Chapter Seventy-Nine: Fermentation
Beres didn't expect it, and neither did Sleta.
I thought that the fermentation of the ballad incident would take a long time, because the spread of the ballad needed time to slowly promote.
However, in just two days, the children of the entire capital learned this ballad.
As soon as Beres went out in the morning, and had not gone far from the courtyard, she heard the common children living in the northern city singing this ballad, and even the children's parents did not stop them too much.
Excited, Beres hurried home and told Sreta about it.
Sleta had just woken up in a daze, and after being woken up, she was about to verbally teach the always smuggling Bereth, but after hearing what Beres said, she was also stunned.
Although Sleta was very refreshed in her heart, things were going too strangely, and she hurriedly asked Beres to go out again to find out how things were going.
However, before Berex went out, the maids who had returned from going out had already brought back news, and it was obviously not difficult to inquire about it.
It turned out that the ballad would not have developed so quickly, but there was no emergency.
According to the news brought back by the maids, the ceremonial officer was very angry when he heard the ballad, and then sent his retinue and guards to search the various towns to find out who the source of the ballad was.
Then there was a drunkard who was caught by a noble entourage while he was teaching children's songs.
Of course, the entourage was angry for the master, and directly slapped the drunkard into confusion.
After a few scoops of cold water poured on his face, the drunkard was able to come back to his senses, and after hearing the accusations and convictions of his entourage, he was not afraid of death, and he was entangled with the nobleman's entourage.
Maybe it was because of the alcohol, or maybe it was because of something else, but the drunkard was very brave at the time, shouting the ballad he taught the children while fighting.
"The ceremonial officer is a man with no interest!"
Under the drunkard's roar, he was killed by the guards of the nobles' retinue for resisting.
The retinue thought that the source of the song was this drunkard civilian, especially the angry resistance in front of him, which also made the entourage think that there was a private enmity between this commoner and the ceremonial officer, so he thought that the matter had been resolved, and then went home.
However, the death of the drunkard suddenly made the ballad incident begin to ferment.
Of course, Beres would not only look for one drunkard to do things, and the drunkards in other cities were afraid at first when they heard about the drunkard's death, fearing that the disaster would find their heads.
But after waiting for a while, I found that the nobles had stopped, and they did not follow up on the matter.
The ballad incident seems to have subsided, but the waves after fermentation are unexpected.
The more the other drunkards thought about it, the more angry they became, although they were afraid of death, but since the nobles didn't continue to investigate, then they also continued to do things for Bereth, anyway, they all received money, and the spirit of the contract still had to be there!
And the drunkard's death was different in the eyes of the other civilians, who also heard the children's song and knew that it was a slander against the ceremonial officer.
At first, they told the children to stop singing the song for fear of getting into trouble.
However, the death of the drunkard made it impossible for the civilians to calm down.
No one in the kingdom of Heaney has ever been convicted and killed for a ballad.
If the drunkard is killed by the nobles because he collides with the nobles, the other commoners will not feel anything, after all, this is the 'rule'.
But this is the first time that someone has been killed because of a ballad.
After all, the ballad itself is about the story of the ceremonial officer who died in the bed of a woman in the red light district, and then was torn apart by the woman.
But the ceremonial officer of the kingdom of Heaney is still alive and well, and this ballad has obviously been spread from other places.
At least no one thought that this ballad would be deliberately written to slander the ceremonial officer.
After all, the reputation of the ceremonial officer in the capital is not good in itself, and there is no need to deliberately slander it.
Because of the drunkard's death, the commoners seem to have acquiesced to the children's songs, and no longer stopped holding the children.
Therefore, without the hindrance of their parents, this ballad spread among the children of the entire capital, and even some civilians secretly vented their anger to each other, saying that since it is a sin to sing this song, then let the ceremonial officer put the entire civilian population of the capital to death!
The sudden fermentation of the ballad incident made Sreta dizzy with joy and made the ceremonial officer dizzy.
The ceremonial officer never thought that this would happen.
Yesterday, the entourage came back with people, patting their chests and saying that the source of the song was disposed of by them.
For this, the ceremonial officer also rewarded the entourage...
I didn't expect that the ballad was no longer a simple ballad.
It's as if this ballad is condemning him.
The ceremonial officer was very angry, but his head felt a little dizzy, and he didn't know which way to go.
After the entourage learned about this, his face was also extremely bad, and he patted his chest again and said that he would take someone out to solve the matter.
The ceremonial officer asked the entourage how to solve it, and the entourage said that it would be good to kill the chickens and monkeys and solve the problems of the civilians.
When the ceremonial officer heard this, he directly kicked the entourage over.
It was because the retinue killed a drunkard that caused the whole incident to break out, and now the retinue is still saying that they are going out to kill other civilians who sing and sing ballads?
If this is in the nobles' own fiefdom, the method that the retinue says is also a good way.
But this is in the capital! It is under the eyes of the queen that these civilians are also the queen's commoners in the capital, not the commoners in his fiefdom.
Yesterday he killed an alcoholic, and the queen certainly won't clash with him over this.
But if the retinue really took a few people out to kill a few more civilians, but if the guilt is not clear, the queen's anger is not a joke...
Could it be that he wants to tell the queen that it was because those civilians sang that weird ballad that he wanted to kill all the civilians?
Not to mention, he is the court ceremonial officer of the Hehni Kingdom, and he attaches great importance to etiquette and face, and because of this, he can hold this position.
If it's because of reputation... It's not impossible for this ceremonial officer to be unable to do it.
The ceremonial officer who kicked over his entourage, sitting in his chair at this time, was really dizzy.
Sleta was so happy that if she hadn't been afraid that she would laugh too much and make others think she had done it, she would have wanted to go around the courtyard in circles to celebrate.
She is also not afraid of the real instigators of other drunkards who are caught by the nobles to inquire about this matter, because the ballad incident has fermented to this point, and it is no longer something that she and Beres can control, let alone other nobles.
Not to mention that Beres was doing it with a hood, and those drunkards were almost half drunk at the time, who could recognize who the instigator was?
Sleta secretly rejoiced, it is estimated that the ceremonial officer wanted to break her head, and she didn't know that she was the instigator behind this incident, right?
Because of her happiness, Sleta calmed down a lot, and everyone was a little more pleasing to the eye.
At noon, the guards of the Beres family got into an argument with the maid, and Sreta bumped into her.
The servants in this house secretly knew that the little master of Sleta hated being noisy the most, and when everyone thought that Sleta was going to be angry, Sleta actually smiled and forgave them.
It shows how happy Sleta is.
However, she was not long in her joy when Xenia's servant came to the courtyard and summoned her to the court again.