Chapter Ninety-Five: Guilt
Stannis walked around the feast, occasionally pointing at him or gathering to peek at him and whisper.
It doesn't seem like it's a good thing for people to be too famous, for example, it's difficult to find someone who doesn't know you.
However, Stannis quickly locked on a target.
"I'm going to drink! I'm going to drink!"
At the end of the table, a middle-aged man was yelling.
A drunken drunkard, perfect object.
Stannis walked over, and the middle-aged man looked still in his head, with an oak brooch pinned to the placket of his coat, which was supposed to be his family crest.
"Good day, sir, may I ask your surname?" Stannis asked solemnly, jumping in front of him.
The guy with the cerebellum and brain stem who had been anesthetized with alcohol laughed, "I'm Uncle Kimberly in Oak County!"
Sure enough, it's the kind of guy who can be easily hooked, and Stannis pointed his finger at his face again, "Do you know who I am?"
"Oh?" Kimberly leaned over and looked at Stannis with his drunken eyes, "I don't know, are you the new waiter?"
Stennis was overjoyed, but he still didn't move, "Do you know Count Justine?"
Kimberly burped, "Hiccup~~ Justin, of course I know it, how can I not know this kind of legend! But it's a pity that I haven't talked to him personally, but I've only seen him from afar." ”
Okay! Stennis gave ten big fingers to his wit.
"I'm from another country and I'm curious about him, so I wonder if I can ask him a little bit about him?"
Kimberly licked his tongue slyly, "Boy, I'll tell you all if you invite me to drink two glasses of wine." ”
Stannis felt helpless, anyway, the drinks at this dinner party were free, and he didn't have to spend money.
He ran over and brought two glasses of wine, and then happily brought them back to Lord Oakshire, and Kimberly drank them all in one gulp, as if he were resurrected.
"Shall we begin then, Sir Kimberly. Stannis asked.
Kimberly let out a long sigh, "Ahhhhh ”
Stannis immediately said impatiently, "I want to know what happened to him in the past year. ”
"It's been a year...... Kimberly touched his head, looking embarrassed.
"Any questions?"
"There is no problem, but if you live in the Duchy of Tanis, you should know very well, that kid did such an earth-shattering thing, I'm afraid even His Majesty the Emperor has heard of it. ”
Sure enough, Stannis knew that the past year had changed dramatically, and the fate of everyone around him had changed as a result.
"I want to know more clearly, after all, a person of high power like you must know the inside story that we small people don't know. ”
"That's right, after all, Uncle Ben is also the county magistrate!" This guy was fooled without any doubt, "But I'm not a party to the case, so I don't know the inside story very well, so I'll pick what I know." ”
Stannis nodded as he continued.
"About a year ago, fourteen months to be exact, I received an invitation from the Marquis de Flode to attend the engagement of his youngest daughter to the Earl of Justine. And I had long heard that this Count of Justion was a young hero, so I wanted to meet him, and at that time I immediately set off for Baili City, which is here. ”
He wrote a letter to him, saying that he was very grateful to the Marquis of Freud for his kindness all the time, and that he knew very well that he was sorry for Miss Anist, but that he had already belonged to him, and that he was about to marry another woman. ”
It turns out that this former Stennis is an empathetic scumbag! Now Stanis is indignantly rebuked, in this world he is a staunch friend of women.
"Do you mean that the earth-shattering thing he has done is to regret his marriage, and will Earl Froude let him go?"
"Of course not, not to mention that the matter of repentance of marriage has made His Excellency the Marquis lose face, just saying that this Justinian wants to marry a woman of extremely low status cannot be accepted by the entire empire!"
Sure enough, in this era, the view of the door is deep-rooted, and it is still impossible to marry a woman who is not in the right household if you want to fall in love freely.
"And what happened later?" Stannis asked hurriedly.
"Later, of course, the furious Marquis of Flode united with the army of the other sixteen lords to press the border and come to the door to ask for guilt, and I was fortunate enough to be one of these seventeen princes. ”
"That's an exaggeration, seventeen lords!" Stannis knew the strength of his tattered territory, not to mention seventeen, one could wipe it out.
"Yes, in fact, Marquis Froude didn't really want to kill his favorite son-in-law, he just wanted to find a step to make Justin admit his mistake in front of so many lords and remarry his daughter, and that's it. ”
"It's that simple?" Stannis didn't expect to poke out such a big basket, but his father-in-law was willing to forgive him.
"Oh, and one more condition, which is to kill the lowly woman named Sasha, because she is the cause of all the troubles. ”
Stannis's heart went into sudden arrest, and the name awakened an unforgettable emotion that welled up from the deepest depths of his heart, and the pain choked his throat and suffocated him.
"Actually, this condition is already very good, but you can regain the favor of the marquis by killing a mustard, if it were a normal person, she would have already taken off her head with a sword and sent her head over. ”
"So, did Sir Justin kill the woman?"
"Hey...... So he shook the whole kingdom! Of course not, otherwise he wouldn't have become a legend. When our army approached his territory, he went into battle alone, and the heroic appearance of the god of war still seems to have happened yesterday. ”
This guy is hanging like this, fighting against the princes of the Seventeenth Route with his own strength!
"He's not going to really fight you all alone, is he?"
Kimberly laughed, "Of course not, he's not a god after all. He came to us and said that he was guilty, and did not want to see anyone shed blood for him, so he proposed that each lord should send one of his best knights to fight before his army, and that he would not kill with a wooden spear, and that his opponent should be armed with any weapon. If he loses, he is willing to apologize with death, but if he is lucky enough to win seventeen times, ask everyone to open up. ”