantee that my grades will be the best!"

Frederick watched from the side with a smile on his face, without saying anything.

More than 200 years later, the decades of correspondence between Frederick and Françoise were compiled and published. In the last letter Frederick wrote to Françoise, he bluntly said that in this life The thing I regret the most is not cutting off my beard at this time.

After the mother and son left, Françoise went for a walk on the beach.

There is a kind of vine with purple flowers growing on the beach here where the tide cannot soak. People and horses will trip over if they walk by. Françoise held the skirt in one hand and supported Frederick in the other. this dangerous area.

The two walked on the beach for a while, and Françoise said, "I will settle on this island from now on."

"Ah?!" Frederick was taken aback, "Is something wrong at home?"

Dwarf Island is just the nickname of this island, originally called Aralia Island, which belongs to the colony of the Principality of Liguria, Kingdom of Sardinia.The island is mountainous and has limited arable land. The main products are olive oil, goat cheese, some flower perfume and salted fish. Occasionally, lucky fishermen can catch water magic crystals from the seabed, and the economic conditions are very poor.

Françoise’s family belongs to the king and can stand in the front row at the meeting. The sudden opening of a branch base in a foreign country is very sensitive. Either it smells something and the rabbit’s new cave, or the Kingdom of Gaul intends to get involved here. In short, it’s not little things.

Comprehensively, her elder brother Armand is a member of the next king's core group, and she began to win over the local minor nobles. I am afraid that the Kingdom of Gaul turned its attention to the south after suffering a big loss in Lisenberg in the west, and wanted to join the Kingdom of Sardinia. Arm wrestling at sea.

Frederick thought for a while, and his development direction for a long time in the future is the north. The inland sea is not the core interest. It is enough to guard the maritime advantages of Shiniang's Citrus Island and Haileding on the south coast.

It suddenly occurred to him that the Kingdom of Sardinia sold Citrus Island to his wife for a good price before. Does the royal family want a quick sum of money to deal with the Kingdom of Gaul's southward movement?

The military tradition of the Kingdom of Sardinia is different from that of other countries. The main force of the army is Sardinian mercenaries who are good at defense. Vassals do not need or are forbidden to keep large-scale troops, and fulfill their feudal obligations in the form of war taxes.

This makes the strength of the royal family proportional to the weight of their money bags, the more money the stronger the power.

Frederick thought about it for a while and then he didn't think about it. After returning from this trip, he focused on the things in the north, so he just kept paying attention here.

Françoise continued to say to him: "I am not in good health now. This disease is easy to relapse when it snows every day. I can only live in the south for a long time."

Frederick nodded and said, "I will advance to build a telegraph tower here."

Françoise blushed slightly, thinking in her heart that he spent a huge amount of money to build a telegraph tower here to get in touch with herself.

Frederick did not explain much.

Spring is getting stronger and summer is getting hotter.

Life on the island was very peaceful. Frederick wrote manuscripts every morning, accompanied visiting Françoise in the afternoon, and took a small boat to go fishing together from time to time.

While Frederick was working hard, the Danube had just thawed, and the first fleet in spring arrived in Weissenburg upstream.

The guests from the south landed on the strange land full of curiosity, and three of them were a little different in temperament.

(End of this chapter)