Chapter 302 [That Year and That Incident]
"Among those arrested, including my parents. ”
When Char heard this, his heart jumped fiercely! And at this time, Hasting's eyes were still like ancient wells, when he said this, the f6 anger, but calmly almost had a terrible taste, "Do you know what it looks like to be starved to death?" Hastings looked at Char, he shook his head: "I don't know...... Luckily I don't know. ”
His voice gradually softened: "I was still young at that time. In fact, my father's participation in that incident was not too much, after all, he used to be a nobleman, and his status in the Senate was not too high.
Even at the June 2 convention, he said he was ill and did not attend. Although my father did things with the speculative minds of some businessmen, he was also a little afraid of such a big thing, and he was not optimistic about the practices of the Senate. However, when his name was on the list found in the Senate, the soldiers stormed my house and seized the family's textile workshop, but I was not arrested. When the soldiers who were searching for him walked to the corner of the street, my father had already seen it. I'll never forget the look on my father's face that day. At that time, my mother was already crying and unsteady on her feet, and my father, he picked me up one by one, and I could feel my father's arm shaking, and I knew that he was also afraid, and he was also afraid, but his face was still in the middle of nowhere, and then, with a smile, he said to me, 'Son, shall we play a game?
Amusing...... I was young at the time, and I didn't understand what was going on. I just remember my father laughing strangely, and he said to me, 'There will be a lot of uncles in armor in a while, you have to hide well, unless I shout that the game is over, you won't be able to come out■■■■■■ and you will lose as soon as you come out.'
My father's voice was already a little shaky, but he was still laughing, laughing hard, laughing hard.
Then my father hid me under a jar, and I was so small that I could just hide underneath.
Soon, I heard voices outside, some people yelling, some people crying, some people screaming. The voice was the attendant of the house, the old butler who had carried me to the street to buy candy since I was a child, the father who would take me to fly a kite that summer, the doorman who would open the door for me when I sneaked out to play, and the woman I had always liked and blushed when she laughed, and even I heard my mother's cry, but I never heard my father's voice. Finally I heard my father's voice outside the courtyard. These were the last words I had ever heard from my father in my life. He said, 'I've done everything, it's time to come, what are you afraid of?' ’
I couldn't see the scene outside, but the sounds kept coming to my ears, and I could hear the sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets outside. Although I was young, I gradually understood that this was probably not a game of 'hide and seek'.
I was scared, so scared I wanted to shout. But a voice in my heart told me that it was my father's.
I couldn't come out, and as soon as I came out, I lost I hid under that tank for a long time, and there was no sound coming in until outside...... But I still didn't dare to go out. I was so frightened that my whole body trembled with fear. This feeling is like having nightmares when I was a child, and when I was scared, I closed up in the quilt, covered my head, and didn't dare to look outside.
Now think about it...... I was lucky, because the manhunt was in the city of Osgilia, so the soldiers who raided the house only smashed it, but did not set it on fire. If they set it on fire, I'm afraid I'll be burned to death even if I go into hiding.
When I finally mustered up the courage to run out from under the dye vat, it was already a day and a night, and when I came out, the sky was full of stars...... I was dizzy, and even though it was summer, I was cold.
When I came out, it was pitch black outside, and my home was gone...... Everything in the house was smashed, not a single thing intact, and everything of value was removed.
I crawled out and stood in the courtyard, and there was no one in the house, no sound, and no lights.
But I could see clearly that there was a lot of blood on the ground. Well, yes, there is only blood, no corpses.
I stood alone in an empty home, looking in the yard, in the room, in the backyard, but I couldn't find a single person. I was hungry and thirsty. Then I saw some water in the sink of the stable, and I took a few sips, then ran to the kitchen and found something to eat.
I was so scared that I wanted to cry, I wanted to cry. But I didn't dare, I was afraid that my cry would call those people during the day. I bit a piece of cold hard bread in my mouth, and I used this method to silence myself.
I kept tears in the middle of the night, and it wasn't until dawn that I finally remembered to go out.
My home is in the west of the imperial capital. I didn't chase the gate and got out of a hole in a wall that I used to sneak out to play with as a kid.
The streets were also empty, and there was no one left. There are no lights in the neighbors' houses in front of and behind us, and everyone has their doors closed, probably because they are worried about being implicated.
I saw a few armoured soldiers standing guard at the door of our house, and I was so frightened that I slipped away from the base of the wall.
I spent a day wandering the streets of the imperial capital, and others saw me as young, thin, and covered with stains, and I was only a little beggar. I don't know where my father is or where to look for them.
I had an instinctive thought in my heart, and I knew that I couldn't go to my father's former friends, and I had been wandering the streets for three days, and I had sat in the corner of the street waiting to die, with other beggars around me. But those guys don't pay attention to me, because I don't beg or take work with them.
On the third day, I almost starved to death, but a beggar saw that I felt sorry for me and gave me half a piece of bread. The guy seemed to see something in me, and after giving me the half of the bread, he secretly said to me: Try to sit in the corner and keep quiet.
Later, when I listened to the beggars chatting in the evening, I learned something.
I vaguely understood that my father was involved in a very big event, and that incident angered the emperor, and the emperor ordered that my father and many, many other people be arrested, and I heard that they all went to the Acropolis.
And there is also news that the father and they committed the crime of treason. I also heard that something happened in the palace, and the emperor was assassinated, and he was slightly injured and almost died.
I heard that it was done by a very powerful master.
As soon as I got the news, I figured out how to go to the Acropolis, where I wanted to find my family.
However, Osgillia was locked down, and the entry and exit were extremely closely checked. I waited six or seven days in the city, and I survived by the little food that the poor beggar gave me every day.
Finally, after the siege in the city was lifted, I left Osgilia. I'm a little beggar, and no one will look at me anywhere.
After leaving the city, I didn't know where the Acropolis was, only that it was in the south, and I had to go all the way south. I don't dare to take the big road, just the small road. I'm young and have little strength, so even if I try my best for a day, I can't go far.
I walked for a day and a night, my feet were bloody, and at last there was nothing to eat, and I even lay on the ground next to me to gnaw grass, and that night, I saw a man in the woods of a path. ”
When Hastings said this, Char's heart skipped a beat! Because Hasting's F6 qi finally had some changes, some faint excitement.
That man...... Come to think of it...... When I saw him, he was half-lying under a big tree, and his clothes were very luxurious, and they were all of the finest materials, and I could recognize them as a textile workshop in my house. But his body, like mine, was dirty, and there was a lot of blood. He was lying there, his eyes half-closed, his face so white that I even wondered if he was dead, but I saw his chest still heaving, and knew he was still panting.
There was another handful of things by his side...... Well, I didn't know much about the one you're using now, but he has something on him that attracts me! He has a burden around his waist, and there must be money in it! With ruthenium, I can buy food and clothes! I don't let myself starve to death and die of cold! I can go south alive to find my family, and I have never done anything to steal. But that day, when he saw the man lying there, he seemed to have only half a breath left. I had no choice but to fight him.
But I was still scared. Because I was a kid at the time, and he was an adult, not too young, about the same as my father. And, as you can see, he's strong. And also...... He still had the weapon in his hand that I didn't recognize.
Such an adult, even if he had nothing in his hands and was bare-handed, was by no means capable of being a thin child like me.
Even if I stole his things, he would immediately notice it, and if I wanted to run, I would definitely not be able to outrun him.
I hid and watched for a long time, and finally made up my mind. I found a rock on the ground, and I was going to knock him out while he was sleeping, well, hit him lightly, don't smash him, just smash him. I just need to get his money.
When I approached him with the stone in my hand, I was so nervous that my legs kept shaking, and I almost ran out of breath.
I've never done anything like this, and on several occasions I wanted to throw a stone and turn around and run away.
But when I walked up to him, he suddenly opened his eyes, and my frightened hands went soft, and the stone fell to the ground. I was so scared that I didn't even dare to run away, I just stared at him blankly.
He lay there, looking up into my eyes, and after a while, he suddenly smiled at me.
When he got up, there was still blood in the tick, and he said to me, 'A stone so light cannot be smashed.' I didn't know how to answer at the time, so I said in a daze, 'I have too little strength to move so much.' ’
Then I was afraid that he thought I was going to kill him, so I quickly said, 'I just want to stun you.'"
He laughed and asked me why. I told him honestly that I needed ruthenium, I needed food and drink, and I needed clothes to wear.
What I didn't expect was that he casually took a gold coin out of his bosom and gave it to me, and then he looked at me and asked if I would like to do something for him. I was scared and could only say yes. He said, let me go to a village in front of me, and help him buy some food and drink, preferably a little wine, and some medicine for his wounds. If I'm willing to go, he can give me another gold coin.
I thought about it for a moment and agreed to him.
But just as I was about to be, he stopped me and told me to give him back the gold coin.
I thought he regretted it - but I was thinking that with this one gold coin, I was going to take it and never go back.
But he told me that I would be suspicious when I went shopping with a gold coin, and he asked for it back, and gave me a few copper horns.
I was very helpless, for the gold coin, I could only help him run a trip, go to a feed in front of me, buy the food he wanted, and a little medicine.
I'm a little kid, and no one will doubt me.
He was very happy to see me go back and gave me the gold coin. Seeing that I was hungry, he gave me some food.
While eating, he asked me where I was going. I said go to the south, go to the Acropolis to find my family.
When he heard this, his face became very serious, and he asked me how my family was in the Acropolis to the south.
I thought about it for a moment, and then I told him about me. When he heard this, his face became very strange, and he asked me, 'Your father is from the Senate?'
I didn't know what the Senate was all about, but I had heard my father and mother say it, so I nodded.
He immediately looked a little curious, and asked what my father's name was, and I said. He thought for a while, shook his head and said, 'I haven't heard of it, I think it's a small character.' Later, he asked me how long it had been since my family had been taken away, and I thought about it for a moment and said it had been almost ten days.
When he heard this, he sighed, looked at me with more pity in his eyes, and then he said to me = you don't have to go) Now you can't see it anymore. ”