Chapter 103 Future Plans

"Hey, here's the bread." Picking up the thin slices of bread on a tray, Madeleine handed them to the high-ranking officials of the Papal States in the tent one by one.

The setting sun shone through the door curtains, spreading a layer of golden sand on the ground.

In this small tent, the brazier emitted a dark red light. The bishops and high-ranking members of the Knights Templar were all gathered in this tent.

Some of them washed their faces, some rubbed their feet, and some dried their clothes.

Next to a straw bed, Jeanne held a bowl of medicine and tried to force Frick to drink it.

Frick clenched his teeth and yelled that he couldn't drink the wine because it wasn't medicated.

"Are you trying to drug me? You just want to drink!" Jeanne refused. "I promised Madeleine that I would make you drink before he comes back."

"I'm strong and can handle it. There are so many believers who have caught colds. Give it to others," shouted the skinny Frick.

When they were walking on the high platform among the mountains before, many villagers fell ill, but Horn ignored them.

I don’t know if it was due to overwork or the miasma of the swamp, but that day there was a sudden outbreak and more than 300 patients appeared. We had to set up camp in advance to treat these patients.

Fortunately, it is not an infectious disease, otherwise Horn would have suffered a lot.

Until now, Horn is still out there dealing with the problem of villagers getting sick with the elders.

Grampven took the bread from Madeleine and looked at the pancake with stuffing, which was neither a pie nor a bread, and was a little dazed.

"Is this bread?"

"There's no bakery oven, and not enough time to bake stuffed bread. We'll just have to make do with what we have." Madeleine wiped her hands on her apron and walked towards Frick.

"Well, Master Frick, don't trouble Jeanne, and drink it." Madeleine pressed the bread into Frick's hands. "Try it, it's a dish to go with the medicine."

Frick took the thin piece of bread and stuffed it into his mouth, but still refused to drink the medicine: "It should take about ten days to reach Jeanne d'Arc?"

"That's about right. Hopefully we can get there before mid-November, otherwise it will be too cold."

"Have you seen the Duke of Cush, the one called Darnay?"

"I heard from Dean Juanno that the Duke of Kush is a very open-minded nobleman." Madeleine sat beside Frick's bed. "He may be a little arrogant and timid, but he is very kind to the people of the Thousand River Valley."

"What are you going to do when you go to Jeanne d'Arc?" Frick brought up the topic again.

"I don't know. Let me first ask Mr. Dane to help me contact Dean Juanno. Maybe I can just settle down in Jeanne d'Arc."

"Are you not going to clear your name?"

"Why wash it? There's no point. Who cares if you steal bread or not?"

"Hmph." With a light snort, Frick gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and swallowed the bitter and spicy medicine into his stomach.

He just has a low fever and is not a soldier yet, so he cannot benefit from allicin.

"Honestly, I'm planning to open a bakery. You can come and help me. If I take a bite, you'll take a bite, just like when I hid in your house."

"Aren't you afraid of being caught?"

Madeleine laughed and said: "Even if the imperial decree can't catch me, they can still catch me. If you are really afraid, let's change our names. You change your name to Exeter and I change my name to Jean Valjean.

Besides, that is the territory of the Duke of Kush, and he and I are both students of Dean Juanno, so he will definitely be willing to help us."

"Don't worry, Cosette sounds like a woman's name." Frick laughed and asked Grampven, who was drying clothes by the brazier, "Brother Grampven, what are you going to do in the future?"

“I haven’t decided yet. I might go to Black River Bay to be a traveling artist. But before that, I plan to hold a wedding with Dia in Jeanne d’Arc Castle.

We haven't had a wedding yet, I'm going to give her a surprise, don't tell her, and you have to come whenever you have time."

"Of course, Cosse, what about you?"

"Just follow Master Wan Piao. Wherever Master Wan Piao goes, I go." Ke Se's face looked a little sad. He had already expected that he would have to go to Black Snake Bay.

"Brother Sissi, what about you?"

Xixi was barefoot and was picking at the blisters on her feet with a needle. She replied nonchalantly, "I'll change my appearance and hide for a few months, then go back to work."

"Brother Chilvis, what about you? Are you going to Chateau Jeanne d'Arc as well?"

"Yes, we can't stay in Hedge Country any longer. We should continue to do our old business, save some money, buy a few acres of land, and adopt a kid to take care of us in our old age."

"You have no ambition." Jeanne sat by the brazier. "Isn't the Duke of Kush preparing for an uprising? I want to join in and drive the church away, otherwise your lives are just castles in the air." "Thank you for the invitation, but they are castles in the air." Sissi looked at Jeanne's blushing face and couldn't help laughing.

After watching Frick finish the last sip of the medicine, Madeleine said in a muffled voice: "You have asked so many questions. What are you going to do next?"

"First quit drinking, get rid of your alcohol addiction, then go to the pub and play the piano and sing and wait for death."

"You? Quit drinking?" Sissi, who was always calm, was shocked. "Is this a dream?"

Jeanne muttered, "I don't know who was shouting that there was no wine and no medicine."

"I'll quit smoking when I get to Jeanne d'Arc." Frick said with his neck stiff.

Chilvis sighed with great regret: "That's a pity. I wanted you to be my first customer."

"Fuck you." Frick spat at Chilvester.

As if she had thought of something, Madeleine took out a small ruler from her bag, with a line of incomprehensible French written on it.

"What do you mean? You're going to hit me because I'm drinking?" Frick became alert.

"Uncle Frick, this was given to me by Dean Juanno. I used to be an alcoholic. Dean Juanno said he wanted to drink, so he used this ruler to hit the back of his hand, and then I slowly quit drinking." Madeleine handed the ruler to Frick, "I'm sure you can quit, too."

"Hitting yourself, isn't that crazy? I'm not an ascetic." Although saying this, Frick still obediently accepted the gift and carefully put it in his arms.

After cleaning up Frick's dirty dishes, Madeleine stood up and took a step forward, but her body began to sway unnaturally.

Then, in full view of all, Madeleine fell forward.

"Hey, hey, hey." Frick immediately reached out and grabbed Madeleine's clothes, almost dragging himself off the bed.

"What's going on?" Several people nearby immediately dropped what they were doing, surrounded them, and supported the two men.

Sitting up on the muddy ground, Frick cursed with a gloomy face: "This stupid kid, he also has a fever, I guess he doesn't even know it."

Sissi walked forward and touched Madeleine's forehead, while Grampven stood at the door of the tent and shouted to several Black Hat Army medics.

Several medical soldiers came forward and hurriedly carried Madeleine onto a stretcher, moving him to the camp for seriously ill patients on the other side.

Seeing Madeleine being carried out of the tent, Frick sighed softly. The medicine seemed to be taking effect. He covered his head with the quilt and fell asleep.

Sitting by the brazier, Jeanna continued to read the book "Knight Cefar". She could already understand one third of the text.

"Sister Sissi." Jeanna put down the book after reading it for a while, "Why do people in the Thousand River Valley always refer to them as Kush people in this book?"

"The people of the Thousand Valley were originally called the Kush people." Sissi picked up the pizza with her hands that had just been rubbing her feet and explained, "The beastmen and norns are the original inhabitants of this area of ​​the Thousand Valley."

Jeanne asked curiously, "Where did you get this from?"

"The real homeland of the Qianhe Valley people is on the front line of the battlefield between the three major knights and the vampires, that is, the Kush River grassland."

"Haven't we made a truce with the vampires?" asked Grampven.

"Yes, but the ogre warlords are not completely dogs of the vampires. The lower-level vampire nobles also try to gain prominence through military merit. Some vampire nobles even hold titles and claims in many parts of the empire."

The Kush people are the indigenous inhabitants of the Kush River grasslands. They are a semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral people. Later, under the influence of the Aiel Empire, they converted to the original Messianic religion.

Soon after, the vampire army invaded the imperial capital, the Aiel nobles and legions fled in panic, and the Kush River grassland fell under the rule of the Flesh and Blood Court.

According to the four-class system of the Flesh and Blood Court, they belong to the lowest class of blood slaves, whose status is infinitely close to that of skeleton laborers.

Under long-term oppression, the Kush people could no longer bear it, so they launched an uprising and migrated from their homeland to the Thousand River Valley.

“According to legend, the man who led the Kush uprising was called Shelly, and the Holy Father sent Joan of Arc to transform herself into a woman and lie in the Kush River.

No one passing by came to her rescue, only Shelley jumped into the raging Kush River to save her.

Joan of Arc then told him that "the high and steep lands in the east is the destined home of the Kushites", which led to the subsequent uprising and migration.

This is the famous allusion of 'She Joan of Arc, Wokush' in the church gospel. "At some point, Horn came in from outside and explained to everyone with a smile.

"The place we are going to is Chateau Jeanne." Sissi also laughed, "Dare, our Duke of Kush, is a descendant of Saint Shelley.

He once said that it was his ancestors who brought us here, and he would definitely be responsible for us. This was their family's thousand-year oath. "

　p.s. The chapter number is wrong. I'll eat first and contact the editor to change it later (after Qidian released the VIP chapter, they didn't allow the chapter name to be changed. I can't stand it anymore)
　　
　
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