Shortly after 6 p.m., Isabel Walton and her party and the wagon carrying Sir Herbert and several boxes were marching down the endless country roads. I saw her take a deep breath of air, and the leisurely fragrance came to her nose, and she smelled it carefully, which was the fragrance of the earth, the freshness of the young grass, and the sweetness of the flowers.

Looking up at the clear blue sky, the sun still hung motionless in the sky, while its light clothed the occasional white clouds that drifted by. Isabel, who was on the horse, looked back at the carriage in the group and the knight on it, and turned back in thought.

He looked at the two guards in front of him who were holding light cavalry spears with swallowtail spear flags, and shouted to the guards beside him, "Guys, work harder." When you get to Asker Manor, I'll reward you with the finest beef and ale!" ”

"Miss, thank you for your generosity!" Several guards raised their right arms and shouted as they rode forward.

Isabel sped up the horse's run, and then let the horse break away from the group and run on the outside of the road. When the freight carriage passed by, he drove the war horse to the side of the carriage. Standing up slightly on horseback, he looked at the two guards in the carriage, "How's Sir doing?" ”

One of the guards quickly stood up and looked at her and nodded, "Miss, Sir is probably asleep." ”

"Find a sheet to cover Sizz's body, and you'll get some beef and ale at the manor."

"Yes, miss." Wei Cong happily agreed, turned around and rummaged through the contents of the box.

Soon, after traveling about 10 miles, the team arrived at Asker Manor in Richmondshire, outside the entrance and exit on the north side of the road. Isabel, who had lived on the estate for several years, focused on the familiar stone gatehouse and the majestic, towering fence gates, with a smile on her face that only came to her hometown.

The team entered the fence gate and raced south along a manor path lined with street trees. After a while, they came to the square outside the manor located in the southwest. One of the manservants, who was on duty at the gate of the manor, hurried into the door when he saw the lord's daughter coming, while another trotted to Isabelle's head and took the horse.

At this moment, the chief servant of the Asker Manor, the butler Bacon Hard, walked out of the gate of the manor with a dozen male and female servants, ready to greet the daughter of the lord Baron Walton. Baron Walton's butler, Bruce Harder's brother Bacon, had worked as a product broker in Isabel's artisanal workshop a few years earlier. Later, after Isabel sold the workshop to the Duke of Richmond at a low price, he followed Isabel to the Asker estate to take up the position of steward.

Isabel looked at the butler with a slight smile as she jumped off her horse, "Bacon, is it a surprise for me?" ”

Bacon Liso nodded, and a smile appeared on his face that he was better at using than his brother, and looked at her, "Miss, whenever you come to the manor, I and the others will always be waiting for you." ”

"Well, that's good." Isabel nodded, and commanded, "I and the others haven't eaten dinner yet, so you can have dinner prepared for me at once, and bring some fine beef, pork, mutton, or whatever fresh meat and ale to your lord's guard." Also, bring some wine to the restaurant, hurry. ”

"Yes, miss."

"Also, send someone to bring the things from the carriage to the hall."

"Yes, miss."

Isabel thought for a moment, then hurriedly ordered, "Go and get some more chicken, fruits, and fresh vegetables, and send them to the hall as well." ”

Bacon blinked and asked in a low voice, "Miss, shouldn't this food be delivered to the restaurant?" ”

Isabel glanced back at the carriage, then looked at the butler and whispered, "Sir Herbert is in the carriage, and this food is for him." ”

Then, as the group dismounted, the two guards walked towards the hall of the manor with Sir on their feet. When Isabel came to the dining-room, she instructed the butler again, "Bacon, is that wooded hut by the Asker stream still usable?" ”

Although Bacon wanted to know why the second son-in-law of the lord Baron Walton had come to the manor, he did not ask the lord's eldest daughter. Listening to the lord's eldest daughter, she replied, "Miss, that hut can still be used. ”

A valet brought her a jar of wine and a tin wine glass, and Isabel grabbed the glass and took a few gulps before "popping!" He leaned on the table and glanced at the manservant, "Pour the wine." ”

After drinking three glasses of wine, she relaxed and leaned back in her chair and said to the butler, "Send someone to clean the hut before sunset, and prepare some hunting weapons, tools, and kitchen utensils." ”

"Also, take some of the servants' sleeping stuff and a few peasant's costumes and send them to the hut for Sir to use."

"Miss, do you want Sir to live in that cabin?" At this time, the butler finally couldn't stand the strong curiosity, and plucked up the courage to ask.

"The others go out first, and the housekeeper stays." After Isabel kicked out the dining-room with several of the manservants who were serving her, she stood up and paced back and forth in front of the butler, giving an order with an unusually serious expression, "From now on, Sir will live in the woods cabin. You are to send men to keep an eye on Sir at all times, and not to let him leave the hut, and not to leave the nearby forest. ”

"Could it be that Sir has committed a crime, and Mademoiselle wants to hide him?" Such a question arose in the butler's mind.

Isabel glanced at the butler's expression and expression, and whispered, "Bacon, I don't know what you're thinking, but I'm sure you're suspicious. I just wanted to tell you that Sir was infected with the plague and was dying. ”

"My God, sir... How could you get the plague? The butler looked at her blankly, and his speech became a little less fluent.

"Bacon, I wish you were the only one who knew about it, understood?" Isabel didn't want to explain too much about Sir Herbert's contagion.

After a hearty dinner, Isabel came to the hall. When she saw Sir sitting limply on the bench, staring at the food on the small table beside her, she sat down five or six paces away from him.

Sir Herbert finally sensed that there were other people in the hall, and when he turned his head in the direction of Isabel, he found them, and said in a weak voice: "Your Excellency, why are you still in my manor?" ”

Isabel covered her mouth with a cotton cloth and replied in an urn voice, "No, this is Asker Manor." ”