189 Greed
When everyone looked at it again, they found that the cover of the sarcophagus protruded a little, and ordinary people were affected by prejudices, and they always thought that the cover of the coffin was directly buckled on the coffin, Luo Yi because her son was crying in the corner, so she could only squat down with the lamp to hug her son, she lowered her body, and found that the cover of the sarcophagus was not simply buckled on the coffin.
There were small holes in each of the four corners of the cover, and a small hole in each of the corresponding places on the coffin, which happened to be locked with four iron locks.
A coffin, inside is nothing more than a corpse, although the ordinary wooden board will also nail a nail, that is, I am afraid that the cover will fall when I move, the coffin cover made of this stone is heavy enough, it will not be moved, what do you do with the iron lock on it?
Is there really a treasure?
Luo Yi lifted the lamp and opened it along the hole in the sarcophagus, and he couldn't see anything in the black.
Jason took the lamp from her, looked at all four holes, and swore that he saw a glitter of gold in the sarcophagus.
Except for him, however, no one else saw any glimmer of gold.
"Even if there is, it may be something worn by the priest who is buried here." Jenny said, "Brother, let's not disturb the peace of the dead. ”
"Ah, Jenny, we are not disturbing the peace of the dead, we are...... Belch...... Let's see if they want to go outside and get some fresh air after sleeping for so many years......"
"Brother, it's not right to disturb the deceased." Jason was full of nonsense, and Jenny, who had long been accustomed to him, ignored it, and she insisted on her opinion.
"Jenny. The problem is that it is not right to disturb the deceased only if it is confirmed that the coffin is in them. "Jason is persistent. It seems that in addition to serving as a staff officer for the army. He could have been a barrister in peacetime.
Before Luo Yi could interject, because little Louis was crying again, she could only carry him outside the cellar, hand him over to the servant, tell him to take strict care, and promise a reward, and then was driven back to the cellar by curiosity.
When they returned, the others had already agreed to open the coffin and inspect it.
Jenny was reluctant to disturb the peace of the dead. But she was in the absolute minority here, and she couldn't explain why the coffin was locked with iron, so it couldn't stop the curiosity and greed of others.
They said to do it, the key to the iron lock will definitely not be found, even if it can be found, it is estimated that it will not be able to be used for a few years, because of the construction of the church, the chisel is very easy to borrow, so they borrowed a chisel. Begin to pound on the locks.
The iron lock was rotten, and it was not covered with dust because of the cover of the sarcophagus above, and with a few strokes, the iron locks on all sides fell to the ground one by one.
Then. Several people moved the lid of the sarcophagus to the side.
"How? Is there gold? Jason jumped excitedly, because he couldn't see inside the coffin because of his height.
"......" The crowd was silent for a while.
"Uh...... Is there no gold...... But I really see the glitter of gold......" Jason muttered quietly.
In silence, Jenny handed him a small object that glittered in the lamp. It was a ring, on a skeletal finger.
"......" saw this unequivocal evidence. Jason was silent.
The bishop took the ring and held it in his hand. He was about to put it back in the coffin of the clergyman they had disturbed, but the ring was handmade for the living, not the dead, so it rolled down in action, "Huh? ”
He saw a few letters engraved on the inside of the ring.
"Dedicated to ...... It won't be ...... Oh my! ”
Then, suddenly, he snatched the lamp from Jenny's hand and shone it into the coffin, and when he finally straightened up, his face was grim and cold.
"What's wrong?" Luo Yi asked curiously.
"I ......," he didn't look very good, and after a glass of wine he slowly told everyone about his discovery, "I'm afraid we've found the body of the founder of the Abbey of Alban." ”
"Uh, we're blasphemous......" Jenny was frightened and kept drawing the cross, but Jason reacted immediately, "Didn't St. Alban be made a secret blood sacrifice by the vile heretics...... Belch...... Is it ......?"
"Six fingers, lame, all the same as in the record, and this ring, there is no doubt about it." The bishop said this, his voice trembling a little, for the discovery had a great impact on him, "It is recorded that he was killed by the vile infidels because he refused to cooperate with the infidels, and stole the holy relics donated to him by the Count of Gombard, and his flesh was used for their evil blood sacrifices, so the body could not be found, and the monastery enshrined the axe he used during his lifetime as a holy relic, and the handle of the axe was enshrined in the cathedral, but ......"
Judging from the bones and iron locks, the priest was buried alive in a sarcophagus.
Who is the murderer?
The answer is imminent.
His contemporary, the bishop took bloody revenge on the pagans for the murder of the holy hermit Alban, whose property was confiscated into the cathedral of Tournest, including "the holy relics they had swindled from Alban". It is said that after killing the infidels in the city, they still could not find the holy relics hidden by the infidels, and the infidels cried out in front of the king, when the bishop had a dream, and the holy Alban himself guided him to find the hidden relics, and condemned the remaining infidels, so that the people before the king had nothing to say. "These relics have since been left in the Cathedral of Tournest as a testimony to this martyrdom." It is written in the church book.
The abbey that Alban had built with his bare hands burned down during his martyrdom, and the current abbey of Albans was rebuilt on the ruins by the queen in his honor.
As the inhabitants of Turnest know, many churches, chapels and monasteries in the diocese have this story painted on their frescoes.
However, they have now found the remains of the martyr Alban under the sacred Tourneste Cathedral, and he apparently died alive rather than by a pagan blood sacrifice.
Obviously, the bishop at that time murdered Alban, seized his property and relics, burned his monastery, and at the end of the day, planted a qiē on the infidels, and took the opportunity to massacre the dissidents, and made a great fortune.
Alban is encased in this unpretentious coffin, where will ordinary people open it to see? If it weren't for Luo Yi squatting down to hold the child, he wouldn't have discovered the secret of the coffin's shape, if it weren't for their group of devil believers who were not afraid of the gods and greedy for gold, how could they lift the lid and let the grievances be revealed?
It was by all these coincidences that the bishop's schemes were exposed, and at this time no secular court could try him.
What a good means, a good strategy!
Even the son of the butcher, who was thinking about using these sarcophagi to kill people a few days ago, after calming down, could only silently praise in his heart for the decisiveness, courage and resourcefulness of this ancient bishop who coincided with him across the ages, and the resolute use of the gods without fear.
If Alban's contemporaries were the young bishop's predecessor, then he might have been a little surprised by this, but this time, his predecessor had taught him that the buying and selling of the flesh and soul of believers was not only happening in this era when the Demon King of the Otherworldly Realm came. (To be continued......)