Eagle Byzantium

On the side seats, the son and daughter of Sultan Giliki were sitting there, doing the most basic Greek reading and writing training, supervised by the imperial ink officer Hetomia.

In the past few days, Masoud and Xiya were both awed and kind to this female childcare teacher - Hetomia, holding a teaching stick, made strict requirements. The children were not allowed to touch Saracen, Turkic, and Persian. Everything they had learned before was abandoned, and they were not allowed to touch the Koran. Now they were studying the works of Plato and Homer. Hetomia asked them to recite some simple sentences and repeatedly tell some speculative words to Masoud.

While Anna was holding the scroll, the girl from the Orson family was still leaning over and asking the handsome prince Konya with black eyes, black hair, dark skin, and a handsome face, "When a storm comes from the sea, who is the first person to be abandoned on a ship?"

Masood and Xiya were both puzzled, and finally the little prince replied timidly, "I think it should be the weak passengers first..."

As a result, Hetomia's teaching stick hit the palm of the little prince hard. Although Masood was in pain, he didn't dare to take it back. "Then you and Xiya are the weakest. Your father is dead, and your mother is living in the palace here. If the patron of Tarsus and the female Caesar are in danger, should you abandon your brothers and sisters first?" Hetomia corrected sternly.

"Please don't abandon us. Our fate belongs to the patron and the female Caesar!" The brother and sister shouted in a childish tone immediately.

"Yes, please remember that once the passengers are on board, their fate is entrusted to the owner. They must not disobey or question the owner, and the owner will not abandon them in times of crisis." After saying this, Hetomia lightly held the pointer and paced back and forth on the floor, and continued to add, "Remember another sentence, bad people can't become bad or good, and only good people can become bad. It's like a person standing, you hit him with your fist, he will fall to the ground, and if a person is lying down, no matter how you hit him, he will never fall again. So, under what circumstances will a good person become bad? When he is being smart." So the brother and sister spread out the paper again, raised the reed pen, and slowly recorded the teacher's profound words stroke by stroke, even if they were dizzy. Xiya secretly raised her eyes from the corner of her eyes. She saw that on the side where the female Caesar sat, another imperial official, Agnes, was fiddling with an exquisite model, a model of a water wheel: on the shelf, a large wooden block was placed on it, and a small chisel was cleverly chiseled inside to form an arc-shaped internal structure. The large opening was in one place, and the small exits were divided into four places, arranged in pairs up and down, and the entire internal structure was like a fish tail. Then Agnes clamped the chute at the large opening and flushed it down from a high place. The water passed through the internal structure of the wooden block and shot up and down at the exit as four water columns, driving the two sets of water wheels to rotate rapidly at the same time. Then the small flower originally inserted on the water wheel shaft immediately rotated, flew and glided, passed over several columns, and finally gently and steadily fell in front of Xiya.

When Hertomia turned around, Xiya picked up the flowers and smiled at Agnes, admiring and fearing Hertomia with a teaching stick in her hand...

At this moment, there was a sudden noise in the hall. Anna put down the book with some dissatisfaction. Could it be that there were three counties' affairs that needed her to decide? But after a while, Stavlachos hurried in with several maids, "Mrs. Koleadiou is here, saying that she is here to visit you."

"Huh?" Anna leaned on the couch without hunching her back, but she was also very surprised. She and the widow were now indifferent to each other, just like the ocean currents in the Bosphorus Strait, each going their own way. Why did the widow come to her again?

"Check if she has an axe." This was Anna's second sentence, "Where are my guards?"

"No, Mrs. Koleadiou is wearing a light summer shirt, and she can't bring any weapons to get close to you." The fat eunuch immediately reassured Anna.

But Anna insisted on asking several guards to enter and guard around her couch.

In the courtyard, the widow got off the sedan chair, just like the mistress of the palace who had returned, except that she had gone on a short trip before. She brought a large number of gifts to the female Caesar and everyone in the palace: more than 200 servants followed her, and they brought a lot of silk, porcelain, silk cloth, etc. with mules, horses, boxes, etc., and gave them away everywhere. The widow's enthusiastic voice spread throughout the forest garden, and also disturbed the original study peace.

Anna was helpless but did not dare to get angry, so she could only wave her hand and call "Masood and Xiya, go to the backyard to play with the little sunfish, and Hetomiya will accompany me."

The brother and sister were so happy that they ran into the lush garden behind, and even the little sunfish could not catch up.

"The summer here is really hot. It's cooler in the villa in the mountains of Castel Adio. There are no insects because you can see quails walking comfortably everywhere." The widow walked into the hall with a smile, found a chair to sit down, and then kept fanning herself with a silk handkerchief and complaining about the hot weather in Tarsus. Then she looked at the mosaic behind Anna's couch and said, "This place can only be seen in paintings."

Anna huddled on the couch, frowning, looking at the pair of perfect and blooming "weapons" swinging back and forth under the widow's hand with disgust and fear. Because it was summer, the widow only wore the traditional shoulder-tied silk robe of Roman noble ladies, dark gauze, and silky fabrics on her chest and abdomen, which further set off her blonde hair and snow-white skin. After giving birth, she became more plump and more feminine.

"What a dirty and vulgar barbarian woman's unique breasts." Anna complained again in her heart, "Gawain is now in the military camp outside the city, commanding his subordinates to the main division heading north, because Branas' brigade has arrived." Anna said this verbally.

Then she didn't hear the widow's answer. She waved her hand, and several maids carried her son and daughter in, and hurriedly bowed to the female Caesar.

"Kolladios, Alemannia, you also pay respects to His Highness Caesar." As they were talking, the maids put Gawain and the widow's son, and the adopted German daughter on the floor. Under the widow's order, they crawled all over the floor, very experienced, especially Kolladios. Although he was only a few months old, he could crawl and sit completely, and he could also grab and smash things powerfully, making challenging roars, just like a little Varyag pirate who was plundering everywhere. His hair was brown like his father, but his eyes were green like the widow's. As for facial features and expressions, Anna was sitting on the couch, and her pink and white feet with golden bells hanging down were directly grabbed by the little pirate. Then he raised his face to the frightened and shy female Caesar and laughed loudly, drooling from his mouth, looking very satisfied and happy, "Damn, it's just a replica of Gawain..." (To be continued ~^~)