The appearance of this box made Paul, who was originally sluggish and downcast, gradually light up in his eyes, and he jumped up from the ground as if he had been given a shot of blood.
"Todd, do you recognize this box?"
Hearing Paul's question, Todd glanced at the box and said lightly: "I don't know him."
Paul smiled happily and said: "You may not recognize it, but the things inside should look familiar to you!"
Opening the box, Paul poured out everything inside.
The people sitting in the front row looked carefully.
On the ground were gouache for women's makeup, belts for wrapping their breasts, clean and neat women's skirts, and some accessories.
Looking at the pile of items that clearly belonged to women, people looked at each other in confusion, wondering why such a scene occurred during the trial.
Paul revealed the answer to the mystery: "These were all things found in the attic of the San Sidro monastery."
Everyone was in an uproar. There was a woman in the monastery?!
An old monk stood up, stared at Paul and said loudly: "Is there some misunderstanding? No woman has ever entered the San Sidro Monastery!"
There were dozens of church knights and catechumens responsible for the search work of the Inquisition. At this time, they came to the stage and claimed that they swore in the name of Heavenly Father that these things did come from the attic of the monastery.
In this way, the huge scandal that there was a woman in the monastery was completely confirmed. However, people still don't know how all this has anything to do with Brother Todd's heresy trial?
Paul picked up a piece of women's underwear from the ground and said to Todd with a sinister smile: "Friar, don't you recognize it? Or, after blowing out the candles at night, you only looked at your mistress's body and never looked at it.
Look closely at her clothes?!"
Todd frowned and said nothing.
Some people who supported him in the audience were unhappy and retorted loudly: "You are making a false accusation! How do you prove that this woman is related to Brother Todd?!"
"Oh, by the way, I only focused on bringing out physical evidence, but forgot about the witnesses." Paul winked at the audience, and to everyone's surprise, three people in the monks' table stood up and left.
He went to the pulpit and stood next to Paul.
The old monks in the audience widened their eyes, raised their trembling hands, and pointed at these monks in disbelief: "You!"
Paul glanced at the old monk and said in a joking tone: "We are also servants of Heavenly Father, why do we have to live in disgrace? A wise man will always seize the opportunity of choice."
A monk on the pulpit loudly testified: "I once saw Todd walking with a woman wearing a monk's robe in the library."
Another person followed and said: "I also saw Todd sneaking up to the attic at night, and then there was a heavy shaking sound from above..."
Boxes filled with underwear, women in monk's robes, secret trysts at night, intense shaking sounds on the roof...
Taken together, these plots are enough to make the people present imagine countless erotic scenes.
Someone whistled at Todd, while others stood up from their chairs, twisted their waists, and made a lot of unsightly movements.
There were endless shouts and laughter, and people looked at the monks with unspeakable evil taste.
The monks' faces were red and they were silent. Some of them covered their faces with their robes.
However, under such circumstances, Todd still did not panic at all. He stood there as if what everyone was talking about had nothing to do with him.
Paul took another step closer to Todd and shouted loudly: "As a servant of the Heavenly Father, if you do those shady things in the sanctuary, you are worthy of being sentenced to death at the stake! Todd, what other words of defense do you have?"
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Todd's face darkened: "I didn't do anything casual in the monastery."
Paul pressed forward step by step: "The witnesses and physical evidence are here, do you still want to quibble?! You say you are innocent, but do you have any evidence?!"
Todd bit his lip and said nothing.
It is not an exaggeration to describe Paul's mood at this time with the words "beautiful in the spring breeze".
He stood up straight, opened his arms to everyone, and shouted: "I now declare that Todd has been ruled..."
"Wait a minute!"
A clear and loud voice sounded at the door of the hall.
The petite monk, in full view of everyone, walked in the aisle, stepped onto the pulpit, raised his head and looked at everyone.
"That's her, that's her!"
A monk who testified against Todd suddenly shouted loudly to the woman in front of him.
Todd closed his eyes in pain.
Karin Forman stood in front of everyone, her legs were shaking, but her voice was firm and fearless: "I am the woman who lives in the attic of the monastery library."
Paul was so shocked by this sudden scene that he didn't know what to do. Then he sneered: "You showed up just in time. It seems that the court needs to prepare two torture racks!"
Karin, who fully understood the current situation, shook her head slightly at everyone in the audience: "I do ask Brother Todd to help me find a place to stay in the monastery."
With a victorious smile, Paul was about to say something, but was so shocked by Karin's next words that he forgot his actions.
"But he didn't know I was a woman."
After saying this, Karin quietly opened the hood of the monk's robe.
Everyone saw that the woman's hair was only an inch long. Because she was still young and thick, she looked like a handsome young man.
Todd looked at everything in front of him in surprise, and he immediately understood what Karin had done. In order to save him, this girl had just cut off her long hair, and stood up to take all the blame on herself.
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If Karin's testimony is true, then the crime committed against Todd will be changed from blasphemy to a crime of negligence. At most, he can only be sentenced to a painless hard labor, or even be directly offset by a bail.
This is definitely not the ending Paul wanted to see.
Seeing the expressions of everyone in the audience, Paul jumped angrily: "Don't believe this woman's words! How could Todd, this guy, not know that she is a woman! Hey, you guys!"
To the three monk witnesses who were still in a daze, Paul shouted: "You all saw this man and woman together. The woman must have had hair at that time!"
A monk scratched the back of his head: "When I saw this woman several times, she was wearing a hood and her hair was not visible."
Another person said: "When I saw them, it was dark at night and I couldn't see the specific details clearly."
Paul stepped on his clothes on the ground and shouted angrily: "A bunch of useless guys!!!"
Queen Mary glanced at the woman with a calm face, and then at the defendant on the high platform, and made a rough judgment on all this. She put the folding fan away in her hands and said softly: "It's better to die alone."
two?"
It is a death sentence for a woman to pretend to be a monk. In a sense, this girl is already a dead person. The key question is, will Todd admit that he knows the gender of the other party?
If he admits it, both of them will die; if he doesn't admit it, the woman will naturally be put to death, and he will only receive criticism in terms of reputation.
So, this is a question of "one or two to die?"
However, Queen Mary already had the answer in her mind.
Men have always been selfish animals.
A father can sacrifice his daughter for the sake of the country.
Brothers, for the sake of power, you can abandon your sister.
Husbands can humiliate their wives for the sake of face.
Men, that's all.
What Todd has to do now is just to get rid of anything and get out safely; as for that infatuated girl, when her body is burned by the flames and only white ash is left, who will remember her today?
Bravely stand up to protect a man?
The queen tightened her grip on the folding fan.
"I don't think this believer is guilty..."
Todd's words seemed to have opened a huge hornet's nest, the crowd in the audience exploded, and everyone was in chaos. No one would have thought that Todd would actually choose to defend this woman pretending to be a monk at this time!
Seeing Huggins and his "acquaintances" who were about to move at the door, Todd shook his head slightly forward. Karin's crying face made him clenched his fists. Although his face was calm, his heart was
But he was already filled with anger, and his brain was spinning rapidly.
Todd pointed his finger at Karin and said: "This is a devout woman, a loyal believer."
The girl who once made a comment about "painting the wall with anger" heard this sentence and looked around in confusion, almost pointing at herself and asking the other person, "Are you talking about me?"
"She entered the monastery disguised as a man because her soul longed for the Heavenly Father, and her body longed for the Holy Spirit. She wanted to see the power and glory of the Lord, because the supreme love is more precious than her life!"
Todd's words made Karin frown deeply and forget her actions.
Todd lowered his head and winked at the girl covertly, signaling her to cooperate with him.
Karin, suddenly enlightened, quickly crossed her fingers and placed them on her chest, pretending to be praying.
Todd's voice became louder and louder: "But such a pious woman wants to study theological scriptures and study the philosophy of sages, but she is repeatedly rejected! Why?! Because of her gender!"
The monk waved his hand to the south: "To the south of us, other countries in the Western Diocese have established nunneries and Heavenly Father Sisters for women who are dedicated to the saints. As for the churches in the Silver Ring Kingdom, several
For hundreds of years, women have been excluded from the door of Heavenly Father’s sanctuary!”
"Heavenly Father teaches us that everyone is equal, but what have we servants done?! We regard listening to God's voice as a privilege!"
"So, she disguised herself and secretly lived in the monastery library, just to see the true appearance of the scriptures!"
Todd walked up to the monks and bowed his head sincerely to the elderly monks: "I admit that it was wrong to bring her into the monastery without your permission. However, I think this
This belief in the holy way is extremely correct!"
Seeing that the church, the monks and everyone else were positive about Todd's statement, Father Paul shouted anxiously: "Don't believe this ridiculous statement! This man and woman must have done something inappropriate! Well...
That’s right!”
Paul suddenly had an idea and suddenly clapped his hands and shouted: "If you two are innocent, then this woman who is devoted to the saints must be pure! Do you dare to find someone to test her chastity?!"