The Last Frontier of Fire and Sword

　　 At night, Cheorchen and his uncle, as Feodor’s special guests, went to the banquet hall of the castle in full dress. This banquet was held to celebrate the birthday of 18-year-old Helena Obukhović, the daughter of Feodor Obukhović.

　　 Many guests came that night. Almost all the celebrities and nobles in the city were present, and many people also gave valuable gifts.

Since the residence of Chechen and others was arranged in the station of Franco’s mercenary group, Franco wanted to leave Aragon to wait for them to pass, and the head of Franco himself made arrangements without stopping. Defending the banquet.

　　 "Aragorn, Uncle Franco is highly valued by the city lord here." Young Chechen said with emotion when he heard that Franco was arranged to defend again.

　　 Aragorn had to respond with a wry smile to Cheor Chen's envious words. Since his family knows their own affairs, the head of Franco is doing the work of several people alone. It is not a respectable person, but there is no one available under the city lord.

　　 The 10,000 troops originally stationed in Smolensk, 8,000 of them were transferred to Ukraine and accompanied by the king's army under King Kazimierz to attack the Cossacks in Zaporozhye, and even the officers were transferred away. Later, in order to guard against Tsarist Russia, an army of more than 1,000 men was transferred from the Crown Realm, but most of them were newly enlisted militia groups, with lazy discipline and low combat effectiveness.

　　As the Cossack, another important force of city defense, City Lord Feodor has no confidence in other Cossacks except for a few upper-level figures such as Tatarchuk.

　　 There is no way, all the important work has to be handed over to the mercenaries.

　　 This is also the sorrow of this country. When the country needed people most, the most reliable group turned out to be a group of foreign mercenaries who took money to do things.

　　Of course Aragorn would not say these words to Cheor Chen. Even if he said that, Cheerchen might not understand it.

　　 The residence is very close to the banquet room, just across the courtyard. It didn't take long for everyone to walk before the iron fence in the courtyard.

　　At this time, the guards were arguing about this with a group of long-bearded Jews in black robes and black politeness. Seeing Aragorn coming, one of the guards hurriedly frightened these long beards with a halberd in his hand and stepped aside.

　　 "Feiru, what happened?" Aragorn asked.

"It's nothing, Lieutenant. These Jews also wanted to go in to the banquet, and they said that they had received an invitation from the city lord. But when I asked them to take out the invitation, they couldn't take it out. They were all liars." Fei Ru was vicious. To say.

　　 "Then you can drive them away, or it won't look good when there are more people." Hearing Feiru's words, Aragorn didn't ask more and gave a few words before entering the iron fence.

　　 Cheerchen turned around and took a look. The Jews had been knocked to the ground by the guards.

　　 When Tetsuchen and others entered the banquet hall, the banquet hall was already full of people. The luxurious decoration in the banquet hall fully demonstrates Feodor's emphasis on his daughter's birthday.

In this banquet hall with sixteen large windows, silver curtains are hung on each window, and scarlet velvet curtains are hung on the wall next to the windows. The curtains are also inlaid around them. Silver edge. The dining tables in the banquet hall were filled with various meats and fruits, and each table had three candlesticks with twelve white candles inserted. In the center of the banquet hall, a group of actors dressed as clowns performed hard.

　　 As Fyodor's temporary invitation guests, Cheorchen and the others certainly did not get a good position. Aragorn took them to a table in the corner of the banquet hall and sat down. Fortunately, this Spanish compatriot also sat down and introduced everyone today.

"Look, the silver dresser over there is Earl Anzumov. He is a good friend of the lord of the city and the godfather of Miss Helena. Anzumov's ancestors are very prestigious. His grandfather once served as the king's Sword Officer."

　　 "And the old man in the robe. He is the Bishop of Smolensk Kicher. It is said that even our city lord has been baptized by him."

　　 In this way, Aragorn pointed out one by one, introducing important figures in all aspects of Smolensk to Chechen and Pietro.

　　 "Well, what about those two people? Brother Aragorn." Cheerchen asked, pointing to the two people on the corner of the corner. The reason for paying attention is really because the hairstyles of those two people are so different from those of the others in the banquet hall-only the old and young couple, with only a lock of hair on top of their heads.

"Oh, they are the captain of the registered Cossack team Tatarchuk and his son Oleg. The old leader Tatarchuk is an old man in the army and has always been loyal to the Republic. His son is also a good soldier, everyone They both compare him with Bao Hong." Aragorn glanced in the direction of Chechen's finger and recognized the two.

　　At this time, the Cossack named Oleg and his foster father said something, so they turned and walked away.

　　 At the same time, the loud trumpets and thunderous drums announced the beginning of the banquet. City Lord Feodor Obukhović walked onto the stage in a costume decorated with family emblems. He raised his wine glass with a red face and said something loudly.

　　 Because it was too noisy outside, Fyodor's speech Cheerchen couldn't hear anything clearly, but I would know that it should be some ordinary congratulations.

　　Fyodor's self-mutilation behavior in the following made Cheorchen feel incredible. When Feodor finished speaking, he drank a large glass of red wine, and then smashed the glass on his forehead. The wine glass shattered.

　　 "This is a Polish custom. You will get used to it when you see more." Aragorn said nonchalantly. When he first came to Poland, he was also surprised by the behavior of the Polish nobility, which was tantamount to self-harm. But now he is used to it.

　　 After my father has finished speaking, the protagonist of this banquet should appear. The Miss Helena came in through the side door of the banquet hall. This noble lady wore a silver satin dress that Cheechen had never seen before. The dress was embroidered with sparkling roses. The skirt of the dress is very large, so it looks amazingly thin at the waist. And the upper body of this dress is short-sleeved, very tight. In order to keep warm, she also wore a golden lace cloak on her shoulders.

　　On Helena's body, bracelets, earrings, brooches, rings, all kinds of jewelry. And the light from these treasures made this noble lady look full of charm. If Cheerchen came closer, he could find that Helena's face was still smeared with a faint layer of rouge.

　　 Seeing the birthday star appeared, the people in the banquet hall began to chant prayers and solemn hymns repeatedly. After that, the banquet and the most exciting dance party officially began.

　　 It's time for young people now. The young men and women in the banquet hall found their suitable partners and began to dance.

　　 Helena is today's protagonist and the daughter of the city lord. There are countless men who want to dance with her. But she politely refused.

　　 "I'm sorry, I'm a little uncomfortable today." Helena said politely to every man who came forward.

　　 But in fact, Helena is not tired of her body, but her mind. Because it was yesterday, the day before her birthday. Her father, Fyodor Obukhović told her that she would be betrothed to the son of Count Anzumov, the little Anzumov.

　　 The Anzumov family is a distinguished family in Smolensk, and Earl Anzumov is his godfather. The marriage of the two families is no better thing for the two families. Moreover, Xiao Anzumov is young and handsome, and I don't know how many aristocratic girls in the city are the dream lovers.

　　If there is no such person.

　　 "Miss." Helena's maid called to her master, and gestured with her eyes. Following the direction of the maid's eyes, Helena saw a gap in the side door, looking at her with fiery eyes.

　　 "Father." Helena stood up and walked to Fyodor. The latter was talking about something with Count Anzumov, and little Anzumov stood beside him. He was dressed in a straight gown, with a wine glass in his hand, listening with interest. Seeing the happy expressions of the two, even if Helena knew that they were really talking about their marriage with Xiao Anzumov. UU reading www.uukanshu. com

　　 "What's wrong? My dear daughter." Feodor asked back.

　　 "I want to go to the bathroom."

　　 "Go, come back early. Little Anzumov wants to dance with you!"

　　 Seeing that he mentioned himself, Xiao Anzumov leaned and bowed to Helena.

　　 Helena lifted the skirt and bowed back, then stepped out.

　　 There is Chelchen who doesn't like this dance party. He and Aragorn were pushed into the ball by a group of elders who were not afraid of things and were forced to dance.

　　 Cheerchen dances Polonez. But he was extremely unsuccessful in the jump. When his dancing partner, an aristocratic lady, took his hand and made a circle, he staggered. Because the noble lady jokingly claimed that Cheerchen's hands were whiter and tenderer than women. Immediately afterwards, he stepped on the skirt of a person behind him again and almost fell that person.

　　 He felt like he had entered between two millstones, and then was continuously crushed and discharged.

　　 "I can't do it, Aragorn. I want to go out to get some air." After all, Cheechen moved to Aragorn's side. And the latter, turned out to be like a fish in the water at the ball. It is completely different from his usual "German" image.

　　 "Go, the door is on the left." Aragorn danced and missed Cheerchen.

　　 just opened the side door and was excited by the air-conditioning outside. Cheerchen sneezed several times. But compared with the excitement inside, he still likes the cold outside.

"who is it."

　　 Suddenly, there was an exclamation in the darkness outside the corridor of the side door. Then a dark shadow rushed into the grass beside it, bringing down countless snowflakes.

　　 Before Cheerchen could react, another person walked out of the darkness.

　　 What Ling Chechen didn't expect was that the dark shadow turned out to be Miss Helena.