Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 240

By the time Knight Commander Cousins ​​and Bob Brook had finished paying their taxes at the Imperial Tax Department and rushed back to Igor's mansion, the sky was already dark, and the senior family members were all ready to eat.

This afternoon, Mr. Bart Black, the old housekeeper who reunited with Jun Enhou, and a few young men from the Bomber Sect, were busy for a while, and finally cleaned up the hall on the first floor that was defiled by the stupid rich businessman. ;

These young believers of the Thin Burial Sect who lived in the cave with the old housekeeper were also servants of Igor’s mansion before, and they were led into the door of the cult by Mr. Black—they are now returning to their old jobs and working It is not unfamiliar at all, and the efficiency is amazing.

Since the mansion's kitchen couldn't be cleaned up for a while, the young believer who had been the chef of the mansion simply set up a fire in the open air in the central garden, and tried his best to prove his worth by cooking a dinner for the lord.

When Knight Commander Cousins ​​entered the mansion casually, the dark atmosphere in the hall had been swept away by the magic crystal lamp hung by Mr. Black. It was extremely bright, and the air was filled with the warm aroma of broth.

Cavalier Commander Cousins ​​untied his backpack from behind, took out a large bag of apples, and distributed one to each of the senior family members:
"Your lord, Ms. Katerina, please try it. It's almost autumn and new fruits are on the market. When we passed by the market in the Griffin District, I bought it by the way. It's so cheap..."

Xia Houyan took the apple, took a bite casually, and did not forget to ask his knight commander something serious:

"Has the tax been paid?"

"No, you must know the efficiency of the bureaucrats of the Imperial Taxation Department!" Cousins ​​bit an apple himself, and while passing the fruit to Master Laurie, he said vaguely, "We leave the cargo convoy in the The tax department is over there, and they said that they will be able to count the approximate amount tomorrow, and I will make another trip at that time."

Katerina, who was sitting on the sofa reading a book, couldn't help frowning and said:

"Ah Lun, take some time, don't be undercounted by those in the tax department..."

"Miss, don't worry!" Knight Commander Cousins ​​patted his chest, "I'll give them the reference price of the 'wilderness specialties' that we pay as tax in kind, converted to imperial gold coins! If these bastards of the imperial capital If they dare to blackmail us, Shuangfengling, I will argue with them to the end - no matter how bad it is, there is still Bob Brook here..."

Hearing the name of Weizhen Huanyu, the senior executives present were relieved.

If the civil servants of the Imperial Taxation Department dare to find fault, at worst, let Bob quarrel with them. Anyway, he is not responsible for scolding cerebral hemorrhage.

"Speaking of which, where's Bob?" Xia Houyan looked behind Cousins, but he couldn't find the shadow of the Eagle's Rest debate champion.

"He came back with me. He didn't enter the door, so he ran to eat with the Frost Maple Ridge soldiers in the convoy." Captain Cousins ​​shrugged, "I asked him to come to the mansion to eat together, and he said he was hungry. Can't wait... Cough, he just feels a bit embarrassed to sit with you, Missy, Master Laurie and other big figures in the territory. In fact, we have walked together for so long, who is with whom..."

"Bob Brooke is the diplomat of our territory, he is considered the leader of the family no matter what! There is nothing to be embarrassed about!" Xia Houyan smiled wryly and shook his head, "Next time there is such a thing, Aaron, you can directly send him Just drag it over and eat together..."

"Decree!" Cousins ​​saluted Frost Maple Ridge with an apple in his mouth.

The ancestral old house of the Igor family is, after all, a noble mansion rather than a temporary barracks: Although the senior family members can live in the mansion tonight, the pioneer soldiers brought from the Phoenix Terrace cannot accommodate them.

After entering the city, Chris Mann rented an open space on the outskirts of the imperial capital and asked the pioneering army brothers to set up temporary tents. This was considered to have solved the problem of accommodation for the large troops.

It is worth mentioning that, due to the approach of "St. Augustus's Day", many nobles of the empire came to the imperial capital with their territories and manpower, waiting to show their skills in the hunting competition - and because of this, The Igor family's "bringing troops into Beijing", this usually dangerous move, did not cause some unnecessary misunderstandings.

Xia Houyan asked Cousins ​​a few more questions about the accommodation of the soldiers of the pioneer army, and then took out a few aquamarine crystals and gave them to the knight commander, asking him to share a point with his brothers and eat more good food in the imperial capital. Basically rest assured.

At this time, Mr. Bart Black happened to push a dining table into the hall. The old butler and the Knight Commander of Eagle's Rest Castle were also old acquaintances since they were children. The meeting was another round of pleasantries. Hahahaha" "Is it delicious to eat shit while swimming in the cesspit, dog thing" and other friendly ridicules, please don't express it.

While waiting for the meal, the girls Katerina, Lena and Alice began to talk about the banquet at Countess Isa Sandria's house three days later:
It should be said that women are worthy of being women. The core of the three girls' discussions is very consistent-what kind of clothes does the lord wear to look better?

Opinions vary widely.

Katerina insisted that her younger brother wear the most traditional royal dress of the empire, that is, a brocade gown in darker tones and a vest with a goshawk-patterned family crest, but Lena Leslie insisted that only the straight and straight Frost Maple Ridge military uniform can make handsome seniors capture the hearts of a group of imperial ladies;
Alice's opinion is very simple: she thinks the lord looks good in anything.

While a group of women were chattering like ducks by the river, only the pragmatic Knight Commander Cousins ​​winked at the lord:
"Don't worry, I know a few master tailors in the imperial capital, and I promise to hurry up and make a suit for you!"

Xia Houyan was a little annoyed: Why does my knight commander know everyone in every corner of the world?
Compared with this, doesn't it seem that he, a noble lord, has an extremely narrow social circle?

A certain well-known dude whose "social circle" was limited to pretty girls in the academy before, obviously didn't have a clear enough self-awareness.

"I think Alice is right. The lord is handsome and can wear whatever he wants." Master Laurie chewed on the apple, spitting wildly. How many girls can you catch..."

No one cares about the master at all: Even Dave, who rings the bell on the top of Vincent Palace, knows that the reason why Master Laurie is an old virgin is not only because of his appearance...

"But when you arrive in the imperial capital, you have to change your style." After eating the apple, Captain Cousins ​​nodded to the boss with a serious face and mouth full of juice, "For example, don't hang up in the imperial capital. Seeing your broken crowbar dangling around, it is easy to make people laugh..."

Xia Houyan looked down at the extremely kind "crowbar | battle-scarred" on his waist, feeling very depressed.

"That's right..." Master Laurie chimed in, "Our family is rich now, let's go to the magic supply store and buy you a serious staff as a weapon..."

The lord is quite dissatisfied with the contempt for his holy sword of physics:
"Forget it... I am nostalgic, and this crowbar has been used for a long time, and I have feelings..."

"What the hell are you talking about!" Katerina finally couldn't stand it any longer, she frowned and said angrily, "You can do whatever you want in Shuangfengling, but in the imperial capital, you can listen to my sister and me, and you are not allowed to hang a crowbar anymore. It's gone! What are you showing off!"

The flattery of "Missy is wise" and "Missy is mighty" from the senior officials of Shuangfengling rang out.

The lord whose right to dress was brutally deprived felt that Katerina must be taking revenge on the haunted house adventure that he and Lena had together, it must be.

"In addition, this is the first time you have come to the imperial capital after inheriting the noble status, so you still need to send some gifts to the imperial nobles who live in the imperial capital as a greeting." Knight Commander Cousins ​​counted with his fingers, " At Countess Isa Sandria's banquet three days later, you can give out a copy to the visiting nobles, and then visit them one by one along the streets of the Unicorn District..."

Xia Houyan pinched his eyebrows in pain.

"What gift?" The death knight Clement who had been sitting next to him finally interjected, "Aquamarine crystal?"

"Inappropriate." Knight Commander Cousins, Master Laurie, and Katerina exchanged glances, and quickly agreed with their eyes, "Such a large amount of aquamarine crystal is too conspicuous. The source is suspicious, and it may cause trouble. Trouble—it doesn’t work to send gold coins directly, it’s almost worth writing ‘upstart’ on our Shuangfengling’s face, it’s really worthless.”

"Then what to give?" Xia Houyan pressed his fingers irritably: the most indispensable things in Shuangfengling are sea blue crystals and gold coins, but it's a pity that they can't be given away.

"The group of poor and sophisticated idiot aristocrats in the empire, it stands to reason that they like luxury handicrafts that cost a lot of manpower and material resources, are expensive, exquisite and beautiful, but are useless." Knight Cousins ​​also had a headache for a long time, "I remember When I followed your father to visit other nobles, I sent clocks, tapestries, and porcelain tea sets..."

"Where are we going to get these things? The Land of Cracking Souls doesn't produce them!" Xia Houyan was dumbfounded. "Return clocks, tapestries, and tea sets? Death knells, shrouds, and poison bottles are more in line with the style of the Land of Cracking Souls." ..."

"If it doesn't work, why don't you go to the Griffin District to buy some handicrafts?" Katerina turned her attention to Knight Commander Cousins.

"No way..." Lily Knight sniffed, "The nobles in the imperial capital are busy receiving and giving gifts every day. They have nothing but a good eye for appraising treasures... If they can see that our Shuangfengling Gifts are bought and given away in the imperial capital, that would be too embarrassing..."

The lord was finally overwhelmed, and waved his hand:
"What's the trouble with this shit? I've decided! Don't make any handicrafts, just get some novels produced by the 'Dongbingku' writer's studio as gifts, whether they like it or not!"

"You...will give novels to people when you come to the imperial capital?" Knight Commander Cousins ​​said in a serious manner, "A ghost novel written by a bandit slave?"

"What's the matter? Isn't novels a special product of the wilderness of our soul-cracking land?" The lord raised his eyebrows, and he had a free and easy temperament that was lost by thousands of people, "And literary and artistic works are the most precious wealth. Give some Letting the novel out to these idiot nobles will show the rich cultural atmosphere of our territory even more!"

The high-level officials of Shuangfengling thought for a long time with sad faces, but they didn't think that a group of bandit writers who were raised in captivity like sows and struggled to code under the threat of swords had anything to do with the "cultural atmosphere".

But the lord's intention is very firm: just give the novel, and don't give any other gifts!
He felt that it would be too worthless to bother Shuangfengling to spend money and thought in order to give presents to these wimpy and useless nobles who are inattentive, industrious, foodless, penniless, unable to measure their military skills and unable to defend themselves—just give some Fenghuangtai's face-slapping novel used as toilet paper is just right!
Seeing that the lord has made up his mind, the senior officials of Shuangfengling can only hold their noses and accept this ghostly idea.

In order not to get entangled in dress and etiquette, which belonged to the circle of fallen nobles, Xia Houyan looked around, and decisively stopped the old butler Bart Black who was busy arranging the dinner plate:

"Mr. Black, come here."

The old butler held the dinner plate and walked in front of the lord with a dazed expression on his face.

"Kerry...Juan close the door." Xia Houyan confirmed that there was no one else in the hall except the high-level family members, and snapped his fingers at Clement, and the death knight hurried over to lock the hall door.

Familiar with the lord's style, the high-level officials of Shuangfengling knew that this was about to talk about serious business, and they all put down their rogue faces and sat upright. Even Lena Leslie and Katerina, who had been happily discussing the fashion issues of the imperial capital, were conscious of it. He stopped talking.

Only the old butler, who was not familiar with the lord, was a little flustered:
"Ai, Master Elliott, what do you want from me?"

"Tell me about the situation of the 'Thin Burial Sect'." The lord turned the crowbar in the most stylistic way, which was the last madness before changing customs, "For example... how many thin burials are lurking underground in the imperial capital? Christians? What about the western region? What about the rest of the empire?"

The senior officials of Shuangfengling pricked up their ears alertly.

"Uh..." The old butler thought that the fact that he was a cult member was over, but he never expected that the lord would want to conduct a census for the Bofu sect, "Master Elliott, I don't know about other parts of the empire. But there should be about 400 followers of the Bo Zan Cult in the imperial capital, and there are even more in the western region..."

When the senior officials of Shuangfengling heard the words, their expressions were a little emotional:

If he hadn't met a genuine Bobue believer, who would have imagined that there was such a huge network of pagans hidden under the seemingly calm and peaceful civilian class of the empire?
Xia Houyan asked with great interest:
"Then you Bobu believers in the imperial capital, do you have any leaders, bosses, talkers or something?"

The old butler was stunned when he heard the words, and then knelt down to the lord with a "plop":

"Master... I, I am also a member of the Bobu sect. I, I really can't do such a thing as betraying the dean of the reporting sect..."

"Who the hell made you report it!" Xia Houyan glared at Mr. Black, "I mean, when you are free later, Mr. Black, you call the head of the Bofu Sect in the imperial capital to our mansion, and I will drink tea with him, Let’s talk, let’s talk about life and ideals!”

The old butler, Mr. Black, was a little panicked:

In his concept, if someone wants to "drink tea and chat" with you, it seems that there is basically nothing good...

However, the high-level officials of Shuangfengling who are familiar with the lord's style all have poker faces with no expression on their faces. They can't be said to be indifferent to the shocking news that "the lord wants to contact the leader of the cult", but can only be said to be very fucking indifferent .

Only Miss Katerina, looking at her good brother who was drifting away on the path of heresy, sighed deeply.

After dismissing Mr. Black, Commander Cousins ​​said in a strange manner:

"My lord, no matter who you want to meet, you'd better arrange your schedule clearly. When the tax of our Shuangfengling territory is paid, the affairs officers of the imperial court should arrange for you to have an audience with His Majesty the Emperor, and then formally confer the new title. ——You shouldn’t want to see the tragic scene where the leader of the cult and the emperor collide with each other.”

"Meeting the emperor..." Xia Houyan smacked his lips, suddenly thinking, "Hey, tell me, if I knock the emperor to death and turn him into a zombie, is there something wrong with it?"

The senior officials of Shuangfengling, who had always been calm and calm, finally changed color and shuddered when they heard this rebellious and outrageous remark.

"My lord!" Master Laurie gritted his teeth, "Do you know how many guards His Majesty has around him? Do you know how many protective magic props His Majesty has with him? Do you know the chief of the court who is with His Majesty Mage, is an ice mage with the greatest strength in the world? Even if you are lucky, you can really beat His Majesty to death with a stick, and by the time you recite the spell, we will have been crushed to pieces by the imperial guards!"

Katerina stomped her feet and said, "Eliot, stop talking nonsense!"

"Cough, I was just making a joke. Why are you taking it so seriously..." The official Xia Hou smiled awkwardly, and stuffed the white cloth strip with the ink characters "Respecting the Emperor and Begging for Traitors" back into his arms with regret. .

(End of this chapter)