Riding and Slashing

Chapter 110 Amy's Big Trouble
Alaric looked at the lord and smiled sadly.

"I didn't come here this time to rob. I just heard that there is a big winery here. I want to trade with the owner of the winery and provide good wine for a long time... so that I won't go crazy when I run out of wine... ..."

The lord raised his eyebrows, a little skeptical: "Then why did you bring so many people here?"

Alaric sighed: "If I don't bring them with me, who will trade with me among these nobles?"

Li Ang thinks about it too, as a baron, he wants to buy some food, and few people will take care of him, let alone Alaric the 'noisy man'?
If he came here alone, I'm afraid the best outcome would be to use his "prestige" to fulfill the "prestige" of a noble knight.

"Okay, let your people wait here and don't cross the bridge, I can help you negotiate this deal."

The lord feels that this deal can still be done.

With so many drunkards, the countess must be able to earn a lot of money in the future...

However, after looking at Alaric again, Li Ang 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 so deflated that there was apparently nothing in it.

Alaric shook the money bag, and a few copper plates fell out of the money bag—they were small copper coins with a face value of one fil.

Fil is the auxiliary currency for daily retail transactions in Pendor Continent, and one hundred Fil can be exchanged for one dirhan silver coin.

Alaric shook off the arrows stuck on his body, touched his body again, and then sighed: "I remember I have a bag full of dinars..."

The lord curled his lips: "You were drunk like that before, and it's normal for your wallet to be emptied?"

Alaric pulled off his helmet and scratched his head in extreme annoyance, seemingly at a loss.

But then, he seemed to remember something, broke off his huge feathered light helmet twice, and then took out something from the interlayer.

"I don't know where my money went...but I can't live without booze...Maybe, I can trade this with you?"

He holds a sky-blue gemstone in his hand.

The lord subconsciously touched the wormwood powder in his pocket...

But this time, it seemed to be a real gem, and the lord did not show any abnormal symptoms.

"This is the tear of the dragon, the tear of the dragon."

Alaric didn't do any tricks, he still sat and didn't get up, but threw the gem directly.

The lord stretched out his hand to catch it, and looked at it in surprise.

Unlike the Snake Heart Stone, which is flowing in mist, the Dragon Tears Gemstone looks extremely warm, and there seems to be stars shining inside.

"Didn't the dragon become extinct thousands of years ago? How did you get it?"

Li Ang took Longlei and looked at it carefully. This thing inexplicably gave people a feeling of sadness.

"Back then, those nobles destroyed my hometown and killed everyone in my village, probably just to find it..."

Alaric rested his head on the wooden pile beside the bridge, looking at the sky: "A few years ago when I was a mercenary, I found it in Longsong Port in the Ravencrow Kingdom... At that time, I just thought it was a piece of wood. It's just a very valuable sapphire..."

"I didn't know it was Dragon Tears until I met the mysterious person who gave me the 'elixir of youth' in the tavern. That person originally wanted to exchange it with the medicine of immortality—probably he didn't expect that after I drank the medicine, I would out of control……"

Alaric slammed his head against the wooden stake: "Anyway, I haven't seen him since then. When I woke up the next day, I was already in the wild, surrounded by drunks...don't mention it, this deal can be done ?"

The Lord Lord nodded: "I accept the Dragon Tears, and I will give you a fair deal."

But at this moment, a group of miscellaneous troops came over.

This is the army of Kewen Village.

The motley army of less than 100 people was led by seven or eight knights, probably gathered from various knights in the village.

The one who led the way was still the knight who ran away before, but his expression was quite bad. It seemed that when he was running back, he bumped into the reinforcements organized by the countess.

Seeing Alaric sitting on the ground, and looking at the mob across the river, the knight timidly leaned over.

"Master Li Ang, 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 this is better, there is no need to fight and hurt both..."

The knight looked at the unscathed Alaric, then at the calm Li Ang, and suddenly backed away quickly, hiding in the miscellaneous army, with a suspicious expression on his face: "Your Majesty Li Ang, you actually plan to fight with the deserters?" Bandit making a deal?"

Alaric, who was sitting on the ground, smiled contemptuously: "Master Li Ang, these nobles seem to be different from you..."

Then he stood up and picked up his hammer.

The lord sighed: "There will always be some fools in this world...don't do anything stupid, Alaric!"

After speaking, he walked towards the knight and waved his hand to signal the messenger knight to come out.

There are always such idiots in this world, who can do nothing but compare blindly, and always think that they are right.

The lord felt that he was probably being too polite to them.

Seeing Li Ang approaching alone, the motley army naturally wouldn't react. The knight didn't understand what Li Ang was going to do, and he was still talking to himself: "He should be killed! Only by killing him can the deserters be shocked. !"

Li Ang grabbed his arm, dragged him off the horse, then stared fiercely into his eyes and said, "You have become a deserter just now! Do you understand?"

He turned his head and asked the other knights, "What should we do with the deserters?"

Several knights looked at each other, wisely they did not speak.

The knight who reported the message didn't speak anymore, probably because he was afraid that the lord would beat him.

"Go to the bridge, keep an eye on those people on the opposite side, and don't let them cross the bridge. This deserter, go ahead..."

Li Ang directly ordered the knights to stay here, and then pushed the deserter knight to lead the way.

"Alaric, you follow this idiot, and I will lead the cavalry to follow you. If he acts recklessly, you will beat him to death, and if you act recklessly, I will hack you to death... so we can rest assured—we will be together How about going to the countess to buy wine?"

Alaric looked around, nodded and put on the helmet: "You are right, this is indeed a good way."

So, the deserter knight started his journey back to the center of the village again. Alaric followed him one meter behind him with a big hammer, and the knight seemed to start shaking his legs again...

Li Ang shook his head. How did this guy become a knight with such courage?
Alaric walked quite relaxed, looking back from time to time, and chatting with the lord.

"The lords of Fieldsway are much braver than the nobles in Sarleon... However, they will all harm civilians and go back on their promises... There are not many kind and honest lords like you, Your Excellency Leon."

"You've known me less than half an hour, Alaric..."

This is the first one to say that Li Ang is kind - the lord is very pleased.

But alas, it's just a stinking alcoholic.

"I can see... Every civilian can see that, you don't have that kind of aloof look. Besides, you have already defeated me, you didn't kill me to prevent my troops from causing a big mess Me, I can think of that."

By the looks of it, Alaric still has a brain.

However, the western part of the kingdom is a bit in dire straits. It seems that Alaric has never met any good people.

"Actually, strictly speaking, I am a businessman. Have you heard of Maixiang Company?"

"Mai Xiang? I've heard of it... Wait! Are you actually in that kind of business?"

Alaric turned his head, his eyes were a bit strange: "No wonder I think your flag looks familiar - I remembered! I lost all my money in a casino last night! Bastard...that casino is called Maixiang Branch! Fly the same flag!"

ah?

It seems that he was cheated by an agent.

The lord smiled awkwardly: "Haha, that's really a coincidence... I sincerely advise you, gambling and drinking, as long as you get involved in one of them is enough to make you poor, you'd better take it easy!"

Alaric spat fiercely on the ground: "Bah! But you are doing both kinds of business! I thought you were a kind person before... I want to take back what I said... You are an honest person at best. people!"

Oh, it seems that the only person who thinks Li Ang is kind has also awakened.

But after all, Alaric still needs to buy wine. For him, wine is just what he needs.

When they arrived at the gate of the countess' manor, they happened to meet the cavalry sent back to ask the countess to deliver wine. He was helping the countess to load the car.

The countess originally thought that she would give away a few carts of wine for free, but she was really pleasantly surprised when she heard that it was a normal transaction.

Of course she wouldn't mind selling her wine stock, in fact she'd love to be able to sell that much every year.

The lord gave her [-] dinars and bought hundreds of barrels of wine—this was all the Countess' reserves.

In fact, the five thousand dinars were the money that Li Ang put in the center of the village to buy food.

A continuous stream of carriages delivered the wine to the bridge. The vehicles were too wide to cross the bridge. The hundreds of oak barrels were sent by Alaric to push them across the bridge, which delayed a lot of time.

But no matter what, Alaric really kept his word and left with the team.

As for where Alaric will continue to wander with his group of drunkards, the Lord Lord doesn't care.

Anyway, they are just a group of lazy and drunken drunkards, which will not help the construction, and there is no need to waste troops to deal with them. It may be better to send them to harm others.

And those noble manors were indeed willing to scrape together a large amount of food to provide to Li Ang, in order to thank him for blocking the bridge in time and forcing back Alaric's group of drunkards.

They promised that Li Ang could send a car to pick up all the excess grain after they harvested without paying.

According to their manor's output estimates, all the surplus grain plus one piece should be enough to spend, and it may even be enough for White Hart Castle.

Only [-] dinars were exchanged for a dragon's tear, and enough food was obtained, which is of course a good deal.

Although according to Alaric, the undead medicine exchanged for Dragon Tears would have terrible side effects, the lord felt that the undead medicine might not be the real usage of Dragon Tears.

The lord had the final say and left a few cavalry on standby in the center of the village, intending to return to the territory, and then organize a convoy to transport grain—after a round trip, it was just in time for the harvest, without delay at all.

In order to save horsepower, Li Ang planned to go to Changhe Town first to see if he could take a boat from Aire River back to Maixiangling—in this way, he might be able to meet Amy, so that Amy would not still be negotiating business in Changhe Town.

But one day later, the lord who rushed to Changhe Town found that the gates of Changhe Town were closed and martial law was everywhere, as if they were preparing for war?
The bewildered lord looked at the flag of Changhe Town—the flag of Grand Duke Alma was still flying.

And on the watchtower of the tower, there is also the emblem of the Four Swords flag, which should be the flag of Fawcett, the son of the Duke of Alma.

But there are no enemies nearby, right?

The group of drunkards walked from the north of Kewen Village, and it is impossible to come to Changhe Town. Why is there such a panic?

After driving for a whole day, the lord had no choice but to camp by the Ayer River, and he wanted to see if Changhe Town would open the next morning.

"Just camp by the river, feed the horses, find a dry place to sleep. But don't disarm, be ready to fight!"

He had a hunch that something might have happened to Amy.

……

Amy did have an accident, a big one.

She, Klose and others have been blocked in the inner fort for three days.

Three days ago, shortly after the tall woman jumped into the river and fled, Lord Fawcett led troops to surround the inner fort of Longhe Town.

Fawcett declared that Amy and the people of Mettenheim were heretics, and now they kidnapped Mrs. Bella for evil, and ordered Amy to hand over Mrs. Bella and surrender.

Only then did Amy know why Fawcett ordered all the soldiers to withdraw from the inner fort—he obviously knew that Mrs. Bella believed in evil gods and made friends with heretics. This was to frame her!
In Pendor, once labeled as a heretic, it is basically equivalent to being tied to the stake with half of his body.

When she went to the inner city wall to negotiate with Fawcett, she directly drew a burst of crossbow arrows.

If Klose hadn't seen the opportunity quickly and dragged Amy back, I'm afraid it would be a real tragedy.

Hundreds of soldiers surrounded the inner fort, and Fawcett's order was: "Unless Mrs. Bella comes forward, anyone found will be shot!"

But Mrs. Bella has fallen into a coma and is dying, and it seems that she may die at any time.

In the main building of the inner castle, there are only maids and no doctors. Once Mrs. Bella dies, there will be no bargaining chips.

Those maids have been banned from going out since the end of last year, and they don't know anything.

Amy has nothing to do now. Fawcett seems to have closed the gate of Changhe Town, and now he can't get out at all.

Only Summer, who is the best at water, said that after taking off all his gear, he would probably jump into the river and swim out for help.

But the problem is that there are already boats cruising on the water behind Shanghe Town, and jumping into the river now will only result in being shot to death on the water.

Although the troops outside did not launch a strong attack—probably to ensure the safety of Mrs. Bella, but if this continues, Amy feels that there may be a big mess soon!

Sure enough, in the early morning of the fourth day, Fawcett disappeared.

Hundreds of troops were still surrounded outside the city, but the flags flying were all the lion paw flags of Grand Duke Alma.

Amy felt a panic in her heart—she could think that since Fawcett would turn herself into a heretic, he must know everything, and Grand Duke Alma should know it too!

Knowing that Mrs. Bella worships evil gods, she didn't 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 Mrs. Bella's posthumous son.

According to Fawcett's previous plan, he should just want to kill himself to silence him, so as not to let others know about his and his sister's scandal.

This probably has something to do with Alma's inheritance rights of the Horton family - apart from Fawcett, Alma has several children, but the others are still underage.

But if he forced his way into the inner fort, then he would just be able to blame Mrs. Bella on himself!This is very important for Grand Duke Alma who intends to plan for Changhe Town!

They can't expose the fact that Mrs. Bella is a heretic, otherwise he won't get the town of Long River - the time for Mrs. Bella to 'have a baby' hasn't come yet!

Amy really didn't expect that a blurted 'your sister' would lead to such serious consequences...

……

early morning.

A rush of horns woke Li Ang up.

"Enemy attack!"

This is the horn sounded by the sentry cavalry.

Li Ang turned over and got up straight away. At a glance, he saw a cavalry unit coming out of Changhe Town, heading straight for the Lord Lord's temporary camp by the river.

It was a cavalry regiment of about 200 men, flying Fawcett's banner.

Early morning is the time when a team sleeps the most. Fawcett came here at this time, obviously he has no good intentions.

The lord sent manpower to guard, and deliberately did not let the cavalry disarm, so they were not attacked at night, but after everyone got on their horses and got ready, Fawcett's cavalry troops had already arrived.

Fawcett came in a semi-encircled state, Li Ang's troops were too small, and no one expected to be surrounded near Changhe Town.

Could it be that the son of the Duke of Alma intends to rebel?

The lord is a little confused.

But no matter what, you have to rush out first.

"Follow me! Don't fall behind!"

Li Ang gave the order and led the cavalry to run in the direction of Mai Xiangling.

But after running a few steps, he encountered Fawcett leading a team of knights blocking the direction leading to Mai Xiangling.

"Your Excellency Li Ang, I really didn't expect you to be here...I advise you not to resist, lest your troops suffer!"

Fawcett obviously knew Li Ang, but Li Ang didn't know his intentions.

He bowed his head and thought for a while, the lord signaled the cavalry to get ready to break through to the east, and then went forward alone: ​​"This should be Lord Fawcett? What's the use of stopping me?"

"Your Excellency Leon, your business partner Godric, and his daughter Amy...they are colluding with heretics to plot evil! Are you going to cover them up, or are you going to testify against them? I'll give you a chance to choose!"

Fawcett squinted his eyes, staring at Li Ang closely, with a sinister tone.

The lord sighed, it seems that something happened to Amy.

Looking at the distance from Fawcett, the lord rode forward a few steps, smiling: "Knight Fawcett, you don't seem to have learned the etiquette of a lion knight... When you see a baron, you should salute as a knight !"

(End of this chapter)