Chapter 406: Door-to-door debt collection
"What should I do?" Ryan remembered that he had promised Frank that he would help the Osedon family in times of need, and he couldn't help but have a headache. The Ossedon family has declined like this, and no matter how conceited Ryan is, no matter how strong he is, he can't save it. Ryan is well aware of his abilities, if it is a duel, as long as it is not a figure above level 7 swordsman, he will not be afraid of anyone. But if you want to revive the Ossedons, it's not a matter of simply fighting a duel, and Ryan is not such material at all.
"If you don't help the Osedon family, just find the secrets you need and leave?" As soon as Ryan had the thought come to him, he immediately extinguished it. The reason is not for Frank, but for Kemp. Oseidon. Ryan doesn't just come from Kemp. Osaidon's secrets and notes, learn a lot, and more importantly, Kemp. Osaidon's coming from the same place as Ryan gives Ryan an an inexplicable sense of closeness and makes Ryan feel as if he is Kemp. Ossedon's family-like, so Ryan to Kemp. The family handed down by Osedons has an inexplicable good feeling, and they do not want the Osedons family to disappear from now on.
"But what if I'm going to help them?" Ryan suffers from even more headaches, he has never been a good leader, and at best he can only solve some problems by force. But not all problems can be solved by force, and in the Kaoya Empire, where the level of swordsmen is obviously higher than that of other places, Ryan does not have much advantage in terms of fighting qi sword skills, and even if he wants to solve the problem by force, he may not be able to solve it.
Ultimately. Ryan, who couldn't negotiate with Katisha about any good way, had to take one step at a time, but it was time to go to the door.
After confirming the location of the Osedon family estate outside the city, Ryan and Katisha set out on their journey, still riding in the carriage they had been riding from the Odoli Empire.
After passing through a grove of thick trees where two men hug, the carriage plunged into a flat field and followed a wide, winding cobblestone lane. On both sides, there are small fences surrounding the flower beds, which are planted with many varieties of flowers and trees. Ryan and Katisha's eyes lit up and they were in a good mood. Even the air you breathe contains the fragrance of flowers and plants.
It's just that there is something incongruous about it, and it's clear that these flower beds have not been sorted out for a long time. Small fences more than a foot high on both sides of the driveway. More than half of them were broken and tilted, and even disappeared. The flowers and trees in the flower beds are growing well, but in many open areas, they are already overgrown with tall weeds. A lot of flowers and plants don't grow well, no one tidy up, east and west, obviously these are the previous flowers and plants withered, the seeds fell to the ground and grew again, otherwise they would never grow like the wildflowers and weeds on the roadside.
However, this wild flower garden grows. After all, there is no wasteland, it is much better than a bare wasteland.
"This place is supposed to belong to the Osedon family, but I didn't expect the location to be very good, and it can be regarded as one of the best places outside of Farr. It's strange that isn't the Ossedon family in decline now? Why should this place be preserved? Won't anyone else come and grab it? Katisha in the carriage. After feeling a little emotional, I couldn't help but ask.
"As far as I know, back then, Kemp. Osaidon was once made a hereditary marquis by the Kaoya Empire, and this place should belong to the marquis's domain, so other nobles did not dare to rob it blatantly, otherwise the Kaoya Empire would definitely not let these nobles go in name. Ryan thought for a moment.
"It's a pity that this place has been deserted, if it is sorted out. It must be very beautiful. Katisha sighed again.
Ryan smiled and said, "In the future, our neighborhood will be full of flowers and plants like here." ”
"Good!" Katisha's eyes lit up, and she looked very happy about Ryan's promise.
The carriage walked very fast, and in the blink of an eye it crossed the flowerbeds and entered a plain meadow, where a hill hundreds of meters high stood in the distance. At the foot of the hill, there is a very large manor, and it is needless to think that this is the destination of the Ryan and the Osedon family, the ancestral home of the Osedon family.
If you hadn't known that the Osedon family had declined, but if you saw this manor with a length and width of thousands of meters, you would definitely think that the Osedon family was a famous and powerful family.
Ryan and Katisha were stunned, they already knew that the ancestral home of the Ossedons family was huge, but they didn't expect it to be so big. The sprawling manor house is surrounded by a high and thick outer wall, like the walls of a small town, and it is very imposing. Through the exterior wall, you can see that inside the manor, there are more than a dozen tall attics, among which the largest and innermost attic is forty or fifty meters high.
However, if you look closely, you will see that this sprawling estate has fallen into extreme decline. Although the high exterior wall is intact, there are countless stains and damages on the wall, like the face of a pockmarked child, which cannot be concealed. In several places, it was evident that there had been a collapse, and then it was only briefly repaired, but it turned out to be as ugly as a scar on the face.
Although the more than ten attics in the manor are still there, they have not collapsed, but from a distance, it can be seen that all the windows of these attics are closed, and the surface is covered with a layer of dust several inches thick, and some wooden structures exposed in the air have long been decayed. These lofts have obviously not been inhabited for many years, and they have not been repaired and maintained, and it is estimated that they will collapse after a few years. Among them, one or two attics on the side have been tilted and are beginning to show signs of collapse.
Not all attics are uninhabited, and the front of the manor looks at the nearest two or three attics, which are obviously not covered with dust, and the doors and windows are wide open. While these two or three lofts still inevitably suffer from broken facades and peeling paint, they are clearly much better than the others.
As the carriage slowly moved forward, Ryan kept looking at the approaching manor, and he sighed softly, but his mood didn't get worse. Before he came, Rui Anzhong had prepared for the worst, and he even thought that he would face the situation of the Osedon family, but the scene he saw at this moment was much better than what he thought in his heart.
The carriage soon came to the gate of the manor, and before he could get close, Ryan stopped the carriage, because Ryan saw a group of people gathered at the gate of the manor, divided into two groups, and were facing each other.
Rui An'an was puzzled, but instead of stepping forward immediately, he chose to stay where he was and find out what the situation was. Immediately, Ryan and Katisha got out of the carriage and stood beside the carriage, looking at the people at the gate of the manor from afar.
The two groups of people at the gate of the manor were a little surprised when they found out about the arrival of Ryan and the two, neither of them knew Ryan and the two, and they didn't know what Ryan and the two wanted to do, so they were quite jealous. This is mainly because Ryan and Katisha are a little different, Ryan and Katisha's outfits are not unusual, after they arrived in the Kaoya Empire, they have already changed into clothes in the style of the Kaoya Empire. But their carriages were different, not only in different styles, but also dusty, worn and worn, and evidently had come from afar after many journeys.
Although Ryan and Ryan looked very strange, it was obvious that the two did not get involved in their quarrel, so the two groups at the gate of the manor only looked at Ryan a few times before continuing their confrontation.
"You guys are too much, you owe us a few years ago, and you dare not pay it back." A thin man in his thirties, with more than a dozen swordsmen who looked like guards, shouted at the gate of the manor. Arrogant, unstoppable, and looks like he can bully the other party at will.
Obviously, this is a group of people who come to collect debts.
At the gate of the manor, there were seven or eight people, blocking the door and blocking the other party's way. The first two are middle-aged men in their fifties. A person dressed like a butler, with gray hair and empty hands, is obviously an ordinary person. The other is a heavy sword in his hand, wearing a pair of armor that has been used for many years and is visibly worn, and he is tall and very typical of a heavy sword swordsman. Behind the two of them, there stood five or six swordsmen with long swords in their hands and the appearance of guards, these swordsmen looked very young, not like swordsmen of high rank.
From the outfits of the two middle-aged men, it can be guessed that one of them is a butler, and the other is the head of the guard. Surprisingly, the number of guards seems to be a little less. At this moment, someone came to collect debts, and all the guards in the manor should have arrived, but there were only six or seven guards in front of him, which was too few for such a large manor.
The two middle-aged men blushed and said nothing, full of anger, but they did not burst out, it can be seen that the two of them are not reasonable, otherwise they will not let others bully them so much and not get angry.
After a while, the middle-aged man who looked like a butler said, "Our master is not at home, please come back another day." ”
"Joke! Your host is not at home? Does he have anywhere else to go? Does he have the money to go somewhere else? Don't lie! Hurry up and ask him to come out to pay back the money, don't think that if you don't come out, you don't have to pay back my family's money. Tell you, if you don't pay it back today, don't blame us for being polite. The thin man was furious, he didn't have a long sword on his body, he was probably not a swordsman, just an ordinary person, but in the face of the other party's guards, he was high-spirited, and he didn't take the other party in his eyes at all, and his voice became louder and louder, and it spread far away.
The housekeeper and the others were very angry, but they didn't know what the reason was, so they didn't dare to attack. Then, I saw the housekeeper say some kind things to the thin man in a kind voice, asking the other party to come back a few days later. But the thin man was unmoved, and the butler's weakness fueled his arrogance even more, and the shouting became louder and louder.
Just when the two sides were entangled, a soft voice suddenly came from inside the door: "Uncle Ahnben, what happened?" (To be continued.) )
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