Reincarnation of Soul Cultivation 2

William made Nia a housekeeper, hired a cook who specialized in cooking, and a maid who cleaned rooms and did laundry.There is no buying a carriage and hiring a coachman.

Because based on William's current apparent salary, buying a carriage and hiring a coachman would be overspending.

Fortunately, the stagecoach system is very developed and convenient now, and this house is also very close to the military camp, so you can walk to and from it at ordinary times.

William put Nia in charge of household expenses.

The children of poor people have been in charge of the family early, and Nia, who was abused by her relatives in her early years, is still very good at living.She calculated William's salary, as well as the salaries to be paid to cooks and maids, as well as the usual living expenses, and arranged William's life in an orderly manner.It can also save William a monthly expense for entertainment and socializing.

William used the money to buy a pearl necklace for Nia. Although it was only a small pearl, it was not bad in quality. It was very suitable for the middle class, and it would not be shameful to wear it out.And it can preserve its value, and it can be sold for money when it is short of money.

This was William's first gift to Nia, and Nia was so happy that she wore the pearl necklace every day.

In fact, William hasn't spent money on courtesans in recent months. His cronies think that he was kicked out of the house by the Earl of Marne and cut off his financial support, so he has no money to spend.They are also the second and youngest sons of aristocratic families, and they have a bit of sympathy for William's situation, and they feel sympathy for each other. Naturally, they will not be ignorant and insist on pulling him to gamble and consume.

It was just that William had lost interest in similar entertainment, preferring to read a novel in his room.

The pocket money that the Earl of Marne sent to William naturally did not stop, and it was still credited into his account every month.Although he didn't plan to divide the family property with this youngest son, when he was still alive, naturally, William, the youngest son of the Earl, couldn't let his life be too shabby, otherwise he would lose the identity and face of the Earl's House.

In this way, William lived a comfortable life despite the sympathy of the outside world.

After William learned those witchcrafts, he began to look for books he was interested in in his spare time.There is a study in the house he bought, and there are not many books in it. William plans to fill it with books slowly.

Nia also loves reading, but she is not interested in science books such as nature, biology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc. She just likes reading novels, especially love novels, and serial stories in newspapers.

In this regard, William indulged Nia quite a bit. When buying books in the bookstore, besides buying the books he was interested in, he would also buy those best-selling love novels for Nia.

Before the new year began, the Earl of Marne wrote to recall the Countess.

Because in the New Year, the Earl of Marne and his wife will go to the palace to pay homage to His Majesty the Emperor.

The countess has disappeared from the social world for more than half a year. If she does not appear in public during the New Year, people may suspect that there is a huge problem in the Earl of Marne's family.

Due to political and social considerations, the Earl of Marne recalled the Countess even though the thief who stole the treasure in the secret room was still missing. The Earl's House needed to maintain normal social interaction.

During this period of time, the Earl of Marne investigated all the servants in the house. Except for a few petty thefts of the owner's property, there were no major problems. thief.

The gangs in the slums of the imperial capital were also screened, and none of the gangs had access to a large amount of property.

The servants who carried the treasure for the Earl of Marne back then were all sent by him to the sugar cane plantations in the colony of the Southern Continent, where his confidants took care of the work.

Now Earl Marne's suspicions are placed on these people.

Because the location of the tunnel was so accurate, it seemed that he knew where the treasure was, so he dug the tunnel to lead there.

This was no ordinary robbery or theft, but it was aimed specifically at the family secret room of the Earl of Marne's mansion.

The Earl of Marne guessed that among those who carried the treasure for him, someone betrayed him and confided the news to the outside world.

These men worked on his sugar cane plantations, some alive and some dead, and it's all well documented.Only one person is missing, no one is alive but no dead body.

Earl Marne's confidants knew the importance of these people, and were worried that some of them would reveal the secrets of the Earl's Mansion, so when this person disappeared last year, his confidants immediately reported it to him.

He also ordered his confidants to search for the missing person, but he never found it.

Now Earl Marne's suspicions are all focused on the missing person.

He thought that the missing servant might not have gone missing voluntarily, but had been kidnapped by his enemies, and then, under torture to extract a confession, he had asked the secrets of his family's secret room.

(Actually, the missing person was a domestic violence man who would beat his wife and children when he was drunk. His native wife killed him when she couldn't bear it, and destroyed the body with the help of her mother's family. So the confidant of the Earl of Marne Only then would he think that he was missing, and the Earl of Marne also misunderstood that the only missing person was the one who leaked the secrets of his family’s secret room)

Because the Earl of Marne not only arranged for these people who knew the secrets of his family to work in a colonial manor far away from the empire, but also helped them marry local natives as wives, allowing them to completely settle down in the colony.These people have wives and children, and they have a lot of concerns, so they dare not betray him so easily.

(It is also because the wife and children of the domestic violence man are still working honestly and dutifully on the plantation belonging to the Earl of Marne to support the family, so the Earl of Marne believes that the domestic violence man did not voluntarily disappear, nor did he take the initiative to reveal the secret, but Kidnapped by the enemy.)

Then his enemies hatched a plan to steal the treasure from the Chamber of Secrets, and they succeeded in one fell swoop.

The matter has come to this point, even though he feels sorry for the treasures, Earl Marne is a decisive person and has decided to move forward.Anyway, he and his eldest son will keep an eye on the empire's jewelry market for the next few decades. If any stolen goods from the family treasure appear, then they can follow the clues and find the culprit who stole the treasure.

Although the treasure in the secret room was lost, he registered everything in the secret room.This booklet has been in his safe and will be passed on to his son in the future.Their Marne family will keep an eye on this matter until they find the family's enemies and recover the family's wealth.

In this way, after several months of investigation, the Earl of Marne found an invisible scapegoat for William, and the matter was obviously over.

In order to prevent the outside world from guessing what happened to the Earl of Marne's mansion, the Earl of Marne also released the news that a gang of thieves dug a tunnel to reach the interior of the Earl's mansion castle, and then stole many treasures and jewelry from the Earl's mansion.

This news shocked the nobles in the imperial capital, and they began to check whether their manor castles had been dug by someone, and they were especially vigilant about the sewers and sewer entrances.

Because of this matter, the municipal department of the imperial capital also installed iron fences one by one for the underground sewers that were originally extending in all directions, dividing the sewers into sections, so that they could no longer extend in all directions.

In the past, thieves could escape by jumping into the sewers, but now every small section of the sewers is separated by iron fences, and the locks are no longer connected, so thieves can't escape if they sneak in.

With the warning of the theft of the Earl's Mansion, the security environment of the imperial capital was rectified by the municipal department and the Metropolitan Police Department, and it seemed much safer than before.

In order to meet His Majesty the King during the New Year and participate in the following New Year's social season, the Earl of Marne took back his wife who was recuperating in the south.But for the youngest son William, the Earl of Marne had no intention of letting him go home, and seemed to be planning to take advantage of the opportunity of him moving out of the Earl's Mansion this time to completely separate him out.

The Count of Marne gave the Countess a sum, neither more nor less, exactly the same amount that the Countess had given William for the house.It is said that William has grown up, so let him settle down in the imperial capital.

It can be seen from this that the Earl of Marne knows every move of the Countess and William's youngest son.He even knew exactly how much the Countess gave William.The Earl of Marne gave her the same amount of private money that the Countess had accumulated for many years, which is equivalent to the Earl of Marne subsidizing William to buy a private house in the middle-class area, thus separating him from the family. .

For ordinary aristocratic families, the patriarch of the previous generation passed away, and the next generation of patriarchs took over. The other sons who did not have the right to inherit would leave the family castle and go out to settle down independently.This is equivalent to the Earl of Marne driving his youngest son out of the house in advance.

The Countess was very angry, but she had no choice but to accept the Earl of Marne's decision.

Earl Marne belongs to the kind of person with a particularly hard heart and a strong will.Once he has made a decision, he will never change it.

So the Countess and William mother and son silently accepted this decision.

In fact, for William, living in the Earl's Mansion Castle has no other benefits other than being able to see his mother often and showing his aristocratic status.When facing the Earl of Marne and his elder brother, he always felt like being dependent on others, as if he was a superfluous member of the family.

Now that I have completely moved out of the Earl's Mansion, I feel free.

The things that Marne left in the earl's castle were sorted out by his mother and sent over.Even if William completely left the House of the Earl of Marne.

However, the countess was worried that William's salary was not enough, so she also sent William the private money that the Earl of Marne gave her.Anyway, when she used the money, she would directly credit Earl Marne's account.New clothes are added every season, as well as matching jewelry. When she sells the old jewelry, she can still slowly save money for her son.

There was money in William's artifact space, but he didn't dare to use it casually at this time.As for the new money sent by the countess, William used it to buy a shop facing the street, and rented it out, and could collect rent every season.

In the case that Nia is very good at calculating accounts and living, in fact, with William's salary alone, she can already live a comfortable life in this middle-class neighborhood.

With the money Nia saved, William was not interested in spending time and money, or bought books to fill the study in the house.Or just buy Nia new dresses, hats, gloves, decorations.

Anyway, she is his lover, so it's not good to dress too shabby.

With his salary alone, he can already live a middle-class life here.The monthly pocket money given by the other Earls of Marne, as well as the rent from the newly bought shop, were saved.

William gave Nia the right to control the money. After all, he was his mistress. When you want to spend money, you must have money to spend it.