"Oh, Sveta, your forehead is sweating. Let me wipe it for you." Maru put on blush today and wore a red long dress. The wide petticoat made the hem of her skirt completely open, which seemed even redder than the blooming rose.

Sveta had just trimmed the branches of a rose in front of her, turned her head and glanced at Maru, a strange color flashed in her eyes. At this moment, the sunlight shone on Maru's face, who was smiling gently, and it was so holy, like an angel sent from heaven.

The words of refusal that were originally intended to be said came to his lips, but he couldn't say them, and instead he nodded uncontrollably.

"Well, thanks, Maru." Sveta forced a smile.

The smile in Maru's eyes became even more intense, and her fleshy hands held the towel and gently wiped Sweet's face.

The two looked at each other in silence, and a different feeling arose in their hearts.

"Breaking news, good news, great news!"

An ecstatic shout came from the door, breaking the afternoon tranquility of Green Manor.

A beautiful figure was running fast in the manor. She was Vanessa's sister, Ellie. As Ellie ran, her excited voice spread to every corner of the manor.

"Ellie, are you crazy? What kind of news makes you so out of control!" Vanessa looked at her own sister, holding a pile of broken wooden stakes from the training ground in one hand and an exquisite envelope in the other, and scolded her from the fourth-floor window.

"Oh, Vanessa, Ellie is lively by nature. You shouldn't suppress her. Letting her release her nature will be more conducive to her growth." Krina's room. She and Vanessa had an appointment to knit a sweater in the room in the afternoon. Looking at Vanessa lying by the window in a purple dress, Krina smiled with her hands covering her mouth.

Vanessa turned around, smiled helplessly, shook her head and said, "Clina, your suggestion is great, but she still can't make a fuss in the manor. At least her current identity is not suitable."

Then she turned back and said to Ellie below, "What's that in your hand?"

With her own vision, she could tell that this was not an item that Ellie could obtain with her status. The exquisite material was definitely not an ordinary item.

"This is the royal family's book of merit. Congratulations to our lord on his promotion to marquis!"

Ellie raised her head, and her clear, lively and excited voice rang out.

At this moment, the entire manor became quiet, as if everything had lost its voice.

"What? Are you sure you're not kidding?! Oh my God, if you tell such a lie, I won't forgive you." Vanessa covered her slightly opened mouth, still not quite believing this sudden news. How could he become a marquis after only a few months of absence? Klina didn't care about the sweater in her hand. She stepped on the light blue plush carpet with her feet in white silk socks. She came behind Vanessa, looked out the window, and said in disbelief: "Vanessa, look, the thing in her hand doesn't look like an imposter. How about we go down and take a look?"

"Yes, yes. You are right. Let's go down quickly. If it is true, we must not let the reckless Ellie damage it." Vanessa turned around, took Clina's hand, and was about to leave the room.

"Wait, I haven't changed my shoes yet." Klina said helplessly, then lowered her eyes to look at Vanessa's bare feet under her skirt, "You too, are you planning to keep going like this?"

"Oh, it's all my fault." Vanessa was stunned for a moment, smoothed her hair on the side of her head and said in annoyance: "I was really worried that Ellie would do something wrong, but I really hoped that the news she said was true. My thoughts were a little confused."

Clina came forward with her pregnant belly, took out her hand and patted Vanessa on the back, smiling and said, "Relax, it's okay."

Vanessa exhaled softly: "Thank you, Clina."

"Oh, I just heard... that little girl Ellie said that the master was promoted to marquis?" Maru looked towards the castle with suspicion, then stared at Sveta, "Is she kidding?"

The sweat on Sveta's face had been wiped dry. His eyes were filled with anticipation and surprise. His inner joy was like branches swaying wildly in a storm. He said in a trembling voice, "I believe Ellie. She is not the kind of person who would make such a joke. I have seen her growth in the past two years. What she said must be true!"

"Maru, thank you, but I have to go see Ellie now. I'm sorry that I can't fulfill our agreement - we will finish pruning the roses together this afternoon." Sveta looked at Maru and said apologetically.

"You're exaggerating. The result is not important. What's important is the process. It's not necessarily a bad thing to delay an agreement for a little longer." Maru smiled with her hands covering her mouth.

"Okay, you have a point. Let's continue on the next sunny day."

"Then I'm looking forward to the next sunny day." Maru folded the towel and said, "I have to hurry back to the kitchen. If the news is true, I must prepare a sumptuous dinner tonight, right?"

"No need to be too sumptuous, the master is not here."

“What’s the appropriate standard then?”

"Except for the aquatic monsters, you can do as you please with the rest." Sveta said after a moment of hesitation.

"I understand. You go find Ellie quickly. I have to go back to the kitchen." Maru urged Sveta to do her job, and then she twisted her hips and left the rose garden.

Sveta looked at Maru's back, let out a light breath, then quickened her pace and headed downstairs of the castle.

"Ellie, what's that in your hand?"

Sveta, who came hurriedly, vaguely saw Ellie's figure, as well as the servants and maids who heard the news and hurried over from all over the manor and the castle hall to surround Ellie.

Sveta noticed this, clapped her hands, frowned and scolded: "What are you all doing here? Have you finished your work? I don't remember assigning you the task of asking for gossip."

"Rachel, Bertha, Debbie, the flower beds at the manor are a little messy again. Hurry and make them tidy again. Except for the rose garden, of course."

The three people whose names were called hurriedly left the crowd, said "yes" guiltily, and ran away.

"Jenna, Janissa, and Pulin, Maru is waiting for you in the kitchen. She has assigned you new tasks. Hurry up and go over!"

"Oh, we got it, let's go now!" Three more voices came from the crowd, running towards the castle.

Then the whole crowd began to disperse, fearing Sveta's majesty, and returned to their respective posts.

"Leo, Bella, you two don't leave yet." Sveta looked at the two backs and waved.

"Mr. Sveta, what can I do for you?"

"Go to the wine cellar and transport a few more boxes of red wine and fruit wine to the castle. I saw yesterday that the castle's storage was running low."

"Understood, we'll go now."

"Well, be careful not to make the same mistake as before - don't move the wrong box." Sveta said with a frown.

Seeing that the crowd had not yet left, Sveta hurriedly thought about what other tasks needed to be arranged, but when the crowd dispersed, he couldn't think of anything, so he nodded secretly and set his eyes on Ellie: "Ellie, where did you get this thing."

"Yes, I am also curious about this question. Ellie, where did the thing in your hand come from?"

At this time, Vanessa's voice came from the castle. She and Clina walked side by side, walked down the castle stairs, and walked along the stone path.

She walked over with a fragrant breeze, looking at Ellie with scrutiny, but suddenly realized that Ellie had grown almost as tall as her, and she could no longer look down on her sister as she did before.

Ellie, who was cheerful by nature, shook the envelope in her hand that was gleaming with golden light. The excellent material ensured that it would not bend no matter how hard it was shaken.

"Hehe, it was given to me by the royal family." Ellie smiled cheerfully.

"Where are the royal family members? Why don't I see them?" Sveta asked sharply, with a hint of urgency in her tone. As a butler, if an important guest comes to visit, it would be a serious dereliction of duty not to greet him.

"The royal family?" Vanessa exclaimed: "Ellie, have you met someone from the royal family?"

"Yes, I just went to Dark Eagle City and happened to meet him when I was replenishing supplies at the administrative office. The royal family member was in the administrative office just now, talking to Riley." Ellie responded.

Sveta secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was not a bad thing. He almost thought that the royal family had just arrived at the gate of the manor, and he missed it because of his tryst with Maru. On a hot day, he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.

"Okay, it seems you are not joking. You can hand the envelope to me. I really want to see what is written inside!" Vanessa smiled and reached out to take the golden envelope.

But Ellie dodged and hid the envelope behind her.

Facing her sister's questioning gaze, Ellie shook her head and said, "Rylai said that the first person to open the envelope can only be the Lord, so he asked me to give it to Mr. Sveta for safekeeping first."

Hearing this, Vanessa was stunned for a moment, and said apologetically: "I am sorry for being rude. Indeed, only my father is qualified to open it personally."

Ellie giggled, didn't take it to heart, skipped over to Sveta and handed her the envelope with both hands.

"Haha, Ellie, you did a great job." Sveta said with a smile, but her hands were very careful as she put the envelope into her arms.

"Thank you for the compliment!" Ellie's eyes narrowed into crescents, and her purple short hair looked very neat and tidy. Then she added, "I still need your help to escort the milk to the ranch. I have to go there quickly!"

"Drive slowly," Sveta casually advised.

"Um!"

Ellie said, and turned away.

"Ellie!" Looking at her sister's back, Vanessa suddenly called out to her sister who was about to leave.

"Huh? What's going on?" Ellie turned around and looked at her sister in confusion, "Is there anything else?"

"No, nothing." Vanessa smiled, "You... have grown up."

Ellie was stunned for a moment when she heard that, and said, "Hmph, I haven't changed!", then she quickened her pace and left.

As night falls, Dark Eagle City on the edge of the Dark Eagle Mountains is covered with a veil of darkness.

The lights in Green Manor were bright.

At this moment, a grand banquet was held on the wide lawn.

The servants were singing and dancing, Tucker was fighting with the knights in the training ground, and Riley was surrounded by Taylors and Mina, Clina, and Vanessa. The atmosphere was lively and harmonious.

Riley had spent the afternoon entertaining the royal messenger and had just returned to the manor.

Taylors handed a bottle of apple juice to Rayleigh, and asked with a look of curiosity in his eyes, "Hey Rayleigh, what was the reason for your father's promotion to Marquis? Did that person tell you this afternoon?"

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The cork of the apple juice bottle was uncorked. A burst of ice gathered in Ruilai's hands, making the temperature even cooler. He drank a big sip happily, then looked around at the family members around him, shook his head and said, "Family members don't have to expect to get any useful information from me. In fact, even the messenger and some people in the royal family don't know why father was promoted to marquis. They only said that he had made 'outstanding contributions to national diplomacy', but no one knows his specific actions."

"Oh? Outstanding contribution to national diplomacy..." Thales murmured, lost in thought, his eyes fixed on the bottles of apple juice in Riley's hands. His fingers unconsciously pulled the grass on the ground, pulling it off one by one and throwing it aside.

Mina patted Thales' back with her little hand and whispered in his ear, "Taylor, do you think it has something to do with the attack on the Ring Tower of the Rem Kingdom some time ago, and our country's Sanctuary went to support it? Because I heard that the relationship between the two countries has improved a lot since then."

"Huh? That makes sense!" Thales' eyes lit up in amazement. Although he couldn't figure out how his father did it, his father had always been great and omnipotent. Even if something incomprehensible happened, they would still believe it instinctively.

"Hmm...it seems possible." Riley glanced at Taylor and Mina. Even though they were whispering, he heard it clearly.

Then he glanced around, and then looked at the territory members gathered together more than ten meters away, and whispered: "Shh, then don't discuss this matter in public from now on. Let's wait for father to come back and hear the real situation."

"Hehe, no problem!" Thales said with a smile.

"Well, Vanessa, please tell Tucker not to talk nonsense later..." Riley looked at the campfire in the distance. The firelight reflected on Tucker's face, who was grinning and laughing. She said with some concern.

Vanessa also had a headache about Tucker’s temper, and nodded helplessly, “Okay, I’ll emphasize it to him.”

"Hey, everyone, on this happy day, do you want to have a barbecue together?"

Not long after the family finished their discussion, McCoff came over on the lawn, smiling, with Vicky by his side. The two walked side by side and very close to each other.

"Okay, I just came from Dark Eagle City and haven't eaten for most of the day. I'm a little hungry." Riley stood up first, holding a bottle of apple juice in his hand. "The grills now seem a little insufficient. I'll go ask Sveta to prepare another one."

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