Lord of the Continent [Western Fantasy]

After driving for an hour, the carriage finally arrived. The driver stopped the horse, and the tall and mighty knights were like stars holding the moon. Under the curious eyes of the people around, they helped Xi Xiumi get off the carriage.

Those people were all civilians, a few showed envy and jealousy in their eyes, and most of them were surprised, as if they were a little puzzled: Why can you still see people with a group of people here on such a large-scale aristocratic social gathering day today? Adults traveling on knights?

Ignoring everyone's strange gazes, Xixiumi took his three knights and walked towards the destination along the main street. If the carriage was not too large, he really wanted to ask the coachman to drive directly to the downstairs of the business park. up.

Soon, Xixiumi arrived at this building under the king's name and responsible for managing nobles and merchants.

After leading the knights in, he found that several young nobles were chatting with the civil servants who were doing business. The atmosphere seemed to be good, and nothing unpleasant happened.

Xi Xiumi was relieved, and saw that a clerk was idle, so she went straight over.

It was a young teenager with chestnut hair and fair skin, looking very sunny, giving an impression of vitality.

Xi Xiumi said to him: "Excuse me, can the noble gathering in the afternoon be handled here?"

Eros came to work today to help a friend and replaced him. Hearing this, he immediately looked up and saw a black-haired aristocratic boy who was rare in Xinghe City, with a beautiful appearance, and then noticed the material and style of his clothes, The three knights following behind guessed that this should be a rich young master with a title of knighthood.

He hurriedly pulled away the chair beside him, smiled slightly, showing his white teeth, and said politely: "It can be handled, please sit down, do you have any questions about the afternoon party?"

Speaking of picking up a stack of lists at hand, he warmly recommended: "These are the suggestions and integrations put forward by the nobles before, including the specific party process. If you are participating for the first time, you can learn about it before asking question."

Xi Xiumi said, "No, you misunderstood. I came here to ask how to go through the formalities if I don't attend the monthly gathering."

This answer was beyond Ailos' expectation, so he blurted out: "Allow me to ask, did you have any conflicts with anyone when you attended the party before?"

Xi Xiumi: "??"

Seeing his confused face, Eros sneaked over and said in a low voice, "If you only had conflicts with a certain nobleman, this is not a valid reason, unless you have other noble relatives in your family to replace you. Otherwise, you still have to follow the rules and attend the monthly gatherings as scheduled,"

Xi Xiumi: "..."

In fact, Xihumi has always had doubts about this regulation.

His Majesty the King has a lot of things going on every day, and it is said that there are still several wives who are fighting for power and power secretly making small moves. How could he have the time to check in person? How many nobles in the whole country do not attend the party every month?

But Xi Xiumi only responded politely: "Because of family reasons, I couldn't attend in time."

"Can you tell me your name and title?" Eros said, "If it is really because of family factors that prevent you from attending the party, then this side will approve your application."

Sihumi replied: "Klein Sihumi, Earl."

"Please wait a moment, I'm going to get an impression crystal ball." Eros quickly ran to the front desk, picked up an expensive crystal ball, and ran back.

The Impression Crystal Ball is a storage tool created by alchemists. As long as you tell it the information that has been recorded, it can be directly displayed in the sphere, which is convenient for the staff to query and process.

Of course, this kind of crystal ball is only used by nobles, and businessmen and civilians are not qualified to use it to record information.

Eros held the crystal ball, read the records carefully, and immediately said in shock: "You are the hereditary Earl of Itenity, and you haven't attended the party held by His Majesty the King yet?!"

Xi Xiumi: "..."

The fire of gossip in the young man's eyes was already burning, and he couldn't hide it at all. He immediately said without hesitation: "Lord Xishoumi, may I ask if you don't like the atmosphere of the party, or what..."

"I don't like it." Xi Xiumi was a little displeased, and interrupted: "It's just because I have to take care of the family property and I'm too busy, so I can't participate for the time being. Is this question also within the scope of inquiry?"

"This is indeed beyond the scope of the inquiry." Eros came to his senses and said weakly: "I'm sorry, Lord Earl, I was the one to be abrupt."

Seeing his slumped face, Xi Xiumi's heart suddenly softened, so she had to say helplessly: "It's okay, I don't mind."

Hearing what he said, Eros became overwhelmed with emotion in an instant, and said actively: "Master Earl, please allow me to say one more thing, in fact, my father and your father have always maintained a cooperative relationship, although you may not remember me. , but you should have heard of Bangs Auction House, right?"

Bangs auction house?

Xi Xiumi searched his memory for a while, and suddenly realized: "I remembered that Bangs Auction House has been cooperating with our family on spices, and at the same time helped to deal with some defective magic props, am I right? "

Eros's eyes lit up instantly, and he nodded hurriedly, "Yes, my lord, my father is still cooperating with your family."

He extended his hooking hand and introduced himself enthusiastically: "Hello Earl, my name is Eros, and I will soon inherit the Bangs Auction House. A little man of the title of baronet."

"Very good goal." Xi Xiumi nodded and said politely: "I sincerely wish you can win the title of Baron within this year."

"Thank you Earl for your support!" Eros said gratefully.

Eros was both happy and excited. He didn't expect that the other party, as a distinguished hereditary earl, would not put on airs at all, and his temper was still very good. This is really great!

So, he was overly enthusiastic again and invited incoherently: "Can you come to Bangs Auction House to play with me when you are free? Oh yes, I will approve your application. Of course, I want to go to your It’s okay to pay a visit to your manor!”

"You can come to me." Xixiumi agreed to Eros' request, and said kindly: "Don't be too restrained, we should be of the same age, there is no need to strictly follow various etiquette like adults, living like this is too tiring! "

Eros fell silent for a moment.

He may have a lot of bad habits, and he often speaks out of his head, but he is gifted in one aspect, that is, he can keenly detect whether the words spoken by the people he communicates with are white lies or sincere. Sincerity from the bottom of my heart.

It was obvious that the honorable Earl in front of him was not out of politeness, but was communicating sincerely with him.

"Thank you!" Eros smiled brightly, showing a beautiful little canine tooth, his eyes were as round and cute as cat's eyes, and asked in a low voice, "Then, in private, can I call you Xixiumi?"

"No problem." Xi Xiumi replied with a smile.

Now that the application was successfully passed, Xixiumi stopped disturbing Eros's work, said goodbye to him, got into the carriage, and returned to the manor with the three knights.

With nothing to do in the afternoon, Xi Xiumi finally got his wish and became the earl of the house.

He stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the study on the second floor, looking at the busy gardeners and maids picking fruit in the back garden, chatting and laughing with the old housekeeper beside him.

Xi Xiumi suddenly envied these people a little, and even hoped to have the opportunity to chat freely in the back garden like them.

However, as an earl, he is doomed to miss out on civilian life, and there is no way to get along with them on an equal footing, after all, their class status is far apart.

Unless he annihilated his title of hereditary earl and bankrupted all the assets under his name, that might still be possible.

Xixiumi sighed helplessly, withdrew his unrealistic reverie, sat on a chair, and flipped through the ancient books that he hadn't read a few days ago. There were a lot of knowledge about ancient myths written on them, which was quite to his liking.

If it wasn't for the housekeeper's grandfather not allowing him to read in bed at night, he really wanted to stay up all night and read the book at once, instead of reading a few pages only during tea time as he is doing now, for a good time.

In the study room, in the dark corners that Xixiumi couldn't see, nameless gray mist lurked there. They tried several times to touch the young Earl bathed in the sun, but as long as they were exposed to the sun, they would be like withered leaves. , slowly shrank, and then turned into dust, floating out of the window with the wind.

He has not fully awakened yet, he still needs more faith, the time has not yet come...

Xi Xiumi was completely unaware of what happened in the dark. At this time, he was immersed in the magical world in the book and couldn't extricate himself.