Chapter 331: The Best Reward for the Wicked
At midnight that day, Owen, the sheriff of Willis, arrived at the door of Catherine's uncle's house with five hundred soldiers and a hundred priests of the Holy Order.
"How's it going, are they still there?" asked Owen, glancing in the direction of the gate with concern.
"They were all asleep, the two men in the east room, and Catherine's girl in the north room. The brothers replied unhurriedly.
"That's good, surround this place at once, help the priests set up the magic circle, and don't let them escape!" Owen said back to his soldiers.
Five hundred soldiers silently surrounded the entire courtyard, and the priests of the Holy Congregation had set up a sacred blockade around the house to prevent all objects with magical powers from passing through, and when they were ready, the soldiers reported to Owen.
"Take us in and find them!" Owen said, pointing to the door to the brothers.
The two brothers crept through the gate with Owen and the soldiers, and as soon as they entered the door, they saw Catherine's aunt Misha standing in the courtyard, and when they saw the sheriff, Misha quickly pointed to the house where Catherine, Rogge, and Murphy lived, and signaled them to go and arrest people.
Owen had his lieutenant lead fifty priests and some of the soldiers of the Congregation to Catherine's room, and he took the rest of the priests and soldiers to capture Rog and Murphy, and they followed the brothers across the courtyard to the house on the east side, where Catherine's father was living.
The soldiers surrounded the gate, and after Owen counted down to three, the soldiers swarmed in, pointing their swords at the two beds in the room, but to their surprise, the two beds were empty, and there was no one in the room.
"What's the matter? where have they been? Search me!" Owen exclaimed in exasperation, and the soldiers searched the house inside and out, but found no figure.
"Did you leak the news?" Owen angrily grabbed the brothers and asked loudly, but the brothers hurriedly denied it, and the soldiers who went to arrest Catherine also came back to report that no one was in Catherine's room.
"Damn the hell, where are they going to go?" Owen stomped his foot in exasperation and kicked a bucket out of the doorway.
He pondered for a moment, and ordered the soldiers to search all the houses in the courtyard, and not to leave the kitchen and pigsty behind.
Hearing the news, the male owner Jock was surprised to see the soldiers make a mess of his home, he didn't know what was going on, and he didn't dare to ask more, until the search was over, Owen, who found nothing, angrily led people around the village to search for the whereabouts of Rogge and others, and he hurriedly asked his wife.
"Not that good niece of yours, the sheriff said she was a witch, and brought the priests of the Holy Order to arrest her!" Misha gave him an angry look, looking at the house that had been turned into a mess, and took all the fire out of Jock.
"How is it possible, how can Catherine be a witch?" Jock was full of doubts, and suddenly found his two sons hiding in the corner muttering, he knew that the brothers did not like Catherine, and when he saw this scene, he suddenly remembered something, and rushed to the two sons.
"Did you talk nonsense in front of the sheriff and wronged Catherine?" said Jock, angrily pointing at the brothers.
The brothers wanted to deny it at first, but they were forced to admit it by their father, and when Jock heard about it, he was furious and raised his hand to beat his son, but he was stopped by Misha's loud shout, only to hear her sneer: "In my opinion, that girl is not a good thing, and what our son said is not wrong!"
"You ......" Jock stared back at his wife, so angry that he couldn't speak, only to hear Misha continue to say in a weird way, "Besides, just because they disappeared so unnoticed, don't you think this already speaks for itself?"
"Auntie, who are you talking about? Why is it so noisy in the middle of the night?"
Before Misha's words fell, a pleasant female voice suddenly came, and everyone looked back to see Catherine coming out of the house in a hurry, Misha and her two sons were startled, and the younger brother turned and rushed to the door to call the sheriff back, but a dark shadow suddenly blocked the door and knocked him to the ground.
"Young people don't run outside at night, it's safer to stay at home. Rog leaned against the doorframe and looked at the young man sitting on the ground, let Murphy into the courtyard, closed the door and leaned against the door to light a cigar.
Murphy stopped inside the courtyard gate to block the door, Catherine's cousin had to retreat to her brother's side, only to see Catherine slowly walk up to her aunt, squint her eyes and smile at her: "Auntie, it seems that after so many years, you haven't changed at all." ”
"Hmph, do you think you're a princess if you have a few stinky money?" Misha sneered disdainfully and said, "In my eyes, you will always be a cheap girl that no one wants, and you are only worthy of burning firewood for me in my kitchen!"
"Yes, I didn't give you firewood back then," Catherine nodded lightly, and slowly circled around her, "I still remember that at that time, all the dirty work at home was mine, and I didn't even eat the dogs in the village. ”
"Hmph, it's nice to have something for you to eat, you should have gone to hell with your dead daddy!" Misha sneered with a look of disgust.
Before she could finish speaking, Catherine, who was standing behind her, kicked her in the knee, Misha's legs went limp, and her body fell to the ground, Catherine reached out and grabbed her neck from behind, and put a bright sword on her neck.
"You can insult me, you can not treat me as a human being, but I will not allow you to insult my father!" Catherine said through gritted teeth in her ear, pressing the blade of her sword to her throat, and Misha's two sons screamed at their mother, only to be stopped by Murphy and knocked to the ground one by one.
"Catherine, no!" cried Jock when he saw that the situation was not good.
Catherine looked up at him, and Jock fell to his knees all of a sudden, and pleaded with tears: "Your aunt has indeed committed a great crime against you, but for the sake of your uncle's face, please spare her once, uncle, please beg you!"
Catherine looked at him silently, shook her head slowly, and said, "Spare her, why didn't you spare me when she beat me with a stick? I was only six years old that year, and I was covered in injuries and almost broke my legs when she beat me with a stick......
"Catherine......" Jock cried so much that he could only lie on the ground and call Catherine's name over and over again, and the girl continued angrily, "And those two bastard sons of yours, who feed me cow dung and lead me around the village like a dog with a rope, why don't they spare me once?"
Hearing Catherine's words, Murphy glanced down at the brothers beside him, raised his foot and kicked his brother's face, the young man suddenly spit out two teeth with blood in his mouth, covered his face and curled up on the ground and didn't even dare to cry out in pain, and his younger brother even crawled forward and hugged his brother and cried.
"All things shall be to you, the good sons whom you have taught, and their sins will be imputed against you. Catherine looked down at Misha, let go of her hand and kicked her fat ass, and Misha threw herself on the ground with a dog shit.
Catherine stepped on her back one step at a time, reached out and took a barbed rattan from Monica, and slapped Misha's ass hard, saying as she struck: "This whip is for you to insult my father, this whip is for you to abuse me, these two whips are for your two good sons......"
When the fifth whip fell, Catherine leaned over to Misha, who had been beaten to cry, and said, "This last blow is for Uncle Jock, who has been bullied by you for many years, you fierce and domineering vicious woman, I should really dig out your heart and see what it is like!"
She threw away the rattan whip in her hand, grabbed Misha's left hand, took a sharp wooden thorn from Monica's hand, and said to Misha: "I wanted to kill you with a knife, but I don't want to let my uncle's family die, but I still want to leave a little impression on you, so that you will always remember me!"
She carved a bloody capital C on the back of Misha's hand with a wooden thorn - the initials of Catherine's name - and the tip of the wooden thorn dug deep into Misha's flesh, and a large amount of blood stained the back of her hand red.
Catherine let go of her hand and leaned over to Misha, who was crying because of the severe pain, and said, "This thorn was specially prepared for you just now, if you bully Uncle Jock or harm others in the future, the wound on your hand will be opened, whether you do it yourself or secretly engage in conspiracy!"
She let go of the foot that was on Misha's back, left her and stepped forward to pick up Jock, wiped the tears from his face with her hand, and said, "Uncle, don't blame me, I didn't come here to take revenge on my aunt and two cousins, and if they didn't frame me, I wouldn't do such a thing to them." ”
Jock silently nodded in understanding with tears in his eyes, Catherine gently hugged him and said, "I'm leaving, I hope you take care of your health, I will come back to see you if I have the chance, I love your uncle." ”
"I love you too, baby, protect yourself and come back often. Jock kissed his niece on the forehead, watched her and Murphy open the courtyard door, looked back at him one last time, closed the courtyard door and left.
"The stupid girl didn't kill the bad fat woman!" said the little furball on Catherine's head on the way out of the village.
"She's my aunt after all, and killing her will make my uncle sad," Catherine sighed, "Although I had killed her ten thousand times in my dreams in the past ten years, I couldn't do anything about it at this moment." ”
"You're doing the right thing, if you kill her by force, what's the difference between you and her?" said Rogge, who was walking in front, slowly.
"Rogge is right, not to mention that for a bad person, not being able to harm people is the greatest punishment for her, isn't it?" said Murphy, smiling and looking back at Catherine.
The girl looked back at his kind smile, and the previous dissatisfaction with him also disappeared, and she smiled and nodded, and suddenly heard Rogge ask: "Little villain, why are you called Catherine stupid girl again, and you said okay Sister Catherine?"
"That's a temporary face-saving for the stupid girl, the stupid wolf doesn't understand this!" the little furball exclaimed proudly.
"I can't save you!" Rogge looked back and shrugged at Catherine, who and Murphy couldn't help but smile at each other.
As he was talking, the group came to the entrance of the village, and suddenly saw Sheriff Owen standing outside the village with a team of soldiers, Rogge and the others immediately stopped, and Owen and his soldiers also looked at several people.