Chapter 209: Agitation and Profit (4)
The Red Sunset Tavern, where many of the common folk of Vitelzbach gathered.
In front of it, a man was holding a newspaper and loudly reading the contents for everyone to hear.
“Listen up! It’s been reported that a horrific serial murder occurred in the Vitelzbach Barony, where a son killed his parents and siblings! Who would commit such a vile crime?!”
If the Vitelzbach Baron had heard this, it would have been a disgrace he would have desperately tried to conceal.
It would be enough to make anyone’s stomach churn, not to mention flip inside out.
No matter how impossible it was for the Baron to keep track of the actions of every single person in his territory, it would still be seen by the public as a failure of the Baron to properly manage his lands.
Those who had gathered around to hear the news reacted with enthusiasm.
“Did you hear that? What kind of twisted son would do such a thing?”
“Like a heathen! He kills his own parents? You must listen to your parents as if they were the words of Deus himself!”
Compared to the frenzied and extreme filial piety found in Joseon, where sometimes widowed daughters-in-law were encouraged by their father-in-laws to commit suicide (referred to as natural deaths), the culture on this continent was a little softer.
However, this world still placed great emphasis on patriarchy and filial duty.
If a parent had no money, it was permitted to sell their child, and in other worlds, someone who would be sentenced to ten years in prison for child abuse would simply be considered someone who ‘overdid it’ with their ‘discipline’.