Lord Chronicle

Chapter 162
After sending Kafir away, Sol's life quickly returned to calm.The reconstruction of the territory is nearing completion. Apart from eating and drinking every day, he tries his best to be lazy and enjoy the happiness of the skipping lord.At the same time, Jessica no longer resisted him, and the relationship between the two became more and more comfortable.

Ordinarily, such days are happy, and Saul thinks so too.However, soon another person who gave him a headache broke the peace.

"When will you fulfill your promise?" With her hands on the table, Mary approached Sol and asked.

Under her scorching gaze, Sol could only helplessly put down the book in his hand: "Didn't I already say it, it's not time yet."

In the past few days, Mary has come to twist Saul every day, asking him to fulfill his original promise, which is to help her sell the improved incendiary bomb to the army.

Although the territory has ordered several thousand pieces from her as an emergency reserve, Mary has not come up with any new useful inventions during this period of time. After various expenses and repayment of arrears, the money she earned quickly bottomed out.

Not reconciled, Mary had no choice but to put her mind on Sol, and harassed him every day these days, asking him to fulfill his original promise.As long as this incendiary bomb can be successfully sold to the army, she will naturally no longer have to worry about repayment.

However, during this period of time, Sol was living a leisurely life. He was planning to enjoy the rare peace, so why would he help Mary go out to run errands?So back and forth, the two formed a tug-of-war.

"It's not the time, I think you just want to go back on your word." Mary said angrily.

"Alright, alright, even if I am willing to go, the army may not be willing to order." Sol waved his hand: "Instead of pinning your hopes on this, you might as well make some useful inventions, and you will naturally be signed. "

"You didn't go, how do you know they don't want it?" Mary snorted: "I have always invented inventions, but no one in this territory knows how to appreciate them."

Saul could only smile wryly at her words, not because he didn't know how to appreciate them, but because he didn't dare to appreciate them at all.

Last time, Mary invented a mechanism that would increase the speed of the waterwheels in the River Ill, thereby increasing their efficiency.

Unexpectedly, after installing it enthusiastically, the magic spar used as power was too strong, resulting in super fast speed, and the wooden waterwheel blades were overwhelmed, and more than half of them fell apart. It took a long time for Manson's engineering team to repair it.

This incident led to the shutdown of all mills for a week, and the bakery, pastry shop and other catering industries in Lovell were greatly impacted.Fortunately, it didn't happen when the farming was busy, and a greater loss was finally avoided.

But Sol still received so many complaints that he had to order that no matter what Mary invented in the future, it must go through sufficient experiments before it can be used.

There were several more such incidents, and sometimes even Jessica had to admit that Mary's destructiveness had started to catch up to her dad.

Seeing that Saul didn't speak, Mary said to herself: "Damn it, I should have gone to Diviji with Kafir earlier, maybe I could sell some there."

As she said that, she said in a deep voice again: "I'll ask again, are you planning to fulfill your promise?"

Saul used the standard official answer: "Please be calm and wait patiently. You have to believe that the Lovell government will solve the practical difficulties for you."

"You..." Without Kafir's arm, Mary had no choice but to slap him hard on the table, and walked out angrily.

As soon as Mary went out, Jessica walked in: "What's wrong with her?"

Sol spread his hands: "It's not about selling her incendiary bombs, it seems that she is really running out of money."

"Yeah." Jessica nodded: "Probably due to being too dependent on that kind of product. Recently, her workshop's financial situation is very poor. If this continues, the next repayment will be suspended."

With that said, she sat across from Saul: "How did you answer her?"

Sol picked up the book again: "What else can I do, let her wait, I have stayed in the territory well, so I don't want to run out and suffer."

Jessica said, "But you promised her once."

Sol waved his hand: "That's what I said, but she has caused me so much trouble, it doesn't matter if I break my promise once in a while. Besides, it's not that I really don't want to go, it's just not now."

As he said that, he smiled and leaned over: "I don't know how comfortable you are now, why do you want to leave the territory? I'm still going to have fun for a while."

Looking at him steadily, Jessica let out a sigh of relief: "Sure enough, you've been too lax recently."

"What?" Sol was taken aback.

Jessica said slowly: "The territory has experienced so many things recently, and you have worked very hard to perform the duties of the lord, so I think it is time for you to rest for a while."

"So I helped you take care of everything, and that side never refused your request..." She blushed when she said this: "But you seem to be too dependent on this idle life."

Saul argued: "I'm not slack, I just don't want to spend energy on unnecessary things."

"Really?" Jessica looked straight into his eyes: "Not to mention Mary, since you reached a new agreement with the Adventurer's Guild, you seem to have never paid attention to them, don't you think this Isn't that something worth caring about?"

Seeing her getting serious, Sol hurriedly said, "How could it be? It's just that the Adventurer's Guild has put all its energy into finding the key, so how could it stir up wind and rain in the territory?"

"What if they find out you have the key?"

Saul was at a loss for words, and followed him in a low voice: "This, how is this possible."

Jessica couldn't help sighing: "Then let's not talk about this. The territory finally found iron ore, but it turned out to be next to the blue dragon's lair. You don't plan to take care of this matter?"

Sol scratched his head helplessly: "Please, that's Elebenaye. You should also know that it is impossible for her to agree."

"But if it was you before, no matter what, you would always try, wouldn't you?" Jessica pointed out sharply.

After a pause, she said in a low voice: "But now, you directly believe in your heart that it is impossible. This is not the Lord Lord I know."

Sol had no choice but to spread his hands: "Elebena has been missing for a long time, even if I try, I can't find a match, so we can talk about it when she comes back."

Jessica did not back down: "Then what about the Thieves Guild? Although it is a good thing to have your own intelligence network, the other party is a thief after all, and has the experience of the Adventurers Guild. Don't you really worry about it at all and just let it go?" Are they in?"

Jessica hadn't been so serious about herself for a long time, and Sol didn't dare to laugh anymore: "Don't worry, Garrett doesn't dare to play tricks."

Jessica said in a deep voice, "Are you sure, what if they do something secretly?"

"If you're really worried, then I'll let the Night Shadow players monitor them." Saul compromised.

However, Jessica sighed: "That's not what I mean. In fact, I don't want you to do anything, but I just hope that you can cheer up as soon as possible, and don't dawdle like this anymore."

"You know, maybe you didn't realize it, but you haven't done anything for half a month."

Sol was taken aback: "Has it been this long?"

However, if you think about it carefully, it has indeed been more than half a month since Kaffir was sent away.During this period, Sol was doing nothing every day, spending his days without hesitation, and he almost felt like "I don't know when the outside world is".

Only when Jessica reminded him did he realize that he had wasted so much time.Although Sol's goal of being a hands-off lord has always been leisurely, but fortunately, he has not completely lost his mind. He knows that there are still a lot of problems inside and outside the territory, and now is far from the time to eat and die.

Seeing Sol's thoughtful expression, Jessica didn't say anything, just sat quietly and waited for him.

After a while, Sol scratched his hair reluctantly: "Okay, I understand."

Alas, is it true that I was born to work hard?

"Is there anything you want to do?" Jessica smiled.

Sol can't laugh or cry, now I say no, will you agree?I know that you deliberately don't want me to be comfortable, and you really showed your fox's tail.

He said helplessly, "I'm planning to go to the frozen plateau and hand over the key to Brevilla, and we'll deal with the most difficult things first."

Unexpectedly, he really made up his mind. Jessica was a little surprised, but then worried: "But it's too dangerous for you to leave the territory alone. Can't you leave it to someone else?"

Thor shook his head: "Brevila gave me the dragon scale, and only I can wake him up, so I have to go in person."

However, he also has his own plans. It would be more reassuring to get the treasure of Cajirido early. The situation outside is relatively stable now, which is a good time for treasure hunting.

Sol has even started to think about how much money he will keep as private money, and then confiscate the rest.

Of course, Jessica didn't know the mess in his belly, but this key was indeed a hot potato, the sooner it was thrown away, the better.If the Adventurer's Guild or Necromancers find it in the hands of Thor, the consequences will be disastrous.

So she agreed: "That's fine, do you want me to go with you?"

Sol was startled, and hurriedly said: "No need, what if you leave the territory?"

Just kidding, can Jessica follow me?If she knew the existence of that treasure, Lao Tzu's private money would be in danger.

Jessica nodded: "That's right, then who are you going to take?"

Saul had already thought of an excuse for this, and he said without hesitation, "Chip just follow me."

Sol's wishful thinking is this, with Kip accompanying him, there is no need to worry about safety issues.More importantly, he is taciturn, obviously the best candidate to keep his mouth shut and will never leak anything.

And after finding Cajirido's treasure, hide the most valuable part first, and then find someone to transport it back to Lovell, then it will be unknown that Sol has a large amount of private money.

It's a pity that he underestimated Jessica's worry about her safety. Jessica said with a concerned face: "It's so chaotic outside, you are the Marquis of a dignified kingdom, it would be too rash to bring only one entourage."

Sol said: "Of course not. Don't worry, the frozen plateau is just like my backyard, there will be no problems."

This answer obviously did not satisfy Jessica, she said with a straight face: "No, as your manager, I must be responsible for your safety."

Sol secretly complained, but he couldn't find a good reason to refuse.He was born with a quick wit, and he quickly said: "The necromancer just retreated not long ago, who knows what will happen to the territory, it's better to keep more people just in case."

Seemingly moved by him, Jessica thought for a moment, then nodded slowly.Unexpectedly, before Sol could breathe a sigh of relief, she said again: "That's good, let Kress go with you too. With his sword skills and Chip's personal protection, nothing should happen Problem."

Sol's eyes darkened, and he secretly thought it was over.Although Kress is dumbfounded and loyal and trustworthy, he never hides anything from Jessica. When she comes back, as long as she asks, this guy will recruit everything.

But he couldn't find a reason to deny this proposal. If he refused blindly, it would arouse Jessica's suspicion.Besides, compared to treasures, one's own life is equally important.

After struggling in his heart for a long time, he nodded dejectedly: "Then let's do this."

Unaware that she had inadvertently destroyed Saul's "hiding plan", Jessica asked again, "When are you going to leave?"

"Tomorrow." Saul said helplessly.

Alas, it seems that the only time is to find a way to recruit Kress.

"Be careful along the way. If necessary, hire some soldiers from the barbarians to strengthen protection..." Jessica warned carefully.

Unexpectedly, he didn't finish speaking, Suoer stepped up suddenly, grabbed her wrist with both hands, and pulled her over.

Caught off guard, when Jessica came back to her senses, she was already close to Sol.

"What are you going to do?" she exclaimed.

Looking at her pretty face close at hand, Sol said maliciously: "I'm going on a long trip tomorrow, should we..."

Immediately understanding what he wanted, Jessica blushed.She couldn't help avoiding Sol's scorching gaze: "So, so what..."

Sol chuckled: "The lord is so hardworking, as a steward, shouldn't he use practical actions to encourage him?"

Knowing that there was no way to escape today, Jessica struggled weakly and said, "Don't, don't stay here, go to your room, okay?"

Thor looked up to the sky and smiled, his heart filled with the pleasure of a little revenge: "Do you think I still have that time?"

"Hmm..." Jessica wanted to say more, but Sol sealed her lips.

There is no need to talk about what happened after that...

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"Don't worry, Miss Jessica, I will definitely protect the Lord Lord's safety and never leave his side for a moment." Kress on the horse assured Jessica with a pat on the chest.

Sol on the side was extremely depressed. Just before setting off, Jessica dragged Kress aside and muttered something, and this guy immediately began to show his loyalty.

Here Jessica nodded, and then said to Chip: "My lord's safety is up to you."

Chip didn't speak, just bowed slightly immediately.

After exhorting the two of them, she walked to Sol.The two looked at each other, and Sol coughed lightly: "Okay, I will be careful."

Gently stroking the nose of Sol's horse, Jessica raised her head and smiled slightly: "I will wait for you as before, so please return safely."

The seemingly plain exhortation contained all her affection.For a moment, Sol only felt a warm feeling flow through his heart.

No matter what, the girl in front of her is indeed the one who cares about her the most.

But, Jessica, you have to understand how important a private property is to a man.So for the rest of my happy life, I have to hide some things from you.

Thinking of this, Saul started to play a prank.Immediately, he straightened his body, beat his waist on purpose and said: "Oh, I don't know if I didn't sleep well last night, and I suddenly feel sore in my waist."

As soon as these words came out, Jessica's face immediately flushed red.Of course, she couldn't understand why this guy's back was sore. Not only did he not sleep well last night, he didn't sleep at all!

Chip didn't speak, but Kress said stupidly: "Really? Then, my lord, do you want to rest for one more day before setting off?"

Sol looked at Jessica with a smirk on his face: "What do you think?"

"You..." Unexpectedly, he would have the time to make such a joke, Jessica was ashamed and annoyed, but she couldn't explain it.

On the pretext that he had to pay in advance for the period of time he was away, Sol pestered Jessica shamelessly last night and tossed it all night.If you let this pervert stay for another day, then you really don't want to leave.

How could I fall in love with such a troublesome guy?Angrily, Jessica unceremoniously raised her leg and kicked the horse's ass: "Go away, you have to rest and go to sleep on the way!"

The horse was frightened, and ran away with a long hiss, so frightened that Sol kept yelling on the horse: "Well, Jessica, just wait and see what happens when I come back..."

This kind of behavior that transcends the relationship between the two has long been commonplace, Kress and Chip nodded slightly, and quickly chased after them.

Standing in place and watching the three leaving, Jessica couldn't help but sigh: "As long as you can come back safely, it doesn't matter what you want..."

Suddenly, she suddenly realized the insufficiency in her words, stomped her feet fiercely, then turned and left with a blushing face.

(End of this chapter)