These days, wives deliver to their door by themselves

"Master, this house is really too big."

Du Wei couldn't help but complain about this maze-like pattern.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a maze, because every year new maids get lost in the duke's mansion. There is even a legend among the servants that a new maid once went to the toilet in the middle of the night, and as a result, she walked to the toilet. Such a disappearance, but when it is found, the person has already turned into bones.

Mei Ye caressingly caresses his freshly dried black hair.

"It's not that our house is too big, but that you said you wanted to live on the highest floor, but now you finally find it troublesome."

Du Wei remembered that his parents' room was next to the second floor up the grand staircase, and the husband and wife usually had very little range of activities, and the size of the house didn't matter to them.

Although there are many rooms in this mansion, most of them are vacant rooms or servant rooms.

Hearing what Mei Ye said, Du Wei immediately recalled this memory.

At that time, he felt that it was good to live in a high place overlooking the ground, so he asked to move from the next door to his parents to the top floor, but within a few days he found it troublesome, and even let the servants carry him up and down the stairs.

Thinking of this dark history, Du Wei felt a little hot on his face.

"Can I move back to my previous room?"

"Of course, this is your home, you can live wherever you want."

Mei Ye took out a comb and combed Du Wei's hair while asking

"Du Wei, you came to me for more than just this, right? Say it first, you are not allowed to go out, this is what your father specifically ordered, and it is useless to beg me."

That's right, Du Wei really wanted to ask Mei Ye for one thing.

"Not this, my lord, I want to go to school."

"......what?"

"Sorry, I didn't hear clearly just now, can you say it again?"

Mei Ye seemed to think that she had heard it wrong just now. As a mother, she would feel strange if her son, who was full of food and sleep, suddenly asked to go to school.

Du Wei said the same thing again, this time with a very serious expression, "Mother, I want to go to school."

"..."

Mei Ye's face was full of astonishment, she hesitated for a moment before asking

"In other words, you want to study?"

Faced with Mei Ye's doubts, Du Wei nodded vigorously to express his determination.

Mei Ye touched Du Wei's cheeks and asked

"Honey, why do you suddenly want to study?"

In fact, Du Wei was very helpless. He would not want to go to school if he hadn't needed it.

"I have a book I want to read, but I can't read the words written on it..."

Yes, he is illiterate!The only text I can write is my own name!

He had asked the maid to bring him some history books before, but after seeing the densely packed tadpole characters in the books, Du Wei realized that he was actually illiterate!

How sad it is to be a nobleman who can only write his own name at the age of seven.

003 Banquet Invitation

Mei Ye suddenly realized.

"It turned out that I wanted to learn characters. Since that's the case, I can just hire a tutor. Besides, the Royal Academy doesn't teach literacy."

Du Wei was a little puzzled, the school didn't teach literacy?

"Then what does the Royal Academy teach?"

Mei Ye wrung her fingers and said one by one.

"There are court etiquette, diplomacy, art of war, magic, swordsmanship, archery, etc. Basically, the basic knowledge of writing is to ask a tutor to come to the house to guide."

I heard from Mei Ye that rich nobles would hire tutors, while those without money would be taught by the elders of the family.

Du Wei asked again

"Can magic and swordsmanship only be learned in school?"

Seemingly interested in seeing him, Mei Ye thought for a while before answering, "There is no limit, since you are interested in learning...then ask Edith to teach you."

"Will Aunt Edith be free?"

"She should come back with your father in a few days, and you should ask her to see it then."

"I understand."

The identity of this Aunt Edith is very special, she is the public lover of Howard Farwin.

She looks like a cold silver-haired beauty on the outside, but her real identity is a real silver dragon.

This is also the origin of the title of Howard Dragon Knight, the famous dragon driver of the Knox Empire.

However, this does not mean that Howard is having an affair. It is very common for aristocratic men to keep several concubines in this era.

Besides, Mei Ye also likes Edith very much. She has called each other sisters in public many times.

Because Edith had saved her in several assassinations in the past, Mei Ye did not reject her. On the contrary, Edith maintained an ambiguous relationship with Howard because of the dignity of the Dragon Clan. relation.

To be honest, Du Wei was a little afraid of Aunt Edith.

After all, his past actions were seen by the other party. As a kind-hearted Yinlong, he would naturally not like Du Wei in the period of the little tyrant. It's good to teach him a lesson.

So in Du Wei's memory, Aunt Edith always looked cold when facing him.

Mei Ye should have taken this into consideration, that's why she didn't propose to hire a tutor for her son, but planned to let Aunt Edith teach him in person, hoping to make their relationship more harmonious through getting along.

"Put these aside for now. It just so happens that I have something to ask you."

Mei Ye suddenly and mysteriously took out an exquisite envelope from her arms.

"A letter? For me?" Du Wei was a little puzzled.

Mei Ye said meaningfully, "To be precise, it's a banquet invitation letter from the Manel family. I think it's about time for you to make your debut in the social world."

Attending the social world is a very important thing in the aristocratic circle, especially the official appearance at the age of 15 is the most important.

Simply put, it is a coming-of-age ceremony for noble children, and young children like Du Wei just let the nobles recognize each other's faces.

However, aristocratic women attach great importance to every banquet, because every banquet has a chance to be favored by the noble men who are invited to come.

Because the marriageable age of women in this era is very short, women who are over 25 years old and have not yet married are often called leftover women who are not wanted, so banquets have become an important stage for unmarried women to promote themselves.

Although it was not a formal attendance this time, Du Wei still felt his whole body stiffen. In his previous life, he hated socializing, and the days when he was forced to cater to clients with a fake smile because of his livelihood was unbearable.

"Mother, I'm not ready yet, can I not go?"

Du Wei blinked his big eyes, trying to get away with it.

Although Mei Ye doted on her son, as the eldest princess of the empire, she still attached great importance to noble etiquette, she said persuasively, "Don't worry, this is just a private banquet between two families, and I will accompany you there. "

It turned out that the Man Aier family would invite them because Mei Ye and Mrs. Man Aier were very good best friends when they were in college, and this banquet was actually just a post-wedding dinner for the two mothers.

Mei Ye clapped her hands suddenly, "By the way, Man Aier's family still has a few daughters who are not engaged, remember to get along well with them when the time comes, and if you like them, remember to tell me and make a marriage contract now, In the future, you don’t have to worry about your favorite object being snatched away by other people.”

"Engaged? So early? I'm only seven years old!"

Du Wei was very surprised. Can such a young child understand the meaning?In his previous life, he was still playing with mud when he was seven or eight years old.

Mei Ye showed a so-so look.

"Your father and I were also engaged when we were seven years old, and we got married as soon as we became adults. What's so strange about that?"

The powerful Farwen family has always been loyal to the royal party, so it is not surprising that the heir will marry a royal relative.

It's just that most people didn't expect that Mei Ye, the eldest princess, would be married.

The real situation at the time was that Howard and Mei Ye fell in love with each other at first sight at the party when they were young.

That marriage can be said to be a political marriage or a love marriage. Anyway, the two people are still in a sweet relationship until now.

In fact, not to mention the nobles, even ordinary people mostly accomplished lifelong events in their teens.

The biggest reason for this is that medical treatment and diet are underdeveloped in this era, and most people are considered long-lived if they can live to 50 years old, so the sooner the better.

"..."

It's just that Du Wei, who was influenced by the memory of his previous life, couldn't accept this concept.

It's okay if he is really a childhood sweetheart, but it would be too crazy to let him, a 28-year-old aspiring young man, fall in love with a seven or eight-year-old child.

"Okay, the date of the banquet is set at noon the day after tomorrow, and you still have two days to make mental preparations."

"Ah, okay."

Now that his mother said it so categorically, even if he didn't want to, he couldn't help it, and he was also very curious about what the outside world looked like.

Of course, definitely not expecting an engagement, absolutely not!

At the age of seven, as far as he could remember, he had only been to the town center not far from the Duke's Mansion, and he was still surrounded by several guards.

In addition, at that time, he was still a kid who dismissed his surroundings, so the outside world did not leave much impression on Du Wei.

"Madam, young master, please use some snacks."

The head maid saw that the conversation was a bit long, so she cleverly took some drinks and snacks and placed them in front of the mother and son.

The matcha cake that Little Du Wei liked very much was placed on the exquisite and beautiful disc. He subconsciously reached for it, but accidentally touched the cake to the ground.

Du Wei hurriedly picked up the matcha cake on the ground again, blew on the dust, and was about to stuff it into his mouth.

As a result, Mei Ye let out a shrill scream, so frightened that Du Wei almost fell off his chair.

She pointed at Du Wei with a broken face.

"Honey, what did you want to do just now?"

Because she screamed so harshly, even the guards were startled, and the head maid beside her was already frightened.

Du Wei was very confused, "Eat cake?" What's the matter?

"The one fell to the ground just now, how can you eat it!"

Du Wei didn't care much.

"It's just a matter of a while, the ground is not dirty, what a waste to throw away."

Du Wei, who integrated the memory of his previous life, felt that it was nothing. As the saying goes, if you don't do anything clean, you will not get sick if you eat it, and it's not the law of enoki mushroom circulation.

But Mei Ye, who was born in a noble family, seemed unable to accept this statement, she screamed and passed out.

This startled the maid.

"Madam? Madam! Go and ask the Duke to come here."

"There are assassins! There are assassins!"

It even brought out the house guard.

Just like that, the entire Duke's Mansion was in chaos.

That night, Du Wei was watched by the whole family, and he was educated on table manners in public. The farce lasted until the middle of the night, and Mei Ye finally let him go.

004 Knox Empire

Time soon came to the invitation day for the banquet of the Manel family.

Even though Du Wei had already made enough mental preparations, he was still stunned by the big battle that his family had created.

The first is the size of the convoy. Just dozens of servants and hundreds of guards form a long line.

Moreover, these guards are fully armed elites, and they are the unique 'Black Feather Knights' belonging to the Farwin family.

These tall and burly guards are all confidantes brought out by their fathers, and their martial arts skills are no worse than those of the palace guards.

And the carriage in which their mother and son ride is also extremely gorgeous.

Du Wei originally imagined that the carriage should be a four-seater carriage like in his previous life, but what appeared in front of him was an elongated silver-gray carriage pulled by eight tall black horses.

And in addition to their cars, there are trucks full of gifts, servants' cars, armament cars and other vehicles.

The entire traveling team stretched as long as the train, which made Du Wei once again feel the power of Farvin's family.