The city of Patras in autumn is particularly cold, especially the prices that rise like wild dogs, which make people feel the chill of late autumn.

In the Bronx, a slum for the people of Patras City, in front of a dilapidated and old two-story wooden building, Adams, dressed in disheveled clothes, walked in with a decadent look, and made a squeaky sound when he stepped on it, as if the staircase was about to collapse at any time, to the dimly lit second floor.

Passing through a narrow hallway that smelled of rotting ash, Adams came to a room where he knocked softly.

A nervous female voice came from inside the room, "What person?" ”

"It's me!" Adams said in a low tone.

"You're finally back!" The woman in the room breathed a sigh of relief.

When Adams heard this, his already irritable heart became even more irritable, and he cried out in a low voice, "Open the door!" I really regret why I didn't sew your mouth shut, and the world would be a lot quieter! ”

There was a sudden silence in the room, followed by the sound of heavy objects moving.

The security conditions in the slums are bad, gangs are rampant, there are robberies on the streets, in previous years, they came out of the whole village, generally lived together or nearby, there were many people with strength, safety was guaranteed, this year there were only three of them left, and the strength was weak, so the Adams family had to make this kind of protective measures.

It didn't take long for the sound of heavy objects moving to die down, and then there was a creak, and the door was opened a crack.

Adams felt upset, but reason told him it was a must, so he just snorted, opened the crack and squeezed in, and then slammed it shut with a "thump".

In the hallway, only a muffled gasp remained.

Greedy voices!

In the room, Adams' wife and two sons, Kyle Adams and Rick Adams, were looking at him numbly.

Adams' wife asked him in a low voice, "Did you buy the bread?" ”

"Yes." Adams pulled out two long sticks of black bread from his coat pocket.

Each one weighs about 10 pounds.

Outside just now, Adams didn't dare to expose them, otherwise, it might not only be them, but even he might not be able to come back.

Kyle Adams and Rick Adams had a flash of joy in their eyes, but only their mother had doubts in their eyes.

"Didn't you take thirty Poole copper coins and go out? Didn't you say it's good to buy three loaves of bread? Why did you only buy two? Adams' wife asked.

Speaking of this, Adams was on fire, but he didn't dare to send this fire in front of others, so he could only send it to his wife.

I saw him say viciously, "Do you think I don't want to buy three loaves of bread?" Do you know how dangerous it is to go out every time? It's not the bakers raised by those bitches, and the price has risen again! Damn it! Now the worst of this black bread costs fifteen Poole copper coins! What shit! Fuck the bitch raised! ”

Adams slashed!

His wife and two sons were afraid to speak.

After a while, he calmed down, looked at his wife and son with complicated eyes, a trace of guilt flashed in his eyes, and then said, "Okay, let's eat all the bread." ”

This kind of brown bread is eaten directly to gnaw on broken teeth, and it is either roasted over a fire or can only be soaked in water to soften.

There was no fire in the room, and Adams' wife had to choose the second option.

She took a crockpot of cold water out of the house, cut three slices of black bread with a knife, thought about it, cut another slice of black bread, and threw it into the crockpot to wait for the bread to soak soft.

A family of four gathered around the crockpot like this, relatively silent.

Adams, the head of the family, did not want to speak, and the other members of the family did not dare to speak.

The room was dead silent.

I don't know how long this time passed, and finally, the bread soaked softly.

Adams' wife fished out four slices of black bread with her hands, and divided them among Adams and her two sons, and she broke the remaining slice in half and handed the larger half to Adams.

Adams took the black bread as usual, shoved it into his mouth, and nibbled on it.

The two sons also gnawed on it heavily.

Adams' wife took a small bite of half of her brown bread.

"Quack......" Kyle Adams didn't know what he had eaten, his mouth creaked, and the bridge of his nose suddenly became a ball.

What he spat out of his mouth was a black stone.

The black bread was mixed with a stone.

"Father, Mother, are stones,"

"These bitches...... ......Seeing this scene, Adams burned the flame in his heart again, said angrily, and stood up, clenched his fists, and then in the next second, Adams seemed to think of something, like a balloon that had been punctured, and the whole person collapsed.

"Spit out the stone and continue to eat bread." Adams said dejectedly.

Kyle Adams had tears in his eyes, as the son of a former miller in the small village of Nisse, although he ate all black bread, when had he ever eaten black bread mixed with stones?

"What are you crying about? Cry out and cry! When Adams saw this son's virtue, he was annoyed and cursed.

Kyle Adams' eyes grew even more tears, and tears flowed silently.

"Father, I miss the lord's bowl of broth!" Kyle Adams whimpered.

"Kyle, you should know that you're satisfied!" Adams sneered, "Does a bowl of broth make you willing to sell your life to that child baron who doesn't understand anything?" ”

"If you think you can, you can go back to the village of Nisse now, and no one will stop you!"

Kyle Adams didn't dare to speak, just silently wept in his eyes.

Kyle's older brother Rick didn't look good anymore and interjected, saying, "Father, Kyle is just missing it for a while. ”

"Hehe......" Adams smiled like ice, "I heard that not long after we left, the wild people of the Cordillera attacked the village?" What do you think? Do you still miss it? ”

"Savages? Attack? The news stunned both Kyle Adams and Rick Adams.

"That's right! You see, without the protection of Viscount Grion, this is the end! Do you think that boy baron can protect us? Winter is still the city of Patras, which can give people a sense of security! ”

"That'...... How are the people in the small village of Nanisei now? Kyle Adams hesitated and asked timidly.

"I've heard that a lot of people died!" In fact, where did Adams know the outcome of that battle, he just happened to hear a guy from a certain trading house chatting about it, and what the final result was, those guys didn't say.

Adams didn't bother to ask.

"Ah......h

Adams looked angry, but he didn't lose his temper anymore.

This made Kyle Adams exhale secretly.

Since coming to Patras, his father, Adams, has had a growing temper with each passing day.

At this time, Adams's wife, the mother of Kyle and Rick, said worriedly, "After the winter, what are we going to do next year?" ”

As soon as the words came out, Kyle Adams and Rick Adamston fell silent.

It's a heavy topic, and no one in the Addams family has dared to say it for months.

Hearing this question, Adams was unexpectedly not angry, but the old god was in the tunnel, "We? Naturally, it's back to that land! ”

"Go back? Baron William has driven us out......" Adams' wife looked bitter.

"Huh...... What if Baron William is gone? Adams asked.

As soon as he spoke, the whole room fell silent.

Adams smiled confidently, looked at his family, and said, "Stupid Baron William, you think you can stop the lizardmen of the Shadow Swamp with the strength of a few hundred people!" If that were the case, Viscount Grion would have brought that land under his rule long ago. ”

"He doesn't want to think about it either! There are so many wild people in the mountains of the Cordillera, why didn't they dare to attack the small village of Nisse? This is because, the small village of Nisse is something in the bowl of Viscount Grion! ”

"Don't worry! Without the lord's Dicas, it's a borderless land again. When spring comes, we will go wherever we come from! ”

"Everything belongs to us again!"

Adams' wife and wife were full of hope for the future.

"Those fools, follow Baron William, and bury them all this winter." Adams said coldly and smugly.