Chapter 142: What Happened to the Messenger

Lorist shook his head as he looked at the more than two hundred recruits lined up for military training not far away, these recruits were all newly recruited from the more than 2,000 immigrants in the new immigrant town of the Viscount Kenmeth, compared with the two thousand slave laborers of the Kenmax family, these recruits who were originally homeless were much worse in physical fitness and generally malnourished.

Think about it, slave labor is to earn money for the Kenmasse family, and they can also make ends meet. These immigrants are different, they are originally homeless, and it is good to survive the hunger and hunger. I was taken to the north by the Kenmäth family to divide a few acres of land to give some food and clothing, and I didn't care about it when I stuffed it into the new immigrant town, and I had to pay taxes after two years, and it was normal for me to not have enough food, clothing, and poor health.

It will take at least half a year to come in handy, Lorist touched his chin and pondered when he saw Miss Theresty's black iron butler enter the recruit camp and hurried over.

The black iron butler came to the front and saluted and said, "My lord, Miss, please go to the city construction headquarters for a visit, and there is something important to discuss." ”

Miss Dressy asked Lorist to discuss the construction of the main castle, which was connected by the mountain and the cliff, and was six stories high, and was imposing, easy to defend and difficult to attack. This was set a long time ago, and now it has been built to three floors.

However, there were large open spaces on the hillsides on either side of the main castle, and the plan was to build a group of villas on these open spaces to serve as residences for the knights and civil officials of Lorlist's family. Now that the plan for these villas has come out, it is up to Loriste to seize it.

The northern slope of the main castle is relatively large and the terrain is relatively flat, and Miss Teresti, with the assistance of the master architect Siroba, devised two plans, one is that the villas are larger, a total of thirty-eight villas. The second option is a cluster of small villas, which can build 58 cottages using the area of the hillside, which is 20 more than the first option.

The southern slope of the main castle is steep, and the drop is a bit large, and no matter how much you use the open space, you can only build eleven villas. Lorist came mainly to decide which scheme to adopt on the northern slopes.

Lorist stood in front of the model and looked at it for a long time, but he still felt not very satisfied, and after thinking about it, he said to Miss Theresty and the others: "In this way, the northern hillside is four floors, and the upper two floors are built for large villas, and the lower two floors are for small villas, so it is decided." As for the southern slope, I suggest building buildings according to the terrain, and I think it would be possible to build three buildings. I would like each of these buildings to be larger, not to be a single room or a suite, like a college dormitory, but to have four or five rooms each, like a cluster of small cottages. ”

Out of the city construction headquarters, I saw Paul Binns Pegasus coming: "My lord, here are two beggars, they say that they are messengers of some convoy, and they want to find you......"

The messenger of the convoy, Lorist, was delighted: "What about the people?"

"Wait outside your room......" Paul Binns dismounted and handed over the reins.

Reddy, Jim and the others had been gone for less than ten days, and a reply came so quickly, it seemed that the convoy was about to arrive soon. Lorist was overjoyed, and hurried towards the southern wall.

When he went up to the tower, Lorist saw two men standing outside the room, dressed in tatters, unclothed, and with a dirty face, one of whom was still wrapped in black bandages. With this appearance, it is no wonder that Paul Binns said that it was two beggars.

Seeing Lorist striding forward, the two beggars, oh messenger, cried on the spot, fell to their knees and wept silently: "My lord, we have finally seen you......"

Lorist asked suspiciously, "...... you guys Is it ......?"

"My lord, I'm Ruhl, he's Morder, and we're the convoy guards. Have you forgotten about us?" said the uninjured one, crying.

Ruhl, Mode, Well, these are indeed two of El's guards, but this is also too miserable.

Lorist kicked on the leg of the guard who was watching the excitement with a cracked mouth: "You eyeless thing, why don't you hurry up and get some water for the two brothers to clean up, what are you smirking at? ”

The two messengers who washed their faces and changed their clothes finally made Lorist feel a little familiar, and Sedkamp, who rushed to hear the news, recognized these two messengers, and what he was doing in the northbound convoy was to take the guards to count the warehouses and count the seizures, and called out the names of the two messengers in one mouth: "Ruhl, Mode, why are you here?"

"Lord Sedercamp, we're here to deliver a letter. At the mention of their mission, the two messengers wept again.

The letters were in Lorlist's hand, four or five in all. In the letter, Schrader said that Aonohara was victorious, El was injured and His Royal Highness II, and Chrisia came to the team to reach an agreement with Schred, and all the terms of the agreement were written in detail, and Schrader also explained his idea and the benefits and significance of getting the standard equipment of the White Lion Legion.

After reading the letter, Lorist was happy and sad, happy that his cousin, the little chubby girl who bullied Little Locke when he was a child has now become a golden knight, and the sad thing is that the northbound convoy is still wandering around the Kingdom of Antinac, and it is far away to reach the Northland. When they swept away the rebellious lords of the Antinac Kingdom, they were afraid that it would snow when they hit the road again. Today is September 9, winter is coming soon, and when the snow is heavy, it will be even more difficult for the convoy to travel north.

Lorist subconsciously looked at Shi Fatzi's signature and date, and was stunned, because the date of signing the letter was June 28......

"It's taken you more than two months to get here?" Lorist wondered, it only took him a month to get to the Northland after leaving Gerdos City, how could it take so long to deliver a letter?

The two guards of the convoy cried again: "My lord, when we came out, there were twelve people, and now there are only two of us......

Lorist raised an eyebrow: "What happened?"

"My lord, twelve of us are fully armed, one man and two horses, and when we passed through the kingdom of Antinac, we encountered no less than ten bandits and robbers, and when we arrived in the Duchy of Madras, we were only seven men. The Duchy of Madras was fine, we had no accidents, and when we arrived at the town of White Rock on the other side of the Hendry Ford Rope Bridge, we were about to cross the river when we heard a caravan coming from the opposite side saying that the Duke of Lukins was going to send troops to punish the Norton family who were disrespectful to him, so we did not dare to cross the river from the Hendry Ford Rope Bridge, and turned downstream to cross the river by ferry.

After crossing the river, we found a town to rest and buy something to eat, but the garrison of that town insisted that we were robbers and horse thieves and wanted to arrest us. We were left with only five men left, and we lost our salutes and mounts, and the garrisons were so frightened that we did not dare to chase them out of the city. We had to walk on foot for five days to a territory called Baron Farad, and we wanted help from the baron, who said we were outcasts and arrested us. They also stripped us of our money, weapons and iron armor.

We were captured by the baron and did hard labor for more than a month, and then the baron went to war with another viscount, and he stuffed us with a spear and forced us to go to war, and after two days of fighting, Verin and Azk were killed, and I and Morder, Gilson escaped from the melee, and Gilson was hit by three arrows, and after running out, he couldn't do it. Mo and I didn't dare to go into the towns and villages anymore, and after wandering in the wild for six days, we finally arrived here and met the adults......"

Ruhl wept and talked about the hardships they had had had had to make to deliver the letter.

Lorist slapped his hateful palm on the table with a "bang": "How can this be true, what is the name of the baron you are talking about, and what is the name of that town?"

Don't think about it, it must be a good thing done by those lords who were newly canonized to the Northland by the second prince. The people of the Northland have always been hospitable, and travelers can get help if they ask for help from nearby lords or towns and villages. Like the messengers, they can even get a banquet and entertainment if they spend the night with the lords of the Northlands, if nothing else, that is, the lords want to hear news from afar, learn about the situation outside the Northlands, and sometimes some generous lords will give the messenger some coins as a reward.

Since the second prince canonized forty or fifty new territorial nobles in the Northland, the Northland has been made into a miasma by these outsiders, who pretend to be robbers when they have no money, and go to nearby towns and villages to rob people if they don't have people, and many old Northland lords and new lords have conflicts over these things. The last time at the lord's banquet to celebrate the end of the knight's tournament, a lord told me about a new lord who pretended to be a horse thief and robbed another lord's caravan and was recognized.

Baron Farad, Lorist looked at the map, and sure enough, it was a new lord, and the territory was only two days away from the Rock Castle, and the territory was the territory of the Earl Spencer in between. As for the town Ruhl mentioned, it can't be found on the map, but that location is also the territory of the new lord, the viscount of Davov. That town may be a newly established immigrant town, and the garrison recruited are all rogue ruffians, so they will refer to the deer as horses and fight the idea of the messengers. The place was a little farther away, and it took four or five days to ride a horse, so I wrote it down first and then settled the account.

"Tell the guards outside the door to find Josk and the Vasima knights, and let them come here. Lorist said to Sedkamp.

"How is the team doing now, and is El's recovery from his injuries okay?" Lorist asked Ruhl and Morder.

Ruhr replied: "In the Battle of Aonogahara, our convoy suffered minor losses, with less than a thousand casualties. If Lord El hadn't been injured, he would have led the team to deliver the letter this time. The last time Lord Schreid sent a letter from Lord Benzburg, Lord El-sama was supposed to come, but after Lord Bodfinger returned from the Imperial Capital, Lord El-Lord changed his mind and asked someone else to deliver the letter......"

"Wait......" The more Lorist listened, the more wrong it became: "You just said that Knight Schreid sent me a letter when you were in Benzburg?"

"yes......" Ruhl replied, and then something suddenly came to mind: "Could it be ...... Didn't you receive the letter, sir, and you didn't see the messenger?"

Lorist shook his head.

Ruhl and Morde looked at each other with a look of joy on their faces.

Ruhl said, "Your Excellency, they set out a month before us, and Lord Schrader has written to you mainly to report on the situation of the convoy and the news that Master Boderfinger has received from the Imperial Capital. The person who sent the letter was Kremer, and he was also a guard, so the adults should know him. They, like us, were twelve people when they set off. We haven't delivered the letter to you yet, and from our experience, they may, may have been, what happened to them......"

"I will find out their whereabouts, no one can harm our messenger and escape the revenge of our Norton family, and I will give you an explanation. Lorist gritted his teeth, no wonder he always felt that the letter written by Shi Fat Man had no beginning or end, and there was a wave of messengers missing, because he was missing a letter.

"Tell me about the convoy, it's not ......written in the letter," Lorist said.

Ruel and Maud began to introduce the situation of the team in a word.

"What, there are more than 4,000 carriages and more than 50,000 horses in the convoy, and there are 15,000 family forces escorting the convoy north?" Lorist almost jumped, no wonder he was able to beat the noble armed forces of more than 30,000 horses to the ground, and also made His Royal Highness remember the strength of the convoy and ask Shi Fatzi for their help in sweeping away those rebellious lords......

Lorist now finally understands why Shi Fatzi is so confident in his letter that he has reached an agreement with His Second Highness, and the strength of the original team has expanded so fast that it can determine the future of the rise and fall of a kingdom. It seems that there is no need to worry about the safety of the convoy for the time being. The letter dated June 28, today is September 9th, almost halfway through two months, and if it goes well, the convoy should have completed the agreement with His Royal Highness.

Joske and Vasima entered the room after signing up outside the door.

Lorist beckoned them forward, pointed to the name of Baron Farad on the map, and told them what had happened to Ruhl and Mod's message, which made Joske and Vasima furious.

"It's a shame for the nobility...... Vasima said.

"My lord, we must take revenge on this Baron Farad, no one can do this to our messenger. Joske said.

"I command you, take the squad of archers and the squadron of cavalry, hang this Baron Farad at the gate of his castle, burn his castle, write down the reasons why we are doing this, and let the new lords know some of the traditions of the Northlands and the rules of the nobility...... Lorist commanded.

"Yes, my lord, we will do as you tell us. "Joske and Vassima stood upright.

"Don't be in a hurry to leave, this time you will cross the territory of the Earl of Spenced, and I will write a letter to you to bring to him, so as not to cause a misunderstanding. In addition, according to Ruhl and Mord, they had a group of messengers before, but we have no information. After you send out the troops this time, ask around about their whereabouts, and see who did the good deeds......"

"Understood, sir. Josk and Wasima replied.

Ruhl and Morder stood up.

"My lord, please allow us to go together. We want to get the bones of our colleagues back. Mo said.

"You just came, can you hold on?" Lorist couldn't help it, their reason for going was strong.

"Our bodies hold on, my lord. Ruhl said.

"Well, let's rest for a day, set off tomorrow, and rest well in the evening, and I'll check the injuries on my body, and if it's okay, I'll allow you to go with you, and hang that Baron Fallad with your own hands, I'm sure you'll be happy to do it." Tomorrow you will also take twenty guards with them, and help them collect the bones of those who died bravely, and when I return I will bury them in the tomb of the martyrs in the Rock Castle. Lorist said.

The Tomb of the Martyrs is a cemetery of soldiers opened up by Lorist on the hill opposite the main castle of the Rock Castle, where all the family soldiers and guards who died in the war are buried here, which is convenient for future generations to remember and pay tribute.

"Thank you, sir......" Ruhl and Morder said in unison.

"Yes, sir. That's Sedkamp's answer.