Chapter 480 Tea

The main dining room on the second floor of the Temple of Lyra, which has always been the place where the countesses of Starfog Valley have dined and entertained distinguished guests. Tonight the place was brightly lit, and hundreds of rich, shrewd, and elegantly dressed men were whispering in whispers, and from time to time there was a pleasant chuckle or two—these were the guests of honour at the knight's oath ceremony and the merchants' seats today.

"I didn't expect my eldest nephew to have a lot of attainments in art. Rouen, the vice president of the Flame Chamber of Commerce, looked at Philip, who was looking at the painting of "Sleeping Portmar" on the wall, and chuckled and complimented.

"I'm ashamed to say that I just looked at Queen Potmar's nakedness. Hearing this, Philip was slightly stunned before responding with a little embarrassment

"But Queen Portmar's figure is really perfect, but it is far from being comparable to those slave girls in my family, and she is really worthy of a generation of Cleopatra whose fame can be passed down for thousands of years!" said Philip sighing from the bottom of his heart.

"Hehe-" Rouen took the initiative to find Philip not to discuss Queen Portmar's nudity with him, he lowered his head and took a sip of the green tea in the porcelain cup in his hand, and suddenly said, "What does the eldest nephew think of this 'tea' drink?"

"Tea?" At this time, Philippe did not look at the oil paintings on the wall anymore, but stood face to face with Rouen, after all, it was undoubtedly extremely rude to talk with his back to others, "It's the first time I've drunk it, and it feels quite fresh." ”

"It's really fresh, and it's definitely a good thing, even more mead than the Bloody Marys, Golden Liquor, and other meads and ales I've drunk!" said Rouen, narrowing his eyes and taking a slight sip of the heat of the tea, looking intoxicated.

"What I admire even more is the choice of teacups—porcelain cups for green tea, and crystal cups for black tea and milk tea, which don't seem to be too unusual, but invisibly, they make people feel an extremely subtle and comfortable feeling!

"Haha, there aren't many people who can be praised like this by the elder. Philip chuckled when he saw this, and then took a sip of the iced tea in the cup, also looking intoxicated.

"But compared to the slightly bitter green tea, I still prefer black tea and milk tea, especially the black tea and milk tea that have been chilled with ice magic - that cool and sweet feeling can simply make people feel comfortable to the bone!" Philip raised the crystal teacup in his hand slightly and chuckled, "Speaking of enjoyment, there is only one Viscount who can make me sincerely admire!"

"My old fellow still prefers green tea, especially the slightly bitter feeling in the tea, which you young people don't like. It is unbelievable that this tea has a refreshing effect, and the effect is quite obvious, in my opinion, it is much better than the effect of magic potions such as awakening potions and concentrating potions!, eldest nephew, you say, Lord Viscount must have added some special alchemical materials to this tea?" asked Rouen casually.

"Who knows," replied Philip quietly, "but from what I know of the Viscount, he would never do such a short-sighted thing." ”

According to Rouen and Philippe, there are alchemy materials for 'refreshing', but most of them are actually harmful to the human body, which is why 'refreshing' magic potions such as awakening potions are more expensive. If Leitch really added some 'special' alchemy materials to the tea, so that these teas have a good refreshing effect, once the truth is known to the outside world, it will definitely have an extremely bad impact on his reputation! This is the 'short-sightedness' in Philip's mouth.

However, it is worth mentioning that I don't know if it is because of the magic plane, the tea produced in Starmist Valley not only has the same refreshing effect as the tea on the earth, but the effect is much more obvious, and the two cannot be compared at all! Even the tea itself is the alchemy material that can be used to refine the new version of the Awakening Elixir, and it is absolutely harmless! This is also very unexpected by Lucky.

Therefore, long ago, after personally inspecting the soil of the entire Starfog Valley, Leitch had divided the wasteland that could not be used to grow Starlight Grass and food, and sent a large number of servants to start transplanting tea trees. As for why it is not fully planted, of course, it is because the value of tea is still not comparable to that of Starlight Grass, and food is also something that Leitch must not give up.

"Hehe, too, it seems that the eldest nephew's understanding of Lord Viscount is really much better than mine. It seems that the eldest nephew is confident that he will be the first to be invited in a moment, and I heard that you have a quarrel with Baron Haas in order to protect the reputation of the viscount," Rouen said with a meaningful look at Philippe.

Like Philip, Rouen also has the title of Baron of the Court of Thunderman, but this time it was Philip who came on behalf of the Duke of Princeton, and Rouen sat in the merchant delegation, so it was time for him to know what was happening in the noble seat.

"If Baron Haas has to think that I am deliberately working against him, there is no way to do it. Philip shrugged his shoulders helplessly, then shook his head, "But if you want to wait a minute, the first one to be invited in, I don't think it will be me." ”

"Oh?" Hearing this, Rouen raised his eyebrows slightly.

"The elders should know that someone has come to the Sunset Territory. Philip said lightly.

"Sunset Territory?" Rouen's cloudy eyes flashed with a glimmer of light in the corner, looking at an orc with a sledgehammer on his back, and he had heard of some of the agreements that Leitch had made with Sunset Territory.

Speaking of the Flame Chamber of Commerce, the Red Mountain Chamber of Commerce, and the Bird Chamber of Commerce, they are known as the three major chambers of commerce of the Dawson Free Federation, and they have immeasurable wealth; but only the top leaders of the three major chambers of commerce know best, and if you really want to study it carefully, the most powerful consortium is undoubtedly the industry controlled by the ten major lords who rule the federation! Although the ten major territories are not like the Black Wind Territory, where a Black Wind Chamber of Commerce is directly established, the commercial officers of the ten major territories have absolutely stronger say in the field of federal commerce than the presidents of the three major chambers of commerce!

"Speaking of which, our Viscount's appetite is really not small, and before the net in the Dawn Valley has been spread, we can't wait to reach out to the realm of the Seven Kings!" Rouen suddenly narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Eldest nephew, you said, even with the support of the Antonia family, our Viscount doesn't have enough funds for him to dispose of, right?"

"As far as I know, Lord Viscount has never extended a hand to the Antonia family. So, I'm just as confused as the grown-" Philip said with a slight glint in his eyes.

As Philip expected, the first person to be invited to the third floor to meet Leitch was indeed a representative from Sunset Territory, the current patriarch of the Mafiah Clan, and Reich's old acquaintance Borg. Because of the agreement reached with the Sunset Territory in the Succubus Sea, the two sides are now in the honeymoon period, so it is actually expected that Borg will receive such preferential treatment.

Of course, there are hundreds of merchants in the main dining room on the second floor, and it is naturally impossible for Leitch to meet them one by one, not to mention that time does not allow, if Leitch has to do everything himself, then he, the viscount, will be too tired. So after Borg was the first to be invited, some other invitations were also invited to the third level, and of course, the businessmen were received by the commercial officer Owen and some high-level executives of the commercial department.

"I've seen Lord Viscount!" Looking at Reich, who was half-leaning back on the platinum high chair and looking at him with a smile on his face, Borg immediately scrupulously gave him a federal aristocratic etiquette.

"Haha, please take a seat, there's no need to be so polite, anyway, Your Excellency the Patriarch and I are old acquaintances!" Leitch smiled as he pointed to the chair across from the desk.

Sitting on the chair, looking at the young viscount in front of him, who was still young, but had become more and more calm and 'ordinary', Borg couldn't help but feel a trace of admiration and even jealousy in his heart - as an orc, especially the orc patriarch who shouldered the glory of the Black Hand Clan, Borg had always looked down on humans in his heart, or other races other than orcs; A hundredfold achievement!

And the moment he saw Leitch just now, he felt a vague sense from the orc sledgehammer behind him, the ancestral weapon 'Hammer of Plunder' inherited from the Black Hand Clan's ancestral weapon - the strength of the Black Wind Viscount has increased again, and it is completely powerful enough to pose a mortal threat to him!

Borg believes that the induction of the Hammer of Plunder will never go wrong, which means that although there is no news yet, the Viscount of Black Wind has definitely entered the fourth-order level and become a fourth-order battle mage!

Since he was a child, Borg has been blessed by the beast god and the protection of the clan ancestors, and at the age of his early forties, he has the strength of the peak beast warrior (fourth order), so that he can even look down on those orc royal clans of the seven royal clans!

Forcibly suppressing the strange emotions in his heart, Borg opened his mouth and smiled: "The agreement reached with Lord Viscount last time made Lord Marquis quite satisfied. This time, the Marquis sent me here, in addition to observing the ceremony, I also have the desire to further deepen cooperation with the Viscount!"

"Oh, what do you want to 'deepen' the Marquis?" asked Retch with a chuckle.

(End of chapter)