Extra: Countess Cartwright
Before the Great Collapse, Audrey was a happy and contented mother, guarding the man who took care of the family and the little land, even if her life was just food and clothing, even if her only child had albinism, even if her daughter was sick, she had to go out to sew and wash clothes for others to earn a small amount of money to support the family, she felt happy and satisfied.
The family is only big enough for three people, but it is neither leaky nor airy; Audella's man only cultivates the land to support the family, but he has no offensive stinks, he is considerate and industrious; Audella's child is a frail little girl with albinism, but she is as beautiful as an elf, intelligent, kind and sensible, and no one in the village rejects her daughter because of her special appearance, on the contrary, everyone who has seen her daughter loves her.
Audrey thought she could last until she died, but when her daughter was eleven years old, the collapse happened.
That day, Audrey was standing in the yard drying clothes for others, and after an explosion, her former house collapsed, and she watched as the broken beams pierced her man's broad back.
Audrey only had time to rescue her feverish daughter from the rubble.
Her elf-like daughter, her daughter who can't bask in the sun, the daughter who can't look too long in a bright place, the daughter who is extremely weak.
No one let her wash clothes to make money after the disaster, Audrey's land became a swamp, she sold her wedding jewelry, her man's gadgets brought back after going out to work on the farm, and even sold her daughter's favorite set of porcelain dolls, but Audrey still couldn't support her daughter.
The daughter who was blessed by the witch doctor in the village and said that she contained the soul fragments of the sea spirit god and was given the name "Umili" became weaker and weaker day by day.
Odella refuses to shed a single tear, she only needs to look at the blue-green eyes of Umili to feel that the family is still together, she wanders around with her daughter to escape the plague caused by the accumulation of corpses, goes to towns and towns to carry building materials to work as reconstruction volunteers in exchange for free food and shelter, and goes to taverns at night to sew the workers' clothes with candles and oil lamps in exchange for income.
But Umiri was still infected with the plague, and the Great Collapse killed all kinds of lives without geographical differences, and the plague spread in the air, and Audrey had nowhere to escape, she could suffer and suffer, but she couldn't keep Umili from breathing.
What's more, Umilia, who has albinism, is already weak, and she is more susceptible to the disease than anyone else.
Penniless, Audrey wanders to Del Beer with her feverish daughter, and signs a deed of sale to sell herself to the ancient aristocrat Cartwright, who hopes that the new wall built by the Cartwright family will insulate her from the plague in the outside world, and she uses all the money to hire Dr. Alter, who serves the Cartwright family, to treat her daughter.
The daughter who was diagnosed with the plague was sent out of the walls built by the nobility, and Audrey could only pray to the Earl of Cartwright at the end of each day that she would let herself go out to see her daughter in the welfare hospital, which had been recommended by a kind doctor.
The more Audrey prayed, the more difficult it became for the Count, her tears, her toil, her sorrow, her despair, her shame, all of which were squeezed out by the Count, and the more Audrey satisfied the Count's troubles, the more difficult it was for her to get out the next day.
Without Umiri's smile, the miserable life is a deadly whirlpool, dragging Audrey into the abyss of eternal darkness.
Umili was still weakened at a rate visible to the naked eye, but every day after seeing her mother, she would get up and walk in the corridor with her mother for a while, even if it was only a few steps, Umili insisted on leaving the ward, telling her mother that here, all the food is fine grains, and the best medicines and treatments are used, and sooner or later she will get better, and she will definitely leave here.
False hope is like a bubble, teetering on the mother-daughter duo.
Until one day, the disheveled and blue-clothed Audrey came out of the earl's bedroom as if she had escaped, and hid in the cupboard of the small utility room to relieve the severe pain in her body, and ten minutes later, when Audrey felt that she could barely stand up and walk, she heard several servants talking quietly.
In just a few words, Audella's dream was completely shattered.
"You can't go to the welfare hospital opened by Alter, which only accepts outsiders. ”
"Who would dare to go there? Sick and dead will not go there, everyone knows that it is a place where patients are experimented on to cure the plague. ”
"Who dares to say such a thing, pity those refugees. ”
"This is the price of coming to the big city to take advantage, what is pitiful and not pitiful, who does not suffer now......"
Umiri, Audella's daughter, was there.
Audrey didn't wait until dinner to go to the hospital, she even hastily sorted out her clothes, endured the severe pain after the beating of her body and ran quickly, she didn't know where the strength came from, maybe because she lost her favorite husband, she didn't want to and couldn't lose her daughter again, this thought supported her to run the fastest speed in her life.
She caught up to see Umiri screaming and convulsing under the strange magic.
In addition to Dr. Alter and a few strange nurses, there was also Count Cartwright in a bird's beak mask.
She slammed open the door of the ward like crazy, rushed forward and punched Dr. Alter hard, and immediately a guard came to pull her, but Audrey still kicked the Count with all her might, she wanted this kick to make it impossible for the Count to have offspring, the guard's pull made her unaccurate, and the Count bent down in pain with his lower abdomen.
Audrey, who fell in the small dark room, knew that she and her daughter would die, and Umili was actually hopeless for a long time, and Audella, who saw through the truth, was desperate, and this world was hell for her.
Three days later, Audrey learns of her daughter's death.
Odella did not cry, and calmly thanked the guard who reported the news, calmly waiting for Count Cartwright to give her a judgment.
As we all know, medieval Europe was an open-air latrine, castles were built on the excrement of kings and princesses, and moats full of feces, urine and garbage wafted with a lingering smell all year round. Of course, this could also be a means of defense for them.
Obviously, in this kind of living environment, it is normal to get sick. If you are sick, you have to be treated, and if you are cured, you have to go to the hospital.
Before we do, though, we need to make sure that you are not a Christian. Because the Middle Ages were the world of Christianity, and those fanatical Christians basically refused surgery and medical treatment. In their view, sickness is God's punishment for sinful people who can be saved by sincere prayer and repentance.
Pray well. Ah, this is a gift from God! If it still doesn't work or even dies while praying, who will make him insincere!
Okay, go this way for the non-believers. Medieval Europe was the same as it is now, with large hospitals and small clinics. Large hospitals are generally run by the church and attached to churches or monasteries, while small clinics and barefoot doctors are everywhere.
Obviously, Peking University Stomatology Hospital is better than community stomatology hospitals. Then let's go to the big hospital first. As mentioned earlier, the big hospitals at that time were generally run by the church, so there is no need to look at them, these so-called big hospitals were just a place of prayer for the sick.
Well, if the big hospital can't do it, let's go to the small clinic and have a famous doctor in the countryside.