After a night in the wild, Natalie''s team continued to move forward. Although Cherchen didn''t know the way, father sparsokukotsky told him that this was the way to chinstohova.


    This surprised Chechen. Cherchen doesn''t understand what Natalie kishka is doing with such a group of mercenaries with open arms to chenstohova. It doesn''t look like she''s going to pray and atone. Chechen once tried to get some useful information from Natalie, but Natalie didn''t tell him anything.


    After such a long morning, Natalie and her family came to a manor. This manor belongs to poglexie, the old city magistrate of Krakow. After retirement, the old city magistrate originally lived in Krakow, but the atrocities after the Swedish occupation of Krakow forced bogglexie to return to his manor in the countryside with his family. The old man thought it was far away from the city and the harassment of the Swedes, but he was wrong. A group of Polish puppet soldiers took a fancy to the wealth brought back by the old man. They slandered bogglexie for having an affair with the rebels and harboring fugitives to search the manor. The old city magistrate saw the thoughts of these Swedes'' running dogs at a glance. He refused the puppet army to search the manor. So, this group of puppet soldiers became angry, and they even began to attack Zhuang Yuan.


    When Natalie''s team passed by, the puppet army had jumped into the outer wall of the manor and was exchanging fire with the family and servants of the old city magistrate guarding the house


    Seeing that the scum bullied the good, Natalie immediately ordered the mercenaries to rescue the old city magistrate. Mercenaries killed the puppet army from the rear and cut the unprepared puppet army in pieces. The family and servants of the old city magistrate also took the opportunity to kill out and wipe out all the puppet troops who helped the tyranny.


    Of course, the old city magistrate was very grateful for Natalie''s help. He tried to keep Natalie in the manor all night, and took out the wine in the cellar to entertain the mercenaries.


    But Natalie had to stay.


    Poglexie invited Natalie and mitzkevich into the living room, while the others were left outside - the houses in the manor could not accommodate so many people.


    Inside, the old city magistrate asked about Natalie''s family. When he learned that Natalie was yanush kishka''s daughter, the old city magistrate exclaimed.


    Poglexie worked with Natalie''s father when he was young. Although poglexie was older than janush kishka, he was supervised by janush many times. Unexpectedly, his daughter saved herself today.


    Natalie knew that old poglexie was a loyal man, and she was young and knowledgeable. Her current trip to chinsto hovaben is a matter of state affairs. Now she happens to ask the old man for his views on the fate of the Republic.


    "Natalie," said the old man: "If you had asked me this question forty years ago, I would have said that the Republic would defeat the enemy. Because I was young and strong at that time, and the Republic was just a young man. But now, with half my life experience, I can''t see any hope of defeating Sweden. Even if our king didn''t abandon the country and all commanders and lords worked together, it would be difficult for us to win."


    "How could this happen?" Natalie moaned. She wanted to get comfort from the old man and hope to defeat the enemy, but bogglexie gave her such bad news.


    Seeing that the old man was so pessimistic, mitzkevich, who stood next to him, retorted, "how could this happen? Our population and territory are countless times that of Swedes. We will form a strong army to drive the enemy out of our territory."


    Seeing that mitzkevich was so impassioned, old poglexie smiled sadly:


    "I don''t want to attack your excellency, but our failure is God''s will. So we became weaker and the enemy became stronger. They defeated us."


    Then the old man took a book out of his pocket.


    "When I saw the lamb open the first of the seven seals, I heard one of the four living creatures, whose voice was like thunder, saying, come.


    And I looked, and behold, there was a white horse, and he that sat on it had a bow, and a crown was given to him. And he came out and overcame and overcame.


    When I opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, come. And another horse came out, red. Authority was given to the horseman to take peace from the earth and kill one another. A great sword was given to him.


    When the third seal was opened, I heard the third living creature say, come.


    Then I looked and saw a black horse. The rider had a balance in his hand. I heard a voice among the four living creatures saying, a penny for a liter of wheat and a penny for three liters of barley. Do not spoil oil and wine.


    When the fourth seal was opened, I heard the fourth living creature say, come.


    Then I looked and saw a miserable green horse. The man on the horse was called "death". The hell followed him.


    They were given power to kill a quarter of the earth with the sword, famine, plague and wild animals. "


    Natalie and mitzkevich understood the prophecy about the "four knights of the Apocalypse" as soon as they heard it, but they didn''t understand what the old man meant by reading it.


    Poglexie also saw their doubts. He explained: "Don''t you think the prophecy of the Bible is about our country? The first knight is a white horse, which traditionally represents the conqueror, the son of the devil and Antichrist. The bow and crown represent conquest, and white represents divine rebellion. Doesn''t this refer to the Czar in the north? As we all know, the Czar''s robe is white. And the second..."


    "The second knight is the red horse, which traditionally represents the great Lord, and the big knife symbolizes war and destruction. It is yanush raziweu!" Natalie said for the old man. As the biggest Lord of Lithuania, yanush raziweu''s betrayal led to the further deterioration of the situation in the Republic, and the war was also waged among his compatriots.


    The old man nodded. He thought the same as Natalie.


    "The third knight is a dark horse, representing famine and unfair trade, which is the symbolic meaning of the balance. Bogdan hemelinitsky!" exclaimed mitsky.


    Bogdan hemelinitsky, the great chief of zaporoze''s Cossack emirate, although he was the source of the decline of the Republic, no one can deny that he would not have come to this step if he had not been unfairly treated by the Polish aristocracy.


    The three stopped talking. Obviously, the fourth knight is a green horse, representing pure death and endless suffering. This refers to Carl X.


    Everything is right.


    "God, why do you treat your servant like this!" mizkevich lamented.


    "It''s all God''s will," sighed old poglexie.


    Compared with mitzkevich, Natalie is much calmer. She believed in prophecy, but not fate. What''s more, the old man''s interpretation of the prophecy is also suspected of being accurate.


    "God will not abandon his loyal servant," Natalie said firmly.


    These words were heard by the old man. The old man poglexie looked up and said, "unless God can give us a savior."


    At this time, Chechen opened the door and came in.


    "I said, the mercenaries asked me to come and get some more wine."


    Although the atmosphere was wrong, Chechen said awkwardly.