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In the study of Rose Castle, a pretty figure is sitting at the desk, this beautiful figure is Gervais's cheap wife Count Alice, at this moment Alice looks tired, her long golden hair is pinned behind her ears, revealing a large area of fair and smooth skin on her neck, the beautiful eyelashes on her royal blue eyes are shaking from time to time, and she is holding a report in her hand to see it intently.

Knock knock~

At this moment, there was a knock at the door of the study, and Alice put down the letter in her hand, stroked herself and said, "Come in!" ”

"Your Excellency."

The person who came in was none other than Lina, Alice's personal maid, and Lina, with two letters in her hands, walked in through the door.

"What's the matter?"

When Alice saw Lina come in, her originally cold and pretty face immediately smiled, and she immediately showed a charming posture.

"My lord, the castle just received a letter from Lord Gervais."

Alice's peerless posture, Lina is quite throbbing as a woman, but fortunately, she has grown up with the Earl since she was a child, and now she can effectively resist, while answering, Lina raised the envelope in her hand and handed it to Alice.

"Gervais? What did he write for? ”

For her cheap husband, Alice has forgotten about him these days, after all, since the disappearance of the old earl, Jones has encountered an unprecedented crisis situation, and Alice has put all her energy into it, how can she have time to pay attention to her nominal husband.

Alice took the envelope handed by Anna, and did not hesitate, she opened the envelope in her hand directly, she was a little curious, only a few days later, Gervais sent someone to write to her for something.

After reading the two letters, Alice's brow furrowed slightly, and she raised her head and asked Lina.

"Lina, Viscount Lenny should be the heir of Count Yoland, right?"

Also a son of the Earl's family, Alice was slightly familiar with the name Lenny, but he had rarely paid attention to it before, and was a little unsure, so he asked his personal maid and castle steward.

"Yes, my lord, Viscount Ranny is the second son of Count Ulland, who is stingy and greedy, but is deeply loved by Count Ulland."

Lina now works as a butler, and she knows the basic situation of each of the big nobles in the principality very well, whether it is their family situation or personal preferences, she keeps it in mind, and it is to deal with this situation, so she answers in detail.

"Viscount Lenny's territory borders not only Lord Gervais's territory, but also your vassal, Barony Pat's domain, since a month ago, Baron Pat has sent people to report to Fort Rose, that there are bandits who often cross the border from Viscount Lenny's territory to ambush and plunder passing convoys in his territory."

"I have sent a small group of knights to go, but because the bandits will eventually flee back to Viscount Lenny's territory, the knights will not be able to pursue them, and they have just withdrawn from Viscount Pat's territory to Rose Castle the day before yesterday."

"My lord, there are more and more things like this now, do we need to send more guards to the realm to garrison them."

Since the old earl's disappearance, the territory has been attacked by other nobles, and Lina, who is a housekeeper, is even more anxious than Alice.

Because many times, in order not to let the Earl have more pressure, she suppressed the matter and sent the Knights to support, but those 'bandits' were like loaches, running away after the fight, knowing that there was support to come, they stopped, and the Knights did not have the right to go to other territories to arrest the bandits, and in the end they could only return in vain.

"No need Lina, we border too many noble territories, and there are not so many troops scattered in every place, you can send messengers to other noble territories later, and tell them that if anyone infringes on the interests of the Jones family and vassals again, then our Jones family will no longer trade rose powder with them."

"Yes, my lord, but I fear that they will unite and go to the king to complain, after all, the king is now more than happy to see us isolated."

Although Alice's method will make some families jealous, they are likely to attack the Jones family from other ways, and Lina, as the housekeeper, has to remind Alice of the consequences of doing so.

"Don't worry about Lina, I will write to my grandfather for help, I believe that with my grandfather's deterrence, those shameless nobles will not dare to be unfavorable to our Jones family in the open."

Alice shook her head, dispelling Lina's concerns, now that the Jones family seems to be in constant trouble, in fact, no nobleman in the principality dares to really provoke a war with the Jones family.

Even without the old earl, the Jones family has the marriage family of the Lord of the North to rely on, especially now that Alice is still the granddaughter of the Lord of the North. ”

In addition to the fact that the Jones family itself does not have a golden high-level knight, it is the top existence among the earl families in terms of military strength and economic strength, and no one dares to underestimate it.

"Yes, my lord, how do you need to reply here?" Lina asked respectfully.

"Tell him to be patient for the time being, and believe that Count Yolander does not want us to cut off his supply of rose powder, and should react soon." Alice thought for a moment, then replied to Lina.

"In addition, send this matter of Viscount Lanny to the royal capital, and let the king adjudicate in my name. That Benny is also wanted, and no one has betrayed our Jones family and can still survive the rest of his life. ”

"Yes, Lord Count."

Lina replied respectfully, and was about to say goodbye, when she remembered that she still had a letter in her hand, so she handed it to Alice again.

"My lord, there's also an envelope here, the new name of his realm and castle given by Lord Gervais, and I'm going to take it to the Winterfell Administration Center to have it recorded."

Alice took the envelope and glanced at it, not reacting when she saw the Stormlord, but her face was strange when she saw the Golden Citadel.

"Well, the name of the castle is a bit cheesy, go ahead, since he has become the lord there, everything is up to him!"

"Yes, my lord, then I will leave!"

After Lina left, Alice's face was solemn and contemplative, and she looked at the portrait of the old earl, a powerful supporter who had helped her from the wind and rain.

Although Alice was strong and calm in front of Lina, only she knew that the Jones family was already shaking in the wind and rain, and if she couldn't stabilize the situation, the Jones family might be slowly eaten away by other families.

Although the Lord of the North can protect the Jones family for the time being, how many years can it be guaranteed? The Lord of the North is already old, unless she can reach the Golden Knight quickly, so that she can re-stabilize the situation of the family, but at present, she is only a Silver Beginner Knight, and she still has a long way to go to break through to become a Golden Knight, and I don't know if there is still so much time for her to grow.

This is still a genius like Alice who can be sure that he will become a golden knight in the future, and other ordinary knights are not even sure if they can touch the threshold of the golden knight in their lives.