Whispering Verse

Chapter 3162 Hard Winter

After returning home from Green Lake, Shad took the cat out in the snow again and donated the bonus given by the Redwich Field after solving a major human trafficking case to local orphans through the Dawn Church.

The Five Gods Church in the Tobysk diocese is now providing relief meals to the poor at the church gate and on the outskirts of the city. Because this winter is particularly cold, it is also providing small bags of coal to poor families with at least two children.

The paper bags that wrapped the coal were also flammable materials for starting fires, and they all had the following printed on them:

[May the surplus food of the saints warm the hungry and cold bodies].

The newspapers called the church's generosity "ash gospel," which Shad felt was very apt.

When Shad arrived at the church to donate money, he happened to meet Priest Augustus and his group who were about to go out. So he was dragged by the priest together with the priests and clergy of the Dawn Church to the Anthem Square in the slums in the north of the city, which was the entrance of the Three Cats Inn. Relief food was distributed in front of the soup kitchen set up there. Shad even found a box of matches in the paper bag wrapped in the coal.

“I wonder if there will be a little girl selling matches in this era.”

Those who come to receive relief are the poor people who really need it. The most common people in the team are thinly dressed women holding children, disabled people with physical disabilities, laid-off workers with sad faces and lowered heads who don't want to be seen by their neighbors, and gray-haired old people supporting each other.

The young priests of the church, together with the police who maintained order, were responsible for supervising people queuing. Looking out from the shed, Shad saw people with turbans wrapped around their heads and their necks hunched, gradually forming a long dragon-like queue in the bustling square.

The snow on the Anthem Square had been cleared, but the sky was still snowing. The singing of the bards from the Three Cats Inn could be vaguely heard. The weather was very cold, and not many people were willing to speak loudly outside.

Wearing the scarf given by Iluna at the end of last year, Shad and Priest Augustus were responsible for handing bread to the people who received the hot porridge made from vegetables and rice. It was cheap bran bread, and although it tasted bad, it at least filled people's stomachs.

Although the priest was happy that Shade was willing to follow him, he still told Shade with concern:

“It’s not just Tobesk. After the snow starts to fall on most of the Old Continent, conditions will be very difficult across the entire Old Continent this winter.

A large parish like Tobesk can still maintain such a large scale of donations, and the city hall is willing, and the royal family also has to take care of its face, so there is no situation where a large number of starving people fall on the roadside, but the situation in those rural areas is really bad. "

"Yes, you were so busy in the fall that you probably didn't notice that the number of news reports of grain storage fires across the country this fall was much higher than in normal years."

The priest handed the bread to the woman's hands, which were cracked by the winter ice. After receiving her whispered thanks, he lowered his voice and said to Shade:

"I heard from the church that in the southern part of De La Rio, the price of bread has soared due to a poor harvest, causing workers to go on strike and the poor to riot."

Shad bent down and leaned out of the porridge stall, stuffing two loaves of bread into the hands of a teenage girl holding her baby brother. He quietly gave the girl two 1-shilling coins, and the girl looked very surprised. After thanking him timidly, she ran towards her grandmother on crutches with her brother and bread in her arms.

Shade lowered his voice and continued to talk to Father Augustus:

"When discussing the food shortage this winter, most domestic opinions are criticizing Carsenrick for stealing the fertile plains of Drarion during the last all-out war in the Old World. Priest, this is not a good sign."

"The natural climate this winter is so bad. If a war really breaks out, will the logistics supply really be able to hold up?"

The priest couldn't help asking. Shade knew more because he had received information from Carina and Lecia:

"There was originally a plan to go to war, especially after the funeral of the princess of the Southern Kingdom at the beginning of the month. But no one expected that the snow would have such a wide impact, which turned out to be a good thing. Neither country had the confidence to end the war in a short period of time, and the blizzard would cause major problems for logistics, so the possibility of a full-scale war this winter was almost non-existent.

At present, it seems that the two countries will most likely support the small principalities on the border to wage proxy wars and test their opponents first.

Now the army has deployed troops on the border, and the navy ships are just about to fire at each other. Starting in the autumn, the routes to the New World must not only guard against pirates, but also the navies of neighboring countries. In this situation, no one can stop Lion Ryan and Larus III - unless the church is willing to directly interfere in secular politics, but we all know that unless civilization is in crisis, the church will hardly interfere in secular politics. "

"Yes, the change of kingship and power is as common as natural phenomena in the eyes of the church."

The priest sighed and directed Shade to throw the empty basket behind him and move the new basket full of bread to the stall. He wanted to say something to Shade, but he noticed a commotion behind the line of people waiting to receive relief food.

The man in the brown woolen hat who took the bread from the priest looked back, and because of his curiosity, the frost on his eyebrows was shaken off. The young priests in charge of maintaining order hurried to check the situation, and then found an old man in a turban lying in the square.

Shad motioned to the priest to go and see what was going on. No matter what the situation was, the people in the lower city obviously respected the respected old priest more.

So priest Augustus temporarily left the stall, and the noisy crowd blocked Shade's view. But soon the priest came back and shook his head at Shade:

"She has passed away. She received the food and collapsed on the way back."

"Is there no hope?"

The old priest sighed and continued to distribute bread to the people who were still queuing in the snow with Shade:

"All mortals will eventually die. Perhaps in that eternal dream, she can return home with food and spend a warm night with a full stomach."

This severe weather caused a serious snowstorm in the Tobysk region, and the affected area was the entire central and western regions of the Old World. Even the Yarrakhan Desert south of Green Lake, where rain and snow rarely appeared in winter, welcomed the heaviest winter snowfall in three hundred years.

Although the second round of snowfall that began on Monday was not as heavy as the first round, it still created a snow belt spanning two countries in the central part of the Old Continent in just half a week.

No mistake, just one song, one post, one content, one look!

The newspaper reports on the disasters in various places gradually overwhelmed the discussions and accusations between the two countries about the "Princess assassinated" and "Tobesk slave labor trafficking" incidents, but Shad still saw the article in the Southland newspaper that Carina did not take away on Tuesday, in which Lion Ryan vowed to take revenge on Delarion.

Saradir County borders Carsenrick, and the witch followers there always send important southern newspapers directly to Tobesk through special means.

The subsequent repercussions caused by such a large-scale snowfall will probably make this winter a difficult memory that many people will not forget for many years to come. Carsenrick and Delarion have frequently issued decrees to eliminate the subsequent impact of the disaster, striving to avoid large-scale turmoil before the end of the year.

Like Shade, Carina believes that the snow is actually good news:

“Originally, Leisia’s father had already prepared for an all-out war before the end of the year, but this heavy snow has cooled down the war frenzy of the two kings.

A full-scale war before the spring is unlikely, but peace talks are also impossible. The proxy war I mentioned earlier will probably come soon. Wait and watch the news. Something will happen soon to let the citizens know that His Majesty the King does not sit in the Yodel Palace eating roast suckling pig all day. "

Whether Larousse III likes roast suckling pig, Shade doesn't know, anyway, neither he nor Mia likes it. The beginning of this week means that the last month of this year has entered the second half of the month, and the big event of this week is the group task.

On Tuesday afternoon, everyone once again braved the snow and gathered at Dr. Schneider's clinic. For a full two hours, they watched the psychologist explain in detail on a small blackboard the experimental tasks assigned to the group the next day.

Five relic derivatives - [Destiny Observer Cards] will be delivered tomorrow, and after the night mission begins, the academy will designate five specific locations in the Tobesk area. The five people need to activate their respective cards at those locations one by one in order.

The college suggested that the group act together, and after completing a test, the group members would go to the next location together. The order of the five people was arranged from low to high, that is, Father Augustus → Luvia → Dorothy → Shade → Doctor Schneider.

The doctor informed everyone of tomorrow's gathering place and the relevant conditions of the five locations, and optimistically believed that except for the possibility of a difficult road tomorrow night, there should be no other problems:

"Except for the last location which is a cemetery on the outskirts of the city, the other locations are scattered all over the city. Just like the last mission, I have rented a carriage in advance, and we will use it to move tomorrow night. The priest and I will take turns driving the carriage. The Astronomy Academy requires the fortune teller to take care of the cards that have not yet been activated. This is Annat's job."

"Do we need to hand in those relic derivatives with our messages after use?"

Xia De asked again with concern, and the doctor shook his head:

"That's not necessary. These relic derivatives are only for observation purposes. They can only exist for 24 hours after activation. We are responsible for recording the exact time of disappearance."