The scorching sun in the sky gradually begins to set towards the west as time goes by. The current sunshine is no longer as spicy as the period after noon. Of course, if you are exposed to this kind of sunshine for a long time, it can still make people feel... It's unbearable.
However, even so, the square in the center of Port Royal is still crowded with countless onlookers, and the scorching sun cannot reduce their enthusiasm for watching the excitement at all!
As a last resort, the British Royal Lobster Soldiers in Port Royal had to use muskets and bayonets to form a human wall around the execution platform, trying their best to maintain order around the execution platform and prevent overly enthusiastic citizens. Rush to the stone platform.
Among the people who are watching, some are sailors or crew members who have just arrived here; some are local shopkeepers and clerks; some are ladies who are full and have nothing to do; of course, there are definitely those who hold Drunks who were drunk from rum bottles; of course, the most common people here were the indifferent civilians of Port Royal.
These onlookers, without exception, were all pointing at the burning platform in the middle of the square, some were discussing loudly, and some even let out bursts of mocking laughter from time to time!
What excited these onlookers was that today's church's fire execution was different from the past. Their church actually executed women accused of being witches one by one, and burned them to death while they were still alive. It's not like before, beheading first and then burning. Because of this, the audience can watch the excitement for a long time. This is why they are unwilling to leave for a long time!
Because, on the stone platform above, there is a young and beautiful witch who has not yet been burned! Before they heard her miserable howl as she was burned by flames, swallowed up by thick smoke, and tortured by pain before she died, they would never leave easily!
In the Middle Ages, when there was a lack of entertainment activities, in this age of exploration, the screams of those witches or women suspected of being witches as they wailed in the fire made them most excited and happy!
However, it is a pity that the wailing of the three witches before being burned to death did not even make the last remaining one pee her pants? This incident made the audience feel a little bit regretful!
They were now looking at the witch who was tied to the last cross. Until now, she still lowered her head, still letting her golden hair cover her face, letting the scorching sun continue to blast her skin that had become red and chapped, and she remained motionless and unresponsive...
Some onlookers even maliciously speculated and set up gambling games with each other, using their few coins to guess whether she had been directly frightened to death by the tragic situation of the three witches before?
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Charlotte Millet was panting breathlessly. She was being tied to the last cross by the thick old sailboat cables. She was suffering from the pain of being whipped, the regret of losing her loved ones, and the torment of the scorching sun. Her head had to hang down, she had been tortured to the point where she had no strength left.
Her beautiful long golden hair was now covered with blood stains and dirt. They were tangled up in a ball and hung down to cover her haggard face. She had not been exposed to water for a long time, coupled with the explosion under the scorching sun. , causing her lips to crack along the folds, and little drops of blood seeped out from the cracks, and then flowed into her slightly open mouth...
She, Charlotte, has just turned sixteen this year, and she is in her prime years, just like the blooming season.
She originally had a happy and fulfilling family. Her father was originally a navigator on a medium-sized merchant ship. He traveled with merchant ships to and from the New World and European countries all year round. With her father's salary, her life was not bad, even Better than most citizens.
Her mother was an ordinary employee in a textile factory in Port Royal. She relied on her craftsmanship to help with some factory chores and earned a good salary. With her parents' high income, even though Charlotte still had a small child Her six-year-old sister, but this family of four lives a prosperous and happy life in Port Royal.
And she herself, because she knew some words since she was a child, it was actually taught by her navigator father! Therefore, when she was thirteen years old, she got a light job in the library of Port Royal, where she was responsible for organizing books and doing some cleaning.
This easy job not only allowed her to subsidize three to five silver coins for her family every month, but also gave her very convenient access to all the books in the library, which she cherished very much.
Their family just lived and settled in Port Royal without any worries. Originally, her life could have continued like this peacefully.
But what she didn't expect was that when she was fifteen, a merchant ship passing by Port Royal actually brought bad news: the merchant ship her father was following the navigation capsized in the sea because it was robbed by pirates. Go up... What's even more terrifying is that all the people on their ship were slaughtered by the cruel pirates, and no one survived! Of course, this also includes her navigator father!
When the bad news came, her gentle and kind mother suffered a stroke due to excessive grief. Although she spent a lot of money to be cured, due to too many complications after the stroke, her hands and feet were no longer available. The original Lisuo, therefore, naturally lost his job in the textile factory...
This incident has made things even worse for this already troubled family! From then on, the burden of life suddenly fell on Charlotte's fragile shoulders.
However, the strong Charlotte was not crushed by this. For her mother and her lovely sister, she worked hard in the library while taking advantage of her ability to write and often took time out. Go to the port and help the sailors or sailors write letters to earn a little money to support your family.
In this way, time passed day by day in these busy and fulfilling days of Charlotte. With Charlotte's perseverance and somewhat stubborn efforts, her family was reborn because of her!
Although, for Charlotte, every day was very tiring, but when she saw the smiles on the faces of her mother and sister, she felt that everything she had done was actually worth it. .
One year passed quickly.
Sixteen-year-old Charlotte, a young girl in her prime, began to become more and more beautiful and generous. Due to the exercise she got from being constantly busy, her figure was tall and well-proportioned. In addition, she often browsed the books in the library. Therefore, she has a charming bookishness that is different from ordinary girls.
Calmness, perseverance, beauty, kindness, hard work and other qualities can all be found in her. All these make her begin to exude a fatal charm to the outside world without even realizing it! Even her simple burlap clothes couldn't stop her in the slightest!
This makes every time she appears in the port, the sailors who have been traveling on the sea all year round, even if they don't have any need to send letters, will wave their coins one by one, fighting for her to write that letter, which may never happen. The letter home that will not be sent out, they just want to take a close look at this beautiful girl in front of her small table.
There were also some unscrupulous drunkards wandering around the port, trying to take advantage of the little girl by taking advantage of their body, or wanting to touch their breasts and faces, but, in a certain unlucky person, After a little finger was cut off by the dagger Charlotte carried, no one dared to bully this beautiful and strong little girl anymore!
It's a pity that fate is not biased because of someone's resistance. Beauty is a disaster, this term is not meant to be laughed at. Especially in the Middle Ages, in this ignorant and chaotic era, a single-parent family, a widow's home without a man's protection, a group of orphans and widowed mothers, without sufficient protection, misfortune will always come inadvertently...
So, when Charlotte was sixteen years old, the goddess of fate played a bad joke on her!
Jeffrey, the middle-aged owner of the library, has long since set his sights on this beautiful civilian girl!
So, naturally, he took advantage of his position to lure this miserable girl into his curator's office one night... Originally, he thought that with his status as a noble, he could force this girl to submit to him. He gave in, but he never thought that when he tried to be violent to her, the strong girl swung a dagger in panic and directly cut through the arteries of his neck. Then, naturally, under his dirty His blood splashed all over the floor, turning the entire office red, and he died on the spot!
A nobleman with status died at the hands of a commoner girl. This is considered a serious crime no matter what in Port Royal!
Therefore, death has become inevitable for Charlotte. All she can choose is the difference between the guillotine or the noose!
However, the evil nobles don't seem to be satisfied with this!
Therefore, the vindictive wife of Geoffrey reported to the church, accusing Charlotte of being an evil witch! Subsequently, the church collected a lot of evidence at Charlotte's home!
Those are the notes Charlotte wrote after reading books in the library for three years and some of her bold guesses! But it was these deviant things that made the church more firmly believe that she was an evil witch! As a result, Charlotte's mother and sister, who were members of the witch's family, were also arrested at the same time and sent to the stake together!
Now, hanging on the three burnt-out racks next to Charlotte, two of them are her relatives...her mother...and her sister who was just ten years old...
Charlotte still remembers what her mother said to her before she was executed: Charlotte, I'm sorry, as a mother, I am unable to protect you... Then, the fire devoured her mother, and the painful The wailing sound echoed in Charlotte's ears for a long time...for a long time...
Then, before Charlotte's tears dried up, the church's executioner walked in front of her sister again...
Sister, I don’t hate you, but I’m afraid of pain!
These were the last words her sister said. Charlotte knew nothing about what happened after that... Even though the sun was blazing in the sky, even in the hot summer, she seemed to be in an endless dark and cold hell...
Pain... heartbreaking pain... not only in her body, but also in her heart...
Charlotte felt that she would probably never cry again in the future, if there was ever a future...
Because her tears have completely dried up, and she is now in darkness, forgetting everything around her! Her heart, which was not very strong to begin with, was broken into countless pieces by those villains and then crushed into powder.
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"Burn that witch!"
"Burn her quickly!"
"Burn her! Burn her! Burn her!"
Around this square, those ignorant and crazy people are still cheering and laughing loudly. They are eager for this rare entertainment event to continue until the end so that they can have more after-dinner conversations in the future... …
A group of crazy spectators were shouting wildly, but little did they know that behind them, on a carriage, was a real witch, ready to go crazy...
