Chapter 60: Making up one’s mind

Chapter 60 Make Up Your Mind
The next day, Myron Garnard rode in the carriage of the Greiman family and left Butua towards Lakewood with Chief Steward Ford.

All the way there, Myron was very nervous, and it was not until he had left Bairdine and entered the boundaries of Arda that he could tell that he was relieved.

Knowing of the bannermen’s plot he had now become suspicious, and last night had done his best to maintain a normal appearance without losing his cool. Chief Steward Ford continued to reassure him along the way, making him feel a little better.

Entering the town of Lakewood and arriving at the gates of the lord’s house, Myron immediately jumped out of the carriage and almost ran towards the castle before he saw Paul waiting in the hall.

“Looks like everything went well”, Paul thought to himself as he saw Myron jump out of the carriage, before he was greeted with a big bear hug.

“Oh my good brother, brother I almost didn’t get to see you.” Myron cried out as he hugged Paul tightly.

Paul didn’t immediately break away, letting this friend vent, going through his father’s first estrangement and then passing away, and then the bannermen’s rebellion was just too cruel for a 16 year old boy.

He patted Myron on the shoulder and comforted, “Don’t worry, no one can hurt you with me.”

After Myron’s catharsis, Paul sought out Chief Steward Ford to find out what happened last night, and then took Myron to his study so that he could recount in detail how he had learned of the conspiracy.

“That night I went to my room to sleep after reviewing the papers they had left me in the study, but upon lying down I realized that I had left my amulet in the study, it was left to me by my mother and I wore it to bed every night. So I returned to my study to retrieve it, and then I heard Chief Steward Angelo and Steward Myers whispering there.”

“The study door was left open, and I crept close to the study to hear what they would say in my absence, and I heard something unpleasant.”

“First, Steward Miles said ‘Young Master has been very good lately, and reviews these papers very carefully’.”

“Then there was Chief Steward Angelo, who laughed a few times in a particularly queer tone, and said, ‘It’s not in vain that we’ve taken the trouble to make these up,’ and I wondered at the time when I heard ‘make them up,’ and could it be that all these papers were they made up?”

“Angelo’s next words confirmed my suspicions when he said ‘I wonder if he’d go crazy if he found out that we forged all these documents so we could drag him around the house every day’.”

“After that, I heard the butler say in a mocking tone ‘Young master really thinks of himself as a good and diligent lord, so you guys just let him dream for a few more days’.”

At this, Myron was so indignant that his words failed him, “Paul, do you know how broken I was inside when I heard that? How can they be like this, they are all the people I usually trust the most ah, surprisingly …… even teamed up to catch me, catch their lord.”

“This …… this is indeed hurtful enough.” Paul also did not know how to comfort.

Mellon continued to narrate, “Just when I wanted to show up and accuse them, I heard Angelo say, ‘There is always a day when the dream wakes up, and when we take care of that side, this kid will have to go down to accompany his deadbeat old man’.”

“I didn’t even react at the time, couldn’t figure out what they were talking about. I only heard the butler say ‘Do we really have to do that? He’s kind of what I’ve grown up with’.”

“Then Angelo snorted coldly and said ‘Have you forgotten how extreme his old man did it back then?’ Over the years, you’ve also carved up a lot of land for your own family, right?’ Luckily we got him killed, otherwise you and I would be drinking the northwest wind right now’.” A horrified expression appeared on Mai Lung’s face as he looked at Paul and said, “I understood this sentence at once, it turned out that my father was killed by them at that time, I have always wondered how my father could be drowned when he was so well hydrated, but it seems that it was a lie that they made up to cover up the sin of regicide. From what they said before, they also wanted to kill me, I was instantly scared, and did not know how to return to the bedroom.”

“That night I lost sleep, fearing that someone would burst into the bedroom and kill me. After the night of fear passed, I analyzed their words, and it looked like they were still waiting for a certain moment and wouldn’t kill me for a while, and then I remembered the secret letter we had when we were kids, and grabbed the time to write that letter to you.”

After recounting what happened, Myron held Paul’s hand tightly and said with two tears in his eyes, “Luckily you remembered what happened when we were kids and sent someone to save me. Paul, now I can only trust you alone, you won’t leave me behind, will you?”

Paul patted the back of his hand and said, “How could I abandon my friend? You stay here with me first, and when I’m ready, we’ll lead the army to settle the score with those traitors.”

He thought for a moment and then asked, “Are all the bannermen under you involved in the conspiracy?”

Myron shook his head and said, “I don’t know, I’ve been suspicious of anyone around me since that night. I can only say that relatively speaking the least suspicious is Baron Andrew, he not long ago led Butua’s army to the south to participate in the pacification of the rebellion, when the royal commissioner came to recruit troops, the remaining four men unanimously recommended that he lead the army to the south, Andrew himself was willing to do so, and I was still trusting them at that time and agreed to do so without thinking, and now Butua is being controlled by the private soldiers of the remaining four guys. Andrew is a pretty decent guy on a regular basis, but of course I know now that you can’t just look at people on the surface, so I can’t be sure.”

Well, if Andrew isn’t involved in the conspiracy, then it’s that those remaining four guys are using the occasion of the royal conscription to deliberately sidetrack him, and incidentally give him the direct lord’s army to take away along with it.

Paul thought for a while, patted his friend’s shoulder and said, “All the way to the carriage, you go and rest first, I’m going to find someone to hold a meeting later, you also list.”

He summoned his servant and took Myron down to rest.

Paul basically decided to start a war, in addition to taking the heat for his friend, he also had an important purpose – the coal and iron mines in Bairdine.

During the time that Chief Steward Ford had gone to hire someone, Paul had been weighing the pros and cons of the war, and after inadvertently learning that Bairdine had extremely productive coal and iron mines, he finally found a reason to convince himself to go to war.

Although Arda also had coal and iron output, but in preparation for industrial development, the more of these two things the better in the end.

As for whether or not Myron would agree to share some of the minerals or sell them to himself cheaper when the time came, doing him that big of a favor should be easy to talk to.

If it wasn’t for the coal and iron, would he still go out on a limb for this friend? Paul doubted himself a little.

But he didn’t intend to send the army immediately, because it was now in July and there were still a lot of rainy days, which was extremely unfavorable for the gunpowder weapons of Arda’s army. He planned to delay until the fall when the climate was dry, and at that time the Alda army could be equipped with more firearms.

Until then, let Myron stay well in Lakeheart Town, and if those few rebels came to ask for people, find a reason to reject them.

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(End of chapter)