Director Kedan looked at Manager Hanks, who was at the front of the welcome line, and wanted to laugh in his heart. Don't look at the power in the hands of Manager Hanks a few days ago, with the power of one person in the family and more than 10,000 people. If Ling Churushan disagrees, he will be imprisoned. Even he can only be wronged and cooperate, trying his best to ensure the operation of the administrative system of the family territory.
But as soon as he got the news of Lorist's return to the Northland, the manager of Hansk seemed to be ten years older, and he no longer had that high-spirited arrogance. fear. You must know that he, the chief executive of the Norton family, took the position of himself. Lorist might tolerate his eldest son Lesket as the heir of the family, but he would never let the chief executive of Hansk go.
So now, Chief Hansk, who is standing in front of the line welcoming Lorist's arrival, has an inexplicable and holy self-sacrifice on his face, and is whispering to Leskett how to say hello when he sees Lorist. , and then respond to Lorist's inquiry. Perhaps in the heart of Manager Hansk, even if he was responsible for the family strife and sacrificed his life, then as long as Master Lescott becomes the heir of the Norton family, it will be the greatest victory. From this point of view, Chief Hansk is indeed very loyal to the Norton family, of course this is what he thinks.
In the distance came the sound of rumbling horseshoes, endlessly. Soon, Lorist, who took the lead, appeared in front of the welcoming team, followed by Chrisya, Reddy, Tagle, Bodfinger, soldiers from the Guard Battalion and the Rock Legion...
Many people in the welcoming team were trembling, including Chief Hansk and Master Leskett at the front. When Lorist Lema stopped in front of the welcoming team, everyone bowed their heads and bowed in unison. At this moment, everyone understood that Lorist was the heaven of the Norton family and became the sword master. glory and protection.
"Welcome home Your Highness..."
According to traditional aristocratic etiquette, Lorist should get off his horse at this moment, kindly ask everyone to excuse him, and then condolences to the welcoming family officials one by one. You don't need to talk too much, just a sentence or two, just pat these officials on the shoulder, say hard work, and show your closeness and appreciation to these left-behind officials.
But Lorist remained on the horse's back, not saying a word. Almost all the family officials who came to welcome them felt a sharp look on them. The welcoming scene was suddenly silent, and the mountain-like coercion made those family officials who had ghosts or guilty conscience lower their heads even lower. , bent even more, as if wanting to hide in the shadow of others...
"Your Highness!" Manager Hansk straightened up proudly, breaking the silence.
Lorist waved his hand as if he had never heard of it before, and Reddy rode his horse up to the welcome crowd, picked up a silver tube from the horse's back, poured out a scroll from the silver tube, opened the scroll, and began to report Here comes the name: "Cruise! Evenson! Ekfar! Moslin! Bayacius..."
Every time Reddy reported a name, several guards rushed forward and pulled the person who reported the name out of the welcoming crowd. Those who are interested can find that all the people whose names are reported are people trusted by Manager Hanks, who have just been promoted, or who were born in Fenglin Villa, and most of them are veterans of the garrison battalion. The young master made a lot of contributions in the mutiny when he became the heir of the family. It's just strange that Reddy seemed to ignore the existence of Manager Hanks and Eldest Young Master Lescott, and didn't report their names.
"What do you want to do?" Supervisor Hansk was shocked, and he jumped in front of Reddy's horse, as if this would prevent Reddy from continuing to report his name.
Reddy clamped his legs, sat down on the horse and took two steps sideways, turning sideways to face Manager Hanks. Then Reddy lifted his right foot and kicked it on the face of Manager Hanks. Manager Hanks flew back seven or eight meters away, raised his head with difficulty, and there was a bruised shoe print on his face, " Puff!" He spat out blood, and there were two teeth mixed in the blood. But Reddy, like kicking a barking wild dog, continued to read the name on the scroll in the same tone without paying attention.
More and more people were pulled out by the guards and stood aside. When there were about forty or fifty people, Reddy finally stopped talking, put the scroll in his hand back into the silver tube. It was at this moment that Lorist got off his horse, walked up to the rest of the family officials, showed a friendly smile, helped them up one by one, patted their shoulders and said: "It's hard work, I've wronged you. "
Director Kedan expressed his apology to Lorist on behalf of the remaining thirty or so grateful family officials: "Your Highness, I'm sorry, it was our incompetence that caused the family to go through this incident..."
Lorist waved his hand: "There is no need to say any more, you are right, you are the civil servants of the family, there is no need to dye the swords and spears of the rebels with blood. When the family is in chaos, you are still loyal to your duties, Maintaining the operation of the administrative system of the family territory, and maintaining order and tranquility in most parts of the family territory, this is your contribution to the family, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you, thank you."
What Lorist said moved the family officials in front of him beyond measure, but made the faces of the forty or fifty people who were escorted to the side pale. That is to say, this is a rebellion within the family.
"I, we are not traitors! We are the most loyal retainers of the Norton family! Your Highness, you must not insult us!" Hanks blushed, and there was nothing like Lorist declaring that they were the rebels of the Norton family. It made him even more angry. With the bruised shoeprint left by Reddy's kick on his face, he rushed to Lorist again and shouted excitedly.
"Look, who is this?" Lorist finally agreed to look at Manager Hanks: "I'm very surprised, Baron Hanks, why did you appear here? I remember I told you to go back to yourself to reflect on the loss and bad influence you have caused to our family. For the sake of your service to the family, I mercifully forgive your mistakes and only let you return to your own fief. Then you Can you tell me who made you appear here and yelled at me, the Norton master?"
"Uh..." Director Hanks suddenly found himself caught in a dilemma. Thousands of words he had planned in advance, all the reasons and arguments were useless before Lorist's questioning. What Lorist called was his title, not his position in the family in the party. It was clear that he had been kicked out from the top of the family, and now he couldn't find a reason to appear here.
If Chief Hanks claims to be a loyal retainer of the family, then he should obey the order of the current head of the family, Lorist, and stay in his baronial territory to reflect on his mistakes. He really shouldn't be here without Lorist's permission.
"I, I'm here to support Master Lescott as the heir of the family. This is the duty of every retainer who is loyal to the family..." Manager Hanks managed to find a reason to speak.
"Hehe, the heir to the family?" Lorist turned to Master Lescott, who was shivering and pretending to be an ostrich, on the other side. Looking at that plump figure, a look of disgust flashed in Lorist's eyes.
"I remember that I have never established any family heir." Lorist said softly. The voice was very low, but everyone present could hear clearly: "Leskett, my dear son, time flies, and you will be over seventeen years old in a blink of an eye. Since you were a child, I have been busy with family affairs And neglected to cultivate you. It's just that I didn't expect that you would be so eager to become the heir of the family, is this your wish?"
Although Lesket seldom saw his father, and was afraid of Lorist from the bottom of his heart, Lorist threw him at Mark's house to accept Mrs. Malek's strict discipline, and he made mistakes in Nicole Academy As a result, without hesitation, Lorist ordered Reddy to strip him naked, hang him up in public, whip him thirty times, and then threw him back to Fenglin Villa, who was covered in bloody wounds. These lessons are deeply engraved in his heart, even now that Lorist asks him kindly, he still feels cold all over and shivering uncontrollably...
Under the contempt of Lorist's eyes, Lescott thought of his mother's instructions and the words of encouragement from Manager Hanks, that no matter how you say it, you are His Highness's eldest son, and His Highness would never say anything about you to Lai. Scott's courage to speak: "Mother, mother and, and Hanks, Uncle Hanks said, saying that I am the natural heir of the Norton family, and everything in the Norton family belongs to me, no, no one can, can and I'm on par with…”
"The natural heir of the Norton family?" Lorist laughed dumbfounded, and stretched out a hand. Tagle walked over and placed a scroll in Lorist's hand.
"I was injured and lost contact with the family territory. You came out and claimed to be the heir of the Norton family. I don't blame you at all. My dear son, as a man, it is right to be ambitious, but follow the urge of others to do whatever you want Self-righteous, that just means you're a dumbass with no brains."
Lorist opened the scroll in his hand: "It has been seven months since you came to Raging Bear City, right? Let me see what you have done during these seven months...
Wow, you did a great job, in seven months you raped and raped twenty-one maids in the castellan's mansion, killed four servants, and one was a cook, because his roasted venison didn't suit your taste , After arguing with you for a few words, you drew your sword and killed him, and threw his head into the fire to burn. Your Uncle Hanks specially issued a gag order for you, and buried all the corpses in the garden...
By the way, you also wrote a letter to Dawn College, requesting Dawn College to kidnap your cousin Heriles and give it to you, so that you can report that he stopped you from molesting and molesting your brother-in-law at Nicole College The feud between the two half-sisters, Chenxi Academy rejected your request, and you became furious and asked the First Guards Corps to attack the Chenxi Academy, but was also rejected by your cousin Chrisya. So you yelled at your cousin in the city lord's mansion...
Well, since you can't control the 1st Guards Corps commanded by your cousin Chrisya, you sent the guard team formed for you by Uncle Hanks by your side to capture Mrs. Malek's family and want to repay you well. Isn't she harsh discipline on you? Fortunately, Mrs. Malek's family got the news and left the manor first. Your guards burned down the manor that the family gave to Knight Malek to vent their anger...
Also, you have been out of the city lord's mansion four times in total in seven months. You robbed three women, killed two women's family members, and drove a carriage into the bustling streets of the city. Killed three and injured more than ten people, and at the same time ordered all those who set up commercial shops in the city to present you with rare and interesting treasures before allowing them to continue to operate...
My dear son, I really admire you for doing what I have always wanted to do but failed to do. Since I was a child, I have been looking forward to being as unscrupulous as you, bullying men and women and no one dares to control them. But I dare not do like you. Do you know why? Because if I do this, your grandfather, my father will hang me on the spot, in order to accuse the ancestors of the Norton family.
Your mother's pampering and connivance to you since childhood has turned you into a monster in human skin. You have no tolerance and humanity. As your father, I am determined to right my mistakes. First of all, I will deprive you of the surname Norton. You are not worthy of this great and honorable surname. It is your actions that have brought shame to this noble surname. At the same time, I will learn from my father, your grandfather, and I will expose all your sins to the public, and then hang you on the gallows. Anyone who tarnishes the honor of the Norton family will be punished as they should... "
Lorist was calmly announcing the charges against his eldest son and the punishment he was about to receive. The plump Lescott backed away with a pale face. He never dreamed that all his actions would be under the watchful eye of Lorist. He looked anxiously at the family officials present, no matter who he was, he thought they were informers.
"Father, father, forgive me..." Leskett stumbled into something and slumped on the ground, and then there was a smell of urine, and he turned out to be incontinent.
"Your Highness! You can't do this. This is His Majesty's will. It is His Majesty who appointed Lesket to be the heir of the Norton family. You have no right to dispose of him!" Chief Hanske rushed to Lesket, and took it out of his arms. Shouting excitedly about the will of the Second Highness.
"Your Majesty's will?" Lorist chuckled, "Are you kidding me? Or did I hear it wrong? Baron Hanks, when will Your Majesty directly intervene in the internal affairs of my Norton family? Especially my patriarch." If it is still there, His Majesty can designate who is the heir of my family? Could it be that Your Majesty wants to break with the nobles of the entire kingdom and start a civil war?"
"Well, that's because His Highness was seriously injured in the duel with the Storm Sword Master, and he lost contact with the family. Just in case, we asked His Majesty to appoint Lesket as the heir of the family, and supervise the family territory when His Highness is away... ’ argued Director Hanske.
"Just in case? It turns out that Baron Hanks has been cursing me to die sooner." Lorist's words were a bit bitter, but they were true. To be promoted to Juggernaut, Lorist can at least live to be two or three hundred years old, just like the Feihuo Juggernaut who has been living in seclusion in the Qigeda Kingdom. It is said that he has already lived to be more than two hundred and sixty years old. Among other things, if Lescott can't become a Juggernaut, even if he is Lorist's son, he will only age faster and die earlier than Lorist.
"So Baron Hansk can let the soldiers of the guard team lead those great sword masters who want to assassinate me to look for my whereabouts everywhere, no, I would rather expose the family's most secret production and training base, and let a large number of top secrets related to our family's future The blueprints and materials fell into the hands of the enemy, and nearly two thousand of the most loyal soldiers of the family gave their lives to protect the family's secrets..." Lorist's tone was already full of anger.
"I, I just try my best to maintain the safety and stability of the family territory, and help Master Lesket supervise the family's internal affairs. I am loyal to..." Chief Hanske is still arguing.
"Loyalty? Hehe, do you deserve the word?" Lorist sneered, "What qualifications do you have to supervise the family's administration and territorial affairs? I don't remember what job I entrusted to you. Put the family's Golden Knight under house arrest and pretend to be his." The order to take over the troops, attack the administrative capital of the family territory, close the border passages of the family territory, cut off the food supply of the family's armed forces, and bury Lesket's evil deeds. Is this a sign of loyalty to the family? If so, I'm sorry , I don't need such an allegiance, in my perception, this is treason!"
"Take all these rebels down, and I will expose their treasonous crimes and punish them!" Lorist ordered coldly. Watching the guards take Hansk Chief and Lesket down, as well as those whose names were called.
Chrisya came up: "Sorry, Locke, I don't know what Leskett did. If I knew, I think I would stop him. But do you really want to deal with him? He is your Eldest son of…”
Lorist was silent for a while with a gloomy face, and finally spoke: "The prince broke the law, and he is guilty of the same crime as the people!"
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