Chapter 9

"What a prestige."

The king's greeters stood outside tru castle, whispering.

There were nearly 300 people in the negotiation team, and the king's luxurious carriage was in the middle of the team. The carriage, which needs twelve tall horses to pull, is as wide as a small house. The oak skeleton of the carriage is plated with metal and glows in the sun. The scarlet Southern flannel covers the carriage and shakes gently as it moves.

"Don't be like a villager who hasn't seen the world before."

The person in front of him gave a smile.

He is a very handsome knight. His light golden hair is combed back meticulously, and his eyes are deep. If he is put in the upper class of the palace, there must be countless ladies who are obsessed with him. And he wore a robe with gold harp embroidery.

"Our king is not an ordinary person. It's said that when a large number of people were killed in the north because of the cold and hunger in winter, our noble king was asking people to make a carriage for him with gold."

"Why didn't he bring his golden carriage? Open the eyes of the brescians, so that the lion's mouth may be opened wider

The first person to speak sarcastically.

The king's Chamberlain had seen them.

The flag of the king's procession waved at them.

"Well, now let's meet your majesty."

The light blonde Knight ended the conversation. He drove the horse forward and the rest followed him.

In addition to the scholar judge who was in charge of the negotiation, there were a dozen scarlet caped armor guards in the procession. They surrounded the gorgeous carriage and separated the king from the others. Those are the king's vows, knights. However, in front of the more than a dozen armored guards, there were three people in different clothes.

"Sheen."

The three recognized the oncoming Golden Knight, and they greeted him with a smile.

The Golden Knight's ushers rolled off and the king's procession stopped. After a long journey, people get a long lost breath. The more than a dozen armored guards were on both sides, and the housekeeper came forward and respectfully lifted the curtain of the carriage. A hand with a rose ring stretched out from behind the scarlet flannel.

The iron rose with dark gold is inlaid with dark red gem in the center, which is the badge of the royal family of Legrand.

But this noble and gorgeous ring has become a foil at this time. The hand wearing it is more noble. It is like the dew on the rose. The hand was as white as the cold jade sent across the sea. It was not as small as ladies, nor as thick as men. It was symmetrical and slender. It was beautiful everywhere.

The blonde Knight knelt on one knee, took the hand from the carriage, and kissed the iron rose ring on it.

"For your health. Your majesty. "

The king came down from the carriage.

This is the first time many of the greeters have seen their majesty the king.

It can be said that if we don't think about his "great achievements", many people will be willing to be loyal to such a king, because he really seems to be the head of the dazzling court watered by dignity and luxury, and the most eye-catching one in the bizarre court.

The king's shoulders were covered with a scarlet cloak, inside was a dark red Satin Robe, decorated with gold buttons shaped like roses, three layers of white lace were turned out at the neckline, and brilliant diamonds were inlaid on the lace, dazzling. The crown inlaid with many gems was worn on his silver hair, and his face was as delicate as the diamond on his body.

Maybe we can't find a second handsome teenager like him in the whole of Legrand.

A luxury rose that brings death.

The Golden Knight thought, guide the king.

At the end of the formal meeting ceremony, the negotiation mission led by the king himself passed the lowered suspension bridge and entered the city of tru. You can see that they did a little work to meet the king. The shops in the castle are decorated with red cloth strips, and the people accompanying them are wearing a bright red rose on their chest.

The owner of TRU castle, the Golden Knight, Baron Hearn.

Baron Hearn told the king that dinner and opera had been prepared for you.

The people of the Legrand Empire all know that their kings loved costumes and banquets, and loved all grand displays and elegant operas.

I just don't know why those operas in praise of Mingjun didn't make him kind.

All in all, if you want to make the irascible King feel better, there must be no mistake in preparing more banquets and operas.

Unexpectedly, the king turned down the banquet and opera coldly this time.

In the hall of TRU castle, the king wiped his hands with a white handkerchief. He looked up casually at Marquis Hearn, the owner of the castle: "do you think the opera here has a first-class artistic standard?"

He said it in a soft, casual tone, with a natural sense.

The well prepared greeting gift is ignored. What's the reaction of the people in charge of TRU castle? How can they react?——They could only keep smiling and apologizing to the king in fear.

"Take me up to the tower. I want to see the castle."

The king ordered.

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The tower is very high, from which you can overlook the whole castle, including the mountains and grasslands outside.

Zhu Chi stood on the tower, his hand on the stone window. Thanks to his warm scarlet cloak, he could not be frozen by the cold at the top of the tower. The cold wind seemed to make his pupils, which were hard to bring warmth, more and more ice blue.

Baron Hearn, the owner of TRU castle, was at his side, introducing the history of the castle to him.

Zhu Chi is not interested in the long family history. He looks at the whole condition of TRU castle.

"Tru" means "beautiful castle" in the language of the kingdom of Legrand. It is a strong fortress to defend the city of TRU, and it is also the military battlefield front to deal with the brescian expeditionary army. In front of TRU castle is the deep and fast DOMA river. The king observed that two giant stone fortresses were built on wetlands formed by tributaries of the doma river.

A wooden bridge across the river is controlled by the castle turret. If the enemy comes from the front, the bridge will be suspended.

Taking the castle as the starting point, looking ahead, it is a gentle undulating grassland. On the far west side of the grassland, there is a dark green forest - there is already the fluctuating konosen mountains.

After observing the whole terrain, the king looked back and looked down slightly.

His silver hair was blown by the wind on the high platform.

“…… When spring comes, the grassland in front will be decorated with beautiful SANA flowers... "

Baron Hearn can be called a noble with elegant demeanor. He has been well educated in literature. He is good at sketching beautiful pictures with simple words.

But the king listened quietly for a long time and didn't get anything he wanted to know.

But the king did not interrupt him, and occasionally asked a question or two.

The king held the windowsill and looked down on the inside of the castle. The king's eyes fell to a place, he suddenly interrupted Baron Hearn's endless talk: "how about your military expenditure?"

He seemed to ask carelessly.

Baron Sheen's look was a little gloomy for a moment, but the golden Baron soon covered up his gaffe and still had a bright smile: "thanks to your majesty, the soldiers have just enjoyed this year's turkey feast. I thank your majesty for them."

"Is it?" The king straightened up, as if he didn't care what he asked casually. "That's great."

The young king's moods are always changeable.

He was the one who said he wanted to enjoy the beauty of TRU castle, and he was also the one who soon got tired of going back to his room. Baron Hearn obeyed and led the king downstairs to the room where warm wood was burning.

After a while.

Baron Hearn hastily returned to the tower. He stood where the king had just stood and looked down with some doubt to find out what the king had just seen.

Below is a low stone house, which looks no different from usual.

“…… It's me. "

He was relieved.

At the same time.

"It's wonderful."

The king was in his room, standing in front of the window, taking away the light and casual of the day. He looked at the ice flowers on the window without expression, as if seeing things in the distance through the ice flowers.

"My faithful Lord."

Just now, when he was standing in the tower looking down, he saw a soldier dragging a slaughtered horse quickly through the stone house.

Under what circumstances do cavalry kill horses that are extremely important to them?

There is no food, when death is approaching.

The cold mask returned to the king's face.

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Negotiations began the day after the king arrived at tru castle.

The king's procession passed through the wooden bridge in front of TRU's castle to the grassland to the north.

The negotiation took place in a low-lying area between Yuehe fortress and tru castle. The tributaries of the doma River meander through the water and grass, forming a no man's land.

Peace agreements are usually held in such places.

The Golden Knight Baron Hearn stood on the tower, waving goodbye to the negotiating mission.

"Goodbye, my king."

The Baron has an impeccable smile.

In the evening.

The tent was set up on the grass between Yuehe fort and tru castle. The tent at one end is red, which is the Empire of Legrand ruled by the rose family. One end is blue, which is the kingdom of Blaise ruled by the tulip family.

The boundary is clear.

The teams of the two sides met face to face, and the tall and mighty general Blaise shook hands symbolically with the king in his scarlet cloak. Zhu Chi noticed that behind the general stood a pale and thin young man.He looked back and said succinctly, "let's go."

The negotiation began.

The purpose of the negotiations is for both sides to strive for the favorable conditions for themselves and to end the war. The experienced lawyers were fighting, but as one of the most important people, King Legrand rarely appeared at the negotiation table.

The king, accompanied by the knights, spread out not far from the negotiation site.

This made the negotiation ministers shake their heads secretly.

On the afternoon of the second day of negotiation, the king met another man on the grass where he often went.

The man in black rose from the grass and courteously saluted the king on the horse.

The king recognized him.

It was the young man who stood behind general Blaise on the expedition that day.

"You came to see me on purpose."

The king dismounted and told the knights to step back a little.

"Your Majesty is not worried that I will assassinate you?" The young man reminded him, "the kingdom of Blaise and the kingdom of Legrand are mortal enemies."