It was a beautiful autumn day, and it was also a time when the butcher's business was booming - the pigs and sheep in the country were at their fattest and had to be slaughtered before the cold winter came, so that they could save winter fodder, and the people of the city were preparing for the upcoming festival, curing meats and sausages, and the exotic merchants who lived in Turnest were stocking up on dishes for the New Year's feast - it was the boom in buying and selling, and Papa Oren was so busy that he didn't even have time to pray! Of course, he is not a person who can think of prayer time in his leisure moments, but now he has more reason to soak in the shop and the tavern next door than in the church that is nearby!

His son, young Shep, was now entrusted with all kinds of meat, fat, and water blessings that the butcher's father's house never lacked, and he was round and chubby, with white skin and red flesh, like a little piglet, and only two large watery eyes and long curly eyelashes could vaguely discern the beauty inherited from his mother, and unlike his mother, these eyes always looked adoringly at his father's butcher's knife and meat case, rather than at holy books, rosaries, altars, and icons.

"My son is a natural butcher! If you're so young, you'll look at the shop! "Whenever Daddy had a prosperous business and had two more drinks in the tavern next door, he always boasted about his pride and preciousness to others. Others have always praised him for his good character, on his wealth, and on the face of the knife at his waist, and congratulated the heirs of the famous slaughterhouse and rebel family of Tournest.

"There is a successor!" When the drinkers clinked glasses and cheered, little Shepp also shouted, at this time. Daddy would put him on his knee and tell him to "show his hand." He touched his father's arms, neck, and chest...... Shouting "Foreleg meat, neck meat, breast meat, tenderloin...... All the best, ma'am! The price couldn't be lower! ”

The drinkers were smiling. Dad took an empty cup, poured out a little wine from his cup, and then clinked glasses with his son to celebrate, "There is a successor!" Do a roaring trade! Rich! ”

Then little Shepp struggled to pick up the cup and drank the sweet wine inside.

Unfortunately, happy times are always short-lived, and at this time, there is always an ominous shadow falling on his head, although the young Shep does not know what "ominous shadow" is, but he is already familiar with his cousin's shadow. As familiar as soon as he saw the slender shadow, he pouted and climbed down from his father's lap, and walked unhappily to his cousin with two small short legs.

"Why did you run out again?" The cousin had a face as upright and beautiful as his mother, and a pair of gray eyes stared at him sternly: "Aunt Margaret is looking for you!" Then his green form turned to the butcher father, who was desperately hiding himself behind the glass, "The time for prayer is coming soon, dear uncle. ”

When the young Shep knelt beside his mother with a bitter face and recited the prayer, he could not resist substituting the pagan king in the scriptures, or the heavenly punisher who carried out the will of the gods, in the face of his cousin. Really, he couldn't imagine a more odious talent than his cousin! Every time my cousin was able to find out exactly where he had run away, the cakes he had hidden, and the vegetables he had secretly thrown away—and then he had the misfortune to have such a model student (who was not a member of the Discipline Committee in those days) and his cousin's little Shepp had to repent and pray for his every mistake, and listen to his mother's words: "Learn more from your cousin, alas! When will you be as good as him? ”

Ahh He shouldn't be like his cousin!

Even if the other party is more obedient, sensible, pious, and beautiful than him...... Even taller than him!

"Shep." When his cousin called him, he always turned his head away in disgust, not wanting to see the "living person" who was praised and loved by his mother. Other people's excellent children are disgusting, and their own excellent children are even more disgusting. He eats and sleeps with his cousin, which means. He was constantly compared to his cousin, and then his head and body were stiffened again.

Sometimes, he also wonders, is his cousin still human? How could he stand this stiff bondage?

So, after he went to sleep, he secretly touched his cousin's back, trying to determine if there were eyes or wings there, but what he touched was only a skeleton, and he sent it to Daddy's butcher's shop, and Daddy would definitely not buy it!

"Ahh Mom, Mom, I'll be obedient! I beg you, don't fight! Please! I'll be fine......"

Probably he touched something, so that his cousin had a nightmare, and in the dream he let out a terrible scream, so frightened that little Shepp immediately shrunk into a ball, and didn't fall asleep all night, and the next day he was like a black and white piglet with a pair of panda eyes and secretly looked at his cousin, who looked the same as usual, and sat like a bell like a clock, thinking that it was probably his own dream, of course Little Shep had seen children who were abused by domestic violence, but they were all naughty bags, such as Little Shep - sometimes he was too naughty, and he would be hit twice on his buttocks, But it was all gentle, and he forgot about it in less than five minutes!

So it must have been a dream, my cousin is so sensible and so cute, how could the deceased Aunt Maya be willing to beat her cousin? He's a model student, and he's not a naughty bag! The scars on his back that have accumulated over the years are probably the result of falling or hitting him from somewhere because of his naughtiness, just like little Shep!

"Shep," his cousin called to him, and he tried to turn his head away, but was caught off guard by a strong hug, "Shep." ”

Let go of me! I'm going to suffocate! It's breathless!

"Shep—I'm leaving, going far, far away, probably not coming back."

Oh hahahaha, so happy! The hateful "other people's children" are leaving! I'm going to cheer three times! Oh no, you still don't let go of what I'm doing! Don't say cheers, I'm going to be strangled to death by you!

"Shep, ah, I'...... I," my cousin's voice trembled rarely, and he lowered his head and kissed him on the forehead, a warm liquid running down his cheek, "love you, goodbye, and may the gods bless you." ”

Though they said goodbye, they still hugged him for a long time, like a drowning man grasping at the only plank, and like a dying man trying to grasp the end of his life, until Margaret led the Jeffrey monk out of the Jeffrey family's grand shingle-covered ancestral house, and they were cherishing and saying goodbye, and little Shep had jumped to his paradise, his father's pork shop and tavern, and he was so happy, as happy as every child who had not eaten the sufferings of this world, had not experienced parting, So carefree, so innocent, so ...... Cruel.

The cruelty of this child's ignorance, he did not finally understand until many years later, after all the suffering of this world, and the parting that he could experience—and then it added to him endless troubles and pains.

"Woo-" He hugged his last blood relative in the world tightly, kissed the other party's already cold lips, and burst into tears, unable to believe that the other party had left him like this, to a far, far away place, and would not come back, "I'm here!" Open your eyes and take a look! It's all in the past! Passed! Everything will be fine! Trust me, open your eyes and take a look! I love you, how could you leave me like this! ”

Indeed, no matter how deliberately his cousin tried to harm him, tried to murder him, and intervened in the disputes of the Neustrian court, he finally dealt with him by throwing him in prison, and not doing anything from poisoning him to stabbing him in the face, as he did with his other enemies, because he knew that the former bishop of Tournest had harmed him for the sake of money; The former Archbishop of Neustria harmed him, and it was Tuquan; The clown in Turkulani is a figure ...... Only his blood relatives were born out of love—but this terrible love, led astray by the extreme doctrine of the undead and not of the living, came in the end to destroy not only the kingdom, but himself!

"Well...... I mean, this is a new product, sugar gourd, although the color is not very good-looking, but it is delicious, can you try one? The sudden voice interrupted his sad memories and made him raise his head unhappily, for something new to eat to disturb him!

"Don't eat it!" The archbishop turned his head and lost his temper, because of the unsatisfactory reality and the death of his relatives, and began to question his own life, "How could I be like this with you!" What about the demon of @#%~@——? ”

"Uh...... It's really delicious, so you can try it. ”

"Go away!" Actually, what he wanted to say was to get out of the way.

The Great Demon King rolled to the corner of the wall in frustration and squatted for a while, then said, "En...... I guess you and I just don't think anyone will ever have to do something like you again—"

"Humph!" Having said this, he seemed to accept the devil's words, took the sugar gourd, and ate it with a chirp. (To be continued.) )

PS: I saw that some people were arguing about who had the highest appearance in this article, in fact, according to the setting, the highest male appearance is the cousin, because in the setting he inherited the excellent genes of both parents (his priest father is not good-looking, and he can't steal his mother, and his mother's unmarried pregnancy will kill her cheap husband...... But probably because he does too many bad things in the text, and it's not like the little bishop who is fed and taken care of, and the image is a little miserable (but if it falls below the horizontal line, it won't give people a sense of light and darkness), so no reader thinks of this layer, so I wrote this diplomacy for a while