Working Prophet

"Why should I bring you, an outsider, with me to the family meeting where the Arias family decides on the heir?"

Ilea slept until the morning of the second day, and opened the door with two panda eyes. Before listening to Li Yu outside the door, she showed resistance and yawned as she spoke.

"Because I'm your advisor."

"…………"

"This is what you told the captain of the guard named Levin yourself. Since you are going to do a show, it's best to do a complete set." Li Yu tidied up his suit and tie, and said calmly.

In his not-so-long career, he has seen too many inappropriate Party A and leaders and colleagues who were never prepared to be human. Miss Rabbit's little rebellion is really nothing.

If he couldn't even do this, he would have been driven crazy by his previous jobs.

After a pause, Li Yu added, "It's fine if you don't take me with you, but remember to make this election public, and I will go to observe it myself and help you when necessary."

"Why," Miss Rabbit retorted subconsciously, while completely ignoring Li Yu's so-called "help".

For this election, she has already made sufficient preparations, and from the bottom of her heart, she doesn't think that Li Yu, a foreigner with a suspicious background, can help.

What else can you expect from a man who cannot protect himself?

"This is a family matter of our Arias family. It would be embarrassing enough to bring it up to the Marquis. It can be resolved privately. Besides, I don't like to show up in front of so many strangers. I'm so nervous."

"You are going to be a lord, you'd better get used to this kind of thing early." Li Yu said, "And once there is a disagreement on the heir, no matter who the final winner is, there will inevitably be rumors in the future , although the public election process cannot completely eradicate those rumors, but at least your version of the story will have more supporters, and it will be more conducive to your future rule."

"It's a fact, not a story." Ilea corrected.

But then Miss Rabbit's eyes on Li Yu also changed a little, as if she got to know Li Yu again, looked him up and down, and said in admiration, "You obviously don't understand anything, but I didn't expect you to know anything. Can make decent suggestions."

Li Yu didn't care about Ilea's wording, but reminded her again, "Remember the open election process."

"I know, I know, I will mention this when we have dinner later." Miss Rabbit nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

The so-called dinner is lunch, which is also the first meal of the day.

There is no such thing as breakfast in the Bratis Continent. Most people only eat two meals a day, and the low-level workers engaged in heavy physical work will eat some cold bread to pad their stomachs in the morning.

In addition, commoners and nobles sat separately when dining.

Li Yu didn't know how Ilea and the others were eating there, but anyway, the food on his table looked pretty good.

The staple food is white bread freshly baked, steaming hot and slightly burnt at the bottom. The side dishes include stewed pork, fried salmon, sausages, and a basin of pudding that looks dark and slightly suspicious, and the drink is unlimited supply of mead.

These dishes were served together, and Li Yu soon encountered his first trouble - although the Marquis Mansion provided food, it did not provide tableware.

Almost everyone here carries a short knife, which is about nine inches long from the handle to the tip. Some handles are also carved with patterns and family crests. This is what they use to eat.

This kind of short knife can easily cut bread and meat, and can also be used for self-defense when going out.

Li Yu didn't have a sword, and it was hard to do it directly in front of everyone.

Fortunately, someone quickly came to his rescue. A human maid came towards him holding a beautiful knife with a ruby ​​on the handle.

"Miss Ilea asked me to tell you - I just borrowed it for you to use first, and you have to pay it back. Haha, don't lose it, otherwise I won't be able to compensate you even if I sell you."

I don't know if it was Miss Rabbit's advice, but the maid's message was genuine and not discounted at all.

Li Yu took the ruby ​​knife, thanked the maid politely, went to the wooden table where the food was placed, and cut about a third of a piece of white bread, inserted two pieces of salmon with oily skin and a glass of mead, He found a seat on a bench nearby and sat down.

As for the stewed pork and sausages, Li Yu didn't know if the boars here had been eunuched, so he didn't dare to bet. In addition, the pot of black pudding was also skipped by Li Yu because the ingredients were unknown.

Fortunately, the taste of fried salmon is not bad. These salmon are 100% wild, and the meat is delicious. In Li Yu's world, the price of a piece is estimated to be more than 1000. It is estimated that it will cost more if it is simply processed in a Japanese food store. Secondly, most ordinary working-class people, including Li Yu, would still feel uncomfortable eating a meal.

Of course, it is not impossible to pick out some flaws. For example, there are relatively few condiments, except for salt, there is only a little symbolic cracked pepper.

However, in this way, the freshness of the salmon itself is retained to the maximum extent.

However, Li Yu noticed that most people here did not show much enthusiasm for the salmon meat. It seemed that they probably ate it frequently.

White bread also tastes good. Although the wheat variety is different from what Li Yu is familiar with, the gluten content is much lower, and the flour is not ground finely enough, so the taste difference is quite obvious. But modern people usually use polished rice and white flour quickly. Tired of eating, on the contrary, more and more people are beginning to favor coarse grains similar to simple processing.

In contrast, mead is much inferior. The alcohol content is not high, it is estimated that it does not exceed 5 degrees, and the most important thing is that it is too sweet.

It's quite miraculous to say that, so far, most of the things Li Yu has seen in this plane are actually things that he can call famous.

Even if you haven't seen it with your own eyes in daily life, at least you have heard about it on TV and the Internet, except for those half-orcs who still retain some of the characteristics of beasts.

And there is no magic here. Because his stay is still short, Li Yu still doesn't know if there are more strange creatures living on this continent called Bratis.

Perhaps because of the black suit that was incompatible with this place, the seat next to Li Yu was always empty when eating, and no one else sat down.

Even the other tables were already full.

Marquis Cullen does not have many direct relatives. Apart from his wife, he only has two sons and one daughter. However, the total number of miscellaneous people in the Marquis' mansion is nearly a hundred.

This includes guards, maids, cooks, grooms, literature, swordsmanship, and etiquette teachers for the three children, as well as housekeepers, accountants, etc., plus a large entourage brought by the Arias family. It was quite lively together.

And this also reflected the desertedness on Li Yu's side more and more. Many people were secretly looking at the strange person in this corner with complicated eyes.

However, the person involved did not seem to be embarrassed by his situation, nor did he show any discomfort. He just ate the food on the plate quietly.

Li Yu was still not used to this rough eating method of holding a knife in one hand and directly attacking with the other hand, and he had to guard against oil stains getting on his suit.

After all, suits cannot be washed by hand, and if they get dirty, they have to be taken to the dry cleaners, if he can see the dry cleaners again for the rest of his life.

And if he can't go back, this set of clothes is almost his most valuable possession now, and he should keep it well. If it's in good condition, he can exchange it for more money.

In short, Li Yu finished his first meal in another world in a leisurely manner. When he put down the ruby ​​knife, a thoughtful look flashed in his eyes.

After the luncheon was over at Ilea's side, the Marquis' Mansion finally ushered in today's highlight - the ruling on the ownership of the green field inheritance.

Due to the unexpected death of Blood-Eyed Russ, the Arias family lost their head. Russ's two heirs, Ilea and his youngest son Blanco, both claimed that they had the right to inherit the family fiefdom of Green Field.

The respective supporters of both sides were arguing together, and no one could persuade the other.

And long before the first emperor of the Red Lion Empire, Alessandro, raised his troops, the ancestors of the Arias family had sworn allegiance to the Figuerola family for generations, so the battle for heirs finally came to the Marquis of Cullen. Come.

The latter upheld the respect for the Arias family, and did not lightly rule, but proposed to determine the final candidate through elections. The Marquis of Cullen himself only acted as a notary to ensure the fairness and justice of this election.

As for the seven people who have voting rights, they are all elders in the Arias family, and they are either well-known in the family or powerful.

Those seven voters were also endorsed by two candidates. Because no matter who will become the master of the green field in the future, if they want to rule this land well, they cannot do without their help.