Lord Highlander

   Chapter 1218 1205. Value

  Hathaway will go to the Foreign Affairs Bureau to work for half a day every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday morning.

  Basically, it is to sign some final decisions on foreign affairs. She has no right to make decisions, but she has the right to know, and some things must be known before she can implement them. This is part of her life.

   Except for these three days, the wife of the consul of Ruyt City will basically stay in the castle.

  She doesn't like listening to operas very much, and she doesn't like to attend the **** of nobles. Even the afternoon tea between ladies will only agree to invitations on Tuesday and Friday.

  She will leave it to Suldak on weekends. Although Suldak has been so busy recently that he will come home very late every day, Hathaway still insists on doing so.

As the weather gradually became hotter, Hathaway, Beatrice, and Sia all changed into cool dresses in the castle. Sometimes everyone was in the back garden, and there was not even any restraint inside the gauze skirt. .

The huge swimming pool in the back garden has basically become Xiya's territory. Looking at a thin line flying across the clear water, I know that Xiya is speeding in the pool. She can swim faster than Harrier Eagle. The skies are even faster.

  Every time I swim, my body will be covered with this layer of light blue scales. When the three-color fish tail sways in the water, it is more like a flame burning in the water...

  Hathaway would sometimes bring home documents that could not be signed.

   At this time, she would lie on the wicker chair by the pool, holding the document and pondering word by word.

   For some things that are unclear, she will ask the people around her. Beatrice and Siya don't understand these things. She will occasionally ask the housekeeper to learn some information from the side.

   Sometimes when encountering important matters that are difficult to decide, I will ask Suldak, and the opinions given by Suldak are often more pertinent.

  Of course, Hathaway's current life is not so perfect.

  She also has her troubles. She stretched out her hands to cover her flat and clean belly, and her blue eyes revealed a slight hint of melancholy.

  …

   No matter how busy City Hall is, Surdak doesn't stay outside on weekend nights.

  He needs to carve out some time with his family...

Suldak was sitting on the rattan chair in the back garden, still thinking about the design drawings one by one. Those were all sent by Baron Martino. Many places already matched his inner thoughts, but there were still some The details are not in place, either too complicated or not refined enough.

  He rubbed his forehead, facing Sia who had drawn a huge vortex in the swimming pool, and asked casually: "Sia, have Charlie and Luke's artisans arrived yet?"

Siya's body completed a beautiful diving leap in the pool, then dived into the water again, and then poked her head out from the edge of the pool at Suldak's feet, resting her arms on the stone platform of the pool, letting her shoulders Above the surface of the water, he vigorously shook the water stains on his head, and said:

   "The first batch of craftsmen arrived yesterday, but they are currently dismantling the fence over the slave market. I heard that the first batch of resettlement houses will be built there?"

  Suldak patted his forehead, took a big sip of the juice on the small wooden table, and said:

   "I almost forgot about it if you didn't mention it. Remember to remind me tomorrow morning to go to the slave pen to have a look..."

   "Understood, but I'm afraid it won't work tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning, you will go to the steel workshop to host the investment promotion conference." Sia said.

  Siya jumped from the swimming pool to the shore, and a maid put a bath towel on her body, and the beautiful streamlined fish tail slowly transformed into two white legs in the water stains.

  Surdak asked Sia: "Do the poor who moved out early have any complaints?"

"It's not bad, especially when I heard that the city hall promised to compensate them for a new house in the slave pen. Yesterday, many people went to the slave market to watch the demolition of the fence. I heard that the scene was very lively..." Xi Ya raised her hand and brushed her wet hair on top of her head. Pulled into a ball, the delicate and pure pretty face is covered with crystal drops of water, glowing with a faint golden light in the setting sun.

  At this time, the butler walked to Suldak's side and said in a low voice, "The Mali family sent invitations to the ball, and the ball will be held tomorrow night."

   "Reject it for me, just say... just find any reason, it's a little more natural!"

  Suldak waved impatiently and said.

  Suldak seldom participated in the noble ball in Ruyt City.

  He prefers to sit in the study and read a book, or practice chopping and parrying in the back garden.

Although these basic moves are already rank two strong for him, his practice of swinging a sword and slashing seems to be carved into his bones, just like brushing his teeth every day. If he doesn't brush his mouth every day, he will feel uncomfortable. …

  Occasionally, Beatrice would fight with Suldak in the back garden with a wooden sword.

  In terms of skills alone, Suldak, a knight born as a shield warrior, is not much better than Beatrice, who graduated from the Bena Advanced Swordsman Academy.

However, Suldak has recently learned the "white heat" of Commander Felix. As long as the sword light is shining with a blazing holy light, five sword lights will be slashed out when he swings the sword. He knows the angle of Suldak's shot And speed, the moves are also very clear in Beatrice's eyes, but every time she can't stop them.

  In an instant, the long sword in Beatrice's hand will be thrown away, which has been tried and tested repeatedly.

But for the two-headed ogre Gullitum, he is very disdainful of those fancy sword skills, thinking that these fancy sword skills will only lead a knight astray, and the battle on the battlefield will always only last for a few rounds. Between, so only the perfect suppression of strength is the way to win.

  Each failure in the competition would be the beginning of another battle for Beatrice.

  …

  While the city hall announced that the demolition work of the slum areas would be supervised by the residents committee, the demolition work of the slum areas in Ruyt City had actually started vigorously.

Almost all the impoverished families around the steel workshop received the evacuation notice from the residents committee, and their temporary residence was in the arena on the edge of the business district. Almost all the poor families who moved out from around the steel workshop had to live in In that humble room.

   There are more than one hundred rooms under the auditorium of the arena, which are enough for the poor to live temporarily.

Under the leadership of Lu Ke, the first construction team of Mucuso entered the city of Ruyt in late May. The first team of artisans did not enter the open space of the steel workshop, but directly came to the gradually prosperous slave market. .

  With the cooperation of the guard battalion in advance, the slave market in Ruyt City was closed down by the announcement issued by the House of Representatives, declaring that it was an illegal building and would be demolished within a time limit.

  The demolition team brought by Luke has long been waiting beside a team of knights in the guard camp.

After Chief Nathaniel's aloud, the transactions in the entire slave market were terminated. All slave owners and slaves were driven out of the slave market. Luke led a group of craftsmen to push all the fences around the slave market to the ground. .

  The surrounding citizens flocked even more, and everyone collectively looted the walls and wooden cages in the slave market.

  According to Suldak's request, a resettlement house will be built here as quickly as possible. For the Mukusuo No. 1 Construction Engineering Team, this job is not difficult.

  If it is a masonry structure, it may take more than half a year to build it.

However, Luke followed Baron Martino's suggestion that these resettlement houses adopt half-masonry and half-timbered structures, so the construction period will be reduced by two-thirds. Luke is confident that the first batch of poor people will be able to into their new home.

  …

  Charlie brought the second batch of craftsmen and came to Ruyt from Mucuso City two days later than Luke's construction team.

They came to the open space cleared by the steel workshop, and immediately built a wooden frame on the slightly flat land. Twenty carpenters from Wall Village also spent two weeks under the leadership of Baron Martineau. A model of a food court was built in a few days.

   Now sitting on the roadside of the Iron Works...

  The model of the entire food court is more than three meters long and is completely covered by a huge square magic protective cover.

It is said that the rune plate of this magic shield alone is worth fifteen magic spar. Only one magic spar fragment can maintain the mask effect.

  However, such a novel thing has attracted the attention of many citizens, and many people came to this empty field to see this huge wooden model.

  The purpose of Suldak's doing this is to attract the attention of the citizens.

The food court designed by Martino has many design elements of garden architecture. Those restaurants are almost next to each other. Almost all of these restaurants have huge floor-to-ceiling windows. These models even have some tables and chairs set up. , the pedestrian street of the square is paved with flat stone slabs, and there are some benches at intervals in the central area of ​​the street, and statues and fountains can be seen everywhere.

  Many citizens gathered around the sand table, and immediately became a little dizzy. Someone said in the crowd:

   "Is this what will be built here in the future?"

   "Probably, what are these shops, they look a bit like restaurants..."

"It must be a restaurant, look at the pictures of grilled meat and fried fish on the plaques, oh! This should be a cold drink shop. It would be great to have a red bean ice shop here, but someone really wants to open here Restaurant? This is a slum area, do those poor people who can't even eat enough to eat really have spare money to patronize these restaurants?"

   "Didn't you hear that the poor people around have moved to the slave market?"

   "I heard that this place will become another business district of Ruyt City, specially used to receive those business groups who come to Ruyt City from outside..."

   "Will so many business groups come to us in the future?"

   "Actually, there are many now, but most business groups will not stay in Ruyt City, because Mucuso City is tax-free..."

  Among the citizens, there were some businessmen mixed in, and everyone was talking about it, and immediately talked about the prospects of this restaurant plaza.

  This place is next to the city gate of Ruyt. With such a favorable location, even ordinary residents can see the commercial value and market potential here...

   There will be another chapter later

  (end of this chapter)