Compared to half a year ago, Chen Heng's financial situation has improved a great deal now.
The reason for this is, on the one hand, the strong support from Baron Kayson.
After learning that Chen Heng had become a student of a knight and even awakened his knight qualifications and become a knight apprentice himself, Baron Kayson seemed to have made up his mind, and his support for Chen Heng increased significantly all at once.
In the past, he had already been extremely supportive of Chen Heng, but after that, this support became even more substantial.
Frankly speaking, a considerable part of the tax revenue in Baron Kayson's territory, after deducting the expenses, was given by Baron Kayson to Chen Heng to cover his expenses in Kutu.
With this start-up fund, Chen Heng was able to put his abilities into full play. Through investment, he had acquired quite a number of properties in the past half year, greatly improving his financial situation.
Back in his manor, Chen Heng changed into clean clothes in his room and then got into a carriage and left the place.
After leaving there for over half an hour, he arrived at an unfamiliar manor.
The place in front of him looked very spacious, covering a vast area and was much more luxurious than Chen Heng's manor.
Getting off the carriage, there were already people waiting at the entrance of the manor to welcome Chen Heng.
"Mr. Kailin, you've finally arrived."
Looking at Chen Heng, the old butler walked forward with a smile on his face. "Master Carey has been waiting inside for a long time."
"Sorry, I encountered something on the way and was delayed for a while."
Chen Heng smiled apologetically and then said, "Please take me in."
The old butler nodded with a smile, and then they slowly walked forward and entered.
As they walked in, the decorations inside the manor were revealed in front of Chen Heng.
Compared to Chen Heng's residence, this place was obviously much more exquisite. The decorations in all aspects were more complete, and there were many places with some trinkets from afar, which looked very delicate.
Walking inside, a faint fragrance wafted from all around, which was the fragrance of flowers and plants.
Before long, Chen Heng walked into the hall.
At this moment, there were already many people standing in the entire hall.
These people were standing in the hall, chatting in low voices. Many people were already dancing the social dance aside, looking rather leisurely.
Of course, these people were generally quite young, basically all young people, so they were relatively casual and not as restrained as in a formal banquet.
Seeing Chen Heng enter, the atmosphere at the scene changed a bit.
Many people's eyes were fixed on Chen Heng at the same time.
There was some surprise in their eyes, as if they were very surprised that he would appear here.
"Kailin, my friend."
In front, a young man in golden ordinary clothes, who looked rather handsome, stood up and quickly walked towards Chen Heng, and then directly gave him a hug.
"Why are you so late?"
He hugged Chen Heng and then smiled and said after a while, "I almost thought you wouldn't come."
"How could that be?"
Chen Heng smiled and then said, "We're the best of friends. I wouldn't miss your banquet."
"Yes."
Hearing this, Carey smiled.
Then, he pulled Chen Heng forward, with a hint of pride faintly showing in his expression.
Even for someone of his status, Chen Heng was a very important guest at this moment. In his heart, Chen Heng could even be ranked alongside the children of several other important figures.
The reason was simple.
Although Chen Heng came from an ordinary background, Coribo was his teacher, and this identity was enough to make up for the lack of family background.
As for Chen Heng himself, as a knight apprentice, he was already recognized as a knight prodigy in the entire Kutu City and was regarded as one of the few apprentices with the greatest hope of becoming a knight in the future.
In addition, considering Chen Heng's own abilities and the good reputation he had built up in the past half year or so, all in all, for Carey, he was far more useful than the descendants of those so-called important figures.
After all, although those people had prominent identities, to be honest, except for a few of them, most of them were just good-looking on the surface and didn't have much substance at all. How could they be as important as a future knight?
Many people were quite clear about this.
In the past half year or so, quite a number of people had invited Chen Heng to banquets, actively inviting him to participate in various activities and attend all kinds of gatherings.
However, Chen Heng didn't accept all these invitations.
After all, once something becomes too common, it loses its value.
Those people wanted to befriend Chen Heng in order to gain the friendship of a future knight.
But friendship is sometimes rather illusory.
If Chen Heng accepted all the banquet invitations and befriended everyone at the same time, it would be less effective instead.
After all, if something is available to everyone, then it has no value.
Only when it is cherished enough does it have value.
Therefore, in his social interactions with the outside world, Chen Heng adopted a strategy of keeping in touch with a few people and keeping a distance from most people.
So, not everyone could invite Chen Heng out to participate in their banquets.
The fact that Carey in front of him could do this, could achieve something that others couldn't, undoubtedly made him feel proud.
Feeling the astonishment and surprise in the eyes of the people around, Carey's smile became even brighter, and he regarded Chen Heng even more highly.
In the hall, he solemnly introduced Chen Heng to everyone present.
As expected, when Chen Heng's knight identity was introduced, it aroused a burst of exclamations among those present.
During this process, Chen Heng's face remained calm all the time, turning a blind eye to the astonished gazes constantly cast at him.
After a while, he sat down aside and silently watched the banquet going on.
It has to be said that there was a reason why Kurudo didn't like to participate in this kind of banquet and would rather train by himself.
At least in Chen Heng's opinion, the banquet in front of him was extremely boring.
Noble men and women dressed fashionably and gorgeously were chatting in this place, reciting a certain poem from time to time, or inviting someone to dance various dances.
The whole scene made Chen Heng feel rather bored and he couldn't arouse any interest at all.
Of course, during this process, because of his knight identity and good looks, there were also women who came forward and invited Chen Heng to dance together.
If Chen Heng was willing, he might be able to win the hearts of beautiful women on the spot and be surrounded by them.
Just like many people around at this moment.
However, Chen Heng's face remained calm and he gently refused them all.
This wasn't because he was indifferent to women, but to maintain a good reputation.
In many cases, reputation is also a kind of power.
In order to maintain a good reputation, in the past half year or so, Chen Heng had always behaved gently, not having any ambiguous relationships with any women, and never getting into conflicts with others, just to establish the image of a knight with excellent moral character and pure kindness.
Since the image had been established with great difficulty, how could he let it be damaged here.
Chen Heng was still hoping that one day in the future, through this hard-established character setting and image, he could marry a noble woman with a high enough status.
How could he let it collapse here.
So, facing the women who came forward, Chen Heng's face remained gentle and he refused them one by one.
All around, sounds of luxury and indulgence could be heard, and from time to time, the moans of women could be heard, as if something bad was going on secretly.
Chen Heng didn't look sideways, sitting upright with his body straight, and remained indifferent to all this.
In the chaotic banquet scene, he was like the most unique sight, which was quite astonishing.
Around him, looking at Chen Heng sitting upright in his seat in front, with a calm and steady expression on his face, handsome in appearance and full of an elegant and noble air, the women around couldn't help but cast admiring glances at him.
For some reason, although he never paid attention to them, they were instinctively more attracted to him and couldn't control it at all.
"Who is that person?"
Finally, Chen Heng's performance attracted the attention of some people.
In the corner, a little girl in a black long dress, who didn't look very old, probably around fifteen or sixteen years old, was sitting there. At this moment, she secretly looked at Chen Heng sitting upright in front and couldn't help showing a curious look on her face.