Chapter 80: Theresdy

Lorist was about to get the wine bottle with his hand paused, snapped his fingers, beckoned the maid of the hotel, and then smiled at the woman in black sitting in front of him: "I don't know if Miss has eaten it, why don't you have a grilled lamb chop, the grilled lamb chops here taste good, and they are very delicious with the famous red wine here." May I have the pleasure of having a lady to lunch?"

The woman in black was stunned, her eyes wandering through the black veil on Lorlist's face, as if trying to figure out what Lorlist's sudden hospitality was up to, but when she heard Lorlist's roast lamb chops and red wine were very delicious, her throat moved twice rapidly, as if she was swallowing.

But the woman in black still resisted the temptation of the food to her, and Yingying stood up and nodded lightly: "If your convoy is inconvenient, forget it, it's my fault to disturb the interest of the adults to enjoy lunch, please forgive me for being presumptuous." ”

"Wait a minute......" Lorist stood up and stretched out his hand, "Please wait a minute, Miss, maybe I should introduce myself, I'm Norton Lorlist, from the Norton family in the Northlands." My men went to find the carriage to organize a convoy back to the family domain, which is my family badge. ”

Lorist took out a gold family crest and placed it on the table, the raised motif on the badge was a giant bear with its mouth open and roaring, and the back of the badge was engraved with an intricate laurel pattern, and the name of Lorist was engraved in the middle of the pattern. This is the identity of the Lorist quasi-aristocracy, and anyone with an orthodox aristocratic education can tell the real from the fake at a glance.

The woman in black covered her mouth behind the veil with an astonished "ah", obviously not expecting to meet the main owner of the destination she was going to, and she didn't know how to reply for a while.

"Miss, what's wrong?"

"Miss......"

On the table next to him stood an old man in his fifties who looked like a butler and a young maid of fifteen or sixteen.

The little maid rushed over and held the woman in black, staring at Lorist with big eyes viciously, as if Lorist had done something bad to her young lady......

The old man dressed as a butler stood in front of the woman in black.

Hehe, Lorist laughed, the old man's momentum, well, black iron rank, loyal protector, very good.

The woman in black only reacted at this time, hurriedly signaled the old man and the little maid to get out of the way, and bowed again to Lorlist: "I'm sorry, my lord, they are just worried about my safety......"

Lorist waved his hand and smiled, "It's okay, I can understand." Now, can you sit down and tell me why you're going to our family?"

The little maid's eyes were sharp, and at a glance she saw the gold badge that Lorist placed on the table: "Ah, the badge, is it gold?"

Then he picked up the badge, put it in his mouth and bit it down......

"Don't ......" Lorist was shocked, but it was too late to stop it.

Sure enough, the little maid bit down like biting on stainless steel, lost her badge and held her cheeks and screamed in pain......

"Miss, this person is impersonating, and his badge is not made of gold at all......" The little maid complained to the woman in black with tears in her eyes.

The woman in black stroked her forehead behind the hood with her hand, looking as if she had obviously been defeated by her unobtrusive maid.

Lorist couldn't help but laugh, picked up the family crest that had been thrown aside, secretly ran a little vindictive, and said to the little maid: "Little girl, no nobleman's badge will be made of pure gold. To check the authenticity of the badge, one is to look at the pattern on the back, and the other is to look at the ......"

Lorist fed the remaining fighting energy from his veins into the badge, and a puff of black smoke rose from the surface of the badge, and then slowly, the black smoke condensed into a giant bear that roared into the sky.

"It's amazing...... the little maid forgot about her toothache and looked at the black bear with black smoke condensed.

"This is because the badge adds some special materials that can connect the fighting spirit, and according to the pattern on the surface of the badge and the pattern behind it, it is easy to achieve this effect after entering the fighting energy. All the family badges of aristocratic families can be distinguished from fake according to this effect, and the proportion of the badge materials and the arrangement of the patterns of each family are very secret, and it is difficult for outsiders to make fake family badges. So it's not so easy to impersonate a nobleman. Lorist explained with a smile, and the black bear with the black smoke condensed on the family crest in his hand was slowly dissipating.

"I'm sorry, my lord, little Winnie is so rude......" The woman in black apologized as she took off her veiled hood, revealing a delicate face, long chestnut hair, big intellectual eyes, a small mouth, and a round chin, but her skin seemed to be pale.

"It's okay, she's lovely. So beautiful young lady, do I have this honor to invite you to lunch?" said Lorlist, politely inviting again.

"Okay, I'm going to eat grilled chicken thighs, steak, fried bacon and crème brûlée and egg tarts......" Before the woman in black could speak, Winnie, the little maid next to her, was already happy to report a list of things she wanted to eat.

"Winnie......" The woman in black looked at her little maid cautiously.

"But Miss, Winnie has been following you to gnaw potatoes for half a month, Winnie wants to eat meat......" The little maid Winnie blinked her big eyes and looked at her young lady very aggrieved.

The woman in black was embarrassed, and her face turned red.

"Little Winnie, you and the old man go to that table, you can order whatever you want, don't worry, I'll pay for it." Lorist said, motioning to the hostess standing next to her, "Please bring this young lady a roast lamb chop, a fruit salad and a creamy matsutake mushroom, and a bottle of red wine." What does that little lady over there want, please fulfill her request, OK?"

"Yes, my lord, you will be able to do it soon, please wait. "The hostess knew Lorist's aristocratic status and was very respectful.

"By the way, I haven't asked for Miss's honorable name yet?"

The woman in black calmed down: "It's my fault that I forgot to introduce myself." I'm Nicol Theresti. She was the adopted daughter of Nicol Albeth and her student......"

"Nicol Albeth?, this name is so familiar, I think about it......" Lorist pondered, and soon remembered something: "The famous female scholar of ruins in the former Krisson Empire, professor, won the noble title of Imperial Damezz, and has written many research books on the ruins of the era of magical civilization......"

"Ah, my lord, how do you know so well?" said Terestie, dressed in black, surprised.

Lorist smiled: "It's very simple, I have studied at Dawn Academy in Molent City for many years, and ruinology is also one of the majors I have studied, and the main learning materials for this major are those research books on ruins written by your mother. I think that in order to pass the professional exam, I almost memorized all your mother's books, and those days of endorsement are really miserable to think about now!"

"Hehe......" Theresti also laughed: "You are going to endorse the book in order to cope with the professional exam, in fact, if you have the heart to study seriously, you don't have to memorize it at all, my mother's book is very organized, as long as you master a little, it is easy to contact up and down, all the way." Endorsement only shows that you are not learning at all. ”

"You're right, after passing the professional exam, I found that I quickly forgot what I had memorized and couldn't remember it anymore. By the way, is your mother, Dame Albert, alright?" asked Lorlist.

Theresty's face was gloomy, and she wanted to cry: "My mother is gone, three years ago, the eldest prince sent troops to sneak attack, and the third prince led a Jedi counterattack, and the two sides destroyed half of the imperial capital in a scuffle. It was during that scuffle that my mother was robbed by a rout and killed in an effort to protect her research. I packed up my mother's manuscripts and research materials, and took the butler and Winnie to the convent of the Temple of War to avoid the war. It was only after the war that I realized that my home had been ransacked. In the past two years, the situation in the imperial capital has been very bad, and as a scholar, I really can't make ends meet, so I have to accept the advice of my friends and go to the Northlands. ”

Lorist gloomed: "The festival mourns and changes ......"

"It's nothing...", perhaps it was the ordeal of life that made this pale-faced young female scholar more unusually strong: "In fact, going to the Northland to join the Norton family was partly my friend's insistence, and secondly, to continue my mother's research. My friend's name is Norton Chrisya, and she said that although the Norton family territory is in the remote north, there is no need to worry about war, and I can continue my mother's research there with peace of mind......"

"Norton Chrisya, my cousin?" Lorlist's memory was filled with a chubby girl, but the memory was not pretty, because the girl was pinching little Locke's face and making all sorts of grimaces, and in her memory little Locke was crying......

At that time, Xiao Locke's mother was still there, Xiao Rock was only five years old, and the fat girl was the daughter of Xiao Locke's second uncle, who had never met, and she came to the North with her second aunt to visit relatives, and then Little Rock became her favorite toy......

Lorist shook his head, leaving these painful memories behind: "Do you have any news about my second uncle and his family, can you tell me about their current situation?"

Theresya shook her head: "I've been separated from them for two years, and I don't know how they're doing now." However, my lord, your second uncle is no longer here. Seven years ago, that is, when the eldest prince raised troops to rebel, your second uncle's Royal Guards Knights were ambushed by the eldest prince's rebels and wiped out, and your second uncle was not spared. Your second uncle was the deputy head of the Royal Guards Knights at the time, and when the news came, your second aunt cried and fainted several times......"

Lorist's hands protruded: "It's the eldest prince again, I remember, we will calculate this account slowly......"

"Chrisya was a vindictive genius, and she was already a two-star silver star at the time when she was only twenty years old. Our house is next door to your second uncle's house, and Chrisia often comes to play, and she treats me very well, like my sister. After your second uncle's death, Chrisya joined the army and wanted to avenge your second uncle, but she ran back less than a year and was very angry, saying that the third prince was indecisive and just wanted to keep the throne, and that she was not worthy of her service if she was not enterprising. Later, she had a hot fight with the Second Highness, and she organized a team with the Second Highness to find trouble with the eldest prince."

"The last time I saw Chrisia was two years ago, when the civil war was coming to an end, and the three princes and the Grand Dukes were already negotiating an armistice. Chrisia returned to the imperial capital and came to my house. She told me that in order to prevent His Highness and His Second Highness from causing trouble again such as the Three Kings competing for the throne, the Third Prince disbanded the White Lion Legion that supported His Second Highness, and ordered His Second Highness to return to his own fiefdom. Krisya said that she wanted to follow His Royal Highness, and this time he returned to the imperial capital to take his second aunt and her two younger brothers to the fiefdom of His Second Highness. ”

Theresy recounted what she knew about Cresya.

"She didn't invite you to go?" Lorist was a little strange, how could his cousin let the young female scholar in front of her go all the way to the family territory in the north, instead of taking her to the fiefdom of the second highness, it was obviously much riskier to go to the north along the way.

She invited, but I declined. "Two years ago, because of the signing of the armistice, the residents of the imperial capital thought that they would be able to live a stable life when there was peace, but they did not expect that after the end of the war, life would be even more difficult, prices would skyrocket, and supplies would be very tight. Law and order are getting worse and worse, and more people are taking risks and falling into the grass. Although the war is over, there are more and more conflicts between the lords, and the life of the imperial capital is really untenable, so I thought of taking refuge in your Norton family. ”

"One of the biggest reasons I went to Northland was because of my mother's research. Is there a black swamp in your family territory?" asked Theresti.

"You're talking about the Black Mud, right?"

"Yes, it's a black mud swamp. After years of research, my mother found that there were probably ruins from the end of the Age of Magic in the black mud swamp, but she couldn't determine the correct location of the ruins. I'd like to go to the Northland to see the Black Mud Swamp, and if I can find the ruins, I'll be able to comfort my mother's spirit in the sky. Speaking of her research, Theresty's eyes twinkled strangely.

Lorist pouted.

"It's true, I didn't lie to you, my mother really found out, and I also think there are undiscovered ruins in the black mud swamp. Chrisya also knew about it, so she also wrote me a letter of introduction. Theresti thought Lorist was suspicious of her mother's work and was so anxious that she was about to cry.

"Oh, I didn't mean that. Lorist hurriedly comforted the young female scholar, "I just doubt that you can get close to the Black Mud Swamp, which is one of the most dangerous places in the Northlands. There is a very ferocious beast living there, the Iron Spine Bay crocodile, there are thousands of them, and they are too many to count. I remember that someone in the family had seen a thirty or forty-meter-long Iron Ridge Bay crocodile, and if there was no fighting spirit above the silver rank, he would not want to get close to the black mud swamp. ”

"That's so......" Lorist's words, the young female scholar straightened her hair.

Do you think that when you get to the black mud swamp, you can swagger and look for the ruins inside? If that's the case, it's your turn to discover the ruins? You've already been dug up, what a naïve girl.

"Well, Miss Theresti, as the head of the Norton family, I welcome you to join our convoy and go north, and you are welcome to be a guest of our family. In our family territory, you can stay as long as you want, you can continue your research with peace of mind, and you don't have to worry about life, we take care of everything. We will do our best to make you satisfied. Lorist said.

At this time, Lorist saw the captain of the garrison with a bitter face hurriedly enter the hotel, and saw that he hurriedly walked over and saluted respectfully: "Your Excellency, the local lord, Viscount Comas, has arrived, and he invites your lord to meet him." ”

Lorist motioned to the captain of the garrison to wait: "Miss Dressy, the convoy will be on the road in two days, for some reason, it may take a long time to travel continuously, if you need any help, please let us know, so as not to delay the convoy's trip, is it okay?"

The young female scholar's face was flushed, and she seemed to be very unaccustomed to asking for help, and hesitated for a long time before saying that the three of them had two carriages, but they also needed three pack horses to pull them.

Loris nodded, "Don't worry, Miss Theresty, we'll arrange this for you." All you have to do is wait for the news of our convoy departure. I beg your pardon for meeting with the local lord now, so I can only take my leave. Your lunch is here, please enjoy it slowly, and if you want anything, just ask the maid here. All the bills are on my account, please don't be polite. ”

Lorist stood up and bowed in apology, and instructed the innkeeper to take care of his three guests, before leaving with the captain of the garrison.