Chapter 35: Temptation or Exploitation

Olive was going to repay the honorarium by canonizing the knight's title, but as soon as the words fell, Byrne's heart began to beat rapidly, and he resisted an impulse in his heart and asked in a low voice.

"We're all knights?

"No, Field Knight!" Olive replied in the affirmative.

Bourne was really surprised, there is an essential difference between an honorary knight and a territorial knight, if the difficulty of a civilian becoming a glorious knight by virtue of his military exploits is one, then the difficulty level of a civilian becoming a real knight is ten.

Even if Byrne accepted the charr's canonization outside the small canyon, he always thought that he was a glorious knight under the charles, although the honorary knight had a different social status from the commoners, but he did not have his own territory, and the main income was the food or salary allocated by the lord.

The true knight has his own territory, and although it may be the size of a village, he really has the foundation to stand on his feet, and he barely enters the ranks of the aristocratic ruling class.

Olive saw the surprise in Bourne's eyes, she was a little embarrassed, she suddenly calmed down, waved her little hand gracefully, and the personal maid behind her stepped forward and placed a heavy small box on the broken table.

"This is five hundred louis, which is our compensity for those brave soldiers who died in battle, please convey to their families our respect for Chevalier. ”

The corners of Byrne's mouth quivered, and a thick guilt tormented his kind heart, "Miss Olive Live, you have made this decision...... Does the Earl know?"

"Oh, I've always been in charge of the family's money, and my opinion is his. Olive raised her little chin slightly, and said very arrogantly.

“.......”

Seeing that Bourne was still silent, Olive thought that he did not believe in her underage self, so she waved her hand again, and the valet took out a roll of parchment maps and spread it out on the broken table.

Olive pointed to a dot on the map with a slightly slender finger, and said lightly: "This land in the diocese of Metz has eleven villages, 2,700 people, originally the domain of a baron and four knights, but they all died in this war, as the lord of this area, Charles has the right to take back this territory and re-divide it." ”

"Miss Olive I need to talk to my comrades, can I?" Byrne felt that he could no longer talk to Olive anymore, and the panic and guilt in his heart would make him lose his temper if he continued to talk.

Olive slowly stood up, and said lightly, "Don't make me wait too long!" and then turned to leave with her maid and knightess, Lola.

Byrne bowed like a loyal knight and watched Olive disappear into the distance, then immediately gave Saville an eager look outside the door.

Byrne was going to find someone to discuss what Olive had just proposed, and the only person who was qualified to discuss it was Savile.

Savile entered the barracks unhurriedly, and after closing the door, he said in a deep voice: "Byrne, your eyes were too flustered just now, this is a mistake that a good soldier should not make. ”

"Don't talk that, Savile, who else did you tell you about our conversation beforehand?How do I think your thoughts and intentions might be known to them?" There were only two people in the room, Byrne and Savile, who no longer hid his panic, and asked when he caught Savile.

"Who knows? That noble lady or that female knight just now?" Gerson was very alert just now, and stopped them a few dozen meters in advance, I don't think they heard our conversation. ”

Saville's face was also solemn, but he immediately reacted and continued: "Impossible, the proposal to ask the mentally handicapped earl for the title and territory discussed within our organization is only an alternative, and we didn't plan to use it in advance, after all, this plan is really ...... Arabian Nights, how do you think they knew about it in advance?"

"It's also strange to me that Miss Olive, after she entered the door, came up and offered to repay that honorarium by canonization, and I was almost scared to death, you know?"

"Just before they arrived, you were arguing with me about whether or not to continue to ask Count Bayonne for the land, but it happened only a few minutes later, how did they know that you were going to ask the Count Bayonne for the title and the land?"

"Ah?...... Well?...... What do you say?"

Savile was also confused, but his mind reacted much faster than Byrne, and Byrne had not repeated that he had already asked rhetorically: "You said that the Chevalier family should use the title and the domain to repay the fifty thousand livres? Are they sure they mentioned the territory? Are you sure they are not talking about honorary titles?"

Byrne dragged Savile and pointed to the parchment map left on the table, "Here, eleven villages, two thousand seven hundred people, do you think this is for me..... Temptations and traps?"

Byrne was really in a hurry, just a few minutes before Olive arrived, Savile announced to Byrne the so-called alternative of the Free Council, which was to ask Charles for his own territory, but Olive sent the territory to the door a few minutes later, where is there such a coincidence?

That Lola's cold and sharp eyes just now looked at Bourne, and he almost couldn't help but draw his sword and fight, and ran away.

Savile narrowed his eyes and stared at the map, his eyes getting brighter and brighter, and the look of surprise on his face grew.

"No, it's not a temptation to us, it's a ..... Take advantage!"

“........”

Bourne's face was red and white, and he didn't calm down after changing several times, and his thick fingers trembled slightly with anger, and only after a long time did he say it in a serious manner.

"Savile, I know you are prejudiced against the nobles, but the Earl of Bayonne is different from the other nobles, he is kind, honest, and trustworthy, please don't apply those dirty and despicable words to him!"

"Byrne, I want to correct your attitude first, you don't forget your oath, we are fighting for thousands of miserable people, we are fighting against these greedy and selfish nobles and privileged classes, don't be blinded by their little favors, they are using you, they are always using us civilians who were born to be oppressed......"

Savile looked at Bourne without showing any weakness, and their eyes began to redden, and their snorts became heavy, like two Sbayan bulls across the fence, trying to bring each other to a kneel with the anger in their eyes.

"But aren't we taking advantage of him? We have received a tip-off that the Sbayans are going to ambush them, but we have not warned them in advance, and we have watched nearly a hundred Lorraine knights die in battle, go to the rescue of the Count of Bayonne at the most critical time, and then use his mercy in exchange for profit, I feel that I have never been so dirty in my life......"

Byrne's red eyes were still meeting Saville's, but tears couldn't stop flowing out and into his mouth, the bitter taste was just like his mood at this time.