Chapter 1728 The Goddess’s Secret Word (Seventy-Three)

Ten years ago a Salem potter once said that if people did not stop quarreling, Salem would not be a town.

Sarah Rooker's marriage was very unfortunate. Her first husband was married twice at the same time. After she legally dissolved her marriage to him in 1664, she married William, the brother of Lord Chancellor Hassan.

Hassan, George Burroughs was her third husband.

Unlike her husband, who managed to escape every Indian attack, Sarah was a very ordinary woman, and her husband went to places that were not suitable for ordinary women. She lived in fear all day long.

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This fear not only came from the war, but also from her husband. George Burroughs was a short black-haired man. He was very strict with his wife. People saw Burroughs many times when he lived in the Putnam family.

Steve scolded his first wife many times, and for Sarah, he convinced her that her every move was being watched by him and God.

Even though King William's War was not over yet, people had no hope that she could come back alive. The executioners were indifferent when faced with the pitiful begging of women and children. The columns of smoke, merciless fire, gunshots, shouts and slashing made up the sound.

The picture of hell and the girl who loves eating strawberries cannot survive in this environment.

As the government troops were retreating steadily, Salem's militiamen also began to be on alert. Mary Walcott's father had been busy training. And even if the Indians were not dealt with, there was another group of people who needed to be alert, that is

Soldiers from the mother country. Chris Mather has been to England for three years. Three years ago, a man named Andros passed through Salem with a large entourage. He provocatively asked the old priest John...

Higgins: Did the king legally own all the land in New England?

Higgins told him: "I can only speak as a priest, and your question is a national matter. It seems to me that before the settlers came, the king had no interest in the land of North America."

Andros was furious and gave the priest two choices: "You can either be subjects or traitors."

The governor's remarks angered the people of Boston, who launched an armed uprising under the instigation of priests.

John Wise, a classmate of Paris, also incited the congregation of his parish to participate in the uprising, but that was five years ago. The uprising was suppressed, and Ipswich did not gain any power.

A Boston uprising successfully drove away the governor. Currently, Massachusetts is free from the nobility forcibly installed by the royal family and is autonomous. However, this situation will not last long. New news will come from England soon, and it will happen again.

new variables.

The Putnam family and the Nass family were neighbors. The two families had a dispute over adjacent land issues. Nass itself dealt with land arbitration. Old Ann Putnam had lost her father because of losing the lawsuit.

The inheritance left to her. In addition to the Putnam and Nurse families, the Corey family also owned a considerable amount of land.

At present, the townspeople have been attracted by the lively trial and have not noticed this. Once the Indians and even the British come back, their land will be taken away, and there will be no eggs left in the nest. The town residents are now

The madness may be the last madness.

Paris has never experienced a war. During wartime, a priest can not only provide comfort and last prayers, but also boost morale. Nass's decision not to pay Paris a salary may mean to get rid of him and replace him with Burroughs. After all,

Where he is now is not far from Salem.

However, there was a conflict between Burroughs and the Putnam family, and Putnam firmly supported Paris. The militia captain sent his daughter Mary to stay at Putnam's house temporarily. This may be his position. The Putnam family was the first to

Two generations of pioneers have lived here. Although Nass has established a firm foothold, it has not taken root here.

Maybe Paris would ask the old priest, "What should I do next?"

The old pastor lowered his voice and said in a voice that only two people could hear, "You can't let Abigail come forward to accuse old Rebecca, but you can tell Putnam the news and let someone from his family accuse him."

she."

Paris didn't answer.

Rebecca Sr., seventy-one years old, was a devoted mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, and she had not been to church for the past week.

"You may feel ashamed." Father Rosen may say, "But there are more important things to do now. We must unite the townspeople instead of continuing to fight among themselves. If it is not convenient for you to come forward,

I'll go visit Nas's house on your behalf."

"Do you think Putnam can influence the outcome of the verdict?" Paris may have asked.

"I heard that Hassan also arrested two people without being interrogated." Rosen may have asked, "Who are they?"

"Bridget Bishop and Mary Ellen," Paris might have replied.

"Ah, it's them." Rosen didn't seem surprised at all, as if he had expected it.

Bridget Bishop is a resident of Salem town. She is about fifty years old. She has a history of petty theft. She and her ex-husband had a fierce fight. Once, her face was covered with blood, and once her whole body was covered in blood.

They were all bruises, and she went to court for publicly calling her husband an old scoundrel and an old devil on the Sabbath in 1677.

The couple were flogged for the same crime eight years ago and were punished again after fighting on a reprimand day. Their mouths were gagged and they were paraded back to back in the market for an hour with a tattoo on their foreheads.

There was a piece of paper attached listing their crimes.

Bishop's husband died under mysterious circumstances shortly thereafter, and within eight months she was in debt, quarreling with neighbors and her stepson, and was arrested on the same day as Sarah Goode, who was

Goode knew that two other women had been arrested by Hassan, but she did not know who they were. She thought they were Sarah Osborne.

The other woman was Mary Warren, who was just twenty years old. She was a beautiful blonde. Many men in the town were thinking about her, but no one dared to take her into their own homes.

Women are all like this. Even if the scriptures say that jealousy is an original sin, they can't help but be jealous of that kind of woman who is particularly beautiful and can attract the attention of all men.

Americans are very conservative in this regard. Even if the hostess can vaguely feel that something is wrong between her husband and the maid who has signed an apprenticeship relationship, she will not say it outright because it all happens when they are not at home.

What's more, how does the male host know that the child the female host gives birth to must be his own? Is she really going out to collect rent?

What is pitiful are those girls who are completely in a disadvantaged group. They lost their homes and families because of the war, and now they are harassed by male masters, male visitors, and even pigherders. They dare not speak out. This kind of dishonorable thing is just

She will condemn the man for a while, but the brand will follow her for the rest of her life.

Of course, there were also those who risked their lives and died together. One man was sentenced to sit in a cage with a piece of paper hanging around his neck, which said "A married man committed adultery with his maid in his own home." New England's culture is well popularized, so people who pass by are guaranteed to do so.

People, everyone knows what it means.

Mary Warren, who no one wanted to take in, worked as a maid in the Plotk family. Mrs. Elizabeth Plotk read a lot of books and would take one in her pocket when she went out. She also taught Mary Warren how to read.

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But as long as she went out, Mary would inevitably face Mr. Plotk alone.

Perhaps due to excessive mental stress or other reasons, Mary Warren also suffered from convulsions later, but her convulsions were cured by Mr. Plotk with a whip.

Mr. Plotke was furious with Mary, and he claimed that he would cure her convulsions by burning her, or drowning her, pushing her against a fence, etc. He was probably not doing this because of witchcraft.

In fact, what many men want in a marriage relationship is not just to continue the family line. He also needs to get love and respect from his wife, who looks at him like a hero, especially a woman like Mrs. Plotk.

If Mr. Plotk had done the same thing as the man in the cage, he would have lost Elizabeth's love and respect.

Are you a true gentleman who is well-educated, has high moral character, and can control his words and deeds?

If so, I'm going to let Mary Warren come to work in our house. Can I trust you to do that?

Perhaps Mr. Plotk regrets his decision.

In fact, he could choose to divorce Elizabeth and then marry Mary. In this case, it would be the self-righteous Elizabeth who would regret it. Where would she go without property?

Protestantism allows women to preach. Is it different to join a church and preach?

Elizabeth could leave Salem and go to Boston or even other places, just like Rose who had just arrived in the United States. She finally left that gorgeous birdcage and became a free bird.

Maybe she would be caught by an eagle and die, but...she really didn't want to lie in the same bed with a loser. That was definitely the most unbearable and disgusting thing in the world.

There is a beautiful way of death called whale fall. When a whale feels that its death is imminent, it will find a place and slowly sink to the bottom of the sea. In the process, its body will provide food for other animals in the ocean. A whale's body will

A corpse can be decomposed by a circulatory system for hundreds of years.

Maybe she could go into the wilderness and become part of the food chain in the New World, as the scriptures say, ashes to ashes and dust to dust.

Each of us is a child of the stars, born from the remains of the previous star. Lying on the ground like this and watching the stars in the sky "sleep" is worse than watching a hateful soul unable to sleep and thinking about how to poison it to death.

He feels much more comfortable.

It's not worth getting your hands dirty for such a person, let alone using witchcraft.
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