Natural black penetrates into infinite flow

Annie seemed to be very afraid of Miss. Hearing the girl's complaint, she scratched her nails and muttered, "Madam asked the housekeeper and Jin Du to ask, so I had to bother..."

"Understood." Miss Fisher was about to explode, but Anne brought up the Duchess as an excuse. She didn't dare to say more, so she interrupted the maid impatiently, lifted the corner of her skirt, and went downstairs slowly.

Xia Mingchi followed behind, and took a special look at the window as he passed by, the glass reflected his face in this world.

It was an adjustment to the original appearance, the hair color was adjusted to brown, and the eyebrows and eyes were deep and mature.

The tuxedo fits well and outlines the figure, and the black tie is fastened with a delicate tie clip. If it weren't for the bunch of keys hanging on the belt, he would not look like a butler at all, but a gentleman.

Xia Mingchi is 21 years old in reality, but he looks like a foreigner in the mirror, he looks about 26 or seven years old.

In the living room, two ladies are chatting, one of them is gorgeously dressed, with jewelry on her hands and hair.

Whenever a new NPC appeared, Xia Mingchi's eyes fell on the corresponding person, and the system's mechanical sound would automatically sound.

[The Duchess, the hostess of Fisher Mansion, is a strict and loving mother. 】

Xia Mingchi looked at another person again. She was wearing a nun's clothes, she looked about the same age as the Duchess, her eyes were more gentle, and she did not have the arrogance of a nobleman.

She is dignified and dignified, exuding the brilliance of maternal love all over her body.

[Sister Mary, a good friend of the Duchess, is also Miss Fisher's godmother. 】

The Duchess was dissatisfied with being late, but because there were nuns around and it was not easy to educate her daughter, she had to frown to express her dissatisfaction. "Keeping customers to wait for so long is not what a noble lady should do."

Miss Fisher tugged at the hem of her skirt, slightly bowed her knees to the nun, and then took her mother's arm, smiling sweetly.

"Mother, I know I was wrong, because the clothes are too picky. And nuns are not considered guests."

Sister Mary covered her lips with her hand and smiled lightly, "Isn't it good to have too many clothes? It shows how much Madam loves you."

"Of course, my mother is the best in the world!" Miss Fisher leaned her hair on the Duchess's shoulder, and she knew how to please the lady.

The Duchess was so coaxed by her that she calmed down, patted the young lady on the back, and said lovingly: "It's your birthday soon, Mary is here to give you a gift, see if you like it."

The nun took out a small box and opened it. On the black velvet base were two ruby ​​earrings.The colors are pure and radiant.

Xia Mingchi stared at the gift for a long time, but felt that the color of the gem was shockingly red.That layer of color seemed to be painted on, and it was slowly melting into a liquid and dripping down at the moment.

Xia Mingchi closed his eyes, then opened them again, and the gift in the nun's hand turned into normal earrings again.

Was it just a hallucination?

"It's so beautiful!" Miss Fisher was immersed in the joy of receiving the gift, and couldn't wait to take it.

"I've never seen a gem of such fineness!"

The nun smiled and said, "Try it quickly."

Anne helped Miss Fisher take off the pearl studs and put on the ruby ​​earrings.

Xia Mingchi motioned to the other maids to bring the mirrors, and after the young lady changed them, she looked at the mirror and looked radiant.

The Duchess said: "Your skirt is light-colored, but the earrings are dark-colored, which doesn't match well. Let the housekeeper take Annie to get you a dress now."

"A dress?" Miss Fisher was bewildered. "I didn't have a tailor make it."

"The Duchess knows your size and ordered it at the best tailor in town," said the nun.

Miss Fisher was so excited, she wrapped her arms around her mother's neck, her face jumped with joy, "You are so kind to me!"

The Duchess let her daughter act like a baby, and tapped the tip of Miss Fisher's nose with her ring-covered hand. "This is the clothes you will wear at your coming-of-age ceremony, don't be careless."

Madam ordered: "Housekeeper, accompany Annie to get it back quickly."

Xia Mingchi bowed slightly, "Yes."

[Task [-]: Help the lady get back the dress. 】

Xia Mingchi and Annie walked out, and the overly strong fragrance rushed towards them, like a bomb exploded unexpectedly.The sweet taste is tinged with bitterness, which will inevitably cause dizziness and nausea after smelling it for a long time.

It is the scent of roses.

When he reached the door, Xia Mingchi only saw the scene in the courtyard of the mansion.

A large area of ​​roses clustered together, sticking to the outer wall of the building. The gardener fixed the branches with hanging ropes and wooden frames, so they grew wildly along the wall to occupy the blank territory.

In addition to the road paved with tiles in the courtyard, roses are planted wherever there is space.

The pink petals are layered on top of each other, and wherever you look, there are lively scenes of blooming flowers.

The building of the mansion is made of marble, and the overall look is serious and dull, but with the embellishment of roses, the style is bright and lively.

This kind of brightness did not make the atmosphere relaxed, but it seemed to be deliberately concealing something, adding a bit of weirdness.

"Ahem..." Annie was choked, but she tried her best to control it, and only coughed twice in a low voice.

Xia Mingchi asked, "Are you okay?" He directly covered his nose with his hand.

Annie turned pale in shock, "Don't be like this, you will be punished if Madam sees you!"

So planting so many roses, is it Madam's intention?

Xia Mingchi and Annie walked to the side door used by the servants, only then did the scent of roses fade a lot, and the discomfort eased a lot.

The carriage had already been prepared, and it was parked outside the door. A fat driver with bald hair was holding the reins and sitting in the driver's seat.

Xia Mingchi was a gentleman, he helped Annie in first, and then got into the car by himself.

There were not many pedestrians on the road. Even if someone saw the car in the Fisher mansion, they hurriedly avoided it, not sure if they were afraid of the Duke's power or something else.

Xia Mingchi and Annie sat face to face, and Annie didn't speak a word along the way.The carriage was bumpy, and the road was obviously flat, but Xia Mingchi felt like he was on a boat, so he had to hold the interior of the carriage with his hands.

On the contrary, Annie looked calm, her upper body swayed with the bumps, and her lower body sat firmly on the seat, as if she was stuck.

When approaching the tailor shop, the little maid suddenly said, "I want to ask you something."

Xia Mingchi asked calmly, "What's the matter?"

Annie was picking her nails, with a troubled expression on her face, "I want to help my wife buy something, so I hope you can pick up my clothes for me."

"We can go shopping together, and then pick up the clothes."

He didn't directly ask what it was. Since Annie said this, it should be that she didn't want others to know what it was.

But the more this was the case, the more Xia Mingchi wanted to know. His instinct told himself that he could dig out useful clues.

Annie's eyes were red, and she was a little anxious. She grabbed Xia Mingchi's sleeve and begged, "But the people in that tailor shop have a bad temper and are very fierce. I'm scared and don't want to go in."

Xia Mingchi raised his eyebrows, and got the hidden information - there are scary things in the shop.

[You are a considerate butler, and you will never do things that embarrass others, so what is your choice? 】

【A fetches clothes for Annie. B fetches clothes for Annie. C fetches clothes for Annie. 】

Is there any difference between these three options?

Xia Mingchi felt that he was about to be vomited, so he had no choice but to say: "Okay then, I'll get it for you."

Annie stopped her tears when she heard that, took out a handkerchief and wiped her eyes, "Please."

She took the bamboo basket and yelled at the coachman, "I'll get off right here!"

Xia Mingchi took a closer look at the shops on the street. They were very miscellaneous. Watch shops, leather shoe shops, bakeries, doll shops... There were no high-end shops at all.

After the Duchess came out, Xia Mingchi observed her. There was nothing cheap on her body, and even the tableware was made of silver inlaid with jewels.Aristocrats who are particular about food and clothing, what would they ask their maids to buy?

The system said, Madam's confidant is Jin, why not let Jin come out?

Xia Mingchi frowned tightly, a series of question marks in his mind.

After Annie got off the car, she walked around in front of other stores as if nothing had happened, and was not in a hurry to go in.

She didn't enter a certain store until the carriage disappeared at the corner of the street, but Xia Mingchi couldn't see it.

He was not idle, he put his feet against the seat opposite, and freed his hands to rummage through his clothes, trying to see what he could use.After rummaging through several pockets, only one pack of cigarettes was found.

His role setting actually smokes.

Xia Mingchi pulled up his collar and sniffed lightly, and sure enough there was a faint smell of tobacco.I didn't notice it before, because the aroma of roses in the mansion was too strong, covering up the smell of smoke.

The strange thing is that there are only cigarettes and no lighters.If there are no lighters in this era, then at least there should be matches, right?

He lifted the curtain and saw the bald back of the coachman's head.

[Jeff is the coachman of Fisher Mansion, and he is not an easy person to get along with. 】

"Jeff?"

"Why?" Jeff turned his face, and Xia Mingchi saw a thick cigarette dangling from his mouth.

"Excuse me, I'm addicted to cigarettes."

After hearing this, Jeff turned his head back and said rudely, "It's gone."

Xia Mingchi heard Jeff cursing in a low voice, "Damn it, she's also a housekeeper anyway, why did she even borrow matches..."

The carriage finally stopped in front of a tailor shop, Jeff said: "Hurry up!"

The store has a big door, and it's dark inside, and you can't see anything.

In the corner outside the store, there was a little girl in coarse cloth, sitting on the ground with her bare feet, her head drooping, her voice muffled.

"Selling matches... selling matches..."

Xia Mingchi didn't enter the store in a hurry, but walked up to the little girl and said, "I want to buy a box of matches."

"Ah?" The little girl raised her head, and Xia Mingchi finally opened her face clearly.

Beneath the patched kerchief was a giant black matchhead with no features.The chubby shape is actually a little cute.

——The matches are fine.

Xia Mingchi hesitated for two seconds, and then said: "Please give me a box of matches." But he didn't have any coins on him, so he could only pull off the silver cuff button and hand it to the girl.

"Is this enough?"

The girl took it, and she couldn't see the expression, but judging from the voice, she was very happy.

"Enough! Enough!" She directly gave the match basket to Xia Mingchi, and happily ran around the generous guest twice.

"Smoking is harmful to your health, so you have to smoke!" the match girl exhorted before leaving.

The two sentences are obviously contradictory. I have to, two negations are equal to affirmations, so smoking must be done, and the premise is that it is harmful to health.

This health does not necessarily refer to the player.

Xia Mingchi thought so, and pushed open the door.