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"Did Mr. Qiao discover anything?" After Zhang Wei left, the housekeeper smiled and tested Qiao Rui.

"Ahem..." Qiao Rui coughed twice out of habit and waved his hand: "Just asking casually, housekeeper, don't think too much about it."

Obviously, Qiao Rui did not want to share the information he discovered.

"Really? It seems like it's been a long time since Mr. Qiao asked someone so many questions." The butler obviously didn't believe Qiao Rui's answer.

Qiao Rui smiled but said nothing. It was his habit to not fight for the sake of fighting.

Seeing that Qiao Rui was clearly pretending to be stupid, the butler was a little upset, so he turned to vent his anger on the centurion: "Please protect the Baron's property and the Baroness's safety. If the Baron's property is damaged, I'm afraid there will be punishment when he returns. I hope you take care of yourself."

The steward threw the pot away, didn't give the centurion a chance to argue, and turned away.

The centurion was upset when he heard this. What is the Baron's property? The entire barony is the Baron's property! In this case, what can these officers and soldiers under his command do to protect the place?

"Sir, look. I only have about a hundred people. Minus the people who have intervened from all sides, I can only command half of them. Now I can only gather less than two-thirds of the officers and soldiers. This is considered lucky. Just like Zhang Wei just now, including his team, are all the housekeeper's men. Can I command them? Why is everything my responsibility now?" The centurion wanted to drag Qiao Rui into the water.

"Cough, cough, cough," Qiao Rui started coughing violently. He waved his hands, slowly stood up, and said to the centurion, "The lives of my family are in your hands, sir." After Qiao Rui finished speaking, he walked out of the room on crutches.

After Qiao Rui left, the centurion who failed to form an alliance with Qiao Rui cursed angrily, "Old fox!" He was now very glad that he divided half of his troops to guard his own home. If his home was taken down like the tax collector, he would have been so miserable that he would not be able to cry.

Zhang Wei had never been into the main house of the Baron's mansion. He wandered around inside and found himself at the back door. He looked at the spacious garden in the backyard and thought that the Baron really knew how to enjoy himself. After enjoying the beautiful scenery, Zhang Wei turned around and went to find the front door. He expected that the back door should be symmetrical with the front door.

"Hey, that person, please help me." A woman in aristocratic dress called out to Zhang Wei.

Zhang Wei pointed at himself and asked, "You called me."

"What else?" Seeing Zhang Wei in a daze, the noble woman suddenly smiled like a flower.

"Is there anything I can do for you?" Zhang Wei asked.

"Please help me take down the kite, it's hanging on the tree." The noble woman pointed to the tree next to her, where a kite was hanging.

Zhang Wei thought to himself, the city is in such a mess now, and this silly woman still has time to play with a kite. It turns out that a canary in a golden cage cannot understand the sufferings of the world.

Zhang Wei had no idea about this woman, so he just gave a heavy gentleman's greeting and said, "I am willing to serve you."

The noble woman was once again amused by Zhang Wei's clumsy movements.

Zhang Wei didn't care. He climbed up the tree easily, carefully took down the kite, and handed it to the noble woman with both hands.

"Thank you. Ever since the Baron left, I don't know what everyone is busy with and no one cares about me." The noble woman complained.

"Are you a member of the Baron's family?" Zhang Wei asked tentatively.

"Yes, don't you know me?" The noble woman looked surprised.

"Um, sorry, this is my first time here. You can have fun first, I have something to do and have to go." Zhang Wei wanted to leave after he said that, but the noble woman grabbed Zhang Wei's clothes, which made Zhang Wei a little stunned.

"Don't you want to know who I am to the Baron?" The noble woman suddenly had the idea of ​​teasing Zhang Wei, so she grabbed Zhang Wei's clothes rudely.

"Uh..." Zhang Wei looked at the woman's face and skin. Although the woman had smooth skin and good looks, crow's feet were not deceptive. Zhang Wei guessed that the woman was about 30 years old and should be a baroness.

However, Zhang Wei certainly knew what the woman wanted to hear, so he deliberately said, "Aren't you the Baron's daughter?"

After Zhang Wei finished speaking, he lowered his head and muttered deliberately: "I haven't heard that the baron has a granddaughter."

When the Baroness heard this, she laughed so hard that her body shook. Seeing that there was no one else around, she gently hit Zhang Wei and said, "Where did the Baron's granddaughter come from? Don't say anything nonsense to the Baron when you see him next time. Okay, go and get busy."

The Baroness smiled and let go of Zhang Wei's clothes.

Zhang Wei ran away quickly amid the Baroness's laughter. What a joke! The Baron was not only greedy for money but also petty. Moreover, it was heard that the Baron listened to his wife very much. If the Baron got jealous, it would only add to the trouble. Zhang Wei decided to stay as far away from this woman as possible.

Zhang Wei finally returned to the front square and saw Brother Nan who had been waiting for a long time.

"Lost?" Brother Nan asked Zhang Wei with a smile.

"Well, it's too big and no one can show me the way." Zhang Wei was a little depressed.

"It's okay. I'd get lost if I went in. When the butler came out just now, he asked me to ask you what the guild's attitude was towards the adventurers' disturbance this time."

After listening to Brother Nan's question, Zhang Wei thought that this butler was really pretentious. He had to make Brother Nan come to him to ask the question, as if this could highlight the butler's noble status and make it seem like Zhang Wei was worlds apart from him. If the butler was really that noble, he should have just not stayed in the same room with him.

Although Zhang Wei didn't want to embarrass Brother Nan, he couldn't tell Brother Nan what the vice president said, otherwise he would be exposed. He could only shake his head and said, "I don't know either."

In order to make his words more credible, Zhang Wei said with a worried look on his face, "I feel like the guild doesn't treat me as one of their own, otherwise they wouldn't have failed to remind me. They said nice things before, like I was a mediator between the guild and the baron, but now I'm not accepted by either side."

Zhang Wei's answer did not exceed Nan Ge's expectations. He patted Zhang Wei on the shoulder and said, "I know what to do. What are your plans next? The centurion said that the baron's mansion had the baron's family and it was inconvenient for the military relatives to enter. He sent all the military relatives to his own home. To put it bluntly, he used them as hostages and asked the officers and soldiers to work hard to guard his home."

Brother Nan was reminding Zhang Wei not to send Qian Yuanyuan and Samantha to the Centurion's house unless it was absolutely necessary, so as to avoid them being controlled by others.

Zhang Wei nodded: "Brother Nan, don't worry, I understand. I will go back to the store directly. After all, that is all our belongings. We have to protect it and definitely cannot lose it. By the way, is sister-in-law okay?" Seeing that Brother Nan cared about his family, Zhang Wei also hurried to care about Brother Nan's family, otherwise he didn't want to mention Sister Cheng.

Brother Nan saw that Zhang Wei finally asked about Sister Cheng, so he smiled and said, "If your sister knew that you just remembered her, she would definitely say that you forgot about her because of a beautiful woman. Don't worry, the housekeeper showed mercy and let her live with you. If this place is not safe, then there is really no place to go."

Although Zhang Wei thought that Nan Ge's next words were a joke, he still said seriously: "I have some friendship with Pamela, the priestess of the Contract Temple. If it's not safe here, you can take your sister-in-law to find her. Maybe you can get the temple's protection. At worst, no one should dare to rob the temple, right?"

Brother Nan smiled. He could feel that Zhang Wei was really worried about their safety. He patted Zhang Wei on the shoulder and walked towards the housekeeper's house.

"Brother Nan, I'm serious." Zhang Wei couldn't help but emphasize to Brother Nan again.

"I know. Don't worry. If something really happens, please help me take care of your sister Cheng." After saying this, Brother Nan waved his hand, signaling Zhang Wei to get busy.

When leaving the Baron's Mansion, the captain at the door reminded Zhang Wei to be careful and if there was really no place to hide, he should take his family to the centurion's house.

Zhang Wei could feel that the captain was really thinking about him. On the one hand, he used the word "really" to remind Zhang Wei not to take his family to the centurion's house unless it was absolutely necessary. On the other hand, he reminded Zhang Wei that if the situation was stronger than the person, he had to admit defeat. It was not shameful to admit defeat for the sake of his family.

"You take care of yourself too." After Zhang Wei reminded the squad leader to pay attention to safety, he rushed home with a strange feeling in his heart.

On the way, Zhang Wei discovered that the adventurers were no longer satisfied with plundering the industries owned by the tax collectors, and some adventurers began to move towards the southeast direction of Qiao Rui's industries.

At this rate, it won’t be long before the virus spreads to the businesses under the southwest steward’s control, and Zhang Wei’s store will naturally be affected as well.

Without an army to maintain order, the city became increasingly chaotic, and the powerless people could only flock to nearby temples in the hope of receiving God's protection.

Private chambers of commerce began to band together, trying to resist looting through the use of private armed guards, while some merchants, worried that they would not be able to hold on, were beginning to negotiate with the royal caravans on the price of protection.

When Zhang Wei returned to the store, facing Samantha and Qian Yuanyuan's nervous concern, he first eased their tension and then told them about his own situation.

"Isn't this price a bit too high?" Samantha asked Zhang Wei with a wry smile.

Zhang Wei shook his head and said, "When peace lasts too long, even cattle and horses forget that they will be slaughtered sooner or later. Ordinary people don't have money to begin with, so adventurers don't bother to rob them. After all, this isn't a real rebellion. If they cross the line and lose the protection of the guild, everything they rob will belong to someone else."

"What about private chambers of commerce? Aren't they innocent too?" After all, Samantha is a businesswoman, so she naturally empathizes with businessmen, especially those in private chambers of commerce.

"If they are willing to spend money and bleed to seek the protection of the royal caravan, they naturally don't have to worry about anything. Adventurers who even the army dare not touch will never dare to touch the royal caravan." Zhang Wei was not worried at all.

"But they also earn their money through hard work." Samantha still felt it was a bit unfair.

"Hard-earned money? They make money from the information gap. They use the method of banding together to exclude newcomers, reap the poor, and finally become rich. They even dare to compete with the royal family for business. Do you think they are earning hard-earned money or vampires?" Zhang Wei disagreed with Samantha's opinion.

“…” Samantha stopped talking, but she was still a little dissatisfied in her heart because she felt that she was also a businessman now.

"The really pitiful ones are small businessmen and small handicraftsmen like us. But if we didn't have Brother Nan as a background, do you think we could have opened our store? Are there still small businessmen and small handicraftsmen without background in the Barony now?" After Zhang Wei finished speaking, he hugged Samantha in his arms.

"You're right, ah..." Samantha changed her mind this time. Just like Zhang Wei said, in the Barony, it's impossible to do business without a background. She suddenly found it a little funny. She was actually sympathizing with those monopolists just now...