After nightfall, the house of Earl Elk was brightly lit, and when Peiro, who held the invitation letter, was welcomed into the hall by his attendants, the birthday feast for Aurelion, the third lady of the Earl's family, had just begun.
Those who can participate in the banquet are all nobles who have a lot of family background and fame in Changsong Fortress. Lord Earl also attaches great importance to this birthday banquet. You can see it from the wool carpets in the hall and the uniformly customized black-bottomed gold-edged clothes of the attendants. come out. After all, Aurelion just turned sixteen years old, and it was the age to talk about marriage.
The string music played, and the attendants walked through the crowd with wine and wine glasses. Several round tables in the hall were filled with steaming cooked food, while the protagonist Aurelian, dressed like a canary, was being surrounded by a group of people. The sisters gathered around a corner of the hall and seemed to be chatting happily.
This is the most popular way of feasting in the capital. The western banquet was not like this before, Pei Luo thought, everyone usually sat around a long wooden table, waiting for the chef to serve. All served were large bowls of pork and whole chicken, buttered bread, eggs browned on both sides, and large pots of lettuce leaves.
But for Pei Luo, who had also stayed in the capital for a few years, this birthday banquet was just an imitation.
For example, the wine glasses in the servants' hands are all colored glass glasses, not transparent and clean glasses. After pouring the wine, the mellow color of the wine itself cannot be brought out at all. The round table should be covered with a white cloth instead of exposing the greasy table top. As for the cooked food, it still maintains the traditional style of the West Side - big and thick. Pei Luo shook his head, at least he had to let the chef cut it into small pieces before serving it.
As usual, he had already filled his stomach at home before coming to the banquet, and he would not cut these large pieces of cooked meat at this time. The invitees to the banquet all represent the faces of their respective families, and eating here is full of oily mouths, which is really detrimental to the image. Pei Luo didn't want to be treated as a joke in the mouths of the ladies.
"Long time no see, buddy," someone suddenly hooked his neck from behind, "I heard that you have been appointed as a messenger by the lord again? How about the ore harvest in Border Town? You dig a lot from it."
This familiar voice, as soon as I heard it, I knew it was Ren Made, the second son of the Elk family, a fool who wanted to become a famous knight and didn't even care about territory. Of course, he is also his friend, "Fortunately," Pei Luo didn't want to talk about his experience in Border Town, "Is it useful for you to go to Cold Wind Ridge this time, or do you stay in Hermes all the time? shivering in the tavern?"
"Damn," Ren pushed Peiro, "I never heard good things from your mouth. This time I didn't even go to the new holy city. The day before the border guards set off, I happened to be infected with the cold. In bed for a week."
"Yes, it's a little better than last time, at least it saves the guards a lot of trouble."
"You're wrong this time," Ren suddenly smiled mysteriously. "If I didn't lie down in Cold Wind Ridge for a week, I'd probably lie on the icy wall of the holy city forever."
"What do you mean?" Peiro raised his eyebrows.
"I also heard what others said," Elk's second son leaned closer to his ear and whispered, "The new holy city almost fell, and the evil beasts rushed into the inner city. If the church hadn't sent their strongest warriors, I'm afraid that even the holy city would fall. The city cathedral could not be preserved. However, the troops of the four kingdoms suffered heavy losses, and few people from Cold Wind Ridge returned. In just one month, the whole city was full of widows, and the family usually had no savings..." He blinked, He stretched out two fingers and gestured, "Two silver wolves will do. Hey, don't look at me like this, I didn't do anything."
"Are you sure this news is true? What about the Border Guard?"
"Of course, I saw it with my own eyes. The lord fell ill the day he received the news." Ren shrugged, "As for the guards... what else can we do? We will recruit more slowly. Now there is an urgent shortage of experienced warriors in the north. , if my family hadn't called me back, at least I would have been able to lead a cavalry team."
This is not the point at all, Pei Luo thought to himself, the main object of defense of the Frontier Guard in Cold Wind Ridge is the Church Judgment Army, and now the generals and soldiers of the four kingdoms are buried in Hermes, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a conspiracy. . If they have a plan, the northern part of Greycastle is now like a woman who has been stripped naked, "Where is the judgement army, what are their losses?"
"It won't be much better than the fourth team. If you think about it, you can see that they are always rushing to the front of the fanatics. Having said that, if the Judgment Army does not stand up, the troops of other countries will definitely not move," he said disdainfully. " Those knights are like this, they talk about honor and they like to stay behind when they fight against evil beasts."
"For example, the one in front of me," Pei Luo smiled, perhaps thinking too much. But even if the Church wanted to attack the North, it had nothing to do with Longsong Fortress. Let the new king take care of this.
"Unfortunately, no one has accepted my allegiance yet, or in other words, I haven't found anyone who has this qualification," Ren paused and looked towards the door, "I'll go say hello first when the people who are going to the wolf family are here. Get them off and come back to you later."
"Go, don't come back."
"By the way," he turned around after just two steps, "did you notice the handkerchief in the invitation?"
"You let it go?"
"Heh, I'll only tuck your socks for two days," he wagged his fingers, "that was cut by my sister, even though the age gap between you is a little bigger, but as long as you mean it, I'm sure Raise your hands for both of you. Stop procrastinating, friend, you're twenty-two."
Pelor gave him a roll of eyes, who whistled and walked away with a smile.
Taking a glass of wine from the waiter's plate, Peiro walked to the corner by himself and quietly surveyed the lively hall. He noticed that while Aurelion and the sisters were having a good conversation, they would secretly glance at him. The moment his eyes met just now, he could see the other side's eyes quickly moving away and a shy look on his cheeks.
Pelor returned a polite smile. But in his eyes, the other party is just a little girl.
Suddenly, a fierce discussion sounded from one side of the hall, attracting everyone's attention.
"What! How dare he say that?"
"Yeah, the coward of Corris, he didn't dare to let a fart, so he came back in such a sullen way." The loudest man said, "It's just embarrassing Changsong Fortress!"
Peiro knew him, and it seemed that his name was Simon Eli, who was a branch of the wolf family and married a rather attractive woman. He has also seen that woman, and she is indeed charming.
"Say as if you have a solution." Someone sneered.
"I may not be able to do it alone, but if the Duke can notice this absurd thing, I don't believe that Roland Wimbledon would dare to act so recklessly!"
Hearing this familiar name, Pei Luo was startled, and immediately became interested.