356 The Bitter Lord
And the accuser, who made the all-Neustrian dictator show such a panicked expression, is now full of ambition, ah, the sun is shining on the road before her! Thank you, the gods, Helena of Rioud, Countess Faisal, and Queen Neustria's stepmother, who had so much trouble finding the murderer of her dear husband, and the evidence of her witch's stepdaughter being in cahoots with the murderer!
She will never forget that terrible and tragic day!
The day the storm came!
At the beginning of the day, it was a good thing, and it was true that there were many dark clouds in the sky, which would bring a famine to the countdom, and one of her necklaces could not be found, but the clouds and famine never prevented her from feeding and cloning a noble countess, and the distress of losing the necklace was solved after whipping the maid and immediately finding the necklace in another box. To celebrate the discovery of the necklace, she ordered the maid who dared to say she had not stolen it ten more times as an example. So, at the beginning of the day, she was as beautiful as a lady of her status—a noble wife favored by a noble husband, a female serf, a male and female servant, and a mistress of knights in her domains and territories, a venerable mother of a few children of noble blood and thus destined for a bright future, and the object of the desire of the travelers of later generations. As usual, she gave some orders after dressing up, such as what food to use for cooking, which room to clean up today, etc., and scolded the new manservant for not being careful enough to serve the lord well, and fully showing her unquestionable position in the castle in front of the men and women, and showing her indispensability in the housekeeping in front of the lord. After once again consolidating her position in this big family. As before, she took the bandage and began to embroider by the window.
The location is very good, and you can see whether the two maids around you are spinning or not. You can also condescendingly monitor whether the servants take the opportunity to steal food when they are cooking soup and barbecue, and you can also see what the servants are doing in the courtyard. Therefore, her embroidery work cannot be said to be bad, that is, the embroidery is particularly slow, after all, there will always be a loss of efficiency if she is single-minded.
She embroidered particularly slowly that day, for it was not in good weather, and the Count entertained the courtiers of the little court, took out the dice, and ordered "a good day of play," and the servants laid down many of the sausages and bacon hanging from the ceiling. Cooking a big pot of soup, roasting two or three chickens, and opening a barrel of wine, she had to keep an eye on it!
Therefore, the earl and those men exchanged words such as "stranger ......", "no king's banner ......", "close to ......", she basically did not hear, even if she did, she would not take it to heart, she was a typical noble lady praised by a group of laity. In other words, she is not interested in men's affairs at all, her world is only children, housework, church, oh and family property.
In that chaotic era in Neustria. It seems inconceivable that there was such a person as Countess Faisal, because even the king and the queen mother were forced to flee to the sea, but Count Faisal's territory was not close to the sea or the river. Nor is it rich, even more so under the current earl. Therefore, robbers from all walks of life from the south to the north do not visit the county very often. Besides, even if they visited. The Count, like the old Neustrian nobles, kept the door shut, and cared nothing about what was going on outside, and how could she care if her husband was so? Yes, she had objected to the Earl's brother going to work in the court, but that had nothing to do with the situation in the court, it was purely because she felt that it was easier for Otto to make money in the church and it was not easy for her to keep her heir.
She thus went about her housework, trying to make the count feel that he had a capable wife, that the guests felt that there was a competent mistress, and that the servants knew that her eyes were sharp—and the guests saluted her, and drank two rounds of wine in her name and in the name of the Leoud family, and were about to drink a third round in the name of their husband and wife, when the men arrived.
She was instructed to entertain the "new guests," so she did not bother to keep an eye on the broth, roast chicken, and wine, and hastily re-powdered herself in the mirror under the service of her maid, put on the pearl necklace of her dowry and the gold bracelet that her husband had given her, and solemnly prepared to greet the guests whom her husband had spoken of with the proper gesture of a countess.
But what she was waiting for was a dagger.
She didn't remember the rest of the story very well, except that she heard a few shouts, and then as she walked out slowly while reproaching the maid's panic and throwing away the faces of Faisal and the Ryoud family, she saw her lord's fat body fall to the ground.
"That's it." The golden-eyed robber said.
She clearly remembered the pair of golden demonic eyes, and she would never forget them in her life!
Blood permeated the entire courtyard, and it was from the Count and his unsuspecting retinue, yes, they were defenseless! The Countess knew very well that if they had been prepared, they would not have been! She wanted to rebuke the damned liars and murderers, but then her legs were weak, and her tongue was fighting with her teeth—and for the first time she saw the nobles, not serfs and commoners, slaughtered before her eyes like chickens and sheep, and her faith shattered!
How could this happen?
Isn't her husband the Count of Faisal? Aren't the Faisals one of the oldest families in Neustria? Nobles like them, unlike those pathetic commoners, their bloodline guarantees that no matter what kind of troubled times they are in, they should not suffer! There was an enemy, she understood, but they should have taken her husband for ransom, so how could they kill him? The moment she realized that they were really going to kill the nobles, her arrogance of noble blood and her husband's status dissipated without a trace, so she did not make any move against the crooks and murderers, and did not even reprimand her when they stripped her of her jewelry and clothes, and she did not say a word until they tied her up and put her on horseback.
When the robbers rode away from Count Faisal's domain, her head was down, and she didn't see the billowing black smoke from Count Faisal's castle.
It was then that she vaguely remembered some stories about the blonde northerners, slave holders, who had many wives and concubines in their houses...... She had always thought it was very far away, but she didn't know what to do next.
If it weren't for that mysterious cavalry, she would probably have been taken north by the invaders in such a muddle, and then assigned to a warrior as a wife or maid, and then ...... Probably to continue to do housework while taking revenge on her enemies by fighting at home and having more children......
However, they encountered the mysterious cavalry, so she was abandoned by the invaders, like other captives and baggage.
The inferior horse that carried her had a thorn in the buttocks, and led her past the cavalry, which had been busy stopping the invaders, and rushed into the forest.
She remained on horseback for two more days, and the only clothes she had were torn to shreds in the thorn bushes, until a wooded charcoal burner untied her from her horse.
When she saw that it was a clumsy charcoal burner who rescued her, her arrogance returned to her, "Get away, I'm Countess Faisal!" She scolded sharply, but the other party did not show a look of awe because of this reprimand.
"Countess?" The, blackened by charcoal ash, laughed horribly, "There are no earls or barons in this forest. ”
As he had spoken, the noble Countess Faisal did so, the wife of a charcoal burner, and she ran away twice, and each time she was beaten to bedridden - and then she died, and she did not leave the place until the charcoal burner fell ill and died, but Neustria was no longer the Neustria, whom she recognized.
The Earl of Faisal had fallen into the hands of her stepdaughter, the witch who now called herself Queen Neustria, the House of Ryuud, which had been involved in many robberies and rebellions of the Great Abbey, had long since been purged, the orthodox royal family was in exile, and she could not find anyone she could trust and help, someone who would look up to her because of her blood.
widowed, lost children, lost families, and became wives to charcoal burners...... This qiē is all her stepdaughter's fault! After a series of blows, she lives for only one thought, to take revenge on that Caesarea witch's daughter and her descendants!
She relied on this thought to support her, and as the wife of a charcoal burner, she found a job as a stove burner in Alonael, and prayed to the gods and Satan day and night, hoping that justice would be achieved and revenge would be avenged.
Hard work pays off!
The sky finally has eyes!
When the lieutenant commander of the Navy came out of the stage in a brand new dress, she saw at a glance the golden demonic eyes that often appeared in her nightmares!
Yes! The sun splits the fog! At that moment, she suddenly opened her mouth, and all the riddles had been answered! Her husband's tragic death was not because of his stupid credulity, greed for wealth and fame, and blind confidence in his martial arts and power, nor because she did not persuade him in time, did not appear in the courtyard in time, and did not call for help in time!
No, while they may have made mistakes, the misery of the first qiē was the result of the intrigues of that Caesarea witch's daughter! It's her, it's her who colludes with the northerners! It was she who conspired to hire someone to kill her biological father! It's all her! In order to plot the property of the Faisal family and the status of the countess, he has done such a frenzied and beastly act!
She shall, at once, in this sunshine, avenge her dear husband and sons, in front of everyone, and expose the machinations of that beastly and rebellious stepdaughter, and call her a thousand fingers! (To be continued......)