Allowing a child to have a small animal can still cultivate empathy very well, and as a possible future monarch, empathy is a very necessary thing to have.

It doesn't hurt except that the animals are a little bigger.

"Hmmm! This beef is delicious! ”

Arthur gobbled up the steak on the plate with a knife and fork, and the knife and fork made a crisp sound against the porcelain plate.

Compared to Arthur, Alicia is much more elegant, she sits upright, holding a knife in one hand and a fork in the other, eating in small bites.

"This is beef from Sasili, right?" Alicia said.

Char nodded, "Have you been?" ”

"I haven't been there, but I've eaten this beef." Alicia replied, "You're going to move over there?" I heard that the place is beautiful. ”

Char smiled, he seemed to be about to say something, the noise outside the window attracted his attention, and he turned his head to look out the window.

At this moment, the gate is in Eagle Point Town, and through the window, you can see the flow of people on the street, and there are many more people on the street than at this time in the past.

There are many strangers from other places in this town, and some of them are quite gorgeously dressed, just like the nobles of the imperial capital.

A young man dressed as a porter carries crates of wine up the ramp.

"Char! Look, what a big boat! ”

Arthur exclaimed.

On the sea behind the house opposite, a huge wooden sailing ship was docked by the harbor, with its huge curved stern and a huge mast in the bow. It was fitted with several sails on the foremast and midmast, and a spinnaker on the rearmast.

The tonnage should have been more than 600 tons, and the mixture of iron and wood was very impactful for this kind of ship, a long and large plank connected the ship to the port, and the porters on it were carrying goods one after another.

"Why are so many people here all of a sudden?" Char Road.

"Because the Dionysian sacrifice is about to begin." Alicia said behind her.

"Dionysian sacrifice?" Char recalled, as if he had indeed heard Mr. Foster mention it.

"What's that?"

"You can call it the Feast of Dionysus." Alicia said, "It was any festival in ancient Greco-Roman religion for Bacchus (Dionysus), the god of wine."

The festival has been around since ancient Greece and is held in Athens every March in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine.

The improvised song sung at the feast to the god of wine, Dionysus, is called the "Bacchus hymn".

At the end of February, the month of Anselstri is the month of Pleiades, and the first day of the festival is the opening of the fermented wine.

The next day is the Jug Festival, where people make bets on new wine at public feasts;

A secret sacrificial ritual was also held on this day - the highest prefect was to sacrifice his wife to Dionysus, the god of wine. ”

Char raised an eyebrow with a strange expression.

"But it's just a symbolic marriage ceremony." Alicia said.

"Then the third day is the Pot Burning Festival, where people put out a pot of cooked vegetables and offer it to the spirits of Hades and all the dead.

Finally, there is the month of Erafipoli, the beginning of March, during which the Great Dionysian festival is celebrated.

The boys parade and sing and dance. At sunset, people drink on deck chairs.

Tragedies and comedies are also staged at great expense for a wide audience, and the government will invite everyone to drink and eat meat to their heart's content, thus bringing the holiday spirit to its climax.

Although Greece and Rome have perished, Europe, including Britannia, is the successor of Rome, and some towns celebrate Dionysian festivals.

Eagle Point is also very famous, many nobles and merchants come here to participate, and every year on the Dionysian Festival, Eagle Point sells a lot of wine.

But the first two years were banned. ”

"Why ban such a fun festival?" Arthur asked.

"Because there are so many drunk people on the festival day, and the number of drunken people also skyrockets on such a base, almost every year there will be violence on Dionysian Day." Alicia said.

"That's what I heard from Mrs. Foster, but the wine of Eagle Horn has not been selling very well in recent years, and at the request of the townspeople, the Dionysian festival has been restarted this year."

Arthur's eyes were wide open, and his gaze was like a torch.

"When does it start!?"

"Today is the Pot Burning Festival." Alicia said, "Tomorrow is the Great Dionysian Sacrifice." ”

After a pause, she said, "But we can't participate, there's a wilderness witch on the street, isn't there?" ”

Alicia's words poured on Arthur's head mercilessly like a basin of cold water, extinguishing his excitement at the moment and making him instantly more depressed.

Then, with some exasperation, he said, "This damned witch of the wilderness! What a big badass! ”

The lion cub in his arms seemed to sense Arthur's wrath, and it opened its bloody mouth, baring its sharp teeth and letting out a milky roar.

"Whew!"

Alicia looked at Sonny a little strangely, "Is this really a cat?" Why is the cry so strange. ”

"It won't be strange when it grows up." Char said.

"Growing up?" Alicia was a little stunned and said, "Isn't this cat an adult?" ”

"Some cats are bigger, aren't they?" Char said.

Alicia nodded, "Well, I've heard that the largest Maine is more than a meter long." ”

Hearing that his cat would grow up, Arthur looked at the steak that was still left on the plate, and he fed it to the lion cub with a fork, and whispered.

"You have to eat more and grow up quickly."

Looking at this scene, Char smiled, it was the right choice to choose Sasili, the meat there is very cheap, after all, it is mainly animal husbandry.

In the future, if you want to raise this lion, you will have to buy a lot of meat.

Tonight's Eagle Point Town is no longer the quiet of the past, it has become noisy and lively, and the atmosphere of the festival is getting stronger and stronger.

For the people of this town, the Dionysian festival is the most important festival of the year, comparable to the Spring Festival, so everyone in every household will come out to help prepare.

Tonight will be a sleepless night, but the hustle and bustle of the festival seems to have nothing to do with the castle.

When they got up the next morning, the whole street was completely changed, and the street was hung with lanterns with ribbons.

The shops and stalls on the main street by the sea are all closed, not to mention the fish, not even a single fish bone can be seen.

The streets were crowded with people, and some even crowded to the door of the castle, and there was a lot of noise.

Arthur leaned against the window with the lion cub in his arms, trying to cling to the window to see the scenery from the main street.

Over there, a group of naked, muscular, bronzed-skinned, young men in ancient Greek uniforms sat on parade floats and slapped each other with swords and shields, and the sound of thumping was accompanied by war drums, as if they had seen the bravery of the Spartans at the hot springs more than a thousand years ago.

It is followed by several floats with peculiarly dressed dancers.

However, this is also the appetizer of the festival.

At the end of the parade of floats, on the plain swamps to the north, filled with food and wine, it will be an all-night party.