Alien landlady

Chapter 143 Reminder Warning
"Not bad, it's easy to do business with you. How much?"

"This money..." Pollock drew in a meaningful tone.

"Business is a deal. You are not allowed to trade this for conditions. I don't want your account relationship to become a mess!" Bai Tongtong was frightened by him, and warned in a high-pitched voice.

"I haven't said anything yet, don't you want to listen first?"

"No need, brothers have to settle accounts clearly. It's better to settle things like money clearly. In exchange, who knows if I owe you a debt in the future, and you become my biggest debt?" creditors."

Pollock sighed regretfully, pursed his lips and wanted to say a few more words unwillingly, Bai Tongtong stared at him with a resolute and uncompromising expression.

In the end, Pollock gave up the idea of ​​negotiating terms and quoted a number, and Bai Tongtong paid him the full amount to complete the deal.

"Okay, the business is over, and now I can listen to the terms you wanted to talk about." Bai Tongtong put away her things, clapped her hands, and leaned forward slightly to listen carefully.

"Wismar is a good place, you can go deep into the heart of Marzio, and you can cross the border to Newlands and Rybjanik."

"There is also a lack of effective supervision. The mayor can only control the one-third of an acre of land in front of him, so it has become a paradise for hooligans and a holy place for smugglers." Bai Tongtong twitched, "Don't talk nonsense, you just Tell me what you want to do with my territory."

"I heard that after you drove away the Leibney family, you took over that manor and changed it to your Earl's manor?"

"Hey! Now that you know it's my Earl's Manor, do you still want to play with it?"

"Anyway, you won't live there for a while. If no one lives in the house, it will be destroyed. Why don't you rent it to me. I pay the rent, and tell the outside world that you sent me to manage the manor."

"If people know that the manor is officially in use, there will be countless letters sent there. I'm still worried about the safety of my communications."

"This is not a problem, I absolutely guarantee the safety of your letters."

"What guarantee do you have? I still don't have your reliable contact information, so I can only passively wait for you to show up. In case your subordinates secretly do something in my manor and leave, I will Who to settle accounts with?"

"It's not easy to find my servant anytime, anywhere, but there will be a person in charge at the manor. If you have any problems that make you dissatisfied, you can settle the score with him. How about it?"

"You don't even dare to leave your contact information, because you are afraid that I will call you one day?"

"It's scary." Pollock said the truth.

"It's really boring." Bai Tongtong rolled his eyes in return, "No rent."

"Don't be so heartless. The monthly rent for such a manor is very considerable. If you get two consecutive territories to be built, you should be short of money."

"I now have thousands of acres of first-class cultivated land. Even if it is the local chive buds that cost one copper coin and one pound, the average yield per acre is 600 pounds. If I sell a thousand acres of yield, I sell it for two copper coins per pound to other places, which is [-] million. Copper coin income, equivalent to [-] gold coins, will the total cost including the cost of the teleportation array cost [-] gold coins? After the first harvest of this vegetable, it only takes three days for the second harvest. It is expected to harvest four times. In addition, when the factory is built, I can turn my ideas into real objects, hand them over to merchants to make and sell them all over the country, and then I will earn more. I don’t care about your point at all. Is the rent good?"

"Well, in this way, you are actually very rich, and money can't impress you."

Bai Tongtong replied with an expression of "of course it should be like this".

"However, what I'm telling you is the truth. Wismar's geographical location is very important. There will be a lot of people trying to get your ideas. Instead of using it for those strangers, it's better to rent it to you. At least we have been dealing with it for so long. We got to know each other a little bit, didn't we?"

"Nobody cared about it before, but now there's gold everywhere, right?"

"It all depends on who owns the land." Pollock flattered.Bai Tongtong's method of hanging people on the wall to show the public showed another side of her personality. She is no longer a magic apprentice who always has whimsical ideas, but has turned into a person who makes many people think she is a cooperating partner who can be wooed. The Countess of Wismar was really a surprise.

"That shouldn't be rented to you, a smuggler. If people know that Earl Wismar's manor is actually inhabited by a group of smugglers, then I will be ashamed, and how can the gangsters on the territory laugh at me?"

"Isn't it just a few underworld families? They have been entrenched there for so many years. It is impossible for you to obediently give up everything you have now. Why don't you just help you get rid of it. The credit is all yours. In the future, if you want to build Territorial resistance is also smaller."

"Tsk, you are also a cruel guy."

"I have a Shun wolf. It doesn't want a good man to be its master."

"I have a shadowless cat! What do you mean?!"

"Birds of a feather flock together and people are divided into groups. We are the same kind. You know how picky they are. Collaborators who are not strong enough will not get half of their respect. They will value you if they form a master-servant contract and accept you as their own slaves. "

"Tch, you are the same kind. You are so thick-skinned that you dare not even tell me your real name. Only ghosts believe you are the same kind."

"Ah, this question..." Pollock was not prepared for Bai Tongtong's sudden throw of this sentence, and scratched his face in embarrassment, but it was useless to regret.

Bai Tongtong turned her head angrily.

"However, what's your name? Anyway, you know the consequences of betraying you. With Harding as a guarantee, my credibility should still be acceptable."

"Don't change the concept secretly. Harding can only guarantee that you will not harm me to protect your interests, not that you are an ordinary person who lives an honest life on the surface. Understand? Especially the instant wolf you just mentioned If you don’t find a good old man to be your master, who knows what you are essentially doing to make a living? If what you do is not a good thing, I will cooperate with you, and I will be implicated in the water later, and I will finish playing with you? You have to pull another With a backrest?"

"That's right, what you said is correct, and your concerns are all reasonable, so for your safety, I use a pseudonym to communicate with you instead of telling you my real identity, so that you will be more dangerous , and you lack the ability to protect yourself now." Pollock suddenly became righteous, as if he was the embodiment of justice at the moment, and everything was for Bai Tongtong's safety.

"...Don't scare me." Bai Tongtong was taken aback by his generous statement, and it took him a long time to bite his lip to refute.

"Smugglers are people who are very sensitive to danger. If you know your true identity, you will be included in the attack list by your enemies. Now you are just a noble magic apprentice with two empty territories. You can't even There is no army of your own. When danger comes silently, being a nobleman only means that the elders sent people to investigate what happened afterwards, and it cannot save you in danger. Only your magic skills can save you, especially The enemy must have targeted tactics to lure your Ah Huang away. Are you sure you can withstand the attack from the killer? It’s not the level you encountered before, that’s what poor ghosts with no money will invite Cheap." Pollock's expression was more serious than ever.

"Hey, my hairs are standing on end, don't keep talking more and more scary." Bai Tongtong was not used to Pollock like this, so she shrugged her shoulders.

"This is my life experience. I passed it on to you unconditionally. If you don't appreciate it, forget it. I even said that I scare you. Fortunately, you used to be a mercenary. After a few years of comfortable life, the only thing left is that you still love to wear mercenaries. This is the characteristic of military uniforms."

"Don't act like I haven't experienced life and death."

"If you want to talk about the female assassin who used the wind scroll to plot against you, save your saliva, her level is not very good, and the real high-priced assassin will make you die without knowing how to die. Killers who are sure to kill in one hit, finish quickly, don't sloppy, talk nonsense, or a gang of people fight for a long time but fail to succeed, are definitely low-priced goods. But with your current level, send a low-level killer That's enough."

"I guess, are you high enough to enjoy the treatment of a senior killer?"

"Well~, intermediate level. High level is the assassination minister, the level of the prince, duke and marquis, I am far from reaching it."

"It's an honor."

"Oh, of course." Pollock looked very complacent.

"Since this is the case, I can't rent the manor to you anymore. You must have made enemies a lot when you were doing smuggling business. Both your open and dark identities are too dangerous for me."

"That's why I don't show up and send my subordinates to contact you. They are the stewards and servants of your manor and have nothing to do with you."

"It still doesn't work. I have a feeling that once I agree, I will fall into your trap. Don't underestimate a woman's ability to predict danger."

"The danger of this is very low. Smugglers are a bunch of misers, so they won't spend a lot of money to hire killers to take revenge on you, but the enemies who know your public identity will be stepped on by you for a certain time. I can't swallow that breath."

"What kind of psychotic enemies have you provoked?"

"It's also a headache for me, this kind of enemy simply lowers my style."

Bai Tongtong pouted in disdain, not wanting to talk nonsense with this guy sitting in the forest where no one could be seen.

"Stop talking, I'll go back to sleep."

"Where's the manor?"

"You said that many people are interested in my estate, and I always have to wait to see other people's quotations. What if someone is more compatible with me?"

"It's really courageous of you to rent the manor to a stranger who has never met, Baroness."

"Don't act like you're the only good person in this world."

"Well, one day you will understand that I am your most reliable partner."

"After I have suffered a few times, I will definitely come back to you."

"Why bother."

"This is the low nature of human beings." Bai Tongtong stood up and jumped twice.

Pollock sighed helplessly and shook his head, then stood up and kissed the back of Bai Tongtong's hand in a gentleman's manner, wishing her good night.Harding quietly appeared beside him, leaving Ah Huang alone, and only sent Bai Tongtong back to the vicinity of the guild, watched her walk through the fields, and then went back to meet Pollock and go home together.

On the desk in the study room, there was still the temporarily unsent letter. Farrell picked up the envelope and looked at the recipient's name on it, sighed, and called the housekeeper to order him to send it out early tomorrow morning.

【It's too late to regret it now. If I had told her directly that you were Farrell, now you two are close comrades-in-arms, instead of worrying about her territory being coveted by others. 】Harding didn't gloat, he knew exactly what was waiting for Bai Tongtong, 【Why don't you write another letter, in your name, to seek cooperation from her and rent her manor. 】

[No, she has no sense of trust in Farrell. If you ask her this request, she will immediately understand what it is for, and she may still refuse directly. 】

[She is now a nobleman of the two territories. Whether she wants to or not, she has automatically entered the political circles of the two countries and enjoys the same rights and obligations as the male nobles. As a baron directly appointed by His Majesty, this is a great gift for her to be loyal to His Majesty Chance.Write to her on Farrell's behalf, and she'll know it's a political imperative, and Pollock is a far less reliable smuggler.Her Majesty's canonization of her as a baronet had already frightened her, Pollock made this request again, and it was normal for her to refuse. 】

[The reason for making her a baron is very simple, just to correspond to her status as an earl, to prevent the Marzios from making jokes, and at the same time, to give her all the credits that she had unintentionally neutralized before. 】

【Have you written all these in the letter? 】

[Of course I wrote it, Farrell is a kind senior who takes good care of the junior. ] Farrell walks to the liquor cabinet and pours himself a glass.

【kind?Your words about assassination and danger really scared her. 】

[This is for her own good, let her know her current environment, put some pressure on her, and strive to become an official magician.She is as dangerous as I am. No one knows that Farrell has a magic pet, but everyone knows that she has a shadowless cat.After exchanging a few more letters, outsiders will know that I have established contact with her, and no one will believe that the relationship between the two is limited to temporarily guiding studies. She will face an extremely complicated situation. Some people want to win her over, while others want to beat her , someone wants to get rid of her to weaken my power. 】

[The truth is the truth, but the identity is wrong, Farrell will attach great importance to it, and Pollock will definitely want to get it wrong. ] Harding sighed, 【You are a bit confused, be careful. 】

[It must be because I am too tired these days. A sudden addition of a landed nobleman in a peaceful age is like throwing a stone into a calm lake, which will cause many changes in the situation. 】

【Tonight, you should rest early. The palace dinner the day after tomorrow is a big show. The newly conferred baroness will make her debut. Where will you be then? 】

[Of course I'm hiding behind the curtain and eavesdropping on everyone's conversations, I won't show up, I'm not tired and confused. 】

[But the cat will also be there, it is very familiar with your smell, the complex smell in the banquet hall can't confuse it, it may find your existence, do you want me to lure it away in advance? 】

【Too deliberate, you purposely sneaked into the palace just to lure it away, clearly to hide something else.I'd still wear some new perfume, it's easier and more effective to hide my own smell. 】

[Also possible. 】

Farrell scratched Harding's neck, drank the last sip of wine in the glass, and went back to the bedroom to change and prepare to take a bath and rest.

(End of this chapter)