Abbot La Rivière was also looking at the young king, he was eleven years old, the age of a new leaf, his noble blood and the gift of God destined him to have an angelic face, he sat in an armchair, and on his legs with white stockings wore a pair of sapphire blue shoes, which matched his rich indigo embroidered silver coat, and since Louis XIII, the puffed ruff collar was no longer in vogue at the court, but was replaced by elegant and natural lapels, and today's king is no exception, his lapels are decorated with three layers of openwork lace, which look delicate and elegant。

Louis smiled at the sight of La Rivière, not because of anything else, but because the dean was like a venerable saint, and in about three hundred years, this saint would be driving a moose-drawn carriage every Christmas night on the way to give gifts to every good child— Abbot La Rivière, who had the same fluffy white beard as he was, had a shaved head and wore a little black hat, and he had made a special day to wear a grand Dutch woolen robe, and a pair of scented gloves (incensed lambskin gloves), which had not come to give the king a gift, but which would have lightened the king's depressed mood a little lately.

The king graciously let the dean's hand kiss him, "You may be seated." He said, "Mr. La Rivière." ”

Bontang brought a footstool to the dean, after all, he was not qualified to use a seat in front of the king, Larivière, of course, he did not care, he lifted his robe as gracefully as he could, and sat down slowly, Bontang brought hot tea, which he could say with restraint and added about three spoonfuls of sugar to it, before taking a sip, "This is the best tea I have ever tasted," he complimented, "There is no more warm and sober drink." ”

Louie just smiled, "You can add some more sugar, sir." "At this time, people are extremely fond of sweetness, there is no kind of food that does not need sugar, there is sugar in cakes and bread, it is essential in wine, stewed meat is sugared, grilled fish is indispensable for honey, boiled eggs are also dipped in sugar, and you have to put the sugar jar aside to drink a glass of clean water...... Fortunately, by this time there was already a toothbrush, and there was also tooth powder made with rock salt, dried iris flowers, peppermint and pepper, and Louis had them add rose oil to get the simplest toothpaste.

After all, before him, there was a king who died of tooth decay, and Louis was not very satisfied with his current life, but he also did not want to see the glorious God so soon, and with the current level of medical care- Although there were already rudiments of science, methods such as bloodletting and infusion still stubbornly remained at the top of medical books, not to mention, some very heretical practices were still popular at this time, such as the use of a part of the human body in medicine, from the cerebral marrow to the blood, from Charles I, who had just been beheaded to the Egyptian pharaoh a thousand years ago, everything was said to be effective, but Louis would rather die than feel the recipes of ghouls.

When Dean La Rivière heard this, he immediately added three spoonfuls of sugar to the cup, and now not only him, but even the king was satisfied, and Louis, after he had drunk the tea in the cup, made him look at the book in his hand, which was a book with rumors about werewolves, which had been used by Louis as a fantasy novel, and now he knew that it was non-fiction.

"The Church's recognition of werewolves was forced by the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund at the Council of Archduke Stans in 1414. Abbot La Rivière said simply, it seemed that Bishop Mazarin had warned him before, and he knew very well that a boy of Louis's age hated most that someone treated them as children who could be deceived at will, so he had planned from the beginning, and as long as the king had the heart to ask, he would answer everything.

"But it wasn't until twenty years later," said La Rivière, "that the Church recognized the existence of vampires." ”

"In fact, the legends of both werewolves and vampires have lasted for nearly a thousand years," the king asked, "why is the Church so reluctant to admit it?"

"Because," said La Rivière, "because...... Your Majesty, the Church doesn't really have a way to deal with these dark creatures and devilish apostles. ”

Louis was taken aback by this statement, "But I see that there are priests and monks fighting werewolves." ”

"Not only werewolves, but also vampires and wizards. "But it is not the Church, it is another team of extraordinary powers, who have been hidden in the inner world until 1231, and are part of the inner world, until 1231, when the Holy Father Gregory IX insisted on setting up the Inquisition in the name of the Dominicans, and they gradually moved from the backstage to the front of the scenes." ”

"So they existed a long time ago. ”

"Isn't it, Your Majesty, that three out of ten of the saints you have heard of were once members of theirs, but they ...... They were all eccentric people, and sometimes even the most enlightened Pope could not fully trust them - to put it simply, they were mostly ascetics, so they made a gesture to the previous ...... "La Rivière, which everyone understands:" The Church of Rome has a lot of grievances, and Rome doesn't need such a group of people to come and point fingers at them, anyway, those people always take it as their duty to eradicate dark creatures and wizards, even if the church deliberately ignores and treats them coldly, they don't care very much, they ...... Your Majesty, if you want me to say that they are a bunch of arrogant people, and no one will be taken into account by them except God, and if I were to say from the bottom of my heart, I would not think they are very different from those werewolves and vampires. ”

"So what made them decide to come out?"

"You know Honorius III, the venerable father, who did much for the Church, who crowned Frederick II of the Holy Roman Empire in 1220 and allowed him to unite Sicily with the Holy Roman Empire, and in return to Honorius III, Frederick II issued the Edict "On the Power of the Princes of the Monks", which granted the clergy all kinds of privileges, exempted the Church from paying taxes, renounced its secular dominion over the Church, and promised to suppress heresies— The power of the Church has swelled to the point of no return—although this can only be said to be the last weight, but it has been hesitant to move from the inner world to the outer world...... For the monks, this can only be said to be God's will, although they have always considered themselves superior in character and integrity, but there are times when they cannot bear it. ”

"Unbearable...... What?" asked the king, smiling.

"What else could it be?" replied Abbot LaRivière with a smile, "power, money, and pleasures! Think about it, they fight against the creatures of darkness all day long, and the clergy who are not even so skilled in reciting scriptures are praised and praised, and even if the monks should give up the world, and put aside distractions, how many people can really do it, and they can still live this life for a year or two, ten or twenty years, or a hundred years? Thoughts change, and there are not so many saints, they always have to think about themselves. ”