Struggle in Russia

Count Adrian Petrescu was in a good mood, and even his private secretary Setres had a say. He has served the earl for twenty years, and he knows all the micro expressions of the earl, and the meaning of any of his small movements is clear to Setres.

It is precisely because he knows the temperament of his employer that Setres can always serve the earl. Before him, this stubborn and eccentric old man has changed more than 30 private secretaries, almost every month. No one can make him satisfy.

Is Count Petrescu difficult to serve? It is neither true nor false for Setres, you will find it difficult to serve him without understanding his mind, but if you understand the character of the Earl, then it is very easy to deal with.

For example, now, Setres knew that the reason why the Earl was in such a good mood was entirely because he had enjoyed the dignity and majesty brought by being valued rarely in the past ten years.

As a veteran nobleman, this earl is very sensitive to his status. Why is he unwilling to return to Bucharest or deal with the nobles in Bucharest in the past ten years? Do you really think that he hates the hustle and bustle and depravity of Bucharest as he himself said, and he likes the leisurely, clean and leisurely rural life and wants to return to nature?

nonsense! That was all false, out of desperation! The fundamental reason is that the earl cannot accept the fact that the Petrescu family has declined and has almost no influence and status in Wallachia. He doesn't like being called a poor and settled family, and likes to be like a big man who is full of stars. Enjoy compliments and flattery.

This earl is very vain, he likes to be respected, and he likes to feel superior. Before, his proud family traditions and history were treated as rubbish and completely dismissed. Even a large number of emerging businessmen and local tyrants are more popular than him. He really couldn't bear all this, so he hid back to the countryside and became a hermit.

But now that the old earl has once again become the focus of everyone's attention and the core figure again, do you think he can be unhappy?

Even Count Petrescu still had a stern face, but Setres could hear his heartfelt voice: 【That's cool! comfortable! 】

Of course, he is actually a bit dark about this. As another real poor nobleman, although Setres has the title of baron, his family is really poor. His father only has a hundred acres of thin land to support his five sons and three A daughter is really bald enough. To maintain the dignity and decency of the so-called nobility in such a predicament is really bald on top of bald.

Fortunately, Setres was smart and quick-witted, and most importantly, he was not as rigid as his father, who always kept his figure and refused to bend his waist for five buckets of rice. The first thing he did after he became an adult was to give up his figure to apply for the post of Adrian Petrescu's private secretary. Relying on his title of nobility, his keen eyesight and familiarity with old-fashioned aristocratic etiquette, he successfully won the earl's Huanxin, and then work for twenty years.

In the past twenty years,

He changed from a hairy young man to a greasy Mediterranean uncle, turned the 100 acres of meager land of his ancestors into a thousand acres of fertile land, and made the small life more and more prosperous. To tell the truth, he was also secretly a little proud, feeling that he had taken Adri Count Ann Petrescu has figured it out. If he is allowed to work for another ten or twenty years, it is estimated that the family business can be doubled again. Tsk tsk, what a joy! Happy!

So the master and servant sitting in the carriage were in a good mood at this time, so they didn't notice at all that when they stepped out of the carriage and stepped into the gate of the Prahova Protection Association, an ice-like gaze was firmly fixed. Locked them down.

"President, are you here? You are still so energetic today! But you are stronger than us young people. If I am half as energetic as you at your age, I should be secretly happy!"

Petrescu nodded reservedly, and said with a smile: "Mr. Anderses, don't compliment me as an old man. I'm trying my best now. After all, everyone trusts me and puts the responsibility on my shoulders. I have to be worthy of everyone's trust, and work hard to fulfill my responsibilities, whoever made me have this temper, hey, I have to work hard, there is no way."

Andreses naturally complimented him again, and welcomed Petrescu in flatteringly. To be honest, he didn't treat the old man like this half a month ago. As a local big businessman and Prahova County The county magistrate, he looked down on the Petrescu family, which was stagnant and gradually declining. He felt that Count Petrescu was really useless and an old fool.

The reason for his drastic change in attitude was very simple. The big shots in Bucharest suddenly admired Petrescu, praising him as an outstanding squire in Prahova County and an advanced representative figure, and he almost failed to be regarded as a hero by the old count. up.

The boss likes the old earl, and Andreses, who follows the liberals, naturally has to do his best to keep up. Anyway, a businessman like him has no morals at all. What is it for him to kneel and lick? Clappers are at least less strenuous to lick than the folks in Bucharest.

This old man would be in high spirits as long as he said a few good words, but the uncle in Bucharest wants to listen to good words and get real money. You can lick good things without spending money, and Andersey is 10,000 happy wishes.

"The Viscount Berest and the Earl of Bines will arrive after a while. They have something to delay, please bear with me!"

Viscount Berest and Count Vines are old acquaintances and enemies of Petrescu. The three of them are the largest landowners in Prahova County, occupying almost 50% of the entire county's land, so Prahova protector After the establishment of the Protection Committee, Petrescu became the chairman, and the two were vice-chairmen.

However, the relationship between these three people is not good. In the past, the three families used their brains to compete for land. Now, even if they have the same interests temporarily, they are not at peace internally. Those two people were very dissatisfied with Petrescu being the chairman, and they had to separate from Petrescu in almost everything, even if it was a meeting, they had to deliberately handle it, and being late for anything was basic practice.

"OK!"

But who made Petrescu happy? He felt that the president should be a little lenient, there is no need to be as knowledgeable as a few deputies, the prime minister can hold a boat in his stomach!

"Are they busy people anyway?" Of course, he would not be soft-spoken if he should be sarcasm: "I heard that the Earl and the Viscount fought over a woman the day before yesterday? This is really hard work!"

Anderses was a little embarrassed. It's okay for the nobles to be jealous. The problem is that the object of the two rivalries is another noble lady who has just lost her husband. So he could only change the subject and say:

"Count? I heard that someone sent you a threatening letter?"