Chapter 192: The Virtues of Nobility
"Sir, why are you here?"
The first one to react was Anna. The little maid Anna's face blushed a little. After all, she was dressing herself up and didn't expect to be caught by her own master.
"Uh, I just heard some noise inside, and I thought someone was stealing something in the castle, so I came in to take a look."
Gervis had the urge to run away immediately, but when he saw Alice's frosty face, he knew that it would be useless if he ran away, so he could only make up an awkward excuse.
“Lina, keep trying to help Anna!”
At this moment, Alice took a deep breath, looked at the glass in her hand, suppressed the urge to beat Gervis to death, then stood up with the glass, walked out of the room, and closed the door of the locker room.
After arriving at the corridor, Alice did not talk to Gervis. She just looked at him deeply, looking very cold and aloof, and then walked towards her study with elegant steps.
“…”
Gervis looked at the closed door, then looked in the direction of the study, and the corners of his mouth twitched. It seemed that God was playing a trick on him today and was not following the script at all.
Of course, this can only be blamed on Gervis himself for watching too many movies and becoming suspicious. In the scene just now, the castle butler helped Anna try on clothes, and the Earl was watching on the side. If this matter were to be made public, people would probably spit at Gervis. You are talking nonsense in broad daylight. My wife and even my lover are killed one by one, let alone your little maid.
"Alas, I have committed a serious sin today. As a man, I must admit my mistakes!"
After standing there for a while with his mind wandering, Gervis finally let out a sigh of helplessness. He was very clear that he had indeed misunderstood Alice just now.
Thinking that although Alice's marriage to him was only in name, she had brought him so many benefits, Gervis felt that he could not be an ungrateful person, so he still needed to go and say sorry.
This is not about dignity, it's just about right and wrong.
Thinking of this, Gervis took a step and came to Alice's study. The door of the study was not closed. Alice was sitting on the luxurious sofa in the middle of the study, holding a book and reading it carefully. She took a sip of drink from the cup from time to time while reading.
Without knocking on the door, Gervis walked directly to the sofa and sat down face to face with Alice.
Alice was wearing a lavender dress today, with her golden hair draped over her shoulders. She looked intellectual and elegant. Her sapphire eyes were deep and peaceful, and her eyelashes blinked from time to time when she turned the pages of a book. She actually made Gervis feel that with a beautiful wife at home, there was nothing more he could ask for. Of course, if she wasn't so cold.
"Hey! Do you believe what I said just now, it was a misunderstanding?"
Although he had already thought about apologizing to Alice in the corridor, when he saw the beauty in front of him, Gervis found that he didn't know where to start.
Should I tell Alice that I watched too many movies in my previous life?
Or is it that caring too much makes one confused? The problem is that in terms of relationship, Alice is his wife, so isn't it obvious who he should care more about?
Pah~
Alice ignored Gervis' words and suddenly slapped the book in her hand in front of Gervis, with the book still open.
"Um?"
Gervis was confused for a moment. He was just explaining to him that there was always an answer, believe it or not. What did it mean to slap a book in front of him?
Puzzled, Gervis lowered his head and looked at the still open book: 356 Rules of Etiquette for Nobles...
"Isn't this a book of similar nature to the traditional virtues of my previous life?"
This book is a book in this different world that teaches nobles how to become an excellent, qualified and positive noble. It contains the qualities that all kinds of nobles need to adhere to. Of course, the reality is that few nobles will actually read this book. After all, if you do everything according to what it describes, you can become the second Glory Boss.
"Noble couples should be loyal, equal, and friendly... and the specific manifestations can be..."
"Article 5. When choosing a personal servant, the husband and wife should respect each other. The man should only choose a male servant as a personal servant, and the woman should only choose a female servant as a personal servant..."
As Gervis read through the lines one by one, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
"What the hell, there are such rules. Why didn't my cheap dad teach me this? Also, isn't Thomas a member of the butler reserve team who has received a good education at Rose Castle..."
Gervis felt like he had fallen into a deep pit. No wonder Pat looked at him with strange eyes when they met last time. No wonder Lina asked him in the passage. No wonder Alice mentioned this in the morning...
"Did you finish reading? Do you understand?"
Seeing Gervis stunned for a moment, his expression changing from bright to dark, Alice asked him coldly.
"This... I've finished reading it! But I didn't know this before. Besides, a personal maid is also a servant. It doesn't matter to me whether she's a man or a woman. It's not as mysterious as what the book says..."
Facing Alice's question, Gervis felt a little wronged and guilty. He felt wronged because he had no idea that the nobles had such traditional virtues. In Gervis' impression, the nobles lived a shameless life, and having seventeen or eighteen lovers was no big deal. But to have such regulations for personal servants was like taking off pants to fart and building a saintly archway.
"hehe!"
Alice had a sneer on her lips and looked at Gervis coldly.
If Alice had not asked Anna about the process of Anna becoming a personal maid and knew that Anna was still a pure girl, she would no longer intend to pay attention to Gervis.
"Anna, just stay with me for a few days. I'll bring her back when you return to the territory. Do you have any objection?"
"Uh, no problem!"
Seeing Alice acting like a cold and aloof countess, Gervais couldn't say no. Moreover, he now understood what Alice said in the morning about being talked about by others. Of course, he didn't dare to take Anna out in Winterfell. After all, Gervais was thicker-skinned. But this would undoubtedly be a slap in Alice's face.
As for returning to his lair, he wouldn't have to worry about so many things. Everything there belonged to him. If anyone dared to gossip, he had ten cruel punishments to teach them a lesson. Of course, Gervis estimated that the serfs in his territory would not even bother to gossip, let alone have heard of the aristocratic code.
The most important thing is that Gervis just saw that Alice and Lina had no ill will towards Anna, so Gervis felt relieved to temporarily hand Anna over to Alice.
"Did you invent this golden wine yourself?"
After getting Gervis's affirmative answer, Alice's coldness eased a little. After a moment of silence, she shook the cup in her hand and asked Gervis.
"wine?"
Gervis was a little surprised. He immediately stood up and looked into Alice's silver cup. He saw that the cup in Alice's hand was filled with purple-red liquid. Wasn't it his golden wine?
How did my cheap wife get it to drink? I didn't seem to have given the order to send it to Alice?
(End of this chapter)
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