pertwk Chapter 150 The Missing Chimi
Chapter 150 The Missing Chimi
Qixi found his father's tomb based on his memory, and he dug up the soil on it with shovel by shovel.
After the snow melted, the soil became muddy and difficult to dig, but it also allowed Qixi to dig.
After a lot of effort, he finally dug up a somewhat rotten coffin.
Common people can't afford expensive coffins, so they can only find someone to nail one with wood. Such coffins are not anti-corrosion.
Qixi easily opened half of the rotten coffin. He first carefully sorted out his father's bones, and then put his mother in.
Qixi thought he would have a lot to say, but in the end he couldn't say anything.
He took a last look at his father and mother, and the next moment he covered the coffin, and covered the coffin with soil one by one.
...
When Qixi returned to Cold Winter City, more people gathered at the gate of the city.
They were talking loudly, and apart from despair, there was also some anger on their faces.
Qixi couldn't help walking over, and then understood the reason from their conversation.
"If you can't pay the family tax, you will become a slave. Then Qimi and I..."
Qixi's complexion suddenly turned pale, and she was completely confused for a moment, not knowing what to do.
At this time, a commoner shouted angrily, "The king and the city lord are not going to give me a way out for these commoners. Let's go to the city lord's mansion to protest."
However, someone soon stopped him.
"Don't go there. That's what Fade and the others did just now. As a result, a group of city guards rushed out of the city lord's mansion and beat them all to death."
As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned.
That's right, the people in the City Lord's Mansion are all strong men who have cultivated battle qi. How could they, ordinary civilians, fight against each other.
"Can we really just be slaves?"
"Otherwise? Escape to the wild? It won't be long before being eaten by monsters."...
When everyone was silent, someone suddenly shouted.
"Sinful Town..."
Everyone was stunned, and slowly remembered this place, "Yes, we can still go to Sin Town."
Qixi was familiar with this title.
Winter City is the only junction point between the sinful town and the human empire. It is unknown how many people go to sinful town through winter city every year, and it is unknown how many people return to winter city from sinful town.
As a resident of Winter City, I have heard of this special place more or less.
The reason why it is special is that the sinful town was not built by the king or any nobleman.
So there is no tax of any kind, and of course, no legal protection whatsoever.
So Sin Town is a paradise for the strong. Although it is not a hell for the weak, it is by no means a good place for the weak.
"It's better than being a slave, isn't it?"
This sentence is the voice of everyone present.
Many people have already moved at this time.
...
"My lord, the slave merchants have arrived in Winter City, and the news about the family tax has been released. Now, there is no one who has come to pay the family tax."
The tax officer reported the news to Carton.
Carton nodded, everything was in his expectation.
But the tax officer said at this time: "But my lord, there are many civilians who can't pay the family tax. It seems that they plan to leave Cold Winter City and go to the sinful town. Shall we stop them all?"
"Sinful Town," Carton was taken aback, then said with a sneer, "I almost forgot that there is such a place."
Caton said to the tax officer without hesitation: "Since the slave merchants have been called, of course we can't let them run away, let the city guards seal the city gate, and no one is allowed to enter or leave."
When the tax officer heard this, he was a little embarrassed, "My lord, there are countless dead bodies in the city, and they all depend on the civilians to deal with them. If no one is allowed to enter or leave, should the city guards deal with these dead bodies?"
Unexpectedly, the City Guards had suffered heavy casualties since the first battle of the Beast Tide, and many of them were seriously injured. At this time, less than a thousand people were still intact.
If they let them deal with the tens of thousands of corpses in the whole city, not only would it take time, but there would also be complaints among the city guards.
In fact, Caton can also hire a group of civilians to deal with these corpses, but this time the family tax does not belong to half of the copper coins, which means that as many copper coins as he hires, he will lose as many copper coins.
Carton thought for a while before saying: "Then allow those civilians who handle the corpses to leave, as well as the old, weak, sick and disabled, but those strong young men and women must not let them go, especially if they drag their families along. You can never let them go."
Hearing this, the tax officer already knew what to do, and then he reported the last thing.
"My lord, there is movement in the church that you brought to my attention."
"Say"
"Today, the church adopted a large number of orphans, and also recruited many rich believers. I heard that each rich believer contributed a lot of gold coins to the church."
Carton frowned upon hearing this.
He can understand how to attract rich believers, but what is the use of adopting a large number of children?
Just for charity?
Maybe, after all, the church does such hypocritical things all the time.
At this time, Caton still has a lot of things to deal with, so he is lazy to pay attention to these small actions of the church.
...
"Going to Sin Town?"
Qixi looked very confused, but he couldn't make Qimi a slave.
Even as a commoner, he knew that slaves were no longer human beings. Qixi had often heard of slave owners beating slaves to death.
The empire doesn't care about this at all, because slaves are the private property of slave owners, and slave owners have the right to kill slaves.
"Kimmy must never be a slave."
Qixi confirmed her decision as she spoke.
"I went to Sin Town, and I will protect Curious Mi."
Thinking of this, Qixi hurriedly pushed the trolley towards home.
"Chimi, are you awake?"
As soon as Qixi got home, she opened the door carefully. If Qimi didn't wake up, he didn't want to wake Qimi up, so that he would have time to deal with Grandpa Tuqi's body.
However, when Qixi walked into the house, his expression changed suddenly.
There is no sign of Chimi at home.
"Qimi, where are you? Don't scare me. It's the big brother's fault. He shouldn't go out while you're sleeping. Forgive the big brother and come out quickly."
Kissy's loud calls got no response from anyone.
"Chimi, where are you?"
At this moment, Qixi's face had turned pale.
He ran to the street in a hurry, calling Qimi's name loudly.
However, he ran all over the street, but he still didn't see Qimi.
Qixi couldn't help thinking of the old beggar.
"Could it be that Qimi was taken away by those people?"
Qixi's pale face suddenly turned pale. If Qimi really fell into the hands of those people, the end might be...
Qixi didn't dare to continue thinking about it. He thought of the big knight, but he didn't know where the big knight lived, or even his name.
Even if he went to ask the city guards, the city guards would definitely not tell him the position of the great knight.
"chimi"
Qixi couldn't help but let out a cry of despair.