Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 242 Chapter [-]
In fact, Xia Houyan didn't really want to entangle with this woman, Isa Sandria, and wanted to run away after simply saying hello.

However, Lord Frost Maple Ridge's swaying and turning speed were a bit slow. Before he could take a step, he heard Countess Isa Sandria declaring loudly to the surrounding noble guests:

"Everyone! This is Eliot Igor of the Igor family, the lord of the Empire's Frost Maple Ridge, and my fiancé!"

The room was full of silence, even Belgrade and the elf ambassadors all opened their mouths wide open, resembling hippopotamuses.

While Xia Houyan was stiff all over, Katerina's face turned green.

——The Igor family has always turned a blind eye to this muddled marriage arranged by the dead ghost's father Vincent after drinking, hoping that sooner or later they will be able to get away with it and not have to fulfill it:
Noble marriage is an extremely precious political bargaining chip. I am afraid that no great nobleman in the empire will tolerate his patriarch or heir marrying a countess of Stigmata who has lost all his territory;

The fact is that although Isa Sandria has won countless suitors in the social circle of the imperial capital by virtue of her pretty face, most of the noble youths who really want to marry the Countess of the Stigmata back home They are all empty-headed nobles without land, or heirs without inheritance rights of a certain lord;
As for the patriarchs and heirs of the noble families, they all respect Isa Sandria at a respectful distance: marrying a beautiful vase with no political and economic value, if you do such a thing without authorization, you will be interrupted by the elders of the family legs...

But today's Igor family, although its strength is not as good as before, at least it has established a firm foothold in the land of broken souls and made a fortune. Katerina would rather hand over the title of "Lord's Wife" which is the only one in the whole territory. For Captain Alice Comstock, at least he can buy people's hearts in the territory, and he is absolutely unwilling to let Isa Sandria take advantage of it.

But Miss Katerina never expected that the Countess of Stigmata's style would be so fierce!
This young noble lady, Isa Sandria, does not seem to have the shyness and reserve that a girl of this age should have at all:
She just announced her lifelong event calmly at the banquet at her own house in front of the celebrities in the imperial capital...

As we all know, no matter what, once it is said in public, it will inevitably have a sense of certainty;

What made Katerina feel aggrieved and resentful the most was that if the marriage contract was just a lie, then she could explain it clearly to everyone calmly and return her brother's "innocence";
However, the idiot father of the siblings, Vincent Igor, was really drunk and unscrupulous back then, speaking out about the engagement, and even had countless Eagle's Rest gentry as witnesses...

So, after Isa Sandria blatantly announced her lifelong entrustment, neither Katerina nor Lord Frost Maple Ridge could refute at all, and kept an awkward silence—their almost tacit attitude , It made the boring nobles in the banquet hall gossip, and their eyes were full of sarcasm and playfulness.

After a while, several nobles came over and exchanged greetings with the lord of Shuangfengling who had just arrived in the imperial capital.

——Actually, the gang in the banquet hall had seen the Igor siblings a long time ago, and the reason why they didn’t talk to each other was simply because they didn’t want to have anything to do with a heir of a conspirator and a noble in the wilderness;

But now, since the host of the banquet, Isa Sandria, personally introduced Lord Frost Maple Ridge, it would be unreasonable to pretend that he hadn't seen it: so a few thick-skinned nobles from the imperial capital ran over cautiously, using the human-imaginable After greeting Lord Shuangfengling at the fastest speed, and finally completed the courtesy task, he turned his head and fled.

On the bright side, Isa Sandria at least helped the hated Igor family to open up the diplomatic situation, and no longer looked like an outsider suffering from the plague at the banquet.

When Xia Houyan was talking politely to the nobles of the imperial capital with a smile on his face, he noticed an interesting phenomenon:

Those who came to greet the Igor brothers and sisters were mainly older nobles with relatively simple clothes. None of the noble children ran over to say hello.

Of course, the lord, who didn't intend to spend more time in the noble circle, actually didn't care much about the diversion of these imperial nobles at all. He just relieved his boredom by writing human observation reports in his mind at a boring banquet. .

——For the lord, suppressing bandits in the land of broken souls, building ballistas in the Manhattan laboratory, and collecting tolls in different ways in the rest area of ​​Route 66 are much more meaningful than chatting with a group of pig-brained nobles.

As for Miss Catalina, she has already experienced the warmth and coldness of the world in the aristocratic circle since the incident of the conspiracy. Apart from the short-term gaffe caused by Isa Sandria, she faced everyone at the banquet tonight. The performance of the nobles can be said to be more than capable:
Miss Eagle's Rest always had a polite and gentle smile on her face, like the most senior skilled worker, mechanically completing the routine aristocratic etiquette;

However, after the two parties greeted each other and handed the gifts prepared by the Igor family to other nobles and celebrities, the corners of Katerina's mouth would twitch slightly:

Apparently she had thought of it, what was contained in the package was not exquisite handicrafts, but a series of pretentious and face-slapping novels full of mentally retarded plots...

The minute hand traversed a semicircle on the magic clock in the banquet hall. Apart from being caught off guard by Isa Sandria's surprise attack announcing her engagement, Katerina and Xiahou officials were somewhat aware that Isa Sandria The dinner party attended by the Gore family after returning to the imperial capital should not go wrong...

...that's weird.

Just when the Igor siblings were introduced by the Countess Isa Sandria and Mrs. Natasha, they were familiar with a couple of rich merchants in the imperial capital, when suddenly a glass fell on the ground behind them. The sound of explosions on the ground.

This relatively rare sound immediately attracted the attention of many nobles in the hall.

When Xia Houyan turned his head, the first thing he saw was the broken glass on the ground, and the second thing he saw was the half-torn Yi Ge held in the hand of the plump lady who dropped the glass. family gift package;
Two thick, kraft-bound novels were quietly exposed under the brilliant lights of the banquet hall.

I'm afraid this is the first time since the beginning of the imperial capital, a nobleman got two popular novels as a meeting gift...

The lord's eyes straightened, while Katerina's eyes wandered.

However, the imaginary ridicule and ridicule for this too cheap gift did not appear;

After a short silence, the lady's sharp exclamation was enough to put any coloratura soprano singer to shame:
"Holy, the Holy Spirit! Yes, it is the flower of abundance!"

Xia Houyan was full of question marks.

"Holy God!" The lady excitedly raised the Dongbingku novel in her hand, and proudly showed the cover to the ladies and girlfriends around, "This, this is the novel of the flower of abundance! Lost "Princess Returning the Pearl"! My God! This is the second part!"

Xia Houyan turned around in a daze, and was stunned to find that even Isa Sandria and Mrs. Natasha beside her, like the ladies around them, had fallen into a state of sluggishness because of the name "Flower of Abundance" .

Then, he turned around abruptly, and immediately saw an elf face with the four big characters "Guilt of a Thief" written on his face.

"Master Belgrade!" Taking advantage of everyone's inattention, the lord took two steps forward and secretly grabbed the elf mage by the collar, "Please explain to me why an elf writer used to write specifically for the elf queen. The works that His Majesty read alone will have such a high reputation in the imperial capital?"

"That... that..." Belgrade hesitated to speak to him, but found the indifferent expression of the elf ambassador's dead friend, Undead Pindao, so he could only weep and say, "I used the winter embracing pigeon to take the 'Flower of Abundance'. When the novel was sent to the protectorate, Shun, by the way, copied a copy and sent it to the embassy of the imperial capital... No, somehow it spread and became popular..."

Seeing how embarrassing Belgrade was, the elf ambassador finally couldn't justify his conscience, and smiled apologetically:

"Master Igor, it's like this. Recently, there has been a literature craze in the imperial capital. We elves have been trying to expand our influence among humans and improve our reputation... It just so happens that the flower of abundance is an excellent elf writer, suitable to be a model..."

"So you just sent out the novels produced in our territory as promotional materials?" Xia Houyan sneered, "Let me remind you that Fengraozhihua is a contracted writer of our Shuangfengling! According to the agreement, the novels of Fengraozhihua It is only for Her Majesty the Elf Queen to see, and it is not allowed to spread!"

"I think this is a win-win..." The elf ambassador scratched his head, "Our elves have won the reputation of 'excellent literary talent' and 'artistic development', and your writers in Shuangfengling have also gained fame..."

"The flower of abundance is gaining fame, not Shuangfengling!" Xia Houyan laughed angrily, "Let me ask you a question—when you distributed copies of Flower of Abundance's novels everywhere in the imperial capital, did you sign us on it?" Frost Maple Ridge, the name of our Igor family?"

Mr. Frost Blade, the elf ambassador, was embarrassed and silent, only the honest man Begrade muttered:

"That... in order to highlight the achievements of the protectorate's cultural construction, it should be the name of our elf protectorate's own literary institution, called 'Biqu Pavilion'..."

Xia Houyan really regretted listening to Captain Cousins' nonsense and not bringing his crowbar here. As a result, he didn't even have a guy to take advantage of.

The lord of Shuangfengling, whose author's copyright was brutally violated, wanted to continue "reasoning" with two elf pirates, but was suddenly pulled from behind by Katerina.

"Eliot..." Katerina called out weakly.

Xia Houyan hurriedly turned her head back, but she met the expectant eyes of the lady who threw the cup, and was almost so frightened that she fell down on the ground.

"Yes, is it Mr. Igor?" The plump lady, with an expression like a fanatical junior high school girl who is obsessed with star chasing, "Well, that, can I ask you, where did you get the flower of abundance? Is it a rare novel? This, this gift is really great..."

Mrs. Natasha looked at Lord Shuangfengling with a shocked face, obviously she did not expect that the extremely rare and precious novel of Flower of Abundance was actually given by this wasteland lord.

"Uh..." Xia Houyan nodded reservedly, and quickly thought up his words, "To tell you the truth, the respected writer 'Flower of Abundance' is now settling in our Frost Maple Ridge to experience life in the land of cracked souls , carry out literary creation..."

The ripples of whispering spread among the surrounding young literary women in the imperial capital.

"A great writer like Feng, Feng, and Abundant Flower," Mrs. Natasha couldn't keep her mouth shut. "Why did you live in such a poor place like yours in the southern wilderness?"

Xia Houyan was about to rack his brains to make up a reason, but saw Katerina take a step forward.

"Everyone, it's like this..." Miss Eagle's Break said with a smile, but if intentional or not, she glanced at Isa Sandria who was stunned aside, "My brother Elliott, it is Ms. 'Flower of Abundance''s most beloved...lover——Although he is a son of a nobleman, he is also from a school city, so he always prefers gentle and educated girls, rather than ignorant and flirtatious noble girls... ..."

Needle drop can be heard.

Xia Houyan only felt that women were scary.

(End of this chapter)