After getting Yin Leia's approval, Fausto put other things aside for the time being and devoted himself to the preparations for the banquet.

Having served the Arias family for over a hundred and sixty years, the former steward of Teacup Fort has long been adept at handling this kind of thing, plus he has done most of the work before.

Soon the day of the banquet was given, and then someone sent invitations to the major families in the west.

Although the Arias family is not powerful in the West, their fiefdom looks quite large, but a third of the place above it is swamped, and there is a group of very troublesome robbers living in that swamp, who will come out and raid from time to time.

At the same time, the land in other places is not very fertile, and the things that the whole family can get their hands on are carrots, the most common food eaten by commoners, so many nobles in the background laugh at them for being dirt buns.

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But no matter what you say, they are also a force in the West after all.

And since the Arias family has always been a staunch follower of the Figuerola family, the ancestors of the Arias family were also in the army when Philip Snowpaw traveled thousands of miles to help Alexander Rhodes I.

The relationship between the two sides is such that the Marquis of Cullen still looks at the Arias family differently, a treatment that the descendants of the Western nobles who surrendered to Philip in the face of bad conditions will never be able to enjoy, no matter how well-behaved they have been.

Therefore, even if it was to give face to Marquis Cullen, no Westerner family would openly refuse the invitation to the banquet of the new head of the Arias family.

Even if the head of the family does not come in person, he usually sends his immediate family members to go in his place, and they all bring congratulatory gifts.

After seeing those congratulatory gifts, Yin Leia felt that her depression due to Jude and the lizardmen seemed to have improved a lot during this time.

At the same time, she couldn't help but regret it, well, if she knew that the banquet could still make money, she should have held it earlier, and it was best to hold it three or five times a year.

In fact, there are indeed lords who have done this in order to collect money, but mainly by constantly marrying wives and holding weddings to get the wool of their vassals, after all, other families are not stupid, and everyone will send something worthless to them once or twice.

But even if it's a vassal, if you go too far, you'll force people to rebel.

So this thought was turned around in Yin Leiya's head, and she was thrown aside, and then Yin Leiya saw the congratulatory gift from Li Yu.

The gift list is crookedly written with Wangzi snow cake + a bag of senbei, four packs of New Orleans barbecue sauce, two bottles of Lao Gan Ma, and two bottles of Great Wall wine.

She knew every word, but she couldn't tell what it was except for the wine at the end.

The girl wanted to go to Li Yu and ask, but as soon as the latter arrived last night, she immediately ran to the group of lizardmen, saying that she had made an appointment to continue preaching to the lizardmen today.

Yin Leiya could only put aside the pile of strange things for the time being.

She also has a lot of things to do today, although Fausto and Yago are in charge of the reception, but if she meets someone sent by a family close to the Arias family or some real big people, Miss Rabbit will go out herself.

For example, the young man standing in front of her at this moment.

This is Baron Ferdinand from the Bathory family, who, like Yin Leia, had parents who died at a young age, but Ferdinand had no other siblings, so he became the head of the Bathory family.

His ears are small, almost hidden by his short black hair, his eyes are not large, his eyes are slightly wider, and he has a flurry of fluff under his nose, and he always likes to purse his mouth, which makes him look a little serious, but sometimes it makes people think that he is deliberately holding a shelf.

However, Yin Leia knew that this was not intentional by the young baron, in fact, he was already like this when the two first met more than ten years ago.

At that time, Ferdinand followed his father to the Teacup Castle as a guest, and from the beginning to the end he had a similar expression, well, like his father carved out of a mold.

It wasn't until Yin Leiya secretly added a few drops of fish bile to the cup he drank water that he finally confirmed that this guy had other expressions.

But the two haven't seen each other since.

Now that they meet again, Miss Rabbit can't help but feel a little kind.

Nine hundred years ago, the ancestor of the Arias family once did the ancestor of the Bathory family a great favor, and since then the two families have been friends for generations, and they have always been close together, and they are considered hardcore allies.

On the other side, the young baron was also looking at Yin Leiya, and after a while, he actually took the initiative to speak, "Very good, you are still the same as when you were a child." ”

Miss Rabbit wanted to say that you were embarrassed to speak of me, and that you yourself had not changed at all, but Ferdinand continued, "It's as naïve as when you were a child." ”

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"Can you also use the matter of asking for help to play around? After receiving your distress letter, I immediately gathered the vassals and men to set off on the road, but halfway through, someone in the family caught up with me and said that I had received your second letter, which said that you were all right. The young baron said with a straight face.

Well, it turned out that this was the case, and the girl was really a little bit of a loss, so she chose to endure it.

However, it was good that Ferdinand didn't speak, and when he did, he went on and on, "It's okay to put fish bile in my cup, and it's better not to write the distress letter scribbling, otherwise it will be troublesome when something happens in the future." ”

"Hehe, you really can't forget what happened when you were a child." Yin Leiya sneered when she heard this.

Ferdinand shook his head, said no more, and walked himself to the castle.

He strode with great strides, and the gust of wind he brought with him as he walked blew up his cloak, and in the most conspicuous position, a large otter was embroidered.

It was the family coat of arms of the Bathory family.

Shortly after sending Ferdinand away, Miss Rabbit met another big man, this time a real big man, the representative of the Yin Manuel family, the second largest family in the Westland after the Figuerola family.

The person who came was Angela, the youngest daughter of the current head of the Yin Manuel family.

Yin Manuel is a noble family born and raised in the West, and was already a great nobleman in the West when the Enriquez family was still ruling the West.

Soon after the start of the war, they took the initiative to take refuge in the Red Lion Empire, so their investment paid off after the war, and they basically kept their territory and almost all the business in the territory.

Over the years, the Yin Manuel family's business has grown from strength to strength, making them the richest family in the West, owning two towns, the smaller of which is Black Rock City, which is next door to Miss Rabbit.

Thinking that everyone would continue to do business in the future, Yin Leia was also very enthusiastic, and saw Angela's carriage from a distance and greeted her, but the latter deliberately ignored Miss Rabbit in front of her after getting off the car.

Covering his mouth and nose with one hand, he asked the two maids beside him, "Where did you get a strange smell, did you smell it?" ”