Chapter 143 I am just delivering a letter
In the woods a kilometer to the northeast of the Wein Manor, with a weak flash of green light, Agnes and Xu Yi appeared.
“Not bad. Agnes, you said that you didn’t have confidence in bringing me out, but we came this far.” Xu Yi praised Agnes.
Agnes’ eyes narrowed as a smile appeared, looking like the crescent moon in the sky.
“It seems like I’ve made progress.”
“That’s right, elder Illusia said that you were the one with the highest talent in magic in several hundred years for the Night Song Tribe. I didn’t believe it at first.” Xu Yi said with a smile, “You said you didn’t even know the Shadow Dive Spell a few months ago when I asked you and now you’re this good at using it. I think that not long after, you will be as powerful as elder Illusia.”
Agnes shook her head with an honest expression, “That is impossible. Elder Illusia is the one who has the highest talent in magic for our Night Song Tribe and she has practiced magic for several centuries, how could I catch up to her?”
Xu Yi just gave a shrug. After being with Agnes for a while, she was much better compared to before, but she still had that inborn foolish disposition. He really didn’t know when she would be able to change.
It can’t be…..that she would be like Heinz who could never change how petty he was, right?
Xu Yi thought about these random things while telling Agnes, “Alright, contact the elves of the Moon Shadow Tribe, we don’t have much time.”
“Un.”
After Anges replied, she lowered her head and placed her hands on her chest. She softly opened her mouth and a delightful song slowly drifted out, spreading in every direction of the forest.
Even though he had seen how elves contacted each other many times before, Xu Yi’s heart still skipped a beat whenever he saw Agnes using this method of communication.
In the dim night, Agnes being covered in this faint green light really conformed to the fantasies of elves that Xu Yi had read about in fantasy novels. She was beautiful and filled with mystery.
Not long after the singing drifted out, there were the sounds of leaves rustling that came from the forest.
After a while, three slender forms fell from the tops of the trees.
When both sides saw each other, the three elves who suddenly appeared were surprised.
“Human?” The male elf in the middle looked at Xu Yi in surprise before looking at Agnes with a confused look.
Agnes greeted the three elves with a faint smile, “Are you from the Moon Shadow Tribe? I am Agnes, I am from the Night Song Tribe of the Lampuri Kingdom.”
The three elves were stunned again. The male elf in the middle nodded in response before he couldn’t help asking, “Since you are from the Night Song Tribe, why are you with a human? And you used the magic that we elves use to summon compatriots with in front of him? Could it be that your Night Song Tribe elder didn’t tell you that you can’t do that?”
Hearing the impolite tone of this male elf’s voice, Xu Yi slightly knit his brows. 𝑏𝑒𝘥𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝘭.𝑛𝘦𝑡
It seemed like although the elves of the Stantine Duchy revealed themselves to the people of the duchy and they frequently made contact with humans, that didn’t reduce their hostility towards humans at all. It was even worse when Agnes had first met Xu Yi.
“He is not a normal human, so there’s no problem using this magic in front of him. Even the elder agrees with this.” Agnes explained for Xu Yi, “Moreover, I came with him this time with the hope of introducing him to you all.”
“Introducing a human to us?” The three elves were stunned again. The male elf in the middle looked at Xu Yi before suddenly drawing out the shortsword at his waist, pointing it at Xu Yi as he roared, “Human, you must have used some despicable charm magic or threaten this young clansmen to bring you to us, is that right?”
Agnes and Xu Yi were stunned. They never thought that the elves of the Moon Shadow Tribe had such a deep prejudice against humans.
Agnes quickly waved her hands and explained, “No, he didn’t use any charm magic on me or threaten me, I voluntarily brought him here…..”
Xu Yi couldn’t help sighing in his mind. It was fine if Agnes didn’t explain, but this explanation really sounded like a bad lie.
As expected, the three elves looked at Xu Yi with unkind gazes. The other two elves took out their weapons and prepared to attack him.
Xu Yi pulled back Agnes who wanted to keep explaining and took out a letter from his chest.
“Perhaps I have the power to charm or threaten a little elven girl, but you don’t think I have the power to charm or threaten an elven elder, right? This is the letter that the Night Song Tribe’s elder Illusia had me bring, I am supposed to hand it over to elder Lisanya Shadow Song, she will be able to see the truth.”
“You actually know the elder’s name?” The male elf in the middle looked at Xu Yi in surprise before looking at the letter Xu YI was holding, causing the shocked expression on his face to become deeper.
As an elf, of course he could sense the powerful elven magic that was attached to the letter. If a person who wasn’t strong enough tried to open the letter, they would be heavily injured by the magic on the letter.
Just feeling the powerful magic coming from the letter, he knew that this human was speaking the truth.
No matter how strong he was, it was impossible for him to threaten an elf that could put such powerful elven magic on a letter.
As for charming…..what a joke!
Thinking of this, he relaxed his vigilance against Xu Yi a bit.
After taking the letter to ensure that he didn’t make a mistake, his eyes looking at Xu Yi filled with more doubt.
He couldn’t understand it. If what this human male and this young female elf said was true, why did the Night Song Tribe’s elder send a human male to bring elder Lisanya Shadow Song a letter?
She even had an elf guide this man to come meet them.
This human male…..what was his origin?
“How about it? Do you believe Agnes now?” Seeing the doubt on the elf’s face, Xu Yi asked this with a smile.
The male elf in the middle looked at the letter in his hand and couldn’t help nodding, “It should be true. But human, are you really just here to send a letter?”
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile, “That’s right, I did just come here to send a letter. As for whether there will be anything after, that will depend on elder Lisanya Shadow Song’s decision after seeing the letter. But I think that if nothing unexpected happens, after elder Lisanya Shadow Song sees the letter, she should choose to meet me.”
The male elf in the middle looked at Xu Yi with knit brows, not understanding why he spoke with such a big tone.
But looking at the letter in his hand, he took back his doubts. After thinking about it, he asked, “But if the elder decides to meet you, how should we find you?”
“It’s very simple. I will be in the Stantine Duchy for a bit and will be going to Duke Stantine’s place later. The matters I’m taking care of will be quite big, so you’ll easily be able to find news on me. I think it won’t be hard to find me.” Xu Yi replied.
Hearing Xu Yi’s voice filled with confidence, the elf who took the letter couldn’t help looking over him a few times. After hesitating a bit, he still suppressed the questions in his heart and put the letter away.
“I will deliver this letter to the elder and pass your words to her.” The elf who took the letter said this. When he and his two companions were about to leave, Agnes suddenly called out.
“Can I go with you back to your tribe?” Agnes asked.
The three elves were stunned. The male elf who had been responsible for negotiating knit his brows and said, “Although according to the rules, I shouldn’t reject a guest that has come from afar, but since you are with a human, I’m afraid I can only say sorry.”
“No, you’ve misunderstood. He’s not coming with me, it’ll be me alone.” Agnes shook her head and said, “I want to come with you to prove to elder Lisanya Night Song that this letter is real. Moreover, I feel that elder Lisanya Night Song will have many questions after reading this letter and I can explain it for her.”
The three Moon Shadow Tribe elves looked at each other. The male elf thought about it before giving a nod, “Alright. If the human isn’t coming, I represent the elder to invite you to our Moon Shadow Tribe as a guest.”
Agnes nodded before turning to say to Xu Yi, “Chairman, I’ll be going.”
Xu Yi gave her a smile, “Un, go ahead. I hope that you can explain to elder Lisanya Night Song elder Illusia and my thoughts and let her understand them.”
“I will do my best.”
Seeing that Agnes was about to leave with the three elves after saying this, Xu Yi hesitated a bit and he couldn’t help calling out to Agnes.
“Sir chairman, is there anything else you need to say?” Agnes looked at the somewhat worried Xu Yi with doubt.
“Agnes…..Remember, no matter what happens, you have to consider your safety first. If there is something that is wrong, don’t think about it that much and just keep yourself safe, nothing else is important. Do you understand?”
Hearing Xu Yi’s words, the three elves from the Moon Shadow Tribe looked at Xu Yi with angry gazes.
The male elf said in a deep voice, “Human, you think that we elves are as shameless and despicable as you humans? She is our tribe’s honoured guest, how could we let her encounter any danger!”
Xu Yi gave a shrug and didn’t argue with him, as he kept warning Agnes, “Remember what I said. No matter what happens, nothing is more important than your safety. You have to remember that!”
Although Agnes felt that Xu Yi’s warning was a bit weird, when hearing Xu Yi’s words, her heart strangely felt happy.
She gave a strong nod to Xu Yi and replied in a clear voice, “I will. Sir chairman, wait for my good news.”
Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile as he watched Agnes and the three Moon Shadow Tribe elves disappear into the forest.
Chapter 144 Greedy people
When he left the Wein Manor the next day, Xu Yi took the initiative to ask head Wein to give him the two maids who served him last night.
Head Wein was already planning on doing this and now that Xu Yi had asked, naturally he was overjoyed. Without another word, he waved his hand to let the two maids follow their new master and he said that they should never go against him.
As for the slave transfer process…..They would have to follow procedure in the Lampuri Kingdom, but in the Stantine Duchy, slaves were just slaves, they were no different from ordinary goods. If head Wein wanted to give them to Xu Yi, no one would say anything.
The horse carriage left the manor being sent off by head Wein’s happy gazes, as they headed to the capital of the Stantine Duchy, Faraday City.
Anklo sitting opposite Xu Yi looked at Xu Yi for a while. After hesitating a few times, he finally couldn’t help asking, “Chairman Xu, according to my understanding of you, you shouldn’t be someone who cares about beauties, right? Why did you ask head Wein for those two maids?”
Xu Yi said with a smile, “You think that Still isn’t beautiful?”
Anklo was stunned before shaking his head, “No, no, no, I didn’t have that meaning. Young miss Still is like a goddess, there is nothing to say about chairman Xu’s eyes. But based on what I’ve observed, when it comes to that…..eh…..you don’t crave it that much. Moreover, I can see that those two maids are still virgins, so you didn’t touch them at all last night. So I’m very curious, why did you go against the norm to ask for them?”
Xu Yi was instantly stunned, “You can actually see that the two of them are virgins?”
Anklo revealed a promiscuous smile, “This…..For an experienced man like me, I can see it. Moreover, not only could I see it, I believe head Wein can also see it.”
“Head Wein can also see it?” After hearing Anklo’s certain response, Xu Yi fell into thought. Not only was he not surprised at all, he rather broke out into laughter, “That is good. It’s good that head Wein can see this. I asked for those two maids from him to show my attitude. Now that he knows that these two maids are still virgins, me asking for the two of them shows my attitude.”
Anklo slightly knit his brows, “Chairman Xu, you mean that you’re really planning on cooperating with him?”
“Why not?” Xu Yi said with a faint smile, “I wasn’t joking yesterday when I was talking about the canned fruit factory and the rubber processing plant, I really think that there are prospects with these two factories. After I return to Banta City, I will prepare to build those two factories here. I might even…..open a few more factories.”
Seeing the expression on Anklo’s face, Xu Yi was a bit surprised.
“What is it? Mister Anklo, didn’t you always try to get me to invest in the Stantine Duchy? Now that I’m willing to build several factories other than buying the three mines, why does it seem like you’re not happy?”
“No, it isn’t that I’m not happy. If you can invest this much, I strongly welcome you on behalf of the Stantine Duchy.” Anklo quickly said with a smile, “I’m just a bit worried about head Wein.”
“Worried that I wouldn’t be able to cooperate with him?” Xu Yi asked with a smile.
Anklo gave a bitter laugh, “Chairman Xu really is sharp. That’s right, with my understanding of head Wein, he has no merit other than being greedy and he has no outstanding abilities. I am very worried that you chose to cooperate with him. I’m worried that he might ruin your matters and make you lose confidence in our duchy.”
“Greedy? Being greedy is good, I’m afraid if he isn’t greedy.” Xu Yi said with a smile, not caring at all, “Greedy people have quite clear goals, so they are easier to deal with. As long as head Wein isn’t excessively greedy over certain things, I think that I’ll have a very good cooperation with him.”
Anklo still had the same bitter smile, “I’m afraid he’ll be too greedy. Chairman Xu, perhaps you don’t understand the personalities of the nobles of our duchy. For a fellow like head Wein where he wants to take everything in his arms, don’t look at how friendly he was just now, he could become angry at any time for benefits.”
Hearing the helplessness in Anklo’s voice, Xu Yi thought about it and couldn’t help asking him, “Mister Anklo, I thought that you had me stay in Wein City intentionally to see this head Wein because you had an agreement with him about having me invest near Wein City. But hearing you say this, I think that this isn’t your real intention?”
Anklo paused for a bit before saying with a sigh, “Since chairman Xu has already seen through this, I won’t hide it anymore. I did indeed have this agreement with head Wein. If you could stay in his manor for a night and give head Wein a chance to meet you, he would give me his support.”
“Un, I can understand this.” Xu Yi nodded, “But I still don’t understand why you said all those depressing words to me. Could it be that you’re suddenly dissatisfied with head Wein?”
“It isn’t that I’m dissatisfied with head Wein…..Alright, that is right.” Anklo revealed a bitter smile, but there was a trace of sincerity in his smile, “Chairman Xu, actually although I invited you to invest in our duchy, I didn’t have much hope towards this. Because our duchy has been the same like dead water for a long time, I didn’t feel that we could rely on just a single person or a single company to change it.”
“This isn’t that strange because I also feel that just based on the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, we can’t change the entire Stantine Duchy.” Xu Yi said with a nod.
But after you spent a day in our duchy, I found that perhaps I was wrong.” Anklo looked at Xu Yi with a bit of hope in his eyes, “The other companies might not be able to change the entire country, but chairman Xu, I really feel this possibility coming from you!”
Xu Yi was stunned before he quickly waved his hands, “You have too much expectation in me.”
“No! It isn’t much at all!” Anklo seriously said, “Chairman Xu, you’ve only been in our duchy for a day and only saw a few things, but you already came up with a canned fruit factory and a rubber processing plant. If you could examine the entire duchy, how many new ideas would you have? If you could realize each one of those ideas, I dare guarantee there will be large changes with our duchy!”
“You’re too exaggerated.” Xu Yi said with a smile, “Investing in factories is just something small, but to change the entire country, that would depend on the people of the country.”
After hearing this, Anklo was stunned. Suddenly he went from a balloon filled with hope to someone who was quickly deflating whether it was his expression or his body.
“People…..” Anklo turned to look out the window and gave another bitter laugh. He said with a soft sigh, “To change these people, how could it be that simple…..”
Seeing the desolate look on Anklo’s face, Xu Yi suddenly felt that it was the first time since he went from a passionate man to someone who was incredibly lonely.
After a morning passed, the horse carriage brought Xu Yi and Anklo to Faraday City. Xu Yi was quickly brought by Anklo to see Duke Stantine and the other ministers of the Stantine Duchy.
After a short meeting with the same fat Duke Stantine and the other ministers, Xu Yi suddenly realized why Anklo had felt so alone.
Before seeing Duke Stantine, Xu Yi had thought that since the duke had taken the initiative to sell the Stantine Duchy’s three mines to an unknown company of another country, he would be a bold leader. He was planning on using these three mines to attract companies from other countries to invest, changing the situation of the Stantine Duchy.
But after seeing Duke Stantine and having lunch with him, Xu Yi found that after talking to him, his guesses on Duke Stantine had been completely wrong.
This duke was not just fatter than head Wein, he was even greedier than head Wein.
After seeing Xu Yi, with just a few greetings, Duke Stantine quickly changed the topic to the three mines.
What made Xu Yi surprised was that Duke Stantine had completely different views from Anklo.
When Anklo negotiated with Xu Yi, he hoped to obtain some technology from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce for these three mines, but Duke Stantine directly asked Xu Yi how much he would pay to buy these three mines.
When Xu Yi said that he hadn’t checked these mines out yet and couldn’t decide on the price, Duke Stantine and the other ministers actually forced Xu Yi to give a general estimate. They said that if Xu Yi gave them enough, they could even decide to sell the three mines to the Frestech Chamber of Commerce right now.
Xu Yi was helpless, so he could only give an estimate of around one million to one and half million gold coins.
He had estimated the three mines to be around two million gold coins, but after seeing the expressions of Duke Stantine and the other ministers, he didn’t dare say one million to two million.
This was because after they heard his price, the eyes of Duke Stantine and the other ministers lit up. They immediately ignored the offer of a million and set the price on one and half million.
Xu Yi was almost certain that if he had said one million to two million, these fellows would have set the price at two million gold coins.
Thinking about what Anklo had said on the way and seeing the greedy and happy expressions of Duke Stantine and the other ministers, Xu Yi thought that Anklo’s appraisal of these people before wasn’t that severe, but rather it had been quite conservative.
They were far greedier and more unreliable compared to head Wein.
To Xu Yi, the leaders of this duchy, including Duke Stantine were all greedy and unreliable!