Chapter 202: Folk Suffering
The other side.
What happened to Ayesha is heart-wrenching.
First of all, she was lucky, painful, tired and hungry, and after passing out next to a sewage ditch in a slum, she was not taken away by some beggar or dragged away by human traffickers, and a young man who found her carried her home.
The young man's name is Lawn, a kind-hearted and honest boy next door, who is nagged by his mother for two weeks after carrying Ayesha back to his home.
"It's already very difficult at home, and you still bring people home?"
"Lawn, you have four younger siblings, and they all cost money to go to school!"
"Tell her to leave when the woman is healed, our family can't afford to support so many people!"
Lawn was annoyed by the nagging, and sometimes he couldn't help but say two words: "Mom, I have money in the factory, and my salary is enough to feed several people." ”
With such a mouth, my mother was even more furious, and scolded with her head covered her face: "Do you want to starve your mother to death in order to support an outsider, you conscienceless thing! Mom raised you so big for nothing!"
These quarrelsome remote slang, Ayesha, who can speak a standard pure aristocratic language, although most of them can't understand it, can also see from those eyes that she is not popular with this family.
Fortunately, Lawne seemed to have a special affection for her, and he would rather save his share than let Ayesha eat a little better, a little more, and the wound healed a little faster.
Even the synthetic food that Lawne had saved had a hard time swallowing when she smelled that strange smell...... The family treated it as a clean delicacy that they ate every time.
Never lived like this.
The sleeping room was less than five square meters, not as big as the bed she slept in in her own palace, not to mention her hundreds of square meters of boudoir like a small palace.
And the current small bed, she has to squeeze with her two little sisters.
Everyday items, cheap and of poor quality, make it difficult for her to adapt.
The vast majority of food is synthetic food, in addition to nutrition, taste, appearance, color...... Everything made her frown, but in order to survive, she had to swallow it in her stomach and torture her delicate stomach.
Aside from an old TV that can receive a few channels, there are few high-value appliances.
Why is the family so poor?
Ayesha's heart was full of question marks, how could such a poor family exist in the interstellar era with highly developed productivity?
You must know that although there are similar slums in Wang Duxing, but after the vigorous reform of her father, the living conditions of the poor at the bottom have been greatly improved, she once accompanied her father Wang Weifu for a private visit, and found that those poor people live in the 80 square meters of welfare housing allocated to them by the state, and they can receive a monthly unemployment allowance sufficient to maintain their lives if they do not work, and there is a very cheap poor canteen, which tastes good...... As a result, many poor people have no motivation to work, and Ayesha also questioned her father, saying that this kind of reform is useless, and will only make more people lazy and lazy.
"Ayesha, we are the kings on high, our legitimacy stems from the expectations of the people at the bottom, if we don't do these things, the first nobles to finish in the future will definitely be us. ”
Now, after living in Lawn's house, Ayesha finally understands what the so-called "expectation" is.
Because, the people at the bottom, there is no hope!
Take Lawne's family as an example, a family of seven, three adults and four children, among which Lawne and his father work in a factory, two strong laborers, and the salary they receive a week is only enough to drink a cup of tea in a mid-range restaurant in a wealthy area...... This is the entire living expenses of the family.
The class is completely solidified, and only a very small number of people can rise through talent and hard work, but they are still blocked and discriminated against.
The gap is even so large that it has to rely on the alms of the upper nobles to barely fill some of it.
But the upper nobles, why do they give alms to these lower poor?
What are the benefits?
What's more, what if the charity is given once, those lowly bones are not greedy enough and desire more?
Resources are limited, and if the three or four billion people on a planet live a life of living in castle villas, driving hovercars, and buying private spaceships, a planet cannot bear this kind of consumption at all.
It can only be 1% of the nobility, enjoy 99% of the resources, and 99% of the bottom, grab 1% of the resources.
Is this fair?
Certainly not fair.
It's just that when Ayesha was a noble princess, she didn't think it was a problem.
Now that she is at the bottom, she has only lived in the Raun family for a few days, and she understands why her father wants to carry out a series of reforms, the nobles have too many resources, and if they don't take out a part of it, improve the lives of the people at the bottom, and the stable situation of the kingdom cannot be maintained for a long time.
But are the nobles willing to give that small part?
Shook his head.
It's simply impossible.
Unless there is a revolution from the bottom up.
And that would kill a lot of people and destroy countless resources.
This is a dead knot that cannot be untied, and the ultimate problem that cannot be solved.
What's more, the main issue now facing Ayesha is how to survive, not save the people from suffering.
So after the injuries on her body were almost healed, Ayesha changed into that gorgeous and luxurious dress and went to the rich area to find a job area.
Within three days, Ayesha found a job as a waitress at a high-end restaurant with a weekly salary of 50,000 balongs – a hundred times the weekly income of Lawne's family.
The reason is very simple, Ayesha is proficient in aristocratic etiquette, can speak fluent upper-class aristocratic language, coupled with good appearance, and exudes a noble temperament from her bones...... Her job search went quite smoothly.
When Ayesha told the Raun family the good news lightly, she looked at the family's shocked expressions with some surprise, and felt an inexplicable joy in her heart.
But at a glance at Lawn's head that was deeply lowered because of low self-esteem, Ayesha's heart softened, restrained the smile on her face, patted his hand and asked, "Lawn, aren't you happy for me?"
Raun didn't say anything with a bitter face, but his mother hurriedly took her hand and laughed: "Happy, happy, everyone is happy!"
That night, Lawn's mother kicked the two little girls out and gave the bedroom to Ayesha to live alone.
And since Ayesha started to work, Raun has been out of shape, confused, wandering, and accidentally injured his hand by the machine because of an operation error.
After the factory gave him some compensation, he was dismissed, and his superiors were very dissatisfied with his performance for a while...... No matter how much Rawn's father pleaded, it was useless.
Ayesha knew what the reason was, and comforted Raun several times, but it didn't work very well.
Until one day, Lawne looked her in the eye and asked very seriously, "Will you leave me?"
"I ......"
Ayesha was shocked, and she didn't know how to answer, she didn't know how to face it...... This disparity is so great that there is no such thing as a possible emotion.
The gap is just too big.
Even if Ayesha has been reduced to the bottom of the dust, it is impossible to let go of her princess status.
In the kingdom of Sovereign, a similar story of the prince and Cinderella exists, but the story of the princess and the frog prince ...... Unheard.
Because the aristocracy can accept the simplicity and kindness of low-level women, but it is unlikely to accept the simplicity and simplicity of low-level men.
Perhaps it was because he saw the meaning in Ayesha's eyes, and the light in Lawne's eyes became even darker.
However, it was not long before Ayesha changed her mind.
It was once on the way to get off work, and a few idle hooligans, with greedy and eager eyes, stared at her who was leaving work alone.
The slums were not safe and there were not many police forces, and although Ayesha ran desperately, she was stuck in an alley.
"Help, help!"
Ayesha screamed desperately, but no one responded, and could only watch a few hooligans, smiling as she got closer and closer to her, and she gradually felt hopeless.
"Don't try to bully Ayesha! she's the woman I protect!"
A voice came from Ayesha that surprised her.
Lawn!
In a bloody battle, Lawne beat all the hooligans away at the cost of being seriously wounded.
"Lawn, I won't leave you in the future!"
In the hospital, Ayesha realizes her weakness, and she can't protect herself without a strong man to rely on.
Since then, Lawn's main job has been to pick her up and commute to work.
Ayesha gave half of her income to Lawne's mother.
Although Lawn felt a little uncomfortable in terms of face, his inferiority complex and poverty had worn out the backbone of most people at the bottom.
Mother Lorne was also very happy, and every time she saw Ayesha, her face was full of smiles, and she tried her best to meet all her needs.
Ayesha became the center of the family.
But things ...... It often doesn't go so well.
The trouble has just begun.
The son of a baron who came to the restaurant to consume, after seeing Ayesha, was shocked, deeply attracted by her temperament, and then launched a crazy pursuit.
Ayesha refused, whether it was to send flowers or gifts, Ayesha refused to be thousands of miles away.
The baron's son was so angry that he slapped Ayesha hard, but as soon as he reached the door of the restaurant, he was bitten off half of his ear by Lawne.
It was a big deal, and it took a lot of effort for the restaurant owner to put things right...... Out of a shred of sympathy, Ayesha has not yet been dismissed.
But after a while, a viscount of genuine value, after falling in love with the temperamental Ayesha, on the same day, Ayesha submitted his resignation.
In the months that followed, Ayesha changed more than a dozen jobs in a row, but she was always found by the viscount, who said that he had been fascinated by her, and was even willing to divorce his wife, but also wanted to get Ayesha.
"I refuse, please don't disturb my work!" Ayesha said with a look of disgust.
"Okay, okay! If I can't get your heart, I'll get your people too!"
On this day, the viscount, whose patience had finally worn out, shed his polite and gentle disguise, and brought a group of men over, intending to drag her away directly.
"Don't try to bully Ayesha!"
Raun rushed over, but was pressed to the ground and beaten by several strong bodyguards.
"Don't, don't!" Ayesha could only keep screaming.
"Bang!
Two gunshots rang out in the store.
A group of men in military uniforms, who appeared to be elite soldiers, surrounded the store and took control of everyone.
"Viscount Gabries, who is it that gave you such the audacity to rob the fiancée of Lord Earl?"
The words spoken by the man who came in through the door made Viscount Gabriath almost fall to his knees on the ground.