Alien landlady

Chapter 78
Early the next morning, Bai Tongtong stretched her waist and yawned and went downstairs to check out, and went directly to the Magicians Guild by car. Ah Huang had already been waiting outside the door alone, and went in with her, and teleported back to Menise City. Find a place in the city to have breakfast, then escape back to the school dormitory, change clothes and read books to prepare for class, planning to sort out yesterday's spoils when I have time in the evening.

A little later, in the Voss neighborhood to the east of the capital, in a brown-gray house with discolored exterior walls, Harding ignored the cold outdoors and lay leisurely in the snow on the terrace. The magic power of runestones fluctuated from the eight-drawer filing cabinet. , Harding stood up lazily and walked into the room to open the drawer to get the documents.

There was only one sentence on the scrawled note - Earl of Berwick House was looted in the middle of the night.

Harding immediately put on a vigilant posture, put the note in his collar, and turned into a gust of wind and flew towards the east wing of the elders' house.

From the front, the House of Elders looks like an impressive three-and-a-half-story building, but in fact it is a large building with a rectangular atrium garden. The main building is located on the east side of the square, facing west. A ring-shaped building occupies the area of ​​a block, and there are streets from any side of the annex.

The wing building is the same height as the main building, and the appearance is also the same as the main building. Each building has several independent pointed attic windows. Harding goes straight to the easternmost attic of the east wing building. Through the closed windows, he can see the following A man writing a book at a desk indoors.

At the same time, the man felt that his pet was outside. He stopped writing, raised his head, met Harding's gaze, and frowned slightly.

【What happened? 】

[A big event that you never imagined. 】

Harding blinked, took out the note from the collar, rolled it with the breeze, and stuffed it through the gap in the window. The man also rolled it with the wind, and put it in his hand to read.

After glancing at the sentence on the note, the man's brows frowned even deeper, it was indeed a direction he hadn't paid attention to recently.

[Earl Berwick stolen? ! 】

【Need me to find out what's going on?This behavior is quite like an acquaintance of ours. 】Harding spoke with a smile.

[Berwick is bordered by Tamir. In recent years, dyed fake silver fox fur has appeared on the market. This year, the cat's partner has come up with testing reagents. 】The man closed his eyes and sorted out the information he had in his mind, and opened his eyes to tell his partner, 【There are a few links in this that are not correct. A cat must take revenge, but the premise is that someone offends it first, and you immediately catch up with it. Go to Amo City, I will try to go home early tonight. 】

Harding nodded slightly, stepped a little, turned into a breeze again, and headed for Amo City.

The man pinched the note and recited a spell silently, a magical flame ignited from between his fingers, burning the note to ashes in the blink of an eye.

After confirming that there was no piece of paper left, the man left the desk, leaned on the railing, called his assistant sitting below to come up, adjusted his work schedule for today, and asked his assistant to attend tonight on his behalf for the reason that he had to work overtime at night entertainment.

The Earl of Berwick was stolen. If it was really done by his own people, this would no longer be a personal grievance, but would most likely escalate into a dispute between countries.

The man was rubbing his forehead with a headache, hoping that Harding would bring him some useful news, so that he could find a way to suppress the dispute as much as possible, rather than turning it into a substantive conflict.

The barbarians in the north must never be given an excuse to go south.

After class at noon, Bai Tongtong went directly to Principal Hart, Ah Huang snatched Trim on the way, and they met in the principal's office.

Principal Hart was clearing the table and preparing to have lunch when Bai Tongtong knocked on the door and came in with a serious face.

"What's the matter? Is there something important?" It's rare to see Bai Tongtong with such an expression. Principal Hart is slowly sorting out the documents on the table while making mental preparations to see which level of important matter this should correspond to.

"Ah Huang went to find Trim, let's talk together when he comes."

Principal Hart immediately raised the level of priority to the first few times, "Is it related to the Grand Duke? Silver fox fur? Have you found a profiteer?"

Bai Tongtong nodded silently.

"You came to me to ask me to help?"

Bai Tongtong nodded again.

Principal Hart raised the level of the important matter by another level, "Is it involved in the relationship between the two countries?"

Bai Tongtong rolled his eyes and nodded heavily.

"Our domestic profiteers did it?"

Bai Tongtong shook her head again.

Principal Hart was about to guess again, when he heard the door rang again, Trim, the young master of the Grand Duke of Kallja, knocked on the door and walked in. A Huang followed behind him, Nya let out a sound to show his presence, then turned around and rushed straight to the door. Went to the fireplace.

"Hi principal." Trim saluted the principal first, and then walked up to him, his eyes drifting back and forth between the principal and Bai Tongtong.

"Uh……!"

Before he could utter a complete word, Bai Tongtong grabbed Trim by the front of his clothes and pushed him into the chair in front of the desk.

"Tongtong?!"

Bai Tongtong pressed Trim's right shoulder tightly with one hand, making him unable to move easily, "Sit down, listen to me."

"You, you said..."

"The profiteer has been found." Bai Tongtong briefly described the result first.

"Okay! Who is it? Where is it?" Trim was really excited to jump up, but just as his butt was raised, he was pushed back and sat back down.

"It's not a businessman from our country, and it's not your relatives who are eating and drinking."

"Of course it wasn't my family who did it!" Trim shouted at his family, scratching his neck.

"Ah?!" Principal Hart immediately reacted, and quickly sat down on the chair to gather himself.

Trim followed closely behind the principal and quieted down. The young master's complexion was pale, and his eyeballs moved uncomfortably from side to side. Obviously, he also realized the result of Bai Tongtong's secret.

"Okay, I've calmed down, tell me, Tongtong, which country is messing with our Tamir Principality?"

"United Kingdom of Perclay, Earl of Berwick."

"Is there any evidence?" The principal raised his hand to stop Trim from asking, and the children just listened.

"False and real water appeared in Amo City and sold in large quantities under my name. I found a workshop for making potions, and from there I got the address of a village. Just on the other side of the border, the village has already made dyed common Fox fur, and the village chief of that village is the earl's vassal."

"I know which village it is." Trim still knows the neighbors around his territory. After all, this is a tutor since he was a child.

"So the profiteer is the Earl of Berwick? This is really troublesome." The headmaster thought for a while, "What's the latest situation?"

"The fake potion and the fake silver fox fur are two steps in tandem. First let everyone in the city buy the fake potion, and then the fake silver fox fur can be marketed under the name of the real silver fox fur."

"Their fake silver fox fur must pass through my territory if they want to enter Amo City!" Trim yelled again, "How did they do it?"

"An omnipotent smuggler." Bai Tongtong patted Trim on the shoulder, "Just one space bag can hold all the fox fur products, and the smugglers entered the Principality of Tamir in a legal name to purchase all kinds of goods. Going around the border again, who knows if they have an extra space bag in their pockets when they come back with their prey."

"My God!"

"Yes, there is a more terrifying guess. Among the businessmen who have been buying silver fox fur from your family, is there any smuggler who did this by hand, mixing the fake silver fox fur he got into real leather and selling it to others? The next processor." Bai Tongtong patted Trim sympathetically.

"Then what should we do now?! Don't let their fake leather come in!"

"My idea is that I went to Amo City to report the case to the sheriff, saying that someone was selling fake truth water in my name, and the soldiers sealed up the shop selling the medicine."

"And the villages on the other side of the border don't know about this. They will hand over the fakes to smugglers as usual. We just need to strictly check the merchants who cross the border." Trim laughed again.

"Without the fake potion, you don't have to be afraid of fake products coming in. Even if the smugglers successfully bring them into the country, they don't dare to sell them on the spot in Amo City. In order not to lose money, they have to bring them inland, so we want to build a second place here. A line of defense." Bai Tongtong told Trim carefully, and the principal also listened very carefully.

From Bai Tongtong's point of view, she robbed the Earl of Berwick last night and took the initiative to scare the snake. It is unknown whether the other party will let the vassal deliver the goods as usual, but taking advantage of this gap, she was snatched away by the fake potion. The market in China is completely empty, waiting for genuine products to be filled.

And this is an excellent time to establish yourself in front of the public.

She couldn't stand in front of the monarch of this country and explain her origins loudly. She could only establish her own power to silence opponents.

"What line of defense?"

"The line of defense for genuine potions. Not only must we stop these fakes that may enter the country, but we must also expose all the fakes that have been mixed in before."

"But there has been a fake potion once, and people will believe this second time?"

"Why not? The potion is made by your family, and the Grand Duke will come forward and sell it through a store under the name of the Magician's Guild. Who do you think customers will trust?"

"Oh, yes, then I have to go back and write a letter!"

Trim couldn't sit still anymore, and Bai Tongtong didn't stop him anymore. She took out the potion prepared in advance from the ring and handed it to Trim, "You will need it sometime."

The boy took the potion, thanked him and said goodbye, and left in a hurry.

Then Bai Tongtong also planned to retreat. She had said everything that needed to be said, and the rest depended on the political influence of Archduke Carjaja and the principal. This matter involved a third country, and international disputes were beyond her control.

"Stop." Principal Hart didn't intend to just let Bai Tongtong go.

"Principal?" Bai Tongtong stood respectfully behind the visitor's seat, as if resigned to orders.

"Tell me honestly, how did you find out the clue that the factory producing fake silver fox fur is outside the country?"

"Of course I started from the false truth, followed all the way, and found the factory that made the potion. The leader of the factory also came from that village."

"And then? You just crossed the border to check the scene?"

"Ah Huang went to see it."

"Oh, Ah Huang read it, and then you obediently came back to report?"

"Of course, principal, Ah Huang personally went to confirm that the village is indeed responsible for the production of fake silver fox fur, and then we came back."

"You really didn't go any further, to Berwick?"

"What are you doing to Berwick? Ah Huang and I don't know how to get there in the ice and snow, so we are lucky to find that village. It's freezing to death outdoors there. I'm standing outside the city for a while. It doesn't seem like my legs are right." It's mine." Bai Tongtong pretended to be stupid, and turned her head to confess to Ah Huang, "Is it, Ah Huang, I only asked you to go to the village to check, right? I have been in the city."

Sitting by the fireplace, Ah Huang sat with his head upright, his eyes wide open, his eyes sparkling, he tilted his head with an innocent look of being professional, cute and coquettish, and said loudly, "NYA!"

Principal Hart had a strange expression on his face. He seemed to believe it or not, "I believe that of course you have been in the city all the time, and all the errands are Ah Huang. No one would care about a small forest wild cat. It can go wherever it wants to go, so what if it doesn’t know the way, it will know after walking once.”

"Principal, I swear to the merciful and merciful Lord, I have never done what I deny, I have only done what I admit." Bai Tongtong raised his hand decently.

Principal Hart's eyes widened, and he finally understood, "As an earth student, you don't swear to the goddess of the earth, but to the Lord?"

Bai Tongtong stuck out her tongue mischievously and spread her hands, "I sincerely repent and cross the border in private, and I will be beaten or punished casually, but I deny the baseless speculation that I entered Berwick."

"Hmph, you admit it if you have the evidence, right?" Principal Hart understood that Bai Tongtong was playing with words, and she couldn't be fooled.

"Let's talk about the evidence."

"Well, I don't want to guess, I'll just ask, did you go to Berwick?"

"Principal, the village is on the land of Berwick. Speaking of which, I admit that I have been to Berwick."

Principal Hart almost slapped the table, "Just be naughty, I'm talking about Berwick City!"

"No!" Bai Tongtong replied bluntly, "Absolutely, principal, I have never been to Berwick City."

"Really not?"

"Indeed not." She went directly to the Earl of Berwick's mansion, not in the "city".

"If I use the honesty technique, you would answer the same way, right?"

"Will the principal use this trick?"

"Hmph, instead of worrying about whether I will use this trick or not, you should worry about whether a black mage will come to question you directly. You'd better pray that this matter doesn't become a dispute between countries."

"I can't blame me for the trouble. This is a commercial dispute between the Principality of Tamir and the profiteers of Berwick."

"Okay, okay, let's go to lunch. Remember to find a black magic teacher to learn the white wall technique these days, just in case. I also want to write a letter to the Magicians Guild and ask them to investigate the dereliction of duty of the Amo City Guild. Why? There was a business in your name in the city, but no one reported it."

"Huh? Do you have to report this kind of thing?"

"Of course! How can the reputation of a magician be tarnished casually! Even if it is really allowed, according to the regulations, you have to ask the person concerned."

"I count too?"

"As long as you are a student of our school, it is fine, not to mention that you are a partner of Wuyingmao, and your name is known all over the country. I haven't heard any news about such a big movement in Amo City, and you have kept me a secret Damn, I'm really mad at you."

"You can't spread unconfirmed news indiscriminately, principal." Bai Tongtong walked around the table, shaking Principal Hart's arm.

Principal Hart couldn't bear it anymore and gave Bai Tongtong a slap, "Stop flattering me! I'm going to clean up the aftermath for you in the next few days, and keep an eye on all the news over there. Be good to me and don't cause trouble again."

Bai Tongtong immediately raised her hand and swore again, "In the name of the goddess of the earth, I promise to keep a low profile so that people ignore my existence."

Principal Hart just gave her a sideways look.

Bai Tongtong smiled and called Ah Huang, and finally retreated.

The door was closed again, and only the principal was left in the office. He looked at the pen and paper on the table, and was about to think about the draft when his stomach started to sound like thunder.

Sighing, the headmaster still put on his coat and decided to go out for dinner first.

Only when you are full can you work hard, don't you?
　Today's Chinese Valentine's Day, Chongzi begs to confess~~~~~ Seeing that Chongzi has no men, no dates, and is still working hard to code words, please feel sorry for Chongzi~~~~
　　
　
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