The magic caravan stopped in front of the hotel.
Surdak opened the door and walked quickly to the hotel steps against the cold north wind.
Beatrice stretched her hand out of the car window and said goodbye to Suldak.
Suldak stood on the steps, turned back and waved to the carriage, watching the magic caravan carrying Beatrice and Hathaway away, and then turned and walked into the hotel.
When the group of fraudsters were arrested yesterday, some things in the hotel were smashed. Although the waiters had cleaned the lobby on the first floor, the damaged sculptures on the stair railings were still there, including one with a broken arm.
The beauty sculpture reveals a kind of incomplete beauty.
Surdak's body has recovered. Although his body is often weak due to insufficient carrying capacity, at least his mental strength has recovered to some extent. The nodes in his body are like the starry sky at night. As the night falls, more and more stars appear.
Surdak's spiritual world kept flickering, and the divine power began to slowly recover, giving Surdak 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 to Suldak lazily: "I thought you would be casual.
Find a place to return there..."
Surdak saw a corner protruding from the long hair on top of Aphrodite's head, and subconsciously wanted to look behind her, as if the remaining part of her flesh wing was cut off.
The roots of her wings have also disappeared, leaving only a flat back, but she never wears backless clothes, so the scars there can't be seen.
"Well, if time permits, I will try my best to come back." He rubbed his nose and said, and then extended an invitation to her: "Would you like to go down for a drink?"
Aphrodite looked at him condescendingly, curled her lips, and did not reveal his hypocrisy. She only said: "Forget it, I don't want to cause trouble for you. Will you come back tomorrow morning?"
"Well!" Suldak followed Aphrodite up and continued: "I'm going to see Count Gophero again. If that doesn't work, let's go back to Helensa. I don't have the patience to continue with him.
Spend it!"
Aphrodite stopped, turned to stare at him and asked, "It seems you have already thought of a countermeasure?"
Suldak opened the door to the room, walked in and lit the candles on the candlestick in the room, and then said: "I am going to discuss cooperation with Count Gophero first, become a business partner, and involve some interests together. He has been in trouble recently, maybe
You will be tempted by my proposal..."
"I wish you good luck!" Aphrodite said, standing at the door of the room.
She did not go inside, but returned to her room.
…
The Newman family's magic caravan is parked on the street. The aristocratic neighborhood will become very quiet at night, and occasionally knights from the guard camp on horseback will pass by.
The snow on this street has been cleared cleanly, and even the shrubbery and low walls on the roadside don't have much residual snow.
Luke Newman was sitting on the soft leather sofa in the carriage. There were two goblets on the table. A maid was carefully peeling lizard fruits for Luke. Luke put his hands behind his head and lay comfortably.
On the sofa, he looked at Harvey Gophero with a half-smile and an expectant look on his face.
He didn't think Harvey Gophero was stupid before, and he even thought that Harvey might lead the Gophero family out of their trough.
But now he felt that he was too naive. He couldn't even hide the contempt in his eyes, and the smile on his face was a little stiff because it was too forced. He pointed at 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 Gophero looked stunned, not expecting Luke to say this at all.
Luke narrowed his eyes, leaned closer to Harvey and said, "It seems you really don't know anything."
Harvey looked a little unnatural and asked: "What exactly do you want to say?"
Luke spread his hands and put them on the shoulders of the two maids beside him, and said casually: "No matter how beautiful Hathaway Luther is, she doesn't belong to me now. There are so many beautiful and pure noble ladies in Bena City.
, when will the Newman family use some dirty tricks to chase women? Before I'm drunk and don't want to hit someone...get out of here, it's best not to let me see you again."
Harvey's face suddenly turned red. He had been scolded a lot recently, but being scolded by a kid like Luke Newman who had just grown up made him even more angry. He wanted to grab him by the collar.
He gave him a severe lesson, but seeing the eyes of the two guarding knights around him always staring at him, Harvey did not dare to move...
He clenched his fists and said angrily to Luke: "Luke, I must have misjudged you."
He opened the carriage door and jumped out of the carriage eagerly.
The north wind outside is very cold.
Let the wind blow, and Harvey came to his senses a little. He watched the magic caravan slowly drive away from the roadside, drew out his rapier and struck it hard against the low bush wall. He stood there for a while to calm down.
Calmly, he turned up the collar of his coat and walked awkwardly on the street.
The north wind passed through the treetops, making a whistling sound. Harvey's face turned pale. It was at least a few kilometers away from the Gophero Family Manor. It was so late and there was no magic caravan, so it seemed that he had to leave.
go back.
Such a long way, such a cold night...
He has never been so embarrassed.
Luke Newman in the carriage raised his head and drank the wine in the glass, then used a dagger to pry open a nut himself and ate the kernel inside.
"Master Luke, do you really plan to let that foreign noble go like this? Didn't you say yesterday that you wanted to give him some love?" the knight in the entourage on the other side of the carriage asked with a puzzled look on his face.
Luke Newman had a contemptuous smile on his gloomy face, and said to his close associates: "Of course I want to give him some help, 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 overcast, and the wind carried crystallized snow particles the size of rice grains, which hurt people's faces when they hit them.
The residence of Count Gophero.
The old manor looked even more withered in the wind and snow. When I walked into the gate, I found that the lampposts on both sides of the main road were very worn. Between the lampposts made of marble, there were still some exquisite stone carvings, but these stone carvings had not been there for a long time.
The repairs look extremely old. The long years have weathered the surface of the stone carvings, so many lines have become very blurred. The layout of the front courtyard of Gophero Manor is very well built, and the shrubbery and low walls are often trimmed, so it looks very neat.
Walking up the stone steps, the steps made of polished marble are covered with anti-slip textures, but these textures are also somewhat blurred.
This manor is built in a restrained style. Everywhere you look, the stone buildings are full of cultural heritage.
Suldak walked into the manor this time at the invitation of Count Gophero.
Nowadays, the Gophero family is facing the most difficult economic period. Although there are several shops in Bena City, these stores are facing a comprehensive loss. Surdak asked the Thieves Guild Sophia to investigate the information about the Gophero family.
, Surdak has a very clear understanding of the internal situation of the Gophero family.
Among these shops, Surdak was not familiar with the rest of them, but Rossi Leather Store was somewhat familiar to Surdak.
He himself is a half-experienced skinner, and the skins he peels need to be sent to leather shops for further processing. This is regarded as the upstream supply channel for leather shops, and the Gofilo family's purchase channels for raw hides have been cut off half a year ago.
, the leather on the plane cannot be transported to the Green Empire. Now Rossi Leather Shop has been struggling for more than half a year without supply of goods, and the current turnover is not even enough to pay employees.
At this time, the manager of Rossi Leather Store was standing at the foot of the steps in front of the main house of the Gophero family. He saw a knight coming from the door of the manor from a distance, and hurriedly greeted him.
The leather store manager and Surdak had met once before. At that time, Surdak took out two salamander skins in front of the leather store manager and said that he wanted to discuss a long-term cooperative business. The leather store manager immediately asked
The manager was very interested.
At that time, Suldak asked the leather store manager to take him to meet the real owner of the store on the grounds that "the leather store manager cannot make the final decision on such a large transaction."
So Suldak had the opportunity to enter the Gophero family manor.
The leather store manager stood in front of Surdak and said very complimentarily: "Baron Surdak, you are very punctual."
"Is Lord Gophero here?" Suldak stared at the leather store manager and asked casually.
"Of course, please come with me."
The leather store manager stretched out his hand to Suldak as a gesture of invitation, turned around and walked to the front to lead the way.
The leather store manager climbed up the steps and passed through the outer corridor on the right. Suldak asked the leather store manager in front:
"Are you familiar with this place?"
The leather shop manager said with nostalgia: "Of course, I have lived here for nearly seven years. I was a tanner in the manor before I came to the leather shop, and then I was transferred to Rossi Leather Shop."
Walking into the main manor house, the two of them walked into a hall.
Surdak discovered that some of the walls in the hall where paintings were originally hung were now empty, and the paintings had disappeared.
The main house of the Gophero family has a field-shaped layout, with internal courtyards connected in all directions. At this time, there are several piles of snowmen piled in the inner courtyard. Some underage aristocratic teenagers are playing in the courtyard. The servants in the manor
Not too much.
The manager of the leather store took Suldak to a side hall on the second floor. Suldak saw Count Gophero again in the room. He was sitting at a long table with his eyes closed and concentrating. The door was opened by the waiter.
When I pushed it away, I opened my tired eyes.
Count Gophero saw Suldak walking in behind him at a glance, his eyes were a little complicated.
Surdak saluted Count Gophero at the door, and Count Gophero pursed his lips and nodded slightly to Surdak.
The maid brought tea, and Count Gophero waved her hand to ask her to leave.
In the empty hall, only Count Gophero, the leather shop manager and Suldak were left. No one had the intention to speak, and the atmosphere seemed a little dull.
After not seeing each other for a few days, Surdak noticed that Count Gophero had lost a lot of weight, and the wrinkles on his face had become very clear. The mean face looked at Surdak again.
"I heard from Brunei that you want to do some trade with us?" Count Gophero's voice was dull, and he seemed to be a little depressed...
The leather shop manager standing next to Count Gophero bowed and said: "Baron Suldak said he has salamander skins in his hands."
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 can establish some cooperative relationships with the Gophero family in leather making."
Seeing that Count Gophero was unmoved, Suldak directly took out two salamander hides from his magic pocket and placed them on the table.
Suldak added: "I can provide sources of this quality..."
The manager of the leather store stood up, walked around the wooden table, and carefully inspected the two pieces of rawhide. He only glanced at it twice and then raised his head and said to Suldak: "This is a salamander skin, but the peeling method is very poor and the splitting is uneven."
No. 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 your leather store with some salamander hides of this quality every once in a while. This is considered a long-term and lasting business cooperation, so... I have shown my sincerity, and naturally I want to see it.
Your sincerity, Lord Count." Suldak paused and looked at Count Gophero, his eyes looking a little aggressive.
Count Gophero sneered: "What? Even if I say I don't agree, can I stop you? I haven't seen Beatrice for at least three months. Since she has made up her mind not to go home, does she still care about me?
Do you agree?"
Suldak stood up and said stubbornly to Count Gophero: "I am here just to show my attitude. I can conduct some trade transactions with the Gophero family within my capabilities, and I also want to gain your approval.
.”
Just as Count Gophero was about to retort, the manager of the leather shop interrupted: "Your Majesty the Count..."
Count Gophero immediately controlled his emotions, and then said a little discouraged: "Since Luther chose you, what else do I have to say."
Suldak did not expect that the Gophero family was already in such embarrassment. Count Gophero spoke so forcefully and said with a dark face: "In this case, I will leave first."
After saying that, he got up and left the conference room.
"Baron Suldak, please wait a moment!" The Brunei manager of the leather store quickly stopped Suldak, then looked at Count Gophero and begged: "Your Majesty the Count..."
"Are you really planning to enter into business cooperation with our Gophero family?" Count Gophero opened his eyes and stared at Suldak and asked.
Suldak stopped at the door and said, "Of course!"
Count Gophero closed his eyes, sighed softly and said: "Okay, tell Beatrice that you should go home at least once before getting married! Since you are the happiness she is looking for, what reason do I have to stop you!