Chapter 220 – Going to the Banquet 2

Chapter 220 Going to the Banquet 2
The next day, Paul and Myron brought Bryce and Victor to Duke Ferdinand’s residence for a banquet.

At this time, the Duke’s residence was richly decorated, and yesterday’s welcoming officer was busy at the door, entertaining the guests who had converged here.

In addition to the lords from all over the world who had traveled from afar, there were also a lot of prestigious people in Sentry City who had come to the banquet, big merchants in the business world, heads of various guilds, and even people wearing church costumes.

Paul stopped a man dressed as a priest and asked, “May I ask if you are the priest of the city? “

The priest took one look at Paul’s dress and knew that he was a person who had come to the ducal palace for a banquet, and that 80% of them were lords from out of town, so he did not dare to be slow.

“Yes, I am none other than a priest in the Sente Cathedral.”

“Then you know Abbot Leonard …… Oh no, do you know Bishop Leonard?” Paul suddenly remembered that there was another deceased person in this city, if he remembered correctly, the bishop of the Northwest Gulf Diocese should be stationed in Centennial.

“What is this lord’s name ……?”

Bryce stepped forward and said, “These two are Earl Paul Greiman of Arda and Earl Myron Garnard of Bairdine!”

The priest immediately stood in awe, “So they are the two counts, I know Bishop Leonard and listen to his old man’s teachings in church daily.”

“And is Bishop Leonard here as well?”

The priest said with some urgency, “His Grace the Bishop can’t come, he has been a little unwell lately …… Wait, Alda? Isn’t that the place where His Grace the Bishop previously served as abbot? Could it be that you are the lord there?”

Paul nodded, “Exactly.”

The priest looked around and quietly said to Paul, “Lord Gleeman, seeing as you and the Lord Bishop are from the same country, I will be honest with you.”

Oh? Paul was surprised, could there be some hidden agenda.

The priest whispered, “Bishop Leonard is not too interested in this kind of occasion, so he excused himself from coming.”

“Oh! That’s quite in keeping with his character.”

Paul and Bryce nodded their heads together, more than not interested, this curmudgeonly old abbot had always been very averse to extravagant and pompous occasions. It would be strange for him to be able to come and support such a big deal in the Duke’s mansion.

“Mr. Priest, please!”

“Lord Earl, please!”

Paul and Myron and the others entered the gates of the ducal residence and walked for a while in the courtyard that was so large that it was comparable to a square before reaching the main building.

Once inside, they walked along a wide corridor straight to the main hall, where the ceremonial officer at the door took the name spikes handed over by Bryce and sang the name in a loud voice:

“Earl Paul Graiman~ to–“

“Count Myron Garnard ~ here -“

The hall was bustling and noisy, and the arrival of the two men didn’t attract much attention.

But Viscount Henry, the brother of the Duke who was responsible for hosting the birthday banquet, kept a constant eye on every guest.

“Welcome welcome welcome!”

Viscount Henry walked briskly towards the doorway and opened his arms to embrace the duo.

“I visited the two of you last night, I didn’t realize that you happened to be out, what a coincidence, let me entertain you both today to make up for last night.” The two men, Paul and Myron, rushed to be polite with him.

Henry led the four of them to the arranged seats, Paul and Myron found that there were already several “neighbors” sitting here – several lords from the territories next to theirs.

They were the same lords who had saved him from death during the pirate invasion last year.

Price Parker Earl, probably more than fifty years old, white hair, kind eyes, said in the letter at that time, “the rebel rebellion, the duty to defend the land, how dare I leave the fiefdom, I hate to not be able to personally condolences …… “, East and West is not mentioning the matter of rescue.

Morley – the Earl of Malcolm, probably more than thirty years old, is closing his eyes to rest his head, looks light-hearted, then said in the letter that the pirates from the civilian body to get enough money will go, advised Paul to guard the castle on the line, the so-called “he is strong by his strong, he is cross by his cross”.

Count Winifred Heller, probably more than forty years old, wearing a pair of glasses, wearing quite a scholarly style, then said in the letter, “tell the pirates ‘come with your means of destruction, we take half of the people for you to kill, and half of the people who are left, we will not yield'”, a man with ‘a strong sense of humor’ and ‘a strong sense of humor’, he said that the pirates would go away after making money from the civilians, and advised Paul to guard the castle. “, a man with a strange philosophy of ‘nonviolent non-cooperation’.

In addition to these three, there was a vote of bannermen sitting nearby below them, all viscounts, barons, and such lords, and Paul didn’t bother to recognize them all.

“Paul’s nephew! Nephew Myron!”

“Greetings, Counts!”

“It’s been a long time!”

Seeing Paul and Myron arrive, they have front stood up to greet, even if on weekdays and the Greiman family is no longer familiar, public occasions are also to do the appearance, not to mention that there is also an Earl of Garnard by Paul’s side.

Paul and Mellon slightly embarrassed to answer one by one, both of them in fact because of the family changes before inheriting the title, before are father and generation and this group of people to deal with, and they do not communicate much, not very familiar.

If it was their sons who were present, perhaps the scene would have been better, but unfortunately, the juniors were all in the other halls, and the ones who entered the main hall were the lords and their retainers.

“Paul’s nephew is really a young man’s hero, one stroke of the pirates, the entire Northwest Bay is one of the peace ah! Myron’s nephew is also, calm and collected in the face of the bannermen’s rebellion, eliminating that gang of small fry in a moment.”

Price Parker suddenly praised Paul and Myron. His territory was also near the sea, and he had benefited greatly after the Alda Navy eliminated the pirates.

Myron smiled faintly and said a little coyly, “Where where, it was Paul who helped me quell the rebellion.”

Paul said with a hint in his words, “Yes, thanks to your inspiration and guidance, I was able to eliminate the pirates!”

The crowd didn’t know whether they understood or not, and they didn’t look embarrassed at all.

Morley Malcolm suddenly smiled and said, “The two of you have been doing good business at home lately ……”

Hearing Malcolm say this, the others also perked up their ears and looked at Paul in unison.

The several new commodities that have been on the market in a big way in the past half a year or so, porcelain, paper, and canned goods, all originated from the two places of Alda and Baildin, and according to their prying eyes, the source was the Gleiman family.

Based on the viewpoint that wealth is not exposed in the previous life, Paul quickly waved his hand: “Where where! But it’s just earning a little money.”

“Making a little money? Count Greiman, you can’t say that, right? I’m afraid you’re counting money every day until your hands are soft, right?”

They knew how much those goods were selling, not just the Northwest Bay, but every other day there were caravans passing through their territory to and from Alda and Bairdin, the first half of last year wasn’t so much, and in the second half of the year the caravans gradually grew more and more, even if the tariffs they had set were very high.

This showed that even after paying a large amount of tariffs, the profits from selling these goods were still high.

How could this not make people’s eyes redden?

(End of chapter)