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Chapter 553: Cured in an instant

Lawyer: “How did your first marriage end?”

Defendant: “One party died.”

Lawyer: "Which party died?"

Witness: "Your Honor, can I kill him?"

……

Lawyer: "Can you describe the man's appearance?"

Witness: "About the same height as your Honor, and with a big beard."

Lawyer: “Is the other party a man or a woman?”

Witness: "Unless the circus happened to be passing through town, I would have guessed it was a man."

……

Amid the laughter of dozens of rude men, Frederick met Count Orva.

The farce in the Duchy of Wessen developed faster than its economy. Compared with the great achievements of emperors and generals, and the romantic lives of talented men and beautiful women, people prefer laughter.

Different groups like different types of comedies. For example, Count Orva and this group of men in the army are very keen on watching the jokes of intellectuals.

There is an open-air theater in the city, which is like a tiered classroom and can seat a lot of people.

Today is the day when Count Orva invites everyone to watch a play twice a month. The troupe he supports has specially sent people to the small theater in Weissemburg that performs farce to "collect inspiration", and the new plays can be performed here within a month.

Frederick happened to be coming, so Count Orva invited him and Baron Abex and others to come to the theater to watch a play.

According to ancient tradition, when people were watching a play in the theater, they did not have to leave their seats when the emperor came. They only had to stand up and signal, and the actors could do the salute without interrupting the performance.

After Count Orva saluted Frederick, everyone sat down on the thick cushions and a guard brought a large glass of cold beer.

What was performed today was a farce based on court debate. The lawyers in the play kept asking stupid questions, which made the blood pressure of the plaintiff, the defendant and the witnesses soar, and also made the judge helpless.

As the Duchy of Wessen grew rapidly in territory and population, the courts had to hear more and more cases. The increase in the number of lawyers caused the average level to decline, so many jokes emerged. Some people collected the jokes and compiled them into farces.

Some people think that it has a bad influence, but Culture Minister Maria said that it doesn't matter if the lawyer is stupid, as long as the judge is fair. With this line, the creation of "legal dramas" has ushered in a big boom.

After the first act, Count Orva asked Frederick curiously, "Your Excellency, how did you get rid of the rats in the city?"

There was a scene in the play just now where the plaintiff sued the defendant for stealing sausages from his house. The defendant argued that it was a rat that stole the sausages. The plaintiff said that they hadn't seen a rat on their street for a month.

In this era, rats were a plague in towns and villages. They stole food and destroyed things, which was a disgusting thing to people.

Count Ova also suffered greatly here and wanted to know how Frederick had killed the rats.

Not only him, Avex was also very curious.

Frederick took a sip of beer slowly and said with a smile: "This method was thought up by a mayor."

"It's simple. We're openly buying fresh rat tails. We'll take as many as you want."

Count Orva was stunned, scratched his hairy head and asked, "What can a mouse tail be used for?"

Frederick shrugged and said, "The rat tail is useless, it just gives people an incentive to catch rats."

"And the money given is not much, buy some snacks, otherwise someone will raise rats."

"Some people are too idle to do anything, so they set traps everywhere at night. One trap can catch half a bucket of fish in one night."

Count Orval asked curiously, "Why only half a barrel?"

Frederick replied: "Because the rats at the back can fall in and step on the rats at the front to jump out."

Count Orva thought about it, nodded and said, "That's good. Can you teach me?"

"We have nothing to eat in the mountains in winter, so the rats all come to the city."

Frederick said: "This trap is very simple. Use an iron rod to pass through the round tube. The iron rod is fixed on the wooden barrel. Tie a piece of fragrant food in the middle of the round tube, apply oil on the other parts, and put something to make the mice climb on it."

"When the mouse got up, it climbed up the round tube to eat the food in the middle, but there was oil on the tube, so it could spin on its own, and the mouse fell into the barrel."

This method seems simple and can be done easily, but making a round tube was not an easy task in the past.

The simplest way is of course to split the stick vertically, hollow it out and put it back together, but making the inside round also requires effort.

Metal round tubes are also troublesome. They need to be flattened first, then rolled up and welded, or cast in a sand mold.

After spending a lot of effort to make the pipe, you said that using it to catch mice is not much different from using a golden hoe to hoe the ground. Count Ova quickly figured out the principle and said, "This is a good idea. I will arrange for people to do it later."

Then he turned to the right to assign tasks to his men, but something went wrong.

"hiss……"

He was halfway through his speech when his body suddenly swayed, and he held his head with one hand, looking dizzy.

Frederick immediately stretched out his hands, not to support Count Orva as others thought, but to open his eyelids.

As Frederick had expected, Count Orva's eyes trembled from side to side.

He knew in his heart that Count Orva's dizziness was caused by turning his head just now.

After about a minute, Count Orva's dizziness was gone and he returned to normal.

"I'm sorry to make you laugh," he said. "It's been happening more and more frequently lately, but I've gotten used to it."

He said it was a habit, but there was a hint of expectation in his eyes. Naturally, he hoped that Frederick could perform a miracle to help him cure this disease.

The people around thought the same thing, and many of them leaned forward, waiting for Frederick's answer.

Frederick said simply: "It's not a big problem. I can handle it now."

Count Orva was stunned for a moment and asked in surprise: "Now? Right here?"

He had made all the necessary preparations for Frederick to perform miracles. The churches in the city had already been cleaned, the lamps were filled with fragrant oil, the incense burners were filled with the finest oriental spices, and he himself had been fasting sincerely for three days.

Now Frederick said that it would be fine here, which was beyond everyone's expectation.

Frederick said confidently: "This is fine. It won't delay you from continuing to watch the show."

Count Orva immediately said, "Okay, what should we do?"

He had been troubled by inexplicable dizziness for a long time, so he would not delay if he could solve it quickly.

The people around were also very surprised, but at this time no one was so blind as to jump out and complain, and then let Frederick show off and get slapped in the face.

If someone with unknown origin said this, everyone would definitely think that this person is a liar. There have been many scammers coming to our door over the years, so naturally we have to test him.

But Frederick was well-known in various fields and had proven himself with a lot of facts. Everyone felt that if they thought there was something wrong with him, it must be their own problem.

Frederick asked the people around him to move away, and then piled up the cushions on the steps to make a bed that Count Orva could lie on and lean his neck back.

He asked Count Orva to lie down on it. There was an empty step on the left, and after lying down, his head could hang down from the cushion.

At this time, all the people who were watching the show gathered together. Those in the front row squatted down consciously to avoid being hit. Everyone wanted to see how Grand Duke Wesson performed miracles.

Frederick said to Count Orva: "Please relax all your muscles and do whatever I tell you to do."

Count Orva immediately agreed: "No problem, you give the order."

Frederick made him sit up straight first, then lie down suddenly, turning his drooping head to the right, making his head tilted, and then patting around his ears lightly.

After filming for half a minute, Frederick asked him to turn his head to the left and continued filming for a while.

Another half minute passed, and Frederick held Count Orva's head and kept it tilted sideways, while he turned around and put his legs down the steps so that he could sit up later.

For the last step, Frederick asked him to keep his head down and suddenly stood up and sat upright.

The people around were confused. What on earth was this doing?

While everyone was waiting for the next step, Frederick asked Count Orva to raise his head, and then pretended to be calm and asked: "Are you still dizzy now?"

Frederick judged that Count Orva was suffering from otolithiasis, which was caused by external impact that caused the otoliths in the semicircular canals to fall off. The otoliths could be restored by repositioning techniques.

He had suffered from this in his previous life, but his colleague actually cured it by following a video he found online, thus missing out on the opportunity to take a leave and slack off.

Count Orva sat still for a long while, then began to shake his head.

The onlookers thought that the shaking of the head was a denial, and then his body began to shake, with the amplitude increasing.

"I'm not dizzy anymore!" Count Orval shouted excitedly, "I'm not dizzy at all!"

Frederick smiled confidently and breathed a sigh of relief, as he had guessed correctly this time.

The onlookers were amazed. No one understood why Frederick just asked Count Orva to lie down and sit up, then patted his head, and the problem that had troubled him for years was solved.

Many people are thinking that this kind of thing can only be done by the God of Light who has come down to earth?

(End of this chapter)