146. Reinhardt
"Orbrey is mine!" Afkana said.
"It's also my enemy, my uncle was killed by him, and I have the right to revenge as a blood relative, if you are not satisfied, sir, go to the young master to complain about me. Webber picked up his sword and walked over, but when Orbrey heard the words, he tried to flee and crawled desperately into the corner.
"You can't turn over, I'll give you a good time. After speaking, Weber took two steps, first took out the dagger on his body, put it in front of O'Brie, let him touch it and swing it as a weapon, and then Webber quickly took out his sword and inserted it into O'Bria's back, and the sword pierced into the heart, bleeding all over the ground.
"You are a nobleman who died in battle with a weapon. Webber drew a cross with his sword.
"You!" Afkana raised her hand in anger.
"Honorable brigadier, you are not my lord, if you want to spoil the knight's face, even if you are a young lord's lover, I will slash you with a sword. ”
Webber walked out of the cell, and after looking at the corpse, Afkana clenched her fists, scolded the corpse again, and returned to the ground.
Before leaving, Weber gave him a small silver coin and asked him to dispose of O'Brie's body and find a cemetery to place it.
After this happened, Afkana and Weber stopped talking.
Ignoring her, Weber took Afkana to her new territory, and then took Rictor to the church's cemetery, which might be the resting place of Puyian, and asked the priest for three days to give him a resting ceremony.
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Deduct the six men taken by Webber and Rictor, sixteen infantrymen, three riders, and three pikemen, and stay behind to protect Afkana as her personal force.
When this group approached the target territory, it attracted the attention of the local magistrate, who sent someone to inquire about his identity, and after confirming that it was the new lord, he immediately passed it on.
The dwelling of the lord of the fiefdom was a valley with a miniature castle (a stone walled city) and a fence of several hundred meters, in which there were twenty-two tiled houses.
The old butler in the walled city, the law department, has prepared all the information of the territory, the groom, the maid, the cook, the defilement (cleaning the farmhouse and the lord's excrement) and other servants, a total of thirteen.
"Your loyal servant, Fako, greets you. ”
"Your faithful servants, (others), greet you. ”
Entering the walled city, Afkana nodded with satisfaction, took the information and took a brief look, the territory has a mill, stable, iron house, carpentry and other shops, the territory is mountainous, hunting, digging medicine, mining, logging, etc. are also the daily sources of income of the lords (subject to the consent of the lord).
There is also a chapel where the priest's name is Pid, probably because he has been soaking in the vat for many years, and Pid's nose is red.
From the outside, this walled city can still live in people, and when you walk inside, spider silk is rare, and there are not many insects, but there is a musty smell.
"Get a few more windows and try to get as much ventilation and sunlight as possible in every room. Avkana looked around and entered her lord's house, the furnishings were very old, and she approached a chair and shook it, a little.
She also turned around the kitchen, and the smell was very strong, and a large number of animal intestines were hung up, attracting a lot of flies.
"Disgusting, deal with it right away. She then went into the master bedroom, where there was hay and a white quilt with a yellowish stain on it, which also made Afkana very unappetizing, and ordered her servants to take it.
After entering the walled city, Afkana arranged her sister Kira in the room next to her, and asked the servants to tidy up the walled city immediately, and arrange everything according to her own heart.
Afkana forgot about the unpleasantness with Webber for the time being, and looked at the territory information in more detail that night, every plant and tree here was hers, and she felt a great sense of satisfaction and security.
The next day, she sent two riders along the nearby villages to gather the gentry of the realm, and informed them that the lord had arrived and that he had come to swear allegiance.
This territory was designated as the town of "Feide", located in the province of Ple, and belonged to the same province as his brother-in-law, Abermin.
There were four villages in Fede, with four chiefs and two magistrates, three hundred and fifteen households (1,200 people) on land, an area of 2,000 acres (about eight square kilometers), and the lord's property consisted of 14 pairs of male and female horses, 10 cattle, 35 pigs, and 105 chickens, ducks, and birds...... The tax of the previous year was eighty-eight gold coins, and the whole year of the last year, just four days ago, because of the war, was still being calculated, but it would not exceed sixty gold coins, and in terms of expenditure, it was fifty-two gold coins. ”
But this was the figure before the rebellion of the Yugoslav army, and now only a quarter of these material wealth is actually left.
On the second day of her new home, more than 20 people came outside her lord's house, all of whom were more important people in the territory.
Afkana has witnessed many canonization ceremonies, and the little lord who can solve the oath in a few words, she has to be tedious for a long time, and it took every second of the lord's addiction to be satisfied.
The next morning, just after dawn, she could not wait to ride her horse, escorted by the sergeant, and inspected the whole of the Afgerian region as her master, and everywhere she went, both men and women, were amazed at the beauty of the new female lord, and some exaggerated, thinking that it was an angel descending to earth, knelt down.
"This is the new lord, Ser Afkana, keep your eyes open. The herald of the previous lord, Bhushu, led Afkana's horse and said in a loud voice.
Afkana did her best to smile and show her affinity.
When night came, the patrol group returned to the walled city, and Afkana was covered with dust, but her face did not show fatigue.
She is a person who can't get a trace of dirt, but now she doesn't care.
When she returned to the walled city, she was greeted by a female earth yellow dog who was a gatekeeper, very lean, completely different from the fat yellow dog "Reinhardt" who couldn't walk at the gate of the Moonlight Palace.
It's the same as a dog, and dogs are born far apart, whose fault is this?
Seeing that the dog was sticking out his tongue, Afkana asked the servant to bring a little jerky to feed the dog.
The shriveled jerky made the dog eat with relish, and he even looked at Afkana with intent.
"What's the dog's name?" Afkana said.
"No name, it's all called by skin color. Faco approached and let Afkana dismount by her shoulder.
Then the dog was called Reinhardt, and fattened it. ”
"In less than five years, I'll live in a castle ten times bigger than this. ”
Afkana shook her hand, and Reinhardt ran over to her, making her laugh, and before entering the house, "Build a kennel for her." ”
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The servant boiled the water, and Afkana left the tub without being served, and then lit the oil lamp to settle the score.
Afkana has a lot of ideas to revive the economy, and she has some money from Randall, which she plans to use to buy farm tools and equipment, reclaim some wasteland, and find Abermin's cooperation to restart the mines in the territory.
The cost of installation, tipping, and food were all minimized by her, and the money she saved was used to buy tools, organize caravans, reclaim slopes, and plant some fruit trees, .......