industrial lord

Chapter 640 Are You a Fairy?
Grand Duke Wesson and his fiancée went on a long vacation. Their motorcade stretched for nearly 4 kilometers, and traffic on the main streets they passed through when leaving the city was controlled for more than half an hour.

Before departure, Davranche looked at the convoy and sighed: "If I could go home with one-tenth of the cars, I would be satisfied."

Frederick was personally checking the convoy. When he saw him, he went over and asked curiously, "Prince d'Avranche, how did you get in?"

There were many businessmen accompanying him this time. They did not know Frederick's plan, but with the idea that they would make a fortune and establish good relationships by following Archduke Wessen, they paid for their own cars and went along.

Dafranche now knew that the young man who had eaten oysters with the captain on the ship was Frederick. He also heard that after he had boasted to a playwright from the Kingdom of Sardinia, the play written by the playwright based on himself was adapted by Frederick, and he felt that they were all acquaintances.

He asked seriously, "Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?"

Frederick said with interest: "Let's tell a lie first."

Davranche replied: "A friend of mine asked me to be his driver."

Frederick asked again: "What about the truth?"

Dafranche looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to him. He whispered, "I plan to sell my goods to Bohemia."

Frederick smiled and said, "The place we are going to is all mountains, far from the sea, and we have never seen seafood. Some people regard octopus as a sea monster, so it is not easy to sell it."

Dafranche said seriously: "That's why I can make a lot of money if I sell seafood there."

"This time I brought three truckloads of the best dried oysters, dried shrimps and dried squids, and persuaded the chef to display them at the banquet."

Frederick smiled, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Do a good job."

In this era when the old order is broken and the new order is gradually established, it is the golden age for people like Davranche who dare to think and act, are not bound by common sense, and are good at seizing and creating opportunities to shine.

The convoy arrived at Reinach, the capital of Putz State, about 100 kilometers east of Weissenburg, at noon.

This was formerly the capital of the League of Legnes, located on a once prosperous trade route that connected Venice to the south and the ports on the southern coast of the North Sea to the north.

Frederick and Maria took a short rest, and in the afternoon a grand banquet was held to entertain Putz state officials and local gentry, and an important speech was delivered.

The next day, the convoy continued on the road, driving eastward for more than 100 kilometers and arrived at Eisenstein, a border town in the Principality of Wessen.

The permanent population of Eisenstein is less than one thousand, half of whom are border guards and customs staff. The number of caravans traveling between the Duchy of Wessen and Bohemia is greater than the permanent population.

After arriving in the town, Frederick and Maria held an informal buffet to entertain local officials, gentry and merchants, and delivered unimportant speeches.

After a night's rest, the convoy set off again, crossed the border, and soon arrived at the iron ore town four kilometers away.

There used to be an iron mine in the Iron Mine Town, but after the mine was exhausted more than a hundred years ago, only the name remained, so even though it is adjacent to the Duchy of Wessen, there is no Wessen Army.

There are quartz mines and limestone near the town. Today, the main industry is the production of glass handicrafts, mainly animal ornaments such as birds and deer commonly seen in the woods. It is well-known in the Rhine Alliance and the Osmaga Empire.

The town's lord, Sir Arzbetin, was surprised and delighted to learn that Grand Duke Wessen was coming to travel and stay for a few days.

The population of the Iron Mine Town is only three or four hundred people, and its armed force consists of only a dozen forest hunters. Not to mention the malicious neighbors, even the monsters in the forest are enough to give them a headache.

If you serve this master well and get on his good side, the benefits will be limitless.

If you piss him off, your life will be over.

The convoy stopped in a meadow outside the town and quickly set up three huge and luxurious tents.

Almost all the people in the town came out and gathered outside the cordon to watch. Everyone had heard that Grand Duke Weissen invited the residents of the town to a dance party tonight.

Sir Arzbetin invited Frederick to visit the town, to the Chamber of Commerce that sold glass decorations, and introduced the only local specialty that was worth mentioning.

Maria did not join them; she was interested in the carved decorations on the walls of the wooden houses in the town, so she walked around the town on her own.

She walked to the backyard of a house and saw a girl wearing a gray cloth dress and with a dusty face busying herself under the pear tree in the yard.

The girl was sitting on a chair with a basin on her legs, picking peas out of the ashes in the plate.

Maria asked the girl curiously, "What are you doing?"

She had some knowledge of agriculture. She knew about Frederick's blood meal for mixing with seeds, and that when planting potatoes, one should smear wood ash on the cut surface, but she had never heard of doing this for peas.

The girl looked up and saw a lady standing outside the fence not far away. She was wearing a light blue silk dress, her skin was as white as snow, her long, smooth and soft hair was as black as charcoal, and her lips were as red as ripe cherries.

It was the first time she had seen such a graceful and beautiful person, and she couldn't help asking, "Are you the fairy from the Black Lake?"

Maria's dark eyes turned and she smiled and said, "I heard from the bird that there was a kind girl in trouble, so I came here."

The girl was surprised and said, "Are you really a fairy?!"

"My stepmother won't let me go to the dance tonight. She told me I must pick all the peas out of the ashes within an hour before she would let me go."

Maria knew what was going on and said to her, "Wait here at seven o'clock tonight."

She had studied soul magic under Psyche for many years, but she didn't use it normally, so it was a piece of cake to make the girl confused at this moment.

The girl was in a trance for a moment and found that there was no one outside the fence, as if no one had been there just now.

She herself wasn't sure whether someone had been here just now. She sighed and continued picking beans.

When Frederick returned to his tent in the camp, he saw Maria had just finished whispering with Taro.

The weather was quite hot this summer, and Frederick sweated a lot after walking outside.

Tarot took a towel from the shelf nearby, wet it with water, went over to wipe the sweat off Frederick's forehead and neck, and finally skillfully turned the towel over to wipe his face.

Frederick took the iced happy water handed to him by Maria and asked, "Did you have fun today?"

Maria smiled and said, "I'm going to do something good today!"

Frederick raised his eyebrows and asked, "What good news?"

Maria shook her head mysteriously and said, "I won't tell you."

Seeing this, Frederick stopped asking questions and drank half a bottle of happy water before saying, "Let's go to the Black Lake tomorrow to stay for two days. It's a few kilometers away, so let's walk there."

Maria said happily: "Okay!"

"I heard today that there are fairies in the lake!"

Frederick nodded thoughtfully.

(End of this chapter)