"????" Ye Junwen looked at the black question mark. What the hell is that he can't keep up with the rhythm.
"Selina!" Ella, the female knight next to her, was also a little anxious and shouted immediately.
"Obviously, you shouldn't be the same as them." Selena stopped Ella from talking again, and then continued to Ye Junwen, "You just said you were a businessman, so make a deal with me."
"Well... in short, you just pretend to be you, and then you will be my fiancée, right?" Ye Junwen probably understood, "After all, you seem to be being chased by someone now, which means I will be your shadow warrior, right?"
"What is Shadow Warrior?" Selena didn't know the word very well, but she still knew what Ye Junwen meant, "It's not the same as what you thought. It's not the case where you asked you to die for me, but the land needs a male heir."
Selena looked at Ye Junwen, and then quickly explained the current situation. The cause of everything was Selena's father, that is, the previous city lord, Trio Clovi. The city lord of Clovi was injured before, which caused him to lose his ability to have children. Fortunately, his wife was pregnant and he did not cut off his heirs. However, unexpectedly, the child born was indeed a girl, of course, Selena in front of him.
According to the inheritance law of the empire, men are given priority in inheritance law. Although girls can inherit the family business, the premise is that there is no suitable male heir at home. However, the Clovi family has other male heirs, because the Lord of Trio also has a younger brother, Lero Clovi, who is Selena's uncle. If the Lord of the city has no male descendants, the first heir according to the inheritance law is his younger brother.
Of course, both of them belong to the same family, and in theory, there seems to be no problem with the younger brother's inheritance, but the relationship between the Lord Clovi and his younger brother is not very good. In order to seize the title, he knew that his younger brother's desire for the title was, so once his younger brother succeeded, his whole family would definitely die without a burial place. Of course, he also loves his wife and Selena, the daughter, so he thought of a way, which was to let his daughter Selena disguise as a male heir.
So Selena became Selena. In addition to her parents, there were also a few confidants of the city lords, no one knew about this. Selena was also trained as a boy since she was a child. When she announced it, she also said that the city lord had a male heir. However, the problem was that girls could also develop, and now they were developing at an age, they could not hide it.
So the city lord sent Selena to another place, in fact, of course, to hide it. According to Trio's plan, he would first solve his brother's part, and then announce Selena's true identity. Anyway, there would be no competitors, so of course it would be fine. However, unexpectedly, an accident occurred. Trio himself died suddenly. As a result, Selena received the news, she could only rush back to take charge of the overall situation.
As for his uncle Lei Luo Clovy, this is quite troublesome. Although the other party has not inherited the title, he is doing well. He also has his own power and can be difficult to deal with, so the city lord Clovy cannot find any opportunity to kill the other party.
As for the rumors outside, the city lord's son Selena suffered from leprosy and insanity, of course, these were all created by Lei Luo. He was still very eager for titles, but he did not dare to take action against Clove City, so he found a way to attack his only heir. Of course, he didn't know that Clove City lord's child was a girl, otherwise it would have been announced long ago. He only knew that Selena rarely appeared in front of outsiders, so these rumors that corrupted her. Although the city lord Clove was angry, he could not clarify these rumors, because the best way was to let Selena show up and said that they were all fake, but she couldn't show up, because this is the inheritance method here.
"So these assassins were also sent by your uncle?" Ye Junwen nodded after hearing this and asked.
"Obviously, there is no need to check it out." Selena said, "As long as I die, the land and titles are all his, so who else can do this except him."
Ye Junwen asked a few more questions and found that the current situation was very dangerous. Ye Junwen was also strange before. Although there were assassins, it was too easy to sneak into the city lord's mansion. But now he probably knew what was going on from Selena's mouth. The reason is very simple, because most of the soldiers in the city have already followed the city lord to fight on the front line. Didn't it be said that the city lord died in battle before? Of course, the soldiers in the city also followed him to fight, so there were not many people left, which led to the fewer soldiers in the city now. In addition, someone was assassinating, which made Ye Junwen easily sneak in.
As for the people outside, they were all civil officials in the city, and all military generals and the like went to the front line. These civil officials didn't know Selena very much. After all, Selena had been away from the city for 4 years. Selena returned here in the middle of the night yesterday, and she entered the city secretly. They had admitted that Ye Junwen had a mistake before, but they didn't expect Selena to be a woman. Seeing that there was a man and a woman in the room where the new city lord was, they naturally regarded Ye Junwen as the new city lord.
As for the female knight Ella around her, she is Selena's personal bodyguard, the knight who swore allegiance to Selena, and of course she also knows Selena's identity.
"So that's it." Ye Junwen has fully understood the current situation. Selena really needs a substitute. Someone mistakenly thought of her. Maybe the other party thought of this plan and took the opportunity to propose a deal to him. If the new city lord is a man, all the problems will become easier to solve. Lei Luo on the other side wants to win the title, but he does not use normal means. Because Selena is a woman, Lei Luo's claim right is to compete with Lina, and the other party can use legitimate means to claim that the title belongs to him, and can even summon other people to help, because his reasons are formal and legal, but now he can't do it, and the difference is still very big.
"I've already told you about it, let's talk about you now." Selena suddenly said, "I've heard this. I think you should have this idea, right?"
Ye Junwen really had this idea. He originally wanted to cooperate with the nobles. After all, if you find someone to help, your progress will be very smooth. Otherwise, he would not know where to start. Now he is not just looking for the nobles to cooperate, but he will become a noble person directly. This seems to be more refreshing and more convenient to do things.
"My name is Ye Junwen." Ye Junwen said directly.
"This name is a bit strange." Selena also said. Several people before felt strange when they heard Ye Junwen's name.
"Yes, I'm not a person here," said Ye Junwen. "I come from a country called the Tang Dynasty in the distance. I belong to a consortium, or your chamber of commerce. My purpose here is to engage in business with it. Simply put, it is to do business here. However, the things I want to sell are relatively high, not for ordinary civilians, so I want to find some nobles to cooperate with."
"Businessman?" Selena nodded, "You just said selling salt, is it still true?"
"It's true." Ye Junwen nodded, "The first batch of goods I brought is really salt. Of course it is very precious salt. It is different from the one here, and of course the price is relatively high."
Ye Junwen has also investigated before, after all, it is something he wants to sell. Of course there are salt, sugar and other things here, but because of the production process, they are all shoddy things. Have you ever seen yellow, red, or even black salt? This kind of thing is used here. It must be that the production process is too poor, resulting in the trace elements not being filtered clean, so that there will be impurities of various colors. Ye Junwen is in his hands with modern industrial salts, of course they are all white and free of impurities. The quality on both sides is different, and Ye Junwen will certainly not sell them at the average price.
However, what Selena is concerned about now is not the problem of Ye Junwen's products. She still has the problem of survival and has not solved it, and she has no money to take into account.
"That's good. If you cooperate with me, you will be the new city lord here. Of course, it is very simple to open a chamber of commerce here. In this way, we can cooperate, right?" Selena asked.
"You... are right." Ye Junwen thought about it for a moment and decided to agree to Selena's deal. After all, it is good for him. Then you say a dangerous problem? If it doesn't exist, Ye Junwen is not afraid of death, and if he becomes a noble, it is very convenient to attract hatred by himself.
One thing he remembered was that when he was killed by yellow-haired for the first time, the other party seemed to have recognized the wrong person and regarded himself as Liu Jiaqiang. But even if he made a mistake, his ring still played a role. In other words, as long as he aims for himself, no matter whether he recognizes the wrong person or not, it can be counted. Now he has no grudges in the other world, but there are people he wants to pretend to be. Isn’t this his uncle just a person who hates her? In other words, not only is he not dangerous now, but if he wants to find a way to go back, it will be much more convenient to find someone.
"But the question of fiancée you mentioned..." Ye Junwen asked.
Chapter completed!