Chapter 335: Stubborn Bronze China Darcy
It is October 3rd, 1032 in the new calendar of the alien world, and it is not yet July on Earth.
A luxurious carriage with the emblem of the noble family of Innadri, accompanied by servants and bodyguards, was driving on a country road in the central part of Adler Territory.
In the carriage, the current head of the Darcy family, Miss China Darcy, who was dressed in formal aristocratic lady's attire, kept taking deep breaths and exhaling rapidly.
"Please relax, Miss China. You are here to visit your aunt. If your aunt sees you so nervous, she will be worried about you."
Of the two men in the car, the older one put the book in his hand on his knees and nodded slightly to Miss China in a friendly manner.
Miss China seemed to be in awe of this middle-aged man, who looked to be in his thirties or forties, and was wearing butler clothes. She said nervously, "I'm sorry - I will calm down before arriving at Dutata. I promise you, Mr. Yang."
Yang Qiu shrugged slightly and turned his head to look at the burly man sitting next to him.
The sturdy man who was sitting in this luxurious carriage, which was not much smaller than a motorhome, was as uncomfortable as an adult being stuffed into a child's chair... with a blank expression on his face.
This super strong man, whose physique is roughly equal to 1.4 Waltons and 1.2 Anthonys, was once considered a "celebrity" in Innadri - the night watchmen of the Gold Coin Church once regarded him as a dangerous person and hunted down "Mr. Salt" for a long time: Alphonse von.
Well...that’s Zhao Zhenzhen’s alias.
Zhao Zhenzhen, who looked like a super strong man, spoke in a very unnatural female voice, turned his head away and glared at Yang Qiu: "Are you sure you want to involve Miss Qina? Don't you think this idea is too sexy?"
"I never forced Miss Qina." Yang Qiu spread his hands uprightly, "If you don't believe me, ask yourself. Miss Qina volunteered."
"Yes, Ms. Zhao." China Darcy hurriedly took the initiative to explain to the strong undead lady who even she herself felt was a bit hot to the eye, "I, I also hope to do something for Innadri."
Zhao Zhenzhen looked at the other person with suspicion.
Zhao Zhenzhen was confident that she herself, an Aboriginal woman who had worked for Innadelli, was willing to take risks; but China Darcy... this Aboriginal girl who had been hastily elevated to the position of Lady, didn't really deal with the City Hall, right?
China Darcy's freckled face turned red, and she mustered up the courage to say, "I actually... I actually... I like Innadri very much now."
After a pause, the noble girl who had been treated as invisible by the Darcy family and never taken seriously gritted her teeth and said nervously and forcefully as if she was betting her life on the gambling table: "I like Innadri with you, Innadri with the dead."
Zhao Zhenzhen opened her mouth in surprise, unexpectedly yet reasonably.
Mustering up the courage to start talking, China Darcy's speech speed finally became normal: "I have always been concerned about the policies implemented by Innadri. A wise and intelligent undead lady like you must have been to many places during your lifetime, but I haven't. I grew up in the Darcy family. Before I was sixteen, the people I saw most were the butlers of the manor and the tutors who taught my sisters and me. My cousins and outstanding cousins can get the opportunity to go to school in other places, but such a good thing will never happen to my sisters and me..."
Zhao Zhenzhen couldn't help but grimace when she heard the word "before death"...
China Darcy looks like an ordinary college student. Although she is born into a noble family, it is impossible for a granddaughter like her who does not even have good looks and whose parents are not liked by the old viscount to get the opportunity to discover and display her talents and realize her self-worth.
In other words... before the arrival of the undead, the most valuable thing about China Darcy was that she had Darcy blood and the Darcy family name.
If the undead had not intruded, China Darcy's life trajectory would probably have been that she would be arranged by the old viscount to marry a knight from a certain family after she turned twenty years old - the Darcy family had many beautiful granddaughters, and there was no need for a mediocre person like China to marry into a good family.
It sounds cruel, but for any large family, it does not mean that all descendants will receive preferential family resources. Qina's generation has more than 20 brothers and sisters, and most of them are destined to be relegated to the civilian class after two or three generations.
To some extent, when the old Viscount Darcy sent China to "seduce" the illegitimate son Charlie Rex, it could be considered as the old Viscount's "care" for China - compared to the family knights who would be demoted within two to three generations, the future of the illegitimate son Rex was obviously more promising.
China Dashi has never seen a wider world since she was born. She has no resentment about her fate because everyone around her has gone through the same thing.
Until the undead occupied Innadri.
For China Darcy, whether she was driven to a farm in the country for failing to "seduce" Rex, or the Darcy family mansion was destroyed by vampires, which accidentally made her become the female lord of this generation, none of them could compare to the touching feeling brought to her by the undead archon Ms. Zhao in front of her, which made her unable to sleep countless times.
The Bartles family was driven away and the tentacles of the local nobles were isolated outside the city hall. It was the Undead Archon and a group of female clerks and civil servants who supported most of Innadri.
This shock was far greater than what China Darcy felt when she heard about the deeds of Phoenix from the Odysseus family... After all, there was only one Phoenix, and that kind of genius was too far away for China Darcy.
China believes that it is possible for female clerks and civil servants in the city hall to become such a goal. This is a competitive spirit that is unique to young people and is not affected by any factors.
Rather than the title of female nobility that suddenly fell upon her, making her envied by her cousins who were studying away from home and regarded as a thorn in the eyes of other tribesmen, China Darcy longed to be one of them.
After shyly telling her about her admiration, China Darcy took out a notebook with many bookmarks from her leather handbag, blushed, held it in both hands and handed it to Zhao Zhenzhen: "This, this is what I picked out from the newspaper and the city hall decrees I heard from the street staff. I wrote them all down, and also hypothesized, hypothesized, if I were a clerk, how I would work for the city hall... Please take a look."
Zhao Zhenzhen silently took the notebook and opened it.
Very good... This traitor of the old aristocratic landlord class even wrote down suggestions such as which direction to investigate hidden farm fields under the new tax policy that has been promoted several times in the city hall. For example, some aristocratic butlers would register the land seized from free people in the names of their own servants or relatives. Miss China even wrote this down in red ink.
Zhao Zhenzhen closed her notebook with a little emotion, looked seriously at Miss Qina who was expecting to get her comments, and said: "Since you are so concerned about the decree of the City Hall, then you should know that the position of the City Hall and the position of the local nobles of Innadri are actually opposite. The greater the jurisdiction of the City Hall, the more the interests of the nobles of Innadri will be damaged... Even so, you don't mind?"
China Darcy smiled.
The young freckled girl said softly with a maturity and wisdom beyond her peers: "If the dead had not taken over, the Darcy family's wealth would not have belonged to me."
After all, she was born into a noble family.
While girls from ordinary families are dreaming of being married by the Prince Charming, China Darcy, who has received aristocratic education and understands the rules of the game of power, has been guided on how to plan her life based on the principle of maximizing benefits.
In the legendary novels circulated among the people, a rich lady who is devoted to pursuing true love falls in love with a poor boy and abandons her family and career to follow him. This kind of thing is impossible to happen to a real aristocratic woman.
Even China Darcy, a descendant of the nobility who was obviously not worthy of marriage alliance from a young age, was taught at the age of five or six to recognize the purpose and expectations of those who approached them. When they were in their teens, they had to learn how to cultivate maids and servants who were loyal to them, and how to make these servants serve them more wholeheartedly.
China Darcy would never be so foolish as to think that the title of Lady Knight and the wealth and land of the Darcy family were her lifelong security.
She understood better than anyone else that as long as the ruler of Innadri was no longer an undead one day, she would not even have the chance to pass on the title to someone else while she was alive... The surviving members of the Darcy family, those cousins who were more valued by her deceased grandfather than she was, all had countless ways to make sure she died without a burial place.
The only way out of the impasse might be to find a reliable marriage partner who can help her gain a foothold as soon as possible before the undead regime is overthrown, and rely on her husband's power to protect her life and property... But to achieve this goal, Qina herself doesn't know how much luck she needs.
She was not as gifted as a leader as Phoenix from the Odysseus family, nor was she as lucky as Phoenix. All she had was enough self-awareness.
Zhao Zhenzhen couldn't help but grin.
Zhao Zhenzhen certainly liked such a smart girl. She even regretted letting Rex waste a lot of time with other Innadri nobles and not deepening his relationship with this female duke earlier.
"How did you find out that Miss Qina is such an outstanding girl?" Zhao Zhenzhen couldn't help but ask Yang Qiu.
Yang Qiu gave Zhao Zhenzhen a look that showed he was surprised by what he saw, and calmly lowered his head to flip through the book.
Through the vision of the operators and clerks in the Matrix, Yang Qiu had seen Miss Qina countless times dressed as an ordinary citizen in the bar area and the New Wind District. She even attended the adult night school in the New Wind District several times...
Well, Yang Qiu thought that he didn’t need to tell Zhao Zhenzhen about this, lest she blame him for not bringing Rachna Darcy on board earlier.
The more strictly class-based a society is, the more likely it is that women will become the oppressed lower class; this world rule is true on Earth and in this world as well.
Yang Qiu intends to allow a large number of former red-light district workers who have been the most oppressed to enter the Innadelli regime. In addition to the fact that he believes that everyone has potential that can be tapped and can play a role if placed in the right position, he also means that he is paying a high price for a good job - this straightforward position of "recruiting talents regardless of their background" is more useful than shouting slogans.
If any society faces an urgent need for change, there must be problems with the upward channels; and those who can stand up and solve the problem of closed upward channels can often achieve success by attracting a lot of support... The history of the Chinese nation has proved this point countless times.
Whether opening up upward channels for women is beneficial to social change, the process of the rejuvenation of New China is enough to prove the significance and importance of this decision. If it were not for the contributions and efforts made by more than 70% of Chinese women in social labor, the process of the rejuvenation of New China would have been slowed down for decades.
For example, now, China Darcy, an aristocratic woman whose only role in the old Game of Thrones rules system is to win over a minor noble or family knight for the Darcy family, can provide considerable help to the current Innadri regime with her clear-cut surrender - an excuse for "reasonable and legal" launching an anti-tax war and attacking the Adler Territory is now in front of them.
"My aunt is going to marry the second son of a viscount in Dutata City."
The vehicle continued to move. Miss Qina, who had been recognized by the Undead Archon she admired, calmed down a lot. She carefully introduced to Zhao Zhenzhen the information she thought might be useful to Innadri: "The surname of this viscount is O'Neill. His ancestor was a knight of the kingdom. He performed well in the National Defense War two hundred years ago and was awarded the viscount. His fiefdom is in the eastern part of Adler Territory, near a small town in Dutata City."
"About six years ago, I heard my father mention the news that my uncle had passed away. After that, my aunt came to Innadri with my cousin. She didn't look well. It seemed that after my uncle passed away, a lot of their family property was taken away by my uncle's brother, Viscount O'Neill..."
"My aunt wrote to me two years ago. Due to financial difficulties, she sold the last farm left by my uncle. She and my cousin moved to the city and bought an apartment to live by collecting rent..."
When Zhao Zhenzhen heard this part, she almost understood why Yang Qiu called Miss Qina.
"Are you sure that the excuse of helping a viscount 's descendant fight for inheritance is enough for us to send troops to fight Adler?" Zhao Zhenzhen turned to look at Yang Qiu again with suspicion.
"Of course it's not enough." Yang Qiu said calmly, "So we have to pretend to be pigs and eat the tiger."
Pointing at China Darcy, Yang Qiu said to Zhao Zhenzhen in a straightforward manner, "A female lord whose family doesn't support her and whose position is unstable stands up for her cousin. This stubborn bronze person seems easy to deal with, right?"
China Darcy didn't mind this description at all. Instead, she nodded with a smile on her face, as if she was very happy that she could be of use to Yang Qiu.
Zhao Zhenzhen: “…”
