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Chapter 645 Greeting

Even if it was two battalions of gendarmes, Shangguan Xiu was reluctant to bring them all, and in the end he only brought half of the battalion, and he was accompanied by Gina (Holy Maiden), Guangfang, Matt and others. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Shangguan Xiu's visit to Solan City was a big deal for the Solan City-State.

Scott Ward, his son Dylan Ward, and the city-state's leading officials, went out of the city to greet him. The guard of honor that traveled with them was the Paladins of the city-state of Solan.

Through the Paladin Legion, you can see the wealth of the city-state of Solan. The whole army, all the cavalry, the soldiers were in silver helmets and silver armor, the outside was steel plate armor, the inside was steel chain mail, and the back was a red cloak.

The plate armor is carved with exquisite totems, and is branded with colorful city-state badges, corps badges, family badges and meritorious badges, the city-state badge and corps badge are the same, and the family badge and meritorious badge are different. The people carried firearms on their backs, swords under their ribs, knights' spears hung on the victory hooks of their horses, and even the horses under their crotches were covered in steel armor.

Such a corps approached head-on, shining silver in the sunlight, like a huge mirror, all dazzling to the eye.

In the Paladin Legion, even the outfit of an ordinary soldier is worth a lot of money, and the cost of the entire corps can be imagined.

However, in Shangguan Xiu's opinion, such a majestic corps with an aristocratic atmosphere from top to bottom is just a mass of meat to be slaughtered on the battlefield. Intoxicating chapter & section small.Said in hey ~ smoke ~ grid

The soldiers' outfits are not works of art, not for the sake of beauty and pleasing to the eye, but for the purpose of fighting and killing the enemy.

Guangfang also muttered beside Shangguan Xiu: "Solan's city-state army knows that they can't beat us on the battlefield, and this is planning to blind us." Look at these bright armors, I really want to go up and stab them twice!"

The corners of Shangguan Xiu's mouth hooked, but he didn't answer.

It didn't take long for the officials of the Solan city-state led by Scott to come to Shangguan Xiu and the others, and the people turned over and dismounted, and stroked their chests with the etiquette of Besa, Scott said: "I am the territory of the Solan city-state, Duke Scott Ward!"

Matt was just about to translate, Shangguan Xiu had already floated off his horse and said: "Shangguan Xiu in the Xiafeng Country, I have admired the name of Duke Huade for a long time!"

One of Scott's interpreters translated Shangguanxiu's words into Besa. Scott couldn't help but be stunned after hearing this, and looked Shangguan Xiu up and down in surprise. He originally thought that Shangguan Xiu, as the commander of the group army and the duke of the Wind Country, would be at least thirty or forty years old, but the young man in front of him was only in his early twenties, and in his eyes, he was still like a half-grown child.

Seeing that he didn't answer for a long time, just kept looking at Shangguan Xiu from one glance to the next, Dogray secretly said a faux pas and coughed lightly on the side.

Under his reminder, Scott finally came back to his senses and hurriedly said to Shangguan Xiu: "I don't know if it's Duke Shangguan, disrespectful, disrespectful! Duke Shangguan, I have prepared a carriage, please in the city!"

"Lord Walter, please!"

Scott let Shangguan Xiu into the carriage, and then he sat in the carriage as well. The carriage was completely open-topped, with only one row of seats, with Shangguan Xiu and Scott sitting side by side, flanked by the gendarmes led by Shangguan Xiu and escorted by the Paladins of the Solan city-state.

Inside the city, Scott has arranged a grand welcoming ceremony.

The carriage crossed the drawbridge and just entered the city gate, where it rained petals. There are hundreds of city-state soldiers standing on the head of the city, holding a basket of flowers in one hand and raising flower petals outward in the other, and the petals are flying in the wind, the scene is spectacular and beautiful.

Even the saintess, who has always been cold, couldn't help but raise her head and look up into the air.

On both sides of the street, there were people standing onlookers, and I don't know whether it was the petals that people prepared spontaneously, or whether it was arranged by Scott in advance, seeing the carriage and the honor guard passing by, the people cheered and sprinkled the petals, and the whole Solan City seemed to rain petals.

In this situation, where there is the slightest sense of hatred between friends and enemies, it is completely like welcoming VIPs. Scott was very satisfied with the performance of the people, with a smile on his face, and waved to the people on both sides from time to time.

Without saying a word, the carriage arrived at the castle in the center of Solan City.

This castle was originally the royal palace of the Solan city-state, and after the establishment of the Kingdom of Besa, the royal palace of the Solan city-state was also downgraded to the lord's residence, but only the name changed, in fact, whether it was the shape of the castle or the luxurious decoration inside, nothing changed.

Inside the castle, Scott prepared a grand reception to welcome Shangguan Xiu's arrival. The meeting was attended by officials and nobles of the city-state of Solan, men and women, old and young, and hundreds of people gathered in the main hall of the castle.

Shangguan Xiu and Guangfang and others were the first time they had seen the luxury of the nobles of Besa.

The main hall is decorated with gold splendor, the walls are pasted with gold leaf, carved out of strokes, below is a thick red carpet paved with huge crystal chandeliers, each crystal chandelier is layered on top of each other, and the candles on it, if not hundreds, must be as many as seventy or eighty, illuminating the whole hall as bright as day.

There are long tables around the main hall, on which there are all kinds of fruits, meats, breads, cakes, refreshments, etc., and there is a pool on the side, there is no water in the pool, it is full of red wine, and if someone wants to drink, just go up and hold a glass in the pool.

The wine pond meat forest is very appropriate here. Compared with a single lord of Besa, the life of Tang Ling, the emperor of the Wind Country, can be called simple. Shangguan Xiu sneered at this scene, how is the life of the ordinary people of Besa, Shangguan Xiu has seen with his own eyes, the aristocracy is so luxurious, if he does not lose the country, it is really intolerable.

Scott, who was by Shangguanxiu's side, introduced the officials in the city-state to Shangguanxiu one by one. People were very polite to Shangguan Xiu, and they were saluting and toasting. Shangguan Xiu does not refuse to come, and if he respects him, he will drink. Accustomed to Zhenjun spirits, he drank Bessa's red wine, which was no different from drinking sugar water.

Seeing this, Matt was a little worried, approached Shangguan Xiu, and whispered: "My lord, although the Besa wine is not as strong as the wind and wine, it has a lot of stamina, and adults should not drink more!"

Shangguan Xiu turned around and smiled at him, blinking his eyes, indicating that he knew what he knew.

It didn't take long for Scott to summon two young men, a man and a woman, and introduced Shangguan Xiu: "Duke Shangguan, these two are my children, Dylan Ward, and Sally Ward. ”

Shangguan Xiu nodded to the two of them with a smile, among the people who greeted him outside the city just now, he had seen Dylan, and as for Sally, he had seen it for the first time.

Sally is a typical Besa woman, with a large skeleton and tall stature, standing with Shangguan Xiu, not much shorter. Dylan is slightly taller than Shangguan Xiu, with deep eye sockets, a pair of blue eyes, and a bright eye.

Now that he had changed his armor, he was wearing a ceremonial two-part military uniform, white clothes, white trousers, black boots, and several medals on his chest, looking personable, handsome and handsome.

No matter what kind of war the Bessars fought, the military uniform was indeed quite beautiful, although it was borrowed from Tia.

"I have admired the prestige of Lord Shangguan for a long time, and I am fortunate to see you today!" (Bessa) " Dylan said with a smile.

"General Ward is polite. Shangguan Xiu had a good impression of Dylan, and felt that this young man was introverted and introverted, and he was not as flashy as other Bessa nobles.

"Hello, Lord Shangguan!" As soon as he finished speaking, Sally took the initiative to greet Shangguan Xiu, and at the same time stretched out her hand generously.

Shangguan Xiu knew about Besa's kiss ceremony, but he didn't want to do it, so he immediately whispered to Guangfang beside him.

When Guangfang heard this, he didn't say a word, stepped forward, reached into his arms, took out a silver ingot, put it in Sally's hand, and said, "We adults said, the first time we met, it was not a respect, and Miss Ward was invited to smile!"

Sally looked at the silver ingot in her palm, and the whole person was stupid, stunned, and didn't come back to her senses for a long time.

If Feng Guo is weak, Bei Sa is strong, and Shangguan Xiu does this, he will definitely be ridiculed and regarded as a Fanbang alien race who does not understand etiquette, but now Feng Guo is strong and Bei Sa is weak, and Shangguan Xiu will do this more or less with a sense of humiliation.

Sally's face turned red, holding the silver ingot in her palm, she couldn't take it, she couldn't throw it, and it was difficult to ride a tiger.

The smile on Scott's face froze, and he didn't know what to do, and the officials and nobles of the surrounding city-states stopped talking and looked at them in unison.

Dylan turned his mind, smiled slightly, and said, "Sally, since it's a meeting gift from Lord Shangguan, just accept it." As he spoke, he said to Shangguan Xiule again: "It's just that this meeting gift from Lord Shangguan is a little lighter!"

"If I give a crown of Besa to the city-state of Solan, what does General Hua De think?" Shangguan Xiu asked casually.

He said it lightly, but when he heard the ears of Scott, Dylan and others, people's hearts were shocked.

Scott's face changed dramatically, and he couldn't answer in a daze. Dylan looked calm and said with a smile: "Lord Shangguan said that it was funny, Besa's crown is not so easy to take. ”

"It's not easy to pick, that's my business, whether you dare to take it or not, that's your business." ”

Shangguan Xiu's meaning is already very clear, he has the will to help the Solan city-state replace the city-state of Besa and become the new ruler of the city-state of Besa, but I don't know if the city-state of Solan has such great ambitions, or whether he dares to have the ambition to replace them.

Even Dylan, who was old and calm, was beating wildly after hearing this, and he didn't say anything for a long time.