Eagle Byzantium

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The rest of the musk deer screamed in panic and jumped towards the forest over there. Before Anna could recover, Gawain pounced on the unlucky deer and knocked down the unlucky deer, and then skillfully He tied a knot around its horns with a rope, then pulled it again, and tied up the deer's four legs.

The fairy tale scene ended here. The little deer was tied up all over, fell down in the grass, and gave Anna a helpless and pitiful look.

"Hey, Gawain."

But Gawain ignored the eldest princess, and took out a wooden stick from the tools given by the old eunuch Si Yan, passed it through the knot of the rope, and then pointed at Anna, "Let's carry this thing away together. ”

"I understand! That one-eyed old eunuch does these things all day long, providing convenience for poachers who come to the royal garden to make money, and you are also a barbarian with a dark conscience. As expected, you have not been taught etiquette. !" Anna accused, but soon the horn was blown on the fortress on the other side of the Royal Garden.

"Run, we've been discovered!" Gawain still ignored the eldest princess's accusation, but directly picked up the deer and ran towards the gap, "Pick up the bag and follow!"

Anna shouted to you to stop and listen to my lesson, but she could only pick up her pockets and follow Gawain, running with her long braids and gritted teeth, "I am the eldest princess, no Thinking of being with you today and becoming a thief." Anna's heart was filled with tears of regret.

Hua la, in the grass far away from the palace wall, Anna stood up with a lot of grass clippings on her head, and then Gawain also stood up, "Hey, there are no guards to catch up, right?" Anna actually looked a little scared. Her tone was as if she really was a little female thief. Over there, Gawain sealed the deer's mouth with a cloth belt, "Your Excellency, the eldest princess, I will definitely win this bet!"

"Gawain, I understand. You actually used me as bait because I am kind and noble."

"No, it's because in order to please your father's archery skills, the guards in the imperial garden have long trained deer and other wild animals to be particularly obedient. If you were in the wild, you might have been bitten by the teeth of a musk deer."

"No wonder Mikhail is following us. You learned that deer-calling accent from him, right?"

"My Excellency, the eldest princess, who has always been studious and inquisitive, almost looks up to your standards."

The two of them walked back and forth towards the block on the other side of the bridge, Anna angrily and Gawain teasing calmly.

In the slaughtering workshop full of fishy smell, Gawain slammed the deer and threw it on the desk. Anna's eyes widened and she hid behind Gawain in fear.

"Two bags of musk originally cost sixty fris, but this deer is a bit young, so it costs 55 fris." The butcher with a Slavic appearance waved his tools and quoted the price.

"Then how much is this little girl next to me worth?" Gawain touched Anna's head.

"This little girl is very beautiful. I can introduce you to selling her for five hundred Fris." The butcher actually quoted the price.

Later, Anna witnessed the very cruel process of extracting musk. After the butcher handed the money bag stained with oil and water to Gawain's hands, "Take care of the venison as well. This is the deer in the royal garden, don't keep it." What, to save everyone the trouble." After receiving the coins, Gawain took out two coins and took them as the butcher's hard work.

"What, you still want to kill it?" Anna couldn't bear it, but in the blink of an eye, she saw the butcher carrying the squealing fawn into a room at the back that was hung with iron hooks.

In the evening, in a tavern frequented by the lower class, Anna, who had already felt hungry, was eating roasted venison, which was very sweet. She seemed to have completely forgotten her previous pity. It was indeed what Gawain had guessed, " When you meet someone who hates killing, treat him or her to a barbecue. If he or she still hates killing after eating, treat him or her to a second meal." At this time, Anna complained to Gawain, "Put in enough salt." A little too much.”

"This is the best refined salt shipped from Venice. I paid eight Fris for processing this meal." After Gawain finished speaking, he gave out forty shiny coins, "Except for the two for the butcher, and In addition to the five pieces of bribe, I still have enough money to meet the agreement, not to mention that I also invited the most kind and noble eldest princess to enjoy a delicious venison meal."

Next, Gawain stretched out his palm, and Anna lowered her head, reluctantly placing the piece of meat on the plate. Then she raised her thumb, pressed it with Gawain's, and scratched it twice - This was a gesture used by the Byzantines to fulfill their promise.

"You don't really want three promises, do you?" Anna said timidly.

"No, that's really just a joke - I want to see His Majesty the Emperor. Originally I could wait, but now there are very important things waiting for me to complete, so time is really urgent, but I also heard that His Majesty is visiting I am suffering from Xiaoya's battle situation, so mentioning this now will probably offend him!" After saying that, on the dining table in the restaurant compartment, Gawain took out the blood-stained red hand flag and spread it out for Anna. in front of my eyes.

"Were all the red-handed warriors of the Shield Guard wiped out?" Anna was no stranger to these anecdotes, but she did not hear about this in the palace.

"No, I survived." Gawain said with a sad tone.

"Why, why did no one mention these tragic things?"

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"Because the battle was commanded by your uncle, the great Lord Sebastocrat."

"Are you resenting your father and uncle?" Anna became uneasy.

Gawain did not answer, but held his forehead and said nothing. The atmosphere fell silent. After a long time, he said to Anna, "Not only the Red Hand Squad, but all the troops that the stable master brought to Asia Minor were destroyed by the internal strife of the royal family. Now I am staying in the Gallipoli Fortress with the only 700 people left. I am afraid that this team will continue to be involved in meaningless power struggles and suffer the same miserable fate. That's why I want to get a flag from your father and go to Italy."

"But..."

"No buts!" Gawain's words scared Anna, and then the brown-haired barbarian concluded, "You Romans will always be defeated by the Romans themselves; the tragic defeat of your empire is always caused by internal personnel."

Anna had no reason to refute Gawain's judgment. From the tragic defeat of Manzikert to the present, the entire empire has indeed been playing this drama continuously, as if it were trapped in a tragic curse.

The princess sat there, thinking carefully, and then said to the barbarian, "Okay, give me some time. My father will soon hold a grand celebration of the victory over the Pechenegs around the old palace, and will also receive envoys from foreign countries. Anna will find the right opportunity to help you."