Although the maid named Elina was very timid and afraid of Lorist, she was very diligent. She helped Lorist take a comfortable hot bath, and quietly removed the tub and bath water after Lorist went to bed, tidying up the room.
Lorist had a very peaceful sleep, perhaps because he returned home, he slept soundly until dawn.
The crisp birdsong woke Lorist, he got out of bed, and came to the window. Two little birds on a branch not far from the window were singing with open throats. The thin white mist is slowly wandering, and many buildings in the manor castle are floating in the white mist, looming...
There was a stack of brand new robes beside the bed, which should have been sent by the maid named Elina. Lorist put on his robe and was about to go downstairs when he realized that the maid named Elina was huddled on the carpet next to the sofa, sleeping deeply with a thin blanket covering her body, what did she dream about? A satisfied smile hung on her pale face...
Lorist was stunned for a moment, then turned around and picked up a new quilt from the bed and gently draped it over the little maid, before going downstairs lightly.
Down the stairs is the living room and study room. The saber that Lorist took down last night was placed on the table in the living room. Picking up the sword, he walked to the other end of the aisle. When he was about to go downstairs, the door next to him opened. Pat stretched out his head and looked: "Master, morning, do you want to go down to exercise? I will go too."
Lorist nodded and went downstairs with Pat to start his daily morning workout.
A burly man watched Lorist and Pat practice the eight basic sword movements and postures over and over again. Feeling bored, he yawned a lot, picked up a wooden board, and started sawing.
"My lord, he is the cook's son." Pat looked at the man and said to Lorist.
Lorist looked up and saw that the man was concentrating on sawing wood, so he nodded to Pat, indicating that he understood.
Sedkamp also went downstairs, greeted the man, and turned to the well in the corner of the yard to wash his face with water. After a while, a servant came over and talked to him for a long time, Sedkamp nodded before the servant left.
After Lorist and Pat finished exercising, Sodkamp came up to report that the manager of Kress just sent a notification. The grand restaurant will be activated tonight, where the official ceremony for Lorist to take over the title and family territory will be held. So Lorist walked around the manor castle today to get acquainted with it, just don't run too far.
Lorist nodded, and after breakfast, he took Pat and Suedkamp to lead three Zeno horses from the stables, and after the three got on the horses, they walked slowly along the manor castle.
From the perspective of terrain, the Norton family's manor castle is built on a large piece of white rock. Except for the avenue in front of the castle, there is a natural drop of more than ten meters in other places, which makes the manor castle take up all the advantages and is easy to defend. hard work. No wonder Viscount Kenmes led troops to besiege half a year ago, and dozens of people died in the confrontation for more than half a month, but finally returned without success.
Sedkamp stepped up to a small mound, pointed to the east and said, "My lord, look at Beiye Town."
Beiye Town is not far from the Norton family's manor castle, which was built on a small stone hill. The strangest thing about the small stone hill is that there is a fountain in the middle. Beiye Town also uses this fountain to continuously expand.
"How many people are there in Beiye Town now?" Lorist asked looking at Beiye Town in the distance.
Sedkamp shook his head. He couldn't answer such a simple question: "My lord, I don't know either. Beiye Town hasn't had a population check for many years..."
Such a large town was supposed to be a powerful material supplement and human support guarantee for the manor castle, but it ended up standing on the opposite side of the manor castle. Norton's ancestors left a big problem for future generations. Lorist stroked his chin and thought about how to deal with those defense teams...
"Huh? Isn't that Willigsang? What are they doing?" Sedkamp said.
Lorist turned his head and found that Willigsang and another servant were lowering a basket of large bamboo baskets with unknown contents from the edge of the mountain rock.
"Let's go and have a look." Lorist said.
The three rode their horses and ran down from the small mound, bypassing several rows of grape seedlings and several large bushes, and appeared beside Willigesang.
"Oh, it turns out that the slave camp has moved here. No wonder I didn't see them in the open space in front of the castle this time. I thought they had gone there." Sedkamp suddenly realized.
Lorist was also taken aback, but he wasn't surprised. What appeared in front of him was a sunken low-lying area, which was closely connected with white rocks, relying on the nearby mountains and trees to hide it, making this place unknown to outsiders.
This low-lying area is full of tents and dilapidated houses built of trees. Many women and children in shabby clothes are gathering at the place where Willigesang put the bamboo baskets, waiting for the person who takes the bamboo baskets to distribute the bread to them …
Willigesang and the servant brought a dozen or so large bamboo loaves, filled with black bread as thick as a foot long wrist, and each loaf was solid and hard. Willigesang was talking with a person below: "This is your food ration for two days, and I will deliver food to you the day after tomorrow. I have something to do in the manor these two days, so I won't come here. What's the matter? It's us The second young master came back to inherit the territory and the title, and the people in the castle were in a panic..."
Lorist appeared by his side, startling Willigsang. But Lorist ignored him. Instead, he stared at the people below for a long time before asking, "Who are you? How did you get in? Why are you hiding here?"
The person below who was being watched by Lorist stopped distributing bread to others, threw the bamboo basket in his hand into the hands of the person next to him, and looked up at Lorist.
"He, his name is Pachko, you, why do you ask him that?" Willigesang said cowardly from the side.
The man named Pachko climbed to the top two or three times from the bottom, stood up and clapped his hands twice, and said, "Wili Gesang, he has better eyesight than you. He knows that I am a silver class, so he asked that question." .”
Willigesang said strangely: "We all know that you are from the silver class, so it's not a big deal."
Sedkamp rode over and said, "My lord, he doesn't know. My lord, I know this man. It is correct to say that he is a prisoner of the young master. The young master values him very much and wants to take him in as a knight of the family when he comes back. Who knows The young master never came back once he left. We wanted to let him go, but he said that we must respect the agreement we made with the young master. If the young master doesn't come back and accept him as a family knight, he will have to stay in the family for three years before he can be released. be free."
After explaining to Lorist, Sedkamp was very curious: "Pachiko, hasn't three years passed long ago? Why are you still here?"
Pachiko had a bitter look on his face: "I was hurt by Miss Baisha..."
Willigsang also knew the inside story, and he made some introductions beside him, and it was only then that Lorist understood the reason of the matter.
In the second half of the year before last, when Pachiko was only half a year away from being free, Miss Baisha came over and threw him a maid, so he accepted it with a smile. As a result, within three months, the maid had a big belly. Pachiko found it strange, and found out that this maid was the one who gave birth to the young master's illegitimate child. Miss Baisha wanted the child to recognize her as her own mother, so it was not safe to keep this maid by her side, thinking of Pachiko He was leaving in half a year, so he gave the maid to him, hoping that he would take the maid with him when he left.
As a result, the maid's belly grew bigger again. Pachico is not a nobleman, and it doesn't matter how many illegitimate children there are. It is Pachico's happiest thing to have a woman who is willing to give birth to him. The slave who gave birth to a baby, revolves around a woman's belly all day long, looking for delicious food and making fun of it, doing nothing but tossing about the baby.
Now that the child is born, Pachiko has become a twenty-four filial father again, working hard for the child's future. In order to earn a little more money, he went to the old manager of Kress and recruited him to manage the slave camp. The last time Viscount Kenmes attacked the family's manor castle, Pachico also appeared on the castle, blocking the assault of several silver mercenaries, and beheaded two, more like a Norton family knight than Miss Baisha .
Lorist nodded and said to Pachico: "Knight Pachico, if you are willing to be my knight, please come to the restaurant to participate in my succession ceremony tonight. A person with your noble character will become our family knight." It will be an honor to the Norton family."
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In the evening, a large dining room lit by candles.
In fact, Lorist's inheritance ceremony was very simple, beyond Lorist's imagination.
On the front wall of the dining room is a flag with the pattern of the rose petal horn crown badge symbolizing the royal family of the former Krissen Empire. In front of the flag is the handle given to Norton by His Majesty the founding emperor of the Krissen Empire more than two hundred years ago. The long sword of the family's first fief baron. On both sides of the flag, on the left is the flag with the Norton family's angry bear emblem, and on the right is a large map with a detailed map of the entire Norton family's fiefdom.
Lorist stepped forward alone at the behest of the boss of Kress, and knelt down on one leg in front of the long sword: "Under the witness of all the gods, Norton Lorist, the eighth descendant of the Norton family, is in Christensen. The oath of the ancestors is repeated before the rose horn banner of the royal family: We will guard the northern border for the empire, and we will silently wait for the call from the royal family of the empire. We will repeat the glory of our ancestors, except for the royal family of the Krissen Empire and the Norton family The ancestors of the Norton family will not bow their knees for anyone else... "
Lorist stood up, picked up the long sword placed on the table in front of him, raised it high, then turned around, facing everyone standing behind the big restaurant.
There were a few solitary applause at first, then more and more applause, louder and louder, and finally everyone was applauding and cheering. From this moment on, Lorist has become the head of the new Norton family, The new Lord Norton.
Miss Baisha was very angry because Pachico and Pat stole her limelight and became Lorist's family knights first. The eldest lady had no choice but to go forward to salute Lorist, becoming the third Norton family knight in the restaurant.
Lorist announced three things, the first thing was to rectify the guard team of the family manor castle. The current guards are all family soldiers in their 30s and 40s, and some of them have even retired. However, because the Norton family lost their active force after losing consecutive battles, these old family soldiers had to go into battle again to guard the manor castle.
Lorist is now going to recruit 120 new people in the manor, aged between 16 and 25, and promises to awaken them to fighting spirit within three to half a year, because he has mastered the latest and simplest Basic grudge training method.
Miss Baisha retorted in public, thinking that this was impossible, and the cost of establishing a family guard team of 120 people was beyond the current Norton family's affordability.
Lorist laughed, brother has nothing but money!
Sedkamp brought in a few servants and brought in two boxes. As soon as the lid was opened, Jin Guangyao dazzled everyone. These two boxes add up to 10,000 jinford, and they were brought in the carriage, which finally came in handy.
The eldest lady has nothing to say now. Lorist ordered Pat to be in charge of the assembly and training of this team of guards.
Before Lorist announced the second matter, he summoned all the illegitimate children left behind by the old Baron Norton. The second thing he wants to announce has to do with the illegitimate children of these fathers.
Lorist announced that, as his illegitimate siblings, what he can do is to provide them with a complete aristocratic education. If their fighting spirit can reach the silver level, then they can choose to serve the family or go out on their own. If they work for the family, they can bear the Norton surname, and even become a branch of the Norton family in the future.
The last thing is that Lorist announced that the newly appointed family knight, Pachko, will lead the slaves to build a military fortress in another location. The location will be kept a secret, but those who are interested in the family manor castle are welcome to join go to.
After announcing the three things, Lorist sent Boss Kress back first, until Miss Baisha, who wanted to scold him angrily, was furious.