Lorist, Anna, and Ya Li kept entangled until midnight, and finally fell asleep with their left and right sides full. It wasn't until the next morning that Lorist realized that he was the only one on the bed when he was woken up by the noise outside the castle. People, Anna and Yali have long since disappeared.
This sleep was really refreshing, Lorist got out of the bed, feeling relaxed all over his body, even the hostility accumulated between his brows was swept away, and his body was in an unprecedented excellent state. Lorist felt that everything was pleasing to the eye, so he put on some casual clothes and knocked on the door of the next room, telling Schward to get up, take his things and go to the well below to take a bath first.
Schwader came out with dark circles and complained: "My lord, you were too noisy last night, which made me unable to sleep. It was almost dawn before I became confused. It didn't take long for you to knock on the door..."
In a good mood, and not bothering with this idiot anymore, Lorist knocked Schwader on the head: "Go on to sleep, I'll wash myself."
Schwader gave a drowsy grace, closed the door and went to sleep.
Lorist took the copper washbasin in the room and hung a towel to the well in the courtyard behind the castle, and began to draw water from the well to wash his body. It was already very hot in July, but the well water was cool, and pouring it on his body made him straighten up goosebumps.
On the other side of the well is the water trough for the animals to drink. The Northland horses brought by Lorist's two four-wheeled carriages and four carts are drinking water, brushing their hair and wiping their bodies under the care of two servants. Lorist was about to take a closer look, but he heard a voice of "My lord, my lord..." from behind, and a maid rushed over and said, "My lord, Missy invites you to have breakfast."
When they arrived at the restaurant, they unexpectedly found that Schwader was there, and Lorist was very surprised: "Hey, didn't you say you were sleeping?"
Schwader smiled wryly: "My lord, how can it be so easy to fall asleep! The stone wall of this castle is a single wall, and the echo is very heavy. What's going on below can be heard clearly from above. The people shouting and neighing are too loud. I'd better go sleep in the camp outside."
What Schwader said was true. The castle of the Barony of Dina had a bell-like layout, like a bronze bell covering the ground. The advantage was that it was easy to defend but difficult to attack. The disadvantage is that the echo is very heavy. After all, it is like a bronze bell. If there is any movement below the louder sound, all the echoes will be heard above.
With bright eyes, Anna directed several servants to deliver a hearty breakfast to Lorist and Schwarder, including croissant bread with honey, cheese, baked root ham and fresh fruit, as well as honey milk and home-brewed fruit wine.
Aridoli walked into the dining room. She was wearing leather armor and holding the two-handed sword. Behind her was her little brother and the family silver knight Massa. Seeing their sweaty faces, you could tell it was Just finished my morning workout.
Aridoli put the two-handed sword on the sword stand in the corner of the dining room, then took off the leather gloves on her hands, put her hands into the copper washbasin next to it, washed them, dried them on the linen cloth handed over by the maid, and then Sitting in front of Lorist.
Lorist glared at her, and Aridoli gave him an annoyed look. At this time, the second Miss Diana, Fenna Galli, walked into the dining room with a yawn, and sat down beside Aridoli: "Sister, where did you go last night, a stray cat came from somewhere and cried all night. It's so noisy that it's hard to sleep. I wanted to ask you to take a look, but I didn't know that you were not in the room, and it didn't quiet down until dawn... "
"噗嗤" Shi Huade sprayed immediately: "Sorry, I'm full, let's take a step first, you can enjoy it slowly..."
Schwader ran away.
Aridoli blushed: "Gary, I didn't hear any stray cats..."
"Well, of course I can't hear the wild cats meowing." Lorist interjected. Last night, Anna and Ya Li were entangled with him desperately. Anna didn't make much noise, and even when she reached the peak, she would hum softly twice. But Aridoli is different, from the beginning to the end, it's like singing an opera, weeping like crying, especially when it reaches the climax, it becomes an intermittent cry, no wonder her sister heard it as a wild cat screaming for spring...
Aridoli's face turned red, she clenched her teeth, and kicked Lorist's leg under the dining table, but Lorist caught her.
"Yali, have you made up your mind, will you come with me?" Lorist asked while tearing a croissant with honey.
Aristoly stared at Lorist fiercely until Lorist let go of his pinched little foot. Only then did she show a smug smile on her face. She shook her head and said, "I don't want to leave. This is Barony Dina and our family territory. I will not give it up."
Lorist was in a hurry: "Stupid woman, did sword practice make your brain full of muscles? Leaving now is not to let you give up the Barony of Dina, but to keep your family and family blood first. That's it Are you going to fill in a whole family in Piansha Valley? If everyone is dead, there will be no Baron Dina. Now your brother is still young, and you will come back when your brother grows up and is eligible to inherit the title and territory , I guarantee that your family territory will be fully returned to your family's hands... "
Aridoli was also angry, and she threw the bread in her hand on the table and yelled at Lorist: "It's very convenient for us to leave now, but it will be very difficult for us to get this territory when we come back. Just like what you said As you said, it will take at least seven or eight years for my younger brother to grow up, if we are not in our family territory, who will remember that this territory belongs to Barony Dina after such a long time?"
"It's simple, use our sword to let everyone have a good memory." Lorist laughed: "With our Norton family guaranteeing you, you don't have to worry about the family territory, Ya Li, maybe wait for you After my younger brother grows up, what your Dina family owns is not a baron territory, but a viscount territory."
Aristoli rolled his eyes at him: "It's true..."
Fenna Galli next to her asked curiously: "My lord, is your Norton family very powerful?"
Lorist nodded: "Your sister should be very clear about this. In the Kingdom of Antinac, the strength of our Norton family is second to none..."
"Since this is the case, the kingdom is now facing a crisis. Why don't you Norton family help the kingdom to save His Majesty the King from danger?" Second Miss Dina asked naively.
"Uh..." Lorist smiled wryly: "Second Miss, it's not that our Norton family is unwilling to contribute to the kingdom, but that the people in power in the kingdom's imperial capital have rejected our Norton family's request for arming, not only preventing our family from going to the front line Effectiveness, and let our family be armed and obediently stay in the territory and not make any rash moves, otherwise I wouldn't have the time to run over to take you away... "
"Have you heard of the glass war that ended last year? The war between the Business Alliance and the Kingdom of Trimble because of the glass formula. In the end, the Kingdom of Trimble was gone and destroyed. It is now part of the Business Alliance. War After the statistics, it was found that nearly 70% of the territorial nobles of the Trimble Kingdom were missing or the entire family was missing.
Later, after investigation, it was discovered that these territorial nobles were all guarding their own family territories during the war, but they encountered the mercenary groups and private armed forces of the business alliance who went to the countryside to raid and plunder, and were captured by these private armed forces and mercenary groups Genocide or hanged. For these mercenary groups in the business alliance, the more nobles they kill, the more land they occupy, and the greater their chances of obtaining the canonization of the territory.
So I ask you to come with me, avoid these menacing enemies first, and take away your family's fief certificate and title documents. When your younger brother grows up, whenever he wants to regain the family territory, our Norton family will send troops to help, and we will never let you down... "
Aristoli stood up irritably: "Stop talking, Lord Earl, let me think about what to do..."
The girl always thought that Lorist was exaggerating. She believed that His Majesty the King would not be defeated so easily. Although he was trapped in the three provinces of the Ridleys Kingdom, he still had an army of 170,000. The girl thought that as long as His Majesty the King If the army is still there, the business alliance will not be able to divide its troops northward.
Lorist spent half a month of leisurely life in Baron Dina, and the young aunt Anna couldn't think of leaving Lorist to serve him. The girl hadn't made up her mind yet, and sometimes she would crawl onto Lorist's bed at night and learn to meow all night, but she couldn't make up her mind whether to give up the family territory and go with Lorist.
It wasn't until the end of July that the military report from Morente City and the urgent letter from Qilingang made the girl understand how serious the situation in the kingdom was.
The military report of Morente City is actually the Morente Daily, which published an article titled The End of the Military God. The article reviews the feat of His Highness the Second Highness who crossed the Yunduan Mountains and Daxue Mountains in February last year to surprise the city of Federica in the Kingdom of Ridleys, and broke the enemy's strategic advantage with a weak enemy. At that time, the Galintia Continent praised the Second Highness as A new generation of military gods...
It is a pity that His Highness the Second Highness fell ill after occupying most of the territory of the Ridleys Kingdom, which delayed the golden opportunity for the unification of the two kingdoms. The arrogance and carelessness of the subordinates led to several defeats in a row, which greatly dampened the morale of the army. By the time the Second Highness realized something was wrong and got sick and went to the front line to command, it was already too late.
On the front line of the Kingdom of Riedlis, what His Highness has to deal with is not one enemy, but many enemies. For example, the Vicia Chamber of Commerce of the Commercial Alliance has always advocated bringing the Kingdom of Radilis under the jurisdiction of the Commercial Alliance. The four principalities in the middle part turned against the Second Highness because the Second Highness asked them to cancel the country title and return to the territory of the former Cressen Empire, and joined forces to fight against it. As for the territorial nobles of the former Ridleys Kingdom, because the Second Highness refused to agree to preferential treatment for them, they have been attacking the Royal Guards of the Antinac Kingdom, and the two parties have become entangled...
On July 13th, the Allied Forces of the Four Principalities mobilized an army of 140,000 to launch a counterattack against the 100,000 troops deployed by the Second Highness on the border of the Principality of Handela. Wan Dajun collapsed on the battlefield due to lack of food, the Allied Forces of the Four Principalities won a big victory without any effort, and marched into Magik Province.
On July 21st, His Highness the Second Highness withdrew from the province of Andover, gathered more than 20,000 soldiers under his command who could still obey orders, and besieged King Federica. However, those who surrounded the royal city were 20,000 private soldiers from the Vicia Chamber of Commerce and other private armed forces from the 30,000 Commercial Alliance, as well as 80,000 allied forces from the Four Principalities, and more than 20,000 private soldiers from the nobles of the Kingdom of Ridleys, nearly 150,000. His Highness the Second Highness, the current king of the Kingdom of Antinac, was besieged in the royal city of the Kingdom of Redelis. There was no food and grass inside, and no reinforcements outside. The Morente Daily said that the former military god had come to an end. The day of breaking is the period of the Second Highness's downfall.
It was published in the Morente Daily that His Royal Highness was trapped in King Federica on July 21st. Now it is July 34th. Thirteen days passed before the news reached Lorist. At this time, it is not yet known whether King Frederick's city has been conquered, and whether His Highness the Second Highness has been defeated...
Picking up the emergency letter from Qilingang, Lorist was very angry when he saw it. What time is it? The Second Legion of the Royal Guards transferred from the border of the Principality of Madras is still moving forward to the front line. Just arrived in the imperial capital, 45,000 people came to Qilin Port, demanding to take over the city defense of Qilin Port, demanding that the Rock Legion armed by the Norton family return to Hilovas Island, demanding that the Norton family not accept refugees, demanding …
That's a lot to ask for! Lorist rubbed his chin and thought, it would be impossible not to teach those in power in the imperial capital a lesson. A Royal Guards Corps only has 75,000 people, but they actually dispatched 45,000 people to rescue the Second Highness in order to guard against the Norton family. There are only 30,000 people, and those in power in the imperial capital regard the Norton family as the number one enemy. I don't know if this is the prior instruction of the Second Highness.
Aridoli was stunned looking at the Morente Daily and the urgent letter from Qilin Gang.
"How could this be?" she murmured.
Lorist sneered: "You know, those guys in the imperial capital don't even know what the situation of their majesty the king is, and they are still fighting endlessly for power within the kingdom. I understand it. They think it's wrong for me to send troops to serve the kingdom. In order to increase the chances of showing our face in front of His Highness the Second Highness, we must first prevent our Norton family from winning the favor of His Majesty the King, lest they fall out of favor, so we sent the Royal Guards to drive our family into the sea. Their king over there They don't care if they are under siege... "
"Time is running out, I should go now, Yali, have you made up your mind, don't force me to catch you on the road." Lorist looked at Aridoli and said seriously.
"I'll go with you," said the girl, "but I don't want to be your concubine. My aunt Anna can do it if she wants. I can be your lover, but you have to help me Train my younger brother to be a qualified knight and lord."
"Okay," Lorist said, "you should inform the people immediately, bring your important things and set off tomorrow morning, and your subjects can also go with you, I will not separate you from the subjects, you Dina family You can train these people to become your family's armed forces in the future."
"Thanks, Locke..." the girl said.
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