Chapter 726: Expanding the Field
Victor had planned to spend the winter at Silvermoon Manor, spending some time with Nicole and Lilia, and then moving to Sylvia's Red Frosttree Manor in the spring of the following year. However, Nicole wanted to encourage Shirley to confess to His Highness Randall, and Victor could only go to the kite castle to avoid it first, so that the hot-headed Shirley could calm down. Actually, Victor misses Catherine and their baby daughter, Princess Nana.
The season of water is a time for nobles to enjoy family life, Nana can already speak and walk, this winter, how can she not have a father by her side?
Among Victor's companions, Sylvia was the only one who was jealous of Catherine. Victor went to visit Catherine's mother and daughter, so he must find time to accompany Sylvia, and Sophia, the golden-eyed countess, could not be absent. Thus, Randall, like a diligent fox, traveled back and forth between several spouses throughout the winter. The total distance from Kite Fort to Jinshui City, from Jinshui City to Pinghu Town, and then from Pinghu Town to Kite Fort is nearly 1,200 kilometers, but Victor is not tired of it, and it takes Caligula three or five hours to rush from one place to another.
The ladies had become accustomed to their lovers returning early in the morning, and after a few days of staying, they quietly left at night. But the church has a lot of complaints about this behavior of His Highness Randall, and the Silver Knight should not go it alone, let alone the Raging Wind Sword Saint. Cardinal Theon commissioned Bishop Pero of Horse Hills to negotiate with His Royal Highness Randall, and Victor said lightly: I just took the servant out for a walk.
Who could stop His Highness Randall from going out for a walk, even if he walked a little far......
In this way, Randall had a busy winter, but when spring came, everything was restored, people left their warm houses and resumed their work, and the family and domain were back in business, Victor finally had no time to walk around anymore.
The Red Frost Tree Manor has a male host, and the happiest person is of course Sylvia, but she has always been unhappy with Nicole's hint that Shirley confesses to Victor.
"Honey, Nicole challenges me...... I said, she challenges your wife, what should you do?"
Sylvia was wearing a simple pink dress, with one hand on her waist, and her menacing appearance was so beautiful that people couldn't take their eyes off it.
Victor smiled dumbly, resisted the urge to take this peerless beauty into his arms, put down the letter in his hand, shrugged his shoulders, and teased: "Nicole was personally cultivated by you and Trisley, and I remember that you once said that you hoped Nicole could be like a lord." She's a true lord now, as you wish, why aren't you upset again?"
"A naturally awakened female probationary knight cannot be promoted to a knight before the age of 24, and must marry the grand knight of the family and have children. That's the rule I set. Sylvia raised her chin slightly, and said reluctantly: "Nicole knew that you couldn't accept Shirley, but she deliberately hinted at Shirley and asked her to confess to His Highness Randall, now no big knight dares to marry Shirley....... all the naturally awakened female trainee knights of the family must abide by the rules I have made, why can Shirley be an exception?"
However, Nicole didn't break the rules. Victor shook his head and argued, "First of all, Shirley was originally a 'gift' from the Solim family, and she is obligated to serve me, regardless of whether I accept her service or not. ”
Secondly, Shirley is only 16 years old, and she is still young from getting married at the age of 24. ”
"Finally......" Victor paused, smiling, "Nicole thinks your rules are unfair to the Randalls...... There are no big knights in the Randall family, and Nicole has finally cultivated three naturally awakened female probationary knights, and they all have to serve the silver knights of other families?Shirley's bloodline comes from the old Marquis of Solim, and she is called the most potential female probationary knight in Silvermoon Manor, I can understand Nicole's desire to keep Shirley, and I also believe that the great knights of the centaur hills have the intention of marrying Shirley, and I am afraid that she will not wait for her to reach the age of 24...... My dear, although you have made the rules, if the Grand Knights show their charm to Shirley, win her heart, and abduct her from the Randall family, it won't be a violation of the rules, right?"
Hearing this, Sylvia couldn't help but roll her eyes, pouted and said, "You also think that I am too ruthless to ask the 24-year-old female probationary knight to serve the silver knight? Do you know that before I took charge of the York family, the low-blooded female probationary knight had to serve the silver knight if she failed to advance to the bronze rank before the age of 21? Look at Charlotte again, she just turned 18 years old, and the Viscount of Buryat married her, and she was not given any chance at all...... I've been very tolerant of delaying the marriage of a female probationary knight for three years. Moreover, I asked the female probationary knights of the natural awakening to go to the Rose Manor to receive knightly training, and also to prevent the grand knights from seducing the young female probationary knights like the Viscount of Buryatia pursued Charlotte. ”
"I'm protecting them, understand?" Sylvia stretched out two slender jade fingers, grabbed her husband's ears, and said coquettishly, "You are now the guardian of the centaur hills, and you should be on my side...... You asked Nicole to send all the female apprentice knights trained by Silvermoon Manor to Rose Manor. ”
"Okay, good, good ......" Victor reached out and grabbed Sylvia's elastic waist, pulled her into his arms, and said with a smile: "Everyone else can, Shirley will forget it." ”
"Isn't that an example?" asked Sylvia, looking at her husband in a charming look.
Seeing that Victor was silent, she sighed slightly, raised her eyebrows, and said, "Do you think Nicole is really good to Shirley by doing this?"
"Shirley's bloodline is actually very ordinary, and the possibility of her being promoted to the Silver Knight is very slim. If she didn't get promoted to Bronze Knight by the age of 30 and missed the best age to have children, who else could she marry? Klaus of Silvermoon Manor? That kid worked hard enough, but he was still a low-blooded knight. Shirley could have served the noble Silver Knight and enjoyed a peaceful and prosperous life, but in the future, she could only marry a low-blooded knight, have low-blooded offspring, and fight hard for her small family, and even participate in dangerous battles. ”
"Nicole's arrogance is very rare among female probationary knights, and the female probationary knights of Rose Manor are more willing to serve the high-blooded silver knights. ”
What Sylvia said, of course Victor understood. A mere Shirley is nothing to Centaur Hills, and Sylvia and Victor are talking about the family system, and most importantly, Sylvia is handing over the rule-making power to her husband.
Victor can decide when the female apprentice knight of the Centaur Hills will marry, but he thinks that Sylvia's approach is in the family's interest, and chuckles, "Honey, Nicole only wants to keep Shirley, she doesn't mean to challenge you...... If the lords below are all thinking about the big picture, we should have a headache, shouldn't we?"
This was not what Sylvia wanted to hear, she liked Victor against herself, and then racked her brains to come up with a novel idea to solve the problem she was experiencing.
If the chances of a low-blooded female trainee knight being promoted to a full-fledged knight are slim, they are of course willing to serve the noble silver knight and breed pure blood offspring for the family. However, the Golden Elixir, the Dawn Elixir, and the Knight's Spiritual Bloodline Secret Method can change the fate of the low-bloodline nobles, thereby shaking the knight's marriage system, which will lead to an increase in the number of low-bloodline knights, and the heirs of the silver knights will become more and more difficult.
When a naturally awakened female probationary knight has more than eighty percent chance of becoming a senior female knight, enjoying beauty, strength, wisdom, and slow aging, then no one wants to covet comfort and abundance, and serve the silver knight and cut off his own knightly path.
No one would deny that the noble bloodline is the core of the family, the source of the knights. It is a pity that the female knight of the bronze rank is more likely to affect the bloodline of the child, and the future of the female probationary knight must be sacrificed for the family to keep the bloodline pure.
Sylvia will never give up the opportunity for the family to take off, and must ensure the stable inheritance of the family's bloodline. The old knight marriage system represents the old pattern, and it can no longer adapt to the new situation brought about by the golden potion and the secret method of the soul bloodline. If she doesn't have a choice, she will force the female probationary knight to serve the family's big knight, but Centaur Hills obviously needs to re-establish the marriage system to accommodate more low-blooded knights, and use this as a starting point to form a complete and reasonable new pattern.
Reform is a large and complex undertaking, and Sylvia rarely takes matters into her own hands, and as a knight of the gods, the Queen of Roses is more adept at bringing out the abilities of her people. Only Victor's ingenuity can surprise her and fascinate her.
Victor knew Sylvia as well as he knew himself, smiled slightly, and said, "My dear, the noble bloodline is not only the source of knights, but also the core of the family's dominance. The Silver Knight's marriage system is very important and cannot be changed, nor does it need to be changed. ”
Sylvia's eyes lit up, and the entire study became bright, and she asked with a smile, "What is the breakthrough in your Soul Blood Secret Method?"
"A fantastic find. Victor pointed to a pile of secret letters on his desk and said with great interest, "These secret letters contain information about Daredevil Willy, compiled by Night Stalkers and Rose agents, and involve the confessions of hundreds of parties. Trisley sorted out and annotated the information, but I combed through it myself and finally found the reason why Willy became the Daredevil......."
"It all started 21 years ago......
In a remote village in the northern county of Gombis, the eldest son of the village chief falls in love with a mountain girl. He was a vassal soldier trained by the lord, commanded the militia of the small village, and was quite authoritative in the village, able to break through the obstacles of the family, and marry the young wife of the cottage people. However, the daughter of another vassal family in the village is obsessed with the militia captain, and her sweetheart's empathy makes her turn from love to hate, and her heart is twisted.
Soon after the militia captain got married, he took his wife to visit relatives in the cottage. On the way, they may have encountered a wandering gnoll leader, the militia captain, and all fourteen young militiamen who accompanied them, including the younger brother of the vassal's daughter. The mountain man's wife, who took refuge in her husband's protection and familiarity with the terrain, survived, but she did not see the attacker and could not tell what had happened.
The daughter of a paranoid and vicious vassal frantically accused the daughter of the mountain people of killing her husband and a dozen young militiamen in front of everyone, slandering her as a demon. The villagers who died of their sons and nephews were also angry with the new wife of the militia captain, and the village chief originally looked down on the daughter of the mountain people, and now the family of the villagers was raging, in order to prevent the anger of the villagers from burning to his own head, he cooperated with the daughter of the vassal and pointed the finger at the daughter of the mountain people.
The mountain people's daughter was alone, and no one dared to speak for her, and the angry family prepared to lynch her, but the village chief's wife found out that she was pregnant.
The killing of pregnant women was not allowed by religious rules, and the villagers, all of whom were devout believers, first imprisoned the daughters of the mountain people at the behest of the village chief's wife. But the vassal daughter still did not let go of the culprit who killed her sweetheart and younger brother, and she tried every means to curse, insult, and bully the daughter of the mountain people every day.
Nine months later, the mountain man's daughter gave birth to a baby boy, and rumors that she was a demon were shattered, but by this time she was insane, muttering to herself, laughing maniacally, and muttering that she would kill everyone in the village. The village chief's wife didn't dare to defend her anymore, so she took her grandson away and left her to fend for herself.
It didn't take long for the poor mountain people's daughter to die of depression, in fact she was poisoned by the vassal daughter.
Even if she killed her enemy, the vassal daughter still refused to give up, and in the next ten years, she spared no effort to create all kinds of evidence to frame and slander the enemy's son as a demon.
She first killed kittens and puppies, framed the sons of young enemies, and when the other party grew up, she attacked children, then women, elaborate stories of night demons, and even murdered the village chief's wife, who had been sheltering her grandson. Because of her perseverance, the terrifying atmosphere accumulated in the remote village, and finally everyone believed the rumors of the night demon.
Finally, Willy really turned into a night demon.
Many of the villagers were killed by the Daredevil Willy, but the initiator is still alive, and the family agents are under the orders of His Highness Randall to investigate the information of the Daredevil, and it is not difficult for them to pry open the mouth of the vassal's daughter.
The truth is revealed, the daughter of the vassal single-handedly created the night demon, and all the villagers are her accomplices.
It's a tragic, twisty, and embarrassing tale that the bard could weave into a long book, earning the tears and wrath of his listeners in the tavern, and bags of silver. His Royal Highness Randall values the mystery of the law contained in the story, stripping away the love and hatred in it, in short, this is a case of a lie becoming true.
"A lie told countless times can become true?" Sylvia asked thoughtfully.
"This is true in specific cases. Victor nodded and said with emotion: "Everyone thinks you are a demon, and you may really become a demon...... Those villagers were ignorant, deceived and manipulated by vicious women, and deserved to be killed by the night demons. ”
He changed his words and said with a smile: "Instead, I want to praise the daughter of the vassal, the lies she weaved are almost self-consistent, and thus created the Daredevil Willy. ”
"Daredevil Willy's case has been a valuable inspiration for me. Victor let go of Sylvia, stood up and said, "The Secret Technique of Spiritual Blood Can Be Extended to the Realm of Pregnant Women......."