Roger left the monastery, and he saw Miledi waiting there at the door.

Miledi was dressed in a simple dress, with no embellishment on his face, and he looked like a village woman.

She looked at Roger calmly.

Roger said lightly: "Come with me."

......

Roger stood at a high place and looked at the plains. Rows of trees stretched out into the distance, extending under the moonlight and looked dark.

Below the city wall is the Douro River. The river water is dim and light, without waves, and the shadows of trees on both sides of the river are swaying.

Roger stood there and looked at him, and Miledi stood beside him.

The wind blowing from the sky blew the clouds and passed by the bright moon. Below were the dark rocks in the city fortifications, and behind them were the trees and the faint cathedral.

Under the moonlight, the whole city looks hazy.

"Give me an explanation."

"My last name is Faliero, and my father is Aldravo Falierro."

"Governor of Venice Aldravo Faliero? Are you the daughter of the Governor?" (Note: 1102~1117 serves as the Governor of Venice)

"No, I'm just an illegitimate girl."

"What's the benefit of killing me? In fact, if you hadn't saved me, I would have died long ago.

"At that time, I fell off the cliff, and you can watch me die without saving me, and my guards will not make things difficult for you.

"Why do you want to do this in vain? Save me and harm me?"

"I don't want you to die meaninglessly, I just want you Sicily to go to war with the Arabs.

“The whole Christian world is Sicily, only in the world, has not declared war on the Arabs.

"You monopolize all trade with the Arabs. Your large amount of inbound and outbound goods have flattened the market prices and made it impossible for all those who rely on smuggling to do business with Arabs to ship at high prices.

"The Venetians hate you Sicily to death. I know my father has made many plans in secret, but he has failed.

"If I could do what I could do to let Sicily go to war with the Arabs and destroy your monopoly, it would be a great contribution to my father and even to the Principal of Venice.

“By then, I believe my father will not refuse to admit me.

“So in my plan, you have to go to Cadiz and die there.

"If you die halfway through the cliff, my plan will fail."

"I understand. So, whether it is pilgrimage or Sherry, it is just an excuse. Your purpose is to fool me into Cadiz.

"By the way, you must know that the Cadiz robbed Florence merchants and murdered Christians.

"But how do you make sure I will listen to you? I'm very curious."

"I'm not sure. In fact, after receiving Victor's letter, I just had such an idea and had no plans at all.

“But my intuition from my years of business told me that this is an opportunity.

“To seize this opportunity, I ran all the way from Florence to Leon.

“In the process of contacting you, I influence you again and again, and at the same time, I improve my plan step by step.

“Until you end up in Cadiz, I’m not sure the plan will be successful.

"I just know that this kind of opportunity is rare. If I don't work hard, I won't get anything."

"You almost succeeded, if I hadn't been lucky."

Roger sighed.

He thought that it was really difficult and amazing that she could do this in the end as a illegitimate daughter and a businessman, without any force to force herself.

He thought that if Miledi was not targeting him, he might have liked her efforts.

Roger shook his head and didn't think about these things.

He asked in a teasing tone:

"I don't understand why you're still here. Do you think you still have a chance to do it again?

"You obviously have time to leave. Or are you just trying to stay and see Victor, blame yourself and suffer for you?"

Miledi, who had always been very calm, suddenly collapsed.

As if her hard shell was stripped off, her weak shoulders were slightly shaking, and tears slid down her cheeks.

She whimpered: "I'm not...I didn't expect this to happen...

"I thought you Normans were only loyal to strength. I knew the Normans in Southern Italy, they were all like this.

“I have seen how the Normans treat their lords, Apulia of Bari and Roger Bolsa, Duke of Calabria.

"I thought Victor was the same, I thought I could convince him to go to Venice with me. I didn't expect...

"I just want to marry him, I want to marry him in a grand manner, I don't want him to marry an illegitimate daughter.

"I want him to marry the daughter of the Governor of Venice, so that he will have a title and become a nobleman.

"I could convince my father to make him a diplomat in the Principal of Venice. I thought he would be happy, I thought..."

The evening breeze quickly pushed the black clouds in the sky, causing a trace of blood-red ray of light to disappear under the lead-ago sky, appearing and disappearing.

Miledi stopped crying, she regained her calmness. She became calm and calm.

She knelt down and headed towards the little convent where Victor was staying.

"Kill me, I deserve to die. All sin is mine, not Victor's, and he should not suffer for me.

"My life was given by Victor, and I owe him. Take my life, just hope he can recover soon."

So Miledi stopped talking, but just knelt down, closed his hands and lowered his head and closed his eyes.

Roger stood quietly behind Miledi, and he looked at her, and kept looking at her for a long time.

Then he looked up at the night sky and saw the dark clouds dissipating and the moon and stars sparse.

Then the moon gradually disappeared, and there was no red moon, like a dark curtain slowly covering it, and finally there was only a piece of black as the surrounding night sky.

And the stars are bright and still flashing. (Note)

Roger lowered his head and looked at Miledi again.

His hand holding the hilt of the sword was loose and tighter, tighter and looser...

(End of Volume 5)

Note: During a lunar eclipse on May 5, 1110, the stars in the sky were still bright and twinkling, but the moon mysteriously disappeared, and the position of the sky that should have occupied by the moon was dark.

This mysterious disappearance of the moon is recorded in the British "Chronicle of Peterborough of the Anglo-Saxons".

Not only that, in the historical records of Europe, 1110 was also a "disastrous year".

The heavy rain flooded the crops, and the severe famine made the whole of Europe miserable. In France, grapes were almost unrecovered and wheat prices doubled.

According to the Nature-Science Report, data obtained by scientists from Greenland ice cores found that abnormal volcanic ash deposits occurred in the ice cores from 1108 to 1113.

This shows that a large-scale volcanic eruption emits a large amount of volcanic ash and aerosols into the atmosphere, blocking the sun and causing extreme weather events.

Further research on the crop failure caused by crop harvests showed that the mysterious disappearance of the moon during the lunar eclipse on May 5, 1110 was actually the credit of the aerosol.

When a lunar eclipse occurs, the thick atmosphere will absorb the light from purple to yellow in the sun. Only red light can penetrate the atmosphere at the edge of the earth and project it onto the moon, so the moon turns red copper or dark red.

When there is a large amount of aerosol in the sky, it will absorb the red light, causing the light projected onto the moon to be greatly reduced, and it cannot even be seen by the naked eye, thus creating the illusion that the moon completely "disappears".

Because other stars shine themselves and have various colors of light, they can pass through the atmosphere normally for us to see.
Chapter completed!