The maid was a little frightened, she didn't know whether to listen to the tall blue-eyed barbarian in front of her, or to the medical officers inside, and then she looked at the chief of the emperor's guard behind her, and when she saw Mikhail nodding, she turned back.

The medical officer inside shouted and asked why the wine and water hadn't been delivered.

"Anna—no, Your Excellency Princess, please listen to my advice." Gawain said through the curtain, turning sideways.

After a while, Anna hummed, "Maybe the Varyag barbarians might have an unexpected way." Gawain heard her explain to the medical officer.

Gawain, who didn't have the heart to listen to the doctor's complaints, went directly to a couch by the pillar, looked at it, grabbed the embroidered pillow in it, pulled out the scimitar, cut it and pulled out the feathers in it to fly around, which frightened the maid, but Gawain went his own way, and when he was done, he said to the maid, "Is there ice available in the palace this season?" ”

After Mikhail nodded again, the maid replied that there was, and that every year the palace brought snow and ice from the Bulgarian peaks and hid it in the cellar.

"Take it, stuff some in." After throwing the deflated pillow to the maid, Gawain came to the curtain again, and said to the medical officer in the room, "Please let the other maids go in and change the clothes of the eldest princess into a lighter and looser garment." ”

The medical officer inside croaked in dissatisfaction again, and Gawain became impatient, "Do any of you want to watch the eldest princess change her clothes?" Before he could finish speaking, three or four Greek medical officers immediately came out one by one with their heads bowed and their waists blinked, and the two maids took out their clothes from the wardrobe by the palace, lifted the curtain and ran in, "Find a stove to boil water." Gawain said to the leading maid who still had scars on her face, making the other party's eyes widen, "What, boiling water?" Is it to take a bath? ”

"Yes, boil water." Gawain gestured, seeing that the other party still didn't understand, "That's good, you get the vessel for water." ”

After the leading maid nodded, she soon took the sterling silver pot, "Don't want this, I want it from a foreign country, that porcelain pot." ”

It's really delivered, and there are really a lot of things in this Brachna Palace.

Gawain brought the washer, put it on the bottom partition, then placed charcoal and firewood and grass underneath, felt the fire sickle crackling, and put his scarlet cloak around his nose, "Come, keep adding to it." ”

The pillow stuffed with ice cubes arrived, "and it was sent to be placed under the eldest princess's head." When the water had finally boiled, Gawain continued to wrap his hands in his cloak, gritted his teeth and carried the pot, and rushed into the cup, and kept blowing to cool it down, and complained that there was no such thing here, so that both the maid and Mikhail were stunned, and did not understand why he boiled the water and then blew it.

In the end, it was Anna on the other side of the curtain who laughed, "What are you doing?" I've been watching you here. The pillow stuffed with ice cubes seems to be very comfortable. ”

"Bring it in and give it to the eldest princess to drink." Gawain did not reply, but raised one of the glasses, which was a little warm, and said to the maid who took the lead, and then busied himself with blowing the next one.

After drinking a few glasses of warm water in a row, the eldest princess's reaction was obvious, and soon the maid who took the lead walked out of the curtain, "The eldest princess wants to relieve you, you guys quit thirty feet." ”

After about two or three small reliefs, Anna's condition soon improved, and her body temperature dropped, and Gawain asked the maid to change the pillow to a normal and light one, and the eldest princess was able to rest half-reclining on the bed.

"After the water is boiled, it actually has this function?" Mikhail was still looking at the blackened washstand, pondering and gesturing.

"Your Excellency the Chief Guard, the eldest princess, please withdraw sixty feet. Yes, you're the only one. At this point, the maid who took the lead continued to demand.

Mikhail was silent, and then he withdrew from the prescribed distance with great amusement, and stood straight under the porch at the entrance of the palace, not like a guard sent by the emperor, but like a windbreaker.

"Gawain, do you believe I saw the ghost of Constantine?" Through the curtain, Anna, empowered to make the maids retreat to a place where they could not hear the conversation, and then she spoke.

"I'm sure you've seen something more terrible than a ghost," Gawain replied in a low voice as he sat on the couch four or five feet outside the curtain, dressed in armor and holding the sword of phosphorus and fire, in accordance with the requirements of the palace's guards.

Anna was silent, and then seemed to have reached a tacit agreement with Gawain, and no longer continued on this topic, she always felt that she and Gawain could understand each other's thoughts, "Then you will continue to guard here?" ”

"Drink more boiled water, and you'll be completely healed in about two days." Gawain moved away from the second topic, but it was equivalent to giving an answer.

"That means you'll have to leave in two days at most and go to Apulia?"

"Yes."

"According to you, big barbarian, it seems that tears can also drain the heat away?" Anna's words were a little nasal.

"Want to hear something fun?" Gawain raised his head, "Today I got a large amount of 'super angel investment'. ”

"Super-angel-investment, this joke is not funny at all, and a girl of my age would not be interested."

Gawain laughed, "So I can't live up to the expectations of the investors, I have to go to Italy and fight the Normans." ”

"Understood, alive - come back."

After saying this, Anna turned her face sideways, and by the candle flame, looked at Gao Wen's shadow printed on the curtain, and just like that, she was lying in front of her, and a feeling of incomparable security suddenly swelled in her heart, so she untied her bun, closed her sleepy eyelids, and fell into a deep sleep.

At the same time, Emperor Alexios went to the courtyard of the chief lady's house, and saw that under the miserable firelight, Constantine was sitting beside him, according to the custom of the traditional Romans, wrapped in a shroud, with a thick powder on his face, coins on his lips, and various icon pendants and ornaments wrapped around his neck.

"I'm going to go into the convent after burying Constantine."

"Why bother, I will ask for the approval of the Patriarch to pass on John as your adopted son." Alexios suppressed the pain and walked to the corpse, he no longer cared about how Constantine died, in short, he was really a poor child - in addition, at this time he was still a little happy in his heart, although Constantine was very miserable, but without him, the order of the empire seemed to be at peace, at least there was less worry in his heart, so it was natural to give Marlena appropriate relief.

"That's the biggest compensation, I've always been, no, I've treated John as my own child." Marlena, dressed in mourning clothes and veils, seemed to finally have a little expression, and her eyes began to turn red.