king of the castle

Chapter 376

Roger's voice is very familiar to many people. After hearing his voice, everyone on the stage reacted differently. 【】Anna was naturally very pleasantly surprised. Although Roger hadn't arrived yet, a sweet smile appeared on Qiao's face; Barton was shocked and panicked, especially after seeing Anna's expression, there was an extra bit of resentment on his face. Alonso III was purely surprised. The report he had received before was that Roger had died on the battlefield, and now this pretty good young man came back alive, which is considered a good thing for the king. news.

As soon as Alonso III was happy, he forgot to continue announcing the engagement of Anna and Barton.Roger, who was blocked by the crowd, jumped up high, with a large bundle of items under his arm, stepped on the shoulders of the crowd around the podium and rushed to the high podium.Massa, who was in charge of protecting the king, also recognized Roger, and stopped the eager men in time, and also avoided many unnecessary troubles for Roger.

"Your Majesty, I came rashly, please forgive me." Knowing that Alonso III had not had time to announce the news of Anna's engagement, Roger, who was on the podium, was determined, and first bowed to apologize to Alonso.

Alongso, who was in a good mood, didn't take this little disturbance to heart, but said to Roger with a smile: "I thought you had died in defense of the country, but I didn't expect you to come back safely, very good, very good! As for the Don't worry about it."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Roger stood up straight and whispered to Alonso III: "Your Majesty, since this is a celebration for the victory over the Three Kingdoms in the Desert, it is better not to announce other things for now."

Roger's words are a little too much. How can he, a little viscount, have the right to dictate to the kingdom?Alonso III was also a little unhappy. He frowned and was about to reprimand Roger, but found that Roger was looking at Barton not far away with special meaning. His heart moved and he swallowed back all he wanted to say.

Alonso III did not want to see the marriage between the Hamilton family and the Barton family from the bottom of his heart. Of course, he also knew the unusual close relationship between Roger and Anna.Since Roger looked confident, Alonso III was naturally happy to let him disrupt the situation. It would be great if he could destroy this marriage.

Seeing that the king did not mention the engagement anymore, Roger smiled at him, and then walked directly to Raikkonen and said, "Master Raikkonen, I have finally lived up to everyone's expectations, and successfully attacked the enemy's supply line. Their army is fighting again!"

Ever since Roger reappeared, Raikkonen began to feel uneasy.After hearing Roger's words, he didn't know what to do, but he responded a little at a loss: "Ah? That's it, very good, very good..."

"Now that I have completed the task, should you fulfill the previous promise?" Roger still stared closely at Raikkonen and said, "Don't forget that we swore an oath in front of all the nobles back then. oh!"

Roger's voice was neither soft nor loud. Although the people in the audience couldn't hear what he was saying clearly, Alonso III and other nobles on the stage could all hear him clearly.Many people, including Alonso III, immediately guessed part of the truth. The reason why the enemy retreated was precisely because Roger successfully attacked their supply line.In order for Roger to perform this dangerous task, Raikkonen must have agreed to the corresponding conditions.However, after the Noble Expeditionary Army returned to the capital, when Raikkonen mentioned Roger, he only said that he was unfortunately killed in battle, obviously not intending to give him the corresponding honor.Unexpectedly, Roger came back alive, and now things are interesting.

The nobles of the kingdom were also divided into several camps. Since Raikkonen chose to join the Barton family, there would definitely be nobles who opposed him.Many nobles who disagreed with Raikkunen have already raised their voices in low voices. Although they did not explicitly support Roger, they all pointed out, explicitly or implicitly, that according to the laws of the kingdom, withholding and impersonating other people's military exploits is to was hanged.

The kingdom of Thorne was founded on war, and military merit is also very important. After hearing the gossip of those nobles, Raikkonen's face became more difficult, but he didn't know what to say to refute Roger.After all, there were so many nobles present at the military meeting, and many people were dissatisfied with Patton taking most of the credit. If all these people stood up to speak for Roger, then Raikkoning would be in bad luck.

While Raikkonen was panicking, Button screamed inwardly.This time, he relied on his reputation as the number one in military exploits to get Alonso III to agree to announce his engagement to Anna, and he would never let Roger show up to sabotage his plan.Seeing that Raikkonen was speechless, Patton quickly stood up and said loudly: "Military achievements are a serious matter, how can we just talk about it? To calculate how many military achievements have been made, of course, there must be tangible evidence, such as Only the enemy's flag counts!"

Barton's words were very high-sounding, which caused some nobles who stood up to nod secretly.But many aristocrats who had participated in the Southern War were shaking their heads, secretly scolding Barton for being shameless.In this war, only one enemy flag was won, and in fact it had nothing to do with Patton.It was Raikkonen who credited him with this greatest military achievement in order to curry favor with the Patton family.At this time, Barton actually used this as an argument in public, which shows that his face has grown to a certain extent.If I had changed places with Roger, I would be so angry at this moment that I would vomit blood.

However, after hearing what Barton said, Roger didn't look angry at all, and even laughed happily.Under everyone's surprised eyes, Roger said word by word: "You need to have real evidence, right? Okay, now let me tell you what is real evidence!"

As soon as Roger finished speaking, he threw the pile of things under his ribs onto the stage, and suddenly raised his voice and said loudly: "Your Majesty, please send someone to come, what are these things!"

After Roger made such a fuss, Alonso III also became interested, and immediately signaled the guards behind him to check the pile of things that Roger dropped.The guard just took a look at one of the pieces of cloth, and immediately changed his expression: "Your Majesty, this is the military flag of the Desert Kingdom!"

Everyone was quite surprised at this moment, and Alonso III immediately said: "Hurry up and do the rest!"

Under the urging of the king, the guard searched the pile of things as quickly as possible, then raised his head and stammered: "Your Majesty, these are all...these are the enemy's military flags!"

Now all the nobles on the stage were shocked, such a large pile of military flags, there must be dozens of them?Many people secretly took a deep breath and looked at Roger, a young man who was originally called an upstart by the old nobles.It takes a lot of military merits for one person to win so many military flags. Even the Senate cannot prevent Roger's title from rising to another level.

"There are a total of 31 military flags here, including most of the first-line legions of the three countries in the desert!" In front of the king and the nobles, Roger said coldly to Patton: "Mr. Patton, you just said that the calculation of military merit should be based on facts , now...you know what is real evidence, right?"

Originally, Patton was complacent about getting a military flag for himself, but he didn't expect Roger to launch such a powerful counterattack immediately.Barton only felt his face being "slapped" by the beating, and he couldn't say anything for a while.The other nobles looked at Barton with contempt. In their eyes, this guy who claimed to have made the most military exploits in the war was simply a joke.

Of all the people present, only Anna didn't pay attention to Barton's expression at all.Since Roger came to the stage, Anna's eyes have never left him, and she has been watching Roger's every move with affection.Seeing so many enemy flags displayed by her sweetheart, Anna's pretty face also shone with pride.It was more gratifying to Ana that Roger was being honored than she was being honored, and what could be more gratifying to a woman than to see her man accomplish such an amazing feat?

Even Alonso III was amazed by Roger's achievements, and the military flags spread all over the floor said in surprise: "These armies...are you destroying them?"

Alonso III's words seemed to remind Barton who was standing aside, and he immediately shouted frantically: "No, I and other nobles wiped out these armies. This shameful man just picked up the flag on the battlefield. He is ashamed." plagiarized the results of other people's hard work!"

Barton's words aroused contempt from many people.Before this, he had never heard anyone talk about this matter. Now that Roger showed up with so many military flags, Barton jumped out and accused him of stealing other people's fruits of labor. This kind of statement is too flawed.

In fact, not only the nobles secretly despised Patton, but even the people in the audience booed his words.Since Roger showed everyone the military flag he had taken back, many people had already come out. The two nobles on the stage had a dispute over who had made more military achievements.The vast majority of civilians only believed in what happened to them, so they naturally regarded Roger as a great hero.But now Barton's words undoubtedly aroused the dissatisfaction of everyone, and some courageous guys have already started to call him despicable and shameful.

The public's scolding made Barton feel like a thorn in his back, but at this moment he had no choice but to insist on his statement.If Roger was deprived of the title of No. [-] military service, for Barton, it would not only be as simple as not being able to marry Anna, but he himself would be punished more severely, and even the family's prestige would be affected.For Barton, who is the heir of the family, this is absolutely acceptable.

However, Roger was not in a hurry to explain to everyone how these military flags came from, he just looked at the end of the street with some expectation.When Roger saw a carriage approaching in the distance, a confident smile immediately appeared on his face.