On the clothesline on the terrace of the small building were some women's clothes and bed sheets.

A gust of wind blew and the sheets swayed on the clothesline.

The afterglow of the setting sun shines through a row of street trees, and a long shadow obscures the entire courtyard.

Surdak stood at the gate of the courtyard with his horse in hand, and he looked up just in time to see the slender figure standing on the terrace of the small building.

Selena put down the tub in her hand, wiped her wet hands dry, reached behind her ears to pull the broken hair behind her ear, and stood by the balcony railing and smiled softly at Surdak.

"Ahh Dark, you're back! ”

Signa rushed out of the house and hugged Surdak a big one. Legs, hands and feet hung on his legs, like a koala.

Nika stood obediently at the door, she was wearing a clean and well-fitting linen dress, and her light brown hair was combed into a ponytail, which suddenly became much more beautiful, perhaps because she had eaten well these days, and her face was no longer the same as before.

Selena came down from the upper floor and asked Surdak, who was tethering his horse to the yard:

"Why did you go so long this time?"

Surdak turned around, washed his hands in the basin, wiped his face and said:

"The situation in the Warcraft Forest is a bit complicated, but for now, at least there is still some time left for us to prepare."

Nika carried a bucket of water and put it in front of the horse, dragged a wooden trough in the corner of the wall, poured some hay into it, stood next to the horse and unbuckled the saddle, untied the saddle seat, and began to scrape off the horse's sweat with a plank.

The temperature difference between day and night is a bit large in the weather of the Bailin plane, and it will soon become cooler after the sun sets, and if the horse sweat is not cleaned up in time, the war horse will easily get sick.

"Is there really a beast tide?" Selena took Surdak's towel and asked after him.

Surdak walked into the small building, untied the salamander leather armor on his body, hung it on the wooden shelf at the door, and said, "Well, it should be a large group of ghost-patterned red ants." ”

The whole small building was cleaned up by Selena, the floor and stairs were polished, he grabbed Selena's hand and asked her:

"How have you been these past few days?"

Selena's face flushed slightly, and she could feel the heat in Surdak's eyes.

Pursing her red lips, she looked cautiously outside the room, and withdrew her hand with some embarrassment.

She said to Surdak: "It's good, life in the town is really good, and the people here are very welcoming. Have you eaten dinner? There were also some fried meatloaf in the kitchen. ”

Surdak touched his belly, and then he felt his stomach gurgling.

I sat down at the table, drank a glass of water, and felt my stomach ringing even more.

Selena brought the dinner, it didn't look like it was leftovers, it was more like it was left for Surdak, and the fried meatloaf still had residual warmth.

"How do you know I'm coming over today?" Surdak asked with some slurred as he tore off a piece of baked wheat bread, put a bit of meatloaf on top of it, and stuffed it into his mouth.

At this time, Signa also came to the table, supported her chin with her two hands, propped her elbows on the table, stared at Surdak without blinking, and said, "We have dinner for you every day, and if you don't come, these will be breakfast tomorrow morning." ”

Selena heated up some vegetable soup, set it on the table, and sat down across from Surdak.

Surdak asked as he ate, "How is this side of the town lately, and has there been any conflict between immigrants and indigenous people?" ”

Selena held a water glass in both hands and said to Surdak: "Everything is fine, I can't imagine that Mrs. Luna is also a person with some means, she punished a group of immigrants in the town a few days ago, made them more honest, not only maintained the law and order of the town, but also calmed the emotions of many aborigines in the town." ”

Surdak didn't expect Lady Luna to have some management skills, and said in surprise:

"I only thought that she would be able to stabilize the situation in Dodan Town and drag it until the new mayor came to Dodan Town, but I didn't expect her to manage Dodan Town well, what I need is a relatively stable town."

Then he asked:

"How about I tell you to keep an eye on the trading house? What have you discovered these days? ”

"Wilkes Trading House has almost a monopoly on most of the big deals in town." Selena paused after speaking, and then asked Surdak, "Didn't you say that nobles can be exempt from taxes?" ”

Surdak ate all the food on the plate in front of him in two bites, wiped his mouth with a napkin, and said casually: "That's the land tax and population tax in the territory, and large business transactions still need to pay taxes, and tomorrow I will meet the manager of the trading firm." ”

The bathroom in the small building has a nice marble bathtub, and Surdak is lying in a bathtub filled with hot water.

With his head resting on the edge of the bathtub, the warm water rippled slightly, and his body relaxed, and he fell asleep unconsciously.

When he woke up again, he found himself lying on a large soft bed, covered with a dry quilt.

Selena beside her pillowed his arm, her long golden hair spread out, covering her charming face, her breathing was light, her body curled, and she hugged one of his arms like a cat.

The curtains were drawn in the room, and the cooing of owls could be heard outside the window.

Surdak closed his eyes again, immersing himself in the sea of spiritual consciousness, and the magic perception touched the magical elements in the air around him, and as the perception spread little by little, he seemed to be able to clearly feel some of the furnishings in the room.

As the perception spreads outward, that wonderful feeling continues to spread.

He could even feel a vase of half filled water and a golden sunflower stuck in the empty living room coffee table in the empty living room.

On the bed in the next room was Signa, but she didn't seem to be covered with a quilt, and one of her calves was exposed.

Nika lived in the attic, and she didn't seem to have slept, sitting on the bed with her hands on her knees, looking up at the stars in the night sky through the attic window.

He continued to spread his perception outward, wanting to understand the world outside the house, and felt that the spiritual power in the sea of spiritual consciousness could not maintain this kind of perception diffusion, and after a dizziness, Surdak fell into a deep sleep again.

At the moment when he fell asleep, the night was like a big gentle hand enveloping him and Selena.

The already depleted spiritual power was quickly nourished at this moment.

……

Surdak felt like he had a long, long dream, in which he seemed to be in a sea of silence.

Sunlight shines through the surface of the sea and turns into beams of light into the sea.

He had no five senses, and in this strange environment, he didn't feel the slightest fear......

By the time Surdak woke up from his dream, it was already completely bright, a ray of sunlight was shining through the gap in the curtains, and the people by the pillow were long gone.

There was a neat stack of clothes on the bed, and Surdak grabbed his hair and sat up from the bed full of energy.

He jumped out of bed barefoot, looked at his hands, let the power of the holy light condense two light flames in the palm of his hand, closed his eyes and concentrated on letting his perception spread outward, at this moment, although his eyes were closed, he suddenly felt that the whole world became more vivid.

……

There is only one trading house in the town, and this trading house basically monopolizes all the Warcraft materials business in the town.

This trading firm has a very resounding name - 'Wilkes Trading Company'

Dodan Town is a small town on the border of the Grimm Empire on the White Forest Plane, and to the north of the town is a vast Invercargill Warcraft Forest.

Originally, there were several inns in the town that were dedicated to hosting adventure groups.

The adventure groups that came to the town basically came to the rich monster resources of the Invercargill Warcraft Forest, and as long as they were at the edge of the forest, it was possible to hunt some Warcraft.

The adventuring group traveled through the plane to Dodan Town, of course, they didn't just stay here for ten days and a half months and then leave, they hunted some monsters in the Warcraft Forest, and the precious Warcraft materials would be kept with them, and the rest of the low-level Warcraft materials such as leather would be sold to local trading houses.

The trading houses in the town of Dodan are buying these Demonic Beast materials, and in addition to Demonic Beast materials, Magic Metal Ore and Magical Herbs are also within their scope of business.

It can be said that it was some of the wealth brought by these adventuring groups that fed the entire town of Dodan.

However, when this part of the benefits was swallowed by the only trading house in Dodan Town, in fact, the financial income of Dodan Town continued to decline, and Mayor Marco secretly contacted some slave traders in order to avoid affecting his own interests, and used his power to support slave traders to do some slave business.

It is said that this trading firm has the support of Wilkes City councilors, as if the owner of the trading house is afraid that others will not know about this relationship, and from the name of the trading house can clearly understand some of the inside information......

Surdak walked into the trading house with Andrew and the two cavalry squadron leaders.

Now that the beast tide is coming, the trading houses are a bit depressed, and there are few adventure groups in the hall doing business, except for a few locals standing in line at the front of the grain sales area.

Surdak had learned from the Adventure Guild in the morning that there was no one in the town anymore, and even a locally formed one had left Dodan Town last week, and they would go to the south of the White Forest Plane to find where to make money.

When the waiter at the door saw Surdak entering, he immediately greeted him, and asked his companion to inform Anthony, the manager of the firm.

The attendant didn't know Surdak, but he was followed by two cavalrymen in heavy armor, and next to him was a warrior in armor. Wearing the badge of nobility in front of him, even if he hadn't seen Surdak before, he could guess his identity with a little thought.

"Good morning, Honorable Commander!" The waiter looked polite, stood beside Surdak and asked him, "Is there anything I can do for you?" ”

Surdak walked into the trading house and went straight to the cloth section, where the shelves were piled with bundles of linen, and some tarpaulins and felt, but not the fine silk and magic cloth.

Surdak said to the waiter, "I need fifty felt tents, five hundred quilts, and five hundred sets of thick cotton clothes, and you can give me a list of details and prices, and can I get them before noon?" ”

Before the waiter could speak, he heard someone at the top of the stairs say to Surdak:

"Commander Surdak, you're here!"

As he spoke, Manager Anthony walked briskly from the staircase, followed by two waiters, still holding the ledger in their arms, looking very busy.

The waiter next to him told Manager Anthony what Surdak needed.

Manager Anthony looked stunned, and then he seemed to have thought of something, stared at Surdak with a somewhat uncertain face, and asked him: "Commander, I'm afraid these materials you purchased are not for the soldiers of the garrison, right?" ”

Surdak also wanted to get the goods quickly, and before noon, he and the three young natives of the Dakuni tribe completed the deal.

Unexpectedly, Manager Anthony did not prepare these goods briskly, but asked with a straight face who he was trading with.

Surdak frowned and asked Manager Anthony, "Is there any problem?" ”

"Until the balance of the arrears of the war preparation materials of the city defense brigade is settled, the commercial bank will not take over the business in the town." Manager Anthony didn't think much of it, so he refused.

After speaking, he smiled apologetically at Surdak.

It's just that the smile is a little frivolous.

"What are you saying to me?" Surdak asked, with some smirk.

It was only now that he understood that the trading firm's code of conduct in the town of Dodan was completely ignored by the town's military and political governors.

"What? Didn't you hear clearly? Or have you had an ear injury? Manager Anthony showed a hint of ridicule on his face, and then he asked the waiter next to him: "...... Am I not clear enough? ”

The two waiters hurriedly shook their heads vigorously and echoed, "Everything you say is clear, Manager Anthony. ”

Manager Anthony nodded in satisfaction, and turned to look at Surdak without saying a word, as if he wanted to see him go like this.

Feeling that something was about to happen here, some mercenaries from the Comptoir's armed group hurriedly came over and gathered around Manager Anthony.

Surdak touched his forehead, he didn't expect such a situation at all, he originally wanted to slowly rectify the trading houses in Dodan Town, but he didn't expect such a big problem to break out now.

His eyes turned cold, and he said to Anthony's manager and the others: "Since you said to me on behalf of the trading firm, 'I don't want to make any transactions with the garrison of Dodan Town until this arrears in Dodan Town are paid off', then I have nothing to say, but this arrears are owed by Mayor Marco, and it doesn't matter if this lawsuit goes to Wilkes City, it will not be repaid by our garrison." ”

He raised his voice a little and said loudly: "But this behavior of yours gives me reason to suspect that you are deliberately hoarding supplies before the beast tide comes, disrupting the market in Dodan Town, and destroying the unity of Dodan Town. ”