Chapter Ninety-Four: The Family Forbidden Land

It was about two o'clock in the afternoon when the carriage drove into the family's manor castle, and it was already time for lunch.

Lorist personally carried Beruniac to another guest room on the same floor as Sedcamp and Pat, settled him in, and went upstairs.

The little maid Irina was sewing a white garment with a needle and thread, and when she saw Lorist go upstairs, she trembled like a little quail that had only been drenched in the rain......

Lorist sighed secretly, trying to make her voice as gentle and amiable as possible, so as not to intimidate her timid maid: "Irina, come downstairs with me, I need your help with something." ”

Taking Irina to Beruinek's room on the second floor, Lorist said: "Irina, I will leave Brother Baker to you to take care of it, and you will go to the old manager of Kress later, and ask him to find you a maid to take care of Brother Baker." You can get a small kitchen downstairs, and Brother Baker's diet will be made according to the recipe I gave you. Otherwise, we can eat in the kitchenette. If you don't have enough people, you can find a cook and a maid, remember, you must find a loyal one, and one that has nothing to do with Kitano Town. Also, every time Big Brother Baker eats, he lets the maid taste it first to make sure it's okay. Do you understand?"

Irina gave a cautious and sneaky glance at Lorist, then nodded.

Lorist said: "You make a list of what you need, give it to Speer and let him prepare it for you, and you can also take care of the small kitchen in the downstairs room......"

Sedcamp came in and said, "My lord, the chief Kress has sent someone to look for you, as if he is in a hurry. ”

"Well, Irina, then Irina will leave everything to you, tell me any questions at night, okay?"

Irina gritted her teeth and nodded.

"Alright, Sedkamp, go to Pat and ask him to send a few guards here to guard him, and do as Irina asks. Brother Baker, you take a break, I'll go see the boss first. Lorist said.

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The old manager of Kress was very angry, mainly for two reasons, one is that Lorist went to Kitano Town without a guard, and the old manager kept nagging that if something happened, the Norton family would be in turmoil again. The boss said that he was too old to be so frightened, and he asked Lorist to consider his own safety before doing anything in the future.

Lorist was well aware of the manager's concern for him, and he pushed the wooden wheelchair that the manager was sitting in as he walked and recounted his experience of going to Kitano Castle. The boss was so resentful of what happened to Belunik that he was poisoned and spent on a sickbed for two years, and if it weren't for Lorlist's study of pharmacy, he probably didn't know when he would have been blinded.

However, the old manager objected to Lorlist's decision to expand the garrison, and he was adamantly opposed to the expansion, believing that the garrison must not be allowed to grow. Lorist shook his head, this may be an old man's stubbornness, he has been guarding and vigilant against the garrison for so many years, and he can't turn a corner, Lorist finds it difficult for the boss to understand the meaning of the words "If you want to take it, you must first take it", so she had to be silent.

At this moment, Lorist pushed the old manager of Cress to the forbidden place of the family, which was another reason why the old manager was very angry. Last night, the old steward had repeatedly told him that as the new head of the Norton family, he must go to the forbidden place of the family on the first day to pay homage to the ancestral spirits of the family. As a result, Lorist ran to Kitano Town and came back so late, and he really didn't worry about this matter at all, which really disappointed the old manager.

Lorist pushed the wooden wheelchair and listened to the old manager's chatter as he walked towards the back hill of the manor castle, but his heart was full of thoughts. What was the forbidden place of the family? He couldn't find an impression in Xiao Locke's memory, and it was the first time he heard the old manager mention it last night, what was inside? Is it like the one described in those TV novels in his previous life, countless wealth, powerful martial arts secrets, divine blades, or a ghost-like old grandfather?

Lorist was a little disappointed, and under the guidance of the old steward Cress, they came to a cliff in the back of the manor castle, which was not only remote but also somewhat cold. Lorist looked around, and said in his heart that there were family masters ambushing and guarding near the forbidden place mentioned in the novel, but he didn't even find a ghost. Does this mean that the forbidden place of the Norton family is actually unguarded?

After digging in his wheelchair for a long time, the old manager took out a bronze key that was one foot long and thick, handed it to Lorist, and motioned for him to take it and insert it into a small hole in the rock wall. Lorist inserted the bronze key, twisted twice under the old steward's direction, and then heard a "click" sound from inside the rock wall.

"Push the big rock down to the left...... said the old man.

The large boulder was pushed away, revealing a hole in the rock wall. A faint, rotting stench rushed to Lorlist's nose, causing him to sneeze several times in quick succession.

The old manager didn't seem to smell the stench, and turned the wheels of his wooden wheelchair to walk towards the dark hole. Lorist hurriedly went up and helped behind.

The old steward told Lorist to go in and light all the torches on the walls of the cave.

Lorist went in and lit a few torches, and then had time to take a look around.

Is this a forbidden place for the family, to be exact, this is a morgue, and the cave is full of stone platforms, and on top of the platforms are the corpses of corpses.

As the stench grew stronger, Lorist noticed three decomposing corpses on three platforms near the entrance to the cave.

Lorist wanted to vomit nauseously, and I really couldn't stand it. The scene reminded him of a movie he had seen in his previous life, as if the hero was in Italy looking for a treasure hidden by the Nazis and strayed into a public cemetery underground, where, like this cave, there were corpses and dry bones everywhere, as well as swarms of rats......

Luckily, there were no rats in the cave, Lorist thought.

The old manager of Kress waved Lorliste over, and on a platform in front of him lay a large rusty iron box, which he opened and took out a large book bound in thick animal skin paper, and the old manager solemnly handed the book into Lorlist's hand.

"Little Locke, here is a record of the heroic deeds of the three hundred and twenty-seven ancestors of the Norton family for two hundred and forty-eight years, and they are all buried in this cave today. They all have their numbers on them, corresponding to the remains in the cave. Now I hand over to you this book that records the glorious history of the Norton family, and I hope that you, under the protection of the heroic spirits of your ancestors, will not fall into the prestige of the Norton family, become an excellent lord, and lead the family on the road to prosperity. ”

Lorist took the thick animal skin book with a serious expression, thinking that he had completed the task of visiting the forbidden place of the family, and could finally leave the cave full of corpses. Unexpectedly, the old manager of Kress was interested, and asked Lorist to push him around the cave, and casually recounted the glorious deeds of a corpse before his death.

At this moment, Lorist almost suspected that the old manager of Kress had nothing to do with this cave before, and how familiar he must be to tell the story of these corpses casually! After suffering for more than an hour, the old manager said that he was tired, and told Lorist to push himself out of the cave, push the big stone back and lock it again, and then go back.

"Grandpa Cress, why are the bodies of our Norton ancestors buried in a cave instead of being buried like everyone else?" asked Lorlist.

"Well, this should be more than two hundred years ago, the first baron of our family was given the title here, and chose to build the manor castle here. Just as the manor castle was nearing completion, it was attacked by the mountain barbarians, and the first baron and his two sons died heroically. His eldest son inherited the title and domain, and led the family to fight against the mountain barbarians. It was winter, the earth was as hard as iron, it was difficult to bury deeply, and the second was that the monster tide would destroy the tomb and the remains, and it happened that there was such a cave in the back mountain of the family's manor castle, so the body was parked inside. I had planned to wait for the spring to bloom before arranging a separate burial, but it turned out that this would be a good thing, so I used this cave as a family burial chamber, and all the children and grandchildren of the direct line of the Norton family would put their bodies in it after their deaths, just like their ancestors. In the future, little Locke, you will be no exception. Said the old clerk Kress.

Well, Lorist imagined that he would die in the future and be left to decompose in that cave, and suddenly felt that it was a very disgusting and terrible thing. I don't want that, Lorist said in his heart that he had to take this matter to heart, and if he had the opportunity, he would find a way to change this tradition, this so-called family forbidden place really made him lose his appetite and couldn't lift a little spirit.

Back in the main building, Lorist found that Pat had sent eight guards who had awakened their fighting spirit, although most of them were bronze, but they were also rare elite soldiers in the family at this stage.

When I went upstairs, I saw that Beruneuk was sleeping soundly, and Irina didn't know where to go. Lorist went downstairs, called two guards, and told them to go and inform Steward Sedkamp, Pat, Steward Speer, and Steward Hansk, and come here for a meeting in the evening.

Soon after, Lorist saw Sedercamp, and Irina brought three girls to drag a cart over, giggling and a few guards to carry things down from the cart. It turned out that four of the eight rooms downstairs were allocated to the new guards as dormitories, the remaining one was converted into a kitchenette, one was converted into a small dining room, and one was used as a residence for the two new maids, and the last room was converted into a warehouse for a kitchenette. One of the three girls, taller and taller, was Béruneck's new maid.

Lloris nodded, and Sedkamp was now more thoughtful than he had thought, and he was very satisfied.

In the evening, Pat reported to Lorist that there were two thousand two hundred and forty-five people in the family's manor castle, and that there were only about four hundred young men who were suitable to become family soldiers, excluding women, children, and the elderly. With the assistance of the Governor of Hansk, he had selected two hundred and forty-eight men, and after sending eight guards here, the rest formed two guard squads. It's just that among the two hundred and forty people, less than twenty have awakened their fighting spirit, to be honest, this is just two teams of peasants and soldiers, and in Pat's opinion, there is no combat power at all. In addition, the two newly built guards had no armor, no weapons, and could not even do a spear per man, so each of them had to be allocated a wooden stick to replenish the number.

Lorist said that in the evening, everyone was called to discuss, mainly about the town of Kitano, and tomorrow Sedecamp took a few people to the town of Kitano to do the registration of the population with the steward of Codan. There are two important points here, one is the survivors of the soldiers of the family and the inhabitants who have lost their land, and this part of the population is ready to be transferred to the castle site in the Morgen hills. The second part is the garrisons that have been squeezed out by the four major families, and they are not reliable, so they have to be registered separately. Lorist was going to let these people build the other town he was talking about in Kitano Town, in order to appease the hearts of the four great families in Kitano Town.

Steward Hansk will be busy in the manor castle tomorrow with two things, one is that the guards of the manor castle are all former family soldiers who are in their forties, and there are more than forty of them. Lorist was not prepared to dismiss them, and he asked the Steward of Hansk to select a dozen or so men to be the instructors of the two newly formed guard teams, and first teach the rookies basic military regulations and queue training. As for the teaching of vindictiveness, Lorist is ready to go out in person, and then go through the addiction of teaching in the vindictive awakening training class.

The second thing that Steward Hanske did was to count the survivors and surplus labor of the family soldiers in the manor castle, and Lorist was going to send them to the castle site in the Morgen hills.

Lorist instructed Pat to go to the Knight of Joske tomorrow and tell him to deliver the sixty or so surrendered mercenaries, the extra leather armor and weapons, and the carriages to the family's manor castle by the fourth of March.

In the end, Lorist gave Steward Speer a piece of paper, and asked Steward Speer to provide food and drink for the newly formed guard team from tomorrow according to the recipe written on the paper, and in addition, Lorist asked Steward Speer to take care of Irina's needs, after all, it was Irina's responsibility for Beiruenek's recuperation and recovery here.

Lorist clapped his hands, okay, it's a little late, everyone rest early, there will be more things tomorrow.