Chapter Ninety-One: The Knight of Bérunec

"Why would the Berunek Knight recuperate in Kitano for three years?" Lorist asked.

Lorist took Sedercamp directly into an open-top two-wheeled carriage, which was personally driven by the Governor of Codan, and drove the two Northland horses pulling the cart towards the town of Kitano.

"My lord, because there are no apothecaries in our family's manor castle. And the head of the Dunbasen family in Kitano Town is the only first-class pharmacist in our family territory. The Donbasson family is responsible for Lord Bernek's medical care. Steward Codan replied.

"Tell me where they came from. Lorist said.

Steward Codan said as he drove, "My lord, when our Norton family recruited the guards, the first generation of the Dunbason family was a potion apprentice, and he joined the guards. After the family improved and had savings, he sent his son to study with his former pharmacist, and ten years later his son became a first-class pharmacist and returned to Kitano Town, replacing his father as a garrison. Later, relying on the family inheritance, the children of the Dumbassen family became pharmacists or pharmacists. ”

"Our family once recruited the Donbason family, but they were refused, and the family didn't care if they were the only pharmacists in the territory. It was only agreed with them that they must prioritize treatment when the family soldiers were injured. That's how we've been working with the Dunbason family for more than 200 years, so the Beruñek Knight has been living in Kitano for the convenience of treatment since he was injured. ”

"What's going on in Kitano?" Lorist asked again.

"My lord, the current town of Kitano is now run by a family of four garrison members. For more than two hundred years, the families of those garrisons in Kitano Town have also experienced a lot of turmoil, and it is not uncommon for them to have ups and downs. The garrison of Kitano is now controlled by the four largest families in Kitano, namely the Hassan family, the Morin family, the Dunbason family, and the Cupim family. Like the first illegitimate son of the old man, Morrosinger, his mother was originally from the Morin family. This time, the Morin family united the three families to strongly support Morosinger's ascension, and the condition was that after Morosinger became the head of the Norton family, he would make these four major families vassal knight families, and give them the town of Kitano as a knight leader, so that Kitano Town would get out of the nominal control of the Norton family. ”

Among the nobles of the realm of Gelinthia, it is rare to give a knight a knight to his family, which is very different from the medieval lord world that Lorist knew in the previous life, and that lord world was more of a knight lord, and the knight lords fought and annexed each other, so that the territory gradually expanded.

In Gelintya, the nobles of the realm did not give their family knights a fief, but an annuity or a knight's estate. This is also related to the Fighting Spirit rank of the family knight. The knight of the silver family is more of an annuity, and only by serving the family for decades and being loyal and consistent can he be awarded a knight's manor, and this knight's manor will become the knight's hereditary ancestral property, and his descendants will automatically have the title of knight. So in Gelinthia, becoming a knight of the family of the nobility of the realm meant becoming a quasi-nobleman.

If the realm nobles recruit a gold-rank family knight or their silver knight to the gold rank, then the realm nobles will have to consider whether to give them a knight's manor. Generally speaking, a knight's manor includes a castle, a thousand acres of plantations, and a hundred acres of grazing land or mountains and lakes.

Don't look at the fact that Lorist has recruited so many friends to be family knights, and when they settle down in the Northlands, Lorist will have to think about how many knight manors to build in the family territory. However, Lorist was going to leave these things to Shi Fatzi when the time came, so he didn't bother about it.

There are also cases of giving a territory to the knights of the family under them, and it is usually the knight of the family who has made great achievements or has been promoted to the rank of great swordsman. The second prince of Xiang had two great swordsmen under him, and they were each given a town as a knight's leader. Another reason is the expansion of the territory, and the nobles of the high-ranking territory give their family knights low-rank titles and territories, making them their vassal families.

Like the four major families of Kitano Town, as members of the garrison, but they want to be named Kitano Town as a knight leader, which shows their naked ambition and intention to compete with the nominal lord Norton family. If they succeed, they will be able to move away from their status as commoners and rise to the quasi-aristocratic class, even though they are still vassals of the House of Norton, but they will have greater autonomy, and will even be able to ignore orders from the House of Norton to do their own thing.

"Daydreaming. Lorist commented coldly. Speaking of these treasures, and understanding the schemes of the four major families, it seems that he has done a lot of work and preparations.

Although the walls of Kitano Town can be seen from the family's manor castle, it still took about 40 minutes to get to Kitano Town by horse-drawn carriage. The gate of Kitano Town was open, and the four listless garrisons were chatting with their spears on their spears, and when they saw the carriage coming, they were about to intercept it, but when they saw that it was the steward of Codan who was driving, they waved their hands and ignored the carriage into the gate of the town.

"My lord, when you inherited the title and family domain last night, none of these garrisons from Kitano Town came. If you meet any members of the garrison while visiting Lord Bérunek, please exercise a little restraint and bear with me even if you are wronged, after all, this is their ......territory for many years," Steward Kodan tactfully reminded.

Lorist snorted softly to show that he knew what he knew, and sat in the carriage and began to take a look at the situation in Kitano.

Like many small towns, Kitano has only two gates running east-west, and a thoroughfare connects the two gates, dividing the town into two halves. In the middle of the avenue is a small square, and on the south side of the small square is the lord's mansion made of wood and stone, and the houses made of logs and rocks have a rough and bold style. It's just that in recent years, the Norton family has never entered Kitano Town, and the lack of care of the lord's mansion seems dilapidated and decaying.

On the north side of the small square is a gray stone hill, and at the top of the stone mound is the Stone Hill Fountain, the water source of Kitano Town. Several water tanks have been carved out of the stone mounds, and the fountain water flows down the troughs in all directions of Kitano Town, making it easy for people to get water.

Lorist noticed that many of the houses on this side of the hill were made of stone, and the streets were noticeably cleaner, and there were even a few shops. To the south, near the lord's residence, there are many houses made of messy materials, and even shacks.

"My lord, most of the people who live in the stone houses in the north are the garrison members and their relatives, and in the south, you are referring to the bereaved families of the family soldiers after the war, although they are related to those garrison members, they are not welcomed, and they are inferior in Kitano Town. In addition to these bereaved families, there are also some descendants of losers who have fought for power in the garrison for so many years, and they have the lowest status in Kitano Town, and many of the soldiers recruited by the family in the past came from these people. Steward Codan explained to Lorlist.

"How many people are there in Kitano now?" Lorist asked.

"A hundred years ago, the family did a census, and the total population of Kitano Town at that time was 3,459 people, and the number of people living in the family's manor castle was 1,842 people, adding up to more than 5,000 people. Since then, the family has not done a demographic count. Now there are more than 2,700 people in the family manor castle, and based on this, it is estimated that there should be more than 5,000 people in Kitano Town. But according to my observation, the total number of people in Kitano Town should be around seven thousand, like the four major families that control Kitano Town, the total number of each of their families is more than three or four hundred, in addition to the family members in the garrison, they can also pull out nearly a hundred private soldiers, which is also the biggest reason why the four major families can control Kitano Town. ”

"How did the four families get their financial resources?" asked Lorist again.

"My lord, they occupy half of the fertile land in Kitano Town, and the garrison of two hundred people accounts for more than eighty people from the four major families. The families that lost their membership in the garrison were either separated or reduced to their hired farmers, farming for the four families or serving as private soldiers. The second is that they organize smuggling, because the family refuses to give them caravan passes, so they have to engage in smuggling, and the main commodities they sell are the illicit salt they make themselves and the skins they poach...... My lord, we arrived, and Lord Bérunek stayed in the lord's mansion. The Steward stopped the carriage, jumped out of the driver's seat, and came to the back and opened the door.

Lorist and Sedkamp got out of the carriage.

The door to the lord's mansion was closed, and the steward of Kodan came to the side door and called a few times, and a young man came out of it.

"Cassie, take the carriage to the backyard, and I'll take you to meet Lord Bérunek. Steward Codan said to the young man.

"My lord?" the young man looked at Lorist for a moment, and looked silently to the carriage.

"My lord, go this way. "Steward Kodan led the way, and entered through the side door, through a corridor and a courtyard, to a small courtyard to the left of the lord's mansion.

"Lord Belunik lives here to recuperate, my lord. Steward Codan said.

Lorist stepped forward and pushed open the courtyard door, and at a glance he saw a white-haired young man sitting on a chaise longue in the courtyard trying to stand up.

"It's you...... Brother Strong......." Little Locke's memory appeared lightning in front of him, a white-haired young knight threw the seven or eight-year-old Little Locke high, and gently caught it, Little Locke's laughter continued, this white-haired young knight is a knight squire that his father admires the most, and it is also a big brother that Little Lori likes to pester him to play with him, Little Locke has always called him Brother Strong, because he can throw Little Locke high, and he has a lot of strength......

The white-haired Belunik tried twice more, but found that he was really unable to get up from the chaise longue, so he had to sit back on the chaise longue: "Little Locke, it's been a long time, I can't imagine that you have become a lord when we meet again, I should call you an adult." ”

"Well, I haven't seen you for more than ten years, you disappeared when I was ten years old, and I cried a lot at that time. Lorist went to the chaise longue and found a stool and sat down.

"Yes, I was young at the time, and I always wanted to go out and see, so I left my family territory and traveled abroad. It's just that I didn't expect to come back five years later to find that you had been banished to study in the city of Moldon. Belunik said with a smile.

"Brother Mighty, what's going on with your body?" asked Lorlist.

"My lord, you call me Baker, you have grown up and become a wonderful lord, and you will be laughed at if you call me Brother Strong. Bérunek said.

"As for my body, it's ruined. Didn't you already see it just now, I didn't even have the strength to stand up, alas......" The white-haired young knight was very frustrated at the moment.

"But vigorously...... Well, Brother Baker, I've never heard of a three-year recuperation without the strength to get up, can you tell me about your injuries?" asked Lorlist.

"At that time, I was more than ten steps away from the third young master's mount, and no one expected that there would be traces of the Northland Demon Bear in the grove at the edge of the pasture of the territory. The demon bear, which was four meters tall, suddenly pounced out of the bushes, and everyone was stunned. The third young master's horse was so frightened that it stood upright, and the third young master couldn't catch off the horse and fell off the horse, but one foot was pinned in the stirrup. The horse was frightened, turned around, and dragged the third young master to gallop. Seeing that this was not good, I threw my spear in my hand and nailed the startled horse to the ground. “

But in this way, the smell of blood stimulated the demon bear, and he went straight to the dead horse. One of the third young master's feet was still pinned to the stirrup, and the whole person was pressed by the dead horse and couldn't move. The guards around him are all gone. I had no choice but to throw the sword in my hand over with the intention of blocking the demon bear first, but I didn't think that the sword was wrong, and the sword was inserted into the devil's ribs, which angered the demon bear, and ran for me. I was wrestling with the demon bear for a long time, and a move was accidentally fanned, and seeing the demon bear pounce again, I found that there was a spear thrown away by the garrison when he fled, and he hurriedly gathered the last fighting spirit on the tip of the spear, stabbed the demon bear to death, and then I fainted. “

Béruñek said it lightly, but Lorist imagined the danger of facing the demon bear at that moment. The Northland Demon Bear, that is the fierce beast of the Warcraft, generally a silver-level encounter with the Demon Bear, it is best to take the best policy, otherwise the vast majority of the winners between the two are not humans.

"When I woke up, I realized that three days had passed. Master Dumbasan said I would really be hopeless if I didn't wake up. Because he was hit by the demon bear's palm, the right rib was completely broken, and the internal organs were displaced and broken. The Baron ordered me to come to Kitano Town to recuperate from my wounds, so that Master Dumbasen could treat me. It took a year for the injury to stabilize. It's just that in the past two years, the injury has often recurred, and the whole body is weak and weak. It's impossible to cultivate Dou Qi. Yesterday, I wanted to go to the inheritance ceremony of your lord, but after a little activity, I vomited black blood...... My lord, sometimes I often wonder why I didn't die with the demon bear, so much, now I'm just suffering......"

Lorist frowned tightly: "What did that Master Dumbasen say?"

Berunek leaned back on the recliner and said helplessly: "Master Donbasson said that he can't do anything about it, because my situation is that my internal organs are displaced and my organs are broken, so the treatment of physical trauma is very fast, but the internal recovery is very slow, especially I can't do strenuous exercises, and even brisk walking must be forbidden." In order not to affect the recovery of internal organs, I could not even eat bread and beef, so as not to increase the burden on my body, so I could only drink two bowls of wheat porridge with a little salt every day, and only one small bowl of broth for three days...... My lord, I've had enough of it......"

Lorist was deeply sympathetic, grabbed Béruć's hand and gently stroked it to show comfort, but secretly but quietly took the pulse......

Lorist's face suddenly turned red, his anger burned out, and his voice became extremely cold and creepy......

"Damn it......" Lorist said.