Chapter 108 Amy's Big Trouble
Alaric looked at the lord and smiled somewhat sadly.
"I didn't come here to rob. I just heard that there is a big winery here, and I want to trade with the owner of the winery and provide him with good wine for a long time... This way I won't go crazy if I don't have wine to drink..."
The Lord raised his eyebrows, a little suspicious: "Then why did you bring so many people here?"
Alaric sighed, "If I don't take them with me, who will trade with me?"
Li Ang thought about it and realized that as a baron, few people would care about him when he wanted to buy some food, let alone Alaric the Noisy One?
If he came alone, the best outcome would probably be to use his "reputation" to fulfill the "reputation" of a noble knight.
"Okay, have your people wait here and don't cross the bridge. I can help you make this deal."
My Lord thinks this deal is still possible.
With so many drunkards, the Countess will surely make a lot of money in the future...
However, after looking at Alaric again, Leon asked uncertainly: "Wine is not cheap, do you have that much money?"
"certainly……"
Alaric took off the purse from his waist, but then his face changed drastically: "Asshole! Where's my money!"
The purse was very deflated and it was obvious that there was nothing in it.
Alaric shook the purse, and a few copper coins fell out of it - they were small copper coins with a face value of one fil.
Fell is the subsidiary currency for daily retail transactions in the continent of Pendor. One hundred Fells can be exchanged for one Dirhan silver coin.
Alaric pulled out the arrow stuck in his body, touched his body again, and then sighed: "I remember I have a bag full of dinars..."
The Lord curled his lips and said, "Since you were so drunk before, it's normal for your purse to be empty, right?"
Alaric pulled off his helmet and scratched his head in annoyance, seeming a little helpless.
But then, he seemed to remember something, and he broke his huge feathered helmet twice, then took something out from the compartment.
"I don't know where my money went...but I can't live without wine...perhaps, I can trade this with you?"
In his hand he held a sky-blue gem.
The Lord subconsciously touched the Artemisia Crossi powder in his pocket...
But this time, it seemed to be a real gem, and the lord did not show any abnormal symptoms.
"These are dragon tears, dragon's tears."
Alaric didn't do anything fancy. He remained sitting there without getting up, but threw the gem directly over.
The lord reached out to take it and looked at it in surprise.
Unlike the Snake Heart Stone that was surrounded by mist, the Dragon Tear Gem appeared to be extremely warm and there seemed to be starlight twinkling inside.
"Didn't the dragon become extinct thousands of years ago? How did you get it?"
Li Ang took the Dragon's Tear and looked at it carefully. This thing gave people an inexplicable feeling of sadness .
"Back then, those nobles destroyed my hometown and killed everyone in my village, probably just to find it..."
Alaric leaned his head against the wooden stake beside the bridge and looked at the sky. "A few years ago, when I was a mercenary, I found it in Longsong Port in the Kingdom of Ravenstern... At that time, I just thought it was a very valuable sapphire..."
"It wasn't until I met the mysterious man who gave me the 'elixir of life' in the tavern that I knew it was Dragon's Tears. That man originally wanted to exchange it for the elixir of life - probably he didn't expect that I would lose control after drinking the elixir..."
Alaric banged his head against the wooden stake. "Anyway, I never saw him again. When I woke up the next day, I was already in the wild, surrounded by drunks... Let's not talk about it. Can this deal be done?"
The Lord nodded and said, "I will accept the Dragon Tears. I will give you a fair deal."
But at this moment, a group of ragtag troops came over.
These are the troops from Kwen Village.
The ragtag army of less than a hundred men was led by seven or eight knights, probably formed by the knight leaders from all over the village.
The one leading the way was still the knight who had escaped before, but his face looked very bad. It seemed that when he was running back, he ran into the reinforcements organized by the Countess, and ended up "going to find reinforcements".
Seeing Alaric sitting on the ground, and looking at the mob across the river, the knight approached timidly.
"Master Leon, have you defeated him?"
The lord shook his head: "I promised to sell him some wine, and he also promised to leave after getting the wine - I think it's better this way, there's no need to fight to the point of both sides being hurt..."
The knight looked at Alaric who was unharmed, then looked at Leon who was calm and composed, and suddenly retreated quickly and hid in the ragtag army, with a look of suspicion on his face: "Sir Leon, are you planning to make a deal with deserters and bandits?"
Alaric, who was sitting on the ground, smiled contemptuously: "Lord Leon, these nobles seem to be different from you..."
Then he stood up and picked up his hammer.
The Lord sighed: "There are always some fools in this world...Don't do anything stupid, Alaric!"
After saying this, he walked towards the knight and waved to the knight who brought the news to come out.
There are always such idiots in this world who can do nothing but compare nonsense and always think they are right.
The lord felt that he was probably too polite to them.
Seeing Leon coming alone, this ragtag army naturally had no reaction. The knight didn't understand what Leon was going to do, and continued to talk to himself: "We should kill him! Only by killing him can we scare those deserters!"
Li Ang grabbed his arm and dragged him off the horse. Then he stared into his eyes and said viciously: "You have already become a deserter! Do you understand?"
He turned to the other knights and asked, "What should we do with deserters?"
The knights looked at each other and wisely said nothing.
The knight who reported the news did not say anything else, probably because he was afraid that the lord would beat him.
"You go to the bridgehead and keep an eye on the people on the other side. Don't let them cross the bridge. This deserter, go ahead..."
Leon directly ordered these knights to stay here, then pushed the deserter knight and asked him to lead the way.
"Alaric, you follow this fool, and I'll follow you with the cavalry. If he makes trouble, you can beat him to death, and if you make trouble, I'll chop you to death... This way we can both feel at ease - let's go to the Countess to buy wine together, how about it?"
Alaric looked around, nodded, and put on his helmet: "You are right, this is indeed a good idea."
So, the deserter knight once again started his journey back to the center of the village. Alaric followed him one meter behind with a sledgehammer in his hand. The knight seemed to start to stagger again...
Leon shook his head. How did this guy become a knight with such courage?
Alaric walked quite relaxedly, looking back from time to time and chatting with the lord.
"The lords of Fierdsvain are much braver than the nobles of Sarleon... But they are also prone to harming the common people and going back on their words... There are indeed not many lords as kind and honest as you, Lord Leon."
"You have only known me for less than half an hour, Alaric..."
This is the first person who said that Leon was kind - the lord was very pleased.
But alas, it was just a stinking drunkard.
"I can see it... every civilian can see it. You don't have that condescending look. Besides, you had already defeated me, and you didn't kill me in order to prevent my troops from causing a big mess. I can understand that."
It seems that Alaric still has some brains.
However, the western part of the kingdom is in dire straits, and it seems that Alaric has never met any good people.
"Actually, strictly speaking, I'm a businessman. Have you heard of the Mai Xiang Company?"
"Wheat fragrance? I have heard of it... Wait! You are actually in that kind of business?"
Alaric turned around with a strange look in his eyes: "No wonder I felt your flag was so familiar - I remembered! I lost all my money in a casino last night! Asshole... that casino was called the Wheat Fragrance Branch! It had the same flag!"
Ahaha?
It seems that I was cheated by an agent.
The Lord smiled awkwardly: "Haha, that's really a coincidence... I sincerely advise you that gambling and alcoholism, just one of them is enough to make you poor and destitute, you'd better take it easy!"
Alaric spat fiercely on the ground: "Pah! But you are doing both businesses! I actually thought you were a kind person before... I take back what I said... You are at most a person of integrity!"
Oh no, it seems that the only person who thinks Li Ang is kind has also come to his senses.
But no matter what, Alaric still has to buy wine. For him, wine is a basic need.
When they arrived at the gate of the Countess's manor, they happened to meet the cavalryman who had been sent back to ask the Countess to send wine. He was helping the Countess load the car.
The Countess originally thought that she was going to give away a few carts of wine for free, but when she heard that it was a normal transaction, she was quite surprised.
She certainly didn't mind selling the stock of wine; in fact, she wished she could sell so much wine every year.
The lord gave her five thousand dinars and bought hundreds of barrels of wine - all the Countess's reserves.
In fact, the five thousand dinars were the money that Leon placed in the center of the village to buy food.
Carriages delivered wine to the bridgehead in an endless stream. The bridge was too wide for the vehicles to cross, so Alaric sent people to push the hundreds of oak barrels across the bridge, which delayed the process quite a bit.
But no matter what, Alaric did keep his promise and took the team away.
As for where Alaric and his group of drunkards will continue to wander, the lord does not care.
Anyway, they are just a bunch of lazy, drunkards who are of no help to construction. There is no need to waste manpower to deal with them. It might be better to send them to harm others.
And those noble estates were indeed willing to pool together a large amount of food to provide to Leon to thank him for blocking the bridge in time and forcing back Alaric's drunkard group.
They promised that Leon could send a truck to take away all the excess food after they harvested it, without paying.
According to the output of their manor, all the surplus grain added together should be enough to cover their expenses, and may even be enough to cover the gap in White Deer Castle.
Only five thousand dinars were used to exchange for a dragon tear and get enough food, which was certainly a good deal.
Although according to Alaric, the elixir of immortality obtained with dragon's tears would have terrible side effects, the lord felt that the elixir of immortality might not be the real use of dragon's tears.
The lord made some calculations and left a few cavalrymen on standby in the center of the village, planning to return to the territory and then organize a convoy to transport the food - after a round trip, it would just be time for the harvest without any delay.
In order to save horsepower, Li Ang planned to go to Changhe Town first to see if he could take a boat from the El River back to Maixiangling - this way he might be able to meet Amy, and Amy would not have to discuss business in Changhe Town.
But one day later, when the lord rushed to Changhe Town, he found that the city gates of Changhe Town were closed and martial law was imposed everywhere, as if they were preparing for war?
The confused lord looked at the flag of Changhe Town - the flag of Grand Duke Alma was still flying.
On the tower watchtower, there is a banner with four swords, which should be the flag of Fotherg, the son of Duke Alma.
But there are no enemies nearby, right?
The drunkard gang left from the north of Kwen Village, so there is no way they would come to Changhe Town. Why are they making such a fuss?
After a whole day's journey, the lord was exhausted and had to set up camp by the Aire River. He wanted to see if Changhe Town would open the next morning.
"Set up camp by the river, feed the horses, and find a dry place to sleep. But don't take off your equipment, be ready for battle at any time!"
He had a feeling that something might have happened to Amy.
…
Amy did have an accident, a big one.
She and Klose and others have been trapped in the inner castle for three whole days.
Three days ago, shortly after the tall woman jumped into the river and escaped, Lord Fothergill led his troops to surround the inner castle of Changhe Town.
Fothert declared that Amy and the people of Mettenheim were heretics and had kidnapped Lady Bella for evil purposes, and ordered Amy to hand over Lady Bella and surrender.
Only then did Amy understand why Fawcett ordered all the soldiers to withdraw from the inner castle - he obviously knew that Madam Bella believed in evil gods and made friends with heretics, and he was trying to frame her!
In Pendor, being labeled a heretic is basically like having half of your body tied to the stake.
When she went to the inner city wall to negotiate with Fotherg, she was directly attacked by a volley of crossbow arrows.
If Klose hadn't seen the opportunity quickly and dragged Amy back, it would have been a real tragedy.
Hundreds of soldiers surrounded the inner fort, and the order issued by Fothert was: "Unless it is Lady Bella who shows up, anyone found will be killed!"
But Mrs. Bella has fallen into a coma and is on the verge of death, and it seems that she may die at any time.
There were only maids in the main building of the inner castle, but no doctor. Once Madam Bella died, there would be no last bargaining chip left.
Those maids had been under house arrest since the end of last year and were not allowed to go out, so they knew nothing.
Amy had no choice now. Fothergill seemed to have closed the gate of Changhe Town, so she could not get out at all.
Only Summer, who was the best swimmer, said that after taking off all his equipment, he might jump into the river and swim out to ask for help.
But the problem is that there are already boats cruising on the water behind Shanghe Town. If you jump into the river now, you will only be shot to death on the water.
Although the troops outside did not launch a strong attack - probably to ensure Mrs. Bella's safety, but if this continued, Amy felt that there might be a big chaos soon!
Sure enough, in the early morning of the fourth day, Fawcett disappeared.
There were still several hundred troops surrounding the city, but the flags they were flying were all the Lion Claw flags of Grand Duke Alma.
Amy was filled with panic - she could imagine that since Fothert would frame her as a heretic, he must know everything, and Archduke Alma should know it too!
Even though he knew that Madam Bella worshipped the evil god, he did not kill her, but kept her in the inner city to engage in sculpture art. This was naturally for the control of Changhe Town. After all, Changhe Town belonged to Madam Bella's "posthumous child".
According to Fawcett's previous plan, he probably just wanted to kill himself to silence him so that the scandal between him and his sister would not be known to others.
This may have something to do with Alma's inheritance rights to the Houghton family - in addition to Fawcett, Alma has several other children, but the others are not yet adults.
But if he broke into the inner castle, he could just pin the incident with Lady Bella on himself! This was very important for Grand Duke Alma who was planning to plot against Changhe Town!
They couldn't expose the fact that Madam Bella was a heretic, otherwise he wouldn't be able to get Changhe Town - it wasn't time for Madam Bella to 'give birth' yet!
Amy really didn't expect that a word like "your sister" would lead to such serious consequences...
…
Early morning.
A burst of urgent horn sounds awakened Leon.
"Enemy attack!"
This is the horn blown by the cavalry on sentry duty.
Li Ang rolled over and got up. He saw at a glance that a cavalry unit was marching out of Changhe Town and heading straight for the lord's temporary camp on the river bank.
It was a cavalry of about two hundred men, flying the flag of Fotherg.
Early morning was the time when a team was sleeping the deepest, and it was obvious that Fothert had no good intentions when he came at this time.
The lord sent people to keep watch and deliberately did not let the cavalry take off their equipment to avoid a surprise attack at night. However, just when everyone had mounted their horses and were ready, Fotherg's cavalry had already arrived.
Fothert came in a semi-encirclement posture. Leon's troops were too few, and no one expected to be surrounded near Changhe Town.
Is the Duke of Alma's son planning a rebellion?
My Lord is a little confused .
But no matter what, you have to rush out first.
"Follow me! Don't fall behind!"
Li Ang gave orders and led the cavalry to escape in the direction of Mai Xiangling.
But after running a few steps, he encountered Fotherg and a team of knights blocking the direction to Maixiangling.
"Sir Leon, I didn't expect you to be here... I advise you not to resist, lest your troops suffer!"
Fawcett obviously knew Leon, but Leon was unaware of his intentions.
After thinking for a while, the Lord signaled the cavalry to prepare to break out to the east, and then he went forward alone: "This should be Lord Fothert? What do you want from stopping me?"
"Sir Leon, your business partner Godric and his daughter Amy... they are colluding with heretics to commit evil! Are you going to protect them or testify against them? I'll give you a chance to choose!"
Fothergill narrowed his eyes, stared at Leon closely, and spoke in a sinister tone.
The lord sighed, it seemed that something had happened to Amy.
After checking the distance between Fother and the Lord, he rode forward a few steps and said with a smile, "Knight Fother, you don't seem to have learned the etiquette of the Lion Knight well... When you meet a baron, as a knight you should salute!"
