Chapter 589 The Middle Ages
The weak Alan has no room for criticism. Alan had a bad night. The nightmare about Luna and the dull pain of the wound kept his sleep interrupted, and it rained all night. The rain beat against the tent, and the air was damp.
After breakfast, Rowena Ravenclaw threw away the cold bowl of broth, and she conjured the floating plate again, floating to a position parallel to Ellen's bed, her head facing the floating plate. The dish nodded and motioned Allen to lie down. Allen supported his body and barely let himself roll into the floating dish.
"The ointment I brought is not enough to pull out all the warthog teeth on your face. When I get home, I will go to the neighbor's garden and pick some fresh herbs to do it again." Explained for Alan, Rowena La Wenklaw took the floating Alan out of the tent, and Alan looked at the surrounding scenery of this lonely tent with dull eyes. This is a very remote hillside, full of dark, foggy and desolate scenery . Only a few fields separated them from the dark hills. The fields were hardly well cultivated, and some barren and barren heath grew on either side of the fork.
The surface of this hillside looks very flat, but there are some changes in color. The marshes are green with rushes and moss, and the dry soil with heather is black. The clouds were on top, and the sky was getting darker, and the difference was only a difference of light and shade, because the color had faded with the disappearance of the daylight.
Alan's eyes searched on the dim hillside, and pursued further along the edge of the hillside. At this moment, Alan's pupils dilated unconsciously, and a charred woman whose whole body was burned black was shot Tied to a charred wooden frame after the fire, his limbs twisted in pain.
When Ravenclaw used his wand to direct the retraction of the tent and some cooking utensils and other sundries outside, Allen, who was idly looking around, noticed that the tent looked small from the outside, and it seemed that it could only accommodate A person is inside.
Looking up at the woman's body, Ravenclaw shrugged and said to Allen, "This Muggle peasant woman was burned to death as a witch because these Muggles accidentally ate contaminated rye—according to My distant relative's research many years ago was just that rye was easily parasitized by a fungus with hallucinogenic effects, but Muggles would not think so, so many so-called 'witches' were burned to death just like that." Rowena ? Ravenclaw said lightly, as if it is commonplace, "Many young wizards who have magical riots and wizard apprentices who are not skilled enough will be persecuted by the church for exposing their identities. Muggles especially like this scene of burning wizards , or the execution of anyone, it is a popular form of entertainment for them, usually when someone is executed, the whole town will go to see it, but after the execution, the execution place becomes the place where everyone avoids It's somewhere - you just seemed to react strongly to this, so the Muggles of your era have finally improved?"
Allen hesitated for a moment and nodded to Ravenclaw. He couldn't speak, so he couldn't tell Ravenclaw that in fact, within a hundred years of his time, "wizards" were occasionally persecuted and executed... …
"Huh? It doesn't seem much better? But this has brought me convenience. Although I am not afraid of those Muggles, I will camp here after their execution, and I can avoid many unnecessary troubles. The only one near here What you can see is the executioner. The Muggles force him to live outside the village, and the law will not provide protection for the executioner. They are also not allowed to set foot in bathhouses, pubs and other public places, so there is no Muggle to be petrified for a day or two I will find out." Rowena Ravenclaw pointed to the geometrically distributed village at the edge of the wilderness, with about twenty small houses surrounded by fences. The small houses have gray thatched roofs and walls plastered with clay. There are also some very small semi-subterranean huts - a room built on the ground with steps leading down to the inside,
Covered with a simple thatched roof, these places were homes and refuges for the poor.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but Alan felt that the Ravenclaw in front of him felt a little closer than yesterday, and compared with Luna, the other party seemed to like to chat with himself who couldn't speak-although the other party seemed to just want to find a listener and didn't care Can you respond to these topics yourself?
After cleaning up, Rowena Ravenclaw suddenly approached Alan when he came to regain control of the floating disk under him, sniffed at him, and then pursed his mouth, "It's so clean, it seems that you live in the castle too Aristocracy? Good luck to you boy, the tree house I lived in the last few years has a big tub in the habit of my childhood - you can ask my house elf to prepare it for you if you want, but I don't know how to mix baths, In addition, even if you are a knight without a sword, I will not serve you in the bath." As if feeling that his words were a bit blunt, Ravenclaw paused and softened his tone on purpose, "Now I am more used to cleaning A fresh one saves time, even though I actually wash it every six or seven days... so my neighbors laugh at me for being too clean."
Alan, who was lying on the floating disc, found that he was fortunately unable to speak to avoid this embarrassment... It also reminded him of some customs in the Middle Ages, which are different from what most people mistakenly believe. In fact, although the church usually opposes body cleaning, priests or monks Baths are only allowed twice a year - at Christmas and some chosen guardians' holidays. But despite this, there are public bathhouses in towns of a certain size, and people not only go to bathe, but also to socialize. Contrary to today's belief, people were not very prim, especially in the early to mid-Middle Ages when men and women shared bathhouses together. The social nature of a noble’s large bathtub or a more luxurious large bathtub is even more serious. It is not uncommon for a group of noble ladies to serve a knight to take a bath in the Middle Ages of Western Europe, because it is right for a knight to enjoy the attentive service of the hostess or the host’s daughters while taking a bath. The knight has great respect, and taking a hot bath here symbolizes hospitality-in fact, during the Black Death, this behavior greatly increased the chance of cross-infection, and it also allowed the church to take the opportunity to hype that the epidemic was due to bathing brought...
While Allen was thinking wildly, Ravenclaw pointed forward with her wand, and a large semi-real horse-shaped creature made of shadows was created out of thin air by her.
Shadow horses have black heads and bodies, disembodied manes and tails the color of black smoke, and four more foggy hooves, and when they walk, they make no sound. It also has what appears to be a saddle, a bit, and a bridle that seem to be made of black mist.
"The phantom horse is much more comfortable to sit on. That day I suddenly realized that I had made a blood alliance with someone. When I apparated near that stream, I was afraid it was a trap. It was a shame to choose to ride those broomsticks in order to save a little mana and prepare for battle." Terrible idea." Rowena Ravenclaw mounted the shadow steed, let out a sigh of comfort, and let it amble low above the ground.
Allen also learned this spell in the Ravenclaw tower, but the popularity of modern wizards because of the Floo network, door keys, and broomsticks after the cushion spell has made this difficult summoning that requires more magic power. Mount enchantments are gone. ——And Allen himself has mastered the ability to fly himself like a dementor, so he has never actually used this similar mount spell in real life.
However, this spell is based on the actual effect of the wizard's strength improvement. Low-level wizards can only use it to run on sandy, muddy, and swampy ground without difficulty and without slowing down. Things like walking on water, and Ravenclaw directly let the horse made of shadows fly in the air without any effort, which also shows that Rowena Ravenclaw is now just an adult, but The talent displayed has destined her to become one of the four greatest wizards of this era.
Alan turned his head to judge the general direction, and found that they were flying south, and then Ravenclaw hardly spoke again during the long journey, Alan watched the smoky horse tail in front of him wagging back and forth , and soon fell asleep on the floating disc without a sense of bumps at all.