Chapter 62: Windfall
Lei Xiu was running on the road, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile, after the trouble just now, it made him feel a lot more comfortable, but unfortunately he couldn't stay in the hotel.
Although the Sheriff's Department may not search the hotel one by one on such a big night, but this risk is still not worth taking, thinking of this, Lei Xiu smiled bitterly, did he do a little too much, so that he didn't even dare to live in a hotel now, is it possible that he wants to sleep on the street today?
At this moment, a blue street sign on the side of the road attracted his attention, looking at the three words of Shenlei Building on the street sign, Lei Xiu's heart moved, although it was past midnight now, it seemed that there was no other place to go except Shenlei Lou now.
Thinking of this, Lei Xiu turned and ran towards the position of the Divine Thunder Tower, hoping that this person named Mortai would prefer to sleep late.
The Imperial Capital Divine Thunder Tower is a landmark building in Dongcheng District, the same as the Divine Thunder Tower of Yaori City, the shape is also the appearance of an inverted sword, but the scale and momentum are more majestic than those of Yaori City, and there are four shorter auxiliary buildings around the main building, just like the guard of the arch emperor, and the main building is more magnificent.
Located in a luxurious office in the west annex building, as one of the four deputy directors of the headquarters of the Shenlei Building, Mortai is greeting guests, Mortai, who is over forty years old, is tall and burly, with a resolute face, and at first glance he has a rough and bold personality, but at this time, he handed the teacup to the person sitting on the chair opposite him with both hands very humbly, looking cautious.
Although there are countless Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons in the imperial capital, there are countless dignitaries and dignitaries, but Mortai, as the deputy head of the Shenlei Tower, is above 10,000 people, and his identity is not trivial, even when he meets those officials who hold real power, he also talks and laughs freely, and he does not fall behind in momentum, but at this moment, this hereditary marquis title in front of him has a rare hereditary marquis title in the entire Bauhinia Empire, and in addition to the chief administrator, there is only Lord Hanboke, who is far away in Yaori City and has a transcendent status, can talk to him on an equal footing.
It stands to reason that with the identity of the other party, even if he comes to Shenlei Tower to negotiate business, he should go directly to the chief manager, but Mortai is very clear about the purpose of this marquis coming to him, so he is more cautious at this moment, because the other party did not come voluntarily.
Taking a deep breath and watching the man opposite take a sip of tea and put down the teacup, Mortai smiled and said, "Lord Jalba, I don't know what you have to teach you when you visit late at night?"
With a thin face and high cheekbones, Jarba, who did not look amazing, had a pair of sharp gray eyes, which were now gently sweeping over Mortai's face, making him look a little uneasy.
The corners of his mouth hooked up a smile, and Jalba said in his unique feminine tone, "Mortai, don't pretend in front of me, you should know the purpose of my coming, Hanbock has put me so hard in Dawn City, will he not need to notify you of this henchman by secret message?"
Mortai showed a bitter face and said, "Lord Jalba, I really don't know about this matter, I received a secret letter from Lord Hanbock this morning, saying that you may come to me in the near future, but he didn't say anything, you also know Lord Hanbock's temper, if he doesn't want to, no one can force him, otherwise the position of the head of the Imperial Capital Shenlei Tower would have been his." β
Jalba smiled noncommittally and drank his teacup again, when a gray-haired man in a silver cuirass behind him pulled out two pieces of paper and a stack of golden tickets that looked like contracts from his body and placed them on the table between Jalba and Mortai.
Mortai smiled at the gray-haired man and said, "Brother Baron, we haven't seen each other for a long time, but you haven't been back to the imperial capital for a while." β
As if he hadn't heard Mortai's words, Balon didn't even glance at him out of the corner of his eye, and after putting his things away, he returned to Jalba again, and stood there with a grim face. Mortai was bored but not angry, still grinning.
At this time, Jarba raised his chin lightly and said, "Take a look, this is the title deed of the villa and horse farm in Qingshuixi, as well as the transfer of 20% of the shares of the Sun God Gladiatorial Arena." β
Even with Mortai's vision and insight that he was accustomed to seeing big scenes, his eyelids couldn't help jumping after hearing these words, although he had long known the cause and effect of the matter, but the huge value represented by the villa in Qingshuixi and the 20% shares of the Sun God Gladiatorial Arena also made him nervous and moved, it was a wealth of hundreds of millions.
Sighing deeply, a sneer spread across Jalba's face, " Hanbock, this old fellow, went to my Sun God Gladiatorial Arena to place a bet, but my unsuccessful son took his bet and lost to him 200 million gold coins, he said that he wanted three things to pay off this gambling debt, the villa title deed and the shares of the gladiatorial arena are here, as for Barrecto steel, a few days ago His Royal Highness the Emperor Sun came down to me here to look at it, so I took it away, here is 40 million gold coins, equivalent to the value of Barecto steel, you can give it to him, if he is not satisfied, he will find His Royal Highness the Emperor Sun himself, anyway, this debt will be cleared from now onγ β
Mortai pretended to be surprised, and quickly nodded, "Okay, I will definitely tell Lord Hanbock, but Lord Jalba, I can take the title deed and share transfer letter first, as for the golden ticket, you can see if you can take it back first, let me ask Lord Hanbock, after all, his old man wants Barrecto steel, if I give him the golden ticket, I'm afraid he will clean me up." β
"Huh?" Jalba frowned, and his voice turned cold, "What? Isn't he satisfied that he took nearly 200 million from me out of thin air? Tell you, I have put down the things, you have to take them or not, don't you think my way of cleaning up people is not as good as Hanbok?"
Mortai was so frightened that cold sweat dripped down, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Lord Jalba, you misunderstood, I would rather offend Lord Hanbock than offend you, hey, okay, I'll just fight to let Lord Hanbock clean me up, and I'll take all the things." β
Jalba snorted, put the teacup on the table, and then stood up, until he stood up to find that the Marquis was extremely tall, just a little too thin, and wore a magnificent robe on him as if it were hanging from a pole.
"Since you accept the things, then I won't stay longer, you tell Hanbock, although we have cleared this debt, but I can write down this account!"
Although his tone was flat, Mortai still felt Jal's deep resentment, after all, as the hereditary marquis of Jalba, 200 million gold coins was also a large amount of money that was enough to break the bones.
It wasn't until he sent Jalba all the way to a waiting carriage outside the gate of the annex building, and then watched the other man leave, that Mortai breathed a sigh of relief.
As the contemporary patriarch of the Ferrian family, Jalba is not only extremely powerful in his own right, but his sister-in-law is the wife of Hernson, the current prime minister, so you can imagine how difficult he is to mess with.
"Hey, what is wrong with Lord Hanbout, why did he provoke Jalba for no reason? He is not afraid of the old man, but I am afraid, I am such a small deputy manager, I really can't stand such a toss, hey, no matter, let's go back and wash and sleep!"
Muttering in a low voice, Mortai turned around and walked towards the annex building, but at this moment, a faint human voice came from afar.
Frowning, Mortai turned his head to look at the source of the voice, wanting to see whose child was shouting in the street in the middle of the night, but just as he turned his head, a figure had already come to a distance of five meters in front of him.
Mortai's eyes shrank suddenly, his body subconsciously tensed, and at the same time, a sense of horror rose in his heart, this person's speed is really amazing, thinking that as the deputy head of the Divine Thunder Building, he is a demon fighter except for the elemental mage he sees on weekdays, and he himself is also a master who has reached the black iron level, but he rarely sees a person with such a fast speed.
He was very sure that the other party was still seventy or eighty meters away when he vaguely heard the sound just now, but as soon as he turned his head, the other party came to him, although he had not seen this kind of speed, but it only appeared on a few Silver Demon Fighters who were famous for their speed, and what was even more terrifying was the age of the other party, who looked like he was only sixteen or seventeen years old at most.
Pressing the shock in his heart, Moltai looked at the young man opposite as usual with a straight face, black hair and black eyes, should have the bloodline of the Tianfeng Ancient Kingdom, his body is upright, his eyes are clear, and his martial arts skills are extraordinary, thinking of this, Moltai thought of the young man mentioned in the secret letter that Hanberk gave him this morning, and his heart moved.
Lei Xiu looked at the rough-looking man in front of him, and said with a smile, "Hello uncle, may I ask if this is the Divine Thunder Tower, right?"
Mortai nodded, "Yes, this is the Divine Thunder Tower, young man, what are you doing in the Divine Thunder Tower so late? β
Lei Xiu scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "I'm here to find someone, uncle, do you know Mr. Mortai? I'm here to find him." β
Hearing Lei Xiu call out his name, Mortai no longer had any doubts in his heart, and said with a smile, "You are Lei Xiu, I am Moortai, Lord Hanbock wrote to inform me, I didn't expect you to come to me so late, it's also thanks to your luck, I didn't go home today, come with me, I'll settle you down first." β
Lei Xiu was overjoyed in his heart, he didn't expect his luck to be so good, he met Mortai before he entered the Divine Thunder Tower, and hurriedly said, "It turns out that you are Uncle Mortai, I'm really sorry to come over to disturb you so late." β
Mortai patted Lei Xiu on the shoulder affectionately and said, "Don't say that, Lord Hanbock said that you are no different from his own grandson, everyone is their own people, let's go, you will spend the night in the building today, and I will take you to your place tomorrow." β
"Where do I live?" Lei Xiu hurriedly shook his hand when he heard this, "Don't be so troublesome, Uncle Mortai, if it's convenient for you, let me live in the Divine Thunder Building for two days, and then I will live in the academy directly after the school starts." β
Sighing with emotion, Mortai looked at Lei Xiudao enviously, "Lucky boy, didn't Lord Hanbock tell you? He asked you for a villa, just now they brought the title deed, and tomorrow you will be the owner of that villa." β
Lei Xiu was slightly stunned, and then remembered that when he was in the Sun God Gladiatorial Arena, Hanbock did say that he would give him a villa, or the kind with a good geographical location, and couldn't help but be excited when he heard this, "The title deed of that villa has been delivered?" But I heard Grandpa Hanbock say that the person may not accept his conditions. β
With a smile, Mortai took out a paper scroll tied with a red rope from his arms and handed it to Lei Xiudao, "That person has already agreed just now, so this villa is yours now!"