February 2, 877 AD.
Southamp's carriage enters the borders of Mercia.
But he is not popular. His identity is the butler of the royal family, and here, he has nothing to do with the royal family.
The former lords of Mercia, big and small, divided most of the land, and they only paid taxes. They had no contact with the nobles of Northumbria if they could.
Nanamp's journey in search of the prince did not receive any useful information. He could only go south along the road until he approached Nolan City, the border with the Flying Snake.
The city changed hands repeatedly and was now back in Confederate hands.
The soldiers advised Nanamp that they had crossed the range where the crown prince was missing and should shrink their defense line?
But Nan Anpu denounced: "How long have you been searching for the missing area and how many times? His Highness must have left to a safe place. If he successfully returns to our border, he will definitely come out.
It's more likely that he went south. Although he doesn't know the reason, as long as he dares to enter the realm of flying snakes, he will definitely gain something. "
The old man was very stubborn and the soldiers didn't want to go, but they couldn't disobey him.
The people sent by Oran to protect Nanamp did not dare to force them back, so they invited border merchants to patrol around Nolan City.
The crown prince has been missing for more than seven months, and many businessmen on the border have made a fortune from this incident.
At first, they reported that they had seen two children somewhere and used them to make profits. As time went by, they found out that they were all fake. The unlucky ones were directly dragged out and executed by the nobles of the two armies.
Now not many people dare to report this matter.
The border merchant received the benefits but was not enthusiastic about it. Nan'anpu waited for another half a month.
He abandoned all his aristocratic clothes and transformed into a farmer, wearing dirt boots stained with excrement and a worn-out coat of coarse linen.
He found a businessman to be his guide and told him: "Take me deep into the south. We will search county by county and village by village. If you can find someone, you will get everything I have in the north."
everything?
It sounds like wealth that is full of temptations, but with Nanamp's body, what if he dies along the way?
No one was willing, so he turned back angrily and went to another town. After searching in many places, he found a family who had fled from the south to the north and was executed for committing theft.
In this day and age, stealing is no different than killing.
This man was a grocer, but because the Union Army looted the South, he lost everything and became a beggar, wandering with his family.
As the Northern Army controlled more and more territory, he also became a subordinate of the Northern Army.
He was dragged to the guillotine for two eggs, and his wife and daughter were dragged out to be beaten and scolded by the villagers.
If nothing unexpected happens, they will be swallowed by a vicious man tonight.
After asking all this, Nan Anpu was so satisfied that he couldn't close his mouth. He walked up to the villagers and pointed at the executioner: "Kingdom law states that non-injury crimes can be fined. I want to buy him."
The strange nobleman suddenly appeared, accompanied by a strong man holding a sword, but the sword never fell.
Nan Anpu dropped the money bag, regardless of whether the villagers would accept it or not, and turned back to the prisoner: "Do you know the way to the south?"
"I understand, my lord, I've walked all over Wessex at least seven times with my legs."
"Great, I'll buy you, you take me back and your family will stay here. If you have evil intentions, I will turn your wife and daughter into wandering girls, and finally kill them and bury their bones in the cesspool. If If you obey, they will become human beings again."
Nanamp took the family away, asked the surrounding small lords, and found a knight camp who was close to Adisha.
As the kingdom's chief magistrate, Adisha can publicly supervise many manors and towns across the country. In the past few years, the number of small lords she has met in the kingdom is second only to Oran.
Both Adisha and Nanamp belong to the Edwardian faction, and they dare not ignore Nanamp's arrival.
"Don't talk nonsense. I gave these two mothers and daughters to you. Now I want you to have two huts, a few poultry, a piece of land that can feed them mother and daughter, and throw wheat to them for five more months."
The knight did as he was told and cleared out a house in one day.
The mother and daughter also received identity cards and became free citizens.
Nan Anpu looked at the criminals with the white light from the corner of his eyes: "I have helped you take care of them. Even if you and I die on the road, the lives of their mother and daughter will not be affected. If you can commit crimes for them, their lives will definitely be worse than You matter.
To 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 have no worries for the rest of their lives.
If you are the only one who comes back, the three of you will be on the hanging platform. "
Nan Anpu thought clearly. In order to prevent this person from escaping midway or becoming disloyal, he used this restriction so that the entire adventure could be effectively controlled by him.
The criminal agreed, and then Nanamp took advantage of the darkness of night to let the men take him, distract the soldiers, transform into a real deserter, and secretly enter the south.
"I'm looking for two children."
This sentence lets the criminal know who the target is!
But it is rumored that the crown prince is dead...
But no matter what, when he thinks about his wife and daughter, he works hard.
He pretended to be Nanamp's son, used a cart to carry his pregnant father, and relied on his southern accent to take a very hidden path into the south, perfectly avoiding interrogation.
Soon, they entered the perimeter of Winchester.
Here, Nanamp saw Alfred standing on a high platform one day, talking to everyone.
"Do you think he is a good king?" Nanamp suddenly asked the criminal.
"Yes, it is."
"Fart, there is only one true king!"
On the window sill of the hotel, Nanamp hit the ground hard with the crutch in his hand.
His mental state became increasingly unstable, and he was afraid that if he suddenly collapsed, His Highness would have no one to help him.
"Let's keep walking."
The criminal couldn't refuse Nanamp's request, but if he was pushed around, he wouldn't be able to walk very far in a day.
The two continued to inquire quietly for a month before leaving Winchester. On this day, they entered the outskirts of a forest.
Encountering a group of wandering criminals, the two lost everything except the clothes on their bodies, allowing them to wait until night to freeze to death.
The criminal had a small gadget given to him by his wife. He tried his best to grab it, but was stabbed by a hair-embroidered dung fork, and his intestines were about to flow out...
He didn't have time to say anything. He lay on the ground and let Nanamp scream.
One day, two days, three days, a ragged old madman with half-white hair walked and crawled in the forest with only one breath left.
There are no large animals that are too vicious in this forest, otherwise he would be bitten to death on the first day.
He was so thirsty, so thirsty.
Just when he was about to close his eyes, someone held a water bag and wet it on his lips, bringing him back to the edge of reality.
He saw Credo...
He could no longer tell whether this was real or an illusion, and then he heard Credo shouting, and soon a strong man came over,
This man was very strong and helped himself up.
When he woke up again, Edward was looking at himself in a simple forest cabin.
"is this real......"
"Why are you here?"
With Edward's voice clear to her ears, Nanamp cried unnaturally, crawled to Edward, lowered her head and kissed the back of his hand.
He shouted "Your Highness, Your Highness."
He tried his best to explain the whole thing clearly.
After overcoming the initial difficulties, Edward and the other two were able to adapt to the wild. The most important thing was to be protected by a knight with decent strength.
They walked through the mountains and forests and finally came here, planning to escape from the north while the Winchester church ceremony was being held this month.
If Nan'anpu doesn't come, the three of them will be able to return to the north safely sooner or later.
Appearing at this time, it becomes a burden.
However, such a loyal behavior still shocked the two people except Edward.
After Nan Anpu finished speaking, the light in his eyes slowly dimmed like a burned out candle.
"I have fulfilled your mother's last wish, Your Highness..."
Two hours later, Nanamp's body became cold and motionless.
Edward didn't speak, he just dug the grave pit vigorously and left a mark: "This is your resting place. I will move you back in the future. After I conquer this land, this piece of land will be your fiefdom. I will find someone Adopted to you."
Eight days later, they walked out of this area and successfully escaped from the flying snake surveillance network.
When the first Union flag appeared in front of them, they were not happy and pretended to be civilians to pass.
At this time, people on the border were no longer worried about the search for the crown prince.
They passed through several border towns and finally returned to what Nanamp said was the leader of the knight village of Adisha.
The closer they got here, the faster they walked, even traveling through the night.
That morning, Edward finally returned to safety.
Following the guidance of the villagers, he arrived outside the manor of a local knight.
After the knight Yegor scared off the servants with his eyes, he saw the lord of the manor.
His stature was short and fat, which was a huge difference compared to Yegor.
Edward said: "Southampton is dead."
Then he motioned for him to shut up and walked into his big house generously.
The knight told the servants in the big house that he was not allowed to move around, returned to the house, and after confirming his identity, he knelt on the ground.
"Is the criminal's daughter still there? Nanamp said that she will also be her daughter from now on, because her biological father tried his best to protect Nanamp from being harmed by those homeless people before he died."
"Here I am."
"For those who are kind and meritorious, I will implement the right laws and good thoughts; for those who are harmful and harmful, I will implement strict laws and justice."
The fat knight didn't understand this, but he soon understood it. Edward asked him to contact Adisha, and then go to the nearest king's territory to take over the branch army of the Knights Hospitaller.
There is a fifty-strong Knights Hospitaller around here.
When Yegor and Credo brought them back with the letter (someone had seen the son of Kunsang), Edward was finally able to speak loudly!
Gliese's people had hunted him down before.
He remembers.
The direction he chose to take a detour was to Yorkshire. He only needed riders and traveled overnight. When he arrived in Yorkshire, everyone in the kingdom already knew that the prince was back, especially Adisha, who also brought out all the guards in the territory to meet him.
At this moment, in the main city of Yorkshire, when Gliese saw Edward and the eagle flag of the Knights Hospitaller behind him, he asked people to lower the drawbridge and welcome the prince inside.
Edward looked around and asked, "What does the British Crown Law say?"
The surrounding people didn't understand, so he asked Credo to shout, and the people on the castle didn't understand either, until a monk accompanying the knights thought of responding: "Is the leader responsible?"
"good."
"Although the king is not here, his prince's presence is as if he were here in person."
After the monk read it aloud with Edward's consent, Gliese's expression changed slightly on the city wall.
"Everyone in the city comes out to see me and kneels down and kowtows!"
Father, haven't you always wanted to train me to be a true lord?
I know how to take revenge during these days. Everyone is my slave!
Hearing the three kneels and nine kowtows, Gliese became angry and a little murderous.
Even your father wouldn't dare to do this to me, you brat!
Gliese refused, and Edward just said lazy nonsense and directly ordered his men to take over the nearest manor on the spot. Don't you obey?
Kill him directly for treason!
Five hours later, Edward had the heads of seven soldiers delivered on a cart and dumped outside the main city.
It was sprinkled with salt to prevent it from smelling, and the messenger left a message: This is the fate of a traitor.
He also warned Gliese that before he came to kneel down and worship Edward himself, he would send someone to take the new head to the nine border lord fortresses in the kingdom.
"The crime of rebelling against the Lord will be spread to all nine corners of the world."
Kill me if you dare, otherwise, I will destroy you all one by one.
At this time, Edward was very calm and wanted to confront his father and his father's ministers!
When Arion came to act as a lobbyist, Edward didn't show any dignity at all and said, "You just gave birth to my father's flesh and blood in your belly. He can find as many women as he wants. Who do you think you are?"
Then he told Yegor that this new village belonged to him.
Yegor was frightened by a series of actions and did not dare to accept it. Instead, he was ridiculed by Edward: "What are you afraid of? Land, the most beloved thing of nobles, hahaha..."
When Arion left, she was warned by Edward: "You are just my father's house slave. If you dare to be rude to me next time, I will kill you!"
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