Chapter 383: The Show of Operations Reappears
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At the dinner table, Fors was able to handle Helen's attempts to pry information out of her with ease.
She wasn't a naive young girl like Audrey; she knew what to say and what not to say.
As a bestselling author, she had already fabricated a background and identity for herself that morning, and she deliberately let Helen see that she was lying in order to disrupt the other party's judgment.
If Hobert hadn't reiterated before the meal that Beyonder abilities were not allowed at the table, Helen would have used "Charm" to make Miss Fors fall in love with her and reveal her true feelings.
However, Helen could hear that Hobert's words were more of a warning than a reiteration.
Violating his intentions could lead to a breakdown in their cooperative relationship.
At the end of the dinner, Fors wiped the corner of her mouth with a napkin: "Hobert told me you are a guest.
"Since you are my fiancé's guest, I will give you enough respect, but you need to know that I am the mistress of this territory!"
Helen looked at Fors in surprise, who had been very amiable all along. This was a very clear warning: I can tolerate you only because you are a guest, but you also need to know who the mistress here is.
She suddenly smiled: Is this what nobility is like? No matter how kind they seem on the surface, they have a strong sense of 'territory' in their bones.
After saying this, Fors threw the napkin on the table, got up, and left.
Although Hobert knew that this was Fors's performance, he was still captivated by Fors at this moment.
Helen said pitifully, "Your fiancée doesn't welcome me."
Hobert smiled and said, "If there was a man with ulterior motives around Fors, I would have castrated him long ago."
With that, he got up and left.
Helen looked at Hobert's back and muttered, "You two are in cahoots!"
Hobert led two maids to the gate of the courtyard and told them to wait there.
As Hobert expected, Fors was already waiting in the study: "How was it? How was it? Did she suspect me?"
Hobert smiled and said, "You were composed, your acting was superb, I was even frightened by you, of course she was also shocked by you."
After saying that, he opened the door and beckoned the two maids to come in: "The housekeeper found them to serve you. They will live in the servant's room next to yours. I have told them that unless you actively call them, they will not actively go to your room.
"There's nothing to do for the next few days, you can do whatever you want, you can go out for a walk, or you can read magazines in the room or something."
Fors nodded, understanding Hobert's hint that he could return to Backlund in the next few days if he wanted to.
However, thinking of the coldness of Backlund in winter, Fors still preferred the spring-like warmth of the lord's mansion. She was even preparing to let Xio experience the warmth brought by the "Fire Dragon", which was simply one of humanity's greatest inventions. She was very curious as to why houses in Backlund didn't have such a structure?
After Hobert went back, Fors took a comfortable bath in the bathroom. When she came out of the warm bathroom, two seventeen or eighteen-year-old maids were already waiting outside with new clothes.
Fors didn't even have to move, and the maids dried the water droplets on her body.
Then she returned to the warm bed, comfortably read magazines for a while, and before going to sleep, she couldn't help but sigh: This is the life I want.
The next day, the noise outside woke Fors up. She looked at the clock outside, it was already past nine in the morning. If it weren't for the noise outside, Fors felt that she could sleep longer.
Just a shake of the bell would bring the maids to deliver breakfast.
While eating breakfast, Fors warned herself in her heart: I can't be too indulgent, I will be very uncomfortable if I am not the Baroness one day!
So she planned to go outside after breakfast and take a walk around Hobert's territory, continuing to play the role of the Baroness.
At this moment, Fors noticed that her "Trickmaster" potion actually showed signs of digestion!
She thought about it carefully and understood what was going on: "The key to the 'Trickmaster' is 'performance'. I am now playing the role of the Baroness in the identity of Fors, so this is a constant performance for me.
"Another essence of the 'Trickmaster' should be not letting the 'audience' discover their 'techniques', and my performance has deceived many people, including the people in the territory, including that charming witch, so my potion has actually begun to merge with my spirituality!"
For Fors, this was definitely a pleasant surprise. Originally, she had planned to find a circus and be a magician for a while.
With this kind of feedback, Fors's enthusiasm for playing the Baroness has increased a lot.
After dinner, led by two maids, Fors came to the front yard, where she finally found the source of the noise.
The front yard was crowded with people. In the center of the yard, there were more than a dozen tables lined up. Behind each table sat a clerk, and in front of the tables were fifteen long queues, as if they were registering something.
After the registration was completed, someone immediately distributed food on the side.
Some families with large populations received a large bag of food, which made them so happy that they couldn't close their mouths. Some immediately bowed and thanked the lord, who sat imposingly on the inner side of the front yard.
A small front yard gathered at least two or three hundred people, with people constantly leaving and constantly coming in, looking very lively, and the overall atmosphere was relatively cheerful.
Fors asked Hobert, who was sitting there as a decoration, "What are they registering?"
"You can't imagine," Hobert replied, "there isn't even the most basic household registration here. I don't even know how many people are in my territory."
Fors understood, she smiled and said, "A very good way, I mean using food distribution to attract everyone to register voluntarily."
She had listened to Hobert's defenses more than once, and had never doubted Hobert's intelligence.
However, this move stunned Helen, who had been woken up early in the morning, and it took her a long time to understand what was going on.
At the same time, she realized a very serious problem. One of the columns in the household registration was "belief", and many people said that they believed in "spirituality and knowledge", which is actually the belief of the "Theosophy Order", another image of the "Primordial Demoness".
The reason why the "Theosophy Order" has a huge investment here is because there are no churches of orthodox gods here, and they can preach openly.
If it were in other places, the members of the "Theosophy Order" would certainly not easily state their beliefs, but it is different here, because in recent decades, many believers of the "Theosophy Order" have been developed, and there has been no crackdown, so the believers have no intention of hiding their awareness.
The key is that no one would have thought that someone would come to do population registration!
No! Helen immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, she thought she should report it immediately.
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