Chapter 336: Changemaker

The little girl looked at Gawain in a daze and asked curiously: "Do you know my name?"

Gawain smiled and gently touched the little girl's cheek. Hair: "You seem to know me too."

"You are Gawain, the great hero from long ago!" the little girl said happily, but there was a hint of hoarseness in her voice, which was different from the dream world. The clear and sweet voice was very different, "Dad told me your story before...the maids were all saying that you came to the castle..."

As the little girl spoke, her breath A little unable to keep up, she stopped and began to pant. She seemed to be so excited that she forgot her physical condition. Seeing this, Gawain quickly said: "Speak slowly, don't be in a hurry, I will stay here for a while. "

"Oh my god..." Amber's voice came from behind Gawain at this time. The half-elf had a look of reluctance on his face and a tone full of astonishment, "How could she do this... "

The maid standing behind the chair lowered her head and looked very frightened in front of Dame Luo Penni: "I'm sorry, mistress, but Miss Patty..."

" I know," the countess looked at her daughter, her tone full of helplessness, "Take the lady back to the room to rest."

Patty immediately raised her head hard: "But mom, I want to... "

"Be obedient and go back to your room to rest." Baroness Luo Penni emphasized again, and then glanced at Gawain with a little hesitation. Gawain took the initiative to step forward and said to the little girl without waiting for him to speak. "Listen to your mother and go back to rest first. I will come to see you."

"You must come!" Patty blinked her big bright eyes and looked at Gawain. She had no idea at all. This is the "Uncle Selsi" I have seen many times in the spiritual network, and I am just interested in a "protagonist" who comes out of the story.

Facing the little girl’s expectations, Gawain just smiled and nodded.

The maid took Patty away, using the chair that seemed to be specially made, like some kind of simple wheelchair. Gawain watched their figures disappear into the deep corridors of the castle, and then Then she turned to look at Countess Luo Penni: "How did she become like this?"

The Countess obviously didn't want to bring up this topic, and her answer was very vague: "When she was young, Encountered a fire."

"Fire?" Gawain shook his head, "It was the accident that happened to Viscount Roman Grant..."

Roman Grant was right. He was the husband of Luo Penny Grant, the previous lord of Viscount Grant, the young nobleman who was described by the nobles and bards as "crazy, arrogant, and cursed".

Luo Penni's expression obviously stiffened slightly, and her eyes became a little indifferent and distant. She turned to the door of the banquet hall and took a breath: "Your Excellency, we should not keep the guests waiting for too long."

“A dance can last until dawn, during which time the host will leave and there will be a butler to take care of everything.," Gawain said calmly behind Luo Penni, "We might be able to talk about the 'Land Act' and the 'Freedom Law'. "

Luo Penni stopped and turned her head to stare into Gawain's eyes.

Gawain said lightly: "Let the people inside wait - their time does not Not precious. "

"I am not interested in the topics you raised," said the Countess. "Those are the products of failures and mistakes. "

Gawain looked at the other party with a half-smile: "Aren't you curious why your husband failed back then? "

Luo Penni was silent for a moment, then waved to the housekeeper who had just come outside to observe the situation. After giving some instructions, she looked at Gawain: "We can go to the study on the second floor. But I still have to stress - I am no longer interested in the things you are going to talk about. ”

Gawain and Amber followed the Baroness and soon arrived at the study room on the second floor of the castle. In this study room, Gawain once again saw the portrait of Viscount Romain Grant—— The smiling young man was sitting in the picture frame, as if he was still working in the study.

But what made Gawain more embarrassed was that there was still a portrait of Viscount Romain Grant opposite. There is another painting hanging on it, and that is him... holding the Sword of the Pioneer and the Shield of the Guardian, standing on a high hill, looking majestically ahead, Gawain Cecil is the most popular figure. Guang's image.

Hu Hua immediately poked Gao Wen in the waist: "Hey, look, you are hanging on the wall! "

Gawain calmly avoided Amber's fingers and spoke with some embarrassment: "I thought that after I 'got up', everyone had taken my portrait off the wall. Come down..."

"My husband regards you as an idol," Dame Luo Penni said lightly. "After he left, this study has always maintained its original furnishings. "

Gawain nodded silently, strolled to the desk, and tapped the tabletop gently: "Was this where he wrote the Free Civil Code? "

"I said that it was already the product of failure and mistakes - later facts proved everything," Luo Penni said indifferently, "So this is the real purpose of your coming here. What? Not to meet new neighbors or discuss business, but to discuss the mistakes my husband made during his lifetime? "

"No, the original purpose of my coming here was really just to visit. After learning something about Viscount Roman Gulen, I also became somewhat interested in his life, but I I don't think everything about him can be summed up with the simple word 'mistake'. ”

Gawain spoke unhurriedly, and the deeds of Viscount Romain Grant that Amber had investigated in his mind were slowly pieced together in his mind, erasing those deliberate distortions. After the part that was misinterpreted by the ignorant people, the image of a pioneer of reform gradually emerged in his mind.

“Prohibit all slave trade and emancipate all serfs and slaves in the territory.For free people; re-measure the land, confiscate all over-restricted, unjust, and unregistered land and distribute it to the new free people; allow anyone to do business, work, hunt, and cultivate land, and cancel the "untouchable restriction law" in the territory , allowing freed slaves to learn crafts and become craftsmen; canceling the privilege of noble children to become knights, allowing commoners and noble children to accept the selection of knight apprentices..."

Gowen said one by one, watching As Penny Grant's expression turned gloomy little by little, he finally shook his head: "They are all great ideas. ”

Yes, this is the information Gawain has about Viscount Romain Grant after the investigation and sorting out by the Military Intelligence Bureau.

A person who died after he unveiled the coffin. A pioneer who stood up and tried hard to change this era before his death.

Ten years ago, a young Southern nobleman awakened. He saw the things hidden in the prosperity with a different perspective than ordinary people. He realized the darkness and filth under the sky, the backwardness of Ansu's current system, the restrictions of the aristocratic system on this society, the unwarranted oppression of civilians by various traditional laws, and the wasted productivity in the process of oppression. He may even have realized the power of the people - or at least the "value" of the people.

He then launched reforms with the enthusiasm of young people.

In the initial stage, the strong authority of the lord and the slowness and clumsiness of the old aristocratic system allowed his reforms to start smoothly. He implemented new laws in part of the territory and achieved some results...

But this initial The stage was extremely short.

The force of the rebound was so fierce that almost no one understood what this young nobleman had done. He was labeled as "insane", "deviant" and "bewitched by the devil". With all kinds of infamy, almost in the blink of an eye, the young and promising Viscount became the evil spokesman for destroying the order of the kingdom and corrupting the aristocratic system. Almost half of the southern territory was verbally criticizing him.

After that. The records became vague and messy, and no reliable text or unreliable bard could describe what happened after that. Amber only found the final fate of Viscount Roman Gulen from a scattered folk poetry book: < /p>

"On that stormy night, the Viscount got into his testing ground. He wanted to continue to ask for forbidden knowledge to fill his ever-hungry stomach - but luckily God stopped him in time. , sent a holy messenger to end the viscount's madness, a fire fell from the sky, and the purifying flames shone brightly! ”

That book of poems probably belongs to a certain bold bard, and such a bold bard... I'm afraid he has been hanged in a square somewhere long ago. It would be difficult to find the source again. Impossible.

But Luo Penni Grant still remembers what happened:

“Thugs rushed into the castle, wearing mercenary and civilian clothes, mixed inside. Knights and mages with extraordinary abilities rushed up the mountain and broke down the gates.Rushing into the inner hall, the knights and mages who were supposed to protect the castle disappeared at the critical moment. My husband could only face the thugs alone...until the magic center of the castle exploded," Luo Penni said with a cold face, "Then, the thugs Suddenly he stopped, and the 'reinforcements' from several surrounding lords arrived 'in time'. After a ping-pong-pong-pong melee, the thugs retreated, my husband died, and my daughter was dying..."

"You really have a bright eye," Luo Penni sneered, "Then do you know what happened next? "

"In a liquidation and transaction, you expressed your willingness to return to the right path. The nobles announced that Viscount Romain Gulen had only been cursed by the devil, so his temperament changed drastically. The mob that stormed the castle was sentenced to Guilty, hundreds were hanged on the walls of Gulen Castle, their bodies dried and thrown off the cliff - justice was done and order was restored, or so it was thought. "

Lady Luo Penni suddenly gritted her teeth, and the muscles on her cheeks trembled uncontrollably: "Do you know who those people were who stormed the castle and were hanged? "

Gawain was expressionless: "The only people who can be caught and convicted are ordinary people without extraordinary power, those knights and mages who are mixed in the crowd, those who really 'exerted great strength', He ran away as early as the beginning, so those who were hanged were the serfs who obtained the land, the commoners who were allowed to do business, as well as the hunters and craftsmen who became wealthy after the implementation of the new law - on the gate of the castle, Not only the marks of swords but also the dents made by pitchforks and hoes were conclusive evidence. "

"Those people are guilty! " Luo Penni Grant gritted her teeth. The indifference she had tried to maintain so far was finally broken. After learning that Gawain had investigated everything and was the one who knew the truth, she finally stopped hiding anything, "Those who have benefited will be free. People, they are the mob! They should be hanged - if it weren't for the fact that death can only happen once, I would even wish to resurrect them and then be hanged by me again! ”