A soft lament came faintly from somewhere: My child...
Lori Sturton sat up from the bed, still looking at the familiar interior layout. Oh, I have been back to the family territory for more than a month, and now I am in the Rock Castle, and I am no longer the slave who was bullied, but, but, why do I always hear that thick-lipped mountain barbarian before she dies? What about murmuring
That's not my child! Lorist held his head and desperately denied it in his heart. He still remembered that a few days before that thick-lipped mountain barbarian forced himself to have sex with her, and when two men were carried by the mountain barbarian to take him to the stream to take a bath, the three Dogs and men are still having sex together, it is not so coincidental that I made her pregnant, and it was the result of witch doctor's divination...
There seemed to be two villains arguing in my mind, one insisted on his own point of view, that was not my child, it was right to kill her, it was she who brought me the greatest humiliation in my life...
The other one is eloquently arguing that she is just a mountain barbarian widow whose husband died. You know the customs of the mountain barbarians. A childless mountain barbarian woman has no place in the tribe when she gets old, no matter who she has sex with or returns The purpose of forcing yourself to have sex with her is so that she can have a child. What's wrong with that? She is pregnant with her own child! Shouldn't kill her, she's a poor mountain widow, all she wants is a child...
Lorist leaned against the head of the bed, sweating profusely, trembling uncontrollably...
"Lock? What's the matter with you..." Miss Teresty next to her also woke up.
"It's nothing, I had a nightmare just now." Lorist lowered his head and kissed Miss Teresty's pale forehead: "I'm going to practice swords, you can sleep a little longer, now that you are pregnant with a child, you should pay attention to your body. "
"Well..." Miss Teresy turned over and fell back into a deep sleep.
Lorist smiled wryly, this is retribution. After returning to the family territory, Lorist received the news that when she was assassinated by the Great Swordsman of Calinan, Miss Teresty, who fell into a coma, found out that she was pregnant more than a month later. At that time, Lorist's whereabouts were unknown, and Miss Teresty felt very sad about it, remembering that Lorist often washed her face with tears, which almost caused a miscarriage.
After Lorist returned to the family territory, Miss Theresty, who became sensitive and self-willed due to her pregnancy, was particularly obsessed with Lorist, and Lorist had to coax her carefully, and even agreed to her. She hoped that the child in her womb would inherit the family name of her adoptive mother Nicole instead of being registered on the Norton family tree.
It is also because of this that every time Lorist sees Miss Theresty's growing belly, Lorist will always feel emotional, thinking of the thick-lipped mountain barbarian woman who died by his sword, and often hears the words of that mountain barbarian woman in her sleep. Before he died, he uttered a sad cry: "My child..." and woke up in a cold sweat.
Maybe I really did something wrong, I shouldn't have killed that thick-lipped mountain barbarian woman. Lorist regretted it a bit, but when he heard the mountain barbarian woman say that she was pregnant with her child, he felt humiliated, just like the strong sense of humiliation and desire to kill the mountain barbarian woman when she forced him to have sex with her. The mood of this mountain barbarian woman was almost an instinctive reaction or anger. Without thinking, he picked up the sword on the fire pit and stabbed the woman's chest...
Lorist didn't wake up until he killed the mountain barbarian woman. What he killed was not one person, but two lives with one sword, and even the mountain barbarian woman was pregnant with his own child, so he buried the mountain barbarian woman The woman's body lay in a daze in front of the grave for so long...
Can't go on like this anymore, Lorist stretched out his hand and rubbed his face, got up and took off his nightgown and changed into a normal suit, went out of the bedroom, picked up his sword and went downstairs. What should I do to make myself forget about it earlier, it’s useless to regret it after it happened, if I still struggle with it, I will have nightmares every day, and one day I will be schizophrenic.
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There was no risk in the process of returning to the family territory with Reddy. Instead, three days later, they bumped into the guards who were still searching for their whereabouts on the snowy field. The guards who had been suffering for a month gave out loud cheers.
The guards were led by the golden knight Berunek and the commander of the guard camp, El. They welcomed Lorist and Reddy into the tent with tears in their eyes, and reported the situation of the family territory in the past three months when Lorist was away. Details.
After learning that Lorist was assassinated by a great swordsman and the golden knights Josk and Bodfinger were seriously injured, the tiger Rose. The four Golden Knights, Farea, Malek, and Berunek, rushed to the assassination scene and took over the search. When they found the body of the Great Swordsman of Calinan and found that Lorist and Reddy had fallen into the river and their whereabouts were unknown, they had a meeting with Fatty Shi, Terman and others who came later, and decided to temporarily deal with it. The family territory and the three allies concealed the news of Lorist's disappearance. At the same time, Pat sent a brigade of 500 guards to Fenglin Villa to protect the safety of Irina's mother and child.
"My lord," Beirunek said shyly, "we have discussed that if you can't find your lord or if something happens to your lord, we will let the young master inherit the position of Patriarch Norton and train him for 18 years. Until the young master grows up and takes power..."
Lorist nodded: "You guys are very thoughtful, I can understand. How are Josk and Bodfinger's injuries?"
Berunek replied: "Josker's injury is relatively minor, and he is fine now. A few days ago, he said that he would come here in person to find the whereabouts of your lord. Bodfinger's injury is relatively serious, and he will probably be here again He lay on the bed for more than two months. The great swordsman named Calinan slashed him with a sword, leaving a big gash from his left shoulder to his chest. Fight to the capital of Windbury to capture the second prince to avenge your lord, but was stopped by Knight Shredder."
El said next to him: "Fatty Shi told Tiger Ross that the most important thing now is to find the Lord, and he is not in a hurry to get revenge. This gave Tiger Ross the idea of sending troops to capture the second prince. We are in this wasteland. After nearly three months of searching, I was almost desperate, but finally, with the blessing of God of War Sigvar, my lord came back safe and sound."
Lorist remembered one important thing: "What date is it today?"
El replied, "Today is February 19, 1772 in the universal calendar."
"Did the wave of monsters reach the family territory in winter?" Lorist asked.
Berunek and El laughed: "My lord, are you still worried about the wave of monsters? No more, there will be no more tide of monsters. Last winter, a few groups of monsters arrived at Woniugang, and then they were caught by the road. The city wall leading to Guishan was blocked. The two adults, Malek and Farea, saw that they were all herbivorous monster groups, so they mobilized their family armed forces and wiped out these monster groups. But I heard that Recently, there are a lot of demon wolves under the city wall, howling day and night, and the patrolling soldiers all said that it was too noisy."
The wave of magical beasts that had perplexed the family for hundreds of years finally disappeared, which made Lorist heave a sigh of relief, and finally resolved a major event satisfactorily. After the guard team who went out to search all returned to the camp, they immediately broke out of the camp and returned to the family territory after a night.
After returning to the family territory, Lorist received the news that Miss Theresty was pregnant. Calculating the time, it should be the seed sown by the two of them in the camp when he went to the Blade's Edge Mountains to pick her up and bring her back to Rock Castle last October. Hearing that she almost had a miscarriage because of her grief, Lorist hurried to comfort and take care of her, and then she was entangled by Miss Tresty until now. Facing Miss Teresty, who was getting pregnant, Lorist would always think of the thick-lipped mountain barbarian woman who was stabbed to death by him with a sword and said she was pregnant with his child. So entangled that I started to have nightmares...
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The family meeting was just held a few days ago. At the meeting, Lorist first reported how he was assassinated by the great sword master sent by the second prince, and deeply mourned the family soldiers and family knights who died heroically. After discussion, everyone unanimously demanded that the family send troops to retaliate. It was decided that Tiger Ross would be the leader and Malek would be the deputy. A total of more than 24,000 troops from the Ranger Battalion sent troops to Windbury, the capital of the king, with the primary goal of capturing the second prince.
In the next topic, Lorist reiterated his determination to develop the Black Mud Swamp and the development plan to change the name of the former Earl of Spencer to Xing'an Yuan. In the next two years, resettling these relocated people is the top priority. As long as Fengleyuan and Xing'anyuan are well developed and these two places become the family's granary, the Norton family can be considered to have established a solid foundation. foundation, it is not far to embark on the road to prosperity.
In addition to the development of the Black Mud Marsh and Xing'an Plain, another focus of work is the establishment of a shipyard. At present, the low-lying area at the junction of the Blade's Edge Mountains and the Black Mud Marsh has been filled, and the passage to the seaside highlands of the Black Mud Marsh has been established. The next step is to expand the area of the highland and fill the shallow sea reef area tens of meters wide by the sea. It is expected that by next year, a wharf area will be filled for sea-going ships to berth and sail.
Lorist asked Papa Barek, who was in charge of the shipbuilding work, and the masters of the artisan battalion not to wait for the dock area to be completed, but to build the shipyard at the same time, and start practicing from small boats, hoping to build a seagoing ship and launch it into the sea when the dock area was completed. Let the family's sea boat set sail as soon as possible and set off for the sea.
The family's Golden Knight of Farea was entrusted by Lorist with the important task of forming a sailor battalion. Lorist said that it is better for people to wait for the boat than for the boat to wait for others. It would be too slow to recruit sailors for training after the ship is built. Appropriate sailors must be trained in advance, and as soon as the ship is built, the sailors can go to sea with a little joint training.
Lorist practiced the sword for about an hour. When he went out, he saw Schwader standing outside the door. He asked strangely, "Aren't you taking care of your father? Why are you back?"
Schwader said: "Father said that I am the squire of the lord and must follow the lord. His injury will recover in a month or so, and now he can get up and do some minor activities, so he doesn't need me to take care of him. gone."
Lorist was right when he thought about it. He visited Bodfinger two days ago, and his injury was indeed getting better soon.
After thinking about it, I asked Schwader: "How many days have Tiger Ross and Malek been walking?"
"They set off two days ago, and they will arrive at the Hendryford Cable Bridge in six days before they can enter Winston Province. They will reach the capital of Windbury in about fourteen or five days. "Schward's geographical knowledge has always been very good, and he also has a good understanding of the speed of the family's armed forces.
Lorist stroked his chin and thought about it, and finally decided to avoid Miss Tresty for the time being: "Well, Schwader, when I go back to accompany Miss Tresty after dinner, you can pretend I received an urgent letter from Baron Shaheen and Baron Felim, requesting that I go to Gildusk to meet with them to discuss the matter of dispatching troops to the capital, understand?"
Shi Huade was taken aback, and took a step back vigilantly: "My lord, what are you doing?"
"It's nothing, I want to get away, silly boy, if you follow my orders, I'll take you to Windbury City, the capital of the kingdom, otherwise we, the two masters and apprentices, will have to stay here and we won't be able to go anywhere." Rist scolded.
Shi Huade thought for a long time before agreeing: "Then you have to keep your word, and you can't leave me. I also want to go out with you to see and see."
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Miss Teresty believed in Schwader's report, but when she thought that Lorist would leave her again, she began to cry sadly. Lorist hurriedly comforted him for a long time, and finally said: "Honey, even if you don't think about your own body, you should also think about the little Nicole in your stomach. Besides, I'm not going to fight, but I'm going to Gildusk It's just a meeting with those two stupid barons in the city, there is no danger. And I will be back soon, at most twenty days or a month..."
Shi Huade curled his lips at the side, thinking that the lord is lying again, and it will take more than a month to take me to Windbury, the capital of the king, and back.
After finally comforting Miss Theresty, Lorist sighed after leaving the door: "Schward, you have to remember that the more educated a woman is, the more troublesome she is, especially when she is pregnant, she will become more delicate and sensitive." .You have to learn from the teacher's lesson. In the future, you can't find a female scholar when you find a woman... "
Schwader's face is full of black lines...
Al, Pat, and Reddy had already received the news that Lorist was going to go out, and they brought the guard battalion ready to go.
Lorist said: "Pat, you take a few guards to bring the old man's body, the Great Swordsman of Galinan, as well. Tiger Ross and Malek forgot to take it with them when they set off a few days ago. This time we Take the corpse of this dead ghost old man to Windbury City, the capital of the king, and let everyone know that the second prince sent this old man to assassinate me, but was killed by our family's armed forces. Use the corpse of this dead ghost great swordsman and The fate of the second prince will tell everyone who has ill intentions towards the Norton family what will happen if they offend our Angry Bear family... "
"Long live, Norton!" The guards cheered loudly at Lorist's words.
Schwader cheered and thought in his heart, well, now my lord has even thought of an excuse to go to the capital of Windbury...
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