The bearded man took the water from Mal's hand and drank several sips. "Don't just stand there like an idiot. Eat something. Then stand still. You can see that no one will help you. Don't even think about running away. If we catch you, Mal will break both of your legs."
As soon as the bucket was placed on the table, a group of people rushed over and the bucket of dry bread was quickly knocked to the ground.
Tia was not sure how long it would take for rescuers to arrive, so she hid in a corner while a group of people rushed over to grab the bread. The moment she saw the bread bucket being overturned, she quickly picked up a loaf of bread on the ground and secretly hid in the corner again.
A group of children saw the bread bucket fall to the ground, and quickly rushed to another bucket. When they found that the other bucket was filled with water, the stronger boy standing in the front directly picked up the bucket and poured it into his mouth to drink. During the pushing and shoving, the bucket was knocked over to the ground.
"It seems you are not hungry! You have so much strength!" The thin man looked at them with a smile. "Then starve for now."
The last bit of hope slowly faded away, and the children stopped making a fuss. A few of them thought for a long time, picked up a piece of bread from the ground, and hid secretly in the corner. Only a few who were unwilling to eat the dirty bread returned to their original positions, their eyes unconsciously looking back at the bread on the ground.
"Hurry up and serve us our food. We are starving."
Without Mal's word, the two men had already brought out their meals and placed them on the table. Unlike their dry bread, large chunks of grilled meat were piled on one plate, and another plate was also filled with fruit. The aroma of the seasonings sprinkled on the grilled meat kept wafting into their noses, tempting their stomachs. Many who disdained the dirty bread now eagerly gazed at the juicy and fragrant meat.
The crisp sound of Mal eating meat and taking a few bites of fruit made many people swallow their saliva, but in view of the intimidation along the way, no one dared to step forward to cause trouble. He looked at the people around him with satisfaction, and paused when his eyes passed by Tia.
"What's wrong with that girl?"
The bearded man only took a glance at Tia and understood. "You mean that? Even though she looks good in it, I don't know how many times the clothes have been washed. The style is not new. I wonder which family pampers her but has no money. What lady would wear the same clothes and wash them so many times?"
"You're such a careful observer, tsk tsk tsk!" Mal said with a malicious smile, "She's so scornful of the poor and loves the rich. No wonder she was the first one to pick up the bread from the ground. Maybe she'll even thank us when we sell her out!"
The skinny monkey also smiled and walked towards Tia.
Tia had already finished her dry bread, which had just enough to offset some of the water she'd just absorbed. It would have been odd if her mouth hadn't been so dry and chapped since no one else had been drinking. She timidly looked at the skinny monkey approaching, shrinking back a little.
"Hahaha!" The skinny monkey laughed heartily at Tia's timid and submissive appearance. "You really have good taste. She doesn't look like a noble, but if she is sold to a noble, maybe she can live as a lady for a few days! You will thank us, right?"
Looking at the face in front of her that suddenly enlarged, Tia almost couldn't help but hit him. She lowered her head and tried to calm herself down.
"It's boring, but I don't think she'll have a chance to retaliate against us." Skinny Monkey said as he threw a piece of fruit in his hand to Tia, "Throw her to that room later."
The bearded man didn't refute, "This little girl is quite pretty. She even said on the street that someone likes her!"
"Is it true?" Mal looked at Tia's cowardly expression and felt that she was not the type to ask such a question. "Lift your head so I can see?"
Tia took the pear and took a few bites immediately. Facing Mal's words, she could only slowly raise her head.
"She's really pretty, no wonder they sent her a pear. Tsk tsk tsk."
As the three of them were talking, the topic started to go off track, and the words they spoke were chilling.
As the center of the conversation, Tia was naturally isolated by the rest of the people, and no one dared to approach her.
Tia looked at the four corners of the courtyard wall and felt like she was in a cage. She knew that there were human traffickers everywhere, but she didn't expect to actually experience this. However, the conversation between several people cleared up her initial doubts.
Indeed, before she arrived, Tia had been unloved, her adoptive father often absent. Joel had become more familiar with her now, but he hadn't considered her clothes needed changing. She generally didn't have high standards for clothing, and these clothes looked good to her. She hadn't expected that she would be kidnapped because of her clothes, as if she were a child from a poor family who favored the rich.
The class divisions in medieval Europe were still very obvious!
Finally, when everyone was about to faint from hunger, they finally finished their meal. They took out some black bread and gave each person two slices. Everyone was already thirsty and felt desperate about the dry and hard black bread.
The bearded man didn't care about that. "Stand in the same position as before."
Everyone could only follow the instructions and be assigned to different rooms.
Tia was left until the end. Everyone was arranged to stay in the room on the left, but Skinny Monkey took her to the room against the wall on the right.
After a whole day of tossing and turning, no one except the last few people knew that Tia was assigned to a different room.
"Nansen, you will be learning aristocratic etiquette with this person for the next two days."
Only then did Tia notice that there was another person in the room, no more than eleven or twelve years old, with long gray hair casually tied with a hairband. When he heard someone calling him, he looked up at the two people with indifference in his silver-gray eyes.
"it is good."
As a voice-controlled person, Tia suddenly felt as if she was listening to heavenly music, but the next second she thought of another thing. Why did the gray hair and silver-gray eyes look so much like Syrio Mansfield, a villain in the plot line!
As a game with medieval Europe as its world frame background, religion is naturally indispensable. Sylio Mansfield is the candidate for the next Pope. However, because the Pope does not like Sylio and suspects that Sylio is a pawn sent by the royal family to check and balance the Pope, Sylio suffered a lot in his youth.
Now, it is estimated that Syrio is being forced to live alone in the name of penance. Even if he finds someone being abducted, he will not save them. Instead, he offers a higher ransom and lets Syrio watch indifferently as a group of children cry and beg for mercy in front of him, reselling them like a commodity.
Syrio didn't know why the little girl in front of him looked at him with pity even though she was obviously in danger, but seeing that Tia was young, he still kindly reminded her.
"You come in first."
Tia looked around curiously and found that this room was much more spacious than the one on the left, and there were many books and other things.
"My name is Tia. How long have you been here?"
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