Chapter 140: Olena under the Moonlight

Now is the summer of the second year since I traveled through time.

The first time I met Olenna was in the spring of the first year, when Rand had just sent the real cultists to see the Mother Goddess.

Taner had just joined the den. Rand still remembered that Taner had memorized the teachings of the Cult of the Goddess of Plenty very well. Unfortunately, he later changed the teachings beyond recognition.

After that, there were the tauren Shasa, Taran, Ellie and Olenna.

By this calculation, it has been almost a year and a half.

A gentle and generous person, this is how Rand has always defined Olenna.

"No, I think they should be jealous of me." Rand smiled without caring too much.

Then Rand said, "Finish your work early today and give yourself a day off."

Rand's day off is Olenna's day off.

Olenna thought about today's schedule, which was full of trivial matters. It was rare for her to guess Rand's thoughts and she didn't know what the serious matter Rand was talking about was.

Judging from the time now, the Mage Corps should have arrived at Taner's defense line. I wonder how Taner will act.

There was also the group of knights who had crossed the defense line in an attempt to regain the face they had lost in the previous failed robbery. I don't know what the battle situation is like now. Intelligence from the front line said that a scout saw a woman who looked like the Snow Fox Countess in the Crescent Territory, but she disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Rand felt that the probability that the Snow Fox Countess would come to the Crescent Territory in person to invade was low. After all, her reputation was still very famous, and she would not do such a risky thing.

I just don't know what the quality is. It's a good opportunity to let these knight raiding groups that have passed through the defense line with his permission to try out the quality of this countess. I hope this snow fox countess is not too weak, otherwise Rand will only be able to get some benefits from raiding snow foxes.

Rand reviewed the battle situation in his mind for a while, and then he and Olenna strolled to the lord's hall.

I have walked this road many times, and I walk it more often in the summer because the big bathhouse is at the resort villa at the foot of the mountain, and if you want to take a bath, you have to walk up and down.

After returning to the Lord's Hall, Rand began to deal with what he called business.

That is, to write letters to the Earl of Greenleaf and the Earl of Stag. It would be a great offense to match their juniors without permission. The nobles of this era had the obligation to arrange family marriages.

In this world, in poor places, a barony is only the baron himself who is completely free from property.

The Frost Moon Kingdom is not bad, but these noble children, while enjoying the fine clothes and delicious food of being nobles, naturally have the obligations of being nobles.

For example, marriage or sacrifice for the family.

And Rand was not qualified to decide these matters on their behalf.

This time, Olenna did not sit on the armrest of the huge stone chair as usual, but sat in her seat in the lord's hall.

The symbol behind the wooden chair that belongs to Ellie is an alchemical potion bottle.

The symbol behind the wooden chair belonging to Olenna is a swift sword.

Although Olenna doesn't seem like a dueling maniac at all, and for some reason, her best weapon is the swift sword that specializes in dueling.

"How do you plan to write it?" Olenna smiled and looked at Rand, who had a very conflicted expression.

Rand rubbed his face in great distress. This kind of thing was very troublesome, but Rand did not want to destroy the youth of the boys and girls, especially when they were actually quite suitable.

At least from Rand's perspective, these two boys and girls are quite compatible in terms of family background, personality and talent. If they were not so suitable, Rand would not have done this.

"Let's say they are secretly buying and selling things. I have tried to stop them several times and tried to break them up, but to no avail. I am an outsider and they are also children of nobles. I, Rand, cannot punish them too much. Now I have no other choice. Let me ask Earl Stag and Little Earl Greenleaf what they think."

"Puchi~" Olenna seldom laughed like this, but today she really couldn't help it. It was obvious that Rand wanted to support the love of young people a little, but his diplomatic rhetoric almost completely distanced himself from it.

"Ahem." Rand clenched his fist and placed it under his chin. He pretended to cough, then said with a smile, "Young people must always be responsible for their own actions!"

Olenna chuckled again, and then, according to Rand's instructions, she wrote a letter to Earl of the Stag and Earl of the Green Leaf in a more standardized way.

Then the business was done, and Rand went about his daily chores.

The political structure of the den is now very clear, with Rand and Ellie as the top leaders, Taran as the middle leaders, and the grassroots.

What Rand has to do is to take a general look at the overall situation and then conduct on-site inspections from time to time to prevent his subordinates from misunderstanding the government orders.

So although Rand seems to be wandering around every day, he is actually micro-regulating the development of the den.

At least that's how Rand explained it when Ellie looked at him suspiciously and thought he was slacking off.

Sometimes he would take a Centaur carriage to the Haunted Iron Mine to conduct an on-site inspection.

It was very shabby when I went there last time, I don’t know how it is now.

Everything was normal today. I went to take a look at the breeding wheat field first. The breeding wheat field is already the third generation, but the effect is average. Either it is resistant to lodging but the yield is low, or the yield is slightly higher, but it is not resistant to insects or lodging. In short, no good traits can be produced, but Rand is not discouraged.

Breeding is a long-term tug-of-war process. Once it succeeds, it will benefit future generations. Rand doesn't mind if it's slow in the early stages.

In fact, there are some farmlands outside the holiday villa at the foot of the mountain. After some adventurers came to the holiday villa, they liked the environment here so much that they simply settled down, such as some adventurers who lost their adventurer partners and were unwilling to take risks again.

Some of them applied to Rand for a piece of land, and Rand would arrange for the Tauren to help them cultivate the land. Then they would become official citizens of the Crescent Territory and pay taxes to Rand.

These adventurers do farm work during the busy farming season, and go to holiday resorts to teach new adventurers during the slack season. Now the adventurer economy in the hideout has entered a positive cycle.

The strength of Rand's territory is also increasing day by day, but unfortunately this is a very long process, and the results in a short period of time are also very slow.

The next step is to observe the growth of the new exclusive units of the hideout, the cattle and horses given by the Dark Goddess of Plenty.

Rand asked the person in charge of taking care of the cattle and horses to record their growth status every day. Now they gain about 0.9 kg every day, and it is estimated that they will grow into full-grown in more than a year.

Nowadays, Rand is vigorously promoting the breeding of cattle and horses. In fact, he waits for the blessing 2CD to be ready every day, and then he throws two. Originally, he was worried that the cattle and horses would not be suitable mounts when they grew up, but now he doesn't have to worry, at least they can be used to deal with the undead.

It may be very useful in the future to deal with the undead.

I debugged the waterwheel again, and then wandered around the den and the holiday villa at the foot of the mountain to see people's living standards.

After the tour, it was already night.

In the end it was still a full day's work.

Return to the Lord's Hall.

Olenna was wearing a tight dress today. The skirt was a deep sapphire blue with delicate gold patterns embroidered on it. The upper part of the dress was close to her body, while the hem of the lower part gradually flared out.

A wide belt inlaid with gems was tied around the waist, and the sleeves were wide and long, hanging to the knees, fluttering gently in the wind.

The rest of them had no extra decorations and did not wear any jewelry or other accessories.

In other words, Olenna herself is the most brilliant jewel.

The moonlight today is quite bright. The moon is big and round. The bright moonlight illuminates the earth, as if it were daytime.

Olenna followed Rand back to the sacrificial chamber, where the altar that had originally existed was no longer visible.

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Watching Rand taking off his clothes, Olenna asked, "Are you going to bed so early today?"

Rand shook his head: "I'll change my clothes."

Although Rand usually pays attention to practicality in his clothes, after all, he sometimes has to work in the fields for farming, so most of the time the clothes he wears are relatively cheap and convenient.

But now that he is a viscount, he naturally wears more formal dress.

A dark gray velvet coat decorated with golden buttons that are densely arranged from top to bottom, sparkling with luxurious light.

He wore a tight white shirt with delicate patterns embroidered on the collar and cuffs, and a pair of black tights that fit closely to his legs.

To be honest, the pants were really tight, and Rand was able to put them on slowly with the help of Olenna.

Finally, there is a pair of leather boots with delicate patterns on them. This dress was prepared in order to watch the performance of the Black and Brown City theater troupe. After returning, he never had the chance to wear it, and now it finally comes in handy.

Olenna could always guess what Rand was thinking.

So after helping Rand put on his dress, he was a little afraid to look at Rand.

Rand didn't say much, but just took Olenna out and walked to the outside of the lord's hall, which was a relatively flat open space.

Putting on a pair of white gloves, Rand took a few steps forward, touched his chest with one hand, then knelt on one knee and extended his hand: "Beautiful lady, may I dance with you?"

Of course, there are no gorgeous lights and gorgeous decorations like those in the aristocratic ballroom, but at least there is the bright moonlight pouring down like water, and the sky is full of stars.

Olenna reached out her hand and placed it over Rand's, then clasped their hands together.

"OK."

Without music, Rand couldn't dance, but that didn't affect the moment.

Rand is indeed a somewhat slow and unromantic person, but he is just a little slow in understanding, not really knowing nothing.

The moonlight shines on Olenna, making her beautiful face look extremely beautiful.

Olenna had learned aristocratic dance, but she had never really practiced it at a ball, and she hadn't reviewed it for a long time, so she was very unfamiliar with it.

If there were onlookers, they might laugh at the couple's poor dancing skills, thinking that they were obviously unqualified as nobles. But the two dancers didn't care at all.

At least when their eyes met from time to time, they didn't care about the dancing skills.

The summer night breeze dispelled some of the heat and also blew the beautiful woman's skirt.

…

"What a bad dance." In the distance, on a tree far away, Ellie supported her chin with one hand and grabbed the branches with the other.

On the branch next to them stood Elsa and Ryza.

Elsa glanced at Ellie: "Why did we come here to see this!"

Ellie rolled her eyes: "If you don't want to watch, you can go back to sleep."

Elsa shut up immediately, and after a while, she stammered, "Are you envious?"

Ellie asked back, "Aren't you envious?"

Elsa shut up again.

After a while, Elsa couldn't help but speak again: "Lysa, Lisa, why don't you speak?"

Lisa also squinted, then flipped her hands and conjured up a vibrating communication device: "Do you want this? I can lend it to you."

Elsa's face suddenly darkened. She forgot that Lisa was now in an unreliable state of mind.

"I think we can give it a try," Elsa said.

"Try what." Ellie couldn't help but reply.

"For example, a dress with a sapphire background?" Elsa said as she looked at the tights and leather armor that made it easier for her to move.

Ellie looked at her fitted beige dress and rolled her eyes again.

(End of this chapter)