Chapter 391: About Poverty
Back at the bazaar, Saul found a small restaurant facing the street and asked for a whole wheat bread. It is said that there is also a bread with bran in the store, which has a rough taste but has dropped in price, and Saul does not think there is any need to treat himself badly.
If he really wants to be frugal, he can go back to the ring and make it himself, and he can eat more deliciously, he is too lazy to get it.
"Is it delicious?" As if to see Thor shove the bread into his mouth, Neferna's voice suddenly came from her chest.
"Every time you suddenly open your mouth on my chest, I feel like a kangaroo. Thor subconsciously looked down.
"What is a kangaroo?" Neferna always seemed to be curious about the unknown.
"Uh...... Actually, I haven't seen anything like it, and the books say that it was an animal that haunted the steppes and plains in an earlier period. They are said to have a small pocket on their chest in which they can put their children, something like that. Saul replied.
"That sounds amazing! Why haven't I seen it?" said Neferna.
There was a moment of silence in the air.
"Phew, who's your child, I'm a goddess, okay?" protested Neferna, who realized it later.
"Please don't mention the word 'goddess' again, I'll be ashamed of you. You peeked into my private life all the way, fled decisively when you were in danger, and left me alone in front of the iron gate of the castle. Thor shook his head.
A series of faint fragmented thoughts resounded in the air.
"If you have the ability, you can scold loudly. The corners of Thor's eyes twitched.
"Don't you want to help them?" said Neferna suddenly.
"Who?" Thor subconsciously turned his head to look around, and saw that the circle of poor people closest to the small restaurant was staring at him, nay, rather, at the basket of bread on his table.
"You think I should help them?" Thor turned around.
"At least now you're richer than them. Neferna said.
"I don't know if it's the bullshit of your gods, but I think it's bullshit logic, because I'm rich and I should help them? What I have today, even a loaf of bread and a glass of water, is the result of my own efforts. ”
"I do have something now, but every time I look back at the past, I never think it was lucky, and even with a lot of pain and loss, those bloody footprints are still fresh in my mind. ”
"Right now, I'd rather have nothing at all, just change my loved ones around me, but unfortunately there is no turning back. ”
"You think they're unfortunate, but it seems to me nowhere near tragic enough to deserve sympathy. ”
"To be honest, I look down on them a little, not because I'm rich, but because I think poverty is a sin. ”
"You may not believe it, but I was so far inferior to them, eating moldy bread and drinking black water from the sewers, and no one ever looked at me at that time. If I die on the spot, no one will care if I rot to the bones. ”
"I knew then that when the real darkness came, even the shadow would leave you, I had experienced it. ”
"Sometimes, for the sake of a little food, the strong resort to force, and the weak abandon their personality. ”
"If the world has warmed me, I don't mind giving back something when I have the resources to spare. ”
"It's a pity that it's not, compared to those who have a grudge and take revenge on the world, at least I've never bullied anyone with my own strength, I think it's actually pretty good. So I don't owe anyone, and of course, they don't owe me either. ”
"The path of man is his own choice, if you look at them carefully, if they have no ability to survive with their hands and feet, I will definitely help them, and even admire them. Because life has destroyed him so much, he is still tenaciously alive. ”
"But what do you think they are waiting for, but these people around them, who are obviously able-bodied, huddle here like basking in the sun? ”
"The darkness has lasted for more than 700 years now, and most people know that the dark wilderness is very dangerous, and the harsh environment of the continent has started since their grandfather's generation, and it didn't suddenly become like this yesterday. ”
Since they didn't choose to fight for survival, or they chose to live like this, they had to accept this death. ”
"You can think I'm ruthless, I admit it completely, but you can't ask me to help them, even if they starve to death in front of me. Or you can also understand that I only love the people I love, I don't love the people I don't love, that's all. ”
"Forget it, you can't understand what you're talking about, you haven't lived like me, so naturally you can't think like me. Thor's tone was a little stunned, as if he was tired from the invisible binding of the goddess Shiitake mushroom.
"Who says I don't understand? But if you don't do some things, some things are really dead in your heart. Neferna said.
"You have a point, and I know what you're talking about. ”
"But the problem is that I don't have those things in my heart in the first place, so what can I talk about dying?"
"Well, to be specific, if I help one of them, I have to help the poor of the whole town, otherwise it will only be exchanged for the hatred of more people who have not been helped. Even if I help the whole town, what about the next town?"
"The world has long told me that I will not be a hero who saves the world, nor a partner in justice, nor a noble knight with a halo of luck, but just an inconspicuous afterglow without even a salary. ”
"In this world, everyone has their own destiny or mission, and in fact, you can't do anything to save others. ”
"At the end of the day, life is as short as a fly, and only you can save yourself. ”
"Sometimes I really envy you guys who can't die and die, how can people like us have a bad life, and they often want to sweat tightly in their hands. ”
After Saul finished speaking, Neferna fell silent, and Saul didn't know what she was thinking.
Seeing a group of children huddle in front of the crowd and continue to covet their bread, Thor beckons to them.
The children looked at Thor with some fear and restraint, and Thor smiled and pushed the bread in front of them.
"Thank you, brother, thank you, uncle!" The children swarmed up amid the chaotic thanks.
Thor, however, moved the bread basket out of the way.
"Only those who called my brother just now had bread to eat, but those who called my uncle did not. Thor grimaced.
"Thank you, brother~~!" This time it was very neat, and Thor was very satisfied, and gave them the bread with a smile on his face. They even asked the restaurateur to bring another basket to make sure they had one.
"Poof~!You're such a nuisance, what are you doing to scare children?" said Neferna suddenly.
"Why do you have a shiitake mushroom that laughs? This is the first time I've heard it. Thor responded.
"Hey, hey~!Actually, you're still convinced by me, aren't you?" Neferna smirked.
Saul raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect that such a small shop in a deserted town would also surprise mentally handicapped children.
"Convince a fart, instead of asking me to empathize with an adult who can survive, I'd rather work on my children. In this way, when I am dying of old years from now, I may be able to listen to some young man passing by the door talk about the world. Saul replied.
"You were obviously persuaded by me, and you still don't admit it. Neferna clung to it.
"Yes, you're amazing, aren't you?"
"I don't know what you have to be proud of as a mere mortal that a goddess has convinced me?" Thor didn't bother to argue.
"Aren't you eating?" Seeing Thor get up and seem to be leaving, Neferna asked suddenly.
"I'm going to go to the hotel to book a room first, and then go back to the ring to make some of my own, and I don't feel comfortable being watched and eating. ”
"I'm going too!"
"What are you going to do? You don't have a mouth. Saul was puzzled.
"Who says I don't have a mouth? I can possess a magic golem and eat it. Neferna replied.
Possessed in ...... On the magic golem?Question, the magic golem doesn't have a mouth, does it?Thor was a little confused.
After asking for a hotel room, Thor hid the portal tower under the bed to avoid being taken away by some guy, which would be too cumbersome to chase, and then teleported to his ring.
While Thor cooks the food, Neferna goes back to reading her book.
By the time the ring hallway filled the table with steaming food, Thor was completely shocked.
There really is a mouth on the cloth face of the puppet shiitake mushroom, only a small mouth, and it is stuffing food into its mouth. This...... What the hell is this? Feels worse than Teemo's skull, right?
"It's delicious! I can't imagine that the food on earth is so delicious, better than the first drop of morning dew I have ever drunk!" said Neferna.
"Look~ Don't you say that I thought it was some kind of high-end fresh soup? Dew, I know, wild dogs passing by may lick to moisten their throats, I really can't imagine a few drops of dew, what do you have to show off?"
"To be honest, even the countrymen on the mainland today don't talk like you. Thor rolled his eyes.
"You ......," Neferna was grieved.
By the time the meal was over and Saul was ready to head back to the hotel.
"Aren't you leaving?" asked Thor as he looked at the goddess lying there reading a book.
"Go and rest, I'm here. The goddess's calf shook as she turned the pages.
How dare you be more relaxed than the Great Demon King?
Thor rolled his eyes.
"You go back with me first, I am reminded of an extremely important matter. Thor looked serious.
Neferna didn't know why, so she could only follow Sol back to the hotel, and Sol brought the puppet mushroom with him.
"You're coming in first?" Thor held the puppet in his arms.
"What am I coming in?" said Neferna.
"Puppet, hurry up, I'm going to test your abilities. Saul explained.
Wait until Neferna enters the puppet.
"Can you conjure your eyes but your mouth? I mean the whole expression, or you only have one mouth that looks terrifying!" Thor encouraged.
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