Lear shook his head with a smile and said, "You can't just see the power of Count Lear and the cannibal family, you have to look up. It is now obvious that there is a conspiracy to seize Port Lear. But in the end, there are only three forces that have the power to reclaim Port Lear, namely the Duchy of Barlow, the Notting Royalty, or the Horman Royalty. However, let's not forget that the empire also has a house of nobles to counterbalance imperial power. ”

"Whichever force wants to seize Port Lear has been exposed, and the House of Lords will inevitably intervene. The most important thing is that the local forces in Port Lear will also fight back! Therefore, now is the most peaceful period, and no one can act rashly, as long as I become the Earl of Lear, even if I am as large as a cannibal, I will not dare to attack me! If the cannibals attack me, it is equivalent to them encroaching on the territory of other nobles, which is not tolerated by the House of Lords. ”

"If even a family as successful as Count Lear can be easily snatched up, who can guarantee the interests of the other nobles? No matter how large the cannibals are, they dare to oppose the Emperor, but they will never dare to oppose the entire House of Lords, for he is only a member of the House of Lords. So as long as I become Count Lear, the cannibals will not only not kill me, but will even want to see me alive. ”

Catherine said, "But the question is, can you make it to Earl Lear?"

Lear said, "So, the key is whether or not I can become Lord Lear. If you can do it, everything will be solved. ”

Susan suddenly asked softly, "Master Lear, if you really become Earl Lear, will you really give me a shop, a shop that can earn 50,000 gold carats?"

Lear smiled mysteriously: "Do you know how much gold carats my family's shop can make in a year? Do you know how much private property my uncle, the previous Earl of Lear, has? Follow me, there will never be a shortage of gold carats!"

Susan's eyes lit up, and she wanted to be Lear's loyal dog right away.

"What's next?" Catherine glared at Susan.

Lear said, "To make it harder for the cannibal family to find us, we burned Pratt's body first. Who of you knows about the town of Cablo?"

Catherine said: "That famous garden town in Port Lear? I know, it's also a source of rosemary and thyme, and I've been there many times. ”

Lear nodded and said, "Okay, you two deal with Pratt's body, I'll gouge out the eyes of the blue-eyed snow fox first, and then let's go to Cablo Town!"

The next day, three men appeared in the small town of Cablo, the famous source of rosemary and thyme in the Homan Empire.

A man resembles a swordsman, with a strong body and a handsome face, which attracts many young girls to watch frequently. There is also a man with five big and three thick, with a beard, a very strong body, and a heavy sword. The last one was a child, young, with a freckled face and brown hair.

The three men are Catherine, Susan, and Lear.

Mercenaries often have to do some shady tasks, makeup is a basic skill, Catherine bought two sets of clothes and inner armor, and a little modification was made to cover up the feminine features of the two people.

Lear's original black hair was dyed brown, and then he put freckles on his face, and darkened the bridge of his nose and eyebrows, and immediately changed greatly, unless someone close to Lear, he couldn't tell that he was the young master Lear.

All three of them were dressed as mercenaries, dressed in coarse cloth, and they couldn't see any flaws if they didn't look closely.

The three of them came to the outside of a manor called Ness's House, named after his daughter by the owner of the manor, Baron Humphrey.

Speaking of which, Baron Humphrey is a legend. He was also the founder of the country, but due to a few incompetent elders, the family was so downtrodden that he sold his territory a hundred years ago and was forced to demote to the knighthood, and his generation lost her hereditary qualifications.

After graduating from the Imperial College, he became the Treasurer of the Homan Empire in just five years, and became a twenty-five-year-old "official baron", which can be described as a rising star in the imperial officialdom, and even the high-ranking Prime Minister jealously called him "the most feared competitor to me", "a new star only a little dimmer than the Imperial Star", and "the new Imperial Star".

Of course, all this honor and status was achieved by his efforts, but it was his blood that he was able to get all this so early - he was a distant relative of the Empress of the Empire. Of course, if he doesn't stand out, this bloodline is useless. Everyone believes that with his ability, he is destined to revive the family's glory.

At that time, he had almost everything, inexhaustible wealth, high official positions and the favor of the emperor, and even his wife was the most beloved daughter of a duke in the imperial capital. He can say that his life is unshakable. Unfortunately, perhaps God played a joke on him, and her daughter Ness had a strange illness since she was a child.

Baron Humphrey exhausted everything for Ness, and even invited a cardinal who came to visit the Empire to use the sacred prayer technique "Great Blessing" for Ness, but to no avail.

Eventually, Baron Humphrey learned that the fresh sea was good for Ness's body, and he renounced his official position in the Empire and came to the town of Cablo incognito, settling here with his wife and daughter.

This story has always been spread as a myth in the aristocratic circles of the imperial capital, and no one believes that Baron Humphrey would really give up his future and revitalize the family for his daughter, there must be some ulterior in this.

Few people know that Lear's father was once a senior of Baron Humphrey, and the two men often exchanged letters and had a close personal relationship - and Humphrey himself had a large family fortune and would never have a conflict of interest with the Lear family.

For Lear, there are only two credible people in Port Lear, one is the Baron Humphrey, and the other is his family's businessman in Port Lear, Hans Sr.

Hans Sr. had been a family businessman with the Lear family for twenty years, and Lear's father chose him when he left Port Lear when the family separated. So the elder Hans broke away from the family of the Count of Lear and became the family businessman of the Lear family, where he worked for nearly twenty years.

Old Hans was a wise old man, and it is said that his ancestors were a down-and-out nobleman, and if it weren't for Lear's father's help, he would have been squeezed out of the Lear family, and he was loyal to the Lear family. The most important thing is that if the Lear family has no heirs, all the property under the name will be collected into the treasury, and when the time comes, old Hans will have nothing, and he is the one who wants the Lear family to be safe.

However, old Hans was still in Port Lear, and Lear, in line with the principle of caution, came to Baron Humphrey first.

The three of them walked to the gate of the manor, and this unusually striking combination was immediately stopped by the doorman.

Lear said very politely, "I beg you to go in and report to Baron Humphrey, and say that the son of the old man has come to visit." I've got a piece of paper here, and you'll show it to the baron, and he'll understand. With that, he generously took out ten gold carats.

The eyes of the four guards were straight, their monthly salary was only eight gold carats, and even if someone asked them to talk, they would only send a few silver coins, and few people would send gold carats.

The captain of the janitor immediately told them to wait, and with a piece of letter paper that Lear had given him, went to Humphrey.