June 24, 865 AD.
Peppa waited for an opportunity.
Every seven-day Christian Sabbath in the country, King Ella presides over the ceremony.
But this time, the place where King Ella led everyone to pray was not in the royal castle, but in another church in the territory.
The distance is about twenty-five kilometers. Whenever Ella goes to perform a ceremony here, she will stay overnight.
This time the prayers were grand, because the Kent area was ruined and the priests and knights were scattered across the country.
A group of people risked their lives to enter Canterbury Cathedral, took out the bones of Earl Por Nefors, who was killed by Hestain, took them out, and traveled to the territory of King Ella.
This made King Ella very happy and publicized it grandly.
Before everyone set off, Pepa got a sharp silver needle and cruelly cut the inner thigh, creating a bleeding fake menstruation scene.
Once a woman is menstruating, she will be considered unclean, and anyone who touches her must be careful and will not be allowed to enter the sanctuary.
So Ella didn't bring the caged bird with her this time.
Ulf and Malm didn't go either. Malm was really menstruating, and as his protector, it was natural for Ulf to stay.
When King Ella's chariot was far away, the servants who usually guarded Pepa no longer dared to monitor closely at this time.
As servants, they all act according to the king's wishes. Although they look down on Pepa on weekdays, the nominal princess is still a princess. The clouds in the sky and the servants are just clay on the ground.
As far as the clouds and mud are concerned, the servants relax their control and dare not disturb them randomly.
Pepa waited for a long time, until midnight, when her room was empty, and then she walked out carefully.
She was nervous inside and lowered her face.
Fortunately no one noticed.
Finally, we came to an inner chapel in Wangtingzhong.
All the priests were taken out, but there was no one there and the door was not locked.
After Pepa entered, she waited for a long time and when she had given up hope, a dark shadow entered.
Then this man took off his black robe, it was Ulf!
"You're still here!"
"Your Highness, this is too dangerous. Why did you choose this kind of time?"
Ulf was nervous. A few days ago, Peppa often used her robe to hide herself when eating. When she walked past him, she used the sign language among the monks to hint to him, asking him to help her, saying that she had mastered a big secret. , related to the entire marriage alliance.
Sign language is an essential skill for contemporary monks. There are many festivals in monasteries or churches where they must meditate hard. At this time, monks cannot speak and rely on this skill to communicate.
Ulf couldn't help but be curious. At this morning's dinner party, Peppa took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention and walked out of the hall at the same time as him. He demonstrated a few signs in sign language, "If you don't help me, we will all die. Come tonight." chapel.”
These words made Ulf sleepless.
When Ulf arrived, he said nervously, "Your Highness, please tell me, what is the secret of the marriage alliance?"
Ulf looked at the ajar door, fearing that someone would push in.
"What are you afraid of?" Pepa stood up and took off her robe, revealing her snow-white youthful skin.
"Your Highness!"
"When you get me and become one with me, you will share all my secrets and become my man!"
"I am a holy priest!"
Ulf swallowed, then picked up the cross and recited the Holy Word.
He told himself that this was Eve eating the forbidden fruit, and he could not be confused.
"I was once praised by the Archbishop of Mercia for my theological talent. I can even memorize the Bible silently..."
"What are you talking about?" Pepa got closer and closer.
"You are a poisonous snake, don't... don't come close!"
"Don't you want to know the secret?" Pepa exhaled like a blue breath and stroked Ulf's shoulder with her hand.
"If I am a poisonous snake, then who are you? I don't believe you don't have an illegitimate child. The so-called priest holds a scripture in one hand and the other..."
Pepa continued to make a charming voice, "I tell you, sister is not her father's daughter!"
"How can it be?!"
"Nothing is impossible in this world. Have you ever thought that this would happen in a church, in front of the icon that you have believed in all your life?"
"Soon, my father will find an opportunity to assassinate you. He is a devil. You will die, my sister will die, and Mr. Oran will die."
"Don't be like this...ah!"
Peppa bites Ulf's ear, and under the witness of the cross, the witch and the priest finally commit an indelible crime.
So sinful, but also so exciting!
Ulf was first a man, then Olan's subordinate, and finally a priest.
Memorizing the Bible would benefit him, so he worked hard to memorize it.
He came here to protect Malm and could become the bishop of Oran in the future, so he was induced to stay by the benefits.
He went from nervous, relaxed, to finally obsessed...
When Pepa stood up to leave, Ulf looked at the smooth and white back, recalling the words Pepa had just said and the inhuman treatment he had suffered, and felt infinite pity in his heart.
"I'll help you, and you'll always be with me!"
Ulf made up his mind, maybe this feeling is what people often say when confessing, that damn 'love'?
Pepa smiled back with an extremely charming smile and then left.
When she returned to the room, she couldn't bear it anymore and vomited.
Ulf, like Ella, is like a beast in heat, and his body is full of the stomach-churning bloody stench!
After vomiting, she collapsed on the ground and looked at the ceiling. Tears fell from the corners of her eyes, but the corners of her mouth rose. She had succeeded in the first step.
There is a spider on the ceiling, using its web to devour a prey.
The ugly spider made Pepa feel extremely cute at this moment.
She hallucinated and saw the prince in her mind - Oran.
In just a few meetings, one person becomes the spiritual support of another scarred person without even realizing it.
Human life is absurd and wonderful.
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When the sun came out, King Ella chanted the holy name, put on the crown, and gave an impassioned speech in front of hundreds of people.
After a while, the leader of the gang, a young man, came out. He was holding an octagonal box and said that it contained the "hand bones" of "Pol Nefus".
Since Archbishop Augustus was engulfed in flames and turned to ashes, his cemetery was empty, except for the remains of Count Pole.
When this man went to poach, he only took out this one.
Although it will take several months until the news reaches the Holy See in Rome, the news of Boer's canonization as a paladin will come out.
But the reputation of such a warrior who fought hard to death and refused to bow his head has spread throughout the seven kingdoms.
In this era of ignorance and precariousness, everyone needs heroes to appear and comfort their weak hearts.
Whenever a priest or noble performs an admirable deed, the place where his body is buried will become a small tourist holy place in the region for a period of time, and will later attract visits from fellow believers and local lords.
In a few decades, there will be new heroic stories circulating in this land.
In the entire Frankish region, there are no fewer than hundreds of regional heroic legends like this.
The person who took the bones was originally a border criminal.
The worst evil thing he ever did was to climb on the bed of the housekeeper of his estate, kill their family, and then be wanted.
When the Vikings invaded, he was hiding on the road with his people, doing random evil. One day, he ambushed a lone knight who was preparing to go to support the king, and his young servant.
This knight is only a teenager and looks young.
When his neck was cut by a rusty sickle, he covered it with his hands and tried to slow down the blood flow.
Pleading, "Vikings are harming our homeland. There are cries everywhere. You kill me. I hate you...but please, pick up my sword, wear my armor, and fight back against them!"
The criminal touched his chopped arm and said, "Knight, I am just a villain. When my manor owner insulted my wife and killed him because I couldn't pay the land tax, I will never become a good person." .”
"The most evil people also have great righteousness!"
After the knight said this, he bled to death, and so did his servant.
But the look in his eyes made criminals frightened and unforgettable.
The criminal took away the equipment from the knight. A few days later, he learned from a refugee monk who knew how to read the ring left by the knight and the name engraved on it.
"Madara!"
Ever since he knew his name, this knight has often appeared in criminals' dreams like an "undead".
When he saw the cruel methods of the Vikings, he remembered that sentence again
"The most evil people also have great righteousness!"
The criminal was troubled by nightmares and finally had to put on the equipment of the dead knight, assume his identity, and participate in a battle.
Although defeated, the scene of countless people fighting to the death to protect their homeland finally made this criminal understand this sentence.
He began to want to become a real knight, but this required equipment and servants.
He persuaded his former criminal associates to steal the hero's bones from the cathedral, hoping to take the bones to other kingdoms and sell them at a high price.
There had been precedents for this kind of thing, and he was full of confidence.
After he took the remains, he attacked and killed all his accomplices on the way, so that no one knew about his past.
He can become a new "person".
But when we arrived in East Anglia, the territory of the Queen of the Left Face.
He encountered thieves who robbed him along the way, and his bones were lost.
This time it was him who suffered.
When he approached the local lord and told him that he had sacred bones, he was accused of tomb robbing.
He took the last arm bone and fled north, finally reaching Northumbria.
On this arm bone, the lordship ring of the original owner, the earl, happened to be left on. His identity was authenticated by the local priest. The criminal turned around and became the person who protected the sacred bones.
The local priest even hired a bard to make a false prophecy and told King Ella that it must be divine revelation before someone would bring the holy bones here.
When the holy bones were taken out, countless people worshiped and saluted, and the criminal also gained a new identity.
What he told Ella was that his name was "Alex" and he was a little knight of the valley from the Kingdom of Kent.
Ella gave him a surname and twenty acres of land.
Alex didn't know how to read, so he finally picked a last name that was pleasing to his eyes and called him "Boyer".
This means a guardian, indicating his contribution to protecting the sacred bones.
When you have a surname, you must also have a motto. He asked the priest for a long time, how do nobles choose a family motto?
Finally, the words "Madara the Undead" were changed to:
"The heart is dedicated to the seven good deeds, and the righteousness is awe-inspiring!"
The moment he held the knight's sword awarded by Ella, hundreds of people cheered in the sky, and the Holy Prophet's poem made Alex's heart surge.
He looked at the only remaining holy arm and burst into tears!
He was ashamed of his crime of tomb robbing, and he vowed in his heart that he would not only become a knight, but also become a great person like this earl who could be remembered by others!
When luck comes, thieves can become heroes.
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When Ulf's reply came back to Oran, it was almost the end of June. This was the deadline he had agreed with King Ella to send troops to help.
But he would not keep this promise. After all, the witness, the Archbishop of Kent, had been trapped by the Blood Eagle for many days. Now he was thinking about how to deal with the people Ella sent to the territory and how to capture Earl.
