Chapter 74: Poor Little Tom
Su Fei looked at the boy who was standing in the middle of the room with his head down, or rather, the little boy, who was pinching the corners of his clothes with both hands, looking very nervous. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"What are you going to do with this kid?" asked Su Fei.
"He has already said everything that should be said, and he is just being used by Haonan, not to mention that he is illiterate, even if he is holding advertising paper, he doesn't know what is written on it. Andy said, "I'll let him go later." ”
"No!" Andy had just finished speaking, when the little boy suddenly raised his head and said in a loud voice, "Lord Bishop, please, please arrest me!"
"It is not you who blaspheme the Goddess of Light, so you are not guilty. Andy said.
"But...... But......" said the little boy, "I have posted these things!"
"I told you, you have not broken the laws of the kingdom, nor have you broken the rules of the temple, so we cannot punish you, so you should be careful in the future, and do not be taken advantage of. A priest next to him also said.
"I have blasphemed the Goddess of Light!" the boy hesitated, then opened his mouth and shouted, "Light, Goddess of Light, is an ugly bastard!"
"Do you know what you're talking about!" the priest closest to him suddenly became angry and tugged at his collar, "This is in the temple!
To be honest, everyone present was taken aback by the boy's words, and the priests bowed down to the miniature statue of the goddess of light in the room and prayed silently.
"Lord...... Lord Bishop...... Now, can you get me in now?" said the boy, shuddering, breaking free from the priest's hand.
"Lord Bishop, it is a felony to insult the goddess in the temple! I suggest that he be sent to the Inquisition!" said to Andy.
"Wait!" Su Fei had been standing beside him, and seeing this situation, he hurriedly walked over, and did not pay attention to the priests first, but came to the little boy's side, half-squatted down, and looked at him at eye level and said, "Why do you want to go to the cell?"
"I ......" The boy was also a little overwhelmed by this question, and Su Fei could see that a trace of tears oozed from the corner of his eye.
"I don't want to beg outside anymore...... I...... I've heard that even in the cells of the Inquisition, there is food to eat every day...... So...... I ......," the boy said, slurring.
"Look over here. Su Fei pulled the boy to the statue of light in the house, pointed to the statue of light, and said to him, "The goddess of light is everywhere, and if you lie or deliberately hide something, the goddess of light will send down divine punishment." ”
"God punishes ......" The boy gritted his teeth, and he bowed his head silently.
A priest saw Su Fei holding the boy's shoulder and whispering something on the side, and asked incomprehensibly, "Mr. Su Fei, what are you doing?"
Su Fei looked back at the priest, silently disdainful in his heart, and then said, "I'm asking him to tell the truth." ”
"Tell me, are you still hiding something?" said Su Fei, "There is a lot of food abandoned by restaurants in the commercial area every day, and people who go to Jinlong Street will not be stingy, even if you keep begging, you will not go hungry, and it is summer, don't tell me that you are afraid of freezing to death if you sleep outside." ”
"I ...... I ......" The boy raised his head slightly, looked at Su Fei, and wanted to say something, but he sat down and cried, which even made Su Fei wonder if he was too rough just now.
Sophie asked all the priests in the room to go out, and only Andy and him stayed here, until the boy calmed down, and then Sophie continued to ask him questions: "Now, you can talk about it." ”
"But you have to promise not to say it!" said the boy, whose last line of defense had finally been broken, as he sat down on the ground in disappointment.
"Of course, we will keep it secret for you. Su Fei promised.
The boy began his story, and it was not until he finished listening that Sophie realized that the boy was much more pitiful than the average little beggar.
The boy's name is Tom, which is a very common name, he actually has parents, his father is a mercenary, although his father is a dangerous profession such as a mercenary, but the original family is quite happy, at least as a mercenary, his father earns a lot of money.
However, after only one mission, his father never returned, and after learning of his father's exact death, Tom's mother ran away with a merchant, leaving the boy alone and placed in the house of a relative in a village outside the city.
You know, it's already very good for an ordinary peasant family to be able to support their own family, and who wants to raise a child who is not much related to them in vain? What's more, this child has obviously been abandoned by his mother.
As a result, the family's attitude towards Tom became worse and worse day by day, instructing Tom, who was not yet ten years old at the time, to do all kinds of farm work, and if there was any disagreement, they would punch and kick him, day after day, Tom could not stand the family's abuse of him, so he ran into King's Landing alone, came to the business district and began his begging career.
In the beginning, he was able to receive alms from some well-wishers, holding a begging copper plate, and being able to buy a piece of black bread every day to barely fill his stomach.
However, this is not a long time, after all, it is the Golden Dragon Street in King's Landing, which is the most prosperous place in the whole King's Landing, and the dense flow of people will naturally attract more beggars, how can little Tom, who is not yet ten years old, compete with those old beggars for territory? So, Tom was driven away again.
Later, he met another big brother by chance, and the big brother didn't know what he liked about him, so he took him into a little brother at that time, and he was full of black bread every day, and Tom even thought at that time that this was a heavenly life.
After the age of ten, the eldest brother who adopted him at that time began to ask little Tom to do some things one after another, sometimes to find a coin or two from a rich man, sometimes to go to a certain store to secretly take something out, in short, as far as little Tom knew, he also knew that these were not quite the right behavior, but in order to have a bite of black bread to eat, Tom has been doing these things under the big brother's hands.
A few days earlier, the big brother had found him again, and this time instead of asking him to do something sneaky, he had given him a stack of paper with words written on it and told him to post it everywhere, and Tom certainly did not refuse, and from that afternoon onwards he had been wandering around the entire business district, pasting the advertising paper everywhere.
However, Tom never expected that he would be found by the people of the temple, although he didn't even know a word, but he also knew the existence of the temple, and also knew the supreme goddess of light, at that time he was very frightened, under the priest's questioning, he suddenly slipped his mouth and told the story of his eldest brother.
When he realized that he had slipped out, Tom was in despair.
"Why are you so afraid of Haonan? That's what you said, big brother. Su Fei asked.
"Brother Haonan...... I've seen him lock up a disobedient brother in his room for a week, and I ...... I watched his men drag out the body of his brother...... He told me that if I told him about him, it would be ......."
The fear in the boy's eyes was anything but actual, and Sophie could feel Tom's near-hopelessness now.