It has been a difficult year for the inhabitants of Tournest.

The destruction of the fleet last year took with it many of the city's best children, who unfortunately were also in the service and died at sea on that stormy night. At the beginning of this year, it was attacked by northerners.

The northerners stormed the city gates and looted the market area, and although they were then repelled by the residents, a fire set on them burned down half of the city.

In addition to the lead-clad brick roof of Tournest Cathedral, the houses and shops of ordinary citizens were also thatched, and it was easy to burn from one building to another, and many houses, shops, and warehouses were burned down, as well as the valuable goods and goods inside.

Some people rushed to save goods and assets and did not have time to escape from the fire.

There are people whose shops, houses, and goods have been burned to the ground, and who once hired a few helpers and servants to make a big business at home, now beg for a living in front of the church.

Some of the unfortunate residents were taken away by the northerners, including the abbot of the convent, who was dealing with a sale in the market area.

Among these people, the family had been looted and burned by the northerners and still had any surplus wealth, and the family ransomed the people after the fighting had subsided a little, and sent all the remaining money to the northerners' camps.

These redeemed people are already a great blessing in misfortune.

Those who had no money, or who had money, were plundered and burned by the northerners, were sent to the other side of the sea to be slaves of the heathen.

Others did not wait for the fighting to subside, and the abbot of the Abbey of Turnest, before the northerners demanded ransom, was killed by a drunken northerner because he did not have a pleasant face towards his guards.

And that's just the direct loss of people and property to Tournest.

Indirect losses, which had only now begun, were paid by household in order to pay tribute to the northerners, so that the city was not bandaged after being wounded, and continued to bleed. After the northerners left, they didn't build a new house.

Ten of the most famous citizens are going to hand over their sons as hostages to the infidels of the northerners who sacrifice them with living people, and I don't know if there will be a day when they will see each other again!

In the midst of all this grief, loss and confusion, the inauguration of a new bishop seems to be the only bright light in the gloomy days.

The inauguration of the new bishop is a sight to behold.

All the people were amazed at the young age of the new bishop, yes, and many of them knew about his origins, but only when he was the butcher's youngest son, and now they were surprised to see him come to be bishop.

The new bishop is not only young, but also handsome, and his appearance has always won the most favor from people, and the monkeys of this world are no exception.

The new bishop was so much worse than the old skeleton they were used to seeing!

Regardless of whether he is capable or not, at least he is very eye-catching, and the women on the lookers think so.

Moreover, the bishop's queue is also eye-catching, so that the onlookers can also take their eyes off it.

The bishop's horse was guided by eight young men, four men and four women, all of whom were well nourished because they had been fed by Luo Yi in the school in the past year, and had beautiful rose faces, wearing white tunics of the same style and red silk belts.

Their unsquinting posture under such a grand scene was greatly praised by the school, and no one could have imagined that they were all the children of serfs.

Behind them, there were four knights in full armor.

They escorted the baroness's carriage.

Behind them was a long procession of peasants from Brad's domain, dressed in their best clothes and holding flowers, who had volunteered to bring so many benefits to the bishop who had brought them so much good.

If he had made any other gesture, perhaps the old townspeople would have made reservations about him in their hearts, subconsciously believing that a man so young was not fit to be a bishop.

But there was a faint melancholy in his solemnity, and he sat down on his horse, nodding his head to everyone, and sighing at the sight of the burned ruins, as if he were agonizing at the misfortune that had befallen Turnest, and they also felt that the young man seemed to know the weight of the burden that was about to be placed on his shoulders, and that he was not a frivolous child.

The peasants in the back cheered again, a rare procession, which at once aroused the curiosity of the inhabitants of the city, and among them there were merchants and craftsmen who had gone to Brad's territory to do business, and they recognized the people of the peasant procession, and they began to talk to each other, and learned of the benefits of this bishop.

These benefits quickly spread among the crowd.

The cheers of the inhabitants of Turnest gradually changed from ceremonial to genuine.

They need good news so badly.

By the time the new bishop entered the cathedral, the cheers were already loud and thunderous, drowning out the voices of the leaders who had been hired to applaud and cheer. And some of the old men who knew the bishop's pious mother said that the holy woman would have been glad if she had known what her son had done so far. When they said this, the old women were moved to tears.

The crowd was glad to see that the new bishop did not show pride in such a high position because he was so young, and that he became bishop, not so much to obtain a prestigious position, but to carry a heavy burden.

They didn't know that Shepp was indeed there to carry the burden.

The devil is standing beside him.

Luo Yi had already told him that part of the money for the purchase of the bishopric would be repaid in installments over the next few years, and this repayment, of course, would depend on the cooperation of the bishop himself.

Luo Yi did this consciously, just as the foreign powers used loans to support the democrats they supported, and she used partial loans to buy the bishopric position.

This kind of loan often makes all kinds of resources and minerals of democratic countries fall into the hands of foreign powers, so it is considered by Luo Yi to be a very effective way.

It's just that she stared at the interests with her eyes on the interests and made the same mistake as the great powers, forgetting that the other party would jump off the wall in a hurry.

However, because Shep, like many countries, has no force but no financial resources—he has not mastered the skills to make money, so in the end, he still fell into the snare prepared by the devil.

Therefore, when the new bishop took office, there was no sense of pride that a young man would have when he suddenly became in a high position, because neither he was in debt, nor the devil around him, nor Aunt Hansen's new gossip, he was not allowed to do so.

That terrible Aunt Hansen, ah, she is a sturdy old yellow warbler, she is a vigorous living hell - what else can make believers of all sects suffer and smell of hell?

On that unfortunate day, she found the answer to the riddle after a series of logical reasoning - for what little priest was not interested in men or women, but could easily get money from her while arguing with the Baroness - oh, she happily promised that she would keep the secret for the contemporary Echinhard and Emma!

Aunt Hansen's Guarantee...... Isn't this tantamount to twelve men shouting in public at the entrance of Tournest Cathedral on Sunday that he had an affair with the Baroness?

Shepp had the urge to die at that moment.

He was able to stay strong thanks to the extraordinary, fiery tangle of affection for his original guide, the current abbot of St. Martin's Abbey.

If you can't go to heaven together, let's go to hell together!

The poor citizens of Tournest, who knew nothing of these circumstances, expected a saint, and then, seeing the humble gesture of a new bishop's saint, naturally took the other as a saint.

They were especially pleased that three days later, while the new bishop was preaching, a well-known wealthy pagan Jacob Jr. entered the church.

He knelt before the new bishop and declared that he had been moved by the bishop's power and decided to convert himself.

End of the first volume