Blue Sword

In the afternoon, after a so-called poaching incident, the Weisbach family dinner was about to come.

The so-called family dinner was a social event for communicating feelings within the family in this era. It was attended by members of the direct line of the Weisbach family, as well as members of major branches, as well as vassals within the family, as well as knights directly belonging to the retainer class.

Of course, the Cang Qing Sword Mercenary Group is not qualified to attend. In terms of qualifications, only Eleanor and Aske can enter.

The former had to participate as the daughter of the head of the family, while the latter found an excuse to shirk it.

On the fire island, with the resources provided by Eleanor, the girls continued to build a house. Based on the original wooden house and flower garden, everyone built the foundations of the kitchen, library and movie screening room, and even built a A large bathroom is designed behind the cabin.

The water in the bathroom is planned to be introduced from the lake at the foot of the mountain, and will be purified and heated through a filter chamber and a boiler. Nora has taken care of all the water and electricity projects.

"Speaking of this." When everyone gathered to discuss the details of the plan, Medea suddenly sneered and said, "This afternoon, the butler of the Weisbach family suddenly found me and seemed to intend to poach me from the team."

"I guess this happened to more than just me. If any of you have accepted the other party's conditions and plan to leave like Hood did, please tell us as soon as possible? Don't continue to waste everyone's feelings. .”

The girls looked at each other.

"A person who claimed to be the director of the hospital did find me and invited me to be their chief physician." Nora said calmly, "I have already refused."

"The annual salary of a chief physician should be very high, right?" Medea sneered, "Aren't you interested?"

"Not moved." Nora responded with a perfect and impeccable smile.

Medea habitually activated her mind reading again, but found that Nora's mental body changed color rapidly, and she couldn't read anything for a while.

"Have you forgotten that I also took the Psychic I potion recently?" Nora's voice sounded in her mind.

"Oh, it seems we have a new member in our mind-reading club." Medea raised her lips, "The person who is trying to recruit you, have you read her mind?"

"Her poaching behavior should be at the instruction of Eleanor and her brother." Nora replied.

"The same information I know," Medea replied.

"Why did he do this?" Nora expressed doubts.

"I don't know," Medea said. "I can only be sure that he has no ill intentions."

"That's even more strange." Nora said.

Medea cast her gaze towards Hidrifa, who showed a blank expression and said:

"Speaking of which, there is indeed a man who calls himself Knight Commander. His name is John. He invited me to compete with him today."

"What do you mean?" Medea asked immediately, "Did he deliberately lose to you, then praise you for your strength, and finally take the opportunity to invite you to some position?"

"Huh? No," Hidliba said honestly, "That guy was very weak. I knocked him to the ground with just one strike of my axe."

"There were many guys who challenged me later, and they were all rookies. There was no one who could survive three moves under me."

Medea and Nora looked at each other.

Obviously, it's not like there weren't people who came to win over Sidrifa, it's just that this stupid girl knocked people down with three axes when she saw them, without giving them any chance to speak.

"We have met them too." Sheila said calmly, "Today we were in the palace art gallery... while visiting, we met people with similar purposes."

"Peggy kicked him away at that time, and then we asked Mia to contact Eleanor, and she said she would handle the matter so that we didn't have to worry."

That's it, Medea nodded. The underage girl group has not been attracted, and the adult girls will naturally not be deceived. As for the group leader...

"Ah, today her brother invited me to be his vassal." Ask said as if he just remembered such a thing.

"You agreed?" Medea said in disbelief.

"Yes." Ask said.

The girls all fell down.

"Did you make a mistake?" Medea stood up angrily, "In the end, we all withstood the temptation, but you, as the leader of the group, were the first to turn against you. What happened?!"

"He is obviously poaching all of us on a large scale! If you are so unsteady in will, then why are they poaching? Why not just package and acquire our Cangqing Sword from you!"

"Don't be so excited." Ask said with a smile, "It's just in name."

He explained the matter in detail, which made the girls stunned for a moment.

So Asik doesn't have to pay anything, he gets a knight title and a fiefdom for free, he makes money automatically every year, and someone else takes care of it for him?

"Oh my God, why don't such good things happen to me!" Mia shouted with envy and hatred.

"Well, I plan to put all the tax revenue from that land into the public funds of our team to benefit everyone." Asker cleared his throat and said.

"Wow!"

“Awesome!”

"The leader is selfless!"

Now that he had expressed his stance like this, the girls all applauded and praised him.

Wait a minute, isn’t this team his? Why do we have to thank him when he invests his own money into his own team and puts his left hand into his right hand?

Such thoughts came to the girls one after another, so that the applause gradually died down, leaving only a somewhat awkward silence.

"By the way." Mia took out something from the bag, "This is what we found from the casket of 'Crazy Ludwig' in the corridor of the Palace Art Museum as you said. .”

She showed the thing in her hand to everyone. It was a hexagonal handle-like object with a brass color. It looked like a key or a clockwork spring.

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In the banquet hall, people were drinking and drinking, and countless meals and desserts were spread out like an assembly line. The guests were well dressed under the bright lights, chatting softly, smiling and raising glasses.

Naturally, the three members of the family who attracted the most attention were the royal guard officer Viscount Henry who had just returned from the Principality of Lorraine, Lady Elizabeth who had returned from Thuringia to visit relatives, and Miss Eleanor, who had been missing for many years and appeared mysteriously.

"It's a pity that father is not here." Elizabeth said regretfully, "otherwise the whole family would be together."

"Is mother still in bad health?" Henry asked.

"It's getting a little better this month. I can get out of bed and walk around." Ludwig sighed.

"Eleanor, let's go. Let's go see mother." Elizabeth took Eleanor's hand, and the two dazzling aristocratic ladies left the banquet hall, leaving the guests sighing.

Ludwig knew that Elizabeth was deliberately leaving "men's talking time" for them, so he stood up quietly and pretended to go to the bathroom.

Henry also stood up with understanding, followed his brother Ludwig out of the banquet hall and went upstairs to the Duke's study - the place where their father, the Duke of Bavaria, usually worked.

"What is His Majesty's attitude?" Ludwig asked impatiently as soon as the door was closed.

"Of course it's a war." Henry lowered his voice and said, "The Wolf family's envoy has arrived in Aachen."

"How to say?"

"Wolf claimed that they did not start the war voluntarily, but were forced by the Holy See."

"If you repeat the same old tune, will your Majesty believe it?"

"Whether you believe it or not, the war is imminent." Henry folded his arms and leaned against the door of the bookcase. "His Majesty also intends to use this war to integrate the military forces of various principalities."

"If we directly confront the Holy See and there is an order of breaking and excommunication, everyone will inevitably feel frightened. Now that the Wolf family has jumped out, they will be used as a target to gather the strength of each principality and capture it in their hands."