The bright moonlight shone through the veil-thin night mist on Blackwater, and the cold wind of late autumn blew slowly, blowing away the dust and smoke of the hustle and bustle of the town's walls. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

A dozen or so elderly hired men worked from morning to night, and even had to change shifts to eat, and the stingy foreman did not want to pay an extra sum of torch money, so he sent a message to his men to work.

Although they were tired like dead dogs and wanted to sit down and rest, they had to go to the foreman to collect their wages for the day. Workers suffering from night blindness walked in the dark on the construction site, stumbling down the city wall in order to grab the nearest spot, ignoring the building materials under their feet, and somehow wounded themselves.

The wrestling man snorted in pain, but in order to be lucky enough to get the wages he had earned for a day, he struggled to get up, squeezed the little strength he had left, and walked to the foreman as soon as possible.

Nina Wild couldn't help but look back sideways when she heard the continuous scolding and successive flattery drifting in the wind not far behind her, and with the help of the hazy moonlight, she saw the absurd scene being staged at the construction site where the town's fence was upgraded, and immediately retracted her gaze.

She looked up at the "Mage Rez" with the same expression, knowing that he must have heard it too, and wanted to ask in the intention of being tentative.

Who knows, Lu Bin looked ahead, but he knew her actions well, and responded lightly: "It's useless! ”

The Hunting Maiden immediately understands that the master she has chosen, despite her unfathomable strength, also has a good heart that sympathizes with the misfortunes of others.

"If I am able, I will try to reach out and help those in need. ”

Lu Bin glanced at her sideways, and his tone was as cold as frost: "The civilian hired workers behind us occupy the vast majority in Blackwater Town and even the northern border, not to mention that you don't have the ability to take care of them now, even if you have, you have to take into account the wishes of the lords." ”

"For now, put away your cheap sympathy and save yourself from the predicament you are in, and then I will talk to you about how I can help them. ”

Nina Wild's eyes lit up, and then her eyes quickly dimmed, "Your Excellency Rez, my master, you are right, my situation is not very good now, my first goal in life is to revitalize the family, I almost forgot, thank you for the reminder." ”

Lu Bin smiled disappreciatively, but he was thinking in his heart: "This group of low-level civilians, instead of being used by others, it is better to be hired by me, at least I will not treat them so harshly." The civilians who occupy the vast majority are the cornerstone of the territory, the foundation of the pyramid of power in the north, but unfortunately they have been forgotten intentionally or unintentionally. ”

"You have to keep in mind who you are, and you have to do your best to achieve your goals, and not be attracted by the scenery along the way, even if it takes away some of your energy, it is not allowed for me to show up. ”

Nina Wild nodded in agreement, and then remembered something: "Your Excellency, my master, what should I do if there is a great obstacle in my way?"

Lu Bin knew that the "servant" he accepted was really not a tabula rasa that he didn't know anything, so he pretended to be impatient and reprimanded: "If the obstacle is too big to overcome, I advise you to detour as much as possible." If it's just an ordinary stumbling block, I believe that with my strength, it can be easily crushed, what questions do you have?"

Nina Wild immediately closed her mouth, she already wanted to shout proudly, she initially tested the general bottom line of the "master", and at the same time no longer kept the guess of his true identity.

Lu Bin entered a large company through the back door, and in addition to his own strength, he was also familiar with office politics, and he knew well about the spying of the girl in hunting.

"It seems that this rouge horse, which is still wild, still has to be whipped from time to time to be completely tamed. ”

The two of them left the street where the Broken Blade Tavern was located, merged into the hurried crowd, and walked slowly for about a quarter of an hour before arriving at the solemn atmosphere of the town office.

Lu Bin learned from passers-by that there was a road project tender held here tonight, and in line with the idea of leaving with the idea of making a fortune, he brought Nina Wild over to see the world.

He handed over the mount to the guards of the town office who came forward to take care of it, and when he learned that the person who entered the venue had to pay a silver coin as the entrance fee, Lu Bin couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Smart people are everywhere." ”

Nina Wild held back her heartache, took out a shiny silver deler from her money bag, handed it to the clerk of the town hall who was in charge of collecting the money, and then took two red "tickets" from him.

Lu Bin glanced at the admission ticket, the paper was only two fingers wide and four fingers long, and it was painted with an inimitable hexagonal frost pattern, perhaps because it was freshly made, and the ink on it had not yet dried.

He turned his head and instructed the maid, "Put it away carefully, maybe it will be useful in the future." ”

Nina Wild also knew the importance of it, and hid the valuable admission ticket in a hidden bag close to her, and then walked into the hall of the town hall on the first floor that had been converted into a meeting place with "Mage Rez".

Lu Bin was surprised to find that there were many people outside, and he originally thought that the bidding would be very deserted, but he didn't expect those people to sit in the venue early.

Nina Wild looked around and immediately saw that there were two empty seats in the last row, and immediately stretched out her hand to signal to her master.

Lu Bin nodded lightly, walked over and sat down without hesitation, not worried that his position was too far back, and his searching eyes quickly swept over the audience, grasping the general situation for the first time.

"The venue should be renovated from the hall of the town office, with an area of about 100 square meters, surrounded by 16 guards responsible for security, guarding the passages, windows and other key positions that must be passed, worthy of retired veterans who have experienced the battlefield. There are 37 of my competitors, and excluding people like me, the number of bidders is about 20. In this way, the road construction of Heishui Town is very attractive. ”

He reached out and rubbed the beard on his chin, and after two days of not shaving, a neat patch of stubble appeared, his fingers slowly running through it, feeling that his plan to earn his first pot of gold would not go as smoothly as expected.

After all the seats were filled, the host immediately informed the guards to seal the venue, and then walked to the internal bulletin board of the town office, reached out and pulled the silk thread down hard, and the large scroll fell with a bang.

"Gentlemen here, first of all, I am Janine Austin, a relative of the Lord. Some of you know me, some don't, but it has nothing to do with tonight's bidding. ”

"Okay, without further ado, let's start introducing the new construction projects in the territory of Blackwater Town. ”

The person in charge of the adventurer's mission registry stretched out his hand and slapped it on the corner of the map, making a crisp sound, which immediately woke up all the participants who were whispering, and everyone's eyes turned to business, which made Jane Austin very satisfied.

"Now that the marshes to the southwest have been cleared of the lands leading to the noble Earl of Conrad and the Black Forest of Bagen-Uttonburg no longer have to be detoured, the construction of a rutted standard road has been put on the agenda. ”

"I have already explained the general situation, and in order to maintain the principles of fairness, impartiality and openness, the bidding has officially begun. ”

Lu Bin smiled dumbly, he didn't expect this host who had dealt with him to have such a strong personal style, "Maybe it's because of the success of the pioneer just now, these people are the backbone of following the lord to fight the territory, and the vigorous and resolute attitude must be sharpened on the battlefield." In a few years, enjoy a good life, this vigorous vitality will gradually fade, as for now, let's take a look first. ”

Most of the people who entered the venue, except for Lu Bin and Nina Wild, were business spokespersons of powerful aristocrats, or managers hired by wealthy businessmen.

Seeing this scene, Lu Bin immediately remembered the several "auctions" he had experienced in the past, and every time the people in the venue raised a card, they were increasing the price, and soon the amount exceeded the meager savings he had.

The number of people holding signs decreased rapidly, after all, none of the people here were stupid people, and they found that the premium of the project money was exceeded, and there was no profit and they had to post it upside down, so they gave up one after another.

However, there are still people holding up signs, especially the faces who arrive last and sit in the last row -- in the construction industry, they are often old friends and old rivals who know each other well.

"It can't be the official one, right?"

Nina Wilde saw that "Lord Rez" had been raising signs and raising prices from the beginning, and she was already on the verge of suffocating to death in panic, and she didn't know how she could sit still, and how she could get out of the town hall if she couldn't pay enough money to make a deposit.

However, she quickly thought of the unfathomable strength of "Lord Rez", who could easily crush hundreds of wasteland goblins, and might be able to break out, so her face regained a little anger.

Soon, someone noticed that something was wrong. Because the people who bid with the new faces fell one after another, and in the end there was only one left, which was said to be the buyer of the Earl of Conrad.

Maybe there is an unknown insider story in it, this is the consensus of most of the people present, but unfortunately although they all know it, they dare not participate in it.

The bidding between the two sides quickly entered the crazy stage of hand-to-hand combat, but the host's face did not smile because of the high cost.

"Strangely, Derek, the buyer in the first row, who has an old relationship with Earl Conrad, may have learned about the franchise from some private source. However, in the last row, the registered second-level mage, His Excellency Rez, who had just completed his adventure mission, how dare he raise his hand to bid? Even I have only just learned about it, could it be that the news has leaked out?"

The middle-aged businessman sitting in the front row frequently looked back at the competitors who didn't know where they came from, and the cost was close to the psychological bottom line, and he had to act as soon as possible.

So everyone in the room saw that Mr. Derek, a veteran aristocratic buyer who had served Count Conrad for many years, suddenly stood up and walked towards his rival.

Nina Wild glanced sideways at the usual "Lord Rez" and closed her mouth quietly, while an aristocratic smile appeared on her face.

Lu Bin knew that the fat sheep was approaching, but he didn't raise his eyelids, he just put away the bidding sign and sighed in his heart: "It's here!"