"What, you're scared, Franks?" Figura smiling and smiling frowned and teased me, maybe it was because I was close to home, and I felt that I had a dependence psychologically, so the tone between the lines was more confident, and I couldn't hold back some bad attention, as if I thought that I would succeed nine times out of ten.

"Scared? Come on, I can't even write that word. Strong and calm pursed his lips, and a look of disdain appeared on my face.

"If I want to say that the only feeling in my heart that can be related to fear, it may be that I am afraid that I will believe the lies of your poisonous snake and be calculated by a woman, but don't worry, if I am warmly welcomed, I will definitely take care of you......" As I spoke, I took her slender jade and guided her to my waist, slashing over the cold metal handle of the dagger, Figura's eyes widened, and it was full of horror.

When our group appeared in the sight of the sentry at the head of the city, we were immediately shouted at a loud shout, and then several arrows were nailed into the dirt not far from our feet, signaling that we could not go any further, and the pirates in knight's armor spoke to the soldiers defending the city in fluent Polish, beckoning us to move on, as if we had explained our identity to each other, and obtained permission to enter the city, and the city gate was also ablaze and slowly opened.

A dozen soldiers with spears in their hands, surrounded by a warrior on horseback, came out of the city, dressed in light chain mail, a boat-shaped feathered hat, and a nomadic scimitar hanging from his waist, who seemed to be familiar with Figura, perhaps the officer in charge of the court's guards.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, why did you come back so late, I sent a hundred cavalry to look around, it's really worrying, now His Royal Highness the Grand Duke and the princes are not in the country, in case you are sick, I don't have enough head as much as Medusa!"

The samurai approached and saw clearly the leader of Figura, and immediately began to babble excitedly, barely understanding my half-hung Polish words, and listening to the tone must have been really anxious.

Figura smiled, and drove his horse to him as if nothing had happened, out of the distance I could control, and in this situation I could not reach out to pull her back, in case the little girl revealed our identity, ten cavalrymen could at most draw with the Poles, and this should ignore the threat of the archers who were waiting for the city head, the situation was very critical, I clenched my palms nervously, and cold sweat broke out on my back.

"It's nothing, when I was playing outside the city, I met Count Biscupin, who came to hunt, you know, the old fellow was hospitable, and he had to invite me to his castle for a banquet, and the knights who accompanied me were drunk, and there was no way to send me back, and I was afraid that you would be worried when it was getting late, so I left all the people in his castle, and I followed the earl's escort knights back first."

"Okay Shelov, don't worry anymore, I promise it won't happen again, okay?" Figura explained softly, and her gentle tone made people have no doubt, especially when she shook her shoulders from time to time, which simply murdered the adrenaline of countless men.

The warrior known as Shelov, full of doting reached out to rub Figura's hair, it seems that the relationship between the two is absolutely extraordinary, not like a master and slave, more like a couple, the soldiers around him have a strange expression, may have long been accustomed to the intimacy of the two people.

"It's good to come back, I'll tell the maid to prepare hot water for you, and relax well, girls shouldn't ride horses."

Shelov took Figura's reins and pulled her to his side half-reproachfully and half-distressedly, then turned his head to look at us who were standing stupidly, his eyes flashed like jewels in the dark night, and the pirates were used to fishing in troubled waters in disguise, and the psychological quality of the soldiers trained by the bull was firm enough, but only my eyes were in a trance of nervousness, Shelov frowned, and asked the pirate who had just answered the guards in the same city: "Is it better than Lord Skupin?" How come I never saw you in his castle? ”

The pirate who was questioned replied unhurriedly: "We are all knights under the direct command of the Earl family, and we have been in charge of guarding the farmstead near the Oder River, and we have only recently been transferred back to the castle to take up our posts, of course, you have not seen it, my lordship."

Now that Her Royal Highness has arrived, we hurried back to report to the Earl, but the torches for the lighting are about to run out, so can we go into the city and light new torches? The pirate said, holding up the remaining torches in his hand to show them.

"Let's go into town." With a wave of Sherov's hand, the soldiers moved to either side, and we followed him step by step towards the brightly lit gate, and I looked cautiously back in the procession, but found nothing but the dark forest outside the city and the crescent moon that had just risen to the height of the treetops.

Gniezno, like most cities of this era, is full of ruins and collapses, especially these small grass houses in the style of Eastern Europe, when shrouded in the dark night, more like a group of beasts hiding in the shadows, baring their fangs, ready to pounce and tear strangers to pieces.

The muddy ground mixed with all kinds of excrement and sewage on the ground emitted an indescribable stench, and even the war horses under our crotch were reluctant to step their hooves into it, and they walked around the mud in disgust to find a clean place to settle.

The Polish soldiers, whose faces were half-bright and half-extinguished, were sunk in the deep shadows of their helmets, but they could still feel the sharp eyes radiating when they stared vigilantly at us uninvited guests, and between the head-to-ear conversations, they seemed to be glancing at us intentionally or unintentionally, making people feel chills down their spines, much like the scene of a Hong Kong police movie smash brawl.

"Where are we going?"

Pulling the reins of my horse, I looked left and right at the darkening streets, and the low houses like goblin nests on both sides showed their hideous corners, so frightened that I decided not to go any further, gesturing to my soldiers to raise their vigilance, and at the same time questioning Sheroff, who had led the way in the lead, his generous back was unsettling, and his words were pitiful.

"It's coming soon, ah!" He turned, replied with a smile, and pointed to the brightly lit castle on the hill of Lech not far away, which seemed to me more like a lively cannibalistic hell.

"Right there, I have ordered hot water and a banquet to be prepared, and since Count Biscupin, who has hospied the princess's knights, we cannot be slow to treat our friends who have come from afar, and the masters are not there, let us enjoy the wine and wine to the fullest."

I raised my head and glanced at the castle on the hill of Lech, which had been expanded by successive Grand Dukes and had become a whole group of fortresses built on the mountain, even from such a distance, I could still clearly see the soldiers patrolling on it, and the wooden fence added a sense of incomprehensible vicissitudes, and my intuition told me that this trip was not good, and once I entered the tiger's den, it was impossible to get out easily.

"Lord Shelov, we must rush back to give the Count his life, he may be in a hurry, I can only say sorry for your kind invitation, although the warriors are hungry for delicious food, duty is more important." I gave a smile of helplessness as I held my helmet in my right hand, and with a wave I was about to leave with my men, for a few fleeting black shadows flashed from the rooftop, and the weapons they wore shot a cold reflection in the moonlit night.

A long sword stood in front of me, and its owner stared at me with a smile, squeezing his eyebrows like a fox that had entered a hen's nest, and Shelov shook the hilt of his sword: "Since you are here, don't be in a hurry to go, knights of Count Biskupin's house, don't you want to enjoy the scenery of the dungeon of Nizhny Gniezno?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, many Polish soldiers suddenly rushed out of the corner of the street, and the dense spears they were holding almost stabbed us in the face, and the archers standing on the roof tightened their bowstrings, and were so engrossed in aiming at the target that if we let go, we would inevitably become hedgehogs covered in white hair, and in this case, all those who were sane knew that they had no way back.

"What are you doing here? We are the knights of Count Biskupin, this must be a misunderstanding, Her Royal Highness the Princess can testify! I shouted at the top of my voice, hoping to fish in troubled waters, and by the way, I was looking for confidence in my weak heart, and it felt very uncomfortable to be pointed at with a weapon.

"Her Royal Highness the Princess? She was so frightened that she had gone back to rest. Shelov put the sword back into its sheath and replied unhurriedly, paying no attention to the prey that fell into the trap.

"As for Count Biscupin, if you had come a few days earlier, you might have been able to confront him in person, but unfortunately, Lord Count followed Prince Mieshko to the border, where there are several farmsteads of the Biscupins, otherwise he would never have gone out himself."

Damn it! It was put on the table! I gritted my teeth and whispered a curse, and almost fell off my horse in a frenzy, Figura's actions undoubtedly hit my fragile little heart hard, and made me, who was already deeply injured by women, even more difficult to restrain myself.

"Do you want to be a hedgehog with a feather, or do you want to roll into the dungeon yourself?" Sheroff tilted his head and looked at us with disdain, his expression as if he was staring not at the living, but at ten corpses gnawed by rats, and he must have begun to figure out how to torture these daring Franks.

"Trust me, everything in the dungeon will amaze you!"

I finally had enough time to analyze the mistakes of the plan, and if I ignored the fire in front of me, which was so thirsty as I was burned, two strangely looking Polish soldiers with scars on their faces laughed and kept adding firewood to it, deliberately pushing it close to me, and the rusty iron shackles were like hot meat forks, burning and festering the skin that came into contact with them.

"I hate women! Especially smart women! ”

After re-sorting out the ins and outs of the matter in my heart, I once again firmly believed that Figura, a little girl, had officially become the top enemy on the blacklist, and it would be no danger to provoke me, at least for now.

(End of chapter)