Chapter 598: The Trail of the Mystic (5,000 Words)
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It's kind of like the sound made by flat leather boots.
The first thing that caught Anyang's eye was a thin and narrow women's dress, without decoration, mainly red and yellow colors, which made the curve of the figure more prominent, with ties behind him, and the sleeves were slightly wide, but they were tightened at the cuffs.
This is the standard aristocratic casual attire in some parts of the southern Commonwealth of Mesoyalan.
The visitor coldly glanced at the two distant cousins, who immediately lowered his head and obediently saluted Anyang to say goodbye and left.
"You go out too!"
"Yes."
The maid also obediently left.
The aura is very strong!
An Yang sighed and remained silent.
The woman has long gray-white hair with a little light gold, not as slightly curly as the Europeans and Americans in the previous life, but very soft, snow-white skin and delicate face, and the facial contours are slightly three-dimensional than the Oriental in the previous life, but not rough at all.
The slender waist is tightly bound by clothes, and the chest is towering, which has a kind of nobility and at the same time is very imposing.
On the legs, there are skinny pants that look a bit like bodybuilding pants, and a bit like leggings that young women in the real world love to wear, outlining the tight and straight curves of their legs, and below them are a pair of women's tall leather boots, decorated with a few metal rivets.
This kind of dress undoubtedly decorates the identity and sexy beauty, and at the same time makes yourself look heroic.
Ain's cousin, Lydia Corfinori!
An Yang immediately recognized the visitor.
Soon only him and Lydia were left in the room.
An Yang was even more scrupled, and his face was even more silent.
From Ain's memory, he knew that just as Lydia had frightened her two distant cousins into leaving in a hurry without saying a word, Lydia was usually an unsmiling person, training in the baron's knight's camp, and was very dignified.
But what Anyang really cares about is what she knows about Ain.
In the territory of Corfinoli, the closest relationship with Aine is undoubtedly the baron, followed by this cousin, but because the baron and cousin are very powerful people, Ain is usually a little afraid of them and has little contact.
Lydia glanced at him, then turned around and closed the door before coming to him.
An Yang saw from this action that this cousin might stay with him for a long time.
"Ain."
An Yang raised his head, and then kept frowning at her.
"Ain, do you remember me?"
This is probably the most asked question by those who came to see him.
Anyang tried to make a thoughtful and somewhat painful look, in order to show the true expression of 'Ain' after seeing his cousin who cared about him the most after his slight amnesia, and then he seemed to finally remember, looked at Lydia and said:
"Cousin Lydia......"
"You remember me."
Lydia's expression softened suddenly, and she reached out to touch his head, and the corners of her mouth hooked up into a smile.
Before she came, she deliberately inquired about Ain's situation, and when he woke up, he called his father Baron and his brother Mickey, but he didn't expect to call her cousin as soon as he opened his mouth, doesn't this mean that he is more important in his heart?
An Yang frowned, repulsed by the touch from this strange woman, but still deliberately endured it.
After a pause, Lydia asked softly, "Do you remember the names of those three girls just now?" ”
An Yang shook his head, but he actually remembered.
Lydia was more satisfied, her eyes softened, and her previous toughness disappeared without a trace.
An Yang had an ominous premonition in his heart......
But he didn't show it.
Lydia continued, "The two younger girls are your cousins, one named Lunan Herlister, her mother is your father's aunt and cousin, and the other is Misha Larkin, and they are more intimate. ”
An Yang measured it in his heart, and he didn't want to look too idiot, so he made a sudden recollection.
"It doesn't seem like your amnesia is serious."
Lydia smiled quietly and sweetly, and hesitated for a moment before she added, "The older one is called Sheryl Zekaria, and her father is your father's right-hand man, the Knight of Shuka, and her mother is also your father's cousin. ”
An Yang nodded again.
Lydia continued, "They don't have pure intentions, don't contact them lately, you know? ”
"Hmm."
Anyang just didn't want to have more contact with other people.
When Lydia saw him like this, she thought that he had lost his memory and still had unreserved trust in herself, and she couldn't help but be even happier.
"Want to eat something?"
"Black ...... Dried black autumn fish. ”
This is Ain's favorite food in Anyang's memory, and it is also a specialty of Corfinori and several surrounding collars, but because eating too much is harmful to his body, Baron and Lydia usually do not allow him to eat it, and they control it very strictly.
Anyang threw this point, undoubtedly to avoid suspicion.
Lydia really hesitated, but looking at his longing eyes, she still nodded: "Only two." ”
An Yang immediately nodded with some joy.
Lydia smiled, picked up the fruit that Lunan hadn't peeled just now, and sat on the edge of the bed to continue peeling for him.
This picture is peaceful and beautiful, the long silky gray-white hair hangs down naturally, and the reserve female knight Lydia, who has always been strong in the eyes of everyone in the castle, has a calm and slow face, and her eyes are focused on the fruit in her hand and never moves.
However, this is Ain's cousin......
The corners of An Yang's mouth twitched slightly.
After Lydia left, the maid came in again, and Anyang asked her to help her stand up and walk towards the window. In fact, the demon body had almost repaired him during Lydia's company, but he didn't want to attract attention.
Then there were other people who came to see him, and they were all sent away by him.
Anyang only feels that the complexity of the relationship between relatives in this world is not inferior to the real world of China! Especially this kind of aristocratic family formed by relatives and refuge with each other, there are still various implications and marriages with their subordinates.
And for these distant cousins and cousins of Ain, he also knows a little from Ain's memory.
Because nobles usually have many children and huge families, especially those who only have a little kinship, they are simply everywhere, and many distant relatives who live a miserable life come to the baron for a living, resulting in a lot of distant cousins and cousins of Ain, but the Kofinori Territory is not a big territory than the high nobles, and it is impossible to afford so many relatives who drag their families.
So more often than not, these people either become commoners in the realm and can get a little care from the baron, or they work for the baron in the castle, and their status is higher than that of other servants, but also very limited. Especially for the short-tempered baron, he will not take into account this pitiful blood relationship at all, and he will be executed at every turn!
So if you want to live here in this war-torn era, it has become a very necessary thing to please the baron. But not everyone can speak to the baron, and many people turn their attention to the baron's heir.
Again, this is very necessary.
Because the domain and the title will inevitably be inherited, it is better to establish a good relationship while the future baron is not a baron, rather than to curry favor with the new baron at that time.
After all, no one wants to be expelled!
They are just trying to make ends meet.
But the baron also has many children, and there are two that are the most likely to inherit, some choose the eldest son Mickey, and some choose the baron's more favored second son Ain, Lunan, Misha, and Shirylle chose Ain.
Well, they're just the three best-looking.
Others who are less good-looking are unable to get close to Ain, and usually resort to other ways to curry favor with the baron and his heir.
This method is despised by others in modern society, but it is extremely common in this world.
The main reason is that these distant cousins, who are already thin in blood, do not have much sense of existence, and as the blood relationship is estranged from generation to generation, if no measures are taken, the later heads of the family are likely not to take this kinship into account at all.
And if they can hook up with the heir to the title as soon as possible, their family's life will undoubtedly be guaranteed, and they are more likely to arouse the interest of the heir than others with a weak blood relationship, and their face and figure are also powerful weapons.
As for cousin Lydia-
The Corfinori family is a hereditary baron, but the title of Baron Lea Corfinori is not hereditary, the baron and the baron's brother failed to compete for the title, and angrily led a part of the knights loyal to him to leave the original territory, and after coming here, because of the merit of exterminating the thieves and some wealth, he was given the title of baron by the marquis here and rewarded the territory.
After only a few years, the baron's domain became more and more prosperous, but the baron's brother's domain was annexed by the neighboring barony due to the loss of force due to the departure of a large number of knights, and Lydia and her sisters had to follow her mother to join the baron, and the baron accepted them for the sake of blood.
Later, Lydia's mother died of a cold, leaving her alone and some half-sisters.
Fortunately, she has worked hard since she was a child, not only received knightly training, but also showed great resourcefulness, and the reason for her blood proximity was very appreciated by the baron, and her status in the territory even exceeded that of some of the baron's unfavored biological children.
Anyang seems to be reading a medieval family history written by a Western author, and can't help but sigh.
Holding the window with his hand, there is a large manor house below, except for the central castle, which is very simple, but the area is vast, and some farmsteads, pastures, and commoners' houses can be seen in the distance, which has a Western visual appearance.
But in fact, this world is not the same as the ancient West in the real world, although there are similarities in social culture, but creatures with the same mode of thinking will inevitably develop similar social systems, which does not mean anything.
Again, there are many differences.
The common unit of force in this world is the knights, who serve the lord and dominate the war, similar to the knights of the Middle Ages and the samurai of the Japanese shogunate, if it were not for the high degree of centralization in ancient China.
It's just that they have a special training method, which may also be related to the unusually strong energy of heaven and earth in this world, the combat power of formal knights generally exceeds the limit of ordinary people's human bodies, and An Yang estimates that their average physical fitness may exceed two, and this value, coupled with excellent heavy armor and specialized combat skills, can already make them ignore ordinary people.
As for the knighthood...... It's all a matter of translation!
The titles of male, son, marquis, earl, and duke were themselves set during the Zhou Dynasty in China, and later after contact with the West, they found that the Western titles happened to be divided into five ranks, so they translated them one by one, which is the same as the commander of the army is called a general. It's just that because China rarely divides titles and territories, and pays attention to the fact that the whole world is not the king's land, but the West has always used the title, some people gradually think that only the West has barons, viscounts and the like, which is wrong.
This world's title also happens to be of the fifth rank, and the system's 'language proficiency' is also directly converted into the title name of the Zhou Dynasty.
It's just that what makes An Yang a little strange is that he searched through Ain's memories and didn't find any information about the transcendental, as if there is no supernatural power in this world except for knights who are stronger than ordinary people.
But there is certainly a lot of power in this world.
An Yang has no doubt about this, which only proves that this power is hidden deep and is not touched by ordinary people.
This also shows from the side that as long as he doesn't die by himself, he will be safe until his strength is fully restored, because these knights who are too powerful to ordinary people are really nothing to him, and there is no need to be afraid if he recovers his strength a little.
An Yang thought about it in his mind again, but he still didn't come up with a result, but there were some legends of mysteries.
This is a bit similar to ancient Chinese mythology, and some folk rumors about mountain gods and spirits, which cannot be taken seriously, but it may also be similar to the rumors of Yunding Mountain in the Shenzhou world, maybe there are really some transcendent beings as the source.
The most likely truth is the legend of the border.
The southernmost part of the Mesoaland Federation borders the Wailing Forest, and the indigenous people of the forest are creatures called the Ghost Slave, a beast-like creature as large as a tiger, and although intelligent, it is a warlike nature that fights the borders of the Union all year round.
Sometimes, there were slaves who wandered into the border and were besieged and killed by the local lord's army, which Aine remembered seeing once.
Legend has it that there is a kind of sacrifice among the Ghost Slaves, with a high status, second only to the king, and has mysterious powers, which can easily kill the knights of the Federation, and once discovered, they must send a large knight with a large number of elites to strangle them.
Anyang itself has also slowly risen from the strength level of the knights of the Origin Land, and naturally knows that this kind of powerful and heavily armored class can also be easily used in the lion group, and ordinary ghost slaves cannot pose such a threat.
But we'll have to wait until he recovers.
Now that his body has basically recovered, the data of his physical fitness after leaving the weak state is not so embarrassing, but it is not as good as the ordinary people who are strong, which is probably not related to Ain's pampering, it is completely suppressed by the system too hard.
Not long after, a maid walked in, holding a plate in her hand, saying that it was food for him.
Anyang lifted the iron lid and saw that it was the dried black autumn fish brought to him by Lydia, exuding a faint fishy smell, and Anyang didn't know why Aine liked to eat this thing, but he had to make a very happy expression.
In the evening, the baron came again, but his face was so ugly that the maid trembled.
"Ain, do you remember where you studied?"
An Yang thought for a moment and nodded slowly: "Pol...... The Noble College of Eslabi in Boer City. ”
The marquis named Aaron Pol was the marquis of the nobility of the barons, and the hereditary land had been hereditary for hundreds of years, which meant that the Barony of Corfinori was nominally owned by the Marquis of Bol, and the city of Bol was equivalent to the capital of the Bol Order.
The Aristocratic Academy of Ezlabi was an academy for nobles run by Marquis Aaron's grandfather.
Ain used to study there, mainly learning aristocratic etiquette and some cultural knowledge, horsemanship and archery.
The baron nodded with a gloomy face, and said directly: "You have to go back to the academy tomorrow, you have to withdraw from the school, and then in the next academic year I will find a new academy or hire a teacher for you." ”
His tone was just arranging one thing, without giving him any room for negotiation.
An Yang was stunned, seeing that the baron's face was obviously a little wrong, but he still chose to be silent at the right time.
During this time, he wants to create an illusion in the minds of everyone that he is depressed because he has been hurt, so as to avoid being exposed in case of too much communication with people, and continue until he recovers his self-preservation strength, or thinks of other countermeasures.
When the baron saw him bow his head, his face became even more gloomy, as if he had accumulated great anger.
"You don't have to worry, the butler Enko will be with you, even if you can't remember, just do as he says, and I will send the knight of Shuka to go with you, so you don't have to be afraid, they will protect you."
As he spoke, he took a long breath, "Also, you're going to break the engagement with ConocoPhillips!" ”
An Yang was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered that there was such a thing!
Not only does Aine have a fiancée, but both of them attend the Elslabi Noble Academy, and he has admired his fiancée, Confie, who has been famous for many years, and he fell in love with him at first sight after they met.
This time, it was precisely because ConocoPhillips had recently become close to one of Marquis Aaron's grandsons that Aine was angry and couldn't stir up trouble for a while, so he was beaten up by Bishua and Nirat, who were also ConocoPhillips admirers and followers of Marquis Aaron's grandson.
The beating was almost to death.
Aine suddenly and inexplicably wants to withdraw from Aysrabi Academy, which is probably related to this.
Listening to the baron, his line is expected to face some provocations, so he sends the most capable knight of Shuka to accompany him.
"What a mess!"
An Yang had a little headache, his energy couldn't be wasted on these things, it was still important to find strength.
Seeing that he continued to be silent, the baron was a little soft-hearted, but he still said strongly: "I know you like ConocoPhillips very much, but there are many beautiful girls in this world, you can completely look for a better one, or wait for the stronger one!" ”
With that, he turned and left, without any fuss.
An Yang looked at his back, his eyes swept away, and the elusive light reflected against the candlelight.
I like a fart......
Early the next morning.
An Yang got up under the service of two graceful maids, sensed his body, and couldn't help but shake his head.
The recovery process of his own strength is really unstable, now only the power of the demon body is strengthening, the space with him has not been unlocked, there is no change in physical fitness, and he can't feel the existence of mana, and now he is still a weak chicken.
At this time, the guards led by the steward Enko and the knight of the festival were already ready by the carriage.
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