She Is Not a Witch Chapter 43: Golden honey plum wine
"Welcome to the beautiful Miss Lacey."
Earl Howard patted his palms while walking down the stairs. This is the first time to greet guests tonight. Before, guests usually greeted them actively.
The already lively hall became quiet and noisy. The volume of everyone's speech suddenly decreased, and then they began to discuss each other in a low voice.
"Who is that girl?" The ladies whispered to each other.
"It's so beautiful, indescribably beautiful..."
"Which family is this, and why have I never heard of it before?"
"It seems to be a lady from the Chamber of Commerce who arrived in the Imperial Capital recently."
"The merchant's daughter? How come there is such a temperament, it doesn't feel like." A lady wearing a lace veil shook her head.
"The chamber of commerce has the background of the elves of the forest. The elves have a different concept of time from ours. Perhaps they are influenced by the elves."
"This makes sense. It looks like the natural and flawless charm of the Mori Elves."
"Did she just come out of the Emerald Forest, like a fairy in the forest." From time to time, there was a low voice in the hall.
"Huh, maybe this one also has elf blood, just like the daughter of the Landsworth family."
"There have always been many beauties in the forest spirits."
"Wow, the profile of that side face is so perfect, I really want to find a pen to draw this scene!" An aristocratic man who prefers art was excited.
"No way, my right hand is as hot as fire. It is shouting for me to grasp this dreamy moment." He rubbed his fingers eagerly, trying to draw something.
"Perhaps you should find a servant on the side and let them prepare canvas and paint for you immediately, haha." The friend on the side smiled low, but did not look away from the girl who approached in the hall.
"It's perfect." He was also somewhat intoxicated.
Lorraine Hill raised his head slightly and nodded in salute to Earl Howard on the stairs. Then he felt countless eyes converging on him. Those eyes were like substance, which made the girl quite uncomfortable.
Such a scene, no matter how many times it is still a little concerned and unaccustomed. The girl secretly thought in her heart, filtering out other irrelevant people in her eyes, thinking about other things as much as possible in her mind, and diverting her attention away from these lines of sight.
When she moved to the middle of the hall, a waiter stepped forward and said, "Dear Miss Lacey, please go here."
He gestured sideways, making a way for the girl in the crowd.
Lorraine Hill's line of sight followed forward, and he saw Earl Howard walking slowly towards this.
Then the hall resumed its previous excitement, and teams of spinning and dancing figures began to appear on the dance floor. However, compared to before, 90% of the topics in the hall now start to revolve around this mysterious girl who has just appeared, and people's curious thirst for knowledge is burning like a raging fire.
"It's nice to meet Miss Lacey."
Although Howard's status is high, this time he is very gentleman's initiative to stoop and seems to be kissing.
It's a pity that Lorrain Hill pretended to deflect his gaze to avoid the other party's plan. Two hands wearing white silk gloves lightly lifted the skirt to resolve the invisible embarrassment in return.
"Good evening, Lord Howard, I am honored to attend your banquet." The girl in the rose dress has meticulous etiquette, just like a classic aristocratic daughter.
Much of Lorrain Hill’s knowledge was learned from Trinasha, which naturally also included the etiquette and customs of the True Red Empire and the Mercury Dynasty. Today, the empire is nothing more than a legacy of the past.
Seeing this scene, Howard's eyes changed slightly, and then the girl sat down with a smile, and the two began to talk briefly.
As an Earl Howard who is good at socializing, he did not ask sensitive questions as soon as he came up. Instead, he slowly started to talk about trivial things such as the climate of the imperial capital and whether he was accustomed to his life, and then exchanged his tastes and preferences. Interested etc.
So, slowly, the atmosphere gradually eased.
Clap, Howard patted his palms, smiled and praised, and then asked the waiter on the side to bring a good wine in the gap of the conversation.
"I don't know what flavor Miss Lacey prefers. I have a fairly complete set of things here. As long as you ask, you can do your best to satisfy it."
"Then have a glass of golden honey plum fruit bar." Originally, Lorraine Hill wanted to order juice, but considering that everyone in the hall drank all kinds of alcohol, I didn’t want to go too far, so I changed it to light. Light fruit wine.
"It turns out that Miss Lacey also likes the taste of golden honey plum. It's a coincidence. In fact, my wife also likes it very much. Every year, she asks friends in the southern province of the empire to prepare a few barrels of fresh fruit wine for her."
"Although the golden honey plum is also produced in several manors near the imperial capital, its taste is not as good as the sweetness that is unique to the southern part of the spring and midsummer. I don’t know if Miss Lacey likes the golden honey plum that matures for a few months. What?"
"It's probably the golden honey plum between June 9th and 15th. This time period is when it is fresh and delicious." The girl blinked her eyes and her eyelashes trembled slightly.
Gold honey plums are not produced in many places in the Western Continent, at least in the two counties in the southern part of the empire, and they seem to be available from June to August, but in fact, only those who really follow know that the best of them That batch was only a few days in June. Later, the taste changes due to ripeness or rainfall.
Except for the particularly picky nobles, other ordinary people are not particularly concerned about such things.
While the two were talking, the waiter also brought two glasses of fine wine specially, and put the glass of soft yellow and transparent fruit wine in front of the girl.
"Let's also ask Miss Lacey to taste it to see if the taste is satisfactory, haha." Howard picked up the glass of purple wine he wanted, rippling it slightly in the palm of his hand, and gestured with a smile on his beard.
This Miss Lacey really seems unusual, it should not be the kind of fake stuff, this kind of conversation and insight is really not accessible to ordinary people, he secretly evaluated and thought in his heart. The seemingly ordinary communication just now, he was actually constantly analyzing the girl's birthplace and preferences to see if it was consistent with what she said.
Although Howard's own extraordinary strength is average, and he has no other special talents, but with his many years of socializing and seeing and hearing experience in the upper class of the empire, his vision and knowledge are not bad~IndoMTL.com~This Miss Lacey He is the kind of rare beauty and reason that coexist, which makes him happy and disappointed.
Fortunately, after seeing countless hypocritical girls in the aristocratic circle who wanted to squeeze into the upper class as shoddy, such a fresh presence suddenly appeared. What is lost is that such a sensible beauty may not be easily shaken by her own power, and her appearance will also attract more powerful competitors.
Sure enough, just as the two were talking at a small table by the dance floor, several aristocratic youths who could not restrain themselves finally came over together. Their title and strength may not be as good as Earl Howard, but the family behind them is not bad, and they also have handsomeness and youth that Earl Howard can't match.
"May I invite you to a dance? This beautiful lady."
A young man with a blond hair combed his head and uttered a voice, like an chant in an opera house, inviting the girl sitting at the table in a standard posture. Behind him, several ‘good brothers’ were also eager to try, and seemed to have the same plan.
After his voice fell, an unknown number of eyes peeked over here, countless young hearts began to be nervous and hesitant, and many voices began to bet secretly on who could dance with this girl tonight.