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Susanna listened to their speech in a daze, and couldn't help clenching her fists.

What these people said did not differ from what she usually knew. Under such circumstances, Brin really didn't take it seriously.

But at this moment, the girl's heart was filled with unreasonable anger, and she even wanted to rush up to protect Brin and scold these ignorant troublemakers.

But... are they really right?Why does she find this matter so irritating? What does "ignorant and ignorant people" mean?

In a trance, Suzanne heard people start talking in low voices one after another, and even Father Cesar yelled "Silence", but couldn't maintain the scene.

So Cesar had to raise his voice and shouted again:

"Silence! This matter has not yet been concluded, we need more evidence to make a judgment!"

Under the solemn and steady speech of the priest, the noise in the church gradually subsided.After a while, the old priest who was over fifty years old looked at the Jade couple and said to them:
"Jed, get your injured daughter up—we need to check her."

Jed immediately responded obediently, then picked up Elena, passed Susanna who was in a trance, and passed through the crowd who consciously made way for him, and walked towards the altar.

But his wife Alma stayed where she was, gently holding Susanna's immature little hand, pulling the latter to her side and protecting her with her body to prevent this confused girl from being squeezed by the crowd.

Her eldest daughter has not been in a good spirit today, maybe because she is not used to the atmosphere of the trial conference, or maybe she is worried about Brin - because the twins have been very dependent on this gentle and considerate maid since they were young.

Due to work reasons, Alma and her husband often need to deliver goods to the villagers' homes, and they don't even have time to go home before dark, so they hire Brin to help them take care of their children.

For these two little girls, Brin is not only a maid, but also a sister who is so good-tempered that she is almost obedient. The young two sisters left a strong psychological shadow——

Because it is impossible for the church to let her survive today.

Just when Alma was full of worries, she heard Father Cesar's voice again:
"Leo, untie this girl and bring me some holy water."

The brown-haired young man named Leo responded, and skillfully went to the side locker to get a cushion and a golden cup filled with liquid, then walked up from behind the priest and put the Upholstery stands in the open space next to it.

He is the night watchman of the church, and he also has a certain degree of medical knowledge. He often treats the wounded with Cesar.

Leo was not in a hurry to untie the sackcloth straps from the girl's legs.He asked Jed to put Elena on the cushion first, and then asked the nearby crowd to stand a little farther away, then he sprinkled the light brown liquid in the golden cup on the ground beside the girl, then put down the cup, and gently dismantled it. Open the sackcloth on the girl's leg.

This unknown ceremony made Elena extremely nervous, and after that, she could only look at her father standing aside, watching the stranger unwrap the bandage on her knee, she was so frightened that her whole body tensed up, she couldn't take her eyes off staring at his movements.

Just when the innermost layers of blood-stained linen were removed, the girl suddenly screamed and struggled:

"It hurts, it hurts!! I don't want to remove the bandage!!"

"Elena! Don't move!"

Jed said so, just about to come up to help hold Elena, when he heard Leo say in a vibrating voice:

"do not come!"

He stopped immediately, looked helplessly at the other party holding down his crying daughter with one hand, and listened to the young man soothing her softly.

The cloth was obviously glued to the wound.Amidst the girl's sobs and grievances, Leo picked up the golden cup again and poured a small amount of liquid onto the blood-stained burlap.

But even though his movements were as gentle as possible, Elena's cries suddenly increased.She clamored for her father to take her home and struggled to get up, but she couldn't do so because of the too painful wound and Leo's suppression.

So she could only twist her body slightly, crying "It hurts" repeatedly, and by the way, hit Leo hard with her fist a few times.

Leo was unmoved, and even his voice to comfort the girl was as soft as before.As the liquid was absorbed by the linen cloth, the joint between the linen cloth and the wound finally began to loosen, which made him slightly relieved in his heart, and then he tore off the last few layers of linen cloth little by little.

Amidst the girl's crying and Jed and Leo's comforting voices, the wound on her knee finally came into view clearly.

The nearest villagers gasped on the spot.

The girl's wound had turned black and suppurated.According to their previous statements, it has been less than half a day since Elena was injured.

At this moment, Father Cesar spoke out the hearts of everyone with a final word:
"In such a short period of time, the wound has deteriorated like this—it is obvious that this girl's wound has been infected by an evil breath!"

For a while, the scene was in an uproar.The villagers discussed this conclusion one after another, their eyes kept jumping back and forth between Elena and Brin, and Brin's parents were ashen-faced, looking at their daughter in disbelief.

At this moment, Brin's expression was no longer calm.This result far exceeded her expectations, and even caused Brin's heart to be strongly shaken:
Is it true that I was influenced by the witch as those people said, and thus did this kind of thing that "made the second lady's injury worse"?
The blackened wound was obviously not right. In Brin's impression, the "wound infected by evil breath" was exactly this kind of blackened and pus-filled wound.

Why...she obviously just hoped that Elena could get a better rest, and rest in her warm home...just use clean water to clean her wound, how could it become like this?

The long kneeling position caused Brin's body to be extremely sore.But at this moment, under the strong impact of these complex emotions, she no longer feels any discomfort in her body, and just thinks about that question over and over——

Did she really do something irreparable?

Suddenly, a burst of pain from being hit by a hard object came from his chest.Brin groaned in pain, and suddenly came back to her senses, and saw the small stone rolled from her body to the ground.

Looking up, her eyes naturally fell on the emotional male villager who came forward to accuse her.

Now, he was still standing on the seat, but the anger on his face was even stronger than before.

After meeting Brin's eyes, he took out a small stone from his pocket, threw it vigorously at Brin who was kneeling in front of him, and angrily shouted:
"Witch! You evil witch!"

Bryn couldn't help closing her eyes.

No pain as imagined.

Her heart sank, and she immediately opened her eyes - what caught her eyes was the backs of her parents.

The elderly couple stood in front of their daughter and saved Bryn from the stones thrown at her.Even if she is accused of being a witch, their love for her daughter remains the same—even if they are the most devout believers in the village.

"Father Cesar..." Brin's mother looked sideways at the priest beside her, and said in grief, "Our daughter must have been polluted by the witch's breath... She was not possessed by the witch, she should still be It can be purified with an exorcism—”

"Julie, I'm sorry," Cesar shook his head lightly and sighed heavily, "According to Brin's previous statement, she doesn't seem to realize that there is something obviously abnormal about her behavior. If it's just contamination She has an evil breath, she should have admitted her mistake earlier, instead of making excuses..."

Brin watched her mother talking to Cesar with a dull expression, and then suddenly came back to her senses, and quickly asked:
"Father Cesar! I'm sorry for doing something wrong...I should have sought help from the church first...Maybe I was too tired yesterday, or something evil was disturbing my thoughts, but I I’m really not possessed by a witch, please believe me!”

"Brin, we don't make judgments lightly because of someone's one-sided words." Cesar stared at her seriously. "If you are innocent, there are naturally many ways to prove it."

Then, he turned his gaze to Leo who was on the side, and seeing that the latter had re-bandaged Elena's wound, he said loudly to the villagers in the audience:
"My fellow countrymen! Next, I will ask you to leave - we need to test whether this girl is possessed by a witch. The process cannot be seen by you, only her relatives can stay here. Go to the church door and wait! Before the results come out, no one is allowed to enter and disturb!"

After the priest said this, people in the church left one after another, but there were also several emotional villagers who were reluctant to leave immediately, saying that they wanted to witness the result with their own eyes.

Cesar knew why they were so excited: For the few remaining villagers, their relatives had been persecuted by the witch.

But the rules are the rules. If even a priest like him takes the lead in breaking the rules, who will listen to him again?
Out of desperation, Cesar could only ask the guards to forcibly take these people out of the church, and when they were struggling to be dragged out, Cesar noticed the Jade family still standing here—especially Susanna .

At this moment, the girl was looking at him with a hostile gaze, which made him unable to help but look at her for a while, and then he saw Jed's voice:

"Susan, Alma, let's go home."

"...I won't go back."

Susannah mumbled.She didn't even turn her head to look at her father, but continued to stare at the majestic old priest.

"Susan, what are you doing today...well, hurry up and go home with mom, Elena's leg is still hurting!"

Alma panicked for a moment, and hurriedly dragged Suzanne away.

"I won't go back!" Suzanne shook off her mother's hand and said to her word by word, "I want to stay here!"

"Susan, you—"

"Oh, that's fine," Cesar interrupted the quarrel between the mother and daughter, and let go in a rare way, "Alma, it doesn't matter if you and Suzanne stay here, after all, you are also Brin's closest people—but Jed get out."

Hearing this sentence, both Jed and Alma were taken aback for a moment, then Jed hurriedly thanked the priest, and walked out of the church holding Elena who was a little tired from crying.

Please ignore the request for a monthly ticket at the end,
It seems that I clicked on this thing with a shake of my hand, but I couldn't cancel it...

(Supplementary thoughts: Dianniang is really difficult to use in many cases)