The city of Patras is particularly cold in the autumn, especially when prices rise randomly like wild dogs, which makes people feel the chill of late autumn.
In the Bronx, in the slums of Patra City, in front of a dilapidated and old double-story wooden building, Adams, disheveled in clothes, walked in with a dejected expression. He made a creaking sound as soon as he stepped on it.
The sound, as if the stairs were about to collapse at any time, reached the dark second floor.
After passing a narrow corridor that exuded the smell of decay and gray, Adams came to a room and knocked gently on the door.
A nervous female voice came from the room, "Who is it?"
"It's me!" Adams said in a low tone.
"You are finally back!" The woman in the room breathed a sigh of relief.
After hearing this, Adams' already irritable heart became even more irritable. He shouted in a low voice, "Open the door quickly! I really regret why I didn't sew your mouth shut. Then the world would be much quieter!"
The room suddenly became quiet, and then the sound of heavy objects being moved was heard.
The security conditions in the slums are poor, with gangs running rampant and people robbing people on the street. In previous years, they came out as a whole village and usually lived together or nearby. With their large numbers and strength, their safety was guaranteed. This year, there were only three of them left.
A single person is weak, so the Adams family had to take such protective measures.
Not long after, the sound of heavy objects being moved disappeared, and then with a creak, the door was opened a crack.
Adams became unhappy, but his reason told him that this was necessary, so he just snorted, opened the gap and squeezed in, then slammed it shut with a "thud".
In the corridor, there were only muffled gasps.
The voice of greed!
In the room, Adams' wife and two sons, Kyle Adams and Rick Adams, were looking at him numbly.
Adams' wife asked him in a low voice, "Did you buy bread?"
"Well." Adams took out two long sticks of black bread from his pocket.
Each bar weighs approximately 10 pounds.
Just now, Adams didn't dare to expose them outside. Otherwise, not only them, but also he might not be able to come back.
The eyes of Kyle Adams and Rick Adams suddenly showed joy, but only their mother's eyes flashed with doubts.
"Didn't you take thirty copper coins out? Didn't you agree to buy three loaves of bread? Why did you only buy two?" asked Adams' wife.
Speaking of this, Adams became very angry. However, he did not dare to express this anger in front of other people, so he could only express it on his wife.
I saw him speaking harshly, "Do you think I don't want to buy three loaves of bread? Do you know how dangerous it is every time you go out? Those bastard bakers have raised the price again! Damn it! Now this
The worst brown bread costs fifteen copper coins! What a piece of shit! Go fuck yourself, you son of a bitch!”
Adams shouted harshly!
His wife and two sons did not dare to speak.
After a while, he calmed down, looked at his wife and son with complicated eyes, a trace of guilt flashed in his eyes, and then said, "Okay, let's eat bread."
This kind of black bread requires breaking your teeth to eat directly. It must be roasted over fire or soaked in water to soften it.
There was no way to light a fire in the room, so Adams' wife had no choice but to choose the second option.
She brought out a jar of cold water from the house, cut three slices of black bread with a table knife, thought for a while, cut another piece of black bread, and then threw it into the jar and waited for the bread to soak.
The family of four just stood around the earthen pot, relatively speechless.
Adams, the head of the family, did not want to speak, and other family members did not dare to speak.
The room was as silent as death.
I don’t know how long this time passed, but finally, the bread was soft.
Adams' wife fished out four slices of black bread with her hands and divided each slice between Adams and her two sons. She broke the remaining slice in half and handed the larger half to Adams.
Adams took the brown bread with a normal expression, stuffed it into his mouth, and started to bite.
The two sons also gnawed away.
Adams' wife then took a small bite of her half of the brown bread.
"Gah..." Kyle Adams didn't know what he had eaten, and his mouth made a crunching sound, and the bridge of his nose suddenly wrinkled.
What he spit out of his mouth was a dark stone.
Brown bread with a stone in it.
"Father and mother are stones,"
"These bitches... these bitches..." When Adams saw this scene, the fire in his heart burned again, and he said angrily. He stood up and clenched his fists. Then the next second, Adams seemed to think of something.
, like a balloon with a hole in it, the whole person collapsed.
"Spit out the stone and continue eating bread." Adams said dejectedly.
Tears appeared in Kyle Adams's eyes. As the son of a former miller in the small village of Nisei, although he ate all black bread, when had he ever eaten black bread mixed with stones?
"Why are you crying? Go out and cry!" Adams was annoyed when he saw his son's behavior and cursed.
The tears in Kyle Adams's eyes became more intense, and the tears flowed down silently.
"Father, I miss the Lord's bowl of broth!" Kyle Adams sobbed.
"Kyle, you should be satisfied at your age!" Adams sneered, "A bowl of broth will make you willing to sell your life to that kid Baron who doesn't understand anything?"
"If you think you can, you can go back to Nisei Village now, no one will stop you!"
Kyle Adams didn't dare to speak, he just cried silently.
Kyle's brother Rick stopped looking good and intervened, saying, "Father, Kyle just misses her temporarily."
"Haha..." Adams' smile was as cold as ice, "I heard that not long after we left, the gang of wild people in the Cordillera Mountains launched an attack on the village? How about it? Do you still miss it?
"
"Wildfolk? Attack?" This news stunned both Kyle Adams and Rick Adams, and they said in a daze.
"That's right! You see, this is what will happen if we lose the protection of Viscount Green! Do you think that boy Baron can protect us? Patras City can still give people a sense of security in winter!"
"So...how are the people in Nisei Village doing now?" Kyle Adams hesitated and asked timidly.
"I heard that many people died!" In fact, Adams had no idea about the outcome of that battle. He only heard it mentioned by chance when a clerk from a certain trading house was chatting. What was the final result, those clerks did not say.
It's not easy to ask Adams.
"Ah..." Kyle Adams exclaimed when he heard the ending, and then felt something was wrong. He quickly covered his mouth and looked at his father Adams.
Adams looked annoyed, but he didn't lose his temper again.
This made Kyle Adams breathe a sigh of relief.
Since arriving in Patras, his father Adams' temper has become worse day by day.
At this time, Adams' wife, the mother of Kyle and Rick, said worriedly, "What will we do next year after winter?"
As soon as the words came out, Kyle Adams and Rick Adams fell silent.
This is a heavy topic that no one in the Addams family has dared to talk about in the past few months.
Hearing this question, Adams was unexpectedly not angry. Instead, the old god said in the tunnel, "We? Of course we will go back to that land again!"
"Go back? Baron William has expelled us..." Adams' wife looked bitter.
"Haha... what if Baron William is gone?" Adams asked.
As soon as he said this, the whole room fell silent.
Adams smiled confidently, looked at his family, and said, "Stupid Baron William, thought that the lizard people of Shadow Swamp could be stopped with the strength of a few hundred people! If that were the case, Viscount Greene would have included that land long ago.
His reign."
"He doesn't even think about it! There are so many wild people in the Cordillera Mountains, why don't they dare to attack the small village of Nisei? This is because the small village of Nisei is what Viscount Greene has in his bowl!"
"Don't worry! Without the lord, the Decas Territory will be an unowned land again. When spring comes, we will go wherever we came from!"
"Everything belongs to us again!"
Adams's wife's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she was full of hope for the future.
"Those fools, follow Baron William, and they will all perish in this winter." Adams said ruthlessly and proudly.