Lord Highlander

The Christie family is well-known in High Lansa City.

The current Consul of Hailansa City is the Marquis Bernard Christie, and Mrs. Christie is the consul's younger sister and Darcy Christie's aunt. Mrs. Christie's full name is Marianne Christie.

Three years ago, Mrs. Christie's husband Kenneth. Earl Langdon died in an accident and did not leave any heirs to the family. Marianne Christie, who was only 27 years old, became a young widow. According to the laws of the Green Empire, Kenneth. Earl Langdon's younger brother Alec. Langdon became the heir of the Langdon family, and Mariana Christie had to marry this uncle Alec Langdon if she wanted to stay in the Langdon family. However, the stubborn and powerful Mariana Christie chose to give up. The property of the Langdon family, so he resolutely gave up the property of the Langdon family and returned to the Christie family alone.

Many traditional aristocratic families are married. For example, Miss Hoyle's mother is the sister of Mrs. Marianne Christie, and Miss Hoyle and Miss Darcy are cousins. After the accident at the manor, he has been living here, under the supervision of Bernard. The reason for the asylum of Marquis Christie.

Carl Casement was able to become the squadron leader of the Guard Battalion Support Squadron, of course it cannot be said that it has nothing to do with 'he is Mrs. Christie's lover'.

Darcy Christie seemed a bit domineering, and it seemed that the relationship with Mrs. Christie was not harmonious.

Mrs. Christie looked at her niece not to be outdone and said, "I just want to remind you that Bernard took great pains to organize this winter ball, mostly for you, you'd better think about what to say later , it is best to get the support of Bernard."

Miss Darcy was like a pugnacious rooster, confronting Mrs. Christie, saying, "I don't think I need his support. Just mind your own business."

The quarrel between the two women filled the surrounding area with a smell of gunpowder.

Miss Brenda emerged from behind Mrs. Christie. This best friend wanted to pull Mrs. Christie out of the battlefield, so she smiled and said to Mrs. Christie, "Marianna, there are a group of friends over there who want to see you."

Mrs. Christie turned her head and was about to continue talking about her best friend when she saw a young lady in a white skirt walking quickly by the side of the road. He couldn't stop asking, "Hoyle, where are you going?"

Miss Hoyle stopped walking with her skirt lifted, and with a helpless smile on her face, she slowly turned around and said, "Aunt Christie, I'm just walking around."

"It's so cold outside, you should add an extra scarf." Perhaps thinking of her sister who passed away a long time ago, Mrs. Christie's eyes became softer, and she said to Miss Hoyle.

"Understood, Auntie!" Miss Hoyle exhaled softly, took a peek at Darcy next to her, quietly leaned into Darcy's ear, and asked in a low voice, "Dacy, did you see that I'm Fan didn't?"

Suldak and Daxi stood together, so they could hear clearly.

Darcy gave her a cryptic look, indicating that she didn't know.

Baron Llewellyn, who was huddled aside, reminded him, "I saw him over there in the garden, and he seemed to be chatting with some friends."

"Thank you, Lord Llewellyn," whispered Miss Hoyle to Lord Llewellyn.

Miss Hoyle walked out of the crowd, and Darcy Christie called out from behind: "Wait, Hoyle, I'll go with you."

As he said that, he pulled Suldak to follow from behind. Although Suldak was a little reluctant, he was playing the role of Darcy Christie's male partner at the moment, so the two of them had to keep pace, so they still went with Darcy Christie. Xi Christie walked up together.

Miss Hoyle looked at Daxi reluctantly, and begged in her mouth: "Daxi..."

Darcy Christie didn't seem to understand Miss Hoyle's plea, she directly took Miss Hoyle's arm, walked towards the garden, and said as she walked, "Oh, let's go, let's go together! Ivan Don't you want to find a chance to compete with Suldak in swordsmanship?"

Suldak whispered into Dacie Christie's ear and said, "Hey, Dacie, can you stop being so boring?"

Obviously Miss Hoyle wanted to go to the appointment alone, but she couldn't get rid of Dacie Christie, so she could only walk side by side with Dacie Christie with her lips pouting. She didn't even dare to look at Suldak for fear of being caught by Dacie Christie. Christie saw something. For that unbearable past, what Miss Hoyle hopes most is that no one will ever mention it...

...

"..."

Surdak was a little embarrassed standing outside a somewhat gloomy gazebo in the garden.

This is a viewing pavilion full of creepers on the outside, and the inside has been abandoned in winter. No one will go to this leaky viewing pavilion to watch the fountain that has completely frozen and is surrounded by shrubs. If you want to find this viewing pavilion, you need to go around for a long time in the maze of low shrub walls.

In summer, this is definitely a very interesting place, a few friends can spend a good morning or afternoon playing hide and seek in the tree-lined maze together.

But now it is winter, the thick leaves of the shrub wall have completely fallen, and the exposed dead branches have sharp thorns inside, and the low wall can't block any cold wind. If someone hadn't seen Knight Ivan Baruch appear Here, Miss Hoyle and Darcy Christie would never come here, but after all, this is the home where Darcy Christie lived since she was a child. She is very familiar with every plant and tree here, even You can get out of this bush maze with your eyes closed, so without any effort, I took Miss Hoyle and Suldak to the outside of the viewing pavilion that was leaking everywhere.

Then the three of them happened to see half of the snow-white buttocks exposed in the viewing pavilion. The gap between the remnant snow and the dead branches and leaves was so conspicuous.

If this kind of thing happened to be transported by Suldak himself accidentally, of course there would be absolutely no problem, and he would not even make it public, at most he would just take a few more glances. But at this time there were still two ladies standing beside him, and Suldak didn't know how the nobles of the Green Empire would react to such a situation.

He glanced at Da Qian, and asked her with his eyes what to do now, whether to retreat back the same way without a sound, so as to give the two wild mandarin ducks more time to enjoy themselves.

But Darcy Christie had the veins throbbing violently on her forehead, and the corners of her eyes were full of murderous aura, as if she was about to rush forward in the next second.

Miss Hoyle stood beside Darcy Christie with a pale face, her knuckles were clenched a little white, her face was first full of astonishment, and then she showed great disappointment.

She held Miss Dacie's arm tightly with both hands to prevent the furious Dacie Christie from rushing up. Only then did Suldak remember the purpose of the three of them coming here. Xue came here to find Knight Ivan Baruch, and it seemed that this knight Ivan Baruch really wasn't afraid of the cold.

Suldak hesitated to fight later, whether he should help Miss Daxi.

Unexpectedly, she had no choice at all. Miss Hoyle actually grabbed Darcy Christie who was in a rage, and the three of them stepped on the residual snow and fallen leaves and quietly exited from the low wall of bushes on one side, where they could see halfway through. A garden gazebo.

...

When the three of them walked out of the maze made up of low bushes and walls, she held the delicate long skirt in her hands and stared at Suldak fiercely, with the meaning in her eyes clearly saying that 'men don't have a good thing'.

Suldak was innocently lying on the gun, and could only signal Dacie Christie with his eyes: 'Why don't I leave for a while and avoid it for a while? '

Dacie Christie rolled her big blue eyes at Suldak fiercely, but the hand holding his arm was gripped a little tighter. Dacie Christie turned to Miss Hoyle Said: "Hoyle, what's wrong with you? Don't you want to rush over and slap that guy twice? I'm really disgusted."

The corners of Miss Hoyle's long white dress were covered with dead leaves. She looked like a self-pitying bride, holding her round shoulders with bare hands in the cold wind, and looking down at Darcy Christie. Said: "Darcy, don't you think I'm not embarrassed enough?"

She walked quickly along the corridor towards the castle, Dacie Christie rushed up to grab her, not wanting her to run away like a deserter.

Miss Hoyle was held back by Darcy Christie, but she didn't want to look into Darcy's eyes, sobbing, she choked up and said, "Am I going to rush up like a shrew and expose them in person? ... What else can I gain besides losing face? Can I still expect Ivan to love me wholeheartedly?"

Darcy Christie's eyes widened, "You are Viscount Hoyle who owns a large piece of rich land, what right does he have to not treat you wholeheartedly?"

Probably this is the general thinking of noble ladies from noble families. Love is based on equality of status. Perhaps any one party will be strong and the balance of love will be unbalanced. Suldak glanced at Darcy Christie.

While struggling, Miss Hoyle said, "I just hope to find a love that looks a little more perfect, Darcy, am I too naive to think like this?"

Darcy Christie didn't answer Miss Hoyle's question directly, but said, "Anyway, we can't let it go like this!"

Then You said with incomparable resentment: "This scum, he swore a sweet oath last night, does he think that you should be hard to escape in the castle at this time..."

Miss Hoyle's face was slightly embarrassed, she obviously didn't want Darcy Christie to say too much, so she could only whisper: "Forget it, he didn't do anything wrong, let me go, let me be quiet for a while, please?"

Saying that, she tried her best to break free from Darcy's arm, and walked straight into the castle with her long skirt in hand.

"I'm going to keep a close eye on her tonight, lest she get distracted." Darcy Christie withdrew her gaze worriedly, and said to Suldak.

Suldak just wanted to ask her: 'Then my male companion duties are over? That would be great. '

Compared with Darcy Christie, he is more willing to hang out with Carl's group, even if there are Mrs. Christie, Baron Llewellyn, and Miss Brenda beside Carl, it doesn't matter, at least they are quite normal. Thinking of this, Suldak touched the "Self-Cultivation of the Magic Swordsman" in his arms, comforting himself that he was about to calm down, and everything was because of those books.

A housekeeper walked out quickly from the arch. When the housekeeper saw Surdak, her eyes became very sharp, as if she wanted to penetrate his body and penetrate into his bones, but the sharp eyes His eyes only stayed on him for a second and then he took them back.

The housekeeper said to Darcy Christie: "Miss Darcy, why are you still here? Marquis Christie is sending people to look for you everywhere."

Darcy also looked at the gradually darkening night in some panic, and said to the housekeeper, "Is the dance going to start?"

The housekeeper gave Darcy Christie a positive look.

Darcy Christie looked at the direction where Miss Hoyle disappeared with some concern, and quickly said to Suldak: "Suldak, I know it's impolite to make such a request at this time, but I'm really worried , I will get Mariana to come over to take care of Hoyle as soon as possible, but before that...can you help me take care of her for a while? I think her mood is not stable."

She clasped her hands together to make a pleading gesture, and it was rare to put on such a low profile.

Darcy Christie's actions made the housekeeper also look surprised, as if she was meeting Darcy Christie for the first time.

Suldak was a little puzzled, shouldn't he order the housekeeper to do this at this time?

But this is obviously not what he should ask. Suldak doesn't want to follow Miss Hoyle like a ghost. The two of them don't know each other well. The castle guards mistake him for a pervert or an infiltrator. What should I do? manage? Therefore, Suldak immediately refused and said, "She has already participated in the coming-of-age ceremony and is an adult! Maybe she wants to be quiet."

Darcy Christie stared at Suldak, and conveyed to him, "If you don't go, we will break off the relationship, and everything you want will be lost."

Suldak rubbed his forehead in distress, and compromised: "Okay, I will watch her and not let her do stupid things."

Seeing Dacie Christie leaving quickly with the housekeeper, Suldak thought that it would be best to have castle guards stop him.

While thinking about it, he chased down the path where Miss Hoyle disappeared. In the remote corner between the garden and the castle, there is a shelter with stone walls on three sides, connected by several arched stone bridges overhead. Watchtower on top of the castle.

Miss Hoyle sat curled up on the bench in a corner sheltered from the wind. The dress on her body looked a little drafty. It was unclear whether her pale face was from the cold or from being hit. She hugged her shoulders with her hands, Burying her head between her knees, without even looking at Suldak, she said to him, "Why do I meet you every time I am in the most distressed situation? You saved me last time, and you are here to save me this time." Is it mine?"

"..."

Suldak was also a little speechless.

At this time, Suldak suddenly felt that someone was approaching quietly behind him. He turned his head suddenly and saw Ivan Baruch standing behind with a gloomy expression, his hand touching the sword at his waist. Seeing that Suldak turned around and found his whereabouts, he immediately took a few big steps forward, walked up to Miss Hoyle, knelt down on one knee beside the bench, and asked her: " Miss Hoyle, what are you doing here? What is the matter with you? Has someone been rude to you?"

Ivan is accompanied by a maid, why does that maid look so familiar...

Miss Hoyle didn't want to talk to Ivan at all at this time.

"Suldak knight..." Ivan Baruch stood up with an angry face.

It's Summera!

The name flashed in Suldak's mind. Although her appearance had changed, Suldak happened to notice her back that night.

The shadows around him were constantly distorting, and two figures emerged silently.

The sweat pores all over Suldak's body stood up...