My Wife Is Great Fief Lord

Chapter 10 The Season of Winter

After listening to Gandalf’s words, Gervais dared to vote, which is almost as he thought. Before there was no absolute martial power, the bottom line between nobles was unsurpassed. , breaking the rules will affect everyone’s interests, then all the big and small nobles will swarm to attack.

“Father, eat some too! This roast chicken is delicious! Has our kitchen changed the cook?”

Gervais ate most of the roast chicken on the table, I just focused on listening to Gandalf talk about Alice, and didn’t notice anything different.

Now that I heard it, Gervais realized that Gandalf only ate prosciutto, and that the roast chicken was untouched, and that half of the chicken was eaten by himself.

However, the roast chicken tastes really good. He doubts, how could Old John, who can make such a delicious roast chicken, make the smoked ham taste like salted fish some time ago.

“Little Gervais, this roast chicken was made by the cook you brought from Roseburg.”

“You’re going to be living alone tomorrow, and you can’t do it this late. If you kill a sheep, I’ll let the kitchen kill a chicken, because I see that you like roast meat at dinner parties, so I let your cook cook it for you.”

Gandalf is a little embarrassed, though Gervais He hadn’t said it himself, but he knew that Gervais didn’t like bacon ham, and he didn’t like Old John’s cooking, so he asked Jimmy to bake it.

“Oh! father, you should change your cook! Old John is too old, he should be enjoying life in the country at his age!”

Knowing it was Jimmy’s roasted chicken , Gervais is not surprised, because he was conquered by the taste of Jimmy’s barbecue, he would only half-jokingly ask Alice for this cook.

“I also persuaded old John, but he doesn’t trust other people’s food, because I’m not used to it!” Gandalf shook his head at Gervais helplessly.

“What a respectable man he is!”

Gervaisp nods.

Gervais’ grandfather was a lord, and old John had been the Gale’s cook when Gandalf was a boy.

Gandalf grew up eating the food made by Old John since he was a child. Gandalf has regarded Old John as his elder, but in the past two years, because Old John is too old, his sense of taste has deteriorated. Not very good.

Gandalf didn’t dare to tell Old John, for fear of hurting Old John’s heart, so their food has not been delicious for the past two years.

Gervais can still understand Gandalf’s mood, just like he grew up eating food made by his grandmother when he was a child in his previous life, and he always thought it was delicious.

Until my grandmother got old day by day, the food she made became more and more salty, but no one in the family dared to tell the old man clearly, for fear that she would be sad.

After traveling here, Gervais has always complained about the unpalatable food in his heart, but he has never expressed it in words. Today is the only time he mentioned it to Gandalf.

The atmosphere in the restaurant became quiet because of the talk about Old John. Seeing Gandalf’s face with a heavy look of worry, Gervais estimated that Gandalf should be worried that Old John would be gone in a few years. Go, so I changed the subject and asked about my territory.

The matter of the territory is also the key point that he must understand in advance, so as to make plans for the future.

“father, next I want to know about my territory, what is the winter season?”

Gandalf, who was in grief, heard his son’s question, and sure enough He pulled his thoughts back, thought for a moment, and replied: “In the winter season, when the First Stage snow falls every year, orc armies appear in various places in the continent.”

“These orc armies They will loot all the way, and only when the winter is over and spring comes, the orcs will retreat! For nearly a hundred years, the orcs have appeared on time every year without interruption. Jean dukedom has a total of six places where the orcs will appear, and one of them is in you West of the territory, in the dark forest.”

“father, putting it that way, my territory will be invaded once a year? Where did those orcs come from, and how could they be everywhere in the continent? Is there? And they all choose to appear in the winter season?”

Gervais is very surprised, there is simply no information about orcs in the original owner’s memory, orcs can appear from every corner of the continent, looting the city, then Why retreat after plundering?

According to his father’s description, the number of orcs is quite large, and they are fully capable of competing with Human Race. If the orcs don’t recede, Human Race cannot be as prosperous as it is today.

“Dear Gervais, it’s true that your territory will be attacked by orcs every year. Father can’t answer your questions, because I don’t know.” Gandalf shook his head slowly at Gervais. .

After pondering for a while, Gandalf continued: “The nobles of the entire continent also want to know these answers. Under the leadership of the church, the major dukedoms have explored many places where orcs appear, but they have found nothing.”

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“They seem to appear out of thin air, and they can’t find any traces of the life of the orcs, and the orcs appear in the winter every year, and they will not come early, nor will they delay the time of receding. The old count also explored the dark forest, but found nothing.”

“But you don’t have to worry, whenever the winter season, you can take refuge in the Rose Castle. When the winter season is over, the orcs will will leave your domain, and then you can go back again. Although this will result in your domain only being able to sow crops for one season, your domain has an area comparable to that of a viscount.”

“If If you can recruit enough serfs, then your life will be richer than any Baron.”

Gervais is a little speechless, feeling that he will run away every year to take refuge in the future, Gervais is a little unwilling to let anyone If you have to be driven out of your old nest by others, you will feel uncomfortable.

“father, what about the other lords? Why has there never been an orc in the Gale lord?”

“The orc can’t cross the Dead Leaf River. The season will not freeze, and if you want to cross the Deadleaf River from your territory, there is only one bridge.”

“Every year in the winter season, Lord Count will send the most elite Rose Knight regiment of Rose Castle to guard. Bridges. The Rose Knights have a thousand apprentices and two hundred Bronze Knights, and ten Silver Knights.”

“And every year five vassals and nobles rotate to assist the Rose Knights. So No orc has ever been able to cross the Dead Leaf River.”

Gandalf, as a veteran nobleman, naturally knew a lot about it, and told Gervais in detail at the moment.

“There are only two territories Count Jones led across the Deadleaf River, one is Baron Bart’s territory, and the other is your territory.”

“It turns out that there is another unfortunate one. Eggs are the same as me!”

Gervais laughed, and decided to visit the nobleman who was just as unlucky as him when he had a chance. It seems that the matter of the orcs is basically unsolved, either they can only escape, or they can only fight.

Gervais still wants to know a little more about the strength of the orcs, and think about it later.

“father, how’s the battle strength of the orcs, at the banquet, I seemed to hear that a viscount in my domain was killed in battle.”

“the orcs are very strong, and also have Many races, some weak races, the ordinary person can be comparable to them. But some races can only be dealt with by the Bronze Knight. Facing the title Knight, the threat of the orcs is not big, and the Count Jones leader has only appeared once and is comparable to the Silver Knight’s orcs.”

Gandalf thought for a while, and he knew that he was not reconciled when he saw Gervais’ expression, so he told Gervais the strength of the orcs in detail, so that he did not dare to take chances.

“But there are a lot of them. For some unknown reason, Viscount Marjoel suddenly prepared to garrison his castle in the winter season. He recruited a large number of soldiers and hoarded enough to survive. Food for the winter season, in order to boost morale, he only let his subjects take refuge across the Deadleaf River, while all his family remained in the castle.”

“But unfortunately, the horse Viscount Joel’s castle was eventually breached by the orcs, and Viscount Majoel, including his family, and all the guards were all killed by the orcs!”

“Later, the old count took back the Viscount Majoel. , but since the death of Viscount Majoel, the commoners have been afraid of it and dare not go there to live, and the territory has gradually been abandoned. Now there are only less than 2,000 people in the entire Viscounty, only a fifth of the equivalent to Gale. One’s population, they are basically serfs and cannot run away, and can only take refuge across the Deadleaf River when the winter season comes.”

“So, Gervais, you must remember, Macho Viscount Er told us with blood, don’t try to stop the orcs in the territory, you can go to the Rose Fort, or the father here. No one will laugh at you for this!”

Finally, Gandalf’s tone became solemn , although he knew that Gervais was timid and cowardly until now, but he was also worried that Gervais would suddenly become a lord, be fascinated by the power, and misestimate his own strength.

“Relax, father, I won’t do stupid things!”

Seeing Gandalf’s serious tone, Gervais knew that he was worried that he would be stupid.

But Gandalf’s worries are superfluous. For Gervais, he lives in the era of information explosion on Earth, and his own experience may not be much, but he has seen a lot of lessons from the Internet. , of course, doing things more carefully.

“I’m so glad, Gervais, you’ve grown up!”

Gervais’s answer was straightforward and confident, without the cowardice he used to be, which can only mean that, Gandalf is relieved that Gervais has grown up.

Among Gandalf’s three children, only Gervais worries him the most, because Gervais’ cultivation talent is not as good as that of his big brother and younger sister, and his character is also introverted and weak.

Now, Gervais is about to become a noble with a territory, and as long as he manages well, the Gale family will become stronger and stronger.

The conversation between the two came to an end, and the food on the table was almost eaten by them. Gandalf finally did not eat the roast chicken. Gervais knew that it would be useless to persuade himself, so he was not there. More to say, this is fatherly love.

Gandalf put down his knife and fork, took a towel to wipe his hands, and suddenly saw Gervais’ jade box, so he asked Gervais: “Little Gervais. Do you know this spiritworm that Mr. Count gave you, he What kind of plants are suitable for planting in the space?”

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Gervais still had half a chicken wing to swallow, and was hanging on his lips when asked by Gandalf, a little bit. In a daze, what plants are suitable for planting?

Gervais reacted immediately, guessing that Gandalf thought Alice was giving him an ordinary green spiritworm.

So, replied after swallowing the chicken wings: “father, Alice gave me saphire blue spiritworm!”

“Oh, little Gervais, I’m a little jealous of you! “

Gandalf said jokingly with a big laugh, and laughed very happily, he was very pleased, as long as Gervais works hard, his achievements in this life are definitely higher than him.

(End of this chapter)