Chapter 277, Annual Leave in the Winery (Part 1)

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Time went to the first ten days of December, and the Winter Veil Festival arrived.

Ryan once thought that the people around him would be more tidy at this year's Winter Veil Festival, and that after becoming the Earl this year, he would be able to enjoy a reunion dinner.

But the fact is that Ryan thought too much. It was only early December, and not only Suria returned to Helen Hilde early, but Teresa and Veronica were also ordered to return to the Garland Council.

The situation this time is really not the internal struggle of the Garland Council or anything else, but that Veronica and Teresa do have an important reason to return to the Garland Council. Every five years, the Garland Council will be held. A super-large gathering event, re-election and nomination of candidates for the Presbyterian Church, Teresa had already agreed with Veronica. Due to Ryan's rapid rise, Margarita, Speaker of the Garland Council, added Veronica to the The matter of the Presbyterian Church was on the agenda, and both Veronica and Teresa had to go back to attend the witch gathering, which was expected to take three months.

Before the sorceress left, Morgiana left her a mountain of "Winter Veil homework", including three compositions no less than twelve inches long, and a complete high Gothic self with hundreds of words. Introduction, and the reading of three epics of the Knights of the Grail of Bretania written in High Gothic, each with a commentary in High Gothic of no less than two chapters on parchment.

Teresa looked at the mountain of parchment and thick books wider than her thumb, her face turned blue, but Morgiana's order was absolute, and she could only leave with piles of homework.

Before the Winter Veil Festival, Ryan held an annual meeting, affirming the gains and achievements of the year, and rewarding the knights who made contributions. After the meeting, the earl found himself alone. His knights Most of them already have families, and even the few who do not have families stay at home to pray, or spend holidays with their own.

Ryan himself does not have much sense of identity with the Winter Veil Festival, so his attitude towards the Winter Veil Festival is simply a holiday, a day to take the opportunity to rest.

In mid-December, the first day of the Winter Veil holiday, the weather today is extremely cold. The howling wind blows through the Earl of Glamorgan, and the sky is gloomy. In a good time, they put up lights and festoons, and tried their best to celebrate the arrival of Winter Veil.

The winery near the Earl's Castle is also very lively. Durand, the person in charge of the winery, is paying the wages to the wine workers, except that a small number of people are left to take care of the vine maintenance in winter. Most workers get enough vacation time.

As the person in charge of Earl's Winery, Durand is already a middle-aged man in his thirties. He is wearing a round hat, a black gentleman's dress and a brown bearskin coat.

Although he is not very old in his thirties, the corners of his eyes have already suffered a lot. He was born in a down-and-out knight family, and the family was unable to buy knight equipment for him. As a butler in the winery, he is responsible for the operation of the winery.

Later, Baron Ryan Macado came, so the Marquis of Ascot handed over the ownership of Durand to Ryan without hesitation.

Durand, who is over 30 years old, has truly experienced the feeling of being displaced. Ryan is the champion of the ladies. For his arrival, Durand is both looking forward to and fearful.

Fortunately, Ryan still attaches great importance to this wine castle. Although he himself seldom comes to live here because of his busy affairs, he has always attached great importance to the repair of the wine castle and the construction of the winery. The high wall was repaired in just over a year, the vineyards in the winery were expanded, processed and bred and cultivated, and the professional wine masters from the Weinford court brought the best varieties of grapes and cuttings without asking for anything in return. Technology, Durand finally got a chance to show his skills.

It was only later that Durand found out that the Winford court was not free at all, they were just paving the way for their young lady.

But now, Durand is still in a state of morbid excitement, and he knows why.

Two shining figures in full-body plate armor walked towards them. They wore cross helmets and gorgeous smocks. The family coat of arms on their bodies explained their family history and glory. The air exudes moving brilliance, the top of the helmet, the family crest, and the pattern on the plate armor, the golden Holy Grail pattern shows their identity.

They are the glorious Grail Knights.

Yes, since the spring of this year, 20 Holy Grail Knights have been stationed in the winery, which makes the residents of the entire county feel very honored. Many Holy Grail pilgrims have come to the winery and the fairy tower in the lake for pilgrimage. , forming a unique tourism economy.

After a long time of contact, Durand realized that the Holy Grail Knights are not so unattainable. Their lives are relatively monotonous. They often only do a few things throughout the day, such as eating, sleeping, praying, and patrolling. The Holy Grail Knights Their life has never been the life of ascetic monks that people imagined. They eat good wine and meat, and occasionally find some young women to meet their needs, including some Holy Grail Knights and Goddess of Mercy stationed at the hospital. The priest and the goddess of the lake have a relatively fixed partnership, but they are less married. The fairy of the lake does not prohibit the holy grail knights from marrying, but all the holy grail knights take the mission of the goddess and guarding the holy land of the goddess as their priority.

"Mr. Durand, good morning." A Holy Grail knight naturally raised his hand to greet Durand: "In the name of the lady, Happy Winter Veil."

"Happy Winter Veil! Your Excellency Alex, Your Excellency Jules." Durand recognized the two Holy Grail Knights, and he quickly bowed to greet the Holy Grail Knights: "Praise lady."

"Mr. Durand, why are you still doing things during the holidays?" Winter Veil Festival is also a statutory holiday stipulated by the fairies in the lake. Today is not used for prayer. The two holy grail knights came back after patrolling the winery in the morning. When they saw Durand here Come and ask.

Ever since the Holy Grail Knights appeared at the winery, Durand no longer had to think about safety issues. More importantly, the appearance of the Holy Grail Knights had a very powerful deterrent effect on local security. These living saints sometimes went to Observe the trials organized by village elders or knights. The Holy Grail Knights will not allow the law to be used arbitrarily. Even the lowest-level serfs will be listened to if they ask for help. The living saints will not easily draw conclusions, but will investigate and understand the incident themselves If the serfs dared to try to deceive them, they would be punished with terrible punishment. Generally, they would be hanged collectively, but if the injustice encountered by the serfs was true, the Holy Grail Knights would not mind making a fair ruling to safeguard the interests of the serfs.

The nobles don't like the justice of the Holy Grail Knight, but there is no doubt that as long as the Holy Grail Knight attends the trial, justice will be done.

"The earl said that he will move to live in the wine castle during the Winter Veil holiday. I want to check all the inventory and check whether there are any hidden dangers in the wine castle." Durand said humbly, trying to keep his posture lower.

The two Holy Grail knights didn't say anything else. They nodded. The winery is divided into a main hall and an annex, and the Holy Grail knights are all stationed in an annex.

Seeing the two Holy Grail knights leave, Durand was overwhelmed with pride and self-satisfaction. He tried his best to adjust his state better, and made a gesture of sticking to his post even though it was a holiday, hoping to let the count see .

Not long after, a carriage came from a distance, the speed of the carriage was non-stop, and the rolling wheels and pack horses directly entered the winery, the gate of the wine castle.

Durand knew that the earl was coming, and the person in charge of the winery hurried to the front of the carriage: "My earl!"

"Good morning, Durand, I will trouble you for a while." Ryan, wearing a red earl costume, stepped out of the carriage, his face was gentle, and the Holy Grail Knight badge on his chest fluttered in the cold air: "Local arrangement Are you ready?"

"It's been arranged, my count." Durand hurriedly saluted: "Everything has been arranged. According to your instructions, the fresh ingredients are frozen in the freezer. The wine cellar has been closed, and you can take it yourself."

"Very well, go and do your work, Happy Winter Veil, Durand." Ryan took out a box of cakes: "Take it and try it with your family!"

"Thank you!" Durand took the cake box and left happily. He also has a family and he is going back for the holidays.

Ryan nodded upon seeing this. The person in charge of the winery Durand cannot be said to be a particularly good operator, but he often uses diligence to make up for his shortcomings. The winery has not been prosperous in his operation for more than two years, but everything Organized.

Don't underestimate Durand's overtime work. This is not the dynasty of his previous life. Humans in this world are quite resistant to overtime work. The serfs are also quite lazy on the basis of lack of food and clothing. The nobles are even more so. The courtiers on duty At that time, he worked very seriously, and reported his planned vacation time to the lord in detail. Once the lord approved, the vacation time was completely the private time of the courtiers, and they would not be changed unless they refused to return to their posts unless there was an emergency.

Like Lane's tax collector, Gasparton and Katzenberg, who are both home for the holidays.

The thick curtain of the carriage was pulled open, Ryan stretched out his hand towards the curtain, and put a crystal-like jade hand on his rough hand: "His Royal Highness Mogiana? Please slow down."

"His Royal Highness Morgiana, be careful." The little maid Emilia, wearing a thick winter coat and boots and cotton socks, helped Morgiana get off the carriage, while Ryan's personal maid Olika walked from the carriage. Standing next to Ryan: "Master, did we spend Winter Veil here this year?"

"Well, we will spend Winter Veil here this year." Ryan nodded.

Morgiana, who was wearing a white fox fur coat and a silk chiffon dress, held Ryan's hand tremblingly, and got off the carriage with the help of Emilia. The Lake God Witch was still very weak after recuperating for half a year. The current state is that I can barely walk two steps while holding on to the wall.

The cold weather made Morgiana feel a little uncomfortable, she took a deep breath: "This is your winery, I was here last time."

"Yes, this is my winery, and I have renovated it." Ryan supported Morgiana: "The castle is not a place suitable for winter, and the winery is more suitable for winter. It turns out that the Marquis of Ascot When he was in charge, he always came here to spend the winter."

Morgiana nodded silently. After more than half a year of recuperation, she was finally able to change her living environment. The Lake God Witch's mood improved a lot. Thinking of spending the Winter Veil together in the next period of time, she couldn't help looking forward to it.

The interior of the wine castle has been completely redecorated, the quaint tones and luxurious decorations remain unchanged, the high-quality cherry wood furniture fills the empty wine castle again, the huge magic lighting and the high-quality tiled bathtub show Ryan's Extraordinary financial resources.

Now he only has his two maids and the Lake God Witch left by his side, so he simply brought Emilia, Olika and Morgiana to the wine castle to spend the Winter Veil Festival, Olika is okay, Emilia was very excited. The girl just graduated from Winford College this year and completed her court lady course. Her pretty face was blushing, and the fiery red carpet and the wooden room were full of her. The bouncing figure.

"Just eat something at noon, and let's cook a turkey dinner together in the evening." Ryan nodded with a smile, and he reached out and rubbed Emilia's golden hair: "Emilia, congratulations Graduated from Winford College."

"Thank you!" Emilia looked at Morgiana, then at Olika, and said happily, "I can concentrate on dressing up Ryan from now on."

"Go, Emilia, go and choose a room for yourself. There are five rooms in the main building, and you can choose one by yourself." Ryan nodded: "Olika and I share a room, Her Majesty Morgiana, Olika I will take you to choose a room."

"I'll just live next door to you." Morgiana frowned indistinctly. She thought Ryan would arrange for two people to live together.

"Alright." Ryan sat down while Emilia went to choose a room and said, "My Highness, don't worry, Casvann will not try to fight the Empire until February next year. This kind of weather , Casvann's army may have to reduce its staff by about 30% before it has crossed the Gray Mountains."

"I understand." Mogiana nodded, gods belong to gods, and mortals belong to mortals. As the spokesperson of the fairy of the lake in the mortal world, she cannot intervene in the human civil war, so she also chose to remain silent on this matter.

There was a beautiful snow scene outside the wine castle. Several people casually ate a little bread and stew at noon, and then Olika and Emilia went to prepare a turkey dinner.

Because of the previous agreement, several distinguished Wood Elf guests will visit the winery in the evening.

Ryan grabbed Morgiana's hand: "My lord, do you want to take a bath together?"

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