Lord of the Continent [Western Fantasy]

The door was pushed open, and the old butler walked in, followed by the mother and son.

"Lord Earl." The old butler bowed slightly, "I brought you here."

Xi Xiumi nodded and said softly, "Good afternoon, Ms. Loman."

Obviously, this woman named Luoman was very nervous, with fine beads of sweat appearing on her forehead, she clenched her hands, and looked at Xi Xiumi anxiously.

The little boy changed into clean clothes, grabbed the corner of his mother's skirt with his small hands, blinked his big eyes, and looked curiously at the luxurious and spacious study in front of him. Finally, his eyes rested on the young count.

"I'm sorry, Lord Earl." The woman whispered, "I interrupted your reading. I wonder why you called us here?"

"Don't be nervous, Ms. Loman." Xi Xiumi comforted, "I came to you, just to ask about the details of your husband's gambling."

Loman: "!!"

"He, my husband... is actually a very family-oriented person." The woman couldn't help fiddling with her fingers, and said awkwardly: "He just wants to earn some extra money through gambling to subsidize the family."

Hearing this, Xi Xiumi frowned slightly, stared at the woman in front of her, and remained silent.

Gambling subsidizes the family?This is really a ridiculous and absurd excuse, Xi Xiumi thought.

According to his understanding, this Ms. Loman has a good reputation in the manor. She is honest, hardworking and capable. What made her lie and cover up for her husband?

"She didn't tell the truth." Hersius bowed and whispered in Xishumi's ear: "Her emotional color is pink and black spots are all over it, which means that she still has a spouse, but she is full of disgust and hatred for her spouse."

Xi Xiumi's ears were itchy again by this guy, so he rubbed his hot ears and gouged him with his eyes: "You can see this? Then what is my emotional color?"

Hersius looked at the young man tenderly, seeing his blood-red earlobes, his heart softened, and the frustration caused by his failure to express his love just now was swept away.

"I can't, my lord." Hersius whispered, "I can only feel your emotion, I cannot see its color."

Xi Xiumi would like to ask: why?

However, this guy will definitely answer him as he did just now: the power of angels.

Forget it, it doesn't matter anyway.

The two of them were whispering there, but the expressions of the people opposite them were different.

The old butler frowned, thinking anxiously: how to keep the little boy away from the Earl, while the little boy looked at Sishoumi and Hersius ignorantly, thinking that both the Earl and his attendants looked good. Pretty, but Ms. Loman, who was in the vortex of the incident, changed her face drastically.

The Earl must have discovered that I was lying, she wondered in horror, are they discussing how to drive me out of the manor?

Thinking of this, the woman's tears suddenly fell like a flood that opened the gate, she couldn't help rubbing her hands, crying and begging: "My lord, I was wrong, I shouldn't lie, I just, I just don't want to throw away this job and don’t want to be kicked out.”

She was crying heartbroken, as if the next second was the end of the world. Xi Xiumi was at a loss and didn't understand why the other party was so sad. He didn't say anything?

"Why are you crying!" Hersius suddenly said coldly, "Please take back your tears, don't startle the Earl, you have something to talk about."

The woman trembled in fright, her crying stopped abruptly, and she glanced at Hersius secretly, seeing that he was looking at her indifferently, for some reason, she felt a shock in her heart, and felt a chill all over her body.

Seeing that she seemed to have calmed down, Xixiumi said helplessly, "Ms. Loman, can you tell the truth now?"

The woman nodded, sniffling and telling the truth. It was nothing more than a husband who was addicted to gambling. He fantasized about getting rich by gambling all the time, but in the end he lost all his family.

"Then why did you hide it in the first place?" Xi Xiumi asked puzzled.

"That's because, because they told me that nobles care about reputation." The woman choked up and said, "Even the servants in the family have to be clean, and a family like mine, if the employer finds out, it will be punished." Dismiss and drive out of the manor."

"I am now the sole breadwinner of my family. If I lose my job, the family will no longer have a penny of income. My children will not even be able to eat, and my husband may even beat us."

What a scumbag!Xi Xiumi thought to himself, how could there be such an annoying person?

"So what are your plans now?" Xi Xiumi asked.

"I, I don't know." The woman said confusedly, "I don't know anyone in the church, and I don't have money. It's hard to dissolve this marriage. Now I'm most worried about my children."

"Then take the child with you." Xi Xiumi said, "I allow you to bring this child into the manor in the future, and let him live with you in the back garden."

"Thank you! Thank you, Lord Earl." The woman said gratefully.

Xi Xiumi hummed, intending to ask the old housekeeper to take the mother and son away, but found that the woman lowered her head, looking embarrassed, as if she still wanted to say something.

"Ms. Loman," Xi Xiumi said, "if you have anything else, you can just tell me."

The woman opened her mouth, hesitated for a moment, and said with tears in her eyes, "My lord, if people from the church come to the manor to arrest my child, what should I do?"

"Why did they do this?" Xi Xiumi asked puzzled, "This is my manor, no one can just come in and arrest people."

The woman raised her head and looked at the young count in amazement, as if she couldn't imagine that the other party didn't know the rules of Itenity? !

According to the Italian law, if a person who owes a debt for a long time is convicted, he will be reduced to a slave as a debt repayment. Although from a humane point of view, spouses do not have to sit together, but the father's debt repayment is a sure thing.

Therefore, if her scumbag husband continues to gamble, he will definitely be heavily in debt. In the end, he will be sued by the creditors to the church and made a slave. At that time, their son will also be taken away and become a slave to pay the debt for his father.

After hearing the woman's cry, Xi Xiumi was stunned for a moment, why didn't he remember that Eternity still had this disgusting law?

What the hell is the father's debt to the son?This is not fair at all!

Xixiumi closed her eyes, searched her memory earnestly, and finally managed to remember that there was indeed such a law, and it was all her own fault that she had only been here for a short time. With so many memories in her original body, how could she have the energy to search them all!

What a hassle!

Xi Xiumi was lost in thought.

In Italy, divorce must be approved by the Illuminati Church, which is quite a cumbersome matter.

According to the will of the church, marriage is established by the gods and is sacred and solemn, so under normal circumstances, the church does not allow such things as divorce, so even the nobles would have to spend a lot of time to get a divorce, let alone someone like For a commoner like Loman, don't even think about it.

Without divorce, the father-son relationship cannot be dissolved. The continuation of the father-son relationship means that the father may pay the debts for the father at any time, which is indeed very tricky.

However, as an earl, he couldn't come forward in person, and went to the church to discuss divorce for a servant.

The aristocratic circle seems to be harmonious, but in fact everyone is very gossipy. If he does this, it may take only one day for the absurd rumors to spread throughout the whole of Italy.

"Hey! Do you know? That young earl named Sishoumi, for the sake of an old woman, went to ask the church to dissolve her marriage relationship with her husband."

"Oh? Really? My God, the Earl is not yet of age, yet he likes old women?"

"Hey, I didn't say that, you said it yourself."

"But you said it all, he went to apply to the church in person for that old woman."

Xi Xiumi: "..."

Uh... so scary.

Xi Xiumi shivered, stopped his endless reverie, and said in a deep voice: "I see, Ms. Loman, let me think about how to deal with this matter, after all, it is very troublesome."

"I can't promise you anything now, I can only say to see if we can find a suitable way to solve this matter satisfactorily."

When the woman heard the words, tears welled up in her eyes. She knew in her heart that as long as the kind Lord Earl said so, he would definitely find a way, and her child would be saved.

In order to express her gratitude, she bent her knees and wanted to kneel down to Sishoumi, Hersius immediately said sharply: "You don't need to kneel down, the Earl doesn't like this set of etiquette."

A humble mortal has no right to kneel before him, Hersius thought proudly.

The woman froze and looked at Xi Xiumi at a loss, Xi Xiumi said softly: "Okay, it's okay, you can go down first with the child."

The woman had no choice but to lead the little boy and bowed deeply to Xixiu Mi, and then the old butler led the mother and son back.

After everyone left, Xixiumi heaved a sigh of relief. Just now, that Ms. Loman cried so hard that her brain ached. Now this matter can finally come to an end.

That scumbag husband should not be taken away for a while, so the mother and child are safe for the time being, and we will think about how to solve it when we have time. Now the priority is the auction of Eros the day after tomorrow, and he hasn't decided what to bring to the finale Woolen cloth.

Xi Xiumi rested his chin on his right hand, put his elbow on the desk, stared at Hersius beside him, and kept beating the table with his left hand, with a distressed expression on his face.

Hersius: "??"

Well?It seems that there is another important thing, but I can't remember what it is?Xixiu Mi stared at Hersius' handsome face, thinking melancholy: Why is his memory getting worse and worse now?

Thus, the interruption of poor Hersius' confession was forgotten by the young Earl.

"Angel Butler," Xixiumi remembered another thing, and said slowly, "Well... I want to ask you something."

The wings on the back of Hersius instantly stood up, his eyes were full of expectation, and he said softly, "Excuse me, my lord."

"Can the Hall of Dreams only be opened at night?" Xi Xiumi asked curiously, "If you can come to reality from there, does that mean that I can also enter the Hall of Dreams at any time?"

Hersius: "..."

Hearing that he didn't hear the result he wanted, Hersius' wings fluttered, and he couldn't help but feel a little dejected.

However, from a rational point of view, this might not be a good ending. Just now he almost confessed on the spur of the moment. Now that he calmed down, Hersius understood that he had done something stupid.

Even though he has become more human than before, it is not enough, he still does not understand what love is, if he confesses rashly, it may make things worse.

Now is not the time, he still needs to wait patiently, waiting for Him to truly understand his will.

Hersius collected his mind and replied, "As long as you want, the Dream Palace can appear at any time."

"Really?" Xi Xiumi said in surprise, "Then what should I do?"

"I can teach you now," Hersius said softly.

Hearing this sentence, Xixiumi's originally excited expression disappeared suddenly, and a trace of indifferent resistance appeared on his face, but it was fleeting.

Even though the change was only in a few breaths, Hersius had a panoramic view.

He doesn't want to wake up yet... Hersius thought to himself.

But he is a human being now, and his abundant humanity has suppressed the divinity deep in his soul. Hersius doesn't know whether this is good or bad.

"Then teach me." Xixiu Mi said, gearing up, "I want to know now, whether the first guest to visit the Dream Palace has changed like Firmia."

At the beginning, he was not familiar with the operation of the Dream Palace, so he casually gave the lady named Herax a sachet, but he didn't know whether the sachet would work or not, and whether it could give her powerful power like the wedding dress.