Chapter 90: Behind
Sumer sat down in his chair in a daze, he was about to say something. However, the Marquis's stern eyes finally cooled his burning emotions, like a basin of ice water on a hot summer day, and the deterrent meaning in it even made Sumer shiver fiercely.
The Marquis's patience was about to reach its limit. Sumer was not a brainless man, otherwise he would not have become such a young elite captain and knight.
It's just that in this venue, the most noble person should be him, the star surrounded by everyone to accept everyone's compliments, and those young girls should also be by his side. Why, Lu Sien, the second son of a small lord, can enjoy everything that should belong to him as a matter of course, in the final analysis, it is all because of jealousy.
The Danny knight who provoked Lu Sien just now, well, Danny apprentice knight, also got his instructions to provoke the knight Ji, he knew this, Lu Sien also knew it, and the marquis knew it even more, so he switched the positions of Sumer and Lu Sien.
However, before he didn't bother to think about these things, or even if he saw it, he didn't care about turning a blind eye, and it wasn't until now that he realized that his identity was not as important as he imagined.
As far as the current situation is concerned, he and Lu Sien are natural opposites, and all the actions against Lu Sien before are not only jealousy between relatives, nor is it the kind of person who is desperate for everything, at least when he was in the principality, there was never a shortage of young and beautiful girls around him.
The reason for everything is his identity, yes, he is the duke's secret illegitimate son, the unnamed kind. Although this secret is not a secret at all, it is basically an open secret in the principality. It's just that he even brought his mother, who was the duke's mistress, to be more favored by the duke, and this time he came to Rouse with a special mission.
Because everything develops according to the duke's plan, at this time, he, an illegitimate son with no name, is just suitable to come over and take over the affairs of the Marcola Chamber of Commerce, and after a period of development, when the duke takes back the name of Lu Sien's father and holds the mine in his hands again, Sumer can also be in a position of great importance in his court.
The complex interests of the mine can also ideally tie the official heir of the duke and his illegitimate son together, leaving a good life for his illegitimate son, and at the same time, there is also a basis for ensuring that his children will not be liquidated after his death.
The dukes were not too worried that their own heirs would fight each other after their death and cause the country to fall apart, because the rank of knights naturally determined the fate of their class. Sumer was a knight of the captain level, and he must be attached to the banner of his sister-in-law, who has become a banner knight, otherwise all his power will be boundless water.
That's how it was supposed to be.
As a wandering knight, the Sumerians would choose to build their knight camp in a vacant lot near the mines, well, this is also a kind of illegal occupation, which is an unspoken rule that is not explicitly stipulated by convention.
Basically, all traveling knights are like this, in order to improve their prestige and hone their fighting skills, they usually build a knight base in a place that is not too peaceful, and it is generally composed of several boxes of the opponent's sundries, two large tents for the knight and his attendants, a stake for the mount, and then a bonfire.
Usually close to a certain village, the knight will promise to maintain the security of the village to a certain extent, such as if the village is infested by bandits, bandits, etc., and will also participate in battles when they receive a warning.
However, in the case of impossibility, the knight will also choose to retreat, abandon the camp he has built, and change places. There are not no knights who are used to fight to the death, but there are very few, and most of them exist in storybooks.
If such a relationship is successfully established, every month the knight can get some material support in the village, most of which is some food or something. In addition, the knight may also cultivate a small field on the edge of the camp and work with the squires on weekdays, after all, the villagers' financial support is not enough to meet the knight's needs.
The rest of my free time is spent doing some daily training, touring the nearby land to see if there are any wild monsters or anything like that.
Or challenge other knights who look worthy of a battle passing by here, if they win, they ask the other party to leave their horses, weapons, armor or pay the corresponding ransom, if they lose, they also leave the camp to roll up and get out, but usually when this happens, the other party does not look down on this simple camp, and the knight who leaves can come back cheekily after confirming that the other party has indeed left this place.
There are also cases where when the wandering knight has gained fame over time, there will also be challengers who come to him, and similarly, if he wins, he can leave the opponent's weapons and armor mounts, and if he loses, the camp will be left to the challenger with the reputation he has built up for a long time.
It's easy to build hatred, but it's also a quick way to build prestige.
You can think of these superficially glorious wandering knights as robbers who occupy a lot of land, and that's really the case, wandering knights, and his essence is not as romantic as his name.
Because the area is generally not very peaceful, because there are few opportunities for fighting in the Taiping area, and the local lords are also strong and fully capable of using actions to not welcome these moth-like wandering knights. And on the Moon side, because he has been harassed by the barbarians on the mountain for a long time, the local lord is also in line with the principle of uniting all forces, turning a blind eye, and he originally did not have the ability to support a knight full-time, and maybe he could improve the quality of the people in his territory.
You must know that the story of the romantic encounter between the knight and the beautiful village girl is always very popular, but it is also the result of the bard's deliberate beautification. In fact, it can be completely understood that in these areas with a low level of civilization, the folk customs are relatively open and strong.
Therefore, many beautiful and brave girls are willing to risk everything to fight for a seed of offspring that can change the fate of the family, and the hard-trained knights will not refuse this pastime.
As it is written in many storybooks, the little boy snuggled into the arms of his beautiful mother, with handsome features and a healthier body than other children, but his eyes, which are different from those of those around him, often contain a special sadness.
Mom, why don't I have my father by my side like other children, and the child asks.
Ah, my mother's eyes couldn't help but look into the distance, as if caught in a memory, and a smile spread on her face, your father was a powerful and noble knight, and he wandered far away for his ideals when you were just born.
Ah, Mom, is this true, usually at this time, the little boy's eyes must be shining, and it is better to bring a little recollection in this look as if he had seen another man's strange and familiar eyes.
Of course, how could my mother lie to you, my little darling will definitely become a real knight in the future. The mother hugged the child in her arms tightly, and her eyes flashed with deep sadness from an angle that the child could not see.
Then a few years later, under the guidance of fate, the little boy embarked on the road of fighting the sky and the earth.
Hehe, it seems to be very inspirational, it's all nonsense!
The Sumerians were more or less the same, setting up a knightly camp on the way to the mouth of the mine, driving away everyone who might be close to the area, and ensuring that the Duke of Bauhinia could control the situation from a remote point on this side.
It stands to reason that the office originally trained two heraldic knights of the Great Knight rank for Sumer since he was a child, plus the six great knights who were originally stationed here by the Marcola Chamber of Commerce, and finally counting Sumer himself, this is considered a nine-ten-ten-degree strength, and it is also the limit, at least the power of the Marquis in the name of the Great Knight, plus the Marquis himself, there are a total of nine people.
Even the Marquis could not sit idly by and watch a force that surpassed his military strength appear in his territory, and it was the Marquis's home turf, so he would definitely be targeted in various ways.
It is impossible for the duke to do that, this kind of behavior is undoubtedly a declaration of war with a blatant tearing of the face, after all, the high-end combat power of the nine great knights is completely able to control the situation, to put it bluntly, Sumer should have come to gild, but how did he know that there was a variable of Lu Sien.
A month before preparing to leave, bad news was frequent, first the minerals were recovered by the local lords, and then the team that came to take revenge was all wiped out, and even their own chambers of commerce were on the verge of bankruptcy, in fact, they could be regarded as completely bankrupt, but considering the duke's face, the last layer of fig leaf was still hanging on it.
In short, when Sumer came to Laus, he was faced with such a situation, the original beauty difference has now become difficult, and this matter is also his own family after a bloody struggle and a complicated exchange of interests, and he cannot be allowed to retreat, and the relationship between the Bauhinia court is also treacherous and complicated, unpredictable.
Instinctively, Sumer felt that everything Lu Sien had should belong to him. That's why his emotions were amplified by all these triggers, and he did such a stupid act.
And this time he came to Laws, he also had a secret order from the duke, asking him to find a way to get rid of Lu Sien. The Duke is also a very decisive figure, he no longer cares whether he looks ugly or not, and the current situation is that as soon as the news of Lu Sien's death reaches the court, Lu Sien's father will also die on the battlefield.
The office will then immediately take back ownership of the land.
This has nothing to do with justice or evil, and there is no way to distinguish between right and wrong, it is all about the competition for interests.
It can only be said that Lu Sien's growth speed is too unexpected.
Finally, by the way, the fat man from before is no longer alive, and it is said that according to the description of a homeless man who was the last to see the fat man's corpse in the garbage dump in the slums, the expression of that corpse was very terrifying.
"It's hard to imagine what kind of torture that person suffered in his life~" said the homeless man, but unfortunately the owner of the tavern didn't refill him with a glass of water and ale worth only one peso because of his experience.