1855 United States Tycoon

The sun has risen, and the fog on the beach has gradually disappeared.

"Dorothea, can you ride a horse?" Scrooge asked. Scrooge specially prepared two beautiful thoroughbred horses and fitted them with the best saddles, but the answer Scrooge wanted to hear most was "I won't". Because of this, he could justifiably let Dorothea ride a steed with him.

However, his expectation has failed. The daughter of a Southern manor can not ride a horse? Oh, that's definitely a joke. Just like the little girl named Bonnie in the later novel "Gone with the Wind", Dorothea has been trained in riding since she was very young. When she was only six years old, his father gave her a pony (this is a horse breed specially bred for children) like Barrett. Since then, Dorothea has started Learned horsemanship. Although Dorothea was not good at driving a carriage, but when it came to riding, Scrooge learned in Robson's crash course was absolutely inferior to Dorothea.

"Don't underestimate me." Dorothea said, "My riding skills are great, I was..." Dorothea stopped, maybe she was reluctant to talk about the previous things, because of those Many of the people involved in the story are no longer there.

"Well, let's play. Scrooge, whoever of us arrives at the gate of the castle first, even if whoever wins, does not matter." Dorothea said.

"Okay! I don't believe I can still lose to a woman!" Scrooge laughed.

Two people each got on a horse. In fact, this kind of competition is very unfair for women. Although women have lighter weight and theoretically her horses can run faster, the posture of women riding horses will seriously hinder their control of the horses. Because women of that era always had to maintain an elegant manner at all times, and wearing breeches, with their legs spread and sitting on the back of a horse, such a posture was not considered elegant in any case at the time. In that era, only strange women like George Sand would dress up like that and ride horses like that. Coupled with the fact that ladies always wear long skirts, there is no way to sit on horseback. So ladies riding horses use side riding positions. When side riding, although there is a special side saddle to assist, but from the perspective of technology, side saddle riding still puts forward higher requirements on the rider, because the legs are tilted to one side, regardless of the "two-point" The "three-point style" still doesn't work anymore. Riders need better "horse sense" and balanced technology to control the horse freely. In this way, Miss who use the side-riding method to ride horses slowly trot, maybe there is no problem, but if you want to ride the horse, you will immediately face a lot of problems in control and balance. If you don't do it well, it's not impossible to fall down from the horse.

Because of this advantage, Scrooge said very gentlemanly, asking Dorothea to take a step forward-anyway, this was just playing with Dorothea.

But when Dorothea set off, Scrooge was immediately dumbfounded. I saw Dorothea sitting on the side saddle, as if stuck to it, no matter how the horse ran, she sat firmly on it. In the blink of an eye, Dorothea ran far away.

"Damn it! This girl is so good at equestrianism! Just like that, you won't be able to win for Robson!" Scrooge hurried over with his horse whip.However, the straight-line distance from here to the castle is only five or six hundred meters, and even the bend of the mountain road is only 1,500 meters to the top. In such a short distance, Dorothea was leading by nearly thirty meters, and she wanted to catch up. At least, with Scrooge's riding skills of a three-legged cat, it was not to think about it. But this kind of winning or losing is nothing, just make the little girl happy.

The road turned around in the grove in front, and Scrooge saw Dorothea gently controlling the horse around the bend, almost without slowing down.

"What a great riding skill!" Scrooge couldn't help but cheer when he saw it. But when he went around the corner, he found Dorothea was unexpectedly close to him. Dorothea seemed to be having some trouble, and her speed dropped a lot.

Scrooge chased up from behind and asked, "What's the matter? How did you slow down?"

Dorothea replied with a bitter face, "The saddle seems to be loose."

When riding sideways, if the saddle becomes loose, there is really no way to maintain speed. Scrooge smiled and said, "Dorothea, if that's the case, I won, and there is no glory. Or we should go up slowly together."

"Hmph, you are lucky!" Dorothea said proudly.

It's just that the saddles of Scrooge and Dorothea's horses were all adjusted by the most experienced horse trainers. How could such a problem arise? Scrooge didn't think much. He was just riding a horse side by side with Dorothea, walking slowly along the path towards the castle. As for Dorothea, she thought of Mrs. Stephen's conversation with her.

"Dorothea Miss, men generally don’t like women who are too incompetent. If a woman knows nothing, then her status in the family must not be high. But I’m not worried about this, because we Dorothea may have done it, even the old lady was probably not better than you back then. But you must remember that a woman cannot be too capable, and cannot be capable of overwhelming a man. Such a woman, although she will. Very status, but probably not very happy. Don't try to overwhelm a man, even if you can, this is a super stupid thing. I can see that Mr. MacDonald loves you very much, but in return, you are not either. Should he take care of his feelings everywhere." It was with this teaching that Dorothea took the initiative to lower her horse speed so that Scrooge could catch up. Sure enough, Scrooge seemed to be in a good mood after catching up.

After another turn, Scrooge and Dorothea finally reached the gate of the castle. At this time, the gate of the castle had been opened, and Scrooge jumped off the horse first, and then took Dorothea off the horse. The two men led horses and walked towards the castle.

As soon as they entered the gate, a servant came over and took their horse away. An old man in his fifties stepped forward to greet Scrooge and Dorothea. Scrooge knew this was David Felt, the commander-in-chief of this project. He is one of the best architects in the whole of Britain. Scrooge was named by Scrooge at the beginning, and Carroll came forward to invite him from Britain.

"Mr. Firth, can you show us a tour of this castle?" Scrooge said.

"I am very willing to help you. Mr. MacDonald, Dorothea Miss, please come with me." Felt led the way, Dorothea and Scrooge followed.

After entering the gate, the first is the wide courtyard and fountain, as well as various statues, most of which were made by famous artists at the time.

Then there is the spacious dance hall. The interior decoration and furnishings are all made by the best Italian designers. The whole style is luxurious and condensed, full of a family atmosphere. Nouveau riche people are often ridiculed as having no taste. In fact, it was because they were not having enough outbreaks. A super upstart like Scrooge, although his taste for interior decoration is not high, he can invite experts in this area to serve him. As a result, whoever sees this big ballroom now says that the decoration is full of the smell of copper from the nouveau riche?

Dorothea from the south has naturally never seen such an imperial castle, and she has never even dreamed of such a castle when she was dreaming. Although as a girl, Dorothea has never seen Prince Charming's dream since she was a child.

"From here, it is the Life area. Compared with the traditional castle, the room lighting here is much stronger, so it must be very comfortable to live here." Felt took them to the room in the Life area. took a look. From these rooms, you can see the sea with white waves in the distance. When you open the window, there will be sea breeze, mixed with the salty atmosphere of the ocean and the call of seagulls.

"Mr. Firth, how is that swimming pool built?" Scrooge asked.

"Ah, Mr. MacDonald, that swimming pool was designed by you. You should know that it is not the best time to visit it." Felt glanced at the clock next to him and said, "The sun is very good today. See that wonderful optical magic."

"What are you talking about?" Dorothea asked.

"Ah, nothing, in a while, in an hour, you will be able to see it. It's just a small trick." Scrooge replied with a smile.

Then Firth took Scrooge and Dorothea to visit the chapel and the watchtower at the highest point of the castle. The scenery was beautiful, but Dorothea was still thinking about the swimming pool that could conjure up tricks.

Mr. Firth took out his pocket watch to take a look, and then said: "The time is almost up, the height of the sun meets the requirements, let's go to the swimming pool."

This swimming pool is built indoors, but it is surrounded by glass. Although the glass is polished so that people cannot see the outside directly, it also makes it so bright that it is almost indistinguishable from the outdoors. The ceiling above my head is also glass, which seems to be a bit polished. It is not as fuzzy as the surrounding glass, but it is not as transparent as the pure flat glass. The swimming pool is full of clear spring water, and the calm water surface is like a mirror.

"What's so special about this?" Dorothea asked.

Indeed, this swimming pool is very big and beautiful, but that’s all, where is the trick?

Mr. Firth patted his palms twice, so the glass ceiling on the top of the swimming pool actually moved. It turned out that the ceiling was made of two layers of glass, and it could move in a dislocation.

"Look at the water," Scrooge said to Dorothea. "Look at what happens!"

With the movement of the glass ceiling, countless light spots appeared on the water surface of the swimming pool, and then these light spots condensed and turned into a swimming pool full of gold coins!

"Oh my God, what's going on?" Dorothea's big beautiful eyes were full of doubts.

"Nothing." Scrooge began to explain to Dorothea triumphantly, "The double-glazed glass above our heads have some special patterns that can interfere with each other when sunlight passes. By adjusting their position and Distance, you can project such an effect on the water. This is just an optical trick. How about, is this gold coin swimming pool that I designed is amazing?"

"Although I didn't understand what it meant." Dorothea said with a mischievous smile, "but I still think this design is very powerful. It's just that you use it to project such a large piece of gold coins instead of flowers. I can only say that you are too tasteless. And these gold coins are also fake, what's the matter..."

"Huh." Scrooge said disapprovingly. "Believe it or not, one day I can fill this whole swimming pool with gold!"

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