The lights in the tavern were dim, but Karl rarely smiled.
When the proprietress saw Carl's friends arriving, she lit up a few more magic wall lamps around the bar, making the area around the bar even brighter.
Mrs. Mariana Christie's face was slightly red, and it looked like she had drunk a lot of wine.
Karl seemed very happy to see Surdak return to Hiranza. He put his arm around Surdak's shoulders and sat in front of the bar. He asked the landlady to open a new barrel of ale, and the two drank a lot of it.
cup.
"How was your harvest after coming back from the big battlefield this time?" Karl asked Suldak and punched him in the chest.
Surdak smiled and replied: "It's okay."
Karl asked with some worry: "I heard that this kind of transfer order happens once every once in a while?"
"There should be a long period of rest, and the battlefield is not as dangerous as rumored." Suldak took a sip of the slightly bitter ale and said to Karl.
He vividly described the Silver City and the King Kong Gate to everyone, which immediately made everyone in the tavern scream.
Suldak said that it had been more than two months since he came back from the battlefield, and he had been handling affairs in the city hall there in Luyint City. This time he returned to Wall Village to visit relatives, and then stopped by Helensa City to see it.
Look at everyone.
After hearing that Suldak said that he had become the governor of Luyint City, Karl was also sincerely happy for his friend.
"Is everything going well in Luyint City?" Karl asked Suldak.
"It's not bad!" Suldak sat on a high stool, holding a wooden ale glass in both hands. He picked up a few ice cubes from the ice bucket and put them into the glass. He raised his head and smiled at Karl and said, "The only thing is
The deputy speaker of the House of Representatives who opposed me has been sent to a military court in the province of Bena."
"So you have become the real manager of Luyint City?" Karl asked with wide eyes and envy.
Suldak nodded slightly and said: "At least in Luyint City, everything is decided by me."
Mrs. Mariana Christie asked in disbelief: "The nobles over there didn't boycott you together."
Suldak did not deny it. He just knocked on the table gently and said: "There will be some who are unwilling to cooperate, but they will be convinced by me soon."
Looking at his determined look, Karl knew that Surdak had firmly grasped the situation in Luyint City. Then he thought of the current messy situation in Helensa City, stretched his worried forehead, and said to Surda
K said:
"It's great that you can come back. I'm afraid you don't even know that Darcy is sick, and she is very ill... How should I put it, as our friend, I hope you can go see her." Karl suggested euphemistically.
made such a request.
He knew that Suldak and Darcy dated for a period of time in the Knight Academy, but they could not get together in the end.
However, Karl didn't know what kind of emotions Suldak had toward his ex-girlfriend...whether he would be like other couples who would form a deadly feud before they could get together.
"I want to know what happened during this period...Don't the Christie family firmly control the city of Helena? Why did Darcy get seriously ill!" Suldak asked Karl seriously.
He hesitated to speak, turned to Mrs. Christie and said: "Mariana, tell me!"
Mrs. Christie showed a trace of unconcealable hatred in her eyes, drank all the wine in the glass, and then suddenly asked Suldak: "Dak, can you help me kill that guy Dakuni?
"
"..."
Faced with Mrs. Christie's sudden question, Suldak was a little stunned and didn't know how to answer it for a moment.
"Mariana!" Karl put his hands on Mrs. Mariana Christie's shoulders, moved her hard to face him, and then said to her: "Listen, the affairs of Darcy and Dakuni are their own business.
I think Darcy doesn’t want you and others to get involved in her relationship. As her relatives and friends, we need to consider how to get her out of her current predicament, rather than helping her cut off all grudges with a sword.
.”
Mariana put down the empty wine glass feebly and said feebly:
"During the period after Bernard's death, the nobles of Helensa City lost their trust in the Christie family."
"One of the main reasons is that there have always been many conflicts within the Christie family. There is a group of people in the family who are constantly removing the power from Darcy's supporters. By the time Darcy reacts, Darcy has already lost the support of the family."
Suldak nodded.
He knew that this was probably the real reason why Darcy could not control the city of Helensa. After all, the Christie family had deep roots in the city of Helensa. If there was full support from the family, even if there were objections, such a large-scale attack would not be possible.
wave.
In the final analysis, it is still internal strife within the family, which gives outsiders an opportunity to take advantage of it.
"In addition, many noble lords in the city are also very dissatisfied with the fact that Bernard gave up the position of consul of Helensa to Darcy." Mrs. Christie continued. "The main reason is that Darcy did not wait to stabilize her position.
Due to the situation in the city, some new policies were promulgated in the city."
"These new policies have touched the interests of most of the nobles in Halanza."
"Almost all the noble lords, everyone wants more oak woods."
"Darcy believed that the oak forest could only allow the nobles to obtain a good income every year, but could not change the lives of the common people in the suburbs, so she was ready to issue a restriction order on the oak forest." Lady Mariana said a little weakly.
Obviously she did not approve of Darcy's approach, but she was also Darcy's staunchest supporter in the political situation of Helensa City, so her heart was full of contradictions, and she even had a sense of powerlessness.
Surdak did not expect Darcy to be so bold, and asked with some admiration: "So...her approach was resisted by the nobles of Helensa?"
"This is just one of them, but it has become an opportunity for the nobles in the city to unite against her." Mrs. Mariana Christie said with a wry smile: "There are also issues about the territorial property rights of Fonak Manor and Hoyin Manor.
, the nobles want to add this part of the land to their own territory, and everyone has been arguing about this for several years, but Darcy supports the idea of dividing this land into the public land of Helensa City..."
When talking about these things, Mrs. Mariana Christie showed a look of helplessness.
It can be seen that she also thinks that Darcy does not have the ability to govern Helensa City.
"Please help me arrange to meet Darcy first!"
Suldak pinched his eyebrows with his hands. He didn't expect Darcy to do something so radical. Moreover, one of her biggest problems was that she ignored the uneasy factors from within the family, which was why she was finally pushed to the cliff...
Mrs. Mariana Christie nodded, then waved to the two maids hiding in the corner, asked them to come over and said: "Go and prepare the carriage for me, I want to use it now."
"Yes, madam." the maid agreed.
Mrs. Christie said to Suldak: "I will go to the castle to see Darcy first, and then I will find an opportunity to arrange for you to meet."
It seems that she can't see Darcy at any time...
Mrs. Mariana Christie left the tavern in a hurry.
…
Suldak has not expressed his opinion and has been listening quietly.
He felt that the reason why Darcy fell ill was due to internal factors of the family on the one hand, and external factors on the other. Her power in the city of Helensa was emptied out, and the family also lost most of its resources. It was completely suppressed.
The isolated governor.
If she hadn't fallen ill at the right time, I'm afraid she would have been kicked out by now...
It wasn't until Mrs. Christie left and everyone sat down again in the corner of the tavern that Suldak asked Lance: "What is the attitude of the Magic Guild towards this?"
"To be honest, the magician nobles are happy to see the internal strife between the traditional noble forces of Helensa." Lance answered without any concealment.
Suldak nodded and asked Lance: "Do you have a chance to persuade the Magic Guild to side with Darcy?"
Lance shook his head quickly.
Suldak asked Lance, who was sitting next to him: "If I write to the two great wizards Harper and Morrison, will their influence change some of the opinions of the magicians here?
"
"You actually know the two great mages Harper and Morrison. They are considered to be two of the top six giants in the law enforcement group of Bena Province. If there is their support, of course the Helensa Magic Union will fully support Darcy!" Lan
Si said excitedly.
"Okay, leave this matter to me, I think I can convince them." Suldak said.
Before Lance could ask Surdak how he knew these two giants, Surdak asked Karl: "Is it true that basically all the nobles in Helensa City are against Darcy?"
Carl nodded without hesitation and admitted: "That's pretty much it!"
Then he added: "You also know that for those members of the House of Representatives, there are always some people who don't care about the essence of the matter. The choices they make are often to stand on the opposite side of political opponents, so Darcy still has some supporters
!”
"..."
Surdak was speechless again.
In fact, he knew Darcy's character very well. She seemed a bit unruly and domineering when she was young, but she encountered some setbacks after graduating from the Swordsman Academy. During her time teaching at the Helensa Knight Academy, her sharp edges were completely polished.
character.
But in the final analysis, she is still a girl with an upright character, so Suldak believes that she can do such a thing of betraying her relatives.
Surdak did not have any worries about treating Darcy.
In fact, he hoped to help Darcy cure her mental illness, or at least help her find a new path in this desperate situation.
Thinking about the friends he had made in the city of Helensa, except for Carl, Lance and Tax Collector Byrd, there seemed to be no one else.
From the relationship with the military department of Bena Province, Surdak suddenly thought of the Goss family in Aquamarine City. If Captain Mond. Goss hadn't promoted him to a knight, I'm afraid he wouldn't have had a chance.
Got to this point today.
Captain Mond Goss should be in the Bena military system, so it probably won't be difficult to find a reason to visit him recently.
Surdak was thinking in his mind how to help Darcy find some firm supporters in Helensa through various relationships...
They saw Tax Collector Byrd and Miss Hoyin'er walking into the tavern. Now Miss Hoyin'er had become Lady Bird. When they walked into the tavern, they found that there was one more person here than before.
Tax Collector Byrd saw Suldak sitting in the corner, strode over to him, and the two hugged each other tightly.
Then Miss Ho Yin'er also curtsied to Suldak, and then everyone sat down.
"Dak, when did you arrive?" Tax Officer Byrd asked excitedly.
During his last trip to Bena City, he gained the most. In some ways, physical strength often represents his mood.
Surdak said casually: "I just got here today, how have you been lately...?"
When friends get together, it’s inevitable to reminisce about old times.
The political situation in Hailansa City has little impact on small nobles like Tax Collector Byrd. However, after Miss Huo Yin'er inherited the family property, she became Viscount Huo Yin'er. Now she has settled in Hailansa City, and the family territory has been completely let go.
It was precisely because Darcy had disposed of a large piece of the rich territory of the Hoyin'er family that the nobles in Hailan City became increasingly dissatisfied.
Then everyone talked about Darcy, and Miss Hoyiner, who had become Lady Bird, also expressed great concern. She said to Suldak: "I just visited Darcy yesterday. Now she is ill."
It’s almost to the point where I’m bedridden, and I eat almost nothing and can only drink some sugar water every day, and I’m already extremely thin!”
Surdak lowered his head and sat there silently.
The friends in the tavern kept talking, but they seemed to have never noticed that there was a succubus sitting silently in the shadows in another corner of the tavern.
Aphrodite sat in the corner without saying a word...
Her hair was tied up high to cover the devil's horns on her head. She was wearing a magician's robe and hiding in the shadows. She actually completely blended into the shadows.
Only Surdak occasionally glanced this way.
Aphrodite didn't drink any alcoholic drinks, she just held her chin with her hands and listened to their chat in silence and gracefully.
Then we talked about Darcy's husband, Baron Dacuni. Everyone basically had no impression of him, because he has always been a little transparent existence in the Christie family, and since Darcy's marriage, the two of them have
The relationship has never been good, and there were several quarrels when they were newly married.
Not long after that, Baron Dacuni left the city of Helensa and disappeared for a long time...
No one thought that his second wife was from the Dunstan family. Now that Baron Dacuni has the support of the Dunstan family, he actually wants to seize the management of Helensa City from the Christie family. This is something everyone