Succubus' Manor

On the night of the fatal snowfall, Chi Yan, like most people, failed to foresee it in advance. He and Kleist sat by the fire, with only Ryan, a servant, beside him.

"You move a chair over here to sit." Chi Yan greeted Ryan, "It's been colder these two days."

Although I don't know exactly how many degrees the temperature is displayed, but at least below minus ten degrees, Chi Yan now has to wear himself into a ball to carry out activities outside.

The cake shop was closed, and the cake factory in the slums also announced a shutdown. Before the shutdown, each worker was allocated 20 yuan of katuo cakes. If they still can’t go to work after 20 days, they can also receive a “subsistence allowance” of one cake per day. .

If there are children under the age of ten at home, you can receive half a day.

There is no one on the street, and the roofs on the road are full of thick snow, no one has cleaned it up, and there is no way to clean it up.

Three days ago, the snow accumulated overnight only reached the thighs of people, and then yesterday, the snow accumulated overnight reached the waist of people, and there was snow on top and a layer of ice on the bottom.

Unless leather is used for boots and leggings, simply walking in the snow can cost a person the loss of a pair of legs.

Ryan moved the chair obediently and sat next to Chi Yan, and the fire was burning in the fireplace.

Chi Yan looked out of the window as if feeling something. The wooden window was closed tightly, so the wind and snow could not come in, but he couldn't see the scene outside either.

"It's getting colder and colder." Chi Yan looked at the flames, which were beating, rising and falling, as if to herald that a snowstorm was coming.

Kleist suddenly said, "Think about what you're going to do tomorrow."

Kleist stood up, walked to the window, and opened the gap in the wooden window. Feather-like heavy snow squeezed in through the gap. The warm room turned the snow into water, and it lost its shape before it hit the ground.

In the royal palace, the maids huddled in the huts in the corridor to keep warm. These inferior maids wore barely neat clothes, and they all had two kinds of lice, white lice and black lice, which made them itchy from head to toe.

There were hurried footsteps outside the house, shouts, reprimands, and curses from senior servants and maids, making this cold night even more terrifying.

The queen walked through the corridor in a hurry. She was wearing a heavy robe, her hair was messy, and her expression was a bit strange. It was hard to tell whether it was tension and pain or the relief that the day had finally come.

—her husband, her nephew, titular king of Kentis, was dead at last.

He died in a ridiculous way, he died of cold or starvation, because the servants who brought his meals had forgotten him for a while.

It is also possible that the servants divided up his food and the charcoal brought to his room.

When he was dying, there was no one around him, and in his room, there were still statues of the Holy Spirit, big and small. When he was discovered, the body was still in a praying posture.

He died so ridiculously and tragically.

The queen looked at the dead body of her husband carried to the bed by the servants, a little dazed in her eyes, she always remembered how she hated marrying this man.

Her marriage was not up to her own decision. Just because of her noble status, she was ordered by her brother Joels V to marry her nephew, which added weight to her nephew, because her nephew was just an illegitimate child without the support of the mother clan. Members of the royal family did not recognize him, so she was sacrificed for granted.

She hated her brother. According to others, her brother was a good king because he founded Protestantism and proclaimed himself Pope.

However, only she knows that her brother is an extremely weak person. He didn't even think of founding the Protestantism. In such a great climate, as long as he is more determined and courageous, he can destroy the Holy Court.

And the most stupid thing about him is that he didn't decide the next king before he died.

She knew that when her brother was alive, she preferred the illegitimate son she had by her side to take over, and her eldest niece, who was as ambitious as she was, was sometimes stupid.

Her other nephew is her sister's follower, also, a woman with an inflated desire for power. Since she was a little girl, she has taught her brother to be an obedient fool.

Maybe her niece didn't expect that the fate of their aunt and nephew was so similar.

It's just that she has come to the present, and the eldest niece has died in humiliation.

The queen walked to the bed, lowered her head, and looked down at her husband.

Is he a bad guy?No, he has never made any moral mistakes in his life, he is loyal to the holy house that raised him, and after getting married, he has never looked at other women more, he doesn't like to enjoy, he doesn't like fancy clothes, as a person, he There are few downsides.

But is he a nice guy?No, after he became the king, he gave the Holy Court more power, a higher status, and even suppressed the royal power. He was sorry for his ancestors. He never cared about government affairs, and he didn't care how the common people were doing. To pray, he is the king, so weakness and incapacity are his greatest sins.

"Find a place to bury it," the queen heard herself say, "just pretend he's still alive."

Only when she wins the nobles into her own hands, and only when people in the royal family can only follow her, can she announce the news of her husband's death.

She glanced at her husband again. This cowardly and incompetent man will never appear in front of her again from now on.

This snowy night is destined to be unusual.

In the middle of the night when everyone was asleep, there was a huge bang.

Countless people who fell asleep were awakened. When they walked out of their homes or opened their windows, they could see the neighbors next to them or the neighbors across the street crushed by heavy snow.

Screams and exclamations resounded in the streets, oil lamps and candles were lit, and the night was bright again.

Those who were crushed to death in their sleep were buried by houses and heavy snow, and those who barely escaped screamed in the rubble.

Some people's legs were crushed by stones and wood, and their bodies were quickly frozen stiff, and they did not escape their bad luck in the end.

"How is this going!"

"The house is crushed by the snow! Omg! Look at our roof!"

"Quick! Clean the roof!"

"Save people! Save them!"

"My God! How can there be time to save people? Do you think our family will be crushed too? You idiot! Get out my ladder!"

"Help me! My leg is pinned down!"

One after another, calls for help, shouts, and screams pierced the quiet night.

Chi Yan also took to the street in his clothes, and nothing happened to the hotel - after all, the hotel was built of stones, the roof was made of stones and clay, and there were several layers of wooden boards, so it would not be so easy to crush.

But the nearby houses collapsed by 50.00%.

The people around Chi Yan were all wearing cotton-padded clothes and leather boots, and they were in good physical condition. After all, they could eat enough every day, and they could eat meat happily every three days.

"Go save people first." Chi Yan said to the servants and guards.

After they left, Chi Yan said to Kleist again, "It's time to call the soldiers."

In such a big disaster, only soldiers can save people on a large scale, and they must be fast. If they wait until tomorrow morning, even if the buried people are still alive, they should be frozen hard by then.

The soldiers he brought are now in a city not far from the holy city. A group of soldiers, 1000 people, occupied that small town under the leadership of the instructor.

He also held the officials and the lord's family hostage, causing the aristocratic lord who is still in the holy city to not know that his territory is gone.

After Chi Yan got the news, he only asked them to maintain the order in the city as much as possible. He was too weak to abandon the holy city, and he didn't have any talents who could use it to govern the city.

——The people cultivated by the old housekeeper are all very smart and cunning, but at the same time they are all ambitious. They hope to play a role in the power struggle and fall, even if they are a shit-stirring stick. Willing to go to a small city to develop people's livelihood, this is probably the limitation of the times.

After all, we haven’t fully transitioned to the feudal system yet. The feudal system has a way to rise. Even if you become the number one scholar in the imperial examination, you can’t reach the sky in one step. You will be promoted after you have merit and qualifications.

However, the non-Hanlin does not enter the cabinet, but there are champions every year, and there are not many who can enter the cabinet. Not all champions can enter.

As for officials, it is even more different. Officials have a limited term of office. If they have done practical things in office, have a good reputation among the people, and happen to belong to a relatively fair dynasty, then promotion is relatively easy.

It's different now, there is no stable channel for promotion, as an official, if you want to be promoted, it depends on a word from the big man, regardless of whether you have achievements or not, if the big man says you can, you can.

In this case, why do you have to be down-to-earth and do things honestly?Anyway, there are so many people doing things, and I haven't seen a few climbed up.

Although in this era, officials are basically decorations, expensive decorations are better than cheap ones.

Kleist: "Let the demons support themselves tonight."

Chi Yan shook his head: "If you miss this opportunity, you don't know when they will come over."

Kleist: "I'll go and call the nearest one first."

After Kleist left, the demons and servants began to save people. They didn't have many tools. Chi Yan also told them before they saved people that the first thing to do is to ensure their own safety. If they really can't save people Don't waste your time and save people who are easier to save.

This is cruel. Chi Yan feels that if he is in a novel or a film and television drama, he should be a negative image—after all, the protagonist of Guang Zhengwei should save everyone's life in many crises, even those who cannot be saved. He will not give up voluntarily, but wait for that person to die before giving up passively.

Chi Yan stood in the snow, and Ryan held an umbrella for him.

The snowflakes in the world are still falling tirelessly, and the night is unbelievably long.