Port Dum

Although there is still some cold that has not yet faded, the whole icy land has officially entered spring.

Five large ships approached the port from the offshore area, and the sun, moon and stars were hung at the top of the flagpoles on the sails, representing the Prophet's possessions.

Soon small boats from the harbor rowed into the sea, shouting loudly at the merchant ships lining up nearby.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! ”

The captains of several nearby merchant ships did not want to offend the locals, and soon had the sailors paddle their oars and give up a large area.

The ship, which was transporting goods, livestock and people, soon sailed into the harbor of wings and into the arms of the Prophet.

As soon as the big ship landed, the dock was full of people.

Leo, the head of the port, waited respectfully with his men, and when the sailors on the big ship dropped the rope and lowered the planks to start fixing, Leo stretched out his head and waited for the big man on the ship to appear.

A few minutes later, a woman who appeared to be in her thirties stepped off the board, followed by a group of nuns dressed in nuns' clothes.

Leo and the others quickly lowered their heads and did not dare to look at the big man.

"It's been a hard journey, Holy Maiden!" Leo greeted respectfully.

The Holy Priest Hela stepped out of the boat and stood once again on the ground where she felt comfortable.

"Is His Majesty the Prophet here?" Hela wanted to meet Lawrence as soon as possible, and also looked in the direction of the shipyard and the villa where Lawrence usually lived.

Leo said cautiously: "His Majesty the Prophet is not here, this year's spring ploughing has just begun, and now it should be planting Ice Beans in the Ice River." ”

Hela didn't like the smell and quickly walked out.

"There are cattle and farm implements brought from Flying Fish Harbor, as well as taxes for this winter, which are to be taken care of and delivered to the Prophet's Citadel."

Hearing Hela's words, Leo quickly said, "Yes! Holy Maiden! ”

Hela quickly walked out, followed by the nuns' troops behind her.

In addition to the nuns' troops, a group of beautiful women who looked like slave girls walked down from the ship.

The women, who were in their teens and thirties, did not look like the women here, and after disembarking the ship, they looked around at the buildings in the harbor, but they all followed the nuns in a regular manner, and walked towards the convent in the distance.

Hela arrived at the Harbour Monastery, where there were already people waiting at the gates of the monastery.

Unlike the attitude at the port terminal just now, this time Hela walked up quickly.

"Holy Maiden Boole, I haven't seen you for a winter, are you okay?"

Hela walked briskly over to Bull and greeted him with a smile and great enthusiasm.

Bull smiled: "You're welcome, we are all saints of the church, and we are all sisters. ”

"That's right, we're all sisters." Hela liked the title very much, and said with a smile, "This time I have brought with me the female slaves selected in the province of Io two years ago, who have been trained in the Fishport Monastery for more than two years. ”

Bull said directly: "Then they will be trained in the Harbour Monastery for another one to three years, until they are deemed qualified, and then they will select the best of these women to dedicate themselves to the Prophet." ”

Bull looked at the nun troops on the road, and the women behind them, some of whom were clearly once noblewomen, and many of whom even looked transcendent.

But now they are slave girls.

This is not the worst thing, but it is already a good change.

Earlier, they were female captives, now slave women, and in the future they may be nuns, maids, or warriors.

Even if you are nothing, you can get the status of a normal person, live safely here, and work in a variety of professions such as merchants, farmers, craftsmen, and teachers.

Hela enters the monastery with Bull and sees the nobles and nuns of the monastery as they walk along the bright stone path.

There are some people who look familiar, and there are also women who look like they have just come in.

"It looks like there's a little more of a lot of people here." Hela said casually, and then talked about her own side of the matter, "The Fishing Port Monastery is now full, and the nuns have been complaining to me for a while about whether they can build a bigger monastery or let them come to the convent here to study. ”

Bull was deeply touched by this, "I understand, and it is the same on my side, because of the winter, a few noble old people on the side of Pig's Trotter City have died, and a few widows have been sent in the spring of this year. ”

Hela laughed, "It's the same on my side, those men don't like women at all, and they can't wait to send widows and widows' daughters to the convent and then take their men's houses and lands. ”

Bull was curious: "How did the boy arrange it?" ”

Hela knew that Bull had a son, "Boys will be raised to work, and now there is a need for men from many fields outside, whether it is for war or work, men are needed, and the women who can study the monastery are widows and mothers of noble knight families, and the family needs men to inherit the title." ”

"But more often than not, women go to the monastery by themselves, and I often have noble ladies from nearby countries who come to visit, and they don't really want to endure the discipline and beatings of the men in the family, and they have long wanted to find a safe and comfortable place to live."

While the two priestesses were chatting, the nuns behind them began to guide the slave girls who had come in to different rooms.

These people had lived in the monastery for two or three years before, and even if they changed places, they quickly adapted to this strange and familiar new environment because of the familiar architectural style.

The rules of the two places are similar, and the daily things are similar, except for some differences in work and rest time due to the climate, the biggest is the change in diet and housing.

At night, a group of young women lay on their beds and chatted.

There were more than 30 women in this room, and the beds they slept on were more than a meter higher than the ground, and more than 30 women were sleeping side by side, which belonged to the worst dormitory.

Lana, a local girl, couldn't sleep and said excitedly: "My name is Lana, I'm from Kul, are you all Io?" ”

"We are all Stellar People!" A young girl said in a serious tone, even harshly reprimanded: "There are no Io people here, although we are from Io Province, we are all Star People who are willing to sacrifice their bodies and minds for His Majesty Lawrence, the Great Prophet!" ”

"We will give birth to offspring for this country in the future and dedicate our lives!"

"We are not Io, we are slaves of the Prophet!"

Lana was frightened and cowered under the covers.

The woman next to her quickly said: "I'm Audrey, and it was my sister Awenla who was talking to you just now, we used to be the noblewomen of the snake family in the Io Kingdom, and many of us in this group are like this. ”

"Avenla, like us, has long been yearning for the Prophet, and we are all waiting to complete the training and be summoned by His Majesty the Prophet."

Lana breathed a sigh of relief, "We go to bed very early here, we can go to bed at eight o'clock, I heard that you don't go to bed until nine o'clock there?" ”

"That's right." Audrey smiled faintly, looking down on this woman who was very low in appearance and blood.

Lana didn't realize her value in the eyes of others and said happily, "Then do you know how to use our flushing toilet here?" I'll teach you how to use it tomorrow, and we eat three meals a day here, and the food is different every day, and tomorrow morning we should eat fruit bread and eggs, as well as egg and vegetable soup. ”

"At noon, I ate wheat rice, which was not very delicious."

"In the evening, I can eat bread and a chicken leg, and what I look forward to the most is on the weekend, when I can drink pork and mushroom soup that night."

Lana talked excitedly about the food, the treatment of the monastery was very good, Lana came in and patronized the food, and did not have any strange thoughts about the prophet.

So she deserved to live in the worst dormitory, and it looks like she'll continue to live in the future. (End of chapter)

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