The magic caravan stopped in front of the hotel.

Surdakla opened the door and walked briskly to the hotel steps in the cold north wind.

Beatrice put her hand out the window and said goodbye to Surdak.

Surdak stood on the steps, turned around and waved at the carriage, watching the magic caravan take Beatrice and Hathaway away before turning and entering the hotel.

Yesterday, when the group of fraudsters was arrested, some things in the hotel were smashed, although the waiter had re-cleaned the hall on the first floor, but the damaged sculpture at the handrail of the staircase was still there, and the sculpture of a beautiful woman with a broken arm revealed a kind of mutilated beauty.

Surdak's body has recovered, although the lack of bearing capacity leads to frequent weakness and weakness, but at least the mental strength has recovered somewhat, the nodes in the body are like the starry sky that has just entered the night, as night falls, more and more stars in Surdak's spiritual world keep flashing, and the divine power begins to slowly recover, giving Surdak some confidence.

Walking up the stairs, Aphrodite waited at the staircase on the fourth floor, dressed in a loose nightgown with a light smile on her face, and said to Surdak with a lazy expression, "I thought you would find a random place to go back there......"

Surdak saw a crooked horn peeking out of the long hair on the top of Aphrodite's head, and subconsciously wanted to look behind her, as if after the flesh wings were cut off, the remaining wing roots also disappeared, leaving only a flat back, but she never wore a backless outfit, and she couldn't see the scars there.

"Well, if time permits, I'll try to get back." He rubbed his nose and spoke, then invited her again: "Would you like to go down for a drink?" ”

Aphrodite looked at him condescendingly, pursed her lips, and did not reveal his hypocrisy, but said, "Forget it, I don't want to cause you trouble, will I come back tomorrow morning?" ”

"Hmm!" Surdak followed Aphrodite and said, "I'm going to see Count Gophilo again, and if not, we'll go back to Highlandsa, I don't have the patience to continue with him!" ”

Aphrodite stopped, turned to stare at him and asked, "Looks like you've already figured out what to do?" ”

Surdak opened the door of the room, went in and lit the candles in the menorah in the room, and then said: "I am going to talk to Count Gophilo about cooperation first, to become business partners, to involve some interests, he has been in trouble lately, and may be tempted by my proposal......"

"Good luck!" Aphrodite said, standing in the doorway.

She didn't go inside, but returned to her room.

……

The Newman family's magic caravan was parked on the side of the street, and the aristocratic quarter became quiet at night, with the occasional horseback guard battalion knight passing by.

The snow on the street was swept clean, and there was not much snow left on the bush wall along the roadside.

Luke. Newman sat on the soft leather sofa in the carriage, with two goblets on the table, and a maid was carefully peeling the lizard's claw fruit for Luke, Luke held his hands behind his head, lying comfortably on the sofa, looking at Harvey with an expectant smile. Gopphil.

He didn't think Harvey before. How stupid Gophilo is, he even thinks that it is possible for Harvey to take the Gophilo family out of the trough.

But now he felt that he was too naïve, the contempt in his eyes could not even be hidden, and the smile on his face was a little stiff because he was too reluctant, and he pointed to his face at Harvey. Gophilo asked, "Is it that I have the word 'fool' written on my forehead that gives you the courage to say these words in front of me?" ”

"Huh?"

Harvey. Gophilo was stunned, completely unexpecting Luke to say this.

Luke narrowed his eyes, leaned in to Harvey, and said, "It seems that you really don't know anything." ”

Harvey looked a little unnatural and asked rhetorically, "What the hell do you want to say?" ”

Luke spread out his hands and put them on the shoulders of the two maids beside him, and said casually, "Hathaway. No matter how beautiful Luthor is, it doesn't belong to me now, there are so many beautiful and pure nobles and celebrities in Bednar City, when will the people of the Newman family use some lewd means in such a thing as chasing women? Before I get drunk and don't want to hit someone...... Get out of here, and you'd better not let me see you again. ”

Harvey's face turned red all of a sudden, he had been scolded a lot lately, but he was scolded by Luke. Newman, a young boy like an adult, scolded him bitterly, which made him a little annoyed, and he wanted to grab his collar and teach him a hard lesson, but seeing that the eyes of the two guards and knights around him were always fixed on him, Harvey didn't dare to move......

He clenched his fists and said angrily to Luke, "Luke, I misjudged you. ”

He pushed open the door and jumped out of the carriage impatiently.

The north wind outside was cold.

Harvey came to his senses a little as the wind blew his way, and he watched as the magic caravan slowly drove away from the side of the road, drew his sword and slashed at the bush wall, he stood there for a moment, calmed down, cocked up the collar of his coat, and walked awkwardly on the road.

The north wind whistled through the treetops, making a 'whin' sound, and Harvey's face turned a little pale, this place was at least a few kilometers away from the Gophilo family estate, and it seemed inevitable that he would have to walk back at such a late hour and there was no magic caravan.

Such a long road, such a cold night......

He'd never been so embarrassed.

Luke in the carriage. Newman threw his head up and drank the wine from the glass, and then used his dagger to pry open a nut and eat the kernel inside.

"Master Luke, do you really plan to let that foreign nobleman go like this? Didn't you say you were going to give him some color yesterday? The knight on the other side of the carriage asked with a puzzled expression.

Luke. With a contemptuous smile on his gloomy face, Newman said to his cronies, "Of course I want to give him a little color, but not now, and I don't want to find a pig teammate, how can Harvey's pig help?" ”

……

The sky was overcast, and the wind was sandwiched with crystalline snow particles the size of rice grains, which hit people with some pain on their faces.

The Count's Mansion of Gopphil.

The old manor is more withered in the wind and snow, and when you walk into the gate, you find that the pillar lamps on both sides of the main road are very dilapidated, and there are some exquisite stone carvings between the marble pillar lights, but these stone carvings have not been repaired for too long, and they are particularly old, and the long years have made the surface of the stone carvings a little weathered, so many lines have become very blurred, and the vestibule pattern of the Gophilo Manor is very well built, and the shrub low wall is often trimmed, so it looks very neat.

Walking up the stone steps, the marble-polished steps are covered with non-slip textures, but these are also a little blurred.

The manor house is built in a restrained style, and the stone buildings everywhere you can see have a cultural heritage.

Surdak entered the manor this time at the invitation of Count Gopphil.

Today's Gophilo family is ushering in the most difficult period of the economy, although there are several shops in Bena City, but these shops are facing a state of loss, Surdak asked the thieves' union Sophia to investigate the intelligence of the Gophilo family, Surdak has a very clear understanding of the internal situation of the Gophilo family.

Among these shops, the rest of the shops Surdak are not familiar, but the Rossi leather store is somewhat familiar to Surdak.

He himself is a half-baked skinner, and the skins he peels need to be sent to the leather shop for deep processing, which is considered the upstream supply channel of the leather store, and the Gophilo family's purchase channel for raw hides has been cut off half a year ago, and the skins on the plane cannot be transported to the Grimm Empire, and now the Rossi leather store has survived for more than half a year without a supply, and the current turnover is not even enough to pay salaries to employees.

At this time, the manager of Rossi's leather store was standing at the foot of the steps in front of the main house of the Gophilo family, and saw a knight walking at the gate of the manor from a distance, and hurriedly greeted him.

The manager of the leather shop had met Surdak once before, when Surdak took out two salamander skins in front of the manager of the leather shop and said that he wanted to talk about a long-term cooperative business, which immediately intrigued the leather store manager.

At that time, Surdak asked the manager of the leather shop to bring him to meet the real owner of the shop on the grounds that he could not be the master of such a large transaction.

So Surdak had the opportunity to enter the Gophilo family estate.

The manager of the leather shop stood in front of Surdak and said very complimentally: "Baron Surdak, you are very punctual. ”

"Is Lord Gophilo here?" Surdak asked casually as he stared at the leather shop manager.

"Of course, please follow me."

The manager of the leather shop extended his hand to Surdak, made an inviting gesture, turned and walked to the front to lead the way.

The manager of the leather shop ascended the steps and passed through the outer cloister on the right, and Surdak asked the manager of the leather shop in front of him:

"Are you familiar with this place?"

"Of course, I lived here for almost seven years, and I was a tanner on the estate until I arrived at the leather shop, and then I was transferred to the Rossi leather shop," said the leather shop manager. ”

Walking into the main house of the manor, the two walked into a hall.

Surdak found that some of the paintings on the walls of the hall were now empty, and the paintings were gone.

The main house of the Gophilo family presents a field-shaped pattern, with an inner courtyard connected by four places, and at this time there are several snowmen piled up in the inner courtyard, some underage aristocratic teenagers are playing in the courtyard, and there are not many servants in the manor.

The manager of the leather shop led Surdak to a side hall on the second floor, where Surdak saw Count Gophilo again, sitting at a long table with his eyes closed, and only when the door was pushed open by the waiter that his tired eyes were opened.

Count Gophilo saw Surdak walking in after him at a glance, and his eyes were a little complicated.

Surdak saluted Count Gophilo at the door, and Count Gophilo pursed his lips and nodded slightly to Surdak.

The maid brought refreshments, and Count Gophilo waved her hand to pull her off.

In the empty hall, only Count Gopphil, the leather shop manager, and Surdak were left, and none of them meant to speak, and the atmosphere was a little dull.

After a few days of not seeing, Surdak noticed that Count Gophilo had lost a lot of weight, and the wrinkles on his face had become very clear, and the mean face looked at Surdak again.

"Listen to Brunei, you want to do some trade with us?" Count Gofiro's voice was dull and a little depressed......

The manager of the leather shop, who was standing beside Count Gophilo, owed, and said, "Baron Surdak says he has a salamander skin in his hand. ”

Surdak sat at the other end of the long square table and nodded, "As a skinner on the battlefield, I have some stable sources of goods and can establish some cooperation with the Gophilo family in leather making. ”

Seeing that Count Gophilo was unmoved, Surdak directly took out two salamander skins from his magic belt bag and placed them on the table.

Surdak added: "I can provide a source of this quality......

The manager of the leather shop stood up, walked around the wooden table, carefully examined the two hides, and after only two glances, he looked up and said to Surdak: "This is salamander skin, but the peeling technique is very poor, and the division is not good." I am very good at crafting Warcraft leather, and the leather I have cooked by hand has a certain chance of repairing the original dark wounds on the leather. ”

"Every once in a while, I can supply your leather shop with some salamander hides of this quality, which is a long-term and long-lasting business cooperation, so ...... I showed my sincerity, and naturally I wanted to see the sincerity of the Earl. Surdak paused, and looked at Count Gophilo with a somewhat aggressive gaze.

Count Gophilo sneered, "What? Even if I say I don't agree, can I stop you, I haven't seen Beatrice for at least three months, and since she has made up her mind not to go home, do you care if I approve of it? ”

Surdak stood up and stubbornly said to Count Gopphilo: "I have come here to show my attitude, I can do some trade with the Gophilo family within my ability, and at the same time I want your approval. ”

Count Gophilo was about to retort when he heard the manager of the leather shop interject: "Lord Count......"

Count Gophilo immediately controlled his emotions, and then said with some discouragement: "Since it was Luthor who chose you, then what else do I have to say." ”

Surdak didn't expect that the Gophilo family was already embarrassed like this, and the Count Gophilo spoke so hard, and said with a dark face: "In this case, I will take my leave first." ”

With that, he got up and left the room.

"Baron Surdak, please wait!" The manager of the leather shop Brunei hurriedly stopped Surdak, and then looked at Count Gophilo and said with pleading: "Lord Earl......"

"Are you really planning to do business with our Gophilo family?" Count Gophilo asked, opening his eyes and staring at Surdak.

Surdak stopped at the door and said, "Of course! ”

Count Gophilo closed his eyes, sighed softly, and said, "Well, you tell Beatrice that you should go home at least once before you get married!" Since you are the happiness she seeks, what reason do I have to stand in the way! ”