Working Prophet

After getting Ilea's approval, Fausto temporarily put other things aside and devoted himself to the preparations for the banquet.

Having served the Arias family for more than 160 years, the former head of Teacup Castle has already handled this kind of thing with ease, and most of the work has been completed before.

The date for the banquet was quickly decided, and then people were sent to send invitation letters to all the major families in the Western Territory.

Although the Arias family is not considered powerful in the western region, their fief seems to be quite large, but one-third of it is covered with swamps, and there are a group of very troublesome robbers living in that swamp. From time to time they would pop up to rob.

At the same time, the land in other places is not very fertile, and what the whole family can afford is actually carrots, which are the most common food for commoners. Therefore, many nobles secretly ridicule them as bumpkins.

But no matter what, they are still a force in the Western Region.

And because the Arias family has always been a staunch follower of the Figuerola family, when Philip Snowpaw traveled thousands of miles to help Alexander I, the ancestors of the Arias family were also in the army.

The relationship between the two parties has made the Marquis of Cullen still look at the Arias family differently until now. This kind of treatment will never be enjoyed by the descendants of the western nobles who surrendered to Philip, regardless of the past nine hundred years. No matter how well-behaved you are.

Therefore, no Westland family would blatantly reject the banquet invitation from the new head of the Arias family, even if it was to give Marquis Cullen face.

Even if the head of the family does not come in person, he will usually send his immediate family members to go on his behalf, and they will all bring congratulatory gifts.

After Ilea saw those gifts, she felt that the depression she had contracted due to Jude and the lizard people during this period seemed to have improved a lot.

At the same time, she couldn't help but regret, well, if she had known that the banquet could still make money, she should have held it earlier, preferably three or five times a year.

In fact, some lords have done this in order to make money, but mainly by constantly marrying wives and holding weddings to squeeze out the wool of their vassals. After all, other families are not fools. If they do it once or twice, they will just give away something. The valuable things were fooled.

But even if you are a vassal, if you go too far, you will force people to rebel.

So this idea just turned around in Ilea's head and was thrown aside by her. Then Ilea saw the congratulatory gift from Li Yu.

The gift list was crookedly written with a bag of Wangzi snow cake + senbei, four bags of New Orleans barbecue sauce, two bottles of Lao Ganma, and two bottles of Great Wall wine.

She knew every word, but apart from the wine at the end, she couldn't tell what they were.

The girl wanted to ask Li Yu, but the latter just arrived last night, so he ran to the group of lizard people without stopping, saying that she had an appointment to continue preaching to the lizard people today.

Ilea could only put the pile of strange things aside for the time being.

She has a lot of things to do today, although Fausto and Yago are in charge of welcoming guests, but if you meet someone sent by a family close to the Arias family or some real big shots, Miss Rabbit will go out in person .

For example, the young man standing in front of her right now.

This is Baron Ferdinand from the Bathory family. Like Ilea, his parents passed away very early, but Ferdinand has no other brothers and sisters, so he became the Bathory family smoothly. The head of the family.

His ears are small, almost covered by short black hair, his eyes are not big, the distance between them is slightly wide, there is light fluff under his nose, and he always likes to keep his mouth shut, which makes him look a little serious , but sometimes people feel that he is deliberately trying to be arrogant.

However, Ilea knew that this was not intentional by the young baron. In fact, he had already looked like this when the two met for the first time more than ten years ago.

At that time, Ferdinand came to Teacup Castle with his father as a guest, and he had a similar expression from the beginning to the end, um, it was carved out of the same mold as his father.

It wasn't until Ilea secretly added a few drops of fish bile into the cup he drank from that she finally confirmed that this guy had other expressions.

But the two have not seen each other since then.

When we meet again now, Miss Rabbit can't help but feel a touch of kindness.

Nine hundred years ago, the ancestors of the Arias family had done a great favor to the ancestors of the Bathory family. Since then, the two families have been friends for generations, and they have always advanced together and retreated together. They are considered hardcore allies.

On the other side, the young baron was also looking at Ilea, and after a while he said, "Very well, you are still the same as when you were a child."

Miss Rabbit wanted to say that you are ashamed to tell me that you yourself have not changed at all, but then Ferdinand continued, "You are still as childish as when you were a child."

? ? ? !

"Can the matter of asking for help be used for fun? After receiving your distress letter, I immediately summoned my vassals and troops to set off on the road. As a result, halfway through, someone from my family caught up with me and said I received your second letter, which said that you are fine." The young baron said with a straight face.

Well, it turned out that this was the matter, the girl was really at a loss, so she chose to endure it.

However, it was okay for Ferdinand not to speak, but once he started talking, he was endless, "Just put fish bile in my cup. It's better not to write a help letter randomly, otherwise it will be in trouble when something happens in the future." .”

"Haha, you really can't forget what happened when you were a child." Ilea sneered upon hearing this.

Ferdinand shook his head, said nothing more, and walked toward the castle.

He took long strides, and the gusts of wind brought about by walking caused his cloak to blow up. In the most conspicuous position, there was a large otter pattern embroidered on it.

That is the family crest of the Bathory family.

Not long after sending Ferdinand away, Miss Rabbit met another big shot. This time it was a real big shot, a representative of the Emanuel family, the second largest family in the West after the Figuerra family.

The visitor is Angela, the youngest daughter of the current head of the Emmanuel family.

Emmanuel was born and raised in a noble family in the Western Territory. As early as when the Enriquez family was still ruling the Western Territory, they were already a major noble in the Western Territory.

Not long after the war started, they took the initiative to join the Red Lion Empire, so after the war, their investment was returned, and they basically kept their territory and almost all the businesses in the territory.

Over the years, the Emmanuel family's business has grown bigger and bigger, making them the richest family in the West. They own two towns, and the smaller Black Rock City is right next door to Miss Rabbit.

Thinking that everyone would continue to do business in the future, Ilea was also very enthusiastic. She saw Angela's carriage from a distance and rushed up to it. However, after the latter got off the carriage, she deliberately ignored Miss Rabbit in front of her.

He covered his mouth and nose with one hand and asked the two maids beside him, "Where is the strange smell coming from? Have you smelled it?"