At the end of the Tang Dynasty, it was a feudal town, but in Western Europe

In addition to this layer of rammed earth, there are blue bricks solidified with triple cement, which are staggered upwards, like creepers covered with earth walls.

Of course, when he was standing in front of the gate of the inner city, he couldn't stop, there were all kinds of surprised eyes and mocking voices, and the voices of "devil's haunting" and "heavenly father's punishment" barely concealed one after another in his ears.

This is not in the court, but no one cares about Charlie's face—although Charlie seems to be a little disgusted with the hunchback Pepin, but if someone dares to laugh at the hunchback Pepin in front of him, it is like eating Dianming porridge in the first machine—it's really courting death.

"Damn it, do you know who you are talking to?" Priest Ale next to him shouted immediately.

The hunchbacked Pepin immediately pressed the back of his hand: "Don't, don't say it."

"Your Highness..."

"I said, don't tell them."

Suppressing the pain in his back, the hunchback Pepin tried his best to close his legs, and limped into the gate of the inner city in the eyes of others.

Leading the pony, Pepin looked up and looked around. All he could see were regular brick houses with white walls and black tiles. On the road made of bricks, stones and triple cement, there were few beggars, cattle and sheep, and the passers-by were usually black-haired and black-eyed Serisians.

Of course, there are also many blond local women among them. Most of them wear woolen or linen wide-sleeved gowns, but due to material problems, they are not as good as the silk of the Central Plains, which looks a bit heavy and lacks the elegant feeling.

These local women gave Pepin the hunchback a very strange feeling. Although they had the same skin color and hair color as himself, he seemed to have come to a new country.

Because the behavior of these women, as well as the shape of their clothes, as well as the high topknot and flying topknot on their heads, are all the hunchback Pepin has never seen before, and they are quite exotic.

It was meal time at this time, and smoke was rising from the houses of every household. A group of archers passed by and waved to Priest Al, who also nodded and smiled.

"Are these men soldiers of the Earl of Hamburg?"

"To be precise, they are the militia." Priest Al explained, "The lord has assigned them to be responsible for public security. Unless they are defending the city, they will not go to the battlefield."

"Is that so?" The hunchback Pepin nodded and continued to walk forward.

The wind in the evening became stronger and stronger, and the raindrops reflected in the night first fell on Pepin's tall shoulders, and then fell on his somewhat thinning hair.

When he came to the gate of the general's mansion, someone notified the Earl of Hamburg. The hunchback Pepin stood in front of the gate of the general's mansion, supported the pony beside him, straightened his body vigorously, and put his legs together.

He didn't know why he did it, because even then he was still a hunchbacked Pepin.

Amidst the sound of footsteps, the door of Jiangfu opened with a bang.

"His Royal Highness, welcome to your arrival."

Along with these words, there was also the rustling sound of raindrops falling on the leaves. The rainwater hit the eaves and the swaying torches in a slanting wind, and suddenly, a puff of green smoke with a pine smell rose from the torches.

The hunchbacked Pepin looked up against the hazy rain, only to see a young man who was almost as tall as his father walking up the steps step by step.

The young man was smiling, no scars could be seen on his jade-like skin, and the clear outline of his face seemed to be drawn by an artist.

He wears a black silk headband, a white narrow-sleeved round-neck gown, and a woolen smock robe outside, which looks like a windbreaker without collar and buttons, and stretches long to his knees. On his leather belt, besides a jade stone, is also equipped with a long knife.

When Feng Sen came to stand in front of Piping, Piping realized that he could only see Feng Sen's belt with his head-up eyesight, and he couldn't see the appearance of the person at all unless he raised his head with difficulty.

The hunchbacked Pepin saw the shadow of his father in Feng Sen, who was equally heroic and imposing.

"Your Highness? Your Highness, it's raining, why don't we go in and talk."

"...Okay." After being dazed for a while, the hunchbacked Pepin immediately agreed, and with the help of several servants, the hunchbacked Pepin walked into Feng Sen's mansion.

Looking around at Feng Sen's general's mansion, Pepin felt a little strange. This castle was quite different from the other castles he had seen. Most of those castles had outer walls made of wood, while the inner fortress was made of stone, with orange lanterns hanging everywhere.

But here, on the contrary, the outer layer of the fort wall is made of stone, although the inner layer is also made of stone, but most of them are a mixed structure of wood and stone, and there are no two-story buildings, which is quite strange.

Walking through the courtyard of the second entrance, he came to the innermost room. As soon as he entered the door, a gust of hot air rushed towards him. The red-hot stove dyed half of the room orange red. With the door closed behind him, the cold night rain seemed to disappear.

Taking off the coir raincoat on his body, the hunchbacked Pepin just opened his mouth to speak, when he heard a familiar voice running quickly from far to near.

"Big brother!"

The loose hair was like a jumping silver flame. With a bright smile, Ador quickly ran out of the back room wearing her beaver fur robe, threw herself on the hunchbacked Pepin, and gave him a big hug.

"Adore, are you being good with His Excellency the Earl of Hamburg?" the hunchbacked Pepin immediately asked with a fake serious look.

Ador's eyes widened: "I'm so good, I can write Latin sentences now, much better than my father."

"Oh? Then write a few and show me." The hunchbacked Piping rubbed Ador's head with a smile.

"Okay, look well, I'll write to you later, and what's more, I'll teach my father how to write when I get back." Ador thought for a while, "But we have to wait until we finish eating, brother, have you eaten yet?"

"not yet……"

"That's just right to eat with us."

The hunchbacked Pepin cast doubtful eyes on Feng Sen, and Feng Sen laughed and said, "We Seres people value family the most. The whole family likes to eat together, and the emperor is no exception. Ador is no different from my own sister, and His Royal Highness Charles is my godfather. Let's be like a family, let's eat together."

"Your Excellency, in fact, I am here this time..."

"If you have anything to say, go to the dinner table. It's cold weather, Lao Lu. Serve me with a pot of fish soup and two bottles of grape wine. This is Italian wine. It costs ten deniers a gallon, and it's expensive." After a few instructions from his servants, Feng Sen forced the hunchbacked Pepin's arm, and dragged him to the mansion.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency..."

"Don't be restrained, it's like coming home when you come to me." Feng Sen dragged the hunchbacked Pepin to the chair and sat down, "I heard Ador tell you about you, I know what you want to come, but Siris has In a word, eating is the most important thing, that is, nothing is more important than eating, come on, sit down, Your Highness Pepin."

Pushing the hunchbacked Pepin onto the seat, Feng Sen chatted and laughed with the princesses again, telling a few oriental allusions and short stories from time to time, while Ador stood on the chair, ready to go Ready to make a big statement.

Hearing the noise in his ear, holding the bread, facing the bowl of milky white fish soup in front of him, Pepin was a little dazed. He tentatively stretched out his hand, picked up the fish soup and took a sip.

Strange, how suddenly warm up.

Chapter 124 It's a Miracle Your Kid Is Alive

Picking up the bowl and pouring the last mouthful of mutton soup into his mouth, Feng Sen picked up a strawberry from the bowl and threw it into his mouth: "Your Highness Pepin came here this time because of the letter I wrote to His Highness Charlie, right?"

The servants had cleaned up all the mess on the table, and Gisela, Alwo Fenner and others also left the scene tactfully, leaving only Ador, Pepin the hunchback, Feng Sen and a plate of cheese and fruit.

"Yes, but my father also gave you other tasks. One is to comfort you and tell you that we will have a decisive battle with the Widukind rebels in early November. My father hopes that you can join him in Lubis (Lübeck)." Pepin stood up and said in a drake voice with a changing voice.

"I'm afraid it will be difficult. I will attack Uerzen at the end of October to prevent Uda's sneak attack. As you know, there is almost no danger between Uerzen and Lune." Feng Sen slowly shook his head and said, "After capturing Uerzen, I will immediately return to the division to rescue Eupolite, whose envoy came to borrow troops from me a few days ago.

The situation of Oupolite is in dire straits, and Vidukind's rebels are basically fish on the chopping board. It only takes His Royal Highness Charlie to swipe a knife to decapitate their heads, but the situation of Oupolite is not optimistic. I am afraid they will not last until then.

If the Villetti really defeated the Oppolits, His Highness's reputation would be greatly damaged, and the borders of Hamburg would also be disturbed. By then, the chaos in Oppolit would be no less than that of Widukind. "

"I understand." Pepin replied calmly, "I will report the truth to my father."

"sorry to bother you."

"One more thing, I came to check on the situation of Princess Ador and Princess Lyudmila. It's great to see that they are safe and sound. My entourage has brought two maids and nuns, and they will continue to teach Princess Ador how to learn and work." Pipin said to Ador with a smile, "I hope you haven't forgotten all about embroidery and manners during this time. The nuns are very strict."

"No—" Ador made a sound like a cuckoo crying blood, "Brother, I hate you."

"Little girl really needs to be disciplined." Seeing Ador deflated, Feng Sen couldn't help laughing.

"And the third thing... I'm really ashamed, it's for me personally." The hunchback Pepin's voice came here, a little low, "You can also see that I am a person who is entangled by the devil. I was born with a hunchback. There are pustules all over my body, but you said in your letter that you have a way to heal me?"

"It's not that there is absolutely a solution." Feng Sen clapped his hands, and a servant walked in. After explaining a few words, the servant sent a message and called Kang Dezhen over.

"To be honest, I have little knowledge, but I do have a little knowledge in medicine. After hearing about His Highness's symptoms, I think that you may be suffering from a disease called rickets."

The rickets in Feng Sen's mouth was spoken in Chinese, but the hunchback Pepin didn't understand, and asked, "What is rickets?"

Kang Dezhen answered in Latin naturally: "Rickets is a chronic disease caused by nutritional deficiencies. The specific manifestations are hunched over, X-shaped legs and O-shaped legs. There may be chicken breasts, hair loss and abnormal development of the skull."

Feng Sen had popularized many modern medical concepts with Kang Dezhen. Although it was only the foundation, it was enough to improve Kang Dezhen's medical skills a lot.

"Are you sure this isn't fabricated based on my illness?" The hunchback Pepin immediately blurted out, but he immediately apologized, "I'm sorry, I was rude, but this..."

"May I ask you when were you born?"

"Well, it should be April [-]rd. The day after I was born was Easter. My mother was very happy because I was born prematurely and survived. She thought it was a sign from the Heavenly Father, so she named me Pepin." The hunchbacked Pepin laughed at himself.

"That is to say, before you were born, you were always fasting?"

"Yes."

The so-called Lent is a traditional activity of the Heavenly Father’s Church, also called Lent. During the forty days from the first day of Lent to the Day of Survival, the believers of the Heavenly Father will make up for their sins by fasting, giving alms, and asceticism during these forty days, and prepare for the celebration of Isaiah’s resurrection.

Its specific manifestation is to be a vegetarian, and meat such as pigs, beef, sheep, chickens and ducks is not allowed. Of course, this is not a problem for the nobles. If meat is not allowed, then I will eat fish, so everyone tacitly eats fish , and in Britain the eel can even be used as currency, partly for this reason.

"What did your mother eat during Lent?"

"Of course dried fruit, bread and vegetables."

"Uh, um, does she eat fish?"

... Is this really something that can be said?Considering that this was an interrogation, the hunchback Pepin still recalled for a while and replied, "Nurse said, my mother is very pious. In order for me to be born smoothly, she has been fasting since the New Year and does not eat meat. After I was born, she started to eat meat in order to have enough milk, but she only ate mutton. So, I think, she should not eat fish."

"May I ask, did you not go out much when you were young?"

"How do you know?" Pepin the hunchback was shocked. "Due to some reasons, I didn't go out for the first time until I was two years old. Before that, I lived in a high tower, and I could only look out through the two-finger-wide window."

Feng Sen and Kang Dezhen looked at each other, and they both saw worry and disbelief in each other's eyes.

In modern times, there are many pregnant women who eat fish oil because of insufficient vitamin D. You are a premature baby who is deficient in vitamin D. Your mother took vegetarian food for more than four months during pregnancy. It is a miracle that your child did not miscarry.

The most important thing is that after being born, he stayed in the dark for more than a year without any sunlight. The debuffs were all stacked, so it's strange that he didn't get rickets.

Thinking about it this way, the hunchbacked Pepin was able to live until now, and even die only three years earlier than his father, this fate is too good.

The room fell into silence, neither Feng Sen nor Kang Dezhen spoke, and the expression on the hunchbacked Pepin's face gradually dimmed.

"Feng, can you heal big brother's back?" Ador asked cautiously, "I promise, I will never doze off during prayers again."

Squeezing Ador's face, the hunched Pepin forced a smile and said, "Whether my back is good or not, I'm not allowed to doze off during prayers, do you hear me?"

"Your Highness Pepin, this is not incurable." Feng Sen said slowly, "If you are only three or four years old, we have a great chance of curing it, but now..."

He looked at Kang Dezhen, and Kang Dezhen continued: "But it's too late now, we can't guarantee that it will be cured, and this process will take a long time and will be very painful..."

"I can." The hunchback Pepin immediately interrupted, "I am willing to try."

"But Your Highness, you also have to know that this is actually a gamble, and as a result of the gamble, you may waste your time and suffer pain, but gain nothing..." Feng Sen said tactfully.

"I'm willing to gamble." The hunchback Pepin laughed, "Your Excellency, I must thank you for giving me this opportunity. I couldn't even get to the gambling table before."

Chapter 125 I Didn't Earn a Chicken Feather

With the arrival of the hunchback Pepin, life has become much more painful for both Ador and Pepin himself.

Ador used to spend more than half of her time playing every day, but now she can only play before meals, at night or on festivals, and she needs to learn court etiquette and embroidery for the rest of the time.

In the spirit of wanting to die together, Ador unjustly dragged Lyudmila, Mia and several little sisters she knew into her court education class, and suffered together with her.

And the hunchbacked Pepin also started his painful treatment career. Every day, he poured milk, eggs and cod liver oil hard. Feng Sen also asked someone to go to the beach to get a lot of oysters and make oyster sauce mixed with mushrooms. One plate a day, and Kang Dezhen's secret medicine, one pair every two or three days.

Unless it rains in the morning, he has to go out to do a specially modified version of Kang Dezhen's sex scene. Anyway, Feng Sen saw that Pepin had done half a set, and his sweat had already soaked two layers of clothes.

In addition, he had to tie a cross-like thing on his back to help correct his spine. Feng Sen could often see him walking around Jiangfu wearing this thing.

The most painful thing was at night. At first, Kang Dezhen helped him cut off the wound on his back—without anesthesia.

Later, massage and bone setting were about to start gradually. Doctor Kang also proposed a radical treatment, that is, to open the back and do spinal surgery. Pepin actually agreed. Fortunately, Feng Sen urgently stopped it. What is the spine?Is that something you can mess around with?

Pepin usually arranges this process after dinner, because at this time Feng Sen will take Ador out for a walk, so that his screams and cries will not scare his sister.

To be honest, Feng Sen was a little afraid of this therapy, but unexpectedly, the hunchbacked Pepin persisted. Although Feng Sen occasionally woke up at night, he could still see the painful and insomnia Pepin, who was still copying the "Sun Worship" at night with his cross on his back.

After two weeks like this, when Feng Sen was leading his troops to conquer Uerzen, Pepin's hunchback unexpectedly—still didn't change much, only the back wound was eliminated, and Pepin still looked like his head growing It hurt his chest, but his spirit was much better than before.

"Your Excellency, I wish you prosperity in martial arts." Using the Chinese he had just learned, Pepin lowered his head slightly to Feng Sen while carrying his cross on his back, "I hope you can return home victorious."

"I hope you and I can fight together on the battlefield one day." Feng Sen patted Pepin's arm and got on the horse.

"Come back early, I'm going to die on the eve of Chibi!" 12-year-old Ador rode on her sea snake, waving his arms at Feng Sen.

"Then you might as well continue to write it yourself and practice your writing style more. Maybe you will be famous in history for writing a book "The Biography of Charles the Great" in the future." Feng Sen also waved to the female relatives, "I'm leaving."

………………

In the church in Blankenburg, all the crosses have been torn down, and the tombstones have been basically destroyed, and they have been converted into a camp for the wounded.

In the gray sky, the whistling cold wind gathered dark clouds. Between the field and the dark clouds, an ugly pigeon was making an ugly cry and thumping vigorously. It fell into the river for a while, and fell into the mud for a while. After being covered in mud, it finally arrived at its destination——Uda’s camp.

A skinny man with a goatee and a soft wool hat with earflaps grabbed the ugly pigeon by the neck, ignoring the feces and muddy water on its body, turned it upside down, and pulled out a small roll of slender parchment from its leg.

"Good man." The skinny man belched, and put a bowl of cereal in front of the pigeon, but the pigeon didn't appreciate it and still looked at it straight.

"Damn it, you greedy devil!" The skinny man angrily took out a bag of mead from his waist and poured a little into its food bowl, "Don't look at me like that, that's all I have."

Holding the roll of parchment in his hand, the skinny man with a flushed face staggered along the dirt road flooded with feces and blood.

Suddenly, the skinny man jumped forward and fell a big piece of dog shit. He got up and saw a person sitting on the side of the road with a leg stretched out to block the road.

"Damn it, do you know who I am?" The skinny man pointed at the man's nose and cursed pretentiously, "I'm from the same town as Mr. Wuda, his falconer, Sabo, who are you? ?say."

But the man didn't answer. Sabo tried to take two steps forward, tapped the man's shoulder lightly, and then retreated seven or eight steps like a wild horse that had run wild, but he couldn't stand still and fell again.