At noon on September 26th, in the banquet hall of the Benma River in Yeqicheng, the hall was surrounded by square tables to form a buffet table, dozens of round tables were concentrated at the back of the hall, and a large area was set aside in the front, where the barbarian choir and dance team sang and danced.

This is a welcome luncheon for the newly arrived mages and knights, and since last month, 40 high-level and hundreds of middle-level Galloping Horse families have arrived in the Imperial Capital, Dragon's Tooth City, Holy City, and various galloping horse families.

These people include mages and knights from the Imperial Capital School, the Tower of Purity, and the support of big families such as the White Owl and the Red Dragon, as well as the remnants of local families such as Galloping Horses, Elk, Maned Wolves, and Frost Wolves, who come to try their luck.

The addition of dozens of magisters and high-ranking knights instantly accelerated the construction speed of Night Qicheng, and a number of mansion courtyards were built in the southern part of the city, and a magister tower was expanded. Around these high-end residences, a small commercial block is formed.

In the banquet hall, Huck Galloping Horse and Cardinal shuttled back and forth between the tables, toasting with the archmages, knights, and high priests of various families.

Since the high-ranking people were eating in another small restaurant, the most distinguished guest in the Grand Ballroom was Kempins Maned Wolf, Earl of the Northwest Territory, who gathered here with the new Viscount of Whitetree City, Geo Mormont, and the nobles of the Northwest Territory to celebrate the Northwest Territory's return to Whitetree City.

Huck saluted, and finally returned to Count Kempins, and asked respectfully: "Lord Earl, I think you should still go to the small hall with Rant, today several high-ranking members of the Blue Dragon family are here, specially to celebrate Gurea becoming a high-rank!" ”

The Earl was noncommittal to Huck's words, and the reason why he insisted on staying here was because the guests in the Grand Ballroom included almost all the vassals of the Northwest Territory, and he wanted to find some presence here, rather than go to Rand and give the high-ranking people a smile.

Looking at Huck, the Earl smiled and beckoned to the other side, and a young woman came over and leaned on his side, and the smile in the corner of Kempin's eyes became even stronger, and said to Huck: "Huck, this is Jessica White Owl, my late wife's cousin niece, you don't know that when I see her, it's like seeing Ariana." ”

At the mention of Ariana Red Dragon, Count Kempins' eyes were a little moist, and the girl on the side quickly took out a silk handkerchief from her chest, wiped the earl's cheeks, and said softly: "Kempins, don't mention sad things again." ”

Jessica and Kempins showed affection as if no one was around, hugged each other and walked to the next lounge, closed the door and went to rest.

Huck was stunned by such a scene, and he didn't even notice that Viscount Whitetree City and Viscount Elk came behind him.

"Huck, what's wrong with Earl Kempins, I haven't seen him so interested in little girls in all these years?" The new Viscount of White Tree City, Jeo Mormont, touched his head, feeling that he no longer knew his feudal lord.

"Hmph, you haven't seen it, Lord Earl has been cursed by that over the years, so he doesn't have any vitality," Viscount Elk deliberately accentuated the word "vitality", and his expression was a little playful, "You don't know, this Lady Jessica is still our Earl who met in Night Qicheng City!" ”

"Huh? With us? Huck wondered, "I don't remember one of Rant's men!" ”

"How could it be that someone from your family is hiding here by the eldest son of a certain big family," Viscount Elk became more and more quiet, "Fernando Maned Wolf!" ”

Jao and Huck grew their mouths at the same time, not daring to speak, neither of them expected that the aesthetics of the maned wolf Count father and son overlapped so much.

……

While the Grand Ballroom was still full of content, in another small restaurant, Rand had just finished entertaining a group of high-ranking guests, and after the Magus from all over the world said goodbye to Rand and Grua with satisfaction, they went out to the Grand Ballroom to socialize.

"Huh~" Lan and Gureya, who had sent off the guests, breathed a long sigh at the same time, neither of them were lively people, and the guests at the table were not friends or relatives, the two of them really had nothing to say to them, and it was easy to finish the meal.

In the small restaurant, there are not only Rand and Gruya left, Gruya's two elder brothers, Susie Lanyuan, who represents the royal capital, and Julian Zhuoqin, who came from the imperial capital, are still here, these people are very familiar with Rand and Gleia, and the atmosphere in the restaurant is naturally much more relaxed.

Susie looked at the expressions of the two people and couldn't help laughing: "Hahaha, you two are so funny, obviously you are not good at socializing, and you have to force a smile." ”

"Hmph," Gutov looked at Susie and laughed, after the last ball, Gureya's brothers had a very good impression of Susie, "Gureya doesn't like to be polite to others when she is young, she never talks much if she can read a book, and it is already the limit to be able to drink with so many people today!" ”

Julian Zhuoqin looked at the two of them, and shook his head with a smile and said: "You can't do this, there are so many people in a castle who can be upgraded, and there is not even one who can be promoted, you will become a duke in the future, and you have to hold a banquet every month, what can you do?" ”

At the mention of gossip, Susie Ke was energetic, and quickly answered: "That's it, I've seen Wendy and Cardinal before, and it doesn't look like I love Zhang Luo, you can't let Princess Yaweni calm down every time in the future, right?" ”

"This is also an idea, focusing on a cold ......"

Before Julian could finish speaking, the door of the small dining room was opened again, and a plump girl, with brown-red hair scattered on her white and tender fragrant shoulders, and only a large wide scarf on her upper body, twisted into the dining room.

The girl's entry shocked everyone present, and if they didn't see the tail fin of her lower body, they thought it was Rand's concubine who had just come to eat after taking a bath.

"Marquis of Rand, thank you for having me! I'm Lenikova! The girl smiled and nodded, holding the scarf with her left hand, and twisted her right hand to the edge of the table with a simple salute to prepare the dry meal.

Everyone looked at Rand, especially Gruya's two elder brothers, with a bit of "you are aesthetically pleasing enough" expression in their eyes, and Susie was even more excited to come over and ask: "Marquis of Rand, is there such a beautiful woman hidden in your castle?" Why don't you introduce it? ”

The finless porpoise girl rolled her eyes and said with a smile: "Susie Knight? I'm Lenikova, right? Have you forgotten me? When you first fell into a tributary of the Galloping Horse River on a griffin, I rescued you, and you were ready to repay me with your own promise! ”

"Huh?" Susie was stunned for a moment, looking at the girl in front of her like her brain was down, and then looked at the tail fin under her, her cheeks flushed, "Column...... Lenikova? How did you end up here? ”

"Oh, my dear, didn't I come here for you? I know that your heart will always belong to the sky and the sea, so I came here to look for you, just to elope with you, I still remember that golden afternoon, when you were just developing ......"

Susie covered Lenikova's mouth in horror, afraid that she would be able to say something, and even hugged the finless porpoise in a panic, and the huge square scarf instantly fell to the ground.

"She ......" Gureya saw that the girl was about to have an accident, and hurriedly walked over to help her, but she didn't expect that under Lenikova's scarf, there was actually a bandeau skirt that was not too short, that is to say, Lenikova deliberately used a square scarf to make herself look like she had just come out of the water, and ran to the restaurant to play a prank.

"Master Lenikova, how did you get here?"

At this time, Neil finally entered the restaurant, and looked at everything in front of him and knew that it was the finless porpoise mage who was playing a prank again, and along the way, she had done all kinds of nonsense, and had already desensitized the whole team, and as soon as she arrived at Padmila Castle, she ran into the restaurant to work hard.

The finless porpoise mage put his arm around Susie and said disdainfully to Neil: "Hmph, this is my eldest lady, if you are disobedient in the future, I will go back to Dragon's Tooth City with her and ignore you!" ”

(End of chapter)