Chapter 48: The Clarence Family
Chapter 48 – The Clarence Family
Collens carefully groomed himself and adjusted his breathing before knocking on the door to the lord’s chamber under the watchful eyes of the two Teutonic warriors, and once inside, he bowed with impeccable posture and greeted them.
“Greetings to you, my lord.”
“Good afternoon, Baron Collens, please be seated.” Owen said as he looked up and casually pointed to a seat off to the side.
Although the etiquette that Corenth accepted was that the inferior needed to stand aside with a straight posture and slightly tucked in jaws to show respect when facing the superior, but when the superior asked you to sit down, there were more reasons than not to sit down before you could say anything else, even if your hemorrhoids were in trouble, you had to sit down with a smile on your face with blood in your eyes, while showing a flattered look, and as for what to do if your pants got wet, you could just try to wipe them clean with a scuff forward when you got up.
“I’ve seen your performance during this time, it’s good that you have the ability and ambition, while not lacking patience.” Kerensi’s age is a dozen years older than Owen, but Owen still has an elder tone, but neither of the two felt there was anything wrong with it.
Often the gap in status can offset a lot of things, such as age, such as ability, such as experience, even a brat who does not know anything, as long as he hangs the general manager’s sign, he can be a group of elite white-collar workers under the staff of the training like a grandson.
Here, the status gap is even more terrible, in the previous life, even if you can not help but give that only grinning bastard a punch, at most lost his job police station closed for two days, but here, ignoring the status of the cost of daring to offend the superior is your family’s life, is the enemy of the whole class.
Collins has long been accustomed to this status gap, and awe and anticipation, waiting for the day to become a member of the feared, so he will not go to break, will only obey, which is also the reason why Owen dared to use him.
“Next I decided to give you the management of the territory’s commerce and trade, mainly responsible for the purchase of serfs and commercial exchanges, of course, now the territory is still in a very primitive stage, there is almost no commercial soil, but with the territory’s speed of development, there won’t be much time left for you, so your task is not easy, you must map the territory in one or two years, the Northland and the Imperial border’s commercial exchanges, laying the foundation for the next trade development.” Owen purposely aggravated his tone in the Northlands.
Kerensi is obviously a speculator who is good at thinking and knows how to seize the opportunity, he immediately realized Owen’s meaning, and there was no longer any bleakness in his heart when he just heard that he was in charge of the territory’s commerce and trade.
Northland border nobles are a bunch of poor people, with them there is no business dealings, they see what they like more like to go to rob to steal, so Owen alluded to the Northland barbarians.
In fact, trading with the Northland barbarians is not a secret, the best furs in the Northland will always come from the Northland barbarian tribes, not to mention that there is also the dog’s head gold and precious stones, which are directly equivalent to the wealth of things.
The Northland is not barren in some ways, coupled with the sparsely populated land has not been developed, resulting in wealth everywhere, from time to time someone picks up a large piece of natural dog’s head gold and gemstones is not a rare thing, only that these riches are difficult to centralize the development of, coupled with the long distance, the cost is too high, and this is the reason why the development of the Northland is slow.
However, because of the preference of the imperial merchants, now the barbarians in the north have begun to consciously collect gold and precious stones, so don’t think that the other party wears shabby that the other party doesn’t have money.
Even in the past life, the professional beggar who pulls out the BMW key directly from work is not a few.
Next Owen rewarded him with a few sets of exquisite noble clothes and a good white war horse as a commendation, after all, he will be the next external face of the territory, dressed decently is the standard.
The caravan will not leave now, Owen needs to prepare the goods, so Kerens will now go home and wait for the departure.
Walking out of the town center, Kerensi did not even let the servants hand, personally a hand holding the clothes in one hand and a hand leading the white horse, so the look is a little ridiculous to return home. Owen knows the importance of talent, not to mention Kerens is not only a talent, or the first nobleman to join him, in order to play the role of a thousand gold to buy a horse’s bones, naturally, will not let him go to live in a long house, but the first time to let the farmers build a villa, for which also exchanged out a lot of special building materials.
The villa is dominated by a two-story building with an attic balcony, which is where the master lives, and behind it are two brick tiled longhouses, which are both the servant’s quarters, as well as kitchens, warehouses, stables, and all the ones that the master doesn’t want to see, and then surrounded by a fence, and left an open space in front that can be used as a lawn or garden.
The place wasn’t huge, in the Empire it would be a country jazz residence at best, but in the Northlands, it was definitely upmarket, at least the Lady of Correnth hadn’t stopped decorating the house since she arrived.
“You’re back dear, oh what’s this!?” A white skinned lady opened the door to her room, when she saw the clothes that Collens was holding, she immediately exclaimed, a pair of hands also interlocked on her high breasts, as a way to show how shocked she was, the action was slightly pompous, but there was a sense of comedy, not at all like a mother of two children.
Kerens wife Katie is the countryside of a Sir’s daughter, looks not bad, is the character is not calm enough, always a shock, but Kerens just like her character, because it is simply too good to understand, everything is written on the face, so the couple’s relationship is not bad, and have a daughter and a son.
“Where is Kayla and Kermie?” Kerens kissed the lady before handing the excited Katie the clothes she had been holding all the way to her, and told the servants to take the white horses to the stables and feed them with warm water along with good feed.
“Kayla is practicing her swordplay out back and Kermie is still awake from her nap.” Katie walked into the room happily clutching the dress, admiring the fine floral patterns on the dress as she spoke to Kerens.
Kyla is the eldest daughter of Correnth, because she grew up learning swordplay under a retired knight in a foreign public house, her character is relatively old-fashioned and conservative, she can’t stand to see her father chasing after fame and fortune, and she is bent on becoming a knight who is loyal to her master, so she usually doesn’t have much interaction with her parents, and she likes to practise swordplay on her own.
Kermie is the eldest son of the two, but is only three years old, just the age of sleepy.
“Then don’t bother the two of them.” Kerens said to his lady as he took off his riding boots with the help of a servant and removed his matching sword to hang it on the wall, easing his movements.
“Okay, so these clothes are from the lord lords as well?” Katie asked with big, flashing eyes full of anticipation, for in addition to the two sets of men’s clothes, there were also a large and a small set of dresses, obviously for her and her daughter.
Corenth was suddenly a little saddened, perhaps he had brought too little for his lady, for his two children.
“Yes, today Lord Lord appointed me to be in charge of the territory’s commerce, I will leave for Mara Town in the next two days, it will take quite a few days, but there may be more rewards when I return.” Kerens said gently to the Lady.
“His Lordship is truly merciful!” Katie narrowed her wide eyes and smiled innocently as she had back when the two had first met.
Perhaps the only thing that had changed over the years was himself, looking at the Lady’s smile that was just as it had been in his memories, Collens suddenly thought so.
But the Lady’s words were indeed true, the Lord of Lords was indeed merciful, or at least Corenth had never seen it.
(End of chapter)