February 2, 877 A.D.

The carriage of Southamp enters the Mercian territory.

But it's not popular, his identity is the royal housekeeper, and here, it has nothing to do with the royal family,

The large and small lords of the original Mercia divided most of the land, and they only paid taxes, and for the nobles of Northumbria, they did not touch if they could.

Southamp searched for the Prince, but received no useful information, so he had to follow the main road south until he approached the border of Nolan City on the side of the Flying Serpent.

The city changed hands repeatedly, and now it was back in the hands of the Confederate army.

The soldiers admonished Southamp that they had crossed the range of the Crown Prince's disappearance and that they should shrink their lines?

But Southamp denounced: "How long have you been looking for the missing area, and how many times? His Highness must have left to a safe place, and if he succeeds in returning to the borders of our country, he will definitely come out,

It's more likely that he went south, although he doesn't know why, but as long as he dares to enter the Flying Snake Realm, he will definitely reap the rewards."

The old man was very stubborn, and the soldiers didn't want to go, but they couldn't disobey it.

The people sent by Orlan to protect Southamp did not dare to force them back, so they asked the border merchants to patrol around Nolan City.

The crown prince has been missing for more than seven months, and many merchants on the border have made a fortune from it.

At first, when they returned, where did they see the two children, and they made a profit, and after a long time, they were all fakes, and the unlucky ones were directly dragged out and executed by the nobles of the two armies.

Not many people dare to talk about it now.

The border merchant received the benefits, and he was not enthusiastic, and Nanamp waited for another half a month.

He discarded his aristocratic costume and transformed himself into a peasant, wearing dirt boots with dung sticking to it, and his coat was shabby and coarse.

He found a merchant to be his guide and told him, "Take me deep into the south, we will search county by county, village by village, and if you can find people, you will get everything I have in the north."

All?

It sounds like a fortune full of temptation, but what if Nanamp dies along the way?

No one wanted to, so he turned back in anger and went to another town, searched in many ways, and found a family who had fled from the south to the north and had been executed for theft.

In this day and age, stealing is no different from killing someone.

This man was a grocer, but because of the sacking of the South by the Northern Army, he lost everything and became a beggar, wandering with his family.

As the Northern Army controlled more territory, he also became a subordinate of the Northern Army.

Two eggs dragged him to the guillotine, and his wife and daughter were dragged out for the villagers to beat and scold.

If nothing else, they will be swallowed by a vicious man tonight.

When asked about all this, Nanamp's satisfied mouth could not be closed, he walked up to the villagers and pointed to the executioner: "The kingdom decrees that non-wounding felonies can be fined, and I will buy him."

The strange nobleman who suddenly appeared, with a strong man with a sword, the knife never fell.

Nanamp dropped the money bag, regardless of whether the villagers took it or not, and turned to the prisoner again: "Do you know the way to the south?"

"Yes, my lord, I've walked back and forth on these legs, at least seven times in Wessex."

"Great, I bought you, you take me back, your family stays here, if you have bad intentions, I will turn your wife and daughter into wandering girls, and finally kill them, bury their bones in the dung pit, and if you are obedient, they will be human again."

Southamp took the family, asked the surrounding small lords, and found a knight camp close to Adesha.

As the Grand Magistrate of the Kingdom, Adesha was able to openly supervise many manor towns across the country, and in the past few years, the small lord she had seen was second only to Orlan in the kingdom.

Adesha and Nanamp both belong to the Edwardians, and they dare not neglect the arrival of Nanamp.

"Don't talk nonsense, I gave you these two mothers and daughters, and now I want you two huts, a few poultry, a piece of land to feed their mother and daughter, and five months of wheat to them."

The knight did so, and in one day he cleared a house and came out.

The mother and daughter also got the status card and became free people.

Nanamp looked at the criminals with the little white light out of the corner of his eye: "I have helped you take care of them, even if you and I die on the road, the lives of their mothers and daughters will not be affected, if you can commit crimes for them, then their lives must be more important than yours."

For me, the person I'm looking for is ten times more important than me.

If we can't come back, your wife and daughter will be free for the rest of your life.

If it's just you coming back, then your family of three will go to the hanging platform."

Southamp thought very clearly, in order to be afraid that this person would escape halfway, or rebel, he used this kind of restriction to allow the entire adventure to be effectively controlled by himself.

The criminals agreed, and then Southamp took advantage of the night to let the man take him, break the soldiers, and turn into real fugitive peasants, and secretly enter the south.

"I'm looking for two children."

This sentence lets the criminals know who the target is!

But it is rumored that the crown prince is dead......

But anyway, when he thinks of his wife and daughter, he works hard.

He pretended to be the son of Southamp, used a cart, carried his father, relied on a southern accent, and took a very hidden path into the south, perfectly avoiding interrogation.

Soon, they were inside the perimeter of Winchester.

Here, Southamp saw Alfred standing on a high platform one day, speaking to everyone.

"You say, is he a good king?" Southamp suddenly asked the criminal.

"Yes...... Yes."

"Fart, there's only one true king!"

On the windowsill of the hotel, Southamp used the cane in his hand to hit the ground hard.

His mental state was becoming more and more unstable, and he was afraid that if he suddenly fell, then His Highness would have no one to help.

"Let's keep walking."

The criminal could not refuse Nanamp's request, but he could not walk much in a day when he was pushed to travel.

The two of them continued to inquire quietly for a month before they left Winchester, and on that day they entered the outskirts of a forest.

When they encounter a group of wandering criminals, the two lose everything, leaving them with their clothes so that they can wait until the night to freeze to death.

The criminal had a gadget given by his wife, and he tried his best to grab it, but he was pierced by an embroidered dung fork, and his intestines were about to flow out......

He didn't have time to say anything, and lay on the ground, letting Southamp scream.

One day, two days, three days, an old madman in rags, with half-white hair, walked and crawled in the forest, with only one breath left.

There are no large animals in this forest that are too vicious, otherwise he would have been bitten to death on the first day.

He was so thirsty, so thirsty.

Just as he was about to close his eyes, someone took a water bag and dipped it on his lips, pulling him back to the edge of reality.

He saw Credo......

He couldn't tell if it was real or hallucination, and then he heard Credo shout, and soon a strong man came up,

This man was very strong, and lifted himself up.

When he woke up again, Edward was looking at him in a rudimentary forest hut.

"Is this true......

"Why are you here?"

As Edward's voice became clear, Southamp cried unadulterously, and crawled up to Edward's side, bowing his head and kissing the back of his hand.

He shouted His Highness, His Highness.

He did his best to explain the whole thing.

After getting through the initial difficulties, Edward and the other two were already able to adapt to the wilderness, and the most important thing was the protection of a knight who was still strong in arms.

They marched through the mountains and forests, and at last they came here, intending to escape from the north while the Winchester service was taking place this month.

If Southamp doesn't come, sooner or later the three of them will be able to return safely to the north.

At this time, it appears, but becomes a burden,

However, such a loyal behavior still shocked the two except Edward.

After Nanamp said everything, the light in his eyes slowly dimmed like a burned candle.

"I have done it, to your mother's last wishes, Your Highness......

Two hours later, Southamp was chilled and motionless.

Edward didn't speak, but dug the grave with all his might, and left a mark: "This is your resting place, I will move you back in the future, and after conquering this land, this is your fiefdom, and I will find someone to pass it on to you."

Eight days later, they walked out of the area and managed to escape from the Flying Snake surveillance net.

When the first flag of the Northern Army appeared in front of them, they were not happy and pretended to be civilians to pass.

At this time, for the crown prince's search, the people on the border were no longer at ease.

They passed through several border towns before finally returning to Southamp, the Knights of the Adesha Clan.

The closer they got here, the faster they walked, even overnight.

That morning, Edward finally returned to safety.

He followed the guidance of the villagers and came to the manor of the local knight.

After the knight Yegor frightened the servant away with his eyes, he saw the lord of the manor.

He was short and stocky, and compared to Yegor, he was far from it.

Edward said, "Southamp is dead."

Then he motioned for him to shut up and walked into his big room generously.

The knight told the servant of the house that he was not allowed to move, and then returned to the house, and when he had determined his identity, he fell to his knees.

"Is the criminal's daughter still there? Nanamp said that she will also be her own daughter in the future, because her biological father died to protect Nanamp from those homeless people."

"Yes."

"For those who are benevolent and meritorious, I will practice the Dharma and good thoughts, and for those who are harmful and evil, I will practice strict law and righteousness."

The Fat Knight didn't understand this, but soon understood, and Edward told him to contact Adesha, and then go to the nearest royal territory to take over the branch army of the Knights Hospitaller.

There is a fifty-man Knights Hospitaller around here.

When Yegor and Credo took the letter (the son of Kunsan had seen it) and brought them back, Edward was finally able to speak loudly!

Gliese's men have hunted down and killed themselves before.

He remembered.

The direction he chose to detour was Yorkshire, and he only needed a rider to rush through the night, and when he arrived in Yorkshire, the whole kingdom already knew that the prince was back, especially Adesha, and also brought out all the guards to meet him.

At this moment, in the main city of Yorkshire, when Gliese saw Edward and the Knights Hospitaller Eagle Banner behind him, he asked people to lower the drawbridge and welcome the prince in.

Edward looked left and right and asked, "What does the British Crown Law say?"

The surroundings didn't understand, and he told Credo to shout, and the people in the castle didn't understand, until one of the Knights' Legion came up with a response: "Is it a liege duty?"

"Not bad."

"Though the king is not there, his prince is coming, as he is."

After the monk read it aloud with Edward's consent, Gliese's face changed a little on the city wall.

"All the people in the city came out to me, and knelt down and prostrate."

Father, haven't you always wanted to train me to be a true lord?

I will be in this time, there will be revenge, everyone is my slave!

Hearing three kneeling and nine knocks, Gliese became angry and a little murderous.

Even your father wouldn't dare do that to me, you stinky boy!

Gliese refused, Edward's lazy nonsense, and directly ordered his subordinates to take over the nearest manor on the spot.

Killed directly for treason!

Five hours later, Edward had the heads of seven soldiers brought in carts and dumped outside the main city.

It was sprinkled with salt to keep it from stinking, and the messenger left a message: This is the end of the traitor.

He also warned Gliese that before he came to bow down to Edward himself, he would send new men with them to the nine frontier territories of the kingdom.

"The sin of rebellion against the Lord is preached on the first nine sides."

If you have the guts, kill me, or I will depose you one by one.

At this time, Edward was very calm and wanted to deal with his father and his father's minister!

When Alyon came as a lobbyist, Edward didn't give him any face, "You just gave birth to my father's blood in the belly, he can find as many women as he wants, what are you?"

He then told Yegor that the new village was his.

Yegor was frightened by a series of actions and did not dare to accept it, but was sarcastically ridiculed by Edward: "What are you afraid of? O land, the beloved thing of the nobility, hahaha......"

Before Alyon left, he was warned by Edward, "You are just my father's house slave, and next time you dare to be rude to me, I will kill you!"

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