Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 235 In the Name of the Father
The "Splitting Skull Gate" is the southern gate of the imperial capital, and it is also the oldest one among the four gates of the eternal capital.

This city gate is most praised by the mainland people because there are three giant dragon skulls hanging on the top of the city gate as decorations.

The giant dragon skull on the left side of the city gate was taken from the neck of a wind-type dragon entrenched here by the legendary female mage "Star Shining" Dolores Papanigolao in the early days of the empire—now The original site of the glorious and prosperous human imperial capital was built on top of the giant dragon's lair, which also earned the imperial capital the reputation of "Land of Crouching Dragons";

The most central dragon skull is the "Doomsday War" era, the epic dragon knight Norman under the famous "Light of the Empire" Count Olaf, who rode his mount and fought a black dragon for three days and three nights. dragon slaying loot;
As for the skull of a giant dragon on the far right, its source is none other than the sword master "Brontosaurus" Samuel who wanted to take Alice as his disciple before—the one who married a dragon and killed another The legend of the dragon, the macho old man, also donated his collection of giant dragon skulls to the Guangyaomen of the Imperial Capital...

Of course, don't get me wrong, the skull belongs to the dragon he killed, not the dragon he married.

The three giant dragon skulls hanging high on the vault of the "Splitting Skull Gate" in the imperial capital have become a lofty symbol of the martial spirit of human beings in the empire, and an immortal witness of the conquest of wild nature by humanoid creatures.

However, the name of "Splitting Skull Gate" has little to do with the dragon head, but with the human head:
Ever since an imperial emperor in the early days was smashed by rebels under this unnamed gate at that time, this gate has become a place of extreme bad luck for the head—according to statistics, in " There are no less than [-] high-ranking officials and dignitaries who have suffered disasters (literally) under the "Splitting Skull Gate".

Even Goodman, the most tragic chief in the history of the orcs, "The Disgraced" Goodman was taken to the "Splitting Skull Gate" and executed with an ax and gun after he was captured by the imperial army.

Generally speaking, after foreigners come to the imperial capital, if they enter the city through the "Split Skull Gate", they must continue to recite prayers to the Supreme Holy God in order to cast off bad luck and ensure safety;
However, a certain Frost Maple Ridge lord who traveled from the earth must not be so superstitious.

While queuing up with several senior family members and waiting for the soldiers of the city defense army to inspect the convoy, the senior official Xiahou was listening intently to his sister telling the story about Countess Isa Sandria.

Currently, his only impression of this beautiful girl is that "the lips are soft and the lipstick is very sweet".

However, whether it is Katerina, Alice or Captain Cousins, when the name Isa Sandria is mentioned, the emotion is not so much resentment as it is...

fear.

Listening to sister Katerina's narration, Xia Houyan remembered in a daze that he had actually met Isa Sandria.

As early as more than ten years ago, Isa Sandria, who was born in the family territory and the land of the Stigmata in the east of the empire, lost her parents and all the land of the Stigmata because of the attack launched by the orcs;
However, Isa, who was five or six years old and only had an empty title of "Countess of Stigmata", was sent to Eagle's Rest Castle by the knights of the Sandria family for temporary foster care.

The knights swore to the Duke of Eagle's Rest that when they found a way to regain the Stigmata, they would take Isa back to the East to inherit the territory, but it didn't take long for these knights to send their lives to the orcs. Under the knife of the wolf cavalry, the recovery of the stigmata was completely hopeless.

As a result, the lonely Isa Sandria lived in Eagle's Rest, and did not move to the imperial capital until two years ago.

In this way, whether it is Katerina or Alice, they are actually companions who have played with Isa since childhood.

On the contrary, Lord Frost Maple Ridge was sent to the Academy City to practice magic since he was a child. The last time he saw Isa was probably when he came home from vacation when he was a child. Naturally, he couldn't have any impression.

"Then... So, isn't Isa Sandria an old acquaintance of our family?" Xia Houyan said in a daze, "Why do you treat her so badly?"

"My lord, you only know one thing but not the other..." Seeing that Katerina was sullen and didn't want to speak, Cousins ​​had to explain bitterly, "Well, let me ask you a question... Guess, at that time Eagle's Rest, who's going to top the 'Least Wanted People' list?"

"Master Laurie?" Xia Houyan's first reaction immediately caused his chief mage to jump into fury.

"Not entirely accurate." Cousins ​​gave Master Laurie a blank look, shrugged and said, "Master Laurie ranks third."

"Who is the second?" Xia Houyan asked.

"Bob Brook," Cousins ​​replied.

Xia Houyan said in his heart that the ranking on the list makes sense.

"Guess again, who is the first?" Cousins ​​asked.

"Isn't it Isa?" The lord opened his mouth.

"Exactly!" Cousins ​​smiled wryly while holding his forehead, "When I saw her being sent to Eagle's Rest, Isa Sandria was still a harmless little girl. , she turned the territory upside down..."

"No...would...well..." Xia Houyan was dumbfounded, "It's just a little girl, how can she be so capable? And I think Yisha is pretty pretty too...uh...very polite... "

——After noticing her sister's dangerous gaze, the lord wisely corrected the wording.

"That's all appearance!" Cousins ​​shook his head and said, "Let me give you an example... Look at Isa Sandria, isn't she a beautiful girl as delicate as a rose now? You can imagine it , when she was in Eagle's Rest five or six years ago, she was already a beautiful woman!"

"Yeah...it's pretty..." Xia Houyan licked his lips unconsciously.

Cousins ​​Cavaliers had a wry smile on his face:

"At that time, this girl didn't know what to think, and posted a marriage notice outside the gate of Eagle's Rest, saying that she wanted to marry the bravest young man in Igor's territory... Guess what will happen?"

"Damn, isn't the young man from Eagle's Rest Castle crazy?" Xia Houyan laughed dumbly, "A beautiful little beauty, plus a noble title of 'Earl of the Stigmata'...even if there is no territory under the title, then It’s enough to make people flock to it!”

"Right?" Cousins ​​sighed, "But you know, what else did Isa's marriage announcement say? 'The way to prove your courage is to jump off the tallest tower of the castle'!"

Xia Houyan was dumbfounded.

According to his extremely thin memory, the tower of Eagle's Rest is tens of meters high, right?
Alice Comstock couldn't help shivering when she heard this:

"Knight Commander Cousins, I still remember those days. Every morning, under the tower, a bunch of corpses of young men who jumped down from the top of the tower can be found..."

"Supposedly our young people in Eagle's Rest aren't that stupid. It's really a dance..." Knight Commander Cousins ​​sighed, "But at that time, Isa Sandria seemed to have sent her servants to pretend to pursue him. Those who fanned the flames, Lord Lord, you also know that young people, who have a good face and can't suppress their anger, ran to the top of the tower and jumped off the building..."

Everyone present seems to have forgotten that Lord Shuangfengling is actually a "young man" in his early 20s.

"Co-authoring Isa Sandria, killed more than a dozen people with a single marriage notice?!" Xia Houyan was really shocked, "This girl is so cruel? But those boys are really stupid, the world is beautiful Are there not enough girls here? We Alice, weren’t we also in Eagle’s Rest at that time?”

Alice smiled sweetly, lowered her head and whispered:

"I'm your man..."

Cousins ​​quickly cleared his throat and interrupted the flirting between the dog and the man:
"My lord, don't look at Isa Sandria's beauty, but this little girl's mind is like a fucking poisonous snake! Do you know how she grew up with Vincent after this 'Marriage Announcement' incident? Did someone explain the situation?"

Knight Commander Cousins ​​paused for a moment, with his asshole in his mouth, and imitated Isa's tone and said sharply:
"Uncle Vincent... those idiots are always sending me love letters, and I'm like a follower when I go out for an outing. It's so annoying! You see, after they die, don't they become clean all at once? You can't Blame me, it's because they were stupid and insisted on jumping down from the tower..."

Katerina snorted angrily.

"Eliot, the most important thing is..." Alice whispered, "...Isa is still a legitimate imperial nobleman, and she was fostered in Eagle's Rest Castle in the name of Stigmata... Even if she provokes God It's a big disaster, your father can't do anything to her, at most let the tutor copy the paper several times..."

"All in all, Isa Sandria has done a lot of similar 'good things'." Knight Commander Cousins ​​said with a bitter face, "The day she left Eagle's Rest and moved to the Imperial Capital, you must not know it in the Academy City, Eagle The people of Xibao Town have set off fireworks for a whole day and night!"

Master Laurie at the side shook his head and said:
"I made those magic fireworks myself! On the day the little goblin left, Mayor Joel and I drank until dawn..."

Xia Houyan couldn't help shivering:
"Damn...then...that femme fatale, how could she be my fiancée?"

"Isa got your father drunk at a dinner party one day," Cousins ​​said succinctly.

Xia Houyan cursed silently.

Katerina, who was silent for a long time, finally rubbed her eyebrows and said slowly:
"Father promised you to get engaged to Yisha, it's because he was drunk by this bitch... bitch..."

The gentle and polite Katerina couldn't swear bad words after all, so Master Laurie hurried to do it for her:
"...Bitch!"

Katerina shook her head and sighed:
"...It was the drunken words he was induced to say by Isa Sandria after he was drunk. Although we knew about it, we didn't take it seriously... But I didn't expect that after meeting Isa this time, she would come back again. Bring it up again..."

"Damn it!" Xia Houyan's voice changed, "My dad was talking nonsense after drinking too much, without my consent at all, wouldn't I be responsible for this?"

"Theoretically, the marriage contract publicly announced by the nobleman really has certain legal effect..." Master Laurie said strangely with his sleeves wrapped around his sleeves, "That... my lord... I wish you and Miss Isha a happy marriage... ..."

Master Laurie's ill-timed quips, which had not been fed with crowbars by his lordship, had been eaten by Miss Lena Leslie's furious, hateful kicks and Katerina's glares.

Cavalier Commander Cousins ​​looked sadly at Master Laurie, shrinking his neck and apologizing, and sighed:
"So, my lord, it's better for you to avoid contact with Countess Isa Sandria... If you get involved with this woman, nothing good will happen!"

Xia Houyan licked his lips again.

"Hey!" Katerina pinched her younger brother's waist and sneered, "You don't really want to go to that '13 Lombard Street' to find Isa Sandria overnight? After kissing her, are you going to marry her home?"

"Look at what you said, sister!" Xia Houyan spoke righteously, as if he was facing the enemy's coercion and temptation, "I need to worry about a lot of things in our Shuangfengling, how can I have the time to think about marriage and other bad things? Don't worry, in a few days I'll find a way to break off the marriage contract of my father's cheating son, and let Yisha know what is meant by '30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, don't bully young people with stupid fathers'!"

Katerina sighed:

"Well, it stands to reason that you are now a decent nobleman, and marriage is inevitable, but a woman like Isa Sandria, who has no territory and has a bad heart, certainly cannot be a member of our Igor family. The lady of the lord..."

Master Laurie wanted to ask "Can that be the lord's lover", but the old bum's leg was still aching from where Lena Leslie had kicked him, so he had to give up.

Eldridge, who had been enjoying the big drama of the Igor family, finally found a chance and said with a smile:

"My lord, I don't think you should worry about it. You, ah, don't want to marry, and the countess doesn't want to marry! Look, ah, it's just the broken land of our soul-breaking land, and someone will marry you, ah, Do you eat dirt?"

All the senior officials of Shuangfengling cursed in their hearts at the same time, "If you can't speak, don't speak".

They were still discussing the bad debts left by the older generation. At the checkpoint not far away, the soldiers of the city defense army who were busy checking the convoy of the Igor family suddenly shouted:
"Hey! Which of you is the leader of the team?"

Cavalier Commander Cousins ​​hurried forward two steps, majestic and authentic:
"This is the convoy of the Igor family, and it belongs to the respected Master Elliot Igor, the lord of Frost Maple Ridge!"

The soldiers of the city defense army glanced at the young lord with black hair, after all, he dared not neglect a nobleman, and carefully said:
"Uh...well, Master Igor, what is your convoy going to Beijing for?"

Xia Houyan glanced at Clement, who had been accompanying the City Defense Force to inspect the convoy's cargo. After receiving a helpless shrug in response, he replied in a deep voice:
"We came to the imperial capital to dismiss the emperor and pay taxes."

"Uh..." The City Defense Army soldier hesitantly took out a saber from the shed of the carriage, "Then...my lord...why did you enter the imperial capital with a saber?"

"This is a local specialty that we, Shuangfengling, are going to convert into gold coins and turn over!" Xia Houyan said in a high-sounding manner, "Everyone, don't be nervous, I am a wasteland lord who often suppresses bandits, and I am going to participate in the 'St. Augustus Festival' Hunting and bringing captured weapons to Beijing is completely reasonable, right?"

The soldiers of the city defense army hesitated for a long time, finally put down their sabers, and reluctantly made a mark on the statistics book.

(End of this chapter)