Angel on earth

"Nancy's family used to live with us, maybe 24... or five this year? Well, our kind of people. She's eight years older than me. When I was seven or eight, I used to go to the textile factory and help them with their spindles." Spinning yarn. She got married when she was 14, because her parents had another child, and they couldn’t fit in the house and couldn’t support them, so they had to drive her out. Although it is true that she should work at the age of 14, but marrying People... well, anyway, I'm already over 14 years old, and I can't get a wife, hehe.

"Her husband was a very bad man. Jack nearly beat her to death when she was pregnant with her oldest daughter, Nicole. Nancy went to work in the textile factory behind Nicole's back, and gave me a bit of pie. Then it became Not so good, say yes... oops, I don’t understand, anyway, a lot of slaves came, Jack lost his job. At that time she was pregnant again, and she was always complained by Jack about why she had another daughter and had an extra mouth Do you support? Listen, it's not human to say. But in the end, she gave birth to a son, and Jack got a job making parts, so it was okay.

"The parts factory happened five years ago. Jack broke his arm and couldn't find a job anymore. He didn't get the compensation, so he became depressed. He went out drinking with Nancy's money all day long, and beat her when he returned. And three kids. Well, little girl, Monica, was a year old at the time. They got evicted by the landlord quickly, and Nancy was pregnant again, and went to the clinic... You know, don't say it, I know You're a good guy, you know it when you see it. Well. The three kids didn't grow up, and Jack didn't have a job, so he forced her into prostitution. But poor Nancy got sick in the first year, and Jack almost put Nicole and Mo Nika was sold. At that time, I helped people run errands and made some money, so I begged the owner of the "Golden Star" textile factory to accept them. Thank you... Whatever, Wakefield is in the north, the place is not big, and there are many textile factories. But Jack used to come and take their money, and beat Nancy if he saw her."

Hearing this, Mikhail muttered "may the sun god bless you", and drew a sun cross on his chest.Victor laughed out loud: "Oh, it's not a big deal. If we poor ghosts don't help poor ghosts, who do we count on? ——Speaking of this, little brother, I hope you will never use a piece of advice: No matter how hard or tired you are, , try not to eat the bread of the church, let alone enter the workhouse."

"Thank you." Although you said it before, Mikhail thought politely.But soon, he asked less politely: "...Even... Even if you live like this, is it better than choosing a church?"

"Why choose or not? It's just because that little porridge is not worth the effort of doing a lot of rituals inside." Victor gave him a strange look and lowered his voice, "Others, that's up to us It's all right. Take my word for it, man, if you want to live well, you'd better leave it alone. What are we worrying about?"

Victor was in the prime of his life, and he still held some hope for the future. He said he hadn't eaten lunch for a long time, so he took out bread and water and started to enjoy it.He picked up the hardest part and chewed it, making a rattling sound.

Mikhail followed the team two steps forward with a blank expression. Victor couldn't stay idle, looked him up and down for a while, and said, "I think it's your first time entering the city, and you're here to try your luck. Right? In short, try not to get sick and don’t get hurt, otherwise, although I always call Jack an asshole, who knows when we will become Jack!"

He swallowed a piece of bread, looked up at Mikhail's face against the light, and said uncomfortably: "Of course, you still have time to sign up for the army, and you might be treated unfairly as an Abaddon... ...It's not fair, the border needs a strong guy like you. Oh, brother, why don't you go to the army? Spend a few years here, become like that man over there, no matter how relaxed the standard is, no one wants it Well. I plan to try again this year. I heard that there will be a war. If the standards are relaxed, at least there is a place to eat..."

Victor raised his chin as he spoke, and pointed to a barefoot man in a jacket rubbing his hands sitting on a street corner. Remembering that Mikhail couldn't see him, he coughed twice as if nothing had happened.

"Did you hear the people who mentioned 'the end is coming'? They belong to the Mosaic sect." Victor said, pointing to the one on the other side, "'In the beginning there was the Word, and the Word became flesh...', then They belong to the Church of the Beginning. How shameless, I am neutral anyway. Do they have the face to receive the Gospel of Calvin?"

Mikhail finally remembered.

Calvin was Arnold Edwards' middle name.At Nolen, Arnold was given his given name, Calvin was given his given name, and Edwards was given his last name.Is there any other Calvin who is the protagonist of the medical book that Isabella presided over the revision?

Books were not such a luxury when he was born.Among the courses that the Templars of Lieyang City need to take before being enshrined, in addition to combat, warfare, etiquette, and virtue, they also include theology, medicine, and agriculture.Their mission is to expand the territory of the sun god and conquer all directions. They need to be able to protect the back of their companions and heal their wounds during the battle. funeral.Each of them should be able to replace a fallen cardinal at any time, seeking a full year's harvest for the faithful under his rule.

Mikhail did not need to study medicine.When he first arrived in Chalek, he didn't know half of the plants inside and outside the small clinic.Because no companion can keep up with the charge of the "Sun Knight", his wounds will heal without treatment, and the knowledge of mortals is a kind of pollution instead.But today, he remembered, he had read the books of the knights, among them was an engraving of anatomical diagrams by Maximilian Dubois, and he had seen the original once in Rollins's collection .

With the frame, the whole painting is one meter high and about three-quarters of a meter wide. It is a realistic style oil painting that the Dubois family is good at.Maximilian served as court painter to the kingdom of Aerys when the Dubois family was suppressed, and Ashley Dubois is said to be his youngest granddaughter.This family has been engaged in this kind of boring recording work for more than 200 years as prisoners of the church, no different from senior blacksmiths; as for the pursuit of art, that is the privilege of free people.

The torso of an adult male occupies the center of the picture, with the chin fixed by an iron ring at the top and the heels of the legs submerged in the dark at the bottom, which should be due to insufficient light; the left and right sides are shoulders fixed on the bed, and a pair of hooks pulling and pliers to expose the left half-section of either young or old hands.He was still learning to draw, and Rollins suggested that he learn those hands.

At that time, the reason why he thought it was a corpse was because the church had a tradition of using the corpses of sinners to heal righteous people since the Second Holy War, and it was because the picture was so clean.Under the layers of peeled skin, there were old scars on the internal organs and bones, and the blood on the edges of the dry and stiff blood vessels had coagulated into black.However, at first glance, it looks like it is still alive.

That was when Mikhail was eight years old. He stared blankly at the painting for a long time, and then took the initiative to go to the confinement room for three days, and then developed a high fever that lasted for nearly a month.It was the only secret he kept from his brothers and sisters of the Saints until he met Aaron, and he thought, That's beautiful.He wanted to save the corpse in the painting, he thought it was still alive, but Rollins was his brother and rabbi, how could he do such a cruel thing?

At this moment, Mikhail connected the painting with Aaron.He understood that the church certainly had no shortage of prisoners that could be used to "benefit the common people", but there was nothing better than a half-vampire.They have all the characteristics of a living person, but even if they bleed dry, they will not die immediately, and the threshold for pain is very high, which is most suitable for studying some diseases that are difficult to observe on weekdays.

A few drops of water fell on Victor's face. He wiped his face, looked up in surprise, and saw the white-haired boy crying silently, and the bandages wrapped around his eyes were soaked.

"Hey," Victor didn't know the situation, and couldn't comfort him casually, so he joked, "There's no need to cry for those stinky deacons now..."

As he said this, Mikhail wept even more bitterly, even aloud.Anyway, now that Aaron is not around, it doesn't matter how much he cries.When Victor was talking, a few more tears fell on his face, and he wiped them annoyedly, and accidentally touched his lips, only to find that they were sweet.

Now he didn't persuade him anymore, and tasted the sweet taste in his mouth as if nothing had happened.He thought, this poor Abaddon man had been a lord before, and he could tell by his hands, no wonder he threw away the food casually; the tears of the chap who eats white bread are sweet.

It took a while for Mikhail to come back to his senses, and he stopped his tears in embarrassment. He had nothing to say to Victor, and learned that the latter was here to help someone run errands.A viscountess living alone in the city believed in the Cult of the Brazen Serpent but wanted to buy this book, so she asked him to come for two shillings.According to the church's publicity, this book contains a lot of medical knowledge that people can use in their daily life, and it also corrects previous erroneous concepts; because two female saints participated in the compilation, there are many female physiology books in the second half. Common sense, complex and novel, is the new gospel bestowed by God for war-torn times.

Victor carefully avoided the crowds, and proudly told Mikhail that he took a job in the morning to help people try on shoes, and when the new shoes were no longer crowded, he went to the shoemaker to clean them Give it back to the master, and you can earn another shilling on this day.His uncle is a shoemaker, but he will not be greedy for that money.

After chatting intermittently for more than two hours, it was their turn to buy books.Embarrassingly, Mikhail cried for a long time, only to find out that he did not bring enough money when he asked. Fortunately, an old lady who bought the book saw him pitifully and gave him a five pound note .The first time Mikhail received alms, he was amazed and remembered getting down on one knee, kissing the hand of her maid, thanking her for her help, and wishing her happiness.

Mrs. Wood didn't pay much attention at this time, but she just felt that the fierce and pure expression on the young man's face was so pitiful that she felt it would be a sin not to help him.Later, she often patronized his and Aaron's business, after she lost her greedy and vicious husband and her son-in-law who always blackmailed and beat the family.

Both her husband and son-in-law died in accidents. One just rode a horse to meet her lover after firing a group of workers who demanded a wage increase in the factory, but broke her leg halfway and was trampled on the head by the animal in a panic; On the way home to beat his wife fell into the sewer and drowned.Mrs. Wood originally came to buy the latest Gospel, so that she could commit suicide with complete faith, and maybe God the Father would forgive her and allow her to enter heaven; Knowing the news of her husband's death, a police officer visited the next morning and sadly informed her of her son-in-law's accident.She and her daughter became very committed Solari followers and lived happily ever after on their inheritance and compensation.