"What?"

After listening to Grouchy's words, Zhaoming began to wonder if he hadn't woken up for a while.

How could there be such an idea?

Zhaoming looked at Grouchy who forced him to laugh incomprehensibly, and always felt like he had been tricked.

Grouchy waved his hand to show that he was definitely not fooling the lord, although everyone was spreading the scandal between the two of them, he still had confidence in the lord's character (to be honest, he was wrong)

"Please forgive me, as a subordinate, I shouldn't be dictating to your life's affairs."

Looking at Zhaoming, who was a little angry, Groushi slowly explained: "I think this is a beautiful thing, there are many women around you, but the only one who is really suitable is Miss Trisda. The personalities of the two of you also happen to complement each other, and there is a deep bond between each other, I think the relationship between you is probably not as simple as a partner, right? ”

Zhao Ming fell into deep thought, his relationship with Trisda was indeed extraordinary, but on the whole, it was still affectionate and polite.

Ask yourself, Zhaoming knows that he is a womanizer, and Trisda is very beautiful, and there is a rare maturity and stability among other girls, it is impossible to say that he has no crooked thoughts about her!

But Zhaoming still denied Grussy, hoping that his relationship with Trisda would remain pure for a long time to come.

"Our situation is not very good now, and I don't plan to consider these children's relationships for the time being, so I'll leave this issue for later."

Zhaoming ended the discussion, and Grouch also left the office with great interest, leaving the lord alone in silence.

And what is Zhaoming's heart like at this moment?

The answer is choppy!

Zhaoming couldn't calm down for a long time, although he pretended not to know the fireworks in the world on the surface, but his heart was still aroused by Grouchy's words.

"Actually, it doesn't seem impossible, but she shouldn't agree, after all, she probably doesn't like me like this."

"But if it works, it's a good thing! Not to mention, the large amount of money I owe her should not have to be repaid. And I really like it! ”

Looking at the girls around Zhaoming, Elusa is well-behaved and gentle, and her appearance is the top-notch one among ordinary people. This is what Zhaoming likes very much, this kind of well-behaved and obedient girl is a model of a good wife and mother in the minds of many people.

But compared to Trisda, Elusa's appearance is not enough to see.

Trisda's appearance has a sense of seduction, not the kind of coquettishness, but the eyebrows are affectionate, like the secret land of the orchid, mysterious and profound, waiting for people to explore.

And I have to admit that Elusa's background makes her not very good at dressing up, and many of the clothes that Zhaoming gave her have been collected.

And Trisda is much better in this aspect, she is mainly dressed in dark colors, she likes delicately cut skirts very much, and her whole body reveals a sense of maturity that should not belong to the flower girl......

"Wait, what am I thinking?"

Zhaoming woke himself up with a slap, there are still so many things to deal with at the moment, how can he be cranky here?

At this time, in the lord's mansion, Trisda was taking two girls, Elusa and Vanessa, to take inventory.

Trisda sat on her side on the couch, casually checking the bills in her hand, which were all kinds of income and expenditure in Black Rock City during this time, and as the treasurer, she was responsible for managing the government's purse strings.

Vanessa, on the other hand, is accounting for Trisda's personal accounts and the trading company she founded in partnership with the lord, which will be handed over to Trisda when she completes.

The maid Elusa was of little help, she couldn't even read a word, and although she had studied hard at the request of her master, she was not very different from the illiterate at the moment.

Inadvertently, Elusa looked at Trisda on the sofa, her luxurious outfit and otherworldly temperament were far beyond her own.

"Miss Trisda is amazing, she is so beautiful, she knows so much knowledge, she can see so many complex things in one person, and she has studied in a far away place...... Compared to her, I was nothing. ”

Elusa's mood became depressed, and a sense of inferiority arose.

The gap between her and Trisda is not only wealth and status, but also vision and knowledge.

In contrast, although the secretary Vanessa is also ordinary, she is also educated, and the two of them are very rare among girls.

"The master has recently started a school, I wonder if I have a chance to learn it? It's not that I want to prove anything, but I hope that I can become a little more useful, and I can not only be a vase that stays with my master. ”

Although Zhaoming said to the outside world that Elusa was just a maid hired by himself, as long as the brain was not bad, anyone could see that Elusa was actually Zhaoming's concubine.

The housework was taken care of by the other servants hired by Zhaoming, and Elusa was actually very free on weekdays, so she occasionally went to the town hall to help out, or to help Trisda settle the accounts as she did now.

Most of the nobles in this world, or people of status and wealth, will have maids.

Unlike other servants, they do not need to do heavy labor and are also with their masters in their daily lives. Not only can they receive all kinds of exquisite clothes from the hostess, but they also have to learn all kinds of etiquette, and their duty is to increase the face of their master.

Elusa thinks that this is what she is, in every way, and no matter how good Zhaoming is to her, she can't change this fact.

It is worth mentioning that the question of marriage and love in the particular being of knights was greatly influenced by the Templar Church.

The clergy of the Templar Church are strictly monogamous, and the more high-ranking the clergy, the more attention is paid to the issue of personal relationships.

The high-ranking clergy, such as local bishops and cardinals of the College of Cardinals, including the Pope, must be held by celibates, cardinals who cannot be held even if they have been married, and nuns and priests must observe the feast for life.

Influenced by this, knights were often also loyal supporters of this concept of marriage and love.

Many knights dreamed of marrying an ideal wife who could take care of the household for them while they were away in battle, and a gentle and virtuous girl was the ideal type for them.

And there are also a considerable number of knights who are celibates, advocating lifelong non-marriage. They saw it as devotion to Goddess Enya, expressing their abandonment of worldly desires to serve the Goddess.

Comrade Zhaoming was obviously not interested in these ideas at all, and kept concubines at home, had ambiguous affairs with businesswomen, and harassed the nuns of the church from time to time......

These actions would definitely be punished by other knights, but Zhaoming can be said to be completely unconcerned.

......

Meanwhile.

Lindu City.

This is the western gateway of the Kingdom of Tranya, which is hereditary ruled by the Marquis of Lindu.

In the very center of the city, inside a lavishly decorated mansion, a man was beating the thunder.

He wore the purple and gorgeous uniform that the nobles loved, and his body was full of jewels, and his face was even more oily.

He was the Marquis of Lindu, the supreme secular lord of the western kingdom of Tranya.

And he was now frantically cursing Zhaoming and the other Templars: "These knights with their brains in stone dare to oppose me!" Especially that Zhaoming of Black Rock City, who actually colluded with various cities to squeeze out my business! ”

The festival between Zhaoming and Lin Duhou was concluded a long time ago, and Haradin, the agent of Lin Duhou, fished Black Rock City with his support, and I don't know how much wealth was looted for him.

But as Zhaoming and Trisda teamed up to get rid of Haradin, Lin Duhou instantly lost a lot of money.

In the past, he could dump the goods produced in his territory into Black Rock City, especially the sale of grain at a high price.

But since Zhaoming came, the people of Black Rock no longer have to worry about being hungry. And out of revenge, even if Zhaoming didn't give an explicit order, the people of Black Rock City were consciously resisting Lin Duhou.

Later, Lin Duhou learned that Zhaoming was building a foundry, so he cut off the supply of iron ore to Heiyan, hoping to make Zhaoming bow his head.

But he didn't expect that Zhaoming not only didn't have a bird, but also showed his edge in the subsequent demon invasion, and now in the entire western part of the kingdom, the reputation of Zhaoming, the lord of Black Rock, has become louder.

"Damn it!" Lin Duhou gritted his teeth in anger and threw the exquisite ornaments on his desk towards the wall.

The reason why he is like this is because he has just learned that Zhaoming has taken the lead in building roads to connect the territories of the major knights.

You must know that Lin Duhou once wanted to trade with those knights, but they were all rejected with words.

In fact, the knights still maintained their previous attitude, but Zhaoming used the excuse of mutual defense to get them to agree.

But in Lin Duhou's opinion, this is a xenophobia of the knights, as long as it prevents him from making money, he can't get along with him!

After a long period of anger, Lin Duhou summoned his close ministers to meet him.

"What do you command?"

Lin Duhou stroked his angry beard, and looked fiercely to the west, as if he saw the two towering black peaks.

"Gather all the troops and go hunting with me!"

Hearing his master's order, his subordinates were a little puzzled for a while: "My lord, if you are just hunting, it is enough to call two teams of guards, why do you want to gather troops?" ”

Hearing the words of his subordinates, Lin Duhou, who was already angry, became angry again, grabbed his leather boots and threw them on his subordinates' faces.

"Stupid! Of course I'm going to give some color to those knights who don't know what to do! ”

The men covered their injured faces and crawled out of the room, while Lin Duhou looked at the map on the wall, on which there was a landmark marked in red, which was his former source of wealth, Black Rock City!