Chapter 2
Chapter 1
Today is not a gloomy weather.
The gentle breeze, wrapped in warm sunlight, blew in from the open windows of the castle, dispelling some of the damp feeling of living by the sea.
Xia Zoe sneezed a little.
He withdrew his gaze from a group of seabirds flying by the window, and looked at the housekeeper Johnson, who was more than two meters away from him in the house.
The old butler looked very embarrassed at this time, with messy hair scattered on his forehead, his clothes wrinkled, his hands tied back, and he knelt on the hard stone floor.
-Found guilty of stealing property from the host’s house.
He was crying bitterly and telling Xia Zoe about his former master and servant relationship, trying to impress the young master who inherited the earl title at the age of only six, hoping that the other party could forgive him for the sake of the late old earl.
“The God of Creation is here, I sincerely confess my sins…”
Old Johnson, who had exhausted all his acting skills, saw the little master who hadn’t spoken for a long time raised his hand, and his expression was happy, thinking that things would finally turn for the better.
Xia Zuoyi was slightly milky, but his unquestionable voice sounded: “Needless to say, after all, today next year is your anniversary of death, I don’t want to listen to dead people’s nonsense.”
After speaking, his raised hand swayed slightly.
The knight standing quietly came forward knowingly and dragged away the unbelievable old Johnson, whose face turned pale in an instant.
After the maid also left, Xia Zoe was the only one left in the room.
He sneezed two more small sneezes uncontrollably.
The cold caused by falling into the sea is not complete, causing slight headaches and nasal congestion.
Xia Zuoy stretched out two slightly chubby hands with meat pits and pulled over the blanket, wrapped herself in the shape of a matryoshka doll, and then comfortably nested in the large chair and closed her eyes.
“system.”
【Buddha System 098 is at your service. 】
The stickman with the number 098 above his head jumped out.
Xia Zoe: “Did the plot deviate?”
The stickman pulled a battery icon, which is blank after the battery is exhausted, and it says that the plot deviates from 0%.
Xia Zoe sighed.
He went into a novel.
A romantic novel of Mary Su based on the unrealistic trend of Medieval Western fantasy.
He is certainly not the heroine of Mary Su, but a cannon fodder with a total of ten chapters.
In the ten chapters, appearance, brain damage, and death, were finally convicted of sodomy, and hanged to end his life tragically.
Complete the role of the malicious tool man and the plot bulldozer with due diligence.
And the old housekeeper Johnson is a cunning villain who set up obstacles on his path as a bulldozer-to confuse, deceive, and seize power, just to usurp the throne.
Regrettably, the earl’s title is inherited by blood.
After learning the plot, the first thing that Xia Zuoyi solved was the old Johnson who had already stolen the castle’s property.
However, the result is in front of us, and the plot does not deviate in the slightest.
According to the systematic explanation-everything in the novel is a predetermined destiny.
For example, the heroine and the heroine must be together.
For example, the inevitable death of Xia Zoe.
…
Even if Xia Zoe stayed away from the hostess and escaped the hanging, she would be burned, drowned, or smashed to death due to various accidents…
Unless, change the fate of the world.
Obviously, the completion of the old Johnson’s scene ahead of schedule does not affect the fate of the world, and he is stingy even a little bit.
System 098: [The novel is centered on the heroine and written around the heroine. 】
[That is to say, the world line outside the heroine is incomplete and incomplete. 】
[For example, the book only mentions the East Continent once, two sentences, and there is not too much textual description. The host is on the Western Continent, and it is impossible to find the Eastern Continent anyway. 】
[When the heroine dies, the world will collapse. 】
Xia Zoe is not afraid of death, but does not want to die because of irrelevant human brain damage.
“what should I do?”
[This world is an overhead Western medieval ancient background, but has added fantasy and unrealistic elements. 】
System 098 example: [In reality, in the Middle Ages, believe in God, there are Christianity and Catholicism, etc., this world only has the God of Creation, the **** who created everything in the world. 】
[The **** of creation loves the sacred flower Berranca, and it is said that people who are favored by the gods can make the white sacred flower bloom bright red. 】
…
Some of them are different from the Western reality of the Middle Ages, but they also highly overlap.
System 098: [This world is undoubtedly backward and ignorant like the Middle Ages. 】
[In reality, after the Middle Ages, there will still be world processes. In the final analysis, it is the promotion of development. Please clarify what the essence of development is. 】
Xia Zoe: “…you take part-time job exams for politics?”
The stickman knocks on the blackboard: [It is the birth of new things and the demise of old things. 】
【098 Intimately produce for the host a strategy of not wanting to die and seeking development: all-round basic construction. 】
[Referred to as infrastructure. 】
[It can not only avoid the mortal ending, but also make up the world line and change the fate of world collapse. 】
098’s thoughtful strategy is indeed the best way that Xia Zoe can think of.
[Excuse me if the host accepts: Yes. no. 】
“Yes.”
As soon as the voice fell, there was a sudden change in front of him.
A three-dimensional map of the Western Continent slowly rises on the system interface.
There are seas, mountains, and water…There are also two empires, all small countries, cities…
[Light up the host’s existing territory: Wisas (country area)]
With the sound of System 098, a remote, sea-facing small city within the Kingdom of Gadayat faded away from gray instantly and rendered it into a clear color.
The area and population of Wessas are marked on the top.
System 098: [From now on, Visas will be the starting point of the host’s all-round infrastructure, and the gray part is the future that the host will strive hard for. 】
[Come on, host, 098 is optimistic about you. 】
“…”
The Kingdom of Gadaat, a small country occupying a small territory on the map of the Western Continent.
Wissas, a small and poor land belonging to the remote seaside of the Kingdom of Gadaat, oh no, the country.
The future he will work hard for… is the entire Western Continent?
Xia Zoe felt a pain in his head: “You really can count on me.”
He noticed that there was a battery icon representing the deviation of the plot at the top right of the system interface, followed by a white building icon, which read the prestige value: 0.
“what is this?”
[In view of the host’s lack of knowledge reserves, 098 specially opens the all-around library for you, and the host can redeem the prestige value for the qualification to read related books. 】
[Note: The reputation value can only be obtained in the host’s territory. 】
What is prestige?
-It is the reputation that everyone looks up to.
It depends on the degree of recognition of his lord by the people living in the Wisath Territory.
Xia Zoe Desnia’s mother died of a childbirth when he gave birth to him, and his father Matt Desnia was obsessed with alchemy, ruined Wesas’ government administration, and drastically raised taxes in the territory…
Naturally, the remote seaside “country areas” have become more impoverished and dilapidated.
Matt Desinia’s reputation can be imagined.
The entire Desinian family is not very good in the hearts of the commoners of Wess.
After the accidental death of Matt Desinia, the Desinia family was inherited by Shazoy Desinia.
A little earl who was only six years old and couldn’t make a difference, in the eyes of the commoners of Wessas, he couldn’t improve their lives.
-A long way to go.
Being able to exchange prestige points for related knowledge is good news for Xia Zuoyi.
The heroine lives in the Saint Airo Empire, one of the two empires, and there are frequent frictions and wars with the Anas Empire.
As for the Kingdom of Jadayat, it is backward, impoverished, and unremarkable, waiting to be conquered by the male protagonist.
Before the plot development, there is plenty of time for Xia Zuoy to prepare the capital to gain a foothold.
A difficult start.
Although there is an aristocratic status and the title of earl, there are also differences between earl and earl, depending on the location and scope of the territory.
Visas, ranked last.
Xia Zoe took a deep breath: “No wonder the text is cannon fodder.”
System 098: [Host, is there anything else for you? 】
“Not yet.”
After Xia Zoe finished speaking, the stickman dragged a package out of the frame of the system interface and carried it behind him.
[In this case, 098 went to travel, and activated the offline auto-reply mode. If the host has any problems, he can send a cosmic email to the 098 cosmic mailbox. 】
Xia Zoe was slightly sluggish: “You? Go traveling?”
[Yes, the universe is so big, 098 is going to see it. 】
[Please rest assured the host, the return channel is fast and safe, 098 will bring gifts to the host after returning. 】
Xia Zoe didn’t understand this system very well.
“Aren’t you staying to monitor the plot’s deviation from progress?”
[Please read the full name of 098 silently. 】
“…Buddha System 098?”
[Please be aware that the host clearly knows that 098 is the 98th system that appeared in the Buddhist series. It is necessary to implement the Buddhist philosophy of the host’s tasks. To be a Buddhist system requires no desires and no desires. It is calm and gentle, and does not implement supervision. , It all depends on the host’s consciousness. 】
“…What other series?”
【Sand sculpture series, local tyrant series, middle two series, krypton gold series…】
Xia Zuoyi: “It sounds like you are more normal.”
[Thanks to the host for complimenting 098. 】
The conversation ended at 098 and left.
At the top left of the system interface, there is an avatar of the stickman, just click if you want to send an email.
Xia Zoe opened his eyes, and it was still sunny outside the window.
He lifted the tightly wrapped blanket and stood up with the back of the chair. The height of the chair was enough to allow him to look out the window of the magnificent Cogit Sea.
Xia Zoe muttered to herself: “Marine Economy…”
Probably the most valuable and most useful thing in the poor Visas Territory in the future is the right to use the waters of the Cogit Sea.
In the novel, the Cogit Sea, the most extensive ocean in the Western Continent, connects two inland rivers. The Volli River flows through the Anas Empire, and the Abutin River flows through the Saint Airo Empire.
The farthest end of the Cogit Sea is the Eastern Continent.
Xia Zuoyi’s slightly chubby fingers crossed the back of the chair, thinking silently.
At this moment, the system made a beep.
There are mails sent.
Xia Zuoyi wondered, didn’t it take long?
He poked away the stickman head that kept shaking.
The email popped out—【Dear host, I forgot to give you a book-wearing benefit. The benefit of the selected infrastructure strategy is—There is a natural asphalt mine on Pal Mountain adjacent to Weissas. Attach a map with the detailed location indicated. 】
Behind is the jpg picture.
Xia Zuoy was startled: “Natural asphalt mine.”
He knows this thing, a wide range of waterproof and anticorrosive materials are used in civil engineering.
I have to say that the benefits presented by the system are very practical.
The only question is, how should he bring Palshan into the territory of Wessas and become his own private property.
Staring at the gray Pal Mountain in the map, Xia Zoe lost his thoughts.
Palshan’s question will be brought to mind for the time being.
Xia Zoe called the young maid Kelly and asked, “Where is the man who rescued me from the sea?”
Kelly looked a little nervous, and her sweaty hands scratched the hem of the skirt: “My Lord Earl, he’s in prison.”
Xia Zoe frowned slightly, making Kylie more nervous.
After the old housekeeper Johnson was dealt with vigorously, she couldn’t help but realize that the little earl in front of her was different from the old earl who was extremely obsessed with alchemy and ignored the administration of the castle.
She was a little worried about the innocent Judith Jensen.
Xia Zoe Desinia was swept away by the waves because of his playfulness, and because the old Johnson looked insidious and negligent.
There were a lot of male servants with him at the time, but Udit Jensen was the only one who did not hesitate to save.
After being rescued, Shazoe Desinia had a high fever.
In this era when no illness can kill anyone, Judit Jensen was convicted.
The accusation is that he did not rescue the little earl earlier, causing the little earl to become unconscious with a high fever.
It sounds ridiculous, but such a crime is completely feasible throughout the Western Continent.
Noble privileges are above all else.
The lives of civilians and slaves are not worth mentioning, as low as dust.
Judit Jensen will not be convicted.
But if Xia Zoe Desinia dies, the old butler Johnson will be the first to bear the brunt. In order to shirk responsibility and escape punishment, it is natural to find someone who is behind it.
“Officials” were crushed to death at a higher level.
Judit Johnson had no way to resist.
Xia Zoe couldn’t think of him in jail: “Someone will bring him over.”
“Yes, Lord Earl.”
Udit Jensen was quickly escorted into the room and knelt on the cold floor.
Life in prison for two days was probably a bit difficult.
He looked pale, with chapped lips, and a little scum on his chin, but his hair was neatly combed behind his head. Although his clothes were slightly dirty but seldom wrinkled, they just stuck to his body because of dampness.
He took care of himself well, and his spirit was not tortured by unreasonable charges, his expression was plain, without the slightest panic or anxiety.
Xia Zuoyi took his gaze back and changed his decision to let him go if he wanted to give some rewards.
“first name.”
The immature voice sounded.
Judith Jensen’s eyes, which had been drooping since entering, lifted slightly.
He saw the little earl sitting in the center of the large chair without touching his feet, his round cheeks were no longer visible from the redness of the high fever, showing a healthy color.
“Udit Jensen, Lord Earl.”
“Want to get rid of the crime?” Xia Zoe said: “I can give you a chance.”
Of course Udit Jensen thought, “My Lord Earl, please express.”
“Follow me and serve. If I am satisfied, you will naturally be innocent.”
“…Yes, my lord.”
This request is strange and perplexing to Udit Jensen.
Because it’s so easy.
After all, serving the earl is his duty and duty.
Formerly a second-class male servant did not have the qualifications to serve the earl directly, and his main job was to clean the castle and cultivate the fields.
Work is the most tiring, and food is the most inferior.
And he stayed with the little earl and waited on him, but he had to do everything in his mind, but the treatment in all aspects was much better than before…
Especially after the catastrophe, the little earl has become well-behaved and calm, and there is no deliberate behavior of making things difficult.
After getting used to it, Udit Jensen became more and more comfortable with his new duties.
For Xia Zoe, he validated his ideas.
-Udit Jensen is indeed a delicate-minded, serious and steady person.
He will observe Xia Zoe’s habits before getting up early and before going to bed, and after silently jot down, all arrangements are proper and reasonable.
He will pay attention to what Xia Zoe does every day, understand and familiarize himself in advance to ensure that he can answer immediately when asked.
Judit gets along well with the servants in the castle, and is impeccable in terms of words, deeds, etiquette, etc.
What’s more, he did not hesitate to save people. After being locked up in prison, he was still calm, paying attention to his manners and not letting himself show embarrassment. This is the main reason for Xia Zoe’s decision to change his mind.
During the period, Udit gave him a surprise.
“You can read?”
Xia Zoe was a little surprised, because Judet quickly sorted the books he accidentally dropped on the ground.
“Yes, Lord Earl, my great-great-grandfather was awarded the baronial title.” Udit replied.
On the Western Continent, titles are inherited from the nobility, and only the last baron can be awarded through merit.
In addition, civilians do not have any promotion opportunities.
Being able to read is a rare thing, and it is even more difficult to be baroned.
But after gaining it and losing it, it must have undergone great changes.
Now Judith Johnson has no relatives and only friends. Xia Zoe has no intention of poking his wounds. No wonder he is not like an ordinary manservant, and some manners are also very good.
The investigation is over.
Xia Zoe said directly: “Are you willing to be the steward of Desinia?”
Udit’s pupils shrank slightly.
He did not expect and was not prepared to hear these words, from the second-class manservant to the housekeeper, the span was a bit large, and he couldn’t help standing in place for a while.
But he immediately responded quickly and bowed his head: “I do, Lord Earl.”
The sunlight sprinkled from the windows to every corner of the house, bright and warm, and even the fine dust floating in the air was clearly visible.
Xia Zuoyi sat in a chair, as if she was shrouded in golden light. He stretched out his hand: “From today, you will be loyal to me.”
Udite knelt on one knee, emptied his white, tender and short hand against his forehead, and said softly and piously: “I will always be loyal to you.”
The author has something to say:
Xia Zuoyi: I am a man who wants to conquer the Western Continent.
The entire Western Continent will be my territory.