Worksers?No!Disguise as Countess

Chapter 2- A 'nun' in a convent

Although Mary had expressed her disregard earlier, her reaction to 'Louisa Countess' was just as important as her uncle's－－differently, Mario priest was considering for Count Brudo, hoping that Louisa Countess would be excellent. But Mary was hoping that Louisa Countess would be terrible, the worse the better!

However, she was disappointed, and even incredulous. How could it be! How could it be that a girl who had grown up in a convent－－Louisa Balzac had changed into secular clothes since she knew that Count Brudo was going to send someone to pick her up from the convent. The girl standing before everyone was wearing a fashionable blue silk Coutard long dress, with a fitted bodice. The sleeves were tight from the elbows to the cuffs, with a row of delicate gold buttons. The skirt was spread out, with a gold panel at the bottom hem that was the same width as the gold trim on the collar, with pearls sewn into a shamrock pattern. In addition, there was a decorative gold sash loosely tied.

Her black braided hair was styled in a double-ear jug shape, with a small round pearl net covering her hair bun. Besides that, the only piece of jewelry was the pearl necklace around her neck, but even just this one necklace was worth more than all the others－－these pearls were as big as the knuckles of an adult woman, each one perfectly round, flawless, and shiny.

Mary was eyeing the necklace with envy, such pearls were hard to come by even to string into a necklace, let alone get a few to use as jewelry. She did have some pearl accessories, but not a single pearl as big as this one.

She had only seen pearls of similar quality in Countess Brudo's coronet, which were the most expensive pearls in the world, each worth at least a thousand florins.

Even though Mary scrutinized Louisa, the Countess of Louisa, with the most demanding standards, she could not help but admit that this lady, who was not raised in the court of Brudo, possessed a first-class air of nobility - her skin was snow-white, her teeth were white and even, and her eyes were the highly esteemed green of the Vazons, with a natural lightness in her movements and demeanor.

What is nobility? At this time, it was basically elegant clothing, beautiful appearance, and a carefree attitude. Mary had never seen eyes like that of Louisa's－－the green eyes of the Countess of Louisa were a very special shade of gray-green. They had a little more gray tint than ordinary green eyes, like a forest in a light drizzle, and did not become any dimmer, but rather appeared more fresh and charming, with a dignified and elegant beauty of their own.

Louisa's gaze briefly swept over Mary, but it left a deep impression on her.

However, compared to her visual impression, perhaps Mary's olfactory experience was even more beyond her expectations－－for just a moment when she was closest to Louisa, she smelled a sweet and fragrant holy scent. The scent was so pure that there was not a trace of impurity in it, and there was no smoke from incense, and it was different from any fragrance that Mary knew.

Myrrh, frankincense, rose, jasmine, orange, cloves, chamomile, sandalwood... in short, it was not any of them.

Louisa had no idea that Mary thought so much about this. As a modern person, she had been transported to this fictional medieval kingdom for over ten years. While gradually adapting to the monotonous and boring life in the convent, she suddenly received a notification that her cheap father was going to send someone to pick her up... Her inner self was actually far from as calm as it looked.

Although she quickly took off her nun's robe and loosened her tight headscarf, put on secular clothes, this was just a matter of common sense for a modern person－－she could not resist her father's arrangements for this lifetime, and since he wanted her to return to the secular world, it was best for her to appear cooperative. Clothing was a minor matter, but many times it was these minor matters that determined others' attitudes.

Mario priest was coming to pick her up and take her back to the palace in Brudo, which Louisa had already learned from her father's letters. There was nothing to say about this matter now, and she was already prepared. When Mario priest asked her what her request was, Louisa's request was simple.

"Yes, priest, my only request is that I would like to take Jeanne with me back to Brudo. She is a servant at the convent." Although both were convents, the convent for nuns was different from the one for monks. Monks were often encouraged to engage in physical labor and academic studies, and live a self-sufficient life. Nuns were basically just expected to spend their days reciting prayers. In that case, who would do the physical labor at the convent? Besides some low-ranking nuns who did some less strenuous work, they needed to hire servants to do it.

This was quite normal. There were almost no barriers to becoming a monk. The convent for nuns, however, was different. While there were girls who joined the convent empty-handed, most convents had a practical "entry fee" for newcomers.

For example, Louisa had come to Fontro Convent as a child, and the Count of Brudo had paid a bag of gold coins as the "entry fee." In addition, she had to buy her own nun's clothing and furnishings for her room. If she decided at the age of fifteen to become a nun and hold the corresponding ceremony, there would be corresponding expenses－－of course, it now looked like she wouldn't become a nun.

Clearly, most girls who came to be nuns had a relatively good background and were pampered in the secular world, accustomed to having servants take care of them.

Therefore, it was quite reasonable to have servants in convent.