Various dishes were served. After the first three expensive dishes, Sidlifa and the others ordered several more main dishes, and the entire table was now full.
Ludwig was absentmindedly cutting the capon and chatting with everyone present. Occasionally he would bring up a funny topic, making the girls laugh and preventing the atmosphere at the dinner table from being too cold.
In fact, his heart was already in turmoil.
The current Weisbach family, his father, the Duke of Bavaria, has two sons and two daughters. Ludwig himself, as the eldest son, was trained as the successor to the Duke of Bavaria.
His father originally wanted to send the second son Henry to the Cologne diocese to do scientific research. However, he had no interest in scientific research. Instead, he had a special liking for hunting and fighting. Therefore, his father changed his mind and sent him to serve His Majesty as a guard officer.
The third daughter, Elizabeth, like the daughters of other great nobles, received various etiquette training since childhood, and married the Wettin family in Thuringia last year.
Only the youngest daughter, Eleanor, was deeply loved by her father since she was a child. She didn't want to take etiquette classes, didn't want to tie her waist like other noble ladies, and her father let her do everything. Elizabeth didn't know how many times she had a tantrum because of this. However, although her father patiently comforted her, his preference for Eleanor remained unchanged, and sometimes even Ludwig himself became jealous.
Later, she followed her second brother Henry to learn how to wield swords and guns, and joked that she wanted to become a knight lord in the future. Her father agreed - this was of course impossible. The Duke of Bavaria was not childless, and if he insisted on giving the family fiefdom to his daughter, it would inevitably make other vassals dissatisfied.
Ludwig considered himself the heir of the family, so he secretly found Eleanor and explained his father's difficulties to her in detail.
Then Eleanor ran away from home... and Ludwig was scolded by his father and locked up at home for half a year.
Of course, Ludwig was aware of his father's unique attitude - his father did not want Eleanor to take on any family responsibilities like other children, he just wanted her to live a happy life.
If she loves theology, she will be sent to a monastery; if she wants to fall in love, she can be allowed to freely choose her partner from other noble children without having to consider the family's need for marriage.
Even if she really wanted to be a lord, her father could allow her to marry a vassal with a weak background, so that she could easily control the power of the territory after marriage.
However, no matter what, being the leader of a small mercenary group was definitely not something his father would allow.
This made Ludwig very conflicted. If his father knew about this, the Blue Sword would definitely cease to exist, and the only fate of the captain named Ask would be hanging.
With Eleanor's character, she would never allow such a thing, and she would definitely break up with her father.
To be fair, even though this younger sister always betrayed her brother, and was even closer to the second brother than the eldest brother, Ludwig, as the eldest brother, still liked her very much, and of course he would not sit idly by and watch her and their father completely break up.
Therefore, before his father knew about this, dismantling the Blue Sword Mercenary Group in advance and then putting Ask in hiding was of course the most appropriate approach at the moment.