"That's what you said. I'll see Ms. Xavier? Buy it for five pounds and talk to myself? What if the lobby manager didn't go at all? Or if he did, he didn't attract Ms. Xavier's attention?"

"She'll do her best," collinsky lowered his head. "Her accent is native to Hartford. In the hearts of the locals, green and tomilov are very important."

"OK, but where did you get so much money?"

"I sold the carriage, including the car and horse, for 27 pounds, 6 shillings and 9 pence, and I left seven pounds, so I was very rich from the day before yesterday to just now."

Roy's face was sad: "Colin, don't you know moderation?"

"Money is used to solve problems. As long as the problems are solved, there is no problem of moderation," colinsky explained. "For example, we are about to meet Ms. Xavier."

Roy trembled and nodded his head: "it's good to have you with me. Seriously, I never thought Ms. Xavier would be so hard to see..."

"What you should think of, at least Mr. Green should tell you," collinsky sighed, "This time, Ms. Xavier didn't just come to Hartford as a guest. She officially announced a big project at the ball, and the rumors have been fermenting for five days. Now all ambitious people in Connecticut are crazy in her plan. Her time must be beyond her means. Unless it is of great value, we can't see her in advance."

"We have great value?"

"There should be." collinsky pondered for a moment. "Although I don't know what it is, Mr. Green will send you out like this. I guess he must have found something that we can see as long as Ms. Xavier hears you."

"You guessed?"

"You guessed right, didn't you?"

"Aha." Roy stopped talking.

Seager's advice before leaving was constantly reflected in his mind until it coincided with colinsky's speculation.

The thing that moved Carmen Xavier in the Green family was probably the whole green chamber of Commerce. Therefore, Carmen easily pushed off other meetings when he heard that someone from the Green family was visiting. He looked impatient.

Roy bit his teeth.

In the face of huge strength difference, is the chamber of Commerce doomed to collapse?

……

A moment later, Roy saw Carmen for the second time since the ball.

Unlike the luxurious and threatening fighting state in the ball, Carmen became more or less accessible in his own reception room.

Her makeup became simpler. She was wearing a beige dress. She looked a little more friendly. There were faraming and Sharon standing around. She was not alone as at the ball.

What surprised Roy was Hannah.

Through the dance, the whole Hartford thought that Haina was Carmen's personal maid. Although it was strange to use blacks as personal attendants, it was not uncommon for Spanish nobles to use Moore's attendants, and even Moore's relatives.

But in this room, Hannah did not stand closest to Carmen as Roy imagined. She leaned against the window in a dark gold smock, did not deliberately hide, but almost integrated with the curtains.

This surprised Roy.

His eyes subconsciously found Haina. He bumped into Haina and shook her. Haina sensitively caught this slight and undetectable change and stood up.

Roy noticed her

Haina got up, bypassed the sofa and blocked the two young men by the door.

"Are you biloni Green's child?"

"Yes." Roy shuddered. "Roy green, on his father's order, came to visit Ms. Xavier."

"Visit..." Hannah whispered, glancing from Roy's head to the soles of her feet, and then back to the top of her head.

Colinsky summoned up the courage to take the first half step and just blocked Haina's sight: "madam, we have obtained Ms. Xavier's permission."

"I know. The top hat and coat are hanging on the coat rack by the door. Come in."

Leaving this speech, which was very much like the maid's long speech, Haina turned and walked back to her window, looked at the scenery outside the window, and returned to her previous appearance as if there were no one else.

This series of changes made everyone feel at a loss, and the most different was Carmen.

She gave Haina a strange look, failed to find a chance to exchange eyes, and soon looked back at Roy with a smile.

"You are the first person to notice her in these five days. In a way, you are excellent."

"Yeah... Yeah?" Roy didn't understand Carmen at all.

Colinsky took off his hat and coat and hung it carefully on the coat rack. Roy hurriedly followed suit, tidied himself up and sat rigidly opposite Carmen.

"Ms. Xavier!" he put a flat box and a prayer note on the tea table. "Father wants to meet you and talk about the future of Hartford and Connecticut."

"Mr. Green has a grand reputation in Hartford and throughout New England, and I'd like to talk to him long ago."

Carmen exchanged greetings. Without instructions, faramin walked out of her and carefully checked the prayer stickers and salutes in front of Roy and colinsky.

He checked for two minutes, then clicked and pried open the box with a small steel bar.

Inside, a hard sealed and gilded invitation is exposed, and the lace of [tectumque] is traced on the surface of the letter in Latin capital, which means shelter.

Carmen tilted his head in perplexity. "Do you want to invite me to his shelter?"

"No!" Roy waved hurriedly. "My father said it was an invitation to the world's top auction. Because the auction place was in a place called asylum villa, it was called asylum villa auction."

"Asylum villa auction..." Carmen said a few times, "faraming, have you ever heard of it?"

"One of the top auctions in the Boston area. It is said that there is no official background, and the organizers rarely invite people from the business community."

Carmen straightened up with interest: "it's interesting to rarely invite people from business."

Roy quickly explained: "Ms. Xavier, the letter is anonymous. My father said that when I saw the letter, the sponsor never investigated the identity of the participants. In addition, this letter was really not for my father. At the beginning, it was my father's friend in the Confederation Parliament. He couldn't spare time, so the letter came to my father."

"Sounds like an interesting gift." Carmen waved and asked faramin to put away the invitation. "Sharon, when can we see Mr. Green?"

Sharon picked up her writing board and said, "three days later, from 3:15 to 3:20 p.m., it's more free."

"Then..."

"Ms. Xavier!" before Carmen finished, Roy interrupted in a rude voice, "Ms. Xavier! My father wants to talk about more topics. He hopes you can spare more time for him!"

"More..." Carmen looked at Sharon in embarrassment.

Sharon wrote a few strokes on the writing board and said, "from 3:15 to 3:30, this is the limit where you don't need to cancel your appointment."

Roy's forehead was sweating: "if possible, please cancel some unimportant appointments..."

Carmen looked at him calmly, calm, neither kind nor malicious. His eyes were soft, but there was only emptiness in them.

"I can't put off other unimportant meetings for the most unimportant meeting, Mr. Roy green," she said suddenly.

"In fact, I know why Mr. Green needs time, but it's really unnecessary. My team has conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the green chamber of Commerce and calculated that it takes half a year and 300000 pounds to acquire the complete you, while it only takes three months and less than 100000 pounds to make you bankrupt."

"More importantly, the assets that your business meets our requirements is only 42%, and the proportion of bad assets is too high. It also reflects the fact that your family is not operating well. It is a once and for all way to spend your time to squeeze out the bubble and bankrupt you."

"So, thank you for Mr. Green's gift, but we don't have to talk." Carmen closed his eyes. "Faramin, see you off."

"Yes."