Chapter 44: The Leslie Brothers
The middle-aged man is Herbert Leslie, one of the seven kings of the empire, and is also Rebecca's elder brother and uncle of Charlotte, Evan, and Vivien Leigh. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
There are more interesting facts about the Grand Duke than could be said for three days and three nights, and Herbert is rumored to be an optimistic leader. He once laughed and scolded during the invasion of the army, and once disguised himself as a ranger to experience the life of an adventurer.
But no matter how bizarre his behavior is, he is indeed a good leader and patriarch of the family. At least in terms of family affection, he is no worse than Lawrence.
The only problem is that he is too romantic.
Herbert greeted his relatives one by one, and he waved back to the two young men standing beside Rebecca.
One of them, Charlotte, was left in the limelight, and it was his cousin Brent Leslie, a bear child with whom he had partnered to trick or trick or go to the house to uncover the tiles. There was also a teenager about 13 years old, Charlotte, who had blonde hair with the Leslie family logo, but wore clothes without the Leslie family crest.
Not only that, but he seemed to be silent throughout his life, and when Brent and Rebecca were talking, he stood silently behind Brent with his head bowed slightly, looking like a cautious little squire.
After hearing Herbert's words, Brent pulled the boy and stepped forward with a big smile.
He first bowed to Lawrence with a grin, and then winked at Vivien Leigh with her charismatic face.
"My dear sister, I have heard that you are not yet betrothed, how shall you consider me?" and it was strange that such light words seemed so natural to Brent that he would not make people angry, but would make people feel good.
This is probably the importance of appearance.
"I'm sorry, Cousin Brent, unless you give up all your lovers!" said Vivien Leigh mockingly refused.
Brent shrugged his shoulders and sighed regretfully, "What a pity! Even though those rouge powders are not as good as a hair of yours, I still can't give up the whole forest." Maybe in the future you will regret this decision, my dear little princess!"
His words made the people present laugh out loud, and the life that he hadn't seen in the past ten years disappeared in an instant.
Finally, Brent reached out to Charlotte, "Ha, my good cousin, I heard you did something out of the ordinary!"
Charlotte smiled and hugged him, only to hear Brent whisper in his ear, "I just want to say - good!"
"I'm nowhere near as good as you, Cousin Brent. Charlotte laughed back, "Even if you are far away in the north, I have heard of your reputation, it is said that you can swim among thirteen noble girls without capsizing, for your great cause, I only want to give thirty-two likes!"
"Good luck NiceBoat! my good brother!" said Charlotte, who no one understood, and patted Brent on the shoulder.
But this gentleman really deserves to be a true gentleman who is committed to the great cause of human development, and he can roughly understand the meaning of his words with a mere frown. So the playboy also slapped Charlotte on the back of the shoulder and fought back.
"May you have a lover and become a brother and sister!
The two of them sneered, just like when they were children arguing about who would go to the house to uncover the tiles and who would be responsible for watching the wind, and their eyes burst out with blazing sparks.
Then they flickered, looked at each other and laughed, and hugged each other warmly again.
Brent pulled the taciturn boy from behind him, pointed at him and said, "This is my brother Nell, don't look at him for a lot, but I swear he's a good fellow! ”
He looked at the boy named Nell, "Nell, hurry up and say hello to your uncle and older siblings." ”
Lawrence and the three looked at the young man with a smile, but saw him take a step forward in silence, knelt down on one knee and said, "Salute to you, Grand Duke Lawrence, the conqueror of the North, Her Royal Highness Charlotte, the Prince of Icewind Castle, and Her Royal Highness Vivien Leigh, the Silver Dragon Princess. I'm Nell Rodney......"
His surname startles all three at the same time, and Charlotte realizes the awkward identity of this young man, who is the illegitimate son of the Leslie family, an invisible man who is not recognized.
"Nell......" Brent said to Lawrence, putting his arm around Nell's shoulder with concern, "Uncle, I swear, he's far more like a Leslie family than I am. ”
Lawrence forced a smile as he nodded at Nell and pulled Herbert into the hall. The remaining knights dutifully occupied the important places, and no one seemed to care about everything about Nell.
Bastards are a taboo topic, almost all nobles have illegitimate children, but for the big nobles, it is absolutely not on the table.
With Lawrence's status and status, it was destined that it would be impossible to have a good attitude towards an illegitimate child.
Nell lowered his head, he broke free of Brent's hand slightly, and said in a low mood, "I don't understand, brother. Why do I have to come to this place...... I don't feel any joy here except shame and torture......"
"I understand...... "Brent patted him on the shoulder, "but if you haven't given up yet, you'll have to deal with it." You need to build your network, even if others look down on you, it's better than not remembering you at all. ”
Nell had nothing to say with her head down.
At this moment, Vivien Leigh stretched out her hand to him, pulled him up from the courtyard, patted the dust on his body and said, "I heard my cousin say that you may be able to become the first knight of Rosente in the future? Pick up the sword and let me take a good look at your posture!"
Nell looked at Vivien Leigh in surprise, and then at Brent.
Brent shrugged, "Look, this is the Silver Dragon Princess, known as the First Knight of the Empire's Young Generation, why don't you ask her for advice?"
"Yes!"
In the courtyard under the sunset, the little boy exhaled, he stood in front of him with a single sword, solemnly bowed to Fei Wenli, and posed in the most formal knightly gesture.
Charlotte patted Nell on the shoulder and winked at him, "You can communicate among the knights, Brent and I are going to reminisce about the fun of the year before dinner." Nell, you've got a nice good brother!"
Charlotte walked side by side with Bronte, and he pulled Claire past him to introduce the two. Under the sunset behind him, Nell sweated and kept attacking Fivien Leigh, but was easily blocked by the silver dragon princess.
Sweat splashed into crystal water, and Lolita, Vivien, and Leonard couldn't help but be moved as they looked at Nell, who had repeatedly fallen to the ground, but persevered in swinging his sword and attacking, and his eyes were resolute.
Just the unyielding and tenacious tenacity that comes from the depths of his bones is enough to make people identify with this hard-working young man.
Vivien Leigh knocked Nell away for the last time, looking at his unwilling appearance of holding up on the ground several times but unable to get up, and the blue eyes flashed with recognition.
She held out her hand to Nell, "That's it for today, it's dinner time." You know what? Nell, I've always wanted a brother like you. ”
Nell propped his weak right leg with his hand, bowed his head slightly, and said, "Thank you, princess." But I can't get on the table......"
"Call me sister!" Fei Wenli pulled him up, "I said! It's dinner time, and you're sitting next to me today!"
Nell looked up in surprise, and after a long time, he showed a bitter smile, "Thank you, sister." But I'd better sit aside, I don't want to mess up the family dinner. ”
The little boy dragged his tired body to the side hall. Vivien Leigh looked at his lonely back, and she thought that maybe too much kindness would be a disservice to Nell.
Vivien, on the other hand, looked at Nell's back with a thoughtful expression.