April 12, 1316, Florence, Latan Village.

The Council of Nobles had earlier decided that because of the increasing number of people in the estate where Bran's grandson was located, it would redivide the area and set up an additional village.

This village is one word worse than the Rabi village where the mercenary group is located, and the village chief is served by Bran, who has no salary, but it is not in the way, and Bran doesn't care about this.

After perceiving the contact between the Quake family and the North Africans, and the pressure on themselves, the relationship between the two parties became more estranged.

Bran consulted with his grandfather and took advantage of the opportunity to go to Swabia as an inspector to open up the kingdom contacts and ask to marry the royal daughter.

Bran asked the consignor to procure, gauze from Tianzhu, Abbasid carpets, more tea, handicrafts, ivory from the south and other precious items have all been received.

These will be given as a dowry.

The princess of Alan brought back was handed over to Marlene courtesy to guard. Marlene is thoughtful and gets along well with Alain.

After five days at the manor, Alain finally understood who the young man was, it turned out to be one of the "great families", the Charman family, Bohemia and Venice are far away, and there is no conflict of interest between the two parties, plus the Duchy of Venice disappeared before Alain was born, so her knowledge of the Charman family is only here.

She had read the book of heroes, so she also knew that the Seven Star Sword, one of the five swords, was in the hands of the Charman family, and the idea of wanting to take a look at it rose in her heart, but she still endured it and didn't ask.

She lived in Bran's house, separated by several walls, and Alain could only see the peasants and workers from the window every day, so Marlene often went in to talk to her.

The place was clean, not dirty at all, the faces of the villagers looked very energetic, and there was no rot on the ground. Many green trees are also planted, and by the time they are fully grown, the village will definitely be more tranquil and beautiful.

The landlocked country does not see the ocean, and the smell of the sea breeze makes Alain feel free. It seemed to blow away some of her sorrows.

However, there are still a few rooms in this village, and black smoke is always emitting, destroying the harmonious blue sky and white clouds.

She asked Marlene, but the latter only shook her head and chuckled, saying that it was a worker's place assigned by His Highness (Bran), and she didn't understand any of them.

There was a lot of white and smooth paper in the room, and Bran had told himself that he could paint or write, but Alain was not interested in either.

She was keen on companionship, and these things were only used by Marlene in Bran's manor, so the two talked for a long time.

Every day, merchants bring their foals and donkeys to buy and deliver goods.

One of them was the gray bamboo that Alain and her unmarried husband Münster saw when they traveled south from Bavaria on the Alpine trails.

Alain felt that there seemed to be something strange hidden in the village.

At present, in the entire manor, except for Marlene and Carol, only grandfather Howard has seen Alain's appearance completely.

"From Ireland to Khitan...... Beauty is known to everyone. ”

This made Howard very curious, when the princess Alain revealed her true face to him.

Howard didn't speak, but first admired it with an innocent gaze.

People are so beautiful, just like the perfect statues carved by famous masters.

The old duke had the lute fetched, like a bard, get up and walk around, and play and sing alone.

Bran helped his grandfather make a fit.

"I saw a beautiful young girl come to me alone, she turned into a wisp of wind and tugged at my heartstrings......"

Howard was highly musically literate, and often played and sang to aristocratic women when he was young.

After a few glasses of hot wine, it will linger all night.

The voice of the former Grand Duke was low and charming, and the princess of Alain accepted the praise generously, not shy at all.

The two even danced for a short time.

Alain's beauty made him accustomed to being complimented, and he was even ready to wait for his hand to be raised for Howard to kiss.

At the end of the song, Alain said politely, "Your voice is very good. ”

Then her slender jade hand was raised, but Howard didn't intend to move, and the kiss needed to be bowed. After the age of twenty-five, he no longer wanted to bow down to a woman.

Alain was indeed beautiful, but after Bran said she was worth it, Howard valued the Roland Holy Sword even more.

The official language spoken in Bohemia is "Slavic".

Howard would say that he couldn't write, and could communicate directly with Alain.

Bran was willing to give Alain over to his grandfather, after all, the two grandparents had the same heart.

Howard used a side-knocking method to ask where the information about the Roland Sword that Alan had come from?

But Alain didn't let go.

The question was fruitless, so Howard put the question first.

On April 16, 1316, the day before Bran and Howard were about to leave for Swabian, news came from Frank that his second uncle, Geshut Leonard, had died!

This bad news made Howard extremely sad, he and the old Marquis Leonard, who had passed away for many years, met in Rome, and the two drank and hunted together and wrote poetry.

When Cardinal Merlin was promoted, he also relied on the help of the old marquis to get the support of Cardinal Frank when he voted, making Venice one of the cardinals.

That's why the cardinal protected himself later.

Not to mention, after losing the country, this in-laws spent a huge fortune and pulled thousands of troops to help them attack Venice, and this favor must be repaid.

Howard has been working the matter of Gexiu, and once contacted the Duke of Aquitaine, the court minister of the Franks, but there was no follow-up.

"Around the castle left by Ge Xiu, there are tombs of the ancestors of the Leonard family, who will inherit the castle?"

He himself had lived in the castle, and it was from there that his son Hansen (Bran's father) had married back to Bran's mother.

Howard questioned the person who brought the information back, and the person couldn't answer clearly.

Howard then consulted with Bran to inquire about whether there was a way for the Leonard family to inherit it.

Bran nodded in response, "Grandfather, when we settle the matter of Swabia, I will use my connections in the Knights, and the bishops I know in Rome will help me connect with the nobles of the Franks, and I will find a way to exonerate the second uncle." ”

"Okay, great."

Howard was relieved that Bran valued the family's "legitimate" blood relatives.

When I set off, my grandparents and grandchildren were together.

When the nobles got married, there would be an introducer in the middle, and Howard wrote a few letters to invite a few big nobles, but in the end there was no reply, so he decided to say it himself.

There were also Carols, Marlene, Jack, Desley and others with them, and the down-and-out knight Ambu was also there.

The seven-star sword is also carried, and wherever the master goes, the sword will go.

The main carriage was enlarged to four and could seat six people inside.

But only Marlene and Howard, as well as the princess Alain, helped to guard the hostages, and Bran rode horses.

It was an overland route to the north, not by boat from the seaport east of Florence, which would pass through the territory of the Duke of Never. Or traverse a different path that is more difficult to take.