Chapter 81 Parmela(1/2)
Leaving Rasher, Soui walked towards Bakler. The patriarch of the Dardanell family was also chatting and laughing with a group of distinguished guests.
He noticed Xiuyi's arrival, apologized to everyone, and quickly escaped from the crowd.
"Is something wrong?" Barkler asked.
"Parget is dead." Xiuyi sighed: "He is my teacher, but he was killed by the Arcane Tower people."
He roughly talked about the story, and Barkler disagreed: "Since Rasher is willing to tell you all this and has not corrected you on the spot, that's not too bad."
"No." Xiuyi immediately shook his head: "I can feel that Rasher is hiding something from me. Rasher and I are not friends, nor enemies, but opponents. Do you know what the opponent means? It is that we do not take personal feelings as a need, but just want to defeat you, purely for victory. If an opponent like this is sincere to you, there must be greater deception behind it. I don't know what Rasher has hidden, but he didn't say anything, which is certain. Padgett died, but how did he die? How did Rasher find all this? We don't know all of this. I think there is a secret here, and we must check it out."
Barkler looked around: "Why don't you ask Prince Richard, he should be clearer about these news."
Shuyi immediately shook his head: "If Richard knew about this, he should have told me during the luncheon banquet. But he didn't, which means he might not know, or he might not have planned to tell me at all, so it's useless to find him."
He thought for a while and said, "With the time left, we must find a way to find out this matter immediately. I need to know all about Padget's death, how he died, when he died, and who died in the hands of whom."
"How to check? Unless you are asking for help from the palace, are you going to find the princess for this? But I'm afraid this is not a good time to get close to the princess."
Xiu Yi pondered for a moment: "I know who can help us."
Winlington Palace.
Barmeira is combing Avril's hair.
Since the Royal Garden incident, Baron Harden has stopped serving Marquis Barrymann, but has been directly asked by Avril to become a royal etiquette teacher.
Things in the world are sometimes so wonderful. Some people may not succeed if they spend their whole life trying to climb up a high branch. Some people will get a position where everyone is jealous of them.
Although royal etiquette teachers are not very powerful, they are among the few people who can get close to the royal family and are extremely close.
Baron Harden is old-fashioned and conservative, and his brain is not very flexible, but his luck is not ordinary. He doesn't even know that on his head, the god of death has passed by him more than once, and he is still living his daily complacent and gratitude. He is a devout Holy Spirit believer.
He believed that all this was a gift from the gods.
Indeed, when waiting for the family, happiness fell from the sky, and Baron Harden was indeed qualified to think so. The only wife who knew the inside story was very smart to choose silence.
Baron Harden's job was originally mainly responsible for teaching the royal etiquette of the maid selected by Avril, making her behave like a princess. For Avril, the existence of a substitute was necessary for not having a single day of unbroken engagement. As for whether she could play a role, it was not her consideration. When a person drowns, he even had to grab the leaves in the river.
However, with Baron Harden entering the palace, people soon discovered that he knew all the traditional and ancient royal etiquettes. He could speak hundreds of ways of eating and tell the etiquette history of various dynasties over the past thousands of years in Fengming Continent. It was simply a living etiquette dictionary.
He quickly gained reuse.
Since the royal etiquette teachers have close contact with the royal family, Baron Harden's family moved to the palace to live.
When she was free, the little princess would call the Baron's wife to talk to her, mainly about Shioiglare's childhood.
"Shuy is very quiet most of the time, just like a girl, blushing and a low voice, never arguing with others. Once Julia bullied him, he hid in the corner and cried alone. Later, I coaxed him. He was nine years old at that time, and he was really cute." Bameira combed Avril's hair while recalling the past.
"It's really hard for me to imagine Xiu Yi crying. That must be very interesting." Avril said softly: "He is such a smart person. He has his own ideas for everything. Only he can make others cry, so how can he be qualified to make others cry."
When she said this, her eyes were red.
Bamila felt a little embarrassed: "Actually, when she was a child, Xiu Yi often did stupid things. I remember that at that time, there was a plum tree in my garden. Xiu Yi often used a knife to mark the plum tree because he hoped that he would grow taller quickly. But one day, he suddenly realized that he was shorter than the mark, which scared him. He cried at that time, and after he finished speaking, I became shorter and could not grow taller again."
Avril burst out laughing: "Oh my god, this is so interesting."
"It's really interesting. Later I told him that he didn't become shorter, but the trees would grow taller. It took him a long time to understand this, so he started to run to the wall happily to mark..."
"It doesn't sound like the one I know at all." Avril muttered softly.
"As people grow up, they will change." Barmeira sighed.
She put down the comb in her hand and said to Avril in the mirror: "Okay, look how beautiful our little princess is. Today you must be the most beautiful girl in the theater."
"But I don't care. What's important is whether the person I want to see can see it." Avril replied sourly.
She didn't know whether Xiu Yi would appear in the Grand Theater today. In fact, if he appeared, it often meant disaster and trouble. This made her feel very contradictory.
At this moment, a maid outside hurried in: "Your Highness, some people want to see Mrs. Bamela."
"Who?" Avril was a little surprised.
"It is said that it is a servant from Harden's family, and there are some situations in their hometowns that need to be reported."
"Where are people?"
"Outside the palace."
"Okay, take him into the reception room and tell him that the wife will come soon."
"yes."
The maid left, and the princess turned to Bameira and said, "Your hometown is here, go and meet me. I remember that I would change my clothes and go to the Grand Theater with me. The time is almost over."
"Okay, Your Highness, Princess." Bamira bent down and retreated.
When she left the princess's bedroom, Barmela was very confused. She knew very well that it was impossible for people to visit them in her hometown. Because when they left Nanwell, they almost fired all their servants. The Baron's manor was rented to a local rich gentry, and they would earn an income every year. At that time, the Harden family was actually at the end of their lives.
Who would have come to find her as her servant? A name suddenly popped up in Bameira's heart, her heart hopped slightly, and her pace immediately accelerated.
Bamila hurried to the living room, a strange-looking man was looking around stupidly. After seeing Bamila, the man asked tentatively: "Madame Harden."
"Yes, I, who are you?"
The man did not answer, but took out a crystal ball from his arms: "Your friend asked me to send you a gift."
On the communication crystal, Xiu Yi's face appeared: "Mrs. Harden."
"Xuyi! I knew it was you, why did you come to me?"
"Padget is dead, do you know?"
"Pagit?" Barmeira exclaimed: "How could this happen? I have no idea about this."
"I need you to help me test the princess' tone and see if she knows this."
Bamila was a little nervous, but she nodded: "The princess should not know about this, because I was with her just now. Judging from the tone of her speaking, it did not seem like she knew that her guard commander was dead."
"Then you need to go further to verify. I need to know how this happened, when, where, and who was involved. Can you help me?"
"Okay, I'll do my best."
"Leave this crystal ball to you, and the people I sent will teach you how to use it. Mrs. Harden, I'm sorry to ask you to do this. Please believe that I have no intention of hurting any of you, but I don't have much time, and I hope this will go faster, the better."
"I understand, Shuyi, but next time I'll call me Bameira."
“…Yes, Bameira.”
The communication was interrupted, and Barmeira hurriedly left the living room. She had never experienced such a thing in her life. What was particularly bad was not what she was going to do, but that she didn't know what she was looking for.
What should I do? Bamila couldn't think of a solution for a while, and she was a little anxious.
Since marrying Baron Harden, Barmara has taken care of her children every day, and the only thing she is good at is probably the various aristocratic rules her husband taught her.
Etiquette? Yes, etiquette!
Barmeira suddenly thought of something.
She accelerated her pace.
The people in the palace had already prepared for the princess' trip for a long time, and Baron Harden was the main person in charge of travel etiquette.
The more backward the era, the more etiquette and rules there will be.
Before the founding of the Lance Empire, the most powerful country in the Northern Continent was the Bauhinia Dynasty.
In the past, the Bauhinia Dynasty, during the monarchy, the requirements for etiquette reached an extreme point. In the history of the Bauhinia Dynasty, such a thing even happened: one morning, Queen Katrina found that the quilt on her big bed was covered with dust. Under the queen's rebuke, the matter was passed down to the attendants of the bedroom step by step. The attendants of the bedroom shrouded the responsibility and said that cleaning the dust was not within their responsibilities. People went to find the foreman who managed the curtains and tapestries. After hearing the accident, they clearly stated that it was not his business. After two days of investigation, they finally found that when His Majesty the King was not sleeping with the Queen, the queen's big bed was managed as furniture, so the attendants who were in charge of furniture should be responsible.
Another thing happened to another queen. Queen Edna once ate a portion of roast beef and thought it tasted good. She wanted to ask for another portion, so she glanced at the waiters who served her, then pointed her finger at one of them and ordered him to come to her side. Then she said to him, "Is this roast beef right?" The waiter replied, "Yes." Then the queen was embarrassed to say that I liked it very much, and the conversation ended completely.
In fact, after this, Queen Edna was punished because she made two mistakes. One: She talked casually while eating, which affected her image. Two: She shouldn't hook her fingers at her servant, which is also a very rude behavior.
However, things like this gradually disappeared with the establishment of the Lance Empire. The main reason is the tone set by the Rose Monarch when the founding of the country: core and efficient.
The cumbersome etiquette makes people respect the royal family and also alienate them. However, the worst thing is that the efficiency of doing things has become extremely low. Therefore, starting from the Rose Monarch, the royal family attaches less importance to the etiquette tradition than the other.
The royal family may not be efficient, but there are indeed many people who do not follow the rules.
There is never a shortage of old people who support traditions in the times. There are always some people who lament that young people are increasingly unaware of what rules are. Baron Harden is the most typical example. He relies on etiquette to make a living. This gentleman with rigid thought is full of etiquette rules. In his opinion, if there is no rules in the palace, there is no majesty. Many people appreciate his view that most of these people are more powerful elderly people in the palace, so he promoted him. Unfortunately, the Baron cannot change any situation because of this.
At this moment, he was giving orders to the palace's messenger: "When Your Majesty's carriage passes by, the princess' carriage must wait twelve meters away from Your Majesty's carriage, not too close or too far away. When entering the Grand Theater, the head sect must open the door outside the door, and can only enter the door after the princess' carriage passes. Today, all ladies only need to use curtsy to the royal family, but they must pay attention to the depth of the bend of their knees."
The messenger was a little panicked: "Mr. Harden, you cannot ask all the nobles to do as you told me."
Baron Harden immediately became distressed: "Oh, people nowadays are increasingly ignoring what rules are."
It was at that time that Bamila came over.
She first curtsyed to her husband from a distance, then stood there a meter away from her husband's side, her eyes stayed between her husband's eyebrows, and she was very perfectly meeting her husband's etiquette.
"Dear, you seem to be missing something."
"What?" Baron Harden asked his wife.
"The flag bearer of the ceremonial guards shouldn't it be the commander of the guards?" Barmeira asked with her big eyes flashing.
"Oh, you mean Kurza etiquette, traditional travel ritual? It's too old."
"But it is really good, maybe it can give you a higher weight."
"It's right." Baron Harden rubbed his hands, and he ordered the messenger: "Go and call the Chief Padgett, I need him here. When it comes to image, he is very qualified."
"This..." The messenger had a headache: "Lord Padjit is no longer the chief guard. In fact, we don't have the chief guard now, but the deputy chief guard takes everything on his behalf."
To be continued...