Succubus' Manor

Facing the gloomy light in the castle, Ashbourn narrowed his eyes, and he outlined in his mind the appearance of an ambitious young lord—he must be tall and arrogant, and he should have a pair of blue Or green eyes, eyes full of desire for power.

However, the lord really walked to the door. When Ashbourn saw his full appearance, the momentary surprise almost made Ashburn speechless. The other party was wearing a noble costume that only the lord could wear. Clothes Ashbourne has seen many lords wear, but only this lord can wear this clothes out of the ordinary.

The other party had long black hair, almost as black as night in such a dim light.

Those amber eyes were looking at him mysteriously.

His skin, which has not seen the sun for a long time, is too white, which makes his facial features exquisite. It seems that every inch of him was fabricated by the creator himself, and every point is perfect without blemishes. There is not a single mole on his face. , a blob.

Even if he is not wearing complicated and noble clothes, but just a single piece of clothing, no one will despise him.

Wherever he goes, he can light up the entire palace.

But Ashburn saw no desire for power, nor any ambition, in the other's eyes.

He found that the other party was also looking at him, as if looking at a piece of goods.

Ashburn lowered his head subconsciously - he could speak eloquently in front of the viscount or the earl without any cowardice, but at this moment he couldn't look directly into the other's eyes.

He could hear his heart beating non-stop in his chest, beating so fast that it even made him feel pain.

The pain made him taste a little pleasure from the tension.

This complicated feeling was driving him crazy.

Chi Yan looked at the middle-aged businessman calmly, and there was nothing particularly outstanding about him, except for the big beard braided into a braid, this man was quite beautiful.

"Your name is Ashburn?" Chi Yan asked casually.

It was only at this time that Ashburn came back to his senses. He raised his head after saluting, and looked at Chi Yan with burning eyes, as if a fire was burning in his eyes: "Yes, my lord."

Chi Yan sat on the chair and said to the other party: "Sit down, don't be too cautious, the visitor is a guest."

Chi Yan thought the other party was nervous, so he smiled at him.

When he laughed, his eyes were slightly bent, as if he liked the other party from the bottom of his heart. Ashbourne was at a loss, his mind went blank, and he still stood there in a daze. In the end, Kadi couldn't stand it anymore and pressed Ahiborn Eun's shoulder made him sit back.

Chi Yan and Ashburn sat facing each other, holding a glass of warm water in his hand: "Where did you come from?"

Ashbourne opened and closed his lips lightly, as if Chi Yan was a fragile bubble, as long as his voice was louder, the other party would disappear without a trace.

"Come from the Holy City." Ashburn didn't make up nonsense like before, and everything he said was true.

Chi Yan: "It's really hard to run so far."

He obviously never felt hard work, but at this time Chi Yanyi said that Ashburn himself felt hard work. He traveled long distances, brought so many people and goods, and experienced many dangers, and his grievances flooded up in an instant .

But Chi Yan didn't give him too much time to be sad. After taking a sip of hot water, he asked, "Is the Holy City okay?"

As soon as Ashbourne opened his mouth, he said everything he knew, but whatever came to his mind, he would say it directly, he would not hide it, and he would never stop before he finished speaking.

"Business in the Holy City is hard to do." Ashburn was a little sad, "The big people only want to take money from the pockets of us merchants, and the small people can't bring us any benefits. The common people only buy food, and they settle down early. salt, not even spices."

Ashburn complained a lot, and told Chi Yan almost all the difficulties he had encountered in the past few years.

However, Chi Yan had never been a businessman, so he couldn't empathize with him, so he could only comfort him casually.

At the end of Ashbourne's speech, he was filled with grief, and with snot and tears, he played up himself as a miserable person—a rich and miserable person.

And have wives, sons, and property.

After listening to his cry, Chi Yan felt that the relationship was almost over, so he brought the topic to the main topic: "I don't know what is missing outside, I don't have many things that I can exchange, and you have seen this city, have you seen it?" There are a few people, and the fields are almost deserted, and it is estimated that there will be no harvest for the whole year."

Ashburn quickly pointed to the things on the table and said, "My lord, these syrups and wine can be exchanged for many precious gems and gold and silverware."

Chi Yan shook his head: "I don't need gems and gold and silverware."

Ashburn actually agreed and said: "The dignity of an adult does not need those things to set it off."

Chi Yan: "..."

This person is very good, and he knows how to flatter.

Ashbourn thought about Chi Yan and said, "My lord needs food and people now."

Chi Yan nodded.

Ashburn: "The ability to protect yourself is also needed. Someone in my caravan sells weapons."

Chi Yan waved his hand: "We don't need weapons."

His own steel knife is sharper, harder and more durable than the iron knife bought outside, so there is no need to spend more money.

Although Ashburn didn't understand why, he still said wittily, "Adults also need salt, and it's not easy to buy salt outside now."

It is true that you have to buy some salt. After all, the city will expand its population in the future, and the current salt can barely feed so many people for half a year. After all, he still has a lot of salt in the manor. The actual lords of the two lands are him. one person.

"Do you need cloth?" Chi Yan has a lot of linen in his hand, and it would be great if he could change it out.

But Ashburn said: "Yunduo cloth is fine, ordinary cloth cannot be sold now, and we don't accept it."

Chi Yan: "Then let's settle the big business first."

Sugar and wine were exchanged for wheat and salt, and cotton cloth was exchanged for slaves. Although there were more than 1000 merchants, three to four hundred of them were slaves, and then there were merchants of all sizes and their followers, and some even brought their lovers and children. , and they go all the way, the more people in the team.

They are now selling their slaves to Chi Yan, and they can replenish new ones after they go out.

After all, businessmen will never be short of connections.

Especially as more and more people became slaves.

Parents selling children, husbands selling wives, is not uncommon, it is nothing new.

Chi Yan had a good chat with Ashburn, and he stayed in the castle and invited him to dinner. Ashbourne is a well-informed person, and unlike Josh, Ashbourne is more often with Dealing with people of noble status, so he lacks a sense of the market.

It's not that he is out of the dust, but that he hides the businessman's preoccupation and other characteristics deeper.

Anna put a lot of effort into preparing the dinner. She made all the tricks she knew. Except for not serving the katuo, Anna did everything she could find and think of, even defrosted ones. The steak, because it is frozen, is not as fresh as fresh meat, but the taste is much better than bacon.

At least Ashbourn was satisfied with his meal - the enjoyment on the business road was limited, and he could only relax when he settled down in the city, but the situation in each city is very bad now, no matter how generous the lords say, in fact The only pleasures in town were freshly baked bread and cheap whores at night.

But these are not for nothing. The lords only want to take money from the pockets of these merchants, but they don't want to pay any price.

Just take this little profit to hope that the businessmen will be grateful to them.

Chi Yan asked Ashbourne at the dinner table: "Are there much fewer people in each city now?"

After eating a piece of meat, Ashbourne felt that this trip was the right choice. He sighed with compassion: "Many people died of freezing in winter. A city that originally had 1000 people can now have [-] people." It's all pretty good."

Many people died due to the drought, and there was not enough food, and it became even more difficult in winter.

Without food, without warm clothes, many people froze to death in bed in the middle of the night.

Especially for the elderly and infants, they may only close their eyes for a short time, and then they will never be able to open them again.

"There are a lot more slaves," said Ashbourne. "Selling children, selling wives, and selling themselves."

In difficult times, there are many families who sell one child, but in this case, almost all the children in the family are sold, and it is rare to keep one child.

Now the brothels don't accept people anymore, and every day old and decrepit prostitutes or male prostitutes are kicked out of the brothel.

Ashburn's pity for these people was very superficial, he sighed pity, and then quickly forgot about it.

Chi Yan asked him about some outside matters. Of course, Ashburn knew everything. He was humorous and generous, and he didn't hide anything. He said that the holy city is now in chaos. Forced to stand in line, the marriages between nobles are also very chaotic, often getting married today and divorced tomorrow.

Ashbourne also made a joke about the royal family: "Three of the Queen's six lovers died, and it is assumed that her lover was killed by the Holy Court."

"She kept holding back the crowning of the prince, thinking people couldn't figure out what she was thinking."

Ashburn stayed at the castle for the night.

The merchants in the market did not expect to have such a good harvest today. Everyone in this city is wearing neat sackcloth without a single hole, even the most goblins and dwarves, the two lowest slave races. , can hold the candy, and carry the whole horse of numbness.

Linen is not easy to sell, but if you can exchange it for linen with low-priced items, this business can also be done!

The merchants stayed up at night and chatted about the day's affairs while drinking.

"Such a big can of sugar." The businessman took a sip of his wine and said, "It's just for some salt and spices."

"I still trade linen for jewelry." The merchant said, "It's made of stone, and it's not a good gem."

For a while, they couldn't tell whether the people here were poor or rich, but these people didn't use grain to exchange things. It is estimated that there is not much food here. Thinking about it, there is no shadow of wheat in the fields outside the city. It is too long and too cold, and many places will miss the planting time of winter wheat.

"Sugar is a rare thing." The businessman said with a smile, "These people don't know how precious sugar is."

Several other businessmen looked at each other and pulled out a tacit smile.

Since the people here don't know the value of sugar, it is not difficult for them to get all the sugar out of these people's hands.

"Don't you think it's weird? The goblins and dwarves here can hang shoulders with us humans." A businessman looked surprised, "How is this possible?"

If someone told them before they came here that there is a place where all races can coexist peacefully, they would definitely scoff. In their view, other races except the human race are either slaves of the human race or playthings of the human race .

As powerful as the elves, don't you want to hide from the human race?

"There are not many people in this city, and these people who come to exchange things only bring out linen and sugar." A merchant said in a low voice, "This city is short of people, and we happen to have a group of elves in our hands. If we can sell them to the lord here , how much sugar can I exchange for?"

"Maybe there's wine."

They caught those elves in the woods. A group was dying because of lack of food—the elves depended on hunting for a living, so they could not easily appear in the range of crowd activities. It took a lot of time and energy to catch one or two.

This time they could catch so many without any effort, so they naturally wouldn't let them go.

As a result, along the way, only six of the original 30 elves were "sold", and five of them were bought by nobles on credit.

But can they not sell it?I can only pinch my nose and admit this muddled account.

The elves resisted fiercely, making troubles almost every day, plus they were good-looking, merchants were afraid that their followers or slaves would be bewitched by these elves, thinking that elves were worth money, but it was too much trouble!

Now as long as someone is willing to take away these more than 30 elves, even if it is cheaper.

"Maybe the lord here is willing to buy it." The merchants said, "He is even willing to give sugar to those goblin dwarves, he must have some brain problems."

When the businessmen were chatting, Lamir eavesdropped not far away—his hair was long, covering a pair of pointed ears, plus he was so fat, with a head of blond hair, no one who saw him He would think that he might be an elf, but that he must be a son of a nobleman from a good family.

If you are not an aristocrat, you really can't feed your children with such virtues.

Same race?

Lamir hid in the middle of the night and sneaked into the place where the merchants stored their goods. Don't look at him as fat, he is a flexible fat man, otherwise he wouldn't be so fat and still be able to hunt and continue to fatten him up. Taking advantage of the darkness, he twisted his waist from side to side Drilled into the depths of the cargo.

He was sold by Josh. Although he hadn't seen his kindred for a long time, he still had a clean heart.

He felt that he would always be the baby of his tribe.

When merchants transported slaves, they would tie the hands of the slaves with hemp rope, and they only needed to hold the rope.

But when the elves are transported, the elves will be locked in cages and taken away. Elves are important "commodities" and cannot be transported at will. They have to be locked up in cages, just like shutting down birds. They eat, drink and scatter in cages. For a clean elf, this kind of treatment is no better for the elf than humiliation.

Ramir saw the elves in the cage, and the elves in the cage saw Ramir.

After a few years, Lamir saw the pointy-eared compatriot again, his cheeks were flushed with excitement, he ran over quickly, and the mountain of meat insisted on running as light as a swallow. He stood in front of the cage and used There is a saying in my hometown: "My name is Lamir, and I am also an elf!"

However, the elves in the cage were at a loss and did not understand why this fat human race spoke to them in bird language.

The elves looked angry, thinking that the human race was here to humiliate them. Although they kept avoiding the human race, they also knew that the human race liked to buy elves to go back for fun-this human race knew it was not a good thing at a glance!Being so fat, he must come to see people at night, and wants to buy an elf to go back.

"Human race, even if we die, we won't be your playthings!"

"Go away!"

These elves speak the Common Tongue.

Ramir: "..."

"I'm not a human race!" Lamir pulled his hair up to show the elves his ears, "I'm an elf too!"

The elves looked at each other: "..."

It turns out that elves can be fat like this?

Lamir felt extremely humiliated, and was about to speak, but the elves spoke in a hurry, but their hostility towards Lamir was much lessened.

"Did the human race buy us just to feed us like this?"

"It's terrible, what exactly does the human race want to do?"

"The human race is simply incomprehensible!"

Ramir became angry: "I was not fed like this! I was fed like this myself!"

Elves: "..."

This elf is simply a wonder among the elves!It can be written down and told to future generations.

Ramir had asked if they had seen any of their kin, and the elves told him they hadn't seen anyone else, of any race, for about seven years.

"There are no more prey in the mountains, and they all hid in deeper places. We can't go to those places." The elves complained to Lamir.

Since the drought, the prey has become less and less. Occasionally, the prey are skinny pheasants and hares. After the skin and bones are removed, there is no meat left. Originally, they did not eat the internal organs, but because of the lack of food, even the internal organs were gone. have eaten.

"I'm hungry." The elves didn't feel embarrassed either.

"And then got caught."

"The other six were sold by the human race." Their eyes were a little sad, because they knew that they would be sold to different human races by the merchant, and they would never be seen again for the rest of their lives.

At this time, a young elf who hadn't grown up suddenly said: "You must be very rich to grow so fat in the human race. Can you buy us all? I will hunt for you later."

The boy's words gave great hope to the desperate elves.

"I can hunt for you too."

"I'll give you the fattest prey!"

When Lamir heard the pronunciation of "fat", the flesh on his face was shaking with anger, but he didn't turn around and leave. After all, these elves are his own race. The elves are different from other races. In addition to their escape from the world, the more important point is that they The ability to reproduce is not strong, and a female elf may have only one child in her entire life, and it is even very likely that she will not be able to give birth to any.

Most elves are bisexual, and female elves may also be internally digested, and they are very loyal to their partners. When one party dies, the other will live alone for life, so there are fewer and fewer newborns, and the race of elves is about to disappear from people's vision.

So even if it is two elves who have never seen each other, as long as they are elves, they will never abandon each other.

Ramir said to these elves: "I have no money, but the lord here has money, I will ask him."

"He is good, and he will definitely promise to save you."

The elves have no impression of the "goodness" of the human race, only know the "badness" of the human race, but seeing what Lamir said is convincing, they can't help but raise some hopes.

After Lamir left, the elves said: "The human race who is the lord may not agree to him."

"The previous lord must have loved him very much, otherwise he wouldn't have become like this."

"But he is like this, the lord will definitely not listen to him again."

Chi Yan, who just woke up the next day, was disturbed by Lamir's crying, tossing and turning, couldn't help but sit up, and shouted to the door: "Kady! Tell Lamir to shut up! I'll sleep a little longer Get up and meet him!"

Kadi led the order to go. Lamir cried so loudly that he was still crying in the yard, but he cried so loudly that the whole castle could hear him. The sound insulation effect of a house made of stone is very good, but Lamir is very talented. Even stones can't stand it.

Chi Yan, who still hadn't slept enough to return to the cage, could only ask Lamir to be brought over with his messy hair.

Lamir hiccupped while crying, and said very clearly: "Those merchants brought elves over here, my lord, they are my kin, I have no money, can you please buy the elves, and I will work without wages in the future." Don't reward."

Chi Yan took a sip of hot water and felt that buying an elf would not be a problem. Anyway, he also wanted to do business with Ashburn, and when the time came to ask Ashburn to spare an elf as a bonus, Ashburn would probably not refuse.

"Okay." Chi Yan agreed quite simply.

Lamir stopped crying in an instant, and his face-changing speed was comparable only to the butler.

"I knew that the lord is a good person!" Ramir's mouth curled into a big smile, very bright, and he said excitedly, "When the lord buys them all, I will have more than 30 people of the same race, which is worse than goblins and dwarves. How many!"

Chi Yan almost spit out a mouthful of water, he looked at Lamir: "More than 30?"

Ramir nodded.

Chi Yan laughed viciously, gritted his teeth and said, "I can't afford more than 30 even if I kill you to sell meat, Lamir, you will still play word games with me, you have grown up!"

Lamir shuddered, and the flesh on his face trembled twice. He looked at Chi Yan pitifully, trying to arouse Chi Yan's sympathy with his huge body.

He forgot that he was no longer that elf with unparalleled beauty and ethereal appearance.

Now he is a fat man who walks up to [-] jin, covering his ears, even the elves can't recognize him as an elf.