"Who are you?" Pascal II looked at the Song army outside the church, and asked loudly with a serious expression, but he was also very worried at this time, because their church had just been built, and these Song soldiers came, didn't they allow their people to carry out religious activities, or even come to demolish the church?

"You should be the former Pope Pascal II of the Catholic Church, right?" Zhao Yan stepped forward with a smile at this time, and then looked at the other party and said, he had already asked the local officials before, and knew that after Pascal II and these people came to Niutougang, many people learned the language of the Great Song Dynasty, so there should be no problem in communicating.

"Nope! I'm not a former pope, you Song people have taken some traitors hostage and announced the abolition of my Roman priesthood, but this is not legal, so I am still the pope of Catholicism, and as for Maurice, that traitor is not worthy of being the pope of Catholicism at all! When Pascal II heard Zhao Yan's words, he shouted angrily in Chinese, although he was exiled here, he has never recognized that his papal position has been stripped away, nor does he recognize Maurice's papal position, of course, this has no effect, but at least it shows his own attitude.

"Hehe, whether you admit it or not, the facts are the facts, but I'm not here to discuss this issue with you today, but to come to see if you have done something that violates the laws of the Great Song Dynasty after you were exiled?" Zhao Yan waved his hand at this time and lied, he would not show his identity, let alone stupidly push Yuan out to let him communicate with the other party, doing so would only make Pascal II and them shut up, so he arranged for himself the identity of the official of the Great Song Dynasty.

"I didn't expect you Da Song to care about the life or death of our prisoners, but we don't have anything to see here, if you want to see it, just go and see it yourself!" After Pascal II finished speaking, he explained a few words to the people around him, after all, not everyone can understand Chinese. As a result, these Catholic nobles could not help but breathe a sigh of relief when they heard this, because they were also a little worried about Pascal II's coming for the church.

Pascal II asked the others to leave, after all, although the church was built, they still had to live, and they had to go out every day to find food, otherwise they would have to starve the next day. As for himself, he stayed, because he was still worried about what Zhao Yan would do to the church, so he decided to stay and watch Zhao Yan and them.

Seeing that Pascal II was not leaving, this was exactly what Zhao Yan wanted, because he needed someone to help him explain the life of Catholics, so I saw him go to the church first at this time, and casually asked some questions related to Catholicism, to which Pascal II was a little reluctant, but finally answered. After all, he didn't dare to really offend the Great Song official in front of him.

Liao Yuan followed behind Zhao Yan, observing and listening to Zhao Yan's conversation with Pascal II, so that he had a general understanding of the life of Catholics, which was also the biggest gain of his trip. He also felt some sympathy for the exiled Catholic nobles, who found the living conditions here to be simply poor, and most of the few children in the village were naked. Because they have no clothes to wear.

In contrast, Zhao Yan visited the entire prison village with great interest. At the beginning, Zhao Jia exiled Pascal II and these people to Niudao, in fact, he wanted them to fend for themselves, but he didn't expect that these people's survival ability was not bad, and they actually survived by relying on the rich natural conditions of Niudao, and also built a small village, although the conditions of the village were more difficult. But at least there is a basic guarantee of life, which reminds him of Robinson in later history, of course, Pascal II and their conditions are much better than Robinson, at least they can communicate with the outside world, and they are not alone.

After taking the whole village around. Zhao Yan felt that he had seen almost it, so he was ready to leave, but at this time, a few children in the village might have been a little curious about their arrival, so they stared at them not far away, these children were dirty and naked, if they didn't look at their skin color, they were no different from those black children on the African continent.

Maybe it was a compassionate attack, Yuan beckoned to the children at this time, but although these children showed timid expressions, there was still a bold one came over, only to see Yuan take out a few candies from his arms and put them in the other party's hands, which made the child's eyes also brighten, first quickly stuffed a candy into his mouth, and his little face immediately showed a happy expression, and then quickly ran back to distribute the candy to his little friends.

Looking at the children happily sharing the candy, Liao Yuan suddenly sighed, and then turned to Zhao Yan and said: "Brother Zhao, I see that the conditions here in the prison village are too difficult, these children don't even have decent clothes, although they are prisoners exiled here, but I don't think there is a need to be too harsh?" ”

When Pascal II heard that this bald monk who came with Zhao Yan actually interceded for his people, he couldn't help but look at him in surprise, and he also knew how to seize the opportunity, and immediately sighed to Yuan and said: "This master is right, because of the difficult conditions in our prison village, more than thirty people died of disease and starvation at the beginning, most of them were old people and children, and among the children born in the village in the past few years, only one or two out of ten can survive, which also leads to the scarcity of children in the village, I'm afraid that within a few generations, the whole village will disappear completely. ”

Liao Yuan was a monk, and it was normal for him to be compassionate, and Pascal II was also pleading with Zhao Yan to change their status quo. Zhao Yan is not a particularly ruthless person, he was already soft-hearted when he saw some children just now, so after thinking about it for a while, he finally spoke to Pascal II: "This time this official came to inspect, but he can help you solve some difficulties, now you can put forward any requirements, as long as it is not too excessive, this official can promise you on behalf of the imperial court." ”

Hearing Zhao Yan say this, Pascal II was also overjoyed, but he did not lose his mind in addition to the surprise, knowing that he could not make too many requests, such as asking the Great Song to help them with food, cloth, etc., don't think about it, after all, the Great Song Dynasty would not waste materials on them in vain, so he had to put forward a request that was most beneficial to them but would not cause the Great Song Dynasty to be disgusted. (To be continued.) )