Volume 3 Chapter 16 - Drake Duchy (1/2)

After discussing some details with chairman Vincent, Count Stagg sent people to bring Xu Yi to the side to talk like he had expected.

But what came to a surprise to Xu Yi was that after entering the room, other than Count Stagg, there were two people he didn’t recognize.

“Come, chairman Xu, let me introduce you. These two are young miss Caroline and mister Anduin from the Drake Duchy.” Count Stagg saw that Xu Yi came in and stood up to introduce the others before pointing at Xu Yi and saying, “Young miss Caroline, this is the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s chairman Xu Yi.”

Xu Yi noticed that when Count Stagg had given his introduction, he had placed young miss Caroline first, which meant that her status was higher than this Anduin.

As expected, hearing Count Stagg’s introduction, young miss Caroline stretched out her slender right hand to Xu Yi as she revealed a bright smile, “Chairman Xu, I’ve long heard your name and I’ve always wanted to meet you. To be able to finally see you in person today, I really am very happy and honoured.”

When his eyes fell onto young miss Caroline’s face, Xu Yi’s eyes instantly lit up.

After coming to the Sines Continent for over five years, Xu Yi had seen countless beautiful young girls. Before this, he had never seen a girl who could compare in beauty to Still.

But now Still had actually met an opponent.

This young miss Caroline’s appearance was actually not worse than Still’s by a single bit.

But she was different from the bright appearance that Still had. This young miss Caroline’s face was very gentle and with her calm as water eyes, she gave off a charming taste that was completely different from Still’s.

Xu Yi reached out a hand to gently hold hers as he said with a smile, “Being able to receive the praise of a beautiful young miss like yourself, it really is my honour. But young miss Caroline, why did you always want to see me?”

Young miss Caroline revealed a faint smile. She looked at Xu Yi with a charming gaze, “Of course it’s because I’ve seen the magic machines your Frestech Chamber of Commerce produced, so I was curious about the person who could invent these magic machines. Chairman Xu, I really am very curious, just how did you invent these novel and easy to use magic machines?”

“This……You can treat it as a flash of inspiration.” Xu Yi laughed before turning to Count Stagg, “Lord City Lord, you specially called me here and invited me to see these two honoured guests, it must be because you want to discuss something, right?”

Count Stagg slightly knit his brows before relaxing them. He nodded with a faint smile as he indicated to Xu Yi and the other two to sit down.

After everyone sat down, Count Stagg said to Xu Yi with a soft cough, “Chairman Xu, I think I should first give you an explanation. During these days, there have been rumours all around Banta City saying that the agricultural promotion policies that I’ve implemented, as well as replanning how to use land were all deliberately aiming at your Frestech Chamber of Commerce. I want to saw that that was not my intention, it’s just that some people have misinterpreted me.”

Xu Yi looked at the sincere expression on Count Stagg’s face and forced himself not to smile. He gave a slight nod before forcing himself to also say in a sincere voice, “I understand. If the Lord City Lord really wanted to aim for me and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, would our Frestech Chamber of Commerce be able to live well now? Don’t you think, Lord City Lord?”

Count Stagg’s face twitched a bit before he gave a laugh, “Of course that’s not possible. As the Banta City City Lord, although I believe that agricultural development is important, I also am not setting death traps for the companies of our Banta City. That is clearly something that isn’t possible. So chairman Xu, you must understand this, or other people will misunderstand.”

“I understand.” Xu Yi nodded. He was too lazy to waste meaningless words with Count Stagg, so he continued by asking, “So Lord City Lord, let’s talk business then?”

“Alright, chairman Xu treats his time so preciously, no wonder you can be this successful.” Count Stagg praised before nodding at young miss Caroline and mister Anduin, then he continued talking to Xu Yi, “Chairman Xu, when I introduced young miss Caroline and mister Anduin, I only told you their names and where they came from, but I didn’t tell you their statuses. Now I’ll introduce them to you. Young miss Caroline is Duke Drake’s youngest daughter and mister Anduin is the business minister of the Drake Duchy.”

Xu Yi was a bit surprised before standing up again and giving a respectful bow to the two of them.

“So it was your highness princess Caroline, I’ve truly been rude.”

Princess Caroline and Prime Minister Anduin both stood up to give a bow. Princess Caroline said with a faint smile, “This isn’t a formal occasion, Viscount Xu does not need to mind.”

Because Xu Yi addressed her as a noble, Princess Caroline had turned “chairman Xu” to “Viscount Xu”.

Anduin also said with a nod, “Viscount Xu does not need to mind this. In fact, the princess and I came to see you in hopes of cooperating with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, so we hope that you will remain as ‘chairman Xu’. Do you understand what I mean?”