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Chapter 1960 "Little Red Riding Hood" ([-])

When the Black Death spread in Europe, in order to prevent infection, doctors wore waxed linen or canvas, black hats, and silver masks that could filter the air. The eyes were made of transparent Glass guarded, beak stuffed with herbs, white gloved hand holding a wooden stick used to lift a sick man's sheet or clothing.

They always appear in places with plagues, and gradually, people regard Dr. Bird's Beak as the god of death.

However, people seldom know what those horrible bird beak doctors look like after taking off their clothes. The group of students who looked like children that Georgiana saw in the cafeteria were their true colors. They were the first to invent the bird beak doctor. It was a French doctor in suit.

It's not that these guys haven't seen women before, but it's strange that a girl dares to come to them.

In addition to this school built in the tomb, there is a church nearby, and next to the church there is a segregation ward for lepers.Leprosy was very popular in the Middle Ages. Later, with the Black Death, more people died, the population decreased, wool production increased, people's income increased, and the price of woolen fabrics decreased, so everyone could buy tighter fabrics for covering own body, so that contact-transmitted leprosy gradually disappeared in continental Europe and was replaced by Scandinavia, where it became endemic.And as the leprosy patients emptied out, the mental patients filled this "hospital".

In the past, these were all managed by the church. The priest lived in St. Vincent's Church, St. Martin was the patron saint of all homeless people, and St. Vincent was the patron saint of charities.Of course, isolation should be done in a place isolated from the world. The Black Death in the 14th century allowed people to sum up their experience. Miasma would spread the plague. Isolation is also considered to be an effective means of epidemic prevention. The island of death in Venice is an example.

In some places, the god of death is holding a scythe, which means the harvester of souls.In the Brittany region, Anko would drive a cart drawn by bone horses to hunt the souls of the sick and dying in various villages. Whenever his cart was full, he would send the captured prey to Anaon, the king of the underworld, because Anaon only appears at the end of the day and when the night is dark, people believe that leaving their homes during the day can escape death.

The villagers of Yam Village, the "hometown of sages", kept the plague in Derbyshire, north-central England, and prevented it from spreading to the north. At that time, the priest William was the first to object to the evacuation. If they stayed in the village, perhaps It can prevent the plague from spreading to the remaining half of Britain.

The priest of St. Vincent chose to turn a blind eye to those pagan carvings, and as long as he didn’t understand them, he didn’t understand what they represented just by seeing skulls, shovels, and sickles. church.There is a strange legend there, every year on November 11, the memorial day, there will be a little girl's soul on the altar that will lead all the skeletons to dance the skeleton dance.The skeletons in the Bone Church were piled up from the floor to the ceiling, which looked dense and spectacular, and Leon planned to use this to scare her.

Georgiana is really a skeleton cabaret and afraid of this?Afterwards he stopped trying to scare her with ghosts.

November 11st is Halloween, and November 1nd is Day of Remembrance, also known as All Souls' Day, and she forgot about it.

Even if the university she understands is not like Oxford and Cambridge, it should have spacious and bright classrooms, or it should be sunny, with football fields and green areas, but Rouen University is full of cemeteries and skeletons.

The crow is circling in the sky, and it is still burying people in it.

In the church, the singing of the choir sounded. On All Souls' Day, the church will pray for the dead, which is the holy sacrifice ceremony held now.Rouen has women's choirs, which is very rare, even though the voices of girls and boys are not different before puberty, but the vast majority of choirs are boys, and now those girls wear red robes, under the direction of priests Sing hymns.

Those ancient tombstones are covered with vines of wild roses, covering the inscriptions that have been blurred by the rain, making it impossible to identify the owner of the tomb.

It is now autumn, and the wild roses are not in bloom. If it is replaced by its blooming season, then this place is a "paradise" for Gothic lovers.

Georgiana took out Corneille's notes and compared the names of the victims, but she felt that it might be an impossible task. People have been buried in this huge cemetery since the 13th century, even though Rouen is not Paris. Such a big city can't be seen at a glance, but the sky is covered with dark clouds, and it looks like it's going to rain again.

"Let's go back, ma'am!" Margaret shouted from the edge of the grave.

She glanced at Philier and Figer, who were all looking at her.

"Let's go." Georgiana put the report into her coat pocket, then turned and left.

She felt that it was necessary to investigate carefully, but the investigator was not her, but an Auror from the French Ministry of Magic.

However, just as she was about to leave the cemetery, there was a crisp sound of tree branches breaking from the edge of the woods not far away. She followed the sound and found a child wearing a red cloak, or a red dress. Pass.

She followed quickly, but disappeared. The deciduous forest was full of discolored dead leaves, which looked beautiful and dangerous, reminding her of the story of Little Red Riding Hood in the Grimm's fairy tale.

One day, my mother said to Little Red Riding Hood, "Here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine. Take them to grandma quickly. Grandma is sick. If you eat these, you will feel better."

So Little Red Riding Hood took a shortcut to her grandmother's house while it was still dark.

She thought that the cake could actually be replaced with apple pie, and now she could smell that sweet smell.

"I'm going to chase her." Figel ran over and said, as if she had also seen the child in red.

"No, let's go." She said cautiously.

"What about the kid?" Figel asked.

"Tell the locals to see if there is any missing child in their home." Georgiana said indifferently, "Let's go back to Rouen before it gets dark."

Figel glanced at the direction in which the girl disappeared, and followed Georgiana away. She did not accuse Georgiana of being a lack of compassion.

A kind woman should get over this situation and find and protect the child.

She looked up at the sky before boarding the carriage, only to see crows circling, and then she got in the carriage.

Soon Ferrier and Margaret also got into the car, the coachman flicked the reins, and the thoroughbred horse galloped quickly.

She leaned against the window and looked at the church in the distance. Perhaps, the kid just now was actually a member of the choir, although she didn't know why she hid from everyone.

In fact, it was a worthwhile trip for her to come to the University of Rouen this time. These "beak doctors" not only treat people, but also treat animals.There are many things that the 20th century took for granted, but the 19th century did not take it that way, such as milk. They believed that many infectious diseases were transmitted through milk.

Georgiana is not familiar with animals, but she knows that bovine tuberculosis is a zoonotic disease, especially for children with weak resistance. Children can also get tuberculosis after drinking milk from sick cows, and children can infect adults. infect each other.As a result, sick cows suffering from bovine tuberculosis not only cannot drink milk, but also destroy their beef. It seems that her plan to add a beautiful pasture and farm will be shelved.

Europeans regard tuberculosis as a kind of romance, a charming disease that only beauties and geniuses suffer from. The reduction of vitality makes people pale, and the flush brought by low-grade fever is like natural blush. It seems to have an elegant and unique beauty.

In contrast, smallpox is hated by people. Even if it is cured, it will leave scars on the face. Even if vaccination can prevent this disease, some people are still unwilling to accept it.

Georgiana took out Corneille's investigation report again, and because there was no evidence to prove that it was done by medical students, he began to find out who printed these prints.

At this time, she thought of the engraving called "Dance of Death" hung on the wall, and the little girl who was said to dance on the altar of the Milan Ossuary Church.

Can that little guy dance in red?
(End of this chapter)