When I was chopping firewood, my clothes were soaking wet with sweat. Although the weather was very cold, I was still sweating. Especially after the sun came out, the sun in the early spring was too much to bear when you are chopping woods.
So I took off my shirt and continued to chop wood, shirtless.
At this time, I heard the hooves of chop approaching from far away, and when I looked up, the baron who went out on horseback in the morning had returned. He rode his horse closer, and finally stopped beside me.
I was standing in the middle of a pile of firewood, and he was sitting on horseback, still looking down at me.
"You are back, Lord Baron." I wiped the sweat from my neck and greeted him cautiously.
The baron remained silent but sat on horseback looking at me. His gaze was a little strange. I felt like sitting on pins and needles. My body was steaming hot, but now I got goosebumps.
After a long time, when I thought this awkward atmosphere would continue, the baron finally pulled the reins and prepared to leave.
I finally gathered up the courage to block the path of the baron.
"Sir, can you listen to me for a few seconds?" I raised my head and pleaded.
He froze for a moment, seeming to hesitate, but still jumped off his horse, and then looked at me: "Let's talk, what's the matter?"
I don't know where to start, so I had to explain it in a verbose way: "The butler kicked me out of the living room because... because I irritated you, the manor is layoffs. I'm afraid I will be laid off. You know. I, I have younger siblings and mother in my family, and the family has no other income. I beg you to forgive my fault, I can't leave the manor..."
The baron approached slowly and kept walking very close. He stood in front of me, and I could even feel the breath he exhaled spraying on my face. I took an awkward step back, and the Baron took another step forward.
I lowered my head and did not dare to look into his eyes, because I was familiar with his eyes. In my previous life, he always stared at me with such aggressive eyes. At that time, every time I saw this look, I couldn't bear it, and I couldn't wait to run away right away, and it feels the same now.
When I was tangled up, my muscles tightened with a sudden touch. I looked at the hand touching my left chest, and suddenly I felt a sense of powerlessness. For the Virgin above, we were outside the public, what is he doing?
It has been a long time, and the white-gloved hand is still lingering on my left chest. I really want to say, when will you finish touching it? This is not a woman's soft breast, what's so good to touch. But thinking that this Lord probably likes men more than women, he probably likes men's chests more than women's breasts.
I was so embarrassed by him that I had to step back a few steps and distanced myself from him. I don't know how it developed into such a weird situation. In my previous life, he had never acted so aggressively towards me. Our most intimate behavior was that at that party, he was drunk and kissed me once.
My retreat awakened him. He retracted his gaze, with a little arrogance in the corners of his drooping eyes. I heard him say, "Well, I forgive you for your offense to me."
I felt dumbfounded for a moment, well, just take it as I offended you, you shameless asshole taking advantage of it.
He threw the horse's reins to me and walked ahead: "Send my horse back to the stable."
I watched him leave, and then touched the dark horse beside me: "Hey, Tyra, long time no see."
Tyra is a female, an excellent horse breed from the eastern prairie, the baron's favorite horse, he always chooses Tyra when hunting and riding, and is the baron's darling.
Tyra snorted, I guess she didn't like me as a stranger to touch her.
At noon, someone came to notify me as soon as I entered the kitchen, and the butler Aaron was waiting for me in his room.
I came to the butler's room nervously, but the butler told me a piece of amazing news.
"In order to thank you for taking care of him, Lord Baron appointed you as his personal Valet. From today on, you will be in the Baron's Mansion. When Lord Baron leaves, you will go with him." Aaron looked at me with a calm and serious tone.
"What? Wait...wait." I asked incredulously: "Let me go with Lord Baron? Does Lord Baron mean this?"
"What? Do you have an objection?" Aaron frowned, and then he said: "Even if you have an opinion, it's not your turn to refuse. The Viscount has already agreed."
Oh my God, how could I leave Momon Manor? I became impatient so that my plan would not be disrupted? My original intention of asking for forgiveness from the Baron was not to be driven out of Mormon Manor. What should I do now?
Just when I was in utter distress, someone put a pillow for me as I was dozing off, and just after lunch, Miss Catherine's maid came to me.
"Miss Catherine gave you this. I heard that your mother's life is not easy." Adele gave me a full five pounds, which is equivalent to my annual salary as a footman, which is very generous.
"Oh, she is a really kind lady, please thank her for me. My mother must be very happy to see the money." I said with joy.
As Catherine's maid, Adele does not look beautiful and can even be described as ugly, with very sparse black hair, so she always pulls it up in order not to show her scalp. Fortunately, she is gentle and clever, otherwise, Catherine would not choose her as a personal maid.
"There is one more thing to congratulate you. I heard that you have two younger sisters. Miss Catherine said that she will tell the housekeeper to let the elder one come to Momon Manor as a maid. The young lady means...she can serve her personally." Adele said with a smile.
"This is really great, the young lady is so kind, I don't know how to thank the lady Catherine." I was very excited, thankfully incoherently, until Adele left with satisfaction, I immediately put away the smile on my face.
Want to make a move towards my family? Then you have miscalculated.
In the afternoon, I asked the housekeeper for leave and returned home.
"Really? The lady of the manor said I could be her lady's maid?" My sister Angel asked me excitedly.
"Yes, prepare yourself, and follow me to the manor today," I said.
"What about me? Can I go too?" Little sister Allie pestered me and asked.
"Go away, you're only 9 years old, don't make trouble." The mother was also very happy. She hold Angel and said with satisfaction: "It's great. Fortunately, I didn't rush to marry you. Sure enough, there is a better place to go. Your two's annual salary adds up to ten pounds."
When I took Angel out, the cheerful girl became scared again. She pinched her old skirt with a nervous expression on her face: "I have no other clothes to wear. Will it be ridiculed for being so tattered?"
"My dear, when I first entered the manor, I didn't even have a pair of shoes. I went in with straw sandals. Did you forget? So don't worry." I comforted her.
"How is Miss Catherine? Is she easy to serve? Will she be fierce to me?"
"She will be nice to you."
"really?"
"Absolutely."
"What should I do? What should I do? I'm so scared of it, my brother." Angel looked up at me like a frightened little lamb, her eyes flashing uneasy.
"Good girl, you are the smartest woman in our family. Trust me, just get along with Miss Catherine for a while and you will know what to do and what to do."
Angel stared at me blankly, still uneasy.
I smiled, held my sister in my arms, and whispered to her softly: "Sister, I will be the personal valet of Baron Oscar. Miss Catherine wants to marry the Baron, so she asks you to be her maid. On one hand, she is trying to manipulate me by controlling you, and the other hand she is using you to obtain news about the baron, do you understand?"
Angel smiled slowly after listening. She stared wide-eyed and said: "My brother, is that meant that she would compromise to me?"
"I said you were the smartest woman in my family." I kissed her on the forehead and said.
Angel is exactly the same as me in my previous life. We are all positive, passionate for wealthy, gold-digger people. At the same time, we are all cunning and full of scheming, and we will do everything to climb up the social class. But Angel is luckier than me because she would never fall in love with Miss Catherine.
Catherine wanted to contain me through my family, then she was very wrong, and since she wanted to find me a helper, then I will not reject it. Only when the enemy is in the light and you hiding in the dark is the most reassuring situation, isn't it?
In the afternoon, Angel became Miss Catherine's personal maid, and I also received a notice to leave.
"Early tomorrow morning, we will follow the Lord Baron back to the capital. You are new here, so pack up early." The other Valet's name is Billy, who is in his thirties. In the previous life, I didn't have much interaction with him, because at that time the baron's personal valet was only me, and now it is me and him.
"Yes sir, I'm all ready."
"Then I must remind you that our Delman Manor is not a place without standards. I don't want to see you take any rude actions. Considering that you are the footman of Mormon Manor..." Billy had something to say, it seems The Viscount family has become notorious around the country.