Chapter 678, Family Ethics Small Theater

Dinner is very simple, simple ham, steak, delicious fish, vegetable salad, buttered bread with ordinary cider, the attendant lit candles for the room, and the simple wooden table with a hole was full of For food, Ryan and Teresa sat on one side, and Aurora sat on the other. Ryan also noticed that Emma, ​​Teresa's official apprentice, stood behind Aurora like a maid.

No, it’s not like, but just like, the witch apprentices of the Garland Council all started as the tutor’s handymen and servants. The reality is not a fairy tale, it’s not that girls with magical talents receive an admission to Skydome You can enter the nine and three-quarters platform and enjoy your own college life with the notification letter, no.

After the apprentices entered the council, they all started as handymen and servants. Many apprentices grew from young to old, and they would be handymen and servants all their lives.

After eliminating a considerable number of apprentices, the remaining apprentices will have the opportunity to receive magic education and teaching. It is not an easy life at this time. They have to be assistants to the instructor while receiving education. This has been done before. Having said that, I won't repeat it here.

A large number of witch apprentices can only truly gain a certain degree of freedom if they are promoted to the elite ranks and become official witches. At the same time, they must start accepting apprentices and accept tasks from the parliament or other nobles, and earn living expenses and research funds for themselves. , Every wizard is a big money burner. Some people have calculated that if a wizard wants to be promoted to the legendary rank or even see if he has a chance to touch the threshold of the sanctuary rank, the gold krona he will consume is seven or eight thousand. More than 10,000, or even 40,000 to 50,000 is not surprising.

For example, why was Veronica able to enter the country so quickly within more than ten years after coming to Ryan?

Ryan was willing to spend a lot of money to help Veronica build the wizard tower, and all the needs were provided.

He put down his face and begged the High Elf Supreme Archmage to teach Veronica the magic, and at the same time managed to get a large number of magic books for her to study.

At the same time, he also continuously injects a large amount of his spiritual energy into Veronica's body in a special way to help her practice. With the help of Ryan's spiritual energy, it is difficult for Veronica to be affected by the wind of magic. Corrupted and negatively affected.

As for any special method, you know.

Therefore, raising a wizard is indeed a very money-burning behavior, very money-burning.

Similarly, the rewards brought by successfully training a wizard are also amazing. What a powerful wizard can do has been mentioned before, and I won't repeat it here.

In general, Ryan is a really powerful brat. When he was a baron, he could afford Veronica's huge expenses. Later, when he became an earl, he was able to support two wizards at once.

Watching Ryan and Teresa having dinner, Aurora's thoughts went back and forth. No matter how she had opinions in her heart, she dared not say that she was dissatisfied with Ryan, the son-in-law. In fact, if Teresa and Teresa were not concerned about The relationship between Ryan, the chief wizard of the imperial royal family, Geert, and the speaker, Margarita, have already done it.

"Mother, what's the matter, you only ate a little bit." Teresa took the buttered bread from Ryan's hand, and pushed the scooped soup to Ryan. The sorceress wanted to enjoy the warmth of a family of three Feeling sick, but found that Aurora ate a little and stopped eating.

"I don't have much appetite." Aurora reluctantly ate a few more mouthfuls. She squeezed out a smile and shook her head: "You guys eat."

Ryan saw Aurora frowning slightly. Before he could speak, Teresa immediately took the topic: "Mother, are you not used to the food here?"

Aurora didn't speak.

Ryan laughed secretly in his heart. Any lack of appetite is an excuse. The real reason is that Aurora has been pampered for decades and has become accustomed to a luxurious and refined life. This is a small village in the Principality of Bastogne. Even if the villagers have taken Dedicate the best food to their pedestrians, these foods are still not acceptable to Aurora.

What the Garland witches like most is the luxury of life. This is the same for everyone. The only difference is that Veronica had a difficult life in her early years, so she can accept both good and bad. After being educated by Ryan several times, Teresa When she has no choice, she is willing to endure for a while, but Aurora can't accept it. She has been here for decades. She wants the most exquisite food to eat and the best environment to live.

This is not a common problem among the witches of Garland. Each of the supreme mages and academy deans of the empire can have their own private kitchen and special food, depending on whether they need it. The lake goddess Morgiana Not to mention, spellcasters are always privileged.

Ryan deliberately didn't let Aurora bring her private kitchen with her on this trip, and the sanctuary witch's special food had already been eaten when she returned.

After the meal, the servants came in to clean and remove the table.

Outside, the snow fell heavily, and the ancient land and villages of the Principality of Bastogne ushered in heavy snow again. The white snow covered the distance as far as the eyes could see, and dyed the fields and forests of Bastogne. A piece of white land, in the dark night, except for the torches outside the house and the army patrolling with torches above the village, both the night sky and the forest in the distance are all black.

Ryan stood alone in front of the window, looking at the snowy scenery in the distance, his shadow was like a straight pine tree, Duke Mousilon said nothing, he seemed to be thinking about something.

Teresa stood up, she walked to Ryan and closed the window: "Ryan, it's so windy and snowy outside, why are you still standing in front of the window?"

"I'm thinking about something." Ryan shrugged.

"If you think about it, don't think about it at the window." Teresa pulled Ryan to sit in front of the fire in the middle of the big house, and the sorceress whispered: "It's just right, mother has something to tell you."

"What's the matter?" Ryan cast his gaze on Aurora.

"That's right." Aurora's long, slender black silk legs dangled in front of Ryan: "Ryan, many nobles and knights in your territory are unmarried, right?"

"Well, that's right." Ryan nodded.

"Then, can you help me? I also have many official witches and even unmarried congresswomen." Aurora said calmly, "We can... have a party? A single party?"

"Eh..." Ryan had a strange expression on his face after hearing this, and he shook his head repeatedly after hearing this: "Ms. Aurora, do you know Sally?"

"I know, what's the matter?" Aurora's mature and beautiful face was slightly surprised: "An official witch in the council, Sally Kohler, what's the matter?"

Ryan smiled and talked about the past. When he was still a knight-errant in Nord, one of his colleagues once pursued this official witch. The official witch saw that Ryan's colleague was a kingdom knight. Also promised to get along with each other first.

The communication on the first meeting was not bad, the two sides had a good talk, and both felt that they could get in touch further.

Then the nightmare of the knight of the kingdom began.

The witch had high expectations for her. She asked the two sides to exchange at least one book every day. Once, a knight of the kingdom went out to fight and had no time to write a book. As a result, he was disgraced. The witch asked the knight to use a bouquet of flowers to make amends.

Nord is warm for only three months every year, and the remaining nine months are cold and freezing. Where can I find flowers?

Seeing no flowers, the witch turned black all the time. In the end, the knight had to sneak into the magic-blessed flower garden in the palace and secretly picked a few roses at the risk of being executed. Only then was she satisfied.

Afterwards, a well-known imperial theater troupe came to Nord to perform, and the ticket cost ten gold crowns. The witch said that she wanted to see it. Liu Tian ignored him. On the day of the play, the knight himself rode a horse and led his followers to her residence and pleaded for nearly two hours before letting her go downstairs. By this time, the play was halfway through.

After watching the play, it was already very late, and it was snowing heavily, and the witch named Sally demanded that the knight behave like a knight and had to send her home, so the knight had to brave the heavy snow to send her home. The cloak was covered with snow.

The next day, Knight got sick as he wished, and was admitted to the Lady of Mercy Nursing Home.

"This is... a bit too much, right?" Aurora and Teresa frowned when they heard this, especially Teresa said directly: "Didn't she go to see your colleagues?"

"Yes, she went to see it." Ryan nodded with a smile: "She went to the Salia Sanatorium and sat in front of my colleague for two minutes, asking about my health, and I was there at the time."

As he spoke, Ryan's expression began to undergo more subtle changes: "Do you know? This Ms. Sally's expression when she visited, she was touched by herself. When she was expressing her condolences, the lines were full of happiness. I can see that she is very satisfied by constantly tossing my colleague."

"But my colleague is not an idiot. After this incident, he made an excuse that it might not be appropriate, and proposed to interrupt this relationship. Then my dear Ms. Sally became furious and publicized my colleague as a scumbag everywhere. scum."

Aurora:"…………"

Teresa: "..."

After a pause, Aurora held her forehead weakly: "No wonder Sally is almost forty years old and still alone."

"After going through that incident, I didn't have any affection for you Jialan witches at that time." Ryan nodded with a smile: "I thought at the time, I would never look for you witches."

"No." Aurora immediately captured the core of the whole problem: "Then why did you choose to become a partner with Veronica later? Are you contradicting yourself? What about your chivalry?"

Ryan smiled wryly and shook his head: "People can't escape the law of true fragrance, but please listen to me patiently."

"As a man, I have probably only two tendencies in choosing a spouse. The first is the tendency to consume, and the second is the tendency to help."

"Consumption tends to focus on biology. I don't need her to help me do anything. A girl with fair skin, beautiful long legs, stockings and high heels and glasses is my biological preference. In this case, I don't have much demand for women. Gao, as long as you are obedient and resolve my physical and psychological needs, I will give the other party care and accommodation, as well as care and a certain degree of tolerance."

Hearing what Ryan said, Aurora, who was wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, immediately turned red, while Teresa thought of her clothing preferences, and she also blushed and nodded to express her understanding: "So Vivian Ronika satisfies your propensity to consume?"

"The second is the tendency to help." Ryan ignored Teresa's question: "The tendency to help is also very simple. I need the other party to be able to help me in adventures, wars, and internal affairs. In this case, biological Learning is not so important, but what I want to emphasize is that in this case, I will neither be a tiǎn) dog nor provide customs and accommodation, let alone spend real money for no reason. They are all independent individuals, there is no clear division of labor, and both parties are equal."

"The Garland Witches can neither satisfy my consumption tendency, because witches like to be independent, have their own career and magic to study, but also cannot satisfy my helper tendency, because the Garland Witches like to be squandered and kneel down to accommodate them all the way." Coax, after all, they are noble spellcasters, not ordinary people."

"Only Veronica is different, she is... different." Ryan finally made a conclusion: "Besides her, Suria is also unique, a good match that can meet my two needs at the same time, So when Francois proposed an engagement, I immediately agreed without even thinking about it, but now it seems that Olika and Emilia have become like this, God knows what happened."

"Then... what about me?" Teresa asked unwillingly, "Am I that miserable?"

"That's nothing." Ryan looked at the flames splashing in the fire, and he shook his head with a smile: "When I knew that my partner was you, I refused at first, but I later found out that although you have a princess temper, you are generally It's barely okay, not to the point where we can't get along, but if we want to date, forget it, in fact, if you didn't come to my territory and take the initiative to find me, we would be ordinary friends for the rest of our lives."

"Your Excellency Ryan is really a big face. Do you know how determined Teresa is to come here to find you?" Aurora said angrily: "Do you really think you are so great?"

"How great am I? Ms. Aurora, you can go to the old world and ask anyone, how great am I?" Ryan sneered and looked at his mother-in-law: "Why, let you witches of Jialan be picky, not me Have your own conditions?"

"..." Aurora was speechless for a while.

"Mother!" Teresa always felt very embarrassed. Why is Aurora and Ryan always full of gunpowder?

"Ms. Aurora, I want to say that in the marriage and love market, men compete with men for women, and women compete with women for men." Ryan stood up: "It's not men competing with women."

"So did you agree to have a one-man party?" Aurora said impatiently, and she was a little confused after being told by Ryan.

"The Jialan witches have a bad reputation in my territory." Ryan shook his head: "I admit that a large part of the reason is that some men are constantly frustrated in trying to pursue these witches and witch apprentices, so they vent their anger everywhere, secretly There are rumors unfavorable to you, wishing to demonize you so that your reputation will be damaged, so that their hearts will be balanced. I will send someone to rectify this point, but again, many small nobles and old guards are congratulating you The dissatisfaction and complaints caused by the extremely poor experience in getting along with Witch Lan are also one of the reasons."

"I will strengthen management." Teresa said seriously.

"Very good, I understand long live, I will arrange it when the time is right." Ryan lowered his head and thought for a moment, then said: "By the way, Teresa, and Ms. Aurora, I have a request, you can help me Is it?"

"What request? If my mother and I can do it, we will definitely help you." Teresa also said seriously.

"You guys, can you help me set up my own newspaper department?"