Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 125 Offences

Claude drove a wagon crazily across the street, and fortunately the soldiers on alert duty on the street did not intercept his wagon. The carriage entering and leaving town needs to be checked. As for the carriage, which is already in town, no one is willing to make trouble of itself, but rather speculates that someone is sick in the family of the carriage driver in such a hurry.

There was no crowd in front of the big red brick house, but a few shops across the street stood together and said something, pointing to Claude's fingers from time to time. And Claude's arrival in the carriage attracted their attention, and the gossip stopped, staring at Claude...

Claude ignored these people, and now he just wants to know what happened at home and why his father was arrested.

Mother sat at the table crying silently, while brother Brooke had a distinct slap on his face and he shrunk around the corner with his little snow dog and continued to cry. Sister Anna dragged it to the kitchen floor with a huge floor. There was a big beach of water on the floor. It seemed like a pot of black tea fell off the floor and poured out all the black tea...

When Claude walked in, the little snowdog shook his tail and jumped up, and his brother, Brooke, climbed up from the ground and cried loudly, reaching out to Claude to hug him. And sister Anna looked at Claude with tears, and two more lines of tears hung on her face.

“Mother, what happened at home? Why was Father arrested?” Claude didn't care about his brother and sister, he just wanted to know what happened.

The mother shook her head with tears: "I don't know either. Two officers and several soldiers arrived in the kitchen this morning as they were preparing their breakfast, with an order that your father be arrested for endangering the security of the kingdom and be investigated. Your father was taken away without a bite of bread...”

Are you kidding me? Is that possible? Mr. Morsan is just an executive of Bai Lu Town, responsible for people's livelihoods and economic development. Will he jeopardize the security of the Kingdom? How could he endanger the security of the kingdom if he was neither a gunsmith nor a commander of the army, nor a chief executive of the three counties in the southwest, but a civil servant of a local town? This charge is almost as serious as the crime of treason, and if established, there is no alternative to shooting.

“Is there a mistake?” Claude is suspicious of the veracity of the charge and may be more reliable if the reason for his arrest is embezzlement and bribery. But it is a fact known to all the inhabitants of the town that the local civil servants of the kingdom do not have their own grey income, to say the least, that Mr. Morsan has always been clean and never accepted. He just likes to get mixed up in someone else's business, make a little profit, never get greedy and busy, so everyone he works with is happy.

“No mistake, that's the charge announced by the two officers who broke in this morning, and we all heard it clearly.” Mother also knew the seriousness of the crime, with a look of fear and despair on her face and tears falling on the table.

Sister Anna nodded, adding: "Mother was surprised to hear them say that in the kitchen, even the teapot fell on the floor. ”

“What about my father? Did he defend himself?” Claude hugged his weeping brother with his thigh pants in his arms before he rubbed his snot tears all over his pants.

“No, your father just smoked deeply, put the pipe on the table and stood up, nodded to the two officers and followed them, saying nothing. ”

Claude found her mother holding onto the black mulberry ivory pipe left by her father.

Strangely enough, why did the father keep quiet and say that when the wrongdoer was arrested, he defended his innocence aloud? Father, this is really like the latent spies and agents caught in those TV shows of previous life, but could he be the spies and agents ambushed here in another kingdom? If you think so, you can't even get access to the so-called state secrets.

“Where's Albert?” Claude looked around and didn't find Albert. Didn't he eat and sleep at home every day for a while? Where the hell is he?

The mother wiped her tears and said, "Your brother went out to ask for news. ”

Claude was trying to nod her head and listened to her sister Anna say, "He took the family's money and ran away. ”

Home money? Claude stunned: “What money? ”

“He didn't run, he just said it would cost him some money to go out and get help with his father's news, so I gave him some money.” Mother stopped crying and explained.

“He took all the money from the house, and we didn't have the money to buy food today.” Sister Anna said unhappily.

“Dead girl, is it important to buy groceries or ask about your father's news? The family hasn't eaten anything, just fill in two slices of bread when you're hungry.” Mother looked angrily at sister Anna.

“How much did he take?” Claude asks his sister, if Albert really takes the money to get the news, it doesn't matter, afraid he'll just find an excuse to cheat from home.

“Looks like a dozen silver tallers.” Sister Anna thought about it and said, “I don't know how much, anyway, he took all the money out of the little box where Mom had the money. ”

The mother had a small box containing the mother's private room money and the father's monthly money to the mother. Basically, the father's salary of three silver towers per month was given to the mother for household use. He himself had other grey income, and sometimes he was in a good mood and gave the mother some more money. Mothers depend on the money given by their fathers to sustain the main expenses of their families, and have accumulated more than a dozen silver tallers over the years, estimated at more than three gold crowns.

Now all the money of the mother was taken away by Albert, in the name of spying on her father. Claude doesn't want to compare to him, and he won't find this so-called big brother. He touched eight silver tallers selling leopards out of his pocket and handed them to his sister Anna.

“Here, you go shopping again at noon, as usual. When someone asks you about your father, you say you don't know. At this point, we have to calm down. Whatever happens, we have to face it bravely, okay? ”

Her sister Anna was responsible for all the grocery shopping at home, and she had already helped her mother with a lot of household chores since she was 14. Claude didn't want to give the money to her mother, and her father, who had been captured, left her defenceless, was easily deluded. Instead, sister Anna listens to herself, sees herself as a dependant, does things with more insight, and doesn't fall for it easily.

Claude dropped his sobbing brother, Little Booker, and said, "Don't cry, Little Booker, brother, take you to wash your face. ”

Then Claude saw the red five fingerprints on his brother's face, and his face sank: “Who did this? ”

If it was the two officers who came in the morning to arrest my father, Claude wouldn't mind going to the barracks at night. Little Brooke and sister Anna are two of his counterscales. In his previous life, he was an only child, no brothers and sisters, only brotherhood. It was only in this world that I felt the affection of my brothers and sisters from little Buck and Anna. What he usually loves most is his brother and sister, and whoever bullies him is unable to live with him!

“It's Brother, after Father left with the two officers, Mother went upstairs to get the money to Brother, let Brother to find out the news. His brother was crying, and he slapped him because he thought he was too loud. I was afraid he'd hit me too, but he didn't come out in the kitchen. Snow Dog tried to bite him. Brother said if you dare to jump over, someone will beat him to death. Brother held Snow Dog and refused to let him jump over..."

Sister Anna is very brief and clear about what happened at home restaurant in the morning.

Claude took a deep breath and forced his anger down. If Albert is still in front of him, Claude promises to keep him out of bed for ten and a half days. As soon as his father was taken away, he dared to be prestigious in front of his brothers and sisters, so it was conceivable that all the money his mother had given him was meat buns and dogs, and he would never return.

If this shipment is really going to find out about Father, then forgive him one more time. Otherwise, he must understand why the flowers are so red.

“Have you eaten this morning?” Claude wiped his brother's face with a towel and asked his mother.

Mother shook her head bitterly: "Without my appetite, I can't eat, I feel bad. ”

Looks like everyone didn't eat it, Claude went into the kitchen and looked, and found out that Mother only made half her breakfast in the morning, the eggs weren't fried, the bacon wasn't cut, and just a small basket of white bread was ready.

“Mother, if you're not feeling well, go upstairs and rest for a while, little Buck and Anna. I'll take care of it until Albert finds out about Father and you come down. ”

Mother nodded and rubbed her eyes with her hand: "Okay, Claude, I'll go lie down for a while, you look at them and call me if you need me. ”

Mother almost tripped on the stairs as she went upstairs, and it was clear that what happened in the morning had kept her mind calm. Being a housewife and not experiencing such a change, it was too exciting for her to have her father arrested. If Claude hadn't come, maybe Mother would have sat at the table for a day foolishly...

“Anna, you drag the floor down and pack up, and I'll make you breakfast. ”

“I don't want bread, I want my brother to make noodles.” Little Booker said that after Claude smeared his face with the perfect quality primary treatment he was carrying, the clap print was almost gone.

“I can't make noodles now. I'll make them for you at noon. In the morning, you'll have some bread. Brother, I'll make you some sweet soup, and then I'll put the loaf of bread on the honey, okay? ”

Little Brooke nodded for half a day and said, "Well, then Noon Brother is going to do the noodles, and you have to do the math. ”

After breakfast, Claude packed the kitchen dining room with his sister, then took her sister and brother, and a little snow dog drove to the open-air market to buy ingredients, bought a large bag of grass, and picked a large wooden pot to serve as the groove for Jamie the Black. I'm guessing I'll spend more time at home in the next few days, but don't starve at it, Jamie.

People were coming and going in the open market, and many of them already knew that Claude's father, Mr. Morsan, the White Deer Town Administrator, had been arrested by soldiers, and many were chatting behind their backs. Fortunately, no one is foolish enough to come to Claude and make a public mockery in front of them, otherwise Claude will surely kill the chickens to show the monkeys, so that the short-sighted ones know that even without their father, their home is not an easy object for them to insult.

Sister Anna came back with a small bag of potatoes and said to Claude, who was deliberately grabbing dried plums from Little Booker: “Brother Er, I just heard from Sister Lini of the potato sale that the soldiers not only went to our house this morning to grab my father, but they also grabbed a lot of people in town, as if Uncle Thomas had also been arrested. ”

Uncle Thomas, he is a colleague of his father, Mr. Morsan is the chief of administration, he is the chief of the patrol police.

Claude stunned: "Are you sure? ”

Sister Anna put the potatoes on the wagon: “That's what Sister Lynnie said. She said that her husband saw the soldiers grab Uncle Thomas this morning, and Uncle Thomas resisted a few times, and was knocked down by the soldiers with a gun butt and thrown on the wagon to take him away. ”

Claude felt like he understood something: "Anna, let's go home first, you watch Little Booker at home, and I'll go out and check it out. ”

“Mm-hmm." Sister Anna nodded.

Sorry, I was supposed to send two chapters today, but I can't get them out. I'll make it up to you in the next two days.