Chapter 620, Investigate the Mansion

When Ryan and Suria came to the commercial street in the wealthy district of Nur on their pure-blood elf horses, it happened to be about an hour before the start of the "afternoon tea" every day.

The entire wealthy district has already begun to get busy. Almost every aristocratic mansion is filled with gorgeously decorated carriages, decorated with flowers, portraits, and high-quality silk. They shuttle back and forth on the streets, and every carriage It contained a well-dressed noble lady or noble lady. Most of them wore fox fur coats or waistcoats, and low-cut dresses made of silk. In its plumed, round-topped, wide-brimmed hat, in silk stockings and high-heeled shoes, the spectacle of the Yingying Yanyan would have been delightful indeed, had it not been for the multitude of guards and servants following the carriage.

In this point alone, Nuer is different from Brunswick. Brunswick is relatively crowded, even if it is a rich area, it is also very crowded. If noble ladies and noble ladies do this, it will easily hinder traffic. It attracted the attention of the capital's army and the emperor, and for the military nobles of the empire, they were quite annoyed by it. Naturally, the noble ladies and noble ladies did not dare to engage in such a big battle, and there were very few large-scale gatherings.

Nur is different. First, the ruler of Nur was the regent Schroeder family before, and the ruler afterwards was Emmanuel, the Countess of the Empire. They are not very strict about this aspect. Manoli, aka Emilia, was a woman herself, not much involved, but understanding.

Second, the streets of Nuer are much wider than those of Brunswick, and they are very orderly, so it is difficult to get blocked.

Therefore, the female nobles in the entire city have obtained a certain degree of autonomy, and the female nobles hold various activities all day long to pass the boring time.

In Nuer, the entertainment life of female aristocrats is still very rich, various art gatherings and activities of Nuer University, reading clubs, dinner parties, horseback riding picnics, watching various competitions in the city, shopping, and working hard. Seoul's most important noble traditional afternoon tea party.

A large number of female nobles headed directly to Nuer University in carriages. It seemed that there was some reading club today, where they could listen to lectures, socialize, and finish afternoon tea by the way.

This is a circle that countless women want to enter. Whenever women in the old world talk about the exquisite life of Nuer female nobles, they are always fascinated, and it always takes a long time to wake up from their dreams. .

Because of this, Ryan never blamed the waitress at the Magritte State Hotel. Dreams are always there. What if they come true?

From this point of view, Duchess Suria, who is riding a pure-blood elf horse, looks quite different.

This point, Suria also felt that the female knight was wearing a satin texture mocha warm forged flower shirt today, a retro cherry wine red late autumn coat, a white lace striped skirt, and a pair of slender and straight legs. Wearing black opaque thick pantyhose, and a pair of black high-heeled boots on the soles of the feet, the skirt flutters slightly with the movement of the pure-blood elf horse.

Even if Suria is not wearing a noble dress, no one will doubt that this beautiful female knight is a real female nobleman, because her temperament is so outstanding, no one can be like Suria, With such a perfect combination of femininity, nobility, intelligence and motherhood, her appearance has even attracted the attention of some male nobles in wealthy areas, but the Holy Grail Knight next to her is obviously her husband , for the time being, I dare not take the initiative to strike up a conversation.

Suria's fair and charming face was rosy. She rode a pure-blood elf horse and said to her husband, "Think about it carefully, Ryan, we really don't have many opportunities to go out alone like this. The interesting one was the mill and windmill in Korona, but unfortunately we were not alone for long, and Matthew Budd and Fiona interrupted us... Now we even have Devonhill..."

"how,

Madame also wants to have an afternoon tea party? " Ryan's answer is meaningful.

"Lian, you know that's not what I want." Su Liya pulled the rein and signaled Richter to walk slowly, and she said reproachfully, "You did it on purpose!"

"Hehehe~" Ryan looked at the other side of the neat and clean stone-paved street, and sighed slightly: "I have too many things... I also have too many women, and I didn't spend enough time with you. This, yes My fault."

"This is a common problem of good men, Ryan." Suria shook her head: "Father is also like this. When he is busy, he seldom spends time with his mother...but this is the hero in my heart."

After finishing speaking, Su Liya seemed to have thought of something, and she continued to say: "Okay, let's not talk about this, Ryan, how do you arrange the next time?"

"Let's go to the Von Lacker family's mansion first to see if there are any clues." Ryan nodded, and he continued: "Then you make arrangements, and by the way, we can talk about what to do next."

"Let's go to the Lak family's mansion now?" Surya thought for a while, and the female knight quickly agreed with her husband, and she continued: "Then we can go to the famous cafe in Nur, I also heard that there are activities in Nuer University at night? How about having dinner outside?"

"Of course, honey, it's all up to you." Ryan nodded with a smile.

Without further ado, the two of them rode pure-blood elf horses and walked directly towards the mansion of the Von Lak family.

The mansion of this family is located on the edge of the rich Nur area. It is said to be a mansion, but it is actually just a three-storey house with a basement and a small garden. There are only five rooms in the house, and the building structure is very narrow. The plane area of ​​the first floor is only seventy or eighty square meters.

But such a small house is estimated to be worth five thousand gold marks. If an ordinary peasant in the empire earns fifteen gold marks a year, he would have to eat or drink for more than three hundred years to save enough money to buy a house.

Ryan always has an illusion that it seems to be the same everywhere?

After the tragedy of Baron Werner, this mansion fell into a serious dispute. The two descendants of the Von Lacker family fought for the right of succession. Now they have appealed to the Nuer court and the city council. , everyone is waiting for Emilia to make a decision.

Because of this, the door of the Little House is currently locked, no one is patronizing, and the tall, dark black painted tickets say "6 Reuben Street" and "Von Lacker".

Turned off the horse, Nuer was still very cold in February, Ryan went to his wife and hugged her off the horse, and then knocked on the door: "Is there anyone?"

"Boom boom boom~"

"Is anyone there?" Ryan knocked on the door, but no one answered for a long time.

Surya stretched her hand to the Leonase sword on her waist, and she nodded towards Ryan.

Ryan asked again: "Is anyone there?"

After waiting for a minute, Ryan gave up. He took out the door key he got from Emilia and opened the door: "Excuse me!"

The small courtyard was only 30 to 40 square meters, and some simple flowers and plants were planted in it. Ryan and Suria led the pure blood elf horses into the courtyard, and the high walls immediately blocked their sight.

A lot of snow has fallen in the courtyard, and it is obvious that it has not been cleaned for a long time.

The husband and wife stepped into the courtyard, and Suria let go of her warhorse Richter. The pure-blooded elf horse was obviously very dissatisfied with the small size of the courtyard. It snorted and shook its head. Use body language to express displeasure towards your master.

The same is true for Ryan's mount Grape. It also raised its hoof towards Ryan and pointed at the wall, signaling that you push this wall for me, otherwise it will be difficult to take a walk.

Ryan had to use elf language and spiritual power to communicate with Putao, and signaled to Master Putao to be safe and calm, and I wronged you and your wife to stay here for a while, let's go in and have a look.

That's right, Ryan's war horse Putao and Suria's war horse Richter have already given birth to several pure-blood elf foals.

After being handed the feed composed of carrots, soybeans, black beans, peas, honey and corn, the two pure-blooded elf warhorses fell silent. Grape snorted again and raised its hoof, signaling you to go and come back quickly, we Wait here.

"According to your calculation, this courtyard costs a thousand gold marks, which is enough to buy a pure-blood elf warhorse in Britannia." Suria stood on the steps, and she obviously thought of a lot: " I think the land price in this city is enough to buy half of Brittania."

"Oh, so why is the export of pure-blood elf horses prohibited?" Ryan let go of the rein, walked up the steps, took his wife's little hand, and said gently: "I think you know very well that the land price is false, and the real price is real. , if it is really released, the Nuer people will be able to buy out all the pure-blood elf horses in Brittania tomorrow, and then all we will get are a few useless pieces of land."

With Surya's intelligence, she has been deeply aware of the impact behind Nurgao's land price.

The blow to Britannia's estate economy and tax in kind would be devastating.

"But why is Nur's land price so expensive?" The female knight was still puzzled by the high price of Nur's land.

"It's hard to understand." Ryan smiled: "The development of industry and commerce has formed an agglomeration effect and a central effect, and land prices have naturally risen accordingly. Nuer's chamber of commerce and those steel guilds have already reached various conditions with the local nobles. Hoarding, as time goes by, land prices will naturally continue to rise. Whether it is Brunswick or Nuer, they are not only important cities that radiate the entire empire, but also accept resources from the entire empire. Don’t forget, these two cities are the only cities in the empire There are military factories."

"In addition, safety is also a very important reason. Nuer's army and city defense are too strong. Living here can make people feel safe, which is very important to the empire."

"Well, the citizens and nobles are also contradictory about this. For the landed citizens and nobles, the increase in land prices is something that benefits them, and these people occupy most of the real estate in the city of Nur, so Even if there are some opposing voices from outside, there is nothing you can do about it. As for your little maid, she is the largest landowner in Nur, so naturally she will not object. They like land prices to rise or at least not to fall, and they will even Use your own power to prevent land prices from falling." Su Liya immediately figured it out, and the female knight shook her head helplessly: "I always feel that you think the same in Mu Xilong."

"You are so smart, my wife." Ryan held his wife's little hand and said with a smile: "At that time, I will be the biggest landlord of Musillon, and you will be the wife of the landlord, and Devonhill will be the little landlord."

"Who is going to give you the title of mistress? What an ugly title!" Su Liya blushed, she suddenly lowered her head and muttered to herself: "I used to think that I would be a countess or duchess in the future, but I didn't expect... "

"Isn't that good?" Ryan put Suria's little hand on top of his big hand with a smile, and said seriously: "You deserve the best in the world, my wife."

"Lian..." In the cold weather of February, Surya looked at her husband affectionately, her face flushed with red.

Until the grape snorted.

Uncle Putao neighed, raised his hoof and pointed, signaling for you to go in. Why are you standing at the door? We are waiting for you!

Both Ryan and his wife were a little embarrassed. Duke Mousilon quickly stretched out his hand and pressed on the door of the mansion. As the blue spiritual energy penetrated the crack of the door, there was a sound of a spring behind the door, and the door opened.

There was a gust of hot wind oncoming, and Ryan and Suria's expressions immediately changed. Ryan held Thor's Hammer with one hand, and Suria's Lioness sword immediately unsheathed. The bed was burning, and the two stepped into the mansion cautiously, without taking off their shoes, they just stepped in.

As mentioned above, this mansion is very narrow. There are only dining room and kitchen on the first floor. The floor is covered with good carpets. Compared with Brunswick's antique style, the decoration style has added a lot of Noor's steel and gunpowder. elements, including some cannon sculptures and a golden griffin coat of arms.

"There are signs of a fire in the kitchen, but it didn't happen recently." Ryan checked the kitchen, and since the window was open, a thin layer of ash had accumulated in the kitchen: "Strange, normally, even Baron Werner He and a group of his men died in Brunswick, but Nuer's mansion is not unmaintained? If no one lives in this kind of mansion, it will age quickly."

"Is it because of the temporary cold treatment caused by the fight for the right of inheritance?" Suria moved a pair of long black silk legs to inspect the dining room, and the female knight carefully observed the silver tableware and some red wine locked in the cabinet: "This place should No outsider has ever come in, these are good red wines, if I were a thief, I would not let these go."

"What if they don't know the goods?" Ryan carefully inspected the interior of the restaurant and heard Suria's opinion, he said with a casual smile: "Not every thief knows wine like my wife."

"But they have no reason not to take away the silver tableware." Su Liya picked up a small silver spoon and shook it in front of Ryan's eyes: "This thing is easy to get rid of, collect it everywhere, put it in the furnace and recast it After a while, no one will recognize the original owner."

"Hahaha, obviously, I was persuaded by my wife." Ryan immediately said playfully: "Okay, let's go to the second floor to have a look."

The husband and wife had nothing to gain on the first floor, so they decided to go upstairs to have a look.

When they walked carefully to the door on the second floor and saw the scene in front of them, Ryan and Suria frowned.

An elderly man in a housekeeper's tuxedo had died at the door of the living room on the second floor, with a purple dagger stuck in his back.

"It seems that we are late." Su Liya immediately squatted down to check the body of the deceased: "He has been dead for a few days, but the weather is cold and the flesh and blood are frozen, so no one found it."

Ryan also squatted down. He checked carefully and soon found something wrong: "Look, Suria, he's holding a square scarf in his hand."

"Let me see." Pulling the kerchief out of the hands of the dead old housekeeper, Ryan gently opened the kerchief.

The scarf has a special pattern printed on it, with a green siren siren in the middle surrounded by her forked tails, and there are some coffee stains on the scarf.

"This is... the pattern of the banshee siren?" Surya looked at the pattern and fell into deep thought.

"Wait, what is this pattern?!"