Chapter 30: A New Life (1)

A busy day passed quickly, every resident of Wind Helmet City received a pound of meat, with the arrival of dinner time, although many people continue to store the meat, for future emergencies, but the whole city is still inevitable, began to be filled with a smell of meat, this smell of meat permeated the town, every resident smelled the smell, all leaked a smile, happiness is sometimes as simple as that.

Old Kelly kept stirring the thick dinner stick, and the soup in the pot was constantly tumbling, although there were really not a few pieces of meat in it, but the meat flavor contained in the soup was real.

Old Kelly's house is very dilapidated, the house is not in the city, but in a circle of mud houses outside the city, their ancestors are immigrants from Limburg decades ago, very poor, no land of their own, but they have to bear the same taxes as the residents of Wind Helmet, it can be said that they are below the line of extreme poverty all year round, except for their own men who occasionally help others to work in the farm and can exchange some food, the food at home has been at the bottom at any time.

Although the old Kelly's family was very poor, she was exceptionally strong, and I don't know how she grew up, but perhaps it was because of her talent that she was able to support her three hard-working children.

But today, old Kelly is very proud to cook the meat, you know, not everyone after receiving the meat, the first day to put down the pot, although the old Kelly pot has very little meat, but this is still enough to make his neighbors red.

Old Kelly is not a loser, the neighbors' eyes looking at old Kelly are also full of complexity, of course Lelouch will not really give the residents of Wind Helmet City a pound of meat, and then they will be relocated by their own voluntary organization, although Lelouch can be forced to relocate, but after all, he will lose the benevolent image he has worked so hard to create, so Lelouch still hopes to rely on welfare means such as lure to let these people take the initiative to relocate.

As an exemplary role and in the urgent need of the initial population, Lelouch opened up the first batch of residents who signed up to receive the immigration arrangement, but each family received five catties of cured meat, and a bag of potatoes, a bag of cabbage, and half a bag of flour!

I have to say that Lelouch opened a very high reward, when this decree was promulgated, many people flocked to the immigration registration office, but although there are many people in the past, but the vast majority of them understand, after all, they have lived in the Wind Helmet City for a lifetime, although the days are a little sad, but it is better than the dull, hard work, there is no problem to live, so although the interest is great, but there are very few people who are really willing to take action, the first day of registration, a huge Wind Helmet City, there are less than ten households, and the old Kelly family, is one of them。

At this time, the old Kelly's man went to the immigration office for a meeting, saying that he voluntarily chose his own direction of settlement, as if in addition to being a peasant, there was a second immigrant called the worker to choose, I heard that the workers had no land, but every month Lord Lelouch would pay the equivalent of twenty pounds of meat, and the immigration subsidy should be more, and the big stone house in the city was provided free of charge, and the children even had the opportunity to enter the castle as a reserve attendant, to have the honor of serving Lord Lelouch.

Old Kelly didn't expect his children to be so lucky to be able to follow the nobles, but as long as he could enter the castle, he would have the opportunity to receive education, education ~ literacy ~ What a distant word for peasants like them under the line of extreme poverty.

Old Kelly looked at the boiled sparse pieces of meat, scooped a spoonful of soup with a soup spoon, put it to his mouth and blew it, and then sniffed it fiercely in the envious eyes of the leaders, and let out a satisfied moan, this heat seemed to drift to the people next to him, the children of the family, following the heat, desperately inhaled into their noses, as if they could know the taste of meat, and the adults looked at the broth, and then looked at the bulging meat in their own homes, and swallowed their saliva.

Old Kelly deliberately glanced at his neighbor, and then tried his best to make himself look careless, called his three children to his side, fed one of them a mouthful of soup, and then put the rest back in the pot, and continued to stir with the stick, not caring at all that the meat inside was about to be stirred into mud, as if only in this way would the eyes of the neighbors around him always be on himself, slightly satisfying his vanity.

Old Kelly looked at the side of the street in front of his house, and the big merchant shouted:

"I don't know how my dead ghost has been gone for so long, isn't it just five pounds of meat, a bag of potatoes, a bag of cabbage, and half a bag of flour? ”

Old Kelly's deliberate show-off made the neighbors secretly groan, "Still drinking with the soldier master? As far as the urine of your man's pee, people have to look up to him!"

Although the neighbors are sneering psychologically, it has to be said that they are jealous in their hearts, especially when they find that their children are always looking straight at the broth pot and holding their little hands tightly, several families look at their own meat again.

Finally, the first household, Annai, could not live:

"Old woman, go, take out our meat and stew it, stew ~ stew it directly!"

The man's words caught everyone's attention, and his woman looked at him in disbelief, knowing that even old Kelly was only stewed with half a tael of meat.

The man seems to know what the woman wants to ask:

"I have a lot of family, and those four stinky boys can't eat as much as the three people of Old Kelly's family?

The woman anxiously eased her man's thick arm:

"We only have a pound of meat, let's keep it and eat it when you have the opportunity to work, and the children can eat more cabbage cakes today!"

The woman's words did not make the man change his mind, but looked at his almost four-walled house and gritted his teeth:

"Isn't Lord Lu Lu Xiu recruiting immigrants? I know how to strike iron, my craftsmanship is famous in the whole Wind Helmet City, I heard that the adults recruit what kind of workers, I will go to the adults as workers, and let you eat meat every day, live in a big stone house, this home with nothing, what's the point of staying, go, stew the meat, I'll go and sign up for the adults!"

The blacksmith's words made the woman stunned, looked at the house behind her randomly, and gritted her teeth:

"Okay, I'm going to give you stew, you go and come back quickly, and when you come back, we'll eat meat together, these little gluttons are afraid that you will have to eat up the meat before you come back!"

The woman's words were filled with pride, proud of her man, and happy that she was finally able to satisfy her child's thirsty eyes, and without saying a word, she turned around and went home, holding a kitchen knife, ready to cut the meat, and her four children happily followed behind and cheered.

This scene deeply hit the crowd of onlookers, and the blacksmith's words kept echoing in their ears, which made them all look back at the house behind them:

"What's the point of staying in this home where there's nothing!"

Looking at the blacksmith who walked out of the door quickly, a few more people gritted their teeth, left a sentence of "stew", and walked out of the house without stopping:

"Blacksmith, wait for me, I'll go too, maybe we can be companions in the future!"

"And me, and me"

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In order to ensure that every resident who wants to immigrate can register as soon as possible, Lelouch's registration office is open 24 hours a day, so the blacksmith does not have to worry about not being able to hold his name.

And at the end of the street where they had just disappeared, the old Kelly's man finally returned, the body that was slightly thin compared to his wife, and was carrying things in large bags at this time, which looked heavy, as if to crush the man's body, but the man kept a smile on his face, and strode towards his house like the wind, surrounded by envious eyes.

"The old woman opened the door, I brought something back!"

Needless to say, old Kelly had already rushed out with his eldest son, and his two daughters were left to guard his meat pot.

Looking at his wife and son who came to greet him, the man seemed to smile even brighter:

"Lord Lu Luxiu really didn't lie to us, there are a lot of things, and now our family has something to do!"

The man's satisfaction made old Kelly deliberately pout: "What is this?

Although old Kelly seemed to be full of care, but the fanatical expectation in his eyes could not hide from everyone, the man seemed to have just remembered, and took out a piece of cloth in his hand like a trick, and wrote some words on it:

"Seeing the door, it's all here, Lord Lelouch said, as long as our family packs up our things tomorrow and gathers at the school field, someone will escort us to Limburg, with this piece of cloth, our family can get twenty acres of land in Limburg, and a wooden house outside the city, and the tools and seeds for cultivating the land, Lord Lelouch will give them for free, don't you say that our family wants something now?"

The man's words made old Kelly's heart suddenly flutter, and he didn't care about the eyes of others, and kissed his man fiercely with his thick lips full of yellow teeth.

Old Kelly was nothing, the man was a little embarrassed to get up, but then smiled and walked home with his wife and children carrying things, their son looked at the big bag of things, and the smile on his family's face that he had never seen before, and suddenly found that his psychology seemed to have something more, thinking about the mighty soldiers he saw during the day, the gorgeous armor and the majestic war horses, a fiery heart, beating.

Today, Windhelm City is destined to be agitated!