Chapter 254: Under Love and Loyalty

In the spacious and bright banquet hall, everyone present was dressed in their best robes and costumes, especially the more than 30 high-ranking nobles of the count, baron and vice-baron rank were dressed brightly, and they were also wearing gorgeous cloaks behind them.

William was even more luxuriously dressed, wearing a golden duke's tiara, a blue robe made of silk carefully woven by the Duke of Flanders, with gold threads outlining the splendid patterns and the Normandy family coat of arms, a gold-rimmed jeweled belt around his waist, and a long ruby red cloak behind him.

He pressed the sword in his left hand and the golden scepter in his right hand, and walked with a majestic look.

William walked to the front row of seats and invited Jenny to sit next to him before taking a seat in the center of the room.

In William's actions, there are also five earl vassals such as Count Hubert, Count Richard, and Count Hubert, as well as cronies and nobles such as Steward Osborne, Faller, Ferdinand, etc., who are like stars and moons around William, all of which show the power and strength of the Normandy family.

Jenny sat next to William, as if William's wife and the head mother of the Normandy family, but she was innocent of this and was still at ease, but this seemed to others to have a calm atmosphere.

"Damn, this little girl from a country who doesn't know where she came from, dared to rob His Royal Highness William with me, and circled around him every day, and today she is sitting next to His Royal Highness William, does she want to be the Duchess of Normandy, she is really a wild girl who doesn't know the height of the sky.

I want you to taste my strength, and when you have endured all the hardships, you will understand what is dignity and inferiority, and what is non-separation. Emma, who was sitting on the side below William, clenched her fists and thought through gritted teeth.

Emma's resentment and jealousy, which was like substance, made William sit on pins and needles, and couldn't help but think in his heart: "Don't do anything, I'll comfort Emma later, otherwise with the spy resources in her hands, Jenny will easily suffer."

Hey, the palms and backs of the hands are full of meat, it's really hard to choose who to choose, and I don't want anyone to get hurt. ”

Despite the worry and eagerness in William's heart, he still maintained a calm and solemn appearance as usual, raised his wine glass and looked at everyone and said, "Everyone, everyone raise their glasses and drink full." ”

As he spoke, William took the lead in raising his head and drinking the glass of wine.

After William had finished his first glass of wine, the nobles, knights, and officers began to toast each other and enjoy their meals.

William turned his head, held up the glass full of wine, looked at Earl Hubert, and said, "Come, Sir Hubert, our hero, take this glass!" Uncle Adolf, Count Richard, Steward Osborne, all of you, toast him. ”

At William's suggestion, Uncle Adolf, Count Richard, Steward Osborne and others also raised their glasses and toasted Sir Hubert enthusiastically.

"His Royal Highness William Xie, Baron Sheadolph, Count Richard, Steward Osborne, thank you, I'm going to do this!"

As he spoke, Sir Hubert raised his glass full of wine and clinked glasses with William and the others, and drank it all together.

The grand feast began with the cheers of the crowd, and in the center of the banquet court, a touring troupe of bards, harpists, drummers, and clowns invited by William was engaged in their performance.

The clown in front of the campfire wears a yellow tight-fitting antics costume and dances with his hands and hands to attract everyone's attention by making a difficult tumbling motion.

At this time, the harpist sits on the stone steps and holds a small U-shaped harp, and plays ethereal and beautiful music with both hands.

In the accompaniment of the harpist, in the drummer beating the sonorous and indifferent little drum, wearing a loose robe, while playing the sleek and sophisticated bass, while singing the popular poems and tunes.

During the feast, William sent his attendants down to give the touring performance team a rich reward, which made them perform even harder.

When this performance team is off, as a regular example, several nobles take turns to show themselves in front of everyone, some are more and eat faster than everyone else, he can eat the whole pork leg in one go, and some are performing and high jumping, he can jump more than two meters high at once, which is not easy.

At the moment, William announced that he would give these people precious rewards, some of them were a well-made famous sword, and some were gorgeous full-body plate armor, all of which were related to weapons and armor, but they were all exquisite and precious.

At the end of the banquet, William said goodbye to everyone and wanted to go to Emma to have a good talk, untie her knots, and dispel the jealousy and resentment in her heart, but he didn't expect Jenny to go and still follow him back to his study.

"Jenny, there must be something going on with you, tell me about it now." William saw Jenny follow her to the study, stood up and walked up to Jenny, and asked.

"William, thank you for your care and care, these days are the happiest days I've ever had." Jenny smiled genuinely and thanked her.

"It's nothing, you don't have to think of me to thank you." William shook his head and said.

"His Highness William." Jenny knelt down on one knee in front of William and said in a solemn tone: "Your Highness William, I would like to swear allegiance to you, offer my love and loyalty, and always be by your side, never leaving you. ”

"Well, I accept your allegiance, Jenny. I canonize you as a knight and a manor estate, and I give you the name Jenny. Morality. Duck. William drew the long sword from his waist, slapped Jenny on the shoulder three times, and said:

"Jenny. Morality. Duck. Now that you are a vassal loyal to me, and above all your monarch, I will protect you and your family from any hostility or aggression, and anyone who is against you is my enemy. Get up, Jenny! ”

"Yes, my sovereign, His Highness William." Jenny nodded in answer and stood up, a happy smile on her face.

"Jenny, since you are already my knight, I will put an army under your command. It was a knightly order of more than 7,000 people, that is, the knights of Rouen and Erbourg, this army was not strong in combat, but the nobles and knights in it were not small-tempered, you have to tame them well, train them well, I have a lot of use for this army. William looked at Jenny and solemnly assumed.

"You won't be disappointed, His Highness William." The other nobles of the Jenny scholar gave William a formal military salute in response.