At noon, three groups of visitors came to the independent courtyard where Rick lived.

The first group were big merchants in green robes, with two heroic followers who looked very strange. He asked to find Rick, and the Sifeng Shi gave him to the living room, but he didn't sit down, but stood quietly. As soon as Rick came out, he immediately smiled and said, "Do you dare to ask if this is Mr. Ji?"

Rick nodded and said, "Who are you? I don't seem to know you."

"It doesn't matter if you don't know each other. What's important is that I want to make friends with Mr. Ji." After saying that, he asked a entourage to offer a small brocade bag. Rick opened it and saw that it contained dozens of transparent and round pearls, each big as a cherry, worth at least tens of thousands of gold coins. Rick tightened the brocade bag and smiled: "What does this mean?"

"Just make friends, just a meeting gift."

"Okay, I'll accept the gift, you can leave." Rick answered casually.

The other party's face changed slightly, and he smiled again in a flash, saying, "I heard that Mr. Ji brought two people back from the ranch outside the city yesterday."

"Not bad. A killer, a robber."

"I want to ask the young master to let them go."

"No." Rick shook his head, "They are already my slaves."

"Young Master Ji was joking. Even slaves have a price, so let's do it! I will buy them with those pearls."

"You just said that was a meeting gift, how can you not count?"

The merchant's face suddenly became angry and fainted. In the end, he endured it and said with a smile: "Since that's the case, I can give out twenty more pearls and buy them."

"But I'm not short of money." Rick said helplessly, "and never had the habit of selling slaves."

"Young Master Ji. We all take a step back. Among the two, I only want that red-armored woman. As for the other one, I will just serve as a gift for the young master."

"But I never had any intention of regressing."

The merchant smiled coldly: "It seems that our business is probably impossible to negotiate. However, since the young master has accepted my meeting gift, he should make some statement. Otherwise, I will take you to the garrison office to meet the officials."

"Very good! I was about to meet the official, so let's leave now."

The merchant was stunned and showed his ruthless look and said, "You probably don't know who I am. The entire Qingcheng is under our control. If you know each other, you will hand over the two of them, otherwise you will not be able to blame me in the streets in the future."

"Thank you for your teaching." Rick smiled, "Shi Shi Feng, see off the guests!"

The first group of visitors were invited out because they had blackmailed dozens of pearls by Rick. Although the visitor did not reveal any secrets, Rick still saw from his act of swallowing his anger and trying to redeem the red-armored woman that the identity of the red-armored woman was quite not simple.

The second batch of visitors was only one. The merchant went out and he came in. The visitor was Feng Mengna. He came to send a banquet invitation to Rick. In order to completely resolve the potential crisis, the Caiyun Mercenary Group decided to contact the leading figures of all parties in Qingcheng and put pressure on the forces hidden behind the scenes. If Qingcheng was just a simple commercial city, this method would undoubtedly be a self-inflicted weakness, but now it is different. Although Guyun County of the Shang League was not divided by other countries in several wars, the forces of all parties had already penetrated into all walks of life here. Although the major merchants in the city made their business lively on the surface, they secretly had their mission and represented the major powerful regimes on the mainland. Therefore, if the Caiyun Mercenary Group disclosed the background of the behind-the-scension power, it would be equivalent to making their ambitions for Guyun County public to the world, and its countries would definitely not sit idly by.

Rick was surprised that he was also invited, so he asked Feng Mengna. Feng Mengna mysteriously smiled and said, "This is what our leader means. Brother Ji is qualified to attend this banquet."

"Is your leader the one--"

Feng Meng waved his hand and said, "You will understand in the future."

The third visitor was Rick's most headache-inducing person. The visitor was the wife of the lord of Fenghua City and her maid Falli. The lord seemed to have dressed up deliberately, with an elegant woman's bun on her head, a jade golden stroll, and a long tailored green gauze dress that made her look even more beautiful, mature and charming.

Her body has recovered, and Rick can see from her steady pace. This should be the first time the city lord's wife has seen Rick with her own eyes. Although the two had close contact last time, she was in a coma. Therefore, her eyes kept staring at Rick's face. After a while, she murmured: "It's true that it's very similar. If it weren't for a little young and childish, it would be a copy of my uncle." The uncle she was talking about was Xia Hua Peimon, the younger brother of the city lord of Fenghua City Gus Permon.

"Is there anything wrong with the city lord's wife looking for me?" Rick asked carefully.

"What do you think?" asked the city lord's wife in a strange tone, as if she was holding back the anger in her chest, or perhaps she was simply resentment.

Rick was stunned and said, "I'm sorry, I don't know."

"You don't know what you did to me?" The city lord's wife suddenly turned red on her cheeks, but her tone was very cold.

Rick was inconvenient to argue and said aggrievedly: "I think that's not an offense. It's a forgivable for first aid, let alone--"

"What's more, it was my maid who ordered it, so it has nothing to do with you. But she didn't have my consent, and now I'll make her self-destructive and you will lose her life."

"That's not what the reason is." Rick stumbled. He knew that things would be in trouble sooner or later with the city lord's wife, but he didn't expect that the trouble would be so big.

"Actually there is another way-" Falli whispered, looking at her guilty look, as if she had done all the wrong things in her eight lifetimes. However, Rick didn't believe it. The two women clearly showed that one was a black face and the other a black face, with the purpose of forcing him to agree to the following conditions.

Hopefully the conditions are not too much. Rick prayed to the gods in secret.

Falli continued: "Mrs. and I think you look very similar to the second young master, the city lord's younger brother, Master Xia Hua. So, I want to ask the young master Quan to be the young master Xia Hua to inherit the current title for the Pemon family."

"What does it mean? How can I inherit the title?" Rick said in surprise.

Falli explained seriously: "The title of the city lord is a third-class marquis, which cannot be inherited, but the Pemon family has all died due to the rebellion of Fenghua City. I believe that Her Majesty the Queen will posthumously sign the city lord as a first-class marquis. In this way, if the Pemon family has a direct male, they can inherit the title of first-class viscount. But now the lady is not a man or a woman in her womb. If she is a boy, she can inherit it smoothly, but if she is a girl, she cannot inherit the title. Therefore -" (Note 1: The inheritance method of the title of the Blue Moon Empire, the ancestral title is earl or earl or above, and the title is first-class. The descendants of the direct descendants can refer to their title and be inherited from two levels.

, but the title of duke is not limited to this. In other words, no matter what level the title of duke was granted by his ancestors, his descendants can refer to the previous principle of title inheritance. Falli did not know that Queen Blue Moon had posthumously named Gus? Permon as the Duke of the Empire. Although the title was only third-class, his successor could still be directly named Third-class Earl. Note 2: The title of the Blue Moon Empire is divided into Duke, Marquis, Bo, Zi, and Male, and each level of title is divided into Third-class Earl. Queen Blue Moon did not directly point out the title of Gus? Permon as the Duke of the Empire. The officials responsible for handling the promotion of noble titles will be recorded as "third-class" according to convention.)

"So you chose me and pretend to be the city lord's younger brother to inherit the title. I will not do it if I defraud the monarch."

"Then you can choose the former way of dealing with it." The city lord's wife said lightly.

Rick said bitterly, "If you give birth to a daughter, wouldn't I be a fake viscount for the rest of my life?"

"It doesn't take a lifetime." The city lord's wife faintly revealed the pleasure of punishing others. "My daughter has grown up, and you can get rid of it when she finds the right person to marry into her family."

"How long will it take?"

"Twenty years at most."

"Twenty years?!" Rick moaned, feeling dizzy. This is the price of dealing with a woman! He "sighed" in his heart.

When Rick was forced to make a sales deal with someone, a woman standing in the room on the other side of the yard was standing in the room. Yue Shi asked strangely: "Sister Chris, why do you let the young master be bullied by those two women?"

Chris smiled and said, "It's too early to say who bullies him. The young master also needs a place to settle down and can no longer wander aimlessly. Although this time he is pretending to be someone else, maybe it's the young master's opportunity."

"What opportunity?" asked the curious little girl Emma.

Qinglu continued: "A chance to change the fate of everyone in the Blue Front may have been destined to be avoided in the dark. We follow him and just help him. It is best not to violate his decision. The road is made by ourselves, and he will know what he is going to do."

Rick agreed to the "destroying power and humiliating" self-selling agreement. Of course, his nature of liking to do business made him fight for a right for himself in the end: he could impersonate Xia Hua, but it was only nominal. If his existence or not is no longer related to whether the Permon family has obtained a title, he has the right to choose to leave. The city lord's wife agreed immediately.

Next, Rick faces the most painful thing in his life - memorizing the genealogy. A thick genealogy can take half a day to recite the name, not to mention the personal life. Especially in recent generations, the Permon family has been quite proud in the officialdom, resulting in the increase in family members and the vast relationship. Their life and deeds have made Rick stunned. Under the supervision of Qin Xin and Falli, these will be his compulsory courses. Therefore, two new teachers and an ignorant student have been "researching" the genealogy until the sunset. After thinking about it, Rick felt incredible that he could actually be scolded by two women for such a boring thing. After thinking about it, he summed up a sentence: A mistake turns into eternal regret! (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!