While Abu was involuntarily indulging in the tavern of Tournest, another fellow was sitting next to the new stove of an ordinary farmhouse.

"You are a monk at the Abbey of Aiterbard?"

"That was a long time ago, since the monastery was burned down by the hateful northerners, I went to St. Kren's monastery with a few brothers who had escaped with their lives, but now it is also being poisoned by the northerners......"

"Alas, alas," said the peasant woman, drawing a cross, "you have suffered a lot. ”

"They let us run one morning, saying that they would use the slow runners among us as targets for bows and arrows, and I ran and ran, because the gods took care of me, and I escaped with my life, and walked for many days in the wilderness, and now I don't know where to go, and the abbey of St. Clen is still there, but it ......"

"Oh, that monastery has been burned down by the northerners!"

"What? As we went...... "the wandering monk looked a little surprised," ...... They didn't set fire to it back then. ”

"Really? But the notice says that the northerners burned down the sacred monastery, and so does Mr. Flow. The peasant woman was surprised, but the monk then gave her a reason for her confusion, "probably because there was a fire after we left, and there must have been no one in the monastery by then." ”

This was a perfect reason, and the peasant woman accepted it without hesitation, and she asked with concern, "Why don't you go to the court of the new king?" Now that there is a shortage of manpower, and all the clergy are being recruited there, you will definitely be reused there. ”

"The new king has ascended the throne? I've been in the wilderness for too long, and I don't know any of that. ”

"Oh, you don't know anything! Don't you know about the new king? She drove away the northerners. So she came to the throne -- they all said that, and I don't quite understand it. But they all say so. She had a lot of ideas, and I heard that she was going to build a beacon tower along the coast. It is also necessary to build a new navy so that no one can invade us from the sea. ”

"Really? Previously, Neustria also had a navy, but it was useless. ”

"Really!" A little boy suddenly interjected into their conversation, and after hearing a few familiar terms, his little face turned red with excitement, "We are going to repel all the robbers who dare to invade Neustria!" Beat them up! Banzai! Banzai! Long live the free Neustria! After shouting these slogans, which were obviously taught to him, he turned and ran out to play with his companions.

"I'm sorry, he'...... He's a little ......," the peasant woman laughed embarrassedly, "a little bit of a ...... that isn't big or small."

The monk said he didn't mind. He wanted to hear more about the new king, because it didn't seem like a simple change of throne, "Is the news of the construction of the beacon and the new navy true?" ”

"I don't know anywhere else, but Uncle Alan in the village has been hired by them to be a guide, and I heard that they are looking for a suitable place to build a beacon tower."

The monk was silent for a moment, and then he asked, "In that case, the burden of labor will be heavy." ”

"I think it'll be all right, because we don't have to do the old man's labor now," said the peasant woman. "The new archbishop has pardoned all the old servitude, and if the lord asks us to do extra work for him, he will have to pay us. Since he couldn't direct us gratuitously, there was a lot of spare. And the money for the bread stove has also been abolished, and we now only need to bring firewood and build a stove at home. Now we have more money and free time. I don't think it's unbearable to bear some kind of labor. ”

She just babbled and gossiped, not paying attention to the other person's eyes. So I didn't notice how surprised the other party was.

"The new king looks like he is going to do something big, but if he pardons the old servitude. Won't your lord object? He lost men and money in vain. ”

"That's a pardon from the new archbishop," the peasant woman thought it was an unquestionable order, not expecting at all what a fierce struggle it would cause, "and if you oppose it, you are not against the gods?" ”

"Uh...... How do you know about the archbishop's forgiveness? ”

"There are people from the government and Mr. Itinerant, the people of the government come once a month, Mr. Itinerant comes every week, they announce to us the new policy, all the people will go, and the lord will send men, and they will sue us, and if the lord does not comply, he will go to the new government to denounce him as a heretic, and they speak very strongly, and the earl of the place, the lord of the baron, because he has violated the will of Her Majesty the Queen and the archbishop, and he has sent out servants and captured the peasants as before, They had all gone into the enslavement camps like ordinary peasants, to be in the company of the damned infidels, and their land had been given to the pious peasants—I thought they were frightening, how could such a thing be? But their words were so powerful that they frightened the lord, so they pardoned our servitude, and though they spoke very strongly, they were very caring for the poor, and they were good people, and they were true followers of the Savior's will, and God blessed them. ”

"Yes, yes." The obedient people did not think it was a frightening thing at all, and the hell that the priests spoke of sounded much more terrifying, and it did not stop the lawlessness of the nobles, and what could frighten the peasant woman's lord must have been the shining steel knives - just like the steel knives that frightened him.

"That Mr. Mobility is also a good person, although she has a louder voice and a very quick temper, and she is scared to death when she starts to lose her temper, but she is a good person."

"She? A woman? A woman running around teaching? Isn't she afraid of being caught and sold? ”

"Yes, she is not very old, everyone is frightened by the new government and the new bishop, and now no one dares to do these illegal things, even the old man listens to her lessons, how dare others? She taught our children how to write and arithmetic, and she taught me every time, but at my age, what else did I have to toss? She forced me to learn, saying that this way I could get closer to the way of God, hey, I'm not afraid of your jokes, she also taught me a hundred words before and after, but they recognize me, I don't recognize them, those words are too hard to recognize! But now that I know how to count, I can use a scale. I think it's good that you won't be deceived by vendors anymore when you buy and sell things. It's all thanks to her, this kind of person is really a person who serves God. Unlike before, they were on the side of the poor, and I think they must be serving the true God. ”

"Did they defeat the northerners? I mean the new king? The monk's question was abrupt, but the peasant woman did not notice anything wrong, and replied, "But is it not that they have taken many captives, brought them first to the royal capital, and then scattered them to the various markets to display them in turn, as if they were showcasing flowers." I told all of us to go and see it, and we all went to see it, and there were people crowded even on the trees, and I was short and late, and I didn't see anything, but my husband saw it, and he said they were all in shackles, and they told me that they had caught it at some estuary. ”

"Heaven forbid! This group of people was justly punished! ”

"Not really!" The peasant woman said happily. "I think they're being punished this time! My husband also participated in that war ten years ago, and he said that they could have won that time because of traitors, and now the belated justice has finally arrived! ”

"Justice is welcome even if it is too late." The monk said in a smug voice. As he said this, he looked out the door, and then he saw the children playing a strange game in the field—they were riding on the backs of sheep. Holding small bows and chasing each other—his amber eyes immediately widened, for he recognized what the game was.

"What are they playing? Looks like he's going to be a knight. He asked the peasant woman. With a smile on his face, his tone is light and breezy.

"There's going to be a big competition in three months. Anyone who finishes in the rankings gets a big prize and can also qualify as a reserve knight. The peasant woman did not doubt him, and answered his question with a smile, "We were not going to ask the children to go, because we thought it was impossible to win the prize, and our ancestors had been farming for generations, and had never been a knight, how could this be possible?" But the sheep and the bow and arrows are provided by them, and the gentleman said, this is the 'elimination of the four evils', a pair of mice can give birth to more than a hundred little mice a year, and the children now shoot a small mouse is to snatch a big loaf of bread from the mouth of the mouse......"

"It's not easy to shoot a mouse! This bonus is not easy to get! ”

"Yes, we haven't thought about it, but the children love to play with this, and if they don't let them go, they will sue the gentleman, and now the gentleman's words are heavier than the master's words...... Besides, this is in the service of God......"

When the impostor monk left the village and walked to the bend, he plucked a willow leaf by the river and blew a long slogan, and a small sampan was immediately drawn out of his shelter to meet him.

"I didn't get into any trouble." The person who answered greeted him like this, and the fake monk walked without panic, but when he got closer, he noticed that his eyes were wrong, "What do you see?" ”

"I didn't get into trouble, but ...... I'm afraid we're going to be in big trouble. ”

"How?"

"A monarch I never expected to appear." That's all he said.

The little sampan went down the river and soon rowed into the sea, and such a small boat looked very dangerous in the sea, but the people on board had passed through the great wind and waves in the dangerous icy sea, and it did not take much trouble for them to find the long boat that met them.

The people on the ship were waiting for the news he brought back, and there was a lot of news he brought back.

"I still don't think it's possible." After hearing what he said about the rectification of internal affairs, the education of the people, the abolition of excesses and taxes, and the training of the militia, one man said.

"Those who broke up with us at the mouth of the Aspath and stayed to continue the robbery also found it impossible."

They were all silent, and if there was anything worse for them than a well-equipped and well-trained army, it was a united, unified country with a well-equipped and well-trained army that was still expanding.

"It looks like we won't be able to come to this country in the future." After a long time, a man lamented.

"Nope."

The others immediately came to their senses, and they looked at their leader, expecting him to come up with a good idea, "How can we win against them?" They asked eagerly.

"Win the war? No, I mean ......," Adair said, "we surrender." (To be continued......)