Chapter 564 "The King of the Underground"

"But according to Lassein, the count did not treat the remaining members of the tower harshly. Those who left received severance pay, while those who stayed received three years' salary according to the standards of the former lord." Xia Fan continued, "This It seems that he was a military doctor before, and now he has opened a sanatorium, which can be regarded as his old profession. "

"Why would such a person come to Achie?"

"Perhaps one of Achie's relatives is infected with the cold epidemic and needs a doctor's visit?" He guessed casually, "The main customers of that sanatorium are middle-aged and elderly people. The wealthy businessmen of Azure Castle generally do not choose to go there for medical treatment."

Not to mention nobles, dragonborns, like demons, are rarely troubled by diseases.

Such private medical institutions often serve civilians.

"So currently, these two are the most suspicious." Li looked at Xia Fan and Qian Yan, "No matter which one of them the man in the mirror is involved with, it makes sense."

"Qian Yan and I have similar views." Xia Fan nodded, "The next step is to see Gungun."

Li whistled, and soon a heavy sound came from the roof. After a while, Rolling fart landed on the window sill, and then rolled forward and jumped into the house.

"Meow--!"

Li stretched out his five fingers to scratch, and then drew a big circle with his tail.

The latter followed and spun around a few times, tapping the ground rhythmically with his front feet, and finally stood up and made a gesture with his arms bent.

Xia Fan was dumbfounded by this set of movements. Those who didn't know better might have thought that a goblin was dancing in a dance.

"What are you talking about?"

Li patted Gungun's head and said, "I asked it how far the Azure Castle's sphere of influence had expanded. It replied that 80% of the city had fallen under its control, and it had collected as many as a thousand subordinates."

Xia Fan couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.

The new uncrowned king of Azure Castle has been born here?

Gungun probably sensed this doubt and raised his head and let out a long meow. Immediately afterwards, a scene that made Xia Fan's scalp numb appeared - one after another, wild cats came from all directions and poured into the house like a tide. Within a few minutes, the room was filled with cats. , some of them jumped directly onto the wooden table and approached Xia Fan with their tails raised.

The attitude toward Li Yemao was different. He would lie down and rub his feet, roll over and expose his belly, and his enthusiasm for making love and affection was beyond words.

Only Qian Yan's surroundings were empty.

Those cats would rather take a detour than get close to the living dead.

The little girl opened her mouth, but finally said nothing - although her expression didn't change much, there was a hint of disappointment in her eyes.

"Okay, okay, I believe it. Don't let them come to me." If Xia Fan hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would be hard for Xia Fan to imagine that there were so many wild cats hiding in this building - you know they live in Third floor, not in the basement! God knows how these animals hide themselves.

Li suppressed his laughter and showed the portraits of the five groups of people to Gungun in turn, and then took out the two people who were most suspicious and showed them to him individually.

The latter meowed, raised his hand, and jumped out of the window. The other wild cats immediately followed, running up the window sill like water, and disappeared into the night one by one.

"It seems that bringing that guy is the right choice." Xia Fan said, slapping his nose, "It would be better if it can prevent cats from being brought into the house."

After just a moment, the house was already filled with the fishy smell of wild cats.

"I will remind it next time." Li chuckled twice, "By the way, where are the relatives of the former lord? Are they still in Azure Castle?"

"Olina also asked this question." She was answered by Qianyan, "But Lassein didn't know much about it. I only heard that quite a few went to the northern city to join their distant relatives, and his wife went to the northern city to join her distant relatives before departure. He died in depression."

"Really..." Li's smile faded and he sighed softly, "I understand."

She walked to the window and looked up at the ink-like sky, with a complicated expression in her eyes.

…

A rare cluster of torches and firewood were lit in the orchard. Although the flickering firelight was far from bright, it was still enough to operate the machinery.

Amidst the roar of the steam piston, frames of intoxicated fruits are poured into the crushing vat and squeezed into sauce. The intoxicating aroma can be smelled from a long distance away. The workers who had just received a salary were full of energy and showed no fatigue from working overtime all night. They were shouting one after another. They saw that the progress that had been delayed during the day was being caught up little by little by them.

"The results are pretty good, aren't they?" Philip and Gower walked slowly around the factory. "Even a donkey needs to be fed a handful of roasted beans from time to time."

This is true for the factory, but it may not be the same for Achieux - especially after the incident spread and every big businessman knew that Pagoda made concessions to the workers.

In the end, Gower did not say what he said in his heart, "The supervisors seem to have a lot of objections to you. They are all worried about losing their jobs and being retaliated by the employees."

"It's a pity that they can't unite to strike and protest like workers." Philip's tone was full of sarcasm. "After all, it is the workers who maintain production, not the supervisors. If the former can really supervise itself, then the latter is indeed an unnecessary expense."

"But if they also stand against us..."

"That is undoubtedly your responsibility, brother." Philip looked at him sideways, "You can't control a group of sheep, but you can't even control your own dog?"

"No, I'm just assuming." Gore quickly changed his words and said, "They are still willing to follow my command."

"That's the best." The manager said lightly, "If these people overestimate their role, I don't mind replacing them all."

At this time, a team of hired workers carrying several boxes of intoxicating fruits passed by the two.

Gore couldn't help but frown and scowl.

The other party was the group of people he fired for stealing fruits, and it was also the source of the protest that turned into a strike.

Las curled his lips, completely ignoring Gore's cold face, humming a song and walking towards the jam machine.

Others had almost the same reaction.

Only Morrill lowered his head, saluted the two people a little stiffly, and then caught up with the others.

"Damn thing--" Gore was so angry that his teeth itched. It was only one day, and the hired workers dared to ignore him. What if it was another ten days or half a month? "When I replace them, I will make sure they know what life and death are worse than death!"

"Not everyone is like this." Philip looked at Morrill's back with interest, leaning over to whisper a few words in Gore's ear.

"Brother, are you sure?" Gore said with a little surprise, "If Momolla knew about it, I'm afraid it would cause a new storm."

"That's why we need some tricks and guidance." The steward stroked his beard and said, "...Do as I say, maybe there will be new gains later."