Back at King Zhivadin's castle, Ellen immediately noticed that the atmosphere was unusual. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The halls of the castle seemed to be filled with a joyous atmosphere, with nobles, knights, guards, and servants all smiling on their faces.

The noble King of Yagrolc smiled and was talking to a middle-aged lord.

"What's going on?" Alleyn asked the guard, curious.

"Sir, I don't want to talk to anyone during the time I'm standing guard. The man said with a blank face, and his indifferent tone made Aren want to draw his sword and cut him.

Shirley gave him a disdainful look, waved her hand, and immediately a female guard trotted up to her and whispered in her ear.

At first, Shirley still had a smile on her face, but gradually she stopped smiling and changed to a solemn expression, which made people feel that something had happened.

Shirley paced slowly, seemingly a little hard to accept. Alleyn on the side looked anxious, and immediately asked, "What the hell is going on? Why do you have this expression?"

Shirley stopped and looked at Alleyne with a serious face: "Listen, my sister is engaged to Rudy Boyer of Kulau! ”

At first, Alleyne thought there was something wrong with his ears, but it wasn't until Shirley nodded and confirmed the reliability of the message that he slowly accepted the fact.

Jonsa Mark Rudy Boye Alleyne held her head in pain, an indescribable regret spreading in her heart.

Ellen certainly understood that this was definitely King Yagrolk's plan to give one of his daughters to another powerful family in order to gain their support and strengthen his position.

This is a common and despicable marriage method used by nobles to maintain each other's power.

Alleyne now only hopes that Princess Josa doesn't hate Rudy Boye.

Shirley sighed softly on the side: "Mark is a good young man, but it's a pity that he comes from a humble background and is not worthy of our family, otherwise he and my sister are a good pair." ”

Alleyne was a little melancholy, although Mark's guy was silly, but he was also very kind, and he was definitely worthy of Jonsa in terms of quality alone. It's a pity that he was born in a down-and-out aristocracy, which is really unsatisfactory.

"What a pity," said Ellen with a sigh of helplessness, "that they have secretly communicated so many letters, and now they can only burn them in one fire." ”

"What are you sorry for, and what does this have to do with you?" Shirley looked at the handsome young man in front of her with a strange expression.

"I'm sorry for your sister and Mark's true love. Alleyne frowned, a little unhappy. "I've sent your sister several times. ”

Shirley smiled and said, "My sister and I were born into a powerful family that controls the entire kingdom of Vegia, enjoying the rights and luxury that everyone dreams of, but we can't choose our true love. ”

This beautiful princess is accustomed to using that false smile to hide the sadness and helplessness in her heart.

"Is that really the case?" said Alleyne. "In the face of love, whether it is a nobleman or a commoner, everyone has the opportunity and power to choose freely. ”

"You're joking!" asked Shirley.

"Did you see me smiling?" replied Alleyne.

"The love between a princess and a commoner is not permitted by a king in any country," Shirley emphasized, noncommittally. "Even the nobles would not approve of it, and that would make the noble ones feel humiliated. ”

"That's right," Alleyne said stiffly. "When that humble love and noble status must choose one or the other, only the cruelty of reality needs to be faced, and making a rational choice may also be a real maturity!" he struggled to make his voice sound understated.

"You see everything so thoroughly as if you've experienced it before. Shirley Allure had a light smile on her face.

"I'm just a mercenary. Alleyne responded with a smile.

"I know who you are?" Shirley replied deliberately. "I still know your past. ”

"Your Highness Shirley, are you talking to me?" Alleyn paused, but did not regain his usual harmless expression.

"Is there anyone else around me?" Shirley asked him rhetorically.

"I don't understand what you're talking about!" Alleyne pretended to be sluggish, with an inexplicable expression.

Shirley took two steps forward, leaned closer to Alleyne in front of him, and pressed the cherry-like lips to his ear, whispering, "Your name is not Ellene, Ferres is your real name-"

The ambiguous behavior of the beautiful princess, which seemed to take the initiative to give her arms, aroused all kinds of complicated eyes from many nobles or knights around the hall, some envious, curious, but more jealous.

Aren didn't notice the unkind stares that were thrown at him around him, but poked there in amazement like half a piece of wood.

"—You were once the guardian knight of Moros Boye, the most wanted criminal in the Kingdom of Veguia. Shirley's voice was so subtle that only the two of them could hear it clearly.

Alleyne took two or three steps back in fright, his face turning pale at first, and then extremely red.

If this sentence did not enter his ears and was heard by any knight or guard in the hall, the result he faced could be imagined.

Suddenly, looking at the various stares cast around the hall, Alleyne noticed his gaffe and smiled awkwardly at the nobles and knights who were looking at him.

"Your Royal Highness, you have mistaken the person, I am not the person you said. Alleyne flatly denied it.

"Really?" said Shirley, curling the corners of her mouth. "But what do I think you are?"

Alleyne defended, "If I really want to be a wanted criminal, then wouldn't I have thrown myself into the net now?" he kept his voice low, for fear that others would hear.

"That's because the people who knew you are gone, and no one can identify you as Ferres. That's why you dare to appear here without fear. Shirley's voice didn't waver.

"I'm just a mercenary, my name is Alleyne, I was, I am, and I will always be. Alleyne avoided the question she asked.

Alleyne didn't know where Princess Shirley in front of her knew his identity, and why she didn't reveal his identity on the spot.

What did she mean by saying this, and what did she want from me?

The sound of Alleyne speaking made him look a little out of control, and the figures around him, who had been far away before, slowly got closer and closer, as if they wanted to overhear something between them.

Shirley suddenly reached out and grabbed Aren's arm, dragging her brute force through the hall until she found a secluded corner.

The beautiful but slightly savage princess said in a questioning, but polite tone, "Don't you dare to admit that Ferres is your name?"

Alleyne grabbed the opponent's arm tightly with his right hand, which he usually held a sword, and asked sharply, "Do you have to force me to admit it?"

Shirley grinned and said indifferently, "Don't worry, I won't reveal your identity." ”

"What exactly do you want?" said Ellen looking around uneasily.

Shirley looked at the nervous blonde boy in front of her, and her heart fluttered with indescribable subtle feelings. "Can you let go of your hand first? If people see it, you're going to be in trouble. ”

Alleyne subconsciously let go of his right hand that was holding the other party's thin white soft arm. This is the second time he has lost his temper in front of the princess, but this is all caused by the other party's words.

"I'm sorry. Alleyne looked at the thin white arm in front of him, and said two words with a little embarrassment.

Shirley didn't care about the five-finger handprints on her arm, which would disappear on their own after a while. Even though she had never been touched like this by any man.

"I have no ill intentions and I won't reveal your identity," Shirley gets straight to the point. "I just want to tell you that the execution of Morospoye had nothing to do with my father, and that it was not his intention. ”

"Please tell me that, according to the laws of the Kingdom of Vegia, the king has this right except for the king," Ellen objected in a retorted to her. "Who else can pronounce a sentence of treason against a lord loyal to him?"

"The person who handed down the verdict was not necessarily the murderer who wanted to put him to death. Shirley commented.

"Does this really have nothing to do with your father?" said Alleyne's words full of suspicion.

"That's exactly what happened. Shirley explained. "It was only after Morospoye and his cronies were executed by his vassal that he was forced to declare Morospoye's treason to the nation. ”

Arenn looked at the other party with some suspicion, and couldn't help but ask, "If things are really as you say, please tell me, why did Doruboye do this?"

"Towering between the mountains and valleys, the Sagichhe Fort of Moros Poye has always been a fortress against the steppe peoples of the Kujits, and my father would not easily execute a vassal who had guarded his territory for many years. ”

Shirley unhurriedly tells Alleyne what the whole thing had happened, and some of the evidence she had now.

"The execution of Morospoye, as well as the treason, were all orchestrated by Dorupoye," Shirley whispered. "It was he who peered into Morospoye's territory and wanted to take possession of the trade route, all of which was carefully planned. ”

The fort of Sagiče was a fortress in the southern mountains of King Vygia, and also controlled the trade routes between the city of Kudan and its surrounding towns and the Kugit people.

Naturally, Ellen knew this, and Moros Boye was not embarrassed by the traders who came to the Kugit Khanate from the fort of Sagiche, and collected less taxes to enter and leave the city than any other trade route.

And over the years since he stayed at Sagicheburg, his beloved Moros Poye has been in dangerous situations more than once.

If the dangerous situations that Morospoye had suffered before were all coincidences, then all of this was too much of a coincidence.

After a long silence, Alleyne made a complicated gesture of agreement, but there was also a hint of annoyance in it, which Shirley couldn't see.

"I'll look into this sooner or later. Alleyne pointed pointedly.

"It's getting late, it's time for you to leave. Shirley smiled at him.