Chapter 43 Everyone gets what they need, everyone is happy?
A framed piece was made of entangled rattan strips, and a large oval polyglass inlaid in the middle was gently worn on the girl's neck. The slight coldness of the glass made the girl's plump breasts, which were completely different from her peers, trembled slightly. The trembling trembling made the boy standing behind her heart heat up.
The young body always has to bear all kinds of temptations, especially when a girl with a hot figure and a cute face standing in front of her, she can feel the changes inside her body due to the stimulation from the opposite sex even from her skin. What's more, this girl is still the nominal wife, and this era will not bear legal responsibility due to age restrictions. All these temptations make Alexander Juliant Combray, who is in the peak period of young people, feel a little distracted and difficult to control.
Perhaps because of being out all year round, Sophia's skin is not that fair, but is more healthy, with a layer of shiny brown color. Whenever she beats, Alexander feels that her skin outside seems to be covered with a layer of vague reflection, which makes her look like an enlarged ivory sculpture.
Alexander once fantasized what it would be if Sophia took off her clothes and showed her smooth body like a layer of coffee. This thought made him excited and secretly despised himself. After all, it would be immoral to attack a girl who was only twelve years old.
The door rang a few times, and Alexander walked over and opened the door, and saw the tailor standing outside the door.
Osborne had injuries on his face, which was hit by a rash arrow during the turmoil of the palace. However, although this injury was not serious, it made him very rewarding. At least Mrs. Gong Xiang seemed to have changed slightly in his attitude towards him.
Gomez is dead, probably the biggest and worst result of the Santa Rosalia Anniversary riots.
During that riot, the Sicily palace was seriously damaged, and many precious collections were robbed by the palace to protect their lives. Because Peron's death had left the city guard uncontrolled. When the riot was finally quelled when he finally arrived at the palace, the city guards discovered that too many people, including some palace guards, had taken advantage of the situation to rob enough things from the palace and then fled.
When the mob retreated, only a mess left was a devastated mess.
Mrs. Gong Xiang and her children were found in a small church not far from the center of the city after the riots subsided. When they were found, people found that Mrs. Gong Xiang’s family had not only changed into civilian clothes, but also had some oil stains on the faces of the two children. Mrs. Gong Xiang herself was wearing a high-waisted floor-sweeping skirt that many women nowadays. As for the beautiful feathers and lace embroidery decorations, I don’t know where she had long been thrown to.
After hearing that the riot had subsided, Mrs. Gong Xiang immediately returned to the palace. Looking at the Dutch wool curtains that were torn from the window, the stone floor exposed because of the precious dyed carpet, and the empty decorations, Mrs. Gong Xiang Xiang's face was extremely difficult to see.
The scene in the palace made her feel very bad. Compared with this, her husband's death seemed to be indifferent.
Gomez's body was found in a corner of the palace. It can be seen from the wound on his body that he did not die immediately after being hit by the sword. Instead, he obviously struggled for a while. Then the murderers mercilessly repaired him a few more times. The most ruthless one almost cut off from his neck, almost completely digging his chest.
Before seeing Mrs. Palace, Osborn was a little worried. After being separated from Alexander, he was surrounded by soldiers and was struck by headless flies in the palace. As more and more mobs, he finally hid in the small basin in the southwest corner of the palace, where he "stayed until reinforcements arrived" before he was able to escape. The evidence of their heroic battle was the scar on Osborn's face.
To the tailor's surprise, Mrs. Gong Xiang not only did not denounce and then sue him, but instead received him kindly. While lamenting the survivor's life, Mrs. Gong Xiang expressed his gratitude for the tailor to try to take the risk of rescue Mrs. Gong Xiang at that time. Even when talking about Gomez's death, the two comforted each other with some regret and grief.
Then Osborne returned to his home, but to his surprise, he met Alexander and Sophia at home who thought he had died at the hands of the mob.
He thought so because he heard from Mrs. Gong Xiang that Alexander stood up to help the mother and son escape and bravely face the feats of the criminals. According to the scene described by Mrs. Gong Xiang, it was impossible for this young couple to escape alive from the hands of the group of criminals.
So after seeing Alexander again and seeing his old friend after the disaster, Osborn secretly envied the young man's luck.
Perhaps this young man will really bring himself to a greater surprise in the future, so that Osborn began to truly consider the previous thoughts. The tailor, who was preparing to hide Alexander's identity in a quiet and waiting for a good opportunity, was thinking about how to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Instead of letting Alexander leave, Osborne arranged the two of them again in the empty room on the second floor of his tailor's shop, which was originally a storage room. Then he thought about how to tell Mrs. Gong Xiang about the news. At least according to Mrs. Gong Xiang's own description, the two brave young men were kind to their mother and son, although the tailor expressed doubts about this statement.
Sure enough, when he heard that Alexander and his two men survived intact, Mrs. Gong Xiang was a little lost for a while. The tailor didn't want to say that she was disappointed, but it gave people the feeling that way.
Alexander was not dead, Alexander saved Gong Xiang's family, and Alexander also led his men to defeat the criminals who almost harmed the bishops!
This last news was provided by a bald mercenary leader named Sandruke Bochum.
This mercenary from the northern foothills of the Alps was a very enthusiastic man. He was not stingy in praise of Alexander's courage and feats, and told everyone how he led his men to bravely loot... No, he bravely fought against the armed thugs and eventually saved most of the bishops who were convening the bishop's meeting in the cathedral.
Indeed, most of them, in this late-night disaster, seven bishops from all dioceses of Sicily were rescued, four others were seriously injured, and two were unfortunately killed, including Bishop Messina, who had a great chance of being transferred to the Bishop of Palermo and then won the throne of Archbishop of Sicily.
But after all, most bishops survived, which was enough to make these noble servants of God grateful to a secular young man, at least have a good impression of him.
As for the cathedral lost many precious jewelry and holy objects accumulated over the years during the riot, how could Mr. Bochum and his guys who looked not good at it so coincidentally became a wealthy man after that night, and no one went into delving into it.
After all, many people died on this night. In addition to great figures like Gomez Palace, there were also very respected merchants like Mr. Zioni, as well as many guards and maids in the palace. As for other wealthy families who were robbed, there were also many civilians affected by the riots. When the street finally calmed down the next day, people who had been frightened all night saw through the cracks in the windows that the Aragonese soldiers were pulling their bodies out of the city with carriages.
This made many people think of the terrible scene during the legendary plague period in the early years.
But no matter what, this terrifying night finally passed. Only after glading the joy of survival did people realize that Palermo now has neither a secular leader nor a church leader!
In this way, everyone's eyes were turned to the "lucky" to avoid the danger of Priest Alfonso in the riot.
Alfonso was safely taken away from the square by his men at the beginning of the riot, and then he hid in a small church.
Coincidentally, this small chapel is very close to the church where Mrs. Gong Xiang was hiding.
After the riot ended, Alfonso quickly returned to the Assumption Cathedral, looking at the looted sacred church and the blood-stained priests and bishops carrying them out, and then looked back at the direction of the palace with thick smoke in the distance. Alfonso's face was extremely gloomy, and it could even be described as terrible.
No one knew that Alfonso had already cursed himself in his heart, and he had the tendency to greet Fei Xie's ancestors in all generations regardless of his identity, but he really couldn't tell others about this pain.
But he didn't know at this time that what he really should greet was the female ancestors of the Cape family of the Duke of Orleans.
Alfonso's purpose was indeed achieved. Bishop Messina, who was in the way, had already gone to see God. Several other tendencies were also injured by the bishops of the Holy See. The rest of the others could buy them with just a little means.
The result seemed perfect, but what Alfonso didn't expect was that the French who had decided to help him would even cheat him.
While the French attacked the cathedral, they created panic and attacked the Sicily palace!
This is something Alfonso never expected.
Of course he knew why the French were willing to help him. It was obvious that Fitch was the man of King Charles VIII of France. The French were defeated not long ago in the Battle of Fornovo, and even Charles VIII himself almost lost in this battle. At this time, Fitch found himself willing to provide help, and even assist him in becoming the Archbishop of Sicily. The purpose of course was to support a Sicilian powerful man who could get closer to the French.
This is also the reason why he hit it off quickly after seeing Philippe. Alfonso has great ambitions, not just the Archbishop of Sicily. He has more preparations and backup plans. It is better if the French are willing to provide help now. After all, in the future, they may be able to get more important and more critical assistance from the French.
But Alfonso never thought that he would get more than he hoped, but that these were really not what he wanted.
He could imagine that the purpose of Fitcher doing this was to create chaos and destruction within Sicily. After all, the Holy Alliance participated by the King of Sicily, that is, Ferdinand II of Aragon, was fighting in France. If he could cause some trouble for Ferdinand behind him at this time, the French would definitely not miss this opportunity.
But in this way, Alfonso inevitably became the tool to be used.
The goal was achieved, even better than expected. Not only did the enemies in the local church in Sicily be killed or injured, but even Gomez, who was the palace minister, took in it.
This result should be more satisfying.
But Alfonso couldn't laugh at all.
After the French rampage, Palermo was like a broken ship with countless holes chiseled. For a moment, the entire Palermo was in a clueless chaos, because Peron, as the city defense officer, had been killed in advance, and Aragon in the city was uncontrollable, and it began to roam around the streets and alleys like a group of wild horses.
What's worse, due to Gomez's killing, the Sicilian nobles gathered quickly after coming from the initial shock. They were so fast that even Alfonso had no time to stop them.
Then the nobles declared that Sicily had entered a "special period of protection and taxation by the aristocratic congress." As for when this special period ended, it depends on when Ferdinand II, who was far away in Aragon, sent another palace minister.
It is obvious that these nobles did not want Alfonso to get into Sicily's secular power too much. Although the current situation has shown that the priest's successor bishop or even the archbishop is already unstoppable, the nobles still try their best to prevent Alfonso from taking over the power before the arrival of the new palace.
However, the most urgent task now is to restore order as soon as possible. The riots in Palermo have affected the countryside. Various rumors have spread far and some places have begun to become unstable.
The person in the coffin that caused a great commotion on the Santa Rosalia anniversary had been identified, and it was like the missing former bishop Malejo. But how could Malejo appear in the coffin? It may be a mystery that cannot be solved forever.
As for catching those gangsters, no one knows what to do.
At the beginning of the riots that night, only a few people were destroying the massacres, but as the riots grew, almost everyone was involved in this sudden chaos without any clues.
As for the cannon that suddenly appeared in the square and eventually caused the fall of the palace, no one noticed when it was placed there, and then wrapped it in a very thick cotton cloth, and then scaffolding was set up around it. People who don't know thought it was just another carving that was about to be completed.
Everything proves that the conspiracy not only exists, but has been planned for a long time.
This made the Palermo nobles furious, because they were not sure whether the enemy who created this conspiracy would make a comeback and cause bloody storm again.
This made the nobles eagerly hope that the city defense force could restore control of Palermo as soon as possible.
But before that, a captain is needed first.
Perron is not a good captain, at least his bad temper and monopoly of power have led to the fact that the City Defense Forces have almost become a mess after his death because there is no one who can take charge of the overall situation.
And another reason also made it a problem to find a captain. There were already rumors about the cause of Perron's death in Palermo, and people soon learned that his death was related to the subsequent conspiracy.
For a time, the Palermos could not help but avoid the position of commander of the city defense army.
The nobles became anxious, especially when Alfonso asked the nobles about the arrest of the murderers who murdered the two bishops in questioning, the nobles knew that they could not drag them down any longer.
It is obvious that Alfonso is already considering intervening in secular affairs in Palermo and even Sicily, which is absolutely untolerable and even more unacceptable to the aristocratic group.
If Gomez, as a palace minister, has become half a Sicilian because of his long-term residence, then Alfonso is always an authentic Aragonist.
This made Sicilian nobles with strong local concepts unacceptable.
At this time, the nobles knew that the immediate problems must be solved as soon as possible, otherwise the priest who was about to take over as bishop would probably take the opportunity to reach into the circle of secular power in Sicily.
It was at this "hard" moment that a person entered the sight of the aristocratic group at a loss.
Sandruke Bochum, the mercenary captain who performed extraordinaryly on the Bloody Night of Santa Rosalia, caught the attention of the nobles.
What made them feel more satisfied was the young Greek man who led these mercenaries to save many bishops. He was Alfonso's private treasurer, and he seemed to have a good relationship with the Gong Xiang family.
What's even more rare is that such a person who seems to be comprehensive and will be satisfied with all parties is neither Sicily nor Aragon, but a Greek.
So, on the afternoon of the third day after the bloody night, Osborne knocked on the door on the second floor of his tailor shop.
Chapter completed!