Stannis decided to say something to close the distance between the two, he will look at the sky for a while, and look at the girl for a while, he really doesn't have the talent to pick up girls.

"Uh...... That, uh...... Do you have a boyfriend now?"

He still said what he wanted to say without concealment.

Lucia's face flushed, the question seemed a little too straightforward to the daughter of such an orthodox educated legionnaire.

"Boyfriend...... Do you mean a lover?"

Stannis hurriedly grinned and nodded, he felt that his way of going straight to the point was the golden rule of picking up girls, and he could write a book of "Chen's Sister Cheats" in the future to circulate in history.

"Lover, I don't have ...... right now"

Stannis was overjoyed, he had already begun to fantasize about taking the attackable girl in front of him into his arms.

"But my husband has just died in battle, and I haven't thought about it yet......"

Ha!!?

Stennis never expected this to be the case.

At this time, the little girl in Lucia's arms began to make a fuss.

"Mom, I want to eat honey!"

Mom!?

Stannis, who has been hit hard one after another, has begun to doubt himself, Lucia looks about the same age as herself, how can she have children, and she is still so old!

Lucia apparently didn't see that the young man's heart inside Stannis was broken, but coaxed her daughter.

"I'm sorry, Stan, for making you laugh. My husband and father died together in this black forest, and I can only live alone with her now, without thinking about what you just said. ”

Stannis silently turned away, although Lucia could be said to be a beautiful young woman even if she had a daughter, and her motherhood made her even more attractive.

But Stannis still gave up on her, not because he didn't want to be a pick-up man, but because he knew that she was widowed, she needed more someone who could take care of her and truly love her. And he who just wanted to find a lover was obviously not suitable, so he had to turn around and leave.

Frustrated, Stennis began to wander around the territory again, walking along the Konby River until he realized that the river was endless.

Like all those who have suffered a blow in their love career, Stannis can only devote himself to his new and devoted career, that is, to continue the main quest, how to climb to the dukedom.

Now, because he has formed an alliance with the three families to the west, he can no longer do the business of digging corners, which has led to a significant reduction in the number of peasants in his territory, and he has to find a new way to increase the population. To the north is the territory of the Wolf family, so you don't have to think about it, it's not fun to annoy the wolves. As for the Hoth family in the south, Stannis has never had much to do with them, these white horses are on the verge of civil war, and Stannis is ready to wait for them to fight hard before intervening forcefully to see if there is any oil and water to fish.

Population growth is now stagnant, and Stannis has to focus on other things, such as why has there never been a boat on the river that has been calm in front of him?

Stannis looked at the calm and spacious river and fell into deep contemplation.

Until the staff he had gathered had already appeared in the war hall, he still sat on the main seat in a state of thought.

"Boss, don't you boil up any more styling, what are you calling us over!" said Robert, who had been flirting with the pretty ladies in the tavern, and who had drunk half of Korodov's stock.

Returning from his thoughts, Stannis was the first to ask, "Who of you knows why there isn't even a boat on the river?"

Everyone looked at each other, they had never thought about it.

When memory is no longer valid, recorded history begins to show its usefulness.

Proud of his ambition, he slowly walked out of the crowd, he flipped through the long-lived brown book, and said calmly: "Your Excellency, according to the above records, your family once had a port, but it was washed away by a once-in-a-century flood in thirty years, and it was not rebuilt since, causing the boats on the river to lose their place of call. ”

It turned out that this impoverished family still had a port as a money-making weapon, and Stennis had to look at it twice.

"However, my port is ruined because there are no ships docked at most, but this river I remember can connect to the southern twin seas, how can there not be a single boat?"

Maester Romon had no choice but to spread his hands, and he was not clear about matters other than history.

Robert was the first to react and shouted, "I know, I know!" I heard that there was a gang of bandits entrenched in the territory of the House of Hoth, and they built a dam to block the river, and laid many reefs at the bottom of the river, and when the unfortunate ship ran aground, the bandits jumped on the boat and killed all the merchant crews and plundered the goods, and over time, no one left here. ”

Stannis felt very annoyed, these blind bandits! Where to go to kill people and sell goods, it is not good, and they have come to a place that is closely related to their own interests! Isn't this tantamount to cutting off his financial route! Originally, he wanted to rebuild the port and attract ships to dock, but now there are no ships, what a ghost!

"Don't the people of the Hoth family care!" Stannis shouted, how could the lord acquiesce to the presence of robbers in his own territory?

Korodov spoke at this time, he seemed to be very angry about this kind of thing, "The Hoss family is now in civil strife, and these dishonorable heirs don't care about the lives of the people at all, they would rather use the army to guard each other than send an army to fight against each other. ”

It seems that these feudal lords really did not disappoint, they are still the same greedy and short-sighted.

Then you have to rely on yourself.

"Then it doesn't matter if I help the Hoth family crusade against those bandits!"

After Stannis said this, everyone looked at him with incredulous eyes.

"Boss, you won't be full again and have nothing to do, and you'll only be stable for a few days, and you're going out to war with people again, can't you live a few days of leisure at home in peace?" Robert said this, in fact, deep down he didn't want to see this guy running around again, always putting Stannis's body in danger.

But Stannis didn't care what they thought at all, because now land transportation alone could no longer satisfy his appetite, if he could open up waterways, the cargo throughput in his territory would be at least doubled, and at that time, he just didn't want to engage in industry, and someone would take the initiative to help him build an industrial zone.