Summer estate.
This will be my future residence, a place a little further away from the south gate of the capital.
To be precise, it shouldn’t be the South Gate!
Jagun's capital was not so regular. As long as there was an oasis area, the city walls were built further outside, and this manor happened to be located in this location.
"Is this the place?" Frelia asked Illya who was driving the car.
"Yes, Princess."
“Looks good!”
"There aren't many houses inside, but the yard is quite large, and there's a lake with a fountain. We spent a lot of effort cleaning it."
People who can build fountains in their homes in the desert are really rich and luxurious enough... In fact, the water content in the desert is very interesting. It does not mean that there is a shortage of water in the desert. On the contrary, some places have abundant reserves, such as the city of Jagun.
The fact that the intermittent oasis has been able to survive for thousands of years is sufficient to prove the vitality of this place.
Maybe the situation is more serious on the side with the big desert, the others are okay!
"Thank you for your hard work." Frelia said with a smile.
“This is what we should do.”
When they arrived at the gate of the manor, Illya hurriedly asked the other servants who were already waiting there to come and get things and welcome Sean's arrival.
Most of these people were guards and palace maids in the imperial city. Apart from them, even some ministers and nobles did not know that Sean had moved out of the imperial city, otherwise today's welcome might not have been so low-key.
It was Sean who specifically requested that it not be stretched and that he just keep a low profile!
After getting off the carriage, all the guards at the door knelt down in unison.
"Your Highness."
"Well, everyone, get up. From now on, the safety of this place will be in your hands... And I've already discussed your accommodations with the eunuchs in the imperial city. You'll live here from now on. If there's not enough space, we can build something else next to it. So, feel free to stay here."
Sean hadn't noticed these little details before, and only realized them after Illya told him.
Even the guards need a residence and a home. In the past, they all lived in the imperial city, but if they didn’t ask, they would still live there. It was very troublesome to run back and forth like this.
Therefore, he simply let these guards live in the manor and treat them as his own private soldiers!
"Thank you, Your Highness."
Everyone answered in unison.
Walking into the manor, it really is a summer resort. The feeling of entering this place is different from other places.
A refreshing cool breeze blew towards me...
"Is there a lake here?" Frelia asked.
Neither of them had been here before, and they had always asked their subordinates to help them take care of the place.
"Yes, Princess. The front courtyard is built on the lake. There is a very high reservoir at the deepest part, which flows around the entire manor." Illya introduced on the side.
It seems that his mother really knows how to enjoy life. After all, she has traveled to so many places. After listening to Illya's description of the layout, Sean was reminded of the time when he was in the Kserk Palace... That place was also built around a big lake, and this place was probably built according to that.
Sean took Frelia and continued to go in to take a look...
I wanted to greet all the servants I met along the way, but my favorability towards some of them varied.
Sean guessed that these people were not in his palace before.
"Illya, are there other outsiders here?"
Sean's question made Illya look up in confusion.
"What does your highness mean?"
"People." He looked at several elderly people dressed like gardeners. "Some of them I haven't seen before..."
"There is such a group of people. They seem to have been workers here for a long time. When I came to clean up this manor before, I found that someone was taking care of it." Illya said.
There are still people living here?
"Could they be the servants left behind by my mother? If the Sun King has forgotten about this place, those servants will spend their entire lives here taking care of their master's belongings." Frelia looked at Sean and said.
Now that the two are married, Aila is considered her mother, but the way she addresses her has changed.
And she was right...
The only ones who could stay in this manor were Ayla's servants during her lifetime.
If the owner buys them, they will live where the owner is for the rest of their lives, and even after they die, they will continue to take care of the owner's things until the end of their life.
"It's possible."
Sean looked at the gardener who was bowing at the side of the corridor.
Compared with the guards and servants from the palace, they looked much poorer. Their tattered clothes had turned gray. The florist's cloth hanging on their chests could be seen from the laces. It was originally white, but now it was completely black, and the middle part even had a shiny oily sheen.
The grooves on the face are also a place of filth and dirt...
Not all servants remain loyal to their masters after their death. Many stories told by bards tell of servants who became masters after their masters' death and even took over their masters' surnames.
Although the endings are not good, such stories also show that similar things can happen in real life.
And at that time there was no savior in the story to help!
It was probably because the owner of this place was originally his mother. Even though the Queen was gone, the Sun King was still alive, and there were so many nobles and ministers loyal to the royal family, so these servants were very obedient even when there was no supervision.
"Watch your head!"
Just as Sean was focused on watching, something suddenly touched the top of his head.
At the door of one of the rooms there was a doll made of hay, fruit and cloth tied up!
Sean took the strange doll tied to the eaves and held it in his hand...
nothing,
I didn't feel anything when I hit it.
It’s just that the doll in my hand looks rather strange.
"I'm sorry, Your Highness. This is mine and I forgot to take it off!" An old woman who hurried over from the garden said in a trembling voice.
"How did you do this? Don't place these things randomly in the future." Illya scolded a few words.
The sound is not loud,
Maybe he was pretending in front of him, but Sean didn't care about it at the moment. It wasn't something that could hurt anyone anyway.
I'm just curious about what this doll looks like.
The body is cone-shaped, the lower half is straw wrapped in cloth, and the upper half, which should be the body, is made up of many branches, each with a small fruit on it, which looks strange.
"Is this yours?" Sean asked the old woman.
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