Succubus' Manor

Chapter 198

On the day before Whitsunday, the streets finally became lively, and the saints took to the streets one after another. They wore the most plain clothes, the lighter the color, the better.

The children were held hands by their parents and walked on the street together. The vendors waited for this opportunity with great difficulty, occupied their seats early, and hawked their goods.

The bazaar is also open, this time the bazaar will be open for three consecutive days.

After all, it is a once-a-year festival, and everyone attaches great importance to it.

Chi Yan also walked the streets with Kleist. Unlike before, the people who came out this time probably felt safe during the Spirit Festival. They went straight to the market when they came out. The market was held every seven days, except for Chi Yan. This is the case in other places except Yan's territory, so being able to open a market for three days is already considered quite remarkable.

"I think the queen will be very angry when she sees this scene." Chi Yan said suddenly.

Kleist smiled: "The more she hates the Holy House, the better."

Prayer Day is a festival of the Holy Court. To be precise, Prayer Day is a fabrication made by the Holy Court, the birth day of the Holy Spirit.

The lord of a country watched the holy courtyard grow bigger, and then went to worship the god created by the other party.

But anyone who is angry can be pissed off.

Probably after the queen's husband, the king who was under house arrest, would willingly kneel and submit to the Holy Court.

If Chi Yan was just an ordinary citizen, he would have chosen the Queen instead of the Holy Court.

The Holy Court can only rule people's hearts, but not develop national power. The queen does not seem to be a tyrant, she has a strong desire for power, but if she is more rational, she will do better than the Holy Court.

Chi Yan felt that it might be because he was a modern person that he had greater resistance to organizations like the Holy Court.

He thought of the indulgences in the Middle Ages, and the filth and filth under theocracy. When the people in the upper class were deified, someone would give them excuses for whatever they did.

Then it gets more and more scary.

It's hard for anyone to think it's wrong that heretics are burned and witches are hunted.

When any kind of power develops savagely, it will only make people's hairs stand on end and make people tremble with fear, not to mention that this is a huge organization.

Chi Yan also didn't feel that the Holy Academy had made any contribution to the world.

They did improve and invent a lot of things, but they never promoted them. Even if ordinary people made improvements to tools such as looms, they would arrest them.

Is this what the ruling class is supposed to do?

Chi Yan was thinking while walking, and when he turned the corner, he saw a few children in the alley.

When he looked over, the children saw him too.

There are four children, male and female, and the clothes are barely complete, but the skin and clothes are so dirty that the original colors cannot be seen.

The oldest child plucked up the courage to come out, stood in front of Chi Yan and said, "Master, can you give me something to eat..."

It was probably the first time to "beg for food", the child stuttered, and it was hard for him to express his meaning clearly.

Chi Yan asked strangely, "Where are your parents?"

These children are good at hands and feet. Although they are a little thin, they are not as thin as orphans. It can be seen that they did not live badly at home before.

The child was not very vigilant, probably not long after he was on the street, he said: "Our father didn't want to be a soldier, so he ran away, and our mother couldn't support us, so she left too."

They probably don't have a sense of reality yet, or they may have cried a long time ago.

Chi Yan asked softly, "Why don't you go to the Holy Court?"

The elder child shook his head hastily, and he suddenly became vigilant. When he mentioned the Holy Court, his brows were tightly frowned, and his face was full of resistance.

Chi Yan: "I'm from Stettin, you tell me, I'll buy you black bread, such a big bread."

Chi Yan compared a super exaggerated size, which is as big as a child.

The older child swallowed. His family education should be very good, and he would not lie. He whispered: "I heard... I heard from my aunt that many of the children who were sent to the holy courtyard died."

Chi Yan was stunned.

The older child said: "He died very badly. He was thrown outside the city and bought. It was only discovered after it was washed out when it rained."

Obviously the Holy Court tried to suppress it, but a small number of people still knew about it.

Older child: "My aunt said that there are scars of abuse all over her body, and boys and girls have been subjected to that."

"That" is local slang for sexual assault.

Chi Yan pursed his lips.

The older child was startled: "Are you angry?"

Chi Yan: "I'm not angry. Well, come with me. I'll take you to buy bread. Can you take it home? Will someone rob you?"

The three children shrank behind the older child, and the older child firmly said: "Yes!"

Chi Yan was not very relieved: "I will take you back when the time comes."

The child who had no defense against others had no ability to resist Chi Yan, who had a gentle and reliable buff, so he nodded in a daze.

Kleist has no objection, he has no interest in human cubs, he doesn't like them, but he doesn't hate them either.

Chi Yan took them to the bakery to buy bread, because the bakery was not that big, so Chi Yan bought a few more, which were enough in size.

The business of the bakery has finally improved these two days, but the boss is still frowning.

It was only after Chi Yan asked that no one could afford to raise the price, but the price of raw materials kept rising, and he would starve to death if the price did not increase.

Hearing that Chi Yan was very sympathetic, it was really miserable that he couldn't drive the car no matter whether the price was raised or not.

Nobles and rich people don’t have this trouble. They can buy food by themselves, and their own cooks can bake bread, so they don’t need to go outside to buy it.

Moreover, they can buy grain at a low price from merchants.

There are two prices for buying food from the store.

The children live in the "second ring" of the city, where the middle class lives.

Even their house is very good, with two floors, and the space is not small. It is hard to imagine that such a middle-class family has become what it is now.

Fortunately, although their mother left, she at least left them a house, otherwise they would really become street children, and they might catch a cold one night and die.

The older child remembered what he had learned before, and invited Chi Yan to sit in, and asked the oldest brother to pour water for Chi Yan.

Chi Yan watched the children get busy like playing house, and sat down with dignity: "In the future, when you meet strangers, you can't treat him like I did. If he knows that there are no adults in your family, he will arrest you." What do you do if you get up and sell it?"

The older child became nervous, and stared at Chi Yan with wide eyes: "Would you do it?"

Chi Yan: "I won't, don't worry, but you can't do this to others."

The older child breathed a sigh of relief: "No, no one else will care about us."

The older child asked curiously: "Are you really from Stettin? Many of my neighbors have gone to Stettin. My mother was going to take us there, but the family has no money and no food."

Chi Yan: "I'm really from Stettin."

Big kid: "Is Stettin really that good? Can a kid like me get a job?"

Chi Yan shook his head.

The older child was a little downcast: "...Oh."

Chi Yan smiled and said: "Children as old as you, Stettin will raise you until you are 14 years old, until you are able to work. Before that, the lord is responsible for your basic necessities, food, housing and transportation, and you can still read and write."

The older child: "The lord raises us? Why? Why does he raise us?"

Chi Yan: "Because he is a good person?"

I quietly praised myself.

The older child was a little sad: "But we can't make it through, we don't have any money, now we go to Stettin, the merchants ask for [-] copper coins each, and they just give them away, and we have to buy food and drink separately."

"Otherwise, Mom wouldn't have left."

The older child talks about his mother all the time, and never mentions his father. Maybe he has rarely had a father involved in his life.

Chi Yan sighed: "Your mother might come back."

The older child: "I don't know. Mom said she went to someone to borrow money, but she didn't come back. The neighbor said Mom didn't want us anymore."

Chi Yan glanced at Kleist.

Kleist took out a money bag from his pocket.

Chi Yan brought a lot of money, and there was no problem in helping a few children who had no financial resources.

With his current status and money, he can show love as much as he wants.

He didn't dare to do it when he was poor.

Kleist said to the older child: "There are three hundred copper coins and one hundred silver coins in here. Don't use the silver coins. When your mother comes back, let her take you to Stettin."

Chi Yan: "Your mother will come back."

Chi Yan felt that human nature seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages, but only motherhood goes against nature.

There are mothers who abandon their children, but most of them cannot really cut off their feelings for their children.

After all, fathers have not experienced pregnancy in October, and their feelings for their children are cultivated through the background, so most fathers who do not have children have basically no feelings for their children.

The mother, on the other hand, has had feelings for it since she was pregnant and tortured by the little life in her stomach.

This feeling will only get deeper and deeper, not shallower.

Chi Yan: "If she doesn't come back, come to the hotel in the center of the city and find me, say Kleist."

After all, his name may not be remembered by the child.

The older child nodded.

After Chi Yan and Kleist left the child's house, Chi Yan said to Kleist, "Now I know how to make them fight."

Chi Yan said softly: "The queen wants a reason to start the war and the handle of the Holy Court. Isn't there a ready-made one?"

Kleist: "The bodies of those children should have been disposed of."

Chi Yan: "Washed out by the rain and disposed of, what about the ones that weren't washed out?"

Kleist: "Rotting corpses are useless."

Chi Yan touched his chin: "Let's go and have a look first, if there are some buried in the past few days, it should be useful."

When Chi Yan said this, his expression was very cold.

There was a hint of harshness in his voice.

This time, he finally made up his mind.

He will not join the Holy Court, nor will he join the royal family, he wants to watch the Holy Court turn into ruins.