Ariel's face showed some embarrassment and said: "Is this so? But there are many things in the city..."

Ruichi waved his hands quickly, as if he was afraid that these things would affect him, and said hurriedly: "You can solve these things by yourself! I believe in your ability, you can do it! Hahaha, I just need to be responsible for collecting the money.

Now, all other matters, big and small, will be decided by you!"

Hearing this, Ariel finally stopped talking. She smiled slightly and bowed slowly to the lord. However, this did not mean that her conversation ended here. In order to prevent Nuo next to her who had always wanted to speak,

When Reese spoke, she glanced at the young and handsome noble behind her and said, "Who is this...?"

After talking to Ariel, Rich seemed to be familiar with him and quickly introduced: "Ah, let me introduce you two! This is the current mayor of Pelican City and the president of the Mermaid Song Guild, Ariel

Miss Garcia! As for this one, he is the lord of a town in the next province, Baron Jason. You guys should get to know each other."

When Ariel heard the name "Jason", she immediately matched the name with the image in her mind. Soon, she found a matching one among the many names of lords spoken by the prisoners.

Immediately, the smile on her face became even brighter. She reached out her hand and said with a smile: "So it's Baron Jason? I'm sorry. I've heard that Mr. Jason is a very handsome man. I saw him today."

You really surprised me. You must be liked by many girls, right?"

After seeing Ariel with his own eyes, Jason seemed a little stunned. When she was talking just now, the baron was constantly looking at the beautiful girl in front of him, and even looked a little stunned.

Now, after seeing Ariel reaching out her hand, he came back to his senses instantly, walked up with a smile and held Ariel's hand, bent down and kissed the back of her middle finger gently, and said slowly: "Then

With Miss Garcia's beauty, there must be many men who show your kindness to you on weekdays, right? After meeting you today, I realized that His Highness the Second Prince is really lucky. Not only can he marry someone recognized by the Blue Bay Empire,

The most beautiful woman in the world, you can even have a woman with both wisdom and beauty like you as your mistress. To be honest, at first I didn’t believe it when I heard the two viscounts praise your beauty, and thought it was a bit exaggerated. But now it seems

, the descriptions of you by these two viscounts are not as good as your real situation."

Ariel retracted her hand, took out a small fan from her arms, opened it, covered her lips, giggled, and said, "No, no, you are really flattering me."

Seeing Ariel constantly making jokes and changing the topic into various pleasantries, Norris on the side couldn't wait any longer. He quickly took advantage of the temporary interruption in the topic and interrupted: "Let's not just stand here and talk.

Why don't you find a place to sit down and have a good chat? Miss Ariel, I have some interesting money-making news here, I believe you will also be interested."

Although she didn't know what these people were thinking, Ariel also knew that avoiding them like this was not an option after all.

No choice, now I can only agree, nod, let Norris lead the way, and find a place to sit down.

In a corner of the garden, the element lights here are slightly darker than those in other places. There is a white round table that seems to have been prepared long ago, and a soft cushion is placed on the exquisitely hollowed-out carved birch wood chair.

Some refreshments have also been placed on the table.

Seeing such a posture, Ariel also knew that these people must be thinking about something very important to discuss.

"Miss Ariel, first of all, congratulations on becoming the mayor of Pelican City. I have a small congratulatory gift that I want to give to you personally."

As he spoke, Norris snapped his fingers, and the valet next to him immediately presented a small box and placed it in front of Ariel.

Ariel looked at the small box, and after a moment of silence, she reached for it and opened it.

There is a light cyan bracelet made in the shape of a mermaid. It looks like many fish swimming with a mermaid, with a warm color and soft texture.

"This is a bracelet made of dark green steel. It's a small gift, but it's not a sign of respect."

Ariel was slightly startled, holding the bracelet and looking at it over and over again, and said: "Made of dark green steel? The price...isn't cheap? I remember that just a piece of second-class quality dark green steel costs twenty or thirty gold.

Well. If such a piece of dark green steel can be made into a bracelet and the workmanship is so good..."

Norris waved his hand and said with a smile: "Oh! Miss Ariel sees that you are so polite, this is just a small gift! No matter how expensive it is, in front of you, it is just a gadget that is not worth a few dollars.

Is that so? This is just a little thought on my part, please don’t be polite to me anymore.”

Although Ariel felt that it was not good to accept it like this, they had already given it to her, and she had accepted so many gifts from others before. It would be too much to not accept such a thing.

See you outside...

After thinking about it, she finally smiled, put the bracelet on her wrist, and looked at it.

Mochi from behind came up and looked at the bracelet, then nodded: "It's so beautiful."

Rich laughed and clapped his hands: "I'm just telling you! Our president is beautiful, has a good figure, is young and promising, and looks so beautiful no matter what he wears! Ariel, just listen to my advice.

Remember to dress yourself up more, wear more beautiful clothes like this, and wear more jewelry. You are such a beautiful woman, what do you look like if you don’t dress yourself up all day long? And when you pretended to be a man, your whole body was from top to bottom.

They are all dirty and earthy, and your face is often gray. How much do they cover up your appearance? What a pity!"

Ariel raised the corners of her mouth slightly, showing an awkward smile, nodded and said: "I know, I will dress myself up more in the future. Viscount Rich, can you please stop saying these words in front of so many people in the future?"

Say? When I hear you say this, I always feel like an old father is disciplining his daughter."

Richie liked hearing this. He patted the table again and said with a smile: "That's right! That's right! In terms of age, I am indeed qualified to be your dad! Dad cares about what his precious daughter wears.

What's wrong with being more beautiful and cute? Jason, you don't know how bad this little girl looked before! She was wearing a big and thick hat, and her clothes seemed to blend in with the loess.

She wore ugly clothes, her face was even more black and yellow, and her body would even exude the smell of fertilizers from the farmland from time to time! Oh my, just thinking about it, I can’t imagine how she persisted back then.

?”

Sister Sen also laughed and said: "So, Miss Ariel has had a very unpleasant experience?"

Unbearable experience?

Ariel's mind suddenly clicked.

But before she could continue to think about it, Jason continued: "But think about it, life was hard in the past, and no matter what we do, it requires some effort. Only after working hard can we be able to

You can continue to enjoy such a good life, right?"

At this point, Ariel suddenly felt a sense of alertness in her mind. Because of the alertness in her heart, the smile on her face became even sweeter, and she said with a smile: "Brothers, and this Ruichi who claims to be my father.

Viscount, what do you want to say by dragging me here now? Could it be that...you really want to judge me?"

Viscount Norris waved his hand quickly and said with a smile: "Where is it! I invited Miss Ariel here today mainly to have a good chat and have a good heart-to-heart relationship! There were some misunderstandings between us before, but now, I hope this

The misunderstanding can be resolved now, and from now on we can all open our hearts and speak frankly to each other! Right?"

Ariel straightened one arm to support her head, looked at Viscount Norris with a pair of bright eyes, continued to look at him with that sweet smile, and said: "If possible, I also hope to have a complete truce with you. There were some cases where I had no choice but to do so.

It can only be said that it is a last resort to make money and survive."

Ruichi nodded quickly: "That's right! Once we talk about this kind of thing, won't we understand everything?"

Viscount Norris coughed, probably thinking that the heat was up, and finally said -

"Miss Ariel, let me tell you what's on my mind. You are now... also the mayor of Pelican City, and your status is naturally different. You are no longer the small guild leader you used to be.

, but a noble with status, status and dignity."

Ariel still had a smile on her face. Such a smile made Norris a little unsure of what the girl was thinking, but he continued -

"So, you are on our side, right? So, forget about the superficial words you said to those common people before. I also know that it is not easy for you to rule those ignorant people, but sometimes I think

To deflect conflicts, we really don’t need to draw the fire onto our own people.”

Originally, Ariel thought that these nobles finally had something to trouble her.

Unexpectedly, this nobleman really "opened up his heart" to him and said what he had been feeling depressed about these days.

At that moment, the smile she was still maintaining immediately lost its strength and slowly dimmed.

Viscount Norris went on to say: "Look, we have actually discussed it before. You are stupid people! If something goes wrong in your daily life, you will naturally have grievances and thoughts. These are all

It’s normal. Just like Baron Jason, the citizens of the villages and towns under his leadership will also have thoughts and grievances.”

"However, Baron Jason can well direct these grievances towards other cities instead of provoking it on himself."

At this time, Jason also spoke immediately, and then said: "That's right, Miss Garcia. This is a very simple job. If you feel that the people under your rule are a little difficult to subdue, you can tell them, they

The reason why they are not living well now is entirely because people in other cities and other areas have robbed their wealth, which makes their lives so bad."

"If you really can't bear to involve other cities... you can also throw the pot on my head. You can say that it is the problem of other cities, and it is the workers in those cities who have robbed their food.

Work, land. I believe that with Miss Garcia’s wisdom, these words will not be impossible to come up with, right?”

Hearing this, Ariel was a little surprised. She no longer supported her head with her hands and said slowly: "Is this okay to lead the trouble to you?"

Jason smiled and said: "Actually, everyone does this. If your people have grievances, say it's my problem. If my people have problems, say it's other people's problems. If other people have problems, just say it's my problem."

Say it's your problem. Anyway, as long as the people below us feel that their poor life is entirely the fault of people in other cities, that'll be fine."

Ariel was a little frightened when she heard these words. She couldn't help but cover her chest and said: "But... if they really attack each other like this, wouldn't those people attack each other? Someone died under your leadership. This is also

Is it okay?"

Regarding Ariel's remarks, Norris and Jason, as veteran nobles, couldn't help but look at each other, and both showed an interesting smile.

Next to him, Ruichi also had the same doubts, and nodded in agreement: "Yes, yes, these people are dead. Wouldn't it be troublesome if people died?"

Norris laughed, as if he had heard something very funny.

After laughing twice, he clapped his hands and said: "Sure enough, our Miss Garcia has just become the mayor, and there are some things that she really doesn't know what to do. Mr. Jason, come and talk to our beauty

Let’s talk to the mayor?”

Jason nodded, and then with a serious expression, but also as if he had remembered something funny, he stretched out his hands and patted the table, and said with a smile: "Actually, managing these people is very simple. Just make them think we are

It only suffices that these nobles are all superior, benevolent, and kind-hearted good people. Whenever there is any problem under our management, then it must be that we good people have been deceived, and there must be some treacherous people around us.

The villain has deceived us."

"As long as such an image can be created, the untouchables will take the initiative to believe in us and think that we nobles are correct no matter what. In this way, even if they and the people in other cities fight each other or fight with each other, it will definitely be

It will not lead the problem to us."
To be continued...