"Don't! ......" William suddenly shouted, his consciousness returning to his body, and he suddenly woke up from his sleep.

Call... Call... Call...

William's chest rose and fell violently, his mouth was panting, and his right hand touched the cold sweat on his forehead, he only felt as if he was completely collapsed, and his whole body was soaked with sweat.

Thinking back to what he saw in his sleep, William couldn't believe that it was true, and he didn't want to believe the fact that his father, Robert, was dead.

However, all this is so real, and the scenes that flashed in his sleep before seemed to have happened to William, so that William still can't forget these scenes.

Crunch...

Hearing the exclamation in William's room, Osborne's butler anxiously pushed the door in, and saw William sweating all over, soaking wet, and leaning weakly on the pillow, and hurriedly ran over to wipe William's sweat, and said with concern:

"Master William, what's wrong with you? You're worrying me so much! ”

"I'm fine, I just had a nightmare!" William looked up at Steward Osborne, pondered for a moment, and finally decided to tell Osborne about the terrible dream he dreamed of, and said solemnly: "Steward Osborne, I have dreamed of a terrible thing, this matter is extremely important, please keep this secret for me!" ”

"Young Master William, please say that at any time, I, Osborne, will unconditionally obey your orders!" Steward Osborne nodded in promise.

"Just now, I saw in my dream that my father was dead, and he was killed on the way back, which is terrible!" William grabbed Osborne's sleeves with both hands, his eyes were tightly pressed on Osborne, and he said, "Osborne Steward, do you say this is true?" ”

"Master William, please don't worry! The thirteen knights who accompanied Lord Robert on the pilgrimage were all loyal to the Duke, and even if they risked their lives, they would protect the Duke! Steward Osborne comforted softly.

Although William felt a little better at listening to Osborne's butler's comfort, the sight of Robert's death flashed through his mind one after another, and William could not ignore the dream.

William shook his head, dispelled the scene in his mind, looked at Steward Osborne, and said with an extremely serious face: "Steward Osborne, do you think it is really possible that my father was killed?"

Otherwise, this dream and my inner premonition would not have appeared for no reason!

I remember that in the past, whether my father was victorious or coming home, I could sense it, do you think this time is the same? ”

"I'm sorry, Master William, it's possible that this is the case, and the Duke may have suffered misfortune!

If so, we must prepare as soon as possible, or the Counts of Mortan, Earburg, and the lords and nobles around Rouen will not let us continue to live in the Duke's Palace in peace! Steward Osborne sighed, shook his head slightly, and said.

"We can't give up hope, and we can't sit still.

Until the exact news comes, we're still going to stay here and not go anywhere.

But we can first ship the gold, silver, money, supplies, ordnance, and craftsmen stored in the Fort of Rouen along the Seine to Vernon.

Only in this way can we guarantee that nothing goes wrong! William didn't calmly arrange.

"Yes, Master William!" Steward Osborne looked at William's generous, not arrogant and impatient appearance, and felt quite relieved in his heart.

......

The next day, William and Osborne's stewards sprang into action, and after giving instructions to Sir Hubert, who was in charge of the Barony of Vernon on William's behalf, to send ships to transport supplies, the two began to organize the Duke's palace in an orderly manner.

When Sir Hubert sent a ship to meet him, William packed up more than 2 million Triss gold coins, that is, more than 100,000 pounds of silver, which made William sigh at the amount of wealth accumulated by the Normandy family for more than a hundred years.

Even these gold and silver coins and precious metal utensils were not carried away by the dozens of transport ships that arrived, but only barely half of them were transported, and all the gold and silver could be transported to the Barony Vernon by the next ship coming.

In addition to the gold and silver wealth, the Normandy family accumulated more abundant ordnance materials, its storage of weapons is forty or fifty thousand pieces, chain mail, leather armor and other tens of thousands of collars, the rest of the arrows, grain and grass and other consumables are enough to support the fierce consumption of tens of thousands of troops for three years.

Such supplies could not be transported in a short period of time, not to mention the large number of craftsmen, craftsmen and serfs in the castle estate, and it would take at least four months to transport all these people belonging to the Normandy family to Vernon.

Before the news of Duke Robert's death came, William did not want to move all the Normandy family's savings in Rouen, after all, there was still a glimmer of hope in William's heart, hoping that Duke Robert would return safely.

However, three weeks later, the sad news came that news of the death of Duke Robert spread throughout the Duchy of Normandy.

William couldn't stop crying after receiving the news of his father's death, and cried loudly, the mask of his original strength was torn apart, and the last hope was shattered, even the strongest people could not face it calmly.

For two days, William's sad weeping resounded throughout the Duke's Palace, and no matter how much Osborne's butler persuaded him, two deep tears appeared on both sides of William's delicate face.

The noble lords of the county of Rouen, who were the first to hear of Robert's death, showed no sign of sorrow, and often gathered together to speak with schadenfreude.

When the Earl of Caen, who was far away in the city of Caen, the Earldom of Mortan, and the Earl William the Younger, who received the news of Duke Robert's death, did not show any sadness, but laughed out loud with excitement.

In the past few days, the Earl of Kay and the Earl William the Younger have only seen frequent correspondence, and they have also begun to act frequently, starting to stock up on war materials, recruit soldiers, and contact the nobles and lords in various places, and those who don't know think they are celebrating Christmas!

Alan II, who was far away in the Duchy of Brittany, also received the news of Duke Robert's death, and was deeply concerned about William's situation, and immediately ordered two hundred knights under his command and an equal number of cavalry attendants to rush to Rouen with him.

At the Earl's Palace, Count Robert, who was not in good health, received the news of Robert's death and immediately fainted, although there was a court doctor to treat him, but his weak medical skills at that time could not prevent Count Robert's condition from worsening.

Baron Adolf, who presided over the affairs of the county of Evreux, once again revealed his indecisive character flaws, and the mere pacification of the nobles of the realm kept him busy, and he was unable to support William for a short time.