After many days of cold weather, on the day of Christmas, the sun actually appeared, and the red sun in the early hours of the morning broke through the clouds, casting the long-lost light on the gray-blue-gray-blue sea of Constantinople, and the rows of elegant white palaces and churches, and the gold-inlaid sparkles on the spires.

Brenus's chariot followed the streets to the Basilica of the Holy Apostles in the heart of the city, and then, covered with ornaments, he stepped off his shoulder, won a loud cheer, and strode up the staircase with his hands held high.

"Who is it?" At the gate of Brachna Palace, several heavily armored Varangian warriors stopped the galloping horses, "Your Majesty's Imperial Ink Officer Meles, there is something important to tell Your Majesty!" As soon as the token was raised, the samurai were left behind, and they flew down the path of the arrows towards the backyard of the church.

Then, arriving at his destination, Myles took the box from the robe around his horse's neck, hung it on his shoulder, held the gilded token aloft, and broke into the hall, where the emperor saw his arrival, and his face began to be astonished: it stands to reason that the Imperial Ink Officer would not have come here at this time unless he had encountered something particularly important, could it be that the Frankish barbarian lords had expressed their intention to do something wrong to the Empire in terms of letters?

Standing in front of the emperor, he wiped his sweat with the back of his hand, and then sent the three edicts to Alexios, "All for Gawain, and I have read all the contents of them." With a strange look, the Emperor handed the edict back to Mylais, and fell into confusion for a moment.

"Look at Princess Anna's handprint!" Melais shouted hurriedly, and the words also alarmed Daracena, and she approached as well.

This is the case. It also woke Alexios ake, and he took the first edict. This was a previous representation to Gawain; There is also a second edict, which is given to Gawain's canonization; The third book of the edict. It was conferred the title of high civil servant - because Anna was the chief patron of the man, so in order to show favor to his daughter, he also asked Anna to sign it, and pressed his handprint with ink.

Anna's handprints, which were disorganized, were all over the paperwork, and were usually pressed in several places.

Originally, none of this was noticed by Alexios.

"It looks like the copy is different from the one given to Gawain. But I can see that Her Royal Highness the princess is saying goodbye to His Majesty. Under the guidance of Myles, Alexios's face was terrified, and he held the hand on the edge of the golden edict, shaking violently, "These are all copies, they belong to the archive, I don't believe it." That barbarian Gao Wen can understand these things, I don't believe it, I don't believe it! The Emperor's tone then changed, sharp and pathetic. provoked the surrounding court officials and servants to look sideways. Daracena hurriedly pressed her son's shoulders and told him with her eyes to stay calm.

After the door of the Basilica of the Holy Apostles opened, Alexios and Mylais. Replaced by the chief of the guard, Mikhail, and more than a dozen warriors of the forbidden army. Wearing a weapon, riding a horse along the arrow path. At the door, the Emperor saw the procession carrying the bride's shoulders towards the cathedral, and the Emperor quickly dismounted his horse, and then drew his sword, and the servants and maids around him fell to the ground in fright, not daring to move.

For the first time, Alexios let his blade tremble a little, and he paced to the shoulder where the silence had stopped, and then suddenly, he opened the drape, and the cold wind howled into it, and then the emperor almost fainted—there was no shadow of half a man on the cushions and pillows inside!

The eunuch in charge of ceremonial guidance, seeing this scene, was so frightened that he fell in front of the emperor's boots, "Her Royal Highness Anna previously received permission from His Majesty to go to visit Her Royal Highness the Empress" and then the emperor lifted his foot and kicked him to the ground, "Go to Irene's bedchamber, quick!" ”

The group of people, hurrying up, passed through the vast imperial garden, and then the emperor saw a big gap in the wall, which collapsed, and the wind came in and out, making a strange noise, "There is such a big gap here, why don't I know it?" ”

"Could it be that the princess escaped from here?" Harold next to him asked anxiously.

The Emperor twisted the hilt of his sword, and he was clearly thinking, in a heart-to-heart duel with his daughter, without the clash of weapons, without the smoke of gunpowder, "No, no, if Anna escaped from here, she would surely alarm the slaves and the forbidden soldiers, because Erin's palace was only one way from here. What's more, the location she showed on the document was for Gao Wen to see, and she would not be pretentious at all. Ditch here and we move on to our preset destination! ”

When the emperor stepped into the quiet dormitory with a garden, Erin was lying on the couch behind the curtains, looking calm and relaxed, "Erin, Irene! The Emperor stepped in impatiently and irritatedly, "Enough, the games and games are over, dear Anna, Father has no interest in playing hide and seek with you any longer, come out of your mother's closet, from your mother's bathroom, from under your mother's bed!" Come out Anna! The Emperor's last voice was a roar, and the curtain was drawn in a rage, and Irene, who was on the couch, stroked her stomach and began to laugh with her head down, as if mocking everyone.

The youngest daughter, Dai Duo, sat next to the bed with a pale face, with an expression of disbelief on her face.

Cabinets and other furniture, all rooms were searched, and Dedo's eyes wandered with the scrambled guards and eunuchs, but Alexios got no answer - Anna disappeared without a trace, as if she had never entered here.

Alexios walked out to the windswept terrace and looked around, but there was no one, except for the soldiers who were carrying torches and searching the gardens and gardens, many of whom had even rummaged through the small holes where cats and dogs had entered, just as Anna had been transformed into a small animal by the devil's spell and slipped away.

The emperor's hand, trembling and trembling, slowly moved to his forehead, trying to cool himself down, but what he touched was a burning heat like a fire. He didn't expect that this time he was actually tricked by his daughter Anna, his most beloved daughter, she used her father's love to obtain her father's understanding and tolerance after the coup, but she turned around and completely deceived him, she must have colluded with Erin and Gawain, in this way that even he didn't see.

"How wise my daughter is." In the past, Alexios was always full of pride when he mentioned this, but now his daughter's cleverness has become the venom in her father's wine cup.

"Where the hell is Anna? Where the hell is she? Alexios could not take it any longer, and he gave in, and half-knelt in front of Erin, holding his wife's hand, in a mournful and pleading tone.

"She's gone here, and will never come back to you, Alexios." The queen was like that, she replied with a sneer. (To be continued.) )