Succubus' Manor

On the outskirts of Otley, the staff of the breeding factory got up early in the morning. They wore bibs and drove thin whips in their hands, driving the slaughtered livestock to gather, and then caught them into cages.

Merchants from all over the country are already waiting. Otley’s chickens and ducks are particularly well raised, but the sheep have not yet been slaughtered, and there are too few geese. Only then can it be sold.

There is no need to worry about selling chickens and ducks, and the city of Otley alone can consume a lot of them.

The merchants didn't mind the bad smell, and when they saw the fat chickens and ducks, their eyes narrowed from laughter.

The owner of the breeding factory chatted with the businessmen, and even sent someone to bring drinks: "In addition to feeding insects and earthworms, our chickens are sometimes fed wheat noodles."

The merchants exclaimed: "No wonder you are so fat."

The boss proudly said: "There are so many breeding factories in Otley, only my family is willing to feed wheat noodles."

Businessmen give the boss a thumbs up.

Boss: "I will definitely continue to feed like this in the future. How can those skinny chickens taste better than my fat chickens?"

After some discussions, several businessmen signed long-term contracts with their bosses. These are businessmen who live in Stettin or Otley.

There are also merchants from Aliye. Although the lord has never said that Aliye is also his territory, the merchants are all good people, and they have tacit understanding with each other, and they have given Aliye's merchants a lot of convenience.

There are no small merchants in Aliya, but they really need to buy supplies from outside, because they can no longer trust those big merchants, so the merchant who came to buy supplies was originally a farmer. He is a bit out of place, but he also has his own cleverness. He also listens to others when they talk about business. The more he listens, the more he knows.

Although it didn't take advantage, it didn't suffer much.

The boss also said with a smile: "I asked someone to catch a batch of piglets, more than 20, and it cost me a lot of money. When these piglets grow up and breed, I can still sell pork here."

In fact, the allure of pork is not much different from that of chicken. After all, the current pork is not fat, and it tastes like firewood. Because it has not been castrated, it still has a strong smell.

The boss said mysteriously: "I will definitely gain weight by then. As for the smell, I have a way to cure it!"

So the merchants agreed to pull the pigs at that time.

The boss also gossips with the merchants: "There is a fool over there who raises cattle, beef cattle."

The merchants immediately became interested, beef!The nobles may not necessarily be able to afford it.

Boss: "He was cheated when he bought the goods, so I told him where are the beef cattle, and now they have been raised for seven or eight months, and they are still so skinny."

Merchants: "..."

White was happy.

The businessmen were also curious: "Then what will he do now?"

Boss: "I can only continue to raise them, maybe I will be able to raise them well? After raising them, there will be some income. If I sell them at a low price now, it will be called a loss. Fortunately, he also raises geese, and he can also earn some income by selling goose eggs. .”

The production of eggs is larger than that of goose eggs. Sometimes eggs are laid every other day, sometimes every two days. If you encounter a fighting chicken among chickens, it may be able to lay one in a day.

There are also those who lay two eggs at a time, but this depends on luck.

The geese are different. They lay an egg every three days, at the earliest two days, and every other day. They haven't appeared yet.

But the goose eggs are big, and the quality outweighs the quantity. Nowadays, people don’t really know the taste of eggs. Looking at the size of goose eggs, the price is not twice as expensive as eggs, and they are willing to buy goose eggs and eat them at home.

Because of the trade route with Saket, anyone with a little money in the family bought iron pots and pans.

Although there is no coated anti-stick pan now, this ordinary iron pan is already amazing.

Many aristocrats only cook by roasting and boiling. It depends on whether the cook knows how to fry.

The one who raised the cow didn't have to wear any trousers anyway.

The businessmen chatted all morning, then drove into town together for dinner.

The carriage was very stable on the street. Pedestrians walked on the left and right sides. The brick road was specially built with bricks for pedestrians only. The carriage and horse road was also a stone road.

The merchants lamented: "Oatley used to be like it is now. The roads are bad. No matter how slow the horses go, they will bump and raise dust."

"Thanks to the lord, the business is easy to do now. You don't have to look at the faces of the nobles every day, and you don't have to give gifts to those old men with nostrils on the top of their heads."

Now they turn their hands around and sell the goods to civilians. Although it takes a little longer, they earn no less than before, and the civilians will not chop off their heads as soon as they are dissatisfied.

Life has never been so simple, as long as you follow the rules of the chamber of commerce, you can make money safely.

Moreover, they can go back and forth between several cities at will, and they will not collect taxes once they enter a city.

Not to mention saving money, it also saves a lot of joints that need to be opened up, which is not so expensive, time-consuming and labor-intensive.

They have a lot of goods, and they can’t sell them in Otley and Allie, so they transfer them to Stettin for sale. The livestock and grain collected in Otley and Allie don’t have to go far, and they go to Stettin to find an acquaintance. Can all shot.

The businessman is happy now.

There are also daring ones who want to sell the goods here to other cities and earn a lot of money. Before they are discovered by the guards, they are dealt with by the chamber of commerce.

The members of the chamber of commerce now have a sense of belonging, thinking that the city also has a part of them, and harming the interests of the city is harming their interests.

Once businessmen get together, their strength should not be underestimated, especially when they have official support behind them.

Moreover, the president and vice president cannot leave the city easily. Their lives are in this city. Even if they die, their children, descendants, and grandchildren will also rely on this city for food. Only the city is good. , They can be good, if anyone wants to touch the interests of this city, they can fight with anyone.

In short, Otley, Stettin, and the Aliya people all have a sense of belonging for no reason. Since they all belong to the same chief, they are brother cities. Brother cities should be closer.

As a result, there were more intermarriages. Anyway, the road was repaired. Whether it was a wife going to her husband's city or a husband going to his wife's city, if you bought a carriage space for a dozen copper coins, you could return to your hometown within a day.

Unlike before, the roads are impassable. Not only can you not take a horse-drawn carriage on the small roads, but you may also get lost at night. After dawn, you can’t find the original path, and you will be finished if you get lost.

Now there are many goblins in Otley who come to settle down. Goblins are a less courageous race. Stettin has a large traffic flow, and there are many strangers every day. They team up to Otley, rent a house, and find a breeding place You can live a peaceful life without having to deal with strangers, and the breeding factory also includes food and lodging!Raising livestock is easier than building roads, and the wages are not low.

Other policies are the same as Stettin, and the goblins adapt well.

But the dwarves preferred to stay in Stettin, or Sacked.

Now the integration of several races is not bad. Although the human race has some criticisms, they can only say it in private. When there are more contacts, the criticisms will disappear.

Wood, a businessman from Allier and a former farmer, was sitting in the carriage. He felt novel and magical about everything in Otley. He looked out the window and found that there were many goblins on the road. They were small and green. Some of them walked with the human race, and they carried rattan boxes on their backs, and there were some vegetables, fruits, and meat in them.

Wood has never seen a goblin, and Aliye has no foreign slaves, all of them are human races. He only knows these races, but he has never really seen them.

The businessman who was sitting in the same car with him said with a smile: "Now you are not allowed to buy and sell slaves, otherwise you can still see the elves, and the elves are beautiful, much more beautiful than these green-skinned ones."

Wood asked curiously: "Elves, are they really pointy ears?"

The businessman nodded: "Of course, they all have blond hair, which is lighter than ordinary people's blond hair, and they are very beautiful in the sun!"

Wood was a little itchy. He knew that the elves, regardless of gender, were all beauties. Humans always pursue beauty.

The businessman said: "But our place is so good, maybe some elves come and settle here as soon as there is one?"

Wood continued to look out the window, and saw a tall man on the side of the road, with a turban on his head and his ears tightly wrapped, looking around.

It is estimated that it also came from abroad.

If someone tore off the cloth from that head at this time, they would definitely find that the other party had beautiful light blond hair and a pair of pointed ears.

It's not that the elves don't deal with the human race at all. Their number is getting smaller and smaller, and they can no longer be completely self-sufficient. Therefore, every once in a while, they will send educated clansmen to check out the relatively peaceful cities nearby, and then Take people to the city to shop.

The elves do not farm, they hunt for a living, and they can weave cloth themselves, but the quality of their cloth is naturally not as good as the linen sold in the city now, and they also need to buy salt, condiments, and daily necessities.

Near Chi Yan's territory, the elves hiding in the mountains not far away now want to use the quilts produced by Saked.

The elves are beautiful, but they are not demons, and their skin is not that thick. Just like humans, they have to find ways to keep warm in autumn and winter.

Baoer is the elf who was assigned by the patriarch to investigate this time. He wrapped himself up tightly. The money of the elves was snatched from the nobles who passed by occasionally. Robbing money does not hurt people's lives, and the amount of robbery is not much each time, but the accumulation of small amounts makes a lot, and there are some savings.

This is already the fifth day that Bao'er has stayed in Otley. During these five days, he lived in a resident's house with cheap prices and a good environment.

He also made a few friends, most of the tenants who lived in the same yard as him were goblins.

Every time the goblins saw him, they would persuade him earnestly to find a job and not to squander, lest they become paupers in the future.

Bao'er also likes these friends very much. They are all honest goblins. They don't have much fancy. It's good to take care of each other.

After all, goblins are weak, and they are not good at anything except digging holes and escaping, so it is safer to live together.

Bao'er went to the restaurant, ordered two steamed buns, another baked tofu, and fried chicken.

He has a big appetite and eats cleanly. While eating, he listens to the people at the next table.

"I heard that your lord has a new policy."

"Yeah! It's still about the elves!"

Bao'er stopped chewing, pricked up her ears, and listened carefully.

The people who talked about it obviously didn't realize that anyone was eavesdropping, let alone thought that there would be elves in this small restaurant, and the discussion was still in full swing: "My lord has enacted the Resident Law! As long as you are a legal resident, you have the same rights and obligations!"

"Rights and duties? What's that?"

"Didn't you look at the bulletin board? Rights... I don't remember, anyway, they are all free people, right? They can find jobs by themselves. If things are stolen or robbed, they can find guards."

"Obligation is about paying taxes or something."

"You can't fight in private. No matter what race you are, if someone is killed, it will be treated equally."

"There can't be slave trading either. I heard that in the future, if you hire a servant, you have to write a contract, and both parties must have their fingerprints."

"Yes, I heard that the servant can resign if he is unhappy with his work in the future. As long as the master is notified in advance, if the master is not satisfied with the servant, he can also dismiss the servant, but he has to make up the money."

"You can't kill servants at will."

Bo'er listened very anxiously!Didn't you guys still talk about elves just now?How to go to the servants!

Can you focus on one topic? !

Hearing that they talked about a bunch of things that had nothing to do with elves, Bao'er was so cruel that he stopped eating and sat down at someone else's table uninvited.

The two passers-by who were chatting enthusiastically were taken aback for a moment, and looked at Bao'er in unison.

Bao'er pulled out a smile: "I heard what you guys said. I just came to Otley not long ago, and I want to hear it too."

Passers-by were very enthusiastic: "It's not something you can't say, just listen to it if you want."

Bao'er: "I want to hear about elves. I haven't seen elves yet."

Passerby: "We haven't seen elves either. It would be great if there were elves who settled in Oatley. I'm not bragging. Otley is better than other cities!"

"That's right. Stettin is richer than us, but there are many strangers. Aliye has no strangers, but they are all farmers, so there is nothing to see."

"So we're the best at Otley!"

They blew again, and then said: "The elves never leave the mountains, I think they should come out of the mountains too."

Bao'er: "Why? How safe is the mountain? The elves who went down the mountain before were caught and sold by merchants."

"That was in the past, or in other places. Now foreigners are given preferential treatment when they settle in Otley, and the rent can be reduced a lot."

They are not jealous. After all, Otley's human race owns their own houses, and when foreigners come here, they rent their houses at first, which is also a sum of money.

"Besides, the mountains are so inconvenient. There are so many ferocious beasts, and sometimes there are traps set by hunters. If there is heavy rain and mountain torrents, it will be even worse? Don't we have to move all the time?"

"It's not easy to buy things. You can live in a good house. Why live in a tree house? There are many bugs in the woods."

"It's easy to find a job. I heard that elves know how to bow and arrow, and they can join the army. They can make meritorious service and become an official. You have to be stupid to live on the mountain all the time. You don't need anything."

Bao'er: "..."

It sounds silly, but they don't want to either!In the past, they were always persecuted by the human race. Although the human race was not powerful individually, they had a large number of people. No matter how powerful the elves were, it was impossible for one to many.

It is not so unacceptable for the human race to sell them to be the lovers of the nobles. The most unacceptable thing for them is that the human race in some areas believe that drinking the blood of the elves can live longer.

So the elves will be raised and bled every day, but it won't take long before the elves will die.

They don't stop after death, they will polish the elves' skulls into cups for drinking.

Other bones were made into ornaments.

For the elves, this is a great shame. They are a race that believes in the power of nature. After the elves die, they will not bury or cremate them. Instead, they will find a quiet place with water and let their bodies rot , Animals eat food, they think that only in this way can the elves return to the embrace of Mother Earth.

Bao'er asked: "Then what if someone secretly catches the elves?"

Passers-by looked at each other and laughed: "Do you think the guards on the street are all vegetarians? Those guards! But they were all trained in Stettin. Do you know that there are several cities in Rosette, More than 1 people were sent to fight the city of Stettin, and those people either died or were captured, and Stettin was only slightly injured, and few were seriously injured."

No one knows exactly how it was fought, but everyone believes that it was because the soldiers were too powerful.

One can count as ten, or even hundreds, otherwise how could there be only injuries but no deaths?

They only felt safer, and they also had the pride of being honored. After all, they belonged to the same lord as Stettin, and rounded up, they were the ones who won the battle.

Bao'er: "What if the guards are also bribed?"

Passer-by: "Impossible. The monthly salary of the guards is more than you imagined. The castle also includes board and lodging. Their private property is quite a lot. If anyone's money suddenly increases, they will be investigated."

"There will be big people from Stettin's side coming to investigate. If someone is bribed, it will be a disaster."

Bao'er asked excitedly: "What kind of tragedy?"

Passer-by: "I have to break a leg and a hand, and then go to do hard work, not enough to eat, endure the pain, and work until I die."

Bao'er shuddered after hearing this.

Passerby: "It's really hard work to death! Before dying, even if you can't crawl, you can't rest."

"Such a severe punishment, the timid don't dare, but the courageous, hey, it's not far from being broken."

It's not that they can't afford to eat, life is so rich, there are not many people who want to take risks, not to mention that once they do such a thing, it is impossible not to be discovered.

Colleagues can also report, and once the report is verified and established, colleagues can also be rewarded.

The purpose is to prevent the guards from clumping together and deceiving the upper and lower.

"If the guards solve the case, there will be a bonus." The passer-by talked to Bao'er in detail.

Bao'er also listened carefully, and after listening to it, she felt that moving to Otley seemed to be a good idea?

So he asked Oatley what jobs he could find.

Passerby: "Most of the people who work in Otley have gone to the breeding factory, but there are other jobs. I think if the elves come over, they can open a shop!"

"Yes, aren't elves very good at making animal skin robes and bows and arrows?"

Bao'er frowned: "Who said that?"

Passerby: "If you say that, there must be a reason."

"That's right, we're not elves, it must be someone who knows about elves saying that."

Bao'er is suffering and can't tell, what should I say?Tear off the turban and say that you are an elf, and then we elves are not good at making animal skin robes and bows and arrows?

"Anyway, elves have hands and feet. As long as they are willing to use their brains, they will definitely find a job. If it doesn't work, they can still build roads."

"Yes, but I think elves might be lazy."

Bao'er retorted: "Why are you lazy? Elves must be very diligent."

Passer-by: "If they are not lazy, why haven't they developed in so many years? Look at us, how long has it been? Otley has changed so much!"

Bao'er: "That's, that's the local restrictions! How can we develop on the mountain!"

Bao'er was very angry. He stood up and said to passers-by: "I still have something to do, so I'll go first. I'll settle your bill for you."

Then Bao'er paid the bill and left.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, because the elves hadn't appeared in front of people for a long time, and the human race thought the elves were lazy? !

They are much more diligent than goblin dwarves!

Don't compare with the tauren, the tauren is born naive.

Bao'er didn't continue wandering in the city, he went straight out of the city, and then went back to the mountain around the path.

After he left, the two passers-by withdrew their gossiping faces just now, and a man came out from the back kitchen. He was wearing a blue robe and sat on the seat where Bao'er had just sat.

The two stood up and wanted to salute, but the man in the blue robe stopped him with his hand.

The two looked serious and said respectfully, "My lord."

The man in the blue robe was, of course, Chi Yan.

He heard that Otley was haunted by elves, so he had a sudden whim. After discovering the elves, he didn't let people act rashly. Instead, he asked people to follow him. The restaurants he frequented were filled with people, and he rushed over after the servant told him that the elf was in this store.

Chi Yan smiled at the two of them: "You did a good job."

These two were trained by the old housekeeper, they were in the same batch as Juster, they were eloquent and loyal subordinates.

Kleist was not with Chi Yan, he followed Bao'er to the mountains.

Chi Yan sighed: "Although Saket also has elves, Saket is different from here after all."

The elves of Saket were all rescued by Chi Yan before, but the human race of Saket only accounted for a quarter, and the environment was completely different from Stettin and Otley.

Chi Yan: "If his clan can move down, it will be much more convenient to start work in the future."

The elves who voluntarily descended from the mountain!Volunteer to join Otley!Isn't this a living sign?The other elves know it, but if there is a temptation, it will not be far before the elves appear in Chi Yan's territory and blend in with the common people.

Chi Yan looked at the two of them, and said earnestly, "When the great integration of races is realized, I will credit you."

Just don't know when that day will come.