The white dove fluttered its wings and flew northward, spanning thousands of miles, and finally reached its destination.
Although summer is coming, the northern part of the plateau is still a bit cold.
The white dove is flying in the vast sky, and its small eyes are looking down at the earth.
In just a few short years, the northern land has undergone many changes.
A broad road came from the south and led straight to the northern fortress.
Most places in the north are sparsely populated and quite desolate, but with the completion of this road, tens of thousands of people who have been released from slave status have come here.
Because the land here is vast and sparsely populated, and the fields are much cheaper than those in the south. In addition, the people in the north are open-minded, and the contempt for slaves is not as serious as that in the south. Therefore, many people choose to buy fields here and settle down.
With people and spacious roads, the caravans who didn't like to come to the north in the past also followed.
As a result, the northern border became more and more prosperous.
The biggest change is still at the border of the north. In the past few years, with the support of King Garland's large sums of money, high walls and small fortresses have been erected. The interior is surrounded like iron barrels.
In previous years, although there were two major legions guarding the northern border, they were unable to guard the entire northern border.
The Geshu came here to plunder food and supplies, plundered everywhere, and ran away after the looting. Even if the army rushed to rescue afterwards, the town or village would have been destroyed, the grain, cattle and sheep had been looted, and many civilians had been killed or looted. Go and become a slave of the Geshu.
This is one of the reasons why the North is sparsely populated.
Few would want to live in a place that could be plundered by foreigners at any time, if it were not for the inability to move because of poverty.
And now, with the erection of high walls and fortresses, the Gashru are free to invade less and less and cause less and less damage to the northern towns.
The people of the northern border feel that they are more stable every year, and the situation of wanton plundering by the Gishul people is much less.
In this way, life has stabilized, and with the prosperity of the economy, life is getting better day by day, life is full of hope, and the smiles on their faces are much more.
When the white dove just flew to the northern fortress, suddenly a black shadow rolled up and rushed towards it.
The breath of the bird of prey made it scream in panic.
However, the pounced black eagle just circled around it, glanced at it, and then disappeared with a flutter of wings.
The white dove that escaped from the eagle's claws quickly flapped its wings and flew to its destination, the largest and tallest building in the northern fortress.
It wandered around, and then fell into the hands of the man who was already standing on the open-air balcony, making a cheerful cooing sound at the man.
Just grunted, a stern look stared at it, the black eagle it encountered just now was actually in the room, so frightened that it shrank into the man's arms.
The big brown hand touched it, then took off the thin copper tube tied to its legs and put it in the cage on the side.
Although there was food and water in the birdcage, the black eagle was staring at him not far away. The little white dove, who was too scared, curled up in a corner, didn't dare to move, and looked pitiful.
There was also a cold wind blowing from the balcony, and the dark hair swept across the scar at the corner of the tall man's eye.
The fingers that had just unfolded the small note suddenly exerted force, almost rubbing the branches between the fingers.
The man's thin lips were pressed into a straight line.
Beneath the endlessly fluttering black hair, the flame-like golden-red eyes were terrifyingly bright.
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A blast of news spread throughout Aaron Landis within days.
The palace of Aaron Landis will hold a grand celebration and banquet on the Flower Royal Festival a week later.
Flower Festival.
The last day of spring.
The flowers are about to fall, and that is the most beautiful day before the flowers of spring are about to wither.
According to legend, when the goddess of spring was about to leave the earth on this day, she met Aphdomil, the goddess of love and beauty who came to the earth just on this day.
Aphrodite is also the goddess of flowers, in charge of the blooming of all flowers, she is fascinated by the beauty of the goddess of spring, and let all the flowers bloom on this day for the goddess of spring.
The goddess of spring is also moved by the beauty of the flower god.
They swam hand in hand on the land of blooming flowers and spent a beautiful day.
After this day, the goddess of spring leaves the earth.
The goddess of flowers, Avtomir, who watched the goddess of spring leave, was very sad because of this, so, just one day later, hundreds of flowers on the ground withered.
Since then, every year on this day, Aphrodite will come to the earth to meet the departing goddess of spring.
Flower Royal.
It means that the flowers bloom to the most brilliant and beautiful moment and are about to wither.
The folks of Aaron Landis hold a lively celebration every year on this day, decorating the city with blooming flowers.
This is the most anticipated celebration for young men and women.
The festival of Hanami Festival is the best time to express your love to your loved ones.
Although this festival is held every year in various cities and people, the palace has rarely held this celebration for so many years.
Because the Royal Palace's Flower Royal Festival is a ceremony to choose a concubine for King Aaron Landis.
The last time the palace held this celebration was more than a hundred years ago.
Therefore, after so many years, as soon as the news that the palace will hold the Flower Royal Festival celebration spread, it immediately caused an uproar on the earth.
So, on the land of Aaron Landis, countless noble girls rushed to the royal city from the south and the north.
Even noble girls from other countries were moved by the wind and headed to Aaron Landis one after another.
King of Garland.
This is a wise and decisive young king who ascended the throne at the age of a teenager.
He not only defeated the invaders on the battlefield and saved Aaron Landis, but also ruled the entire Aaron Landis to prosperity in just five years on the throne.
Today, Aaron Landis is strong and prosperous, and King Gallan is loved by the people in the name of wiseness.
Of course, such a young king, who is literate and martial, has long since become the dream lover of countless women.
Whether it was with the admiration of a young girl, or with the ambition to become a princess with one person and more than ten thousand people, countless noble ladies rushed over.
Of course, not everyone can participate in the Royal Palace's Flower Royal Festival. As the candidates for the princess, the ladies must also have a high status.
Rao is so, in just one week, nearly a hundred noble women came from all over and even from other countries.
For a time, not only the flowers were blooming in the royal city, but also the birds and swallows were clustered together.
The maids and servants in the palace were harassed, and they were constantly being inquired about the women that King Garlan liked.
Numerous noble ladies seem to have smiles like flowers, and their every move is dignified and elegant, but each and everyone is secretly gearing up, vowing to show their most beautiful side at the Huayu Festival celebration, to win the heart of King Garlan, and to take it. The location of Princess Aaron Landis.
Although the people in the royal city were not allowed to participate in the Flower Royal Festival in the royal palace, they still talked about it with relish.
They happily guessed which beautiful girl could win the heart of King Garlan.
Because they care too much about their young king's choice of concubine, the people of the king city don't care much about their own folk celebrations, they just gossip all kinds of gossip from the palace.
In such a lively atmosphere, the Flower Festival came.
On this day, countless flowers adorn the whole city, and every place in the royal city is full of flowers.
People's laughter and laughter resounded in the city, on the streets, in the gardens, and in the market. People, men, women and children, holding flowers were everywhere.
Soon, night falls.
Tonight is a night where the moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and the water-like moonlight scatters on the earth.
The semi-suspended open-air garden in the palace was brightly lit at the moment, and the crowd was crowded.
In this exquisite sky courtyard, flowers and trees are subtly dotted among various buildings.
It is when the flowers are in full bloom, when this aerial flower garden is the most beautiful, walking in it is like being in a sea of flowers.
Delicate flowers bloom in the night, and the open-air courtyard under the moonlight is decorated like a fairy garden, which is very beautiful.
The beautiful girls walked through the flower garden with light steps.
In the lanterns, they spent a whole day carefully depicting their delicate and flawless faces. The golden accessories slammed into their hair and slender wrists to make a crisp sound, and the gorgeous long skirts that swayed like butterfly wings as they walked. Shenghui.
The beautiful girls actually suppressed the blooming flowers around them.
The so-called blooming flowers is just like that.
It is dizzying and dazzling.
King Garlan had not yet appeared in the flower banquet, and all the beautiful girls were still gathering in groups of three or five, chatting in a low voice, and making soft laughter.
Among the crowd, a young girl with fluffy flaxen curly hair looked at the people around her without paying attention, quietly retreated to one side, and left the lively flower garden along the stone steps next to her.
It seemed that he wanted to hide in a remote place.
She just walked a few steps quietly, and on the other side, the baby-faced girl who came with her from the southwestern city of Valia to the royal city saw the appearance of her friend secretly leaving, and quickly chased after her.
"Lea, where are you going?"
Quickly chasing after her friend, the baby-faced girl asked suspiciously.
"Shh."
Leia quickly made a small gesture.
The baby-faced girl nodded obediently and lowered her voice.
"King Garland is coming soon, where are you going?"
She said expectantly,
"We finally got to see His Majesty with our own eyes. I heard that he is very good-looking."
"Not 'us', I know King Garland is your dream lover, but I'm not interested in him."
Leia decisively distanced herself from her friend.
As soon as she turned around, her long wavy flaxen hair fluttered in the dark night, and her long skirt also fluttered.
She raised her eyebrows and glanced sideways at her friend.
"Don't worry, I was so tired of being talked about by my father, I had no choice but to come to the king's city. I just came here to play."
"But everyone wants to marry King Garlan and become a princess, why don't you?"
"Forget it, I'm not interested in the position of the princess."
Leia walked forward quickly, looking up at the bright moon in the night sky.
"Compared to being a princess, it is my yearning to find a true lover to stay with for the rest of my life."
"Well, is it like in those stories you often read, Leia?"
"That's right."
The girl's eyes shone in the dark, her hands clasped in front of her chest, and her eyes were full of hope for love.
"I believe that I must have a lover who is destined, and that Avdomir will bring him to me."
"Maybe in the near future, maybe tomorrow, maybe tonight, he'll be in front of me."
"This will be a fateful encounter—"
After saying that, Leia turned around and said to her friend with a smile.
"That's why I don't want to be the victim of a political marriage, and I definitely don't want to marry that King Garland. So, you can rest assured to fight for King Garland's heart. I will never snatch it from you."
"I don't want to participate in this celebration, so I left first. If anyone asks me, you can help me cover up and say that I'm not feeling well and go to the side to rest."
After explaining to her friend, she, who was standing beside the stone fence, looked down.
Well, it's not very high, and she can handle it as she often climbs trees and windows.
Thinking of taking a shortcut to avoid others, Leia simply pulled up her long skirt, climbed up the stone fence, and jumped from here to the bottom.
"Wait, wait, Leia, don't jump, it's dangerous."
"It's okay, I often jump out of the window at home."
When she was done, she jumped down.
But the next second, she suddenly saw someone walking out of the shadows under the stairs.
She was startled, and before she had time to withdraw, her body had already jumped down, and that person was below her.
Oops!
about to hit!
Seeing that she was about to bump into that person, Leia subconsciously closed her eyes.
At this moment, a hand stretched out and caught her firmly.
Leia, whose body was hugged horizontally, was a little stunned.
She opened her eyes and looked at the man who had caught her.
puff.
At this moment, it seemed that a huge beating sound could be heard from his chest.
The girl's pupils reflected the person holding her, and there seemed to be stars shining in the bottom of her eyes.
Aphrodite ah...
Is this your guide.
You brought him to me.
Under this beautiful moonlight, under this boundless starry sky.
This is a fateful encounter.
Although it is only a short moment, but at the moment when our eyes meet, we seem to have crossed the time of thousands of years...
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When King Garlan appeared in the celebration, the noisy flower garden was silent for a moment.
Many ladies who saw him for the first time were momentarily absent-minded.
The young king came in the moonlight.
Long golden hair scattered in the dark night.
A soft fire glowed on his face.
The moonlight is like water, pouring over the earth.
No need for any superfluous description.
Everyone in the world said that the beauty of King Garlan's appearance is unparalleled in the world.
This sentence alone is worth more than a thousand words.
The banquet in the flower garden continued, but it was much quieter than before.
King Garlan sat on the seat with a peaceful expression, holding a glass of juice in his hand.
Before King Garlan came, many noble ladies who had vowed to win the throne of the princess secretly watched him during the banquet, but for some reason, they couldn't get the courage to approach him.
Therefore, they could only aim at Garlan while trying to build their own mentality so that they would have the courage to lean over.
The girls didn't move, and Garlan sat still.
In this way, in the imagination of the ministers, the scene where King Gallan would be surrounded by many beautiful girls and fall into the land of gentleness did not happen.
The scene fell into a stalemate for a time, which made them very helpless.
But they couldn't put their faces down to imply that the ladies were approaching King Garland, so they could only be anxious.
Just when all the ministers were anxious, this stalemate was finally broken.
The girl with long flaxen curly hair stepped forward and walked towards King Garlan.
Her actions caught the attention of everyone around.
All the ministers showed joy and gave him encouraging eyes.
The other noble ladies around, seeing that others had taken the lead, all showed unwilling or nervous expressions.
Leia, who hurried over after changing the soiled dress, didn't pay attention to the gazes from all around her, and now only Garlan was in her eyes.
With sparkling eyes, she walked towards Garlan with a light step full of joy.
"I… "
Just when she uttered a word.
Suddenly, a silver light flashed across the night sky, with a blistering wind.
A bang.
A sharp sword fell from the sky.
Under the watchful eyes of the public, the sword body sank deeply into the ground.
The part that was exposed to the ground trembled because of the powerful force remaining on it, making a humming sound.
That sword was right in front of Leia.
Crack the stone ground.
Abruptly cut off Leia's path to Gallan.
Suojia, who was drinking silently by the side, saw the sword, and his heart suddenly froze.
coming!
He turned his head and saw that the black-haired man who had just stepped into the flower garden and threw the sword was walking step by step.