Chapter 6: Anna's Canonization
Today is still three watches, I hope you will support more, thank you.
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In the midst of the applause of others and the departure of the audience, Gawain half-knelt down and held Anna's hand, "I think I deserve your trust, proud and noble Anna. Komunen, Gawain will always be loyal to you, so please retract your disbelief in me. ”
"Hey, is Gawain really like that? I have read in many books that in the faraway wilderness of the Franks, many nobles and knights would swear allegiance to the king or woman of their choice, preferring to sacrifice their life of bravery. Anna replied with some glee, "Did you perform such a ritual?" ”
"Yes, I will make you the Empress of Rome." Gawain simply struck while the iron was hot to the end.
Anna's hand, as if stung by a wasp, was taken back, but Gawain did say what she was thinking, and then Anna nervously did not say a word, holding her skirt, and walked towards the big arena on the side of the Giant Pillar Square.
"Gawain, are you cheating on me?" On the street, Anna looked back and questioned as she walked ahead.
Gao Wen, who was following behind, shook his head, "Then do something brave and reckless with me!" ”
"I'm willing to validate myself."
"I am also glad to let those I love and love me share in the glory, power, and wealth I have attained, even if Gawain you are only a servant to me." Anna was bold enough to say this, and she blushed, bowed her head and continued to walk quickly.
Then they came to the gate of the magnificent Athletic Racecourse, and then Anna whispered to Gawain, "Don't go through the arch where ordinary mortals enter, go from here." ”
Anna was referring to the Daphne Palace, which was connected to the Colosseum by a stairway bridge, which was originally a box for ancient emperors to watch horse-drawn chariot races, but now closed off to allow idlers to enter or leave.
From the main entrance of the palace, the whole arena looked like a volcano was blooming, and thousands of voices shouted all kinds of slang in it, and it seemed that there were nearly a hundred cars ready to go, and then there were people singing praises to the Lord and the Emperor, and then all the people seemed to sing to the rhythm, just like the football team now sings the national anthem after entering the stadium.
"Your Excellency, Eldest Princess." The row of guards in front of the door, who had already received the secret song of Yudohya and Mikhail, saw Anna who had hurried over, and hurriedly knelt down, then pulled the latch and pushed open the dusty door of the palace, "My own guards will accompany me." Anna threw down these words, beckoned to Gawain behind her, and walked one after the other, among the two rows of towering columns, all inlaid with blue crystal from the islands of the Marimara Sea, which bloomed in the sun with dazzling and elegant colors.
Condescendingly, the two finally stood on the protruding terrace of the royal box, the wind blowing the hair on their foreheads, and the oval-shaped arena below was overcrowded, the center of the field was full of Egyptian-style obelisks, and countless racing cars were ready to go, and Gawain also saw that countless spectators were neatly dressed in two color livery clothes, blue and green.
From above, it looks like a grassland, facing each other with an ocean.
"Let Gawain confirm it, look at this green, and this blue, they are all competitive parties, the green ones are all from the countryside on the outskirts of the city, and the blue ones are mostly seafarers and merchants." After Anna finished speaking, she took out a red coat from her robe like a trick, "The rivalry between these two competitive parties has lasted for nearly a thousand years, and what I want you to do now is to wear this red one!" ”
Then Anna pulled up her braids, took off her robe, and turned it over, "And I'm going to put on this white one." ”
"I think if we do this, we will be killed on the spot by countless professional hooligans in the arena here." Gawain was worried.
Anna, the little girl, laughed, "Gawain, you rush up and say what I taught you, in front of them." ”
At this time, the following race has reached the opening moment, and all the racers wearing green livery are standing together and chanting in unison:
"The Great Emperor reigns, and all the shepherds and farmers of the Empire hope that our victory will bring him joy!"
Then, all the racers wearing blue livery also lined up to fight well, chanting in unison:
"May the goddess of victory in the bow of our ship be able to bring wealth from the blue holy sea to the all-powerful emperor!"
Then all the people present stood up and responded to each other, shouting and scolding each other, and cheering up their own party.
Suddenly, above the people, on the top of the terrace of the royal box, which had been abandoned and unused, a tall, brown-haired man dressed as a nobleman stood on the railing of the terrace with a little shame, shaking his fiery red livery and openly shouting, "Red, red, fiery red, symbolizing the bohemian Sirius, bringing the heat and passion of midsummer to all." ”
brush, the entire arena, suddenly quieted down, tens of thousands of pairs of eyes slammed upward, kindly staring at the performance of Gao Wen.
Anna, who laughed so hard that she could barely straighten her waist, then held back, climbed the railing, and wore a robe with a white background, "The color of the cold winter snow will surely make the names of the racers we support engraved on the inscriptions made of bronze and stone, and gain a peaceful eternity." ”
In fact, how can there be any racers in the stadium wearing these two colours?
"What nonsense, the White Party and the Red Party were finished hundreds of years ago!" A male Green fan wearing a Pecheneg woman's felt hat and a sensational man shouted by the neck, and then shouted "beat them up, stab them both" and "dare to insult our athletic party", and everyone took out short knives, sticks and stones from their clothes and baskets, and rushed down the passage to the royal box like a wave of rage.
"Let's go!" Gawain's eyes were quick, and he quickly caught the petite Anna under his arm, jumped off the terrace, and ran away along the pillars where he came
In the evening, in the floor at the top of the Grand Palace, where the sea breeze could blow, Anna was still smiling, and Gawain was panting, crossed his waist, and held on to the half wall connected to the stone pillar, looking at the sails and waves on the sea below, a little frightened, and the escape just now also tired him half to death.
Soon, the stars and the black night rose, and the lights of the neighborhood and church below began to burn, Anna stopped talking, walked left and right with her hands behind her back, and finally stood on a piece of the floor, snapped her feet together, stretched out her hand, and shouted to Gawain, "Stephen, who proved his courage to save the princess before the siege of the Blues and Greens. Gawain, come to me and accept Anna's canonization. ”