On a starless night, Edgar held a golden brooch in his hand when he heard Madame Glouohe say to him: "Do not believe in love, which is thin and unreliable, like mistletoe in the wind." We can only be physically related, skin to skin, and never love! ”

He shook his head and put down the jewel in his hand: "There are two kinds of desires, the former is only a temporary itch, and the latter is like an unquenchable longing - I know my desire, my greed is not a moment, but a chronic disease, with great fanaticism. My blood is boiling, and I have no choice but to submit to the tyrannical king of desire! ”

The two of them worked all night as if there was nothing in the world but each other. King Edgar quietly left the room before the glimmer of the morning shrouded in.

The new year was a sign of hope for the English, who were finally free to breathe the air of their homeland, and the Gentile lords withdrew from the kingdom, and it seemed that everything would return to its former course. When King Malcolm and Queen Margaret were finally returning to Scotland, Edgar's heart was filled with sadness, and before leaving, his sister said, "Your Majesty, do not linger on your distant relatives, for your kingdom is in the vast south. Perhaps one day our paths will meet again, and you just need to know that before that, there will always be people in the northern lands who will miss you. ”

These words were so important to the king of China that Edgar could only bid a bitter farewell to the party of the High King of Alba, and then traveled all the way south to his royal city, London.

Westminster was once the court of Edward the Confessor, but with the tall Norman church occupying the main part of the building, the space left for the royal family to live was very cramped. Edgar's mother and sister Christina had been living in their old rooms since they returned to London, but Edgar lived more often in the towers built by William, and he was always a soldier, so that the cold castle felt more familiar and even intimate to him.

The Anglo-Saxon London Bridge is to the west of this tower, and as for the famous Tower Bridge, even in the time of Edgar's previous life, construction has not yet begun. The Norman castle was huge, but it was not completely finished, and King Edgar planned to strengthen the fortress gradually and expand it into a stone castle in the future. By this time there were already many Norman castles in England, and Edgar intended to make full use of them, and the fortresses and guards of King Alfred had long since disintegrated, and these new Norman fortresses provided a new foundation. However, England had to regain its former strength before a large number of stone forts could be built, and Eddin learned that the glory on the battlefield would only last for a while, and that the kingdom was far from secure in the long run.

Immediately after Bishop Ethelwyn returned from Paris, the king met with him, and this time, the news that Bishop Durham brought back to the king would determine the future of the kingdom!

"Your Majesty, King Philip's conditions this time are completely dependent on this matter, and this is also the initiative of the King of France to admire His Majesty's military exploits." The bishop tried to persuade him that he felt that it would be good for England and would do no harm.

Edgar's mood is very complicated, the French king hopes to marry England, Philip's sister Emma will marry Edgar and become the queen of England, and the two sides will form an alliance against the Normans.

This alliance is naturally very beneficial to the kingdom, after all, Capet's army is still in Furksan, holding back most of William's forces, which also makes England, which is internally empty, not have to worry about the threat across the Channel for the time being. But Edgar himself, he had never thought about it, maybe Glouoch had a hunch about it, so he would say something like that? The king knew that he could not marry Glouoch, but he always felt unacceptable to marry the French, as if he were betraying something.

The Bishop of Durham was very anxious when he saw the king's expression, he was originally full of enthusiasm and hoped to facilitate this marriage contract, but when he received a cold reception, he lost control: "Your Majesty, we must seize this opportunity!" As long as an alliance is made with Capet, the enemy will not dare to invade at will, and we are strong enough to discourage the Normans, Danes, and Norwegians. ”

Edgar could not find a reason to refute it, but was silent, so the bishop's words became more intense: "Your Majesty, this is a major matter of the kingdom, and we cannot afford another invasion!" You sit behind tall walls every day, but do you know what the people of England are like now? Their cattle, horses and houses were looted and burned by the enemy, they were worried about the Easter levy every day, and you know what those who couldn't survive ate and they cooked scorpion soup to drink! Lord, what kind of world is this! ”

The king seemed to be greatly touched, and when he saw the old bishop in tears, he could not help but feel ashamed of his selfishness, and how could his unsightly mind, such a lowly secret, make him not ashamed of himself in the presence of this old man?

Edgar remembered what Bishop York once said: "You are the leader of the Saxons...... You have to be as strong as steel! He remembered what the illustrious ancestors of this body, the king, were not the leaders who had given the most to the kingdom and the people? Edgar knew that it was not the first time that he had seen the fall of London when he first came into the world, and that it had been in ruins during the years of pagan invasions, and that it was King Alfred the Great who had reoccupied the city and allowed the English to settle in the city again. These ancient kings, who led the people to struggle for survival and obtain the size of the land, how can this royal city be in danger again because of the selfishness of one person today?

At the end of this meeting, both the king and the bishop seemed to have been hollowed out, and the chamberlains of the court were amazed at the tears on the bishop's face. In the spring, at the age of nineteen, the king of England decided on a plan to marry Capet, and then buried himself in military affairs, working tirelessly, even harder than before he ascended the throne.

The court of Normandy was unusually quiet, and no one dared to drop even a needle casually, for fear of angering William. The Norman ruler still did not renounce the throne of England, and he brought back the crown and scepter of Edward the Confessor to the duchy, insisting that he was the rightful king. However, the immediate threat did not come from England, or even from the young French king, and William did not care much about the temporary loss of Foxan, believing that as long as he could go on the expedition himself, the prodigal son of Capet would definitely not have a chance. It wasn't these things that the Duke was worried about, not even the injury to his leg, the culprit that prevented him from going on the expedition! William's concern was about unity within the Duchy, the word unity seemed to be a luxury for a Duchy like Normandy, although he was considered the most powerful lord in Europe, and in any kingdom, the ruler did not have the authority of William, Duke of Normandy, but the violence of the Normans could really be restrained by one person? William's authority rests entirely on his reputation, he was a conqueror on the battlefield, a tyrannical ruler who would make anyone tremble at the thought of going against William, Duke of Normandy. However, the defeat of St. Albans shattered this reputation, and William's strength did not diminish much, his energy was still abundant, and as long as the wound healed, he could go on the horse again. However, this did not work, the current danger lies in the change of people's hearts, those who think they are lions, are ready to move, and even want to compete with the seemingly defeated male lions, which is the great trouble of the Duke of Normandy.