Lord Highlander

The magic caravan stopped in front of the hotel.

Surda opened the door openly and walked quickly to the steps of the hotel against the cold north wind.

Beatrice said goodbye to Suldak with her hand out the window.

Suldak stood on the steps, turned his head and waved towards the carriage, watched the magic caravan take Beatrice and Hathaway away, and then turned and walked into the hotel.

When the scammers were arrested yesterday, some things in the hotel were smashed. Although the waiter had cleaned the lobby on the first floor, the damaged sculpture on the handrail of the stairs was still there. The beauty sculpture reveals a kind of incomplete beauty.

Suldak's body has recovered. Although his body is often weak due to insufficient carrying capacity, at least his mental strength has recovered a little. The nodes in his body are like the starry sky just at night. As night falls, more and more stars In Suldak's spiritual world kept flickering, the divine power began to recover slowly, giving Suldak some confidence.

Walking up the stairs, Aphrodite was waiting at the stairs on the fourth floor. She was wearing a loose nightgown, with a slight smile on her face, and said lazily to Suldak: "I thought you would casually Find a place to go back there..."

Suldak saw a corner protruding from the loose long hair on top of Aphrodite's head, and subconsciously wanted to look behind her, as if the remaining part after the flesh wing was cut off The root of the wing has also disappeared, leaving only a flat back, but she never wears a backless dress, so she can't see the scar there.

"Uh, if time permits, I will try my best to come back." He rubbed his nose, said, and then invited her: "Would you like to go down for a drink?"

Aphrodite looked at him condescendingly, curled her lips, but did not expose his hypocrisy, but said: "Forget it, I don't want to cause trouble for you, come tomorrow morning?"

"Yeah!" Suldak followed Aphrodite up, and then said: "I'm going to see Count Gophero again, if it doesn't work, we'll go back to Hailansa, I don't have the patience to continue with him Consume it!"

Aphrodite stopped, turned to stare at him and asked, "It seems that you have already figured out a countermeasure?"

Suldak opened the door of the room, walked in and lit the candles on the candlesticks in the room, and then said: "I am going to discuss cooperation with Earl Gophero first, to become a business partner, and to involve some interests together. He has been in trouble recently, maybe Will be tempted by my proposal..."

"Good luck!" Aphrodite said standing at the door of the room.

She didn't go inside, but returned to her room.

...

The magic caravan of the Newman family was parked on the side of the street, and the aristocratic neighborhood would become very quiet at night, with occasional guard knights passing by on horseback.

The snow on this street has been swept away very cleanly, and there is not much snow left on the low shrub wall beside the road.

Luke Newman was sitting on the soft leather sofa in the carriage. There were two goblets on the table. A maid was carefully peeling the lizard claw fruit for Luke. Luke was lying comfortably with his hands behind his head. On the sofa, he looked at the expectant Harvey Gophero with a half-smile.

He didn't think that Harvey Gophero was so stupid before, and he even thought that Harvey might bring the Gophero family out of the trough.

But now he felt that he was too naive, and he couldn't even hide the contempt in his eyes, and the smile on his face was also a little stiff because it was too forced. He pointed to his face and asked Harvey Gophero: "Is it because I have the word 'idiot' written on my forehead that you have the courage to say these words in front of me?"

"Forehead?"

Harvey Gefiro was stunned, and he never thought that Luke would say such a thing.

Luke narrowed his eyes, approached Harvey and said, "It seems that you really don't know anything."

Harvey looked a little unnatural, and asked, "What exactly do you want to say?"

Luke spread his hands on the shoulders of the two maids beside him, and said casually: "No matter how beautiful Hathaway Luthor is, she doesn't belong to me now. There are so many beautiful and pure noble ladies in the city of Benar. , When will the Newman family use some nasty tricks in chasing women? Before I'm drunk and don't want to beat people... Hurry up, and it's best not to let me see you again. "

Harvey's face turned red all of a sudden. He had been scolded a lot recently, but being scolded by a kid like Luke Newman who had just grown up made him a little annoyed, and he really wanted to grab his collar, He gave him a hard lesson, but Harvey didn't dare to move when he saw the eyes of the two guarding knights around him all the time staring at him...

He clenched his fists and said angrily to Luke, "Luke, I misread you."

He pushed open the carriage door and jumped out of the carriage impatiently.

The north wind is cold outside.

Letting the wind blow, Harvey came to his senses a little bit. He watched the magic caravan slowly drive away from the side of the road, drew out his rapier and slammed it on the low wall of bushes. He stood there for a while to calm down. Calmly, turned up the collar of his coat, and walked on the sidewalk awkwardly.

The north wind blew across the treetops and made a whistling sound. Harvey's face turned pale. This place is at least a few kilometers away from the Gophero Family Manor. It is so late and there is no magic caravan. It seems inevitable to leave go back.

Such a long road, such a cold night...

He had never been so embarrassed.

Luke Newman in the carriage raised his head and drank the wine in the glass, then pried open a nut with a dagger and ate the nut inside.

"Master Luke, are you really going to let that foreign nobleman go like this? Didn't you say yesterday that you would give him some flair?" asked the retinue knight on the opposite side of the carriage with a puzzled expression on his face.

With a contemptuous smile on Luke Newman's gloomy face, he said to his cronies: "Of course I want to give him some color, but not now, and I don't want to find a pig teammate, Harvey that pig can help What are you busy with?"

...

The sky was cloudy, and there were crystallized snow particles the size of rice grains in the wind, which hurt a little when they hit the person's face.

The residence of the Earl of Gophero.

The old manor looked even more withered in the wind and snow. When I entered the gate, I found that the post lamps on both sides of the main road were very dilapidated. Between the marble post lamps, there were some exquisite stone carvings, but these stone carvings had not been seen for a long time. The repairs look very old, and the long years have weathered the surface of the stone carvings, so many lines have become very blurred. The pattern of the vestibule of Gophero Manor is very well built, and the low shrub walls are often pruned, so it looks very neat.

Walking up the stone steps, the polished marble steps are covered with non-slip textures, but these textures are already somewhat blurred.

The manor was built in a restrained style, and as far as the eye can see, the stone buildings everywhere have cultural heritage.

Suldak walked into the manor this time at the invitation of Earl Gophero.

Today's Gophero family is facing the most difficult economic period. Although there are several shops in Bena City, these shops are facing a loss state. Suldak asks Sophia, the thieves' union, to investigate the Gophero family's information. , Suldak has a very clear understanding of the internal situation of the Gophero family.

Among these shops, the rest of the shops are not familiar to Suldak, but the Rossi Leather Store is somewhat familiar to Suldak.

He is a half-skinner himself, and the skins he peels need to be sent to the leather shop for further processing, which can be regarded as the upstream supply channel of the leather shop, and the Gophero family's purchase channel for raw hides has been cut off half a year ago. , the leather on the plane cannot be transported to the Grimm Empire, and now the Rossi Leather Store has survived for more than half a year without a source of goods, and the current turnover is not even enough to pay salaries to employees.

At this time, the manager of the Rossi leather store was standing at the bottom of the steps in front of the Gophero family's main house. He saw a knight approaching from the gate of the manor from a distance, and hurriedly greeted him.

The manager of the leather store and Suerdak met once before. At that time, Suerdak took out two pieces of salamander skins in front of the manager of the leather store, and said that he wanted to discuss a long-term cooperation business. The manager is very interested.

At that time, Suldak asked the manager of the leather store to bring him to meet the real owner of the store on the grounds that "the manager of the leather store cannot be the master of such a large transaction".

That's why Suldak had the opportunity to walk into the Gophero family manor.

The manager of the leather shop stood in front of Suldak and said very flatteringly: "Baron Suldak, you are very punctual."

"Is Earl Gophero there?" Suldak stared at the manager of the leather shop and asked casually.

"Of course, please follow me."

The manager of the leather shop extended his hand to Surdak, made an inviting gesture, turned around and walked to the front to lead the way.

The manager of the leather shop climbed up the steps and passed through the outer corridor on the right. Surdak asked the manager of the leather shop in front:

"You know this place well?"

The leather shop manager said with nostalgia in his eyes: "Of course, I have lived here for nearly seven years. I was a leather craftsman in the manor before I went to the leather shop, and was transferred to Rossi Leather Shop later."

Walking into the main house of the manor, the two walked into a hall.

Suldak found that some places in the hall where the paintings were originally hung on the walls have become empty now, and those paintings have disappeared.

The main house of the Gophero family presents a paddle-shaped pattern, and there are four connected inner courtyards inside. At this time, there are several piles of snowmen in the inner courtyard. Some underage noble boys are playing in the courtyard. The servants in the manor Not much.

The manager of the leather shop took Suldak to a side hall on the second floor. In the room, Suldak saw Earl Gophero again. He was sitting at a long table with his eyes closed, and the door was opened When I pushed it away, I opened my tired eyes.

Earl Gophero saw Suldak walking in behind at a glance, his eyes were a little complicated.

Suldak saluted Count Gophero at the door, and Count Gophero pursed his lips and nodded slightly to Suldak.

The maid brought tea, and Earl Goffelo waved to her, telling her to leave.

In the empty hall, only Earl Gophero, the manager of the leather shop, and Suldak were left. None of them had any intention of speaking, and the atmosphere seemed a little dull.

After not seeing him for a few days, Suldak found that Earl Gophero had lost a lot of weight, and the wrinkles on his face became very clear. His mean face looked at Suldak again.

"I heard from Brunei that you want to do some trade with us?" Earl Gophero's voice was dull, and he seemed a little depressed...

The manager of the leather shop standing next to Earl Gophero bowed and said, "Baron Suldak said he has salamander skin in his hand."

Suldak sat at the other end of the long square table and nodded. He said: "As a skinner on the battlefield, I have some stable sources of goods, and I can establish some cooperative relations with the Gophero family in leathermaking."

Seeing that Earl Gophero was unmoved, Suldak took out two raw salamander skins from his magic pocket and placed them on the table.

Suldak added: "I can provide a source of this quality..."

The manager of the leather shop stood up, walked around the wooden table, inspected the two raw hides carefully, looked up and said to Surdak, "This is salamander skin, but the skinning method is very poor, and the division is not very good. Not good. I am very good at cooking Warcraft leather, and the leather cooked by me has a certain chance of repairing the original hidden damage on the leather."

"I can provide some salamander raw hides of this quality to your leather store every once in a while. This is a long-term and lasting business cooperation, so... I have shown my sincerity, and I naturally want to see The sincerity of the Earl." Suldak paused for a moment, looking at Earl Gophero, his eyes seemed a little aggressive.

Earl Gophero sneered and said, "What? Even if I disagree, can I stop you? I haven't seen Beatrice for at least three months. Since she made up her mind not to go home, does she still care about me?" Do you agree?"

Suldak stood up and said stubbornly to Earl Gophero: "I am here to show my attitude, I can conduct some trade with the Gophero family within my ability, and I also want to get your approval .”

Earl Gophero was about to retort when the manager of the leather shop interrupted: "Master Earl..."

Earl Gopher immediately controlled his emotions, and then said a little discouraged: "Since Luther chose you, then I have nothing to say."

Suldak didn't expect that the Gophero family was already in such a state of embarrassment. The Earl of Gophero still spoke so hard, and said with a dark face: "In this case, I will leave first."

After speaking, he got up and left the conference room.

"Baron Suldak, please wait a moment!" The Brunei manager of the leather shop hurriedly stopped Suldak, then looked at Earl Gophero and begged, "Master Earl..."

"Are you really planning to do business with our Gopher family?" Earl Gopher opened his eyes, staring at Suldak and asked.

Suldak stopped at the door and said, "Of course!"

Count Gophero closed his eyes, sighed softly and said, "Well, tell Beatrice that you should go home at least once before you get married! Since you are the happiness she is looking for, why should I stop you! "