After dinner, everyone stayed for a while before leaving.

During this period, Kitajima Saya went to Yusuke's study and was attracted by a book that looked quite ancient.

After taking it off the bookshelf, Yusuke came over and said with a smile.

"Beidao, you are very discerning! I came across it while browsing in a second-hand online store some time ago, and I fell in love with it at first sight. After I bought it, I found it really interesting."

"Ah, is it true?" Bei Dao's curiosity was heightened again: "Then I want to take a good look!"

"If you don't finish reading it today, you can take it back with you." Yusuke readily suggested, "You can just return it to me at school later."

"Yeah, thank you very much!"

After Bei Dao turned over and read a few pages, he thought it was indeed very interesting, so he took it back.

It talks about a lot of medieval trivia.

From the perspective of modern people, many of their brain circuits are very strange and funny.

At first, because Kitajima was obsessed with reading, he didn't pay much attention to Nao, who was struggling with which shade of lipstick to buy, and Nishida was a little unhappy.

However, after Nao also came over to read a book, she was also deeply attracted.

Because what is written above is really hard not to make people laugh!

After posting the above particularly interesting photos to the group group of the Tuanzi Club, a carnival started.

For example, a few of these.

【Living Body Contract】

In the early Middle Ages, the church had a monopoly on knowledge, and most civilians were illiterate and did not know how to read.

However, people still often do business. So contracts need to be made frequently.

So when the conditions are simple, people will adopt a simple and crude method to sign a contract.

It is mainly divided into five steps.

First: Negotiate the contract.

Second: After the negotiation is completed, find a little boy near the place where the contract was signed who witnessed the entire transaction process.

Third: Let him find a branch.

Fourth: Use the branch to whip the little boy so hard that he will remember who whipped him on which day for the rest of his life.

Fifth: The contract was signed successfully.

This kind of contract is mainly used in the transfer of property rights.

The above five steps are not rigid. In fact, buyers and sellers can provide branches to children.

Not only is it too cruel to ask the beaten children to find branches by themselves, but also because some children run away as soon as they hear that they are looking for branches.

It is now impossible to verify whether both parties to the transaction could have prepared several more "living contracts" to prevent accidents.

Maybe it's possible. After all, the average life expectancy in the Middle Ages was very short, and children often died young. They might die soon.

This kind of living contract has actually existed for a long time.

Even after several Crusades, this custom still existed in some backward areas. However, at that time, it was not just about beating little boys, but also beating little girls.

Of course, hitting a little girl is not very stable.

Because it was a manor economy at that time, boys generally would not leave the local area throughout their lives, but girls had the possibility of marrying out of this place.

In that case, the "proof of contract" is gone.

Yoshiyuki asked this question after reading the screenshot posted by Bei Dao.

[What should I do if this kid can’t remember what the two parties traded?]

Bei Dao felt that the answer was in the book, but she just missed it.

However, I searched for a long time and couldn't find any explanation.

In this regard, after some discussion, everyone came to the view that the child probably only needed to prove who hit him and when, and did not need to testify about the specific content of the transaction.

In short, no matter what, this kind of contract is really annoying. The child who was beaten was really miserable.

Moreover, the entire book does not mention whether any compensation will be given after a beating. From this point of view, the beating should be in vain.

Yoshiyuki remembered that there was also a plot about this kind of living contract in "Spice and Wolf".

It was Holo who called the little boy who was watching nearby during the transaction and slapped him.

[How to treat depression in the Middle Ages]

Until now, the therapeutic effect of magic on psychological and mental illness is the same as that of drugs and talk therapy. The effect varies from person to person and there is no guarantee of cure.

Not to mention the Middle Ages.

At that time, information was limited and transportation was inconvenient, so few patients with depression could afford to receive magical treatment.

Then, they have to accept a crazy traditional treatment.

The therapy is as old as bloodletting.

That is, insert a knife into the patient's armpit.

This is not something only pheasant doctors would do. Regular doctors would do the same thing.

Because people at that time believed that there was a vein called "ticklish" in the human armpit. Once they were cut off, ordinary people would laugh until they died. However, patients who could not laugh would return to normal if they were cut off here.

People may have this idea because scratching their armpits makes them itchy. So they further think that cutting off the armpits will definitely make it more itchy.

People who received this treatment did recover somewhat. It is impossible to explain why from the conventional point of view of medicine and magic.

Unless you think of it as a placebo effect - patients in severe pain will feel better even if they are given non-pain-relieving drugs.

【Couple Duel】

During the Middle Ages, duels were popular in Germanic cultural areas to resolve broken relationships between couples.

In other words, if you want a divorce, you have to fight, and only one person can live.

Of course, this provision only applies to non-spiritual people.

The specific rules of this judicial duel are as follows.

First, the husband had to dig a big hole before the duel.

Then, the husband jumped into the pit and had to stand in the pit unable to move during the duel.

In order to balance the power of men to suppress women, the husband has to tie one hand to his body and fight the enemy with one hand.

The woman can jump freely on the ground and move as she pleases.

The man's weapon must be a wooden stick or wooden sword.

Women's weapons must be "stone-wrapped bags" in which stones are wrapped in long cloth. It is similar to a meteor hammer.

The rules of dueling are simple.

No tricks are restricted except throwing weapons and using spells, which are prohibited.

As long as the man drags the woman into the hole, the man will declare victory in the divorce case and the woman will be buried alive.

If the woman drags the man out of the cave, the woman will win the case and the man will be executed.

It fully reflects the abundant martial virtue of the Germanic nation in the Middle Ages.

The "Combat Manual" written by the German duel master Hans Talkhov, a villain who has always believed in "solving conflicts on the spot" throughout his life, gives a detailed introduction to this marital duel technique.

It is also specially divided into two parts: husband and wife, and each move is accompanied by a picture.

He described various techniques, including how a husband could wrap his wife's stone cloth bag with a weapon and pull her off.

And how the wife should trick her husband into tricking her husband into committing a crime, and then smash her husband's head with a stone.
Chapter completed!