"Among those arrested, my parents were also included."
When Xia Ya heard this sentence, his heart jumped fiercely! But at this time, Hasting's eyes were still like ancient wells, and when he said this, his tone was calm and almost had a terrifying taste!
"Do you know what it looks like when people starve to death?" Hastings looked at Xi Ya, and he shook his head: "I don't know... Fortunately, I don't know."
His voice gradually softened: "I was still young at that time. In fact, my father's involvement 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 meeting on June 2, he said he was ill and did not attend. Although his father had some businessman's speculative thoughts, he was also a little afraid of such a big event, and he was not optimistic about the Senate's approach. However, his name was on the list found in the Senate!
During the search, soldiers rushed into my home and sealed up the home textile workshop, but I was not taken away. When the raiding soldiers came to the intersection, my father had already seen it. I will never forget the look on my father's face that day. At that time, my mother could not stand still from crying, and my father, he picked me up - at that time, I could feel my father's arms shaking, I know, he was also afraid, he was also afraid in his heart, but his face Shang was still smiling at me, and then he smiled and said to me, 'Son, shall we play a game? How about playing a peekaboo? '
Funny... I was young at the time and didn't understand what was going on for a while. I just remember my father laughing weirdly and saying to me, 'There will be a lot of uncles in armor in a while, you have to hide well, you can't come out unless I shout the game is over... if you come out you lose Oh. '
My father's voice was trembling, but he was still laughing, trying his best to laugh.
Then my father hid me under a dye vat, and I was small enough to hide under.
Soon, I heard voices outside, someone yelling, someone screaming, and someone screaming. Those voices included the attendant at home, the old housekeeper who took me to the street to buy candy since I was a child, the personal escort of my father who would take me to fly a kite that summer, and the one who would secretly go out to play. The doorman who opened the door for me, and the maid I always liked, who blushed with laughter...
I even heard my mother's cry, but I never heard my father's voice.
Until the end, I heard the voice of my father talking outside the yard.
This is the last word from my father that I have ever heard in my life.
He said 'everything has been done, things are coming, what are you afraid of. '
I couldn't see the scene outside, but those voices kept reaching my ears, and I could also hear the sound of rummaging boxes and smashing things outside. Although I am young, I gradually understand that this is probably not a 'hide and seek' game.
I was so scared, so scared, that I wanted to shout. But there was a voice in me telling me that it was my father's.
If you can't come out, you will lose when you come out!
I hid under that dye vat for a long time until no sound came in from outside... but I still didn't dare to go out. I was terrified, my whole body trembling with fear. This kind of feeling is like sleeping with nightmares when I was a child. When I am afraid, I will shrink in the quilt, cover my head, and dare not look outside.
Thinking about it now... I'm very lucky, because the raid was in Osgilia, so the soldiers who raided the house just smashed it twice, but didn't set it on fire. If they set fire to it, I'm afraid I'll be burned to death even if I hide.
When I finally gathered up the courage and ran out from under the dye vat, it was already a day and a night. When I came out, the sky was full of stars... I was hungry and dizzy. Although it was summer, I was cold all over .
When I got out, it was dark outside, and my home was gone... Everything in the house was smashed to pieces, not a single thing was intact, and all the valuables were removed.
I climbed out and stood in the yard, no one in the house, no sound, no lights.
But I could clearly see that there was a lot of blood on the ground.
Well, yes, only blood, no corpses.
I stood alone in an empty home, looking in the yard, in the room, in the backyard, and couldn't find a single person. I am hungry and thirsty. Later I saw some water in the sink in the stable, took a few sips, then ran to the kitchen and found something to eat.
I was so scared, 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 was biting a hard piece of cake in my mouth, using this method to keep myself silent.
I shed tears in the middle of the night, and it was not until it was almost dawn that I finally remembered to go out.
My home is in the west of the imperial capital. Instead of driving away the gate, I got out through a hole in the wall I used to sneak out to play when I was a kid.
The street was also empty, and there was no one there. There are no lights in the houses of our neighbors, front and rear, and all of them have their doors closed. I am afraid they are worried about being implicated.
I saw a few soldiers in armor standing guard at the door of our house. I was scared and slipped away from the wall.
I spent a day wandering on the streets of the imperial capital city. Others saw me as young, thin and smudged, and they only regarded me as a little beggar. I don't know where my father is or where to find them.
There was an instinct in me, I knew, that I couldn't go to those old friends of my father.
I have been wandering the streets for three days, and every day I sit in the corner of the street waiting to die, with other beggars beside me. But those guys ignored me because I didn't ask for begging and I didn't take jobs with them.
On the third day, I almost starved to death, but a beggar looked at me pitifully and gave me half a pie. The guy seemed to see something from me. After he gave me the half pie, he secretly said something to me: Try to sit in the corner and be quiet.
Later, when I listened to those beggars chatting at night, I learned something.
I vaguely understood that my father was involved in a very big thing, and that incident angered the emperor. The emperor ordered to arrest my father and many, many people. I heard that they were all imprisoned in the Acropolis.
And there is also news that the father and the others committed treason and treason. I also heard that something happened in the palace. The emperor was assassinated and was injured a little, and he almost died.
I heard that it was done by a very powerful master.
After I got the news, I figured out a way to go to the Acropolis, where I wanted to go to find my family.
However, the city of Osgilia was closed, and the entry and exit were checked extremely closely. I waited in the city for six or seven days, relying on the poor beggar to give me a little food every day, and I survived.
Finally, when the martial law in the city was lifted, I left Osgilia. I am a little beggar, no one will look at me where I go.
After leaving the city, I didn't know where the Acropolis was. I only knew that it was in the south, and I could only go all the way to the south. I dare not take the big road, I only take the small road. I was young and had little strength, so even if I tried my best to walk for a day, I couldn't go very far.
I walked all day and night, my feet were bleeding, and finally there was nothing to eat. I even lay on the ground next to me and gnawed on the grass! !
Just that night, I was in the woods on a path and saw a man. "
When Hasting said this, Xiaya's heart skipped a beat! Because Hasting's tone finally had some changes, some faint taste of excitement.
That person... I think it's... him!
"When I saw him, he was half lying under a big tree. The clothes on his body were luxurious and made of high-quality materials. My family was a textile workshop, so I could recognize him naturally. But he He was as dirty as I was, with a lot of blood. He was lying there with his eyes half closed, his face so white and so pale that I wondered if he was dead - but I saw his chest Still up and down, knowing he was still panting.
Beside him, there is a handful of things... Well, this is the one you are using now!
I didn't understand much at the time, but there was something about him that attracted me! There is a bag hanging around his waist, and there must be money in that bag! If I have money, I can buy food and clothes! Don't let me starve to death! I can make it to the south to find my family alive!
I've never done anything stealing. But that day, seeing the man lying there, he seemed to have only half his breath left. I had no other choice but to hit his mind.
But I am still afraid. Because I was a child at the time, and he was an adult, not too young, not too much like my father. And, as you can see, he's strong. And... he still has that weapon in his hand that I don't recognize.
Such an adult, even if he has nothing in his hand and his bare hands, is definitely not something a skinny child like me can handle.
Even if I stole something from him, he would notice immediately, and if I wanted to run, I would definitely not be able to run away from him.
I hid and watched for a long time, and finally made up my mind. I found a rock on the ground, and I'm going to knock him unconscious while he sleeps!
Well, hit him lightly, don't hit him, just stun him. I just need to get the money from him.
When I approached him with a stone in my hand, my heart was so nervous that my legs kept swaying, and I was almost out of breath.
I've never done anything like this, and several times I've wanted to throw a rock and turn around and run away.
But when I walked up to him, he suddenly opened his eyes!
At that time, my hands softened with fright, 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 laughed, there was blood in his mouth, and he said to me, 'Such a light stone can't hit a person. '
I didn't know how to answer at the time, and I said in a confused way, 'I'm too weak to move something so big. '
Then I was afraid that he thought I was going to kill him, and quickly said, 'I just want to stun you. '
He smiled and asked me why. I told him honestly that I needed money, food and drink, and clothes to wear.
What I didn't expect was that he casually took out a gold coin from his arms and gave it to me, and then he looked at me and asked if I would like to do something for him. I was terrified and could only say yes. He said, let me go to a village in front of him and help him buy some food and drink back, preferably a little wine and some wound medicine. If I'm willing to go, he can give me another gold coin.
I thought about it for a while and agreed to him.
But when I was about to leave, he stopped me and asked me to return the gold coin to him first.
I thought he regretted it—in fact, what I thought at the time was that with this gold coin, I would just walk away and never go back.
But he told me that a child of mine would be suspicious of buying something with a gold coin. He asked for the gold coin and gave me a few copper horns.
I was very helpless. For the gold coin, I had to run for him, went to a town in front, bought the food he asked for, and a little medicine.
I am a child, and no one will doubt me.
When he saw me going back, he was very happy and gave me the gold coin. Seeing that I was hungry, he also gave me some food.
While eating, he asked me where I was going. I said go south and go to the Acropolis to find my family.
After hearing this, his face became very serious, and he asked me why my family was in the Acropolis to the south.
I thought about it for a while and told him my story.
After hearing this, his face became very strange, and he asked me, 'Is your father from the Senate? '
I don't know what the hell was going on with the Senate, but I heard my father and my mother talk about it, so I nodded.
His expression immediately became a little curious, and he asked what my father's name was, and I said it.
He thought about it for a while, shook his head and said, 'I haven't heard of it, I think it's a small role. '
Later, he asked how long it had been since my family was arrested. I thought about it and said it was almost ten days.
After he heard it, he sighed and looked at me with more pity, and then he said to me: You don't have to go, go now... and you won't be able to see it anymore. "