Chapter 152: The Witch on the Stake

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The scorching sun in the sky gradually began to slant westward with the passage of time. The current sun is not as hot as the time after noon. Of course, if it is exposed to this sun for a long time, it can still make people feel to unbearable.

However, even if this is the case, the square in the middle of the street in Port Royal is still crowded with countless onlookers, and the scorching sun can't make their enthusiasm for watching the excitement any less!

As a last resort, the British Royal Lobster Soldiers in Port Royal had no choice but to use muskets and bayonets to form a human wall around the execution platform, trying their best to maintain the order around the execution platform and prevent those overly enthusiastic citizens from Rush to the top of the stone platform.

Among these people who are watching, some of them are sailors or crew members who have just arrived here; some are local shopkeepers and fellows; The drunks who drank the rum bottles; of course, the most here are the indifferent Port Royal civilians.

These onlookers, without exception, were all pointing at the burning platform in the middle of the square, some people were discussing loudly, and some even let out bursts of mocking laughter from time to time!

What excites these onlookers is that today's church fire is different from the past. Their church executed those women who were accused of being witches individually, and burned them to death while they were still alive. Instead of beheading first and then burning as before, it is precisely because of this that the audience has enough excitement to watch for a long time, which is why they are reluctant to leave for a long time!

Because, on the stone platform above, there is still a young and beautiful witch who has not been burned yet! They would never leave so easily before they heard the tragic howling of her being burned by flames, swallowed by thick smoke, and tortured by pain before she died!

In the Middle Ages, when entertainment was lacking, in this age of great exploration, those witches or women suspected of being witches, their screams when they howled in the fire could make them most excited and happy!

However, it is a pity that the wailing of the three witches before being burned to death did not scare the last remaining one to pee his pants? This incident made the audience feel a little bit regretful!

They are now looking at the witch tied to the last cross. Until now, she is still lowering her head, still letting her golden hair cover her face, letting the scorching sun continue to blast her red and dry skin, she just keeps motionless and does not respond...

Some onlookers even maliciously guessed and set up bets with each other,

Using their few coins to guess, would she have been frightened to death by the horror of the previous three witches?

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Charlotte Millet was gasping for breath. She was being tied to the last cross by the thick old cables of the sailboat. The pain of being whipped, the remorse of losing a loved one, and the torment of the scorching sun, Her head had to hang down low, and she had been tortured to the point where she had no strength left.

Her beautiful long golden hair was covered with blood stains and dirt, and they were tangled up like that, hanging down to cover her haggard face, without water for a long time, coupled with the scorching sun , her lips began to split along the folds, and blood beads were seeping out from the cracks, and then flowed into her slightly opened mouth...

She, Charlotte, has just turned sixteen this year, and she is in her beautiful years like a blooming season.

She used to have a happy and complete family. Her father was originally a navigator on a medium-sized merchant ship. He followed the merchant ship between the New World and European countries all the year round. Stronger than most citizens.

Her mother is an ordinary worker in a textile factory in Port Royal. Relying on her craftsmanship, she helps with some chores in the factory and earns a lot of wages. With the high income of her parents, even if Charlotte still has a child Her six-year-old sister, but this family of four lives in abundance and happiness in Port Royal.

And she herself, because she has learned some characters since she was a child, it was actually taught by her navigator father! So, when she was thirteen, she took a light job in the library in Port Royal, sorting books and doing some cleaning.

This easy job not only allowed her to subsidize three or five silver coins for her family every month, but also allowed her to read all the books in the library very conveniently, which she once cherished very much.

Their family lived and settled in Port Royal so carefree. Originally, her life could continue in such a peaceful way.

But who would have thought that when she was fifteen years old, a merchant ship passing by Port Royal brought a bad news: the merchant ship her father was navigating capsized on the sea because it was robbed by pirates On board... What's even more frightening is: all the people on their ship were slaughtered by the cruel pirates, and no one survived! Of course, her navigator father was also included!

When the bad news came, her gentle and kind mother had a stroke because of excessive grief for a while. Although it took a lot of money to be cured, but due to too many complications after the stroke, her hands and feet were no longer there. The original Li Suo, therefore, naturally lost his job in the textile factory...

This matter, for this already misty family, is even worse! From then on, the burden of life fell on Charlotte's fragile shoulders.

However, the strong Charlotte was not overwhelmed by this. For her mother and her lovely sister, she worked hard to do the library work well while taking advantage of the convenience of her ability to write. Go to the port, to help the sailors or sailors who come and go write letters, and earn the little coins to subsidize the family.

In this way, time passed day by day during Charlotte's busy and fulfilling days. With Charlotte's persistent and stubborn efforts, her family was reborn because of her!

Although, for Charlotte, every day is very tiring, but when she saw the smiles on the faces of her mother and sister, she felt that everything she did was actually worth it .

A year passed quickly.

Sixteen-year-old Charlotte, a big girl in this blooming season, began to become more and more beautiful and generous. Because of the frequent exercise she got from being busy, her figure was tall and well-proportioned, and she often read books in the library. Therefore, she has a charming bookish atmosphere that is different from commoner girls.

Calmness, perseverance, beauty, kindness, industriousness and other qualities can all be found in her. All of these make her start to exude a fatal charm to the outside world without realizing it! Not even her simple burlap clothes could stop her in the slightest!

This makes every time she appears in the port, those sailors who have been traveling on the sea all year round, even if there is no need to send letters, will wave coins one by one, trying to get her to write the letter that may never be sent. The family letter that will not be sent out is for them to have a close look at this beautiful girl at her small table.

There were also some malicious drunks wandering around the port, trying to take advantage of the little girl by taking advantage of their bodies, or wanting to touch their breasts and cheeks, but, in a certain unlucky guy After a little finger was cut off by the dagger that Charlotte carried, no one dared to bully this beautiful and strong little girl again!

It's a pity that fate is not biased because of a certain person's resistance. The word beauty is not a joke. Especially in the Middle Ages, in this ignorant and chaotic age, a single-parent family, a widow's house without a man's protection, a group of orphans and widows, without enough power to protect, doom 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 set his sights on this beautiful commoner girl!

So, naturally, he took advantage of his position to lure this poor girl into his curator's office one night... Originally, he thought that with his status as a nobleman, he could force this girl to submit to the curator. He succumbed, but he didn't expect that when he tried to rape her, the dagger swung by this strong girl in a panic directly cut his neck artery, and then, naturally, when he was filthy, His blood splashed all over the floor, staining the entire office red, and he died on the spot!

A nobleman with status and status, but died at the hands of a commoner girl, this is already considered a very serious crime here in Port Royal no matter what!

Therefore, death has become inevitable for Charlotte, and all she can choose is the difference between the guillotine or the twisted rope!

However, the evil nobles don't seem to be satisfied with this!

So the vindictive Mrs. Geoffrey reported to the church, accusing Charlotte of being a wicked witch! Afterwards, the church collected a lot of evidence at Charlotte's home!

Those are the notes Charlotte wrote after reading books in the library and some bold conjectures of her own over the past three years! 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, as the witch's family members, were also arrested at the same time and sent to the stake together!

Now, on the three burnt-blackened fire racks next to Charlotte, two of them are her relatives... her mother... and her ten-year-old sister...

Charlotte still remembers what her mother said to her before she was executed: Charlotte, I'm sorry, but I, as a mother, am unable to protect you... Then, the fire engulfed her mother, and the pain The wailing sound echoed in Charlotte's ears for a long time...a long time...

Then, before Charlotte's tears were shed, the executioner of the church walked in front of her sister...

Sister, I don't hate you, but I'm afraid of pain!

These were the last words her sister said. Afterwards, Charlotte no longer knew anything...Even though it was a scorching sun, even in the hot summer, she seemed to be in a boundless dark and cold hell...

The pain...the heart-piercing pain...not only physically, but also in her heart...

Charlotte felt that in the future...she might never cry again, if there was a future...

Because, her tears have been completely shed, and she is now in the dark, forgetting everything around her! Her heart, which was not very strong in the first place, was smashed into countless pieces by those villains, and then crushed into powder.

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"Burn that witch!"

"Quickly burn her to death!"

"Burn her! Burn her! Burn her!"

Around this square, those ignorant and crazy people are still cheering loudly and laughing loudly. They hope that this rare entertainment can last until the end, so that they can have more conversations after dinner... …

A group of crazy spectators are shouting wildly, but behind them, on a carriage, a real witch is about to get mad...