If we look at it from the perspective of the earthlings, the North should be considered a barren land, but because of this, the land that has not been developed can be truly called picturesque scenery everywhere, forests and lakes are continuous, and there are countless beautiful scenery.
"drive!"
Liu Qiqi and a carriage walked through the woods and stopped in front of a lake.
Tang Yalin, the lady of the Hamberm family, stopped from the carriage. She was wearing a white low-necked skirt today, and her chest was towering and her deep cleavage was revealed. She ran to the lake happily and looked at the pretty figure reflected on the water.
The lake water is green and clear, like a piece of jasper, surrounded by dense forests and is even more transcendent. This area is at the junction of mountains and plains, so the mountains are vaguely visible, and a lake represents land that can be reclaimed.
"Annien, this place is really good. Did you buy it for hunting vacation?" Tang Yalin seemed very satisfied with it. Since she met Annien in the hot spring, the two of them have been interacting with themselves. She is still a young lady who has not been married. Therefore, Tang Yalin's aunt Lins and Baroness Terbis Eileen can only sneak up on her, but she can openly hunt with him.
The only rule that must be obeyed is that Tang Yalin must go home late at night. As long as she abides by this, she is still a lady with a good reputation, otherwise she will be despised by the upper class. Although this seems to be inexplicable, it is a rule among the upper class nobles.
"Of course, if Tang Yalin is coming in the future, just come here. I will warmly treat you. Of course, if you can bring your lovely sisters and aunts, it will be even more welcome."
Tang Yalin pursed her lips and smiled: "My eldest sister has married Baron Kamu. He is a very jealous person, so it's not easy for you to invite her, but her second sister can do it, but she hasn't given birth to an heir yet, so she doesn't have the right to do it yet. As for my sister, Ian Ye from my family is only fourteen years old, wait next year! As for my aunt, if you don't invite her, she will come."
The charming lady of this faithful goddess of love, Dassian Cannie, eyes froze: "Why, just marry me, I believe it will be much more convenient."
Annien was a little moved, but immediately remembered the secret conversation between his aunt Canlenli and him after the Sacrament a month ago, and a pot of cold water immediately dripped down.
One of the important information is that this hot spring is actually a stronghold of an organization called the Dark Night Mask, and Mrs. Mofi is the host in the sun.
The Dark Night Mask is well organized, heavily controlled, and has a very high degree of confidentiality, precisely because it uses a black cloth mask covering eyes and nose as the stamp and mark of the union, and anyone who betrays the Dark Night Mask and who has not had time to escape from their sphere of influence are killed with a domino mask stuffed into his mouth, so this organization is called the Dark Night Mask by Harpists and other organizations.
There is very little information about the Dark Night Mask, because it is very confidential. I only know that its current power is mainly operating on the coast of West Dhaka. At present, the harpist and its alliance are also actively tracing and suppressing the Dark Night Mask. Annien's mother, Dai Siya, as a senior bard in the harpist organization, is one of the main responsible persons for tracing it.
Mrs. Mofei in the hot springs now has quite a lot of connections, with many noble men and women, so it is not suitable to attack her before there is any evidence.
It is hard to say whether Tang Yalin is an outer member of the Dark Night Mask. Although it is unlikely that a noble lady like her will be willing to be such a role, it is said that there are precedents.
At this moment, the designer rushed to him from behind: "Sir, I have finished looking at the terrain."
"Oh, how is the situation?" Annin asked. There was too much land in the north. Even near Moon City, a square kilometer of land was only 300 gold coins, and a ten square kilometer of land was only 3,000 square kilometers. Last month, the second batch of brown sugar in the family arrived at 300 pounds and made snow sugar. Although he only took 1/3 of the profit this time, his wealth was 5,000 gold coins, which was just used on it.
"Sir, even if we have signed an agreement with His Highness Lan Mini, we can still develop a manor of about 3,000 acres here. However, we must first build a logging farm here, but we must have a ox cart to pull the cut wood."
"No need to transport wood to sell, you can build a fence, wooden house, and water truck of the manor. These all require wood." Annien interrupted him.
"But this will increase investment." The designer thought for a while and said.
“How much more investment?”
"If you just build the wooden fence of the manor first, as well as wooden houses and water trucks, you will have to invest about 1,000 gold coins. However, unfortunately, the transportation here is not convenient, otherwise the fish in the lake are also an input, and of course you can raise some geese." The designer replied cautiously.
"You can design this, and there must be sewage canals in the manor, otherwise it will be very troublesome in the future."
"Yes, sir, but the key is to lead the people. You should know that the population is not easy to find now. If you buy slaves, basically adult men need 30 gold coins, while adult women need 20 gold coins. If you maintain this manor, you need at least 200 male and female slaves!" The designer said distressedly: "If you simply rely on attracting tenants, it will be a long time."
"Then what do you mean?" If you want to add another 6,000 gold coins, you really can't afford it.
"It's better to build a few huts first and maintain a logging farm. Then you can make some money through timber trading, and take your time with the people and the manor."
Annien was very distressed. He originally wanted to use this manor to maintain his livelihood here. If he had any accidents or left, he was to leave a way out for Rise and Bubisha. You should know that although he now has a mansion in the city, a newly built hotel and a newly built magic weapon store, the mansion is a bottomless pit that consumes gold. They cannot afford to live there and are not qualified to live there. They will definitely be sold by the family in the future. Although the hotel can make some money, the situation is very complicated. If he doesn't care, it will be difficult for Rise and Bubisha to support it. As for the magic weapon store, it is even more so. Without the help of his own magic, it cannot be opened at all.
Therefore, giving this small manor to their mother and daughter can also explain the past.
Of course, at present, it is time to cultivate your backbone, basic administrative personnel, basic economic personnel, and basic guard personnel, although they are nobles and have the right to do so, they are not only too expensive in the city, but also very easy to be infiltrated or too noticeable, so it is better in this small manor.
When Tang Yalin was talking about the main business, she just listened and didn't speak. However, seeing Annien was upset, she thought for a while and said, "I have two hundred gold coins in private money, and a few sisters, and aunt. Although it is unlikely to raise six thousand, two thousand may be OK, but you don't have to do it in one step. You can start the logging farm first and get ten tenant farmers to take care of the matter first."
In fact, the Hambom family is powerful and complicated, and this amount of money is a minority. However, the aristocratic family has the rules of the aristocratic family. Although both aristocratic men and aristocratic women all have pocket money and let him have fun with them, he cannot use the family industry other than that.
Of course, as a member, there is always a little industry and capital, but this is their savings. No one can do it for fun or to use them for lovers.
"Your money doesn't need this. I still have this little money. Then build a logging farm and ten families to build a formal manor. Let's talk about it later." Annin thought for a while, feeling that he shouldn't be too hasty: "But, get me a wooden house first, and in the future, when I come to Oka Town, I can live here temporarily."
When Tang Yalin heard this, she immediately laughed: "Yes, this will be convenient."
Soon, the group went back, but at this moment, not far away, a carriage was driving slowly. In front of the carriage were two men. They pressed the hilt of the sword and shot around them solemnly. Although they were wearing ordinary adventurers' clothes, they obviously had a very high riding skill based on their appearance on the horse.
Behind the two riders is a young knight. The reason why the word "knight" is used is because regardless of his clothes, temperament, the faint aura that exists on his body, and his handsome eyebrows all show his extraordinary origin.
"Your Highness, there seems to be a carriage and a few riders in front of you." A man said respectfully.
"Keep moving forward and catch up, I don't have any bad premonition, but I feel that one of them gives me a strange feeling." The young man frowned and said, "He is a mage, but I feel like he is a little different from everyone."
"Is there any danger? Your Highness?"
"He is not threatening us at the moment," said the young man, pausing, and he said, "Also, remember, don't call me Your Highness, just call me Lord Sir. I am Sir Reinstein now, do you understand?"
"Yes, Sir!"
"Brother, is there anything wrong?" Two heads appeared from the carriage behind. They turned out to be two little girls who were exactly the same. Judging from their appearance, they seemed to be thirteen or fourteen years old, but their sharp ears clearly mean that they were elves, but strangely, their skin was not as white as ordinary elves.
"Valentini, Valentina! It's okay." Reinstein came back and smiled, his smile was full of love.
When Reinstein's carriage approached, Annien in front also found out that the reason he could detect it was only by relying on his increasingly keen senses - after soaking in the hot spring for a month, he absorbed a large amount of beneficial energy and microminerals, and the golden area of ​​the heart expanded a lot, almost reaching more than 2/3. Now his blood is mixed with a large amount of gold cells - the obvious benefit of this is the improvement of his senses and physical strength.
Of course, the more critical reason is his vigilance. Since he learned that this stronghold is the Dark Night Mask, and after analyzing that the Dark Night Mask is trying to win over and pay attention to him, he has often remained alert - not afraid of ten thousand, just afraid that if it is, who knows what they will think?
His hand reached into his space bag and took out a fireball technique. As his mage level exceeded level 3 and moved quickly towards level 4, he became more and more skillful in using this kind of reel - if a mage uses a reel, he can use the highest level 2 reel.
"Hey, gentlemen, hello?" The first thing that appeared was a handsome knight, who greeted cheerfully: "I am a traveler from the Kingdom of Wardsenia, Sir Reinstein, can I go with you? I think of Oka Town."
Annien was slightly stunned. The current man made him know what handsomeness is. The charm of a man is obviously reflected in him. Although he is not ugly, he is obviously much inferior to him.
Of course, the clothes and some magical instruments on him could not avoid the mage's natural sensing. The power of magic was everywhere, making him know that the person in front of him had a very high status - this set of magic equipment was not something that ordinary people could possess.
However, what made him feel uncomfortable was that there was a breath on his body that made him instinctively disgusted, but when you think about it carefully, it had nothing to do with what premonition or mind - it was almost the instinctive disgusting of the magic power on his body. Does the other party have some power to restrain magic?
Of course, Annon smiled and bowed slightly on the horse: "Of course, it is our honor to join, Sir Reinstein!"
He looked at the so-called Sir Reinstein, and then looked at the two knights around him. The two men gave him a very dangerous feeling. He suddenly thought of his teaching, Banami. The feeling of these two men was stronger than Banami. They were at least warriors above level six.
What kind of nobles can have two such warriors? It seems that they are still knights. Maybe Sir Reinstein is not that simple!
However, Sir Reinstein was indeed very friendly. Without a few words, the team suddenly became harmonious, especially Miss Tang Yalin. She returned to the calm and peaceful ladies. On the one hand, she just showed that she was elegant and material in her conversations, and she had no relaxed and unrestrained expression when she was with Anne.
Annin was a little strange, but suddenly, he understood that the Miss Tang Yalin in front of him had fallen in love with Sir Reinstein at a glance - of course, Miss Tang Yalin, who came from a noble family, could better evaluate Sir Reinstein's value.
The nature of having fun with Annien was different. She took a look at him at first sight, so her attitude was naturally completely different.
Annien laughed silently. Although he felt a little uncomfortable due to a man's instinct, this feeling was immediately carefully tasted by him and then slowly disappeared.
But at this moment, a humming sound came from the carriage behind.
"What's wrong, sister, are you uncomfortable?" Sir Reinstein hurriedly came back and asked in the carriage, with concern in his words.
"Of course not." A muffled voice came from the carriage.
Sir Reinstein was a little strange, but he realized it again and again. He had to laugh and then said to the people nearby: "This is my two sisters."
Miss Tang Yalin bit her lips. She was a woman and was very sensitive. She immediately saw something strange from this hum, from the muffled voice, from Sir Reinstein's concerned voice - the absurd life of the noble family. She had witnessed it since she was a child and knew the tricks, but the people in front of her caught her off guard.
But then she relaxed and smoothed herself on her white velvet skirt. It didn't matter. No matter how close her sister was to her brother, she had to marry when she grew up, and she just had to work hard.
"May I ask, does Oka Town have hot springs here? My sister and I are very tired from traveling, so we want to soak in hot springs and eliminate all the hardships. Only when we are energetic can we go to Moon City to meet the Queen of the Moon!" Reinstein changed the topic and asked.
"The hot springs in Oka Town!" Everyone looked a little weird. In fact, people in the local area know the nature of this hot spring, but outsiders may not know that he actually took his two sisters to go there. They were still little girls when they heard the sound. Annien imagined his expression after knowing the truth and couldn't help but smile.
Miss Tang Yalin showed a strange look and gently covered her skirt with the aristocratic woman's little fan: "The hot springs in Oka Town are good, maybe I can take you there, which is very good for eliminating fatigue."
This sentence was nothing, but Annien frowned. He thought she was very interesting to Reinstein just now, but why did she take him to the hot springs automatically? Aren’t she afraid that her own traces will fall into his eyes? Although the world is open, she still has to show the attitude of a lady to those who are determined to become someone else’s wife. Why is she so abnormal?
Suddenly, he felt vigilant in his heart, and his original suspicion was immediately confirmed halfway. Perhaps there was indeed a certain relationship between Miss Tang Yalin and the Dark Night Mask.
Chapter completed!