Chapter 207: Cross-examination
Ever since he became a merchant who traveled all over the world for his family, Joseph knew that he would definitely be robbed one day, but Joseph really didn't expect that he would be hijacked when he was already unlucky and his life was at a low point.
After the gurgling of carriages stopped, Joseph was taken to a very spacious mansion, where he met an extremely young aristocratic youth. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"You...... Who are you and what do you want to do?" Joseph couldn't help but sink when he saw that the other party was not the robber he expected, he knew that if it was a robber, it would be a big deal to destroy the wealth and eliminate the disaster, but when he saw the nobles, I am afraid that things are not so simple.
Just as Joseph thought, when the young nobleman saw him, a hideous smile appeared on his face, and he said to him: "You will know who I am later, now I will ask you to answer, and you will be punished for answering wrong!"
Damn nobles, who are interested in playing what quiz game with you. Joseph scolded in his heart, but he still barely squeezed out a smile on his face and replied: "This lord, I am just an ordinary small trader, and I was kicked out of the caravan today, I really have no qualifications to ask you, are you looking for the wrong person!"
"I can't be wrong, let me ask you, did you come to Silverstone with the caravan today?Did you get into an argument with a goblin when you set up a stall in the square?" Leo tried to keep his attitude as kind and cordial, but unfortunately poor Joseph had already been frightened by a few strong men, and in his heart Leo was the culprit who had a fight with the devil.
"Yes...... Be...... Yes......" When Joseph heard Leo's questioning, he knew that revenge was coming, and he wept and did not dare to admit it.
"Okay, yes, then tell me, why did you deliberately make things difficult for that goblin? I think as a businessman, you must understand the truth of making money in anger, so what is the reason for making things difficult for a goblin?"
"This ......" Hearing Leo's question, Joseph hesitated with some embarrassment. If you confess those nobles, you will definitely be retaliated against afterwards, but if you refuse to admit it, I am afraid that you will be unlucky now, and Joseph is in a dilemma.
Seeing Joseph's hesitation, Leo did not threaten him, but relaxed himself and leaned against the back of the chair, his fingers tapping rhythmically on the armrest, and the sound of knocking made Joseph even more nervous.
"Master, what I said, can you let me go? I promise to leave Silverstone City immediately with my things, and never come back!" Joseph finally made up his mind, the hero will not suffer the immediate loss, and deal with the noble young man in front of him first, as for those nobles who want to take revenge on him, they must be able to find him.
"Don't worry, as long as you say it, you can go wherever you want, and I will also give you a travel fee to let you fly away. Leo closed his eyes slightly, motioning for Joseph to speak.
"Yes...... It was a few nobles from the imperial capital who asked me to do that, and they asked me to make things difficult for that goblin, deliberately provoking that goblin, while they hid in their tents to watch the excitement, and then the goblin bought the mirror, and when I was kicked out of the caravan by the caravan owner, they didn't care whether I lived or died. Joseph gritted his teeth and told the truth.
"Who are they?" Leo opened his eyes suddenly, leaned forward from his chair suddenly, and showed great interest in the few nobles whom Joseph had confessed.
"I don't know their identities either, only that they have followed the caravan all the way to Silverstone City since the imperial capital, and their identities are probably only known to the owner of the caravan. Joseph told everything he knew.
"The nobles from the imperial capital have deliberately made it difficult for you to make things difficult for the goblins, which is interesting, what a wonderful thing you have done, and you will be rewarded for going down!" Leo laughed very happily when he heard this, and waved his hand to Joseph's side, and a servant came over and brought Joseph down, and gave him ten gold coins as a reward.
Joseph walked out of the side door of the mansion with ten gold coins in his hand, as if in a dream, and he was a little confused by the events of the day. The nobleman he served caused himself to be kicked out of the caravan, and the nobleman who hijacked him rewarded himself with a large sum of money by asking a few random questions, and I really don't know whether there is a good guy and a bad guy on the other side.
When Joseph walked around the outer wall of the mansion to the main entrance of the mansion, he was stunned by the three big characters of the city lord's mansion on it. He didn't expect that he would actually meet with the city lord of Silverstone City and even say a few words, Silverstone City ...... Isn't the lord of Silverstone City the Marquis of Leo who quelled the Southern Rebellion, no wonder he is so young!
Frightened, frightened and happy, Joseph did not know how he had returned to the inn or what he had to do, and his mind was occupied by the Marquis of Leo and the ten gold coins he had given him.
"It turned out to be the Marquis of Leo, who was admired and envied by everyone in the empire, and he actually asked himself what he said? He even rewarded himself with ten gold coins. Joseph took out the ten gold coins from his bosom, put them in front of his eyes, and looked at them again and again, and at last he decided to keep them as heirlooms, and to say to his children when he was old that this was the reward of the Marquis of Leo, and that your father had spoken to the Marquis of Leo.
Swinging the little merchant away, Leo sat alone in the courtyard, thinking about what to do next. Those nobles from the imperial capital, if they were not miscalculated, should have been sent by Gavin XIII. They deliberately sent people to provoke Caraxiu in front of the bustling vendors, apparently trying to make Caraxiu do something in anger to attack humans, so that they would have a reason to oppose the goblin annexation, but how could Caraxiu's clever ghost be bluffed by such a little trick.
As soon as Leo thought that those nobles couldn't calculate Caraxiu, but were recognized by Caraxiu, he had a sense of intellectual superiority in his heart, and it seemed that these guys were not very smart. Thinking of this, Leo sent someone to call Caraxiu over, whispered a few words in Caraxiu's ear, and let Caraxiu go.
Caraxiu learned from Leo that the person who wanted to calculate himself behind his back was in the caravan, and his big eyes kept spinning, but he still retreated according to Leo's arrangement, and it was time for his goblin army to appear.