Not far from the south of the church that once collapsed with a tower with a naval gun, there is a row of very unique shops. The wooden decoration outside has a strong oriental atmosphere. Not only does it have a sign but also a guise, it is the name of the shop written in three languages: Latin, Arabic and Chinese.●⌒,

Compared with other stores, this row of shops is obviously different. Not only are the decoration styles different, but the atmosphere is also different. There are basically no people coming and going, and most of the customers are women. Even if there are men, they are all nobles dressed like butterflies. Hong Tao was wearing a navy uniform and had a hideous face. Behind him was a large group of fully armed slave soldiers, which looked very out of place.

After a little look at the environment outside the shop, Hong Tao did not stop on the street for a long time, and directly pushed open the door in the middle and stepped in. The shop was quite large, with no counters. In addition to a row of clothes hangers, it was more like a living room for a salon party. Several European ladies in long skirts were sitting on Chinese Taishi chairs, drinking tea in Chinese porcelain bowls, which looked awkward. Hong Tao looked at them awkwardly, and they saw that Hong Tao was not very comfortable, and they all stopped talking, looking at the uninvited guest carefully, and the room was silent in an instant.

"Sir... are you going to buy clothes?" Perhaps he heard the doorbell ringing, and soon a young woman with black hair quickly walked out of the room inside.

Although she was wearing a wide skirt and exposed half of her breasts, she could feel at first glance that she was not a nobleman, but should be the clerk here. After seeing Hong Tao, her face, which was originally smiling, froze immediately, which obviously scared Hong Tao's face. However, she covered it up very well and quickly brought the smile to her face again. Although she was a little reluctant, she was also a smile after all.

"I'll look for your Miss Jiang. If possible, please use Chinese. She should have taught you?" Hong Tao walked slowly in front of the clothes hanger with his hands behind his back. He didn't even go to see those ladies.

"Master is out. Are you a friend of the master's hometown?" The young woman behind her immediately relaxed when she heard Hong Tao's words, and she spoke Chinese. Her pronunciation was quite accurate.

"God... you are... Your Majesty the Emperor!" Before Hong Tao could say that he praised the black-haired woman for her good Chinese language, a blond girl with a freckle on her face appeared in the inner room. She only looked at Hong Tao and exclaimed. The first half was in Latin, and the second half was changed directly to Chinese. She actually knew Hong Tao.

"Do you know me?" Hong Tao was also a little dizzy. This was his first time entering the city, so why did he reveal his feelings?

"My master and I have been to your big boat. Just two years ago, I was on the boat..." The blonde girl took a few steps, lifted her skirt and knelt on the carpet on one knee, grabbed Hong Tao's hand and put it on her mouth and kissed her. Then the hand was picked up by the black-haired woman just now.

"When will Miss Jiang come back?" Hong Tao really wanted to wash his hands because the back of his hands were covered with lipstick marks, and this thing contained lead. It was his masterpiece.

"I will definitely come back before lunch. Your Majesty... or go to the master's bedroom..." The blonde girl is older than the brunette girl. Although she doesn't dare to look at Hong Tao's hideous face, her speech has not been orderly. She even considered that Hong Tao's identity is not suitable for casual dating with those ladies in the living room.

"No need, you guys are busy, I'll wait at the door." Hong Tao didn't want to attract too many scandals for Jiang Zhuyi. It was not easy for her to be alone in a foreign land. She patted her butt and left. Many things were troublesome to her.

Regardless of whether the two girls agreed or not, Hong Tao turned around and went out. He began to wander around the surrounding shops. After looking at a few stores, he didn't find anything new. He simply stood at the door of Jiangzhuyi store, basking in the sun with a cigar in his mouth, and let later Italians admire Emperor Hong's style. Anyway, none of the people passing by wouldn't look here.

"Oh, why am I not at ease wherever I go... Get the weapon ready!" Before a cigarette was finished, a noise suddenly came from the church. Soon a group of people came to the side, and there were weapons in their hands. Hong Tao immediately stopped standing on the street as a model, and he crawled behind the slave soldiers. His little eyes were stroking around and retreating.

The group of people soon walked to the entrance of Jiangzhuyidian, and were carrying the weapons of several knights and their neighbors. They drove dozens of people wearing white cloaks in the middle of the road and walked along the stone road towards the city gate. There were many ordinary people behind them, and some people even picked up stones to throw them away.

"See, this is religious persecution..." Hong Tao saw that it was not for him, and immediately came back to life. He opened his mouth and began to comment. Even if these slave soldiers had poor Chinese skills, he had to show his knowledge.

"Dad...Dad... Please let him go. He is not a leprosy, let our family go..." Before the slave soldiers could praise Hong Tao's explanation, two people suddenly fell to the ground in the crowd. Then two short figures rushed up and hugged the two people on the ground and began to cry. After such a struggle, their cloak slid down from their heads. They were two children about ten years old, one man and one woman, with a pale face.

Leprosy! Hearing this word, Hong Tao finally understood what these people were doing. They were knights of the church and were driving leprosy patients in the city to the isolation area and letting them fend for themselves. This was the only choice for medieval Europeans to deal with leprosy. They did not know that this disease was not very contagious. As long as appropriate protection is taken and there was no physical contact, it would not be transmitted to others, and it was even safer than tuberculosis and venereal diseases.

It may be that the symptoms of leprosy are a bit scary, and ulcers, nodules and tumors usually appear on the face, hands and feet, which look similar to monsters. People in the Middle Ages did not understand the cause of leprosy, so they naturally linked this disease to gods and ghosts. They regarded leprosy as sinners who were punished for offending the gods and were very discriminated against them.

The usual practice is to distinguish leprosy and healthy people from clothing, such as wearing a hooded robe and wearing white ribbons on the hat. In some places, copper bells are also worn on their bodies to remind others that I am leprosy. When I am here, please stay away from me and not be infected with sin. More severe areas will uniformly arrange leprosy to live in a fixed area, either a deserted island or a deserted place that is isolated from the world. They are only allowed to come out at a fixed time to buy some daily necessities and then wait for them to fend for themselves.

This phenomenon occurs not only in Europe, but also in Asian countries, and the same is true in the Song Dynasty. There were records of leprosy as early as the Qin Dynasty, which was called leprosy. After being discovered, patients would be sent to leprosy sites for isolation, and then concentrated in batches and sent to the border to guard the border or directly executed on the spot. Of course, countries are also studying how to treat this terrible disease, and also opened some leprosy hospitals, but the results are not very effective. The usual practice is isolation and physical extinction.

However, during the isolation process, misdiagnosis is inevitable. Many families of leprosy patients are also treated as potential leprosy patients and are isolated together. This proportion is usually very large, and it is a bit like killing a thousand by mistake than letting go. Once those who had the opportunity to not get sick are thrown into the group of leprosy patients, they do not know how to prevent it. They will be infected sooner or later, and their fate can be imagined.

The group of white-robed men in front of him were obviously several leprosy patients and their families, who were expelled from the church in Genoa. Hong Tao understood the cause and prevention methods of leprosy, but he could not make Europeans believe his statement. If he stood up rashly, not only could he not save these people, but it might also cause hatred for the entire Genoese. Customs are difficult to change in a short period of time. Even if Emperor Frederick II issued an edict, it would not have much effect.

"Aniya! Anya! Why do they catch you? My younger brother and sister are not leprosy. You let them go, I'll guarantee them!" Hong Tao leaned against the wall, looking at the sky, intending to be upset. But God insisted on causing trouble for him. Just as the two children were pounced on the ground and hugged their relatives and cried, a woman ran out of Jiang Zhuyi's shop, and plunged into the group of leprosy patients. He pleaded with the two children to escort the knights in charge, trying to take away a man and a woman.

"Madam, please leave here immediately. This is the order of the Bishop and the City Lord, and no one has the right to change it." The knight in charge of the escort was quite good. He did not use force to deal with this woman and the two children, but just warned him with words.

"No, I won't leave, I'm going to be with my younger brother and sister! I have money and I have gold coins. Please let the adults go. They are still children..." The woman did not give up. While begging, she took out a few gold coins from her small purse on her waist and held it in her hand and begged the knights to let the two children go.

"Why did you find a big-breasted and brainless person? Even if you bribe, you can't give it to so many people. Isn't this a slap in the face?" Hong Tao, a woman who ran out of Jiang Zhuyi Store, knew the blonde girl with freckles on her face just now. Hong Tao fully affirmed her courage to protect her family, but Hong Tao thought it was too unconsiderable and lacked common sense in life. Doing so would not only not save the two children, but it might also anger the knights responsible for escorting them. Even if they wanted to be eased, they could only grit their teeth and pretend to be doing things in public.
Chapter completed!