The little girl looked at Gao Wen in a daze, and asked curiously, "Do you know my name?"
Gawain smiled, and lightly stroked the little girl's hair: "You seem to know me too."
"You are Gawain, a great hero from long ago!" The little girl said happily, but there was a hint of hoarseness in her voice, which was very different from the clear and melodious voice in the dream world, "Dad told me about you before. The story of... the maids are saying, you have come to the castle..."
The little girl couldn't keep up with her breath as she was talking, so she stopped and began to pant. She seemed to be so excited that she forgot about her physical condition. Seeing this, Gao Wen hurriedly said: "Speak slowly, don't worry, I will going to stay here for a while.”
"My God..." Amber's voice came from behind Gawain at this moment. The half-elf had a look of unbearable expression, and her tone was full of astonishment, "How could she be like this..."
The maid standing behind the chair lowered her head, looking terrified in front of Countess Luo Penny: "I'm sorry, Mistress, but Miss Patty..."
"I know," the Viscount looked at her daughter, but her tone was full of helplessness, "Take the lady back to her room to rest."
Patty immediately tried to look up: "But Mom, I want to..."
"Be obedient and go back to the room to rest." Viscount Luo Penny emphasized again, and then glanced at Gawain with some hesitation. Rest, I'll see you."
"You must come!" Patty looked at Gao Wen with her big bright eyes blinking. She had no idea that this was the "Uncle Selsey" she had seen many times in the spiritual network, and she was only interested in a story from the story. The "protagonist" who came out of the movie is full of interest.
Facing the little girl's expectations, Gao Wen just nodded with a smile.
The maid took Patty away, using the specially made chair that looked like some kind of simple wheelchair, Gawain watched their figures disappear into the deep corridor of the castle, and then turned to look at Countess Ropeny : "How did she become like this?"
The Viscountess obviously didn't want to bring up this topic, so she gave a very vague answer: "When she was young, she encountered a fire."
"Fire?" Gawain shook his head, "Is it the accident that happened to Viscount Roman Grant..."
Roman Glenn was the husband of Ropeni Glenn, the previous lord of the Viscount Glenn, a young nobleman who was "crazy, arrogant, and cursed" among nobles and bards.
Luo Peini's expression was obviously a little stiff, and her eyes became indifferent and alienated. She turned to the door of the banquet hall and took a breath: "My lord, we shouldn't keep the guests waiting too long."
"A dance can last until dawn, and the butler will take care of everything when the host leaves," Gao Wen said calmly behind Luo Peini, "Maybe we can talk about the 'Land Act' and the 'Free Civil Law'."
Luo Peini stopped in her tracks and turned her head to stare into Gawain's eyes.
Gao Wen said flatly: "Let the people inside wait - their time is not precious."
"I'm not interested in the topics you raise," said the Viscountess. "Those are the product of failures and mistakes."
Gao Wen looked at the other party with a half-smile: "Don't you wonder why your husband failed back then?"
Luo Peini was silent for a moment, and waved to the housekeeper who had just come outside the hall to observe the situation. After giving some orders, she looked at Gao Wen: "We can go to the study on the second floor. But I still want to emphasize—I have no doubts about what you want to talk about. Things have lost interest."
Gawain and Amber followed behind the Viscountess, and soon came to the study on the second floor of the castle. In this study, Gawain saw the portrait of Viscount Roman Glen again—the smiling young man in the Sitting in the picture frame, it seems that he is still working in this study.
But what makes Gao Wen more embarrassed is that there is another painting opposite the portrait of Viscount Roman Glenn, which shows him... standing on a high hill with the Sword of the Pioneer and the Shield of the Guardian, Qi Yu is looking forward imposingly, which is the most widely circulated image of Gao Wen Cecil.
Amber immediately poked Gao Wen's waist behind him: "Hey, look, you're hanging on the wall!"
Gawain avoided Amber's fingers calmly, and said with some embarrassment: "I thought that after I 'got up', everyone had already taken my portrait off the wall..."
"My husband regards you as an idol," Countess Luo Penny said lightly, "After he left, this study room has always maintained its original furnishings."
Gao Wen nodded silently, walked to the desk, and tapped lightly on the table: "Did he write the Free Civil Law here back then?"
"As I said, it was already a product of failure and mistakes—later facts proved everything," Luo Penny said indifferently, "so is this the real purpose of your coming here? It's not to meet new neighbors, Not here to discuss business, but to discuss the mistakes my husband made during his lifetime?"
"No, the original purpose of my coming here was really just to visit, and after learning about Viscount Roman Glenn, I also became interested in his life, but I don't think it can be done simply The word 'wrong' can sum up everything about him."
Gawain spoke unhurriedly, and the deeds of Viscount Roman Glenn, which was investigated by Amber, slowly pieced together in his mind. After erasing those parts that were deliberately distorted and misinterpreted by ignorant people , The image of a reform pioneer gradually emerged in his mind.
"Prohibit all slave trade, liberate all serfs and slaves on the territory as free people; re-measure the land, confiscate all over-restricted, unjust, and unregistered land and distribute it to new free people; allow anyone to do business, work, Hunting, reclamation, and canceling the "Untouchable Restriction Law" in the territory, allowing freed slaves to learn crafts to become craftsmen; canceling the privilege of noble children becoming knights, so that commoners and noble children can accept the selection of knight apprentices... "
Gawain said one by one, watching Luo Penny Grant's expression gradually become gloomy, and finally he shook his head: "It's all very great ideas."
That's right, this is the information Gawain has about Viscount Roman Glenn after the investigation and sorting out by the Military Intelligence Bureau.
A pioneer who stood up before he unveiled his coffin and tried hard to change this era.
Ten years ago, a young aristocrat in the southern border awakened. He saw the darkness and filth hidden under the prosperity with different eyes, realized the backwardness of Ansu's current system, and realized the impact of the aristocratic system on this society. Restricted, aware of the unwarranted oppression of civilians by various traditional laws, and the wasted productivity in the process of oppression, he may even have realized the power of the people—or at least the "value" of the people.
Then he carried out reforms, and carried out reforms with the spirit of youth.
In the initial stage, the strong authority of the lord and the slowness and clumsiness of the old aristocratic system allowed his reforms to start smoothly. He implemented new laws and regulations in some territories and gained some results...
But this initial period was remarkably short-lived.
The power of the rebound was so fierce that almost no one understood what this young nobleman had done. He was dubbed "crazy", "rebel", and "bewitched by the devil". Almost in the blink of an eye, the young man The promising viscount became the evil spokesperson who disrupted the order of the kingdom and corrupted the aristocracy. Almost half of the southern borders criticized him.
The records after that became vague and messy, and there were no reliable words or unreliable bards to describe what happened after that. Amber only found Viscount Romain Glenn from a scattered folk poetry book. fate of:
"On that stormy night, the viscount sneaked into his testing ground, and he wanted to continue to seek forbidden knowledge in order to fill his ever-hungry stomach—but fortunately, the gods stopped in time and sent a holy messenger to come To end the Viscount's madness, a great fire fell from the sky, and the purifying flames were brilliant!"
Most of the poems belonged to a certain daring bard, and such a daring bard... I am afraid that he has already been hanged in some square, and it is impossible to find its source.
But Ropeny Gulen still remembers what happened at that time:
"The mob rushed into the castle. They were dressed in the clothes of mercenaries and civilians. There were knights and mages with extraordinary abilities mixed in. They rushed all the way up the mountain, broke the gate, and rushed into the inner hall. The knights and mages who were supposed to guard the castle were at the critical moment. The moment was gone, and my husband could only face those thugs alone... until the magic center of the castle exploded," Luo Peini said with a cold face, "then, the thugs suddenly stopped, and the 'reinforcements' from several surrounding lords were" Arrived just in time, ping-pong-pong scuffled, the mob retreated, my husband was dead, my daughter was dying... ”
Gao Wen looked into Luo Peini's eyes: "Because the dignity of the nobles must be maintained, the 'mob' can attack the castle and kill the nobles, but they must never capture the castle or destroy a family name—so the people behind the scenes have to jump at critical moments. Come out, after those mobs have finished their attack, appear as an envoy of justice, and clear away all disgraceful evidence."
"Your eyes are really bright," Luo Peini sneered, "then do you know what happened afterwards?"
"A liquidation and transaction, you expressed your willingness to return to the right way, and the nobles announced that Viscount Roman Glenn was only cursed by the devil, so his temperament changed drastically. The mob who stormed the castle was found guilty, and hundreds of people were hanged On the walls of Glenn Castle, dead bodies were dried and thrown off the cliff—justice was done, order was restored, or so it was thought.”
Countess Luo Peini gritted her teeth suddenly, and the muscles on her cheeks trembled uncontrollably: "Do you know who those who stormed the castle and were hanged?"
Gawain was expressionless: "The ones who can be caught and convicted can only be ordinary people without extraordinary power, those knights and mages mixed in the crowd, those who really 'brought great strength', ran away as early as the beginning , so those who were hanged were the serfs who acquired the land, the civilians who were allowed to do business, and the hunters and craftsmen who became rich after the implementation of the new law-on the gate of the castle, there were not only traces of swords and swords, but also Pitchfork and hoe dents, that's the smoking gun."
"Those people are guilty!" Ropeini Glenn gritted her teeth. The indifference she had worked so hard to maintain was finally broken. After learning that Gao Wen had investigated everything and was the one who knew the truth back then, she finally stopped covering up, " Those who benefit, those who are free, they are the mob! They deserve to be hanged—if they don't die only once, I would like to have them resurrected, and then I hang them again!"