h2>Osvid and Xiao Shane returned to the palace a few days later. The news they brought to Arod coincided with the fisherman Taber. In the Ron family, they received some polite reception. The patriarch of the Ron family said that as long as Arod did not interfere with his family's beliefs, they could be loyal to Arod with conditions. In the Gary family, they just received Osvid and their group indifferently. After hearing the news brought by Osvid, they immediately drove them out of the village without even leaving dinner.

"But the most hateful thing is the Quinton family. They began to raise the wooden walls outside their village and did not give us any chance to speak. They shot arrows at us. However, I still stood in the distance and told them your conditions, Lord Earl, but, but." Osvid looked at the little Sean beside him awkwardly. It seemed that they had received a lot of insults from the Quinton family.

"They insult you, the noble Count." Xiao Shann's face turned red. He was particularly angry with the disrespect of the Quinton family to Arod. Thinking of the Quinton family's tribesmen chopping the scarecrow representing Arod into pieces with a battle axe, it was simply a group of crazy barbarians.

"It's okay, they will pay the price for it." Arod didn't care. The news brought back by Osvid and Sean Jr. made him clearer in his struggle policy, which was to suppress the stubborn Quinton family by force, and the other two families could fight for it with a softer policy.

Time slowly moved backwards, as if the never-ending river passed without realizing it, and the wheat in the fields gradually became golden. The important harvest season for the farming country was about to come. Farmers raced against time to prepare for the upcoming harvest season, and were busy for the whole year only for this time. However, some people had never worked hard, but they also turned their greedy eyes to other people's fields.

"Sir Earl, the Quinton family raided the villages in our control and ransacked the farmland there." The local officials walked into the palace anxiously. Arod was talking to the messenger from Mecklenburg. The messenger brought some documents from Mecklenburg, which required Arod's personal signature to implement. Fortunately, Mecklenburg and Zeland Island were very close after all.

"Did the Quinton family attack us?" Arod was not angry after hearing the news, but instead showed a happy smile. When Osvid and Sean Jr. made the Quinton family look down on him, Arod not only did not immediately get angry to trouble the Quinton family, but instead strictly prohibited his people from clashing with the Quinton family. He even consciously retreated for a distance to the area he controlled. Arod's retreat and showing weakness did not bring the Quinton family's understanding.

"That German is a coward." Seeing Arod's actions, the Quinton family members said to each other ecstatically. In the Quinton family, which is based on the martial spirit, there is no concept of humility, nor do they know what softness means to overcome hardness. They think Arod's retreat is a representative of weakness, which shows that the Germanic noble who made Danish King Banuk give up Zeland was just a liar with sweet words and has no strength.

Therefore, the Quinton family members became more unscrupulous. They were looking for trouble for Arude's people everywhere, but Arude was even more restrained and tolerated. Some people could not help but attack, but would be beaten and punished by Arude. Now the Quinton family members were even more arrogant. This time, when autumn came, the Quinton family, which was not in childbirth, did not go out to sea to rob, so they simply took their tribesmen to the area controlled by Arude to rob.

… “Call everyone and we will hold a meeting.” Arod ordered the local officials. The Vikings who were soon ordered gathered in the palace. Among them were the dusty farmers, which were villages robbed by the Quinton family. These hateful Quinton family members not only robbed but also set fire to the houses. Although these people were summoned by Arod, they had no choice but to be angry, because they knew that Arod's decree did not allow conflicts with the Quinton family.

"Sir, everyone is here." The local official took out his handkerchief and wiped his sweat, reporting to Aruod's report.

"Very good. Now the Quinton family robbed villages and farmland. Do you have any ideas?" Aroud asked the Vikings below on the steps of the palace.

"Hmph, what else can we do? I will not let us teach the Quintons a lesson. What other way besides tolerance?" The Vikings said in a low voice, looking at Aruod on the steps full of disdain and contempt. Even if he converted to Catholicism, the martial culture is still deeply rooted, so it seems that a weak lord like Aruod will of course be looked down upon by the Vikings.

"Oh, do you mean to be tolerant?" Aruod narrowed his eyes, looked at the Vikings below, and said.

"~~~~." There was a silence below, and no one answered Aruod except for the occasional cough.

"I originally thought that Viking warriors were all bloody men, but now it seems that's the case." Aruod touched his chin with contempt and said in a disdainful tone.

"What? How dare you despise us? If it weren't for your damn decree, we would have fought with the Quinton family members long ago. In the past, the Quinton family would not dare to invade our farmland on the same island, but now it is so rampant. Isn't this your mistake as a lord?" The Vikings all shouted and cursed, and Aruod's guards held their weapons nervously.

"Oh, so if I order to resist the cruelty of the Quinton family, will you follow me?" Arod's eyes lit up and he said to the Vikings below. It turned out that he was just using provocation.

"Of course, if there were people from the Quinton family in front of me now, I would definitely split him in half." Fisherman Taber said angrily. The resentment of being bullied by the Quinton family was almost uncontrollable.

"Okay, everyone obeys the orders. The trained Vikings go to collect weapons. You already know how to use them. Others follow my army with their weapons. Let us go to the territory of the Quinton family and find them to calculate the accounts and let them know that we are not easy to bully." Arod shouted, immediately winning cheers.r1152b
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