The reception of Samuel's family is obviously over-spec, because according to the normal reception, they only need to send young people of the same generation to receive Allen, and there is no need to go out in person, but he not only went out to greet Allen in person, but also put on his wife and daughter at home...

This is not a simple reception, but to express the meaning of closeness, generally between two families with deep friendship, the junior visit is indeed to be warmly entertained by the elders, but this is a private relationship, not a public matter.

Apparently, Gross had already expressed his attitude to Allen at the very beginning. Normally, Alan wouldn't be uninteresting.

In turn, Gross introduced the main people of the Samuel family, and then Alan was invited by them to enter the pearl castle, the jewel of the southern part of Samuel City.

At the same time, a welcome banquet was planned and officially opened in the evening.

"This is Eric Samuel, my nephew, who is your same generation as you and can be as close as you can be. At the welcome dinner, in the midst of a staggered list, Gross smiled at Allen and introduced the men and women who had come to the banquet, their families were relatively close to Gross, so they were invited.

"This is Mikel Glass, the head of the city's artisan association, you have to stay with me for a while, remember to look for him if you need to. ”

"This is Barna Blair, a very good pharmacist, I sometimes have occasional headaches, and the miraculous Barna always cures me. ”

"This is Pace Brandt..."

Although he is not interested in knowing these people in Gross's mouth, Alan will not interrupt his "kindness" stupidly, besides, this is someone else's territory, and he can't do things too casually, he still has to be honest.

You don't see Jude, who led him during the day, is glaring at Alan with a resentful face at this time, presumably he has already learned what Alan said in front of Gross, this is the consequence of Allen's unholding back and dishonesty.

However, Alan didn't worry much about this, and in addition to greeting the people at the banquet, he even raised his glass to him slightly, causing a cold look.

Alan didn't care, of course his main task now was to talk to the other guests rather than to find faults, but if he had a choice, he would prefer to talk to the interesting Jude, who had no interest in making small talk with strangers.

"The name of your father's fire of revenge is known to everyone, and I was with him in my early years..."

"I'm very interested in that backgammon you invented, but there are a lot of questions I can't figure out, I think..."

"I heard that you have done some business to help others in Reef City? What a coincidence, I'm also doing this, we should be considered peers, hehe..."

Most of the high-ranking people in this group of Samuel are relatives, friends and right-hand men of the Samuel family, and there are not many who have actually obtained the title of nobility.

Aside from the ruined nobles who came to take refuge, there were no other nobles between cities, because the first condition for the stars to be nobles was to have a territory.

Or your immediate family owns the territory.

Their attitude towards Alan is very subtle, on the one hand, they greet each other with a smile because of the reason that Duke Gross is next to them, and on the other hand, they are a little resistant to contact with Allen, and in those eyes, disdain is mixed with jealousy, disdain is Allen's age and the identity of the apocalypse "loser", and what is jealous is Allen's treatment and future.

Most of them are young people, and Alan understands what they think, as Jude said, his "rival in love" at Samuel is very many.

The ladies were pointing down at the railing on the second floor, and the men were walking down the hall, chatting with each other.

A young man from White City, who is said to be from White City, is discussing the advantages and disadvantages of backgammon with great interest, and finds that Alan is passing by and even pulls him to talk to him, the "founder", about to respond, but finds Jude, who is acting as a guard in the distance, gestures at him covertly, which seems to be trying to lead him over.

"Sorry for the mistake. Interrupting the emaciated young man who was constantly showing off his knowledge, Alan stretched out his hand and pointed in Jude's direction and said, "A friend is calling me, there may be something urgent." ”

"It doesn't matter. The young man smiled.

"Thank you for your understanding. ”

"Sorry" drained the glass of wine, Alan Chong nodded, and then turned to leave.

"Vulgar, don't know how to be polite" Seeing him leave, the young man's smiling face was somewhat restrained, and he seemed to shake his head speechlessly.

"Dirrell, you're jealous of others. Someone next to him laughed at him: "I don't think there's anything vulgar about his manners, if you think it's just a sissy manner, then you're too unheard, and his last gesture is clearly a knight's way of apologizing." He paused, and then added, "As for interrupting you, it's not polite, but I think they may be in some hurry, it's normal." ”

"It's a matter of urgency to deal with a lowly guard?" the emaciated young man retorted.

"Humble guard?" the man scoffed, "Are you dazzled? That's the second son of the Bell Knight!"

"Bell Knight's second son?" The emaciated young man was stunned, then looked surprised, thinking of some rumors in the city, he asked in a low voice, "Then shouldn't he be very hostile to that kid?

"Who knows, maybe the rumors are wrong..."

**

"Why did you say that to the Duke?"

Alan approached and just wanted to say hello, but it was indeed a cold word.

He looked up at the blond young man, and saw that the guy seemed to have been greatly insulted, and his face was full of resentment and annoyance.

"You obviously agreed, why did you still say in front of the Duke that I left my post without permission?"

"Desertion?" said Allen, pretending to be innocent, "I didn't say you deserted your duty. ”

He said he had some personal business to do, so he left first. Simulating the demeanor of someone else's speech, Jude sneered: "You said this, right?"

"How is that possible?" Alan pretended to be stunned, "I mean Jude Knight's favorite horse suddenly fell ill, but he still wanted to escort me to the castle, because there was still Knight Morai, I said that the horse was important, but he still didn't want to leave, I persuaded him for a long time to persuade him to leave." - That's what I said. ”

"Do you think I'm a fool?" Jude snorted coldly, "Everyone hears you say that, your quibbles are useless, it will only make me feel more disgusting and unworthy of the eldest lady!"

"You are indeed a fool, and a reckless fool. Alan muttered secretly, but on the surface he frowned, "Everyone? Are you sure this person represents everyone, not just the knights?"

Jude chirped, "The knights heard it, so what?"

"Don't you think it's strange?"

Alan pretended to sneer and said, his words gradually flooded with a strange aura, and his voice did not arouse the reverie of those who heard it: "I am a newcomer, and you think that I will slander a person who has the ability to trouble me in Samuel for no reason?"

"I'm hostile to you, you should feel it!" Jude grimaced despite the effect of a strange force.

"Hostility? Indeed," Alan nodded, "I feel it, but I don't think it's a big deal." ”

He opened his eyes and said nonsense: "Your honesty makes my bad feelings for you disappear, I understand this kind of thing very well, it is human nature to pursue beauty, even the most noble and strict knight is not exempt from vulgarity, under this desire, people are forgiven for doing some radical things, isn't it?"

"Then you..." seemed to be the truth, and Jude's tone softened slightly.

"You're trying to ask why I'm still saying that?" Alan interrupted him, his voice low, and his whole temperament unconsciously became very trustworthy, he said, "Do you really think I'm going to say that?"

Without waiting for Jude to respond, Alan sneered again: "Or do you trust your group of rivals very much?"

"What?" said Jude in surprise.

"Haven't you said it all, in Samuel, there are very few single men who don't have a crush on your eldest lady. Alan sneered: "So." Is Knight Morai single?"

"Yes. ”

"Where's Claude?"

"Yes. ”

"What about Barrett, Brignier, and Robin?"

Jude hesitated for a long time, but finally gritted his teeth and said, "Yes!"

"So. Alan shrugged: "You didn't know that Duke Gross had left the midfield. ”

Alan wasn't lying, Gross did go to the toilet halfway through, but Jude didn't know the details.

He had completely jumped into Allen's words, and the subconscious of the whole person had long since stopped resisting the words in Allen's mouth and the strange magic contained in them, and the chaotic speculation gradually surfaced in his heart, and Jude's face was cloudy.

"What do you mean?"

Alan snorted coldly: "Don't you understand? While we are not here, I don't know who said bad things about you to the duke, this is a good plan to kill two birds with one stone, that is, to strike your impression in the heart of the duke, and to set up an enemy like you for me." ”

His magical words combined with his changeable and sincere temperament have become very credible on the whole, and the doubt in Jude's eyes has basically disappeared, and his face is very ugly, but Alan still doesn't give up, and he makes up for it.

"Just now, you wanted to trouble me, didn't you?" Alan narrowed his eyes, and his tone was erratic: "It's easy to understand, being slandered, reckless, and the young knight doesn't think so much at all, let alone believe in the deception of a good friend, because in his opinion, it's impossible, the young knight will only be angry because of his good friend's words, plus he is already hostile to someone.... In this case, it is clear that someone is playing you like an idiot and using you against me. ”

After he said these words, Jude's face was already gloomy, and Alan finally patted him on the shoulder with sympathy, and said with a sigh: "To tell you the truth, although I haven't been in contact for a long time, I think your popularity may not be very good....."

This sentence obviously aroused Jude's inner negative attitude towards self, as well as suspicion of others, under the influence of magic and words, plus that realistic and changeable aura, Jude completely believed Alan's words, and now he is whispering names one by one, his face is so gloomy that he is about to drip.

"Don't be too sad. Under the inexplicable gaze of others, Alan seemed to be very intimate with Jude, and now he was constantly patting him on the shoulder.

"You can come and trouble me without any qualms because I'm an out-of-towner, but as an unlucky person who empathizes, I wouldn't advise you to trouble those people because it would cause more trouble. Speaking of this, Alan sighed, "So it's better to bear with it, after all, you don't have any evidence..."

"How can you endure this kind of thing!?" Jude chuckled, gritting his teeth, apparently fully convinced that he had been tricked.

"Don't be impulsive. Alan smiled and said, "Impulse is the devil, and it has no other effect than to make people feel good for a while." ”

His words sounded very sincere and friendly, and his expression looked like he was comforting his good friend, Jude's face was cloudy for a moment, then he raised his head and took a deep breath at Allen.

"I'm not going to be impulsive. He said, "Thank you, Alan Chlich, and I apologize for what I said earlier." ”

With that, he clenched his right hand into a fist and bowed.

This was a courtesy for the knights to express their sincere apologies, and Alan accepted it calmly.

Then he picked up a glass of wine from the plate of a passing waiter and handed it to Jude, raised it in his hand with a smile, and signaled: "You can change your mistakes, your character is not at all a bastard as they say." ”

"They?" said Jude's expression, which had just soothed.

"Eh, I made a mistake, there is nothing for them, I never speak ill of others behind my back, no, no, there is no them, well, you have to believe me...."