Lord of Rot

Never discriminate against the aesthetics of an era, even if this era may be slightly backward.

Li Qi stood in the hall of Ironstone Castle holding a wine glass. The long table has been removed. It is not popular here to dance while eating, but the wandering male and female servants will keep an eye on the wine glass in your hand, and they will take the initiative with just a small movement. Come and fill your cup.

Every woman exudes her own charm, and the blood of the nobles is destined to select better genes. Unless there is a genetic mutation, generally speaking, men are handsome and women are beautiful.

Of course, this "law" is limited to ancient nobles with inheritance.

There are many nobles participating in the dance. The nobles hate counting copper coins to manage their territories, so many small nobles like Li Qi will soon lose their territories. If they cannot gain anything from this dance, they will lose their territories. Later, he went to wander and became a knight instructor or other jobs, but it was definitely not suitable for farming.

Knights are better at plundering and killing. Although they don't sound like good words, as long as you add "for the four gods" and "for loyalty", everything becomes logical and even full of glory.

The "heartthrob" Becky Simon was surrounded by a group of handsome men. If he didn't care about the 16-year-old lady's scandalous past, Li Qi would definitely look at her twice at this moment. Although he felt that those aristocratic ladies waiting for their second marriage were more in line with his aesthetics.

The charm that mature women show inadvertently is enough to defeat the pretentious young girls.

He watched the group of people dancing in disinterest, and turned around to find a place to cool down, but a gentle laughter came to his ears: "She is the brightest star tonight, isn't she?"

Li Qi turned his head and found that the person standing next to him was a handsome young man. He had no intention of observing the other person's clothes or appearance at the moment. His eyes had already been focused on the family crest on the other person's chest.

A long stabbing sword.

It was Leopold, the master of the East Gorge.

"I am Sidor," the young man said to Li Qi: "I heard Evan Jielin mention you, the favored one by God, the merciful knight."

Li Qi nodded: "Well done, Sir."

"No, I'm not a knight yet." The young man shook his head. Seeing Li Qi's confusion, he said, "My surname is Hai Hai."

Li Qi suddenly realized.

Under the blessing of the four gods, both men and women must be loyal to each other. Even kings can only be monogamous, but nobles who are full and have nothing to do cannot really be saints. They are very good at creating illegitimate children.

According to legend, King Lurea's illegitimate son was even more than his title.

The most indispensable thing in the East Gorge is sea water, and in the East Gorge, all the illegitimate children of nobles have the same surname of sea water.

Like the ice and snow of the North, the green grass of Endor, the rocks of the giant's feet.

In a large family like Leopold, there are more than a dozen direct bloodlines, and if you count from the sidelines, there will be dozens. The illegitimate child has the lowest status among them. Their lifelong dream is to obtain a surname and get rid of the identity of an illegitimate child.

With a surname, you have inheritance rights.

Of course, the goal of most "seawater" people is more practical: to obtain the status of aristocrats.

To this end, they can go to please a certain noble lady, but noble ladies generally will not be deceived by their sweet words.

Li Qi nodded, not caring about the identity of his illegitimate son. Even an illegitimate son could live a better life than a country baron like himself.

"I still remember Miss Evangeline's bright smile. It was the most relaxing afternoon I spent."

"She also has a deep memory of you," Sidhuo said: "Your brother Leo is doing well in Donggang City. He has become a knight's attendant and leads the knight's horse seriously every day."

"I wish him all the best," Reacher said.

Xi Duo looked at Li Qi, smiled and said, "I hope he will have smooth sailing."

But the two of them knew Leo's future well, and it was smooth sailing and they grew up safely. That was probably it.

In the distance, the "heartthrob" has changed two dance partners, but it can be seen that she has no interest in those mediocre-looking aristocratic sons. Only ancient aristocratic families have excellent genes, but the vast majority of the aristocrats present They are all nobles who have been canonized due to wars in recent years. Many of them are the "ancestors" of their own families, just like Li Qi's father Lid.

But not every noble can be like Lild and marry a woman from the Wisdom family to improve the family's genes.

In the distance, a young lady cast her gaze over and looked at Li Qi.

Xiduo Haiwei smiled at Li Qi: "I shouldn't continue to waste your precious time."

At this ball, Li Qi will be more popular than Sydor because he is a hereditary baron with a territory and a title, while Sydor is just an illegitimate son.

After Xiduo left wisely, the noble lady came over. There were a few small freckles on her cheeks. Her skin was not fair, but her smile was very sweet.

Since the other party was so dominant, Li Qi had to give him face. Nobles would fight to the death for face.

"Can I ask you to dance, my beautiful lady."

She held out her hand and responded with a smile: "Of course."

As a noble, dancing is a must, especially since Li Qi's mother is a genuine noble lady. He put his arms around the other party's slender waist, but only touched with his fingers, and would never deliberately rub to take advantage.

His gentlemanly behavior won the lady's favor.

"Sir, I heard that you killed a giant bear whose body was burning with flames?" The noble lady had a faint fragrance on her body. Li Qi guessed that her hair must have been washed just before the ball. Such a complicated hairstyle must be... She stood motionless in front of the mirror and let her personal maid play with her for a long time.

"It was my teacher who did it," Li Qi said, "Yeah, but you're right, we killed the bear."

"You are so brave." The noble lady deliberately attributed the credit to Li Qi and asked: "Is your territory a porcupine territory?"

Li Qi lowered his head to meet her gaze. Looking down from a high place, he could see directly into a small ravine. He tried his best to only look at the other person's eyes, but this action made the other party laugh.

She is generous and willing to express herself.

"That's right, a piece of wasteland near the seaside and dense forest, with only more than two hundred residents, and a dilapidated castle with air leakage." Li Qi nodded. He was just seeking truth from facts, not to dispel the noble lady's dream of a baroness. He looked at the other party's expression and smiled slightly. Stiff, he said: "That place is incomparable to Iron Stone City."

"But you are a baron," she said. "Half the people at the ball have no titles, and more than half of the other half have no knights."

Li Qi sighed in his heart: So this is why you came to dance with me.

He thought it was his handsomeness that attracted him.

After the song ended, the noble lady turned and left without even leaving her name, but Li Qi believed that as long as he inquired a little bit, the other party might give her a chance. As she said, she was a baron with a fiefdom and had exceeded Most of the men present.