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The atmosphere in the banquet hall suddenly became quiet.

At this time, Harvey Sherwin was almost drunk. When he heard his friend talking to him, he laughed as if he had actually said those words.

The elders present were all experienced drinkers and understood that Harvey Sherwin was drunk. They all laughed and moved on from the embarrassing conversation.

Only Charlotte in the corner was gently holding the teacup and sipping it in small sips, with an unclear and profound meaning in her eyes.

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Volume 62: Chapter 54 Chapter Three Letters and a Murder

After attending the dinner and completing a humanitarian rescue, Charlotte returned to her territory happily.

When Martin Kramer and other elders saw Charlotte off, a citizen came to report that most of the granaries in Ambratu had been burned down. This immediately made the elders frown. There was no grain-producing area in the Sokya Peninsula, and the grain here was not only difficult to buy, but also very expensive.

Charlotte immediately said that although the Viscount of Lanwan was also short of food, she could squeeze out some food for Anbulatu to use in an emergency, and the elders thanked her profusely. The atmosphere of the farewell was cheerful and harmonious.

Shortly after returning to the territory, Cecilia came to Charlotte's boudoir with a stack of letters.

At this time, Charlotte was lying on the bed in a plain nightgown, with two little slave girls, Nina and Sofia, beside her. Charlotte bent her right leg backwards and gently rubbed Nina's charming face with her toes. The silk nightgown slipped off her smooth calves, revealing the spring scenery under the skirt.

Nina smiled and kissed the sole of Charlotte's foot.

Seeing this situation, Cecilia stood at the door, hesitating whether to go out first.

"Come in, why are you standing at the door?" Charlotte noticed Cecilia and said curiously.

"Teacher." Nina and Sofia said in unison.

Cecilia blushed and said, "I, I still won't disturb you from doing it..."

"What are we doing? I'm just massaging." Charlotte said.

Charlotte was telling the truth. She rode back and forth for a whole day and night, and wore armor to show her importance to the rescue. She was usually pampered, but after walking for such a long day, she felt sore all over, so she asked Nina and Sofia to massage her body.

Massage is also a compulsory course for female slaves serving the bed, because people in this world generally believe that massage can cure sexual dysfunction.

Cecilia's face was full of suspicion, and she obviously didn't believe that Charlotte was just giving a massage. However, she had something else to say, and didn't want to waste too much time on Charlotte's private life.

"These are letters from the Duke of Green Plains, the Earl of Quick Forest, and Platinum City." Cecilia handed the two letters to Charlotte.

"There are actually three letters?"

Charlotte was a little puzzled. She had expected replies from the Duke of Green Plains and the Earl of Quick Forest, but the letter from Platinum City surprised her. Who in Platinum City would write to her?

So, Charlotte took the letter and first opened the letter from Platinum City.

After a quick glance, Charlotte discovered that it was actually a letter from her old classmate, Henry Holloway, the nephew of Emperor Leopold Holloway and the designated heir to the throne. The guy said in the letter that he was going to marry Anne Paster on Grace Day this year, and he asked Charlotte to be sure to attend his wedding.

Charlotte felt speechless. She didn't understand this guy's mentality. Why did she have to attend his wedding in person?

Show off?

If you don't accept my pursuit, naturally there will be another girl to marry me?

Charlotte had no interest in going to Platinum City to attend Henry Holloway's wedding. She could only bless the newlyweds from afar - she hoped that Anne Paster would not be pregnant with her brother Andre's child when they got married.

Throwing aside Henry Holloway's letter, Charlotte opened the second one.

This is from Earl Quakerforest, or to be more precise, it is a letter written by my cousin Monica on behalf of Earl Quakerforest.

In the letter, Monica spent most of the page sharing her recent painting skills, and only mentioned the serious business at the end of the letter - Earl of Quick Forest agreed to lend Charlotte thirty knights to help Charlotte's territory survive the winter.

Black Wolf was very efficient at work, and he had sent back news that he had found some fierce wolf warriors who were willing to join Viscount Lanwan. However, this did not affect Charlotte's happiness that Earl Quick Forest was willing to lend her some knights.

In other words, it was precisely because of the upcoming Fierce Wolf Warriors that Charlotte wanted more Orlan Knights more urgently. The origin of the Fierce Wolf Warriors meant that they would not be too obedient to the rules, at least they would not like to obey the rules of the Orlan Empire. Just as Cecilia was worried, if there were too many of them, it would inevitably disrupt the order of the territory. So Charlotte had to ensure that there were more Orlan Knights than Fierce Wolf Warriors in her territory.

Although the thirty knights borrowed by Earl of Quick Forest were not many, they temporarily solved Charlotte's urgent needs.

However, after opening the second letter, Charlotte frowned again. This letter with the personal seal of the Duke of Greenfield was also written by someone else. The handwriting in the letter was not from Jose Melefield. Charlotte could recognize at a glance that the writer was her stepmother, Rosie Melefield.

In the letter, Rosie Melfield used rather harsh words to rebuke Charlotte for causing troubles in the territory, building unnecessary buildings, and wasting money and food. It seems that even if Harvey Sherwin stayed in Ambratu to eat, drink and have fun, he would occasionally write to Rosie Melfield to report Charlotte's movements over a period of time.

After the reprimand, Rosie Melfield said that the Duchy's border defense against the tribesmen was under great pressure this year, and there were no extra manpower to lend to Charlotte. In short, no knights would be lent. If Charlotte felt that the Viscountry was unsafe, she could return to the Green Plains Duchy earlier, and the riverside castle was safe enough.

This is pure nonsense. According to the information brought out by the mountain people from the Kanpei Mountains, since the beginning of winter this year, the tribesmen have never approached the outskirts of the Kanpei Mountains, let alone went down the mountains to plunder.

However, Charlotte didn't care about Rosie Mellerfield's nonsense. What she cared about was - why was the letter written by Rosie Mellerfield?

In Charlotte's memory of more than ten years, Jose Melefield never had the habit of having someone write letters for him. On the contrary, the Duke of Greenfield attached great importance to his letters and seals. Even when Charlotte was a child, she had to sneak into the study when Jose Melefield was not at home to get her father's seal.

Why could Rosie Mellerfield write letters to Jose Mellerfield so blatantly? Moreover, Charlotte was sure that her father had never read the letter.

What happened to my dad?

Charlotte was lost in thought.

"Sir, do you want to write a reply?" Cecilia stood aside and waited for a while before asking again.

"Yes." Charlotte came back to her senses and nodded, "I will write two letters to Earl Quick Forest."

Charlotte decided to write a letter to her cousin Monica and Earl of Quickforest to express her gratitude. She received so much help from the Earl of Quickforest's family in getting her small viscountship off to a smooth start.

"Only reply to Count Quickforest's letter?" Cecilia asked in confusion, "Don't you need to reply to the other two?"

"The other two..." Charlotte first pulled out the strange letter from Henry Holloway, crumpled it up and threw it on the ground, "This one can be thrown away as trash."

Then, Charlotte picked up Rosie's letter again: "I probably need to reply to this one, but..."

Charlotte raised her lips into a sarcastic smile. "However, I want to send a gift to my mother along with this letter to remind her that she should not use such an unkind tone when writing to her daughter."

Ambra figure.

At some point, a piece of gossip spread at an incredible speed in the devastated city of Ambratu - Harvey Sherwin slammed the table at a banquet and said, "If it weren't for me, the people of Ambratu wouldn't be able to survive now!"

The name Harvey Shelvin has been very well-known in Ambratu recently. He is the cousin of Viscount Lanwan, a guest of honor of the democratic elders, and has led several tariff negotiations... Almost all the citizens of Ambratu have heard of him.

But if you say that Ambratu is counting on him to survive, the citizens of Ambratu naturally don't like to hear it. For a while, Harvey Sherwin didn't dare to go out on the street, because as long as he walked on the street, he would inevitably face countless angry eyes.

In fact, Harvey Sherwin didn't know whether he had said that. He was indeed drunk at the time, and he didn't remember anything when he woke up the next day.

However, he asked his good friend Robin Mancini who was present at the time, and Robin Mancini said categorically that he did say it.

Harvey Shervin then asked Martin Kramer, with whom he had a good relationship, in a roundabout way, and Martin Kramer comforted him by saying that he had indeed said some inappropriate words at the time, but it was nothing and no one cared about such a small matter.

So Harvey Sherwin had to admit that what he said, "If it weren't for me, the people of Ambratu wouldn't be able to survive today!"

Harvey Sherwin once regretted that he lost his mind after drinking and said such outrageous words.

Until the news came that Antanas was defeated and killed, and the Ambratu citizen militia was annihilated...

A dark cloud of grief and despair hung over the city of Ambulatu. This grief and despair was incomparable to the previous time when Ambulatu was attacked.

At that time, the people of Ambratu could still comfort themselves that the Sassenians would only resort to sneak attacks. As long as Antanas and the powerful Ambratu citizen militia could destroy the Sassenians on the front battlefield, Ambratu would still be the winner in the end.

The elders of the Democratic Party were also in a gloomy mood. They really didn't want Antanas to destroy the Little Sassini, but they didn't want to see the end of the citizen soldiers being wiped out. This was undoubtedly the weakest time in the history of Ambratu. If the Little Sassini attacked, the city would not even be able to organize a force to climb the city wall for defense.

However, in this gloomy mood, one person was in an unusually happy mood, and that person was Harvey Sherwin.

Doesn’t the current situation prove how correct his words are?

"In today's Ambratu, food needs to be provided by Viscount Lanwan, and safety needs to be protected by Viscount Lanwan's cavalry! Am I wrong? Viscount Lanwan drove the little Sasini out of the city..."

Harvey Sherwin stood on the street, deliberately raising his voice to talk loudly to the beautiful boy next to him, with a smug look on his face. Of course, these words were not spoken to his own boy-lover, but to the citizens of Ambratu who had previously treated him coldly.

The citizens of Ambratu dared not speak out because what Harvey Sherwin said was true. Ambratu really needed Viscount Lanwan's food and military deterrence. Viscount Lanwan not only sent troops and food, but also reduced the so-called tariff compensation many times. The reason why she was so generous to Ambratu, the citizens thought it was because of her "cousin" Harvey Sherwin.

The citizens of Ambratu were frustrated to find that they could not refute the statement: "If it were not for me, the people of Ambratu would not be able to survive now!"

At the corner of the street, two citizens of Ambratu whose houses were burned down were sitting on the side of the road eating dinner. One was Pande, a young man who had once firmly opposed the tariff agreement, and the other was Pande’s neighbor, the one-eyed old citizen, Logan.

"Look at his fat pig face," Logan said, nodding his head at Harvey Sherwin, who was already a little too proud of himself, "Now anyone can bully us, Ambratu."

"He's just talking nonsense!" Pande gritted his teeth, his eyes red. His mother's leg was broken and she was burned by the remaining fire when the house collapsed. It seemed that she would not live long. "The little Sasini people clearly retreated on their own! How can he have the nerve to say that Viscount Lanwan drove them away? Viscount Lanwan's cavalry did not fight with the little Sasini people at all. I saw it with my own eyes!"

"So what if I saw it with my own eyes?" Logan sneered. "Pander, I tell you, in this world, the strong ones tell the truth, and the weak ones will be bullied. We are weak now, and there will be many more such things. In the future, you will understand what I mean."

"No, it won't happen..." Pende shook his head and clenched his fists. "As long as we Ambratu people still have courage, no one can bully us."

"Why not?" Logan pointed at Harvey Sherwin and said, "Isn't he just humiliating us? Who here has the courage to do anything to him?"

Pender looked around and found many citizens of Ambratu. They didn't even have the courage to say a word in the face of the rampant Harvey Sherwin. Harvey Sherwin humiliated them in person, and they even avoided looking at Harvey Sherwin.

Suddenly, a fire of evil almost exploded from Pande's chest. He stood up and grabbed the knife in front of him.

For some reason, the borrowed table knife in front of Pande today was sharpened to be exceptionally sharp, and it felt cold when he held it in his hand. It didn't feel like a table knife at all.

"What are you doing?" Logan hurriedly pulled Pender, as if trying to stop this impulsive young man.

Pender shook off Logan with a flick of his hand.

Harvey Shelvin was talking happily when he suddenly felt someone patting his shoulder from behind. He turned around in confusion and found that it was a young man who looked familiar. What was his name?

Suddenly, a sharp pain interrupted Harvey Sherwin's thoughts. He slowly lowered his head and saw the young man stabbing a table knife into his stomach.

Before Harvey Sherwin could react, the young man pulled out a table knife and stabbed him again.

"Ah ah ah..."

Harvey Shervin wailed and fell to the ground in pain.

Pender rode on Harvey Sherwin, slashing him with his sword again and again...

The bright red blood gradually dyed the bluestone paved streets red.

"Killing!"

The silent street then erupted into a cry of surprise, and suddenly there was chaos. Some people went up to open Pender, and some went up to rescue Harvey Sherwin.

At this time, on the street corner where One-Eyed Logan was, Robin Mancini, dressed in plain linen clothes, walked out.

"Well done." Robin Mancini looked in the direction of the chaos and whispered as if talking to himself.

"Thank you for your appreciation." Logan's one eye was full of viciousness.

(Harmony) PS: Thanks to zxczxx and Sakuraqiu for their reminders. The errors in the previous article have been corrected. I don’t know why harmony is needed here, but it is marked in red.

PS2: I wanted to update twice a day today, but I'm not feeling well. I'm sorry~~~qqun16⑧2一7妻一榴

Volume 63: Chapter 55 Chapter Death News

"What? Harvey Sherwin is dead?"

Martin Kramer was having dinner at his home when he was hurriedly called to the Capino estate by a messenger sent by Olivier Capino. Then he heard the news that made him doubt his ears.

"How could such a healthy person die?" Martin Kramer was confused.

Most of the other democratic elders also gathered in the Capino Manor, and Jurgen Voller gave Martin Kramer a brief account of the murder that had occurred in broad daylight not long ago.

After Jurgen Voller finished speaking, Martin Kramer asked, "Has Pande been arrested?"

"No," Jurgen Voller shook his head. "The citizens on the street let him escape. The guards we sent to arrest him were blocked by the citizens and failed to catch him. Even the murder weapon was thrown away by the citizens."

Martin Kramer gnashed his teeth when he heard this: "How are we going to explain this to Viscount Lanwan?"

"Why do we have to give an explanation to Viscount Lanwan?" Another democratic elder said dissatisfiedly, "Harvey Shelvin was a knight and a swordsman, but he was stabbed to death by a kid who hadn't even awakened and whose hair hadn't even grown out yet. How can we explain this? I think this is clearly the problem of the Orlan Empire itself!"

"Pende is just an ordinary citizen. How can he kill a knight so easily? And why did he want to kill Knight Shervin? I find it very strange..." another democratic elder said.

"What's so strange about this? Harvey Sherwin, that big mouth, is talking nonsense on the street, and it makes me angry!"

"..."

"Okay, stop arguing." Democratic leader Olivier Capino raised his hand to stop the others from arguing, then turned to his younger brother, Elder Lucas Capino, and asked, "How long will it take for our citizen soldiers to come back?"

The citizen soldiers that Olivier Capino was talking about were not the ones captured by Apo and the Little Sassini, but the two thousand citizen soldiers who were serving on the front line of the Aiye Alliance. These citizen soldiers were originally scheduled to serve the Alliance for one year, and now only half a year has passed, but Ambratu has no time to break the contract. As soon as he learned that Antanas' army was annihilated, Olivier Capino sent a messenger to ask the Alliance to release the two thousand citizen soldiers.

Lucas Capino said bitterly, "At the earliest, it will take at least half a month. Besides, the war on the front line is tense right now, and Fidelity may not agree to release our citizen soldiers."

After listening to the conversation between the two brothers Capino, the faces of the elders present were a little gloomy, because Olivier Capino reminded them that the most important thing at the moment was not the truth or the explanation, but - if Viscount Lanwan sent troops to attack Ambratu, what should they use to resist?

After destroying the main force of the Ambratu militia, the little Sasini did not directly attack, but only sent the elders to question and demand compensation. It was obvious that the sudden appearance of the Lanwan cavalry made the little Sasini feel wary, and the elders of Ambratu were very glad to have such a "friendly" neighbor.

But now the cavalry led by Viscount Lanwan is about to become a threat to Ambratu.

"Half a month," Martin Kramer couldn't help but mutter, "The cavalry led by Viscount Lanwan rushed all the way here, and they will be at our door in half a day."

These words made the elders feel even more depressed.

Olivier Carpino sighed helplessly: "Let's catch the murderer as soon as possible and calm Viscount Lanwan as much as possible."

"It seems that Knight Harvey Shelvin is the illegitimate son of King Koxin. What if the Koxin Kingdom accuses him?" Martin Kramer reminded again.