Chapter 478 - Bili Family
After two days at home, living a refreshed life day and night, Locke's little life should not be too happy.
It's just that Rafi is suffering, she is still a mid-level squire so far, how can she withstand the endless impact of Locke, a humanoid beast, at night.
Two days later, riding in a horse-drawn carriage, Rock headed to a medium-sized store in Princeton's East Suburbs.
This is a shop open to knights and magicians, and the store has a wide variety of goods, including armor, potions, and a variety of magical plants and ores.
In addition to the four or five diligent clerks in the store, there was also an old man with nearly half gray hair sitting in front of the counter at the back of the store.
The old man, wearing single-rimmed lenses with gold trim, was holding tweezers to observe a gray-black stone in front of him, and did not notice Locke who walked into the store.
"My lord, do you need anything?" said the handsome young clerk as she approached and asked earnestly.
She didn't feel any powerful aura on Locke's body, but judging from Locke's clothes and the luxurious carriage outside the door, he was definitely not an ordinary person.
In fact, this shop is not only open to magicians and knights, but also some nobles with deep pockets who come here to see what new things are going on.
The clerk mistook Locke for a young kid from some aristocratic family.
The female clerk didn't feel the powerful aura on Locke's body, first, this female clerk didn't have much strength in her own right, she had only learned to be superficial and wandering in the entry-level attendant stage, and secondly, thanks to Locke's promotion to the first level for a long time, he could now partially control the energy fluctuations he leaked.
"I'm looking for your store manager. Locke said straight to the point.
The sign of the shop outside the door was clearly engraved with the crest of the Bili family, and Locke was sure that he had come to the wrong place.
The female clerk first looked puzzled, seeing that Locke was indeed acting extraordinary, and finally turned back to call the white-haired old man who was studying a certain ore.
"Hello, do you need any help?" After a while, the white-haired old man walked out and asked Locke politely.
He is not as unseen as a female clerk, he is far away, this old man can feel the extraordinary aura of this person in front of him, whether he is a member of a noble family with a high position, or a powerful knight or magician, the old man guessed in his heart.
"Hehe, Wall, don't you know me?" Locke smiled at the old man in front of him.
"You are ......" Old man Wall lifted the single-rimmed glasses on his right eye, glanced at Locke carefully, made a memory, and then said with an incredulous expression, "You are... You're Lord Locke?"
More than ten years ago, when Locke was studying at the Imperial Royal Academy, he had visited the shop owned by the Bili family with Joaquin, Angelina and others.
This is the number one big store that the Bili family can rank among the many industries in Princeton, and it can earn the Bili family 200,000 to 300,000 gold moores every year.
Converted into energy crystals, there are also close to forty high-grade energy crystals, which can not be described as a big cash cow.
In addition to being the manager of the store, he is also an appraiser, who is used to identify some rare items that are usually difficult to see.
Locke came with Bi Li, who was the most favored little princess in their family, and it was reasonable for Wall to remember Locke's appearance.
Thinking that he recognized Locke, Wall still couldn't believe that the young man in front of him was Locke, you know, more than ten years have passed since the last time Locke and Bili came to this store, is it possible that more than ten years have passed, Locke's appearance has not changed a little.
Wall was a middle-aged man in his early thirties more than a dozen years ago, and today, more than a decade later, he is an old man with half a foot in the ground.
"I'm looking for Bili, can you reach her now?" Locke asked.
It's also funny, once the homes of several female companions of the team, Locke, the mansion of the Joagin family and the Dani family, all knew where they were, and even the two families went to visit, and the only Bili family did not visit.
So much so that Locke needed to come here first and ask for directions.
"You're looking for Miss? Miss comes back every three days to inspect the store, and she'll be here this afternoon. Or shall I give you the address of the young lady's house?" said Old Man Wall respectfully, replacing 'you' with 'you' in his words.
If he can't see Locke's extraordinaryness at this time, he can die, the more people live and get better, and Locke's appearance has not changed much after more than ten years, which is a hint in itself!
"Okay, I'll go straight to her house and find her. Locke said that it was not long before the sun had sunset in the morning, and it would be a waste of half a day to make him wait until the afternoon.
After obtaining the address of Billy's house from Old Man Wall, Locke drove in a horse-drawn carriage to the heart of Princeton.
In the carriage, Locke was puzzled by the word 'Miss' that Old Man Wall had just revealed, that among the nobility, only women who had not left the court would be called Miss, and after a woman got married, she would change her title to Lady.
(Why does Raffi still call Grace 'Miss', because in addition to the master and servant, they also have a trace of sisterhood, and Grace cannot be considered married, she and Locke did not have a wedding, and at present, Locke's real wife is only Angelina, and the others are counted as his women.) )
This is where Locke wonders, after so many years, everyone is not a young man or woman who was eighteen or nineteen years old, even if Bili is younger than Locke, how can she be thirty-one or twelve this year.
At this age, he is not married, which is very rare among the nobles, and the pressure from the family alone is probably not small.
With a little doubt, Locke came to the door of Bili's house.
It was a secluded and luxurious medium-sized mansion, and the one that Biloc had placed on the Shanscher Street was more than twice as luxurious.
And finding such a villa in the downtown area near the heart of Princeton also shows the good identity of his family.
Before there was a knock, the door of the luxurious mansion opened on its own, and a group of people inside, led by an old man dressed in brown clothes, warmly welcomed Locke's arrival.
"You're Lord Locke, please come in. The old man gave Locke the feeling that he was not young, but his body still revealed a toughness.
How did this group of people know that Locke would come, needless to say, it must be the old man Wall's side, through what means to convey the message, on the premise that the distance is not far, some low-level magic transmission, such a family with considerable strength can afford it.
In addition, there must also be a knight squire or a high-level magic apprentice who is good at perception in this mansion, so that he can be detected as soon as Locke approaches.
Shaking hands with the old man in the costume led by him, Locke noticed that the emerald green figure in the crowd, I haven't seen it for eight years, Bi Li's overall appearance has not changed much, but there are more wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, and she has become more mature.
"Lord Locke, I just got a few silverfish and moon shells some time ago, and I'll take them out for you today. "The old man in the Chinese costume is named Aofu, he is the patriarch of the Bili family, and he is also the grandfather who loves Bili the most, the title of Viscount of the Empire.
"Good, good. Locke said with a reserved nod.
Whitebait and moon shellfish are just good appetizers in Princeton's first-class knights' circles, and many shops in the shopping street of the knight's palace have this delicious food.
But here with Old Man Auver, these two kinds of food are the few things he uses to entertain first-class powerhouses.
Eating was nothing, and Old Man Overf, after learning that Locke would come, and from the description and speculation of his retainer Wall, he knew that it might be a knight of the first rank.
Old man Overall was first astonished, followed by ecstasy.
A first-class knight made a special trip to their family, what does it mean!
Talking about cooperation? Yes, our family can take whatever you want.
Do you have any feelings for my granddaughter Bi Li, I absolutely support the old man.
After so many years of working in the Omore Empire, Old Man Overer deeply knows what a reliable first-level powerhouse means to a viscount family that has grown to the extreme.
It can be said that in the O'Moore Empire, taking the imperial capital of Princeton as an example, in the aristocratic circle of the imperial capital, it is almost impossible for any family above the earl level to successfully stand without the shadow of a first-class knight behind him.
And behind the Marquis family, there must be a powerful second-level earth knight standing!
Further up, the Duke's family is the gate valve that can get along with the members of the imperial family side by side, and it is said that the celestial knights in the empire who have been famous for hundreds of thousands of years have some indescribable relationship with these ducal families.
The old man who was hit in the head by such a big surprise, in the welcome banquet held, frequently toasted Locke, this old man is estimated to be more than seventy years old, and he is considered a long-lived species among the humans in the wizarding world, and he is not afraid to drink himself to death like this.
During the banquet, Locke also vaguely revealed that the purpose of his trip was to discuss cooperation with your family.
This is not uncommon, and it is not uncommon for a first-class knight who has just been promoted to live in Princeton, and it is not uncommon to find a few cooperative families.
Under normal circumstances, first-level knights will choose several well-developed earl families, or viscount families with considerable potential to cooperate.
The Bili family clearly met this selection criterion.
Today, I can't talk about the specific cooperation regulations, because the head of the family, the old man Old, was drunk and was helped back to the backyard by a group of people to rest.
Before getting drunk, Old Man Ofer solemnly promised Locke that tomorrow he would discuss cooperation with Locke with the elders of the family and the principals of each side branch, and sign a contract with effect.