"It's really unimaginable. Fifteen years ago, this place was so poor that no merchant was willing to come here to do business. But now, this is the most coveted commercial city for all merchants in the entire kingdom. Such a big change was actually created by a five-year-old child."
"Lydia is not five years old now. She is an adult and will be twenty-one in two months." A beautiful woman in her forties reminded.
"I know, Aunt Ellen, I just feel a little emotional. I can't imagine how that mysterious little lord could have managed Maple Leaf Territory like this.
Could it be true, as the rumors say, that he has a magical power that can turn stones into gold coins? "Lydia said in a vague tone that only she could understand.
"What's so unimaginable about this? The more you know, the more afraid you will be of him, because that man has the ability to turn bad things into good things.
This is a kind of wisdom, and what you need is to learn this wisdom to prepare for your future handling of state affairs." Allen's words were free of distractions, only the awareness of being a person who had experienced it.
"Aunt Ellen, I heard that the young lord is a very rare handsome man. Is that true? I remember you said you had seen him."
"I did see him at the United Rose Chamber of Commerce. At that time, he was playing music in the chamber of commerce to entertain the two widows, Avril and Anna.
As for appearance, I have never seen anyone better than him, but Lydia, you have to remember that a man's appearance is actually the same as a woman's, and they are things that you can't care about.
If you spend all your time on dressing up, you will lose the most important wisdom. The more beautiful something is, the more deceptive it is. When you look at a person, you should focus more on his ability rather than his appearance. "
"I see, Aunt Ellen. The young lord's wedding has been delayed again and again, and the date was only officially confirmed this year. Aunt, do you know why?"
"The past four years have not been good years for the kingdom. The snowstorm in the year 3104 of the Magical Calendar caused heavy losses to half of the kingdom.
In the following two years, there was a rare drought, which caused crop yields to decrease or even fail in many places.
Although it was not so bad last year, there was heavy rain and floods occurred in many places. It was only this year that various places have recovered.
In the past three years, disasters have forced them to reschedule their weddings. This is normal operation and there is nothing to be curious about! "
"That's right! This disaster probably caused a lot of losses to Maple Leaf Territory, so it's reasonable to postpone the date."
“You are wrong again. The disasters in the past few years have definitely not caused any losses to the Maple Leaf Territory. Instead, they happened to be of great help to them.
There were civilians starving to death everywhere, so they offered large amounts of food to attract these civilians to join them, exchanging work for food in order to produce more goods for them. During this period, many talents flocked to Maple Leaf Territory to fill their most important shortcoming.
It can be said that the disasters that occurred in the past four years have caused everyone to suffer, and only he, Maple Leaf Territory, is happily harvesting goods there. "
"I heard from my father that he was planning to borrow money from him. The price offered by that little lord made my father very angry!"
"What's the point of getting angry? You'll have to come to him in the end. The Maple Leaf Territory now gathers almost two-thirds of the kingdom's merchants. The annual tax revenue from this small territory is more than half of the kingdom's. This is also one of the main reasons why you and I came here this time. If you can handle this, you will definitely be able to defeat your sister and become the first in line."
"Don't worry, Aunt Ellen. I will do my best to make it happen. I will never let Aisha and the others succeed."
"If you had half the ability of Elsa, I would have pushed you to the position of heir long ago." Ellen said this with some annoyance.
"Aunt Ellen, don't be angry. I will try my best to do it. If I really become the heir, I will let you become the sixth duke."
"Well, you are a sensible child. Auntie will definitely help you with all her strength."
"Aunt Lydia always keeps it in mind."
Just before arriving at the downtown area, someone was waiting here. The team leader showed the invitation, and when he saw the name of Royal Princess Lydia written on it, he hurried to report to his superior.
"Someone cleared the way along the way, and the convoy headed straight for Duke's Castle."
Maple Leaf, led by Green, welcomed Princess Lydia into the Duke's Castle. After some polite exchanges, they asked the servants to take the princess and others to rest.
"Master, the arrival of the royal family is basically the last batch of guests, and there are only two days left before the wedding. Do you want to call the young master out in advance?"
"Let him go! The territory is under the supervision of Avril and Anna, so there won't be any problems. Don't disturb him from practicing now. You can call him when the time comes."
Sitting cross-legged under the Tree of Life in the backyard, Lin Xingchen's spirit entered the space farm. Under the largest Tree of Life in the farm, Lin Xingchen concentrated on watching the life in front of him undergo its final evolution.
The cocoon, which was as big as a coconut football, kept shaking. As the cocoon was finally bitten open, an insect crawled out. After some adaptation, the insect, whose body was covered with red fluff, kept flapping the wings on its back.
The wings slowly spread out, and the hidden beautiful appearance also appeared in front of Lin Xingchen.
After countless generations of reproduction, Snow Silkworm No. 0 finally evolved to a state that satisfied Lin Xingchen.
Stretching out the body condensed by the Tree of Life, the life that had just appeared flew into Lin Xingchen's hands.
The width of its wingspan is more than 80 centimeters, and its height is more than 70 centimeters. The more Lin Xingchen sees this butterfly in front of him that looks like a flame elf, the more he likes it.
If it were just beautiful, it would just be a beautiful insect, but if this insect was a level 5 monster, it would be a different story.
It has an active but not violent temperament, has a strong control over magic, and is naturally gifted with wind and water magic. The one in his hand is a mutation that resulted from continuous cultivation.
"Seeds like this one that have three elements of magic are Lin Xingchen's most precious research objects. He has collected many such mutant samples over the years.
I also gave them a very nice name, Magic Butterfly Magic Butterfly."
Lin Xingchen waved his hand and asked it to go find its companions, then turned his attention elsewhere.
Now, Zero's development has expanded to more than a dozen branches, and each branch can stably hatch magic butterflies with various elements.
Under the process of survival of the fittest, winners kept replacing the previous strong ones, and finally the eyes stopped at the very center of the trunk of the Tree of Life.
Three snow silkworms were gnawing on the pith of the Tree of Life. When Lin Xingchen saw this situation at first, he was scared out of his wits. He threw the three big insects far away and hurried to check the Tree of Life.
It turned out that I was overthinking and had underestimated this huge tree of life. The gnawing speed of the three giant snow silkworms could not even keep up with one ten-thousandth of the tree's recovery speed.
Since it did not harm the tree, Lin Xingchen stopped caring about it. The reason why he let these three insects gnaw on the tree marrow was because they were the kings of the snow silkworm clan in the entire farm.
Whether after hatching or transforming into a magic butterfly, as long as these three snow silkworms make a move, other snow silkworms will come to help.
When they move, they are carried by magic butterflies and fly around, and when they sleep, there are also magic butterflies that wrap them with their wings. Although Lin Xingchen does not know their levels, he estimates that they are at least level seven.
Because the magic fluctuations were so strong, and these three bugs had peculiar magical talents, and one of them had a very strong talent for space magic.
Seeing that the three snow silkworms did not make any moves, Lin Xingchen also planned to retreat. Over the past four years, his strength had improved greatly with the help of manpower, but he was a kind of strong stay-at-home type, so he wanted to go out for a walk.
He walked to the nest of the magic butterflies, took out a few of them that he had selected long ago, and then returned to his main body.
There were four magic butterflies brought out, each of them was about the same size and had similar strength. This was the gift that Lin Xingchen gave to Evelin and the others this time.
Four magic butterflies of different colors kept flying around Lin Xingchen. Looking at these clingy little things, Lin Xingchen smiled and said, "Okay, little guys, stay here at the Tree of Life and come out when I call you in a few days."
On the way, I kept seeing servants with smiling faces, busying around and looking very happy.
In the living room, Anna was directing the servants to set the scene. The main venue of the wedding was in the Duke's Castle, so Anna took on this task enthusiastically.
Turning around and looking at Lin Xingchen who came in from the door, Anna suddenly felt unhappy: "You finally decided to come out. I thought you would wait until we called you tomorrow before you came out."
"How could that be! I said I would definitely not miss the time and would definitely come out early, why don't you go and prepare? Just let the servants do the layout."
"We are not as careless as you. Avril and Evelyn paid great attention to the layout of the venue."
Lin Xingchen yawned and didn't want to talk to her about this, so he waved his hand and admitted defeat: "Okay, you guys are busy, I'm going to sleep or I won't have the energy tomorrow. Don't call me at dinner time, I've already eaten."
"Wait a minute, go try on the dress right now. If you don't try it on tonight and it doesn't fit, it will be too late tomorrow."
"Try it again! Didn't you try it a few days ago?" Lin Xingchen felt a pain in his liver when he heard this.
"You ate yesterday, so you have to eat today, right?"