"Liszt moves more and more, and I don't have a moment to rest all day long. Isaiah, I haven't slept well for a week."
Gortai was fanning Parchment hard to dissipate heat in the small town administration house. "I originally thought that coming to Flower Town would be a leisurely job, but I didn't expect that it would make me exhausted."
"Obviously, officials who are not enterprising are not the officials Liszt expects." Isaiah counted the taxes for this quarter with his fingers and said without raising his head, "Gortai, you should make yourself work hard. A comfortable life will kill the knight's fighting spirit."
"It seems that you have fallen in love with Flower Town's life just like Blair. I remember you complained a lot when you first came here."
"I was really disappointed when I first came here. It's dilapidated and shabby, and there aren't even many people there." Isaiah's fingers were numb due to doing arithmetic. "But after I got used to living there, I felt that Flower Town had unprecedented vitality. I talked to Marcus, and he said that Liszt is a unique nobleman."
"It's really different." Gortai spread his hands.
"So I feel that Marcus's desire to join the nobility lies with Liszt, and my hope of reviving my family may also be here."
"It seems you are serious."
"I can't continue to be inactive. I must cheer up for my stupid son."
"Okay, I have to cheer up. I'm going to check on the progress of Oyster Hamlet's house construction. Now the whole town is short of people. I have to use my brain to organize a logging team."
Having said that, after leaving the administrative office, Gortai did not go to Oyster Hamlet, but returned to his house in the town.
This is a two-story building. It was originally the residence of the tax knights. Only lords can live in the castle. Even if it is idle, ordinary people cannot live in it.
"Sir, you are back. Are you finished with your work today?" A girl wearing a linen skirt hurried over to help Gortai take off her coat.
Gortai dishonestly touched the girl's butt. "The work is never finished, but life must go on."
The girl's face turned red. "If you don't go to work, won't the lord blame you?"
"I am Liszt's teacher and the administrator of the town. I have the right to give myself half a day off...Freya, I miss you and I don't want to work." With that, Gortai hugged Freya, kissed her on the cheek, and then pushed the girl towards the bedroom.
Freya hurriedly broke away and said hurriedly, "S-Sir, it's daytime now."
"What's wrong during the day? I've eaten too many oysters recently, and I don't have enough time at night." Gortai selectively forgot that he could only persist once every night, and no more than thirty seconds at a time.
Freya was a little flustered and seemed to be looking for a change of topic. "You seem to be in a bad mood, is it because of the consultant?"
"Of course I'm in a bad mood. He is the lord and has the right to instruct me to work for him, even if I am busy from morning to night. But it has been three months since I came to Flower Town and I still haven't gotten the position of advisor. Damn it, who else can serve as an advisor here except me?"
Gortai knocked on the wall of the house hard, his tone full of indignation. "I regret coming to Flower Town!"
Freya's expression changed. "Sir, do you want to leave here?"
"Not yet, Freya, it's you who makes me hang around here and never want to go back and forth." Gortai hugged Freya again and kissed her.
Freya pushed him away hard.
Gortai suddenly darkened his face. "Freya, what do you mean!"
Freya took a deep breath and allowed himself to smile again, "I know you are unhappy. You have always had something on your mind these days. I guess you want to go back to Coral City. It is a big city, countless times more prosperous than Flower Town... I want to tell the adults that Freya will stay in Flower Town and raise your children. Please don't worry about it."
"What do you mean?" Gortai's expression changed again and again.
"I'm pregnant."
With just one word, all the expressions on Gortai's face were immediately stunned, and it took him a while to wake up. "Are you pregnant?"
"Yeah." Freya touched her belly. Although it was still flat, she felt a strong little heart beating.
While talking, she suddenly started retching.
Gortai no longer had any doubts, Freya was indeed pregnant, but he didn't know whether he should be surprised or shocked - he had a wife and children in Coral City, the children had grown up and married their wives, and even his grandson had been born the year before last - he was just looking for a relationship here to fill his loneliness.
I never thought that such a day would come.
"Oh my god, Freya, I, I mean, I'm in a mess right now. I'm sorry, I don't know how to face this news." Gortai stammered.
Freya just smiled, "It doesn't matter, sir. I know that serfs like me have no better tomorrow. I am very grateful to you for giving me a relatively happy memory. I will raise him independently, and he will grow up healthy and strong... I only hope that when you leave, can you give him a free citizen status?"
"Freedmen?"
Gortai was hesitant and entangled, Freya just looked at him with a smile.
After a while, he took a deep breath and finally made a decision. "I'm sorry, Freya, I let you down..."
Freya's smile quickly dimmed.
But Gortai's next words made her smile brighter again.
"I hesitated just now. This shouldn't happen. I promise you, I will not leave Flower Town, at least not now. I want to see him born and tell him his father's name, Gortai·Mast... I think I know what to do. I have never been able to integrate into Flower Town."
Gortai held Freya in his arms, with warmth rather than lust. "Because I am already a noble, accustomed to enjoying rather than struggling, I complained that Liszt did not give me a consultant position, but did not work hard. But now, I must work hard to earn a noble honor again, for our children!"
"Is this true, sir?" Freya opened his eyes wide.
"Of course, I promise, in the name of my knight!"
A moment of tenderness.
Gortai broke away from Wenrouxiang, put on his Frac Abie again, and strode out of the house - this time he really went to Oyster Hamlet to inspect the construction of the house.
In the evening, a small banquet was held again in the castle.
Before the meeting, Marcus, Blair, and Isaiah were chatting casually, while in the study room, Gortai was reporting the work progress to Liszt.
"Half of the main road from Thorn Ridge to the town has been built. There is enough sea sand, but there is not enough stone. I have begun to recruit strong serfs to form a logging team. At the same time, I will break the Thorn Ridge stone and transport it to build the road. If Thorn Ridge has enough stone, the sand roads between the villages can also be paved with gravel."
"It's a good plan, just execute it like this, Teacher Gortai." Liszt nodded with satisfaction.
Not only this plan, but also Gortai's attitude. At every previous banquet, Gortai just came to eat and drink with his mouth, making some witty remarks, and never took the initiative to talk about work.
It was a bit unexpected today that I took the initiative to report to work.
As a lord, of course he likes subordinates who are active in their work rather than those who eat and drink.