Chapter 168: Feng Leyuan

The candle flickered on and out, shining with Lorlist's frowning face, and below him stood Beruniek, Pachico, and a plump woman, with a two-year-old boy in her arms, who had just woken up and was staring at a pair of curious eyes.

The woman and the boy were none other than Pačko's wife and his son, and the couple wondered why Lorist had invited them to take the child here after dinner, and not only was Belunik there, but across from them stood Morosinger, Willigasang, and Edward.

The door to the hall opened, and four middle-aged maids walked in with four underage boys and girls. The two of them became more and more curious, because they all knew each other, these four boys and girls were the same as Morrosinger, Willy Gesang, and Edward, all of whom were the illegitimate sons of the previous generation of Baron Norton and Lorlist's father, that is, these five men and two girls were all half-siblings of Lorlist.

After a while, the door to the hall opened again, and this time it was Steward Speer and Reddy, who was holding a boy of five or six years old in his hands, and behind them was Miss Bersa.

"It's good, everyone is here. Lorist spoke, then beckoned to Reddy, "Bring the kid over......"

The little boy was not afraid of life, but asked Lorist in a milky voice: "You, who are you?"

Lorist laughed and kissed the little boy twice on the cheek: "I am your uncle, you have to remember." By the way, you tell uncle. What is your name. How old are you?"

The little boy thought for a moment and said, "Me." My name is Herriles and I'm five and a half years old. ”

"What a good boy. Lorist touched Herriles' face, looked up, and said to Pachko and the Pachkov next to him, who was choking with a handkerchief, "Pachko, madam, please come." ”

Lorist put Herriles on the ground, stood up and half-bowed to the Pachkovs: "Sorry. Madam, you have been wronged, and today, I will give you back your child. ”

The Pachkov man shoved the little boy he was holding into Pachko's arms, and then hugged Hriles tightly: "Child, my child ......"

Pachko hugged his son and couldn't figure out what was going on.

"Knight Packo, I beg you to be Herriles' adoptive father, okay?" said Lorist solemnly to Packo.

"Your Excellency, you are. It's ......," Pachko replied, not knowing how to answer. He knew that his wife was originally the maid of the eldest young master, and gave birth to Hereles for the eldest young master. Later, Miss Bertha wanted Herrilet to be her own son. As soon as he was weaned, he separated his mother and son, and threw his maid to himself as a wife, which is also the reason why Pachco had little confidence when he saw Miss Baisha.

When he first started with Pachko, his wife missed Herliste very much, and often cried in the middle of the night until she became pregnant again and gave birth to a child, but in any case, Herriles was her first child, and no mother would forget her first child.

"Knight Pachco, you are an upright and trustworthy man, and Herriles is the only blood left by my eldest brother, and I hope that he will have fatherly and maternal love like a normal child, and that he will be accompanied by brothers and sisters. I want him to be your adopted son, to be taught by you to be equally noble in his integrity and commitment to his promises. When he is twelve years old, I will take him back and train him to be a knight like his father. Lorist said.

Pachko handed the little boy in his hand to his wife again, and gave Lorist a knightly salute with the same solemnity: "My lord, I am happy to be the adoptive father of Herriles, my wife is his mother, the eldest young master is kind to me, I will treat him as my own child, I will not let you down." ”

"Thank you, my knight. Lorist bowed halfway to Pachco again.

Pachko and his wife stepped aside with their two children, and Lorist returned to his seat: "Morosinger, Willie Kelsang, Edwalker ......"

The three of them walked up to the front and bowed to Lorlist.

"To be honest, I don't mind who you are, I just know that you also have Norton's blood in your veins, and you are my brothers. It's just that limited to traditions and customs, I can't hand over the family's red-blooded fighting spirit to you for cultivation. However, I got these ......" Lorist took out three high-level Dou Qi cheats.

"Morrosinger, you are an earthy attribute vindictive, this is for you. ”

"Willy Gesang, you're metallic, it's yours. ”

"Edwalk, you are very talented, in one year, you have just awakened your fighting spirit to cultivate to the bronze two-star, I hope you can continue to work hard. You are a fire attribute, and this is yours. In addition to this, you will also be trained as a knight of the family and educated in aristocratic etiquette. ”

"This is what my brother should do for you, and I hope you will continue to work hard to advance to the Silver Rank, become a knight of the family, and put Norton's last name in front of your name. When you have done enough for your family, I will make you a nobleman of the realm, as a branch of the Norton family, and I look forward to that day. Lorist said.

The three of them saluted Lorist again: "Thank you, sir." ”

Lorist beckoned to four middle-aged maids with children, who stepped forward with their children.

Lorist said to the four middle-aged maids, "You were my father's maids-in-waiting, and you have added four younger siblings to me. Now that you're all married, I've learned that you've taken good care of all four of my younger siblings. I will keep them by your side and let them have the happiness of a normal family as usual. But when they reached the age of twelve, they had to be trained as knights and nobles by the Norton family, and if they worked hard, they had the same future as their three elder brothers. As for you, from this year onwards, an annuity will be paid to you every year to improve your family life and make their half-siblings happier. ”

Four middle-aged maids like Lorist saluted: "Thank you, sir." ”

"You guys go back first. Lorist said.

When his half-siblings were gone, Lorist said, "...... Bertha."

Miss Baisha walked over very honestly. Lorist felt very strange to her tonight. It's like seeing his father. The former Baron Norton was average, majestic, confident, and imposing.

"Baisha, since you have chosen to lead the women's battalion garrison and serve the family, then I hope you will be conscientious and abide by the rules set by the family. Become a good female knight. But you have to remember that you can't take matters into your own hands and change the rules and regulations of the women's battalion without my permission, understand?" said Lorlist, staring at Bertha.

Miss Baisha nodded aggrievedly.

"Today there is here to witness that Brother Baker, Knight Pachco, and Steward Speer, I have conferred upon you the duties and powers of the commander of the women's battalion garrison, and likewise you will do what you have promised. Otherwise, don't blame me for being unkind. Also, if you get an invitation. You can visit the Knights of Pachco and see Hereles. But I forbid you to disturb the peace of their family without cause. Remember my warning, you can go down. ”

......

"Irina, thank you for giving birth to such a baby, he is so cute......" Lorist held the baby in his arms and wandered around the room, and the little doll who had just drunk enough milk squinted quietly and began to want to sleep again.

Irina reclined on the bed, with a smile as she watched Lorist walk around with her baby in her arms......

Reddy appeared at the door softly and called softly, "Your Excellency......"

"What's the matter?"

"The leader of the Five Swords Mercenary Regiment came to receive the reward, I heard that you are here, and I want to meet you..."

Loris nodded and gently put the child into Irina's arms: "Shhh, be careful, he just fell asleep......"

Irina gave him an angry and funny look: "I know, you go." ”

The Five Swords Mercenary Regiment rushed to the Rock Castle with 1,174 of their relatives and villagers in November last year when the first heavy snow of winter came, and then was arranged by the Governor of Codan to live in Kitano Town. Their escape from the old lord's domain was very dramatic, and when everyone went to the royal capital of Windbri to participate in the harvest festival on September 36, they first took the waterway and then took a carriage to the northland, and passed the Hendry Ford Bridge of the Grand Duke's territory smoothly in the name of escorting the exiles to the territory for the Kenmax family, and then arrived at the Norton family territory.

The head of the regiment, Duboff, respectfully saluted Lorlist, who invited him to sit down and serve tea.

This time, Dubof and several of his mercenaries brought more than fifty heads of the mountain barbarians to the Speer steward in exchange for a bounty, and asked for some weapons and equipment support.

Dubov reported to Lorist about the changes in form over the past few months, and since March, the Five Swords Mercenary Regiment has been stationed on the border between the Norton family's territory and the Demon Dragon Mountains, and the military fortress at the intersection of the two mountains has fought with the Mountain Barbarian Ranger several times. From the initial three or five rides to the current dozens of rides, hundreds of rides, the scale is getting bigger and bigger. Dubov suspected that after a while he might be besieged by a large number of mountain rangers.

Lorist readily agreed to provide a batch of weapons and equipment support to the Five Swords Mercenary Group, and promised to change the more than 100 members of the Five Swords Mercenary Group with iron armor to improve their protection.

Duboeuf was overjoyed, and thanked him again and again before leaving.

Lorist had only enjoyed a little more than a month at Maple Grove Villa, and an urgent letter from Fat Shi summoned him back to Rock Castle.

......

This was the first official opening of the main castle of Rock Castle after its completion, and the spacious castle hall was filled with all the knights and civil officials of the family under Lorlist. Even Pachco, Béruneck, Speer and Miss Baisha, who were at Maple Grove Villa, rushed over to the meeting.

This time, Miss Baisha finally really saw the strength that Lorist mastered, which made her tremble when she faced Lorist for the first time. And for her, the only female knight in the family, from time to time there were curious eyes to look at her, and from time to time, the knight of the family who had the audacity to kiss Fang Ze came up to introduce herself, and made Miss Baisha so ashamed that she hid behind Belunik.

Lorist and Fat made their way to the castle hall, followed by Reddy and Pat, with a wooden shelf and a large, long roll of vellum paper.

The hall gradually fell silent, and everyone knew that this meeting was related to the future of the Norton family and the fate of more than half a million people.

Pat and Reddy set up a shelf, opened the scroll of animal skin paper in their hands and hung it up. This is a map of a large family territory.

After saluting Lorliste, Shi Fatzi directly explained to everyone present the grim situation that the family was currently facing and the problem of resettlement of the people that urgently needed to be solved. He picked up a long stick. Start pointing to the map.

"This is the wasteland between the mountain castle and Kitano Town, which is planned to be built. The family's next mission is to develop this wasteland and turn it into the granary of the Norton family. You see, this wasteland has been divided into seven pieces and painted in different colors. So we have divided the wasteland into seven districts, and we will build a town in each of these seven districts, and each town will have more than ten villages, and we will count it as one thousand to one thousand five hundred households in one town, and three hundred to five hundred households in one village. These seven districts can accommodate at least 300,000 to 500,000 people, and can reclaim 1,000,000 to 20 million mu of land......

This map was the result of a month's hard work by the Scout Hussar Brigade and the Survey Team and the sacrifices of dozens of family soldiers. At present, there are still large groups of demonic beasts in this wasteland, these are all groups of demonic beasts that crossed the Demon Dragon Mountain Range from Mangyuan in winter and entered the family territory, many of them did not return to Mangyuan after winter, but stayed in this wasteland. If we want to develop the wasteland, the first thing we have to deal with is these hordes of monsters.

We plan to spend three years developing this wasteland and building a happy and beautiful home for our loved ones in the midst of troubled times. This year, we will drive out the demonic beasts in this wasteland, and place the leaders in the settlements of various villages and towns in the seven districts, and reclaim the fields to sow winter wheat first. Protective fences and shelters were built, and roads were rested. Plan your winter reserves, and everything will be ready before the winter season sets in November.

Next year, we will expand road transportation, build water conservancy facilities on a large scale, reclaim fields, and divide the fields into households, each household will have more than 50 acres of land, and we will also allocate the necessary production tools and a horse to each household. The following year our lord will fulfill his promise to build new stone houses for each family, so that all the lords who follow us to the family domain will live in a new home.

This three-year plan to develop the wasteland was ready to invest millions of gold fords, and after the fields were divided into households, our lord also announced that they would give three years of preferential taxes, with only 10 percent of the land produced in the first year, 20 percent in the second year, 30 percent in the third year, and then 40 percent as the standard, and no more increase. As a relative of a family soldier, there is also a 10% discount. It is believed that in three years, this wasteland will become a paradise on earth. ”

Fat turned to Lorlist: "My lord, you should give this wasteland a name." ”

"All right," Lorist stood up, "a good harvest is in sight, happy and healthy." Let's call it Fengleyuan. ”

"Everyone has heard of Knight Schreed's plan to develop the wasteland, today is the fourth of July, and there are only four months until November, and the time is very tight, I hope you will unite sincerely and work together to contribute to the family. Lorist gave a knightly salute to everyone.

Everyone in the castle stood up: "My lord, we swear to serve ...... death"

"Joske Knights ......"

"My lord, I am at your command. Josk stepped forward.

"Where's my Tiger Rider?"

"Your lord, your Tiger Knight is always on standby!" Rod Wells said excitedly, standing beside Joske.

"What about my Knights?"

Telman walked out: "Your lord, your knights will always be your most loyal sword ......"

"My eyes, where are Knight Yuri?"

"Your Excellency, you're pointing in the direction we're heading!" Yuri stepped forward.

"Very good, archers, ironclad lancers, knights, scout hussars. I command you to sweep away the hordes of demonic beasts in the wasteland and wipe out the vast hordes of demonic beasts in the wasteland by September. ”

"Yes, my lord. ”

"Knights of Vassimma......"

"Here, sir. Knight Vasima stepped forward.

"Your squadron of Iron Cavalry has been merged into the Iron Cavalry, and you have accompanied you as the deputy of the Ross Knights. ”

"Yes, sir. ”

Lorist looked at everyone in the hall, "The Heavy Armor Corps of the Bodfinger Knight is responsible for guarding the security of the migrant camp. Ovikis' squadron of guards carried out the defense of the Rock Castle as usual. Pachko's Guard Squadron is responsible for the defense of Maple Grove Lodge, and pays attention to the Two Hills Stronghold guarded by the Five Swords Mercenary Regiment. Farea's three garrisons accompanied the escort of the consuls to the cantonment site, and left garrisons to assist in the construction, according to the size of a squadron in the village and a brigade in the town. El, you take the guard battalion to watch over the captives and build the road. The rest of the people are all at the mercy of the development director, Knight Schredder, and there must be no mistake. ”

"Yes, sir. ”

"Knight Marek, please come out of the ranks. Lorist said.

"Your Excellency......" Knight Malek walked up to Lorist.

"Knight Marek, I order you as a lord, you will take a leave of absence from now until you are promoted to the Golden Rank. Lorist said with a smile.

"But my lord, the family is at a critical juncture now, and I must help......"

"No, no, no, you've been delaying the convoy north for a long time, and I've ordered Knight Berunek to be Knight of Farea's deputy to lead your garrison. You still have peace of mind on vacation, and it's not too late to work for the family when you are promoted to the gold rank. This is my request, and it is also the order of my lord, not to be disobeyed. ”

"Well, thank you, sir. With a rare look of gratitude on Marek's thousand-year-old face, he bowed to Lorlist.

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