Alien landlady

Chapter 146 Cat Patrol
On the other side of the corridor outside the banquet hall, in an ordinary lounge with a view of the atrium garden, Farrell and Harding sat alone in the room, without even a serving maid, refreshments were placed on a small round table next to the sofa, in front of them There is only a hole-punched notepad and a fountain pen on the long coffee table. Occasionally, the pen will stand up and quickly draw a few lines on the paper.

Farrell was sitting at one end of the couch, and Harding was lying beside him stretching his limbs. Both the man and the wolf half-closed their eyes, paying attention to the movements of the guests brought by the soft wind flowing in the room, and eavesdropping on everything they talked about. .

Of course, as soon as Bai Tongtong got off the car outside the palace, Harding caught her and Ah Huang's scent. Fortunately, they both took care of their own scent before setting off tonight, so that they didn't worry about the cat finding suspicious targets.

Earl Ancus enthusiastically helped Bai Tongtong introduce new friends, which was expected by Farrell, and he happened to be able to pay attention to who had approached the newly promoted baroness tonight.

A single aristocratic lady with two territories, a magic apprentice who always has fantastic ideas, a shadowless cat that everyone envies, and the acting president of the Wizards Guild. With so many identities, many people are optimistic about her. In the future, there must be quite a few men courting her tonight.

【Ankus actually introduced an old gambler to her. It's not like he doesn't know that that old guy can bet on anything. ] Farrell suddenly snorted in dissatisfaction.

【The old gambler has contacts with the northern nobles. The nephew of the Marquis of Aronson is one of her children. They have never had a chance to get on the line. The old gambler will introduce the two of them in a while. Earl Ancus did not introduce them randomly. You Her schoolgirl is no longer what it used to be, and all the resources she possesses are important to others. 】

[Northern nobles are too conservative among the royalists, and magicians who are accustomed to being flattered by businessmen don't like to associate with them. She may not agree with the Marquis' political views and support them. 】

[It doesn't matter, it's nothing more than compromise and bargaining, as long as they find something she is interested in, various animal and plant ore specimens, profitable business, or handsome men, she likes men with good figure, single unmarried female nobles, this Will attract those men flocking, shall we bet how many marriage proposals she will receive before the end of the year? 】

【You might as well bet on whether Fidom, the second son of Viscount Camerina, will propose to her. 】

[It is also possible.I bet he will.The competition for the head of his Knights is very fierce, and he will have to change after a few years at most. He has an urgent need to find a wife with status before he resigns. 】

[I bet he would like to propose, but more because of his lack of ability, and she is currently not interested in her marriage. Don't tell me that you don't see that her urgent need is to make money, not to get married. 】

【why?He fits her aesthetics. Although his status is not as high as hers, he is a knight, which happens to be a complementary relationship. There is no army in the territory that will be ridiculed. 】

[They are too far apart. 】Farrell patted Harding's head, and continued to monitor the rest room, 【Fedum is not rich enough to pursue girls every day through the teleportation array. 】

【...Oh... oh...】Harding pressed his chin against the sofa cushion angrily, 【You need to be rich to pursue this noble lady. 】

[This is the first condition. 】

[I think there must be many men who are regretting why they didn't act in time before. Now that she has become a nobleman, it is too late to pursue her. 】

[Yes, I also find it strange that she has shown her potential step by step, but no man has ever expressed interest in her. I don't know what those men are thinking. 】

[Let's be arrogant and picky without paying attention.At that time, although she was young, she had nothing but a smart head and an uncontracted cat. A lot of unmarried men had better choices, so why bother looking for her.But it's not like there's no chance. Do you think there will be a man who will work for her first, and then find a way to develop feelings for her? 】

[It depends on when she recruits people for the territory. 】Farrell overheard Bai Tongtong telling a joke just now, and the corners of his mouth turned up a few times, 【She is all about making money now. It is said that she is going to rebuild Salter Village, including the villagers' houses, and build a new one. Brand new village.What she did would definitely delay the time for recruitment. It took a man who loved her so much to be able to wait patiently for so long. 】

[Can this be seen as a deliberate act of her weeding out troublemakers?Time is the best helper. 】

【You're thinking too much, she probably didn't think about it that way at all, she just wants to make money and build a territory, men are not in her immediate plan. 】

[So it can only be considered from the group of magicians?There are still quite a few unmarried male mages of the same age. 】

【Why are you so keen on this?No matter what kind of man, he has to pass the cat test. 】

[The pet's opinion is not absolute. If you insist on getting married, although you will be sad, you won't really make trouble. At most, you just ignore it. 】

[But when men flock to propose, it's a great excuse to say no. 】

[This is true.Finding a hostess for a hostess is always a hundred times more picky, and cats must be happy to take on this role. 】

【So, now, do you still want to bet with me on whether she will agree to someone else's marriage proposal within this year? 】

[Love is the most inexplicable thing, maybe such a man really appeared?She will build the territory, manage the daily work of the guild, and she will attend the annual meeting in September, and she is the only woman among the men present.When she is busy and tired, who can seize the opportunity to express concern to her, maybe love will come? 】

【So you still think she will get engaged within this year? 】

[At least someone is pursuing it. 】

[Hey, your conditions are getting lower and lower, do you still want to gamble? 】

Harding shook his tail, licked his nose, and flinched, 【It's no fun for us to bet on this, you should tell the old gambler that he must be interested, drag him into the water, you can be the banker with him. 】

【Hmph, I knew you would say that. ] Farrell scratched the fur under Harding's ears, ended this boring conversation, and continued to focus on the monitor at the other end of the corridor.

In the big lounge, Bai Tongtong has already met with the Marquis of Aronson. As an important member of the Council of Elders with decision-making power, he has a dedicated office. He has worked and lived in the capital with his wife and children for many years, training his eldest son to be his son. A qualified heir to the political inheritance, the territory was handed over to the grown-up second son and the housekeeper a few years ago.

In such an occasion, it is easy to obtain everyone's public information, which is the basic situation of the upper-class nobles that Bai Tongtong needs to know. She is very active in the crowd, enjoying people's compliments, and exchanging more information with each other. .

Bai Tongtong has nothing to say about her past, and these big shots are not too interested in her past. What they focus on is her future, and they talk more about the recruitment and construction planning of her territory, especially this winter. Regarding the issue of fresh vegetables, I just took this opportunity to talk about the variety and production volume and place a small order.

After two months of sales in spring, the northern regions including Wangdu have accepted and got used to the delicious vegetables from the south, and restaurants of all sizes have added new menus accordingly.And now it's not Bai Tongtong's family who are selling. Many southern landowners are also involved, but her scale is still the largest, especially now that she has two territories. She can grow any crops she wants. There are not many landowners. Can match her.

Talking about territory and business with men made Bai Tongtong feel relaxed, but when she turned to chatting with ladies, she felt uncomfortable. The content that ladies love to talk about had already been experienced during her only blind date tea party. After a while, when talking about luxury jewelry, I occasionally inserted a few words about family and children, and Bai Tongtong, who had doubled her net worth and was single, always received some special attention.

The monitors, Farrell and Harding, would laugh out loud every time they heard this content. Based on their understanding of Bai Tongtong, they could imagine that she would rather sit among the male guests and listen to them talk about current affairs and politics. .

However, for Farrell, he still caught a few interesting clues from the boring conversations of the ladies and copied them down. The men introduced were either widowed or well-known lovers in Wangdu's social circle. They all had good looks and were good at sweet talk, while others mainly relied on the contacts of noble ladies to act as brokers secretly.

It was these brokers that Farrell focused on, and only on such occasions would the ladies reveal something that he needed to spend more to investigate.

Carefully recorded the names of several brokers, some of them were familiar, and some were seen for the first time. I don’t know if they were pseudonyms or real names. What Farrell can confirm is that he knows that there are some who specialize in the circle of ladies. Some of the brokers have done stupid things that they didn't even realize, and the time span is very long, otherwise he wouldn't be walking in the gray area as the smuggler Pollock, and even made some famous things, with some reputation.

Farrell was very grateful to those few ladies who were not clear-headed for introducing their brokers to Bai Tongtong in such a public place, and it was as if they were recommending some treasures, which made him cheaper.

Compared with Farrell's foresight, Bai Tongtong in the lounge was not interested in any of the men introduced by the ladies. She intuitively felt that those people might not be as reliable as Pollock, regardless of whether the ladies No matter how enthusiastic the introduction, she went in from one ear to the other and exited from the right.

Enduring the boring topics of the ladies like being tortured, no one with good intentions came to save her, just when Bai Tongtong wanted to play a trick of honesty to see what the ladies could say, the ceremony officer finally came and announced Everyone can move to the banquet hall.

The long dining table is covered with clean white tablecloths, and there is a nameplate in front of each seat, and the attendants walk around to guide the guests to their seats.

As the new nobleman with the lowest status, Bai Tongtong was placed in the middle seat. Obviously, the ranking order tonight is that His Majesty and the Queen sit at both ends of the long table, the seat closest to the host is the upper seat, and the middle seat farthest from the two ends is of course last seat.

When the banquet hall was busy, the rest room was already empty. Ah Huang got out from under the table, sneezed twice, shook his hair, raised his head to smell the residual smell in the air, walked through the wall to the corridor, and inspected the territory Go to the other end of the corridor in the same way.

Harding smelled the smell, immediately warned the police, and withdrew its monitoring magic, [The cat is alone. 】

Farrell also hurriedly withdrew his magic, and sat quietly, one man and one wolf, not daring to make a sound.

【It's coming this way.Damn cat curiosity. 】Harding immediately cast the Wind Concealment Technique to hide it more tightly, and Farrell put away the pen and paper on the coffee table.

【What is it doing? 】

[Snooping.Draw a map of the palace.The instinctive behavior of earth animals is to check for safety when they first arrive in a strange place. 】

【Is it still going this way?Why didn't the guards in the corridor stop it? 】

[Let the guards fight with Shadowless Cat?It's not that you don't know that the guards keep a respectful distance when they see magic pets. 】

Ah Huang took his catwalk in the corridor contentedly. When he saw a room, he stuck his head into the wall for a look. His limbs and buttocks were outside, and his tail was still wagging leisurely. The guards in the corridor He and the passing attendants all watched it calmly, and no one tried to stop it.

Finally, Ah Huang came to the end of the corridor and stuck his head into the room where Farrell was.

While it was still outside, Harding and Farrell had floated to sit on the mantelpiece, trying to fool the shadowless cats who were wandering about by making it look like the room had been occupied but had left.

Ah Huang, who was just looking casually at first, suddenly caught the slight residual smell in the air. He raised his legs, walked in through the wall, and went straight to the refreshment tray on the small round table beside the sofa.

Farrell and Harding yelled that it was not good, they forgot to hide this, the tea set had the breath smell of his use, which could not be masked by hiding body odor.

Ah Huang stood up on his hind legs, put his front legs on the edge of the table, stretched his neck and sniffed the tea tray one by one. There was half a cup of leftover tea and a bit of biscuit on the plate.

Ah Huang sniffed the teacup intently.

[Oops, you have eaten in the guild, it may remember your smell at that time. 】

[Ah oh! 】

[Resign yourself to fate.Its expression shows that it already knows. 】Condescending, Harding could see very clearly that Ah Huang's expression changed from curious inquiry to suddenly enlightened confirmation, and then saw it go out through the wall without looking back.

[I know what it will say without monitoring it. I found traces of Pollock's visit in the palace. 】Farrell floated back to the sofa and sat down, withdrew the wind concealment technique, looked at the tea tray and stroked his forehead helplessly.

[I also had tea in the palace, and not long after I left, the servant didn't clear the tea tray. 】

[This is really too bad. 】

【Before you meet next time, think about how to explain it to her. 】

[Why should I explain this to her? 】

[Do you want to admit that you just have the privilege of entering and leaving the palace? 】

[No, I still want to explain it. 】

Taking a deep breath with his hands on his hips, Farrell decided to forget about it for the time being. He took out a pen and paper and confirmed to Harding that Ah Huang had run away before resuming monitoring.

(End of this chapter)