Chapter 10: The Prince's Banquet 2

The kingdom faces the sea on three sides, only the southland borders with neighboring countries, the lord of the southland is Windsor's grandfather, ten years ago after the death of his father, the grandfather brought Windsor back to the southland from the royal capital, the mother stayed in the palace alone, called the first queen and queen, in fact, as a hostage, in the palace suffered a lot of human warmth, until Windsor became strong and returned to the royal capital to take the mother out of the palace, in recent years, the ministers called for the Duke of Windsor to be the crown prince is getting louder and louder, the king is more jealous of Windsor, Windsor had to temporarily place his mother in the royal capital. Windsor's grandfather hated the king so much, and he devoted himself to cultivating Windsor for ten years, and he didn't want to kill his enemies all the time.

The richness of the Southland is coveted by its neighbors, and friction occurs almost daily on the border, and it has been two years since the invasion of the Southland was carried out on such a large scale. Due to the frequent wars, most of the residents of the Southland are hearty and informal, the Southland soldiers are brave in battle, Windsor has been on the battlefield countless times under the deliberate cultivation of his grandfather, and has long been experienced in a hundred battles, as he grows older, Windsor's ability is becoming more and more prominent, every time he goes to war, he makes the flee without a fight, and over time Windsor has a majestic title in the Southland God of War - "Ares".

Three days ago, the 100,000-strong army of Chen soldiers on the southern border, last night the sent three colonels to lead two thousand soldiers to raid the southern border city of Tonna Town, the new commander of the Tonna Town garrison corps was stubborn and self-serving, and mobilized the Tonna guards to chase and kill the defeated soldiers without authorization, resulting in Tona Town becoming an empty city unguarded, and the soldiers who were ambushed nearby easily took Tonna, and burned and looted in the city. yb][du].] In just one night, the bustling town of Tonna was reduced to ruins.

What happened to the town of Tonna caused panic among the people of the Southlands, and the next day some timid residents packed up their baggage and planned to go to the royal city's relatives, but as soon as they left their homes, they were pushed to the city gate by the crowd of people in the streets, and at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, a steady stream of people was still pouring towards the city gates, and the bustling crowd was like a tidal wave rolling against everyone in it.

A loud bugle at the city gate silenced the noisy crowd, and they were like frozen images in a movie, everyone stared at the city gate with wide eyes, the ignorant children were tightly covered by their mothers, and the silent streets were silently waiting for their gods.

The gates opened, and Windsor, who was speeding in, saw this scene, without pride, without stopping, without slowing down at all, and now he just wanted to hurry to Fort Ariel. The people automatically divided into two groups to make way for the Duke of Windsor, and as Windsor's army walked by, people gathered together to discuss the Duke of Windsor.

"The Duke of Windsor is back, we don't need to be afraid of, let them die! Haha"

"Yes, yes, you didn't see how powerful the Duke of Windsor was just now, he was in such a hurry to leave, he must have found a way to fix the."

It's a men's topic, women's, it's like this.

"I feel like I've been captured by him."

"Cut~ Duke of Windsor captured you? Look at the fat on your waist first, the Duke has taken you captive to eat meat? Aha~"

In short, the return of Windsor has calmed the precarious people, and there will be no problems within the Southlands for the time being, and they can concentrate on dealing with the invaders.

In the evening, the costumed Lucas family stopped at the entrance of the palace in a carriage, and according to the palace etiquette, they had to get out of the car and step on the red carpet to enter the palace where the prince was entertaining guests.

After Mr. Lucas got out of the car, he rushed to Lydia's carriage, and when he saw that Lydia was about to come down, he hurriedly stretched out his hand to help her, followed by a stunning beauty, whose appearance was seven or eight points similar to Charlotte, but whose temperament was completely different. The beauty was dressed in a pure white close-fitting dress, outlining the beautiful body lines of the girl, and her hands were covered with snow-white long gloves, which were intertwined helplessly.

The aristocratic and rich people at the door were well-informed but had to admire her beauty, and a few young people lingered at the gate of the palace to see Cinderella more, and finally Katie snorted coldly, glanced at Cinderella with disdain, stepped forward to take Lydia's hand and went in together, Lucas followed Lydia and walked a few steps behind, and when he turned around, he saw that Cinderella was still standing at the door and did not move, and walked back and pulled Cinderella to chase Lydia and them.

The dinner is about to begin, the palace brings together the important people of the whole royal capital, they all have such and such a relationship, the prince has not yet arrived they can't wait to talk, the wide hall is brilliantly lit, the melodious music makes people feel soothing, everywhere are gathered together to talk and laugh nobles, beautiful waiters and maids hold plates and shuttle back and forth.

As soon as he entered the palace, Lucas went to talk to his business associates about the latest business, Lydia took Katie to rest in the corner where the ladies were staying, and Cinderella was alone at the entrance of the palace, in the least crowded corner. Cinderella, who participated in this kind of banquet for the first time, felt all kinds of uncomfortable, and Cinderella, who didn't know anyone, stood stupidly and embarrassed, but fortunately there was a table full of desserts and fruit wine, Cinderella looked left and right, and found that basically no one paid attention here, she was relieved, picked up the dessert on the table and began to taste.

At the banquet, people chatted highly, Cinderella swallowed the fifth cake boringly, suddenly all the lights in the hall went out, the melodious music stopped abruptly, Cinderella was startled, swallowed halfway of the cake stuck in her throat, Cinderella's face was flushed, groped for a cup in the dark, I don't know what it was, Cinderella took it all and poured it into her mouth, and finally washed the cake down, Cinderella breathed a sigh of relief, at this time a light turned on, Cinderella looked at the culprit in the center of the aperture with resentment,

On the spiral staircase, a man looks down on the whole hall, he seems to look down on the whole world, seeing him, people have to believe that some people are born kings.

The light shrouded gently, the only light in this dark world, Rochester, he smiled. In the corner, Cinderella clutched her throbbing chest.

"Today I will invite the most elegant lady in the field to do a dance, and I hope the gentlemen will not be jealous."

Someone in the audience couldn't help but chuckle, and Cinderella was also touched by the prince's humor, and she smiled like a spring breeze blowing off a pool of petals, but unfortunately no one saw it.

"So, let's start dinner, and have a great evening."

As the prince finished speaking, the lights came on, the melodious music began again, and the people ended their conversation and descended to the central dance floor, where young ladies dressed in splendid costumes and took their male companions' hands in a circle and danced gracefully.

Ever since she saw the prince, Cinderella had been drinking, but the more she drank, the more uncomfortable she became, her heart was beating so fast, her cheeks were hot and hot, was she sick?

Cinderella had been in the corner for so long, and finally someone noticed her, this man was the grandson of the Minister of Parliament, and he had always been the one who had to get his hands on whoever he liked by virtue of his family background. He had been paying attention to Cinderella outside the palace gate for a long time, and he had some scruples about seeing her get out of the carriage of the Lucas family, but when he saw the way Lucas's family treated her, he was itchy and wanted to provoke the great beauty. Cinderella was already drunk, she didn't expect fruit wine to be intoxicating, her hands were weakly supporting the table and barely sliding on the ground, she felt that someone hugged her in a daze, this person was very tall, but not strong, the hard ribs made Cinderella a little painful, Cinderella pushed out, trying to break free from the man's arms, but she didn't have the strength of a man, plus she drank alcohol, it didn't work at all, the man was provoked instead, Cinderella felt the heat sprayed on her face, Then a pair of cold stubble mouths began to bite and bite on her neck, and a sense of humiliation welled up in Cinderella's head, and she didn't care about anything else, she touched the glass on the table and slammed it into the man's head buried in her shoulder,

"Ahh

A hurried roar interrupted the joyous crowd on the dance floor, the musicians forgot to play, and there was silence in the arena, and people rushed to see something good to see.