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The rest of the musk deer cried out in panic, and with three strikes, and leaped toward the forest on the other side, and before Anna could recover his senses, Gawain swooped down and knocked down the hapless fawn, and then skillfully knotted its horns with a rope, and then pulled again, and tied the fawn's four legs along with it.

The fairytale scene ended, and the fawn was tied up and planted in the grass, giving Anna a helpless and pitiful look.

"Hey, Gawain."

But Gawain ignored the princess, but took out a wooden stick from the tool given by the eunuch, passed it through the knot of the rope, and pointed to Anna, "Let's carry this thing away together." ”

"I see! That one-eyed old eunuch is doing these things all day long, making it easy for poachers to come to the royal palace to make money, and you are also a brute with a black conscience, and sure enough, you are all not educated by etiquette! Anna accused, but soon the horn sounded on the fortress on the other side of the Imperial Garden.

"Run, we've been discovered!" Gawain still ignored the princess's reproach, but directly picked up the fawn, and ran towards the gap, "Pick up the pocket and keep up!" ”

Anna shouted for you to stop and listen to me, but she could only pick up her pockets and follow Gawain, running with her long braids and gritting her teeth, "I'm the eldest princess, I didn't expect to become a thief with you today." Tears of remorse flowed in Anna's heart.

Hula, in the grass far from the walls of the palace, Anna stood up with a lot of grass clippings on her head, and then Gawain also got up, "Hey, there are no guards to catch up, right?" Anna actually had a frightened tone, as if she were really a little thief. Over there, Gawain sealed the deer's mouth with a cloth tape, "Your Excellency Eldest Princess, I have won this bet!" ”

"Gawain, I understand, you actually use me as bait because I am kind and noble."

"No, it's because the guards in the Imperial Garden have trained the deer and other beasts to please your father's archery skills, and if you were in the wild, you might have been bitten by the teeth of the musk deer."

"No wonder Mikhail is following us, and you learned the tone of calling the deer from him, right?"

"My Excellency the eldest princess, who has always been diligent and inquisitive, is almost on par with you."

The two of them walked back and forth towards the block on the other side of the bridge, Anna screaming angrily and Gawain calmly teasing.

In the slaughterhouse full of fishy smells, Gawain slammed the fawn and threw it on the desk, Anna's eyes widened, and she hid behind Gawain in fear.

"Two bags of musk, originally sixty friths, but this deer is a little young, fifty-five friths." The Slavic-looking butcher, shaking the utensils, quoted the price.

"Then how much is this little girl next to me worth?" Gawain touched Anna's head.

"This little girl is very beautiful, I can introduce you to sell it, five hundred frith." The butcher actually quoted the price.

Later, Anna witnessed the very cruel process of extracting musk, and after the incident, the butcher handed over the dirty money bag to Gawain, "Dispose of the venison, this is the deer of the royal garden, don't leave anything, save everyone trouble." Gawain, who had taken the coin, discharged two of them from it as the butcher's hard work.

"What, you're going to kill it?" Anna couldn't bear it, but in a blink of an eye, she saw that the butcher was carrying the squeaking deer and turned to the room behind it that was full of iron hooks.

In the evening, in a tavern frequented by the lower classes, Anna, who was already hungry, was eating roast venison, which was so sweet that she seemed to have completely forgotten her previous pity, and sure enough, it was Gawain's guess, "When you meet someone who hates killing, treat him or her to barbecue, and if he or she still hates it, please have a second meal" - at this time, Anna also complained to Gawain, "The salt is a little too much." ”

"It's the best refined salt from Venice, and I've paid eight friths for this meal." After Gawain finished speaking, he gave away forty shiny coins, "In addition to the two for the butcher and the five for bribing the priest, there is also a sufficient amount of money in accordance with the agreement, not to mention that I have invited the kindest and noblest eldest princess to enjoy a delicious meal of venison." ”

Next, Gawain stretched out his palm, and Anna, with her head down, put the piece of meat on the plate with some reluctance, and then gave a thumbs up, pressed it with Gawain, and scraped it twice—a gesture for the Byzantines to fulfill their promise.

"You don't really want three agreements, do you?" Anna said timidly.

"No, it's really just a joke - I want to see His Majesty the Emperor, I could have waited, but now there are very important things waiting for me to complete, so time is really urgent, but I heard that His Majesty is suffering from the battle situation in Xiaoya, and now mentioning this should anger him!" After speaking, at the table in the dining room, Gawain took out the bloodstained red hand battle flag and spread it out in front of Anna's eyes.

"The Red Hand Samurai of the Shield Guard, have they all been wiped out?" Anna was no stranger to these stories, but she really hadn't heard of them in the palace.

"No, I survived." Gawain said in a mournful tone.

"Why, why doesn't anyone mention these tragic things?"

"For the battle was commanded by your uncle, His Excellency the Great Sebastoprat."

"Are you resentful of your father and uncle?" Anna became uneasy.

Gawain did not answer, but supported his forehead, did not say a word, the atmosphere fell silent, and after a long time he said to Anna, "Not only the Red Hand detachment, but all the troops brought by the Warden to Little Asia have been disintegrated and destroyed under the internal strife of the royal family, and now I am left in the Gallipoli fortress with the only remaining seven hundred men. I fear that this party will continue to be embroiled in meaningless power struggles and suffer the same miserable fate, so I want to take a flag from your father and go to Italy. ”

"But"

"Nothing!" Gawain startled Anna with this remark, and then the brown-haired brute concluded, "You Romans will always be defeated by the Romans themselves; The fiasco of your empire is always the work of insiders. ”

Gawain's judgment, Anna has no reason to refute, from the Manziket fiasco until now, the entire empire has indeed been playing this drama continuously, as if trapped in a tragic curse.

The eldest princess sat there, thought carefully, and then said to the great barbarian, "Alright, give me some time, and soon my father will hold a grand celebration of the victory over the Pechenegs around the old Grand Palace, and by the way, receive envoys from foreign countries, and Anna will find the opportunity to help you." ”