After making sure that the bag would not be found, Amore exited the room with the key.

The bird flapped its wings, Ryan walked to the window, and his finger tapped a flower pot, and then the seedling in the mud grew wildly, turning into a thornless, slender vine. When the tip of the vine touched the earth, Ryan grabbed the green vine and landed easily through the window, without disturbing the guards guarding the castle.

When Ryan landed on the vine, the vines of dozens of meters automatically retreated into the shape of seedlings, and the sky bird flapped its wings, lazily stopped on Ryan's shoulder, and quietly left the castle with Ryan.

Chapter 22

Amore, who understood Ryan's suggestion, left the lord's room, closed the door, and then tucked the cloth bag containing the Lover's fruit seeds into a hidden underwear pocket.

Amore stood outside the door and pondered, thinking about how she should accomplish Ryan's task, but fortunately she quickly thought of a way, so she held the key firmly in her palm, but deliberately exposed the most shining key tip, and when she walked slowly downstairs, Henry, who came upstairs, seemed to meet her inadvertently.

The status of the maid is lower than that of the housekeeper, and Amore deliberately made a somewhat panicked appearance, put her hands on her abdomen, and smiled uneasily: "Good afternoon, Butler Henry." ”

Henry raised the tip of his nose and looked upstairs, his posture was extremely arrogant, and he asked in a strange manner: "I remember that the maid who served the lord today doesn't seem to be you Amore, what are you going to do when you don't go to work at this time, and you come to the lord?" ”

"Mr. Henry, I ......"

Amore continued to feign hesitation, at a loss as to what to answer, and slowly tried to hide her hands behind her.

The hand moved back, and the streamer from the tip of the key shone with the flames on the wall, attracting Henry's attention.

Henry looked down at Amore's clenched palm, and as he approached, he lowered his voice and threatened, "What are you holding in your hand?" Tell me, and if you don't say anything, I'll have you arrested and handed over to the convoy for interrogation. ”

"Please, don't."

Amore was immediately 'frightened' to beg for mercy, and stood there for a few seconds before she looked at Henry with moist, tearful eyes and whispered, "There was a thief in the lord's room, and when he went out to chase the thief, he gave me the key to the lord's room, and told me to water the plants later." ”

"Thief?"

Henry muttered in his heart I don't know, a little disbelief, but seeing that the expression on Amore's face didn't seem to be fake, he said lightly: "What key?" Show me? ”

Amore feigned hesitation, Henry snorted heavily, and Amore quickly and carefully spread her hands, holding a silver-gray key in her palm.

The silver-gray key shimmers with dreamy streamers throughout, contrasting with the daylight shining through the cross window, looking rare and precious.

Henry didn't believe Amore's simple words when it was such a beautiful key, and he knew that the key to Ryan's room was not the one.

Henry didn't know what this key was used for, he just glanced at the key, and evil thoughts arose in his heart.

Henry's footsteps paused for a second, and then he suddenly took a big step forward, grabbed the key in his palm, and looked at Amore with disdain and mocked: "The key is placed here with me, how can you be qualified to get the key of the lord, I see that you have a demon hidden in your heart, and you are in a position where you can't get it with delusion." ”

There was a strong insult in his words, and tears immediately flowed from Amore's eyes, and she lowered her head and covered her face with her hands, not daring to let Henry look at the expression on her face at this moment.

"If the lord asks, I think you know how to answer."

Henry didn't feel pity for her tears, but thought he must have guessed Amore's thoughts.

Amore nodded with tears.

Henry snorted triumphantly, tucked the key into the inner pocket of his coat, and walked quickly upstairs with a pace that did not fit his size.

When Henry's figure disappeared, Amore did not completely relax her vigilance, wiped a few tears from her cheeks with her sleeve, pursed her lips and continued to fake crying, and after confirming that there was no one around, she secretly went to the back garden of Lane's castle.

"This is what the lord asked me to give you."

Amore handed Bart the sack containing the Lover's Fruit seeds, and then took a different route back to where she was working today.

Bart and Suo reclaimed the new fields, planted the Lover's Fruit seeds brought by Amore, and left the castle to pay remotely, and the Sunflower Flower Elf appeared in the place where it disappeared yesterday, holding the petal nectar in its hand, and splashing the rain of life that nourishes the plants in the sun.

*

After leaving the castle, Ryan put on the mage hood provided by the system's friendship and went to the richest part of his domain, Oran.

Although it is said to be the richest place, it is actually not much richer.

As far as the eye can see, there are only a few equipment shops, dilapidated inns, and vendors flanking it to form a shopping street, more taverns and barbecue shops, followed by Oran's only magic shop, which sells only ordinary potions.

Ryan lifted his hood and walked down the gravel streets, ignoring the vague gazes of others, and comforted himself while communicating with the system, "Maybe it's because of the day, people are busy with work now." ”

"It might be a little more crowded in the evening, but it's not much better."

The system goes back in time to tell Ryan the real situation, "It's been nearly a decade since no traveling merchant came to Oran. ”

"How so? Is it so poor that people feel that there is no commercial value here? ”

Ryan was not discouraged by the system's words, and thought silently in his heart, "When the lover's fruit is ripe, various products are promoted, and then the economy is driven, it should not be long before it can attract the attention of foreign businessmen... Right? ”

He had to lead some people to get rich first.

System: "I hope so." ”

System: "Tell you a secret secret, in fact, your people are not as poor as you think." ”

Ryan smiled, "Okay, I believe what you told you to keep the secret. ”

System: "......"

Let him believe it.

Ryan stood on the side of the road and looked around for a moment, then walked into an adventurer's guild.

When Ryan pushed the door open, the chairman at the bar raised his head lazily, and immediately got up after seeing Ryan's outfit, and asked uncertainly, "This honorable ...... Mr. Magician? ”

His tone was hesitant and uncertain, and the few people standing in front of the commission turned their heads sideways.

Orlan hadn't seen a new mage in years, and they were all a little surprised, but Ryan's robes and hood were indeed the only clothes that only magicians could wear.

The Sky Bird was hidden in Ryan's hood, and no one noticed that the magician in front of him was actually Lord Oran.

"Shhh

Ryan lowered his voice and answered softly, walking towards the Adventurer's Guild Leader, casually placing a silver coin on the bar, "I want to ask you something." ”

Before entering, he wanted to inquire about buying the storefront, but after entering, Ryan reacted, as a lord, he has the right to trade all the land in Orlan, but it doesn't seem to be very good to come in and go out immediately, so he might be able to get some useful information if he just tries it.

*

Henry took the key from Amore's hand, went upstairs, turned around and saw Amore crying and walking away, and then walked towards the lord's room.

"Honorable lord?"

Slowly stopping outside Ryan's room, Henry raised his hand and knocked softly on the door, but no one responded for half a day.

"Lord Ryan?"

Henry accentuated his tone as he tried to open the door, only to find that there was no lock. He softly pushed the door open, and the room was empty, not even the bird that could tame the flaming horse.

Henry pondered where Ryan had gone, walked lightly to the balcony, looked out the window, looked down, and saw that the soil in the pot had been turned over.

The active-minded Henry glanced at the door, then bent over and half-crouched on the ground, turning the dirt vigorously, but he did not know that bad luck had befallen him.

*

Ryan stood outside the door of the Adventurer's Guild with a subtle expression on his face. Henry borrowed the lord's name to collect a lot of inexplicable taxes, but none of these taxes were recorded.

In addition, the leader of the Adventurer's Guild, he seems to be interested in getting close to Ryan, who has become a mage, and uses that silver coin as an excuse, in addition to telling Ryan what he asked, he also unintentionally told him some secrets between Henry and the previous lord.

When Ryan walked out of the Adventurer's Guild, the members of the guild came over with some confusion and asked why the guild leader had told a stranger so many secrets about Oran.

The leader of the Adventurer's Guild looked at the guild gate until Ryan's figure disappeared before he spoke, "Our new lord, he also seems to be a magician. ”

Yes or no, there's nothing wrong with saying it anyway.

They are adventurers, adventurers who call home wherever they are.

*

After leaving the Adventurers' Guild, Ryan went around the neighborhood for a long time, and returned to the castle when the sun was about to set, and instead of riding the vines, he took off his hood and walked towards the door.

"Welcome back, honorable Lord Lane."

The soldiers on both sides stood outside the door with weapons in hand to welcome Ryan's return, there was some confusion in their eyes, and everyone didn't know when the lord had gone out.

Chef Bunier had already prepared dinner, which he had not yet learned to stir-fry, and it was still a variety of bacon and hard brown bread.

Ryan didn't have much appetite, so he ate some simply, and before he was about to go back to the room, Ryan looked sideways at Henry, who was waiting on the side.

Henry saw that his lips were slightly open, and his brows suddenly wrinkled, and he panicked in his heart, mistakenly thinking that what he had done during the day was discovered by Lane, so he preemptively asked, "Dear Lord Lane, do you have anything you need to tell me to do?" ”

He didn't dare to mention the theft, for fear that Ryan would ask him how he knew. Moreover, something had been lost in the castle, which was a breach of his duty as a steward, and Henry had kept the key in his bosom, and he did not wish to be here even if he wanted to mention it.

Ryan nodded, "Yes." ”

In the end, in Henry's nervous eyes, Ryan didn't mention the key, but asked Henry to plan the place he had been during the day into a commercial street, and-

Ryan looked at Henry and said, "I want all the bills of Orlan, as well as the plan and title deeds of the territory. ”

Hearing these little things, Henry's nervous mood immediately relaxed, and he thought to himself that Amore really didn't have to tell the truth.

Henry pretended to be a gentleman and bowed his head, "Honorable lord, I will deliver the bill to your room later." ”

Ryan said yes, turned and left the dining room, and returned to his bedroom in a leisurely manner.

*

When Ryan returned to the bedroom, he found that the soil on the surface of the flower pot by the window had been refilled. Hanging up his coat, Ryan stood by the window, the system telling him all about what had happened in the castle since he left.

A soft wind blew in through the cross-colored windows, and magic lamps lit up in the room.

Ryan looked out the window at the sudden fall of the boundless night to ban the crimson sunset, the golden and red double moon descended with the stars, he couldn't help but feel the wonder of the world, and the nightingale could be faintly heard singing in the distance.

After having eaten his fill, the bird returned to his nest to rest, and soon there was a knock on Henry's door, and at the same time he was heard saying, "Your honorable lord, I have brought all the bills of Orlan in the past, as you commanded. ”

"Come in."

Ryan said hello in the room, and Henry gently pushed the door open with one hand, and his heart skipped a pound when he saw Ryan standing by the window, but Lane's attention was not on the plants.

Ryan looked sideways at Henry, "Put things on the table." ”

Henry bowed his head and obeyed his command, and went into the room as if nothing had happened, and laid a thick stack of yellowed parchments on the table.

Ryan walked from the window to the table and sat down in his chair.

The corners of the parchment rolls showed signs of being smoked and burned, Ryan pinched the top few parchment rolls in his hands, looked at the dates, frowned and said to Henry: "The dates of these bills are not right, the time span is too large, I want all the bills, all." ”

It's not just a gap of one or two days, it's a time span of several months.

The amount before and after the figures vary greatly, and in addition to the usefulness of the title deed, the bill is simply a pile of useless waste leather.

"Please listen to me."

Henry seemed to have anticipated Ryan's reaction at this moment, looked up at him and said unhurriedly: "When the previous lord died, his son Cole set a fire in the castle and took all his property to the territory of the high nobles, which is already the most complete bill for Orlan that we have saved from the fire. ”