Si Yi Jue Sa, translated in the ancient texts of Heilan Kingdom: Visit the tide of winter.
However, since the lingua franca of the mainland became popular, the native language of Heilan slowly began to lose ground, and now few people can speak the ancient Hailan language. However, some cities and islands in Heilan Kingdom still use the name of Heilanwen.
Si Yi Jue Sa, is one of them. This is a city located in the outer island chain of Heilan.
Although the official name is 'Si Jue Sa', the locals prefer to call this place - Winter Tide City rather than the tongue-in-cheek name.
Lanbo Bay, a harbor near the sea in Winter Tide City, was originally a very prosperous commercial port, but after the war between Hailan and the Golden Sparrow Empire, it was occupied by the army and temporarily changed to a military port.
Originally changed to a military port, the business of Lanbo Bay was severely damaged, but when they thought that they could land on the Old Land Continent and occupy the land of the Golden Sparrow, there would always be good days in the future, so the people of Winter Tide City also gritted their teeth and decided to survive. This is a cold period for business.
What they didn't expect was that Hailan's advantages in this war were incomparably great, and they continued to occupy the Golden Sparrow Province and open up the territory of the mainland. However, for some reason, in just a few months, Hailan has experienced a downturn. Now, even more failure has appeared.
It is impossible for the Hailan royal family to stop at this point in the battle, not to mention the damage to morale. The domestic demand of the country, which has been exhausted in the past year, must be filled by external resources.
Therefore, they can only continue to entangle with the gorse.
To fight a war, you must have money and sufficient backup resources. When the treasury was in short supply, the Hailan royal family had to turn its attention to ordinary people.
The sudden increase in taxation has made the city of Winter Tide, which was in a bad situation, truly plunged into winter.
Winter Tide City has been shrouded in the shadow of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes for a long time, and the prospect of defeat is now in sight. Today's Winter Tide City has a lot of people's hearts, a large number of bankrupt refugees appear on the streets, and the incidents of stealing and robbing have begun to increase. trust is reduced to a minimum.
In a bakery in Lambo Bay, two children dressed as refugees looked at the female owner of the bakery with pitiful eyes.
The female store manager is a middle-aged aunt, with a face full of flesh, and she looks fierce.
"Okay, okay, we haven't eaten for a long time, and my sister is still sick..." The speaker was a slightly fatter boy named Chaila of the two refugee children.
Beside him was a thin, pale boy who also looked at the female store manager with expectant eyes.
The aunt snorted coldly and scolded Chaila: "You don't look in the mirror yourself, you look fatter than my Nini, and you dare to call me hungry? I think you both are here to cheat, get out of here. Go away! Don't stop the old lady from doing business!"
There was a gloom in Chaila's eyes, but he was so hungry, looking at the fragrant bread in the glass cabinet, he couldn't help swallowing.
"We didn't cheat, we were really hungry. My brother Yaniga was mute, and my sister was... injured again, please have pity on us." Chaila said in a sobbing voice.
In the end, the aunt did not agree to Chaila, but called out the big dog she raised and drove Chaila and Yaniga out.
Seeing the figures of Chaila and Yaniga leaving, the aunt's tense face slowly loosened. She can see that their condition is very bad. If it was in the past, she would not mind to help, but the current situation really does not have the capital of kindness... Alas, the aunt shook her head, took a brown bread, and walked to the back room, He muttered, "No matter how hungry you are, you can't starve your own Nini."
On the other side, Chaila and Yaniga finally got rid of the vicious dog after fleeing for a while.
Chaila, panting heavily, stood on the shore of the harbor and spat fiercely towards the sea, with anger in her eyes.
Yanika was thin and hungry, but she was a little dizzy at this time, and she fell to the ground when her legs were weak.
Seeing this, Chaila's eyes felt distressed for a while, and she ran over to help Yaniga: "Are you okay? It's okay, it's fine if you can't eat bread."
Chaila's expression was a little hesitant, and after a long while, she gritted her teeth and said, "I'll go into the sea to catch some fish and bake it later."
When Yaniga heard this, he quickly raised his head and shook his head at Chaila. Now that the Lanbo Bay port has been converted into a military port, the first iron order was that no one should go into the sea.
Once discovered, the fraud was committed on the spot.
Although Yaniga was very hungry, he did not want to let Chaila go on an adventure. He kept gesturing with his hands, his mouth wide open, "Aah" for a long time, but couldn't utter a word.
If you look closely, you will find that the tongue in Yaniga's mouth is no longer there.
Chaila looked at Yaniga trying to speak, a burst of sadness, and thinking about Guina's injury, the anger in her heart couldn't help but soar.
"Damn Feng Man, if it wasn't for him, how could you and Guina fall into the hands of that old witch Kusha! You wouldn't... I wouldn't..." Chaila gritted her teeth, two tears streaked across Dirty cheeks.
Yaniga was a little anxious, kept shaking his head, and gestured quickly with his hands.
"At this point, you still speak for him?" Chaila wanted to scold Yaniga, but he knew it was useless. He also didn't know what Feng Man did to Yaniga and Guina. Even if he fell into such a field, he never blamed Feng Man.
Chaila could only snarl: "He won't come back, he's a coward!"
After Yaniga heard it, he kept his mouth shut and began to sob silently.
Seeing Yaniga's appearance, Chaila felt distressed and aggrieved, and there seemed to be a sense of anger in her heart that could not be relieved, and he couldn't help but want to yell.
Chaila yelled at the sky three times in a row.
Chaila's call distracted Yaniga a little. At the same time, on the coast not far away, a girl wearing a princess dress with a face of baby fat was also attracted by Chaila's cry.
Chaila also noticed the girl at this time, and when he saw the girl's appearance clearly, his eyes flashed with disgust.
He looked around and saw that no one noticed him. He rushed forward and pushed the girl into the sea. Watching the girl ups and downs in the sea, Chaila finally felt the suffocation in her chest, dispelling a lot...
Seeing this, Yaniga looked at Chaila in surprise.
"This woman is the daughter of the previous bakery owner. Her mother dares to let the dog bite us, she deserves it!" Chaila said viciously.
Yaniga was silent for a moment, looking at the girl on the sea who was gradually trying her best, and finally just shook her head and pulled Chaila away from here.
Chaila and Yaniga left Rambo Bay and walked to the outskirts of Wintertide City.
Yaniga didn't speak all the way, and Chaila knew that Yaniga was angry.
Chaila didn't feel that she was at fault, Feng Man killed, Gu Yina also killed, and they killed more than herself. This is a killing world, why can't he kill
The two of them were embarrassed, speechless all the way, and returned to the place where they temporarily lived, a dilapidated shack.
Before stepping into the shack, they could smell a strong bloody smell.
There was nothing in the shack but a broken bed, an unburned campfire, and a broken baby bassinet.
The smell of blood came from the baby's cradle, and along with the smell, it was accompanied by a shrill voice: "Who is it?"
"Guina, it's us."
"You guys are back... Hey, didn't you gain anything today?" Guina's strange and sharp voice came from the cradle again.
"People in the city are like bed bugs when they see us, and no one will pity us. We are even in the bakery in Lambo Bay today, being chased by a vicious dog..." Chaila paused, then suddenly laughed Get up: "But it's not a loss. I pushed the bakery owner's daughter into the sea! Even if the patrolling army found her, she would be killed on the spot!"
Gu Yina suddenly thought of something: "The person you pushed into the sea... is Nini?"
"What, do you know?" Chaila suddenly looked a little panicked. Their group of wandering people mostly talked about loyalty. If Guina knew the girl, wouldn't he have done something that violated loyalty
"Oh, Nini used to be a friend of mine." Guina paused, and there was a sound of "crows" from the cradle: "However, it doesn't matter. Now I don't need friends besides you. "
Guina's voice was inexplicably low, Chaila thought about it, and said: "This time out is not without harvest, we just picked up a bunch of tattoos on the road, although a little sour, but quite satisfying. I will break it for you. Now, let's make some water for you to drink."
Guina just whispered "um".
While Chaila was making soup with broken tattoos, Yaniga walked to the cradle and looked into the cradle with sadness in her eyes.
I saw that there was a blond little girl about seven or eight years old in the cradle, but her hands and feet were all cut off, leaving only the body part, so she could be put into the cradle. And the bloody smell they smelled before came from the gauze of her wound.
She is Guina.
Not only the limbs were damaged, but more than half of Guina's mouth was densely sewn up with black needles and threads.
On Guina's right shoulder, there is a small doll with a round head and a thin body. The mouth of the doll is so large that it can even be opened and closed.
In the past, Gu Yina liked to use this doll to play ventriloquism with Feng Man, but now she can speak thanks to her practice of ventriloquism.
"Yaniga, you don't need to be sad, I'm not dead yet. When I die, you are sad, okay?" Guina's strange voice came out.
Yaniga nodded sadly.
"Okay, don't let me see your sad face again. You promised me that you will learn ventriloquism before I die, and I will continue to teach you while I still have time..."
Before Yaniga could speak, Chaila came over with a broken bowl with green juice in it: "You won't die, you will live on like us."
"Hohoho-" Guina's ventriloquist laughter was inexplicable and strange: "I can feel that life is passing, but I will try to live, and I want to see Feng Man before I die."
As soon as Feng Man was mentioned, Chaila's face turned dark: "What kind of poison did you two get from Feng Man, the poison of the white-footed sea spider? He harmed you, have you forgotten?"
Yaniga protested silently, but Guina said indifferently: "He didn't harm us, he was a victim himself."
"An unharmed victim?" Chaila snorted coldly: "You guys are dead, he won't come back."
"If he comes back, I want to see him. If he doesn't come back... That's fine." Guina's eyes lowered slightly, seeming to be caught in a memory.
For a while, the atmosphere fell into silence. At this moment, there was a sudden sound of chaotic footsteps outside the shack.