【Gaolan】Political Marriage

Knight Bedivere hurried through the corridors of the palace.

It has been a month since the wedding of Gawain and Lancelot, and there are still countless chores waiting to be finished inside and outside the palace.The newlyweds went out for their honeymoon hand in hand in the name of crusade against monsters—since it was an arranged marriage, naturally they couldn't force the two parties to worry about it, it was just a matter of Kay, Bedivere and Agguwen Officials and court deacons are so busy every day that their feet don't touch the ground. Agguiwen's gloomy face and hairline have moved back a bit.

The princes who came to congratulate and watch the ceremony were almost sent away, but the rooms and utensils of the guests had not been tidied up one by one, so they could only be temporarily sealed.Among the representatives of the people who came from towns and villages all over Britain, many people were still reluctant to leave, and wanted to eat the rice of King Arthur’s family for a few more months. Two years of taxation persuaded them to return to farming in summer.In addition, many princes also left behind their second and third sons, hoping that they could swear allegiance to King Arthur and become her knights. These energetic young people are eagerly waiting for the king's appointment, and they urgently need to be properly settled.Oh, and, Merlin should be back when he visited the Lady on the Lake. If Lady on the Lake comes to Camelot in person, there will be a whole set of pomp and pomp to greet her...

Bedivere was thinking about his next job, when he turned the corner, he saw a familiar figure head-on.

"Gao Wenqing?" He happily greeted his colleague whom he had not seen for a long time, "Have you returned from victory? Ah, and Lancelot..." He hesitated to address him, "...Mr."

In Bedivere's impression, Lancelot was a high-spirited, shy and extremely polite young man in front of ladies, but now he was following behind Gawain, looking very unhappy, with his head downcast and high-spirited. He seemed a bit small, and when Bedivere greeted him, he just nodded listlessly.

"Lancelot will join the round table soon and become one of us. You can also call him Mr. Lancelot." Gawain said with a smile. He seemed to be in a good mood and glanced at The listless Lancelot explained to Bedivere with a smile again:

"Thanks to the majesty of the king, we have successfully eliminated the water monster that harassed the village and the flying dragon that ravaged the plain, but when killing the flying dragon, Lancelot's holy sword was polluted by the poisonous blood of the dragon and lost its brilliance We originally wanted to ask Merlin to help us get rid of the impurities on the holy sword..."

"Merlin hasn't come back yet." Lancelot said gloomily, "Arondette can't infuse magic power now, and he can no longer feel the resonance from the sword, which is no different from a piece of ordinary iron. If Vivian knew I'm going to be pissed if I broke it..."

"No." Gawain comforted him. "Ms. Vivienne knows that you have grown into a brave, intelligent, strong and caring knight, and helped the king and the people of Britain to eliminate so many monsters. She is too happy. Why would she blame you for such a trivial matter? ? When she comes to Camelot, with her magical power, repairing the holy sword will be a matter of little effort."

"Yeah." Lancelot nodded and regained his energy, "I'll tell her that it's all because of Gao Wenqing's help that I have grown into a real knight so quickly—"

The two looked at each other, and both smiled again.Bedivere was stunned. Although he didn't know what happened to these two people, the high concentration of tenderness in the air almost turned into pink love bubbles.

He didn't want to be kicked by the horse, so he saluted the two colleagues with sincere blessings, saying that he still had a lot of work to do and could not accompany them.Gawain and Lancelot also greeted him, and then continued to start the unnutritive dialogue mode between lovers without anyone else present.

"Gao Wen, are you going to practice martial arts this afternoon?"

"Well, the knight's practice can't be slack for a day. How about you, Lancelot?"

"I don't want to go, I want to wait for the holy sword to be repaired, and then I will fight you openly."

"Then I won't go either. I'll report the trip to the king and the other Knights of the Round Table later, and then I'll come back to accompany you."

"It's really troublesome to be your bride. I also want to join the Knights of the Round Table as soon as possible."

"Yes, I will ask the king to personally canonize you as a knight. When I come back, let's play chess in the afternoon."

"Okay. Let's go swimming in the lake at night..."

"it is good……"

"What's for dinner..."

"Mashed potatoes……"

Bedivere finally heaved a sigh of relief as the voices of chatting behind me faded away. Although he shouldn't slander his colleagues, the rumors that couples who are in a passionate relationship will turn into fools seem to be true.He straightened his mind and tried to bring his thoughts back to work.How should we welcome Mrs. Vivienne from the Land of the Lake——

There was another corner in front of him, and this time in front of Bedivere was the alluring beauty, the king's sister Morgan.

The king's knights all felt that this lady was a little difficult, and Bedivere was no exception.He bowed his head deeply and bowed to her. "Good afternoon, Mrs. Morgan."

"Hello, Knight Bedivere." The lady who was famous in Britain as a fearsome witch said with a smile.These days when she came to Camelot to attend her eldest son's wedding, she has been peaceful and quiet, and she has not done anything strange, and everyone's suspense is also relieved. "I seem to have heard you and Gawain talking just now. Have he and Lancelot returned?"

"Yes, ma'am."

***

It's two o'clock in the afternoon.

It is June now, and the weather in Camelot is not very hot, but for Lancelot, who is used to the humid air that is always shrouded in mist in the Land of Lakes, direct exposure to the midday sun is not a problem. Not a comfortable experience.He didn't want to go to the arena with Gareth and the others, and Gawain went to the king's chamber to report on the journey, but he hasn't returned yet.

During the trip, he was used to being together with Gao Wen all the time, and now he only separated for a short time, and felt bored. He remembered that there were bagpipes and harps in the luggage he brought with Camelot, and planned to take them out to play a song and chat with each other. pastime.But I searched all over the new house, but I couldn't find where those boxes were stored.

A few maids who passed by asked three questions, and said they would ask the head maid, the court deacon or the princess.Lancelot was impatient, so he left it to them to find things, and went out by himself, wandering around the palace.During the few days of the wedding, in order to avoid the discussions of the visiting princes, Gao Wen did not take him around to familiarize himself with the palace.Thinking about it now, I was really stupid at that time.

——But if he didn't come to Camelot wishfully, how could he and Gawain become real lovers now?Thinking of this, the corners of Lancelot's mouth couldn't help but curl up.

"Looking at you, I had a lot of fun with Gao Wen this month, little fairy."

Mrs. Morgan's smiling voice came from behind. Lancelot was startled, and hurriedly restrained his unconscious smirk, turned around and bowed his head to pay her respects. "Mrs. Morgan! Good afternoon, I'm really sorry for letting you see such a gaffe..."

Morgan took another two steps towards him, standing very close, as if looking him up and down, Lancelot's ears felt hot, for some reason, he seemed to be particularly awkward in front of Gawain's mother.

"Ma'am, I, that... Ah, yes!" He suddenly thought of a topic to chat with the other party, "Thank you very much for the charm you gave us! It helped us a lot in the battle to eliminate the flying dragon!"

"Oh?"

There seemed to be a flash of light in Morgan Shenbi's pupils, and the corners of her eyes were bent, and she patted Lancelot's hand gracefully and affectionately. "Tell me the story of you destroying the flying dragon, little fairy. Has Arondette exerted its power?"

"Arondette..." Mentioning this, Lancelot's mood became dull. "It's like this..."

"So, you don't have a suitable weapon in your hands now?" Morgan asked after hearing the ins and outs of the matter.

"Yes. Originally, I wanted to have a competition with Gao Wenqing, to test how much progress I had made..."

"This is not easy." The coquettish smile on Morgan's mouth floated again, "Your mother, Mrs. Vivienne and I are old acquaintances. Her character, once encountering something novel and interesting in the world, is really difficult. You never know when you'll be back, right?"

Lancelot nodded, which was exactly what he was worried about. "I hope to join the Knights of the Round Table and fight side by side with Wang, Gao Wenqing, and other knights. But if you don't have weapons, even joining the Round Table is useless..."

"That's right. Besides, it's not that easy to purify the curse of dragon blood. If it wasn't for a rare magician like Merlin or Vivienne, it would be impossible to do it."

A rare magician... Isn't there one here now?Lancelot suddenly realized that he was an obedient boy, and immediately pleaded with Morgan seriously: "Dear madam, can you help me restore Arondette?"

"Me?" Morgan laughed loudly, "It's hard to say, my strength is not purification, but curse. But, since it's the little fairy's request... show me the sword, Don't worry, even if it doesn't work, it won't damage your beloved holy sword, okay?"

The little fairy came, the little fairy went, Lancelot had been teased by her so much that he almost blushed out of habit.He ran back to the bedroom, took out Arondette, and handed Morgan his hands. "I'm counting on you."

***

After reporting on the journey, King Arthur discussed with Gawain alone about the new knights for a long time.It was already evening when he resigned from the meeting hall, and Wang had to go back to deal with political affairs. Gao Wen couldn't help feeling a little guilty for his behavior of indulging in love for a month.

The new knights who joined Camelot were to be trained by Gawain. He had to find a time to take the children of the local princes out for adventure hunting and train them well.In order to select available talents from among these people, this summer's martial arts competition must also be held.Lancelot must be very happy if a martial arts tournament is held. I don't have much time to play with him, so I can only find a few more people to serve as sandbags for him in the martial arts arena.Staying alone for an afternoon, I don't know if he will be bored?Or have you already found someone to compete with...

Gao Wen's brisk footsteps suddenly stopped.

"Mrs. Morgan."

Walking in front of him was his mother.

Holding a long object wrapped in cloth, Morgan was walking slowly in the dark corridor at dusk. She didn't look sideways, and when she saw her son coming, she raised her chin proudly and nodded slightly at him, unable to see A smug expression appeared on the beautiful face showing a trace of age.

"I thought the princes had all returned to their territories."

The mother and son passed each other, Gao Wen straightened his back, and his voice was equally emotionless.

Among King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table, Gawain was the one who knew Morgan the most and was most wary of the witch.He knew that his mother would never live in peace with her sister, and even if he came to Camelot out of interest, or for power—control over him, over his new wife, he could hardly imagine, Morgan would be willing to stay here for so long.The air of Camelot was like poison to her who lost her throne.

"I'm waiting to meet your mother-in-law," Morgan sneered. "Why, why don't you hurry back and be with your little beauty? You must have had a good time every night in the past month. It's a very dangerous thing to leave such a little beauty who has just tasted the sweetness alone in an empty room. oh?"

The woman's sweet voice was like a coiled poisonous snake.Gao Wen frowned in disgust, and stepped harder, unwilling to listen to her foul language.Why is Morgan here?Is she coming for Lancelot?From the first day Lancelot arrived in Camelot, Morgan seemed to have taken a special interest in him.

Special... purpose?

Something is not quite right.Gao Wen stopped and turned around. The sun had almost set, and before the maids had time to light all the candles in the palace, Morgan's back was still walking forward in the dark corridor, with a whole body The dark green veil gradually melted into the darkness.The last thing that disappeared was the long sword wrapped in white cloth that she held horizontally in her arms.The blade is so slender, it may even be a lot taller than a woman, when Morgan's figure is almost invisible in the dark, the white outline is still clear, as if slowly sinking into the dark abyss .

Long sword?

No, no! !

Gawain turned around abruptly and rushed towards the darkness where Morgan disappeared.Why did he subconsciously think that it was a long sword?Although he couldn't feel the aura on the sword, the familiar shape...it was Lancelot's sword!It's Arondette who can do great damage to dragons!

One fork, another fork, Gawain ran with all his strength, but he couldn't see the figure of Morgan who had just disappeared into the darkness.He is very familiar with the road to the palace, what is the witch's goal?Without hesitation, Gawain rushed directly to the chamber where King Arthur was still handling government affairs.

***

"Ah... I've wanted to try this feeling for a long time."

In the brightly lit but empty hall, the woman let out a long, contented sigh, and the blood from the sword pooled into bright red flowers at her feet.

"It's so warm..."

She stretched out her hand to caress the sharp blade, allowing her own blood to blend with the hot blood of the red dragon, and then raised her slender fingers to suck, with an enchanted look on her glamorous face. "Your smell, Artoria...how sweet...the blood flowing from the heart of the red dragon, so it is like this."

This is what Gao Wen saw when he rushed in.The witch and the king faced each other across the desk full of documents. King Arthur held the sword of the oath of victory horizontally in one hand to defend himself, and the other hand held the Avalon scabbard, covering his ribs and panting with difficulty.Holding the blood-stained Arondette, Morgan stood in the middle of the room like a victor, with a dreamy smile on her upturned face, the blood splashed on her gauze skirt, and large gorgeous and terrifying flowers flower.

"Witch!"

Gawain let out an angry shout, swung the wheel-running sword of victory and charged forward.Morgan lifted her chin high and stared at her son. "Are you alone?"

She flicked her bleeding fingertips, and the blood splashed to the ground, bursting the masonry like lava.The ground vibrated, undulating and roaring like sea waves, there was a bang in the center of the room, and a burning chasm appeared in an instant.Gawain jumped back and swung his sword to block the flying fire and rubble from all directions. "Of course." He replied gritted his teeth. "I take Lancelot very seriously, and I won't be fooled by you again!"

The witch laughed loudly, waving her arms in the air, and the burning stones piled up and stood up following her command, forming limbs and torso.The roof collapsed with the shaking, and rubble poured down, forming a head on the giant.The starlight shines on the flaming stone monster. Its stone head, which cannot see facial features, keeps turning, as if it is staring, sniffing, and looking for traces of the enemy.Morgan threw Arondette to the magical creature, then pointed at Gawain.

"Go and kill him!"

The stone moved slowly, making a toothsome creaking and rubbing sound, sparks and dust fell from it.It swung the lake lightsaber that had turned black heavily, and chopped it down towards Gawain's head.

His feet stepped on the ground, as if he was stuck in a quagmire. Coupled with the ups and downs of the earthquake, it was impossible to stand still.Even if he tried his best to struggle, he couldn't escape the clumsy action of the stone golem. Gawain gritted his teeth and swung his sword to block. Wen only felt a numbness all over his body, and then he finally flew up.

"It's a paralyzing charm that can restrain even flying dragons..."

His nose and mouth were full of the taste of rust, and his ears were ringing.I don't know how many bones were broken, but at least I was able to concentrate with the adrenaline of the battle.The stone giant stepped over step by step, stood still, and once again raised his sword high——

"Is the suggestion of marrying the country of the lake also your trick!"

Gao Wen yelled loudly with all his strength.A perfect plot would be boring if it didn't have any audience.He knew Morgan well, and the stone golem stopped swinging its sword, and picked him up instead, facing the woman.The witch smiled reservedly, looked at her son who was helpless to fight back, and then at her sister who was half kneeling in the corner of the room, still enduring the bleeding wound, with a painful expression, and sighed softly, as if Feels a little sad that there were only two listeners.

"In the beginning, it wasn't a trick, huh? I'm really doing it for you, Gawain. Lancelot is pretty good, he's beautiful, powerful, but so stupid, he's easier to lie than the five of you brothers and sisters. Weiwei What An is most proud of is her adopted son, if she can trick Camelot into coming, no matter if it makes any of you feel awkward, it will be very good, right?"

"It's just that I didn't expect him to bring Arondette and deliver it to me all the way. The opportunity is in front of me but I don't make good use of it. Gao Wen, is mother like this?"

Morgan sighed again, looking genuinely sorry.

"I really hope you two can live well. It's just..."

She raised her arm, pointing out of the half-collapsed wall of the room.The king's chamber was built on the top of Camelot's mountain, with high cliffs below.Following her instructions, the stone golem slowly stretched its arms and lifted Gao Wen under the starlight.

"It's unfortunate that you are my son."

The giant let go and threw him out of mid-air.