Those who escaped the nightmare of Cecilland were lucky and unlucky.
Burning houses, earth corrupted by elemental forces, terrifying giants strutting out of the fog of chaos, and those relatives and friends who died under it all—everything haunts every escaped life like a nightmare. Even though they had fled to the safe town of Tanzania, even with the protection of knights and soldiers, the fear never faded from the hearts of the survivors even for a moment.
Because even those soldiers wearing armor, in fact, few can sleep peacefully these days.
Many people have to use alcohol to anesthetize themselves, and those poor people who can't even get drunk can only suffer. In addition, it is impossible to have a good life when they are displaced as refugees on the territory of other lords in this era. The living environment, the situation has become worse.
Not to mention maintaining the order of the refugees, Knight Philip now feels a little powerless to maintain the soldiers and let the soldiers report the situation regularly every day.
But fortunately, the lord returned safely, and brought an unexpected and powerful pillar.
Outside Tanzania Town, Rebecca looked at the citizens gathered in front of her. These people were ragged and haggard—even though Viscount Andrew did provide basic accommodation and food distribution, what the nobles of this era did to the commoners The charity is extremely limited, and to keep these people from freezing and starving to death is already a manifestation of the kindness of the Viscount, far surpassing his colleagues, and Rebecca can't ask too much for this.
And for those who escaped from Cecil Territory, the appearance of the lord is an effective enough booster.
Commoners in this era do not have a high level of consciousness and psychological quality, and they are actually not very loyal to the lord, although Rebecca can be regarded as a benevolent and friendly lord (the main reason is that the little girl is not good at brains, and she still has a lot of loyalty to the lord. You can’t learn the cunning and greed of your noble colleagues), but after all, she has only been in office for less than a year. Due to the poor information transmission, in fact, many citizens don’t even know what their lord looks like.
But the appearance of the lord is still an encouragement. For these poor people who have been in panic for many days, as long as someone stands up and announces that they will continue to protect them, it is enough. They don't care who their master is or what she looks like. Hundreds of years of feudal system have made commoners lose a lot of thinking ability, but it has also made them very easy to satisfy. In Gao Wen's view, this is A cohesion based on ignorance and ignorance—and it works.
The people who came to see them off were only a small part, and more people stayed in Tanzania Town, taking care of their belongings or working in exchange for everyone's food. Rebecca looked at these people and wanted to say a few words, but she really didn't know What to say, I looked at Philip Knight: "These people still have to be taken care of by you, Knight, before we come back, try to make sure that there is no one less."
"I promise you with my oath!" Philip straightened his chest, "I will protect every member and every property of Cecil's family for you!"
"And don't forget to tell you what to do," Gao Wen said, "Viscount Andrew will provide the necessary help, you just need to send those people with good legs, feet, and good brains - don't begrudge money, they have to do Things are more precious than money."
"Yes!" The young knight replied loudly, but he still couldn't hide his confusion. As a person who lived in a closed age and specialized in martial arts, it was difficult for him to keep up with Gawain's thoughts, "But those things Is it really that important?"
"Of course it's important," Gao Wen laughed. "It's gossip if it's small, and it's public opinion effect if it's big. Don't underestimate these invisible forces. Once everyone starts talking about the same thing, even the king will Restless."
After making some arrangements, Gawain and Rebecca boarded the carriage provided by Viscount Andrew, accompanied by Betty as a maid, the loyal Knight Byron, the super-strong thief Amber, and twelve family soldiers— These soldiers could not be said to have been carefully selected, because there were only a dozen soldiers who broke out with Philip Knight, plus the two who followed Gawain and the others, there were less than twenty soldiers at full count. Under such circumstances, gathering twelve well-equipped soldiers can be said to be the only remaining face of the Cecil family.
The mature and prudent Hetty was retained to maintain the situation here, but this "Aunt Hetty" was obviously quite worried about her niece's upcoming trip to the capital. She stood under the carriage, clutching Rebecca's hands reminded her thousands of times: "You must remember your identity, don't humiliate the face of the Cecil family, but don't conflict with the nobles of the royal capital; you must be respectful when you see the king, and you can't break the rules. ;Don't hit people with a big fireball, the king is no better than our country; when you encounter something you don't understand, don't rush to answer, talk to your ancestors or Knight Byron, because every word you say will be guessed many times; The important thing is that you must listen to your ancestors, especially when dealing with nobles, you are not good at this, but your ancestors are Grand Dukes, he understands... "
Listening to Hetty's explanations, Gawain felt heavy in his heart, because he really didn't understand...
Not only did he not understand, but the real Gawain Cecil actually did not understand either. When the founding hero died, Ansu was still in power. The court rules back then basically revolved around drinking and being in court. Swearing at the king in front of the street, thinking that seven hundred years later, today should be different from the past...
But in order not to make the N-level great-granddaughter who was already hypersensitive completely go crazy, he still pressed Heidi's shoulder and gave her a reassuring look: "Don't worry, I understand everything."
So, with Hetty's reassuring smile, the carriage drove Rebecca, who knew nothing, and Gawain, who seemed to know everything, on the road to the capital.
At the same time, Philip Cavaliers also dispatched manpower according to Gawain's arrangement before his departure.
Those are the quick-witted people found among the citizens, as well as the quick-legged and easy-spoken people hired locally in Tanzan Town. Among them, there are even gangsters and rogues who can be bought with a few copper coins. The appearance is awkward, and what these people are asked to do makes the knight feel inexplicable-the only thing they have to do is to set off in all directions, go to every place where people gather, get into bars, into the black market, into the slums in a smelly shack, and brag about it with the locals.
It's best to find passing bards to brag about by the way.
So in the next period of time, such scenes appeared frequently in the southern region: travel-stained strangers haunted various crowded places with strange accents, and said almost the same content with mysterious but swearing expressions things:
"Hey, have you heard? Something happened to the Cecil family in the south! The territory was destroyed by monsters and dragons! It is said that the ghosts in the underground were also disturbed. The legendary ancestor of the Cecil family opened his coffin... You heard me right! It was the legendary Gawain Cecil who woke up from his long sleep! He must have wanted to destroy those monsters...
"Hey! Why am I lying to you! People in the south are spreading this story, you can go to Tanzan Town or Linmu Town to inquire about it. And have you seen my clothes? I just fled from the southernmost place Come out, let me tell you, I saw with my own eyes when the ancestors of the Cecil family were resurrected!"
Almost everyone is saying the same thing, and they will all swear in the end that these bizarre things are what they saw with their own eyes—even if it wasn’t the people sent by Philip Knight in the first place, the guys who spread the rumors will probably follow up Say the same thing.
If anyone could gather all the rumors in one place, he would be amazed to find that there were at least a thousand people standing in the tomb when the ancestor of the Cecil family was resurrected. There must be 10,000 onlookers...
However, in this day and age, those who have the ability to do this will not pay attention to these rumors among the mud legs in the streets, and those who listen to and spread these news... They don't think too much at all.
On the carriage that was driving towards the city of San-Sunil, Gawain was looking at the scenery outside the car boredly, while thinking about how to face His Majesty the king who was sitting in the Silver Fort of the city of San-Sunil.
He didn't know how much he'd get Philip Chevalier to do—in fact, he wasn't even 30 per cent confident of it. This is a contradictory and ignorant world. The existence of magic makes many things extraordinarily convenient, even beyond the times. However, magic and other supernatural powers are only in the hands of a few people. People in this world have not—or They don't think it's necessary to transform magic into a wider productive force, so that in the lower society that lacks power, everything falls behind inconceivably.
Communication depends on shouting, traffic depends on walking, gossip can spread quickly in a town, because gossip in taverns can be said to be the only entertainment for commoners after work, but it is extremely difficult to spread news from one city to another. times, because the barren wilderness hinders most of the circulation, and there are still nobles in various places who control the flow of people in their own territories-without the permission of the lord, the common people have to go from the village where they live to the village of the next-door lord Buying a chicken here even risked being hanged!
The pass jointly signed by the Cecil family and the Leslie family (Viscount Andrew's family) can solve the problem of personnel circulation control, but it cannot solve other difficulties.
But making some effort is better than doing nothing.
Gawain's purpose is very simple, that is to spread the "resurrection of Cecil's ancestors" as much as possible. If it is possible, it will even spread to the level of strange stories and horror stories-in fact, those rumors are indeed developing in this direction.
These news will be processed again and again in the process of dissemination, and those superstitious and ignorant medieval people will add a lot of details to it according to their own understanding. Fermentation is fine.
Then everyone will know that the ancestors of the Cecil family have been resurrected, and that the legendary founding prince woke up when monsters attacked the kingdom...