Forced to become a delicate companion of a paranoid lord

Nico stayed in the watchtower for more than half a month and returned to Naya Castle in the middle of the fourth month of spring. It was not because he hid in the watchtower for so long on purpose, but because he had made some breakthroughs in his research on the defensive magic circle. After he disassembled that part of the magic runes, he found that almost twenty days had passed.

In another month and a half, the Far North Territory will enter winter.

That morning, after practicing the basics of swordsmanship for an hour under Sal's instruction, Xie Wei lay on the couch with a soft pillow in his arms, not saying a word, as usual.

Sal used some strength to massage Xie Wei's arms, calves, waist and back. At first, Little Rose was dodging, but now she can endure it quietly.

When Sal finished his massage, he went to see Xie Wei and found that Little Rose had buried her face in the soft pillow and had fallen asleep at some point.

Skillfully and gently holding the sleeping person in his arms, Sal took Xie Wei to the lounge that had just been separated from the office, where a soft bed was specially placed for Xie Wei.

Although he had agreed with Sal that he would work with him in the office to handle territory affairs from 10 a.m. to lunch, in fact, Xie Wei would take a nap in the office almost every day after practice. After waking up, he would go to the restaurant for lunch with Sal, and then go back to the bedroom to take a nap.

Shevi gets tired more easily than ordinary people. After increasing his activities, he needs a lot of sleep to restore his energy. Sal will adjust his courses according to his physical condition and strictly control his training time, not allowing him to over-practice.

Although Sal said seriously that it was for his health, Xie Wei felt that Sal just didn't want him to go to bed early at night.

He had seen through the man's mind.

After Ryan took his men to Hutt Island, some affairs in the castle were temporarily handed over to his subordinate Keller.

At half past eleven, Keller entered the lord's office and said softly as he had done in the past few days: "Lord, the merchants have been waiting in the castle's reception room since around seven this morning. They want to discuss something with you..."

"Take this to them. If they agree, find a time to sign the agreement. If they don't agree, ask them to take back what they brought." The Lord of the Snowfield held a feather pen and pointed to a transaction agreement on the corner of the table without raising his head.

Keller shut up and said no more. He picked up a thick stack of papers from the corner of the table, bowed, and left the lord's office.

Lord Ryan had told him that he only needed to obey the lord's orders.

With the completion of the Hutt Island transaction, the Far North Territory lifted its entry restrictions on the Empire ahead of schedule as agreed, and the Imperial caravan entered the snowfield before winter. However, when they arrived in the Far North Territory, they discovered that the Paraso people did not need sugar and large amounts of food this year.

The grain merchant, who had been in the Far North Territory for more than three months, sold only half of the grain after visiting Gute City and various tribes.

Except for the salt merchants who sold all their salt as in previous years, the goods brought by others were not exchanged for as much as in previous years.

Animal skins, monster materials, magic plants, ancient relics, and magic crystals of various properties in the Far North Territory are all common things for the Paraso people, but outside the Far North Territory, these are treasures that can bring huge wealth to merchants.

In the minds of the merchants, the Parasau people were a group of uncivilized barbarians. They could exchange any items from outside the Far North for more valuable items.

The Parasos don't have their own caravans, and the various chambers of commerce, for their own interests, will never allow the Parasos' caravans to leave the snowfield. The major chambers of commerce have monopolized the trade routes of the Far North Territory, and agreed to enter the Far North Territory together every spring to divide up the good things that the Parasos have saved for trading with them according to the allocated shares.

They thought that this kind of business could continue forever.

The businessmen sat in the reception room. After receiving the new transaction agreement, the atmosphere in the reception room was a little stagnant for a while. Some businessmen had faces so gloomy that it seemed as if water could drip out of them, and those with a bad temper directly slammed the agreement on the table.

"A box of 100 sheets of cloud soft paper, you have to exchange it with an item worth 50 gold coins?! A box of 100 sheets of cloud soft towel, you have to exchange it with an item worth 100 gold coins! Don't the people of Paraso know how to count? How is this pricing different from robbing people?"

The eastern merchant Barnett was already furious because he had not sold all the sugar he brought, and now he directly mocked the Paraso people who came to deliver the agreement.

"Barnett, what you said is true. It's rare for the Paraso people to make something like this. They may have never seen anything better and think that this kind of paper is unique on the continent and there is no other substitute, so they want to sell it at a high price." After selling all the salt, the salt merchant Colliver stayed in the Far North Territory just to bring back some paper made by the Paraso people.

He knew in his heart that among all the types of paper on the Lar continent, none could compare with the paper made by the Parasos. If he brought back a few carts of this paper, whether he gave it to noble lords or sold it himself, he could make huge profits. But at this moment, he tried his best to belittle Yunrou Paper and Yunrou Towel, as if he had seen better paper than this one.

"The price is indeed too high. In fact, the price we offer is the most reasonable. The price is too high. I guess this kind of paper can only be used by the people of Paraso themselves." The businessman Gustave added sarcastically after Colliver finished speaking.

Of course, the merchants would not say these words in front of the Lord of the Snowfield, but they said them in front of the Paraso people just to let him convey the message to the Lord of the Snowfield.

They did not agree to the new deal, and the paper produced in the Far North Territory was not a rare thing. If they did not set the price according to their standards, then this paper that they regarded as a treasure would be worthless and could not be exchanged for anything.

Keller's expression remained unchanged, but the hand holding the remaining papers almost crushed the thick stack of papers.

He glanced at the businessmen in the reception room, opened the paper in his hand and said in fluent common language:

"The price of a first-level fire beast's hide on the mainland is generally around 200 gold, but you only traded with us for items worth around 5 gold. The price of a second-level ice beast's fang on the mainland is generally around 150 gold, but you traded with us for items worth around 3 gold. The price of a cart of rye on the mainland is generally around 50 silver, but you exchanged it for 5000 first-level magic crystals, which is equivalent to 5000 silver coins..."

Keller read page by page very patiently. The further he read, the uglier the faces of the businessmen in the reception room became.

No one expected that the Paraso people, who had never been interested in things outside the Far North Territory, would actually investigate the current trading prices of goods on the continent.

They began to realize that the Parasau people no longer wanted to maintain the previous unequal trade with them.

But everyone was confident in their hearts, thinking, even if they knew that their transaction was unequal, what would it matter?

If it weren't for these caravans coming to the Far North every spring, would the people of Paraso be able to exchange for those daily necessities? Would they have enough food to eat? Would they be willing to eat salt? Would there be glass in the windows of Naya Castle?

What they brought made life better for the people of Parasau, so what was the harm in taking a few more?

If we don't trade with them, the Parasau people will just have to sit there and wait for those things to come.