46. Leave
Hubert went to the new camp as the last of the group.
Before leaving, he returned to the cemetery behind his estate.
Many of his family's ancestors are buried in this cemetery, as well as his wife, sons, and grandchildren.
He's the only one left on the estate...
"I'm leaving the royal city, Edith." Hubert took a bouquet of flowers and placed it in front of his wife's tombstone, "The disaster brought by the Blood Crystal Beast is already yesterday. ”
Hubert couldn't help but feel sad in his heart when he said this.
This catastrophe has left him truly destitute, and if it weren't for the help of Queen Elena, Hubert might have chosen to commit suicide after this tomb sweep.
But Hubert is not recovering from his depression now.
But in a trance, he heard a 'boom' shout, rubbing something against his cheek.
Hubert looked up suddenly... I saw a walking beast that was separated from me for an unknown number of days, and I don't know when it appeared in the cemetery.
The walking beast's hair wasn't as clean as it had been when Hubert had just left, and it was covered in all sorts of mud...
But that didn't stop Hubert from embracing it.
Now that the catastrophe of the Blood Crystal Beast has been completely over, and there is a new life waiting for him, now is not the time for decadence.
"Let's go, old friend." Hubert remounted the walker, and with a loud croak, he led Hubert towards the place where he had been booked.
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Early the next morning.
After Sfanner made sure that the group of people in green were all gone, he hurriedly ran from the castle into the noble manor in the inner city.
Before the Blood Crystal Plague ravaged the Kingdom of Scarlet, he was a firewood worker in the manor area, responsible for cutting firewood for those noble lords, and accidentally cut off his finger when chopping wood.
After that, Sfener was kicked out of the estate and left on the streets for several years.
But now he was finally able to return to the place where half of Scarley's fortune had gathered.
"Ruby crystals, gold rings, and gold spoons... Get rich! ”
Sfener groped around in the aristocratic manor where he once worked, and found a lot of valuable good things in it.
Whether it was the porcelain on the table or the necklace hidden in a small box, these things that in the past could only be owned by the aristocratic lords were all stuffed into his pocket today.
Sphyna watched as the jewels and gold in his pocket became more and more numerous, and his interest rose, and at the same time he despised the poor people who followed the green-clothed people without vision.
There is no order in the royal city now, I don't know how many treasures are buried under the ruins, and these guys don't even want these golden things to eat!
Saffiner arrived at the manor's former study, and was about to put a gilded wax table in his pocket when the door to the study was suddenly pushed open.
"Another thief found!"
A knight who was supposed to have left the city appeared in the study.
"I... I'm just taking refuge here! Didn't take anything! ”
Sfener was about to quibble when his hands were already shackled and dragged out by the knight.
When he was taken out into the street by the knight, he found that there were already many refugees like him, who were scavenging for scavenging, being taken out of the manor in groups.
"The general has caught another thief at Count Orrick's mansion." The knight gathered the scavengers together with his chains.
"Take them to the castle for judgment!"
The order given by the general on the foot seemed to pour a layer of ice water on Sphanna's heart.
He was once again taken back to the castle with a group of scavengers who shared his thoughts.
But now there is no tent with the words 'earthquake relief' written on it, and instead there is an execution table used for trials.
The scavengers who tried to break into the aristocratic manor and loot them were gathered in groups.
When Sfana saw the rope on the execution table, his heart was half cold.
He finally survived the disaster of the Blood Crystal Beast, but he was not happy that he would be hanged by this group of nobles for a long time!
"Your Highness Mera, all the prisoners who tried to steal to rob have gathered here."
Sfenna watched as he was brought to a woman dressed in black and holding a staff.
He knew this woman, who was said to be the fourth princess of the princess of Scarre... In the past, when he was working on the manor, he saw the princess easily light a pile of firewood with a wave of her hand.
"Are you going to send them to the gallows?" The general asked, pulling the shackles on one of the prisoners' hands.
"Untie the shackles from their hands." Queen Mera gave an order that the general did not expect.
"What do you mean..."
"Untie it, we don't have the manpower to use for the execution now."
The order was repeated again, and the general had to unshackle the scavengers with his men.
"Although the shackles were unshackled for you, you are still charged with theft, and you should have been sent to the gallows, but I give you a chance to clear your name."
Queen Mera had just returned to the royal capital from the dark passages this morning, and she had thought that her sister would lead an army from another world to occupy the royal capital, but those guys stayed in the royal capital for a few days and disappeared.
This makes Princess Mera very strange, but what she needs to do now is to rebuild order in the royal capital and the royal capital, and she desperately needs manpower.
"The general gives them food." Princess Mera said to the general beside her.
"This..."
"I don't want to say every command a second time." There was a hint of anger in Queen Mera's voice.
The general had no choice but to take out some of the black bread stored in the castle storehouse, which had been distributed to the other refugees before, and now he was going to give food to the criminals, and he really did not understand what the princess was thinking.
And the princess Mera watched quietly as the refugees below reacted.
She had been dormant for too long waiting for this moment, and the attack of the Blood Crystal Beast Plague seemed to her to be an opportunity, a chance to take the throne.
It's just that she underestimated the threat of the Blood Crystal Beast Plague, as well as her father's stupidity, and the last thing she didn't expect was that her sister didn't know where to find one... A foreign army that is stronger than she imagined.
Fortunately, today everything is back on the trajectory of her plan, the old king died because of the king-killer, and the remaining nobles basically support her existence.
Although there were a few remaining people, Mera was confident that she would re-establish a strong royal capital.
All she has to do now is win the hearts and minds of the people.
Under the blow of such a catastrophe, it only takes one meal to win the hearts and minds of the people.
Queen Mera has done countless experiments in the past... If you want the ragged refugees to follow you, you just need to feed them every day, and what they eat... They don't pay attention.
She wants to show the surviving refugees that her own stupid father is different.
So on her first day back in the city, the Queen of Mera gathered the refugees and 'shared' with them the food stored in the castle.
Mera watched as her soldiers distributed food to the refugees, and she wanted to wait for the refugees' gratitude to rise to its peak before mobilizing.
But... The refugees' reactions were a little different from what Mela had expected?
Instead of showing excitement and gratitude after receiving the bread, the refugees remained somewhat insensitive, and some even had bitter smiles on their faces.
Wrong!
Queen Mera was sure that the refugees were behaving very wrong, and during the time when the Blood Crystal Beast was raging, Queen Mera gave some to the refugees who were living on the streets in order to establish her prestige.
The refugees would have been so excited to get even a moldy piece of black bread that they knelt down and wept bitterly, but now that the princess Mera had given them a piece of bread that wasn't moldy, there was nothing... Denote.
Is it because of the reason for the fright?
"The people of Scalare listen to me." Queen Mera raised her voice and said to the surviving refugees of Scally, "Whether you were serfs, criminals, or slaves in the past, you all have the opportunity to become free people from this day forward. ”
In this way, the princess wanted to inspire the refugees present, but it was not only the people at the bottom of the Scarre, but also the general public.
"In the days to come, I will try to ensure that everyone is fed and has the wealth that rightfully belongs to you, but only if you are willing to work with me to rebuild Scarley."
When Princess Mera said this, she expected that the refugees below should have thundered with joy, but they still looked at Queen Mera with blank faces.
"......," said the princess, gritting her teeth and speaking to the general behind her, "bring out the meat from the castle's storehouse." ”
This was the last resort used by the princess to stir the mood of the people, but even when the generals distributed dried meat to every refugee present, their mood did not fluctuate.
Why! The princess wanted to grab a populace by the collar and ask them, 'All have food to eat, what are you asking for?' ’
Sfenna also wanted to ask why.
He held a wooden bowl in one hand and a piece of brown bread in the other.
If he had been able to get this kind of food seven days ago, it had been rewarded by a noble lord, he would probably be so moved that he immediately knelt down and kowtowed.
But the question is... In the past seven days, he has been accustomed to eating white steamed buns, pumpkin porridge, meat buns, canned beef, Master Kong's braised beef noodles, Master Kong's seafood noodles and so on!
Sfener didn't think it when he ate it, and to this day he holds this half of the bread that is hard enough to be used in street fights.
He understood... The food he had given him from that group of people in those days was the best food he had ever eaten in his life.
Just comparing it to the taste of the meat buns, Sfenna had no appetite at all when he looked at the bread in his hand.
Damn it! I knew I was going with that group of people!
Sphyna glanced at the small diamond that was left in his pocket, he knew that it would become like this, even if he was given more jewels and diamonds, he probably would exchange them for a ticket to get into the truck.
It's a pity that he has no chance to regret it.