A strange world

Chapter 1170 Section 92. Irelanze attacks Lilith at night

"You are also very young." The mathematics professor said quickly.

"That's right..."

After staying with the elves for a long time, Annan also developed some bad habits of immortality.

Annan asked some more about the professor's college and suggestions for reform, and took Cathy back to the orphanage.

Cathy could have lived in the City Lord's Mansion for a long time, but she preferred to stay with the children. According to her own statement, Liberty City is all Annan's people, and the orphanage is all her people.

After playing with the children in the orphanage for a while, Annan returned to the city lord's mansion in the evening.

Abby and the maids put down their food and exited the restaurant.

Annan glanced at the people in front of the long table. The eldest sister, Olmedo, Yi Ruilanze, and Leila, who usually fished until late at night, also came back a few hours early.

Um……

He ate quietly, not daring to say a word. The women spoke softly, occasionally with Layla's loud voice.

"Annan, I think Cathy is very cute." The eldest sister said.

Annan raised his head from his rice bowl, licked the residue from the corner of his mouth, thought for a while and said, "Lily definitely doesn't think so."

Apart from Lily, many people indeed like this quirky little girl.

"I'm going to officially give her the Reeves family name."

Annan was a little surprised: "Is this appropriate?"

"Bloodline is the bond that maintains the family, but it is not the only bond."

It's good that Itilia is not bound by the constraints of blood.

"I have no problem with that."

Annan and Cathy get along very well. Even though she is naughty, she rarely makes people angry. The truth behind it is heartbreaking - this is a skill she had to learn in the bottom nest.

On weekdays, the eldest sister and the second sister mainly take care of her.

Cathy liked her eldest sister's tenderness and goodnight stories, and also liked when Layla took her out fishing.

"Me neither," Layla said.

Then Cathy's luck improved. She no longer had to go to the market to buy a few fish and pretend to catch them herself——

An internal meeting of the Reeves family, with only two...three people left, made a decision quickly.

"I also have something to say." Olmedo put down his knife and fork gracefully and picked up an official document. "This is your official briefing for the month you've been away."

Itilia said helplessly: "Don't work during your break."

"It's okay." Annan took out his handkerchief and wiped the corners of his mouth, then stretched out his hand to take over the official duties.

"Let me take a look at what changes have occurred in Liberty City during my absence...Personnel changes: Kerrian serves as the deputy commander of the Hellfire Corps...Loran leads the Great Wall workers to set off...Who is Loran?"

"The former Lord of Watchland."

"It turns out it's him..." Annan suddenly realized, skipping over a bunch of familiar and unfamiliar names, and looked at the bill section.

When Annan was away, there were almost no new bills enacted in the city. Two of the three bills were submitted after Annan came back - to put it mildly, Olmedo is a stable city owner.

By her own account, Annan was running wild and needed someone to hold the reins to keep her steady.

Annan agreed, let’s look at the first one:

"Implementing the Elf Exclusion Act in Free City...whose bad idea was this? Oh, Kerrian...did he freeze his brain in the North?"

Look at the second article: "Allow the people of Liberty City to purchase land in Gem Bay for reclamation and farming."

"No, absolutely not."

What Olmedo considered a win-win bill was strongly rejected by Annan.

"Why? We cultivated new fields and got money. Isn't this a good thing?"

“Who do you think would buy land with kinnar?”

"Nobles and riches..."

Olmedo stopped talking, realizing the problem.

"Yes, they will buy most of the land, and only a small amount of land will go to the hands of common people who have some surplus wealth. The nobles who get the land do not know how to cultivate it. They will either sell it to others or hire civilians to cultivate it for them. Just like those lords who collected rent."

"At this point, it is at least acceptable. In the final analysis, the rich are also the subjects under the rule, and we are also biased against them. But what will happen after they taste the sweetness? The answer is that they will acquire and annex land more wantonly. . They enjoyed the low tax policy of Liberty City and made a lot of money, but they were not even willing to give some of it to the common people. By then, Gemstone Bay would be full of farmland, but it would only enrich those people's pockets and end up being infamous. It’s up to us to carry it.”

There was no sound of chewing at the table, and they were all listening carefully.

"What should we do?" Olmedo asked.

"Change it to... leasing the land. All the land in Gemstone Bay is owned by Free City, but we allow everyone to rent fields at low prices, with a limit per person. In this way, the land is under our control, and it still belongs to the farmers in name. ”

"But it ends up sounding terrible."

The rental price of a house is 1 gold coin for a hundred years, and the sale price is 2 gold coins. Most people will flock to the latter.

"As hard as it sounds, it's better than our children hundreds of years from now resenting us..."

squeak--

The harsh noise of silverware and porcelain rubbing against each other suddenly interrupted Annan's words.

Annan looked at Irilanze who made the noise, returned the official duties to Olmedo, and continued to eat.

The heavy topic was over and the atmosphere in the restaurant became relaxed again.

At the end of dinner time, Leila pushed her eldest sister back to the bedroom to rest. Olmedo had to go to work overtime for a while, and Annan also had to go back to the bedroom to meditate hard——

Putting Lily next to the bed and making sure the window was open a crack, Annan began to meditate.

When Annan closed his eyes, he quietly opened a pair of eyes in the darkness.

Rustling——

There was a scraping sound in the darkness, and the moonlight vaguely illuminated the outline of a figure who had taken off her robe and put on a long skirt.

She quietly opened the door a crack, and the light shining into the room showed a graceful figure, which disappeared as the door closed.

Yirelanze quietly came to "Annan"'s bedroom along the deserted corridor, used a small spell to open the locked door, and got in sideways.

At this time, Lilith, who was far away in the mage tower, suddenly felt something and disappeared suddenly.

A magic circle suddenly appeared in the bedroom, and then Lilith appeared in the room.

"Who are you?"

"Who are you?"

Irilanze and Lilith asked at the same time.

…

"Uh...ah...!"

In the early morning, Annan stretched out of the room after finishing his meditation.

"It's better to feel comfortable at home," he said to Abby, the head maid who was wiping vases in the hallway.

"Better than the Elf King's Court?" Abby narrowed her eyes with a smile.

"It's different. No matter how nice it is outside, it's not as good as home."

Click——

As he spoke, another door opened in the corridor.

"Good morning, Yrilan'er." Annan greeted the elf mentor who appeared in the corridor.

"morning……"

The elf mentor agreed absently, staring closely at the room Annan walked out of.

"Uh...I'm going to have breakfast!"

Annan walked out feeling guilty.