When Colin brought his sister and brother-in-law to the restaurant, a table of turkey dinner was already prepared.
On the long and narrow oak table, there is a huge roasted turkey overflowing with oil, and of course there are various side dishes around it, such as roasted bacon, mashed potatoes, vegetable soup, fruit salad, and a turkey from Winster Manor. white wine.
Of course, Ke Lin's exclusive stag blood wine is definitely indispensable.
Colin fastened the napkin and said to the butler Imon who was pouring wine for the three of them, "Imon, you should sit down and eat together."
Aemon wondered: "My lord, this is against the rules..."
Colin waved his hand domineeringly: "In this castle, I am the rule! Sit down!"
Aemon was still a little hesitant, but Caitlin also persuaded him: "Imon, sit down quickly, you have served the Angelet family for more than forty years, and you are already a family!"
Aemon then thanked him for being seated.
Ke Lin looked at Cathy who was standing beside him again, and said with a smile, "Cathy, you should join in too."
A look of joy suddenly appeared on Cathy's face, she quickly thanked her and sat down.
Caitlin frowned slightly as she looked at the pretty half-elf maid.
She obviously misunderstood the relationship between Colin and Cathy, and was planning to remind her brother in private.
Half-elves can only be regarded as lovers, but they cannot really marry back home.
Even if this is said to be a descendant of the former half-elf royal family.
That's a form of racism, too.
But the nobles of the Glorious Empire have long regarded it as a matter of course. This is also the arrogance brought about by the empire's powerful position in the center of the mainland and the coercion of all other races.
The nobles of the Glorious Empire also had the tradition of "not speaking when eating".
The dessert time after the main meal is specially prepared for small talk.
Tonight's dessert is fresh fruit sabaon, which is a delicacy made of egg liquid mixed with cream, and champagne poured on various fruits. After simple baking, the rich burnt aroma instantly spreads the whole restaurant.
After preparing the desserts, Amon and Cathy took leave in a timely manner and left the rest of the time for reminiscing about old times to Colin and Walra.
Elder sister Caitlin was very excited, chirping about all the old anecdotes of the three in Greycastle back then, Valla and Colin added a few words from time to time, and the whole restaurant was filled with a pleasant atmosphere.
But as time went by, Kaitlyn, who had just gone on a long journey, was obviously out of energy and became yawning again and again.
Upon seeing this, Knight Valla said thoughtfully: "Catelyn, why don't you go back and rest first, and I'll chat with Colin for a while."
"Okay, I'm too tired today, so I'll go back to sleep first, and you guys talk slowly."
Ke Lin also nodded with a smile: "Okay, sister, the maid outside the hall will take you back to your room."
When the hall door opened and closed again, the restaurant suddenly became quiet.
A faint embarrassment began to circulate in the air.
The two men raised the wine glasses in front of them almost at the same time, and brought them to their mouths.
Colin drank the stag blood wine in the glass, and then looked at Walra like this, as if waiting for the other party to speak first.
In Ke Lin's view, Walla's visit to Ice Rock City this time should have been instructed by Earl Uman to win over the Angelet family.
Caitlin had already helped to pave the way for the atmosphere before, and next, it should be time for Valla's performance.
"Colin." Valla really said, "Actually... I haven't had the face to see you since the last time I went out with the baron."
"Why?"
"Because I didn't perform my duties well, and the baron unfortunately died on the front line..." The sadness and self-blame in Knight Valla's eyes were completely flawless.
At least Colin couldn't find any flaws.
"What happened at the beginning?"
"At that time, Lord Baron led the family army to carry out a rescue mission, but was surrounded by an army of trolls several times larger than ours on the way.
The battle was extremely fierce, and the soldiers around me fell one by one, and my ears were filled with screams...
Then, I saw with my own eyes that the baron was beheaded by a troll warrior... "
Walra took a deep breath, and seemed to be calming down her excitement, before continuing to narrate after a while:
"Later, I was also stabbed in the lower abdomen by a sword. Before I lost consciousness, I only remembered the rampant smile of the troll warrior who defeated me..."
After listening to Walra's narration, Colin nodded expressionlessly, with no expression of joy or anger in his eyes, he just asked lightly, "So you were captured like this?"
Walra hesitated for a moment, then said in an uncertain tone: "It should be."
"should?"
"Well, actually, I can't remember what happened after the injury. I only know that when I woke up again, I was already in Eagle Falling City."
Colin finally sat up straight now.
Because he found something was wrong!
That's not what Oliver, the steward of the Tulip Chamber of Commerce, said.
When the fat man gave Colin an expensive enchanted armor as an apology, he clearly meant—
After the Valla knight was defeated, he became a prisoner. He was taken back to the troll empire by the troll army, but when he was chased and intercepted by the black cavalry, he was abandoned by the troll on the ice field with the rest of the 50,000 human captives. After going through untold hardships, he returned to the northern border.
This set of rhetoric is completely incompatible with what Walra is saying now!
what happened
The two sides did not make a good confession
Don't make such a low-level mistake...
So, Colin decided to try again: "Walra, that's not what Oliver, the steward of the Tulip Chamber of Commerce, told me."
"Oliver?" Valla frowned, "He probably got his mother's instruction and made up some things for me in front of you."
Colin blinked, obviously not used to Walra's frankness.
"Your mother? Ms. Penny? Why is she making up a story for you?"
"Mother, she..." A trace of entanglement and pain flashed across Valla's face, but she still whispered, "She might want to hide something..."
"Hiding what?" Colin continued to ask.
Walra raised her head and looked at Colin seriously, with complex emotions flashing in her eyes.
After a long time, he spoke again: "I suspect that my mother may have a secret connection with the troll."
"What?" Colin was taken aback.
This surprise is really not fake.
Of course Colin knew that Valla's mother, Penny, had a secret connection with the troll, not only her, but also Earl Uman.
But what surprised him was that Walra admitted it himself!
However, next, Valla said something that surprised Colin even more: "Colin, I heard that you were assassinated in Graycastle before?"
"Yes, Carter Knight did it."
"Do you know who Carter Knight was instructed by?"
"who?"
"my mother."
Colin stared blankly at Knight Valla, completely dumbfounded.
At this moment, his heart was crazily complaining—
Brother, did you take the wrong script
(end of this chapter)