Chapter 46: Upheaval

Over the question of who would sleep in the bed, Wu Xin and Cassano argued for almost a quarter of an hour.

In the end, at Wu Xin's insistence that "if you don't have a body, you have nothing", Cassano reluctantly agreed to let him sleep in the bed.

However, he still gave Wu Xin only two blankets.

The strange dream still arrived on time, but Wu Xin felt that the degree of coldness seemed to have decreased, and the warmth of that moment was slightly prolonged.

Although it was only a small difference, Wu Xin was sure that he felt the change, and he didn't realize that Cassano's face was even worse.

Early the next morning, the two of them walked out of the castle in the first group after the drawbridge had just been lowered.

After a while, the two of them were in Sherlock's town.

Before they even entered the town, they heard an unusual commotion.

On the streets of the town, thousands of people gathered at this time, you must know that the town has a total population of two or three thousand, it can be said that every family has come, and some of the farmers from the surrounding villages also came early in the morning.

Wu Xin and Cassano glanced at each other, both a little strange, why didn't such a level of public gathering attract the intervention of the Knights Hospitaller?

None of these inhabitants were Europeans, culturally and ethnically closer to the inhabitants of the southern shores of the Mediterranean, and the Knights Hospitaller were wary of possible popular revolts.

From a distance, they saw a man who seemed to be hanging from a wooden shelf at the intersection of the town's main road, and then a man in armor and helmet was whipping the hapless man with a whip.

Walking closer, Wu Xin heard clearly, and the crowd gathered together and shouted loudly: "Pump him, smoke him!" ”

When he saw it, the person who was hanging was Sherlock!

This figure, who struck Wu Xin as mysterious and possessive, was now hung like a pig from a high wooden pole, swaying from side to side with d'Artagnan's whip.

He had been beaten to the ground, dressed in expensive silk, and now it had become a tattered strip, revealing the fat flesh of the white flowers inside.

D'Artagnan whipped Sherlock and lowered his whip, then pressed his hands down and shouted to the crowd when it had quieted down.

"Folks, as you all know, there has been a lot of trouble in the town lately, with people losing several chickens, and there are always strange noises in people's pigsties, and you must be all worried about what evil is hiding in the dark. Now, I want to tell you that this wicked and depraved Sherlock is the origin of all the strange things that have happened lately. ”

"Why would anyone take the initiative to collect feces from the streets?!"

"Why would anyone build a toilet that collects feces for free?!"

"There is only one answer, the believers of the Mother of Plagues have infiltrated the island of Malta! They want to poison our health with feces! Especially to poison our children! ”

D'Artagnan's roar sent the whole town into a panic, and there were not only the townspeople here, but also the villagers of several nearby villages, all of whom had been brought in early in the morning by the village and the villagers.

Most of the villagers didn't know Sherlock, and they thought that a traitor or spy had been caught beating a fat man by a knight of the Knights Hospitaller.

This kind of monkey play has been used in the past, but I didn't expect to hear such terrible news in the end.

And the townspeople, at least the male townspeople, have a good opinion of Sherlock, who provides them with cheap and high-quality entertainment, and also provides a lot of employment opportunities.

But the townspeople, who had some regret about Sherlock's bad luck, were completely frightened when they heard d'Artagnan's words.

"What?! Mother of Plagues?! ”

"God forbid, God forbid!"

The crowd was thrown into chaos, and it took d'Artagnan, with the help of the mayor, several minutes to stabilize the crowd.

"Don't be afraid, thanks to Chief Prosecutor Siegel's insight and His Excellency the Mayor of the Town, he has been vigilant and vigilant, and has successfully cracked the evil organization of these evildoers before their conspiracy succeeds!"

Attorney General Siegel waved his hand and smiled at the crowd.

He didn't sleep all night last night, and he was busy all night, but now he is in good spirits.

"This fat pig is a spy of the evil gods?! Sure enough, I already knew that he harbored evil intentions, who would be so kind to clean up the dung heap on the street, and say that on the street will spread the plague, all ridiculous nonsense, my grandfather's grandfather on that dung heap, and he has never had any plague. ”

"I said a long time ago that he is not a good thing, he let a depraved woman tempt my husband, and he actually poisoned our children with feces and urine!"

"Oh my God, no wonder my child keeps fighting, refuses to go to the convent to study, it's all his fault, my child, what a smart boy I am, I killed you, I killed you!"

The crowd was raging, thanks to the fact that Kevent was maintaining order with several knights and apprentices from the French group, otherwise the enraged crowd would have to eat Sherlock raw.

You can't let Sherlock be finished so soon.

"Here you go, your favorite poop."

"Don't worry, there's more to hell."

Even so, a few wives and mothers who were extremely excited threw all sorts of garbage and filth in Sherlock's face.

D'Artagnan stared at the stench, grabbed Sherlock's hair and asked him, "Shylock, do you plead guilty!" ”

D'Artagnan knew that Sherlock could not answer, and in fact Sherlock was unable to speak at all now, and could only float back and forth on the wooden shelf.

He'd asked this question more than a hundred times since he caught this Sherlock last night.

Sherlock's confession was important to their plan, not only to ensure that things didn't go back and forth, but also to involve the people they wanted to implicate.

Originally, it seemed to them that this fat Venetian merchant would definitely let him bite whoever he wanted for his own life.

But they didn't expect Sherlock to be knocked down by a sudden blow, but they still refused to bite people, seeing that it was already dawn, their plan had to be implemented quickly to avoid Cassano's counterattack, after all, he was the captain of the garrison and had his own minions.

And judging from the evidence they know alone, Sherlock and Wu Xin are not very close, let alone Cassano.

But Cassano is again their main target.

"Hmph, the evidence is ironclad, no matter how hard you are, it's useless." D'Artagnan turned his head to look behind him, and Madame Meredi, who had been standing on the high platform, nodded to him.

He really admired Mrs. Meredi so much, and took advantage of the situation to plan a big plan with Sherlock as a breakthrough.

And she has a plan to deal with any accidents.

"It was her, Meredi." Cassano, who was hiding in the crowd, recognized the woman.

"Meredi?" Wu Xin felt as if he had heard the name, and he remembered it. "Siegel's mistress, Keventer's mother? So young? ”

"Don't underestimate this Meredi.........." Cassano wanted to say something, but he suddenly saw something. Look, isn't that the cicada you mentioned last night? ”

"That's her, under the pseudonym Bultha." Wu Xin nodded.

Now Bursha's appearance was completely different from the dangerous face that Wu Xin had seen, she looked pitiful, sobbing and walked to the side of Sherlock who was hanging.

'Hmph, you have a hard mouth, your little lover is frightened by Lao Tzu. D'Artagnan was confident that he had enough capital to break Shylock, and he leaned into the ear of his little lover, who was crying, and said, "Don't be afraid, you can testify against those people, and I will keep you safe." ”

Of course, being safe means not having to be drowned, and there is no escape from serving d'Artagnan and Cavent.

"Folks, please forgive me...... I did fall for the money....... But I never wanted to harm everyone....I really didn't expect him to be a believer in the Mother of Plagues........."

Bultha did receive a large sum of money from Sherlock, and has been openly operating in the town as Sherlock's lover, and this relationship has greatly facilitated her and Sherlock's secret activities.

She is now jumping out of the lead, and it is extremely effective for Sherlock's conviction.

"Don't cry, Bultha, we all believe in you."

"Master Knight, Bulsha is just being deceived, don't wronged good people."

The bachelors of the town come out to exonerate Bursha and then put the blame on Sherlock.

Sherlock, who had been quietly beaten with his head down just now, finally changed a little after hearing Bursha's words.

He raised his head and stared at the woman who had pitted him with swollen eyes, the feces blurring his vision, but he could still cast a hateful and doubtful gaze on his parishioners.

He knew he had been tricked by Bursa last night, but until her performance, he always had a glimmer of hope, hoping that something had gone wrong.

Why did Bulsha, who had always worked happily together, frame him, and even if he wanted to frame him, why did he choose this time when it was not yet hot?

Of course, he couldn't guess that Bursha had already exposed her undercover identity in the world of reincarnation, and that Delia had become a mortal threat to her.

Of course, Bulsha would not mind Shylock's gaze, in fact, this gaze excites her, and a good actor can always have a tasteful audience.

"From the moment he started building the pipes to transport the dung, I thought there was something wrong with her, and then he started instructing me to throw some strange things into the dung pit, and I felt that I couldn't do anything for the tiger, so I quietly hid some of them, and then I went and handed them over to the honorable Knight Kevint."

After Bulsha finished speaking, Keventer bowed to the crowd with vigour, his father had no room to rise, but cracking a criminal organization of the Mother of Plagues would be useful for his career.

With this merit, he is enough to replace Cassano, who is about to be finished, as the captain of the garrison.

"Look, these tubes are the potions that Sherlock made Bulsha throw into the!" Keventer held up the test tube in his hand and introduced it in a matter-of-fact manner. "This blue one will enhance the toxicity of feces.......... this white one will make us not smell the smell of feces.......... this red ................"

After showing off the various juices that can "upgrade" the poison, Kevent took out a small puppet with a strange shape: "Look, everyone, they not only added those venoms to the dung pit, but also threw these voodoo dolls into it............"

The anger of the crowd rose to its peak, and several rushed in front of Sherlock despite the obstacles, and one even bit off a piece of flesh from his face.

Then he further interrogated Bursa: "Are there any other companions of this believer of the Mother of the Plague of Sin?" ”

Keventer's words made the mayor of the town and several wealthy people in the town palpitate for a while, Sherlock's plan was once strongly supported by them, after all, Sherlock is step-by-step, and the plan to promote fertilizer does not seem to be risky, of course, Sherlock's various benefits are absolutely in place.

Of course, no matter how much Sherlock gave him, it could not compare to the oppression of the power of Attorney General Siegel, and they changed their positions one after another, and this public trial was organized overnight with their active cooperation.

Hearing Kevent's question, they were only the knights of the French group and took the opportunity to extort their property, and they were all panicked.

Fortunately, they are not the target this time, at least not the main one.

After Keventer's question, Bursa then began to point out the man who was hiding behind the heinous Shylock: "I have not met any of my comrades, except a knight named Cassano and an apprentice named Cesare, with whom he seems to have frequent contacts. ”

"What?! Casarno Knights, Cesare Trainee?! D'Artagnan let out a "shocked" roar. "Don't talk nonsense, these two are my good friends, both respected knights and apprentices, if you dare to say anything, I will throw you into the Mediterranean with my own hands!"

"Woo woo woo.......... "As a tavern hostess, of course Bulsha was going to cry at this time." How dare I frame the honorable knights and midshipmen......... Woowoo woo ............"

"What are you yelling at, is Bulsha talking nonsense? Are you going to shield that Cassano and Cesare? ”

"Knights and officers protect each other, they bully us natives together!"

When the bachelors saw Attorney Siegel's attitude, they spoke up.

"Okay, don't worry, everyone." At this time, Kevent spoke again. "Please believe that we of the Knights Hospitaller will never abandon the public for personal gain, that we are the most noble organization, and will not allow such sinful and depraved people to be mixed among us. I'll take Bultha back and confront him face to face, and I won't let go of any bad guy! ”

"This young man is really good!"

"Iron Mask Selfless!"

The crowd cheered again, and although the Order was not very dependent on the hearts of the people of Malta, the love of the people was always a strong factor.

For the sake of Kevant's career, his parents really took great pains.

"Let's solve the problems in the castle, you take the servants to guard this Venetian merchant, and then deal with the rest of the matter." Attorney General Siegel carried the dangerous work himself, leaving the simple and oily things to his son. "You don't care about Sherlock's business in town, it's compensation for the Spanish team, things can't be done too much. Of course, we can't let go of the other benefits, you summon the mayors and merchants who have supported Sherlock one by one, and get them to shed some blood. ”

Meredi nodded to d'Artagnan at this point, motioning for him to carry out his next plan.

After D'Artagnan received the order, he immediately shouted: "Folks, you can also go to the castle together to see if our knights are the most powerful shield of His Majesty, and see if we will protect each other!" ”