Arcane Lord

"Then how did you reply to her?" Niya immediately asked with concern.

She felt uncomfortable when she thought that the elf might be here to win over Xia Duo, especially when she heard that the elf was actually a woman.

Xia Duo didn't think too much about this. He just thought that Niya was caring about him and said: "How else can I reply? Of course, if there is cooperation, then respond first, and when talking about wooing, go around the corner."

"Didn't you reject her?"

"How to refuse? Others didn't explicitly say that I wanted to win over you. All this is just my own speculation. If I say it rashly and others don't mean it, it would be really embarrassing!"

As soon as the words were spoken, Xia Duo suddenly realized that Niya might be jealous, and she was jealous of an elf!

He had never seriously thought about what he wanted to do with the elves, but Niya had a reason to think so. There were indeed many humans in Netheril who longed for a cross-race love with the elves.

But Xia Duo is not cold about this. Even the moon elves who are a little more acceptable to him are actually very different from humans, both psychologically and physiologically.

What's more important is that he is now married. Even if there is no sacred marriage contract witnessed by the Lord of Glory, he will not have any twisted thoughts.

Of course, in his current sober and rational state, Xia Duo can guarantee that he will never cheat, but in an unconscious or irrational state, he cannot guarantee it.

Xia Duo never overestimates his own humanity, and he doesn't want to test how solid his bottom line is. He will avoid such situations in advance, proactively and consciously.

Just like now——

He took a step forward and hugged Niya, and whispered in her ear: "Don't worry about the female elf, you and I are enough!"

Niya shyly wanted to break away from Sha Duo's arms, but in this case, how could Sha Duo let her go away easily?

He slightly increased the strength on his arm, but his palm stroked Niya's back particularly gently, seeming to comfort and convey affection.

Niya seemed to feel Xia Duo's feelings, and most of her shame disappeared immediately. She also stretched out her hand to carefully feel the temperature of Xia Duo's body.

The two of them stood in front of the projection window for a long time, until the outside scenery projected by the projection window gradually darkened.

…

the next day.

Xia Duo opened his eyes and felt Niya's soft and warm body in his arms. He couldn't help but smile knowingly when he thought of the craziness the two of them had last night.

Just thinking about what Niya said after reaching her ultimate state last night, Sha Duo's heart instantly became a lot heavier.

Niya says why there is no child yet!

yes! Why don't you have children yet?

This is what Xia Duo wants to know. It has been about two years since the two got married, and they have been in the same bed for nearly a year. Why don't they have children?

Is it because of reproductive isolation in different universes?

But even time travel has happened, and his body is perfectly adapted to the current world. Why is there still reproductive isolation?

But apart from this, he really couldn't think of any other possibility. It couldn't be infertility!

Maybe you can try assisted reproduction magic some other time. Whether it is Arcane Empire or Cormanso, they all have spells in this area, but Xia Duo prefers to let his offspring be born naturally, so he has never considered it.

But now, it's really time to think about it.

With this in mind, Sha Duo also finished today's meditation training. He carefully pulled his arm out of Niya's smooth back. In the process, he inevitably woke Niya up.

But at this moment, the two of them were honest with each other. Even though they had been married for nearly two years, Niya was still very thin-skinned in this regard. As long as Xia Duo didn't deliberately cause trouble, Niya would always pretend not to wake up.

This can be regarded as a small tacit understanding between the couple. Looking at Niya's slightly trembling eyelashes, Xia Duo smiled and kissed her forehead gently, then stood up and started dressing.

…

It was already the third day that Xia Duo returned to the southern territory. He had been busy with the Tower of Time before and was delayed by the elf investigators. Even if he returned to the territory during the period, he only came in a hurry and left in a hurry.

Today he could finally take a good look around the territory.

Daxia collar, Linshui Village.

As the land transfer work continued to progress, the residents of Linshui Village began to gradually move to the new village. When Xia Duo came here this time, he consciously observed that he could clearly feel the desertedness here that was obviously different from usual.

"Leiden, at what stage is the field granting going now?"

"Sir, after the first land granting ceremony, the territory held two more land granting ceremonies. Each time the land granting ceremony was for 100 people, but their family members were actually included. The specific number should be 534 people."

There were more than 50 people assigned to the fields for the first time, and including their families, there were more than 100 people. Xia Duo made a simple estimate. It would take at least two years for everyone in the territory to be assigned fields. (field transfer once a month)

This does not include the possible new population during the two years.

However, this kind of thing cannot be rushed. The process of granting land and building new villages must be combined with the specific progress of development and construction, and cannot be completed in an instant.

"Have you encountered any difficulties in the construction of the new village?" Xia Duo continued to ask.

"Yes, mainly in terms of materials. The people who have been allocated to the fields are no longer satisfied with the most basic food and clothing. They have higher requirements for food, clothing, housing and transportation. The territory still has some shortcomings in this aspect."

"Um."

Xia Duo nodded. In fact, what Leiden mentioned was not the difficulty of new village construction, but the trouble of a group of emerging classes who had money but could not spend it.

Territory land granting is not just about granting land, but also a one-time settlement of the wages and salaries of the people who participated in the development. Xia Duo didn't know much about the latter two land grantings, but he personally presided over the first land granting ceremony.

He remembered clearly that the most gold coins he got at that time was more than 3,000, and the least was more than 1,000 gold coins.

Even if the first batch of people who are granted land are veterans of territory development, those who will be granted land later will receive less, but no matter how small it is, they will start with a hundred gold coins.

With so much savings in Savileland, they can be considered middle class. At least those who can open a shop in Savile Town may not be able to save a thousand gold coins in a year.

The money collected in Daxia is even more, but no matter how much money there is, it will be in vain if there is no way to consume it, and gold cannot be used as food.

"What about the newly opened taverns and grocery stores in the territory? Take me to see them!"

Only then did Xia Duo remember that when he was in Severton, Ava mentioned that three new taverns and two grocery stores had been opened in the territory.

How can we improve the "happiness index" of our subjects?

When the lord spoke, Leiden naturally would not disobey him. He immediately adjusted his next itinerary and took Sha Duo to the junction of Linshui Village and the First New Village - Kaifeng Village.

The first tavern in the territory is opened here!