Section 76 Traps
The monastery of St. Fonso was located beside a stream, surrounded by a stone wall, and had no entrance except for a heavy wooden door, it was a completely enclosed building, and few secular people could enter the monastery of the Church without permission, except for the occasional junior friars who came out to wash their clothes, but today the monks guarding the gate suddenly saw a woman riding a horse towards the monastery on the path.
"Stop, stop." The bare-shaved monk in a gray monk's robe held a wooden stick, which he held in his hand to stop the galloping horse.
"Shh~~~." The woman tightened the reins of her horse, and gradually stopped the horse under her crotch, and she panted as she looked at the monastery in front of her, which was surrounded by stone walls, and from which came the faint sound of bells.
"Who are you?" The monk who had never seen Lady Eva frowned and watched warily at Eve's descendants, women were often carriers of immorality, and the monastery was determined not to allow women to enter, a prohibition that had been observed for a long time.
"Is this the Monastery of St. Fonso?" Madame Eva looked at the monk in front of her from her horse and asked him.
"That's right." The monk looked at Mrs. Eva on horseback, she was wearing a long thin linen dress, and the hem of the long blue dress was embroidered with many noble coats of arms, it seemed that this was a noble lady, and then the monk at the gate softened his tone a little, thinking that it could not be a noble lady who had come to donate property and ask for atonement.
"Great, I'm going to see your dean." Madame Eva, whose face was flushed from the long journey, jumped off her horse panting, and handed the reins to the monk at the gatekeeper.
"What? You know Your Excellency, the Dean. "The monk guarding the door is the lowest rank in the monastery, except for a few encounters when the abbot rode in and out of the carriage, he usually does not see the noble abbot at all, and when he heard that the noble lady in front of him actually came to the abbot, he involuntarily took the reins of the horse, just like an ordinary servant.
"Of course, he's my brother." Lady Eva nodded and said to the monk at the gatekeeper.
"Really? That's wonderful, Your Excellency has just returned, and his carriage has almost passed you. The doorkeeper said flatteringly, and opened the wooden door with the heavy iron key at his waist, and the so-called prohibition of women from entering was gone.
When the wooden door was opened, Mrs. Eva was presented with a scene of life, the monastery was like a manor, in which the monks kept the land in good order, the vineyards planted were fenced with small wooden strips, some of the monks took scissors and carefully rested the vines, and in the summer it would be full of heavy grapes, which the monks would pluck and make sweet wines in the vinaries, except for those used in religious ceremonies. The rest of the wine would be sold by the merchants to various realms of the empire.
"Please go this way." The monk at the gate smiled flatteringly, carrying the corner of his robe, and led the way on the stone-paved path, and the monks who were working on both sides stopped their work in surprise when they saw the woman suddenly appearing in the monastery.
Through the stone path, they were greeted by the main building of a monastery, with a pointed top, on which hung a bell that was struck by a special bell, and a low wall on the periphery of the building, which was half a man high, and inside was a rectangular courtyard, in which some high-ranking monks sat on stone benches holding roses and reciting scriptures.
"Brother Duke, how did you bring a woman in?" At this moment an older monk saw the monk guarding the door, brought Mrs. Eva in, stopped in surprise, stood up and asked.
"This is the sister of His Excellency the Dean, and she has come to find the Dean." Brother Duke said proudly, these people always look down on him on weekdays, thinking that he is a janitor, and now that he is in the relationship with the dean's sister, he must ask her to let the dean promote him to the monk who manages the cellar.
"Oh?" When the others heard that it was the dean's sister, they didn't ask anything, they sat down and went on with their homework, just burying their doubts in their hearts.
"Why are you here, Brother Bart?" Madame Eva followed Brother Duke into the courtyard, and suddenly she saw a familiar figure, a monk with a broom and sweeping the floor with his heart. The old monk, who usually stayed in the treasury and carefully counted the fortunes of the abbey, was a very knowledgeable old monk, whom Madame Eva had known at a very young age.
"Love, Lady Eva, you, why are you here?" Brother Barth looked up blankly, and when he saw that it was Lady Eva in front of him, he was so surprised that the broom in his hand fell to the ground.
"How do you work here? What about the friars who serve you? Lady Eva stepped forward curiously, and took Brother Barth's hand, and after not seeing this monk look older for a while, she couldn't help but blame her brother a little, why did she let this old man work here?
"How did you get here?" Brother Barth looked around anxiously, took the palm of Lady Eva's hand and said, his eyes were carrying a message, but Lady Eva was eager to see her brother at this time, completely ignoring what Brother Deal wanted to convey.
"I'm here to see my brother, I have something to look for him."
"What? Don't you know what to do? You, your ~~~~~. "Brother Barth was surprised, could it be that the Wendell family didn't know about Radhofer. Hannes is dead.
"Madam, come quickly, the dean wants to see you." Brother Duke, who had gone to report the matter, entered first, and at this time he shouted to Lady Eva from the gate on the steps.
"What do you know? All right, Brother Bart, I'll talk to you later, and now I have an urgent matter for my brother. Lady Eva let go of Brother Barth's hand, and the trembling Brother Barth became more anxious and unable to tell her the truth, and Lady Eva had already taken three steps into two steps into the monastery.
"Oops, too bad." Brother Barth was at a loss since Hough. After the death of Abbot Hannes, their former abbot's henchmen were suppressed and ostracized from the core departments of the monastery, but what could he say? He even voted for Brother Robert as abbot during the election, but now looking at his fate, he quickly understood that this was a conspiracy, but it was too late at this time, Robert was in control, his minions were scattered throughout the monastery, and the slightest mistake would bring trouble to himself, so he was silent and thought that everything was God's will.
Lady Eva stepped into the most magnificent building of the monastery, where two rows of slender stone columns supported the entire roof to the left and right, and from the top of the gate there was a cross-shaped window hole through which sunlight poured in, and on the red woolen cushion in front of the altar knelt a man in a splendid robe, who seemed to be a pious prayer.
"Hannes, it's my Eva, I've got something to look for you." Mrs. Eva, thinking that it was her brother, stepped forward and said to the praying person.
"Oh? Something. The praying man stood up from the velvet cushion, and his deep voice didn't look like Hough at all. Dean Hannes, Lady Eva stopped at once.
"You, who are you, you are not my brother."
"Hehehe, aren't you looking for the abbot of St. Fonso's Monastery?" The man turned to reveal a face with a red birthmark, and he said in a mocking tone.
"It's you, my brother?" Lady Eva looked around to see her brother, but there was nothing in the dimly lit hall but the echo of her voice.
"The former dean is dead, murdered by your son, Arold." Dean Robert sneered at the corners of his mouth, and he stretched out his hands, five fingers together, on his chest, and his fingers were covered with various gemstone rings, which set off his noble status.
"Lies, you despicable villain." Mrs. Eva was enraged, and she pulled out the short sword she was wearing from her waist at once, and wanted to poke the sword in Robert's face, but at this moment, a big one-eyed man suddenly rushed from behind her, and grabbed Mrs. Eva's sword-holding hand with a strong and powerful arm, but with a force, the one-eyed man's hand was like an iron tong, pinching Mrs. Eva's wrist and forcing her to let go of the short sword, only to hear a loud sound, the short sword fell to the ground.
"Ha Luha, the people of the Wendell family are so impatient." Dean Robert bent down and picked up the dagger, he looked at the dagger and played with it, his own plan to lure the king into the urn was perfect. But this was not Robert's original intention, he thought that with the strength of Count Rausitz, he could destroy the Wendell family by killing people with a knife, but he didn't expect the Wendell family to be so capable of fighting, and he actually won the favor of the heir of Duke Mason, so he had no choice but to take matters into his own hands, first introduce Lady Eva of the Wendell family into the monastery and arrest them, and then ambush them when the Wendell family came, only by completely eliminating the Wendell family, he felt that no one could shake his position, otherwise Hough. The ghost of Hannes always surfaces in his sleep.
"Are all the mercenaries I asked you to prepare?" After the one-eyed man locked up Mrs. Eva, Dean Robert asked him that the one-eyed man was Jeff's bodyguard.
"Of course, a hundred Germanic mercenaries are ready and ready for your disposal." The one-eyed man rested his hands on the leather belt around his waist, and he was wearing leather-inlaid iron armor with a long sword stuck in his waist.