"No, it's not over." Gawain's words made Anderodat on the side puzzled, but Gawain thought in his heart, fortunately, the troublesome guard was going to inspect the city protection site with Tetisius, and no one stopped him, he had a good time.

"What was cleared by the divine judgment just now is your husband's accusation of bestiality, but I remember that your husband had another accusation before, that is, the crime of adultery between you and Merlot, which still needs to be clarified." Gawain, who was in his seat, said this, and then the servants re-burned the plough blades and laid them on the ground in the square, "No, not seven, now you need to step over nine to prove yourself." ”

"I need a fighter verdict." At this time, Qi Se had lost his calm and elegance, his face changed greatly, and he made this request to the Grand Duke in front of everyone.

"Fighter verdict? Honorable lady, I think you are mistaken, now that your husband has been banished, and the successor accuser is the Archduke I, yes, I suspect that you are having an adultery with Merlot. However, you can call Mellot next to you to fight me as a fighter, and that's fine, but under my sword and tomahawk, it's hard for anyone to survive, and last year I killed countless Turkic pagan warriors on the battlefield in Minor, and the Grand Duke didn't think that Merlot would be better than their archery and sword skills. Gao Wen's face was expressionless, "Now, I will give you the choice of the divine judgment, the fire judgment, the water judgment, the kettle judgment or the fighter judgment, whatever you want." ”

Then, with their swords in hand, the Italian veteran surrounded the square, cutting off the crowd outside, and lit the flame on the lamppost, the nine plough blades that were also on fire. It's red and sheer, lined up in the charcoal pile. Chiser looked at and held the tassel on the hem of her skirt and began to tremble.

"Merlot. You stand on the other side, ready to catch her after she has stepped on nine blades, and congratulate her on regaining her innocence! Gawain snapped at the equally pale Wessat. Merlot demanded.

The young and handsome swordsman, with his shoulders down, took two slow steps, then suddenly turned back, threw his saber on the ground, and shouted at Gawain. "I am willing to confess my adultery with Madame Chiser, and I beg that we should not be punished by divine judgment again, and that Madame Chiser's perfect body and graceful virtues should not be destroyed in the fire. Yes, it was all a conspiracy of Contarini, who wanted his illegitimate son with his lover to inherit all the family business, hence this unfounded accusation. ”

Gawain clapped his seat, "That is, you do have an adulterous affair!" Below, the Gio family wailed.

Merlot lowered her head, gritted her teeth and sobbed, and Chiser also half-knelt down. Touched his hair, red eyes, and whispered comfort.

"The Grand Duke Ben announced that the man and woman had confessed their crimes. The Gio family, in accordance with their prior accusations, were all banished from the city of Bari to the islands of the Ionian Sea. "There is no forgiveness for the self-proclaimed Grand Duke." If the Gio family dared to resist with the same tower as Contarini. Then I will send an army to slaughter all twenty-seven households under the name of this Kasa. ”

By nightfall, the Gio family was escorted by the army. Driven away from the tower occupied by his own family. At the gates, Gawain wore a red feather helmet and a holy armor given by Anna, and rode on a horse, while Chiser and Merlot happened to be standing in front of him.

"In your eyes, was I just a lustful, innocent, stupid-minded brute? Like the Norman or Frankish lords. Gawain asked Chiseh leisurely, but the woman just kept her head down.

Then, Qi Se still spoke, "Yes, that's right, that's why I teased you with my eyes, and even thought that I had successfully manipulated this verdict for a while. ”

"But just as I took your hand and took the silver coins of the three Sus, Archduke Ben had already seen the eyes of Merlot in the crowd."

"I didn't see what kind of eyes those were." Chiser laughed, looked at Merlot, and then looked up at the Grand Duke of Calabria, and the acting governor of Barry.

"Rest assured, it is not a look of hostility towards me, but a look of approval and understanding of your behavior, a look that can only be made by a person who truly loves each other, there is no jealousy, no anger, it is all the unique gaze of a man who thinks about you - in fact, you are persecuted by your family, hoping to lead the gods to judge, and after your husband is guilty, and then embezzle all the assets of the Contarini family on behalf of Gio."

Qi Se closed his eyes, then nodded, "Please forgive me for tempting you, but I didn't expect Your Excellency to be really a smart and fair person. ”

A money bag was thrown into Chise's arms, it was thrown by Grand Duke Gawain, "Justice is not my goal, I also manipulated this divine judgment, the purpose is to expel the two Casa who are harmful to the city, this money bag contains twenty gold coins of Solid, which I gave to you both, you can take advantage of the winter when there is no war, go to the north where Lombardy is located, and buy a small estate to live in." If you don't want to be with Merlot and want to shoulder the fate of your family, you can also take revenge on me in the name of blood relatives, valid for life. After saying that, Gawain politely put his hand on the eaves of the helmet, bowed his head slightly, said goodbye to the two, and then walked back to the city with the guards.

"Honorable Grand Duke, if you can see that gaze, then you must have felt it." From behind came the shouts of Chise.

"Have I felt it? I don't know, but I can see it. Gawain, who was jolting on horseback, was a little puzzled, holding his bridle in his hand, and did not look back, because there were too many things for him to be responsible for in Barry City now.

However, in Gao Wen's mind, a pair of brown fawn-like eyes still flashed, looking at him, but soon Gao Wen hurriedly shook his head and even said that he was stunned.

The two major Casa in the city were all exiled, and from then on the instructions issued from the Basilica of San Nicolas were unimpeded: dredging the waterways, setting up new barracks and bazaars, repairing the Roman aqueducts, demolishing the towers where the Casa family had entrenched, and using bricks and stones for the repair of the land walls.

Elsewhere, Theognes took the whip and wore a robe of civilian clothes, and supervised the work one by one: the hired laborers, together with the craftsmen, used these bricks and stones to build a man-high wall along the rivers and hills outside Bari, and dug trenches outside, and inserted dense stakes to defend against the cavalry.

And in the wasteland fields behind the wall, the newly recruited Bari people's army, about seven or eight hundred men, was practicing with the Italian veterans, of course, the veterans' request was the tactics of Gawain against the Turks in the bridgehead outside the city of Prussia: divided into small groups to practice, especially conducive to fighting the enemy in the fragmented terrain of forests, rivers, and swamps.

As for the people's army, they are now wearing robes, no armor, holding long pole spears and some hooked scythes, learning to read the flag and walk in line. (To be continued......)