Succubus' Manor

Blanche's face was covered in mud. She was a beautiful woman with a curvaceous figure. Because of this, her face was covered in mud and she finally found a sense of security. Stettin's army has been here for three days In the beginning, some people escaped from the city, but there was no nearby city that could accept them. The nearest town was Stettin. They couldn't escape to the enemy's hometown, right?

So among the people who left, half of them wandered around outside for two or three times. After finding that the soldiers did not throw civilian corpses outside the city, they returned to Otley cautiously.

Bending her waist, Blanche took out some wheat bran from the kitchen at home, preparing to find a hidden place to start a fire for cooking.

Her father was also a member of the Otley Bandit, but died young, not in the battle against Stettin, but in a ridiculous way.

A team of them went to rob the businessman, and his father was injured in the chest and abdomen by a stupid boy who went out for the first time, and soon lost his life.

But that stupefied boy didn't do it on purpose, he was also a poor man, timid, and after something happened, he quietly put some food in front of her house in the middle of the night, fearing that it would be taken away by others, he would ring her house door.

He won't leave until she enters the house with her things.

Because of this, he was caught by Blanche.

She really wanted to hate the other party, she really wanted to throw things out with backbone, and then shouted: "I don't want this thing from you, you give my father back!"

But she couldn't say it, she lost her father, but she still had a younger sister and mother, and the family of three still had to survive.

So she could only keep silent, go out after the door knocked, and take the food home.

The little wheat bran she took out now is the last food in the family.

She carefully turned around a few times, but she couldn't find a place to start the fire and cook, so she had to go back and dry chew the wheat bran with her mother and sister. The dumb boy gave it to them.

Since the plague, no one in Oatley has found any work that pays unless he is a robber, especially the women, and the men can still do manual work, although they can only get a little bit of work for more work. Food for subsistence, but at least there is food.

For a family of three women like Blanche, life in Otley is very difficult, and they can only survive at the bottom.

"Eat quickly, don't be seen by others." Seeing that her sister couldn't swallow it, Blanche quickly patted her on the back, "I'll get you some water."

Her young sister swallowed the bran with difficulty, and her mother only touched a little.

They hid at home and did not dare to open fire, especially since they also opened the gaps in the windows to see people outside.

But everyone is hiding. The soldiers walking on the street now are different from the local bandits in Otley. They are tall and short, fat and thin, but they are neither stooped nor thin. It will fall when the wind blows.

The last bit of wheat bran was gone, and Blanche had to find a way to find something to eat. She didn't know how long they were going to hide at home, and they couldn't starve to death here.

"Mom, I'm going out for a while." Although Blanche wiped the mud on her face, she still felt unsafe. She changed into the loose clothes her father wore, and wrapped her head with a scarf, and then shrunk her shoulders. Carefully step out of the house.

The moment she went to the street, she hurriedly looked left and right, and rushed across the street after finding no traces of the surroundings and soldiers, planning to go to the fields on the edge of the city to see if she could find anything edible.

It's just that she just ran two streets, and when she saw her destination in front of her eyes, a group of people suddenly appeared in front of her.

Blanche was too scared to move.

From her father she had heard stories of wars, of burning and looting on the winning side.

At that time, she asked naively: "Father, they took down that city, aren't they the masters of that city? Why do they still want to kill people? Do they want to destroy that city?"

His father answered him with a smile: "Because it is to prevent someone from taking revenge, and to prevent someone from rebelling against them in the future."

"Besides, the soldiers also have to get benefits. Soldiers have worked hard to fight the war. The benefits are not too much, right? If that's the case, let the soldiers grab it by themselves."

And her father also agrees with this approach: "If I go to be a soldier, I will fight desperately. If the lord doesn't let me grab something and go home, then isn't my desperate work in vain?"

They are just ordinary soldiers, not nobles or knights. They cannot rely on military merit to support their families, and they don't get much military pay.

Only when they win the battle can they earn a lot of money and gain a lot, otherwise they would have been deserters long ago.

Blanche was only listening to stories at that time, and she just felt that the plot of the story was terrible, but now, she is in the story, standing on the losing side.

Soldiers were like monsters to her, they came in droves to hurt her and torment her.

Blanche didn't move at all, how she wished she could turn into a stone at this moment.

The man's chest suddenly blocked all of Blanche's vision.

Achill has no desire to explore this strangely dressed woman, he just said: "Come out now, is there no food at home?"

Achill's voice was very cold—he was a war lunatic, desperately trying to prove his abilities, and had no interest in women or men, to be precise, he didn't even have that desire.

Blanche dared not speak, she was trembling, her lips were pale, and her fists were clenched.

Achill: "Go to the castle. There are people distributing food in the open space outside the castle. Not many people go there now. You can get more when you go."

Blanche swallowed, she couldn't believe it, but she hoped she believed it, hoped that the soldier standing in front of her was telling the truth, she lowered her voice and said, "Really, really?"

Achill: "Why lie to you? We have to continue to patrol the city. There are few people on the street now. Go by yourself. I won't send someone to escort you. Also, the mud on your face really stinks .”

Blanche: "..."

Achill said to the other soldiers, "Let's go."

The soldiers turned around and left without any nostalgia.

They have seen many good-looking people, no matter how good-looking people are, they are not as good-looking as the lord.

What's more, this woman still has dirty and smelly mud on her face, which is really unnecessary.

After the soldiers left, Blanche breathed a sigh of relief. Standing in the middle of the street, she didn't know whether she should go outside the city to try her luck, or go to the open space in front of the castle as the soldiers said.

What if going to the castle is a trap?

but……

What if what the soldier said was true?

If she could really get food, even if it was wheat bran, Blanche swallowed.

She is already on the verge of desperation, no matter how miserable she is, where can she go?

Blanche clenched her fists, she didn't have time to think about anything, and ran straight to the castle.

The streets of Otley were empty, and every house had its doors and windows closed. Blanche walked close to the wall. She walked faster and faster, and even ran when she was approaching the castle.

She didn't know how long she had been running, it seemed that she had only been running for a while, and it seemed that she had run for a long time.

But she did see the shed set up on the open space in front of the castle, and the pile of sharp grains under the shed. It was not wheat bran, but unhulled wheat. There were so many, so golden, that it seemed like something in a story. wheat hills.

Blanche was still very scared, she walked to the shed with her head down, and then stood in front of the shed.

A man sitting behind the table lowered his head: "What's your name? Which house do you live in on that street? How many people are there?"

Blanche took a deep breath to calm herself down, and then carefully answered all the questions asked by the other party.

Then the man went to the side and took a sack of sackcloth. He yawned and filled the sack with grain generously.

Blanche didn't dare to go over, her heart was pounding, so much!So much food, did you just give her that?

She didn't feel the truth until the man handed her the cloth bag full of food.

The man also said, "Can you hold it?"

Tremendous power surged out of Blanche's body, she looked at the man: "I can move it! Thank you."

The man: "Thank me for what? If you want to thank us, thank our lord. You people in Otley are really unlucky. When we encountered the plague before, because of the lord, few people died, and the days got better and better. Now, who in the neighborhood doesn’t know that we, Stettin, are rich and have strong soldiers, so we are not afraid of being attacked.”

Blanche originally wanted to leave after taking the food, but she didn't feel any malice from the other party. She asked cautiously, "Is the people in Stettin doing well now?"

Man: "Of course, our market is closed every day, and there is a street dedicated to selling cooked food, and a special store will be built outside the city. Yes, a commercial street. In the future, merchants in the city can go to buy it." Selling things, everything is sold on the same street, how nice it is.”

Blanche swallowed: "The people from Stettin, can they afford it?"

Otley also has shops, but only rich men would go in to buy things. Even when Otley was the richest, when Blanche's father was still working and earning money, their family never went into that kind of shop. Shop, I can only wait for the market to open to buy some cheap things.

Blanche wanted to ask if women could find work, and how much money women could earn.

But she didn't dare to ask, she couldn't let anyone know that there were only women left in their family.

For so long, they didn't tell anyone about their father's death. They only said that his father went to relatives to borrow food.

Seeing that Blanche had been standing still, the man urged, "Why don't you go home soon?"

Blanche thought of her mother and sister who were still hungry, so she quickly put the cloth bag on her shoulders. The bag contained food, and the food was not heavy. She ran towards home briskly.

When running, her heart beat violently as if it wanted to jump out of her chest.

If Stettin's men are doing well, can it be for Oatley?

Does it mean that as long as they persevere, they can support themselves with their own hands?