After a while, Bardo also arrived at the door driving an ox cart.
Lorraine came out of the room, looked up, and was stunned for a moment.
I saw a large number of people gathered at the door. It was obvious that they also knew the news of the dragon's attack. Everyone's face was gloomy, and they all looked worried.
The old village chief walked out of the crowd, leaning on a cane and trembling slightly.
He forced a smile and said: "Sir, you..."
Lorraine waved his hand and said: "Needless to say, it is my responsibility as a lord to guard the territory and the safety of the residents. Isn't there a proverb: Even if a chicken is caught by a fox in the countryside, the lord and nobles should also
Take responsibility.”
When the old village chief heard this, he looked at Lorraine blankly for a long time, and finally sighed and said: "Okay, okay, okay. Fight for justice and justice, and fight against the injustice and evil in the world. Even if you sacrifice your life, you will not hesitate.
This is the true nature of a man from the noble Longyacao family."
He stretched out his hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and then said: "I won't say anything else, but Sir, if it is useful to our place, you can just say it. There is no one else in the village, but there are still a lot of good guys.
There's a lot of them. Let them all go with you. When the fight breaks out, you might as well have someone to take care of you."
Lorraine raised his head and glanced behind him, and saw dozens of young and strong young men standing behind the old village chief, holding pitchforks, wooden sticks, kitchen knives and other cheap and plentiful weapons in their hands.
.
At the thought of following this apparently mentally retarded Earl to slay a dragon and achieve great things, many of them were trembling with excitement or fear, and their whole bodies were shaking.
But none of them took a step back~!
Even though they knew that they would probably never come back, none of them took a step back. Instead, they clenched the weapons in their hands. Because they knew clearly that they were doing this to protect their parents, wives, and children.
Your home will not be ravaged by that evil dragon.
A breeze blew, and a woman's sobs could be heard faintly from behind the crowd.
The village chief shook the crutch in his hand, turned around, and shouted angrily: "Cry, why are you crying~! If you want to cry, go home and howl. Don't show your eyes here. Regardless of his own safety, the Lord is going to kill that evil man.
Long, are all the men in our village cowards who only hide behind others?"
The sobs choked twice and gradually became quieter.
Lorraine looked at those young people. Years of hard work had made their skin dark and their hands were covered with calluses. He couldn't help but waved his hands with a wry smile and said, "It's time to leave. Go do whatever you need to do."
The old village chief was stunned, his eyes suddenly turned red, and he shouted angrily: "Sir, what do you mean? Do you look down on us?"
Lorraine sighed and said: "Old village chief, it's not that I look down on them. You also understand my difficulties. With so many people coming to my place, they don't wait for the dragon to ask for money. They just take care of the food.
Master, I’m going bankrupt.”
The old village chief grinned dumbfounded and said, "Sir, how long has this been, please stop playing."
Lorraine said seriously: "This is not a joke, I am serious. Look back, do they know how to use swords, guns, bows and arrows? I am not participating in a competition to cut wheat and feed pigs, but to slay a dragon.
.It doesn’t mean you can win with more people.”
The old village chief thought for a while, hesitated, and said: "But..."
Lorraine smiled and said: "It's nothing serious, don't worry. It's just killing a dragon, it's no big deal. I can do it alone."
"Really?" Seeing Lorraine's confident face, the old village chief couldn't help but become suspicious. He murmured: "Then... Sir, can you tell me what you plan to do? Let me feel more at ease.
.”
Lorraine smiled, then leaned over and whispered in the old village chief's ear: "I'm telling you, don't tell anyone else. This is my top secret. I've never told anyone else."
The old village chief couldn't help but be surprised. He couldn't help but feel relieved when he thought that the young master had even told him his personal secrets. He smiled so much that the wrinkles on his face turned into a flower, and he said repeatedly: "Yes, yes, yes.
I will never tell anyone else. Master, you say it, you say it."
Lorraine coughed lightly, and then said expressionlessly: "Young Master, I have reached the 18th level of the Great Shift of the Universe, and learned the ultimate secret of it - the Eighteen Palms of Subduing the Dragon. When the time comes, I can kill that person with just one slap."
The dragon was shot to death."
After saying that, he turned around and jumped onto the bullock cart, patted Bardo on the shoulder and said, "Boy, why don't you hurry up and let me drive the cart?"
Baldo did not dare to be negligent, and hurriedly agreed, then waved his whip and drove the ox cart forward.
The old village chief took two steps to catch up with the bullock cart and said plaintively: "Master, master, don't you have anything you want us to do? Even a little bit is good."
Lorraine tilted her head and thought for a while, signaled Bardo to stop the car, and then said to the old village chief: "It's not like there is nothing to do."
The old village chief said hurriedly: "Well, you say it, please say it quickly. No matter what it is, we will definitely do it."
Lorraine turned around, looked at everyone seriously, and said seriously: "From now on, when everyone pays me rent, don't try to trick me. Just use sesame seeds and rotten millet to fool me.
Eating too much of those things will really hurt your stomach."
Everyone was very ashamed. They all expressed their opinions with shameless faces: "Don't worry, Sir, don't worry, Sir. From now on, we will never fool people again."
"You can't say that." Lorraine sighed and said, "If the tax collector comes in the future, we will have to cheat even when we should, and we will still have to cry when we are poor. We have to live our lives, right?"
After listening to Lorraine's words, everyone felt that they really spoke to their hearts. They all surrendered and said: "Yes, yes, yes. Sir, what you said makes sense."
Lorraine Castle is located on the bank of a river and is entirely made of rough black stone. The river is in the shape of a huge zigzag, bypassing the castle and almost surrounding the entire castle, forming a natural moat.
It is said that this castle was built after the Lorraine family was demoted to this place in order to guard against bandits and robbers. But even so, it has been many years old, and many places on the surface of the huge stones on the castle have become
Weathered, even the Longyacao family emblem carved on the front wall is mottled and full of historical vicissitudes.
Since the original owner still had an ambitious dream of returning to the prosperous city of Ruman and did not pay much attention to this place, the castle was very simple when it was first built.
Later generations of owners also gave up on renovations and decorations because of the gradual decline and lack of money. In this way, it was passed down from generation to generation. While walking, you can even see the things left behind hundreds of years ago even inadvertently.
monuments.
Although it cannot be said to be ventilated from all sides, it is at best a defensive military fortress and not very suitable for living. When it comes to rainy weather, the castle becomes extremely humid, which makes the contemporary family owner very angry.
Lorraine and the two drove the ox cart back to their castle.
The fire in the castle had been extinguished, but the charred wood still emitted streams of smoke from time to time, revealing a desolate scene.
Lorraine took a brief look and found that although it looked miserable, it only burned a broken stable, and the damage was not huge. And no one was injured, so she felt relieved immediately.
He patted his chest with relief and thought to himself: It was a great blessing among misfortunes that he didn't have to pay for medical expenses from his thin wallet.
He comforted everyone and then directed more than a dozen people in the castle to clean up the mess.
While he was working, he lamented the misery of his life. After all, he was a noble nobleman with good taste, but he didn't have time to grieve over a cold. It was even less possible for him to imitate the Italian so-and-so and create a room full of swimsuit models.
Beauty comes to comfort my still young soul.
Toil and hard work is the life of the poor. Even if the dragon comes, so what? As long as the sun will rise tomorrow and the world is not destroyed, everyone will still have to live, and they will still have to have housing, clothing and food.
Although the matter was not big, it was extremely trivial. Lorraine was busy until dusk when she finished her work.
He returned to his room exhausted and before he could take a breath. At this moment, Ferro knocked on the door and walked in.
He came to Lorraine's side and hesitated for a moment, but in order to make sure that the young lord was not impulsive, he put down his big words. Finally, he asked softly: "Sir, are you really going to slay the dragon?"
Lorraine glanced at him in shock and said: "Ferro, why is your memory so bad now? Have you forgotten what I just said at noon? I think I need to think about it, right?
It’s time to change the housekeeper.”
The corners of Ferro's mouth twitched a few times and he said calmly: "No, Sir. My memory has always been very good. For example, on the 13th of last month, you said that you would take one day off for every five days of work.
Holiday, but I have never seen you implement it. At the beginning of this month, you said you would give us a salary increase, but so far, we have not seen a copper coin increase. Also..."
Lorraine shivered, hurriedly raised her arm, looked at her bare wrist, pretended that she was wearing a Rolex gold suit with an attack power of 15, which is unique to the nouveau riche and successful people, and said haha: "Yo
, it’s already so late. It’s going to be dinner time soon, right? Hahaha..."
Ferro smiled slightly and continued: "There is a proverb that says: The reason why a wise man is a wise man is because he must ask three times for important decisions. Sir, I will ask one last time, are you sure it is true?
Are you going to slay the dragon?"
Lorraine sighed and said: "Of course this is true. Sir, when did I ever tell a lie?"
Ferro bowed and said calmly: "Sir, since you have decided to slay the dragon, I have prepared some things. Do you think they are suitable for use?"