Lancaster City, the study in the castle of the Lord.

It is a study room with a very lavish decoration, and the walls of it are made to resemble bookshelves, and they are stuffed with various precious manuscripts, but there is little sign of looking through them.

The fireplace was blazing, bringing the warmth of spring to the room, and the warmth and the bitterly cold weather outside were like two worlds.

Aggressive.

The door of the house, carved from a single piece of Tercelian sandalwood that was more expensive than gold, was knocked from the outside.

"What's the matter?" The lord of Lancaster City, Earl Cowlinf, known as the Black Stag, put down the quill in his hand and asked lightly.

"Lord of the city, we have found the body of the baron of Nigrania in the north of the city." The retainers at the door reported in a voice that was just enough to be heard by the castle lord inside, but not too ostentatious.

"Hmph, that guy, I warned him a long time ago not to mess around......" Kaulinf snorted coldly, "Come in." ”

Outside the door, a man dressed as a city guard respectfully walked into the room, saluted, placed a parchment report on Kaulinf's desk, and then left the room at Kaolinf's signal.

Kaulinff picked up the report and looked at it.

It was only a moment later that he threw the report on the table, his old face crawling with a look of distress.

He had long heard the news that the heir of this old nobleman of the Valla Empire, who had been parachuted into his city by the emperor, was wantonly bullying the people in the city.

It's just that although Kaulinf is the titular lord of Lancaster, the earl of the empire, and his title is two levels higher than that Nigrania, in fact, he can't do anything to the other party at will.

The reason is simple, because Lancaster was able to survive the siege of Tiera to the greatest extent possible, precisely because it was the only city among the four major county cities of Tiera to surrender directly. Only a few die-hards of Thiera were driven to the civilian area north of the city, where they were completely annihilated.

As a reward for his knowledge and as an example to persuade other places to surrender, the emperor at that time naturally allowed Kaulinf, a former courtier, to continue to sit firmly in the position of lord of the city.

But today, the empire seems to have completely ruled the territory of Tiera that it has carved up, and these people who are not from the roots of the Varla Empire have naturally become a thorn in the side of the new emperor.

The Nigrania who had parachuted in and was reckless and even wanted to gradually encroach on the rights of his lord was only the first step.

Kaufrin knew very well what the emperor was planning, as long as he couldn't help being cut by a soft knife and did something to that Nicriania, then the other party would definitely seize this handle and clean himself up! Even if he can keep his position as the city lord with the connections he has worked hard for all these years, it is estimated that all his lowly henchmen will be replaced by guys like Nigrania, and his own city lord will naturally be completely hollowed out and become a statue without the slightest real power.

And if you can endure the provocation of that Nicarania, the other party will seize the rights of your city lord step by step, although the process may be very ugly, but if you don't stop it in time, you must not end up with a better result than the previous one.

In fact, there were already some aristocratic officials in the city who were not very strong-willed, or who felt that they had a 'vision', began to waver and threw an olive branch to the Nicrania.

Whenever he receives a secret report on this, Kaulinf can't help but feel that those officials are afraid that their minds are not full of, right? They got to where they are today because of him, and if they really fall, do those guys think they will end well?

In fact, Kaulinf had already begun to secretly prepare a plan against the Nigranian guy. As a result, I didn't expect the plan to be ready, and the other party was so easily killed by a few civilians because of his greed.

"What a way to die with that idiot's identity." Kaulinf said with a cold face.

Having said that, Nigrania's death was indeed a great joy, but for himself, it was a bit troublesome.

Even if the evidence on his side is complete and can prove that Nigrania ran to the north of the city and was killed, the new emperor will not pay attention to these evidences, and if he wants to plant a false accusation, he will have as many ways as he wants.

Kaulinf sighed deeply, feeling that he had been much more tired in the past few years than in the past.

Not only do you have to continue to run the business of being sucked by the royal family of Valla, and the city of Lancaster is getting worse and worse, but you also have to deal with those aristocratic politicians.

For a moment, he even missed Tiera, the blind and foolish king who supported him in carrying out business reforms and eventually developing Lancaster into a commercial city.

"Now, it's useless to regret it."

Kaulinf leaned back in his chair, thinking about what to do.

At this time, the door of the study was pushed open by a small crack.

The old man subconsciously looked towards the door, but found a well-behaved and cute little round face poking in.

"Gwendoline, why are you here?" The old man asked his granddaughter kindly.

"Grandpa, you're sighing again!" The little one, who knew that he had been discovered, simply pushed open the door, ran in, and crawled into his grandfather's arms hand and foot: "I want to go to the suburbs for a picnic during the sowing festival, but my mother said that it requires your permission!" It's been a long time since we've been out of town, can we hang out this time? ”

The old man gently touched the girl's head: "Okay, of course I agree, but when the time comes, I will send some people to protect you and don't run around, you know?" ”

The little girl immediately nodded her little head with a smile, and she gnawed the old man's side face: "Thank you, grandpa!" ”

Half of the old man's face was covered with the girl's saliva, and he looked at the little girl who ran out with tears and laughter, and his eyes were extremely gentle.

"Even for Gwendoline, I'm going to have to keep trying......"

He picked up the report on his desk again and flipped through it again, this time revealing some uncertain information in it: "Before Nigrania was killed, he wanted to monopolize that strange healing potion of unknown origin, but so popular? Is even my report from an 'unknown source'? ”

Having been in Lancaster for decades, Cowlinf has countless eyeliners in the city, but even so, he has not been able to find out the source of those potions, which is interesting.

"Looks like I might be able to meet that 'Immortal Mane'......"

The old man looked thoughtfully out the window.

At this moment, a ray of sunlight broke through the heavy clouds, bringing a little warmth to the snowy earth.

The frost season is over.

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Chapter 160: The End of the Frost and Mist Season