596 There will be dark clouds after all
In the Chamber of Commerce in Harvey City, President Douglas looked at his daughter and was a little speechless with excitement.
The businessman's greatest wish is to become a nobleman, but this is too slim. It is true that many merchants have become nobles, but most of them are empty titles, such as lords, or honorary knights. It is very difficult for a merchant to become a true nobleman, not that there is none, but that there are too few of them.
And Beta gave a real knighthood...... Barons, though only the lowest barons, are fundamentally different from those honorary titles.
"Daughter, you've been with that Beta Lord for a while, what do you think of him?" Douglas suppressed his excitement and asked, "Whether, for example, is his credibility credible?" ”
Amanda smiled, "Father, as merchants, we are not qualified to question a young and promising pioneering lord. And the other party is still a master-level powerhouse...... Well, he's still a priest, and with so many statuses combined, he's more likely to think about our ability to fully account for the task than for us to doubt him. ”
Douglas laughed dryly, his face full of embarrassment.
But after all, it was in front of his daughter, and he was stunned and asked, "Is there anything he needs us to do?" ”
"This is his request." Amanda handed over a piece of paper.
Douglas took it and read it, then touched his head and took a breath: "If you really do this, it will almost wipe out our family's old bottom." ”
Amanda smiled, "But even so, it's worth it." This condition is relatively loose. If you don't want to, I think a lot of businessmen are willing to empty their old bottoms, and even if this condition is doubled, there are a lot of people who are willing to do it. ”
"I know, I know." Douglas waved his hand: "I'm just sighing, just with the strength of our chamber of commerce, it's a bit difficult, can we find more people?" ”
"The conditions are here, as long as we do it, Lord Beta will grant us the title." Amanda rubbed her eyebrows: "That is, His Excellency Beta is having some difficulties now, and I brought it up in front of him, so that I have the opportunity, and if it is exchanged for other lords or other times, there will definitely be no such opportunity." ”
Douglas let out a long sigh, "Baron...... I remember my father, your grandfather, before he died, pointed to the pile of gold coins in the house, and scolded him, saying that these things could not be exchanged for power, that they were useless, and that they would not be blind to death. I thought that I would be like him for more than twenty or thirty years, looking at a pile of gold coins and regretting in vain, but I didn't expect that such an opportunity suddenly appeared now. ”
Amanda also sighed, she had been helping her father look at the Chamber of Commerce for several years, and she knew how vulnerable a businessman without a backer was in front of the aristocracy.
"When we complete the tasks assigned by His Excellency Beta, our family will be considered a person with status, and we will have to have a nice surname." Douglas was a little fascinated when he thought about the glorious days after his family became a nobleman, and then he suddenly thought of something: "Actually, our family can go further...... What do you think of Beta, is it your ideal object? ”
As soon as she heard this, Amanda knew what her father was thinking. She shook her head and smiled bitterly, "I do have to admit that Beta is a good marriage partner, but his external environment is so bad that I don't want to go into it again." ”
Douglas didn't understand for a moment: "You mean, his current situation is dangerous. ”
"That's not what it means." Amanda said amusefully: "Beta has too many women to like, and they are all top women. Ms. Shirley won't talk about it, you've seen it too. He also has the little princess Emma by his side, the former queen Angel, Jessica, Carty and many other beauties, who are not better than me. They've built a terrible love hell around Beta, and I'm stupid to jump into it. ”
Seeing that Amanda didn't look like she was lying, Douglas reluctantly gave up his thoughts.
The next day, many merchants in Harvey knew about it, in essence, these news were deliberately released by Douglas, mainly to attract other businessmen to come up, cooperate with him, and jointly complete the task assigned by Beta, of course, he must be the leader of this matter, and other people assist, and afterwards he must be a baron, and the co-ordinator will get the benefits he promised.
Then, the Chamber of Commerce, which had already seemed to be in decline, suddenly became crowded.
The Holy War had begun, and Beta had estimated that it would be at least a year or so before Wokin City would be involved, but today he received news that a strange location had been found outside Workin City, which seemed to have signs of evil god sacrifices.
The site was discovered by a frostwolf warrior, and in the woods to the west of the city, there was a very secret hut, in which three corpses, all women, were found, they had been mutilated into several pieces, and some important internal organs were missing. The foul stench was scattered far away, and only the frostwolf clan with a keen sense of smell could barely feel the smell of carrion here.
"Check, we must find out about this." Looking at the miserable image in the house, he coldly gave the order.
Then the official forces of the entire city of Wojin were mobilized, and after a thorough investigation, it was found that the three bodies were the new slave girls in the city, and they had disappeared for three days, because these slave girls had just arrived and had no relatives or friends, so they disappeared, and no one cared.
But there are still no clues about the murderer.
Undeterred, Beta, he continued to investigate, and offered a bounty in the form of five silver coins for anyone who provided clues and confirmed the truth.
Within ten days, Beta received more than 100 so-called messages, and after finding more than 10 similar and related clues, the murderer was finally eliminated.
Beta thought that the murderer must be an outsider, but he didn't expect that it was actually the original citizen, a Yorkist male.
Emaciated males.
The ashamed Lloyd, who had inflicted unimaginable torture on this people, finally plucked a message out of his mouth.
The God of Killing has set his sights on this place, and in addition to him, there are four followers of the God of Killing and Poking who have infiltrated the city.
But the Yorkists did not know their identities.
After giving the Yorkist a blow to him, Lloyd fell to his knees in front of Beta in fear and shame.