Chapter 53: Reversing Black and White!
The elders who can prepare to contribute the girls in the village naturally don't care about an ordinary brewing recipe, even if it is passed down from generation to generation in the village, it is far less important than pleasing a nobleman.
They nodded again and again, obviously not knowing what a good winemaking recipe meant, and Xia Zuo was not ready to take advantage of them in vain, "I won't ask for your recipe in vain, Buman, you go and get two hundred gold coins and give it to the three elders!"
"Thank you, for the reward! Thank you, thank you, for the reward!" The three elders who were old for more than three years immediately had their eyes shining, and they knelt in front of Xia Zuo and kept kowtowing in thanks, for a small village like them, two hundred gold coins was already a year's income for their entire village.
Of course, the value of this Gralang wine is far more than this amount, even two thousand gold coins or twenty thousand gold coins, Xia Zuo will not hesitate to buy it, once it can be put into large-scale production in the tribe, the income generated can definitely become one of the pillars of the tribe.
And now this transaction obviously satisfied the three elders who were immersed in the joy of two hundred gold coins and Xia Zuo, who was smiling silently.
With Buman's reluctant expression on his face, he took the gold coin, and the three elders bowed down and retreated, and those girls who were disappointed were waved away by Xia Zuo.
The banquet continued, the villagers who had been waiting for a long time, with bread, barbecue, and wine added to the messy tables, Xia Zuo raised his glass and was about to continue drinking with the mercenaries, when a noisy noise and roar came from afar.
Xia Zuo walked to the door suspiciously, and on the other side of the village, a house much taller than the others, was crowded with dense villagers, and the roars and quarrels coming from the house could be heard even on the other side of the village, in the equally noisy banquet room.
The roar sounded familiar, it should have been from Sam, who had been with them all the way, but I didn't know what could make such a simple and honest young man roar.
"Hey, stop!" Xia Zuo casually called out to a villager who came in to deliver food, and the latter was trembling and hurriedly arched to stand still.
"What's going on over there, why is it so noisy!" Natsuzo frowned and pointed to the noisy houses and crowds in the distance.
"This" The frightened villager stammered, looking around to find someone to relieve him, but the panicked crowd around him obviously would not exist such a person, "It's the civilian law court that is trying!"
Looking around to no avail, the trembling villagers finally said a complete sentence.
"Court trial?" Brown, who also walked to the door, frowned suspiciously, and then became slightly conscious, and Su Nuo, the most sober among the mercenaries, got up and walked to the house in the distance, asking the surrounding crowd about it.
Soon Su Nuo walked back, with a strange look on his face, whispering something in Brown's ear, although the voice was small, Xia Zuo still heard words like "flower crown" and "blasphemy".
Seeing Xia Zuo's curious look, Brown, who also had a strange face, walked up to Xia Zuo and whispered, "It's the red-haired girl Mira, who was accused of losing the girl's flower crown and sacrificing her body to the evil goblin in order to survive. ”
Although this kind of thing is rare, it is not uncommon for humans to make such a choice when they are on the verge of death.
"What? that's a brave girl!!" Xia Zuo scolded angrily, he had a good impression of the red-haired girl Mira who was brave in the goblin cave, how could such a girl do such a thing, maybe change to the other two, he wouldn't be surprised.
"I'm going to testify to that girl!" Xia Zuo walked out with a calm face, "This is a naked frame-up, they can't treat a brave person like this!" "Camppass respects brave people, especially those who can maintain their brave nature in a vulnerable situation, such people can be respected by the Kampas people the most, and Xia Zuo naturally inherits this view to some extent.
Mira's performance in the cave cannot be said to have won Xia Zuo's favor, but at least it has gained respect.
"No!Lord Xiazuo!You can't do this!" Brown hurriedly grabbed Xiazuo's arm, "The empire stipulates that nobles are not allowed to appear in the commoners' law**, you should know this better than me!"
Xia Zuo was subconsciously stunned, but his face did not show the slightest change, but he roared angrily, "So what? As a nobleman of the empire, can I just watch an innocent person being judged by them?"
"I'm sorry, my lord!" Brown said with a gloomy face, "The law of the empire is like this, as a nobleman, you are not allowed to appear in the law of the commoners, even if you appear, your words cannot be used as testimony, a young girl who lost her flower crown before marriage, and is also recognized as a sacrifice to an evil goblin, this kind of blasphemy, will definitely be judged by the tribe, this tradition is protected by the church, even the lords here have no right to interfere, so we are powerless against such a trial!"
"The girl's flower crown?" Xia Zuo, who didn't react for a while, was subconsciously stunned, and Buman hurriedly explained in a whisper behind him, "It's ** chastity, lord! The Catholic Church does not allow premarital sex, in the past, both unmarried adulterers will be stoned to death by the tribe, and now although it has been relaxed, the girl who loses the flower crown will still be considered a blasphemy against the tribe and lose her life." ”
Xia Zuo was only slightly stunned for a moment, but when Buman explained, he had already reacted, and said angrily, "Ridiculous, do they directly convict an innocent girl without even confirming whether this kind of thing has happened before?"
"Actually, they've already made a judgment!" Su Nuo shrugged his shoulders, "There are already women who have made judgments, but I heard that the result is very bad, confirming their accusations, maybe that girl was too forgetful in one of her affections, and has already lost her flower crown, who knows!
Xia Zuo's face became more and more ugly, the so-called girl's flower crown was just a fragile film, even if Mira had never done anything out of the ordinary, the beating and torture she received in the goblin cave was very likely to damage the fragile thing.
"Anyway, I'm going to exert some influence so that she won't be punished too harshly!" Ignoring the mercenaries' stunned obstruction, Xia Zuo angrily walked towards the farmhouse in the distance.
"Get out of the way!" A handful of Ge Fei gathered around the villagers outside to watch, and the villagers who were pushed scolded and looked back angrily, and when they found that it was Xia Zuo and their faces were not good, they immediately turned pale with fear and hurriedly retreated.
Without the obstruction of the crowd, Xia Zuo walked into the farmhouse without hindrance, with an unhappy expression on his face, and his hands were crossed on his chest, "I heard that there are people going on here?"
A flickering bonfire lit in the fire pit on the ground baked the already small and dreary room where many people had gathered.
On the first seat facing the gate, three village elders sat side by side, although they were still in their previous clothes, but they were different from the humble faces of not long ago, and their expressions were as serious as real judges.
To the left of the three Elder Zhangs sat seven or eight old men of about their age sitting side by side, and when Xia Zuo came in, they were whispering something.
On the right hand side is Sam, who has already seen him, and the burly old man who greeted Mila at the door before, who should be her father, the same sadness and helplessness of the two, the difference is that Sam's eyes still have deep anger, and from this point Xia Zuo has roughly determined his judgment.
There were several women and girls sitting behind the two, but in the flickering firelight, they couldn't really see their faces, but Xia Zuo vaguely saw the panicked appearance of the two human girls in the cave flashing in the dim firelight.
Mira knelt on the ground, her long hair cascading like a beating flame, wearing a gray coarse linen dress, supporting her body with her hands, silent.
The villagers obviously didn't expect Xia Zuo's sudden arrival, the elders with solemn expressions got up and saluted in a panic, and the panicked jury and the rest of the people in the house also stopped whispering and looked at Xia Zuo with a bad face in fear.
Of all the people present, the only one who was indifferent to Xia Zuo's arrival was Mira, who knelt silently on the ground and did not move.
"Villagers!" Xia Zuo walked up to the top and glanced at the faces proudly, "I heard that there is a trial going on here, and it just so happens that I am also one of the things that I have experienced, so I came here to testify!"
Xia Zuo's words made the already terrified villagers look at each other, this kind of thing had never happened before, and a nobleman ran to the commoner's court to testify, which was simply unheard of
And Mira, who had always been as lifeless as a sculpture, finally reacted, raised her head and glanced at Xia Zuo gratefully, with clear blood-colored handprints on her originally fair cheeks.
"My lord" An elder finally strengthened his courage and stepped forward tremblingly, "Your honorable status, don't attend a place like ours" Xia Zuo's gloomy face flickered under the firelight, and the old elder's legs were weak for a while, if it wasn't for the support of crutches, I was afraid that he would have collapsed on the ground.
In the same way that nobles were not allowed to attend plebeian courts, it was more the nobles who upheld this law and considered it a shame to step into the plebeian courts.
"It's okay, I'm just curious!" Ignoring the elder's obstruction, Xia Zuo unceremoniously sat in the middle of the head, forcibly suppressing the anger in his heart, "You go on, let me see how the civilian court is judged!"
Although he was reluctant in his heart, since Xia Zuo had already sat down, the elders did not dare to let him get up and go out even if he had ten more guts, and finally the dim eyes secretly looked at each other, and finally could only reluctantly acquiesce to Xia Zuo's actions.
Although the imperial law did not allow nobles to appear in the courtroom of the commoners, when were the nobles restricted by the law, the reason why no nobles appeared, was just that the noble nobles felt that the filthy place here would tarnish their noble status.
The elder who was upright and did not dare to sit down cleared his throat and announced, "The accused, Mira Kunis, who lost her maiden flower crown unmarried, dedicated herself to the evil goblins, and blasphemed the clan, after deliberation between this court and the jury, in order to protect the honor of the tribe of LaGrand Village, sentence Mila Kunis to be hanged!"
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