The magic caravan has been parked on the roadside at the entrance of the manor, and Count Gophero has no intention of inviting Suldak into the manor.
Surdak could only jump off the magic caravan and step on the snow on the street.
He held the door of the magic caravan with one hand, faced Count Gophero inside the carriage, and finally said, "...give me some time, maybe I can do it!"
Count Gophero ignored him at all, reached out to close the door with a cold look, and ordered the coachman to move forward.
Seeing Suldak trying to follow, the guards following the carriage did not dare to stop him. He opened the window and said to Suldak on the side of the road: "Tris is already eighteen years old. She doesn't want to stop her."
Maybe I have been waiting for you..."
Suldak took two steps forward, chasing the magic caravan and said as he walked: "I come here with absolute sincerity this time. No matter what, please seriously consider it..."
Despite what Suldak said, Count Gophero didn't even look back.
The carriage drove into the ancient manor, and the manor guards quickly closed the big iron gate.
Seeing the big iron door closed tightly in front of his eyes, Suldak sighed.
He stood on the side of the road with a disappointed look on his face, watching the silver magic caravan disappear on the vestibule avenue of the dilapidated manor.
To be honest, he was a little frustrated and came full of enthusiasm. In the end, all he got in exchange was Count Gophero's cold eyes and the tightly closed door.
The north wind blew away a fine speck of snow on the wall, and the guard at the door tightened his collar.
The guard stood in front of the gate, glanced at Surdak, waved to him, and told him to leave quickly.
…
Suldak came to a high-end restaurant that he had agreed with Hathaway and Beatrice.
He reported his name to the waiter at the door of the restaurant, and the waiter took him up to the second floor.
The restaurant on the second floor was very quiet, and there were not many nobles coming to eat at this time.
Hathaway and Beatrice were waiting at a window seat on the second floor, talking and laughing while looking at the snowy scene outside the window.
Seeing Suldak coming with the waiter, Hathaway and Beatrice stood up at the same time and looked at Surdak expectantly.
Hathaway couldn't wait to ask Suldak: "How was your conversation with Count Gophero?"
Suldak sat opposite the two women, calmly drank the water in the glass, then pointed to Beatrice's plate and said to the waiter: "Give me a piece of this too..."
The waiter saluted and left.
Suldak did not say that this visit to chat with Count Gophero was a failure.
He stared at Beatrice, and his light brown eyes were like a magnificent amber under the reflection of the sunlight. A faint smile appeared on his face, and he said to Beatrice in a relaxed tone: "
Maybe Count Gophero doesn’t know me well yet, and he doesn’t think I’d be a good lord, so I didn’t get Count Gophero’s approval.”
Beatrice leaned back in her seat, with a disappointed look in her eyes that said, "Sure enough."
Hathaway quickly held her best friend's cold hand tightly, trying to give her some comfort.
Surdak leaned forward, covered the two women's hands with his hands, and said sincerely to the bewildered Beatrice: "I think this is my responsibility. After all, I am a remote seafarer."
I am a small nobleman in Lanza City, but I am not well-known in Bena City. Count Gophero does not know me well. Maybe I need some time to increase my popularity in Bena City, so that maybe I can change everyone's view of me.
."
He also said somewhat self-deprecatingly to Hathaway and Beatrice: "I am afraid that people who know me now will think that I am an extremely lucky guy. I was able to be appreciated by Marquis Luther and marry his favorite wife."
daughter."
Hathaway glanced at Suldak, and the message in her eyes was clearly: 'It's good to know!'
"I recently want to attend some aristocratic gatherings, make some young aristocratic friends, and expand my social circle." Suldak told Hathaway.
"You mean...you plan to live in Bena City for a while?" Hathaway asked excitedly.
"I plan to stay and try again, hoping that Count Gophero will change his mind." Suldak nodded and said.
At this moment, he couldn't help but think: Aphrodite might go crazy knowing that her return to Hellanza City would be delayed.
Thinking of this, a faint smile appeared on his face...
Looking at the delicious steak in front of her, Beatrice couldn't even take a bite.
"Don't worry about this anymore. Didn't we agree? In the worst case, we'll elope and I'll accompany you. Count Gophero will definitely not come to my house to find you. He won't even think about taking you away as long as I'm here!" Hai
Sevi said.
As a good sister, Hathaway didn't worry about this at all. She kept Beatrice by her side and was not prepared to let her go home again.
The relationship between the Gophero family and the Luther family is currently very delicate. They were both old families in Bena Province.
Strictly speaking, the Gophero family may be older than the Luther family. The two families have been married every generation for so many years and have supported each other until the generation of Count Gophero, Beatrice's father.
The Luo family has declined to the point where it has lost its noble status as a marquis. Moreover, Count Gophero did some wrong things when he was young, and all the favors he accumulated have been exhausted. Moreover, due to the competition for the plane mine, he and Marquis Luther
The relationship was very tense.
Therefore, Hathaway concluded that Count Gophero would not easily go to the Marquis Luther's Mansion to ask for someone.
Marquis Luther's previous arrangements for Hathaway made Hathaway and Beatrice almost sympathetic to each other. The two had already agreed that they would never surrender to the family and would flee Bena City in the worst case.
Originally, both of them planned to elope, but now Marquis Luther's arrangement is exactly what Hathaway had in mind. She no longer needs to elope to pursue her love. Now only Beatrice is left, and the two of them are alone.
People are likely to take two completely different paths in the future...
Beatrice secretly glanced at Suldak and saw that there was no worry in his eyes, so she felt a little more at ease.
‘In the future… we will probably live in Helensa City!’ Beatrice, who had a cheerful personality, comforted herself in her heart.
…
The magic caravan stopped at the door of the hotel. Suldak pretended not to understand Hathaway's suggestion that he wanted to sit in the hotel room, opened the door and jumped out of the magic caravan, and then met Hathaway and Bea in the car.
Tris waved goodbye, watched the magic caravan merge into the traffic on the street, and then turned and walked into the hotel.
This hotel is located on the edge of the aristocratic district of Bena City, only two streets away from the Marquis Lutheran Palace.
There is a red copper notice board at the door of the hotel, with a line clearly written on it: 'Only nobles are welcome!'
Suldak walked up the steps, and the waiter guarding the door quickly opened the door for Suldak. The hotel didn't look too big from the outside, and the entire building was almost closely connected to the buildings facing the street on the left and right. In fact, it didn't look too big.
Each building on it is completely independent.
The interior of the hotel is very luxuriously decorated, with mahogany stairs and wall bumpers covered with gold and silver patterns. Suldak climbed up the spiral staircase to the second floor.
A fair-skinned young aristocrat walked down the stairs.
He was holding a Western rapier at his waist and was wearing an exquisite dress. At first glance, he could tell that he was a noble man who was used to pampering himself. When he passed by Surdak, he only glanced at him lightly.
The noble prince walked to the booth in the hall and got together with another young noble waiting in the hall. He saw that the young noble had been staring at Surdak's back until Surdak came up the stairs.
When the mouth disappeared, he asked curiously: "Harvey, what are you looking at? Is he an acquaintance of yours?"
The final sound of his Imperial dialect rises in every sentence, and his accent sounds very different from that of the Bena province.
At this time, the young nobleman named Harvey curled his lips and sighed with a sour taste in his voice: "A country bumpkin who got lucky!"
The noble prince's eyes lit up. The moment he opened them wide, they turned out to be as strange as a green cat's eye stone. His eyes were full of curiosity about Surdak, and he quickly said: "Sometimes, we
We have to admit that 'luck is also a kind of strength'. Hey, Harvey, do you want to go up and get to know him?"
Harvey's smile was a little cold, and then he said: "Forget it, I'm not interested."
"What? Did you have a problem with him?" The noble man looked at Harvey and asked curiously.
"In the entire Bena City, all the young nobles who want to win Hathaway Luther's heart have problems with him, and I am just the most insignificant one among them!" Harvey said mockingly.
"Hathaway, the daughter of Marquis Luther... I have heard of her!" The noble prince narrowed his eyes and said with a smile.
After saying that, he habitually licked his lower lips with his scarlet tongue.
The young nobleman Harvey seemed unwilling to talk more about this, so he asked the noble prince: "Jack, which family property are you going to visit today? Father asked me to accompany you the whole time..."
…
Aphrodite in the room woke up, saw Surdak, and heard that he wanted to stay in Bena City for a longer period of time. She almost collapsed.
"You mean I'm going to stay here for a while?"
Aphrodite lifted up the soft, snow-white velvet quilt and stood directly in the middle of the big bed, looking at Suldak in disbelief.
The succubus pointed at the street outside the window and protested to Surdak: "Don't you think that the streets of Bena City are full of demon hunters? There are even magicians in those adventure groups and mercenary groups. Ever since what happened,
After that incident, I don’t even dare to go out on the streets these days, I don’t want to live any longer, I want to go back to Helensa!”
After saying that, she jumped out of bed with bare feet, her long straight legs exposed directly under her hip-length nightdress, she put on the long cashmere skirt on the hanger, and sat in front of the dressing table, arranging her hair angrily.
"Aphrodite, I need your help."
Surdak put his hands on the succubus's shoulders and said sincerely.
Aphrodite bit her lip, she waited for Surdak with some annoyance, and said: "...Stay here for another month at most, no more!"
"One month should be enough. No matter what the outcome is, we will return to Wall Village!" Surdak said decisively.
Seeing what Surdak said, Aphrodite asked curiously: "But... what are you going to do?"
Surdak did not hide his next plan from Aphrodite, and said to her: "I want to go to the Thieves Guild first to find out information about the Gophero family."