Chapter 79 Witch Hunting
Autumn has already begun in the Northwest Bay in September. The woods all over the mountains are slowly covered with golden and orange colors. Farmers are busy harvesting crops in the fields and preparing for the harvest. Prepare for the long winter ahead.
On the road leading from south to north to Lake Town in the Earl of Arda, a motorcade was driving slowly.
This group of people was the first batch of craftsmen recruited by Queller Foster for his good friend Paul and a caravan from his family. They took a boat from Cape Bay and took the sea route to avoid They entered the war-torn area in the south of Aldo Kingdom, then landed on the west coast of the kingdom, and then headed north from there to the northwest region of the kingdom via land.
The one escorting this team was the previous Leachman Adventure Group, but this time they were all mobilized.
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Go back two months.
“Why did I raise such a good-for-nothing son like you!”
Marquis Foster, a member of the Corner Bay Alliance Council, shouted loudly in his mansion with a look of grief and indignation. road.
Standing next to him was his second son, Queller Foster, who looked aggrieved.
Queller retorted dissatisfied: "Dad! Didn't I just sneak out for a few days? As for getting so angry?"
Marquis Foster glared at his son: "You didn't tell me I'll settle the matter with you later."
He held up a porcelain plate and waved it carefully in front of Queller's eyes: "First tell me about this stupid thing you did!"
Quiller looked puzzled: "This is a gift from my friend. Let me come back to promote it for him. He plans to sell it to the south. I know it is very valuable, so I specially invited you, a business veteran, to come here. "Estimating the price, why do you call me stupid?"
Marquis Fortes first carefully placed the porcelain plate on the table, then slapped his son on the forehead and said in a tone that said: "How come the family's business talent has completely disappeared from you? You should have decisively won its exclusive agency right then."
Queller suddenly realized: "Uh... So that's what happened to you."
Seeing his son's expression of understanding, the Marquis became even more furious, pointing at his son's nose and began to criticize him.
“I’m totally uneducated, I just know how to mess around!”
“Your brother would have made me worry-free. He can negotiate a business by himself at the age of 15.”
< br>“I’m twenty years old, and I’ve still accomplished nothing.”
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Quiller looked indifferent and let his father's words go in one ear and out the other as usual.
After being tired of scolding, Marquis Foster picked up the water glass to moisten his throat. As soon as it touched his lips, he remembered that there were more important things than teaching his son a lesson.
"Quickly, quickly, bring a caravan to the Northwest Gulf and negotiate the agency rights for this 'porcelain', as well as that new type of paper. These are all prospects. Great stuff. By the way, doesn’t your earl friend need a lot of shipbuilders? Let’s recruit as many as he needs. If he doesn’t have enough, he’ll recruit some from the family shipyard.”
Kui. Le responded casually: "Okay, okay, father, please be patient."
Seeing that his son still looked unhurried, Earl Foster jumped up and said, "Go now!!!"'
Quiller cried bitterly: "No, I just got home. I need to rest for a few days.”
But seeing his father trying to hit him in the face with a water glass, he immediately ran out to do errands.
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Everyone in the Leachman Adventure Group received the reward for this mission from the Adventurer's Guild.
The leader of the group, Meru, was very happy. He held up the money bag and said, "This mission is finally a success. Let's go find a gourmet restaurant and have a big meal."
Everyone clapped in agreement and happily Find a gourmet restaurant on the street.
Suddenly there was a commotion on the street, and pedestrians moved to both sides. Soon the middle of the street was vacated, and everyone in the adventure group followed the crowd and moved to one side of the road.
Dean pulled the sleeve of a passerby next to him and asked: "Excuse me, we are not familiar with this place just now. What happened?"
The passerby replied Turning over, he said: "The inquisition caught a witch a few days ago, and she is about to be burned on the stake!" Dean was startled, and subconsciously glanced at his companion La Di. Sure enough, the scholar girl's face was completely pale. .
The other companions in the adventure group also looked solemn.
The witch-hunting movement is the largest activity initiated by the church and continues to this day. As far as Dean knows, during its most crazy period, the city-state Messiah alone was burned to death within a year. More than 400 people suspected of being witches.
The long witch-hunting campaign has caused countless tragedies. In many cases, even the Holy See itself had to admit that it had created unjust, false and wrong cases and vindicated the parties concerned.
There was a period of time in which a few scholars and nobles boldly reflected and criticized the witch-hunting movement. Coupled with the rise of the Holy Council within the Holy See, the witch-hunting movement fell into a low ebb.
But in recent years, the witch-hunting movement has begun to rise again. Ironically, this time it has arisen precisely in the southern countries that claim to be open-minded.
It can be said that the church was created out of nothing, but that cannot be said. At least Dean knew that there was one...
Passers on both sides of the road began to shout.
“Burn this witch!”
“Burn this bitch for fornicating with the devil!”
Under the escort of church knights, a prison van drove slowly through the street. Many passers-by threw stones at the prison van.
A disheveled woman was chained up in the prison car, with only a pair of dull, lifeless eyes exposed from the gap in her hair. She allowed hard stones to fall on her body, which was already covered with bruises. New scars are constantly added to the body.
Continuing forward is the square in the city center, where the rack has been prepared and the woman's fate has been determined.
Ladi tugged on the leader's sleeve, lowered her head and whispered: "Meru, let's go..."
Meru grabbed her hand and held it tightly, Say in the ear: "Don't be afraid, we will always protect you."
After what happened, everyone was no longer in the mood to enjoy the delicious food, so they returned to the hotel.
Entering the hotel door, they found a familiar figure.
"Brothers and sisters of the Leachman Adventure Group, long time no see, I miss you so much!"
Quiller came up and hugged the two men in the group tightly.
The group leader Meru said helplessly: "Hey, hey, hey! Master Foster, we have only been separated for a long time!"
"Hahaha! Don't pay attention to the details. Huh? Why do you all look like you were seriously ill just now?"
Meru said: "What do you want from us? We are about to leave this city. "
Quiller snapped his fingers: "I am afraid that you will leave, so I came to you in such a hurry."
"What task. ?”
Quiller pointed to the north and said: “My father asked me to lead a caravan to the northwest bay. Are you willing to escort us there? You can give us whatever you want.”
"Oh?" Meru became interested, not entirely because of the commission, but because she also planned to leave the south and lead the group members to avoid the limelight of the recent witch-hunting movement.
She glanced at Dean and Kai, who quickly understood what she meant and nodded in agreement.
Meru then said: "Okay, Master Kuile. But since it is a caravan, we alone cannot escort it. We have to join several other group members before we can set off."
< br>Quiller said happily: "It happens that I also need some time, so it's settled!"
I searched for information today and found that the witch hunting movement in history happened to be during the Renaissance. Then it reached its maximum scale, which was incredible.
(End of this chapter)