Chapter 1863 giant slayer(7)

Florence was closed due to the Black Death, and a group of aristocratic young men and women left the city and came to a villa in the countryside.

These happy young people decided to choose a leader every day during the lockdown. Everyone, regardless of gender, should respect him and obey him, while he concentrated on planning how to make everyone live happier. They found the branches and leaves of a laurel tree.

Weave it into a laurel wreath of beauty and glory, and whoever carries it will have dominion over the rest.

On the first day, they elected the person who proposed this idea to be the queen, and on the second day, it was the turn of another woman. When the morning sun rose, the birds sang beautiful songs on the green branches, and they came to the garden together and sat down.

Wandering on the dew-covered grass, I felt as carefree and happy as the day before.

Then they sat on the cool lawn and continued telling stories, as ordered by the Queen.

There was a judge in Pisa, Mr. Riccardo de Kinzica, who wanted to find a young and beautiful woman to be his wife. If he relied on other people's words to judge his own merit, he would definitely not do so. As it happened, there was a Luo

Mr. Togualandi betrothed him a daughter, whose name was Bartolomea. She was one of the most beautiful women among the ladies in Pisa.

The judge welcomed her home as if she had found a treasure and held a grand wedding. On the wedding night, the judge, who was dry, thin and lacking in confidence, tried his best to be humane and tried with her once. Unexpectedly, only that

Once the whole army was almost wiped out. The next morning, the judge had to drink some strong white wine, eat some candied fruits, and think of other ways to recover.

Now that the judge knew his abilities more clearly than before, he began to teach his young wife to read an almanac, which was more detailed than the children of Ravenna used as literacy textbooks, because it marked which day each day commemorated.

The feast day of one or more saints.

The judge said that in order to show respect for those days, couples should not have sex. Except for those fast days, the beginning of the season, the fasts commemorating the Twelve Apostles and the Saints, Fridays, Saturdays, Sunday services, and the entire Lent

In addition to some taboos about the waxing and waning of the moon, he also added many extra days, as if the matter of sleeping with a woman was like a civil lawsuit, which could be pushed back and delayed. This hurt his wife.

For a long time, he went to her place at least once a month to answer questions, but he kept a close eye on her all the time, lest he teach her to keep the precepts and others teach her to break them. Once, when the weather was very hot, Mr. Ricardo was in Montenegro.

Luo had a villa and wanted to go there for a few days. He took his beautiful wife with him to let her relax. He ordered two small boats to be prepared to go fishing on the sea. He and a few fishermen took a boat and let his wife and

The other female relatives sat on another line.

They were having fun, and unknowingly they were far away from the shore. They were focused on admiring the sea view, and suddenly they ran into the two boats of Paganino de Mare, a famous pirate at the time. Paganino noticed that the boat turned around and sailed towards the bow. The boat could not row quickly.

, and soon the boat the girls were on was overtaken by two boats. As soon as Paganino saw the beautiful lady, he took her to the big boat, ignoring Mr. Ricardo who had fled to the shore, and took her with him.

The captives walked away.

Francesco was already very jealous, so you can imagine how upset he was now. He went around Pisa accusing pirates of stealing his wife, but his whereabouts were unknown.

Besides, Paganino didn't have a wife yet. Seeing that the girl was pretty, he decided to take her as his wife, so he comforted her with sweet words and told her not to cry. At night, Paganino didn't have the burden of an almanac, and he didn't care whether he was fasting or not. , thinking that empty words were useless, began to comfort the young woman with practical actions. Due to Gagnino's clever methods, she had already obeyed before returning to Monaco, leaving the palace and his set of rules and regulations behind. Happy to live with Paganino.

Paganino arrived in Monaco. In addition to comforting her day and night, he also treated her seriously as his wife. Soon after, Mr. Ricardo found out about his wife's whereabouts and couldn't wait to find her. No matter how much money he spent, he would ransom her. He came back and thought that it would be most appropriate for him to handle this matter personally.

He took a boat to Monaco and saw his wife. The woman also saw him and told Paganino her intention that night. The next morning, Mr. Ricardo found Paganino and came up to talk to him. , the conversation was very speculative. Paganino knew the purpose of the other party's visit, so he would not reveal it for the time being and wait to see how he acted. When Mr. Ricardo arrived at the time he thought was appropriate, he confidently stated the purpose of his visit and asked Paganino to tell him the purpose of his visit. The woman returns it to him, no matter how many threads are required.

Paganino said pleasantly: "Welcome, sir, I can answer what you said straightforwardly: I do have a young woman at home, but I don't know if she is yours or someone else's wife, because I originally I don’t know you or her, I just spent some time with her. I think you are a decent person. If you are indeed her husband as you said, I might as well take you to meet her. Of course she does too. I should know you. If what she said is true to what you said, and she is willing to go with you, I will grant you any ransom you pay. If this is not the case, then you will take that woman away from me. It would be unreasonable, because I am young and strong, and I can satisfy a woman, especially one like her, the loveliest woman I have ever seen in my life."

Mr Ricardo said:

"Of course she is my wife. As long as you take me to see her, you will understand it yourself immediately, because she will definitely rush to hug my neck. I hope to do what you say as soon as possible."

"Okay, let's go now," Paganino said.

The two went to Paganino's house and entered the living room. Paganino asked the young woman to come out. She came from the back room to the room where Ricardo and Paganino were. She was gorgeously dressed and as radiant as any stranger Paganino brought. , and only said a few polite words to Ricardo. The judge originally expected that the woman would be overjoyed to see him, but now seeing her being so cold, he couldn't help but wonder, thinking:

"I must be too grieved and worried, and my appearance has changed too much for her to recognize me." He said to the woman.

"Madam, the price I paid for taking you fishing that time was too high. I was devastated and in great pain after losing you, especially since you are so cold now, as if you don't know me. Don't you see that I am your Ricardo?

, I made a special trip to this gentleman’s house to ransom you back, and I am willing to pay any ransom. This gentleman is very generous and agrees to pay whatever ransom I want.”

The woman looked at him, smiled faintly and said: "Are you talking to me, sir? You must have mistaken the person, right? I don't remember when I saw you."

Mr. Ricardo panicked: "What are you talking about? If you look at me carefully, you will remember that I am your husband Ricardo de Kinzica."

The woman said: "I'm sorry, sir. It may not be appropriate for me to keep staring at you, but I have seen you clearly. I don't remember when I saw you before."

Mr. Ricardo thought that she was worried about Paganino and did not dare to admit knowing him in front of him, so he asked Paganino to allow her to talk to him alone. Paganino responded cheerfully, saying that as long as Ricardo did not try to violate her wishes

He could agree to forcefully kiss her. Then he asked the woman and Mr. Ricardo to go into another room, listen to what he had to say, and then answer according to his own wishes. The wife and Mr. Ricardo both

After they entered a bedroom and sat down, Ricardo said, "My heart, my soul and my hope, your Ricardo loves you more than he loves himself! How could this be? Have I changed?"

It's so powerful that you can't recognize it? Oh, you are the treasure in my eyes, take a look at me again!"

She laughed, not letting him finish, and said: "Don't worry, you can always trust me and I won't be so forgetful that even you, the judge, Richard de Cinchika, my husband, can't remember

.But when I'm with you, you don't seem to know me. If you are as eager and sensible as you say, then you should see that I am just like a newly blooming flower.

, is an energetic young woman. In addition to food and clothing, she also has other more urgent needs - although girls are embarrassed to tell their inner thoughts out of shame. But please think about what you are doing in this regard.

How much effort did it take?

"If you feel that studying law is more interesting to you than understanding women's psychology, you shouldn't marry a wife. But in my opinion, you are not actually a judge. You are just a saint's day, fast day, all night

You are just a preacher on the street on the Day of Prayer, but you are so good at this thing. Let me tell you, if you let the farmers who farm for you do the same as you cultivate my poor little farmland,

If you keep these many vacation days, you can't expect to harvest a grain of rice. Finally, God took pity on my youth and asked me to meet that man. He slept in this room with me. This place has always been

I don’t know what a holiday is; there have never been so many Saturdays, Fridays, all-night prayer days, and four-season fasting days coming in through that door. We just work day and night.

My son, our blanket is torn out very quickly. Just this morning, after the night prayer bell rang, I worked with him. So I like him very much and plan to live with him. While I am young, I will work hard with him.

Do it for a while; those saints' festivals, pardons, and fasts will be observed by me when I am old. So you don't have to waste time anymore, go back to your serious business. I hope you will be happy and observe it as you like.

There are as many festivals as there are festivals, just exempt me."

Rika felt extremely uncomfortable when she heard what she said. When she finished speaking, she said: "Oh, my lovely soul, what are you talking about? Don't you think about the reputation of your family?

Have you ruined your reputation? Aren't you afraid of being guilty and would rather stay here as this man's concubine than be my wife in Pisa? Once he gets tired of you, he will kick you out of the house.

, teach you that you can no longer hold your head up as a human being; if you are here with me, you will always be my treasure, even if I don’t want to, you will always be my head. Could it be that you can lose your reputation because of this shameless carnal desire?

No, abandon me? I love you more than my own life! Ah, the hope in my heart, for the sake of God, don’t say that, come back with me. Now I understand you

I will try my best to make up for the pain in the future. Then, my lovely baby, you have changed your mind and come home with me. Poor me, I have never been able to relax for a day since I lost you!

"

She replied: "I don't want anyone to cherish my reputation except myself - besides, it's too late to cherish it now - if my parents had betrothed me to you, they would have done it for me."

Think about my reputation, how great it would be! Since they had no plans for me at the beginning, why should I worry about their reputation now? If I commit an 'irredeemable' sin here, then I and I

Keeping a useless 'pestle' together is not much better. Please don't pity my reputation. I also want to tell you that I feel that I am Paganinu's wife here; in Pisa, I am just the wife of Paganinu.

I’m just your concubine. I still remember that at that time, I had to keep an eye on the waxing and waning moon, as well as all the horoscopes in the celestial palace, in order to connect your stars with mine, but here I don’t care about them at all, Pagani

The slave held me in his arms all night long, biting me and rubbing me. If you ask him how to send me away, then let God answer you. You said that you will try your best to repay me in the future, how can you repay me? Let's go,

Try your best to be like a person. Seeing how you describe it as haggard and frustrated, as if you are suffering while living in the world. Let me tell you again, even if that person abandons me (I don’t think he will, as long as

I am willing to live with him), and I will not come back to you, because you can no longer squeeze out a drop of "nectar" no matter how hard you squeeze. I used to accompany you to suffer, but now I shouldn't be reincarnated.

Is there a way? I’ve said it all. There are neither saints’ festivals nor all-night prayers here, so I’m happy to live here. Now, for God’s sake, make up your mind. If you’re still undecided, don’t blame me. Just shout loudly.

Woke up."

Rika saw that the situation was not good, so he had to endure his grief and walked out of the room. He now understood that he was already old, but he wanted to marry a young girl to be his wife. What a stupid thing it was. He also

He went to negotiate with Paganino for a while, but it was all in vain, and in the end he had to go back to Pisa empty-handed.

After being stimulated by this, his nerves gradually went crazy. Finally, when he walked on the street, even when people greeted him and asked him, he couldn't answer any questions. He could only mutter to himself: "The robbers' den is not guarded."

What about the Sabbath!" He died soon after. Paganinu heard the news and knew that the young woman loved him, so he officially became husband and wife with her. Until they could still move, they only knew how to work.

, never pays attention to saints' days, all-night prayers, or Lent, etc. Dear ladies, so when Benab was arguing with Ambrogio, in my opinion, he was the car

To hitch a horse in front of a horse is completely wrong.

The "passerby" told this story when he and Haji were walking in the Bois de Boulogne, and he laughed first after telling it.

"Do you think this story is interesting?" a passerby asked Haji.

Haji was thoughtful at first, but now he also laughed: "Women can't be dismissed by just fooling around."

"I want to ask you, do you think the pirate and the young woman will live together for a long time?" the passerby asked again.

Haji didn't answer.

"Pisa has a powerful navy. They can go to Morocco to eliminate pirates. If Paganino died in the battle, that woman would really have to suffer the consequences," a passerby said.

"Where are we going?" Haji asked.

"Ahead." A passerby pointed ahead and said, "We'll be there soon."

Haji expressed doubts because passers-by had said this more than once.

But this time the passers-by didn't seem to lie to him, because Haji heard the ringing sound.

"What is this place?" Haji asked.

"Shakespeare's Theatre, it's only open four months a year." A passerby said, "Someone will ring the bell 20 minutes before the show starts to notify everyone to enter."

"I'm not here to see a show," Haji said.

"I know." The passerby smiled mysteriously and said, "Now is not the time to open."

Haji was a little confused.

"Go and have a look. Didn't you say you were looking for a 'sign'?" a passerby advised.
To be continued...