"Don't try to scare me, I can tell where Anna is from her papers. It's just that I think Anna will use a strategy to attack the west. Alexios shook off the empress's hand in annoyance, and then ordered all the warriors and eunuchs to seal off all the passages of this palace, and not let anyone enter or leave.

The festive bells of the Church of the Holy Apostles were still ringing, and in response to the emperor's chaotic mind, he crossed his waist and kept thinking in front of Erin, who was full of smugness, and finally stopped his gaze on the trembling Daido, "The most well-behaved girl, now tell your dearest father, that is your sister, where did you go just now?" Alexios said in a gentle tone, pressing towards Dedo.

"Here it is again, Alexios. Komnenos, do you still want Daido to be like Anna in the future? ”

"I don't have the slightest place to be sorry for my daughter, it's you who sacrificed her happiness, for your stupid group of Ducasses!"

"So what, Komnenos, I didn't expect to get revenge on you in such a way today. Yes, maybe you can know where Anna ends, but the walls of this imperial capital are too long and too big for you to be late, and you don't know how Anna escaped, and she was already far away after you found Anna's trace. ”

Alexios angrily put his hands on Erin's neck, screaming as if he was going to strangle his wife, "You crazy witch, you are killing your daughter, I know she will run there." You're going to send her to the stinking couch of the brute, Anna is a princess from the purple bedchamber! If the current state of affairs cannot be managed. It will be the most terrible shame and scandal of the two families of Komnenos and Ducasse. ”

"I only listen to Anna, and I respect her ideas. She goes wherever she loves. Do you really think that after the coup d'état might have failed, our mother and daughter didn't leave any behind, didn't make any plans? Alexios, you have been deceived by your self-righteous cleverness, and Anna and I have been playing the most clever drama since the fiasco! But the queen was unmoved, her heart had long since turned to ashes, "barbarian." Even the tall brute, I saw the way he looked at Anna, it was gentle. Yes, I could see the eyes of a man, but when I was twelve years old, I could clearly see that the way you stared at me was like a hunter looking at a prey, and yet you fell into a snare ridiculously. Then the queen climbed a few steps on the couch. forced Alexios' flustered expression, "Hahahaha, this face is very good, I like it very much." This is your retribution, this is your retribution! The queen kept shouting this sentence like a heartbreak.

The Emperor threw her away, and then saw Dedo's eyes. Looking in the direction of the terrace, Alexios re-arched. When I walked over, my eyes were still dark. The shadows of the buildings and the mountains are all misty, and the sun has not yet shone here.

The Emperor, who was constantly moving around in distress, began to look around with eagle-like eyes, and he suddenly remembered that when the pilgrims had begun to storm the imperial capital from Sarabria, Anna had said to him, "The hills on the northwest side of the palace are not protected by walls, and the enemy will not attack from there." ”

"Damn!" The Emperor then looked at the mountains on the other side, and on top of the Blachna Monastery, where the veil and shrine of the Virgin Mary was enshrined, and because of the topography, there were indeed no walls, only a group of towers that echoed each other, and the stars surrounded the monastery like a moon.

A flash of light in the crack in the wall shook Alexios' eyes, and he walked briskly over it, it was the golden crown that Anna had dropped, probably because it was too heavy, he picked it up, and then he looked up the wall: it was a ladder that led to the top of the palace, and above it was a small cistern

Mikhail, the chief of the guard, who obeyed the emperor's orders, quickly climbed along the ladder to the top of the howling wind, and then Mikhail leaned down with a look of disbelief, "Your Majesty, please come up and take a look at it yourself." ”

Alexios, who stepped on it, could not help but burst into tears, and he now knew how Anna had disappeared: above the cistern, the high aqueduct that had survived from ancient times and was still in use today, zigzagged like a giant serpent, flying over the steep cliffs of the aisle, winding to the side of the monastery of the shrine of the Virgin, and also to the Sarabria river outside the city, which was also the place that Anna and Gawain had agreed on beforehand.

"Anna, Anna!" The Emperor cried out in anguish, his voice echoing through the mountains, "Mikhail, chase me, chase me and let Anna be good and intact." After saying this, Alexios seemed to age ten years in an instant, and sat down in the cold wind, chattering repeatedly, "Children are the greatest poison of the father." ”

Mikhail, dressed in leather, and two other palace guards, climbed up the elevated aqueduct, which had been filled with snow and ice a few days ago because the snow was too deep, and soon Mikhail saw Anna's small footprints, along the stone channel like a narrow river, stretching into the undulating distance, "Lord" Even Mikhail said this sentence with a trembling voice, and then against the howling wind, he lined up with the other two, held on to the channel, and staggered after him.

Anna in the wind, her black hair fluttering, her cheeks purple from the cold, the heavy gown covering her petite body, but because of the effect of keeping out the cold, she could not discard it like a crown, the hem was raised by her and tied to her belt, the white silk silk was attached to her legs, swaying with the wind, she had been crawling here for almost an hour, past the spire of the monastery, she knew that she was about to leave the city, and the deep canyon below was constantly shaking with her movements and vision.

This was her agreement with Gawain, and she believed that the Great Barbarian knew, because on that day, the other party personally assured her twice in the courtyard, "Please trust me now and in the future." ”

If Gawain didn't come, if she didn't wait there, all she could do was probably die, and there was no turning back. Even if her father was willing to forgive her, he could only lock her up in a convent and slowly wither in boundless remorse.

In front of her, the zigzag aqueduct turned into the tumbling giant snake again, the giant snake that symbolized her **, "So what?" Anna, if you don't do it, you will regret it for the rest of your life. As the ancient dictator Julius Caesar said, the dice have been rolled, and the final decision is in God's hands. Gawain once said to me that he would make me the Empress of Rome, but if I continued to stay in the court, it would be a ridiculous foolishness, and I did not want to be ridiculed, manipulated and slaughtered like my mother in the future. ”

"Uhhhhh Anna's hands were grinding out blood, and the heat was wafting away, and she quickly froze in the knife-like cold, but she gritted her teeth and continued bravely, with a slight smile on her face, "Seeing me so adventurous, the big barbarians will sigh to themselves." Gotta wait for me, gotta wait for me, Gawain" (To be continued.) )