"It's just crazy." On the hillside, looking at the flames tumbling like a red dragon, and the people who were kneeling and crying everywhere, Robert . An unreliable person like Curtis finds it hard to believe.

"The Greek emperor was richer than we can imagine, and this was a way for him to retreat from the enemy. Don't worry too much, Curtis. Blois pulled the reins and kicked his mount with his spurs, "Hurry up to Seleucian City and take the rest of our brethren out under command." ”

"Yes."

It was at the moment when Robert, accompanied by the cavalry of the Seleucian Nationalist Army, headed towards the city where Anna was.

In front of the Protestant Watchhouse in the middle of the Great Hospital Hall, several black-robed clergy urgently shook the bronze bell on the bell tower, and the crisp sound instantly echoed among the hundreds of houses in the entire block, and many knights and sergeants who came with the Count of Blois rubbed their eyes and walked out in surprise, and then they saw that under the misty veil and orange sunlight, dozens of heavily armored guard warriors stood quietly in the bell tower, surrounded by two delicate shoulders.

One is for Anna and the little sunfish, and the other is for the widow and Chise.

After hanging the veil, the widow turned her face, revealing the amorous mole between her eyebrows.

He made an inviting gesture to Anna, who was ten feet away.

Anna raised her hand to Count Ryanstein, who was standing on her shoulder, and the count slowly walked to the shadow cast by the tower with the scroll of paper, facing the Blois soldiers, who did not know what was happening.

Ryanstein first bowed his head, unfolded the scroll, then paused for a while, and then raised his face with a frown, "Ladies and gentlemen, it is a pity that the Count of Blois and the Count of Normandy have already gone back to Constantinople with the Roman Emperor to burn everything on the plateau. ”

Hearing this, the knights and sergeants looked at each other in disbelief, and then at Reinstein in Nahan, and for a long time one of the Blois standard-bearers said, "Then we are not going back to Antioch?" To this, Reinstein replied with a bow, "Yes, according to the behavior of the two counts, they will not go." ”

Suddenly the crowd was in an uproar, and the cries of "where are we going?" were endless, and Ryanstein held the scroll of paper, looking full of confidants, and then looked up and said, "We Seleucia are only outsiders, but I think it is more likely that you will go to Constantinople with the Count of Blois, or return home." ”

As a result, when everyone heard the word "homecoming", the look on their faces was more desperate than if they died.

And those who saw this scene in their shoulders, whether it was Anna here or the widow over there, they all raised their fingers and rested on their beautiful chins, and they all smiled. The widow's laughter is purer, the kind that accomplishes the goal; And Anna's laughter is deeper, a laugh that achieves its purpose.

The reason is very simple, this has been clearly stated in the letters exchanged between Gawain, Anna, and Ingrid.

The general process is as follows: when they first participated in the holy war expedition, this group of knights and soldiers pawned their family property and property, but it was not enough, and they owed many accounts to the merchants or the church, so before the Holy See crown in the city of Rome, another group of cardinals asked Urban to issue an edict for the cause of the expedition, promising that "all the nobles who participated in the holy war could not only atone for their sins, but also cancel their debts." That is to say, as long as the Holy Land is restored, the knights will be able to cancel the debts they have borne when they return to their hometowns, that is, the property they pawned and mortgaged will be unconditionally repaid by the creditors, or their wives, sons, and daughters.

It is clear that the Pope is under tremendous pressure in the face of this proposal. For since the Holy Crusade, all the creditors that have sprung up in the west of Europe are none other than these elements: kings, cardinals close to the king, monasteries or churches, merchants of the richest countries.

Asking them to swallow the meat in their mouths for free is really harder than "passing a camel through the eye of a needle".

Urban. Odar was very distressed, so he asked the cardinal team if he could adopt a compromise solution, "which can not only reduce the interest on the debt, but also let the group of upright military lords and gentlemen, repay it in installments and reduce the pressure"?

But even then, this idea was difficult to implement, and the creditors of all stripes ostensibly agreed to the Pope's edict that "they are willing to cancel the debt of the warriors who fought the sword expedition before the holy Christ, and to limit the matter to the spiritual level of sacrifice for our Lord, and not to the contemptible material and monetary level." ”

The slogans and promises were high-sounding, but soon the creditors instructed their agents to slightly change the text and notes on the contract, changing the word "interest" to "penalty".

In other words, Christ said that believers should not lend money to other believers, let alone ask for high interest, and the Gospels clearly say, "The love of money is the root of all evil, and those who love money are led away from the truth and pierce themselves with many sorrows", "You cannot serve God and mammon at the same time", but the reason is changed to "the penalty that must be paid because of the delay in the repayment of the loan without interest", and everything becomes justified again.

In addition, the fines will naturally accumulate more and more as the date is postponed.

The Pope, who learned of this falsification, was furious in front of the Holy See, feeling that his sanity had been manipulated and insulted, but he was helpless for the time being.

This is also what the widow Inglana, on the way to Seleucia, saw and felt firsthand, so she sharply suggested that Gawain should take advantage of the fact that the expeditionary knights could not return their debts to their homeland, and divide and buy the subordinates of the Count of Blois and the Count of Normandy.

In short, make them an additional new core of the Seleucian military.

Gawain, who was far away in Antioch, gave this task to Anna and the widow.

"We can't go back to our hometown at all, maybe the Count can go back, but we can't." Many people held their heads in fear.

"Then pluck up the courage and return to the battlefield of Antioch." Ryan Stein took the opportunity to raise his hand and said.

But no one answered him, these days the gentle village of the baths, the comfortable rest of the inn area, no one has to run back to the rootless Antioch for the time being, and if their count is gone, who else can they rely on on on the battlefield? will soon become an object of annexation and abandonment.

The scar-faced Sigma saw that the situation was not right, and hurried back to his house, and in full view of everyone, he put on his armor from the inside, held the sheathed sword, and trotted all the way to Anna's shoulder, and bowed down, and the two warriors stopped him, and then took the sword in his hand, and turned to show it in front of Anna's eyes.

"Please accept my allegiance, Your Royal Highness the Purple Princess!" Sigma hurriedly knelt on one knee and bowed his head. (To be continued.) )