Lord of Rot

Chapter 378 Red Rose Engagement

After a few brief exchanges, Li Qi and Baron Spark briefly exchanged friendly intentions.

He doesn't want to buy iron ore at a low price, as long as he is willing to sell more iron ore to himself.

There are too many places where iron is used for territorial development.

Before the ball started, it was a place for the nobles to socialize.

When Baron Spark and the others left to change places to chat, Li Qi had doubts in his heart. This is a dance party for young people. What are a group of middle-aged and elderly lords doing here?
They can give 'Red Rose' a birthday present, and the best way is to give it so that no one can reach it, just like Li Qi's uncle didn't come when it was his birthday.

The whole banquet had a strange atmosphere.

Li Qi walked to a table in the corner, sat down, and poured himself a glass of wine.

The red pulp of the wine, like blood, was poured into a silver wine glass carved with exquisite patterns, and it swayed with the slight shaking of his wrist.

He regretted not being able to see the porcupine wine, but he also knew that if high-quality distilled wine appeared at the banquet, most of the people present would not be able to support the start of the dance.

"Wine is also a way to make money, deserts, money..."

"Squeak—" The chair beside him was suddenly pulled away.

A dwarf pulled away the chair, and struggled to climb up with his buttocks pouted.

"Phew, it's really unfriendly to dwarves here, can you pour me a glass of wine?" He looked at Li Qi.

Li Qi raised his hand to pick up the wine glass, poured a glass of wine and put it in front of him.

"Thank you." The dwarf took the wine glass: "I like your eyes. In your eyes, I don't think I'm an ugly dwarf."

"No." Li Qi shook his head: "Your ugliness is an objective phenomenon. I don't want to say how handsome you are against my will, but appearance does not represent a person. It should be said that in this banquet, except for those beautiful ladies, no one wants Others judge themselves by their beauty and ugliness.”

The evaluations that men need are glory, strength, wealth, cruelty, fear, and greed. In short, it is definitely not beauty or ugliness. When evaluating a successful man simply based on beauty or ugliness, they will only be angry.

"Your frankness makes me sad." The dwarf raised his glass to Li Qi: "But it also makes me want to toast you. I like your equality."

Li Qi didn't raise his glass, how could he not recognize the opponent's iconic height.

'Dwarf' Lele Lou from the tuna family, a successful businessman.

As a knight of the tuna family, but can own 8 merchant ships, the dwarf has made great contributions.

By the way, there are only 3 left now.

The dwarf was not embarrassed, and took a sip of wine himself: "I like the porcupine collar very much, it's in order, except there's no brothel."

Li Qi said: "Compared to Sir Marvin Simon, you are not a strong competitor. If you really want to open a brothel, I will give priority to finding him for cooperation."

"We all like Baron Sparks," the dwarf said, and turned around to search for Baron Sparks. After confirming that the other party was chatting with a certain lady on the other side, he breathed a sigh of relief.

It was enough to make fun of a lord who wasn't even a knight.

"I came to you for one thing." The dwarf looked at Li Qi and said seriously.

"please say."

At least the dwarf's attitude is not bad compared to His Royal Highness, the eldest son of my second child, and the ostrich knight with a constipated expression on his face.

"I got a new snake girl," he said, "the one with a forked tongue, and I want to sell it to you for some money."

"..." Li Qi looked at him quietly.

After a while, Li Qi asked, "How much?"

"Fifty Golden Days" said the dwarf: "She is in high demand. I didn't agree to buy the golden stallion. You will fall in love with her at the first sight of her."

"I want it!" Li Qi said.

He only said that he wanted it, but he didn't intend to give money.

He felt at ease when he lost the water monkey's money.

The dwarf didn't know that someone was going to renege on the debt, so he said happily: "I will send her to your guard."

Li Qi nodded, someone gave it away for free, of course he wanted it.

The two didn't communicate any more, and the dwarf seemed to have completely forgotten his purpose for coming to Li Qi, and sat quietly, occasionally pouring a glass of wine.

Until it was dark outside, candles were lit inside the castle.

Music sounded.

The ball officially started, and 'Red Rose' finally arrived as the main character.

With her came 'Golden Stallion' Pyne Leopold, in a golden coat, tiered lace-trimmed ruched shirt, and feathers adorning his shoulders, like an ostrich with dyed wings.

Hong Qiangwei's clothes are the same as before, or the beautiful lady is very charming no matter how she dresses up.

"It's a great honor that the eldest prince Hugo Kein came to Roaring Castle today." Pine smiled, and Li Qi suddenly realized that although this guy is stupid and often thinks with his lower body, he is much cuter than the eldest prince.

At least not looking at people with their nostrils.

"Today's ball is also the engagement celebration of my dearest sister, Evangeline, and His Royal Highness Hugo. After the ball, please move to the dinner party."

Whoa!
The nobles at the scene were a little surprised, but it seemed that the veteran nobles were all smiling, they already knew about it.

It also solved the doubts in Li Qi's mind, why a group of middle-aged and elderly people participated in the "blind date" dance party of young people.

Li Qi also understood the reason why the eldest prince appeared here.

The duke intends to marry the king, he is not surprised, the interest connection between nobles and nobles is through various marriages, with blood as the link.

Just like the close relationship between Li Qi and Mrs. Jielin is because of Little Leed.

Bloodlines are stronger than emotional connections.

But there is a prerequisite for getting close. One of the parties cannot be a fickle person, otherwise it is meaningless to marry again and again.

The golden stallion is obviously not a qualified spokesperson, but when he said: "Knights, you can invite beautiful ladies to dance", Li Qi can fully feel that he is sincere.

Because just after he finished speaking, the golden stallion walked towards a certain noble girl, fearing that someone else would snatch him away.

Many women are also looking at Li Qi expectantly, and some people are even planning to come over to be "invited". A powerful, young, handsome and single lord is very worthy of the ladies' dancing steps for him, and giving him a favor. .

Li Qi looked around with a headache, and happened to find a familiar person beside him, so he said to him: "Beautiful lady, can I invite you to dance?"

"Me?" The other party was quite surprised.

After looking up at Li Qi for a few seconds, she raised her hand: "Of course."

The little hand rested gently on Li Qi's palm, soft and soft.

The two slowly danced to the music, and Li Qi looked at the other's brilliant blond hair and the family crest of the hooved warhorse on his flat chest before he remembered who the other was.

Tia Cavendish.

Flash Knight 'Midnight Sun' Philip's younger sister, Li Qi remembers that she is not very old...Damn, this is not the first time to attend a ball, right? If Philip sees it, will he think he wants to date her sister?
I don't seem to see Philip, it's okay, it's okay!
"I don't like the big prince," she whispered.

Li Qi looked down at her in surprise. He could pretend not to hear the little girl's comments, as long as the other party was her disappointment at her friend's far-away marriage.

She added: "Ivan doesn't like him either."

However, Li Qi vaguely heard the crying in her voice, so he echoed comfortingly: "I don't like it either."

Tiya Cavendish raised her head abruptly, with a bright smile on her face, and her crying just now was all in disguise: "You are much better than my bastard brother, when he knew that Ivan was going to be engaged to the eldest prince, he talked about him while drinking. I will bless you, no wonder Ivan likes to talk about you, but every time I talk about Philip, she only says that Philip is a good person."

But Li Qi didn't believe what she said, judging from her pretending to cry just now, she didn't have much truth in her mouth.

But he really didn't see Philip, who should have come to the dance as the other party.

"Because I'm her knight, so she likes me more." Li Qi's eyes drifted to Ewen Jielin, who was dancing with the eldest prince. The eldest prince was very excited, but she seemed not interested. After noticing Li Qi's gaze, Yiwen Jielin forced a smile.

"If Evan wants to elope with you, what will you do?"

"Of course I refused," Li Qi said.

"Why!" She was a little dissatisfied, and her foot deliberately landed on Li Qi's instep, but because of her petite figure and light body, Li Qi only stepped on her like a ball of soft cotton.

Even if he hit Li Qi's instep with a small hammer, he wouldn't feel much pain.

The action of stepping on her feet made her approach suddenly, and Li Qi smelled a light orange fragrance.

Li Qi enjoys the beauty of the girl. With his strength, even if the other party steps on his instep and the weight of his whole body is pressed down, he can lead her to dance.

"I am a lord, and I have tens of thousands of mouths waiting to eat. Every decision I make must be cautious."

At the same time, he thought in his heart that he was seldom prudent in doing things, and farming was enough, and he really couldn't play tricks.

It's just explosive soldiers, remotely controlling ghouls to fight rts, barely making a living.

He can't play chess, but he can still lift the chessboard.

What he was thinking in his heart would definitely not be said out of his mouth, he continued: "And I am loyal to Leopold, it is impossible to hinder Leopold's marriage, I must maintain my allegiance to the monarch's order."

When communicating with people, the most taboo is to talk lightly and profoundly.

Right now, just a dance partner.

"Ten thousand mouths waiting to eat, it's amazing, hum!" Tiya hummed, very upset.

Li Qi was even more sure that she was a kid who hadn't grown up yet.

"However..." If I develop faster and completely become a force that cannot be ignored by the duke and the king, I can change the so-called engagement. If I can become the king, then Red Rose can still become the future queen.

Li Qi, who had never had the ambition of becoming a king, actually had a slight idea because of Yi Wenjielin at this time.

No, I just want to farm happily.

"But what?" Tiya looked at him expectantly.

"But it's time for you to get off my instep." Li Qi said: "The whole body is hugging me, and many people are looking at us, although I don't really resist being hugged by a beautiful lady."

"You!" Tia Leopold's cheeks were flushed, she "hummed", and stepped on Li Qi's foot before jumping off his instep: "You are worse than Philip! I still like you very much of!"

"It turned out to be like this?" Li Qi seemed to have heard some shocking secret. He lowered his head and whispered, "I like you very much too. I can discuss our marriage with Sir Cavendish."

"Ah, you! Really!"

She quickly distanced herself from Li Qi, her cheeks still flushed.

"Hahaha!" Li Qi laughed happily.

She couldn't even finish a song, so she ran away with her skirt in hand.

Li Qi was happy to be at leisure.

Looking back, he found that the dwarf had left, and this place was really not suitable for him.

After hearing a certain message, the dancing 'Osprey Rider' gave up his partner and walked towards the prince.

After the eldest prince also heard some news, he put down dancing with Red Rose and turned to leave.

Hong Qiangwei, who had no partner, looked at Li Qi, who also had no partner.

Li Qi walked over: "Maybe I can ask you to dance the rest of the dance?"

"Of course, my champion" She held up her hand, smiling.

In the experience of dancing with many aristocratic ladies, there are not many objects that Li Qi can remember, such as Stacey, Hyacinth Lan, and a certain female aristocrat whose name he forgot but whose figure can score full marks.

The moment he held Hong Qiangwei's hand, Li Qi's heart moved slightly, and the hand felt very good.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

Li Qi said: "The lady from the Cavendish family asked me a question, and now I have a new answer."

"Tiya?" Red Rose saw him dancing with Tiya Cavendish: "What did she say?"

"She asked me if I would elope with you."

"Pfft!" Hong Qiangwei seemed to have heard something funny, and this was definitely not something that a nobleman should say: "I told her to stop listening to the stories sung by bards a long time ago."

Hong Qiangwei raised her head curiously, looked directly into Li Qi's eyes, and seemed to feel some kind of impulse in his deep eyes, and asked subconsciously: "So, are you willing?"

"My eagle can fly you from the East Gorge to the Endor Plateau in one day, and no one can catch up with us."

She smiled and said, "I don't want to be pecked."

Apparently, she knew what Li Qi had said when he rejected a certain noble lady.

Li Qi sighed in his heart, how could the noble lady be like a village aunt, shaking everything out.

Identity determines whether a sentence is a joke or a truth.

At this moment, someone thinks that he has spoken the truth, and someone thinks that this is just a joke that cannot be realized but will make him feel better.

Best so far.

"You're giving the eldest prince a headache." Hong Qiangwei said, "He came to East Gorge this time not only to get engaged, but also to subdue the tuna knight on Monkey Island."

She looked up at Li Qi, feeling very surprised.

Every time I saw Li Qi, I would notice a huge change in him.

When we met for the first time, he was a poor baron who was assassinated by his stepmother and teacher, living in a leaky castle, and there were only one or two hundred residents in the territory.

When we met again, he became a martial arts champion, full of vigor.

Now, he has defeated the veteran aristocratic monkey Bill, and chased the tuna Lu in the sea. In just two years, he has become a nobleman that cannot be ignored in the East Gorge.

However, compared to the power of the king and some great nobles, he is still too weak.

"But did I kill all the knights he wanted to recruit?" Li Qi asked back: "You want to be a lobbyist and persuade me not to do it again?"

Red Qiangwei stuck out her tongue quietly, making Li Qi forget that she is the daughter of the duke for a moment, and she is just a young girl now: "They are not the knights of the East Gorge."

Li Qi suddenly realized that it was no wonder the lord of Dongxia treated him kindly, because everyone was from Dongxia, and there was no conflict of interest, and even the more people from Monkey Island died, the better.

The music stops.

Red Rose quickly left him: "Thank you for inviting me to dance, my knight."

Li Qi grabbed his hands subconsciously, but he couldn't catch anything: "It's my honor to dance with you, the beautiful Miss Evangeline."

　[Moon Shadow Day] 500 rewards, thank you.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)