Chapter XXXVII: The Little Secret of the Abbey of Saint-Sullamel
"Scholar's Field?"
Carl couldn't help but be slightly stunned, could it be that what he just saw was not an illusion, but through some kind of disguise, he saw Heidi's bloodline?
After thinking about it carefully, it seemed that he had indeed vaguely heard that some outstanding figures among the scholars had some magical powers, but Princess Alicia had always only cared about the cultivation and strength of knights, and did not pay much attention to the abilities of scholars at all, and the original body had not even been in contact with real scholars, but had only vaguely heard some legends. It is completely unclear what he is capable of teaching as a scholar.
"By the way, I forgot, you're from that stubborn Roland family. ”
Lady Loris smiled charmingly, looking at Carl as if she had seen an incomparably cherished endangered animal, and exclaimed: "The granite head of the Roland family has always been insulated from the light of the wise sage!
Karl smiled slightly, and did not explain whether he was a scholar in the mouth of Mrs. Loris, but shrugged his shoulders with a pretended humor: "The Lord of Light is naturally fair, but he is fairer to some people!"
"The Lord of Light is naturally fair, but he is fairer to some people?"
Mrs. Loris's eyes lit up, and after chewing on this sentence a few times, she couldn't help but say in admiration: "Very philosophical aphorism, Mr. Carr, you are worthy of an excellent scholar who has awakened the gift of God, and what you say casually makes so sense." ”
Karl couldn't help but feel a little fluttering when he was stared at by a beautiful lady at such a close distance, with a look of wonder and admiration.
The appreciation and adoration of beautiful women is the easiest way to satisfy a man's vanity. What's more, the identity of this Lady Loris seems to be quite simple, and Carl is happy to show his talent in front of her.
It's not to flirt with this beautiful lady, but the upward channel in this era is very narrow, and some promising decent jobs, without the appreciation and recommendation of big people, have no chance to get started.
Carl was well aware of this, so he carefully managed his image from the beginning, relying on the knowledge and experience accumulated in two lifetimes, positioning himself as a scholar, trying his best to show his knowledge and insight, and creating an image of erudition and professionalism.
At the moment, he seems to be lucky, and his strategy is very successful, at least Mrs. Loris's admiration for him is very obvious.
"So, wise Mr. Karl!"
Lady Loris helped Carl to take care of his wound, wrapped it in a beautiful bow of gauze, then looked up at Carl with a smile and asked a little teasingly, "What are you doing at the Abbey of Saint-Soulel? Are you in love with a beautiful girl, so you want to take the opportunity of copying books to bring some love poems to impress the heart of your beloved girl? Or are you bothered by some troublesome academic problem, so you have to go to the old library of the abbey to consult the materials?"
The Monastery of Saint-Soulmel is a monastery named after the female saint Soulamel. Sulamel was an epic hero during the Dawning War, a close comrade-in-arms of the first generation of Celestial Song Saintesses, and one of the first twenty saints to be canonized by the Radiant Church after the victory in the Dawning War.
In the propaganda of the Radiant Church, she is the embodiment of the Seraphim of Heaven, representing the Angel of Pain who holds fast to his faith, endures suffering, and persists in asceticism in the thorny hell.
In the Dawn War against the evil Ancient Magic Empire, she assisted the first generation of the Holy Maiden of Heavenly Song, established the Convent of the Holy Maiden, and single-handedly created the battle nun system in the Church of Radiance, and was one of the most important core figures in the original Order of Light.
The Monastery of St. Soulmel is the great monastery where the saint once stayed in his later years, after the death of this saint, the monastery was named after her, and became the largest convent in the Radiant Church except for the Convent of the Holy Virgin, and even in order to show respect for St. Soulamel, every generation of the Radiant Church would come to this monastery to practice for a period of time before the accession to the throne.
Out of tradition and belief in the Lord of Light, the nobles liked to send their daughters to the convent for a period of time when they were young, not only to show their faith in the Lord of Light and respect for the Radiant Church, but also to receive systematic intellectual education - in this era, the monastery of the Church itself was the largest place for the spread of knowledge, with the most advanced, systematic and largest education system.
The Abbey of Saint-Soulel is the only women's monastery in the entire Silver Tide City, and most of the noble ladies in the entire Silver Tide City have practiced in this monastery.
Such a place where many beautiful aristocratic ladies in the Silver Tide City are gathered naturally attracted the attention of countless young people in the Silver Tide City.
It's just a pity that because of the "chastity precepts" of the Glorious Church, the Abbey of Saint-Soulamel refuses all men to step into it, and those old-fashioned old grandmothers stubbornly maintain the precepts of the monastery, day and night vigilantly, all men who try to sneak into the monastery will have nothing to hide under the vigilant gaze of the old woman, either expelled by the fighting nuns, or caught by the gatekeepers and sent to the black prison of the municipal court to be whipped.
Therefore, the book scribe of the monastery of Sullamel became a very sought-after profession. Although the book copying room was also located outside the monastery, each scribe was forced to stay in a small copying room, and there was no chance to set foot in the monastery.
But with the opportunity of copying the scriptures, some clever young people still got along with each other, secretly taking some personal goods with them when copying books, and teasing the beautiful ladies in the monastery with passionate love poems or hot and bold love words.
This kind of thing has become an almost open secret in the Silver Tide City. Although the grandmothers of the monastery also knew this, after all, it was better to block than to sparse, so they gradually acquiesced to this rule.
Now, many of the young men who went to work as scribes in the monastery of Sullamel were of course going for the rather good salaries, but many more were actually going for the young noble ladies inside.
In the face of Mrs. Loris's ridicule, Karl could only shake his head helplessly and said: "No, I need a job to support myself now, but there don't seem to be many jobs in the city that are suitable for me, so I can only go to the convent to work as a scribe." ”
After speaking, Karl told Mrs. Loris about his predicament quite frankly, including that he was kicked out of the family and came to join Baron Have, but he encountered thieves on the way, and all his belongings were robbed, and it was not easy to come to the city of silver tides, but he found that the baron was not there, and he had no documents to prove his identity, so he could not be received by the baron's butler. He had to find a way to find a job in a civilian area on his own.