Chapter 32: Joseph McGee
readx;? In addition to the city walls, the nobles built their own castles in the early human cities. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć The Info Mackay family was one of the first humans to set foot in Rant, calling them landlords in ancient times, and now they are called nobles.
The castle is 600 years old, and nothing has shaken it in the passage of time, and it ignores the rush of time, but stands in the city of Neiche. Until the winter of the empire 394......
"This child is a demon!" exclaimed the midwife, holding the baby who had not yet dried his amniotic fluid, "Look at the birthmark on his chest, it is ironclad evidence that the devil has emptied his soul and burrowed into his body." ā
"Calm down. The waitress said to her, "It's just a birthmark, but it looks a little weird, come and give me the baby." The waitress took the hot towel and tried to pick up the baby, saying this, but she was still terrified of the child in front of her. The birthmark was so similar to the cursed child described in the scriptures that she felt the light in the room dim as she looked closely, and she was dragged into the endless abyss, and the hot towel she had prepared almost fell from her hand.
"You saw that too, didn't you?!" the midwife's eyes began to become hollow, and the demon she was holding in her arms was clearly a demon.
"Nope. The waitress looked at him again and said, "He's just a baby, you're too nervous, give me the baby." ā
The midwife took a few steps back and said, "You have been bewitched by the devil, he is evil, he is cursed. ā
The mother cheered up a little from exhaustion at this time, and ordered the midwife: "Mama, give me the baby a hug......"
The midwife took the child in her arms, looked at Mrs. McGee, and said, "Madame, I must know about this." ā
Elizabeth McGee had been ill for a long time, and she followed her doctor's instructions to stay in an airtight room with no windows on all sides. Seeing this, the midwife rushed out with the baby in her arms.
"My child!" cried Elizabeth, whose heart sank and fainted as a boy or girl had been snatched of flesh and bones, which she did not know about.
"Stop her!" the waitress shouted to the guards, "She is holding the young master!"
Immediately the shouts spread throughout half of the castle, and all the guards, both standing guard and patrolling, began to surround the midwife, who was over half a hundred years old. She saw an open window at the end of the hallway, but more guards blocked her way, and the midwife found a new hallway, one at the end of each hallway. When she found it, she planned to throw the child down and then commit suicide by jumping off the building.
This demon can't live!" she thought, and ran through the castle faster than even many of the guards.
The light of the torches glittered with light and darkness, making the once-quiet castle much more lively, perhaps crazy.
"Don't do anything stupid!" the guards surrounded the midwife.
Seeing this, the midwife picked up the baby's legs and prepared to knock him to death on the stone wall.
There was a momentary pause, and she was stunned for a moment, not knowing whether it was because of the midwife's pity for the new life or because of the fear of the atrocities that she had never dared to think of. In an instant, a crossbow arrow passed steadily through her neck, a brief reloading sound like a roar of death, followed by another arrow through her skull. She leaned against the wall, slipping and falling to the ground, blood splattering all over the floor. Her hand did not let go of the baby, but let him slowly lie down in the swaddling clothes of his dress as his life faded away.
Some people think that she still can't do it at the end of the day, and chooses benevolent love.
The guards pinched a cold sweat and hurried to check the situation of the young master. As they lifted the cover of the deceased's dress, a rumor that drove the city mad spread faster than the one who chose a loving midwife in the end. Time was almost stuck in the moment they saw the baby's birthmark, and the noisy cry did not rush the guards to move in the slightest, and the guards with crossbows were almost aiming their crossbow arrows at the baby's head.
"How's my baby?!" Azir came running.
"Your Excellency...... You see......"
In an instant, the city went from being a model of peace and law-abiding to a shrew. Beginning when Joseph was three months old, the townspeople gathered around the castle gate early in the morning to demand that Azir give an explanation, and all of them advocated the burning of the cursed son. It is said that he is the son-in-law of the cursed demon Claudius, and that nightmares and curses will come with his birth. All of a sudden, newspapers began to publish stories and unverifiable legends that no one cared about for a long time. The preacher, the actor, tirelessly recounts the doom brought about by the Cursed Child.
Every wisp of wind that blew into the castle said: burn the boy.
"You're not going to let them do such a thing, are you?" Elizabeth hugged her child tightly, and the memory of the child being snatched away when she was weak was deeply etched in Elizabeth's mind. When she opened her eyes again, she had not left Joseph. When any stranger entered, Elizabeth would hide with the child in a room at the top of the tower where no one disturbed her. For three months, she has been leaving here less and less.
Azir knew she was hiding from the screaming citizens.
"Of course not, I'm a lord. If you want our child to be safe, he will be safe, and you want the sluts under the city to die, and no one will survive the next day. "No one can hurt you," said Azir, "so can you leave this room and take advantage of the spring to see the rose bushes in the courtyard." ā
Elizabeth looked away uneasily, hugged the child and said, "No, I can see it clearly here." ā
"Dear ......"
Azier seized several newspapers, as well as a publishing house that was preparing to publish a book on the Cursed Child. None of them worked......
It was said that he was trying to calm things down and interfere with the civil rights proposed by the Senate. Instead, the crowd's cries reached the rooms at the top of the tower. Elizabeth became more and more frightened, and whenever there was movement, she would comfort Joseph in a soft voice: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." Mom is here, Mom has always been here, Mom is not going anywhere. I'm not going to do those stupid games anymore (a game that hides in front of my children) and my mom won't ......go anywhere."
Azir dispersed the crowd surrounding the castle by force, and for the next year he even used the Imperial Standing Army to martial law the city. Soon a new local law was introduced, and anyone who talked about the Cursed Child was imprisoned and fined. There is a reward for anyone who reports it, and if the offender is not found in the report, his neighbors and friends and relatives will be punished.
"I am the lord of this city, my love. No one can hurt you......"
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