Chapter 19: The Sin of Bearing You
The handover table is the place where the grain is stored in the grain-producing area, and the beaten wheat is stored in the warehouse of the handover table. The main purpose of establishing www.biquge.info transfer platform is to facilitate the delivery of documents from the local priests in charge of foreign affairs and the Holy See and obtain the place where the grain paid tribute to the Holy See, so the transfer platform is generally built at the junction of the official road and the grain producing areas.
Nado shouted a few words into the local vernacular, only to see the door of the warehouse slowly open, and two teams of orc slaves pushed the grain cart out with difficulty.
Cassel went in with a few of his priests to count the grain carts, but Billever, instead of following, chose to stand outside and wait, while Nado followed Billever's with a smiling face.
After a while, Cassel came over angrily, grabbed Nado's collar, and shouted angrily: "Priest Nado, why is the amount of food so much less than the text requires?!"
Nado's face turned bitter and he cried, "Lord Casso, there really aren't so many people to grow food. There are simply not enough slaves!"
Seeing that Cassel's face was getting worse and worse, he immediately patted his chest and promised: "But don't worry, the war in the north has begun, and new slaves will soon be brought over, and God will witness that the next season's grain will definitely be handed over in quality and quantity." β
Cassel snorted coldly, let go of Nado, and his face was still very ugly: "I will truthfully report this matter to the diocesan bishop, and now I have handed over the document to you, sign it after confirming that it is correct, don't delay our trip." β
Nado trembled and took the Holy See's inscription, signed his name on it, and resigned: "Yes, yes." β
Billiver stood by and watched quietly, without interjecting or expressing his opinion. When he saw the minotaur slaves pulling the grain cart and planning to follow the church carriage into Starlight City, he sighed softly and asked Nado, "Why don't you use the carriage, it will be faster." β
"Your Majesty, you're laughing at it, a horse is worth more than five Minotaur slaves. And these big men have a lot of strength, and they can usually work, much better than Marco. Nadeau explained with a smile.
Billivor nodded incomprehensibly, got into the carriage, took out black bread and water, and ate silently.
Nado, who was about to follow the convoy into the city to report on his work, got into the carriage, and when he saw Clifford eating the kind of hard black bread that could be used as a weapon only civilians eat, he hurriedly stopped him, and took out some smoked bacon from his bosom: "My lord, how can you eat these things." Put it down, put it down. This is our special wind wolf bacon here, which is pickled by the wind wolf on this grassland, and it is fragrant. If you'd like to have some wine, and there's a good wine in the carriage behind, I'll bring you some?"
Clifford shook his head: "If you are trained hard, you are hungry and thirsty, you are abstinent, you are tired, you are poor, and you will know at last that all kinds of suffering will temper your soul like the alchemy of fire, and you will see the gods after you are unsullied." β
This quote is from the Lexicon, a book that records the classic sayings of the most prominent figures of the Holy See, and is the most famous phrase of MartΓn Nallando, the first deacon of the Penance.
But apparently Nadeau was not a learned man, and he had not heard of it, let alone understood it, but just stupidly echoed it.
"Nado, Brother Perifer is an ascetic after all, don't disturb him while he eats and practices. Cassel walked into the carriage from the outside and pulled Nado's away, "Let's go, let's go to the carriage behind us and eat." β
Clifford smiled as he watched Nado and Cassel leave, continuing to break off a small piece of brown bread and dip it in water.
After driving a distance, the carriage trembled a little, and then stopped, there were a few knocks on the window, and Cassel asked outside the car, "Brother, have you eaten?"
When he saw the priests entering the grain carts, he asked Cassel, "Is it time to bless?"
"Well, tomorrow we will be distributing the holy bread. β
"Okay. Billevers got out of the cart and followed Cassel to the grain cart.
The minotaur slaves were hunched over, their tall bodies bowed, staring blankly at the ground, not daring to make eye contact with any of the priests.
Cassel opened the door of a grain cart, and the smell of wheat came to his face, and a priest stood respectfully with a cup in his hand.
Clifford opened the Book of Salvation and began to chant the scriptures, and the power of holiness enveloped him, making it difficult to look at him directly.
Each priest began to follow the chant, and a little light came out of them.
In the end, this holy divine power condensed on the cup, and slowly fell, and milky white holy water began to gush out of the cup.
Perifer closed the Book of Salvation, and a priest next to him immediately brought a golden basin with clear, cold water. Clifford leaned down and took a sip of water in his mouth, then put his hand in the basin and washed it carefully.
When he had done all this, the priest immediately brought the basin down.
Clifford walked up to the priest with the cup in his hand and put his hand into it, the holy water flowing warmly on his fingertips.
He first carefully scrubbed the book of salvation in his hand with holy water, and the power of holiness floated in every page of the book. Then he poured holy water on his forehead, and then on the forehead of each priest. Any priest was thrilled to receive the baptism of holy water, after all, it was a blessing presided over by Lord Billiver himself, and this honor was no less than that of a cardinal bishop.
After Briff had blessed each priest, he spread the remaining holy water in the cup evenly in each grain cart, and the wheat began to absorb the divine power in the holy water, and each grain of wheat exuded a slight divine power.
This blessed wheat can be made into holy bread, which can be used to heal diseases, calm the mind, devote to faith, and so on.
The whole process took more than three hours to complete, and although Clifford was already an epic high priest, he still felt a little tired from presiding over the blessing for the first time.
At this time, he saw that although the minotaurs had their heads down, they were secretly looking at the grain carts from time to time, and he even saw that several of them were salivating downward. He noticed that one of the minotaurs was holding a loaf of bread the size of half his palm.
Clifford walked over to him, and his arrival caused a lot of panic among the minotaurs.
Nado hurriedly stood in front of Billever: "Lord Billever, don't go near these animals. They'll stain your robes, and they're wild and untamed, so what if they hurt you?"
"It's okay, God will bless me. Billivor walked around Nado, walked up to the minotaur, and pointed to the piece of bread in the minotaur's hand.
The minotaur clutched the loaf of bread in fear, and whispered a few words, as if pleading.
One of the older-looking minotaurs roared angrily, and the young minotaur reluctantly handed the piece of bread to Perifer.
Billever, smiling, took two pieces of brown bread from his rucksack and handed them to the minotaur. The young minotaur was incredulous and frightened, and did not accept it until Perifer shoved it into his bosom, and he took it, and let out a few cow moos with joy.
The other priests were puzzled by Billever's actions, only to see Billever's look at the blue piece of grass cake in his hand, and then put it to his mouth and took a bite.
The smell of grass irritates your nose, and the bran in it is so hard that you almost vomit it after just one bite of Byliver.
Clifford swallowed the mouthful with difficulty, and asked Nadeau in surprise, "That's what they eat?"
"Your Excellency, you don't understand, Minotaurs eat these and grow fast. Nado explained with trepidation, though he did not say that this kind of bread made of the bran left over from the threshing wheat mixed with the grass that could be found everywhere in the plains was the most economical means of feeding the slaves.
Billiver nodded, didn't say much, just opened his mouth wide and took bite of the grass cakes, chewing and swallowing them.
"Ah, my lord, this ......" Nado tried to dissuade him, but Clifford ignored him.
Eventually, Clifford finished eating the half of the straw cake and said as usual, "Let's go, I'm going to enter Starlight City before dawn." β
The convoy moved again, heading in the direction of Starlight City. Billever's prayers echoed softly through the carriage.
"Bear your suffering, your sins, I will walk in the word of God, I will stretch out my hand in heaven to hell, if there is anyone who wants to believe or cannot believe, I will lead you to the way of God, may God be with you and me. β