A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

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Continue the little prince’s lucky e journey【No

Stuffing the extremely feminine translucent veil into the baggage hanging on the saddle, Garlan raised his hand to put on the hood of the cloak behind him. The shadow of the wide hood covered most of his face, almost covering his face. The appearance is hidden.

He looked at the light pink embroidery on the white women's dress and sighed helplessly.

In fact, Garlan had no intention of reaching this point at first.

When he sneaked out of the palace, it was very smooth. After all, no one expected that he would leave suddenly. Even if he occasionally bumped into patrolling guards, no one would dare to interrogate him because of his status as a prince.

However, at the last moment when he left the palace, the atmosphere in the entire palace suddenly became tense, and the number of patrolling guards suddenly increased. At that time, he felt nervous, thinking that it was bad, he had been discovered.

He didn't know who was so bored that he ran to him in the middle of the night... Well, okay, he could probably guess who it was.

That guy Heimos didn't take good care of his injuries, so he sneaked into his dormitory again in the middle of the night.

With this thought in mind, Garlan sped up. Fortunately, he managed to leave before the entire palace moved.

At that time, he was standing in an alley outside the palace, and just watched the palace that was originally blended in the dark night light up one after another. In just a quarter of an hour, the entire palace became brightly lit, and he could even hear Among them were the sounds of messy footsteps and faint shouts.

The gates of the royal city always open very early, as soon as the sun rises above the horizon. Garlan originally thought that the time from when the gates opened to when Tapti woke him up would be enough for him to pass through the gates.

Unexpectedly, his departure was discovered in the middle of the night. Therefore, the royal city has been tightly guarded since early morning, and the city gates have been blocked. Only entry and no exit are allowed. He has no chance to leave the city and can only lurk among the merchants. , rangers and other areas where humans and snakes are mixed, hide.

Later, I was forced to have no choice but to dye my conspicuous blond hair black and change into women's clothing.

Fortunately, his frame is not too big and his body is relatively slender, so it would not be too out of place for him to dress as a woman. Fortunately, in order to facilitate horse riding, fighting, etc., women's costumes are also mainly convenient and neat. The difference from men's costumes is not very big, so even if he pretends to be a woman, he will not have to wear an ankle-length skirt. I can barely bear it.

At this moment, not long after riding the horse on the mountain path, a three-way intersection appeared in front of Garlan.

He took out the parchment map and looked at it. After identifying the direction, he put it away close to his body. Unlike his time, maps were extremely rare and rare in this world. The maps circulated outside were all very crude and rough. The palace map that Garlan brought out was naturally the most precise and accurate.

Go left and you will get on the main road and you can reach the city.

Going to the right, it is still a mountain trail, a remote suburb.

Naturally, Garlan turned his horse's head and ran towards the other side of the mountain trail without hesitation.

According to the efficiency of Brother Camos, the Guards might even reach the cities near the royal city before him. Of course, he could only choose those remote roads.

The forest road in the mountains is actually a road that has been trodden by people. It is relatively flat, with lush woods on both sides. Garlan rode his horse and trotted along the path. The bright sunlight shone down and fell on him, and the dark horse seemed leisurely and contented as he trotted.

He looked up at the sky. As far as the eye could see, there were only white clouds in the endless blue sky. Occasionally, a few birds flew across the sky with flapping wings.

This feeling of openness made the young man raise the corners of his lips unconsciously. Although he felt a little guilty for Brother Wang and the others, at this moment he felt unprecedentedly comfortable.

The indescribable feeling of restraint that had been weighing on his heart ever since he was reborn seemed to have dissipated at this moment.

From now on, he doesn't need to think about anything anymore.

From this moment on, he just had to do whatever he wanted.

Garlan reached out and touched the baggage next to him, and smiled with satisfaction. Even though the baggage was not big, the things inside were quite valuable, enough for him to live a prosperous life.

He also had a small bag of extremely valuable gems hidden close to his body for emergencies.

Well, they are all cut from those special royal ornaments. After all, selling royal ornaments directly is too conspicuous.

The black horse ran for a while, and in the afternoon, the trail gradually became wider.

Garlan vaguely heard a long sound of music coming from ahead, and not long after, he saw the source of the music.

In front of this mountain road, he saw a long team. In front of the team was a carriage pulled by two bulls. The carriage was decorated with flowers, and fiery red cloth strips were wrapped around the carriage and flying in the air. With.

The music he heard was the sound of bagpipes being played by those following the carriage.

Although it was daytime, many people in the team were holding torches, reflecting the sunlight. The red flames burned in people's hands, contrasting with the red cloth flying behind the carriage.

Bagpipes, torches.

It was a wedding in progress.

Garlan tightened the reins and slowed down the horse beneath him so as not to collide with the wedding procession in front. After all, the mountain road was not wide. He could not go around it, so he could only follow the wedding procession from a distance.

Fortunately, the wedding team didn't go very far before they reached their destination.

It was a small village on the side of a mountain road. A group of people had been waiting at the village gate. The entire village gate was wrapped with colorful cloth strips. Children were running around the gate with smiles and flowers in their hands.

The sound of bagpipes grew louder and louder, filling the air with the songs of those who greeted the carriage.

Although the mixed singing is crude, under the blue sky and white clouds, it is mixed with joy and joy, giving people a different kind of soaring feeling.

Garlan couldn't help but stop and watch. After all, it was his first time to see Aaron Landis's private wedding, which made him a little curious.

He stood there on horseback and watched for a while when people at the wedding noticed him and pointed at him twice. Just when Garlan was wondering if he had disturbed them and whether he should leave quickly, he saw someone Several people surrounded an old man and walked toward him, seeming to want to talk to him.

Garlan dismounted.

The old man with gray hair and beard smiled and spoke.

"Travellers passing by, you must have come here under the guidance of the goddess of love, Avdormir. If you feel tired, why not come to my grandson's wedding banquet, have a good meal, and enjoy today's joy together."

According to Aaron Landis folklore, the travelers who followed the wedding carriage must have been guided by the goddess Avdormir. If they treat each other well and receive blessings from the stranger who was guided by the goddess at the wedding, the newlyweds will be able to love each other forever.

Gallan was a little hesitant, but seeing this kind of civil wedding for the first time, he was really itchy. He thought he was also hungry and could have a meal before leaving, so he bowed slightly and saluted the old man and accepted the offer. invitation.

Seeing the 'girl' being so polite, the old man, who had no idea what a gift he had just received, nodded cheerfully, and then took the 'girl' with him into the village.

As a special guest, Garlan was placed to one side and could watch the wedding up close.

The bride is a young woman wearing a snow-white dress and holding golden ears of wheat in her arms, which symbolizes a good harvest and many children.

An arm-sized wooden statue of Avdmir, the god of love, is placed on the ground with flowers in front.

The bride took off the belt from her waist and presented the belt shyly to the statue of the goddess.

That means she is about to sacrifice her virginity and become a woman from a girl.

Garlan watched with interest while taking a sip of beer, which spurted out as soon as he entered his mouth.

There were various kinds of liquor in the palace, but the popular among the people of Aaron Landis was beer, which was cheap and easy to brew.

This was the first time Garlan drank this kind of folk beer. It was as thick as a milkshake, sour and bitter, with a lot of bran in it, and the taste was terrible.

He squirted out, and a woman sitting next to Gallan burst out laughing. While laughing, she handed him a straw and pointed around. Only then did Gallan realize that the people around him were not drinking beer. Drink it directly, but smoke it from straw.

Gallan tried it and found out that by sucking the beer with wheat straw, he could avoid sucking the large grains of chaff at the bottom of the cup, which made the beer taste much better.

He was startled for a moment, then couldn't help laughing.

The beer tasted very bad. It was better than the wine he drank in the palace. The surroundings were very noisy. The bagpipes mixed with the singing. It was a mess. The rough-footed woman next to him patted his arm with rough movements. They were completely opposite to the maids in the palace who served him lightly.

But he doesn't know why, but he feels very happy now.

The beer was obviously very unpleasant to drink, but he seemed to be infected by the lively atmosphere around him. With the enthusiastic persuasion of the people, he drank one cup after another.

Garlan's drinking capacity is not very good.

Considering that he was still on the way to escape, he felt a little dizzy and immediately stopped and looked at the sky. It was almost evening, and he was already full of food and wine.

He thanked the old man who entertained him, and after blessing the newlyweds, he got up and left the small village.

Garlan always wore a wide hood, covering most of his face, and never took it off. And those people didn't seem to care much about this, and still entertained him warmly.

Leaving the small village, he slowed down his horse as he rode forward. A feeling of tipsiness filled his body, giving him an indescribable sense of comfort.

After walking for a while, he felt vaguely sleepy, so he turned around and looked around, and found a place under a tree with lush grass, not far from the roadside. There were several huge rocks there to block the view and provide shelter from the wind. And hidden.

Garlan tied the horse further into the jungle to let it graze, and he nestled in the rock nest for a while to sober up.

He was lying on the grass with his limbs spread out. The sun had already set, and the cooling wind blew over his hot cheeks, which made people feel extremely comfortable.

He stared at the sky in a daze.

In fact, staying in that small village for one night was the best choice, but he was worried about causing trouble to those enthusiastic people. After all, Brother Wang would definitely not publicize his escape. He would only use secret orders to let the soldiers take him back.

If he stayed there overnight and the soldiers who were pursuing him didn't know about it, and if the methods used to capture him were tougher, the wedding would definitely be disturbed.

Ah, that means that I have to sleep outdoors during this period of time.

Fortunately, I brought a lot of insect repellent powder prepared by Tapti.

Gallan, who was lying on his back, thought about it in a daze for a long time, until the sun was more than halfway below the horizon. He felt a lot more awake, and then he sat up and planned to continue on the road.

But as soon as he got up, a chaotic and rapid sound of horse hooves suddenly came from the other side of the road. Garlan immediately shrank into the rock, hid, and secretly looked at the road through the cracks in the rock.

With a burst of laughter, about a dozen men on horseback galloped past the road.

There were piles of large and small bags hung on their saddles.

There was a young woman in front of the men who were not hanging their baggage, but those women were not sitting on the horse, but lying face down on the horse. There was a faint sound of crying from the chaotic sound of horse hooves. Come.

The dozens of men passed by like a gust of wind and ran forward along the road, leaving only their hearty and unrestrained laughter.

The face of Garlan, who was hiding on the roadside, suddenly changed. The women had been lying down and couldn't see their faces clearly, but he recognized the dress of one of the women - it belonged to the bride he had seen at the wedding not long ago. clothing.

Without any time to think, he quickly pulled out his black horse, jumped on it, and hurriedly chased the group in the direction they were leaving.

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After galloping for a while, the leading man found a remote flat area and called his companions to stop as the sun was about to set below the horizon.

The man was in a good mood at the moment, and even the piercing cries of the women could not disturb his good mood. In other words, on the contrary, the women's cries were an extremely beautiful sound in his ears.

He and his companions took the woman off the horse and threw her to the ground aside. Anyway, those weak women were tied tightly with ropes and couldn't escape at all.

Raising his hand and patting the bulging bundle on the horse's back, the man smiled proudly.

They were a group of bandits who gathered together. They did not dare to go to towns guarded by soldiers, so they could only rob a few things in these remote villages.

This time they were lucky enough to bump into a small village holding a wedding, and the items they grabbed were much more than those in previous villages, which was enough to keep them happy for a while.

And he also grabbed several women. Although they were not beautiful, they were still pretty. After letting them vent for a while, they could sell them, which was another huge profit.

Especially since one of them was today's bride, it gave him a strange pleasure. He thought he would choose this woman tonight, and no one could compete with him.

This group of robbers was noisily packing up the fire, preparing to have a big meal to recharge their spirits, and let off some steam tonight with the women they had robbed.

Several young women who had been robbed were trembling and huddled together, with tears on their faces. Especially the bride with a pale face. Today was supposed to be the best day in her life, but the arrival of these gangsters made her suddenly fall into hell. When she thought of her beloved who was hacked by the gangsters and was left to die, As well as the humiliation she might suffer next, her tears couldn't stop falling.

The fiery red sunset fell on her face, revealing her empty eyes and the despair on her face.

At this moment, a rapid sound of horse hooves came.

The robbers who were chatting and laughing with each other without scruples showed wary looks, stood up, and looked in the direction of the sound.

The dull eyes of the young women also regained a little sparkle, and they looked over hopefully.

But the next second, the hope in their eyes disappeared.

Someone was indeed chasing them to save them, but there was only one person who came.

It was a young girl with a weak figure.

Moreover, they recognized him as a passing traveler whom they had entertained during the wedding.

The vigilant robbers immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and showed their playful eyes again. They just stood there carelessly and casually, watching the young girl running across from them on horseback.

It's really overestimating one's abilities.

Looking at the long sword hanging diagonally on the edge of the saddle, the leading man thought disdainfully in his heart. He didn't know where a fledgling female warrior who thought she was powerful came to save people with passion, but she didn't think that she had any power. Don't have this ability.

That's fine.

I just feel that there are not enough women among the ten or so people here, so one more would be good.

The man glanced at the girl with some regret.

This girl doesn't have a very good figure, her breasts are almost flat.

As he thought, he glanced at the women over there, his lustful eyes passing over their towering breasts.

Well, let’s choose among these women tonight. Whoever likes that kind of flat-chested girl can let her...

Before the robber could finish his thoughts, a sudden gust of wind blew over and blew down the girl's wide hood.

Her long, dark hair flew up and brushed her fair cheeks.

The fiery red sunset slanted down on the girl's face.

Continuous gasps sounded among the group of robbers.

After the leading robber lost consciousness for a moment, there was only one thought left in his mind.

No breasts, no breasts! I'm going to make a decision on this woman!

The blood all over his body was boiling. He grabbed the big knife placed on the rock next to him. He felt his whole body was hot and wanted to rush over with a single lunge.

Uh-huh!

Suddenly a sharp arrow shot out from the jungle and hit him right in front of his feet.

The robber was so frightened by the arrow that his heart suddenly shrank and he almost fell backward.

He raised his head in annoyance and shouted.

"who!"

He roared angrily, "Which bastard, get out of here—!"

"Although they are a bunch of vulgar guys, they still use such vulgar and dirty language in front of this girl who is as beautiful as the sunset. It is really disrespectful to beauty."

A clear male voice with a smile sounded from above.

The voice was extremely magnetic and moving, just like singing poetry.

"Afdomir, the goddess of love and beauty~~your loyal followers will remove all ugliness in this world for you."

The tall tree crown made a rustling sound, and a figure jumped down from the dense branches and leaves, landing in front of everyone.

He was a slender young man with long dark hair tied into a bundle behind his back with a goose-yellow hair rope. His long forehead hair fell diagonally from his eyes.

His face is extremely handsome, and he is dressed in refreshing blue clothes, which makes people fall in love with him at the first sight.

The bow that had just shot the sharp arrow was held in his left hand. Without even looking at the group of bandits behind him who were glaring at him, his eyes fell on Garlan without blinking.

Those peach blossom eyes are slightly curved, revealing a somewhat romantic and passionate charm.

He put a hand on his chest and continued his chanting words.

"Ah, praise the great goddess Avdormir."

He said with a self-absorbed and intoxicated look on his face.

"Thank you for your blessing in bringing this beautiful girl to me so that I can cleanse my eyes that were contaminated by those ugly and vulgar things."

Garlan: "???"

Can you speak normally and personally?