Duke Welfe was happy, and he whispered:

"People, please be quiet, let's listen to the personal experiences of the Eastern Expeditionists."

So, at Roger's suggestion, Linardi stepped forward to tell the story.

But to Roger's surprise, Linardi did not repeat what he had said before, as soon as he opened his mouth:

"At that time, we had just captured Nicea..."

(Note: The story of Linardi's oral complaints about the Eastern Expedition, excerpted from "History of Jerusalem", author: Albert (12th Century Germany), translation: Wang Xiangpeng, the same below)

Rinaldi's voice attracted the attention of all the people sitting, and everyone listened to him with great enthusiasm:

"The Turks came out of the city of Nicea and surrendered to the Eastern Roman Emperor.

“So the attack between the two sides stopped.

"That night, various discussions about surrender were still underway, and the numerous Christian captives in the hands of the Turks were first returned.

“One of them, who was released with the others, returned to the hands of the Christ army.

“The nun claimed that he was from the Monastery of St. Maria, Granae, which belongs to the Church of Trier.

“She said she was involved in Peter’s Poor Crusade, and after the Poor Crusade was defeated, she was captured and plundered by the Turks.

"She confessed that she had done filthy and disgusting** with a Turkic and others almost without any interval.

"When she expressed her misfortune and grief about these sins among the Christian listeners, among the Christ nobles and warriors who were listening, there was a nobleman named Henry from the Castle of Esch, who recognized her.

"The nun also recognized Henry, and she called his name in a sorrowful and low voice, begging him to help him cleanse his sins.

“Henry was moved by the misfortune of this nun, and he did his best to pray for forgiveness for the nun before the Duke Goldfer.

“Duke Goldfrey showed his greatest mercy.

"Even after all, the noble bishop, Lord Admar, gave the nun a proposal of repentance.

"The bishop personally held a ceremony for repentance for the nun, and the nun was relieved and felt ashamed.

"For she was forced, reluctant. She suffered this filthy violence for those evil and despicable people.

"So, the nun's unclean behavior was forgiven, and her illegal affair with the Turkic world was forgiven.

“After this, after only a brief interval of night.

"The messenger sent by the Turks who raped her and plundered her to endless humiliation, found the nun.

"The messenger told the nun that the Turkic man was excited by her priceless beauty and was distressed by her departure.

“The Turkic man promised the nun a reward that suited the woman’s wishes.

“He even promised that if he had the opportunity to escape from the imprisonment and chains of the Eastern Roman emperor, he would soon be a Christian.

"The messenger tried his best to persuade and promised to invite her again to form an illegal and unclean marriage with the Turks.

"In the end, if this unfortunate woman, if she had been forced to do something wrong before, was deceived by sweet words and vain hopes, hurried back to the unjust groom and rushed to the illegal marriage.

"At the beginning of the entire Christian army, no one noticed how this woman was taken away by these people with the tricks.

"Later, Henry found her for a long time and found other nobles to help, and then he found all the witnesses of the entire incident.

“From the oral narratives of these witnesses, they learned about the events that had been described before.

"At the same time they learned that this woman had returned to the Turkic man and helped him escape the imprisonment and chains of the Eastern Roman emperor.

"No one knows where they are going again."

Rinaldi's narrative ends.

Roger didn't know what the nun was thinking, and didn't know why she had forgiven the person who had humiliated and persecuted her so easily, and would go back to help the person.

A term appeared in his mind: Stockholm syndrome.

He felt that there was no explanation other than that.

Roger turned his attention to the other listeners on the table.

He saw Bosimund's face confused.

He saw Duke Welf slowly shook his head, and his mouth was "tsk tsk" sounded, with a look of regret.

I don’t know whether it is to regret the nun’s misfortune or to be unable to see the beauty of the woman with my own eyes.

Roger saw Mrs. Aida thinking, and his eyes were covered with mist.

He saw William looking at Mrs. Aida with all concentration, and seemed not to notice that the story of Rinaldi had been finished.

The other nobles and women here were shouting, basically condemning the uncleanness of this woman.

Someone said, "How lewd this woman is!"

Someone said: "She must have returned to the abuser and the person who abused her because she could not bear her own pain."

Duke Welf asked Mrs. Aida flatteringly, and asked softly like a dog-licking:

"Madam, look, is this story interesting?"

Mrs. Aida came back to her senses, and she said emotionally with a swaying look:

"This is the magic of love!"

Roger almost squirted out the wine he had just drunk into his mouth.

He took the wine glass to his lips to cover it up, trying to swallow the wine by force to avoid choking himself.

Then he heard Duke Welf echo:

"The eternal love spell is the most sincere and beautiful emotion. Only it can create miracles."

The wine in Roger's mouth could not be swallowed anyway.

He thought, Welf, maybe you can talk to God about the topic of creating miracles.

But what surprised Roger even more was that after Welfe finished speaking, almost instantly, the nobles and women present changed their voices.

No one rebuked the nun for being obscene.

Everyone is praising love.

Some people even started reading poems.

A nobleman said:

“up    at    the    stars    thou    art    gazing,    o    love!    would    i    might    be

When you look up at the stars, the person I love! I want to be the sky,

heaven,    that    with    thousand    eyes    i    might    look    back    to    thee.

Use my millions of eyes to remember you." (Author: Plato Translated by Zhang Heqing)

Another nobleman said:

“o    love     that    so    lightly, love flies gently,

o    love     that     flew   so   lightly     to     my      heart, oh, love comes gently to my heart,

Why        thy   wings   so    feeble       depart? But why are your wings unable to spread out?" (Mele Arglos)

Roger finally vomited.

He buried his head on the table and squirted a sip of wine in front of his feet.

He was disgusted by these people.

He thought that all of them were talents, and they all recited a good poem.

But he knew that his disgust had nothing to do with poetry, and poetry was a good poetry.
Chapter completed!