278. Disappear
Nowadays, although there are temples of Lady Liberty all over the Grimm Empire, since the outbreak of the Plane War, the temple has obeyed the oracle descended by the Lady of Liberty, and does not interfere in the Plane War of the Grimm Empire, and all battle priests and priests must stay in the temple.
The Empire has begun to have all kinds of doubts about the Lady of Liberty, many people even think that they are abandoned by the Lady of Liberty, and some radical lords think that since the Lady of Liberty cannot provide protection to the people of the Grimm Empire, then the many temples set up by the Grimm Empire should be pushed to drive out the priests and battle priests who hide in the temples as shrunken turtles from the Grimm Empire.
The Green Empire is a land of freedom of faith. His Majesty Angibald did not issue a decree prohibiting the messengers of other gods from spreading their teachings in the Grimm Empire, nor did he contradict other gods from building temples in the Grimm Empire, and it was naturally the high priests of the Freedom Temple who really excluded other temples, and they and their cruel and extreme methods suppressed the believers of other gods.
Although this kind of thing has not been recorded in history, it can be seen from the fact that there are no other temples on the current power map of the Grimm Empire, and it can be seen that the methods of the Freedom Temple are very clever and effective.
If there is something else, Surdak may look for another solution.
But the enemy he had to face was the even darker Dark Magic Order, which Surdak felt was nothing to fear.
He decided to write a letter to Antonio in the province of Ivorson first, mainly because he wanted to learn more about the Dark Arts Retreat.
Selena saw that Surdak did not have any disgust, disgust, or fear because she was a believer in the dark goddess Celine, and the tension in her heart was slightly relieved.
Thinking of the timid husband, that is, Signa's father, I heard that I did not believe in the goddess of liberty, but the unknown goddess of darkness Celine, I was so frightened that I didn't dare to go out of the house for half a month, and since then I have been worried all day long, and I don't even get close to Selena anymore, the whole person is in a trance every day, and when the wolf hunting group went out hunting in Vol Village, he unfortunately died under the claws of the sand wolf.
Some of the original ominous rumors about Selena probably came from this man's mouth.
Selena stood behind Surdak and watched Surdak quietly, he was lying on the wooden table to write a letter to the magician Antonio, the concentration made Selena's heart flow a warm current, her hand on Surdak's thick and strong shoulder, pressed tightly from the back, her hands around his chest, let the pointed chin rest on his shoulder.
Her heart was beating wildly, her eyes were closed, she just wanted to enjoy this long-lost silence quietly at this moment.
A pair of floppy rabbits were attached to Surdak's back, and he stopped the quill pen in his hand and rubbed his hand against her warm and greasy cheek, and the atmosphere in the room became a little charming......
"Mom, I'm hungry!" The little girl's sweet and glutinous voice sounded at the door, and I don't know when Xigna actually stood at the door, looking curiously into the house, her big watery eyes looked pitiful, and asked into the house, "When are we going to have lunch?" ”
Selena hurriedly stepped away from Surdak's back, tugged at the folds of her linen dress with both hands, and hurriedly pulled out a piece of charred cassava from the ashes of the fireplace, crouched in front of Signa, and quickly peeled off the charred hard shell of cassava, revealing the sweet pulp of caramel flowing from it.
Signa drooled, a sweet smile suddenly appeared on her little face, she took the cassava that was still a little hot, and glanced at Surdak with a crooked brain, before running outside the yard with a smoke.
Surdak came out of the house and said to Selena, "I'll go to Uncle Brett to discuss the cistern, and you don't have to be afraid of the robbers, it's all about me." ”
Selena nodded softly at Surdak.
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Word soon spread among the surrounding villages that the village was going to build a large cistern upstream of the village.
The main reason why this incident went viral in the surrounding villages was that the chief of Bright recruited twenty bricklayers and one hundred laborers from other villages.
The village chief of Bright came out to make a guarantee that the bricklayer would be paid 70 copper plates a day, and two meals a day would be provided free of charge, and the coolies would be paid 50 copper plates a day, and two meals would also be provided free of charge.
The period around the harvest festival is the season of wheat harvesting, and even the villagers of the sulfur mine in Pubaoshan have to rush back to participate in the autumn harvest, even if they pay double the wages during this time, no one in the surrounding villages will be willing to put down their farm work and come to Wo Village to build a reservoir, so the old village chief set the start date for the construction of the reservoir after the harvest festival.
According to the practice of previous years, for a period of time after the autumn harvest, most of the villagers in the nearby villages outside the mountain pass will leave the village to find a job outside, until the first snow falls before returning to the village one after another, and most of the wages earned back will be used to buy some winter storage materials, almost every winter is like this, and the villagers are also accustomed to it.
But this autumn, the news of the construction of a cistern in the village of Wall made several surrounding villages boil at once, and if those who did not have to leave their homes could find a job and earn a sum of money to support their families before the winter came, then who would want to go out of this mountain and run to the unfamiliar city of Hailanza to find work.
All of a sudden, many people who were familiar with the old village chief or unfamiliar with them ran to Vol Village to take over the job.
The old village chief didn't expect that he had just spread the news of the construction of the reservoir, and the people who came to apply for the job just three days later almost broke the door of the old village chief's house, and now what made the old village chief a little annoyed was not that he couldn't recruit people, but that there were too many people who came to apply, so that it was difficult for him to make a choice.
Selena became a full-time clerk next to the old village chief during this time, not only to record the sulfur mines that were transported back from outside, but also to register the villagers from other villages who rushed to apply, and as the autumn harvest began one after another, the grain yard in the village was full of wheat stacks.
This year is different from the past, the old village chief is much busier than in previous years, responsible for more things, some things will inevitably turn around and forget, in order to avoid unnecessary disputes, so the time of each family to harvest wheat is also recorded by Selena on a piece of parchment.
Surdak also took the opportunity to teach Selena how to use tables to keep records and statistics, and he filled the parchment with a grid and recorded the date each household used the grain field, and then these things seemed to be clear at a glance.
As for Selena's affairs, it was not a problem at all for the old village chief, who submitted a report of disappearance to the clerk in charge of the registered population in the city of Highlandsa, and Selena disappeared from the census book.
And the old village chief also issued a notice to the whole village door to door that night, and whoever dared to disclose Selena's news to outsiders would let him roll up his luggage and get out of Vol Village. If someone asks about Selena's news, they will all say, 'A few days ago, a group of robbers came to the village, and not only robbed a dozen yellow sheep in the village, but also captured Selena. ’
As for the clerk in charge of the population statistics in the northern suburbs of the city of Hylanza, he also rushed to the village of Wall very dutifully before the harvest festival, and investigated the case of the disappearance, although he felt that there was still some heat in the fireplace of the stone house, but when the old village chief sent him out of the village, he let him move a fat yellow sheep.
So his report clearly stated: After inquiry and verification, Selena, a villager in Vol Village, was abducted by the bandit group, and the evidence is conclusive, and the guard group is requested to follow up on this matter......