Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1728 The Secret Word of the Goddess (seventy three)

  Ten years ago, a potter in Salem once said that if people don’t stop arguing, Salem will not become a town.

Sarah Luke’s marriage was very unfortunate. Her first husband was married twice at the same time. After she legally dissolved his marriage in 1664, she married Lord Hassan’s brother William. Hassan, George Burroughs is her third husband.

Unlike the husband who can get away with an Indian attack every time, Sarah is a very ordinary woman, and her husband wants to go to places that are not suitable for ordinary women. She lives in fear all day long. .

  This fear not only comes from the war, but also from her husband. George Burroughs is a short black-haired man. He is very strict with his wife. People have seen Burroughs scolding his first wife many times when he was living in the Putnam family. For Sarah, He convinced her that her every move was being monitored by him and God at all times.

Even if the King William’s War was not over, people did not hope that she could come back alive. The executioners were indifferent when faced with the mournful begging of women and children. The smoke plume, relentless fire, gunshots, yells, and slashes were composed. That picture of hell, the girl who loves to eat strawberries can't survive in this environment.

  Due to the repeated defeats of the government forces, the militias in Salem have also begun to guard, and Mary Walcott’s father has been busy training. And even if you don't deal with the Indians, there is another group of people who need to be on guard, and that is the soldiers from the home country. Inchris Mather has been to England for three years. Three years ago, a man named Andros crossed Salem with a large group of entourage. He provocatively asked the old priest John Higgins: King Is it legal to own all land in New England?

  Higgins told him: "I can only speak as a pastor, and your problem is already a national issue. It seems to me that the king has no interest relationship with North American land before the settlers come."

  Andros was furious. He gave the pastor two choices: "You can either be subjects or traitors."

  The Governor’s remarks angered Bostonians, and people started an armed uprising under the instigation of the pastor.

John Wise, a classmate of Paris, also incited the congregations in his parish to participate in the uprising, but that was five years ago. The uprising was suppressed and Ipswich did not gain any power. A Boston uprising successfully drove the governor away. At present, Massachusetts has got rid of the nobles forced by the royal family to implement autonomy, but this situation will not last long, and new news will come from England soon, and it will happen at that time. New variables.

The Putnam family and the Nass family are neighbors. The two families have a dispute over the adjacent land issue, and Nass is dealing with land arbitration. Old Ann Putnam lost her father because of losing the lawsuit. The legacy left to her. In addition to the Putnam and Nass family, the Corey family also owns a considerable amount of land.

At present, the residents of the town are attracted by the lively trial, and they have not noticed this. Once the Indians and even the British return, their land will be taken away, and there will be no eggs under the nest. The residents of the town are at this moment. The madness may be the last madness.

  Paris has never experienced war. During the war, the pastor can not only provide comfort and dying prayer, but also boost morale. Nath's refusal to pay Paris may mean driving him away and replacing him with Burroughs. After all, he is not far from Salem.

But Burroughs and Putnam’s family had conflicts, and Putnam firmly supported Parris. The militia captain sent his daughter Mary to Putnam’s house for a temporary stay. This may be his position. Putnam’s family was the earliest. Two generations of pioneers have lived here. Although Nas has a firm foothold, he has not taken root here.

  Maybe Paris will ask the old pastor "What should I do next?"

The old priest lowered his voice and said in a voice that only two of them could hear, "You can’t let Abigail come forward and accuse Rebecca, but you can tell Putnam and let someone from his family accuse him. she was."

  Paris did not answer.

  Old Rebecca is seventy-one years old this year. She is a devout mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She did not come to worship last week.

"You may feel ashamed." Father Rosen might say that. "But there is more important thing to do now. We must unite the townspeople instead of continuing to fight inwardly. If you are inconvenient to come forward, I will visit Nas's house instead of you."

  "Do you think Putnam can influence the verdict?" Paris might have asked.

   "I heard that Hassan also arrested two people and they were not interrogated." Rosen might have asked, "Who are they?"

   "Bridget Bishop and Mary Allen." Paris might have replied.

   "Ah, it's them." Rosen didn't seem surprised at all, as if he had already expected it.

Bridget Bishop is a townsman in Salem, in her early fifties. She had a criminal record of petty theft. She fought hard with her ex-husband. Once she got blood all over her face and once all over her body. All bruises, and she stood in court for publicly calling her husband the old gangster and the old devil on the Sabbath in 1677.

Eight years ago, the couple was flogged for the same crime. Later, they were punished again for a fight on a day of admonition. The two men were gagged, and they were shown back to back in the market for an hour. There was a piece of paper pasted with a list of their crimes.

Shortly thereafter, Bishop’s husband died bizarrely. Within eight months, she was in debt and arguing with her neighbors and stepson. She was also arrested on the same day that Sarah Good was arrested. Goode knew that two other women had been arrested by Hassan, but she didn't know who they were. She thought it was Sarah Osborne.

  The other woman is Mary Warren, who is just 20 years old. She is a beautiful blonde. There are many men in the town thinking about her, but no one dares to take her to their home.

  Women are like this. Even if the scriptures say that jealousy is an original sin, they still can't help being jealous of the kind of women who are so beautiful that they can attract the attention of all men.

  Americans are very conservative in this regard. Even if the hostess can vaguely feel that there is something wrong between the husband and the maid who has signed the contract apprenticeship, she will not say it clearly because it happened when they were not at home.

  What's more, how does the host know that the child born by the hostess must be his own? She is really going to collect rent when she goes out?

The poor are those girls who are completely in a disadvantaged group. They lost their homes and families because of the war, but now they are being harassed by male owners, male visitors, and even pigmen. They still dare not speak out. This kind of dishonorable thing is only Will condemn the man for a while, but the brand will follow her forever.

Of course, there are also people who will die at the same time. One man was sentenced to sit in a cage with a piece of paper hanging around his neck that read "a married man commits adultery with his maid". New England culture is well popularized, and it is guaranteed to pass by. Everyone knows what it means.

Mary Warren, who no one wants to take in, works as a maid at Plotke’s house. Mrs. Elizabeth Plotke reads a lot of books, and she also carries a book in her pocket when she goes out. She also teaches Mary Warren to read. .

  But as long as she has to go out, Mary will inevitably face Mr. Plotke alone.

  Maybe because of too much mental stress, or other reasons, Mary Warren also had a spasm later, but her spasm was cured by Mr. Protek with a whip.

  Mr. Plotke was angry with Mary. He claimed that he would treat her convulsions by burning her, or drown her, push her against a fence, etc. He might not have done so because of witchcraft.

  What many men want in their marriage relationship is not just to inherit the lineage. He also needs to get love and respect from his wife, looking at him like a hero, especially a woman like Mrs. Plotke.

  If Mr. Plotke did the same thing as the man sitting in the cage, he would lose Elizabeth’s love and respect.

  Are you an educated, noble, true gentleman who can control his words and deeds?

  If so, I plan to let Mary Warren come to work in our house. Can I trust you to do it?

  Maybe Mr. Plotke regrets making this decision.

  In fact, he can choose to divorce Elizabeth, and then marry Mary, so it should be the self-righteous Elizabeth who regrets it. Where can she go without property?

  Protestantism allows women to preach. Is it different to join a church to preach?

  Elizabeth can leave Salem and go to Boston, and even other places, just like Rose who just arrived in the United States, she finally left the gorgeous bird cage and became a free bird.

  Maybe she will be caught by the eagle and lose her life, but...she really doesn't want to lie in the same bed with a loser. That is definitely the most unbearable and disgusting thing in the world.

There is a beautiful way of death called whale fall. When the whale feels that its time of death is approaching, it will find a place and slowly sink to the bottom of the sea. In the process, its corpse will provide food for other animals in the ocean, like a whale. The corpse can be broken down by a circulatory system for up to a hundred years.

  Maybe she can go to the wilderness and become part of the food chain of the New World, as the scripture says, dust returns to dust, dirt returns to earth.

Every one of us is the son of a star, born from the remains of the last star. We just lie on the ground and watch the stars in the sky "go to sleep", comparable to watching a detestable soul sleepless, thinking about how to poison to death. He is much more comfortable.

  It's not worth getting your hands dirty for this kind of person, let alone using witchcraft.

  (End of this chapter)