In late spring, the sky darkened early, but there were still long queues waiting to enter the town outside Baishan Town.

By the standards of the Duchy of Watson, a permanent population of more than 10,000 is already qualified to be called a city, and as early as a few years ago, Baishan Town had the qualifications to be upgraded to a city, but because the previous generation of Viscount Niclair liked to travel and was often not in the territory, the matter of upgrading was slowly put on hold, and after Sanders took power two years ago, in order to facilitate the tax revenue of the Ink Territory to seize the power of the territory, he wanted the entire viscount to disappear from the public eye, and naturally he would not take the initiative to apply, but in fact, The town of White Cedar, which has flourished because of the Nicleral winery, is no less numerous and populous than most of the cities in the province of Duis.

Today, however, a small checkpoint has been set up outside the gate of Baishan Town, and more than a dozen private soldiers of the Niclair family are checking the merchants who want to enter the town one by one in front of the checkpoint.

The convoy of the Kallan Chamber of Commerce was naturally blocked in front of the city gate of Baishan Town, and Kale, who was riding a horse to lead the way in front of the convoy, frowned, called a caravan guard beside him, and whispered a few words in his ear, the guard nodded, and briskly blended into the large group of chariots and horses in front of the city gate.

Before he could make a cup of tea, the guard returned to Kalai's horse and whispered, "Lord Vice, the group of private troops of the Niclair family said that in order to catch a bandit who tried to infiltrate the town of Baishan and destroy, it was necessary to search every caravan that entered the town. ”

Nodding, Kalai waved his hand lightly, and the guard bowed and quietly retreated into the caravan.

Riding briskly to the ordinary carriage at the back of the convoy, Carlisle whispered, "Miss, it is the private army of the Niclell family who said that they want to arrest the bandits, and they are setting up a card outside the city gate to search the carriages of the caravans." ”

"That minion Sanders is not small." For the first time, the light voice contained a hint of anger: "Kale, you should know how to do it. ”

Kalai bowed respectfully and returned to the front of the caravan, with the prestige of the Kallan family, if the carriage was searched by the private army of these small families here, it would be a big joke, and the nobles who were on the same level as the Kallan family would laugh at them for at least a hundred years.

In the face of this kind of matter related to the prestige of the family, there is no way to back down, looking at the private army of the Niclair family that is gradually entering, Carlisle already has a plan in his heart.

At this time, Luo Yun, who was in a carriage in front of the convoy, looked at the family private soldiers in black leather armor, his eyes gradually turned cold, Sanders This guy is really arrogant, in order to prevent himself from escaping back to Baishan Town, he also specially arranged for his subordinates to guard outside the city gate.

Looking at the blowing snow that had already sat up and stared at him, Luo Yun smiled: "Are you afraid of killing people?" ”

Fuxue was slightly stunned, then clenched his fists seriously, and said in a low voice: "No one is born with a thirst for killing, but as long as it is the order of the Admiral, I will kill you no matter who it is." ”

Touching Blowing Snow's head with some relief, looking at her somewhat flushed face, Luo Yun secretly swore in his heart that he would work hard to become stronger no matter what, just so that one day he would no longer let their hands be stained with blood, but now he still needs to rely on their strength.

Looking at those clear eyes, Luo Yun said softly: "Those wearing black leather armor outside the city gate are Sanders's subordinates, and now they are searching my traces, if they find out, I can only ask you to kill them." ”

"Sanders? Is that the one who wants to hurt the Admiral, these people will be handed over to me! With a slight shake of his hands, two 127mm combined guns had appeared on Blowing Snow's wrists, and the muzzles of the guns were about to open fire at the gestures of the private soldiers, so frightened that Luo Yun hurriedly grabbed Blowing Snow's arms.

"It's better to wait for them to find out before you do it, besides, there are still a lot of merchants who come and go outside the city gate, and it is easy to injure innocents with the main gun, and it is enough to use machine guns to deal with them." Luo Yao wiped the cold sweat on her forehead, and couldn't help but show a wry smile on her face.

The city gate was crowded with carriages and horses, and a cannon went down, not to mention how much chaos those frightened horses could cause, and this 127 mm main gun, although it was only one of the few naval guns with the lowest power, was enough to kill these weak or even just ordinary traders.

Just like the huge Kallan Chamber of Commerce standing behind Kale, a considerable number of these businessmen have a good background behind them, and if they are killed at will, they will cause a lot of trouble.

What's more, taking a destroyer like Blowing Snow as an example, one hit of the main gun will consume 1 point of ammunition, and the ammunition in the town guard is only enough to blow Snow and fire more than 50 cannons. And the 12.7mm machine gun equipped by Blowing Snow only consumes 1 point of ammunition when the whole magazine is empty, and sixty rounds of ammunition are empty, which is really economical and fast and economical in comparison, as for the strongest weapon of Blowing Snow, the 61cm triple torpedo or the consumption of 10 points of ammunition per 61cm triple missile, makes Luo Yun believe that unless it is a matter of life and death, he will never use this kind of cheating thing.

Nodding obediently, the two main guns of Blowing Snow shook his wrists and turned into a heavy machine gun, and Luo Yun's eyelids twitched slightly. Although the machine gun's gun carriage has been removed, such a heavy machine gun is still visually striking when it is held in the arms of the petite Fukiyuki.

"After all, the body of the blowing snow is a thousand-ton destroyer, and although the power of turning into a human form has been weakened a lot now, there is no problem at all with that gadget." Just as Luo Yun was amazed, Liyue's voice sounded in his head.

Luo Yun couldn't help grinning, this is indeed the case, for most adults and even ordinary soldiers, this 12.7 mm caliber heavy machine gun is not a small burden in terms of weight or recoil, and when shooting, it must be assisted by a machine gun mount to control the shaking of the muzzle and ensure the hit rate, but for Blowing Snow, this caliber weapon is probably similar to a straw toothpick or something.

Seeing Luo Yun looking at him strangely, Blowing Xue on the side couldn't help but ask with some doubts, "What's the matter, Admiral?" ”

"Nothing, nothing." Luo Yun hurriedly shook his head and looked out of the carriage window, a fat giant man with a waist circumference more than three times that of ordinary people was like a galloping wild boar, leading three family private armies in black leather armor to rush towards this side, the leading fat man Luo Yun was quite impressed, Rem, the commercial director in charge of the family business, was also one of Sanders's hardcore lackeys.

Blowing Snow was about to sweep a shuttle before talking with a machine gun, Luo Yun hurriedly stopped her with his hands and feet, because he was sitting opposite Luo Yun, Blowing Snow did not notice that when Narem came over, the leader of the Kallan caravan, Kale, had already met her.

As soon as he saw Kalai, Rem's domineering fat face immediately became bitter, and the two were old acquaintances, and he knew Kalai's background very well, but it was because of this understanding that Rem knew how difficult this old guy was to deal with.

Calle Doros, the vice president of the Kalland Chamber of Commerce, and his boss, the president of the Kalland Chamber of Commerce, Romman Kallan, is the contemporary head of the Kalland family in the Duchy of Watson, and is also a highly decorated earl, and the Kalland family is one of the top nobles in the entire Duis Province, compared to the Niclair family, which is more like a wine merchant than the nobles, the Kalland family is prosperous, and several family members of the clan are high-ranking officials in the principality, and there are a large number of mines in the Earldom of Kalland, The Kallan family has obtained a huge fortune by reselling ores, regardless of the wealth and military strength, there is an insurmountable gap between the Nikelel family and the Kallan family, which also causes Rem to appear naturally shorter in front of Kalai, plus he has also received a lot of benefits from Calle, and now he wants to search other people's carriages, which is really difficult to speak.

Rem barely squeezed out a smile on his thick white face, and bowed slightly to Kalai with some difficulty: "Dear Mr. Kale, Rem salutes you, we haven't seen each other for almost a year since you last came to Baishan Town to purchase. ”

Although he knew that the other party was here to find trouble, but Rem was so polite, and Kalai was not good at tearing his face like this, a dry smile appeared on a thin old face, and Kalai smiled gently: "Your Excellency Rem, you are so polite, we are old friends, we don't need this, we don't need this, I miss the scenery of Baishan Town this year, this is really a good place." ”

Rem's eyes lit up, and his big white fat face showed a touch of melancholy: "Thank you for the compliment, but Baishan Town is indeed a good place, but it's a pity that there are many mountains and forests here that are always easy to breed bandits, you know, they are very cunning and extremely destructive, a few days ago there was news that a group of bandits wanted to sneak into Baishan Town to take the opportunity to loot, Saunders Knight ordered us to do a good job of guarding the city gates, you know, those bandits are always so cunning, they will pretend to be guards, Workers or hitchhikers have blended into the caravan and attempted to enter the town of White Firs, so will you, Dear Mr. Calle, have our men inspect the wagon, and I can assure you that my boys will not mess with your goods with their hands and feet, and as compensation, you will receive a 9.9% discount on your Nicleral wine. ”

Sighing lightly, Kale spread his hands with some regret and said, "Your Excellency Rem, I always thought we were friends. ”

Wiping the sweat from his head, Rem smiled bitterly, "Dear Lord Calle, of course we are friends. ”

"So, is searching your friend's carriage your way of treating your friend, the reputation of the Kallan family will not allow me to have such a friend, if you must do it, then get the Knight of Sanders and let him come and talk to me." Kale's face was slightly cold, and he shouted in a low voice.

"Because of some minor accidents, the Sanders Knight is not in White Cedar Town at the moment." The bitterness on his face was even worse, and Rem gritted his teeth and said, "If you can be considerate of poor Rem, then you can get an extra hundred bottles of Nicleral when you buy Nicleral red wine." ”

Before leaving, Sanders had instructed that if he encountered a tricky person with a deep background like Carlis, he might as well give up some benefits, after all, the identity of the "bandit" they were chasing this time was too sensitive, and if he returned to White Fir Town with a caravan, he was afraid that they would be in big trouble.

This time, it was Kale's turn to be a little surprised, who were the bandits they were hunting, and it was worth these people to come up with so many benefits, you must know that a hundred bottles of Niclair red wine can be resold to the royal capital casually and earn nearly a thousand gold coins, which is really a lot of wealth at a time when four or five gold coins can make a family of three live a comfortable life for a month.

It's a pity that if it was in normal times, I'm afraid that Carlisle would have agreed, after all, the prestige of the family is there, and it is expected that the private army of these small families will not dare to go too far, but now there is a noble lady present in the caravan, once this matter spreads, it is likely to be interpreted by someone to interpret it as the core member of the Karlan family bowed his head in front of the Niclair family, which will become a stain that will be difficult to erase in the life of this noble lady.

With a hint of apology on his thin face, Kale said in a low voice: "I'm sorry Rem, I would be happy to help if I could cooperate with your search, but now the earl's youngest daughter, the pearl of the Kalland family, Miss Edith Kallan, is in the caravan, for the sake of the family and the reputation of this noble lady, I can't agree to this matter anyway, but you can rest assured that the family's caravan does not accept any unknown people, and if the caravan finds a suspicious person, it will also notify you as soon as possible." As he spoke, the faces of Luo Yun and Fuxue flashed in Kale's mind, but these two children should not be the bandits in Rem's mouth.

"Oh my God, Miss Edith." Rem's fat face showed a look of shock, this Miss Edith's reputation even he had heard before, at the age of fourteen, when the other noble ladies were learning etiquette, flower arrangement, and music at this age, this young lady had already been the business representative of the Karlan family in charge of the family's investment of tens of millions of gold coins, and now at the age of seventeen, she had made the family's business all over the central province of Duis, and in the Duchy of Watson she had the reputation of the flower of the principality, and even some gossip said that the Grand Duke of Watson was also extremely favored by her.

Thinking that such a noble young lady was present, how could Kalai let them search the carriage, and with the strength of the Kallan family, where could they have strong courage.

Rem smiled bitterly and said, "In that case, forget it, I don't think I would harbor such bandits in the name of the Kallan family, but if you find some thirteen or fourteen-year-olds, well, who may look like fourteen or fifteen years old, with three or five or one or two adults, please inform poor Rem." ”

The different color in his eyes flashed, and Kalai quietly handed over a small red card and smiled: "Certainly, you and the brave warriors of the Niclair family have worked so hard to protect the peace of Baishan Town, this is our little heart." ”

This kind of red card is a golden ticket jointly guaranteed by hundreds of banks on the mainland, and each one can be exchanged for a hundred gold coins in any bank's store, which is really a lot of heart for Rem and this group of family private troops.

The smile on his face suddenly became extremely earnest, and Rem bowed slightly and smiled: "Your generosity can be compared to that of a god, thank you for forgiving Rem for your offense, I will definitely inform Your Excellency Sanders to visit Miss Edith tomorrow morning." ”

Just at this time, the caravan in front had been searched and entered the town of Baishan, and Rem shouted at the group of private soldiers who were crowded in front of the city gate: "You damn fools, don't you see that the gentlemen of the Kallan family have been waiting for so long, why don't you move the barricades for me?" ”

Kale smiled and bowed to Rem, turned and stepped onto his mount, and waved his hand lightly, and the whole convoy rumbled forward again, and when Luoyun's carriage passed the city gate, Rem waved goodbye to Kale.

When the convoy arrived at the Callan family's station in Baishan Town, Luo Yun also took the blowing snow to thank Kalai solemnly and said goodbye to the Carlais caravan, and followed the route of Duran's memory through the streets, the two avoided a group of family privates patrolling the streets, and soon the two reached their destination, the Niclair Manor.