Su Zuo thought while eating. He was full after eating half of a large piece of meat pie. He put the remaining half piece into a rattan box with a lid. Su Zuo put the magic book on his body, picked it up and put it on his feet.
The crutches on the side stood up.
These two wooden crutches, which are similar in structure to Su Zuo's previous life, were made by Su Zuo himself using magic. He originally wanted to show off to Sister Elsa who took care of him for Knaitin, but was completely dispelled by the natural nun's careless words.
Got interested——
"Hmm? Did you make this wooden crutch yourself? This 'Y'-shaped crutch is quite interesting, but it seems to be a lot more troublesome to make than the commonly used 'F'-shaped crutch, right?"
Su Zuo almost forgot about the different world he was in now. The productivity was still basically the same as the previous life in the European Middle Ages to the Renaissance. If a poor man broke his leg, he could just find a branch to support him and he could live one day longer.
Those who can afford the surgery to heal amputated limbs will not look down on crutches at all. In short, it is a useless thing. Yes, it is a useless thing. Because it is very important, I will say it twice.
When he thought about how he was almost going to ask someone for credit for a useless invention, Su Zuo instantly felt that he was extremely vulgar and stupid.
"Hmph... But didn't I say that?" Su Zuo looked up, his distant eyes showing vicissitudes of life - in a sense, Su Zuo was really good at entertaining himself and quickly recovered from the blow.
Come over here.
Compared with the recovery of his hands, the recovery of Su Zuo's legs is worse. However, two days ago, Knaitin used magic to take a look and said that it is only a matter of time before full recovery. In Su Zuo's own understanding, in his previous life,
X-ray fluoroscopy used in hospitals is actually an application of high-frequency electromagnetic waves. Therefore, since light priests like Elsa or Knetin can use light magic to control electromagnetic energy, then a certain
In this sense, it is not incomprehensible to have the ability to see through the human body.
However, Su Zuo couldn't help but feel a chill when he thought that the nuns of the Prayer Society, whose pupils were hidden under their headscarves, were actually like superwomen whose eyes were constantly "beep-beep--" shooting out scanning light waves.
Of course, this must be because Su Zuo has been thinking too much, otherwise he would have to go to the church all day long to receive the X-ray blessing eyes of the priests and nuns. Those devout believers would have already died of cancer due to excessive radiation exposure, so how could they be so active in chasing after them?
Su Zuo hit him behind his buttocks and cut him into a human stick (a wounded person with only a torso and no limbs).
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"Are you a masochist? I...I know it's a wound but I still want to open it and take a look..."
In a sense, this boring life has really infinitely amplified Su Zuo's ability to think wildly.
In order to get rid of this vicious circle of meaningless thinking, Su Zuo took the rattan box in his hand and used crutches to move down the steps of the church little by little. However, he did not just walk without a destination.
In fact, sitting at a high place, he could overlook the whole square in front of the church. Among the countless slowly moving heads, either brown or brown, was the one wearing a sheriff's uniform with long golden-red hair tied into a bun.
The girl with her ponytail hanging down to the back of her head and burning with passion like a flame is really very conspicuous and can be seen at a glance.
In the final battle with the Corpse Smasher, Wei Jier's performance was not eye-catching, but in fact she was injured at the time. It was out of this consideration that Cromwell and Su Zuo unanimously let Wei Jier serve as the
In order to gain mobility, she helped Galt, who was less mobile, to fight Lamberts in a "leapfrog" battle, and did not let her confront the Corpse Smasher alone. But even so, in such a heavy wind and snow,
The magic power consumed to maintain a long-term flight was also a considerable burden for Weijier, so as Weijier's magic power was exhausted, the round-up operation had to stop.
As for the specific reason why Su Zuo was thrown to the Corpse-Smashing Demon by one person, the specific reason was because there were two anonymous letters. Although both letters mentioned that after the Corpse-Smashing Demon was driven to a certain level, others would stop him.
Coming down, the round-up team only needs to pay attention to search for signs of fighting——
However, there were two letters, but each only mentioned that there would be one interception.
Although through Weijier, Su Zuo knew that Cromwell had also sent a letter, he didn't think much about it at the time. As a result, after the team from the security station found Cromwell with his left leg slashed, they thought it was
The plan failed, and then the team was withdrawn...
The team is closed...
Let me go! The team has actually been closed!
Thinking of this, Su Zuo couldn't help but look at the sky speechlessly, with a guilty look on his face - God knows, Cromwell was wanted, and he was just a child. Both of them had reasons not to accuse anyone, and they ended up accidentally bumping into each other like this.
At the end of the day, I almost made useless efforts because of this mistake that was not a mistake.
Limping through the dense crowd of people in the market, he may have noticed the unique church clothes on Su Zuo (Elsa specially customized them for him after staying for a week) and the eye-catching prayer on his chest.
The emblem of the Heart Cultivation Society, the flow of people took the initiative to divide into two parts in front of Su Zuo.
Perhaps they have never seen such a young official monk. When people look at Su Zuo, they naturally show surprise and scrutiny. Occasionally, there will be a few fiery glances, which are the devout believers' attention to Su Zuo.
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Walking forward calmly and calmly under such eyes, Su Zuo estimated Wei Jier's patrol route in his mind. Although he could see it clearly from a high place, there was still some distance from the church to Wei Jier's position.
, after walking into the crowd, Su Zuo lost track of Wei Jier.
"Well...what should I do..."
Su Zuo thought about it for a moment: "How about this, shouting 'My wallet is lost!', then Wei Jier will definitely come to the door——"
"——Then kick me to death!"
You will definitely die if you do this!
Just when Su Zuo was hesitating about this good idea (bad idea) and silently biting the handkerchief in his heart with dissatisfaction, across the crowd, not far from Su Zuo in the market, a man howling like a ghost was suddenly heard.
Shouts——
"Catch the thief!"
Oh! Which martyr sent this pillow? I feel sleepy here!
"Catch that thief! He stole my apple! It's that bastard kid! Stop him quickly!"
Using crutches, Su Zuo slowly moved towards the place where the sound came from. He was a little surprised. Across the crowd, the sound of chasing and yelling continued for a long time. Su Zuo thought that the atmosphere in the new district had improved recently. But it turned out that only one person
The thief has been doing this for so long and hasn't been caught yet, even though there are so many people in the square.
Then, through the cracks in the crowd, Su Zuo saw the "so-called thief" running away.
He was a ragged child who looked older than Su Zuo, but not taller.
The mud-stained black rag on his body could barely cover his body, his face was covered with mud, and his messy hair was like straw in the black mud, sticking out randomly.
In Su Zuo's view, he (she?) was not running fast, his steps were staggering, and he was holding two "bright and dripping" big apples in his arms. Although in his previous life, this kind of green apple was not rubbish, and it was not rosy at all.
Su Zuo had no desire to eat the sour apples at first glance, but in this world, especially in Wenning District, these two apples were still worth a lot of money - worth ten copper coins.
The owner seemed to be a hawker from a certain fruit stall. He had a thin build and was not a wealthy businessman. However, because he had to guard the stall, he did not dare to leave the fruit stall too far. He could only look at the thief's back and curse loudly.
Seeing that the pitiable thief was about to escape, a uniformed police officer suddenly stood out from the crowd. He didn't care about the mud on the thief's body, grabbed his hand and pushed him to the ground.
Ah...it is indeed the choice that guy would make...
Su Zuo looked at the golden-red back of the police officer and couldn't help but sigh. For a child who looks so miserable, most people would feel pity and feel too pitiful, or because the thief smells bad because it has nothing to do with him.
It was dirty, so I just turned a blind eye and let it go.
But Wei Jie'er's character would not make compromises just because of such a situation - that girl is more determined than most people, but sometimes she seems unreasonable because she abides by the rules too much.
"That guy...doesn't he know the current laws in Nanling? If you steal, you will have your fingers chopped off..."
Su Zuo couldn't help but speed up the swing of his crutches. Because of the years of war, the laws in Nanling were more stringent than those in other parts of the empire. Hands and feet were chopped off for theft, feet and feet were chopped off for robbery, tongues were cut out for fraud, and people were killed for their lives.
To the point of being cruel and ruthless, but even so, for various reasons, crimes are still banned repeatedly - just like the child in front of Su Zuo, if he doesn't steal, he will starve to death, if he steals, he will cut off his hand and bleed to death. In short, he will die.
It's better to focus on your character and gamble on the chance that you won't be caught committing a crime.
Among the crowd surrounding Wei Jie'er, there are many people who can see this problem clearly, and Su Zuo doesn't think Wei Jie'er can't see it, but compared to Su Zuo, Wei Jie'er has an extra layer of responsibilities.
factors, for veterans like Cromwell, this sense of responsibility has long been cut off from the form, leaving only the essence in the heart - it is precisely because of this that he found Galt and let Crow Gold
Suo took Langxue away from the sight of the police station.
However, Wei Jier is still young after all, and her mental age is younger than Su Zuo, so she has not fully seen this yet. Judging from the way her shoulders are trembling as she presses on the thief, it is estimated that she must be very conflicted at the moment. So in order to
To prevent the girl from regretting it in the future, Su Zuo decided to show up and give her some advice.
Well...after all, that old guy Cromwell finally managed to get the Sheriff to fight with the residents of Wenning District, because just a stubborn Wei Jieer striding back is not what everyone wants to see.
What's going on...
Thinking like this, Su Zuo shouted: "Wait a minute! Mr. Sheriff! I bought that child's apple!"
Hearing the familiar voice, Weijier, who had just handcuffed the thief, turned her head. When she saw it was Su Zuo, her brows knitted together: "Yiwen Ian, why don't you just stay in the church to recuperate? Run away."
What are you doing here!"
"Ahem!" Su Zuo coughed twice, leaning on his crutches, he leaned over with some difficulty to pick up the apple that rolled to his feet. Because of all this tossing, the originally bright apple was stained.
There was a layer of dust on it, and the skin was still worn out during the capture.
"My Lord Sheriff, have you misunderstood something?" Su Zuo held an apple and walked slowly to Wei Jie'er on crutches, pretending not to recognize her at all, and defended Wei Jie'er.
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Wei Jier looked at Su Zuo with a look of suspicion on her face. She pulled the thief up and pushed him to the Sheriff's subordinate, then turned to stare at Su Zuo: "What are you planning again?"
"No, no, how can you say it was a ghost idea?" In the sight of passers-by, Su Zuo spoke calmly, "I just want to say, Mr. Sheriff, you seem to have made a mistake. That child is nothing.
The villain who committed the crime of theft, look at-"
Saying this, Su Zuo stretched out his hand to stop the fruit stall vendor who was running past him out of breath.
It seemed that someone was finally found to help look after the stall, and the owner of the theft finally came after him.
"Mr. stall owner, tell me, have you sold those two apples to me? I just have to leave for a while to do some things, so I asked you to keep them for the time being."
Su Zuo smiled and used words to help the vendor prepare a complete set of rhetoric. While speaking, he waved the apple in front of the fruit stall vendor, and then openly, under the nose of Weijier, put an apple into his hands.
Black silver coins worth 40 copper coins were stuffed into the hands of the stall owner.
After being grabbed by Su Zuo, the vendor who was still looking at him in surprise took the black silver coin from Su Zuo's hand and immediately reacted: "Oh! Yes! Yes! Mr. Sheriff, the apples have indeed been sold.
Give it to this monk!"
No fool can live in Wenning District. The moment he saw the emblem on Su Zuo's chest, the vendor already realized what he was going to say, not to mention he had an extra black silver coin in his hand.
"Then in that case, this matter has nothing to do with you." In order to prevent unnecessary complications, after confirming the ownership of the apple, Su Zuo drove away the happy vendor who had made a fortune in vain.
"Now, these two apples are mine." Su Zuo smiled and looked at Weijier, whose face gradually darkened, and declared his sovereignty over the apples openly and transparently, "Next, I will take the righteousness of the gods,
Give these two apples to this young man..."
Su Zuo pretended to be a stickman and was interrupted by Wei Jier before he could finish his deliberately showy words——
"You can't do this! The child stole something first, and then you gave it to him. This cannot erase the fact that he has stolen it!"
As she said these words, Wei Jier's figure swayed a little. She had a dark face, and it seemed that saying these words was a very painful thing for her.
However, Su Zuo waved his hand confidently: "No, no, no, Miss Sheriff, as you said, I asked the child to pick up the apple in the hand of the child you caught, and that vendor
The Lord's shout of 'catch the thief' was actually someone else. The child was just frightened by that shout. The real thief has already run away. Do you think you are right?"
As he spoke, Su Zuo did not forget to mobilize the crowd and live up to his expectations. The crowd immediately shouted in response to him:
"Yes! The little monk is right! That's it!"
"I saw the thief! He ran north!"
"Miss Sheriff, just admit it! You have arrested the wrong person!"
"Right, that is it!"
Seeing the proud Suzo surrounded by "the voice of the crowd", Virgil turned pale with anger, but she suddenly remembered that such anger was meaningless, so she finally compromised and angrily
Turning around, he opened the shackles on the young thief's hands.
The moment the shackles were released, the crowd of onlookers burst into loud cheers as if they had done something great. Sure enough, no matter where you are, challenging authority is extremely satisfying.
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After falling from the human world to hell and crawling back from hell again, the young man looked a little confused. He walked up to Su Zuo blankly and stared at Su Zuo, at a loss.
Su Zuo looked at the other apple tightly clenched in the boy's hand - he did not let go even if he fell to the ground - and stuffed the apples in his hand to him: "Let's go, do this again next time
If you do, no one will save you."
The young man subconsciously wanted to turn around, but Su Zuo stopped him again: "Wait, take this."
He took out the half piece of meat pie from the rattan box he was carrying, and Su Zuo stuffed it into his hand: "The gods will be watching you, my child."
Su Zuo drew a rhombus on his chest and recited the most popular congratulations like the nuns in the convent.
Seeing Su Zuo like this, the young man suddenly raised his arms, wiped his tears fiercely, bowed vigorously to Su Zuo, turned around and ran away.
Thunderous applause erupted from the crowd of onlookers, and Su Zuo could not help but nod to the surroundings with some triumph: "Thank you for your help, the gods are also watching you!"
A good congratulation suddenly changed its taste in Su Zuo's mouth.
Seeing that the matter was over, the crowd of onlookers began to disperse. Su Zuo lowered his head, planning to bear Wei Jier's anger.
"...What are you thinking about?" Wei Jier was silent for a long time and finally spoke, "If you can help him once, can you help him forever?"
Su Zuo raised his head and looked at Wei Jier sincerely: "I can't help."
"Then you still!——"
Wei Jier's angry rebuke was interrupted by Su Zuo halfway through: "It is not necessary to use punishment to make people repent. This is the role of God's church and faith. I can't help him for a lifetime, but I can help him.
For a moment, everyone is in trouble on the street. At the moment when a soul is sliding into the abyss, if someone helps him, then it is very likely that the gods can save a soul that is about to fall."
"..." Wei Jier looked at Su Zuo's unfaltering eyes and bit her lip. She was almost shaken, "But if you can save him this time, can you save everyone? Law is the basis of order.
, disrupting this order will only allow more people to see the opportunities that can be exploited——"
Su Zuo leaned on crutches and slowly turned around and looked at the endless flow of people. Among the people here, there are unknown how many "sinners" who were left behind to make a living because they could not pass the magical review of the passage, but even if
In this way, they can still change the past and start a new life like normal people in Wenning District. And if they are liquidated according to the crimes they committed in the past, at least half of the people on the streets will disappear, and the remaining
Of the half of the population, a quarter have no hands, a quarter cannot walk, a quarter cannot speak, and the last quarter are kind and normal people.
So, does it mean that the people in Wenning District are born criminals with the blood of sinners?
Do not make jokes!
Su Zuo supported his crutches and walked slowly to the fruit stall on the street. He took out five copper coins from his arms and threw them to the stall owner. Su Zuo picked up a green apple that he had never seen before and stuffed it into his mouth -
—He didn’t really like eating apples in his previous life. After his rebirth, this was the first time he ate them.
The fruit that enters the mouth is sour and astringent, but even such a thing, in the eyes of the poor, is also a rare and precious food.
Chewing the pulp in his mouth, Su Zuo asked Wei Jie'er with unusually clear speech: "Wei Jie'er, I can't save everyone, but as you can see, that child only stole a child in the eyes of the nobles.
Two sour apples that are not worth mentioning will have their right hands chopped off. Do you think this rule...is just?"
"But this is the law! This is the rule! There are wars in Nanling all year round, and the police stations in various places do not have enough manpower, so they can only make up for it by increasing the intensity of punishment..." Faced with Su Zuo's doubts, Wei Jie'er couldn't help but argue.
, but the more she spoke, the weaker her tone became, and in the end, it was almost like a mosquito.
"What does the war between the nobles and the common people have to do with it? The territory and spoils obtained will not be converted into the benefits of the common people. They will be exploited during the war and forgotten after the war. Isn't it like this no matter where it is or in which era?!
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Su Zuo spoke in a soft voice at a volume that only Weijier could hear, which could be described as treasonous words.
"Yi Wenyan, you..." Wei Jier's golden eyes were full of disbelief. She never expected that Su Zuo would actually say such a thing.
"In my opinion, a good person can save one person, but a good ruler can save countless people."
Su Zuo didn't care about Wei Jie'er's expression and just said to himself.
"Yes, in the face of the tragic situation where people all over the country are living in dire straits, there is really very little that one person can do. I can't save everyone, so where I can't see, there will definitely be people dying for stealing, robbing, and killing.
Die. But this does not mean that such harsh laws and rules are right."
“A good ruler should ensure that his territory is peaceful and peaceful for the people, so that everyone has a place to live, everyone has food, and everyone can support themselves through labor, so that they do not need to steal, rob, deceive, or kill.
, you can survive. And Wei Jier, do you think such a world still needs such cruel criminal laws to ensure social stability?!"
Su Zuo bit into the sour apple in his hand one by one. The sourness was really refreshing. The sourness made his tongue numb and his head swollen. However, after taking four or five bites, Su Zuo felt that the more he ate, the more delicious it became.
, after the unbearable sourness gradually subsided, what remained on the tip of the tongue was a sweetness that was unforgettable and almost engraved on the tip of the heart.
Su Zuo turned to look at Wei Jie'er. The expression on his face was as plain as a well and his eyes were as deep as a well. Wei Jie'er couldn't help but feel that he was becoming more and more mysterious: "This land needs to change, Wei Jie'er. This country also needs to change, Wei Jie'er."
Jie'er."
Su Zuo put the fruit into his mouth and bit it down hard, but his eyes saw through the cliff, through most of the Nanling Basin, and saw the man who was extremely far away from him, but extremely close to him in his heart -
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That man has various titles.
The Duke of Silver Rose, Grand Duke Feldnan, the head of the Sixty Corolla noble families, the head of the Silver Rose family, the head of the four great dukes in the empire, the prefect of Nanling, the de facto ruler and dictator of Nanling...
This man was the first insurmountable high wall in front of Su Zuo's goal.
Even just looking at this terrifying existence from a distance can make people lose their fighting spirit. However, looking at this faceless man, Su Zuo's heart was full of fighting spirit.
"Watch it..." Su Zuo bit off the last piece of pulp from the fruit in his hand, and the juice splashed everywhere. Su Zuo's eyes were firm, "I will definitely defeat you! Pull you down from the position of ruler, and beat you hard