Three Philosophical Questions for Travelers

Lavidia jumped angrily and said, "My words don't work? Baker!"

"Yes!" Baker said loudly to those around him, "Didn't you hear that? The young master asked you to kill them!"

But the soldiers still hesitated in place, and the atmosphere was very strange.At this moment a soldier shouted, "Look over there!"

As soon as the soldiers shouted, everyone noticed that many Xiongshan garrison troops were looking to the west.

Haven, Baker, Lavidia, and all the others also looked towards that place.I saw a convoy approaching quickly, and there was a knight holding a big flag in the car—the dark brown military flag was fluttering, and the armored giant bear was showing off its might in the air.

Then I heard an old man full of spirit shouting hoarsely: "The Earl of Xiongshan is here!"

In a blink of an eye, the convoy arrived in front of them. The earl's carriage was first, Master Tang Deen sat in front of the carriage, and Laya rode on the left side.Immediately, the old earl poked his head out from the curtain of the car, pointed at Lavidia and shouted, "You bastard!"

Seeing Lavidia trembling with fright, Haiwen felt a heavy breath coming out of his chest.

The savior has arrived.

Chapter 150: The Earl's Choice

Chapter 150: The Earl's Choice

No matter how Lavidia struggles, as long as the Earl is alive, the Bear Mountain garrison will still be the Earl's army.Now that Sir Alex is here, the matter is settled.

Laya stepped forward to salute Haiwen, and the two smiled at each other. Haiwen thought to himself: Maybe Laya saw that the situation was wrong, so she invited the count.Thanks to her.

The earl slapped the side of the car and yelled, and the two servants next to him hurriedly carried him out of the car and put him in a wheelchair.The servants pushed him to this side, the wheelchair bumped up and down over the uneven ground, and the old earl's body swayed like a clown sitting on a sedan chair.Four knights escorted him, but blocked his body like four walls.

The count first glanced at the dead Wen Kai, frowned, and said, "You just let his body stand like this?"

It was only then that Hai Wen noticed that Wen Kai was still tied to the tree. Lavidia quickly asked someone to put down his brother and spread a white cloth.Then he lay down on the corpse and wept bitterly, mourning the tragic death of his brother.The old earl pushed away the servant, and walked over in the wheelchair with a cold expression on his face.

He asked Ravidia, "Do you still know whose land this is? Do you know that I'm still alive?"

Lavidia exclaimed, but gave an irrelevant answer: "It was the robber who killed my brother!"

The earl's face twisted, and he drew his sword suddenly. Lavidia yelled in fright, "I really didn't do it! I am your son, he is my brother, Xiongshan people will not do things like killing relatives!"

The count's hand was trembling, he put away the sword, pulled out the scabbard and slapped Lavidia, and then said: "You bastard! Tell me, how did your brother die?"

"That's right, that's right..." He looked towards Hai Wen, and then pointed out, "They killed him! My brother was originally here to suppress the bandits, but I didn't expect this guy to collude with the bandits and kill my brother! "His lips twitched, and he said very fast, "Someone testifies! Baker, Dreyer! You both saw it?"

Baker was too scared to speak, but Dreyer rolled his eyes and changed his mind on the spot: "I didn't see it!" Hai Wen said: "My lord! Lavidia killed his brother, and even killed us to silence him. The entire Xiongshan Army has seen this! There are witnesses everywhere."

Ravidya yelled at him, "Shut up!"

At this time, Tang De'en also came up and said: "My lord! Killing relatives is a capital crime. Moreover, Lavidia colluded with foreign enemies to kill the young master of Xiongshan. This can be said to be rebellion! This kind of bastard, you can figure it out!"

The count was silent for a while, he looked at Lavidia, and then asked, "You really killed your brother?"

Lavidia knelt at the earl's feet and cried loudly: "Count Mani! Your lord! My father, my mother! You can't say that! Those who killed my brother were those who died Good robber, how could it be my blood brother?" He raised his arms and shouted, "I am your only son! I am your only son, I am you, your only son! I I will never lie to you."

"Son, you are my son." The count said to himself, "Since you are my son, you should inherit my blood, Lavidia, have you inherited my blood?"

Lavidia quickly said, "Of course I inherit!"

"Yes, you inherited. You inherited my blood, so you shouldn't be a kinslayer."

Ravidya lay on the ground crying, "Oh! Of course I am not! My dear father! How could I kill my brother? Don't listen to their nonsense!"

The count let out a long breath and fell into silence. "Yes, maybe... you are not." The count nodded silently, and said, "I don't believe you would kill your brother, this matter..."

As soon as he said this, Haiwen felt a chill in his heart.Immediately, Master Tang De'en shouted: "Mani! You little bastard! You blind earl, what do you want?" Tang De'en pointed at Wen Kai's body and roared, "Your son is still watching! You What the hell are you trying to do?"

The earl's face froze, his throat squirmed, and all the muscles in his body tensed up like a shrunken cotton coat, "Teacher, this is a matter of our family and has nothing to do with you." He said coldly.

Tang Deen asked: "What do you want?"

"I still have doubts when I look at the matter." The count glanced at Hai Wen, and his eyes immediately moved elsewhere, cold sweat dripping on his face, "How about this, I will temporarily detain all suspects, and wait for me After the interrogation is clear, you will be innocent."

Smiley Cat was the first to yell, and then all Haiwen's people roared angrily.The earl shouted to the Bear Mountain garrison to maintain order, and the soldiers immediately surrounded them.

Hai Wen smiled wryly, and said, "My lord, if you have something to say here, you will be interrogated here." He glanced at Wen Kai's body, "Your eldest son is watching here."

The earl gripped the handle of the wheelchair tightly with both hands, and the chair creaked. "Don't you believe me?" he said in the tone of a count.

"Do you believe it yourself?"

"Presumptuous!" the count said in a deep voice, "Are you questioning me?"

Haiwen blinked and said, "My lord, as long as you can live up to your own conscience, that's fine."

"Very good!" Earl Xiongshan waved his hand and said, "Come on! Put..."

Just as he was about to speak, he saw Master Tang De'en pounced on him.The old man grabbed the earl by the collar and said through gritted teeth, "How dare you!" Master Tang De'en was tall and burly, and the earl was sitting in a wheelchair, looking like a baby in front of him.

The guards on both sides were stunned, no one dared to stop Tang De'en.

The count looked at him and said, "Tang Deen, what exactly do you want?"

"I want justice!" The 90-year-old man with a straight waist and blazing eyes looked more like a warrior than anyone present, "The cultists who murdered relatives should be punished as they should be! , nobles and commoners, land and sea, light and darkness—nothing tolerates such a crime!"

"Tang De'en! I have only one son!" Earl Xiongshan patted his stroked legs, his face was painful and grim, "Look at my poor appearance, do you still think I can have another son? You just have to ask Rawai Diya to die? Are you forcing my family to sever blood?"

Tang Deen said: "When the evil blood of the kinslayer is cut off, it will be broken, and it will be a sin to continue."

The earl turned his face away and shouted, "Come here! Send Master Tang De'en back to Black Pine Manor."

"You bastard!" Tang De'en roared, "You lock me up too! You put me in prison, and you better hang me! Otherwise, I will make your scandal known to the world! I will make this matter Write it into a book, I want the whole principality and the whole world to see the scandal of your family! You bastard!"

The count didn't speak, just waved his hand.Immediately, the two knights beside him pulled Master Tang Deen away. Tang Deen was still cursing, but his voice became farther and farther away.

After Tang De'en left, the count turned to Laya and said, "What about you?"

"I..." Laya's eyes rolled around, and she smiled immediately, "Of course I listen to you, Earl—the matter of Xiongshan should be up to you. If I don't listen to you, who else can I listen to?" Woolen cloth?"

"Very good, come back to Bear Castle with me. During this time, I hope you can stay with me in Bear Castle and use your wisdom to help me tide over the difficulties. Madam Chairman of the White Council, is this okay?"

Laya was silent for only half a second, then saluted immediately and said, "I'm very honored."

Raya is also under house arrest.Haven thought to himself.

After that, Laya turned her head and said to Haiwen: "Master Haiwen." Laya saluted Haiwen with a smile on her face, "I advise you, since you are in the king's land, you should listen to the king's words. I Believe that there will be no injustice in this sacred land, you will be able to..."

She took a deep breath, and that fake smile disappeared completely with her lips closed, and her face turned into a saintly majesty,

"...to gain innocence."

Haven nodded to her and said, "Okay, then I will trust you."

It seemed that everything was ready, so the earl waved his hand and said, "Put all these suspects in jail! Wait for their release!" As he spoke, the Xiongshan garrison surrounded him from all directions.A dark-skinned knight beside the earl shouted to the slave soldiers in southern dialect, telling them to give up resistance.

The slave fighters did suffer heavy casualties, and there was no possibility of continuing to resist.Haiwen also knew that he had lost the chance to fight to the death, so he ordered everyone to put down their weapons, save their lives first, and make a decision later.

In this way, Haiwen and others were imprisoned in Xiongshan's prison, waiting for a just trial.

Chapter 150: The Prison

Chapter 150: The Prison

Life in prison is doomed to be painful.

Haven was imprisoned underground in Bear Castle.He was kept alone in a small brick building.The house here is smaller than a toilet. If you lie down, you can just straighten your body, and the top of your head and the soles of your feet will touch the wall.

There is a mattress right next to it, and there is a toilet piled with sand in the corner, and the jailer comes to clean it every morning.Here the door is tightly closed, and there are no windows, so the sun does not come in, and it is only illuminated by an oil lamp.If the oil lamp was out, it would be pitch black—dark and quiet, the only sound in the cold air being his own breathing.At this time, he can only call the jailer to turn on the light for him.However, many times his cry was useless, and he had to wait for several hours, even half a day, or even a day, before someone came to take care of him.

This kind of place is enough to drive people crazy.

Darkness is not scary, silence is scary.He felt like an animal packed in a small box, as if he had lost contact with the human world.

The jailer is dumb. This man always has a numb face, and it is useless for you to talk to him.At first, Haiwen would ask him a few questions, such as "When will the Earl interrogate me?" "Where are my people locked up?" "Is there any food tonight?" "Please talk to me Okay?" "Can you fucking understand human language?" and so on.But later he got used to it, he sat quietly in the dark and meditated, no longer doing meaningless things.

As time passed day by day, he suddenly had a thought: I'm going to spend the rest of my life in this ghostly place.

He just lay there, fell asleep when he was sleepy, and opened his eyes to look at the darkness when he fell asleep.He is particularly sensitive to movement, and the sounds of mice and cockroaches cannot escape his ears.The voice annoyed him at first, but over time, as it became his only company, it became less of an annoyance to him.

It was as quiet as a hand on his throat, suffocating him.

That's how he kills the time.Occasionally he would think about the never-ending "Three Questions of Philosophy" in the dark, and occasionally he would miss his relatives and friends, such as Isrit and Hyacinth, such as Mirsalu, such as the cat master, such as the witch, such as Fasnat ...and Dreyer--he thought the steward had made a mistake, but he didn't hate him.

He also wondered, did he do something wrong?

Should I give in?Should I sell those slaves?That might have saved our lives in the first place.

After a while, he began to calm down and think about the way out.

Later, he felt that he should do something, and he began to think about how to escape from prison, such as digging a little soil with a spoon and fork every day.If he's going to be locked up here for twenty years, he'll be able to get out with a spoon—like the Count of Monte Cristo.In addition, he also used the rest time to exercise his body and engrave some knowledge from his previous life on the wall. He hoped that he could keep some of it.

It's better to do something anyway - anything is better than despair in the dark.

The jailers didn't care about him, they just came here every now and then to bring him meals and clean up.Haiwen was in the dark, and he didn't know how long time had passed.Anyway, he lived like this day by day.

After an unknown amount of time, one day, the dumb jailer brought a pair of handcuffs and shackles.He put the things at Haven's feet, and then watched him silently.Haiwen looked at it and asked, "Do you want me to wear it myself?"

The dumb jailer still looked at him.

"Put on the shackles, which means that the Earl is finally going to interrogate me?" Haiwen stroked the beard on his chin, "How long has it been? A month?"

The dumb jailer stared at him, and suddenly shouted, "Put it on quickly! You son of a bitch."

What he said suddenly startled Haiwen, and then Haiwen sneered, "Ha, so he is a fake dumb!" He jokingly said, "How did you talk today? Did your wife suddenly give birth to a baby for you?"

The jailer punched him in the stomach, and Hai Wen suddenly bent down in pain.Then the jailer swiftly shackled him and dragged him out.

They didn't see any prisoners as he left the cell and walked across the rough dirt road.He was blindfolded when he came, and he didn't know he was there.It's just that he vaguely felt that he should be underground in the castle.

He followed the jailer up, the wooden stairs were already bad, and when he stepped on them, he would groan like an old man.The jailer didn't speak, and he didn't ask any more questions, and just came up to the top.

At the end of the stairs was a heavy rusty iron door. The jailer pulled out the key, inserted it into the keyhole and turned it vigorously, and there was a harsh friction sound from the rusty keyhole.Hai Wen was used to being quiet, and to him, this sound was like cockroaches crawling in his ears.

The man fiddled with it for a long time but still couldn't get it out, Haiwen was so annoyed, "Let me do it!" he shouted.However, just after saying this, there was a click in the lock, and the door opened.

Then the sun shone through the door.

He has not seen the sun for a long time, for a long time.At this moment, he was so stabbed that he couldn't open his eyes, they were closed tightly, and tears flowed out.He tried to open his eyes again and again, but the sunlight forced him to keep them open.So he closed his eyes to enjoy the sunshine, and the sunlight touched his face, giving him the warmth of being alive.The jailer sneered disdainfully, but Haiwen didn't bother to look at him.

He tried at least seven times, finally opened his eyes, and saw a golden sun road paved in front of him, the sun turned the masonry road into gold, and the dust danced in the light.

However, there are four shadows on this road—he looked up, and then he saw clearly that the sunlight came in from the prison window at the end of the road, and the shadows of the four iron railings were printed on his face.

Then he heard someone shouting: "Master Hai Wen!"

The voice came from the darkness on the right—he looked to both sides, and saw that there were iron bars on both sides of Sunshine Avenue, and he saw the little hammer yelling at him from the window.The boy was looking at him regularly, his gaze was just like Hai Wen saw the sunshine just now.

Then Haven saw hundreds of pairs of eyes.

His friends, the slave warriors who fought by his side, the men were all kept here.He saw the smiling cat in a baggy prison uniform smiling and waving at him; he saw Fasnat sitting cross-legged in meditation, opening one eye and nodding to him.

The disheveled King Kong rushed to the fence and asked him loudly if he was okay; Hollanger excitedly smashed the fence, shouting incomprehensible words.Maybe Delair was here too, because he was on the wrong team in the end, but Haven didn't see him, maybe he was hiding in a dark corner somewhere.

The other slave warriors, the peasants who came with him, the old men, the children, were all here.People looked at him with their eyes in the dark, with excited and humble pleading in their eyes.

He seemed to be the savior again.

However, at this time, the jailer behind him pushed him violently, causing him to stagger back.The fake mute cursed loudly:

"Go! You son of a bitch!"

Chapter 160: Your Judgment Has Not Come

Chapter 160: Your Judgment Has Not Come

So he resolutely walked down the avenue of the prison, and then through another gate.Behind this door was the women's cell, where his family lived.

Isriette and Hyacinth were standing by the fence, Hyacinth bit her lip and wept, but Isriette said to him: "My daughter is fine, she is safe."

Violet sat alone in the corner of another cell, just looking at him.She looked haggard, and Haven didn't know what she was thinking.

Hai Wen suppressed the sadness in his heart, and he searched with his eyes—he was not looking for who was here, but who was not.

Ramon wasn't there.Ramon was with Little Hammer at first, and they all stayed in Bear Mountain City.Now Little Hammer is here, but Ramon is not - Little Hammer was obviously caught later, so Ramon ran away?

There is this possibility, that child is very clever.Haven thought to himself.

Then the druid was not there, that guy probably turned into a bird or a bug and flew away, and most people couldn't catch him.

Laya was not involved in this incident, and the Earl of Xiongshan might not dare to arrest the chairman of the White Clothes Society in a cell.She should have been under house arrest.