"Hmm... I'll borrow it, here's an urgent letter from Hollier, and you'd better read it, Lord Duke. ”

"Huh?"

There was an uproar all around, and no one could intervene in this situation, and whoever spoiled Senna's good deeds now would bear his wrath - but when the nobles saw the arrival, they were collectively stunned...

Because it was Roddy who interrupted Senna.

Sally was not relieved by this kind of rescue, on the contrary, she was very worried about Roddy taking the initiative to jump out to "attract firepower" - but Roddy didn't seem to care about this at all, he ignored the nobles around him, and went straight to Sally and handed over a piece of parchment: "It was Knight Titus who just brought it, saying it was an emergency." ”

In fact, these are a few sentences written by Roddy on the spot in combination with everything reported by Nata.

"Got it. ”

Sally glanced down, her brow furrowed slightly, and her expression became a little solemn—and the Viscount Senna next to him had lost his previous smile on his face, because he knew that he would obviously not gain anything from this persecution.

"I'm sorry, but I still have some things to attend to. ”

Sally's reason this time made Senna unable to mess around anymore, so he took a step back and smiled: "Lord Duke has a lot of opportunities, and he has to deal with these things when he is rarely relaxing and relaxing... He is a role model for us. ”

Seeing Senna's posture, the surrounding nobles also understood his intentions. Then no one mentioned Sally to lead the dance, and people naturally began to look for dance partners and start dancing, and the atmosphere of the banquet gradually calmed down from solemnity as the dance music sounded.

Sally took the opportunity to take the letter and walked to the side to read it, but Roddy, who was about to leave, was unexpectedly stopped by Senna:

"This is Baron Roddy, who is famous in the kingdom of Karen, isn't it? ”

Senna stepped up to Roddy, who was slightly taller than Roddy, and his eyes were level as he spoke, and his focus was not on Roddy at all.

"Oh. ”

Roddy nodded, "Viscount Senna is so famous that it's an honor to know my name." ”

"I've always heard that you have a close relationship with Duke Sally, but now it seems that it is not a lie?"

Senna's voice had lost its previous politeness, and was now more like a question.

Roddy froze, and his eyes casually looked around—the eyes around him were basically gloating, and in their eyes, the unknown baron and the famous Senna were probably very different...

"I don't know, it's up to Duke Sally to mean it. ”

"Heh... He doesn't want to admit defeat, but who doesn't know this in the kingdom? Do you think that guarding a ruin really means that you are really a nobleman?"

For Roddy, Senna sarcastically did not have any psychological pressure. The other party has no backstage, no alliance, and the only thing to worry about is that Sally is about to fall into a situation from which she will never recover.

"The meaning of nobility... Is it only the size of the territory under your hands?"

Roddy asked unhurriedly.

"Oh, I know what you're going to say, you might as well keep the empty words of 'for the people' and 'for the kingdom' to coax women. ”

Senna shook his head, and suddenly felt that he was really not interesting to talk like this - after all, stepping on ants is such a thing, and others won't think they are powerful when they see it, right?

So he didn't wait for Roddy to say anything more, chuckled, turned his head and walked away surrounded by a crowd of people.

Roddy, who was directly ignored, pouted, as if nothing had happened, and went back to the corner by himself. While others were talking to each other about dancing, he began to feast on a portion of food...

"Hey, Catherine, look at that turtle... I'm guessing he hasn't had any good food in the territory. ”

"Why, you're so willing to pay attention to him, you'd better ask him to dance." ”

"Come on, I don't want to be laughed at, hehehe-"

The laughing girlfriends went to invite others to dance, while Catherine, who had just finished a dance, was ready to take a break. She glanced at the "turtle", and at the same time she felt a little funny with disdain in her heart: how did such a guy who was incompatible with the aristocratic circle become a baron of the kingdom?

Compared to the "hue", he can't compare to those little fresh meat, and he can't talk about it more than power, I really can't figure it out...

Immediately, she was a little angry: such a "garbage" that everyone avoided, and he despised himself just now, which is really hateful!

The banquet proceeded slowly to the sound of music, and after an hour, the number of people on the dance floor gradually decreased, and before long, a group of servants slowly pushed a huge sand table over, and the appearance of the Cohen Mountains was drawn to scale on the wooden platform that was more than six meters long and wide, and the marks of nearly twenty mines were marked on it, and they were displayed in front of everyone under the headlights driven by six magic crystals.

The "Fuser Silver Mine Auction", planned by the thirteen Lords of Ivotah, kicked off in such a flamboyant but hurried manner.

Baron Panini was the first to explain the contents of the auction and then went straight to the point, showing more than fifty pieces of "rare Thorsilver" to the nobles present - of course, this act was more about showing off.

Viscount Senna did not participate in the auction, he found a good vantage point and sat down, squinting slightly at Sally in the distance, with an unpredictable smile on the corner of his mouth.

There were always aristocratic girls around to talk to him, and he would talk politely, but anyone with a discerning eye could tell that the viscount was obviously more interested in the lord of Evta...

"What, you're going to look at it like that?"

Roddy was looking down to taste the caviar of the Mer River, when he looked up and saw that it was the bewitching Miss Catherine who was speaking.

"I didn't need to be involved in the auction in the first place, so I had to watch. ”

He coped with it and continued to eat.

Catherine didn't want to pay attention to Roddy, but seeing his calm appearance, she was always a little uncontrollable, so she had the urge to stab two sentences: "Tsk, seeing the princess in distress, shouldn't the knight come forward?

With that said, the first round of auctions over there has begun. It is clear that these united nobles have no intention of giving Sally any time to react...

"The first batch of ten silver mines, starting at 50,000 gold coins - can be offset by the title deed of the territory or other items, the mining time..."

The butler's face read out the rules of the auction, and Sally, who was alone, looked pale and her eyes twinkled in the midst of the aristocrats.

"Sixty-five thousand gold coins!"

"Seventy-two thousand!"

"Baron has acquired the ownership of the first silver mine, and I hope you can dig up more wealth here..."

"The second one..."

With the exclamations of the surrounding nobles, the price of the silver mine was not very high, and those with a little brain knew that this was actually a buyer who had been planned for a long time, and the Duke of Sally, who had been calculated the most, was already trembling with anger, and his face was blue and white for a while...

"She's only eighteen years old, these guys are really, what's the point of bullying a little girl. ”

Catherine shook her wine glass lightly and continued to irritate Roddy—she just wanted to see how this calm-looking guy could hold on.

To her surprise, Roddy didn't react the whole time, put down the caviar, and began to taste a bottle of freshly opened fruit wine, looking at the auction room with an unusually calm gaze.

Even... Interesting.

Not far away, Sally's bid for the first Fusse silver mine was lost due to Viscount Anru's extremely high bid, and the Duke's defeat caused a wave of boos around her—of course, the so-called "boos" were actually similar to cheers, as if everyone wanted to see her embarrassed in front of everyone.

"Panini, they have planned these a long time ago, and now no matter how high the offer is, they will be the ones who will profit in the end, this duke is still too young..."

"As a lord, it is really self-defeating to be able to come to such a lonely situation today. ”

Now, not only Catherine, but also the nobles who were whispering around them began to become undisguised, and their voices were so loud as if they were deliberately heard by Roddy - the Viscount of Senna, who was not far away, graciously asked Sally if she needed financial help, but Sally refused with a cold face and waved her hand.

"Tsk, I think if she is wise, it is not a bad thing to marry Viscount Senna directly, at least the title of the lord of the territory can be kept, and at the same time, the power can be stabilized..."

Catherine seemed to be in love with Roddy, shaking her fan and asking, "Do you think she is stupid, what did she do with such a thankless thing by throwing so much money and manpower into the border every day?"

"Well, you're right. Miss Catherine. ”

As if he was finally in the mood to speak, Roddy picked up a cherry and stuffed it into his mouth, and said softly, "It's true that no one wants to do thankless things." But... What if something happens that you can't imagine?"

"I'm tired of hearing jokes and alarmist things from bards, and it's okay to fool the peasants with your arguments... Hehehehehe. ”

Catherine's ridicule was undisguised, and her best friends who had been quietly following her side also laughed, but they couldn't stop laughing because Roddy was still eating cherries and looking into their eyes... There was a clear sense of pity.

"Congratulations to Duke Sally, although no silver has been found in this silver mine, it still has the highest ore yield among these pits..."

The nobles in the distance applauded sparsely, but in the end only two of the twenty or so pits were the least outstanding ordinary silver mines, which could only be regarded as a "disgrace" for a duke.

In other words, the plan of Viscount Anru and the others was very successful - and the results were even better than they had expected.

Sally had an undisguised shame and anger on her face, a gloomy expression that suppressed everything, and she looked as if she was about to explode at any moment, and after all the mines had announced that the auction was over, the duke got up and left, as if fleeing, leaving the venue under the teasing gaze of Panini and the others.

"Now what else do you have to say?"

Catherine sneered and dropped this sentence, but she didn't expect that Roddy just lowered his head and continued to pull a piece of steak that had been cold, and replied softly: "I? I just want to say... Everyone has to pay for their choices. ”

He smiled, and then got up and left the room, as if he had followed the duke.

"At this time, it's still pretending, cut!"

Catherine pouted and left, returned to the circle of her best friends as a "winner", and continued to talk about those unnutritious gossip...

The nobles in the banquet didn't seem to care about the departure of the supreme lord at all, on the contrary, their carnival had just begun.

[Thank you for the monthly pass: an egret across the river, a lone under the moon, and a favorite uncle.] Remembering that the Sword Emperor Ryan Haken also voted for several the day before yesterday, he hurriedly added]

[Thank you: nihao123]