Heir to the Kingdom of 1.4 billion people

Chapter 64: Parricide
In the evening, the moonlight is hazy.

After three days of cleanup, Mineral Town is now more peaceful than ever before.

The brothel that was once brightly lit all night long is now empty and only darkness remains.

On the other side, the dungeon in the town was crowded with people.

The bottom floor of the dungeon.

It was damp and cold here, the walls were covered with moss, the ground was covered with black mud, and the air was filled with a nauseating smell of decay and stench.

However, unlike the crowded scenes on the other floors of the dungeon, there were only two prisoners on this floor - Fran Hughes and Eli Hughes.

"Karen, you beast! You actually locked your own uncle in jail!"

"That vicious woman will sooner or later plunge the entire Hughes family into the abyss!"

Fran, who had not eaten or drunk anything for three days, still held the cell door with both hands and roared with full force.

After all, although he is already a sixty-year-old man, he has already become an extraordinary knight and can still endure hunger for a few days.

If he were ten or twenty years younger, he could even break down the rusty prison door in front of him with his bare hands.

"Grandpa Fran, can you please stop yelling? I want to get some sleep."

Eli in the cell next door was curled up on the hay, shivering from the cold.

Being driven out of the castle since childhood and not receiving elite aristocratic education, and having no one to discipline him, he indulged in women and exhausted his energy early on, and was only able to take on a mortal job as a knight's apprentice.

He had not had a drop of water for three days, and not even the black bread that ordinary people needed to fill their stomachs. Coupled with the cold and damp environment of the dungeon, his body was already feeling extremely weak.

If this continues, he will probably go to see his unfilial father in a few days.

Damn it! If you hadn't flirted with Auntie, I might have been a lord now!
"Alas," Fran glared angrily at Eli, who was shivering from the cold and obviously had a fever.

Then he sighed deeply and stopped roaring.

Although Ellie is a typical hopeless case, he has the blood of the Hughes family flowing in his veins after all, and he has watched him grow up since he was a child, so there is some degree of affection and concern for him.

"Karen is a weak-willed person with no opinion of his own. He would never do something as outrageous as imprisoning his uncle and nephew. It can only be that woman, Danielle Martha, who is behind this."

"How come Karen's two wives are vicious women in a row? Does he have some strange gift?"

After calming down, Fran couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Karen's previous wife was a maid. She sowed discord and killed Karen's brother, which indirectly angered his eldest brother to death.

Fortunately, he died of illness early, but he didn't expect that the eldest daughter of the Martha family he married was even more cruel. Now it seems that even he, Karen's uncle, is going to be tortured to death.

"But what is the purpose of that vicious woman doing this?" Fran became even more confused.

He didn't think such a vicious woman would do this for the sake of illusory justice, it could only be for profit.

But whether it is cleaning up brothels or gangs, it will only bring negative effects!

Brothels are undoubtedly a major pillar of increasing tax revenue. After all, for traveling merchants, adventurers, bards and other passers-by, only coquettish prostitutes or prostitutes can make them willingly take out large sums of money from their wallets.

Most of this money will eventually become part of the tax and go into the lord's wallet.

As for the gangs, they are even more like the black gloves of the nobles. After all, a qualified lord is always great and righteous, at least there should be no darkness on the surface.

This is also the reason why he supported Eli to unify the brothels and gangs in the territory. Outsiders are definitely not as reliable as his own family.

"She feels threatened by her young son, but that's not right. Karen alone is enough to kill everyone in the territory."

"Or is your real goal to get rid of me? But since Haydn Hughes is indeed the bloodline of my Hughes family and possesses the gift of immense strength, I will definitely support him unconditionally!"

Fran frowned, thinking for a long time, but he couldn't figure out the real reason why Danielle did this. He made several assumptions, but none of them were consistent with his position.

What kind of interests made Danielle persuade Karen to imprison his uncle and nephew?

Tapping.

At this moment, two footsteps suddenly sounded.

It was Karen and Danielle, who stepped into the lowest level of the dungeon carrying an oil lamp.

"Karen, stop listening to that vicious woman's instigation and stop your radical actions immediately. You will drag the entire Black Wolf Territory into the abyss!"

As soon as he saw the person coming, Fran immediately grabbed the cell door and yelled at Karen.

"Uncle, aunt, please let me go, I really didn't do anything wrong."

Eli, who was about to fall asleep, was awakened by the bright light of the oil lamp. He knelt on the ground and begged desperately.

"Ugh"

Karen had a complicated expression after seeing this scene, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.

"You heartless, vicious woman, what is your purpose in inciting Karen to do this?"

Seeing that Karen didn't answer, Fran questioned Danielle again in a harsh voice.

Even if he dies, he must be a sensible man and not die with regrets!

"Haha, uncle, why are you so angry? This is also for the Hughes family."

Even though she was called a vicious woman to her face, there was no anger on Danielle's delicate face. Instead, she smiled and said.

"Bullshit! Is it true that shutting down all the brothels and gangs and severing the Hughes family's branches would benefit the Black Wolf Territory?"

"Have you become stupid from reading fairy tales and stories written by bards?" Fran cursed angrily.

Seeing this, Danielle walked calmly to the cell door and whispered a few words to Fran.

Then the anger on Fran's face gradually dissipated, replaced by extreme shock, mixed with a hint of joy, his expression as complex as a chameleon.

"Karen, did His Highness really promise to become little Haydn's godfather as long as the brothels and gangs in the territory are cleared out and the evildoers are brought to justice?"

Fran immediately confirmed with Karen.

"Yes. That prince is very kind and will never break his promise." Karen hesitated.

"Hahahahahaha, it's been a hundred years, and my Hughes family has hope of promotion!" After getting a confirmed reply, Fran laughed up to the sky like a madman.

"Grandpa Fran, you..." Eli was looking at the scene in shock. Is this still the serious and meticulous old man who watched him grow up?
"Danielle Martha, I take back the slander I just made and offer you my most sincere apologies and praises - you are definitely the most virtuous and wise wife in the Hughes family in a hundred years!" Fran praised generously, his wrinkled face full of ecstasy.

Danielle just smiled and said nothing.

This old guy had just called her heartless, but now that he knew it would be of great benefit to the Hughes family, his expression immediately changed.

But it's good that he's here. Karen won't have to be stained with the blood of his father's murder, which might create a rift between him and me in the future.

"Open the cell door." After his ecstatic expression gradually faded, Fran took a deep breath and said calmly.

Click.

Before Karen could react, Danielle opened the cell door that locked Fran.

Then, as Eli Hughes looked in disbelief, his grandfather Fran pushed open the cell door expressionlessly, walked up to him, and grabbed his neck tightly.

(End of this chapter)