Chapter 304: Don’t add extra factors if it’s not necessary
“Be careful and take your time. Wages are calculated on a daily basis anyway. If you wait a few more days, you will get a few more days of wages!”
< br>As soon as he finished speaking, the girls who were eating breakfast beside the digging pit all laughed happily.
Frederick asked Sir Clare for some people with good eyesight, concentration and dexterity to dig out the bones in the ground, so she found a group of embroiderers, whose requirements for embroidery were the same as those of Frederick. Same as Lieti.
The embroiderers were not willing to play in the mud at first, but here they have flour and meat for three meals a day, the wages are three times what they used to do, and there is a shed to protect them from the sun, so All agreed.
Frederick first started to dig roughly, and then they took small shovels to shovel away the soil bit by bit, revealing the bones buried underground.
After breakfast, the girls began to continue yesterday's work.
Soon there were more and more people at the pit. Many tourists in the city heard that someone was digging up the bones of the Cyclops, so they came to watch the fun.
Claire came a little later today, with the servants behind him carrying drawing boards and other tools.
Frederick asked her in surprise: "Can you sketch?"
Claire said with some pride: "Of course I will. Anyway, I am bored. Well... the wages cannot be less."
After saying that, she covered her mouth with a feather fan and laughed.
Frederick smiled and asked her to help find a painter. Unexpectedly, she came by herself.
“Okay then.” Frederick also joked with her, “I’ll try it out today and draw the outline of the bones that have been dug out. If I can’t draw well, I’ll kick them out.”
Claire set up the easel beside the pit and began to draw the skeleton with the entire side exposed on the drawing paper.
Frederick went over to take a look after an hour and found that her sketching level was quite satisfactory, which was enough for ladies to enjoy themselves.
In the afternoon, almost all the people who used to watch the excitement left, but today there was an old priest of the Light Church wearing a pure white cotton robe, watching quietly from the side.
Frederick noticed him early in the morning and asked someone to send him a maza.
This old priest looked to be almost ninety years old and very thin. From early morning to afternoon he was still very energetic and attentive.
There are rumors in the world that the older the priests are, the more cautious they must be. Only the God of Light knows whether they lived in the same dormitory with a cardinal or even a pope when they were young.
Frederick found a mazza and sat next to the old priest. Before greeting him, he asked: "Do you think the Cyclops is actually a kind of elephant?"
"Yes." Frederick Lie replied, "What is your name?"
The old priest replied: "Call me Eliud."
Frederick found that his eyes were bright and deep, and his heart was Thinking that this person must not be simple, I subconsciously braced myself to deal with it.
Elud looked at the bones in the pit and asked him: "Do you really think the Cyclops is an elephant?"
"It is recorded in the "Sacred Code" that the God of Light sent Cyclops to the mortal world to destroy demons in the sea. Cyclops skeletons were found on many islands. Is the "Sacred Code" wrong?"
Philt Lie frowned slightly. If he answered "The Holy Scripture is wrong", he would not be able to hang out on the territory of the Church of Light in the future.
He dislikes debating scriptures with priests. Those people rely on this profession to make a living. They think about and explain various issues related to scriptures every day. They can always quote scriptures and find evidence to support their opinions. .
The most intuitive example is that the fish in the ocean are not animals, but fruits in the sea, because a pope wanted to eat meat during fasting.
Fortunately, he was familiar with this situation and often encountered it in his daily work, so he said: "It is not the "Holy Scripture" that is wrong, but those who regard these elephant bones as Cyclops. ”
"The "Sacred Scripture" does not say the fate of those Cyclops, which means that it is not certain that these are their bones."
Elud was very familiar with this kind of debate and immediately said: "" The appearance and places where the Cyclops walked have been mentioned in the Holy Scriptures, and bones matching their appearance have been found in these places. Isn’t this enough?”
Frederick shook his head slightly and looked ahead. The skeleton said calmly: "In the study of one thing, if it is not necessary, do not add additional factors." "To find out whose skeleton these are, you can first make analogies with the skeletons of other animals, and analyze the differences between them. The difference is determined to be similar or even the same."
Ai Liud narrowed his eyes slightly and asked seemingly calmly: "The records in the "Holy Scripture" cannot be used as evidence. ”
Frederick replied: "If you make a mistake from the beginning and regard an ordinary elephant as a Cyclops sent by the God of Light, wouldn't it be blasphemy."
Elud asked him again: " How do you prove that you are right?"
Frederick replied: "Compare the bones of other elephants with the bones dug out now, and then compare them with the bones dug out before."
He said it with confidence.
Elephants are only distributed on the southern coast of the inland sea. In the forest, there are saber-toothed elephants that are nearly three meters tall. In the further southern continent, there are even larger elephants that are four to five meters tall.
Many nobles along the Inland Sea hung a stuffed elephant head as a decoration in their homes, and some even kept them as pets.
Frederick had seen local people hunting saber-toothed elephants in the forest. Naturally, he had seen what elephant bones looked like, and he also knew that they were good for making soup.
Alud has seen live elephants and leather specimens, but he has never seen elephant bones.
There is no theory of Cyclops in the Church of Fire in the South, and meat and bones can be eaten, but they cannot be kept fresh in hot weather. Elephant trunks have no bones, so no one outside the elephant’s habitat has ever seen elephant bones. .
Alius stopped talking and sat for a while before leaving.
Frederick thought he was here to see the fun, so he didn't care and started the next step of his work.
Someone next to me cooked the paste, and someone else cut pieces of paper.
Frederick began to number each bone, and attached the numbered pieces of paper to the bones. After drawing the drawings, he began to take them out of the ground one by one, package them separately, transport them back, and assemble them again.
Dusk fell and the day's work was over. The girls who participated in the excavation washed their hands and went home with dinner.
Frederick arrived early on the first day and was invited to stay at Sir Clare's house.
Sir Clare's small manor is located on the seaside. In addition to the buildings, there is also a 30-meter-high watchtower, which is mainly used to resist pirates.
The local meals here are relatively simple, with conch and shellfish boiled in water and salt as an appetizer; the main course is fish that is fried, grilled, or steamed, seasoned with juice; the staple food is bread and scones Or noodles, now with steam bread; other than that, it's soup made from seasonal vegetables, and a little fruit.
Claire didn't talk during the meal and chatted with the guests after the meal.
"Miss Valli is here too today." She teased Frederick, "Don't you talk to her?"
Frederick smiled and said: "She just wants to Ask me some questions, but I don’t have time recently. I agreed to dig out the bones and then find her.”
Claire asked him curiously: "What's the problem? Can you tell me?"
Frederick said nonchalantly: "It's about managing the territory."
Claire has no knowledge of political affairs. Interested, he quickly changed the subject.
Soon after, a letter came into Frederick's hands, written by the lord of La.
After reading the letter, Frederick said: "The city lord is quite interesting."
"Yeah." Claire said with a smile. "Such a stingy person would actually pay for an elephant with his own money."
Frederick smiled and said, "In that case, I agree."
(End of this chapter)