Chapter 242: Young Man, I'll Bet on You (1/4)
Riverside Town, White Rock Castle, Hexagonal Hall.
As soon as he heard the words of his daughter Lena Delin, Dumont's slightly messy beard, which had been slapped slightly, twitched slightly, and the momentum that had just been condensed was half dissipated.
He muttered quickly, "Lily, what you said is that you are still my dear daughter." ”
Lena Delin said angrily: "But the eldest sister didn't do anything, and the eldest brother-in-law even killed the younger brother, but you still have to protect him!" ”
"My husband and I just want to do some business with Master Lawson and make some money to support the family, but you still want to make trouble for us!"
"Father, you are too partial!"
"uh~~~"
Dumont fidgeted in embarrassment, not knowing for a moment how to respond to his daughter's questioning.
Speaking of which, he felt guilty about Lena Delin, the second daughter, because she married an unreliable husband who only knew how to use money to subsidize his sister.
As a result, they have been living in a dark, damp and cramped old-fashioned castle, and they have a very poor life.
Of course, this "shackle" is compared to other lords.
Vivien also said: "Old gentleman, if you want me to say, you should not support Fubos, but Shabolai!" ”
As soon as she said this, Dumont immediately found a grip to fight back.
His eyes glared at Vivien: "My Lily is not having a good time, it's not because of ......."
Vivien immediately intercepted him, and she looked aggrieved, her mouth deflated, and she began to complain.
"Old gentleman, I found that you are very affectionate, I just rubbed the medicine on you to eliminate the pain, but now you are glaring at me with your eyes!"
"Uh~~"
Dumont's momentum was vented again, and he raised his hand to touch his face that was basically swollen, and laughed dryly.
"I naturally accept your affection, but what you have done over the years is really outrageous."
"Yes, I admit it's outrageous, but tell me, every time you ask me to buy medicine, which time do I not sell it to you cheaply? Haven't I always given you the best medicine? ”
"Hmm~ That's right......"
When Lena Delin heard this, she was immediately worried.
"Buying medicine? Father, are you sick? Serious not serious! ”
When his daughter asked him this, Dumont's face suddenly showed an extremely embarrassed look, his cheeks twitched uncontrollably slightly, and it seemed that even his teeth began to hurt.
He didn't know what to say for a while, so he could only cough again and again to hide his embarrassment.
Unable to sit still, Lydelina got up and walked over to her father, reaching out and gently patting him on the back.
"Father, why are you coughing so badly, is there something wrong with your lungs?"
"Ahem~~Ahem~Yes~ Father, my lungs have not been very good all these years, and I can't help coughing."
"Is that serious?"
Feeling his daughter's heartfelt concern, Dumont's heart warmed, and he couldn't help but have an idea in his head.
"It's still the second daughter who is more intimate, since the eldest daughter married Fubos, every time she comes home, she is arrogant, and she can't wait to step on my father's head."
So, his tone softened, and he comforted his daughter slowly.
"I've been to the temple to see it. The shaman said that it was not a serious illness, it was not a serious problem, but it was just that he had a cough and could not sleep well. ”
"It just so happened that Vivian had medicine for coughing, so I bought some from her, and the effect was really good, and after drinking it, I didn't cough anymore, and I slept comfortably."
As he spoke, he winked at Vivian and motioned her not to talk nonsense.
Vivien shrugged her shoulders with a threatening look on her face that if you don't cooperate, I won't cooperate.
Dumont's face was bitter, and as soon as he gritted his teeth, he let go, reached out and grabbed his daughter's hand, and sighed.
"Lily~ I'll be honest, I'm not sick. I didn't buy a cough medicine either. ”
Lena Delin was stunned: "Ah, what kind of medicine is that?" ”
Vivien was also stunned, and was surprised in her heart: "This old man is so face-saving and alone, he can let it go, and I don't know what Vobos poured into him."
She knew that her coercion method had failed, so she couldn't help but tear her face and immediately help to play the round.
"In fact, it is a medicine to strengthen the body, the old gentleman is old, his spirit is not as good as before, and he always loves to sleep, so he asked me to buy medicine to refresh himself."
"It's not very useful, it just makes the body stronger and more energetic."
Lydelina was skeptical: "Father, is it true?" ”
Dumont breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Vivien gratefully, and nodded, "Vivien is right, that's how it is. ”
"Your father and I, I'm just old, drink some medicine to nourish it, it's not a big deal."
Lydelina carefully looked at her father's face, and saw that his eyes were bright, his face was ruddy, and his posture was still tall and strong, and it did not look like he was seriously ill, so she completely relieved her heart and returned to her seat.
As a result, Vivien's offensive was temporarily defeated.
There was no threat, and Dumont's thinking was clear.
He said softly to his daughter: "Lily, my father still loves you and knows that your family is in financial difficulties. ”
"In this way, when you go back this time, your father will prepare a rich gift for you, so that you don't have to worry about money for several years."
"When this matter is over, and Vopos becomes a count, things will be fine."
When her father got to that, Lena Deline opened her mouth, unable to think of any more words.
As a result, the Dafa of family affection was also defeated.
As for Baron Moreau, he was even more unrecruited, so the persuasion task finally returned to Rosen.
Rosen smiled and offered a trick at the beginning.
He took out an Austrian coin and threw it to Baron Dumont: "Old man, what is this?" ”
Dumont took a look and was taken aback, his eyes widened.
"Olympian coins from the East? Is your business in the East Realm so big? ”
He also has some business in the East, well, it's not a business, it's just buying a few properties and renting them out to collect rent.
It's been almost 20 years since I bought it, and before I earned back the money I bought a house, I felt like I had been wronged and bought a house for people in the east for free.
It's not that he doesn't want to do serious business, but the people of the East are as shrewd as goblins, and after losing a few times, he will be numb.
Now, Rosen has made great achievements in fields that he can't reach and wants to join, which makes him feel very envious, and at the same time sincere admiration.
Of course, there is also a lot of jealousy.
Rosen carefully observed Dumont's expression, combined with Pethy's intelligence, and roughly guessed his thoughts.
He smiled slightly: "Old man, my business is bigger than you think, because the person who gave me the gold coins is the third daughter of Duke Storm, Princess Heya Jiali. ”
Dumont's heart was shocked: "It's her?" ”
Rosen smiled.
"Her Royal Highness the princess gave me a bag of gold coins, and explained that I want to cooperate for a long time in the future. If *** is good, the trade volume may reach half a million kroner in that year. ”
Bragging, naturally blowing big, anyway, Dumont has no ability to confirm it.
Dumont's heart shook again: "500,000 kroner?!" What are you buying? ”
His annual territorial income is only 60,000 crowns, and the other party has doubled him more than ten times, which is really enviable.
"That's a lot of business. The main one is to buy the petrified staff I made so that I can take it back to the East to build a house. ”
Dumont didn't understand: "Petrified staff? Building a house? ”
Lena Delin immediately explained carefully for her father.
But then again, she's actually a little confused, because wasn't this petrification just invented?
How can you get the approval of the princess of the east and open a trade volume of 500,000 crowns a year?
But if you don't believe it, Rosen said it very well, and this gold coin is really not taken out by anyone, it is usually used by big nobles such as dukes and marquises.
By the time she had finished explaining, Dumont immediately realized what the petrified construction technique was doing to her.
"Can you use your petrification technique to build a dam?"
"Naturally, it works."
"Hmm~ That's a good thing...... Good stuff. ”
He secretly made up his mind, planning to quietly send someone to Crescent Moon Town to steal one back, and then find the refining master to crack it, and then use it for his own use.
Rosen smiled at his thoughts.
"Old gentleman, I have set up my original spell lock in this petrification technique, and the difficulty of cracking it is very, very high, even Her Royal Highness the princess can't help it, praise me for this spell lock."
Dumont was taken aback: "No, the princess can't crack it?" ”
The princess has more mages than he raises sheep.
The princess can't help it, so he is naturally even more useless.
Rosen nodded: "Do you think, if the princess can crack it, will Baba send me 500,000 kroner a year?" That's 500,000 kroner, not 50,000! ”
There is a lot of truth to that.
Rosen smiled and said, "You must think I'm lying, but let me tell you the truth, I applied a lot of my original high-depth flow technique to this petrification. And in terms of streams, I'm definitely at the second level in the Golden Land. ”
"The first two, what about the other one?"
Dumont suddenly had a glimmer of hope and decided to bring in a second flow master to help.
"Naturally, it's my wife who co-created the flow with me."
Dumont's newly-born hope was completely extinguished.
But he has been a lord for so many years, and he is not so easy to deceive.
I think this thing is incredible, and nine times out of ten it was Lawson who made it up to fool him.
Seeing his suspicious eyes, Lawson immediately took out the second big killing weapon he had prepared.
"Oh, by the way, the princess asked me to paint a custom painting for her, saying it was going to be exhibited at the birthday party."
As he spoke, Lawson pulled out a picture of the princess riding a horse from his pocket.
"It's human nature for you to doubt my words. But this spell portrait unique to the East is enough to prove the truth of my words. ”
He handed the portrait to Dumont.
Dumont took it and couldn't take his eyes off it, and he looked at it for a full three minutes before he sighed.
"It is worthy of being the princess of the East, this style, this style, this face, this posture...... Tut~~Tut~"
He was so staggered that everyone else was curious.
So, Mr. and Mrs. Morrow, and Vivien got up to look at the photograph in Dumont's hand.
After glancing at it, Lord Moro praised: "Sure enough, it is the style that Her Royal Highness has only the princess, and mortals such as me are really incomparable." ”
Neither Lydrina nor Vivien spoke, but their eyes were glued to the portrait, apparently attracted by the large number of people in the painting.
That's when Rosen gets to business.
"Old man, my business with the princess of the Eastern Realm will only get bigger and bigger, and the materials I purchased from the Eastern Realm pass through your territory, and you will naturally benefit greatly."
"Of course, you can find a way to obstruct it for the sake of Fubos, but please think about how much benefit you can give the Dumont family with Fubo's temperament?"
"Please also think about how much your territory will be reduced by the flood if you have the support of my petrified construction skills?"
"Finally, I have heard that you have many children, and that the youngest fifth daughter, Kassandrin, is not yet married, so why can't you marry this youngest daughter to Shabolai?"
"After all, Shabolai hasn't married a wife yet."
"In this way, no matter who is in power, the Dumont family will prosper, right?"
As soon as the call was finished, Baron Dumont's heart was greatly moved.
The thick beard trembled and trembled, and the eyes rolled and turned, showing its agitated mood.
It took a while for his eyes to refocus on Rosen, but his face was already full of emotion.
"Master Rosen, I have to say, you really have a sharp tooth, and you almost convinced me."
But then he sighed: "Then I'll put a word, as long as Shaboleken marries Kassandrin, I will fully support him!" ”
Rosen smiled slightly: "I have always heard that the five daughters of the old gentleman are as beautiful as the fairies in the sky, as long as the old gentleman is willing to marry the daughter, Xia Bolai will definitely jump into the sky happily, and there is no reason to refuse." ”
"I'm not afraid of Shapole's refusal, I'm afraid the count will be displeased."
As the lord of the highlands, the earl must coordinate the interests of the major families, and it is basically impossible for two children of Ormisia to marry the daughter of the same family.
But Rosen also had a way of circumventing the Count's obstruction.
He immediately gave a solution.
"It's a problem, but you can cook the raw potatoes before the earl nods."
"How is it cooked?"
"For example, if you give birth to a child in Chapole first, the earl will have to nod if he doesn't nod."
It's okay for Shapole to make an ordinary girl's belly bigger, it's nothing more than an illegitimate child.
the belly of the big baron's daughter, then you have to give an explanation!
“.......”
The nobles in the hexagonal hall were stupid, this is not a scoundrel trick.
That's unseemly!
Rosen spread his hands: "It's a bit despicable, but it's definitely effective, isn't it?"
Lord Moro hesitated a little: "This ....... This ......"
I haven't spoken for a long time, and I feel that this thing is outrageous, but it can indeed be done.
Seeing that everyone couldn't accept it, Rosen knew that this matter greatly challenged the tradition, so he immediately changed his elegant statement.
He described it slowly in a soft, gentle voice.
"On a sunny afternoon, two young people met unexpectedly in the garden, and when they looked at each other, they fell in love at first sight, and they thought of each other as soulmates for life."
"So love flourished, I couldn't help it, and accidentally condensed the crystallization of life, although it violated the etiquette, but it was also a romantic story."
"Even a god wouldn't bear to break up this couple, let alone the Earl?"
"Am I right, old man?"
Dumont immediately looked at Rosen with great admiration.
"You kid is really good, no wonder you can do such a big business with the people of the East! I'll bet on you, a lively head. ”
"You let Shapole come to my territory, and I will arrange for him to meet my daughter."
Rosen immediately suggested: "It's better to go to Lord Morrow's Fanggu Town, just say to visit my sister, and Shapole also happens to visit Lord Morrow."
"Well, that's more reasonable, so do as you say."