Tonight is destined to be uneasy for all.

Almost all the people in the village were driven out, although the reason was that the Bishop had brought too many men and horses, and there were not enough places to stay, and more people needed to vacate the houses, and in fact, in order to prevent God from taking Joshua so quickly, the Bishop of Picromini was going to experiment with a new, almost witchcraft-like cure—in order to ensure that there would be no more Valencian priests, only a few credible monks who were either Picomini or Medici remained with them. The meeting between the goldsmith monk and Ezio was also hastily interrupted, and Ezio was ordered to stay in the room, with another monk accompanying him.

Ezio had no objection, he had wine and fish soup at hand, as well as bread and cheese, and the monk who had come to accompany him was also very good at telling light stories and jokes, he kept an eye on the mercenary, and when he noticed that the mercenary seemed to be asleep, he sighed softly and began to sip the wine in his glass. Unbeknownst to the monks, Ezio had already succeeded his uncle Giovanni at this time. Oditore's mantle of Assassin mantle, he was trained to easily hear the faint movements of a hundred feet away.

"Fish?" After listening for a moment, Ezio couldn't help but mutter, "Did they go to great lengths to drive away half the village, just to prepare tomorrow's breakfast?" ”

It was not for nothing that Ezio thought so, for he had heard not only fresh fish being requested, but also that he had made a point of ordering large, thick-skinned fish.

In this age when the light of God shines and the shadow of science is thus thickened, the burned people, especially those who are burned on a large area, or burned on the face, are basically called by the grace of the Lord to walk this way, and when they see Joshua, the first reaction of the monks is to go to the holy oil and water, lest he die without the confession and the Holy Communion and other dying sacraments, so that he will go to hell, although this child has been considered by many to be a devil, But the monks of Picromini and the Medici did not think so—they were people who had seen the real devil, and were not intimidated by a face that was only a tumor.

Giulio did not stop the monks from making the final preparations for Joshua, and from the bottom of his heart, he was not completely sure, his movements were fast enough, but Joshua simply pressed the candle to his face, and in addition to the flames, there were severe burns caused by the boiling candle oil—fortunately, Marciano was on the edge of the Epino, and they lived in the steward's house, and in the courtyard there was a very rudimentary water diversion facility, which led the water of the Epino River into a rough canal for men, horses, and livestock. The monks wrapped Joshua in a woollen blanket and laid it on the side of the canal so that the river could flow over his face.

Bishop Picromini glanced at Giulio beside him, the child's face was pale, his hands were still trembling slightly, and when a person realized that he was taking on a life, he would feel heavy, but he still firmly refused to let blood and ointment, the bishop's ointment was different from what ordinary people could touch, the kind of terrible thing mixed with feces (whether human or animal), or mixed with mercury, ashes, and internal organs, it even smelled a little bitter, and there was elderberry in it, Aconitum and mandala are not only able to cure diseases, but also eliminate pain.

Giulio knew that Bishop Picromini's ointment might indeed be much better at treating loss of appetite, malaise, and sharp wounds than those made by the doctors, but whether it was a burn or a burn, the most important thing was not to put potion or grease on it, but this kind of thing could not be avoided after hundreds of years—the bishop did not accept his opinion because he agreed with Giulio's judgment, but because he did not care about Joshua's life at all, The only purpose of this child, who was abandoned and murdered by his father, was to allow him to observe and understand his students more clearly and profoundly.

"How did you come up with the idea of rinsing with water and using fish skin?" Bishop Picoromini asked curiously, Giulio had been by his side since infancy, and he did not think that anyone could pass him to teach a Medici.

"Because he's having a fever." Giulio rightly said, "Didn't you teach me?" If it's hot, let it be cool, and if it's cool, make it hot, and the river is cold, and so is the fish in the water, and its skin should be a substitute for Joshua's feverish skin. ”

"But wouldn't that have an extra piece of scaly skin on his face in the future?" A monk who was cutting open a large sturgeon couldn't help but interject.

Giulio can't say that the skin of a fish doesn't grow into a human at all, and it was Joshua who barely woke up to end the argument, his heart was full of remorse, he didn't want to die, in addition to the desire for life, there was also the fear of hell - when he put the candle on his face, he felt that it didn't matter even if he died, would this be considered suicidal? A person who commits suicide can only go to hell, and he shuddered when he thought of the devils who waited for sinful souls to go to hell so that they could be beaten on anvils, burned in furnaces, and pulled with tongs.

What are fish skins and scales? Maybe it'll look better than his tumor.

In the end, they settled on a fat-rich sturgeon, this sturgeon was three feet long, and the skin peeled off was enough to cover Joshua's face, of course, before that, the hard scales, muscle tissue, and toxins, parasites, and potential sources of disease, even Julio could only hope that God would show mercy, he had empty hands, no medicine, no equipment, no freezer, and he was still a six-year-old child, and it was one thing to not be able to watch Joshua die like this, but it was another thing to let him make something out of nothing.

Joshua was lucky, the practice of using tilapia skin to treat patients with second-degree burns was not studied until hundreds of years later, and even later, when Giulio was not Giulio, and some people thought it was a lie or witchcraft, and Giulio had no choice, and now tilapia is still far away in Africa.

Julio's answer reassured the monks, after all, compared to blowing the breath of life into the mouth of a dead man and resurrecting him, this kind of act is either a miracle or witchcraft, and the replacement of human skin with fish skin sounds completely understandable, and the processed fish skin looks clean and smooth, optimistically, Joshua's face does not seem so hideous and terrifying after covering the fish skin.

Bishop Picromini didn't stay in Marchiano for long, and he didn't know that Ezio had followed them into Tuscany after hearing about the miraculous cure, and Joshua miraculously persevered, with no parasites (at least not visible for now) and no infection, the cold skin of the fish reduced the level of pain, allowing him to sleep at night and eat during the day. The skin of the fish falls off naturally in about three days and five days at most, but they have been walking along the rivers and lakes, and there is no shortage of fresh fish, and no one will wonder if it is a sin for the monks to be willing to fast.

By the time they reached the foot of Mt. Lakere, the skin on Joshua's face was almost healing, and amazingly, the tumors seemed to be frightened, and although they did not shrink, they did not continue to expand.

On this day, Bishop Picomini sent Giulio to pick some mint for insect repellent before Joshua was called to his room.

It was midday, and the sunlight poured into the room through the dappled stained glass windows, and the room was warm and bright, but at the sight of Bishop Picromini, Joshua's heart felt like it had fallen into an ice cellar.

"Come closer." Bishop Picromini commanded, and when Joshua approached him, he lifted Joshua's cloth and looked carefully at his face in the sun, and the tumors, and the burned and scalded face, and it was the first time he had seen this kind of painless, quick and almost perfect healing, you know, sometimes when people just cut hemorrhoids, in order to stop the bleeding, even a small burn can cause the patient to die of high fever, or leave indelible deep scars, But these were just color differentiations on Joshua's face. The bishop thought about the manual in the drawer, and thought about testing this method on more patients with burns and scalds—when they were injured, when they were operating, when they were bleeding, when they were bleeding, and in the winter, when they fell into the fireplace to keep warm...... He had to plan carefully to see if it could get the most out of it for himself and his family.

It also cemented him to bring Giulio. The Medici's determination to stay by his side, Lorenzo of Florence had already sent a messenger to test it, Sixtus IV was about to die, the greatest crisis of the Medici family could be said to have passed, Lorenzo made this request is not surprising, but Bishop Picromini would never agree to his request - are there spiritual people? Yes, but Julio. The Medici had proved that he could hear the Lord speaking, and that what happened to him was a real miracle, but unfortunately neither the Bishop of Picromini nor the Medici family had enough power to protect his reputation and safety, and he was a fragile child, a disease, a stream, and a few belladonnes mixed with gooseberries could kill him in an instant, and Picromini never overestimated the piety and conscience of those in high positions, to put it mildly, only dead saints deserve to be honored and proclaimed by them, As for the living...... The stake was raised at the stake when Joan of Arc was burned and still stands on the old market square in Rouen.

He had to take the care of Giulio as carefully as a stingy pagan collector of gems. The Medici are with him, but one day, this child will shine brightly in the sun.

Thinking of this, Bishop Picromini's hand fell lightly on Joshua's uneven forehead, this child made him jealous and disgusted, but if used properly, he would also be a sharp dagger, all he had to do was not let it hurt his hand: "Your burns have healed." He said.

Joshua shuddered, he was afraid that Bishop Picromini's next words would be "You can leave...... Where can he go?

"Next, I'll take over your treatment." Bishop Picromini said: "Your tumors, I am not sure that I can expel them, things may be good or bad, and may even die, do you want to refuse, or do you promise?" ”

After a brief silence, the bishop heard Joshua say, "I promise." ”

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"No, Brother Julio," refused the goldsmith, "it's not something you can touch. ”

As he said this, he was busy crushing a yellow-green mica.

Giulio didn't mind being rejected, even if he wanted to help, just look at the bulging muscles in the arms of the goldsmith, in this day and age, the goldsmith could be a painter and a sculptor at the same time, and to be a sculptor, how could he chisel those hard marbles without a strong body? It also takes a lot of effort to polish gemstones, let alone grind them into powder.

"Is this something for Joshua?" Giulio asked, where his surprise was. The tumor on Joshua's face is a common disease hundreds of years later, mostly in babies and young children, some people will continue until adolescence, youth, sometimes without treatment will disappear on its own, Joshua is undoubtedly the more serious one, the scientific name is capillary hemangioma, also known as the kind of strawberry nevus, in their time, this disease can be treated with hormone drugs, surgery, low temperature, radiation, laser, there are many ways, but in this era, The child and his mother were not burned at the stake because his father was a Lovere, a cardinal.

In the 15th century, it was impossible to extract hormonal drugs, nor was it possible to perform delicate surgeries - doctors considered bloodletting and surgery to be a lowly act, and generally left butchers or barbers to do the work, and the cold was ...... Laser...... It's not even a castle in the sky. But they have a long history of using gemstones for medicinal purposes, such as Cleopatra VII, who was admired by Caesar (the bald Roman) and Antony, who once soaked pearls in vinegar to keep them young. The Roman emperor Nero also rubbed his eyes with emeralds, and people then and now believe that this emerald green gemstone can expel toxins and enhance eyesight; Ruby can stop bleeding, garnet can enhance fertility, and peridot can treat asthma and relieve thirst......

Is it a coincidence that almost all the gemstones in the goldsmith are zircon, and some are yellow-green mica, which are arguably the most likely species to carry radioactive materials, or is it intentional on the part of Bishop Picomini? Giulio thought it was the latter, and Bishop Picromini was well aware that these were "bad things", and that even standing and looking at it would be driven away by the goldsmith monks.

After the stones had been powdered, the monk would mix the ointment specially prepared by the bishop and cover Joshua's tumor, and Julio was not allowed to visit him, and if he wanted to know about Joshua's condition, he would have received a good answer.

As a result, he couldn't recognize the strange and familiar blonde child at the end of the summer.