Chapter 433: The Distinction between Concubines

"Your Highness, great joy, great joy!" Tiger Rose rode to the tent with a dozen men, dismounted and crashed into the tent, followed by Dorus. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Dorus, who had a straight mouth and a straight mouth, smiled like a fool.

"What is there to be so happy about...... Lorist said angrily. He studied the three defensive positions of the Duchy of Handla in the big tent, and he just suffered a little loss last night, and this time he was sitting in the big tent and meditating on how to come back.

Now the front line is still a stalemate, and the garrison corps on the three defensive positions of the Duchy of Handla can't afford to hide from the giant lever trebuchets commanded by Lorist, so they simply abandon the forward defensive positions of nearly 100 meters on the hillside, retreat the garrison forces, and smash Lorist as he wants.

It's just that Lorist is dumbfounded, no one is guarding what I'm smashing, and the trebuchet is almost useless. Because of their size, these bulky trebuchets could not move up the hillside at all. And you can't throw stones even while you're moving, so you don't have the power to fight back. The Grand Duke of Fisabrun did not believe in evil and wanted to forcibly move these giant trebuchets up the hillside, but the guards above threw a lot of rolling logs and stones down, which not only frustrated the plan of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, but also damaged nearly 100 barbarian cavalry who dismounted and pushed the trebuchets.

Lorist was at the bottom of the mountain, and the defensive position was on the hillside, almost five hundred meters apart. Therefore, although the defending side gave up the forward position, once it found that the enemy under the mountain had a tendency to attack, it could still quickly enter the forward position and prepare for defense, so that Lorist could cry out in vain. In particular, the defensive positions on these hillsides are not spread on the slopes like a piece of paper, but very cleverly use the drop of the mountains to set up defensive facilities at different levels, so that the attackers will be attacked by the left and right flanks and from all directions of the upper layer no matter where they attack.

Even though Lorist had surpassed the realm of a third-level great sword master, he still almost suffered a loss in this defensive position. Last night, Lorist personally led his troops to carry out a night attack, but no one expected that the defenders had placed a large number of broken clay pots and glass bottles in the first trench of the forward position. Lorist was fine, but the family soldiers who attacked with him at night were unlucky, the whole body of steel armor but there was no iron armor under the soles of his shoes, and he was hit by a move as soon as he jumped into the trench, screaming again and again, followed by the concentrated fire of the garrison soldiers, feathered arrows and crossbows came like a rainstorm, and at the same time the garrison soldiers also learned Lorlist's tricks, and the fist-like stones were thrown by the trebuchets on the mountain, covering the entire forward position, mixed with burning fireballs in the middle......

Seeing that the situation was not good, Lorist hurriedly led the soldiers of the night attack to retreat, and then counted, almost blew up his lungs, an elite guard of 1,000 people followed him to attack at night, and as a result, he suffered three or four hundred casualties without even touching the enemy's hair, the only thing to be thankful for was the timely time under his retreat order, and the wounded and dead were brought back by the guards. Only a few dozen people were killed, but nearly 300 were wounded.

Lorist was depressed and wondering how to give the board back the loss he had suffered this time, when he heard Tiger Rose shouting and showing him a good face. Tiger Rose knew that Lorist was in a bad mood because of the failure of the night attack last night, and hurriedly said, "Your Highness, a messenger has arrived from Angry Bear City and brought you good news. ”

"What's the good news?"

"Lady Celivia has, and after examination she is more than two months pregnant......"

Princess Celevia was stunned, counting the days, well, it's the beginning of July, more than two months pregnant should be the end of April, knowing that she was going to the front line and was reluctant to part with herself, she pestered herself for several days without shame or irritability, and called Anna at night, Daisy and her four concubines came to sleep together, but in the end it was she who adhered to the rain and dew, it seems that this Nizi has a heart, and the hard work pays off, and she finally has a big belly.

"Well, that's a good thing. But why are you so happy?" Lorist was strange, I didn't have no sons, Irina gave me two, and Anna gave birth to sons, and Miss Theresti gave me two daughters. It's normal for Princess Celivia to have a big belly, what are you stupid about?

"Your Highness, if Lady Celivia gave birth to a boy, then she is a son-in-law, and Your Highness has an heir, then there is hope for the future of our family knights......" The stupid Dorus explained happily.

"Get out!" Lorist was furious: "Lao Tzu has not yet reached forty, the spring and autumn are at their peak, are you so looking forward to letting my unborn son take over my class!"

Dorles, who knew that he had said the wrong thing, hugged his head and scurried, and Tiger, who looked embarrassed, stood aside and was speechless......

"Ah, come back. Dorus, who had just come out of the Great Tent, heard Lorist calling him, so he had to turn back to the Great Tent: "Your Highness......"

"What about the messenger?" Lorist glared at him.

"Waiting outside the tent ......"

"Then don't call in yet. ”

The Courier was a guard known to Lorlist, and Lorlist's guard battalion was 3,000 men, and he came to the front with two thousand-strong men, and another 1,000 guards stayed at the castle in the center of the Bear City and his family. The guard, Valen, was a squadron leader and one of the remaining guards in Raging Bear City.

Valen brought a handwritten letter from Princess Celevia, which was nothing more than a report of the good news to Lorlist, who was very proud of her big belly, and that proud tone made Lorist smile. This was followed by a long piece of lovesick whispering, describing how much she missed Lorlist, and finally saying that in order to raise her baby, she was ready to set off for Sakura Ridge Manor, where the scenery is beautiful and the climate is cool, just enough to escape the heat......

After reading the letter, Lorist asked Valen to go down and rest first, and then let him take it back after two days when he had written a reply. After Valen left, Lorist looked at Tiger Rose and Doreus, who were standing side by side, and said with a frown: "I already have three sons, Irina gave birth to two of them, the eldest is eleven years old, fostered in Malek's home, you should know, the younger one is also seven years old, and I am preparing to find a good teacher for him." And Anna also gave birth to a son for me, who is almost four years old this year. So I don't worry about having no heirs, and I've promised that as long as my children are on the family tree, they will be listed in the family tree as the heirs of my Norton family.

So it's a good thing for me that Celivia is pregnant, but it's also normal, and I'm happy that I won't celebrate it with the same glee. You two tell me the truth, do you have a lot of people in the family who think the same way as you, and are very concerned about the inheritance of our Norton family's sons-in-law?"

Tiger Rose and Dorus looked at each other, and Tiger Rose took a step forward: "Your Highness, it's not that I'm talkative, in fact, I think that the inheritance of the concubine is the most solid foundation for laying the nobleman's century-old family." If His Royal Highness is not married, I have no objection to listing his sons as the heirs of the family. But Your Highness has officially married Lady Celevia, so you and her children are sisters-in-law, and should be the first heir of our Norton family. It's not my own idea, a lot of family knights think so......"

Dorres stopped talking. Lorist glared and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it, no matter what you say here today, I will not be surprised and blamed afterwards." Now that the family is getting bigger and bigger, there are fewer and fewer people who dare to tell the truth in front of me. Tell me what is really in your hearts. Think about the difficulties we had when we organized the convoy to go north, and look at everything we have now. As one of my earliest followers, I never doubted your loyalty and dedication, so let me hear what you have to say. ”

"Well, Your Highness. Dorus spread his hands: "It's not that we don't want to talk about some things, but we don't think it's appropriate, after all, these are all family affairs of His Highness, and as family knights, we can't interfere." But the heirs of the family are different, because this is related to the future of the family, and we all have the deepest interests. If His Highness chooses an unsuitable heir, the future of the family is not optimistic......

Just like the eldest young master, we have also paid attention, but the evaluation of Baron Malek is that the eldest young master may become a brave and fearless knight, but he will never become a benevolent lord, because his personality is too tyrannical. Although Mrs. Malek taught him to be polite and restrained, he still often killed those small animals. We all think that it would be a disaster for the family to make the eldest young master the next head of the Norton family......"

"But he's still ......," Lorist argued weakly, for he wasn't unaware of the report about his eldest son, and that Targer had sent several intelligence investigators to keep an eye on his upbringing. Lorist remembered most about one time when he had made a mistake and was reprimanded by Madame Malek, he went out and shot a little squirrel with an arrow, and then chopped the poor little squirrel into a pulp with a short sword......

"Your Highness, this is not a small matter, an eleven-year-old child can already distinguish between right and wrong, and it is not a brave person to vent his anger on a creature weaker than himself after being scolded and punished. In this matter, we all agreed that it was Lady Irina's pampering of him since he was a child that made the eldest young master develop this tyrannical character. In this respect, we are not optimistic about the future of Lady Elena's two children, and we believe that neither of them will be able to become qualified heirs to the family. Dorus retorted.

Lorist was silent, knowing very well in his heart that this was actually a counterattack by the newcomers in the family against the so-called old men, and I don't know when there was a distinction between the old man and the newcomer in the family. The so-called old men are those people in the original family territory, basically from Maple Grove Villa, they are proud to be members of the Norton family since they were children, and look down on those knights and officials who follow Lorist to join the Norton family, and call them newcomers. thinks that these old people are the most loyal to the family, and the newcomers are opportunistic. The old men were led by Director Hanks, who had been sent by Lorlist to build roads in the Northlands, and they believed that Irina's two sons born to Lorlist, who were born in Maple Grove Hills, were the rightful heirs to the Norton family......

The newcomers were all knights and officials who had followed Lorist to join the Norton family on the way north, and they also looked down on the old men. It is believed that before Lorist returned to the family territory, these old people were almost cowering in Maple Grove Villa to be bullied, and they were just a group of uninformed hillbillies. And they followed Lorist to create such a prosperous situation for the Norton family, and made the Norton family prosperous, which is their credit and glory. Now those old people in Maple Grove Villa want to climb on their heads, who can stand it, and the contradictions accumulate in this way and slowly develop into conflicts.

Fortunately, there are many wise people who have become neutrals, such as Shi Fatzi, Bodfinger, Director Speer, Director Kodan, Knight Bérunique and others, their attitude is not to do things, and whoever does what is beneficial to the family will stand on whose side, effectively stopping the outbreak of conflicts and contradictions between the old and the new, making the development of the family an unstoppable trend......

Lorist knew this, but didn't care much. There is a difference between the old man and the newcomer within the family, which can allow him to better control the whole family, but he didn't expect that the old man used the fact that he was going to marry Princess Celivia as his wife, and now the newcomer wants to use the difference between the concubine and the concubine to give the old people a hard blow. Wouldn't it be nice to stop a little......

"Didn't Anna, then, bear me a son too?" Lorist finally spoke.

Dores shook his head: "Your Highness, Lady Anna's status is not suitable, and if she becomes the mother of the Norton family, the family's reputation will be affected......"

Lorist understood, and Dorres was subtly reminding himself that Anna was not only a widow before she became Lorlist's concubine, but also attended the Paradise Party hosted by the deceased Queen Carrey when she was a princess, a well-known party of lewd pleasures among the nobility of the Antinac kingdom, where Lorist met Aridoria and Anna. Although Queen Carey is dead, and most of her companions and nobles who have participated in the Paradise Festival have been purged by His Royal Highness, there is no guarantee that nothing has slipped through the net.

If Anna's son inherits the position of head of the Norton family in the future, then Anna will inevitably appear in front of the nobles. And once someone discovers Anna's past, it is very likely that they will use these hidden past events to blackmail them to achieve their own goals, or spread them to level the ground, making people question the lineage and legitimacy of the heir. For Anna, a peaceful life is her choice, and her son will become her old dependent, and she does not need the position of the head of the Norton family.

Alas, I didn't expect that Celivia's pregnancy would cause such a big storm in the family immediately. For Lorist, this is both a good thing and a bad thing. No matter what he says, some things are inevitable. For some members of the family, the appointment of an heir to the Norton family is not a private matter for Lorlist, but a matter of concern for the future of the family, and for all the people in the family.

"You go down first, that's the end of today's business, don't add fuel to the fire in the family. You don't have to worry about some things too soon, now I just want Cilivia to give birth safely......"

With a wave of his hand, Lorist sent Tiger Rose and Dorus away. Then a man sat in the big tent and smiled bitterly. The family now dominates the Northland, and the scenery is infinite. But in Lorist's opinion, this is just the ability to protect himself, and it can be regarded as a little improvement, and the intrigue within the family has begun, which is also something that cannot be avoided as soon as the family develops and grows.

I don't want to think that I am only forty years old, if I am sure that I have reached the realm of the Sword Master, then it is very easy to live for two or three hundred years, I am really fed up, I started to worry about my heir so early, and I don't want to think about my feelings, good things have been turned into bad things by them......

Lorist spent a day writing a long, affectionate letter to Princess Celevia, which was nothing more than telling her about her longing, telling her to take care of her health, and promising to go back to the family territory to accompany her whenever she was free. Then ask the Valen Knight to bring the reply back. Then Lorist began to wonder whether to celebrate with a big feast or to feast privately, for the news had to be told to the Grand Duke of Fisabrun...... He is the grandfather of Princess Celivia......

Will the Grand Guild of Fisabrun agree to come to the banquet......?

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