Chapter 341 [Sheffield Manor III]
As the altitude rises, the broad-leaved forest slowly turns into a coniferous forest, and the plank road neatly turns into a gravel road. After driving up a hill, looking down, you can see a straight gravel road leading to a valley. At the entrance of the valley is a horizontal stone wall that is three meters high.
In the middle is a large wooden door, on which there is also a standard of deer antlers, which Belsinger knows. This deer antler symbol is the emblem of the Marquis of Sheffield family, which is quite unique. It seems that this family has a certain relationship with deer.
The convoy came to the wooden gate and slowly stopped. Then the guide Jack got out of the car and knocked on the gate a few times. A small door on the left side creaked open from the inside, and an old man in a very neat suit appeared in front of him.
The Marquis family is the Marquis family store. The gatekeepers are so neatly dressed. You can imagine what a prosperous scene it must have been when the Sheffield Manor was in its heyday. Although the old man was a gatekeeper, he was a gatekeeper of a noble Marquis family, so he had a lot of etiquette.
He bowed first, shook hands with Jack, and asked Jack about his purpose with a smile. He was very happy to learn that a family from India planned to visit the Marquis family manor for a week and bring more than 100,000 pounds of property income to the Marquis family manor.
After the gate was creaked open, the Singh family's convoy was invited to enter the Marquis manor. Outside was a bumpy gravel road. However, the main road of the Marquis manor was actually made of oval-shaped colorful pebbles. The cost of this road was also very expensive at that time. These pebbles are carefully selected top-grade pebbles. Not only are the surfaces smooth, but the colors are also colorful.
Although it is not clear when sitting in the car, you can see these when passing by the cobblestone ground. The colorful pebbles are all deer animals. There are all kinds of terrestrial animals, and even sika deer were seen. It seems that the Sheffield Manor family and deer have a touching story.
In addition to the very flat cobblestone road, the road is also planted with French sycamore trees. The diameter of each tree is more than 40 to 50 centimeters tall and dense, and it seems to be over a hundred years old. Although the Sheffield Manor Marquis family has declined. But the manor is well maintained, and there is no trace of weeds and branches on both sides of the road.
Looking to both sides, you can see towering peaks on both sides, with dense pine forests on them, and a peak can be vaguely seen in front of you at the end of the road. It is known that these three peaks form a terrain of two mountains and a ditch. The three peaks are also the property of the Sheffield family, and there are many wild animals living in the mountains.
When the car came to the end of the stone road, it saw a pool fountain with a diameter of more than ten meters. The most distinctive feature is the location of these fountains, which are all on the angel's chest. A dozen chubby little boy angels are very cute and unique in shape. However, the angel is actually carved with some mottled marks on it, which shows that the age of this fountain is not short.
After bypassing the angel fountain with a diameter of ten meters, a neatly trimmed lawn comes into view. The car stopped on the lawn. After getting off the car, the family couldn't help but open their mouths and sigh that the stone castle in front of them was so luxurious and spectacular. The castle is square with four floors above and below, but Belsinger knows that there must be two floors of warehouses or wine cellars inside the four-story castle, which is the standard configuration of European noble castles.
The overall castle building is square, and there are towering spires on the four corners. The entire castle is made of granite. It is covered with plants such as creepers and roses, and the castle is almost invisible. The color of the stone is all photocopied in the green plants.
If you turn your head, you can see that there is an open area in front of the castle. The road paved with pebbles is full of cultivated land full of plants on both sides. There is an oval racecourse on the left, and a one-story bungalow built of stone on the right. These are warehouses or pens for chickens, ducks and geese. The cultivated land is well organized, with various plants planted on it, and potatoes and wheat can also be seen.
There is a large pasture on the hillside farther away, where some sheep and cows live, and there are even two foals running around on the mountain. Belsinger, who was observing the surrounding scenery, was pulled by Lina's hand. He turned around and saw the Marquis Castle coming out. An old man in a suit and leather shoes with abnormal mental state came out. After the introduction, he learned that this was the butler of the Marquis family, named Raphael.
The old butler is older than the old Jamal butler, but he is vigorous and has the style of an aristocratic butler. After understanding the situation. The old butler shook hands with Belsinger with a smile, and then said enthusiastically. "Welcome Mr. Singer and his wives to Sheffield Manor for a week. I am the Marquis's butler, Raphael. I sincerely serve the Singer family and will make the Singer family members feel at home."
Look at the Marquis's butler, he is really sensible and doesn't smile or talk, and his service is very thoughtful, which makes people find little fault. After the two sides greeted each other, the butler invited the Belsinger family into the castle. As soon as they entered the door, they saw that the bright hall floor was paved with marble and was magnificent.
What is unique is that there are more than hundreds of specimens made of male elk heads hung around the hall. It seems that the Sheffield family has no relationship with the deer family. To say that they love deer, the cobblestones subsidized by the family and the roads are all covered with deer patterns. What if he doesn't like the deer family with so many taxidermied deer heads hanging on it? Do you have a love-hate relationship with these cervids?
After asking Butler Rafael, I learned that the first generation of the Marquis of Sheffield family, the Marquis of Sheffield, was a hunter who made a living by hunting deer. You can be a prodigy with a bow and arrow, and your marksmanship is good, and then you can follow the British Empire army and expand around the world and make great military exploits. Only then can you be promoted to the Marquis family that has been passed down from generation to generation.
Although the castle is hidden under those ivy-like plants, it doesn't look very big, but after entering the central living room. The extremely luxuriously decorated living room can accommodate hundreds of people. Only then did we realize that the castle is quite large.
This living room is where large banquets and dances are held, with a kitchen on one side and a small dining room on the other, as well as access to the basement. Sure enough, there are two floors underground. One is a storage room, and the other is an underground wine cellar. The wine cellar stores hundreds of years of wine from the Marquis family, and can be used by guests who rent the castle for a week to drink at will.
The second floor is a small living room, plus two conference rooms, a large study room, and some other small rooms are servant rooms where servants live. There are 12 standard guest rooms on the third floor, and there are two rooms for the owners and a room for the baby on the fourth floor.
Every room is extremely luxuriously decorated, with exquisite materials, all made of white oak furniture and the color of a yellow and white palace. Now that we have come to Sheffield Manor. Of course, the servants brought by the Singer family can only live on the second floor, but Bel Singer feels sorry for the servants around him. He insisted on letting his servants live in the guest room, while he and his three wives lived in the master room on the fourth floor.
There is no mistake. One post, one content, one 6 one, one book, one book, take a look!
After putting away the things, the sky outside was getting slightly dark, and the kitchen of the entire Marquis Castle began to get busy. Although the Marquis family lives in the castle, they have left the entire servant system in the castle to serve guests, allowing guests who spent a huge price of 100,000 pounds to enjoy the aristocratic treatment of the Marquis family.