Chapter 216 Caroline's Reliance
After returning to his private room, Gervis ate and drank with Iger and Pat for a while, and only returned to Rose Castle after they had eaten and drunk their fill.
Before leaving, Gervis gave Iger two jugs of wine, one for him and one for Anthony. Although the wine was not enough to sell now, Gervis was not stingy towards those who showed kindness to him. After all, he never knew when it might be useful.
After returning to Rose Castle, Gervis went directly to the study on the third floor and started flipping through the books. Gervis planned to take advantage of these few days to read more books in the study.
Gervis had been reading in the study for more than an hour when he heard footsteps outside the door. The door opened and Alice walked in gracefully.
"You're back?"
Seeing Alice walk into the study, Gervis raised his head and asked.
Although Alice was also wearing a long skirt today, which perfectly showed off her tall and well-proportioned figure, it was not as revealing as Caroline. The long skirt Alice wore had half sleeves and beautiful lace sleeves on her forearms.
Alice nodded to Gervis. Although her expression was still cold, it was much softer than when she was angry. It was obvious that Alice was in a good mood at the moment.
Alice walked directly to the opposite side of Gervis and sat on the sofa. After sitting down, she asked Gervis, "How did you and Caroline know each other?"
Hearing Alice's question, Gervis put the book in his hand on the desk, and then began to tell Alice what happened in Snowy Manor that day, and also told Alice about the bet with Kevin.
It was then that Alice realized how Gervase's shop came about. As a big city under the Earl's seat, there were of course many spies from the Jones family in Winterfell. However, Snowfield Manor belonged to the property of the Lord of the North. In order to respect the Lord of the North who loved her, Alice did not place any spies in Snowfield Manor, so she only knew about this matter now.
Of course, if there is any important information, Snowland Manor will also share it with Rose Castle.
As for Kevin, he certainly didn't want to publicize such a shameful thing, especially not to let Alice know.
"Caroline invited me to a banquet today and talked to me about two things. The first one was about wine, and the second one was about you..."
Gervais certainly won't make it easy for Caroline and Kevin who are trying to blatantly frame him. At the very least he has to remind his cheap wife. There is of course a little selfishness in this. He can't get such a beautiful and cold goddess, so Gervais certainly doesn't want others to get her.
After listening to Gervis' detailed description, Alice was not surprised or angry. She just nodded and said, "I know about this matter. You don't have to worry about it. In fact, the rumor that Kevin and I were in love was fanned by Caroline, who made everyone believe Kevin's words."
"Isn't Caroline a member of the Solem family? She's also your cousin. What good will this do for her?"
When Gervis heard this, he felt that it was a bit like a palace drama, but there was one thing he couldn't understand, which was what benefit would this bring to Caroline?
Was it because of jealousy? Gervis felt that his guess was somewhat possible. After all, every time he said that Alice was prettier than Caroline, Caroline would have a strong reaction.
"That's exactly what I wanted to tell you. In addition to being a child of the Solem family, Caroline is also the eldest prince's fiancée!"
"You'd better not let something like what happened today happen again, because if the eldest prince finds out, he will never allow anyone to take advantage of Caroline."
Alice's sapphire eyes fell on Gervis. Seeing that Gervis wanted to explain something, Alice continued, "Even if Caroline did it on purpose, it won't work. For people with power, right or wrong is not important. The strength of the person is the standard for judging things."
Gervis immediately understood a lot of things. Why could Caroline boast that she could resolve the buffer zone problem between her and Lanny? Although Kevin was the third son of the Earl, he followed Caroline like a younger brother. All this was because of the eldest prince.
This explains why Caroline was a pimp for Kevin. Alice is now very popular, and all the great nobles in the principality want to take a bite of the Jones family. Among them, the most powerful are of course the king and his sons.
The king didn't care which of his sons would end up with the Jones family, but the eldest prince and the second prince didn't think so. They both tried their best to control the Jones family in their own hands and help them ascend to the throne in the future.
What they least wanted to see was the Jones family being taken over by the other party, so both sides used many means to fight for Alice.
Even if this sweet nest has been bitten by flies like Gervis, they don't mind and can just drive them away when the time comes.
Although the principality seems calm on the surface, there are undercurrents in secret. All of this stems from the disappearance of the Jones family's strongest deterrent.
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In the next few days, Gervis maintained the same schedule as the previous two days, and went to the Orc Arena with Pat every morning.
During these three days, Gervis had good luck, which allowed him to obtain 5 energy points, 4 of which were obtained by using gold coins to bid for the brave to execute orcs.
Of course, humans did not win every fight in the Colosseum. There were a total of six fights in these three days, two each day, and two of the six fights ended with humans being slaughtered by orcs.
Finally, the arena sent out the title knights to finish off the fight, leaving the bodies of the dead humans intact. It was also because of these two failed fights that Gervis did not gain any energy points.
Another energy point is that Gervis opened Eve's space and personally led his guards to kill the orcs to obtain it. The place where the space was opened was also in the Colosseum. With Lina's order, Gervis easily entered the empty Colosseum in the evening.
This time, Gervis did not encounter as many orcs as the first time. There were only 8 orcs in the orc space opened by Eve this time, and they were gnolls that were quite similar to kobolds. Although gnolls were slightly stronger than kobolds and moved faster, they could only be suppressed when facing the guards who were armed to the teeth.
Moreover, Gervis was simply after energy points, so he did not give the orc leader a chance to use his skills like last time. When the orc leader just came out of the space, Gervis used a critical three-sword slash to split him in half.
In addition to energy points, Gervis also earned 685 gold coins in the past few days, of which 670 gold coins came from selling wine. On the second day of opening, the reputation of the golden wine spread throughout Winterfell.
A total of 670 jugs were sold within three days. Three days later, because most of the nobles had already purchased the golden wine, the sales volume slowly dropped.
The sales of ice cream have been booming in the past few days, earning Gervis 15 gold coins. You should know that a can of ice cream is only 2 silver coins, and 15 gold coins are equivalent to selling more than 750 cans of ice cream. The ice cream brought by Gervis this time is about to run out of stock, and only two-fifths of the ice cream is left, which can last for a few days at most.
(End of this chapter)
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