Great time travel

Chapter 54, Collapse!history!
Bordeaux at the end of August 1348 was full of scorched earth, rubble, and incomplete corpses...Of course, even such a terrible situation was not uncommon in the Middle Ages when wars were frequent. All of this is not war!

——From the time when the Black Death was introduced to Bordeaux to this moment, less than a hundred days before and after, this piece of wine country has been completely destroyed... This is a crazy, swift, cruel, terrifying fraud disease.It is by the grace of God, not by mortal strength, to escape its clutches.

Since the outbreak of the plague in the early summer, despite the measures taken by the municipal authorities, the terrible disease has spread like a wildfire, block after block, until there is no safe place in the whole city. .Although the priests of the church and the local nobles have repeatedly called on people to calm down, and there is no shortage of necessities such as food, there is still no way to heal them.Almost every street and alley is filled with a rancid smell that symbolizes death, and people often vomit blood suddenly and fall to the ground while walking.

The shadow of death silently covered the entire city, but humble mortals could do nothing.There are only a few crazy priests, wearing tattered clothes, shouting in the street: "This is God's judgment! Look! God will bring disaster to all fallen people! They are put in prison because they don't believe in God." !No! My Lord! I refuse! Wake up! Leave this world! Death will walk among the living! Take their souls!"

Such insane and unreasonable frenzied words, under the background of being overwhelmed by death, have unexpectedly won the support of many people.Because Europe in the Middle Ages was full of ignorance and barbarism, religion has always firmly controlled people's daily life.People must abide by a lot of religious norms, and you are not allowed to say any disobedient words that do not believe in God, otherwise you will end up in the hellish Inquisition—in this way, many people in Bordeaux who are lucky enough not to be sick are in Bordeaux. Led by these crazy priests, they swayed and sang hymns and walked through the streets until they also contracted the plague and died vomiting blood... Such absurd and outrageous doomsday spectacle can only be described as "dancing demons".

What's even more unfortunate is that when the Venetian merchants used the [Free Door] to roam around the world, threatening and profiting cities under the haze of the Black Death to pay tribute and sign unequal treaties in exchange for the salvation of "angels", they were basically In the Italian peninsula and the circle around the Mediterranean that they are familiar with, they have intentionally or unintentionally settled down to Bordeaux on the Atlantic Ocean... As a result, when Wang Qiu, the "false angel", finally got the news, he finally took care of this and moved [Random Gate] from When Avignon arrived in Bordeaux, this world-famous wine country had already become a crazy city of death.

— as happened before in Marseilles, Avignon, Naples, Rome, Florence and Venice.

Then, Wang Qiu, who had angel wings on his back, walked through the [random door] and landed slowly in the Royal Castle of Bordeaux. The walking dead and demented guys passed by, and rotting corpses and garbage everywhere were seen along the way.In the turbid air, there is a suffocating stench everywhere. Even if there is a fresh and strong sea breeze blowing from the Atlantic Ocean, sweeping away from time to time, it is difficult to completely dispel this disgusting smell.

Fortunately, when Wang Qiu finally stepped into the most luxurious royal bedroom in the entire castle under the kneeling and kowtowing crowds of Christians, the English princess Joan Plantagenet who was scheduled to marry far away from Spain, although He was so sick that he had a high fever and was unconscious, his body was covered with abscesses and ulcers, his face was covered with black spots, and his arm had a tumor the size of an egg. His former beauty was gone, but at least he was still alive. .

Naturally, there is nothing to say about what to do next—following a series of meowing "Doraemon Mantras", the holy white light of the healing technique descended from the sky, healing the little princess's sick body at a speed visible to the naked eye.The warm energy penetrated into the blood of everyone present, making them feel relaxed and at ease from the inside out, as if they had thrown away all the troubles and burdens in life and returned to the embrace of their mother...

In particular, several maids who also showed signs of infection were overjoyed to find that the dark spots on their bodies seemed to be disappearing rapidly.

Immediately afterwards, after another moment, amidst the choked up voices of a large group of people, Joan Plantagenet, who had been in a coma for many days, finally twitched her eyelashes a few times, slowly opened her eyes, and then blinked again. Blinking, it seems that the light in front of her eyes is a bit dazzling.

"...Is this the Kingdom of Heaven?" Looking at Wang Qiu who was wearing the [Angel Suit] standing in front of him and casting spells, the little princess asked in French ignorantly.

—In this era when England and France have not yet officially separated, the Plantagenet royal family of England still seems to speak French as their first mother tongue.

"...No, you are still alive, Miss Qiong, at least for the time being." Wang Qiu answered her doubts with a faint smile.

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Although under the miracle of the angel, the life of the princess of England was saved, but more people had turned into carrion and bones at this time.Even the magical spells recorded in the Encyclopedia of Magic cannot bring the souls of the dead back from hell or heaven.

It has only been less than ten days since the first dead person appeared in the castle, but in this cursed castle, corpses that were too late to bury were already lying everywhere.

Fortunately in misfortune, thanks to the [Freedom Gate] directly connected to the Pope's Palace, the dead in the royal castle of Bordeaux can at least get a requiem dispersal hosted by the Pope himself-for Christians in medieval Europe, this may be It's an incredible honor.

"...Rest in peace, devout ones who have been taken away from the secular world by this plague, God has already called your pure souls. All flesh and blood are like weeds, and all his withered glory are like flowers on grass; The grass will wither and the flowers will fall, be patient until the coming of the Lord... You also had sorrow in the past, but God will see you now, and your hearts will be filled with joy that no one can take away from you Go; look at me, I too have toiled and grieved, and at last found comfort; I will comfort you on behalf of the Lord, as a mother comforts her child..."

In the woods on the mountain behind Wang's Castle, a large pit was dug out, and the corpses were piled up in disorder.

Standing beside this horrific corpse pit filled with putrid smell, Pope Clement VI, who had been accustomed to seeing countless shocking deaths in recent months and had already realized his thoughts, sighed dejectedly, as if he had lost his mind. Lost the aloof prestige, also lost the ambition to pursue power.But out of his duties as a pastor, he still held up the cross and rosary beads in his hands, and muttered silently for the souls of the dead.

Surrounded by Pope Clement VI, the surviving Englishmen bowed their heads and half knelt on the ground. The grief of losing their companions made them sobbing, but the pious belief in their hearts made them wish to witness the Pope presided over Requiem Mass and feel supremely honored...

Finally, the clergy brought by the Pope from Avignon dug the soil together and buried the dead. At the same time, a cross was erected in front of the grave, and a few lines of Latin characters were carved on it, recording the terrible summer of the royal castle of Bordeaux. .

The dead are dead and can rest in peace from now on, but the living will continue to be busy and troubled by the mundane affairs of the world.

For Wang Qiu, the traveler, first of all, he needs to collect a batch of wine to take back. After hearing about this request, the British mission cooperatively opened the wine cellar of the Royal Castle of Bordeaux and let His Excellency Angel move it freely. It's a pity that when I went in, I was embarrassed to find that because of the fear of death, more than half of the people in the castle were drinking and buying drunk day and night, and drank all the best Bordeaux wine in the cellar. There is not much wine left...Of course, this problem is not difficult to solve: several English knights grabbed their sabers and went around the city for a few times, then came back with a cart full of Bordeaux wine, followed by A group of wine merchants who came to ask the angel to heal their illness...

And Princess Joan Plantagenet, who just escaped from death, must face a more terrible problem: Can this marriage continue?

——Although the Black Death did not kill her, it seriously damaged her beauty and health: the once thick and beautiful long hair lost more than half of it during the disease, and now she is almost bald; she used to look like a boiled egg The smooth and smooth skin, as fair and flawless as milk curd, is now covered with various scars, like a wrinkled orange peel; the elegant and charming voice that used to be like a lark has become like rubbing against sandy skin The hoarseness is ugly, and no one knows if it will be able to recover in the future...

In fact, after seeing her haggard face in the glass mirror provided by Wang Qiu, the little princess of England fainted immediately with black eyes. Several times, I almost had to seek death and life.

Fortunately, for the "angels" with great powers, this is not a big problem-Wang Qiu went back and called Doraemon, and then Comrade Doraemon took out a piece of [Time Furoshiki] from the four-dimensional pocket ], wrapped up the disfigured little princess, and then turned back the time of the little princess's body to a year ago... Thus, Princess Joan's disfigurement problem was solved.

However, in many cases, the solution of an old problem often means the arrival of another new problem.

——In Medieval Europe, although the political marriages between nobles were often regardless of age, and the matching of old couples and young wives or old wives and young husbands abounded, there was a minimum rule that usually had to be followed: both parties to the marriage At least they have to be adults.As far as women are concerned, a girl is not considered a woman until she has menarche (first menstruation) and becomes fertile.It was very rare in medieval Europe to get married without waiting for the woman's menarche.Moreover, it is generally considered to be a very evil and depraved behavior to consummate a young girl without menarche. The solution for European nobles in the Middle Ages is generally to get engaged first, and then formally marry after the bride is mature.

But the problem is, before this marriage, Princess Joan Plantagenet was only 13 years old, and the food these days does not contain hormones, so her development was relatively slow, and she did not have menarche until she sailed from England... Fortunately, it takes about a year or two to prepare for such a grand royal wedding. According to experience, taking advantage of this period to give the princess more nutritious food, it is estimated that she will be able to menstruate before the wedding.

However, being tossed by Doraemon's [Time Baggage], the princess's age became one year younger... Although it is always a good thing for a woman to become younger, Her Royal Highness's menarche has also become even more ♀ It's nowhere in sight——but Doraemon doesn't dare to use [Time Baggage] to make the princess's age bigger again: after all, this princess only lived 13 years old in history, who knows if there will be a new one at that time? dead body?
Regarding this embarrassing question, the remaining nobles of the English mission discussed for a long time, but found that none of them had the qualifications to make a decision. In the end, they had to beg the "Angel" to borrow the [Random Door] and go to the Kingdom of Castile in Spain to find it. The groom's family discussed whether they could postpone the wedding for about a year, or don't rush to get married at all, and get engaged first.

Then, after arriving in the Kingdom of Castile, they found that they didn't have to worry about anything about the marriage at all - the father of the future bridegroom, Prince Pedro, King of Castile wrote A personal letter, as a bleak footnote to this royal marriage:

"...It is with the saddest heart that I inform you that an unfathomable death has just taken my dear son Pedro. We loved him so dearly and he truly deserves it... We can only trust in God, our lives are in His hands. I want to thank God that He has taken my dear one from all the filth of the world—oh! The dear one I have loved with my whole life..."

——When France and Italy were engulfed by death one after another, the terrible Black Death also ran rampant on the Iberian Peninsula south of the Pyrenees, at the end of the Genoese "death fleet".From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, the lands of Spain are full of emptiness, and neither Christians nor Moors are immune to the disease... So, when Princess Joan Plantagenet struggled in her hospital bed in Bordeaux, worrying about herself When she could no longer wear the 150-meter-long wedding dress, her fiancé, Prince Pedro, had already been summoned by the Lord one step ahead of her.

The bad news spread to Bordeaux, and the princess who learned that she had become a widow fainted again. After waking up, she cried and wanted to go home.Doraemon thoughtfully opened the [random door] leading to the Tower of London, but the moment the door was opened, a familiar rancid smell rushed over.

——With the collapse of history under the butterfly storm of the traverser, the court of the Kingdom of England has been captured by the Black Death in advance at this time...

So, poor Joan Plantagenet not only lost her husband, but also her parents and brother...