Chapter 323: The Assembly is in progress

The sound of wheels was gone, and Lorist stood at the window of his bedroom on the fourth floor, silent, looking at the streets that were gradually shrouded in darkness. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Your Excellency......" Targer's voice came from behind him.

"What do you think?" Lorist didn't turn around.

"My lord, this Earl of Churchwick didn't tell the truth, he said that he got the news of our Norton family from the Business Alliance, and went to the Hanea Bada Islands to see that part of the pyramid of human heads, which should be real, that's why he was so afraid. Regarding the fact that the alliance of the four principalities in the central region sent troops to Fei Dejia Wangcheng and the confrontation between the Second Highness is probably half-true, and the results of the battle and the inability to find the Second Highness should also be true, but why would he join forces with the business alliance He is lying.

My lord, I was standing behind his side, I could see it clearly, every time he was nervous, his left hand would grab his pants tightly, and I found that the moment when he was nervous was when you asked him what agreement there was between the Central Four Duchy and the Business Alliance, and his left hand was also holding his pants when he answered, and you were opposite him, and you happened to be blocked from sight and didn't see it......

Also, at the end he said that he had come to Windbrie to attend a knightly jousting tournament with the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, and that his left hand was also clutching his trousers. I wonder why he is lying about such a trivial matter, perhaps he knows that you have come to ask the Fisabrun family, and that his purpose is also Princess Celevia, because he is afraid of you. Hehe, my lord, you have an opponent......"

Targer gloated, knowing that Lorist wouldn't be angry over such a trivial matter.

"Speaking of Princess Celevia, do you know why she left Windbri City in a hurry to return to the family domain?" asked Lorist without looking back.

"I don't know, sir. Targar replied, "Through some of the guards of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, we have learned that Princess Celevia had a little dispute with His Royal Highness the Grand Duke when she left seven days ago, and it is said that she asked the Grand Duke to stop holding this knightly jousting tournament, but the Grand Duke refused. Princess Celivia went to the queen crying, and then had a big fight with the queen, and then hurried to the Eastern Wilderness Province with her bodyguards and her godmother, the Great Swordsman of Cindy. In the past two days, His Royal Highness has sent three messengers to ask the princess to return, but he has not received a reply so far......"

Lorist touched his chin: "Could it be that something happened to the old nest of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun in the Eastern Wilderness Province? No, if there is really something, the first one to be anxious should be the old fox of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, until now he is still staying in the royal city to prepare for the knight tournament in two days, so it is obviously not a big deal......

"I'm sorry, my lord, but it's a dereliction of duty for our intelligence investigators to be unable to enter the Eastern Wilderness Province. Tugger said.

"It's none of your business, the Eastern Wilderness Province is the territory of the Fisabrun family, and there is no big city like King Windbrie, so there is no way to prevent the movement of people. Let's take a look and use the time of this month to hold the conference, and see if we can select a few of them from the guards around the Grand Duke and buy them off, so that they can become the nails that our family buries next to the Grand Duke......

"Yes, sir, I'll do my best. ”

"Also, check those nobles from the four central principalities, I always feel that their intention is not as simple as coming to Princess Celevia......"

"Yes, sir. ”

......

"What did you say?" Lorist froze.

"Yes, my lord, the little prince and the great swordsman of the Duchy of Forrendo ran away with their more than a thousand guards in the middle of the night last night, leaving behind all the four-carriage gifts they had brought to Princess Celivia to ask for their marriage. The Grand Duke of Fisabrun said that they had not yet courted their marriage anyway, so these gifts would be as compensation for your victory in the duel yesterday, and he was ordering them to be sorted out and loaded into the wagon, and they would soon be brought over. ”

Targar stood in front of Lorist and smiled bitterly and said: "My lord, we were originally going to start with the little prince's attendants and retinues, after all, the Earl of Churchwick of the Duchy of Handla and the Earl of Dalek of the Duchy of Sabaji came lightly, and their personal entourage was only three or four people, and all of them were silent and vigilant, and they didn't go out to visit the tavern at night, so we couldn't get any information from them."

The little prince brought with him more than a thousand guards, including nearly a hundred of his attendants and servants, and it was easiest to get information from these people. After pouring three cups of horse urine, they will even talk about peeking at his mother's bath when they were children...... It's a pity, my lord, you scared them yesterday, and the Earl of Churchwick must have told them how powerful our Norton family is, so they fled overnight......"

"Uh......" Lorist had a headache: "Forget it, anyway, the knight jousting conference will take a month, and during this time, we will slowly contact the personal followers of the two counts, maybe someone will leak a word, we will understand the intention of the two counts, let it be fate." ”

At about ten o'clock in the morning, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun came to Anna's inn with four carriages, and looked at the greeting Lorist and laughed: "Lord Earl, you really surprised me, I really didn't expect you to destroy a kingdom. It's remarkable. ”

Lorist was very modest: "It's over, Your Highness, it's actually just a pirate's lair." They claim to be kingdoms, but which country on the continent has recognized them? Everyone knows that if they hadn't invaded my family territory, I wouldn't have bothered to deal with them. If it were His Royal Highness the Grand Duke, maybe he wouldn't have to go all out like me, and he would be able to finish them off with a random corps. A surprise attack like His Royal Highness the Grand Duke, capturing Jinchuan, is a real heroic feat. ”

Obviously, Lorlist's words scratched the pride of the Grand Duke of Sablon, and his mouth cracked like a chrysanthemum: "Hehe, you are good, really good, the more I look at you now, the more I appreciate you, young and not frivolous, extraordinary martial arts, good, good, good." ”

After saying three good things in a row, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun remembered the purpose of his visit: "By the way, Lord Earl Norton......"

"Your Royal Highness, you are an elder, just call me Locke, it's too much to call me Earl. Lorist stopped the Grand Duke of Fisabrun.

"Well, then I'll call you Locke. Wasn't it true that you won the duel yesterday?Prince Doc was supposed to pay you a ransom, but last night he suddenly received a message that he wanted to return to the Duchy of Forrendo immediately. In an emergency, he had to travel overnight, and when he left, he entrusted me to give you these belongings as his ransom, and to apologize to you. ”

Grand Duke Fisabrun was talking serious nonsense, and Lorist stood next to him nodding his head solemnly to show his appreciation. This is an appreciation for His Royal Highness the Grand Duke's ability to live up to the trust and the little prince Doc to stick to Cigna and pay the ransom. In fact, both of them knew that these possessions were gifts that the little prince of Doc had used to prepare for his courtship of Princess Celevia, but they had fled in a hurry and were thrown away, and then used by the Grand Duke of Fisabrun as ransom for the victory of the duel.

This will make Lorist wonder why the Grand Duke of Fisabrun wants to stand up for the little prince Dork? According to Tagger's report, the little prince of Doc and the great swordsman left in the middle of the night without saying goodbye to each other. The Grand Duke of Fisabrun only learned of their escape in the morning, and it is said that the Grand Duke scolded the cowards and cowards in front of his guards. The gifts of the four carriages should have been deliberately left by the little prince of Doc, perhaps as compensation for the Fisabrun family, but more likely as a desire to borrow the hand of the Grand Duke to deliver these gifts to Celevia.

But why did the Grand Duke of Fisabrun decide to give these gifts to himself in a blink of an eye? Why did the Grand Duke do this for no reason? He could have taken these gifts as he already owned, and as for the bad reputation of the little prince of Doc who was greedy for life and death, and did not keep his promise and did not pay the ransom for the duel, what did it matter to him, he could have stood by and watched the excitement as he did at the banquet yesterday! Could it be that the Fisaburun family has something to ask for the Duchy of Forendo? That is impossible, and on the other hand, it should be the Duchy of Forendor begging the Grand Duke of Fisabulun......

Lorist pondered in his heart, but a kind smile appeared on his face: "I didn't expect the little prince of Doc to be so faithful to the honor of the nobles, worthy of His Royal Highness the prince of the Duchy of Volundo." In fact, he can send an attendant to say hello, and he can pay the ransom whenever he wants, so why bother His Royal Highness the Grand Duke to make a special trip. ”

Archduke Fisabrun twitched, remembering the news that after Count Churchwick told everyone at the banquet yesterday that the Norton family had destroyed the kingdom of Clam Neabada last year, and cut off almost all the people in the kingdom, except for twenty or thirty thousand young women, the rest of them were young and old, and then used more than 200,000 heads to build a pyramid of human heads dozens of meters high.

Everyone was stunned, and there was a suspicion that Earl Churchwick was lying. The Earl of Churchwick swore by a curse to tell everyone that it was true, and that he had also been to see the pyramid of human heads. He even came back from seeing that terrible thing and was seriously ill for several days, and as soon as he closed his eyes, it seemed that the pyramid of human heads appeared in front of him, and all the heads on it were smiling and roaring at him. So when he saw Lorist to-day, he remembered the terrible pyramid of human heads, and how ruthless a man must have to order such a thing to be built! This was the real reason why he trembled before Lord Norton......

If Earl Churchwick hadn't come to tell me about Prince Dock's escape overnight, and let me do it so as not to make you suspicious and end up breaking everyone's plot, why would I rush here to wipe the ass of that bullshit little prince Dok?

Grand Duke Fisabrun patted Lorist on the shoulder: "It's okay, why are you so polite." I am now a landlord, and everyone is here to cheer for the face of the Fisabrun family, so naturally I have to solve some small troubles for everyone. The day after tomorrow the conference will open, tomorrow I will hold a banquet, invite all the nobles in the royal city to attend, and wish the conference a complete success, Locke, you can't help but come......"

"Of course, His Royal Highness the Grand Duke has an order, so I will naturally go. ”

"Okay, that's a word, tomorrow I'll send someone to lure you there. Grand Duke Fisabrun said with a smile.

......

After the banquet on the second day, the knights' jousting tournament was officially held on the third day.

It's just that Lorist is a little bored, because he finds that he can't play a game, he can get a gold three-star knight in one move, and then go down to find those silver and gold knights as opponents, Lorist admits that his face is not so thick. In particular, after the Grand Duke of Fisabrun said that he did not want to see Lorlist's request to play, Lorist agreed, and then let his men participate in this knightly tournament.

The knightly jousting tournament organized by the Grand Duke of Fisabrun was still the same old set, archery, swordsmanship and horse duels. Archery and Instant Duel are not divided into gold and silver fighting ranks, and they can be mixed and compared. The swordsmanship is divided into silver rank and gold rank, and in the end, those who win the silver swordsmanship victory can also freely challenge the gold-level swordsmanship winner, of course, if you don't want to challenge, you can also do it.

So Lorist felt a toothache when he saw Reddy mixing in the silver rank and overturning all the opponents one by one, isn't this pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, the gold one or two star rank is not Reddy's opponent, let alone these silver rank challengers......

Not to mention archery, Jost has a monopoly on the chela, he only performed half of the trick, more than half of the shooters present put down the arrows and prepared to go to other competitions to try their luck, there are perverts like Jost in the archery project, and they still don't go up to embarrass with their two hands......

So the duel immediately became the most lively and fierce competition of this conference, except for those silver guards, Pat was the first to be eliminated as the captain, and Baron Saheen and Baron Philim both won nine consecutive victories and have entered the next round. El is still resting on the sidelines and is on a six-game winning streak and only needs to win three more opponents to advance to the next round.

The rules of the knight's duel are similar to those of the duel, and the knights participating in the tournament must have a knight's badge, a mount, a knight's armor, a spear or a spear, and can also wear a long sword or other short weapon, and can only sign up after passing the inspection. If you lose the last game, you will have to give your equipment and mounts to the winning opponent, or pay a ransom to the opponent. After losing the competition, if you are not convinced, you can re-register for the competition......

At present, the worst is a guard named Roger under Lorlist, this kid has two silver stars, and he has lost all four times, because he is the standard equipment of the Norton family, and he cannot give it to the defeated opponent, he can only pay a ransom to the opponent, this equipment was valued at one hundred gold fords by the appraiser of the competition venue, and now he owes the family three hundred and fifty gold fords......

Lorist was very angry, knowing that he had to play even though he was defeated, wasn't this giving money to people?

"How many of our guards have lost money?" Lorist asked.

Pat was embarrassed: "One hundred and fourteen, forty-one ......"

"What?" Lorist was stunned: "Why are there so many people ......?"

"My lord, that's what happened," Pat explained, bowing his head, "these one hundred and forty-one guards all win and then lose except for a dozen or so unlucky ones. However, the difference in the price of the equipment on our bodies made us all lose money......"

Oh, Lorist understood, his squire had won over an opponent first, but the opponent's equipment was only worth thirty or forty goldfords, and then the guards lost, and the ransom he had to pay was one hundred goldfords......

Lorist is so angry, no wonder his guards always have so many opponents who fight like chicken blood as soon as they come on the field, and even a few gold-level knights are cheeky to challenge their own silver guards regardless of the default rule that only the silver knight challenges the golden knight, and dare to treat his guards as a humanoid cash cow, one is a hundred gold fords......

"If you want to play in the future, you are not allowed to wear the family's standard equipment!" Lorist could only order.

"Your Excellency. Targar appeared in front of Lorlist's eyes: "We have found that the men of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun are vigorously recruiting knights who have lost all their equipment and gold in the duel. ”

"Huh?" Lorist was a little puzzled, a knight jousting tournament like this was also the best place for some nobles to recruit knights from their families, but everyone recruited those knights with better performance, what was the matter with Grand Duke Fisabrun recruiting those unlucky people who had lost all their lives?

"Have you found out why?"

"It is said that it is not to recruit them as family knights, but to recruit them to join the army of the Fisabrun family, and if they perform well, they will still have the opportunity to become knights of the Fisabrun family after five years of service. Tugger replied.

This is supposed to be a recruitment, not a recruitment of family knights. Lorist didn't care much: "What are the movements of the two counts of the Central Four Duchy?"

"My lord, Count Dalek of the Principality of Sabaji has participated in the Instant Duel, and is currently on a nine-game winning streak and is waiting for the next round. Earl Churchwick of the Duchy of Handra did not end up, but only cheered for Count Dalek. They behaved normally and didn't notice any private action. In addition, the messenger sent by the Grand Duke of Fisabrun to the Eastern Wilderness Province returned, and it is said that Princess Celivia refused to return, and the Grand Duke fired a second fire and smashed a golden cup......"

"There's also not very good news, my lord. ”

"Say!"

"Don't you think the body movements of this golden knight who is competing on the field now are a little familiar? Your legionnaire, Lord Tiger Ross, has once again left his post and infiltrated the royal city of Windbrie to participate in the Knights' Tournament. Lest you find out, he wears his own knight's armor, and if it weren't for the gold tiger emblem on his armor, we probably wouldn't have noticed that he was living in a tent on the other side of the square with the wandering knights......"

"I, my day!" Lorist gritted his teeth: "When I go back to the hotel in the evening, I want to see this guy who is showing off his might on the field appear in front of me!"

"Yes, sir. ”

...... (To be continued.) )