MTL - Heroes of Silver Moon-Chapter 12 : The banquet begins

This seat is also very particular. Kim is the elder of all the people here, and he has the highest title among all the people here, so even if you are a guest here, you must sit in the main seat.

Although Valery and Farid are both earls, Valery is the owner of the alpine castle, so the couple can sit on the right side with a relatively higher status.

Although Farid is Hina's elder brother, since his title is not higher than that of Valery, he is still on his territory, so he has to sit on the left-hand side of the slightly lower seat.

Simon and Christine, since they are juniors, they don't have any titles, so they can only sit under the uncle on the left.

Simon is the older brother, so he can sit next to Farid, and Christine is the younger brother, so he has to sit next to his brother at the bottom.

After everyone was seated, Marquis Kim nodded to Valéry, signaling that the banquet could begin.

Valery also responded to Marquis Kim, and then told the head maid, Butley, who was standing behind her, to start playing music.

The prelude to the banquet is also a very important part of the banquet, which means that the banquet has officially started, and the melody of the music sounds slowly.

Simon recognized this piece of music, it should be "Congratulations to His Majesty the King", a very classic piece of music in the Silver Moon Kingdom, the melody is simple and easy to learn.

Simon himself doesn't know much about music. The reason why he was able to recognize this piece of music is because he has listened to it too many times.

Generally speaking, nobles should invite professional musicians to play music at the beginning of the banquet before the banquet, and some wealthy nobles will even spend a lot of money to train a band that belongs to their own family.

However, some aristocrats are relatively poor, so what if they don’t want to pay for the band?

Don't worry, some nobles who knocked on the door have come up with crooked ideas. They will buy some cheap musical instruments and choose a piece of music with a relatively simple melody.

Then let those servants in the family, take those cheap instruments they bought, and practice that piece of music exclusively.

In this way, they can let the servants play music when they hold a banquet. Anyway, the servants are bought by the nobles, so there is no need to pay for them to play music.

In this way, these nobles will save a sum of money every time they hold a banquet, which will add up to a considerable amount of wealth.

Unfortunately, Simon's father, Valéry, belonged to that noble family.

Valery's situation is better, at least when holding large banquets, he will still invite musicians to play, but Valery will not waste the money on this kind of family banquet for his own family up.

After all, everyone knows the basics, and there is no need to spend that sum of money for the sake of face. Although Valery has territories in four towns, none of them are very rich.

Although he can earn nearly 3,000 gold coins every year, Valery has a private army of 3,000 people, which is a gold-swallowing monster.

The annual cost of raising them alone is more than two thousand gold coins, and after deducting some other expenses, the real income in the end is about five hundred gold coins.

Five gold coins can make a commoner family live happily for a year. Although these five hundred gold coins seem like a lot, Valéry dare not spend these extra money casually.

Don't forget, the High Mountain Territory is facing the Gru Mountain Range. Every five or six years, Valery will form an alliance with other lords to resist the barbarian aborigines in the Gru Mountain Range.

It takes a lot of money to prepare sufficient supplies before the war, but this is not a big deal. The real thing is after the war.

Dead soldiers need pensions, disabled soldiers need resettlement fees, weapons and armor need to be repaired, and those that are completely broken need to be repurchased.

The Hawke family has not been established for a short time, almost a thousand years. Although it cannot compare with those families that have been passed down for thousands of years, it is already considered to have a deep foundation.

But even so, the wealth accumulated by the Hawke family is extremely limited, and Valery would not dare to touch the wealth accumulated by the ancestors of the past generations.

Those things are used to give life-saving money to the entire Hawke family when the Hawke family is in crisis.

Aside from the wealth accumulated by those ancestors, Valery has succeeded the title of the Hauke ​​family for more than 20 years. He has been diligent and frugal during the past 20 years, and even promoted the title of the Hauke ​​family from viscount When it came to the earl, the fief more than doubled.

But even so, Valery has only accumulated about a thousand gold coins so far, and he can safely use part of this money, but not all of it.

In case of a bad harvest in the territory, or too much loss in the battle with the barbarians, this money will be needed.

Valery's father-in-law, Marquis Kim, is also basically aware of the situation of the Hauke ​​family, so he has no intention of blaming Valery, UU reading www. Instead, uukanshu.com happily raised the wine glass in his hand after the music was played.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty the Moonlight Goddess, and congratulations to Your Majesty the King", Marquis Kim shouted these two words loudly, and then drank the wine in his glass.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty the Moonlight Goddess, and congratulations to Your Majesty the King", the other people on the long table also raised their cups one after another, shouted these two sentences, and then drank them all in one gulp.

"Damn", Simon cursed in his heart when the liquid in the glass entered his mouth, the wine in his glass was actually too bad to drink, Simon almost spit it out from the alcohol.

But now it was a banquet, and both grandpa and uncle were here, so he could only grit his teeth and swallow the wine.

"Mad, what's going on, the servant is wrong", Simon thought to himself, he and his brother usually drink grape juice.

It's not that Simon can't drink. In terms of alcohol capacity, Simon, who drank a lot of alcohol in Blue Star in his previous life, may be the best alcoholic here, but Simon really doesn't like the smoky taste of alcohol.

Therefore, Simon who came to this world, relying on his young age, has always been drinking grape juice.

Just now Simon thought that what was in his glass was juice as usual, so he poured the wine directly into his mouth without any precautions.

We all know that wine should be drunk slowly, if you drink it vigorously, unless you have a good capacity for alcohol, otherwise the drinker will be easily smoked by the wine.

By the time Simon realized something was wrong, he had already poured all the wine into it.

Simon's expression was well controlled, and he didn't show any abnormalities. Valery, who was diagonally opposite Simon, looked at Simon unexpectedly.