"Okay, Conis, stop talking, I've heard enough." Finally, Prince Harau couldn't bear it. After listening to Conis talk about Byron and the current situation for half an hour, he finally broke out. Come out, although still afraid to get angry.

"Sorry, Your Majesty, I just hope you can understand our current situation. Your Majesty hopes that you can manage this land well. The current situation is unstable. If something goes wrong, we will at least not lose control of the South." Ke Nice stepped back helplessly, and said to Prince Harau humbly.

"I know what you mean and my father's painstaking efforts. But you have said enough. Please let me be quiet and think carefully about what you said before, okay?"

When the prince is here, what can Konnis say? He saluted, turned and left the hall. He knew very well that His Royal Highness would definitely not think carefully about what he said afterwards. He would only go to the restaurant and wait to enjoy the food. By the way, he would appreciate the exquisite texture on the bottle and think about when to open the bottle of good wine.

Konnis walked out of the hall with anxiety, and met his old friend head-on.

"Samuel." Konnis raised his head and greeted him with a tired expression on his face.

"His Royal Highness still doesn't listen to you?" Seeing Konniss expression, Samuel immediately understood what was going on.

"Yes, just like before." Konnis shook his head and sighed: "I have to write a letter to Your Majesty. We can't fight alone. Look at Viruga now, from Serindi So here, there are a few lords who are loyal to us? Well, I was wrong. There are not many lords willing to stay in the south. They all entrusted their land to Byron! Look now The lands outside the city were patrolled by Byron’s soldiers. As for other towns, his mercenaries were also employed. There were peony flags everywhere, and he even planted his own flag in Veluga’s The city wall!" Konis said angrily: "It's true that he is an earl now, but as a courtier of His Majesty the King, he should know his position and know where his territory is!"

"No way, we really can't deal with him." Hearing this, Samuel seemed more helpless than Konis: "I am in charge of our army. I know our problem very well. We have not had any reinforcements for a long time. Our soldiers have worked very hard, not only to guard the city walls, but also to patrol the city. There is really no extra manpower to go outside the city. And we can’t reduce the manpower in the city. Who knows if the Rhodoks will rebel again? It's that Byron's people got better after they entered the city, and our people get along well with their soldiers."

Hearing this, Konnis felt as if he was discouraged. He lowered his head and remained silent for a long time. Finally he stood up and patted Samuel on the shoulder.

"I wish that all this was just my imagination. Byron is a loyal lord, and his actions are based on good intentions. But I can't deceive myself so much. I can't get enough of his thoughts. I won't let things go on. Going down, we will get reinforcements. The king will send an elite force to let us take full control of the city. Those vacillating rich southerners will also understand who is the real ruler here. Byron "please go out", he is still the lord of Amira and Serendil, but the south still belongs to the royal family."

When Konnis finished speaking, he rekindled his fighting spirit.

"I will support you, sir." Samuel nodded: "But your body is not as good as before. You must take care of your body."

"Well, I know." Konnis agreed with Samuel's statement, and was a little emotional. Before coming to the south, he had always been very strong, and he did not leave any serious scars on his body after a long battle. Years of exercise and running made him as strong as a bull. However, in the long-term busy with the case and lack of rest and going out, his body is far worse than before, and the diseases brought about by age have also begun to appear. Now that the news of His Excellency Conis' ill health has reached the king's ears, even Conis himself has begun to doubt his health.

"I should go back and eat something. I don't want to eat the ones that Byron gave, but there is always some good news. We caught a fat grayling and it is still alive. I have let the cook cook it. I hope this one. Good food can make me more comfortable." Konis smiled lightly, then walked with Samuel for a while, chatted for a while, and then returned to his room.

"Your meal is ready, but we still need to arrange it..."

Konnis entered the room and saw the cook and the maid who were preparing the tables and chairs and arranging the dishes. When they saw Konnis coming back, they immediately stood aside and saluted him, bowing their heads deeply, as if they had done something wrong. .

Konnis glanced at his table. The messy documents were carefully moved aside, while on the other side were steaming fried fish, red wine, and a piece of white bread. They moved quickly, and the dishes were delivered when they were still hot, but they didn't arrange the documents in time because they didn't dare to move them.

"It's okay, you have done a good job, you can go out." Konnis didn't pay much attention to anything else. The maids and cooks here were arranged by him. They are completely illiterate. They will not leak the news, let alone on the table. Putting it right is not a particularly important thing.

The two hurriedly saluted and left, but when they went out, Konnis stopped the cook.

"Are you new here?" He cut off a piece of fish and put it in his mouth. It tasted delicious, and added a bit of deliciousness with spices and herbs. It tasted very good.

"Yes, my lord, but I have been helping in the kitchen for two months." She replied very carefully.

"Really? I'll look up." Konnis said as he ate.

The other party slowly raised his head, and Konnis opened his eyes and recognized it carefully. He had indeed seen this face before. He vaguely remembered this face, but he didn't remember it clearly. This child must look less than twenty years old, and his appearance and figure are still a little green. He recalled that his butler had indeed introduced himself to the new servant, and there seemed to be such a person in it.

"You made this fish?"

"Yes, my lord, I did it." She nodded, and then lowered her head in fear, looking carefully at Konis: "Don't you like it?"

"No, I like it very much, just do it." Konnis waved his hand, showing a satisfied expression: "You did a good job."

"Thank you." The girl smiled shyly.

"Your accent doesn't sound like a Rhodok."

"Yes, my lord, I was born in the north, and my family is a serf of Boyer."

"Vickia? How did you get here?"

"My parents are dead, and the land has been taken away. The village elder sold it to a Salander slave trader, lest I starve to death in the famine, and he brought me here. I used to give it to the host's family. As a helper, he died later, and I have been looking for work."

"No wonder. Okay, you can go back."

The big girl nodded and left carefully.

"It's a little strange, maybe I should investigate her." Konnis thought so, and soon finished the fried fish and drank the red wine.

"Well, now I have to think about how to give it to His Majesty the King..."

Just as Konnis was thinking about the wording of the letter, his stomach hurt suddenly, as if a knife was being stirred. He was once on the battlefield severely hit by a Nord with an axe in the abdomen, but this time it hurts dozens of times more than that.

"Damn it!" Konnis gritted his teeth and fell to the ground. When he fell, his body was very heavy and the entire table was overturned.

He rolled on the ground twice, keeping his hands on his stomach. But soon, the pain began to transfer, and his head began to ache, just like he was surrounded by a group of farmers holding ragged weapons after falling off the horse. They kept beating you while pressing, and beating again and again, so that the pain gradually swept through. whole body.

"That lady..."

Finally, Konnis opened his eyes and glared at the plate on the table, then his body fell to one side, and there was no more movement.

Not long after, the door was slowly pushed open, and the cook walked in ~lightnovelpub.net~ Following the corpse's fiddling a few times, she scanned the contents of the room, and then left here immediately. By the time others found Lord Konis lying on the ground, she had already disappeared without a trace, and even the traces of her stay disappeared.

months ago

"So, can you fool the person who found the corpse in this way?" Looking at the dead dog in front of him, Kress was a little unbelievable. She was an expert in murder, but even she hadn't heard of this method.

"Yes, the fish ate the arsenic and died, the fish's innards were fed to the chickens, the chicken meat was fed to the dogs, and then the dogs died, but it did not seem to be poisoned. But it's interesting. The place is here. If it is not a dog but a human that eats chicken, he will die soon, but when the doctor examines the corpse, he will think that he died of a sudden illness, died of a certain disease in the head, and anxious. So fast, people can't stop it at all." Byron pointed to his head, and his smile was very strange at this time.

"Of course, we can also use this method to make big fish eat small fish, feed chicken to other things, the effect is similar. Although arsenic can always be found in the body, but now in this world, how many people dare to What about the noble noble who died suddenly of illness?" Byron stood up and patted Kress on the shoulder, who was still stupefied.

"Make a note of this method, we will need it sooner or later."