The 73th Summer

The Jockey Club is the most important festival in the whole spring of Brassian City. This festival is like a node. Before the Jockey Club, the whole city was in a half-dead and lifeless atmosphere. But after the Jockey Club, Brassian City was like a hibernating bear, gradually regaining vitality as the temperature heated up bit by bit. After all, it is just a small city, not as good as a big city like Wallonia City. If the temperature rises slightly, it will regain vitality.

As everyone knows, business activities are closely related to the climate. For the south, the biggest trouble of business is the rainy season. When the rainstorm comes, the whole world is covered by heavy rain, everyone has to stay at home and not go out. In the north, the biggest problem affecting business travel is winter. The coldness of the winter wilderness is not a joke, at least it is not something that people who enjoy a fire or fireplace can imagine. Whether it is a person or a livestock, frostbite or a frozen death is common, and its huge cost forces commercial transportation to stop.

For local residents, with the arrival of spring, the most obvious thing is the increase in goods and the active transactions in the market. For local squire and nobles, the number of visits between each other has increased dramatically. Ashu Rufate did not waste this time. Under the guidance of the two sisters, he visited almost all the local famous families. Like all social circles in the world, an outstanding outsider is always difficult to stop by regional discrimination. Because he won the championship at the Jockey Club before, he became a big shot, and his polite conversation and behavior, Hus Rufate quickly entered the living room of various local celebrities.

It didn't take much time to succeed in socializing. Now, Ashu Rufate is considered one of the local celebrities, and has been unknowingly named "Sir Ashu Rufate". Although he and the two sisters are actually "determined to have a marriage contract", he is already regarded as their husband. When people call the two sisters in front of Ashu Rufate, they are no longer "your fiancées" but "your ladies".

In this spring, the local governor who had been absent for a long time finally took office. As the news people have heard, the governor is an old man who is nearly seventy years old and has a completely white hair. Moreover, he is not only physically, but also his spirit is already in a state of old age. As the rumors estimate, the old man planned to take the position of the governor as his retirement place, so his policy is only a simple sentence - as long as there is nothing to do. As mentioned earlier, this was originally a very easy thing to do for the city of Brassian - because this place was originally a kind of place that was fine: the place was small and the public security was good.

Shortly after the arrival of the Governor, the new sheriff was in place. This is also an old man who is too old to do anything to worry about. With such a Governor and such a Sheriff, a fool can guess the future of Brassian City - don't want any huge changes, but you won't encounter a worse situation than you are now.

Time passed slowly in peace. It must be said that although Ashrufate was cautiously prepared to face the upcoming crisis, nothing actually happened. Even the suspicious figures who were prone to the head outside the manor disappeared completely because of living in the castle. After Io's death, this incident seemed to have ended here, without any traps targeting the two sisters (or against him), nor any other trouble, let alone anyone who found out the old accounts to examine the cause of Jaio's death.

Of course, the rumor—that is, the rumor about Ashu Rufate killing Io—is still circulating. However, even when the local rap ladies mentioned this, they themselves did not believe it. Because it was obvious that Io had at least five followers (their bodies were dug out together), and each of them carried muskets. In this case, it was incredible that Ashu Rufate could kill everyone without leaving one. In addition, the time and place of the accident happened, it was so unbelievable.

The final result of this incident was that the local government came forward to find a good location for Io and several other people (except the sheriff Falaud, who is a local official, who can enjoy a cemetery for officials). The church also generously provided beautiful stone tombstones for the unfortunate people who died in the accident, and found the best stonemason in the city to carve relevant text descriptions. Everyone enjoyed this treatment, instead of just like the unlucky people in such accidents, they used a few words to deal with it. Some people reported that these dead outsiders kept their luggage in the hotel, but unfortunately, when they went to find the luggage after the official confirmed the bodies, they found that they had all disappeared. Even the people in the hotel could not tell the reason.

In any case, the spring horse racing club has passed. It and that tragic accident were soon thrown into the corner of memory and no longer mentioned. The weather gradually became hotter, and the next event in Brassian City, the so-called "summer dance party", is about to begin. Most of the people's attention is focused on this matter.

Summer dance parties are not the same as spring horse racing. Spring horse racing is a festive competition, with fixed time and fixed venue. Summer dance parties do not refer to a certain dance party, but to the whole summer. The squire and nobles in the Brasian city area will hold dance parties continuously. These dance parties are large and small, with only a party of more than a dozen friends, accompanied by two or three musicians. The larger ones are dozens, hundreds of guests, and a whole team of bands.

Just as it happens every year. In late spring and early summer, musicians, singing and dancing troupes and bards from all walks of life begin to gather here. Now, these professional musicians can often be seen in taverns and hotels on the streets and alleys of Brassian City.

In short, everything seems to fit the style of this remote town - calm and without any turbulence. Even if there are dangerous storms hidden under this calmness, at least there is no sign yet.

...

Ashu Rufate stood on the tower platform, overlooking the small lake in front of him. Through the lake, you can see the ranch in the distance. Sheep of horses and sheep are scattered on the pasture, eating grass and running freely. Spring is a good season for horses to mate. At this time, there are often fights in the horse herd to compete for mares, which makes them always in a state of unstable state.

"What are you looking at?" A voice came from behind. Ash Rufat didn't need to look back to know that it was Xingjian coming.

"Look at those horses." Ashu Rufate stared. "Looking at them, I felt a sense. It seemed like I had been like this a long time ago, looking at the herds in the distance." He said softly.

"Is that true? What kind of herd?"

"I don't know, but it should be something like cattle, horses and sheep. But it looks really good... This will give me an illusion that these horses belong to me." Ashu Rufate smiled, "In this way, I will think I am a rich man."

Of course these horses are not his, but belong to those who rented his ranch. The ranch to which the castle belongs is very plump and is considered a top-notch local place. However, Ashu Rufate had reached a gentleman agreement with the Dell Knights before, so he could not raise the price on those leases.

"I like this tower and this platform very much." Ashu Rufate suddenly said. "Maybe I have lived in a similar castle, and I have also stood on a high platform more than once, looking at the world. It is taller than here." He looked up at the white clouds in the sky. "It was like stepping on the whole world under my feet."

"So too." Xingjian replied.

"How is the demolition of the magic array over there?" Ashu Rufat asked casually.

"I'm working hard. But it takes a lot of time to completely erase the traces." Xingjian replied. Although the two sisters are petite and look innocent, they are actually those who study black magic skills and can be regarded as black magicians. However, the black magic they have developed is very different from the black magic in the memory of Ashu Rufate. The black magic skills in Ashu Rufate's memory are based on themselves and strive to resonate with the black magic energy in the surrounding environment, thus using this power. However, the two sisters embarked on another path, and they tried hard not to use this energy through themselves. In order to conduct their research, the two sisters set up a magic array that gathered black magic energy in the basement of the small villa on the mountain.

However, after moving to this castle, the magic circle in the villa on the mountain seemed out of place. Because not only is it far away, but you can't stay there all day, it's also very dangerous to be caught by someone there. The underground of this castle happens to have a large and vacant basement, which is the most suitable place for the two sisters to study. This castle is a region where the master and servant living areas are obviously isolated. As long as the door is closed inside, you don't have to worry about the servants outside discovering the two sisters' secrets.

The only trouble at present is that in order to clean and live, they have to let their servants live in their master's living area. If they want absolute safety, the only way is to take care of everything themselves. Doing so will seem to be overwhelming. In short, there is no good way to do this at the moment.

A heavy sound of horse hooves suddenly came from the front. This was not the horses running on the ranch in the distance, but a horse rushed to the foot of the castle, or at the entrance.

"Is Ms. Katyuya at home?" the strange rider outside the castle gate shouted. Ashu Rufate noticed that the visitor was wearing a uniform. Through his clothes, this person should be an employee of a chamber of commerce. There are many chambers of commerce in Brasian, and Ashu Rufate has not yet figured them out one by one.

Ashu Rufate stared at the stranger dressed in a messenger, and Xingjian beside him pulled his sleeve.
Chapter completed!