Chapter 87

"Govern the Sandy River?" Earl Summer frowned tightly, glanced in the direction of the Sandy River outside the window, and pondered: "Xu Yi, you never doubted that Smilla Potter was holding a grudge against you, so Did you deceive you on purpose?"

"He can lie to me, but the situation of the river can't lie to me." Xu Yi shook his head. "I didn't notice this situation before, so I didn't find it. But after being reminded by President Potter just now, I took a closer look, and then I also asked many fishermen from the river before to ask about the situation, and they all said Sandy The river has indeed changed significantly during this time."

"This change is not necessarily..." Count Summer suddenly took a breath, shook his head vigorously, and smiled at Xu Yi: "It's me who is wrong. Since I am the city owner of Bangta City, this should be My consideration. You're right, since the Sandy River has a hidden danger, then we should prepare in advance."

Earl Summer lowered his head and thought for a while, and then summoned a affairs officer, and asked him to call over the officials in Bonta City who were more familiar with the situation of river workers.

After the affairs officer left, Earl Summer thought for a while, and then said to Xu Yi: "If what Smilla Potter said is true, and the Sandy River has reached the point where it must be managed, then we have encountered a problem."

"What's the problem?" Xu Yi asked.

Earl Summer spread his hands and smiled bitterly: "This is an old problem, that is, no money."

Xu Yi couldn't help rolling his eyes, with an expression that he expected you to say so long ago, he sighed and said, "Okay, I found this matter, so let our new flight chamber of commerce bear it. However, Lord City Lord, it was agreed in advance that the management of the Sandy River should be the official responsibility of the kingdom. I can help solve this problem and even help you with the money, but it must be clear that it is the money It cannot be regarded as an investment from our chamber of commerce. Therefore, the City Lord's Mansion will either return us gold coins in the future, or give us corresponding compensation."

Earl Summer shook his head helplessly: "Although I know what you said is very reasonable, can't you give me a little face for this city lord? Well, you are right. It is my duty to manage the Sandy River. Of course, you and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can't help paying the money. As for whether to pay back the money directly or compensate it later, we will talk about it later."

Xu Yi nodded, not entangled in this issue with Earl Satsuma.

Although the New Flying Chamber of Commerce may suffer a little monetary loss in this matter, compared to being able to continuously gain the trust of Earl Satsuma, this small loss is still acceptable.

What's more, Xu Yi's main purpose is not on this, compared with the huge benefits finally obtained, this trivial investment can be ignored at all.

Once the money problem is solved, then any problem is no longer a problem.

After a while, the affairs officer in charge of river engineering was called. The Earl of Summer asked him about the situation of the Sandy River, and after receiving a positive answer that the Sandy River had indeed changed, he ordered him to conduct a serious inspection of the Sandy River immediately, and make a report on whether it needs to be treated according to the inspection situation and how to do it. Detailed report on governance.

And for Xu Yi's request. In addition to funds, they also asked for the support of some magical construction machinery, and Xu Yi responded one by one.

In addition, in this regard, the Amley Chamber of Commerce has experience in governing the upper reaches of the Sandy River, and now the Amley Chamber of Commerce is mainly responsible for the reconstruction of the Sandy River outside the city, so the Amley Chamber of Commerce will naturally not Stay out of the way.

It's just that this requires Earl Summer to go to President Cruise for face-to-face advice, which has nothing to do with Xu Yi.

After the preliminary discussion, Xu Yi left the City Lord's Mansion. Steele immediately greeted him.

Xu Yi was surprised to find that Sophia actually followed behind Steele and looked at Steele with an expression of admiration.

Unsurprisingly, Kennard followed Sophia.

"What did the Lord of the City say?" Steele asked Xu Yi.

"The Lord of the City takes this issue very seriously, and has already started to convene people to prepare it." Xu Yi replied. "As for me, old rules. It's time to pay for money, and pay for it."

Steele smiled lightly, took Xu Yi's hand and said, "It would be nice if the city lord could pay attention to it. I think that since the upper reaches of the Sandy River can be managed successfully, there is no reason to clean up the sediment here. ."

"It's not difficult, but the problem is that this is only a symptom. It can't cure the root cause." Xu Yi turned and looked at the west-north direction.

There is the direction of the Falling Rain and the upper Sandy River.

When Yanis appeared in front of him last year, it was because of the accumulation of sediment in the upper Sandy River in the Forest of Rain, which even caused the Sandy River to divert.

Now after a year of treatment, the upper reaches of the Sandy River in the Forest of Falling Rain have been basically managed successfully. Stable and tidy cement concrete embankments have been built on both sides of the river bank, and the diverted Sandy River has been forcibly reversed. The original track, so that the drinking water problem of the Night Song tribe has been solved.

But this is also just a symptom, not a cure.

If the problem of soil loss in the upper Sandy River cannot be solved, no matter how the downstream is managed, it will still be useless in the end.

Thinking of this, Xu Yi shouted to Void next to him.

"Anis, come out, I have something to ask you."

Steele had no unexpected expressions, while Kennard and Sophia on the side were a little surprised.

Who is Xu Yi calling?

As soon as the question emerged in his heart, the space around Xu Yi was distorted strangely, and the figure of Anis appeared from the void.

Both Kennard and Sophia were taken aback, and Sophia even screamed in fright.

The next moment, after the two of them could see Anise's appearance clearly, the surprised expression on their faces became even better.

Sophia opened her eyes in disbelief, covered her mouth and shouted softly, "Elf! Oh my God! It's actually an elf!"

While shouting, she was also pulling hard on Kennard's clothes. "Brother, look! It's an elves! Did you see it? Elves!"

Kennard's performance was much calmer than Sophia's, he was just surprised for a moment, then regained his composure, and showed Yanis a kind smile: "I have heard that President Xu always has a beautiful person beside him. The elf girls are with me. I have been with President Xu these days, but I have never seen it. I thought the rumors were false, but I was very disappointed, but I did not expect to see them today. I was able to see the legendary beauty Elves, it really opened my eyes. Miss Agnes? I'm Kennard Emma, ​​and I'm here to say hello to you."

Having been by Xu Yi's side for a long time, although Yanice still doesn't like to be often seen in front of strangers, she is not as resistant and uncomfortable as she used to be in contact with humans.

Seeing Kennard greeting herself, Yanis nodded slightly: "Hello, Mr. Emma, ​​nice to meet you."

Sophia hurriedly jumped over, stretched out her hand to Yanis with excitement, and said very enthusiastically: "Hello, sister Yanis, my name is Sophia Emma, ​​his sister. It's really nice to be able to see you. I'm so happy! When I was very young, I heard about the legendary elves in the book, and I always wanted to see it with my own eyes. I didn't expect to see it today! I almost fainted with excitement!"

Yanis looked at Xu Yi with a puzzled expression on her face.

Xu Yi shrugged and explained, "This is a way for this little girl to express her happiness. It doesn't mean that she is going to faint."

Yanis nodded to show her understanding, looked back at Sophia, thought about it, but did not extend her hand, she just nodded to Sophia: "Hello, Miss Emma, ​​nice to meet you."

Steele couldn't help but leaned into Xu Yi's ear and whispered, "Hey, shouldn't you just teach her this greeting?"

Xu Yi smiled bitterly and replied in a low voice, "This is already pretty good, isn't it?"

When teaching Yanis how to get along with humans, Xu Yi was particularly troubled by not knowing how to make her understand that humans use different greetings in different situations.

Because the greetings between the elves are very beautiful in context and meaningful, but the types are very monotonous, and even a little straight. It is not like humans who can find countless patterns in ordinary greetings.

Xu Yi tried her best, but she could only let Anise learn what the first greeting should be when facing a stranger.

Sophia didn't care about Yanis' indifferent attitude at all, she still looked at Yanis with great interest, and asked a lot of questions in one go.

Yanice glanced at her, didn't answer a question, just said calmly: "The president wants to ask me a question, I have to answer him first." After a while, she seemed to remember something, and added a sentence . "I'll answer your question later, okay...?"

Sophia was stunned and looked at Xu Yi who was beside her. Although she was a little unwilling, she could only obediently sigh and retreat.

"Yanis, do you know more about the situation in the upper Sandy River?" Xu Yi asked.

Yanis thought for a while, then shook her head: "I probably know a little bit, but it shouldn't be too much."

"Then tell me, is the area around the upper reaches of the Sandy River now occupied by orc tribes?" Xu Yi asked again.

"Almost so." Anise nodded and replied. "I've been to the Black Rice Wasteland a few times, and there's very little water there, so wherever there's water, there's a tribe of orcs."

"So the upper Sandy River can be regarded as being completely occupied by the orc tribe." Xu Yi thought for a moment, then suddenly smiled at Yanis: "Yanis, it looks like you are going to be with me again this time. Business trip."

As soon as the words fell, Xu Yi felt a murderous aura suddenly arise beside him.

Turning his head to look, he found that Steele's big eyes were slightly narrowed.