Alien landlady
Chapter 280
Chapter 280
While the church was secretly carrying out their plans, Bai Tongtong and the others were busy preparing for the annual meeting in September. Her people already knew that the new priest was from the Menni sect, and they were very happy about it. Even Villagers from all villages who rarely come to the church are very active in coming to do morning prayers every Sunday.
The designers sent by the general guild have seen the site environment a long time ago and went back to draw the design drawings. In the end, whoever can pass the test will be selected by Bai Tongtong. It is estimated that the drawings will be released at the end of the year. The design of the whole village is not easy, and the site is good. Do the overall plan, but the details are exhausting.
The application for the Wismar side has also come to an end. For future development, Bai Tongtong hired a few more people, all with the title of manager. Each person manages a workshop or workshop, from the purchase of raw materials to production to warehouse management. It is also necessary to cooperate well. They are all part of the industrial chain. The products produced by one factory or workshop are the raw materials for the next one.
The mayor is in charge of arranging the accommodation, looking for widowed and lonely townspeople to rent their houses, painting and decorating them, and welcoming new tenants. The landlord acts as a housekeeper, and Bai Tongtong pays for all the money.Of course, this is all temporary. Bai Tongtong is considering building a new residential area and planning an industrial park for the town, but it will take several years to complete the preparations.
Over the past year or so, the town's economy has improved a lot. Many people who left the town to make a living have come back one after another. With more young people, the town has become more vibrant.
As for the interns Bai Tongtong brought back from Soller City, after a probationary period of summer vacation, a few unsatisfactory jobs were eliminated, and the rest began to be distributed according to the prior plan. They sent people to stay permanently, with a rotation of three months. Father Pegg also sent an assistant to help him sort out the documents accumulated over the years. In the end, the remaining dozen or so people were all sent to Wismar. , assigned to managers and mayors.
In order to improve their work efficiency, during the probationary period, Bai Tongtong did not hesitate to use expensive mirror arrays to make a large number of magic typewriters, one for each person, so that they can grasp the use method as soon as possible, improve the typing speed, and use it at the assigned work place. At that time, in addition to their own luggage, the interns also carried a box containing a typewriter and other necessary stationery.
After all the interns were sent to their destinations, it was time for the annual general meeting.
Now that the mirror array was used, Bai Tongtong simply made more things, took the opportunity of the meeting, brought them to the elders' house, and gave them to the offices of the most senior positions. The nobles who came to the meeting this year also had gifts, each with a copy A notepad with a calendar, two fountain pens and a red and blue pencil.
The arrangement of the meeting is the same every year, except that the meeting is for socializing. Compared with last year when she attended the meeting for the first time, Bai Tongtong greeted everyone calmly this year. If someone made a boring statement at the meeting, she would rest her hand on her chin indifferently. Take a nap.
As for socializing, I completely listen to Farrell. She will attend whichever one he says she wants to attend. On such occasions, Xiao Er was as sweet as any dude when he spoke sweet words, coaxing the ladies to giggle, and he also got a lot of gossip and anecdotes by the way.
In addition to participating in the meeting of the elders' house, the president finally sent a letter calling all the branch presidents to come to the meeting and only discuss one thing, which is to send everyone the complete plan of the second training plan.
Bai Tongtong, who got the news in advance, once again generously prepared gifts for the branch presidents, a magic typewriter for each person and a sample of a dimmable magic desk lamp. The brightness of the light can be adjusted freely from dark to bright.
This is an idea she came up with during the summer vacation. In order to make the first real sample of the magic array with adjustable brightness, Bai Tongtong accidentally cut her palm. Injuries during the experiment were commonplace for her, so after cleaning and disinfecting, They are too lazy to use healing techniques to heal the wounds, and appear on various occasions with the wounds on their hands indifferently.
When the branch leaders saw these two things, their hands immediately itched. The typewriter was not easy to disassemble, so they couldn't help but disassemble the base of the lamp, but when they opened the base, it revealed the magic spar compartment, and the magic circle was sealed behind the compartment. Dismantling it again would be like dismantling the lamp into parts, so the branch leaders stopped, arranged the lamp on the table, adjusted it to a suitable brightness, and began to read the full text of the plan.
The second training plan has long been known in the magic world, and the general opinions of magicians are support. In any case, those eliminated students are classmates and alumni. Naturally, I hope everyone has a good future emotionally. I haven't seen the details of the plan all the time, which makes people wait a little anxiously.
This meeting lasted only one day, mainly to distribute the plan, then introduce the content of each item, and finally ask the presidents to go back and read carefully, write a letter of opinion and send it to the General Association a week later, and then hold it after integrating everyone’s opinions Second discussion meeting.
The advantage of this arrangement is that Bai Tongtong doesn't have to be exhausted, otherwise, if she has to find time between the annual general meeting and the necessary social activities to go to the main guild to participate in the centralized discussion meeting, she can't guarantee how she will perform when she arrives, she may be directly exhausted Maybe he fell asleep at the meeting.
The draft of the proposal was written by Bai Tongtong. After submitting it to the president, she didn't care about the rest of the content, so after getting the official proposal, she had to study it carefully. Fortunately, she had enough time. Take the time to read a few pages and make some notes, and the draft of the opinion paper came out slowly.
Mazio's General Chamber of Commerce in the capital of Gulisi is also one of the social occasions that Bai Tongtong must attend. Bai Tongtong just asked them to recommend Mazio's famous designers and builders in the country, and the reconstruction of the town should be included in the plan.This big news was sent back to the capital of Marzio through the General Chamber of Commerce. People who wanted to do business began to flock to Wismar, and they followed the Countess of Wismar to do business. This was the beginning of the formation of Marzio merchants. consensus.
Bai Tongtong is very happy to open two magic clinics in his two territories and hire the trained students to work for five years. There is not a single doctor in Fubao Town. wait to die.The patients in Wismar Town were not much better, so they had to go to Ludi Town for medical treatment. Patients with open fractures meant amputation, which is absolutely unacceptable.
The second half of the annual meeting is the busiest. There are new legal provisions to be discussed and approved, new domestic policies to be formulated, and competition for every gold coin in the annual budget. Every day, the meeting place is like a scene of women in a vegetable market, which is noisy. Headache, balls of paper flying everywhere, don't think that nobles are gentlemen, when it's about their own interests, the gentleman's demeanor is bullshit.
Bai Tongtong also slapped the table to quarrel with a group of men. She used the amplification technique, and one person's voice overwhelmed the audience, arguing loudly, just to fight for some more education budget for Soller City. In this way, she can let the town of Fabao share part of the education funds.
The more busy you are, the more important and urgent matters need to be dealt with first.
At noon on September [-]th, Bai Tongtong came out of the restaurant of the elders' home after lunch, and was about to go for a walk on the street, thinking about the debate in the afternoon, if she could win, the education budget of Soller City would be in hand .
Walking along the corridor outside the restaurant to the gate, when passing the stairs, he bumped into Farrell by accident. He tickled his index finger at her with a serious expression, as if waiting for her for a long time.
Bai Tongtong had a bad feeling in his heart, but he followed Farrell's footsteps and went upstairs to his office.
His assistant in the office was not there, and he was sent to the street for lunch. Farrell closed the door and erected a barrier, which made Bai Tongtong's premonition even stronger.
"Trouble? Want me to run errands?"
"The church in Rebjanik has made a move. They have begun to expand their power to the surrounding small countries, affecting their regime and political system, and causing political turmoil in many countries."
"Oh, as expected. As soon as it was revealed that Calvert drugged me, their reputation in the wizarding world was over, and they no longer had the ability to stop the expansion of the church."
"So we're in trouble now."
"Say it, I'm listening."
"The Gulisi royal family is related to the royal family of a country over there. When he learned that the political situation might be dangerous, His Majesty sent soldiers to bring their royal family back to the country. But according to the latest news, the coup usurped the throne. It has already happened, and it is the banner of foreign interference in internal affairs. Before the enemy rushed into the palace, the king's family escaped from the king's capital under the protection of our soldiers and hid in the mountains. Now their whereabouts are unknown, and there may have been casualties."
"You want me to pick them up?"
"Looking for people in the mountains and forests is your cat's forte."
"But I have an important debate this afternoon, and you know I value this education funding."
"The thing has already happened, so it doesn't matter to wait another afternoon, you go to your work first, but let me tell you, I have taken out all the blood you have in my hand to make potions for Master Bai."
"Okay, use it if it's useful, and find a small island to hunt a few more next summer."
"Harding will wait for you in the guild in advance, you must go back and change your clothes."
Bai Tongtong looked at the skirt on her body and shrugged.
"Be careful." Farrell warned, withdrew the magic, and watched her leave, while he continued to be busy with the following work.
After taking a walk in the street, the ideas of the debate have been sorted out. In the afternoon, Bai Tongtong fought with all the heroes in the conference hall. She used her mathematical skills to ridicule the mental retardation of the men, and then used their mental retardation to prove the importance of strengthening education. Necessary, these men couldn't keep their mouths off by scolding them, and in the end they won the necessary education budget for Soller City, and the education funds for Forborg Town were secured.
After the debate, Bai Tongtong went directly back to the guild to change into a mercenary uniform. Harding was already waiting in the forest, and they left after the wind travel technique was rolled up.
Looking for people in the mountains really depends on the shadowless cat. The mountains are high and the forests are dense. Looking down from the sky, there is only a lush canopy. Harding can smell the bloody smell above the canopy. The further you go down, the stronger the bloody smell, but No corpse was found, so it was difficult to prove whether it was the blood left by the hunting animals or the bloody battle between the soldiers of the enemy and us.
It was already dark after landing, and Bai Tongtong didn't know where the enemy was hiding, and Bai Tongtong didn't dare to take out the magic flashlight, for fear that the light would expose him.
Harding nudged Bai Tongtong, motioning for her to ride on its back, Ah Huang also carried Xiao Er, and Crow stood on Bai Tongtong's shoulders.The two humans lowered their bodies as low as possible, only the sound of the wind whistling in the dark forest, Ah Huang and Harding were running forward at a fast speed, nimbly avoiding low bushes and overgrown branches, step by step No sound.
Ah Huang ran ahead, exchanging intelligence messages with Harding, tracking traces of human activities in the forest with the instinct of earth-type monsters. Whether it was the enemy or his own people, as long as he found one side, he would definitely find the other side.
After running for an unknown amount of time, Bai Tongtong finally felt that Harding's running speed had slowed down even though there was a canopy of trees blocking the position of the moon. When they got out of the woods, they found a small depression at their feet. The standard army is encamping, and by the light of the fire, the flag in the camp is not Gulisi's logo.
Bai Tongtong and Xiao Er didn't dare to say a word, and handed over the dominance to these two top monsters, especially Harding, who had the most experience in going deep behind enemy lines.
Harding smelled the thick bloody smell from the camp, which proved that this army had experienced bloody battles. As long as you follow the bloody smell in the opposite direction, you will be able to find the battlefield. Only after you find the battlefield can you know where the other side of the war has gone.
So Harding was the leader this time, and using the Wind Concealment Technique, he sneaked into the middle of the camp and sniffed the clues of the bloodstains carefully, then found the right direction, and continued to run around.
Soon they came to a clearing in the forest, even Bai Tongtong and Xiao Er could smell the bloody smell that had not dissipated, it could be seen that a battle had just ended during the day.
[There are fresh corpses on the ground, but no one of our own. 】Ah Huang walked around and reported to Bai Tongtong.
"Xiao Er, there is no one from us." Bai Tongtong told Xiao Er softly, sharing the news.
"Since the enemy has left a corpse, they must have fought fiercely. No matter who the opponent is, they probably won't be far away, so they must be hiding nearby." Shaw opened his eyes in vain and looked around the dark surroundings in the darkness, " Is there a hiding place nearby? A cave or something?"
Ah Huang wagged his tail, and the magic radiated out. After a while, he found a suspicious place, beckoned Harding to follow, and went into the forest first.
After walking for a short distance, Ah Huang stopped. Bai Tongtong carefully cast the light spell, and a ball of light with warm light fluttered to the front. A small human cave, the entrance of the cave was originally covered by vines, but now the entrance of the cave is wide open, and there are chaotic traces of trampling on the ground.
(End of this chapter)
While the church was secretly carrying out their plans, Bai Tongtong and the others were busy preparing for the annual meeting in September. Her people already knew that the new priest was from the Menni sect, and they were very happy about it. Even Villagers from all villages who rarely come to the church are very active in coming to do morning prayers every Sunday.
The designers sent by the general guild have seen the site environment a long time ago and went back to draw the design drawings. In the end, whoever can pass the test will be selected by Bai Tongtong. It is estimated that the drawings will be released at the end of the year. The design of the whole village is not easy, and the site is good. Do the overall plan, but the details are exhausting.
The application for the Wismar side has also come to an end. For future development, Bai Tongtong hired a few more people, all with the title of manager. Each person manages a workshop or workshop, from the purchase of raw materials to production to warehouse management. It is also necessary to cooperate well. They are all part of the industrial chain. The products produced by one factory or workshop are the raw materials for the next one.
The mayor is in charge of arranging the accommodation, looking for widowed and lonely townspeople to rent their houses, painting and decorating them, and welcoming new tenants. The landlord acts as a housekeeper, and Bai Tongtong pays for all the money.Of course, this is all temporary. Bai Tongtong is considering building a new residential area and planning an industrial park for the town, but it will take several years to complete the preparations.
Over the past year or so, the town's economy has improved a lot. Many people who left the town to make a living have come back one after another. With more young people, the town has become more vibrant.
As for the interns Bai Tongtong brought back from Soller City, after a probationary period of summer vacation, a few unsatisfactory jobs were eliminated, and the rest began to be distributed according to the prior plan. They sent people to stay permanently, with a rotation of three months. Father Pegg also sent an assistant to help him sort out the documents accumulated over the years. In the end, the remaining dozen or so people were all sent to Wismar. , assigned to managers and mayors.
In order to improve their work efficiency, during the probationary period, Bai Tongtong did not hesitate to use expensive mirror arrays to make a large number of magic typewriters, one for each person, so that they can grasp the use method as soon as possible, improve the typing speed, and use it at the assigned work place. At that time, in addition to their own luggage, the interns also carried a box containing a typewriter and other necessary stationery.
After all the interns were sent to their destinations, it was time for the annual general meeting.
Now that the mirror array was used, Bai Tongtong simply made more things, took the opportunity of the meeting, brought them to the elders' house, and gave them to the offices of the most senior positions. The nobles who came to the meeting this year also had gifts, each with a copy A notepad with a calendar, two fountain pens and a red and blue pencil.
The arrangement of the meeting is the same every year, except that the meeting is for socializing. Compared with last year when she attended the meeting for the first time, Bai Tongtong greeted everyone calmly this year. If someone made a boring statement at the meeting, she would rest her hand on her chin indifferently. Take a nap.
As for socializing, I completely listen to Farrell. She will attend whichever one he says she wants to attend. On such occasions, Xiao Er was as sweet as any dude when he spoke sweet words, coaxing the ladies to giggle, and he also got a lot of gossip and anecdotes by the way.
In addition to participating in the meeting of the elders' house, the president finally sent a letter calling all the branch presidents to come to the meeting and only discuss one thing, which is to send everyone the complete plan of the second training plan.
Bai Tongtong, who got the news in advance, once again generously prepared gifts for the branch presidents, a magic typewriter for each person and a sample of a dimmable magic desk lamp. The brightness of the light can be adjusted freely from dark to bright.
This is an idea she came up with during the summer vacation. In order to make the first real sample of the magic array with adjustable brightness, Bai Tongtong accidentally cut her palm. Injuries during the experiment were commonplace for her, so after cleaning and disinfecting, They are too lazy to use healing techniques to heal the wounds, and appear on various occasions with the wounds on their hands indifferently.
When the branch leaders saw these two things, their hands immediately itched. The typewriter was not easy to disassemble, so they couldn't help but disassemble the base of the lamp, but when they opened the base, it revealed the magic spar compartment, and the magic circle was sealed behind the compartment. Dismantling it again would be like dismantling the lamp into parts, so the branch leaders stopped, arranged the lamp on the table, adjusted it to a suitable brightness, and began to read the full text of the plan.
The second training plan has long been known in the magic world, and the general opinions of magicians are support. In any case, those eliminated students are classmates and alumni. Naturally, I hope everyone has a good future emotionally. I haven't seen the details of the plan all the time, which makes people wait a little anxiously.
This meeting lasted only one day, mainly to distribute the plan, then introduce the content of each item, and finally ask the presidents to go back and read carefully, write a letter of opinion and send it to the General Association a week later, and then hold it after integrating everyone’s opinions Second discussion meeting.
The advantage of this arrangement is that Bai Tongtong doesn't have to be exhausted, otherwise, if she has to find time between the annual general meeting and the necessary social activities to go to the main guild to participate in the centralized discussion meeting, she can't guarantee how she will perform when she arrives, she may be directly exhausted Maybe he fell asleep at the meeting.
The draft of the proposal was written by Bai Tongtong. After submitting it to the president, she didn't care about the rest of the content, so after getting the official proposal, she had to study it carefully. Fortunately, she had enough time. Take the time to read a few pages and make some notes, and the draft of the opinion paper came out slowly.
Mazio's General Chamber of Commerce in the capital of Gulisi is also one of the social occasions that Bai Tongtong must attend. Bai Tongtong just asked them to recommend Mazio's famous designers and builders in the country, and the reconstruction of the town should be included in the plan.This big news was sent back to the capital of Marzio through the General Chamber of Commerce. People who wanted to do business began to flock to Wismar, and they followed the Countess of Wismar to do business. This was the beginning of the formation of Marzio merchants. consensus.
Bai Tongtong is very happy to open two magic clinics in his two territories and hire the trained students to work for five years. There is not a single doctor in Fubao Town. wait to die.The patients in Wismar Town were not much better, so they had to go to Ludi Town for medical treatment. Patients with open fractures meant amputation, which is absolutely unacceptable.
The second half of the annual meeting is the busiest. There are new legal provisions to be discussed and approved, new domestic policies to be formulated, and competition for every gold coin in the annual budget. Every day, the meeting place is like a scene of women in a vegetable market, which is noisy. Headache, balls of paper flying everywhere, don't think that nobles are gentlemen, when it's about their own interests, the gentleman's demeanor is bullshit.
Bai Tongtong also slapped the table to quarrel with a group of men. She used the amplification technique, and one person's voice overwhelmed the audience, arguing loudly, just to fight for some more education budget for Soller City. In this way, she can let the town of Fabao share part of the education funds.
The more busy you are, the more important and urgent matters need to be dealt with first.
At noon on September [-]th, Bai Tongtong came out of the restaurant of the elders' home after lunch, and was about to go for a walk on the street, thinking about the debate in the afternoon, if she could win, the education budget of Soller City would be in hand .
Walking along the corridor outside the restaurant to the gate, when passing the stairs, he bumped into Farrell by accident. He tickled his index finger at her with a serious expression, as if waiting for her for a long time.
Bai Tongtong had a bad feeling in his heart, but he followed Farrell's footsteps and went upstairs to his office.
His assistant in the office was not there, and he was sent to the street for lunch. Farrell closed the door and erected a barrier, which made Bai Tongtong's premonition even stronger.
"Trouble? Want me to run errands?"
"The church in Rebjanik has made a move. They have begun to expand their power to the surrounding small countries, affecting their regime and political system, and causing political turmoil in many countries."
"Oh, as expected. As soon as it was revealed that Calvert drugged me, their reputation in the wizarding world was over, and they no longer had the ability to stop the expansion of the church."
"So we're in trouble now."
"Say it, I'm listening."
"The Gulisi royal family is related to the royal family of a country over there. When he learned that the political situation might be dangerous, His Majesty sent soldiers to bring their royal family back to the country. But according to the latest news, the coup usurped the throne. It has already happened, and it is the banner of foreign interference in internal affairs. Before the enemy rushed into the palace, the king's family escaped from the king's capital under the protection of our soldiers and hid in the mountains. Now their whereabouts are unknown, and there may have been casualties."
"You want me to pick them up?"
"Looking for people in the mountains and forests is your cat's forte."
"But I have an important debate this afternoon, and you know I value this education funding."
"The thing has already happened, so it doesn't matter to wait another afternoon, you go to your work first, but let me tell you, I have taken out all the blood you have in my hand to make potions for Master Bai."
"Okay, use it if it's useful, and find a small island to hunt a few more next summer."
"Harding will wait for you in the guild in advance, you must go back and change your clothes."
Bai Tongtong looked at the skirt on her body and shrugged.
"Be careful." Farrell warned, withdrew the magic, and watched her leave, while he continued to be busy with the following work.
After taking a walk in the street, the ideas of the debate have been sorted out. In the afternoon, Bai Tongtong fought with all the heroes in the conference hall. She used her mathematical skills to ridicule the mental retardation of the men, and then used their mental retardation to prove the importance of strengthening education. Necessary, these men couldn't keep their mouths off by scolding them, and in the end they won the necessary education budget for Soller City, and the education funds for Forborg Town were secured.
After the debate, Bai Tongtong went directly back to the guild to change into a mercenary uniform. Harding was already waiting in the forest, and they left after the wind travel technique was rolled up.
Looking for people in the mountains really depends on the shadowless cat. The mountains are high and the forests are dense. Looking down from the sky, there is only a lush canopy. Harding can smell the bloody smell above the canopy. The further you go down, the stronger the bloody smell, but No corpse was found, so it was difficult to prove whether it was the blood left by the hunting animals or the bloody battle between the soldiers of the enemy and us.
It was already dark after landing, and Bai Tongtong didn't know where the enemy was hiding, and Bai Tongtong didn't dare to take out the magic flashlight, for fear that the light would expose him.
Harding nudged Bai Tongtong, motioning for her to ride on its back, Ah Huang also carried Xiao Er, and Crow stood on Bai Tongtong's shoulders.The two humans lowered their bodies as low as possible, only the sound of the wind whistling in the dark forest, Ah Huang and Harding were running forward at a fast speed, nimbly avoiding low bushes and overgrown branches, step by step No sound.
Ah Huang ran ahead, exchanging intelligence messages with Harding, tracking traces of human activities in the forest with the instinct of earth-type monsters. Whether it was the enemy or his own people, as long as he found one side, he would definitely find the other side.
After running for an unknown amount of time, Bai Tongtong finally felt that Harding's running speed had slowed down even though there was a canopy of trees blocking the position of the moon. When they got out of the woods, they found a small depression at their feet. The standard army is encamping, and by the light of the fire, the flag in the camp is not Gulisi's logo.
Bai Tongtong and Xiao Er didn't dare to say a word, and handed over the dominance to these two top monsters, especially Harding, who had the most experience in going deep behind enemy lines.
Harding smelled the thick bloody smell from the camp, which proved that this army had experienced bloody battles. As long as you follow the bloody smell in the opposite direction, you will be able to find the battlefield. Only after you find the battlefield can you know where the other side of the war has gone.
So Harding was the leader this time, and using the Wind Concealment Technique, he sneaked into the middle of the camp and sniffed the clues of the bloodstains carefully, then found the right direction, and continued to run around.
Soon they came to a clearing in the forest, even Bai Tongtong and Xiao Er could smell the bloody smell that had not dissipated, it could be seen that a battle had just ended during the day.
[There are fresh corpses on the ground, but no one of our own. 】Ah Huang walked around and reported to Bai Tongtong.
"Xiao Er, there is no one from us." Bai Tongtong told Xiao Er softly, sharing the news.
"Since the enemy has left a corpse, they must have fought fiercely. No matter who the opponent is, they probably won't be far away, so they must be hiding nearby." Shaw opened his eyes in vain and looked around the dark surroundings in the darkness, " Is there a hiding place nearby? A cave or something?"
Ah Huang wagged his tail, and the magic radiated out. After a while, he found a suspicious place, beckoned Harding to follow, and went into the forest first.
After walking for a short distance, Ah Huang stopped. Bai Tongtong carefully cast the light spell, and a ball of light with warm light fluttered to the front. A small human cave, the entrance of the cave was originally covered by vines, but now the entrance of the cave is wide open, and there are chaotic traces of trampling on the ground.
(End of this chapter)
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