Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Chapter 231: Taking advantage of the slope to get off the donkey

Reina, who was following the army to the river valley, finally reacted halfway and hurriedly rushed to the river valley with her personal guards.

When she entered the city and heard the remaining residents in the valley talking about something, Reina knew she was already late.

The gate of the inner city was now covered in blood, all of it was the blood of Lena's three uncles and immediate relatives, including many of Doug's lackeys.

The remaining group of nobles did not even dare to return home, and huddled together in the temporary camp built for them by Lind.

The other Lars members who had stayed in Doug's territory were even more nervous, fearing that Linde, the head of the Lars family both in name and in reality, would be displeased with them and stab them.

At least in the impression of these remaining members, Lind was indeed like that. After all, Lind did not follow the previous rules of the nobles when killing these nobles. He had to hold multiple trials, deprive them of their honors, and repeatedly argue before deciding whether to kill them based on their sincerity.

Instead, they were brought directly to the stage, and after the bards announced the charges, the butcher knife fell directly. What mattered was speed, accuracy and ruthlessness.

Pull? Not there.

Although it was clear that the people Lind killed were Doug's direct descendants and lackeys, the nobles were in a panic when several Lars nobles were killed in one day.

As soon as they saw Reina arriving, the Lars nobles who knew Reina immediately knelt down and climbed up, crying and begging Reina to save them.

When Lena saw the dried blood on the ground, she knew that Linde had killed most of his men. Some soldiers had even started cleaning up the blood on the ground.

In fact, facing these uncles who killed her grandfather, Lena had no intention of forgiving them at first, but she also hadn't thought of killing them directly and cleanly like Linde did, or even killing their entire direct family.

"Miss, no, Madam, please save us. The Governor has gone crazy. Only you can help us now. Please."

The remaining Lars surrounded Reina, without any aristocratic etiquette or dignity, and they were just kneeling down to kiss Reina's boots.

Especially those who had criticized Rena in the family, now they wanted to kowtow to Rena twice.

When other nobles in the distance heard that Reina had arrived, they also joined the kneeling team. In an instant, the entrance to the inner city was filled with voices crying for their parents and begging for forgiveness.

This was the first time that Reina encountered such a situation. Although the guards were very diligent in keeping a distance between these nobles and Reina, Reina was still a little flustered when faced with so many people bowing down to her.

At this time, many of the remaining residents also came over and watched the ugly appearance of these nobles.

Within just a few days, order was restored in the valley. The residents of the valley were already grateful that Linde no longer levied taxes, not to mention that Linde had already issued an announcement to arrange jobs for the remaining people here.

Now the residents of the valley are even in the mood to come out and eat melons.

Looking at the nobles kneeling on the ground begging for mercy, Lena actually did not realize that this was specially reserved for her by Lind, but she still stepped forward and helped up the oldest noble, Lars.

The remaining Lars nobles basically have little influence. Even if they want to be Doug's lackeys, they are not capable of doing so. They have not done anything evil and can be said to be actors carefully selected by Lind.

This old noble Lars has lived for so long that he is also a shrewd man. When he saw Lena coming, the elder immediately remembered that Linde had spared his family before, and arranged himself at the outside of all the nobles, a position that was convenient for him to kneel directly in front of Lena.

At that time, Linde specifically asked if he knew Lena. After confirming that old Lars had the ability to recognize Lena, he discussed with him in detail how to deal with these nobles.

This can be said to be a clear indication, so when Lena appeared, old Lars knelt down first.

Some of it is acting, but most of it is genuine.

Seeing Reina helping him up, the old Lars immediately stood up with Reina and began to recite the crimes of himself and his family with tears, asking for Reina's forgiveness. He also declared that he was willing to donate all the family assets, voluntarily give up all power, and leave it entirely to the Governor to decide.

He even laid out the specific terms as if they had been discussed already, and was just waiting for Reina to nod.

Although everything seemed to be arranged, Lena did not notice anything wrong. She said to the old Lars in front of her, "Don't worry, I will go and persuade Linde. The Lars family has just experienced a civil war and needs your help in all aspects."

"But you all helped my uncle do a lot of bad things before. I hope you can turn back from your mistakes and treat the people well. As long as you can do this, I can ask Lin De to plead for you and I will definitely not embarrass you any more."

After hearing Reina's assurance, old Lars continued to show off his acting skills, crying even louder, and said that he would take the lead in the future. If anyone dared not treat the people well, he would be the first to step forward and chop him, and then he began to sing Reina's praises.

Later, other nobles also reacted and began to pledge to voluntarily give up all their property and power to help the governor rebuild the valley.

Of course, the properties of these nobles had been confiscated by Linde long ago, but since the Governor had given them this way out, these nobles would surely take advantage of the situation and show their sincere repentance in front of Lena.

Moreover, although everyone understood that this was an act, only Reina could truly save their lives, so they had to be sincere. At least with Reina's protection, it meant that the Governor had killed enough, and the rest of the people would not be pursued as long as they obeyed the arrangements honestly.

For a moment, even the onlookers couldn't help but cheer. Although the new governor had killed batches of nobles before, which was quite satisfying, he killed too many of them. Most of them were nominally his relatives, which made people a little scared. The governor's wife was obviously much gentler.

After pacifying these nobles, Lena finally entered the inner city area. Linde did not move directly into the castle, but set up a tent directly on the large square in the inner city area.

Most of the nobles' mansions in the inner city were being confiscated, and the castles were also being renovated. Moreover, Linde was always uneasy living in these nobles' houses. In the end, the military tents made Linde feel most at ease.

When Reina entered the tent, the first thing she asked was, "Where are my uncles?"

"All dead."

Linde, who was processing documents, saw Reina come in, stopped his work and answered.

Although she had guessed it, Lena's expression was complicated. Lena once wanted to kill these three uncles with her own hands, but when she really got the news of the death of these three uncles, Lena was still stunned. After all, many of the three uncles' direct family members and nobles who had defected to Doug also believed in Lars. Lena did want to save some people.

After all, a hysterical Doug could do something like killing his own relatives, but Lena felt that Linde could have handled it more gently. After all, everything was over now, and even if Doug was still alive, he would not have caused any trouble.

However, Linde chose another way, which was to take all the infamy and pressure of killing his relatives on himself. After all, although Linde was the head of Lars' family, he was still Lars' son-in-law in essence. It could be said that he had no psychological burden in killing Lars.

Reina also knew that someone had to do these things, but Reina still held the most simple idea and felt that such things should be borne by the couple together.

But Lena quickly came back to her senses. After all, Lena actually realized that she was really not good at such roundabout things, and Linde must have his own considerations for doing this.

After calming down, Reina sat down next to Lind and said, "The statistics of military merits have basically been completed. We can find a day to distribute the soldiers' salaries and rewards."

"And there are a lot of pensions."

After saying that, Reina took out the military merit report that she had compiled from her arms.

"No rush. We can first confiscate the assets of the nobles here, and then use these assets to distribute pensions and rewards."

Linde was a little surprised that Reina recovered so quickly, but when he heard Reina's low voice when she talked about the pension, he realized that for Reina, those fallen soldiers might make her more heartbroken.

Maybe Reina never needed her help to build momentum.