"Smally City ......"

Looking at the city in front of him, Gray frowned slightly, but he didn't expect the medicinal herbs to finally enter Smally City.

Smally City, in the Sidney Domain, is home to one of the two earldom families.

He didn't suspect that the looting of the Fergus family's medicinal herbs had something to do with the Smally family.

As a large city with a population of more than 100,000, Smalley City is very suitable for handling large quantities of medicinal herbs.

It is normal for robbers to intercept and transport it here, and sell it through the channels here.

It doesn't have to do with the Smally family, and it probably doesn't even have to, no one will be stupid enough to take the looted things back to their own turf to dispose of.

"Young Master Gray, what now?"

Lord Harry looked at Gray in embarrassment, he was good at tracking, but to a certain extent.

Now that the medicinal herbs have been transported into Smally City, even he is powerless, after all, there are so many carriages that come in and out of Smally City every day, and even if there are clues, they are suppressed.

"Settle down in the city inn first, and then you and I will visit the Smally family."

There really is no good way, and Gray can only see if he can get some useful information from the Smally family.

As the ruler of Smally City, the Smally family's intelligence ability here is naturally extremely powerful, and they may be able to get information from them that in recent days, some pharmacies in the city have a large number of medicinal herbs coming in and out.

After settling into the city inn and freshening up, Gray dressed in aristocratic attire and took Lord Harry with him to Smally Castle.

Identifying themselves, Gray and Lord Harry were ushered into a living room.

Then.

After a full hour, no one was seen except a servant who came up to bring tea.

The faces of Gray and Lord Harry changed from the initial expectation to strangeness, strange to confused, until they became the current iron blue.

If by now, they still don't understand that they are being put on the "cold bench" by the Smally family, then they have a problem with their IQ.

Even if Earl Smalley is delayed, or if something is not there, someone else should come to greet him, right?

But more than an hour has passed, and there is not even a person to greet him, no matter in any family, it should never be.

"What the hell is going on? What did the Fergus family offend the Smally family? ”

Gray wondered.

The Fergus family and the Smally family are too far apart, their territories are not adjacent, and they rarely interact, although there is almost no communication, but it is absolutely impossible to have a bad relationship.

But why did the Smally family do this to him who came to visit? Is it because of ......?

Smally family back garden gazebo.

The Earl of Smalley and the next successor to the title of House of Smally, Vincent. Small, sitting in the gazebo, leisurely sipping tea.

A man dressed as a servant walked up, with slightly long brown hair and a handsome face. Smally asked, looking at the other party.

"How's it going?"

"Not yet."

The servant replied as a man dressed as a man.

"Hmph, the Fergus family."

Vincent. A sneer tugged at the corner of Small's mouth.

"It's funny, so close to the Ford family, and now you dare to visit my Smally family."

There is naturally a reason why the Smalley family treats the Fergus family coldly, and the reason is that the Fergus family and the Ford family have been too close in recent months, and there is even news that they are ready to marry.

The Ford family and the Smalley family, as the two major families in the Marquis of Sidney after the Sidney family, are inevitably competing interests, and open and secret battles are common.

The Fergus family and the Ford family got too close, which naturally caused the Smally family to be extremely dissatisfied, as a child of the Fergus family, Gray came to visit the Smally family, and the Smalley family naturally did not give Gray a good face.

Since the Fergus family has been mixed up with the Ford family, they naturally don't care about hating the Fergus family because of this.

Besides, the background of the Smally family, how could they care about the Fergus family.

Not to mention that whether the Fergus family can become the Earl family has not really been determined, and what has not been determined may be reversed at any time.

Even if the Fergus family becomes the earl family, and the Smalley family has been the earl's family for many years, they will not be afraid of the Fergus family.

"Forget it, send them away, just say I'm out on patrol and not in the castle."

Earl Smally frowned slightly, and waved his hand to signal the servant.

If the Fergus family hadn't gotten too close to the Ford family, he might still be interested in meeting this "genius" whose fame spread throughout Sidney, but as for now, he has no interest in seeing it at all.

He had also heard that the Fergus family had been robbed of medicinal herbs, and in his estimation that this Gray had been robbed. When Fergus came to visit, he should have asked for the Smally family, so he couldn't see it.

"Yes, sir."

The servant took the command and departed.

"Master Gray, the Smally family has gone too far!"

Walking out of Smally Castle, Lord Harry's face was grim.

Gray's face was also gloomy, and he forced the anger in his heart.

Since coming to this world, he has enjoyed the "cold bench" treatment for the first time.

"Let's go back first."

Gray said with a frown.

The Fergus family has no grudge with the Smalley family, so the reason should be that the Fergus family has recently moved with the Ford family.

Before he came, he didn't think that there would be waves because of this, but this idea was denied by him as soon as it passed.

The Fergus family and the Ford family did move around, but it was just a normal exchange between nobles, and it didn't mean anything like forming allies, at least as far as he knew.

But apparently the Smally family does not think so, and I am afraid that the Fergus family has completely fallen to the Ford family between the Smalley family and the Ford family.

However, he didn't mean to explain this kind of thing, and now his strength was not inferior to that of the Smally family, so he couldn't lower his profile to explain to the Smally family.

And the Smally family didn't give him a chance to explain, and he never met Earl Smally from beginning to end.

Back at the hotel, Gray asked one of the guards to return to report the situation, and then called Lord Harry into the room to confer on the situation.

"There's no need to count on the Smally family's side, and it's up to us to get information, Lord Harry, do you have any good advice?"

Gray said with a frown.

Lord Harry frowned and thought for a moment, then spoke.

"Master Gray, there's a way to try."

"How?"

"Entrust the mercenaries of this city to investigate for us, they are the head snakes of Smally City, they must be very well informed, and there must be a channel to find out the news."

"Mercenaries?"

Gray's eyes are the same.

Indeed, the mercenaries are mixed among the civilians, and the information is indeed extremely well-informed, since the Smally family can't do it, it is indeed a good choice to entrust the mercenaries of the local forces to help investigate.

Thinking of this, Gray called the clerk of the inn, and threw out a few silver coins, and the clerk's eyes lit up.

He led them out of the hotel and into the old part of the city, and walked around until they came to a slightly old house.

"Who?"

Two men in leather armor leaned in front of the door, and when they saw the arrival of the three Grays, they stood up lazily and looked at them suspiciously.

"I want to publish a delegate task ......"

Waving for the innkeeper to leave, Gray spoke.

The two looked at Gray for a moment, and then at Lord Harry behind Gray, and looked at each other, and one of them waved his hand and gestured.

"You come with me!"

Entering the door, I entered a place similar to a courtyard, in which there were about two dozen men dressed as mercenaries, carrying sandbags and huge logs to temper their bodies.

There is no blood method, and the way for ordinary people to become stronger is to temper their bodies through squeezing to achieve the purpose of becoming stronger.

"Captain, they're going to issue a commission."

The tall and thin man led Gray to a man with bare arms and sweating profusely.

The man took a towel and wiped his sweat, and led Gray and the others into a very simple living room.

"What commission do you want to issue?"

Tea was served to Gray and Lord Harry, and the barearm man looked at Gray.

Although Gray is younger among the two, he has already judged that Gray is the person in charge from the clothes on the two of them and the posture of the front and back, and as the leader of a mercenary team, he still has this eyesight.

"Just a few days ago, the medicinal herbs of our caravan were looted, and after our tracking, the medicinal herbs were sent into the city of Smallly."

"I would like to entrust your mercenary team to investigate the whereabouts of this batch of medicinal materials, and find out what forces are handling this batch of medicinal materials."

Gray spoke.

"The whereabouts of a large number of medicinal herbs, and we must also find out the ...... of the forces that handle it."

The shirtless man frowned, thought for a moment, and then gritted his teeth and said.

"This commission can be taken by our mercenary team, but it is very difficult and dangerous to investigate the forces that are handled."

"There is even a possibility of death at any time, so the asking price of the remuneration will be very high, and half of the remuneration will need to be paid in advance."

"How much?"

Gray asked directly.

The difficulty of the investigation is high, and it is certain that there will be deaths, after all, the other party is a force that can kill the upper blood warriors.

"100 gold."

"Yes, but I hope it will be as soon as possible."

Gray didn't bargain, for him now, 100 gold coins was nothing, and the commission was indeed very dangerous.

"There's no problem with that."

Leaving a deposit of 50 gold coins, Gray and Lord Harry left, and he was not afraid that these people would take the money and do nothing, unless these people were not prepared to stay in Sidney.