Chapter 21: Crisis
"Radno, what about Ek?" Linton looked through the door, but didn't find Ek, so he asked.
"Uncle Eck, he'...... Sick, now on Dolano's side. Radno said.
Dorano, the person Linton, also knows, the only person in the town who has medical knowledge, and he can't be said to be a doctor, after all, there is a person in this kind of town who understands medical skills, and everyone thinks he is a miracle doctor.
"What disease?" Linton asked, "Is it serious?" ”
"Uh......" Radno hesitated, "according to my guess, Uncle Eck should be ...... Not sick. ”
"Huh?" Linton was stunned for a moment.
"Because you are missing, young master, Uncle Eke is probably afraid of being implicated and pretending to be sick." "But it's still a bit like." ”
Linton was a little speechless. This world belongs to a typical feudal society, Eke belongs to Linton's domestic servant, then Linton has an accident, of course, the domestic servant has to be held accountable, especially when Linton is in danger, Eke doesn't know where it is, this is not dereliction of duty. Linton also knew Ek's character, this guy was an old scoundrel, and it was indeed possible to do such a thing.
"How many days have I been missing?" Linton asked.
"It's been two days, young master." Radno said quickly.
"Two days?" Linton was slightly stunned, he had been there for at least eight or nine days, and it had only been two days here, and it seemed that the time flow rate of the two worlds was not the same.
"Young Master, where have you been?" Radno hurriedly asked.
"I was assassinated, chased and fled to the woods next to him, and got lost for two days." Linton said simply, this town is surrounded by barren mountains and mountains, and it can be explained that it has been missing for two days.
"Are you hurt?" Radno asked, looking at the many blood stains on Linton's body.
"No, it's not my blood." Linton casually said nonsense, of course, it was all his blood, but there were no wounds on his body now.
"It's okay." Radno breathed a sigh of relief.
Seeing Radnor's concern for Linton was also a little moved, knowing that Radnor was not his servant, and his relationship was almost a mercenary relationship. As mentioned before, Radno is a member of the town's city guard, that is, a subordinate of the captain Kiora who Linton abolished before, why is he in Linton's house? That's because the town's finances are tight, and the city guard can't afford to support a total of 12 people, so the mayor of the town also discussed with Linton and sent a city guard to come over, nominally to protect Linton, but in fact to eat Linton's food.
"What about the Assassins?" Linton asked.
"This ...... After the young master was attacked, the city guards also searched for him, but neither the young master nor the assassin were found. Radno said, "In the past few days, during the day, the mayor of the town also led people to look for the young master nearby, but we didn't find the young master for two consecutive days, and we thought the young master was ......."
Linton thought about it, after all, the assassin who attacked him at the beginning was a vindictive man, and there was no one in the entire town who could use vindictive energy, and even if he met him, he wouldn't be able to catch this guy. So who exactly assassinated himself? It must have something to do with the family, I remember that when the assassin called him before, he was called the fourth son of the Merlowe family.
Linton didn't know much about the family's affairs, after all, he had been here for a month, and some information was inquired about from Ek. If anyone knows a little bit about this matter, it may be the mayor of the town, because this town is also the territory of the Merlowe family, and the mayor is the person who governs this side, so he is naturally connected to the family.
Linton decided to ask the mayor about the situation, of course, it was too late, and Linton also told Radno a few words, and then let him go to rest. The second floor has been completely scrapped, and it is still a mess, but fortunately Eke is not at home, and Linton also slept directly on Eke's bed for the night.
The next day, Linton was still sleeping, and soon someone came to the door.
"Master Linton, it's really good that you're okay." The person who spoke was a slightly obese middle-aged man with long curly hair, and the whole person looked a little greasy. This man was Tirwin, the mayor of this town.
"Lord Tirwin." Linton also washed his face a little and greeted Tirwin, "It's too dangerous this time, but fortunately, the assassin is not familiar with the terrain here, so I have a chance to escape." ”
"Oh." Tirwin nodded, but it was also a little strange, Linton hadn't been here for a long time, and he, the mayor of the town who had been working here for more than ten years, didn't know much about the terrain of the nearby barren mountains and forests, and to be honest, it was really a miracle that Linton could escape. Of course, although it was a bit strange, Tirwin didn't ask about it, but about the Assassins.
"I'm sorry, but I don't have much information to offer." Linton said, "I only know that the other party is a man, slender, masked, and I can't tell my age." Judging from what he said, the other party should be a professional assassin, or a dead man or something, and someone should have instructed him to do so. ”
"......," Tirwin was silent for a moment.
"What's wrong?" Seeing that Tirwin seemed to have thought of something, Linton also hurriedly asked.
"You may not know, but I didn't want to tell you something about it, but I ran into an assassin." Tyrwin said.
Linton also remembered, before Ek said that the mayor was looking for him, but he was attacked that night, and he still doesn't know what it is: "Mayor Tirwin, what's the matter?" ”
"One of them...... Your second brother passed away a few days ago. Tyrwin said.
"My second brother?" Linton was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly remembered his second brother's name, "Landner? How did he die? ”
"I heard...... He was assassinated. Tirwin lowered his voice.
"Assassination?" Linton was stunned, he wasn't assassinated, he didn't expect that his cheap second brother had been killed, and he was the second. If you look at it this way, someone is definitely targeting their family, even a marginal little person like him.
"Yes, I suspect that the assassin who assassinated you and the assassin who assassinated your second brother were assigned by the same person." Tyrwin also spoke a very natural reasoning.
"So someone is targeting our Merlowe family?" Linton said, "What about my eldest brother, did he say anything?" ”
"This ...... I haven't heard of it. I'm not qualified to know about this, Lord Landner, I've heard rumors. Tyrwin said.
"Hmm......" Linton nodded slightly, if he had been before, he might have been a little panicked, but now he has spent a lot of points to strengthen a wave, and now his strength has skyrocketed, and he even wants to find someone to practice.
Tyrwin, who was next to him, was also observing Linton, and found that this guy seemed to be much more stable than before. When Tyrwin first met Linton before, he felt like he was a somewhat autistic child, but suddenly he has become more stable recently, and now that he thinks about it, Tyrwin thinks that he has really awakened his fighting spirit, after all, he has also heard about Linton's defeat of Kiora before.
Not awakening the vindictiveness is Linton's biggest knot, at least Tirwin thinks so, now that he has awakened the vindictiveness, it is normal to have some changes in his personality, so it makes Tirven have no doubts about Linton's changes.
"So you say it's the first thing, and what else?" Linton asked.
"There's another very important thing, Lord Baron asked you to go back." Tyrwin said.
"Oh?" Linton was slightly stunned, the baron here was referring to his eldest brother, Jo Rabo. Merlowe. Linton's Merlowe family has a hereditary baronship, and the previous baron was naturally Linton's father, but at the beginning of the year, the old father died, and the person who inherited the family business was naturally the eldest son Jorabbo, Linton's eldest brother.
Because it was the law of primogeniture, Jorabo inherited all the family property, and the other brothers could be said to have no penny. If this big brother thinks of some family affection, he can still give you something, but the problem is ...... Linton: This is a family shame, no one looks down on it.
Yes, he is 19 years old this year, and he has not yet awakened his vindictiveness, so if it were an ordinary civilian, it would be okay. But in aristocratic circles, such people are called waste. The relationship between Linton and several brothers was not good before, and of course he would not give him anything, in short, he sent Linton to this kind of border town one by one. Of course, that was Linton before, and when Linton took over now, he was already here.
So in fact, the current Linton has only heard the names of his brothers, and has never met at all. Saying that the second brother is dead, he has no fluctuations at all, after all, he has never seen it.
By the way, the only thing that this eldest brother left for Linton was a leather workshop, which was the property of Merlowe's family, of course, this kind of border town could not be that kind of big factory, the entire workshop was only 5 workers, and the output was barely enough to keep Linton alive. But now that the mayor of the town has stuffed someone over to eat food, and he has been blackmailed, Linton's life can't go on.
So the question is, why does this eldest brother who doesn't look down on him want to save food for himself? Of course, Linton couldn't figure it out before, but now Linton has clearly guessed it, that is...... After all, I'm still a little useful. That's where it comes in...... Blood.
Yes, although it is a waste, but after all, it is a member of the Merlowe family, and it is still okay to take it out and marry. Of course, I also want to know that it can't be a good marriage partner, it may be an elderly widow in someone's family, it may be some ugly freak that no one wants, or even a retarded person.
At present, Linton is 19 years old, and he has long passed the marriageable age (here you can get married at the age of 15), and the reason why she has not been married ...... Isn't that no one wants it, who wants this waste? When his father was there, he could still help Linton think about it, but when the eldest brother came to power, he became a real marriage tool, so when he heard that he should go back this time, Linton's first nervous thing was this issue.