"What? How did he know I was here?" "No! He was asking to meet the owner of the estate!"
"Oh! Then you can serve him a dinner before you do! I'll see him after I eat!" "Yes!"
Lucy asked Edward's advice, then carried her dress to Elizabeth and Howard, bent over, and slowly exited the restaurant.
Lucy walked nonchalantly towards the gate of the manor, and the other servants along the way consciously stepped to the side of the road when they saw Lucy, making way for her.
And Lucy smiled slightly toward them, not showing a hint of arrogance, and politely returned the greeting.
"Look how lucky Lucy is! She can serve His Majesty the King!" "Yes! And His Majesty's temper is so good!" The two young male servants who were cowering in the corner spoke in a tone full of jealousy, sweeping Lucy's walking back with their afterglances from time to time.
Lucy did not hear these topics about her, and even if she did, she would only laugh in her heart, when she became Edward's maid of honor, she began to bear the jealousy and hatred of its people of all colors, and some of the comments were nothing, for their sisters had long been accustomed to.
Lucy twisted her thin waist and walked ladylike to the gates of the manor.
Only to see that a knight dressed in black and white intermingled with noble civilian clothes and looking to be in his thirties was stroking a black stallion with his hand.
The knight had long blonde hair, his clothes were dusty, his face looked as if it had been scratched with fresh blood by a twig or something, a two-foot-long thin sword hung at his waist, and his feet cracked a grin even with a pair of thick, furry cowhide boots, and his handsome face full of weather-beaten weather still had a hint of a smile on it, as he stared intently at his own mount - a black steed.
It's like the hero knight of a romance in the world!
Lucy walked up to Mr. Knight with a smile and gave a ladylike salute.
"Sir! My master invites you to enjoy your dinner first, he's taking care of a few things right now and will be here soon!"
"Good! Thank you for the invitation my lord, but could you prepare some needed forage for this partner of mine first?" The knight requested to Lucy.
Lucy looked at the dusty black stallion, whose shoulder height reached about five feet, a head's length above her own head. Its black sideburns fluttered with the wind, an unmistakable van mesmerizing.
Even if Lucy didn't know what kind of horse it was, she could tell just by looking at the shape that it was a good horse, a good horse no less than Arthur.
"May! Singh, take this knight's horse to the stables and have the groom take good care of it!" Lucy gave the knight a courteous look, and then ordered one of the footmen guarding the gate to lead the horse.
"Please follow me, we have a wonderful dinner for you!" Lucy guided the knight to the dining room, where the king usually enjoyed his personal lunch alone, and Edward hardly ever had to, he had always preferred these reunion style long table gatherings.
By the time Edward had finished enjoying his dinner, he was taken by Lucy to the parlor, where the grizzled knight was now a new man.
The handsome knight seemed to have no intention of bathing, and exuded an air of freshness that was a rarity for anyone to possess in this late medieval Europe.
As the king of England, Edward was very fond of bathing, so under his leadership, the entire royal family members and slaves, almost every week back to a bath.
But in Europe, led by members of the royal family as the guardians, they are the bath as the root of degeneracy, many people have never bathed in their lives, including the famous Charles the Great, Queen Victoria and a large number of European monarchs, and they are the habit of its personal achievements as a great deal of publicity! They were not ashamed, but rather honored. From this, we can conclude that the medieval women, can be on the people is also a rare ah, especially through to the then buddy, can like the aristocrats sister, I am very and admire the admiration.
This was mainly because people at the time believed that bathing was bad for the body, and it was thought that hot water would cause pores to dilate so that bacteria could more easily invade the body.
At that time, the nobles were covered with toxic gases, even the most beautiful and handsome face will be that stinky fainting dead odor to defeat, and in order to cover up the body odor, you need to use a lot of powder to cover up, so this is the reason why the French perfume is famous all over the world.
This is the original reason why the Europeans at that time had such a strong interest in Asian spices, so the Europeans at that time did not take a bath can even be seen as an important reason why they later opened up the sea and colonized all over the world!
So there are a lot of factors that make up the Europeans' opening of the great voyage, unlike what is written in some historical whitepapers, that the Chinese would have opened the great voyage and colonized the world once they did not have the Ming Dynasty's sealing of the sea, and from there moved on to another peak.
The consequences of this European vice were the influenza and the bubonic plague, which were prevalent in Europe at the time. According to records in the middle of the century occurred in the Black Death swept across Europe under the attack, once developed to 10,000 people in the city of London, at once reduced by one-third of the population, so in the Middle Ages to live in the city rather more dangerous.
Until the year, only % of Parisian palatial houses were equipped with bathrooms. And it wasn't until late in the century that doctors began advising people to wash their hands, faces and necks every day. It was only then that Europeans finally embarked on the path of hygienic bathing!
Therefore, Edward could not help but feel a slight favorable impression of this wandering knight after he saw at a glance that he had taken a bath.
"Knight from afar, I wonder if I might have the honor of knowing your great name?" "Of course! Your Honorable Baron!" Edward had previously asked Lucy to reveal to him that he was a baron and not to divulge the fact that he was the king.
And the fact is that wandering knights are not real knights, they should accurately be quasi-knights, the reserve of knights, usually the non-elderly sons of nobles, who are thrown out of their families when they reach adulthood.
The nobles like to recruit such wandering knights when they fight, not only do they have excellent qualities, but they also provide their own weapons and horses one by one, saving them a lot of money.
Of course, the knights are not free, afterward after meritorious service they are ennobled with a knightly collar, and they are aiming to become a true knight with a fief.
And Edward called him a knight, which is a law of respect.
"My name is Grenville Richard, from the Richard family of the Richard Knights' Collar in Southampton!" Grenville spoke nonchalantly, his voice carried a hint of vicissitude, if it was a girl on the opposite side, she would definitely be mesmerized by his handsome face and voice with magnetism, however, Edward was a guy.
"I am the eldest son of the Richard family, and my family was knighted in a battle for the crown!"" Since you are the eldest son, how did you become a wandering knight?" Edward asked curiously.