Start as Inherited Baroness

Two days later.

Simon was reading the books he got from the Long Narrow Castle in the Lord's Hall.

There were more than 200 books in total, covering all aspects. This was the true heritage of a noble family.

The Milde family had accumulated for hundreds of years, and now all of them belonged to the Hollen family.

With this harvest, the newly born Hollen family became ancient all of a sudden.

In addition, he also obtained a set of enchanted plate chain mail from the legacy of the Long Narrow Castle, which was a fire-resistant enchantment called Fire-Aversion Armor.

It was not very useful on the battlefield, but it was very useful in certain specific situations.

Simon decided to wear this armor on a daily basis in the future, and wear the knight's plate armor when he needed to charge when leading the army.

Just as he was fascinated by a book about fantasy plants, Mad's voice suddenly came from outside the door.

"My Lord Viscount! Princess Adela came to visit and is already outside the city."

"Huh? Ha! She's quite anxious." Simon heard this and thought to himself.

"My Lord, do you want to see her? If not, I will refuse her." Mad asked.

Simon heard this, hesitated for a moment, and asked: "How many soldiers did she bring?"

"Five or six thousand people, probably both the patrol army and the Oak Shield Guards." Mad replied.

"The strength of the Oak Shield Guards should not be underestimated, they are all quasi-heavy infantry.

Let her go to the Lord's Hall, I want to see what she is up to." Simon thought for a while and said.

"Yes! Please wait a moment, my Lord." Mad heard this, bowed respectfully, and then left.

After a while, his voice came from outside the door again: "My Lord, Princess Adela is here!"

Simon heard this, and immediately stood up to greet her. As soon as he arrived at the door, a young lady came to meet him.

This woman has a graceful face, about 1.7 meters tall, with a tall chest, a thin waist, a plump buttocks, a white complexion, and a really good appearance.

Among all the women Simon had seen since crossing over, she could be ranked second.

The top beauties all have their own unique looks, and it is really hard to tell who is better. What can decide the winner is actually temperament and status.

As the prince's wife, Adela naturally has a lot of status.

"Meet the princess!" Simon said respectfully.

He noticed that there was a little boy next to the princess, about seven or eight years old, with very bright light blue eyes.

"You are too polite, Viscount Simon. I have important matters to discuss this time. I am sorry to bother you."

Adela chuckled, her voice was dignified and generous, but it also revealed a hint of charm, which was quite irritating.

Hearing this, Simon secretly guarded in his heart, thinking that this woman was not an easy person to deal with, and he had to answer carefully later.

"Princess, please come in!" He smiled kindly, extended his hand and led, and then took the lead to enter the lord's hall.

After a while, everyone sat down as host and guest.

"Viscount Simon, I have something to talk to you about alone." Adela smiled faintly.

Hearing this, he paused for a moment and said, "Go out and guard the gate!"

"Yes!" All the heavy infantry on duty on both sides of the hall went out, along with Mad and some of her followers.

Soon, only a pair of lonely men and women were left in the empty hall.

Simon sat upright with a serious face and asked, "Princess Adela, what's the matter with you that made you come here specially?"

"Take a look at this~"

Adela straightened her chest, took out a parchment scroll from her arms, stood up and handed it to him, and then sat down in the seat next to him.

Simon's expression revealed some doubts. He cast a spell to detect toxins. After finding that the parchment scroll was not poisonous, he took it in his hand and looked at it.

"That damn ghost, he is so self-important all day long. I wish he could be half as cautious as you!" Seeing this, Adela smiled with her hands covering her mouth.

Simon realized that this woman was trying to seduce him, but he didn't know why she was doing this.

"Could it be that the noblewoman was extremely unrestrained after marriage, and she fell in love with my masculinity?"

He teased himself in his heart, but soon his expression became shocked.

"Appoint me as an earl?" The parchment scroll was a decree of appointment, and the content on it indicated that Simon was appointed as the Earl of the Courageous and Fortitude.

In the Eagle Kingdom, the minimum standard for being an earl was to own 2,000 square kilometers of land.

From this point of view, Simon met the standard.

He looked at the date of the decree of appointment, which was before Prince Fedi went to war.

He looked at the seal on it, which was the seal of the Governor of the Directly Controlled Territory of Xisai.

"Is this the decree of appointment you wrote?" Simon glanced at Adela and said in a deep voice.

"Yes! I wrote it." She nodded and admitted it generously.

"Why?" Simon asked calmly.

"There really is no other candidate, and I think you are pretty good, handsome and young.

Before, you were fighting with Ferdie, and you deliberately let him win.

Ferdie didn't feel it, but I saw it clearly."

Adela smiled, and looked at him with her deep brown eyes.

"Your Highness, what do you want to do?

I am just a new noble, and I am really flattered... Could it be that you are attracted by my strong body?"

Simon said the latter, and smiled at him ambiguously.

Adela also responded with a charming pursed mouth, and whispered: "It's nothing more than self-protection.

Ferdie's death is unclear, I guess there is another hidden story, but now I am powerless to find out the truth.

And the one who took over the direct jurisdiction of Xisai was the ninth prince, who had always been at odds with Ferdie. He was greedy, lustful, short-sighted, stubborn, and ugly!

If I fall into his hands, I might as well hang myself! "

"You must know how much I am worth, how dare I go against the prince.

You might as well go to Marquis Val." Simon said expressionlessly.

"Do you know? The world is going to be in chaos.

After the ninth prince Seger took over as the governor of Xisai, the troops he could mobilize would not exceed 30,000.

And I also removed all the armor of the Protector Corps.

All the valuable things in Changxiang City were emptied, including 20,000 serfs and 100,000 free people, who are now in Muye Territory.

My son Ella with Prince Fedi is also a member of the royal family and has the right to inherit the kingdom. After the competition in the interior, Xisai is relatively stable...

In the future, my son King Elladen, you will be the Grand Duke of Xisai. "

Adela talked eloquently, working hard to make a rosy picture, with her eyes flashing with ambition that could not be concealed.

Simon listened quietly, and gradually understood in his heart: "So she chose me because she thought my strength was neither too good nor too bad, and it was easy to control, hehe..."

After listening, he did not speak, and fell into thought, thinking about how to bring the hundreds of thousands of people into his hands.

"In addition to writing you a count's decree, I also got these things, you should be interested."

Seeing that he was hesitant to speak, Adela was secretly anxious, and then took out a stack of parchment scrolls from her bosom and placed them on the table.

Simon took a look, cast a spell to detect poison, and took it in his hand to read.

"Ah! ! ?" Soon after, he was stunned.

"The governor of the Xisai direct jurisdiction has great power. He can confer the highest title of earl, and the division of land can be executed first and then reported to the State Council. "

Adela looked at him with a faint smile, not believing that he would not be tempted.

There were a total of ten parchment scrolls, granting him ten territories.

In addition, there were five vacant territories in the direct jurisdiction of Xisai. I don't know how this woman arranged them.

"If you don't want to, these will be considered useless~

It's a pity that Ella, as a member of the royal family, cannot be granted land without a royal decree, otherwise you would have no business..."

Simon listened to her proud words and did not respond, but fell into intense thinking.

"This young woman wants me to be a target to attract firepower! She also wants me to be Dorgon! Use my shell to go public!

But the bait smells so good..."

After a while, Simon suddenly stood up, walked behind Adela, and pressed her on the table.

"Your Highness, you can't wait, right? Hmm? Come on~ Let me serve you and cool you down..."

"Oh! "

"Hmm~"

The atmosphere in the hall was tense.

"Be gentle... damn~"

"Shh~be quiet~there are people outside..."