Chapter 296, Escape

The next afternoon, when it was still daylight, Raymond returned home. He lied to Lord Chevalier's steward, saying that his mother was dying of illness, and it was close to the situation where he was going to be unctioned to prepare for his funeral.

The master knight's butler reluctantly agreed to Raymond's request for leave. The Bretanian law has detailed regulations on the exemption of serfs from labor, including sick leave.

The spirit of chivalry is still observed by the nobles...at least superficially, where the law stipulates, the knight nobles still maintain their fear of the fairies in the lake.

Raymond took the opportunity to return home early. He and his mother agreed to cook in the afternoon. After the family had a full meal, they waited for the riot to happen. Once the riot started, they would flee for their lives immediately.

When the serf opened the door of his house, there was a burst of aroma, which was why the old mother reluctantly took out the seed grain to make porridge.

Seed food is the life of serfs, and Lei Meng was not only not happy when he smelled the fragrance, but felt like a knife piercing his heart.

Who would want that if it wasn't a choice? As a fugitive slave, leave the land where your ancestors lived for generations and embark on a journey full of danger and uncertainty.

"Raymond, you're back? Eat quickly! I'll pack up again." The old mother is putting away the family's belongings, including a large number of bottles and cans and some old clothes, which are almost the family's all property.

"Oh, Mom, we are running for our lives! These things are heavy and hard to carry, we can't go far like this!" However, Raymond knew that the family had been hungry for several months, and a full meal was not enough to feed them. After walking too far, the eldest son decisively threw these things aside and signaled everyone to eat quickly.

The youngest son, Thomas, couldn't control that much anymore. His thin face was full of longing, and he grabbed the bowl with his small hands, gulping down the porridge and eating the bread. After the whole bowl of porridge was finished, the child He even sticks out his tongue and licks the bowl eagerly.

"Hurry up, Aaron and the others are going to make trouble!" Lei Meng urged his old mother and younger brother to eat quickly. The serfs planned to start a riot when they finished work in the evening. Put it in a burlap bag, which was their ration for fleeing, and then took out a handful of copper coins and a silver coin from the hidden compartment under the bed at home, which were the family's last savings.

The riot was not a temporary idea, but had been planned long ago. In the evening, when the serfs finished their work, it was the time when the defense was most lax.

The sky was getting dark gradually, and the arrival of dusk did not make the village fall into silence. On the contrary, quarrels broke out in the direction of the master knight's house.

"We grow food, we starve to death! Who are we growing this food for?"

"I don't care! There is food here! We need food!"

"Vampire! Go to hell!"

quarrel,

Fighting with weapons, thick smoke began to rise from the direction of Lord Knight's house. That was when the house was set on fire. Raymond inside the house was waiting for this moment.

The guards on the high wall of the village noticed the change in the knight's house and heard the order for help. They hesitated for a while, and then decided to rush to the manor for support.

It's now! After Raymond confirmed that there were fewer people at the village sentry post, the family sneaked out of the house. Lak from the next door also brought his family out of the house. Lak was also a young man with two younger sisters. Both parents are dead.

"Hey, Luke, are you ready?" Ramon whispered to his neighbor.

"Get ready!" Another young man pulled his two younger sisters, also ready to escape.

"Thomas..." Raymond looked back and found that his brother was behind him, but his mother did not appear: "Where's mom?"

"I'm here!" The old mother was carrying a large basket of bottles and cans, which they had thrown away before, panting: "Where are you going?"

"Oh! Mom, why are you still carrying these!" Raymond shouted angrily. He grabbed the big basket on his mother's back and slammed it on the ground.

"Wow!" A large basket of bottles, cans, and bowls and chopsticks were all smashed into pieces.

"Oh! God! Raymond, do you know what you are doing? This is all our family's property!" The old mother couldn't believe that her eldest son would do such a thing, and she burst into tears: "You child! Your father will beat you to death if he finds out that you have spoiled things like this!"

"If you don't throw these away, we will die on the way to escape sooner or later!" Raymond gritted his teeth and pulled his old mother and younger brother: "Go! It's too late!"

Taking advantage of the guards leaving to suppress the serf uprising, Lei Meng and his party fled in the opposite direction, and they ran all the way to the south.

Don't dare to take the big road, the group only dare to take the small road.

What they saw and heard along the way shocked Raymond and Lak. There were serf corpses hanging everywhere near the village, and groups of serfs were executed.

Under the faint moonlight, Lei Meng could find that some serfs were caught and executed as fugitive slaves, some serfs were executed after rioting, and some serfs died of starvation.

Either way, the end is death.

There was chaos everywhere, bandits and bandits shuttled through the night, Lei Meng and his party had already escaped two waves of bandits, these bandits attacked the village, killed the defenders, and plundered everywhere.

If it was before, the knights would dispatch and organize an army to eliminate these robbers and bandits. However, the chivalry war five years ago left the guards in many areas of the territory in a tight situation. The knights could only defend the core areas and key roads. To be safe, many villages and small roads on the edge became a paradise for bandits, robbers, and beast tribes to ravage. The knights still bravely fought against evil, but the insufficient number of troops obviously made the knights insufficient to protect all the territories.

They could only flee desperately, fleeing south.

It is said that the south is different from the north. It is the territory ruled by the Holy Grail Knights. The virtues of the Holy Grail Knights are trusted by the serfs. In fact, when the Holy Grail Knights pass by, the lords will restrain themselves and dare not go too far.

Maybe these Holy Grail Knight Lords are willing to accept them hard-working people?

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In this way, a group of people looked for a place to rest during the day and drove at night. They went south along the edge of the Arden Forest. After fleeing for two days and two nights, they spent their last savings to smuggle across a big river.

A few hours later, they entered a dense forest.

"Raymond~ I can't walk anymore." The old mother panted heavily, leaning against a big tree: "Let's take a rest, shall we rest for a while?"

"Damn, where have we been?" Raymond had to stop to rest when he saw this.

During the frantic escape for two days and two nights, the group of people no longer knew where they had fled. They lost their way on the way to escape. The army of nobles searching for escaped slaves was actually less. Raymond knew that they had left Lyonnaise The principality has entered the boundaries of other principalities, but no one knows where they are.

In Brittania, the vast majority of serfs will never leave their villages throughout their lives. Generally, they only have a few chances to leave their villages and go to other places. They are also appointed by the lord. Once they leave the village where they have lived for generations, The outside world was chaos and unknown to the serfs.

They dared not walk the high roads to avoid patrols of robbers, brigands, and nobles, nor did they dare go too deep into the forest to avoid encountering the Beastmen.

"Ouch~ Ouch~" Raymond's old mother couldn't walk anymore, she had never walked such a long distance, and now her feet were so swollen that she could hardly walk: "Raymond, my Son, when are we going to escape to be tall?"

"Mom, don't worry, come and eat something." Raymond and his neighbor Lak took out some food, and they started to warm up and cook something.

After escaping, the two families ate better. Even though it was late winter, there was still some food in the forest. There were fish in the pond, rabbits and birds in the forest. They found a big tree to sit on. When they came down, the clothes of the serfs were not too thick. They hunched over and hid under the big tree, eating.

"Brother, I'm cold." Raymond's younger brother Thomas huddled into a ball and said uncomfortablely.

"Be stronger, Thomas." Raymond stuffed the bread into his younger brother's hand, and said in a low voice: "Be stronger, everyone is cold, we will spend a few days out of the forest, and this will not be the case."

After simply eating something and boiling some water, a group of people are ready to go on.

The dark forest is always frightening. During the difficult advance, several people don't even know what the weather is like.

"What time is it?" Raymond licked his mouth. His nose was red from the cold. In the cold weather, serfs could only wear single clothes and a cloak covered with a lot of thatch. He didn't even know. What time is it now.

"It feels... three hours? Four hours?" Another serf, Lak, said doubtfully.

The sun cannot be seen clearly in the forest, and the serfs cannot tell the difference between east, west, south, and north.

After walking for a while, the two serfs felt something was wrong.

There was a fishy smell in the air, and a low roar came from the forest in the distance.

It's the Beastmen!

"Mom! Thomas! It's the Beastman! Hurry up! Get up, let's run away!" Raymond and Lak looked at each other, and their faces turned pale. How would they deal with the powerful Beastman? They only have a few sticks and two knives for cutting bread!

The Beastman obviously also realized that there were humans nearby, and the targets were a few horned beasts. They let out a mournful roar, and then rushed directly towards the place where the group of people were. These were a few ordinary horned beasts, and they seemed to be injured. But even so, they were still not something these escaped slaves could match.

The group of people who had been walking for two days and two nights were already very tired, especially Lak's two younger sisters and Raymond's old mother. After only two steps, the old mother wailed and fell to the ground.

She has reached her limit.

"Mom!" Raymond found his mother fell to the ground, he turned around subconsciously: "Mom, go! Otherwise we will all die!"

"No, I can't go anymore, Raymond, take your brother and run away!" The old mother shook her head, her old face was full of tears: "Raymond, take Thomas, you run away, see you Beastmen!" When there is something to eat, I will definitely not rush to chase you!"

"Mom!" Lei Meng carried his mother on his back. With tears in the serf's eyes, he shook his head desperately: "No, I escaped with great difficulty, and escaped here with great difficulty. Mom, I will never give up on you."

The beast man's roar gradually approached, and the shrill cry lingered in everyone's ears, so clear in the dark forest.

With his mother on his back, Raymond pulled his younger brother and trotted all the way. His neighbor Lac pulled his two younger sisters and ran for their lives together.

A few beastmen approached. Obviously, except for a very small number of human beings, most of them could not outrun such terrifying creatures as beastmen.

"Ahhh!" Lak was the first to be caught up, and this poor serf was gradually caught up by the horned beast. He pushed his two younger sisters away with all his might, then turned around and tried to stop the beastman: "Go away!"

How could a serf be an opponent of a horned beast? In just two rounds, Lark had his left arm cut off amidst the screams. The Beastmen grabbed his body and tore it in half in the air, spraying internal organs and blood all over the floor.

"Run away! Raymond." Seeing this, the old mother wailed, "Don't worry about me, I've lived for more than forty years, I've lived enough."

"Mom! Mom!" The short Thomas also wailed. Not far away, the Beastmen were enjoying a long-lost meal. Although Lak had pushed his two younger sisters away, they Still doomed, several Beastmen captured the two girls, and then brutally shared the food.

"We can't escape, we can't escape, maybe this is our destiny." Raymond also sobbed: "Maybe this is our destiny, lady in the lake, lady Shalia, whoever it is, please save me!" Save us, please save us!"

This may be the fate of the serfs, no matter how hard they try, the end is death.

"Help us!" Raymond's loud call echoed in the forest, spreading far, far away.

The serfs were simply incapable of fighting the Beastmen, and this was their last desperate attempt to save themselves.

His plea for help was not ignored.

A golden arc appeared from the depths of the forest, and almost in the blink of an eye, the raging Beastmen were cut into scattered pieces.

A giant with a height of more than three meters and a golden helmet appeared in front of the serf. He held a halberd and was wearing extremely gorgeous golden power armor.

The Raymond family was speechless in surprise.

The giant in golden helmet and armor looked at the dead Lak's family on the ground, and at the several horned beasts that had been chopped into pieces, shook his head, and then said something incomprehensible to the serf.

Lei Meng had never seen such a wise and mighty figure. He even forgot to kneel and kowtow for a moment, but shook his head in confusion, expressing that he did not understand what the other party was saying.

"It's a runaway slave again..." The giant in the golden helmet and armor had no expression on his face, he coughed, and said in low Gothic: "I mean, you should have shouted for help earlier, otherwise your companions will die too." won't die."

"You...are you a god?" Lei Meng was still dazed.

"No, I'm not a god, but I serve someone who is greater than a god." The giant pointed to a direction in the forest and said, "Go there, there is a new road there, and there are people patrolling. They said that you came here as refugees, and they will not embarrass you, follow the road they pointed out, and you can go to the territory of Earl Ryan, the Holy Grail Knight, where you can find work and food, and work harder."

After speaking, the giant in golden helmet and armor was about to turn around and leave.

"Well, sir, can you tell me your name?" Raymond called him subconsciously, he knelt down and kowtowed, and then said in a very firm tone: "Although I have nothing, Thomas, I and my mother must I will find a way to repay your kindness!"

"Name?" The giant turned around, looked up at the sky, then shook his head, giving up the idea of ​​saying his name.

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