The morning sun is quiet and beautiful.

Bran and Christian had breakfast at once.

Bran told his friend that "Boy" satisfied him.

A tacit smile.

At mealtime.

"Do you know, I heard in the morning that the price of wheat in the land had risen, and a group of Rus' people had burned up the wheat grove of an earl's domain, and took away the grain in the storehouse?"

"Damned Rus, you will receive the wrath of the Lord." A knight who accompanied the meal.

"If the Rus are caught, the men will be killed, and all the women will be sent into slavery."

After the meal, Christian offered to inspect the territory and asked if Bran was with him?

Thinking of discussing with his friend about the elimination of the Rus, Bran nodded.

Then the two of them went out with a group of servants.

Being shot in the leg by the Rus' horse thief arch made it impossible for Christian to mount his horse alone, and he needed the help of his men.

Don't use your strengths to make your friends feel his weaknesses, and when Bran gets on the horse, he also needs to help himself push up.

Didn't show off his riding skills.

"I'm just like you, friend, I've been wounded by bandits all the way, and my legs and feet aren't so sharp."

The group set out from the castle to the east, and Christian's knightly escort faced Brandau, "My lord, what you see now...... The village, from here to the east to the top of the hill, is the territory of the family 'Gary'.

Bran nodded and listened to Hu's words, sometimes echoing a few words.

"Very good

。 Bran nodded and said, "I checked the information yesterday and found that the Rus who came and went to your territory all entered from three places in the northeast, among which the northern invasions have been frequent recently, but there is a direct leader of the principality in front of there, and to get to your family's territory, you need to go through the principality officials, so the defense is so poor?"

"There is a group of mountains over there, which is connected to our family's territory, and there is a Rus force that often haunts, and I have sent letters to the Duchy's court many times, but what I got is that there is a lack of funds, let me solve it myself."

"Didn't His Excellency Ivan help the new Grand Duke succeed to the throne?"

"A vassal without power is a loyal vassal in the eyes of the lord, a powerful vassal is a danger, you should know this better than me, in the time of the monastery, you are the chief."

"I've got a way, let's go and lure the Rus' out."

"How?"

"I read your territory letter, not that the Rus' have found a light stone mine, and because there is still a lot of gold in it, they used them to trade weapons and horses, and became strong.

Thus began to look outward for more light stones.

Now that they value light stones so much, we will use ore to lure, and there are valleys in your territory, right? We set up an ambush near the mountains that would attract invasions, creating news of the discovery of the mines.

This method can be tried.

After hearing this, Christian added, "With the direct command of the principality, it is necessary to obtain the consent of the principality to mobilize so many people to enter. ”

"Or can we disguise ourselves as merchants and farmers and deliver weapons in batches to avoid leaking the news?"

Bran went into some more detail.

Christian nodded straight and suddenly decided that he was going to spend the night out and take Bran to the mountains.

By the next day, they had left the castle and passed Christian's own estate.

When I came to a village, I was confronted by the villagers punishing criminals.

It's the Rus' who steal cattle and sheep, but not a group, but two Rus' and a local.

The Rus have an unadorned beard and a thin body.

It's a far cry from what Bran heard at this time, the image of the vicious Ross.

When the Rus' were hung from a tree in the square, they begged for mercy.

Christian raised his whip from afar, then rode over and told the villagers to let go of the three thieves.

"By law, you have to inform the local knights." One of the servants raised his whip and struck a villager suddenly.

The villagers who watched the execution knelt down in fear.

After asking clearly, Hu Cong came back and said, "A traitor colluded with the Rus' to steal at night. ”

When he dismounted, Christian was supported by the escort so that he would not fall to the ground and make a fool of himself under the tall war horse.

He walked over and raised his whip and struck the Rus' with such ferocity that the two Rus' who were tied up could not stop them.

Crying out in pain, God's name for forgiveness.

The local on the side, who was also about to be executed, was scared and his pants were wet.

"My lord, we are not thieves, we negotiated a deal with the villagers in this village in exchange for food, but I didn't expect them to regret it, took my goods, and told us, we only came back last night to get it."

The villagers on their knees cursed that the traitors and the Rus had been corrupted by the devil, which was a blatant slander.

Christian didn't care who was right and who was wrong, he kept beating with a whip, and finally beat the two Rus' to death, as if this was the only way to vent his anger.

This local traitor was also hanged in the end.

The villagers breathed a sigh of relief.

These expressions changed, and Bran's heart moved.

Loyalty and honesty are sometimes just an illusion.

But Bran did not interfere in the affairs of other people's lands, and they continued on their way, passing through the foot of a hill and stopping at a slightly wealthier peasant family, where the noble lord was blessed.

At this time, a wedding banquet for the couple was being held.

The newlyweds are greeted respectfully.

Christian had a little ale and his eyes drifted to the young newcomer.

"Sir, you have to be careful, my lord, since Lord Christian was injured, I have heard that he often drinks poppy wine to restrain his pain, and after a long time he becomes addicted, and whenever he touches the wine or hears the Rus, he will be furious." ”

Bran ate absentmindedly, and then suddenly there was a cry from the bride, and after the bride had finished saluting the lord, she was hugged by Christian, who kicked open the nearest house and went straight in.

The screams piqued Christian's interest and added fuel to the fire.

The young bridegroom cried and begged, and fell on his knees in the morning to introduce Bran to the scenery, and there was a laugh and a smile at the feet of the knight.

In pain, Bran put down his bread and said, "Is this your territory, or am I misjudged and this is the enemy's territory?"

After taking a sip of fruit wine, Hu Cong said, "My lord, these people are all Diao people, they can get the gift of the lord, what else is there to say, and the bride will laugh later." ”

Hu was slapped in the face from the horse, and the bride who was dragged in ran out with injuries all over her body, and in the room, because of the excessive use of addictive poppy wine, Christian lost her fertility and developed a distorted psychology.

He got dressed and walked out of the house, letting his men smash the place hard.

On the third day, Bran saw more of Christian's atrocities, and while drinking the wine in his water bag, he said to Hu, "Let's wait and guess, wait and go to the town, if we meet the criminals who are being dealt with in the square, can we be higher than the horses?"

This game was learned from the people of the principality from the Rus, who in turn learned from the steppe people.

Once upon a time, steppe people did not kill children who were not taller than horses.

After making a bet with his men, Christian came to the territory directly under the principality.

Due to the prevalence of lynching, when criminals are generally caught, the people like to pull them to the square, save trouble when they die, and do not need to spend time and space to take care of them.

"My lord, I won five rubles." Hu rode over and looked at a diminutive juvenile delinquent, wondering what had happened.

Christian, who lost the bet, stepped forward and raised his knight's sword and cut off the criminal's calf with a single sword.

"Now he can't get up, I won, I'll only win."

The crowd on the sidelines ran away and said in a panic.

Don't reason with the lord, think about it, although you can talk and laugh with Christian, but turning your face is also an instantaneous thing, which is afraid to bow your head after the horse.

The act was cruel, and it was not Christian's territory, and there were guards who came out to stop it, but Christian slapped it in the face.

"Despicable bastard." Christian walked away.

Christian's atrocities reach the court several times a month, as does his father Ivan, who once assisted the current Grand Duke Chanan Day Robert to ascend the throne, joined forces with other nobles, manipulated a series of national struggles, and even slept with the Grand Duke's lover.

Didn't look at the Grand Duke at all.

Therefore, the young Grand Duke would rather let these Rus' people revolt in his own country than contain these nobles.

Today's events, in a few days, will come to the table of Grand Duke Chanan, and further deepen his conviction to get rid of the Ivan family.

……

After passing through the direct collar of the court, several people came to the mountain territory to which they belonged, where a light fortress was established, and twenty people were on duty here on weekdays.

Guarding forests and patrolling mountains to crack down on smuggling.

The sudden appearance of the lord overwhelmed them, and the wine girl who called for amusement did not have time to get dressed.

When he ran out of the fortress, he exposed most of his body.

Christian gave him a look, and his servants went to deal with the lazy soldiers.

Bran followed Christian into the valley road, then checked the entry and exit positions, and laid out the ambush plan.

In the past few days of discussion, Christian has become more and more interested in being able to kill the Rus.

"Friend, I need more information about the Rus, as far as I know, how many of them are also divided into?"

"Most of the Rus' who entered the Duchy of Debulle were Rus' with Viking blood, blonde and blue-eyed, and because they admired Byzantium, they believed in Orthodoxy in addition to polytheism, and the two faiths were together.

Because of this, the principality has been polluted by these Rus' people in recent years, many lords have converted, and even the Grand Duke has foreign teachers around him.

Christian said this, lowering his voice.

Then Christian left a servant who could communicate with Bran, and under his command, three days later, the girl who had been with Bran for a day in the study also came to the light fortress at Bran's request.

Bran hadn't asked the girl's name until now, and when it was time to know, he would always know.

On the evening of the girl's arrival, Bran commanded her, "What shall I say from tomorrow onwards." ”

"Yes, sir."

Bran divides the area around the mountain range into areas that are completely controlled by the Christian family, and areas that may be entered by outsiders at any time.

In all of Christie's blacksmith shops, Bran ordered the stones to be melted together with the gold dust and plated on a thin side.

Got dozens of fine gold stones.

Then let the soldiers in the territory pretend to be hunters and farmers who go up the mountain.

He took the scraps of gold with him to the taverns in various towns and cities in the principality, and when he traded, he deliberately exposed the gold and stones.

And to the people, "In such and such a mountainous area, a vein appeared. ”

These people pretend to be arrogant.

It really makes people think that there is a treasure in the mountains.

One spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and the rumors became more and more intense.

At the same time, the number of soldiers who hid their identities and entered the fortress increased.

When the number of hunters and thieves trying to steal into the mountains increased, Bran asked the mountain patrols to catch them, and then deliberately let them escape.

And before they fled, deliberately let these people hear, Christian Knight had discovered a light stone mine, which was to be mined soon.

The final step is to create a fire in the interior of the mountain, at night.

Let those from afar see the shining light of the stars.

All kinds of illusions show that there are hidden light stone mines in this mountainous area.

Light stone is a vein that is more valuable than gold, but it is extremely difficult to mine, and when a large area of light stone is excavated, the power of light stone will immediately fade, and it can be used for about a finger.

As soon as Christian sent a blacksmith to the fortress, and asked the Grand Duke to increase his troops,

It was only twenty days before and after, and even the black market knew about it.

Christian didn't tell anyone, not even the envoy sent by the court.

This time Christian also wanted to see, who knew that after he had the mineral deposits, he would come and attack him.

The fiefdom of the vassals cannot be grabbed directly, but the young Grand Duke Chanan will not make the Ivan family so happy. ”

He immediately wrote a letter and sent it to the Rus' Ichisu, whom he had cultivated, while the court officials were out to buy it.

It's a private fortress halfway up the mountain.

There were hundreds of Rus' in total, and a statue of Odin was built outside the fortress.

After reading the letter, Ichisu felt very strange, he had been to that place so many times, why did a treasure suddenly appear.

When they asked their subordinates, they said that there was a lot of gold in that place.

And someone took out one of the golden stones and offered it to Ichsu.

"It is rumored that the ore that grows in the light stone vein will be plated with a layer of gold in this way, but ......"

Ichisu always felt that there was something wrong, and he couldn't say it.

"Someone, send me a letter to call those gringos."

The gringo that Ichsu spoke of was none other than Freitrick.

Within a day, the letter arrived in a forest dozens of miles away.

More than 30 people are hiding here, and more are growing.

The sunless forests, the morning dew, the cries of insects, the rotting soil.

A few people were cutting down trees to make new cabins.

Freitex used this as a base and was wiping his sword.

In the not spacious cabin, only he and Sister Wang were together.

"Sister Wang, you can eat some."

"I don't have an appetite, you can eat."

"It was my negligence that day, and I shouldn't have been so angry with Bran, but what happened to our family is that we can no longer trust and be abandoned easily."

"Have you already contacted the nobles who supported us?"

"No, it's all greedy villains, I sent Upp, he has returned yesterday, and according to what he has inquired about, Bavaria is now regent by the mongrel Kefusha, and assisted by Judith's rebel as king."

"He may be our younger brother."

"What brother, this slut Judith, must have had an affair with Kefusha......"

Seeing that Freitrick's scolding became more and more ugly, Oseya returned to the cabin that Freitrick had built for her, and knitted her clothes alone. ”

"Bran, where are you? I miss you so much. ”

I don't know when the tears fell

There was a lot of movement outside the house, and in this small forest, Frederick had been hiding with thirty people for more than ten days, and had already set up a trap.

If it weren't for the regular army to attack, it would be difficult to take it for a while.