Rudolph sat in the house, in front of him was a wooden table, with many rolls of parchment paper piled up on it, a small bottle of precious ink placed in the upper right corner, with goose feathers inserted on it.

"I'm so tired. I thought there was anything good about being an earl?" Rudolph stretched and looked at the wooden window open on the left. The blue sky and white clouds were really suitable for going out for a storm, but he was trapped in the castle.

As the actual controller of Schwartz County, Rudolph not only had to deal with petitions from nobles and farmers from all over the county, but the worst thing was that he did not have a trusted courtier who knew how to calculate, so he could only act as the chief financial officer himself. This unlucky errand completely trapped him next to the wooden table.

"It would be great if there was a good person to calculate." Rudolph put his hands behind his head. In this era when illiterate accounts for the vast majority, it was not easy to find a person who knew mathematics. Therefore, most of the noble courts were priests, or hereditary aristocrats who knew how to calculate.

"Oh." Suddenly, the door was knocked on, and Rudolph put down the quill he had just picked up again. He looked at the door, and saw that when the door opened, Ma Xiu walked in.

"Regent, Jenny asks to see you, would you like to see her?" Maxiu walked in, wearing a black curled hat, a lining of fish scales, a brown shawl on his shoulders, and a short sword hanging on the leather belt around his waist. He bowed to Rudolf.

"Jenny?" Rudolph was slightly stunned. When he learned that Jenny was actually the deputy leader of the Flagless Brotherhood, Benson's sister was still a little surprised. In other words, the spy in Schwartzburg was this inconspicuous kitchen girl. Maxiu and others asked Rudolph to execute Jenny immediately, but Rudolph refused.

"If I had to do this because of the request of my relatives, what reason would I have to execute her?" Rudolph saved Jenny's life on the condition of instigating Benson, but Jenny also became a prisoner in the castle.

"If you don't want to see her, I will lock her back into the room." Seeing Rudolph's expression a little dazed, Maxiu reported to Rudolph.

"No, let her in." Suddenly, Rudolph had an idea, and he quickly asked Jenny to come in to see him.

"Regent." When Rudolph saw Jenny, he almost thought that he had recognized the wrong person. Jenny in front of him had lost her former liveliness and livelihood. She was haggard and wrapped in a headscarf, like a frosted eggplant, and her skin seemed to have lost its luster.

"Jenny, how could you become like this?" Rudolph said to Jenny in surprise.

"Regent, I am here to ask you to execute me." Before Rudolph finished speaking, tears in Jenny's eyes flowed like pearls with broken lines. She knelt on the ground and begged to Rudolph, "As a Christian, she cannot commit suicide, but the news that she is a spy has spread in the castle. In this era, the spy is the one that people hate the most.

"Jenny dies easily, but it's even harder to live. Don't you want to see your brother Benson?" Rudolph persuaded her, looking at Jenny who was kneeling in front of him and crying like a tearful person.

"But, isn't my brother Benson already dead?" Jenny was stunned. Among the people who surrounded and pursued, they said that they had killed the bandits who dared to hijack the Earl. Therefore, she naturally believed that Benson had been killed, and she was locked in the castle alone and fearful, facing the danger of being executed at any time. Since this is the case, it would be better to directly demand the end of her pathetic life.

"He didn't. In fact, he ran away, but I didn't know where he ran away. Jenny had a good idea if you think you have to be punished to calm your guilt." Rudolph tilted his head and looked at Jenny in front of him and said to her.

"What's the idea?" Jenny asked uneasyly.

"It's very simple to be my own slave." Rudolph said to Jenny.

"Are you a slave?" Jenny was a little surprised. Although Jenny would nominally become Rudolph's slave, in fact, as a slave in charge of a county chief, she actually has a higher status to some extent.

"Regent, please take back this decision." Maxiu frowned. He believed that putting Benson's sister close to Rudolph would probably pose a threat to Rudolph's life safety.

"It doesn't matter." But Rudolf didn't take it seriously. He was of other use to Jenny.

"Thank you, Lord Regent." Jenny's small mouth opened slightly. She didn't expect Rudolph to be so generous to her.

"Don't be too happy too early. If you can't do the job I handed over to you, then I will ask Maxiu to sell you to a slave merchant." Rudolph pointed at Maxiu and said to Jenny in a little scared manner.

"Don't worry, swear in my mother's name that I will work hard to complete my work." Jenny swore to Rudolf.

Rudolph thought that he would hold the finances tightly in his hands to any noble or priest. However, as the ruler of a county, he could not experience everything himself, so he cultivated a slave who knew how to calculate but would not get rid of his own to take charge of finances.

On the square of Luxembourg, servants surrounded a competition venue with wooden fences. There were ping-pong fighting sounds in the venue. Several soldiers wearing strong armor fought against each other with heavy swords. Frederick, a red-bearded man, sat on the wooden stands, holding wine glasses and watching with relish.

"Good job, ah, idiot, you should attack from the side, good, the guy is playing well." Frederick, the red-bearded, loves fighting. When he sees the excitement, he will stand up and pat his hands full of rings, and use leather boots to stomp the boards back and forth, making the boards creaking and overwhelmed.

"Your Majesty, you are very interested!" Henry the Lion, wearing a casual dress, his thumb stuck to his belt, walked into the stands and said to Frederick.

"Yes! I have won several games of the Duke. My Knight is the strongest and invincible." Frederick laughed loudly, stepped forward and patted the Lion Henry on the shoulder. He was very proud of the excellent warrior he had and earned him a lot of money.

"The knights that Your Majesty has are the best in Europa." The Duke of Luxembourg, who was sitting next to him, quickly smiled and flattered, but losing several rounds also made him feel a little sorry for his money bag.

"Henry, are you interested in making several bets?" Frederick asked with a smile, looking at the Lion Henry.

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Chapter completed!