257 The Origins of the Grassroots Royalists
"The Great Abbey?" "You said the Great Monastery instructed you to do this?" ”
Old Yomro said hatefully, "What commands? Isn't she a usurper, but an orthodox heir? It's ridiculous! Everyone knows exactly who the rightful king of Neustria is, you are just using force in your hands to deceive the ignorant people, phew, you guys who deserve hell! He puffed out his chest proudly, and looked extremely proud of his allegiance to the former king.
"What kind of crime are you spreading rumors to deceive the villagers?" "If it's not us, but someone with a rough attitude, isn't your behavior causing your neighbors to eat whips for nothing?" ”
"Then they will rise up against you."
"Is that what you have in mind?" "You old fellow's intentions are worse than a viper," cried Graire, and you know that the villagers of Barbador are no match for the regular army, and that you are doing them a scourge! Belier nodded beside him, indeed, the villagers of Barbado were limited in number, and they were all farming people, and if there was a fierce confrontation, even if they could escape from the army, they would probably have to abandon their fields and live in the woods.
Although the life of the peasants in this era was miserable, it was even more terrible to leave the village and live in the forest.
"If they fall into error, it is a terrible thing than death." Old Yomuro gritted his teeth and said, "In the service of the usurper, that is the usurper's associates, and if they serve your 'government', they are against the orthodox king of Neustria." All the clergy will curse them, and so will your illegitimate archbishop. ”
"Adam weaving. When Eve was spinning, there was no orthodox king in Neustria. Grirrell commented. Her experience of being confined to a convent by a former archbishop gave her a high immunity to religion (a convent is not a romantic place).
Old Yomuro was dumbfounded, frightened by the former nun's bold words.
"Let me ask you again, did the Great Abbey teach you that?" Berlier said.
"Phew, it is the usurper who sits on the throne now, everyone knows that those who obey are just afraid that the usurper will be powerful, and they are just pretending to obey, and the orthodox Neustrian king will return soon, and then it will be your death!" After Old Yomuro had issued such a curse on them. He stopped talking, and he had not admitted that his actions had anything to do with the Abbey, so Ballier did not bother to question him any more, and the two sat quietly and guarded the prisoner until dawn.
When the villagers saw that the old Yomuro had been arrested, there was a commotion, and the old Yomuro thought that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, and shouted again, saying that the two men had kidnapped him, which aroused tension among the villagers. Some stepped forward, others rolled up their sleeves.
"Tie you up? We don't even have a rope," Bellier said calmly to the villagers, "think about it. The two of us ran into his house at night without alarming anyone. It didn't alarm the dogs, and they brought him here with crutches. Neither too heavy, nor into the woods just a little way from here? Are there kidnappers like us in the world? ”
The villagers were silent for a while. Then he boldly asked, "Then why did you arrest old Yomro?" ”
"Because he's done something wrong."
"What did he do?"
"Murder of government officials, if we hadn't been vigilant, I'm afraid we would have become a ghost under his crutches! He looks like a cripple, but he's pretty good at wielding a cane! ”
Such a heinous crime caused an uproar among the villagers, and someone who knew him well asked him in disbelief: "Are they telling the truth?" ”
"It's not!"
"Don't even think about quibbling!" Glarel shouted.
Old Yomuro glared at her angrily: "Killing the accomplices of the two usurpers, can this also be called murder?" It's a just execution, but it seems that the gods will have to wait for the Orthodox King to take your dog's head, and the more crimes accumulate, the longer you will stay in hell! ”
"You're serving the Orthodox King?" Some villagers asked him in surprise.
"That's right!" To the old Yomuro, the orthodox king was an object of allegiance, but the villagers dispersed in fear, they were not so loyal to the king, and they were frightened by a felony in their neighbors.
"You are ...... Woowoo woo ......"
"What a nuisance!" Belier had to sacrifice a piece of his wrapping cloth to gag the prisoner's mouth, this guy is so good at turning things upside down that he almost made him incite the villagers, "Listen, prisoner, you have the right to be silent!" ”
"Woo woo" was forced to shut up old Yomuro apparently didn't think so.
Graire bought a rope from the villagers to escort the prisoner to Aronael, and the villagers gave her the rope almost for nothing. While it was time to buy the rope, Grirrell inquired with the villagers, and it turned out that when he was young, the old Yomuro had almost been hanged by Count Edwa for stealing sheep, but fortunately the abbot of the Grand Abbey had come to visit Count Edwa, who was a saint, and he strongly advocated the abolition of the death penalty, no matter how terrible the crimes they committed, so the old Yomuro was spared punishment and became the protector of the Grand Abbot.
The venerable abbot Tong Guò gathered many prisoners to serve him, and the elder Yomuro became the most well-informed man in the village. Later, when he became lame, he went back to live in the village, because he had some knowledge, and brought back some property, oxen and carts, and the background of the great monastery, so he was appointed by the steward of the Count of Edward as the agent of the village of Barbado, and every year he went to the great monastery to worship, and was one of the most devout men in the village.
When Count Edward fled, the villagers of Barbado did not know about the political situation in Neustria, and they were working in their fields day after day. The first person in the village to know about the situation outside was the old Yomro, who was an agent who often went out with the convenience of ox carts, and he brought back a lot of news from the outside world, which really frightened the villagers, and some of the most timid villagers were so frightened that they hid in the forest, and their wives brought them food every few days. Now that Glarel had told them that the former boundaries had been abolished, and that the plundering of the peasants had been severely restricted, they could inquire about the true situation in the nearby villages, or in Aronael, where the warlike nobles used to plunder the peasants on the borders, so that the average farmer did not dare to go too far from home.
"I see." It is not surprising that Ragrell was loyal to the murderer when he heard about his background, having inherited the benefits of the Great Abbey and being an agent of the former Earl, so it is no wonder that he portrayed the outside world as terrible, and wanted to intimidate the villagers into not cooperating with the new government.
Together, Beryl and Grirrel threw the prisoner into his own ox cart, and found a villager who could drive it, and headed for Aronael. (To be continued......)