"Hey, hey!"

The door opened, and Alan looked back, and Adele strode in. Behind her, she was followed by several maids, each holding a silver platter with various dishes in her hand. They looked at Adele and Allen with a smile of implicit meaning on their faces. Adele stretched out her hand and pointed at the table next to her, and the maids put the dishes on the table.

"What is this?"

Adele walked up to Allen, leaned down and said, "No matter how busy you are with work, you can't forget to eat, my lord of the city!" ”

The girl exuded an indescribable sense of oppression, and Alan shrank back with a dry smile. Adele's distance was so close that the silhouette of a pair of peaks was already faintly visible under the neckline.

After the maids went out, Alan pressed the girl to the chair. He shrugged his shoulders and picked up his knife and fork to seriously wipe out the food on the table. Adele is much more elegant, and the knife in her hand always deftly cuts the right meat/piece on the steak and then uses a fork to put it in her mouth. After a while of chewing, it is put into the stomach.

While eating, Adele said: "I have read the recent financial report of the city, and during this period our expenditure gap is too big, and our income is a drop in the bucket. If it continues like this, it will soon be unsupportable. ”

"I know, just swept Dick's den the other day and got some loot. Selling them can be a lot of money. "Alan has already started to eliminate the second kebab.

"And then?" Adele said angrily: "Are you going to make money by cleaning the thieves' den?" Lord Allen, there's only one Dick in the Bloodrock Wasteland. ”

"And what is your opinion?" Alan humbly asked.

Adele pursed her lips, raised her chin slightly and said, "You finally asked the right person." ”

"You know, your subordinates don't necessarily have all of them honest. I've been walking around the city lately, and the mansions of the adults are no worse than yours in terms of size, except for their smaller scale. "Adele was born into an aristocratic family, and her eye for connoisseurship is beyond Allen's ability. She smiled and said, "I'm sure that these big and small officials will not have less private property in their hands, this is ready-made wealth." ”

Alan was taken aback, "Do you want me to confiscate their property?" ”

"Of course not, then they won't have to rebel." The girl raised a finger and shook it and said, "Raise funds." We simply treated urban construction as a business, raising money from officials and civilians and raising funds in the form of stocks. Of course, they shouldn't know what stocks are, so we might as well do it in a different way, such as bonds or something. In the future, they can distribute dividends according to the proportion of their capital contributions. ”

"You can also consider opening it up to merchants, like those in Violet Harbor, who should have more money at their disposal. Putting money into investment and making money with money is something that businessmen will not refuse. In this way, our financial situation will improve, and with a large amount of money, it will also help to accelerate the development of the city. ”

Allen's eyes lit up and he said, "That's a good idea." Adele, your little head is just good. ”

"Hmph, don't put a top hat on Miss Ben. If you're sincere, think about rewarding me with something! ”

"What do you want?" Alan asked casually, and took a sip of a glass of red wine next to him.

"I'm going to marry you."

Alan almost didn't squirt out a sip of wine, he coughed a few times, looked at Adele and said, "Are you kidding?" ”

Adele stood up, and under the reflection of the light, for some reason, there was a lonely atmosphere on the girl's body. Alan found out that today Adele was wearing a skirt instead of her usual neutral outfits. The skirt has been modified, and the skirt is piled up with lace to create a fluffy feeling. A pair of thin legs extend from the foot of the skirt, and the light outlines the graceful leg line on it.

Alan couldn't help but be a little nervous, and the atmosphere in the room seemed to become a little ambiguous. He was just about to find an excuse to slip away, but saw Adele coming over. The girl let her hair fall apart, and the strands of hair that fell casually softened Adele's sharp outline. She walked all the way up to Alan, stretched out her legs, and climbed into the chair in a kneeling position.

The chest, which had grown a little bulging, almost hit Allen's face.

Adele lowered her head, her hair slipping down, blocking her and Allen's faces. In the faint light that came through her hair, Alan only saw the girl's two delicate red lips.

The red lips opened lightly, and Adele said softly: "Do I look like a joke?" ”

"Isn't it appropriate to talk about this now?" Alan hurriedly tried to push her away, but the two were too close, and as soon as his hand was extended, he pressed a ball of soft/flesh.

Adele groaned softly, and instead of retreating, she almost hit Allen's chest.

Just as he was about to get out of control, suddenly the door was pushed open, and Lucy's excited voice sounded from outside the door: "Alan, look, I've unlocked this box...... Hey, what are you doing? ”

Adele raised her head, reached out to pull her hair, and puffed out her chest demonstratively, so that Alan's unplaced hand looked so dazzling. Lucy's mouth opened into an "O" shape, and Adele snorted, "Alan said that my hand feels better than yours, double ponytail." ”

"What!" Lucy reached out and patted her chest and said, "How dare you compare to Miss Ben with your cherry-like thing?" ”

Adele sneered: "That's better than your two green plums!" ”

"......" Alan interjected, "Why don't we discuss something else?" ”

"Shut up!" The two girls said in unison.

Adele jumped down, stretched and said to Lucy, "Miss Ben is full, if you haven't eaten yet, you can stay, there are still a lot of dishes left." ”

She blinked and laughed all the way away. Lucy couldn't hear her pun, so she stomped her foot and closed the door, and said angrily, "What did you just do?" ”

"I didn't do anything, don't listen to Adele's nonsense, it was just an accident." Alan said.

"Hmph, if I hadn't arrived in time, she would have eaten you."

Alan reached out and grabbed her and said, "Can I eat it like that?" ”

Lucy looked at him seriously and nodded, "Like!" ”

Alan snorted and slapped her pink/buttocks: "Say, what were you excited about just now?" ”

Lucy raised the box in her hand, a box of fraud from the ancestral graveyard of the Bemonites. She said triumphantly, "I've unlocked the mechanism of the box, and inside is a ciphertext and map. There are no signs on the map, and I think the answer should be in ciphertext. But I'm going to need a little more time to unravel the ciphertext. ”

"Ciphertext? Map? Alan shook his head and said, "I feel more and more that this planet is not simple, not long ago I just learned that there are Naga people in this world." Roger: They call the Naga aliens, and judging from their words, there should be quite a few aliens like this. ”

Lucy patted the box and said, "When I unravel the ciphertext, I may be able to unravel some of the secrets." ”

"Hmm."

"That ......" Lucy hesitated and asked, "Does she feel good?" ”

Alan laughed and said, "Don't worry about it." ”

The next day, Ellen meets Kira. Belmode came with her, Alan didn't forget what Jì had promised Belmode before, and when he saw Kira, he smiled and said, "Belmode has helped me a lot, and it is foreseeable that he will play a greater role in the future." So in return, I'd like to ask for him. Miss Kira, I wonder if you'd like to stay and follow me with Belmode? ”

Kira looked at Belmode and smiled calmly, "Of course I do, my lord." ”

"That's great." Alan winked at Belmode and said, "Then Miss Kira, you are an adventurer, and I want to leave the matter of intersection with the Adventurers' Association to you in the future." Now I have a task entrusted to you, and I hope that the Tongguò Adventurers Association will recruit adventurers who can work for me for a while in the long term. ”

"What do you want?"

"First of all, the deadline has to be at least one year, and secondly, I don't need them to be very strong, but they must have some kind of talent. For example, if you are familiar with the geography of the empire's territory, or if you are good at inquiring about news, etc. ”

"I kind of know what you mean."

Alan nodded, then looked at Belmode. Kira knew that the two had something to talk about, so she took her leave. After she left, Alan said directly, "I need you to go to Black Iron Castle." ”

"Oh, hopefully it's an interesting task."

"Probably won't be that interesting." Alan shook his head and smiled, "We have a troublesome neighbor, and I only found out about this not long ago. Sir Sirloin of Black Iron Castle, who had a daughter married to Maude. And we cleaned up the whole Maude family, and I can't be sure that Sir Sirloin won't hold a grudge for it. If so, then sooner or later this war will have to be fought. Before that, I would like to know more about this knight, as well as the strength of his men, the strong, etc. ”

"It sounded boring, but I took it. As for Kira, thanks for the arrangement, boss. ”

Alan said, "It's nothing, as long as you don't worry about my wallet in the future." Even though I don't really have a lot of money on me. ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, when there was a knock on the door, and the guard said outside, "My lord, Mr. Roger's representative has arrived." ”

In the next few days, representatives of Rhys and the Lily Chamber of Commerce also came to Storm City one after another. In the end, the loot that Alan got from Dick was exchanged for 250,000 gold coins. The money will be used for things like the steel mill, and at the same time the recruitment of artisans in the realm will begin. The city is like a machine with its engine started, and its parts are starting to work.

(On the last day of the long holiday, I took advantage of the sunshine to take my family out and walked ~~) R1058