Bloodline Lord of War

  Chapter 158 The Banquet at Longji Castle

   Baron Joseph knew very well in his heart that he was unreasonable in this gang fight, but he still dared to argue in front of Earl Longji. Because he still has a special relationship with Earl Longji, Earl Longji is about to become his brother-in-law.

   Earl Longji's original wife died of an illness a few years ago. Joseph saw the opportunity and recommended his sister to Earl Longji. Joseph's sister is just twenty-two years old this year, and Earl Longji is forty-two years old this year, and there is a twenty-year difference between the two.

   But this is not important. The marriage of the two families is a complete political marriage. The relationship and age difference are not important at all. The important thing is that the interests of the two families can be tightly bound together.

   Right now, although the two families have basically finalized their marriage, the wedding has not yet been officially held. Joseph's younger sister has not yet married in Longji Castle, so not many people know about it.

  Joseph believed that with his special relationship with Earl Longji, his future brother-in-law would definitely stand by his side.

   "What? Baron Robin and Joseph are fighting?"

  Earl's Mansion, Earl Longji's study, after listening to Kleiber's report, Gude stood up with a face full of surprise.

Kleiber stood in front of Goode's desk, sweating all over his head, and replied tremblingly: "I led Baron Robin to the barracks in the west of the city. When we got there, soldiers from both sides had already fought. Now, Robin Baron Bing and Baron Joseph are waiting in the reception room, my lord, they want you to judge."

Earl Goode suddenly felt that one head and two were bigger. He was too busy with a bunch of things to organize the wasteland coalition. Robin and Joseph even caused him trouble because of this kind of thing. Earl Goode couldn't help but Somewhat annoyed.

  But things have already happened. As the owner of Longji Fort, Gude must also stand up and uphold justice.

  He came out from behind the desk and said to Kleiber with an irritable expression, "Take me to see them."

  At this time, Robin and Joseph are sitting in the reception room. There are three sofas in the center of the reception room, forming a "ji" shape. Robin and Joseph are sitting opposite each other.

   Joseph smiled coldly at Robin, and kept provoking: "Robin, just wait, the Earl will let you pay the price you deserve!"

  Robin was too lazy to talk to Joseph. He leaned comfortably on the sofa and ate the fresh grapes on the low table next to him one by one. His mouth was filled with the sweet and sour taste of grape juice.

Seeing that his provocation had no effect, and Robin just kept eating grapes, Joseph became even more annoyed, and shouted, "Can you stop eating? Haven't you eaten grapes before? Look at your poor face." Sample."

  Robin finally looked up at Joseph, and then ate another grape, showing that he was too lazy to talk to Joseph.

  In fact, Joseph was right. The economy of Raging Waves City is tight, and the limited gold coins have been invested in the construction of the territory. Robin has not eaten grapes for a long time. Taking this opportunity, of course, he must eat a few more.

  Joseph's face suddenly turned purple with anger. He was about to say a few more harsh words, but at this moment, the door of the reception room opened, and Earl Longji walked in.

  Gude walked in with a bad expression on his face. Seeing this, Joseph hurriedly stood up, and bowed to Goode to salute: "My lord."

  Robin was half a beat behind, and also stood up, bowing slightly.

  Gude walked past the two quickly, and sat down on the first sofa chair: "You two, there is no need to be formal, please sit down."

  After Robin and Joseph sat down again, Goode asked with a gloomy face, "I heard from Kleber's report that there was a little friction between the two soldiers in the barracks? What's going on?"

  In fact, Goode has already heard the general situation reported by Kleber, but in order to show that he is doing things properly, he still needs to listen to the description of the person involved.

"My lord, Robin beat people with his troops. A total of 137 of my soldiers were injured by him, of which 93 were lightly injured, 44 were seriously injured, and more than a dozen of them had bones. They were all interrupted, and after the incident, not only did he not apologize or compensate, but he even asked me to lose money, his behavior is extremely bad and extremely contemptible, Lord Earl please uphold justice for me!"

  The villain Joseph filed the complaint first, and he spoke in a rambunctious manner. After he finished speaking, Robin opened his mouth calmly, and said, "Report to the Earl, he was the one who started the trouble."

   "No matter who made the first move, it is a fact that you injured my soldier!" Joseph turned his head and shouted at Robin.

After listening to the descriptions of the two, Goode didn't make a judgment in a hurry. He suddenly felt a little strange. Both Kleiber and Joseph only said that someone was injured on the side of the giant wooden castle, but they didn't say how the injury on the side of Raging Waves was. ?

  He looked at Robin and asked, "Baron Robin, how many people are injured on your side?"

  Robin replied: "Go back to the earl, only a dozen half-elves on my side suffered a little skin trauma, and it's nothing serious."

  Good suddenly felt even more strange. He no longer cared who was right and who was wrong, but was more interested in the ratio of battle losses between the two sides.

Goode looked at Joseph again and asked, "Joseph, I heard from Kleber that there are five hundred people on your side, and only one hundred people on Robin's side. You five hundred people beat one hundred people, Why are you injured more seriously?"

   "This..." Joseph froze, unable to speak.

   Joseph couldn't answer, so Robin answered for him. He said indifferently: "My lord, with all due respect, Baron Joseph's soldiers are too good."

   "Robin, don't be complacent, half of my staff are recruits."

  Joseph reluctantly found an excuse, but he didn't even feel confident when he said this. He knew in his heart whether it was because of the recruits.

Earl Longji's expression became deep, and he thought to himself: Baron Robin said that his soldiers counted as ten, and he thought he was talking big, but now it seems that although there are elements of exaggeration in this statement, Robin Baron Bin did have the confidence to say this. One hundred men beat five hundred and he won. His soldiers are amazing.

In fact, after listening to Kleber's description at the beginning, Earl Goode already had a basic judgment on the right and wrong of the matter. No matter from which point of view this matter is, Robin must not have any responsibility. Joseph The Baron was completely self-inflicted.

   In order to maintain his fair image, Gude could not favor Joseph, especially at the stage of forming the Wilderness Coalition, where many nobles were staring at him.

Goode pondered for a while, and said: "I probably know what happened, Joseph, what happened this time is what you did wrong, and Kleber told me that it was your soldiers who wanted to rob Baron Robin. Am I right that the brawl started only in the camp of the camp?"

  Joseph hurriedly quibbled: "Lord Earl, although this is true, my soldier was injured by Robin."

   "That's what you did to yourself." Goode interrupted Joseph's sophistry, and reprimanded in a full-fledged manner. "Joseph, reply and restrain your soldiers, don't do it again."

   Joseph turned his head depressed, snorted, and stopped talking.

Then, Goode looked at Robin again and said, "Baron Robin, I'm sorry that you encountered such a thing on the first day you arrived at Dragon's Back Castle. To express my apologies to you, I would like to invite you to have dinner with me tonight." ,how?"

  Gude originally didn't take Robin seriously because Robin brought too few soldiers, but now that Robin's soldiers are so capable of fighting, he changed his mind and paid more attention to Robin again.

  Although the troops are a little less, if they are elite enough, they can also play a huge role on the battlefield.

  Robin could see that Gude wanted to make the big thing smaller, and he was willing to borrow the **** to get off the donkey. Fighting Robin took advantage of this fight, and this is the territory of Dragon's Back Castle after all, so Earl Goode had to give face. More importantly, Robin is here to fight the vampires, and he doesn't want to complicate other matters.

   "Okay, thank you Earl for your justice." Robin nodded.

   "Before dinner starts, I will ask Kleber to pick you up, Baron Robin, you can go." Goode smiled.

  Robin stood up, bowed and saluted, then turned and left the reception room.

  After Robin left, Gude's eyes finally fell on Joseph who had been silent all this time. He also wanted to comfort his future in-law. As his ally, Gude couldn't deny Joseph any affection.

He said, "Joseph, are you annoyed that I didn't speak for you? From now on, our two families will be one family, and we will not talk about each other. I will treat you as my own brother. So in front of outsiders, I can't even favor you, otherwise if it gets out, it will be bad for you and me."

"Now is the critical moment for us to form a coalition army in the wilderness. There can be no mistakes. As long as this battle is fought well, we will be the well-deserved hegemons of the wilderness in the future. Even Snow Eagle and Golden Rose will give us three points. By then At that time, would you still care about a little Baron Robin? Joseph, you have to understand my good intentions."

Goode's relief had some effect, especially when he drew a big cake of "Wildland Overlord" for Joseph. Mostly.

  Joseph looked up at Earl Longji, his eyes were burning with excitement: "I understand, Lord Earl."

"There will be a lot of nobles coming to join us during this time. You have to take care of your soldiers, and take care of yourself. Don't make trouble anymore. You are a good fighter, and I'm pointing at you to charge into battle. I hope you are the first person to break through the Blood King City, and I will fully support you, I don't want to give the title of [Demon Hunting Knight] to anyone else, only you are the most suitable."

  Joseph was eager to make contributions, and the big pie that Goode drew just hit his pain point. He immediately stood up and said excitedly: "Please rest assured, Lord Earl, I will not let you down!"

  …

  In the evening, Kleiber was ordered by Earl Longji to invite Robin to the barracks for dinner.

  In the center of the spacious and luxurious restaurant, there is a long dining table, lit by several candlesticks, and the jumping candlelight also makes the food on the table more attractive.

Robin and Earl Goode sat at the two ends of the long table. A plate of summer steak that was charred on the outside and tender on the inside was placed in front of Robin. The summer beef came from the south of the empire, thousands of miles away from the wasteland. , It is a very luxurious enjoyment to be able to eat summer cattle on the wasteland.

  The wealth and luxury of Dragon's Back Castle exceeded Robin's imagination.

  Robin uses the knife and fork proficiently. In fact, he doesn't like this kind of tableware at all. He prefers to use homemade chopsticks at home. But after coming to Hongman Empire for so long, he has long been used to life here, including food and tableware.

  He cut a small piece from a whole piece of steak, put it into his mouth with a fork, and bit down in one bite, the rich sauce and the mellow meat aroma bloomed on the tip of his tongue.

  Advanced ingredients often only require simple cooking, and summer beef is delicious no matter how it is cooked. Robin wasn't very interested in this dinner at first, but he didn't expect to be able to eat such delicious food, so he thought it was really coming this time.

In fact, even for Earl Goode, summer beef is not a cheap food that can be eaten every day. He originally did not intend to entertain Robin with such high-grade ingredients, but before dinner, Goode got another message about Robin's intelligence, so he changed his mind.

Earl Gude was sitting opposite Robin. He saw that Robin seemed to be very satisfied with his meal, and he opened his mouth and asked, "Lord Robin, I only found out this afternoon that you are still a newly promoted Snow Eagle Knight. Why didn't you Wearing your Snow Eagle Medal?"

  The gold content of the Snow Eagle Knight is not limited to the Snow Eagle family. In the entire Northern Territory and the Wasteland, having a Snow Eagle Medal is a very proud achievement. "Snow Eagle Knights are not weak", this is almost the consensus among nobles.

   It's just that Robin never took the medal to heart. After returning from Silver Frost City, he left the medal to the old housekeeper Homan for safekeeping.

   It was given by Duke Xueying anyway, and he was too embarrassed to throw it around. If Duke Xueying asked one day, but he couldn't find the medal, it would be embarrassing.

  After learning that Robin was still Snow Eagle Knight, Earl Longji's desire to win Robin became even stronger. Even if he couldn't pull Robin to his side, it would be useful to cultivate a good relationship with Robin. Goode figured that if one day he fell out with Jin Meigui, then at least he could get along with Xue through Robin's line. The Eagle family hooks up.

   There is always a hidden alternative route, which is the way of Earl Goode.

  So, before the dinner officially started, Earl Goode changed the menu and decided to entertain Robin with summer cattle to show his sincerity.

   Robin swallowed a mouthful of tender beef, and said the words of the scene: "A little honor is not worth showing off."

Goode laughed. He thought Robin was being modest: "A small honor? Haha, Baron Robin, you are too humble. As far as I know, there are countless young talents, just for this little honor. Medal and beaten to death."

  Robin doesn't want to discuss the matter of the Snow Eagle Medal any more. Right now, crusade against the blood race is what he cares most about.

   "Lord Earl, I want to know when we will start our expedition?" Robin suddenly changed the subject.

   "After all the nobles have arrived, we will set off. There is still about a week left."

  Good picked up the silver goblet, took a sip of the mellow red wine, and continued.

"In addition, I am also planning to discuss with you about the expedition, Baron Robin, I wonder if you are willing to serve as the forward of the Wilderness Alliance Army. I need an elite team to serve as the forward. I think your army is very suitable. "

  (end of this chapter)