Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 238 Hometown
Joan sat on the stone for several hours, until it got dark, she sighed and jumped off the stone, and then walked towards the woods behind and said.

"I remember that when I was herding sheep, this place was just a meadow. I didn't expect it to become a forest now. As you said, everything is changing, and I should accept this change."

Soon, she came to a big rock, and then took a branch from a tree on one side and dug it about one meter away from the edge of the rock.

"Uh——what are you digging?" Seeing that Joan began to dig the ground, Liang En also took a branch from the side and helped her dig it up, and at the same time asked what she was digging.

"Before I left home, I left most of my things to my parents or gifted them to friends in the village, but I buried a few things from my childhood in this place where I used to herd sheep." Listen to Liang En As soon as she asked, Joan turned her head and answered.

"So I want to check now to see if those things are still there. If they are, I can just keep them as a thought. If they are not, I can feel at ease."

Soon, black debris appeared in the soil.Obviously, this should be the wooden box that Joan of Arc used to hold those things back then. Unfortunately, after so many years, the wooden box has completely rotted.

In this case, all the things that were originally mechanical are all rotten, leaving only a little black trace left there to show the existence of those things.

Fortunately, not all the toys back then were made of wood or cloth, so after poking away a small pile of black carbonized traces with a branch, they found two small dolls made of terracotta from below.

"It seems that you were a little different from ordinary girls when you were young!" Looking at the dolls of cavalry and infantry in front of him, Liang En joked in a low voice.

Unlike today, Joan of Arc taught boys and girls very differently at that time, so it was very rare for Joan of Arc to be interested in soldiers as a girl at that time.

"This actually belongs to my two brothers." Joan looked at the two puppets with a look of reminiscence. "It's just that before I left home, each of them gave me something as a souvenir."

Putting the two figures aside, they resumed digging.Because according to Joan of Arc, she remembered that there was a small spinning top made of pottery in the things she put away back then.

But to their surprise, when they found the top and took it out, they unexpectedly found a golden light in the soil under the top.

"What is this?" After digging from the bottom of the pit with his hands, Liang En found a small thing that looked like the size of a thumb from the soil under the pit.

This thing is set with purple flake crystals on both sides, and a ring of gold in the middle.It looks like a crystal is inlaid in gold.

However, after careful observation, Liang En found an unusually delicate hinge on the circle of gold, which meant that this thing should be a very small container.

After further inspection, Liang En found that this object was actually a reliquary composed of a central axis and two facing covers, and the overall condition was very well preserved.

On the outside of the reliquary are two pieces of crystal, on one side of the inside are six scenes from the life of Jesus Christ, and on the other side are the Nativity manuscript and the Annunciation to the shepherds in the middle.

Behind these scenes is a wooden spike mounted on a crystal that looks like a 1/3 toothpick, with the inscription on one side: DE SPINA: SANCTE: CORONE.

This inscription is in Latin, literally translated as the thorn of the holy crown.And if the cultural background is considered, it should refer to the thorns on the crown of thorns worn by Jesus on the crucifixion.

"Reliquary!" Joan of Arc immediately recognized what Liang En was holding in his hand, "I didn't expect my mother to put this thing here——"

Joan of Arc looked a little excited after seeing this thing, she first took a few short breaths, and then sobbed.Tears dripped down the long eyelashes on the reliquary.

Obviously, this should be something very important to her, which is why she looks so excited.

Seeing that Joan of Arc burst into tears, Liang En was taken aback for a moment, then quickly took out a few napkins from his pocket and handed them over. Although he is a straight man, he also knew that he would not say anything at this time, and it was only by his quiet company. it's the best.

From what Joan of Arc said just now, Liang En realized that her sudden mood swings should be due to seeing things and thinking about others, and reminded her of her mother.

For Joan, coming to this era suddenly brought too much pressure on her.Because everything she was familiar with was left over 500 years ago.

Whether it is relatives, friends or enemies have been turned into dust, and everything I am familiar with has become lines of words in history books.

That's why she has an obvious sense of dependence on Liang En, because Liang En is the only familiar existence in this world besides the simple common sense in her mind about how to live in modern times.

So now when she suddenly saw something related to her mother, Joan of Arc naturally felt a lot, and at the same time had an extremely strong emotional reaction.

Although in the eyes of many people, as the saint who led the army to save France, Joan of Arc should be a very strong person, even emotionally indifferent.

After all, in the impression of most people, a great warrior, a leader should have a mind like steel and a city as deep as the sea, and will not cry, let alone cry in front of others .

However, according to the records of an attendant of a French king at that time, Joan of Arc in history was actually a person who showed more emotions. When she felt emotional, she laughed when she wanted to, and cried when she wanted to cry. face.

It took her a while to recover from her sobs, and she held up the little reliquary and told the story behind the relic.

It turned out that after Joan of Arc successfully recovered Reims, although Charles VII was successfully crowned King of France in Reims Cathedral, they had to withdraw their troops to avoid being surrounded by the enemy.

Because Reims was originally the territory of France, and because the city was conditionally opened to let them in at that time, the French army did not get much spoils in the city.

However, because the Reims Church itself belongs to the property of the French royal family, before leaving, the French army took a large amount of property from the Reims Church on the order of the king.

Because Joan of Arc declined the canonization of Charles VII, who became king, only because she asked to be exempted from taxes in the village where she was born.So Charles VII rewarded her with this precious relic brought out of Reims Cathedral.

However, Joan of Arc at that time believed that she was blessed by the gods and did not need the protection of these holy objects.So I asked a reliable person to bring this thing back to my hometown and gave it to my mother.

Now it seems that Joan's mother obviously put this thing together with the little thing that Joan had buried before out of love for her daughter, and prayed to the gods to make Joan safe.

(End of this chapter)