The result of Malone's interrogation was somewhat unexpected. It turned out that these three thieves were sent by Quentin, so Neptune did not dare to follow Wu Lai's original arrangement and ran back to Baishi Building to report the news.

After listening to the report, Wu Lai frowned and thought for a long time, then ordered Neptune to send the three thieves to the slave market, and gave some instructions. Then he went back to the bedroom. He was about to discuss with Tina "how to send her back to Glendo Manor decently", but when he looked carefully, he found that Tina had fallen asleep.

After standing by the bed for a while, Wu Lai finally couldn't bear to wake Tina up - he had to admit that when the moonlight shone on Tina's face, her outline was intoxicatingly beautiful.

Let Leah worry for a while longer. Wu Lai thought so as he walked out of the bedroom.

The next morning, Wu Lai personally drove Tina back to Glendo Manor. He made up an excuse for Tina that she was lost. To make the excuse look more real, he used a few thorns to tear several places on the hem of Tina's skirt, and also smeared some fresh grass juice there. He squatted at Tina's feet and was busy. Tina pursed her lips and watched him busy seriously, with a little joy in her eyes.

I don’t know why, but Wu Lai feels that Tina is not only pleasing to the eye and pretty, but also kind of cute.

When seeing Tina return safely, Lady Leah cried with joy, but at the same time she was secretly worried in her heart, because according to convention, the disappearance of a noble lady for an entire night without any reason would arouse the most suspicion, imagination and legends.

Wu Lai left quickly. He didn't want to tell anyone about Quentin. After having some relationship with Tina last night, he subconsciously put Tina and Lady Leah together and pushed Quentin to another place.

Wu Lai had just asked the slaves to pack the 500 divine books that were to be delivered to the temple today, when Neptune came running over happily with a bag of money in his hand. "Master, it's just as you said. The slave trader named Hora showed up at Quentin's door with the three thieves, and Quentin paid to buy them. According to your instructions, Hora wants a total of 150 silver coins. Quentin didn't bargain. Except for the 30 silver coins you are willing to give to Hora, the rest are here."

"Well done. It doesn't matter if you do this kind of work more than once." Wu Lai smiled and pushed away the bag of money that Neptune handed over. "Just do as we said last night. This is what you deserve."

"But, but this is too much, young master." Neptune said hurriedly. If the three thieves had been sent to the tribune last night, the reward would have been at most thirty silver coins. This time, it has increased fourfold.

"Listen, from today on you are a commoner, you have to get used to carrying money." Wu Lai used a lecturing tone, "Before lunch, Gauguin will hire some slaves back, you have to help him a little."

"Hire? Young master wants to renovate the house again?" Neptune asked curiously.

"Dig a ditch." Wu Lai answered and got on the carriage. Heiwa, who was acting as the driver temporarily, grinned and made a whip in the air. After a crisp "snap", the carriage slowly drove out.

…

Just after his thirteenth birthday, Woolley earned the title of "Seneca's New Noble."

This title is of course not official, but it is very authoritative because it was given by the nobles of Seneca City.

Birds of a feather flock together, and the same is true for the nobles of the Seneca city-state. Living a life of luxury, they like to get together with other nobles to eat, drink, have fun, and chat in their spare time. This is undoubtedly a good way to consolidate friendship and cooperation, but gradually, everyone discovered that the person who was talked about the most recently was Wuleglindo of Whitestone Tower.

One noble said confidently: "Wooleglind's various businesses are very mysterious and must be very profitable."

One noble said with more certainty: "Woleglindo is a person favored by the gods. He is not only on good terms with the temple, but also has a very good personal relationship with the tribune Aesop."

Another noble said: "Although Wulagrindo is young, he is not someone to be trifled with. Doggie and Quentin, two fools, did a stupid thing and ended up implicating many citizens."

An aristocrat tried to calculate Wulai's wealth. After what he considered to be extremely careful calculations, he confidently announced that Wulai Grindo's wealth was at least over 100,000 gold coins.

An aristocrat was curious about Woolley's private life. After inquiring about it indirectly, he vowed that Woolley Grindelwald must have no bad habits, because his favorite pleasure was to take a bath with the service of a fixed female slave.

It is especially worth reminding that this is a very high and perfect evaluation, because as a noble, he has the right to do anything to his slaves, just bathing, even if he did something, it was extremely limited. So in the eyes of the nobles of Seneca City, Woolley's private life was as clean as a piece of white cotton cloth.

Of course, the legends about Wu Lai could not be entirely based on speculation and conjecture.

One noble said: "Woleglindo would take a large bag of money from the temple every day."

This is true, because starting from a few days ago, the temple had to pay Wu Lai 2,400 silver coins every day, which was not something that an ordinary leather bag could hold.

One noble said: "The workshop in Woolleglindo is busy every day."

This is also true, for now the mills grind flour during the day and cornmeal at night, and the paper mills and printing houses are even busier than the mills.

A noble said: "Wollegrind is kind to his slaves."

Of course they were merciful. Not to mention Neptune who had just been granted freedom, the guard slaves who were treated specially, and the female slaves who lived in the White Stone Building, each of the slaves in the three major workshops was given clothes and shoes according to the season. In addition to three meals a day, those who worked overtime at night could enjoy an extra midnight snack. Every now and then, they could get rewards. To put it bluntly, the living standards of the slaves in the three major workshops had already exceeded those of ordinary civilians.

Another noble said, "I heard that Woolegreen is buying a large number of female slaves."

This is pure nonsense.

But no matter whether it was true or not, the nobles chose to believe it. Having been in the aristocratic circle for too long, they often made this choice when they encountered something puzzling. After all, everyone did so.

Thus, Wulai gradually entered the lives of the nobles. During their routine exchanges, the nobles would always ask: "Is there anything new about Wulai Green these two days?" In the eyes of these nobles who had a relatively superior material life but extremely poor spiritual life, novelty meant new topics of conversation.

Everyone needs something to talk about, otherwise how can you keep chatting over and over again?

No matter if they were nobles or commoners, the women were the ones who liked to gossip the most. When Wu Lai became the topic of conversation, some noble women who had some dealings with Lady Leah began to chat with her more frequently. Lady Leah, who was happy to show off, naturally knew how to praise Wu Lai to achieve her own goal. As a result, Wu Lai's image gradually became a wise and elegant aristocratic model since childhood.

"He is the pride of the Greendo family, and I am proud of him. It is because of his existence that I decided to give up starting another love and instead stay at Greendo Manor for him and Tina peacefully." said Mrs. Leah.

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It was hard to say how much of Madam Leah's words were deliberately misleading, but after hearing them, the noble ladies all had two questions:

Huh? Woole Grindle and Tina?

Huh? Why does it sound like there is something ambiguous between Lady Leah and Wu Lai? The world of the nobility is full of strange things. It is common for the nobility to have a young stepmother become the favorite of the stepson, so it is understandable that everyone has such doubts, especially when Wu Lai, the person involved, did not express any objection after the rumor spread.

Of course, Woolley would not comment. In his opinion, these rumors themselves were boring, especially the one about the affair with Lady Leah.

Since these have been defined as boring, Wu Lai naturally would not waste his time and energy arguing about them, not to mention that he has been very busy recently.

First, he was busy digging a ditch - he came up with this idea on the night when the paper mill was broken into by thieves. With the dual encouragement of silver coins and whips, the 120 hired slaves worked day and night, and soon they dug a ditch that was twenty cubits deep and thirty cubits wide along the stone walls of the mill, paper mill and printing house. After reinforcing the ditch with stones on both sides, the original gate of the mill was blocked by the new stone wall, and the gate of the paper mill shared by the three major workshops was reinforced with a solid suspension bridge.

When the slaves dug the earth walls at both ends of the ditch, which were less than four cubits away from the river, the turbulent river water rushed into the ditch, and Woolley's three workshops suddenly became a "city" surrounded by the ditch.

Who will come in now? Wu Lai looked at the "moat" with satisfaction and thought to himself.

After finishing the ditch digging, Wulai still did not rest and enjoy the comfortable life of the nobles. Instead, he took Neptune and Heiwa to the "City of Copperware" - Isay, 300 miles southeast of Seneca City. Twenty days later, Wulai, who was tanned a lot, brought back a coppersmith shop - in fact, he brought back twelve slaves who had worked in Isay coppersmith shop and armory for many years. However, if these twelve people were put together, it would be a complete coppersmith shop.

Under Wu Lai's arrangement, the twelve slave craftsmen who were originally unfamiliar with each other were divided into three groups, and the three most outstanding ones among them were appointed as leaders. They were Sting, Tielun and Wus.

Sting is good at smelting and forging. He is a muscular and intelligent man. Before being spotted and bought by Wu Lai, he had been working for an armory in the city of Yisai and had fifteen years of experience as a coppersmith.

Tielun is good at identifying ores and casting. Although he is already fifty years old, he does not look like a coppersmith because he is a little thin, but this does not prevent him from displaying his skills. The reason why he was chosen by Wu Lai is that he had cast a large copper bell that was three people tall in the city of Yisai. Now this guy, called "Big Ben" by the city of Yisai, is still hanging high on the bell tower in the center of the city of Yisai.

Compared with Wulai and Tielun, Wusi was a bit of an all-rounder. Although he was not as good as Sting in smelting and forging, and not as good as Tielun in identifying ores and casting, his hands were the most skillful among the three. He was good at making some very delicate things, such as jewelry. This was because he had worked in a jewelry store for ten years before becoming a coppersmith. During those ten years, many slave craftsmen who liked him taught him some unique skills. Wusi, who had just turned twenty-five but had twenty years of "industry experience", convinced Wulai in his unique way. When Wulai announced that he wanted to buy a skilled slave in Yisai City, Wusi, who was tired of the damp and sultry weather in Yisai City, hammered a piece of brass as thick as a thumb into a copper wire ten cubits long in front of Wulai, and then used this copper wire to weave a small hat.

Wulai spent 92 gold coins to buy Sting, and 150 gold coins to buy Tielun. As for Wusi, who had skills that the two previous masters could not match, Wulai also paid 110 gold coins. You know, the nine young coppersmith slaves who came with the three of them all had more than three years of coppersmith experience, but they only cost Wulai 25 gold coins in total.

After buying these twelve people, Wulai proudly said a modified line to the dumbfounded Neptune: "What is the most valuable thing in my eyes, Wulai Grindo? Talent!"

But when Woolley happily led his new men through the gates of Seneca and appeared on the street, what do you think the nobles who saw this scene said?

"Look, Seneca's new noble Woolley Grindo is trying new tricks again." So they said.