After the banquet, everyone went directly back to the Xilin family's manor. The others went to the manor's maid's room, and Lin Xia could only reluctantly return to the castle alone.

Lin Xia's safe was filled with 5,000 gold coins, after all, the Jiangnan region had just been integrated and had not yet entered the harvest period, Lin Xia expected that he would definitely need money to return to the territory, so he basically took away all the funds that Hongxing could use.

Lin Xia was in the bedroom of the castle thinking about Campbell's expression when he saw the gold coin just now, and the kind of complex expressions such as longing for the gold coin, excitement and so on were concentrated on Campbell's face, and this Campbell was really poor and afraid of the Xilin family.

Campbell was worried that Lin Xia was spending money indiscriminately, and proposed that he keep the money, but Lin Xia only gave him a roll of the eyes.

But Lin Xia still took out 2,000 gold coins to ask Campbell to buy materials and repair the castle. Lin Xia also knew that he wanted the castle to be restored to its original state, and he couldn't even see the splash when he threw 2,000 gold coins into it. But Lin Xia's requirements are not high, as long as part of the first floor of the castle can be used normally.

In addition, build another house in the manor to house more than 30 homeless people in Lucas, which doesn't cost much money, just buy materials, as for manpower, aren't Lucas's more than 30 people all manpower.

After the 2,000 gold coins were thrown out, Lin Xia planned to sleep. I still feel a chill down my back when I think of living alone in a huge castle, but there is no way but to urge Campbell to repair the castle as soon as possible tomorrow and let Carlos live in with the three Hongxing brothers first.

Just when Lin Xia was a little sleepy, he suddenly heard the sound of walking, clicking, hitching, hitching outside the door, because he was the only one in the whole castle, it was very quiet, and the sound of walking was very harsh. Are there really vampires?

Because he didn't know who it was, Lin Xia didn't dare to be careless, took out a Tang knife, walked to the bedroom door softly, and listened to the sound outside the door.

Ride, ride, ride, Lin Xia heard footsteps getting closer and closer, and he should have arrived at the door.

Lin Xia held a knife in his right hand and quickly opened the door with his left hand, and at the same time as opening the door, he cast a fire magic to form a spark in his left hand and threw it into the sky for lighting. I saw a figure standing outside the door with a dim oil lamp. Lin Xia rushed out with a brisk step, and the upper right Tang knife fell directly on this person's shoulder, and the whole process was extremely fast, and the people outside the door didn't react at all.

Because Lin Xia's flame magic didn't have a lot of fire, he could only see human figures.

Lin Xia was about to release another fire-type magic to see who this person was. Suddenly, this person screamed "ah", this scream was extremely high, showing this person's horror, and this was still a female voice, Lin Xia was startled by this scream.

It's just that this voice made Lin Xia feel a little familiar, and when the fire was amplified, Lin Xia saw Sophie's face full of horror, and her eyes were staring straight at her. But Lin Xia didn't dare to slack off, and his luck really looked at Sophie's dantian, an ordinary person, who had not cultivated fighting qi.

Lin Xia withdrew the Tang knife and looked at Sophie, but Sophie didn't seem to feel that the knife had left her shoulder, just stared at Lin Xia. The eyes were visibly in a state of distraction.

"I'm not scared silly. Lin Xia said in his heart.

After a while, Sophie leaned against the wall and slowly squatted down, holding her hands on her chest, and sobbing slowly.

"It looks like the fright has passed. Lin Xia breathed a sigh of relief.

Lin Xia helped Sophie to enter the bedroom, after all, it was winter, if Sophie kept squatting in the corner, she would have to be frostbitten tomorrow.

Lin Xia put Sophie on a chair, moved another chair by himself, and sat opposite Sophie, at this time Sophie had already eased up a little, but her body was still a little trembling.

"It's so late, why did you come over?" Lin Xia asked softly as she was worried and frightened Sophie.

Sophie's eyes were still in a state of confusion, and when she heard Lin Xia's voice, she suddenly cried out.

Lin Xia had no choice but to let Sophie cry for a while, and then waited, Lin Xia saw that Sophie's crying slowly slowed down, got up and patted Sophie's back, and gently comforted: "It's okay, don't be afraid." Lin Xia tried his best to make his voice softer, and at the same time injected a trace of true qi into his voice, which could play a calming role. This method was also inspired by the closeness of Mandy's singing to the elements of magic.

Sure enough, Sophie slowly stopped crying and came back to her senses. stood up from the chair, saluted Lin Xia and said, "Young Master, I'm sorry." ”

"There's nothing wrong with you. Lin Xia shook her hand at Sophie, sat back in her place, and motioned for Sophie to sit too, but Sophie still insisted on standing. Lin Xia couldn't help it, and asked again: "You are so late, why are you at the door of my bedroom?"

"It's Campbell Butler. Sophie respectfully said to Lin Xia: "Butler Campbell asked me to come over to serve the young master." ”

"Is it a waiter, a feudal society of all evils? While Lin Xia was thinking nonsense, Sophie continued: "Wait outside the door for the young master's dispatch." ”

It turned out that it was just outside the door, and Lin Xia couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. At the age of about twenty, Sophie is very delicate and beautiful, especially those eyes, which are really big. But it can also be due to the frightened pupils......

"No need, you go back and have a good rest, tomorrow is the New Year, and there is still a lot of work for you to do. "Young Master Ben is not without hands and feet, why do you need to wait. It's not a bed, Lin Xia muttered in his heart.

"But Steward Campbell said that you have finally returned to the family, and you must be unfamiliar with many places. Sophie continued.

"Sophie. Lin Xia interrupted Sophie's words: "I'm the young master, I'll let you go back." ”

"But the young master ......"

Lin Xia had no choice but to interrupt Sophie again: "If you want to serve me, after the castle is repaired, you can move to the castle to live." After saying that, he drove Sophie away.

"The predecessors of the traverser all have maids to serve closely, and I am so good that I have to drive the maids out. ”

......

Lin Xia got up early in the morning, and just went out to see Campbell waiting at the door, and when he saw Lin Xia coming out, he saluted and said, "Young master, Happy New Year!"

Today is the first day of the new year, and Lin Xia replied, "Happy New Year! ”

Lin Xia looked at Campbell's heavy dark circles and said with a smile: "My housekeeper, didn't you sleep well yesterday?"

Campbell smiled awkwardly, his eyes were full of gold coins when he slept last night, and he couldn't sleep at all, so he finally stayed up until dawn and waited at Lin Xia's bedroom door.

"Young master, today is the New Year, the townspeople are celebrating the holidays, and the renovation of the castle will not start until a few days. Campbell reported to Linxia.

Although Lin Xia wanted to repair the castle as soon as possible, there was really no way to do it in the New Year, even if he had the manpower of more than 30 people like Lucas, the shops selling materials were all closed. I can only say: "Then let's wait for a few days." ”

"Young Master, your gold coins ......" Campbell always felt that Lin Xia was young, and he was worried that such a large amount of gold coins would be wasted by Lin Xia. In Campbell's opinion, spending 2,000 gold to repair the castle was a waste. Lin Xia only lived for a year, and he still had to be abandoned after leaving. In addition to the 2,000 gold coins that have been prepared to repair the castle, Lin Xiana also has 3,000 gold coins, which is a year's tax revenue in Xilin Town.

Lin Xia didn't hear Campbell's words, but happened to see Carlos coming over to greet the New Year, and greeted Carlos and said, "You accompany me around Xilin Town." ”

Lin Xia took Campbell and Carlos for a walk around the town, there are not many people in the town today, and it seems that they are all at home for the New Year. But although every passer-by would not step forward when they saw Campbell and Lin Xia, they would salute Lin Xia from a distance and show their respect for the Xilin family.

Lin Xia spent a morning walking around many places in Xilin Town, and saw that there were actually a lot of vacant land in the town, so he asked Campbell: "What are these vacant lands for?"

"I don't know. Campbell said, "I'm just the housekeeper, and I need to ask Mayor Alex about the town." ”

"Go to Alex and bring him to the gates to meet me. After Lin Xia instructed Campbell, he took Carlos to the gate of the town.

The gates of Xilin Town are very large, not at all like the gates that a small town should have, and can even be compared to the gates of Düssel.

The guards at the city gate saluted Lin Xia respectfully because they had seen Lin Xia yesterday, and their eyes were full of reverence, which couldn't help but make Lin Xia a little proud. It's just that Lin Xia didn't notice it himself, since Lin Xia entered Xilin Town, he slowly began to have a sense of belonging to the Xilin family and Xilin Town.

Soon after Lin Xia arrived, Campbell came with Mayor Alex.

"My mayor, Happy New Year!" Lin Xia smiled and said to Alex, "I'm sorry, I asked you to come over for the New Year." ”

"It's my pleasure. Alex said.

Lin Xia was at the city gate, looked at the two hundred troops stationed outside the city gate, and asked, "Didn't you say that there are many homeless people? ”

"Since the army was stationed here two years ago, the displaced people have stopped coming. Alex replied.

Lin Xia cast a questioning look at Alex.

Alex's face was a little unpleasant: "Because the homeless people have all been killed by this army." ”