Volume 2 Chapter 132 - Friendly noble ladies (1/2)

When it came to the end of the year, it wasn’t just the Frestech Chamber of Commerce holding a year end meeting and year end banquet, Banta City was doing the same.

It was the same as last year, on the night of the twentieth day of December, the City Lord’s Manor held a grand year end banquet. It invited everyone with some form of fame in Banta City to participate.

Naturally Xu Yi was included.

Compared to last year where Xu Yi was only invited by Count Sean because of the contributions the agricultural magic machines had made to the fall harvest, this year Xu Yi participated because he had become a pivotal character in Banta City.

In the Banta City business circle, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was put on the same level as the Falcao Chamber of Commerce, the Sarank Chamber of Commerce, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, and the Armani Chamber of Commerce, being called the five big companies.

Even if the Frestech Chamber of Commerce didn’t have the same scale or profit as the other four companies and they were lacking in history, anyone could see that with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s current speed of development, in just a few years, they would be able to catch up or even surpass the other four companies.

Moreover, everyone was clear on the fact that the magic machine industry was an industry with large growth potential. Other than starting to develop in the Lampuri Kingdom, even the other kingdoms had cast their gazes on it.

The deal between the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Rudson Kingdom and the Stantine Duchy hadn’t been hidden, so everyone knew now that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was selling magic machines to other countries. They even knew that Stantine Duchy had invited the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to invest in building mines.

A country’s mineral veins was considered the foundation of a country. The Stantine Duchy was actually willing to use them to attract the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it showed how much importance Duke Stantine had put on this.

Other than his success in business, the other thing that attracted people about Xu Yi was his other identity, a baron that was conferred by his majesty.

Although barons were the lowest rank among nobles, Xu Yi was a noble that the king had conferred in front of countless people. Also, the Royal Parliament didn’t protest towards Xu Yi’s identity as a merchant at all, so it was enough to show that Xu Yi was different from others.

The ones at the City Lord Manor’s year end banquet were all the large and small nobles, as well as the large and small merchants. But the only person who had a noble title and was a known merchant was Xu Yi alone.

So at the banquet, Xu Yi naturally became the center of attention for everyone.

Of course, Xu Yi didn’t want this kind of attention.

Even though he participated in countless banquets during this year and was slowly becoming used to this situation, he still didn’t like banquets.

Moreover, because Still wasn’t feeling good tonight, she didn’t come to the banquet with Xu Yi. In the end, when they saw Xu Yi appear at the banquet alone, there were countless beautiful young noble ladies who surrounded Xu Yi.

There were some noble ladies that were rather bold, actually “openly” expressing their love for Xu Yi in front of everyone. There were a few who were even bolder and invited Xu Yi to spend a wonderful night with her in front of everyone.

Even if Xu Yi had a strong mind and he rejected all the confessions and invitation of the noble ladies, he was still a bit disturbed being pestered like this by them.

After escaping the noble ladies with difficulty, Xu Yi had a chance to catch his breath. When he was drinking some fruit juice to calm down, chairman Cruise had come over.

“Hey, young and handsome chairman Xu. Being surrounded by all those beautiful and noble young ladies, do you feel very happy about yourself?” Chairman Cruise said with an exaggerated smile.

Xu Yi snappily stared at him, “What is there to be happy about? How about you let them surround you? It’s very strange, what is going on with those noble ladies today? They were never this friendly when they saw me before.”

“You don’t understand?” Chairman Cruise looked at the noble ladies staring at Xu Yi in the distance and whispering among themselves before saying with a smile, “It’s actually very simple, although you were young, handsome, and rich before, you were still a normal merchant in the end. In the eyes of the nobles, a merchant is a commoner no matter how strong they are, so even if those noble ladies loved you to death, they would never consider marrying you.”

“This means that now that I’ve become a baron and have also become a noble, it means I have the status to marry those noble ladies?” Xu Yi asked as he found this funny.

“That’s right.” Chairman Cruise pointed at some noble ladies in the distance and kept teasing him, “Look at how passionate those noble ladies are staring at you, I bet they even wish that they could swallow you up. Actually…..if I was you, I wouldn’t mind developing some closer relationships with a few of those ladies.”

Xu Yi couldn’t help rolling his eyes, “I’m not planning on marrying them, why would I develop a relationship with them?”

“No, no, no, developing a relationship with them isn’t related to marrying them.” Chairman Cruise said in an experienced manner, “The private lives of those noble ladies are even more chaotic than you think, they don’t mind these kinds of things. Rather, if you were to develop some relationship with them, it is something that they could brag about to their friends. So if you’re willing, you can choose one of them or even several of them to spend a beautiful night with.”

“Forget it, I’m not interested.” Xu YI shook his head. He took a drink and turned away from those noble ladies passionately looking at him as he said to chairman Cruise, “You came looking for me, does that mean you’ve decided on when to head out?”