Chapter 17 "Moon" Authority

Entering the house, the first thing Klein saw was a foyer, which was very spacious, with many chairs and umbrella stands, and was elegantly furnished and decorated appropriately. If he hadn't known the structure in advance and conducted on-site inspections, Klein would have thought it was a hall. waiting room.

Passing through the second door, his eyes suddenly opened up, and there appeared a hall where dozens or hundreds of guests could dance.

The center of the hall is covered with brightly colored, thick and soft carpets, surrounded by bright and clear marble floor tiles, with pianos, stone carvings and other items placed, and stone pillars inlaid with ornaments are set up to support the second floor.

On the left is a row of floor-to-ceiling windows, with green lawns and blooming gardens outside, and walls, wooden doors and corridors on the right, leading to lounges, storage rooms, washrooms, kitchens and butler's rooms.

The hall is as high as two floors, and there are crystal chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, which makes people imagine what it will look like after night.

Go forward to the end, and there are stairs on both sides leading to the second floor.

The cloister here is a square, and the vacant part in the center is exactly where the hall is covered with carpets. As long as Klein takes a glass of wine and stands behind the railing on the second floor, he can enjoy the dance below leisurely.

There are many rooms on the second floor, including a living room, a living room, a dining room, a bathroom, a billiard room, and a large number of bedrooms. If guests need to stay overnight, they will live here.

Similarly, there are two staircases on the second floor leading to the third floor, which is where Dawn Dantès lives. The study room, which can be called a small library, has two cloakrooms, small bedrooms for personal servants and night maids, as well as rooms and bathrooms for family members, but Klein is currently single.

As for the other servants, they are in the row of bungalows at the back of the building, and the stables are in the other direction.

The basement of the building is equally spacious with a large storage room and wine cellar.

Klein, who took off his coat, stood upright on the large balcony of the semi-open room on the third floor. Looking at the scenery of the surrounding streets, he couldn't help sighing in his heart:

"Expensive really means expensive, and the rent of 315 pounds is not too wasteful..."

He had already paid a year's rent yesterday afternoon, and he could only force himself to be more and more pleasing to the eye of this place.

At the same time, he also directly paid Walter's annual salary of 115 pounds, because after he got the Antigonus family notes, he was likely to abscond, causing Mr. Steward to lose his job.

Based on this concept, he also paid the housekeeper Tanya an annual salary of 42 pounds this morning, which made the lady feel the generosity and demeanor of Mr. Dwayne Dantès.

Under the discussion and busyness of the two butlers, the servants have been hired. A male family property manager earns 30 pounds a year, a personal servant Richardson earns 35 pounds a year, and two servants are responsible for receiving guests at the dining table. The annual salary of the serving male servants is 25 pounds each, the annual salary of the two first-class maids is 18 pounds each, the annual salary of the two second-class maids is 12 pounds each, and the annual salary of the two menial servants is also 12 pounds each.

In addition to these, the annual salary of the cook is 30 pounds, the kitchen helper 15 pounds, the kitchen maid 13 pounds, the pantry maid 11 pounds, the house nurse 25 pounds, the small laborer 10 pounds, the two coachmen 25 pounds each, the two gardeners 20 pounds each, two Each of the laundry maids is 10 pounds, a total of 413 pounds, which is about 8 pounds a week.

Including the annual salaries of the two housekeepers, Klein would have to pay 570 pounds a year, which is about 11 pounds a week. This did not include the expenses of providing food, clothes, and various daily necessities.

When I open my eyes every Monday, I don't have any income yet, and I have to spend more than a dozen or twenty pounds... Klein did a random calculation in his mind, and forced himself to turn his gaze to the garden.

After paying the rent of the two carriages and the first week's salary of the servants at noon, and giving the housekeeper Tanya 1,000 pounds in cash for daily expenses, he only had 1,286 pounds of banknotes and 18 gold coins left with him, but "justice "Miss" and Ms. "Hermit" will gradually "account" within this week.

I don't know how long Tanya's 1,000 pounds can last, just to reserve all kinds of alcoholic beverages that are enough for the ball and banquet, it will cost at least a few hundred pounds... The rich Mr. Dawn Dantès fell into deep thought, unable to extricate himself .

In order to calm down, he decided to take a walk above the gray mist while the housekeeper and servants were busy dealing with the affairs of the new house, and study the weird puppet sacrificed by Emlyn White.

——After the blood moon happened, Klein had no choice but to return to that mysterious space. He pulled Forsi in, suppressed his drowsiness and listened to the other party talking about Backlund's daily life. When everything subsided, he was too sleepy to accept it. Emlyn's sacrifice, after confirming that there was no abnormality, returned to the real world and fell asleep.

After straightening out the sleek dark vest, Klein walked to the entrance, opened the door, and said to Richardson, the personal servant standing outside:

"I'm used to taking a nap for three quarters of an hour at this time, don't let anyone disturb me."

"Yes, sir," Richardson responded humbly.

He is an illegitimate son of mixed blood, his father is a Loen man, the steward of a manor, and his mother is a native of East Balam, a slave of that manor. After he was born, he was discriminated against and bullied, and developed a cowardly and obedient personality. Because of his good appearance, he was suitable for receiving guests. He was selected by the owner of the manor as a male servant and brought to Backlund.

When the upper and lower houses of the Loen Kingdom passed the bill abolishing slavery, he was miserable and unemployed, so he could only ask for assistance from the "Metropolis Helping Domestic Servants Association".

Before Klein, he served two families, made some mistakes, and accumulated a lot of experience. He was favored by the housekeeper Walter and became Dwayne Dantès' personal servant.

Glancing at Richardson, who was tall and tall and about the same height as him now, Klein shook his head invisibly, and sighed in his heart:

"This kind of guy who can be a star in appearance can only be a servant in this age, and he is so tall, but he is timid and cowardly. However, this is also an advantage. He is obedient, silent, and obedient. Whatever the master tells him What to do, absolutely not on your own...

"If I only have one personal servant and need him to handle various affairs, then Richardson is definitely not qualified. However, I also have Butler Walter and so many servants. For the rest, he can rely on his experience and experience. The ability is enough to cope."

Without saying much, Klein closed the door and locked it, returned to the easy chair, took four steps backwards, and entered above the gray mist.

He sat down in the seat belonging to "The Fool", and with a wave of his hand, the scorched "Moon Puppet" flew over and landed in front of him.

After repeated inspections, Klein found nothing unusual, so he took out a pen and paper, and wrote the divination statement:

"Its history."

Putting down the pen, Klein waited for a few seconds before picking up the paper and leaning back against the back of the chair.

Well, my spiritual intuition didn't stop me from divination, which shows that the hidden danger of "Moon Puppet" is not as great as the Extraordinary characteristics of the Rose School of thought... Klein muttered, and skillfully muttered the divination sentences.

In the gray sky, he saw an altar with a circle of torches stuck in it.

The altar was covered with something that looked like human skin, and there were bloody marks everywhere. In the center were three candles and a few dolls that were slender like wooden stakes.

These small puppets have curved eyes and curved mouths, which seem to correspond to the crimson crescent moon in the sky.

Therefore, they always wear weird smiles, and their bodies are inlaid with withered grass and dried flowers.

A priest in a dark red robe was circling vigorously around the altar, as if dancing a dance invented by an epileptic.

At some point, the moonlight gathered and shone on the puppets, getting brighter and brighter. At the end, there seemed to be waves of water swaying gently there.

The ceremony soon came to an end. The priest picked up a slender puppet, walked up to the human tied to the shelf next to it, and inserted it into the other's eye socket.

Amidst the shrill screams, the scene changed rapidly, and the dead with "moon puppets" in their eye sockets were buried regularly in one place.

The scene began to develop by leaps and bounds. Whenever there was a full moon or a blood moon, the glow would fall on the tomb, seeping in like water, and the surroundings were dark and deep.

Klein opened his eyes, adjusted his sitting posture, and roughly understood the origin of "Moon Puppet":

They stem from a ritual invoking the "primordial moon," a centuries-old ritual!

For hundreds of years, they absorbed the power of the red moon and mutated little by little until they were excavated by some colonists.

They usually don't have any weirdness. Only believers of the "primordial moon" can open them in the correct way. As for the effect, Klein is not clear.

In a sense, these puppets are equivalent to the benefactors of the "primordial moon"... After I hacked one to death last night, the evil god became angry, so there was a blood moon? Klein tapped the edge of the mottled long table with his fingers, and made a preliminary judgment.

Well, the anger of the "primordial moon" directly changes the image of the moon, manifested as a blood moon... If this guess is correct, it means that in the field of the red moon, the goddess is not as good as the "primordial moon", and may even just occupy one Name, in charge of a "0" level sealed item... Klein nodded slightly, trying to divination the weakness of the "Moon Puppet".

This time, he saw sunlight and lightning.

In other words, the extraordinary ability of the "Sun" domain and the lightning of the "Storm" domain are the most suitable for dealing with it... While interpreting the content of the revelation, Klein threw the "Moon Puppet" into the pile of debris and returned to the real world .

An hour later, Walter, dressed neatly and wearing white gloves, knocked on the door and entered the room, saluted and said:

"Sir, I will print some of your business cards and send them to the neighbors together with small gifts.

"They will observe for a few days, confirm your situation, and if they are willing to accept you, they will return the gift and invite you to be a guest.

"What title do you need on your business card?"

The title... The Fool who does not belong to this era? Klein secretly complained, and responded with a smile:

"Dawn Dantès, a businessman from Dixie, is enough."

Walter nodded and said instead:

"According to your intention, I will immediately arrange an etiquette class for you, with the emphasis on dancing. I will invite a professional tutor to come over."

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