Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Three Stewards Irina

Boss Kress asked Lorist to send him back, and when Lorist pushed the wooden wheelchair back to his bedroom, he found Pat standing guard outside the door, and the boss was still sitting around Surecamp and three other middle-aged men in his bedroom.

The three middle-aged men saluted Lorist and greeted the head of the family.

The old manager of Kress patted Lorist's arm and said with a smile that these three are the three major stewards of the current family, and without these three, even the old manager of Kress would not be able to effectively control the entire family manor castle.

The first to pledge allegiance to Lorist was a somewhat bald middle-aged man named Hansk, the family's treasurer, who played the role of accountant and calculator.

The second middle-aged man is called Speer, he is the treasury steward, in charge of the family manor castle in the large and small thirteen warehouses for all kinds of materials, and knows all kinds of reserve materials well.

Finally, this middle-aged man is a bit sleek and very good at talking, he is the steward in charge of the family, and he knows the strengths and weaknesses of everyone in the family very well. Kress secretly instructed Lorist to pay more attention to this middle-aged man named Codan, because this middle-aged man even swore allegiance to Lorlist, and he didn't feel very sincere when he heard it.

Lorist doesn't care whether the words of the oath of allegiance are heard at every turn, and as long as he has the motivation to develop under his command, he will naturally maintain his loyalty. He asked the three stewards to give an overview of all aspects of the family. So that the new head of the family can understand the specific situation.

As Lorist had predicted, the family's current situation was extremely poor. Hanske said that the family's current cash reserves, namely gold and silver, were practically running out. Half a year ago, Grand Duke Lukins sent his golden knights to forcibly collect taxes and fees of more than 3,000 gold coins from the old man's head of the empire, which had almost exhausted the family's reserves, and now he had less than a hundred gold coins recorded in his hand.

With a wave of his hand, Lorist asked Sedcamp to hand over the two boxes of Kingford he had brought back to the family to Hansk, and fill them into the family's coffers first. However, Hanske still bluntly said that simply injecting money into the family is not of much use, and what the family lacks is transactions and communication with the outside world. It's just that the family is located on the border of the Northlands, and the communication channels with the outside world are in the hands of other lords, and the family will only increase the cost and trade cost if they buy a large number of materials or sell goods, which is very uneconomical.

Hansk was followed by Speer, who reported the reserves of the various warehouses, and the most grain, although the Northland was cultivated once a year, but the Norton family's own fields were cultivated once a year, and the income from cultivating them once a year was enough to meet the food needs of the manor castle. In addition, the field tithes that the Kitano Castle garrison paid once a year were all grain, and as a result, the grain accumulated more and more, and even the food of the previous year was not consumed. At present, there are about 10 million catties of grain stored in the family's grain depot, and there is no channel for foreign trade, and the grain can only be stored for longer and longer.

In addition to grain, the second largest reserve of the family is copper ingots, after all, the family used to have a copper mine in hand, and the mined copper ore was refined into copper ingots and transported back to the manor castle for storage. Now that the family is short of cash, Speer is arranging for people to hand out imperial copper coins to meet their urgent needs.

The last thing in the family warehouse is all kinds of furs, many of which are harvested in previous years, but in the past two years, the family has lost all its strength, and there is no organization to hunt Warcraft. In addition, the surplus warehouses were stocked with rope, barrels and some production tools. The family was desperately short of iron ore, weapons, armor and cloth, and even spices and spices.

Steward Codan made a final speech, and he told everyone that no one expected that the survivors of the former family soldiers living in the family manor castle are as high as nearly 1,000, and this is the result of nearly three or four hundred family soldiers leaving the manor castle and returning to live in Kitano Town. The bereaved families of the soldiers who stayed in the manor castle were able to live a good life because of the older children at home or the care of relatives, but the life of those who returned to Kitano Town was very difficult, they were very untreated by their parents and relatives, and they could only barely live by relying on food relief from time to time in the manor castle.

A few years ago, nearly 100 members of the family caravan were killed, and the eldest young master led the family iron cavalry to charge for the second prince, and the two hundred Norton iron cavalry only came back a few dozen in the end, plus the old man ambushed the mountain barbarians and the result that the garrison refused to obey the order, resulting in the final armed annihilation of the family, after this series of troubles, the Norton family added nearly 1,000 soldiers and survivors. The surviving families of these soldiers have brought a great burden to the family, and the family is relatively rich in food, and the food and clothing of the surviving families of these soldiers can be taken care of, but there is no other pension.

In addition to the bereaved families of these family soldiers who died in battle, there is also a family knight with silver three-star fighting strength, that is, the knight of Bérunek who was seriously injured in the past in order to save the third young master and the demonic beast in the end. I was supposed to be there tonight, but I couldn't come back in the afternoon. Codan hopes that Lorist will take the initiative to meet the knight of the family in Kitano Town tomorrow, which is also the duty of Lorlist, the new head of the family.

It's easy to do, Lorist agreed.

The old manager of Kress asked the group to sit down, and he told Lorist that he had been shocked to hear the description of the head of the family all the way north, and that he hoped that Lorist would tell him again about the northward journey of the convoy in front of everyone.

Lorist started from the city of Moriente, from his friend to help him join the family and become a knight to organize his own convoy to go north, first breaking the Slov slave trap, and then confronting Count Corbilly. When Lorist learns that Count Corbilly is the culprit who robbed the Norton family's caravan, he decides to uproot his family and avenge the family's caravan and his third uncle.

After killing Count Corbilly and his illegitimate sons under the city of Gerdos, in order to return to the Northland to inherit the title and family domain before March, Lorist left the convoy and took Sederkamp, Pat and a few of his men rushed day and night, and as a result, they eliminated a bandit in the town of Vonata, the Viscount of Comas in the Kingdom of Antinac, and pulled up a convoy, until they returned to the family territory, and found the castle site built by Viscount Kenmax in the Morgen hills, so they captured the castle site and sent people to rescue the family children in the copper mine。

Lorist found a map and opened it to explain the Kenmax family's development plan for the Morgen Hills and his own intention to continue this plan to make the Morgen Hills a solid rear for the Norton family.

Everyone listened to the legend, but no one expected that when the Norton family suffered from the unfortunate decline of the family's power, the exiled second young master suddenly rose up and single-handedly opened a new situation for the rise of the Norton family.

The three archstewards were so excited that they offered to visit the Morgen Hills, where the castle was being built. Hanske's attitude was the most resolute, he believed that the current family manor castle was like a backwater, and he had no place here except for some simple accounts, and he should go to the construction site of Morgen Castle to show his talents and learn something.

Lorist agreed to Hanske's request, and told the three stewards that in two days he would also leave for the construction site of Morgen Castle, and that the more than 500 slaves who had been living in the manor castle here would also be with them, and that these slaves would become the labourers of the castle and be free to serve the people on the spot after the new mountain town was built. This time, I will transport a batch of grain, and I will notify the other side to send a convoy to meet him, and the three stewards can go together to have a look.

Lorist asked the three stewards to keep the matter a secret for the time being, and all three stewards gave assurances before happily taking their leave. The old steward of Kress waited for the three stewards to leave before he began to criticize Lorlist, who thought that it was a waste of manpower and material resources to build a city in the Morgen hills, and that it would be better for Lorist to bring the convoy and people here, and build a new city along the family manor castle.

Lorist wondered why the old boss had this idea? The old manager said that the ancestral training of the Norton family was to guard the frontier for the empire, and the Morgen Hills were not a frontier at all!

Lorist smiled and comforted the old manager, he never said that he would give up here, and the fist had to be withdrawn to be able to fight, and the Morgen Hills had developed a fist that the Norton family had withdrawn, and he would naturally find the direction to fight at that time.

By the time I left Mr. Cress's room, it was already late at night.

Lorist returned to the main building of the castle where he lived, and went up to the balcony in front of the bedroom to look at the manor castle in the night.

It is a good place, two hundred years ago, the ancestors of the family also took great pains to choose this place as the base of the family, and it took decades to build this family manor castle from scratch so perfectly. The strange old steward was reluctant, and when he heard that he wanted to transfer the city to the Morgen hills, he questioned whether he wanted to give up this place, and the look in his eyes was almost like looking at a heinous sinner.

"Master, your bath water is ready......" a timid voice interrupted Lorlist's thoughts. Lorist nodded to Irina and headed downstairs to the bedroom.

After taking a comfortable hot bath, Lorist half-leaned back on the bed, watched Irina spoon the bath water into the wooden bucket like a diligent little bee, took it out and poured it, removed the wooden bath tub for bathing, cleaned the floor and went back to the bathroom to rinse herself, and then put on a gray nightgown and spread a leather sleeping mat to the back of the sofa, and then took out a blanket and prepared to lie down......

"Elena, come to me......" Lorist said, adding a mouthful.

Irina's body froze, and after a while she slowly walked in front of Lorist, bowing her head and not biting, but her body was trembling slightly......

"Are you so afraid of me? why?" said Lorlist, reaching out to Irina's chin and lifting her face all over.

The girl's eyes were extremely flustered, but her expression was a sense of resignation......

"Do you know what the maid is going to do with her master?" said Lorlist.

The girl's body trembled even more, but she nodded her head to show that she understood.

Lorist's fingers ran across the girl's face, then the bridge of her nose, her lips, her chin, and finally the knot of her dressing gown......

The gray-white half-worn linen nightgown floated to the ground, revealing the girl's slender and fair body, trembling nervously.

Lorist took her in his arms and stroked the two blushes that protruded from the girl's chest: "Irina, you are not allowed to sleep on the ground in the future, there is half of your place on this bed, understand?"

Irina was at a loss, her whole body was stiff and she only knew how to tremble, her body gradually began to heat up under Lorist's caresses, and an unconscious sound began to come out of her throat for unknown reasons......

Lorist put the girl in the position on the bed, and her body sank, and she put her hardness and fiery deep into the tender depths of the girl......

The girl struggled violently, her body trembled violently, her hands tightly grasped the back of Lorist who was lying on top of her, tears gushed out, and her mouth screamed: "It hurts, it hurts, it hurts to death......"

Lorist was stunned, stopped and didn't move, and waited for the girl to be silent before lowering his head to clean the tears on the girl's face: "I'm sorry, I thought you had experienced it, I didn't expect you to ...... for the first time"

The girl cried again: "Three, the third young master, I was still young at that time, only ten or seventeen years old. The lord said that he would not be able to touch me until he was eighteen years old, otherwise he would not be able to truly awaken his fighting spirit if he damaged his body......"

It's my fault, I shouldn't have pushed him into the well and injured him...... Lorist thought to himself, but he became more and more gentle to the girl under him: "The first time it hurts a little, and after a while, it won't hurt and it will feel very comfortable...... You'll find out later......"

"Don't keep shaking, you tremble like this and make me want to move...... Don't shake, I really can't help shaking again......"

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The moonlight is like water, and the spring is full of buildings......