Chapter 273 Rich and Willful
Carey talked with Aunt Wendy for a while and then got all the information out. Now Uncle George works as a typist at a chamber of commerce, the advantage is that he can take the work home. Five shillings a quarter of a week Kerry lives in a hotel rented in the West End for ten shillings a day, not including the servant's room.
Uncle George and his wife have four children, which does not include the five who died, three daughters and a young son. The eldest daughter Winnie is 25 years old and works as a salesperson in the store street in Wednesdays shillings, the second daughter Winsor is 20 years old and the salesperson in the store street internship is 10 pence every Mondays. The third daughter Winnie is 17 years old and the youngest son Brick is 15 years old and both are studying in church schools.
There were some old newspapers folded by the bed, so Zhang Cheng took them to read them. Are old newspapers? As expected, they are all old news. At this time, a newspaper was only one penny, but it was still for rich people to read. The poor people couldn't read.
There are also some poor people who know words like Uncle George. The down-and-out aristocrats and businessmen who failed to speculate also live in the East District. After an Opium War, Britain thought it opened up the world's largest market and set off a craze for factory construction, such as pianos, violins, forks, spoons, clothes, shoes and socks. It seems that China had nothing but gold and silver at that time. As a result, it was natural that all these guys deserved it.
Carrey also explained himself, that is, during the process of letting himself go around the world, he met his true love Zhang Cheng, who is the first heir to a certain great duke in the East. Zhang Cheng has already planned to knock down the entire Myanmar and lies can be realized with his power.
Aunt Wendy doesn't care about the identity of Asians. After all, Jerusalem is the Asian region and the origin of the three major religions. In other words, the Jews were an Asian nation that entered Europe very early. Not to mention that Hungary and Ottoman Türkiye, which later entered Europe, were both Asian nations.
The key point is that the heir of the great duke is full of jewels and jewels. No matter how you look at it, it is a rich son-in-law who dies. The most important point is the dowry of the three daughters and the future of the son, as well as the glory and wealth of his husband in the second half of his life, it is almost entrusted to the niece of the future great duke.
What? You say that the relatives’ money is not ours. Look at how the relatives above my uncle Yule planned to spend Uncle Yule’s property and understand that the money of rich relatives is ours.
On the other hand, Uncle George revealed his true feelings after reading the letter and shed some tears. Because Carey imitated the letter by the ancestor Black himself, although Black said that he could no longer go back due to physical and work reasons, he still hoped that with Carey's help, the Johnson family would return to the noble glory.
Uncle George still has the baron now, but his family is poor and his jingle baron, otherwise how could he be called a declining noble? When George was a child, Grandpa George was still alive, his family lived in the suburbs of London. By the time of George's father, George's father had been harassed by debt collectors every day, and George's brother also went to the New World to fight.
By the time George inherited the title, he was already barely a house, and had already sold his estate and lived in poverty in the East End of London. George got married before moving to the East End of the family. Aunt Wendy was just the daughter of a low-ranking Royal Navy officer who had not had much dowry.
George has a title, noble glory, etc., so he just spends money. No wonder Uncle George is so excited after reading the letter and finally ends his life. He is really a serf who turns over and sings.
Then Carey and George said, "Uncle, I personally think that the security in the East District is still too messy. It's better to stay in Pimlico's hotel for the time being after the whole family comes back at noon."
What else can George say to the niece of the big money owner?
After the family came back at noon, they were shocked by the luxurious carriage with diamond-inlaid tombs and gold-spreading at the door of the house. In order to protect the safety of the carriage, the two male servants were now guarding the carriage with two guns.
Four people in this luxurious carriage were super spacious, and eight people were inevitably a little crowded. Fortunately, after just a while, the maids had to stand outside the carriage.
In Zhang Cheng's opinion, this carriage is very vulgar and vulgar. When decorating, it only uses more than ten kilograms of gold foil, a few kilograms of diamonds and a few kilograms of red and sapphires. But if you can't stand this era, you will eat this set. If you build a low-key carriage that has no decoration, you will be embarrassed to tell others that you are rich.
On the way, although they were hungry, the group insisted on buying the whole family's formal clothes first and then going to have dinner. Since they had rich relatives, they could not lose their aristocratic style. Anyway, they didn't pay for the formal clothes themselves.
I bought two sets of formal outfits for one person, and it was only more than 100 pounds, a small amount of money. I was embarrassed to pay with money, and I paid with money and paid with servants.
This time I changed into new formal clothes. Everyone's top hats, men's canes, etc. were all equipped. Then a group of people went to the hotel restaurant to have a meal, and the new topic that the family discussed was how to help Carrey spend money.
Fortunately, no matter what money-spending plan, Carrey doesn't care at all.
Uncle George's first proposal was to buy back the manor in the suburbs of London, which was sold by the Baron's family for hundreds of years.
Of course, Carrey fully supports this matter.
So, something that was on London news happened. Baron George redeemed the ancestral property sold twenty years ago at an irresistible price of 3,000 pounds. According to the analysis of real estate industry, even if the valuation was lower when the manor was sold that year, coupled with the rising land prices in recent years, the manor would not exceed 1,500 pounds.
But Baron George is rich and willful.
After Baron George bought his ancestral birth, he lived in after a simple renovation. Carrey also bought a manor nearby, which was also rich and willful. The 6,000 pounds manor was three times the size of Baron George's manor and was much more luxurious.
Now the servants hired by Carey and Zhang Cheng are almost fifty years old, and it is inconvenient to live in a hotel. As for the better houses in London, they are all in the hands of wealthy people. Everyone is only willing to rent a house and collect rent, and will not sell the chickens that lay golden eggs.
Zhang Cheng, who had a serious case of buying a house, couldn't bear it, so he decided to buy a manor in the suburbs of London.
Zhang Cheng didn't expect that he had raised so many servants at once, but in theory it was necessary. Otherwise, he wouldn't have hired servants.
First of all, counting the four biochemical robots under Zhang Cheng, the carriage needs a coachman and an assistant groom, and four horses need two grooms to take care of day and night. Zhang Cheng and Carrey need three cooks, both Italian cooks. Modern people can only laugh when facing British dark food. There are also four maids doing odd jobs in the kitchen.
Two people were poor at listening, running errands and moving things. Three gardeners, one housekeeper, and one restaurant waiter.
Carrie needs a personal maid, and two housekeepers at home, four laundry maids and they need to wash the whole family's clothes. Whether the servant's clothes are clean and tidy is also related to the owner's face.
Chapter completed!