Chapter 142 139. New Year's Gift
"Landen, isn't my dress pretty?" Nila happily showed off her dress in front of Landen.
Her dress was specially customized by Landen together with other Mana-Wielder. It has a light pink long skirt, double rows of mother-of-pearl buttons, and gold embroidered lilies vividly embellished on the neckline and upper body. The waist is restrained to set off the girl's figure.
"Excellent, I said Nila is so beautiful, go and try some other pieces." Landen looked at Nila with great satisfaction. This sister has been taking care of him since he could remember. Now that he has become a lord, he hopes to let her enjoy more blessings.
Today is December 33, 1996, and tomorrow is New Year's Eve. As the lord, Landen held the last territorial joint meeting of 996 this morning and announced a seven-day break starting tomorrow.
Two days ago, Landen received a notification from Bristle-Wolf City that the second brother's fleet anchored at the Bristle-Wolf City ferry. Because the river near Rothe Territory had frozen, the caravan had only ships and beasts of burden to bring back the goods.
Fortunately, Landen purchased multiple pieces of Magic Mirror from Royal Capital, and communication can already be carried out between Royal Capital, Bristle-Wolf City and Rothe Territory.
After making sure that his second brother could come back in time for the New Year, Landen gave out New Year gifts to his cronies today: clothes he bought from Royal Capital.
Of course, Raul, Greyhound, Walker and others, Landen also presented some silver tableware and red wine;
Hark, Albert, Ryan, Peli and other family members, Landen prepared some Magic Potion; for Lannia, Nila, Makoto, Nancy and other women Mana-Less, Landen have prepared special dresses;
Candies and toys were prepared for children such as Redbird, Little Hilt, Qiu Cao, and Landen.
Landen also specifically requested to distribute some Magic Beast Meat to all Mana-Wielder, and slaughtered dozens of Long-Haired Sheep to supply all Territory Residents.
On the penultimate day of 996, everyone in the territory was very happy.
"Sir, Master Obert's caravan is back." Knight saw the cavalry from the castle's lookout. It was time to find someone to report back to the main tent.
It happened that Landen was discussing the Magic Pattern design of the cage with Wendy. Several girls had tried on the clothes a few weeks ago, but now they had no sense of freshness, so they just listened to the Landen roadshow in the tent.
"I understand, let's go take a look together." Landen finally arrived at the caravan of the second brother and Mace, "You guys also come with me and see if there is anything you want as a gift."
"Sir, isn't this ship transporting wood and grain? Where can we use it?" Johnny asked with some confusion.
"You won't let us cut the wood to make the cage, right?" Firefly was even more alert.
The girls followed Landen chattering and walked out. When they left the camp, they saw the caravan approaching. In order to get Obert back as soon as possible, Landen specially sent a team of cavalry and 50 beasts of burden to meet the caravan in the direction of Bristle-Wolf City, ensuring that each beast of burden could move faster.
"Sir, let's go and choose." Firefly looked at the caravan and the nearly 100 people accompanying it. However, when she looked carefully, she saw a familiar shadow, "Dad?"
At the front of the caravan, a group of Mana-Less were advancing hard. They were relatives of several girls that Landen specially asked Antrechi to find. These people were distributed in Mana-Less families of various small and medium-sized nobles, and were distributed throughout the Dragon Kingdom.
In Blue Dragon School, students' family members have very clear information. It is not difficult to find it as long as you click on the picture.
Not just Firefly, every girl saw her relatives, Wendy's mother, Lily's aunt and sister, Sophia's brother and sister-in-law, Joan's uncle, the girls ran to the caravan. Since they were sent to Blue Dragon School, they have never seen their relatives again. For at least 5 years and at most 7 years, the appearance of their relatives has become a blur to them.
"I brought all the people back to you. Do you know how much effort I put into letting them board the ship from the middle of the road?" Obert ran over to claim credit.
"Second brother, thank you for your hard work. Let's go home." For Landen, his former relatives have become ghosts. All he can do now is cherish these relatives in front of him.
"Wendy!" Even though they had been separated for five years, Wendy's mother Alina recognized her daughter at first sight and ran over and hugged her.
"Mom!" Wendy, who was already in her mother's arms, still couldn't believe that all this was true. She just felt dizzy, and the moments from her childhood were hitting her brain like a blowout.
"My daughter, let me take a good look, you have grown taller." Alina looked at her daughter carefully, her eyes filled with tears, "How have you been in these years?"
"I, I'm fine now." Wendy doesn't want to recall the time in school and Grey Goose Tribe. Now is her best time.
Not just Wendy, Lily, Johnny, Firefly, Sophia, every girl is feeling the beauty of family affection.
Even Wendy who dared to speak never dared to ask Landen to take his family over. The girls privately discussed using the profits from processing alchemy products to hire Dugan who stayed behind at Royal Capital to help find their relatives. But they did not dare to think that Landen could bring his family back for the first time when he came to Royal Capital.
Of course, the girls didn't know that the price for taking their families back was that Landen was forced to go on a blind date.
In the distant castle, Albert and Ben Kaul were watching the returning caravan and the girls enjoying the reunion from the windows of the castle.
Ben also received a special gift from Landen, a crystal cup with a lid. There is a hardwood lid on the vertical cup body. There is a special filter layer under the cup lid. Tea can be placed on the filter layer to avoid affecting the taste when drinking water.
There are 2-3 Magic Pattern on the cup body. Landen said this kind of cup is called "Thermos" and said it suits Ben's taste.
Of course, Ben didn't know. This was Landen insinuating that he looked like a veteran cadre. Of course, Ben had never seen such a delicate water cup, and he liked this Thermos very much.
"Let me just say, Landen's methods are smarter than you think. If you had known how to give gifts to Julian back then, you probably wouldn't be so lonely now." Ben Kaul teased Albert happily.
"Back then, I was dedicated to studying and hoped to use every Copper Coin for my studies. How could I afford such an expensive gift." In addition to receiving a bottle of Magic Potion Wine, Albert also received a book recording family history, which Landen saw on Dragon Tooth City.
"Look what you said, Julian is the daughter of Marquis, and she is Mage Apprentice with great potential. If you could really catch up, your family wouldn't have such a small fortune now." Ben Kaul pursued the victory, and watching Albert suffer was the source of his pleasure.
"This Landen, when I went to Dragon Tooth City, I really didn't study hard. I spent all my time on these dances and giving gifts." Albert kept complaining about Landen. He didn't want to answer Mage's words, but he couldn't help stroking the newly obtained family history book with his hand.
Ben didn't speak. He had already heard Landen talk about fainting while reading and was too embarrassed to tell Albert.