Lorna took Solandelle by the hand and grace of a knight and led her through the ballroom to the front.

On and off the stage, the king and princess looked at each other.

Pertheus's face was full of kind fatherly love, and the king above ten thousand people knelt down on one knee and made a knightly salute to his daughter, and his voice was full of iron tenderness: "I am the flame, lighting the way ahead." May my daughter be healthy and happy in this life. ”

Solandel stepped forward and took Perseus's head into her arms, leaving a sweet kiss on his face.

The guests raised their glasses and shouted in unison: "May the ninth princess be healthy and happy in this life, and return to the sun!" ”

Perseus picked Solandel up, sat her in the crook of his arm, and smiled at the guest, "So, let's get started!" Please enjoy today's dinner to the fullest, don't be bound by etiquette, and let it go! ”

The following quickly became lively, and Perseus also brought Solandale to the stage.

There are only two seats beside Pertheus, placed on the left and right hands, corresponding to two titles: the left hand of the king and the right hand of the king.

In the Dogulander culture, the left hand represents disaster and destruction, and the title of "The King's Left Hand" is given to the highest military position in the kingdom - the commander of the army, who commands the entire territory of the army and horses, and is responsible for the construction of the army and the conquest of war.

The right hand represents justice and mercy, and the title of "The Right Hand of the King" belongs to the Supreme Adjutant - Minister of State, who handles government affairs and subordinates all subjects in the territory and consul general of state affairs.

The current king's left hand is the head of the Regnome family, Sting Delin Regnome.

Wang Zhi's right hand is the head of the Hitch family, but because the weapons of the visitors from outside the sky are important, he seized every minute and every second, and personally led the alchemists to study in the Star Castle all night, but he couldn't come to the New Year's feast, and the seats were empty.

According to etiquette, only the Commander-in-Chief and the Minister of State were entitled to sit on either side of the king, and the rest of the family, whether it was a prince or princess, or even a queen, were required to sit under the stage.

But Perseus did not shy away from suspicion, and directly let Solandale sit in the vacant right-hand position, which shows how much he loves this daughter.

Solandale sat down and greeted Sting, "Happy New Year, Lord Sting." ”

Sting smiled kindly: "Happy New Year, Your Highness Princess, you are really getting more and more beautiful." Time flies, when you were born, my hair was still black, and now it is frost white. ”

"Please, you dragon knight who fights, don't be sad here." Pertheus slapped Sting's chest and deliberately whispered to Solandelle, "Your Uncle Sting has been like this since he was a child, and when he was 8 years old, he once cried in class. The teacher asked him why he was crying, and he carried a piece of hair that he had fallen out of and cried: Oh~ Where has the time gone? ”

Sting laughed out loud when he heard this: "Hey! Old man, we said we wouldn't talk about it! ”

The monarchs and ministers who grew up together since childhood had no estrangement at all, and kept revealing each other's secrets to Solandelle, which made her laugh for a while.

At such a lively banquet, of course Solandelle couldn't sit still, she jumped off the chair after eating, and ran off the stage with a smile: "Dad, I'm going to play with my new friend~"

"Hey! Before Pertheus could react, Solandale had already run to the Regnome family's table and squeezed to Chino's side, laughing and chatting with him.

Seeing this, Perseus shook his head helplessly.

Sting took a sip of cold wine with ice crystals, shrugged his shoulders and said, "This kid has been locked up at home by you all day to study, it's a good thing to be able to make new friends, why are you sad?" ”

Perseus looked at Chino and Solandelle, and frowned slightly: "Even if she makes friends, she should know more of her peers in the royal family, not some twilight death." ”

Sting asked, "You don't like Chino Administrator?" ”

Pertheus rubbed his temples, shook his head and said, "I have never liked this kind of young butcher, he is cold-blooded and ruthless at a young age, and this kind of person has some psychological problems. You've heard about the incident in Twilight, right? He put two visitors on the guillotine and made them bite each other's ropes, and whoever couldn't bite first would have the other's head cut off by a knife - I heard that the two were still brothers. The gods are above, how did he come up with this trick? ”

Sting said mysteriously, "Not only this, but also the Iron Moon Killing Order". It is said that the military commanders of several cities followed this law and used it to deal with rebellions or deserters, which made the soldiers fear their commanders far more than they feared the enemy, and the combat efficiency increased exponentially. ”

Perseus couldn't help but sigh: "There is such a young butcher among his subordinates, as long as he controls it well, it is not a bad thing, and it will even be of great use." But I don't like my daughter making friends with this kind of person. But I can't help it, Solan has grown up and started to have her own ideas, and there are some things that I can't control her anymore. Speaking of which, I don't even know how the two of them met..."

Sting shrugged: "It's very easy for young people to make friends, and if you say a few words that are like-minded, you are friends." Or maybe there's some kind of charm in Chino, like my brother, who went to Twilight a few months ago and came back to tell me that he had made a new friend and tried to get Chino to marry his daughter. I said to him right then – what? Brother, you sold your daughter in just two days? ”

Pertheus laughed and slapped his leg hard: "This guy Ray Sakhar, like my second son, likes to make friends everywhere. I have no doubt that they would even be willing to call a pig a brother if they looked at it right. ”

Sting: "Haha, anyway, it's not a bad thing to make friends. Chino is a person who has insufficient information at present, so it is worth waiting and seeing, and he can use it slowly if he has value. ”

Perseus: "I think the same as you. This time, he reported to me the smuggling props of salt crystal from abroad, and I promised to give him a reserve imperial guard. I've already said hello to the best ones, and if Chino chooses any of them, I'll have eyeliner next to him so I can keep an eye on him when the time comes. ”

Sting: "Old fox, you must have planted eyeliner next to me too, right?" ”

Perseus: "So what? ”

Sting: "Then I'll burn your eyebrows off with one fire!" ”

Pertheus: "Hah! You old thing, let me see if your strength is still there! ”

As he spoke, the king and the king's left hand began to wrestle their wrists like a child's vindictiveness, and of course no one could help anyone.

The two sat back in their seats, panting, laughing and cumping fists into each other.

Offstage, Chino was doing magic tricks on Solandelle, causing her to cheer incessantly, and Perseus looked at his daughter's smile and said softly to himself, "I wish I had aged slower, so that I could protect her longer." ”

The smile on Sting's face slowly faded, and his expression became serious, and he played with the wine glass in his hand, as if hesitating about something.

In the end, he bit his lip and said it anyway: "I heard a bad rumor in the royal city some time ago, I heard that the archbishop of the Crimson Church wants to marry the royal family and let his son marry Solandelle? ”