Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 280 There is only one truth

"So that Earl Philip Netwand is really an insider?!"

——When Katerina Igor stared at her beautiful eyes and asked the lord this sentence, it was already two days later in the afternoon, in the back garden of Igor's mansion on Lombard Avenue in the Unicorn District of the Imperial Capital inside.

The lord of Shuangfengling is currently lying leisurely on the grass-green hammock, just like a giant silkworm chrysalis.

Next to Mr. Xiahou, two delicate elf maids were carefully peeling pomegranates for him——

——These two girls were sent by Elven Archmage Beglad to work for the lord last night, which can be regarded as the performance of the elves showing their favor to the Igor family.

Obviously, since the hunting competition, Shuangfengling's reputation in the imperial capital's social circle has improved considerably.

Facing his sister's question, the official Xiahou turned over comfortably on the hammock, and muttered vaguely:

"How should I put it... It can be regarded as an insider, or not, it depends on what you think. Good sister, please let me sleep for a while, I am exhausted in the crown area for the past two days..."

Katerina knew that she couldn't get any useful information from her lazy brother.

Therefore, Miss Frost Maple Ridge quickly turned to Eldridge——

——The commander-in-chief of the Eastern Territory was also a witness to the "Kemal Manor Incident" that night, but at present, during the lord's afternoon nap, Eldridge's temporary duty is to protect the safety of the lord;
However, at present, Eldridge is squatting by the fountain that Mr. Butler Mr. Bart Black has just repaired, staring at the goldfish in the water that swims in a daze, obviously not looking like he is guarding his surroundings.

"Commander Eldridge." Katerina asked with her hips akimbo, "What happened at that time?"

The eldest lady asked a question, and of course a wage earner dared not answer.

Eldridge shrank his neck and replied:
"It wasn't that, ah, I missed it for a while, and gave Earl Netwan, ah, I was cut..."

Master Laurie and Chris Mann are playing Marne cards in the garden pavilion next to it.

Hearing Eldridge's "momentary miss", Master Laurie and Chris sneered at the same time.

"So?" Katerina, who was not in the Kemal Manor at the time, was a little puzzled by Master Laurie's reaction, but continued to ask patiently, "What happened next?"

Eldridge reached into the water, touched the goldfish, shrugged and said:
"Later, when those, ah, elf girls, cast spells on Earl Netwan to heal his wounds, ah, they found a small piece of paper from the interlayer of the earl's clothes, ah, very mysterious! Miss, guess, ah, it says What is it?"

"How do I know!" Katerina frowned.

She is quite suspicious now that Eldridge's ability to sell secrets was learned from the unscrupulous writers in Dongbingku.

"It's the ledger! Ah, the secret ledger of the Deadwood Forest!" Eldridge picked up a goldfish from the fountain, stared at it carefully for a moment, and then threw it back into the water. "It's full of Nat Earl Wan sold the evidence of armaments to the Eastern Federation! At that time, Lord Rivera was completely paralyzed!"

"Earl Netvan sold armaments to orcs?!" Katarina covered her mouth in surprise:

Now that humans and orcs are at war, if Earl Netwan actually smuggled arms to the enemy country, it would be a heinous and serious crime!

"It's not that I found solid evidence, ah, who the hell would believe it!" Eldridge said with emotion.

"It can only be said that our lord is very clever and has sharp eyes! You can tell at a glance that Earl Netvan is not a good bastard!" Knight Commander Cousins ​​walked into the back garden with a purchase list in his hand, and first looked at the lord on the hammock. After saluting, I handed the purchase list to Miss Katerina.

"What is this?" The lord raised his head vigilantly.

"The purchase list of decorations, drinks and ingredients for the banquet." Katerina shook the list in her hand towards her younger brother, "Several noble ladies have asked me in the past two days, when will we hold a dinner in Igor's mansion What! I discussed it with Mr. Black, we have to get all the materials ready..."

"It's a waste of money again..." Xia Houyan muttered, but was patted on the top of the head by his sister with the checklist, and he didn't dare to say anything.

"Speaking of which, my lord, you were really good at that time, and you found out the inner ghost among the nobles of the empire in one fell swoop!" Knight Commander Cousins ​​saw the boss was deflated, and quickly flattered him.

In the past two days, the legend that "Eagle Eye" Eliot Igor and "Magic Detective" Master Namisas joined forces in Kemal Manor to find out the inner ghost for the empire has spread in the imperial capital , Captain Cousins ​​obviously also heard a lot of street stories.

"Don't praise me indiscriminately! The higher you lift, the harder you fall!" Xia Houyan looked around furtively, making sure that there were no outsiders around, and then lowered his voice, "To be honest, I didn't even know Knight at the time. Wan this guy's background is not clean - it's just that this guy wanted to slander me at the time, and I happened to have a corpse of a death knight in the dead forest on hand, so I just pushed the boat along! Who the hell would want it, Netwan is really stupid Carrying evidence of collusion with the enemy!"

"You were fooled too?!" Knight Commander Cousins ​​was dumbfounded.

"Otherwise?" Xia Houyan sneered, "Could it be that I can recognize a traitor at a glance? Could it be that being an insider is still a joke?"

"Then...then..." Knight Commander Cousins ​​said in amazement, "Then the orc prisoner you captured, didn't you also identify Earl Netwan?"

"I didn't catch that!" Xia Houyan lowered his voice again.

Master Laurie has always been wondering where the orc captive came from. Hearing the lord's mention of this matter, he simply pushed the Marne card table and pulled Chris over to listen to the inside information.

Several Shuangfengling core scum gathered into a circle, and Xia Houyan said furtively:
"Before the hunting contest started, didn't the city defense army round up orc spies? I heard from Master Laurie that there was an orc spook with no brains who jumped from a high tower and threw himself to death!"

"Didn't you not fall to your death?" Master Laurie asked stupidly.

"You believe me if I say it? Then you can jump off the clock tower and not die? You're going to die!" Xia Houyan gave his chief mage a white look and said, "But I'm paying attention to this matter, because I think That dead orc spy must know the information about the ghost..."

Several Shuangfengling gates always heard this, and they guessed the follow-up development immediately.

The lord's narrative did not disappoint:
"Later, the day before the hunting contest started, I purposely used shadow-type magic to sneak into the morgue of the imperial city defense army, found the corpse of the orc spies, and pulled it up with resurrection..."

Everyone silently said "Damn it", not knowing whether it was surprise, admiration or contempt.

Only Master Laurie felt his heart suddenly light up:

No wonder when the death knight was resurrected, the lord said that the limit for this month was reduced once...

The co-author is to steal the corpse and use it up!

"It turned out to be unlucky. After I pulled that green leather guy up, he couldn't tell any fart information!" Xia Houyan smiled wryly, "At that time, when you met the inner ghost, both of you were wearing silent robes, and no one could recognize you. Who! But the hunting contest was about to start at that time, and it was really hard to deal with this guy, so I put a magic collar on him, put on a robe and took him to Kemal Manor. I caught it on the way—hey, I really bet on it!"

Cavalier Cousins ​​opened his mouth like a hippopotamus:

"So at that time he identified Earl Netwan..."

"That green leather thing is a zombie under my control. Of course, he will identify whoever I ask him to identify!" Xia Houyan finally couldn't help it, showing a triumphant smile.

Everyone now only feels that Earl Netwan is really fucking wronged!
I have to say, getting into trouble with someone like the Lord of Shuangfeng Ridge is a destiny for me...

"So where is the orc now?" Cavalier Cousins ​​asked stammeringly.

"On the way back to the imperial capital from Kemal Manor, I secretly let him go. At that time, in order to make it appear that he escaped from prison by himself, there was quite a commotion." Xia Houyan chuckled, "But anyway, Earl Netwan has already shown his prototype. We can’t use it anymore.”

Everyone was silent for a long time before Katerina sighed quietly:

"It can only be said that Earl Netwan, who smuggled armaments to the orcs, can be regarded as evil with evil..."

"Hey. Speaking of which, at that time, this guy, ah, when he heard that his house was going to be searched, ah, he became anxious, and he went crazy and wanted to assassinate Duke Rivera..." Eldridge said with a smirk, "We were still Very confused, ah, incomprehensible, I dare to say that I am not clean..."

"It's more than unclean!" Xia Houyan sighed, "After returning to the imperial capital from the Kemal Manor, I have been in the crown area for the past two days, helping Duke Rivera track down Netwan who is hiding in his basement. The account book——I don’t know if I don’t check it, I’m shocked when I check it! Over the years, you’ve been exporting imperial armaments to the Eastern Federation, earning a lot of money!”

Katerina blinked in surprise, her eyelashes trembling:
"So, the ambush of the imperial hunting team turned out to be the work of Earl Netwan?"

The elder sister's question caused the lord to be silent for a moment.

Xia Houyan restrained his smile and replied slowly:
"I don't think... no. From the results of my checking the books with the Duke of Rivera, it seems that Earl Netwand did not escape by smuggling arms to make war fortunes, but there is no evidence that he colluded with the enemy and leaked information, which led to the fall of the elite elite of the empire." ——After all, doing so will not benefit Earl Netwan at all! What's more, there is no clue how the orc elite soldiers entered the empire..."

The Igor scum were dumbfounded.

Xia Houyan shook his head and said in a deep voice:

"With the death knight's family crest and the accusation of orc captives, all the nobles of the empire now believe that Earl Netwan is behind the ambush at the Kemal Manor—but only I know that Earl Netwan may Smuggling arms is a waste of money, but ambushing the elite of the empire...should not be his part."

"So, so..." Master Laurie felt his throat was a little congested, "...the real ghost, is there someone else?"

Xia Houyan nodded heavily.

Everyone was silent.

"What happened to Earl Netwan?" Seeing that the atmosphere was a little heavy, Katerina changed the subject softly.

"This old guy is really lucky. Ai Shuai's dark sword didn't kill him." Xia Houyan sighed, "Now he is lying in the Cleveland Hospital in the imperial capital... According to Duke Rivera, This guy was seriously injured, and while he was half asleep and half awake, his spirit seemed a little abnormal, as if he had gone crazy-to be honest, at the Kemal Manor, his mental state was a little bit wrong, maybe it was Too much stress..."

The crowd fell silent again.

It was Master Lowry who displayed a high degree of revolutionary optimism:

"Okay, the boat will be straight when it reaches the bridge, and the inner ghost will always show up when he should - at least after this experience, our Igor family can be regarded as gaining a foothold in the imperial aristocratic circle!"

Katerina also looked at her younger brother with a smile:
"It is now rumored in the aristocratic circle that Duke Rivera praised you for your performance when you caught the traitor this time..."

Xia Houyan rolled his eyes:

"What praise is not praised... I just want to go back to Shuangfengling quickly, away from the land of right and wrong in the imperial capital-'My hometown, I want to see the crakes hatching in Shuangfenglin, and the East Bingku can return There are pigeon writers writing code words, the white clouds on the Dragon Bone Peak change several times in a minute, but there are still bandits who come to other people's halls to announce the good news...'”

"You have returned to Shuangfengling, what should I do?" A delicate voice asked at the gate of the back garden.

Katerina's eyebrows were raised at that moment:

"Isa Sandria! Why are you here?!"

(End of this chapter)