"Didn't your family come to ransom you?" Stannis still had a glimmer of hope, because no matter how much he owed taxes, as long as he paid them off, he would always be written off, right?

"How can it be so easy!" the old man next door sighed, this grievance really made the hearers sad and the seeers wept," According to the laws of the Empire, the arrears of taxes are doubled by one month late, and then increased in turn, and because my son was two months late, the tax rose to a prohibitive number, and my barren territory struggled to call the normal tax every year, and there was no excess to redeem me, and in this way, after all these years, my title passed to my son, and my son passed to my grandson, and I have been kept here. ”

After the old man finished speaking, Stannis was already choked up, since the last time he drove the tax collector away, he was in arrears for a month, that is, 300 gold coins doubled to 600, and as far as he knew, the treasury was empty, and there was absolutely no money left to redeem him.

Do you want to be locked up in this little dark house for the rest of your life? Stannis didn't expect that he was already miserable enough, but he didn't expect that he was far from bottoming out.

"There's no one else in your house, are you?" said the old man again.

"No ......" at this time, Stannis's brain was already blank.

"It's good if you don't, lest there is always hope in your heart that they will redeem you, and you can live a long time by dying this heart as soon as possible. ”

He still lives a long time, and instead of being locked up in this little dark room, Stannis wants to kill himself now! But he still has hope that his three men will not abandon him so ruthlessly...... Maybe......

I don't know how long it took, but the door to the small black room was opened, and a soldier walked in from the outside.

Stannis covered his eyes with his hands, and it took him a moment to adjust to the sunlight shining in, and he realized that it was the lieutenant of the Imperial Army who had come to arrest him not long ago.

"Let's go!" Lieutenant Vladdy ordered Stannis to stand up.

The latter swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his legs trembling, "Go...... Walk to ...... Where to go?"

"Hit the Road ......"

The voice of the old man next door faintly penetrated the wall panel and reached his ears.

Tears of Stannis were about to flow, he didn't expect the end of the tax arrears to be so serious.

"Hurry up, I want to see you, sir!" the lieutenant frowned impatiently.

Stannis had no choice but to shuffle his feet and huff out of the small dark room, only then did he realize that he was in a huge military camp.

Hundreds of white tents lined up in the square in front of them, with teams patrolling back and forth from time to time, and Stannis estimated that there were at least a thousand troops stationed here.

Unlike the various banner lords and ragtag armies dressed like rabble that appeared at the last time they met at Sunset Pass, the army here showed the bearing of a regular army, with two-headed condor banners fluttering all around the barracks, and the soldiers inside were also very uniformly armoured, all of which were fine half-body armor and sharp swords and spears.

Stannis walked down the stairs and looked back at the place where he had been detained, and found that it was a row of wooden stilt buildings, each cubicle was divided like a pigeon's cage, and looked more like a sauna cubicle.

Soon, he was taken to the largest building in a barracks, a small villa that had been reinforced.

They went up to the third floor and stopped in front of the central hall, where Lieutenant Vladdy knocked twice and opened the door and walked in.

Immediately after that, Stannis found himself in a chically decorated room, very intricately furnished, and looked a little ...... Fat powder gas?

But the huge room is empty at this time, so it can't be that the execution is going to be carried out here, right?

"Excuse me......" Stannis was about to ask, but the lieutenant glared at him viciously, and he immediately knew each other and immediately shut his mouth obediently.

"Wait here!" Lieutenant Vladdy said rudely, leaving him alone.

Soon, he was the only one left in the room.

At first, Stannis was able to stand still, but no one showed up for a long time.

He began to turn his head, surveying the room to see if he could pry open the window by the wall and jump to escape.

However, this is the third floor, and even if you can jump, you will be thrown half to death, so Stannis still gives up the victory escape.

Still no one showed up.

He began to pace around the room as if no one was around, trying to find a secret passage, but the simple room didn't seem to hide a complicated secret door.

When he was sweating profusely in a hurry, he suddenly heard the sound of someone singing through the wall, accompanied by the sound of water dripping down, like ...... Like someone taking a shower?

Only then did Stannis realize that the room was connected to a room in addition to the door, and it seemed that someone was in it.

Although he was a little scared, he knocked on the door to see if the people inside could find out if he could help himself escape, who was the protagonist, if he had a conscience.

Before he could speak, it was the bather who spoke first.

"Who is it?"

Stannis didn't reply, for he clearly heard it as a woman's voice.