End of verse 91

Wallonia is not far from Brasian. Ordinary people walk for about ten days and eight days, and if you change to a fast horse and light car, this journey can be shortened to one to two days. If you can travel overnight and change horses on the way (there are inns or inns on the side of the road), you can arrive in one day and one night at the earliest.

A few minutes later, she handed a letter of authorization for the dispatch of funds to her subordinates.

"Tomorrow," said Shirley, "well, I think it's over." ”

She estimated the time. Even if we set off now, we will arrive at Wallonia as fast as possible, at least tomorrow evening. From this point of view, Ashrufat will not receive any assistance within tomorrow.

As can be inferred from today's situation, he has only a very limited amount of money left in his hands. Otherwise, he would not have let his two fiancées rush to Wallonia at night.

"Tomorrow cannot be the way of today and yesterday. She commanded in particular. "It's best to settle the big picture in the morning, and in short, it must not be delayed until the day after tomorrow. ”

The next day, at dawn, she came to the position she had pre-selected. Specifically, it is a single-storey house next to the warehouse of the Shuangma Chamber of Commerce. The house looked very ordinary and old, but it happened to have a window facing the warehouse opposite. A person with a keen eye can easily see the price of the opposite goods through the window, but it is difficult for outsiders to find out.

It was still early, and the whole city was still in the silence characteristic of dawn. There are hardly any pedestrians on the road, and there are no horse vehicles. Shirley stood in front of the window, looking out at the city, filled with the joy of victory.

The most troublesome kind of situation did not arise...... Should be able to get everything done today. At that time, the Oro Chamber of Commerce is doomed to bankruptcy, and the two Griffin sisters who have the guarantee liability will have to compensate as guarantors - of course, they can't lose so much money, all their cash, jewelry, and other things that are easier to exchange should all be turned into Gollie, and they will be thrown into this futures gamble, and the rest of the real estate or anything will not be able to cope with the loss of the bankruptcy of the Chamber of Commerce.

After the matter was over, she deliberately calculated the result after the dust settled. The Griffin family would go bankrupt, as would Eshurufat, as had he had borrowed too much money from the local squire nobles to repay. The two sisters were in good condition, and in the worst case, they also had an aunt, the Countess Marianne, an old woman who had always been very powerful, and who also had a lot of wealth. But Ashrufat's fate was more tragic. Nine times out of ten, the marriage ended, and he himself had to go to jail for loan fraud. The death penalty is not enough, but hard labor cannot be escaped. Since my sister likes him, I will spend a little money to buy him for my own service. The thought of the haughty-looking man who had to bow his head in front of him...... Well, it's really exciting.

In fact, that man is not bad, and he is also very good...... If he's good enough, it's good to be a lover...... Well, but my sister is here...... Actually, it doesn't matter. Anyway, she never had the intention of entrusting her life to a man. Even if it is a marriage, it can only be a façade. She has to be the one who rules everything.

Of course, it is also possible that Ashrufat will abandon everything and choose to flee, and then go incognito. However, this situation is not taken into account......

The morning sun casts its own light on the streets. Today is another sunny day, and pedestrians are starting to appear on the streets. As time passed, there were more and more pedestrians, and there were more vehicles and horses. The warehouse that was originally closed has also opened, and several staff members of the Double Horse Chamber of Commerce are busy inside and out, preparing for today's opening. In about half an hour, today's futures trading will begin.

Shirley's gaze stopped at a figure on the side of the road, and he recognized it as Ashrufat. He's coming, no, he's supposed to be. He'd already lost all his money in this deal, and he must be suffering like hell!!, thinking of this, she couldn't help but smile inwardly.

Although the man named Ashrufat was indeed quite unexpected, it was finally over.

She sat down. This house is rented by her temporarily, the lease period is only one month, the house is actually not big, and there is no extra furniture in the room now, only a table and a few chairs. The room was filled with a musty smell peculiar to an old house – of course, at the moment, even that smell was pleasant.

On the table was a bottle of mulled liqueur. Although Shirley is not a drinker, she now pours herself a small glass as well. Sweet wine tastes as good as victory. She slowly pondered her future. After the futures trading is over, she not only completes the task, but also earns herself an extra sum of money. A lot of money. Then she will be a free person, and her chamber of commerce will start functioning...... Within this country, she will need the protection of her biological father for a while, but soon, she will be out of this level......

Although many people look down on merchants, in fact, the powerful chamber of commerce has the strength to be lost to the king. In fact, the powerful chambers of commerce could easily even make the king bow his head. Through the flow and use of money, she will establish a kingdom of her own......

Shirley returns to reality from alcohol and her own fantasies. She returned to the window and saw that there were already quite a few people in the warehouse. Futures trading has not yet begun, but the futures operator she appointed is already in place. That's a trustworthy veteran with a lot of experience. Shirley believed that it would be more appropriate for him to intervene than to do it herself. And he also sent a partner,

Futures trading should have begun, and Shirley could see a clerk from the Twin Horse Chamber of Commerce (his uniform quite eye-catching) come to the fur counter and change to a new price code—a little lower than before.

Although this is normal. But Shirley still felt a little strange in her heart. Strange, didn't I order everything to end in the morning? But then again, he should have been in a good way. The trading of futures is by no means the kind of desperate smashing up with money with closed eyes, but requires all kinds of skills to win allies and isolate enemies.

After a short while, another clerk came over and changed the price of the fur to a card...... It's a little lower than just now. Now Shirley believes that her men have not made a bid at all.

After waiting for a long time, the price has not fluctuated. Judging from this, it should be that her subordinates are gradually taking over, slowly exhausting the other party's financial resources in this position, and pulling up in one fell swoop. Of course, these are things that are easy to say and complicated to do—in a sense, like needlework. Anyone can do it with a needle through the fabric, but it takes some professional skill to cut a garment out of it.

Shirley sat at the table very bored, maybe she was too excited or too relaxed last night, so that she didn't sleep well all night, but at this time, the Sandman unconsciously surfaced and slowly occupied her mind.

An inexplicable throbbing made her suddenly sober up. Her first instinct was to look out the window. The sun outside the window was already quite bright - I had slept too long, she told herself. It was close to noon...... By the way, what happened to futures prices?

But before she could reach the window, the door to the room was pushed open from the outside. Two men walked in. It was none other than her men, one a futures trader he had hired from Walloon on the other, an assistant sent by her blood father—at least nominally. This man was a butler of the Duke of Byron, whose name was Turner. It was she who sent these two men to trade in futures.

"You ......," she tried to speak, but the angry look on the trader's face caused most of her words to drown out to her throat. What's going on?,she thought with trepidation.

"Miss Shirley," said Turner. His voice was calmer, and his countenance was unrecognizable. "Ashrufat invested a lot of money this morning and we have run out of money. ”

"Impossible!" she exclaimed. How is that possible? No, it is possible...... If Ashrufat could really borrow all the money from those people, the local squire nobles—even some secret savings that no one knew about—he would have exactly that much money!

How can it be like this, how can it be like this?!

"What are we going to do?" asked Turner.

Shirley used all her self-control to keep herself seated at the table. How could that be? Her mind went blank. She had no money! But how could it end like this? That Ashrufat must have only the last little money left! But the last little bit of money, maybe a few thousand or even a few hundred Quiolis, decided the outcome of the war.

"You go out first. Shirley said to the trader. Immediately after the latter left, Shirley took out a piece of paper and signed a document authorizing the funds. "Give this to him. She handed the paper to Turner. "Fifty thousand quills. ”

"Miss Shirley...... You already run out of money. This document does not make sense...... It's a scam!"

"That's right. Shirley's eyes were fixed on the other man's face, and her voice was calm and almost cold. "Because I am a big customer and have the credit of a big customer, if I dispatch less than 50,000 gold orioles, the chamber of commerce will not directly proofread my fund limit immediately. It will take two or three days to get them proofreading...... It will take seven or eight days to investigate and collect evidence, and this decisive battle will have a result today. Wait until this side wins or loses...... Even if the matter is exposed, this matter can still be solved with money!"

"What if that money isn't enough?"

"How could it not be enough?!Didn't he already let his fiancée go to Walloon City to mortgage her assets?" Shirley unconsciously raised her voice, as much as she wanted to speak calmly. "This is the worst of the worst!"

"Miss Shirley, I warn you. You are not a nobleman, if you are guilty of fraud of this magnitude...... You're going to be sold as a slave, even your sister, because you're a big customer. Turner said. But he saw Shirley staring at him sharply, so he took the document in his hand, bowed, and left.

You can't go wrong, it's the last blow!" Shirley watched Turner leave, and then she suddenly felt dizzy.

"Oh God!" she didn't go to the window to see the price change over there, or her sanity could no longer bear the pressure. Even before she knew it, she was already muttering prayers to the gods. Although she had cursed them countless times. But at this moment, which carried her destiny and her future, she began to pray again.

I don't know how long it took for her to hear the door open again. She turned her head and saw only Turner.

"How's it going?" she wanted to ask, but she didn't even have the courage to speak.

"Miss Shirley," Turner's face was also unsightly. "We followed your orders and threw 50,000 gold Oli into it in one go. But...... Ashrufat was right in front of me, and he placed two big orders without concealment, each with 100,000 gold ori. ”