Li Yi didn't know why the walrus stopped behind him like this, but he was so frightened that he hurriedly stepped into the street, ready to avoid this trouble.

"Hey! You pariah, why don't you see me? Know who I am? A crisp and pleasant sound came from the walrus's back, like flying beads and broken jade, and silver bells swayed.

Only then did Li Yi notice the small brocade tent on the walrus' back, and the female voice came from the tent. "It's really unfortunate that I happened to meet Sheila's children on a trip." He bowed helplessly to the walrus, stroked his chest with his right hand, and said respectfully: "Mani, the daughter of the noble dictator Kent, and the subject Li Yi have come to see you." ”

"Hey, how do you know the name?" The girl in the tent let out a small exclamation.

"Hehe," Li Yi smiled bitterly and explained: "This is actually very simple, everyone knows that the dictator Kent has a cherished pearl in his palm, and he should be fourteen years old this year, how do you tell me to believe that several of your sisters who are already wives can make such a tactful voice?" So as soon as I heard the voice, as soon as I saw the emblem of the Kent family, I knew it. Besides, who would use the street emergency control just to ride a walrus around at will, you are so happy! ”

"You, how can you say that about me, I, I'm just out to play!" The tent was lifted all at once, revealing a rosy cheek.

To be honest, Li Yi doesn't think that this daughter of Kent is as beautiful as rumored, just young and energetic, and he is only twelve years old, he is only intellectually precocious, not very mature physically, and he is not very good at appreciating women. Mani's slender waist, white ivory skin, and pointed chin only made him feel weak.

"Yes, I'm sorry to disturb your Yaxing, I'm leaving, please take care of yourself." Li Yi just wanted to go to the bakery early to buy his dinner, if he was one step late, the cheap bread would be bought by other people like him who were desperate and had no relief to survive.

Then he was going to starve all night again.

It was a terrible taste of starvation, he had already experienced it last night, and he didn't want to go hungry again tonight.

Mani felt very sad, as if something was blocked, beside her, whoever saw her for the first time would praise her beauty, although she didn't say anything, but how could her youthful acting skills hide from those old foxes, the cheerfulness from the corners of her eyes, and a little pride have long been exposed.

And the ugly pariahs in front of her with a big head and a deformed head actually sneered at her-she thought so, the perfunctory feeling was not pretended, and she usually saw many young aristocrats who coveted her beauty but pretended to be serious, and the eyes of those people always fell on her bulging breasts and round ass, and the little wisdom of women made her aware of this, and she accepted this fact happily and shyly, but Li Yi was too cold, and hurriedly wanted to slip away, this contempt was too obvious.

"Damn big head!" Mani thought indignantly, she jumped off the walrus lightly, and came to Li Yi, raising her head like a bird, the pride of inheriting her mother made her proud and charming.

"Where are you going?" The proud queen asked, carrying a whip twisted from snakeskin.

"I'm sorry, I'm in a hurry" Li Yi didn't mean to turn back at all, as if a thick layer of fine butter was smeared under his feet, and he slipped quickly.

"You!" The girl was anxious and angry, and chased after her, but accidentally stepped on the corner of her skirt, "Poof! She fell to the ground, her forehead hit the stone tablet on the side of the street, and the blood flowed, and she immediately turned her face into a ball and cried.

"Miss!" Out of nowhere, a large group of guards poured out of nowhere, and the black uniforms of one color rolled like dark clouds, surrounding Mani in the middle, and an old doctor walked like a fly, quickly running over to treat the wound in Mani's forehead.

And Li Yi was unlucky, the wolf-like guards cut his hands back, and one of them lifted the riding boots nailed with a cross iron and kicked him hard in the lower abdomen, the severe pain made him immediately curl up into a shrimp, his face was flushed, almost dripping blood, and his throat was also a burst of fishy sweetness.

"I'm just going to buy bread!" In the severe pain, Li Yi shouted angrily, but then he was slapped, half of his cheeks were numb, and his ears were buzzing, as if a swarm of bees were flying, and his tongue was bitten.

The world swirled, and he simply fainted.

When he woke up, he found himself lying in a pile of hay, in front of him was an iron door made of thick iron bars, and the dampness and stench told him that he was in prison.

Solid and cold rock on three sides, impermeable to the wind, not even a mouse, and the lock of the iron door was twice as thick as his arm, making it impossible to escape.

Li Yi touched his cheek, it was swollen like a baked bread, full and shiny, and his tongue couldn't stretch anymore, so he couldn't feel its existence. After crying in frustration for a while, he calmed down and silently waited for the fate he was about to suffer, perhaps one

A private trial without any fairness may be a bizarre death.

Resisting is naturally futile and will add more pain, Li Yi can't figure out why he went to buy some cheap bread and ran into Kent's beloved little daughter Mani traveling on a walrus, and even more incredible is that she also fell below her forehead.

"This fate? , so many incredible coincidences, just to make me! Bad luck for an orphan who barely survives every day on handout! Li Yi angrily slammed the wall and complained loudly, he felt extremely miserable, what kind of unfair treatment he suffered when he came to such a ghost place. There was a sound of footsteps, and then a basin of cold water poured on his head and face, and the wound on his back was stirred by raw water, which was unspeakably miserable. Before he could utter a wail, the cell door was opened, and the whip fell.

"Damned criminals! Give Lao Tzu an point! A heavy whisper, accompanied by the whistle of the whip through the air and the crunch of the whip on the flesh, was like hell.

The physical torture and verbal insults made Li Yi completely lose the courage to resist, he lamented, his body was like a scarred broken bag, he simply gave up resistance, and let the whip whipped his face.

"Waste, it's a big disaster, I don't think you will live long!"

"Bang!" He was thrown against the wall, dragging a dark red trail of blood as he slid down.

"Ahem!" A large cloud of blood foam poured out from the corners of his mouth, and Li Yi's consciousness began to blur again.

"Young boy, where are you from?" An old voice came from the darkness, the end sharp and piercing, with an indescribable desolation in his tone, and the tone of a commanding superior, but it had been consumed by the cruel life of imprisonment.

He had never known that he was in a cell with someone else, and it was no wonder that the man's entire body was buried in a corner of the shadow, motionless and unable to see clearly.

"Me?" Li Yi sat up slowly, and buried his head in the two. Between the legs, blood and saliva lay down on the hay, and half a tooth.

Tears welled up uncontrollably, and he said in a hoarse voice, "I'm an orphan. After a pause, he whispered again: "I don't know why I'm here, I'm just unlucky." ”

"This is the lowest level of the sandstone prison, look at us scrawny demons," the old man stretched out a withered hand from the darkness, his little finger was missing, and the knuckles of his middle finger were strangely twisted, "We are all political losers, and you people on the ground call us ******. ”

“******？” Li Yi stepped back in horror, "You, what the hell have you done!" ”

"Me? I just said what I had to say and did what I had to do, and sometimes, even if I knew the cruel consequences, I had to stand up, otherwise you would have a troubled conscience. The withered hand retracted.

After a moment of silence, the old man spoke again, "What about you?" What have you done to end up in this heinous prison? ”

"I offended the daughter of the dictator Kent." There is nothing to hide this, Li Yi said truthfully, "Maybe people like me are offending others by walking in broad daylight." ”

"It's not your fault, kid." The old man's voice was soft and thick, reassuring, "Kent, when the Senate recommended him to be the consul, we still believed that he had always been the naughty boy who played with golden ostrich feathers, but we didn't expect that this evil wolf with evil intentions was elected as our king, and people often use sincere appearance and pious actions to hide a devilish heart. He also invented the word dictator, right? Haha, that's apt! ”

The old man's casual words made Li Yihan's hair stand on end, is this politics? How cruel and realistic!

"But what did you do? A teenager who was beaten and bullied, what great sin did you commit? Fairness will always be in the hands of a few. If you have parents, they will definitely break their hearts for you. ”

"I'm just an insignificant stray dog, how light my life is, and how unjust I was treated without even the freedom to choose, can you tell me why?" Li Yi asked sadly.

"Because, you are not strong enough inside, you are even weaker on the outside, whether it is internal or external, you lack strength, and if you don't have the deterrence of power, you will be bullied, maybe the Kent family will not care about your little offense at all, but there will be countless people in this organization headed by Kent who want to torture you and punish you to please Kent."

Knowing the reason, Li Yi's heart was suddenly extremely sad, and he choked up and asked, "Is there anything else I can do?" ”

"Oh, of course they won't kill you, it's against the public law of the mainland, minors are protected by certain treaties of the public law of the mainland, the order is not chaotic everywhere, and even in the chaos there are open-faced, high-sounding conventions and laws. You're going to be judged and then exiled, that's all. But you have to remember that no matter what, no matter how much you are insulted and devastated, you can't show strength and anger, because that gives them a reason to kill you. ”

"I understand that crying and cowardice are the way to escape death, and even if I am angry, there is no point in my brave resistance because they are too strong."

"That's right, if you want to give them punishment and doomsday, at least until you have enough strength, if you haven't had such power all along, then wait, someone will always stand up."

"What's your name?" Li Yi lay on his back on the hay, his eyes closed, although the pain hit him for a while, he could no longer feel the fear, and he was extremely peaceful.

There was silence for a long time before the old man spoke leisurely: "Before, my name was Vitelis. ”

I don't know how long later, a jailer brought a plate of food. Li Yi glanced at it, it was a large piece of white bread, accompanied by a glass of fresh cheese, and a full glass of milk and a cold steak next to it.

"This!" He was shocked by such a sumptuous meal, but then he realized that these things were for Vitellis, and they were going to put the old man to death.

"Oh, looks like I'm going to have to leave after eating." The old man said in a relaxed and happy tone, "Child, you have to live well!" Although he couldn't see it in the dark, he knew that Vitellis was staring him in the eye and saying it to him.

Li Yi was already in tears, he closed his eyes, and it was not until Vitelis finished his last supper that he was locked in heavy shackles by the jailer and taken away, then he curled up in the corner of the room in a daze, staring at the gray corridor outside.

A short time later, his dinner was also served, a cold potato and half a piece of moldy bread. He pounced, and there was nothing left to eat. After all, even if it was for the old man's words, he had to live well.

Two days later, Li Yi also waited for his trial.

To his surprise, it turned out to be a public trial.

As he walked through the long corridor with heavy shackles, the dazzling sunlight cascaded down his body, and the warm light stung his eyes.

The Terrace Square was surrounded by thousands of people, mostly adult men dressed in white toga, and judges and jurors gradually sat behind a long white table with a statue of the goddess of justice holding a balance and a sword.

As soon as Li Yi appeared, it caused a burst of discussion.

"Oh my God, that's still a kid!" "He's definitely not fifteen!" "Oh, so pathetic, so small, what about his guardian?"

"Silence!" The gavel struck, and the judge, a venerable old man with a name for justice, with a pair of heavy tortoiseshell glasses, was looking at a piece of parchment through the underside of the lens.

"Bring the criminals in!" A middle-aged female juror said in a loud voice.

Li Yi was escorted by two guards into a small fence facing the judge.

"Next, I will ask you questions, and you must answer them truthfully, otherwise it will be regarded as contempt for the court, understand?" The judge said sternly.

"Understood."

"Your name?"

"Li Yi."

"Don't have a surname? What a quirky name. ”

"Yes, sir."

"Are you an orphan? And have been living in Mith? ”

"Yes, sir."

"You registered with the city-state relief committee that Xiping was born in 263, and you are sixteen years old this year?"

"No, I've just turned twelve."

"You're lying! Since you are registered, then you are sixteen years old, and you say you are twelve years old, so what proof do you have? Don't try to deceive the court, you notorious scoundrel, for you are young but have a vicious heart. ”

"Yes, I'm sixteen and I lied."

"That's right," the old judge helped the frame of his glasses with satisfaction, and continued to ask, "Is there such a thing that you brutally attacked this pearl of Mies three days ago when you were traveling on the dictator Kent's youngest daughter, Mani?" ”