Beta paused, and then continued: "Hisuo said, you hired him to deal with us, can you explain what's going on?"
Sitting on the head seat of someone else's house, with his legs crossed, behind him was a ridiculously beautiful Shirley. Beta looked like a dude from a big noble family, ignorant and incompetent. But Claude didn't dare to underestimate him. He was calm on the surface, but in fact he scolded him in his heart.
He never thought that he would be betrayed by Hisoka, and most importantly, the other party came to him so quickly, which made him unprepared.
Although he was very nervous inside, he was still quite calm on the surface. He smiled and said with a gentlemanly smile: "Sorry, although I know who Hisoka is, I have never had any relationship with him. If I have to say it, I met him at a party a few months ago one side."
"Actually, it doesn't matter whether what Hisoka said is true or not." Beta said, playing with a quill on the table, "I think it's just you."
"Your Excellency's words are too unreasonable." Claude was stunned for a moment, and then said with a gloomy face: "Could it be that the laws in the Bronze Drum City can't restrain you?"
"Of course the laws of Tonggu City can restrain me, and I don't intend to do anything to you."
Hearing this, Claude heaved a sigh of relief.
But I didn't expect that Beta suddenly said with an old god: "But I can inquire about the industry under your family. If it is a shop or something, it may not open for a long time. If it is a mineral or something, There may be a large number of thefts in transit. What is your opinion on this?"
Looking at Beta's understated expression, Claude felt extremely aggrieved. This is indeed a common practice among nobles, but the other party doesn't ask the reason, doesn't ask the reason, or even just relying on the rhetoric of a nouveau riche, they directly tear themselves apart with him. Such an approach is very arrogant, but it is also very domineering.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Your Excellency is indeed very unreasonable. You just listen to Hisoka's one-sided words?"
"It doesn't matter." Beta put down the quill in his hand, leaned forward slightly, and smiled evilly, but with an oppressive force that no one else had: "It's still the same sentence, I believe it!"
Claude fell into an ice cave. He never thought that he would meet such a difficult person. He originally thought that the other party was an outsider. After coming to Bronze Drum City, no matter how powerful he was, he still had to lie in bed. After all, this was the territory of Greenton, the strongest spearman in Hollevin, the quasi-legendary level expert.
And he is very confident that he can persuade Greenton not to help each other.
It's just that Claude didn't think at all that Greenton didn't help each other because he didn't think Beta would lose at all.
What kind of virtue and energy the Son of Gold possessed, Greenton had already understood clearly in the dream. In fact, he really hopes to become Beta's Knight of the Round Table in his heart, but the responsibility of the head of the family is restraining him, making him unable to let go of his hands and feet to do what he wants to do.
Claude is very confident. He feels that as long as Greenton does not make a move, it will not be easy for him to deal with the little guy from other places.
It's just that he didn't expect that this outsider would be so difficult to deal with, playing cards so unreasonably.
He stood quietly, looking at Beta, with a little anger in his eyes, but more of a sense of shame that his self-esteem was trampled on.
"If you don't speak, we'll just hear it." Beta stood up.
"Wait!" Claude almost popped out these two words from between his teeth. His anger endured in his heart, and then he said with difficulty: "What will you do before you are willing to expose this matter."
"Reason!" Beta said lightly: "I need to know first, why you want to do something to our temple and our source of materials."
"Because of interests."
Beta turned and left without speaking.
"Wait!" Claude was anxious now.
Beta turned around and said with an unquestionable tone: "You still have one more chance. If the answer doesn't satisfy me, then I think the Mick family will soon become a pauper family."
Claude's face was very exciting, and various emotions were changing on his face. In the end, he seemed to be more than ten years older, and he said helplessly: "I am a believer in the goddess of fate. There are no other people in Tonggu City right now. Faith, but you're going to build a temple here...so."
"So that's what happened." Beta nodded: "But it seems that your belief in the goddess of fate is still not enough. It is related to your own interests, so you resolutely sold the goddess. It seems that you really don't know what the gods are. What kind of temper."
"What do you mean by that?" Claude was a little anxious.
"It's not interesting." Beta smiled: "As a believer in God, you betray God for profit. If you are a powerful professional, maybe the gods will turn a blind eye, but you are just a nobleman. Even They don't personally punish you, they will naturally give you liquidation when they are free."
Claude smiled uncomfortably: "Your Excellency really likes to joke."
"Are you kidding? You'll know after a while." Beta shook her head: "Tomorrow, you can send some compensation to the slums... The exact amount of gold coins is up to you. Of course, if you feel unconvinced, you can come to the slums." I, I will continue. It’s just that if the revenge fails next time, the consequences will not be as simple as it is now.”
Claude didn't speak, he felt a little murderous in Beta's threat.
Beta chuckled, and left here with obvious contempt.
After Beta left, Claude unbuttoned his coat and threw it on the ground... He has lived for decades, and he has never tried to be so angry. Even more than 20 years ago, when he offended a certain important person and apologized, he had never felt so uncomfortable.
He gasped on the spot for a few breaths. At this time, some guards had already woken up. One of them ran over and was about to ask questions in fear. Palms are also numb.
Beta didn't know how Claude would feel afterwards, and he didn't want to know.
He also spent a long time dealing with nobles in the game. At first, he also planned to solve the problem through communication, but then he found out. Communication is of no use to those aristocrats at all. If they don't like you, they don't like you, and the only way is to beat them into submission.
The most common criterion in this world is money first, and violence second.
He returned to the slums, just in time to see Hisoka staying at Zorro's house with a gift of apology.
Beta called several of his students and told them that everything will continue tomorrow.
Then he asked Joan to pay attention to the movement of Claude's house in the sky, lest this guy become angry and plan to kill him.
But it turns out that Claude is much more timid than Beta imagined. Although the news about Beta's rioting against the Mick family spread in Bronze Drum City, and many people secretly laughed at him, he still pretended that nothing happened.
To a certain extent, people who can endure can be regarded as a kind of talent.
There is nothing to describe the days that followed. The construction of the slums continued day by day. The sewers were dug and stone slabs were laid to pave the paths. It took two months to pass.
The slums in the past have changed drastically, the streets have become clean, and after rainy days, sewage will no longer flow across. The sewer directly discharged the sewage into a small river elsewhere.
What has really changed the most is the people in the slums. Because every household has someone working for Beta, three or five copper coins can buy enough food for the whole family, and there is still more than half of the food left. Therefore, the people in the slums look much more energetic now, and they are no longer in the state of starving and malnourished two months ago.
Those families with a small population can even save a lot of copper coins to buy some better clothes for their families. The originally gloomy slums suddenly became more brightly colored.
As a result, Beta gained a lot of popularity. After the workers finished their work, their favorite thing was to chat with some of Beta's students.
Because they are also from poor families, a few students can chat well with those poor people. Originally, these poor people are already full of gratitude to the priest who is willing to give them a job. Then, under the sincere praise of the students, Beta The popularity of the slums reached a considerable level directly in the slums.
If you use the terminology of the game, your prestige has reached 'respect', which is not far from worship.
After building the sewers and roads in the slums, Beta started to build the temple.
Because Beta has a lot of money this time, and the place is big enough, he plans to build the temple more grandly. It is not demanding and luxurious, but at least it must look big enough... the floor area must be large, and the height must be sufficient.
When the work was about to start... Greenton sent someone over, saying that he would be invited to the Santo's Mansion for a while, and to attend the dinner by the way.
Beta naturally took Shirley to the banquet.
They arrived at the venue first, because it was still early before the dinner, and Beta sat in Greenton's study, and the two chatted casually.
"Two months have passed now." Greenton said with some concern: "But your temple has not been built yet. In another month, people from other temples will definitely come to pull people. What will you do then?"
"It doesn't matter if they come, because they must have the advantage to preach to the noble class." Beta smiled: "Then the ordinary citizen class, I have enough time to build the temple, and then convert most of the people in the slums into A follower of the goddess Woking."
Speaking of Goddess Woking, Greenton couldn't help but glanced at Shirley again.
Beta didn't want to talk about Goddess Woking any more, so he changed the subject and asked, "What's the theme of the dinner later?"
"Alice's 170th birthday." Greenton said with a sigh: "She has finally come of age."
Beta was speechless for a moment.