Mystery: The Stars Returner

After opening the box and seeing a large pile of 10 gold pound banknotes inside, Xiu was stunned and even stopped breathing. After a while, she tried hard to suppress the excitement in her heart and kept waving: "Forsi , did you see it, it’s 1000 gold pounds!”

Forsi was attracted by the sound and came over. After seeing the 1000 gold pounds in the box, he said with envy: "With so much money, Xio, you must have sold yourself to Mr. Hastur, right? "

"What are you talking about? This is the money I earned through my own efforts!"

Xio looked proud, and then told Forsi about the cooperation between himself and Hastur.

She thought that giving her one or two hundred gold pounds would be a lot, but she didn't expect that it would be 1000 gold pounds!

When she spread the news before, she also took the opportunity to sell a lot of information and earned about 80 gold pounds. Now it is a huge sum of money.

She was so excited that she didn't know how to spend the money. She would definitely not be able to sleep tonight.

"It's obvious that Mr. Hastur felt sorry for you and deliberately gave you some work."

"Humph, just continue to be envious. This is 1000 gold pounds, which is enough to cover the entire royalties of your entire book, right?"

"..."

Forsi did not answer. Her royalties for a book were not that much. They were usually between a few hundred gold pounds, and she had never received more than 1000 gold pounds.

Xio smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed, he patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, I won't forget you. I will cover all the expenses for the New Year this year!"

"Really?"

"Of course it's true. I plan to spend 100 gold pounds to have a prosperous New Year."

The two of them have always been frugal in the New Year.

If you make more money this year, then spend more money to have a good year. If you make less money, then buy some food and stay at home, watching others wear new clothes and go out to play in the streets.

In the past, it was Forsi who contributed a lot of money, while Xio had very little savings and always wanted to be promoted, so he didn't dare to spend it carelessly.

"I've been meaning to buy a new dress."

"How can one skirt be enough? I need at least three sets of New Year clothes!"

Xio generously said that she had covered all the expenses and treated it as a New Year's gift to Forsi.

"Then what are you waiting for? Let's go out and shop now!"

"Let's go, you don't have to save money for me today!"

Xio led Forsi out happily.

On the other side, as the new year was approaching, Leonard, who could finally take a break, listened to his teammates discussing how to celebrate the New Year, and silently walked aside without participating in this topic.

He has always been alone. When he was in Tingen, he could still celebrate the New Year with the captain. After all, neither of them had a family, so they just stayed at the Night Watch stronghold to celebrate the New Year together.

But this year, he came to Backlund.

Although Klein is also traveling with him, Klein's brother and sister will come to Backlund from Tingen in two days to celebrate the New Year.

During this period of time, Klein has been busy decorating the new house, and he seems to attach great importance to and look forward to celebrating the New Year.

Although Klein invited him to spend the New Year together, he was embarrassed to disturb their family reunion. After all, they had not seen each other for almost half a year, and they must have a lot to say.

"Oh, old man, I can only spend this year with you."

"Haha, if you hadn't refused, you would have had a new family long ago."

"...Old man, can you please stop mentioning her? I'm really afraid of meeting her again."

"In the New Year, I remember that this holiday is getting more and more attention. It's because of Russell. He seems to like this holiday very much."

"Is it related to Emperor Russell?"

"During his administration, many interesting activities were held every New Year, and factories were even required to give employees a full seven-day holiday so that they could celebrate the New Year."

Leonard listened to the old man telling the past history, and for a while he felt less lonely.

West End.

After finishing his day's work, Klein returned to his newly rented house in the South District of Bridge.

This is also a townhouse, with three bedrooms and two living rooms, and three bathrooms. It is slightly smaller than the house rented in Tingen.

There was no way, the housing prices in Backlund were too high, and the rent for the same house was about 1.5 times that of Tingen.

Although he has some extra income during this period, it is not enough to pay for the purchase of a new house. He can only rent it for the time being. He should be able to save enough money to buy a new house before the Chinese New Year next year.

Let’s see if we can buy a small villa in one step.

The kind of house that is completely your own is truly comfortable to live in.

After visiting the house several times, Klein made a list of things he still needed to buy on paper.

In two days, Benson and Melissa will come to Backlund, and he has to decorate their room, which can be regarded as a small surprise for them.

In addition to decorating the room, he also had to prepare some New Year's goods. How could he not prepare some food for the New Year?

As for spending money?

Have you worked hard all year just for these few days of Chinese New Year?

Money is saved just to be used at this time.

"Now the temperature in Backlund during the day is generally minus seven or eight degrees, and it will be cooler at night. We must prepare a new set of warm clothes for Melissa. This must be done before she arrives in Backlund, otherwise she will definitely I will use all kinds of excuses to refuse.”

"When Benson comes to Backlund, he will need a new set of decent formal clothes when he is admitted to the civil service examination. He will also need a tie, a pocket watch, and a cane."

"As for myself... you can also buy a set of more casual clothes. After all, if you buy summer clothes in winter, you will save a lot on the price."

"In terms of food, we should still focus on three types of meat: beef, fish, and pork. We can also prepare a few Backlund specialties for Benson and Melissa to try."

"During the Chinese New Year, you can also take them to Queens, which is the busiest place in Backlund during the New Year."

A smile appeared at the corner of Klein's mouth unconsciously. It felt unreal to celebrate the New Year.

Fortunately, I have a home here and have relatives to celebrate the New Year with me.

……

Earl Hall's house.

Audrey looked at the maids who were busy, and felt an unspeakable feeling in her heart.

After this New Year, she will truly become an adult.

In aristocratic circles, once a noble lady reaches adulthood, her family will quickly arrange a marriage, and then she will get married in two or three years.

Every time she thought about this problem, she felt a little resistant to growing up.

But adulthood seems to have a magical power that makes people always yearn for it.

Although they are only one year apart, adults and minors are different in many aspects.

Generally, when they reach adulthood, their parents will not restrict their private lives too strictly and will give them more freedom. In many things, they will no longer prohibit this or that. Instead, they will let them try more and become familiar with adults as soon as possible. That new set of rules.

Even when it comes to issues between men and women, parents have begun to learn to turn a blind eye, and some parents even encourage them to get in touch with more outstanding aristocratic young people.

Once they see each other in eye-to-eye, they weigh their family circumstances, and when they feel they are suitable, they start arranging a lifelong marriage.

These were the personal experiences of some other noble ladies when she attended the tea party.

It was obvious that a lot of their words were complaining, but the smiles on their faces were bright.

It can be seen that they are not very resistant to adulthood, but are happy to accept their new identities.

Audrey, who was a little troubled, couldn't help but sigh when she looked at Susie lying on the ground resting as usual.

Susie's life is sometimes quite enviable. She seems to have no worries. Whether it is New Year or other holidays, it makes no difference to her.

As many bones as it can eat this year, it will continue to do so next year.

Maybe the only thing it needs to worry about is how much delicious food can be accommodated in its stomach during the New Year.

"Wang?"

Feeling the gaze from Audrey, Susie raised her head slightly and glanced at Audrey.

"It's okay, just keep sleeping."

Susie buried her head again and began to think about the problem with her eyes closed.

This year it is different from previous years. In previous years, it was really sleeping when it was lying on the ground. But now, it is lying down and closing its eyes, but its mind is constantly running.

It is thinking about some big questions in life that go beyond dog life, such as where do dogs come from and where should they go?

Who are you?

What kind of existence is a dog? How is it different from humans?

What kind of goals should a dog learn to think about?

There are really too many questions for it to think about, and it also wants to ask Audrey for the answers to these questions.

But it understands that it has surpassed Audrey by a lot when it comes to reading.

After all, I read some of Emperor Russell's works every day and learn the knowledge and spirit in them.

And Audrey has to learn something she doesn't like very much every day, such as dancing, social etiquette, instrumental painting, languages ​​of various countries, and even political history.

In this comparison, it feels that it is much happier than Audrey.

As for this year's New Year's gift, it has already thought about it. It wants a complete set of Emperor Russell's ideological works.