Chapter 7: The Final Answer
Pullman's home is in Brownwood Village, which is so remote from the forests of the Tisilan Mountains that it is estimated that there is no record of it on the kingdom's map.
The only specialty of the village is the gooseberry native to the forest, the bright red grape-like gooseberry is a rare berry, the taste is sour, some nobles love to eat this, so every year there will be merchants to come to the village to buy, which is also the largest income of the village in a year.
It happened this year when businessmen came to buy it.
The most important thing about fruit is freshness, and Lord Mock will come to Brownwood Village a week or two in advance at this time of year to live in the village and sell the gooseberries produced in the village this year in several batches to the nearby cities.
Besides, it is not expensive to buy, and they are very happy to give these stupid villagers a basket of silver coins. And after he transported it to the city and washed it, he could sell it for a basket of 60 silver coins on a white plate, which could be described as a huge profit.
These dusty hillbillies will never get into the high-end shops in the aristocratic district of the city, and they will naturally not know what price these fruits will sell for. This deal has been done for many years.
Halfway through, I happened to meet Pullman's sister Ashley.
Ashley is 14 years old this year, and she has just returned from a bath by the river, and her youthful and beautiful face immediately attracts the attention of Master Moke.
Pullman's sister is taken by the merchant Lord Mock, and tells his parents that he can take her sister to the city to work as a maid for the noble lord.
Working as a servant for the nobles is much happier than ordinary villagers, stable and not starving, and it is a profession that many commoners aspire to in this dangerous world.
So Pullman's parents happily agreed, so Mock also gave Pullman's parents a sum of money, and Pullman was also very happy.
After all, his sister has a good job, and he vaguely feels that if he has this money, he can discuss his marriage with Jona.
But what he didn't expect was that since then, he hasn't been able to see his sister, the little thin, but well-behaved and obedient sister.
After his sister left, two months later, he went to Turin City to find out the address of the nobleman's house, and wanted to see his sister, but was stopped by the guards.
He was just a commoner boy, and naturally he couldn't enter the courtyard of the nobles, so he stayed on the opposite side and asked the servants who came in and out to inquire about his sister's news.
But strangely enough, no one knew his sister, and in the end he felt that something was wrong, and one day he secretly climbed into it at night, and was quickly caught by the guards because he was not familiar with the terrain.
In the Kingdom of Zephyr, the lives of civilians are not valuable, and he still trespasses into the mansion, and was soon tortured, but fortunately, he is indeed a teenager from a nearby village, and many people recognize him, and finally after a stern warning, he is finally released.
But he didn't give up, and fell to his knees covered in scars, begging the guards if they would let him see his sister.
Finally, a young guard couldn't stand it anymore, and as he left, he whispered in his ear that you could look for it in the barren mountains south of the city.
When he staggered to the barren mountain, what appeared in front of him was a small mound of white bones exposed.
This is a mass grave.
A bad expectation came to him, and he rummaged around, and finally found only a corpse of similar shape.
But from the torn clothes, it was still recognizable that it was his sister.
That's right, the aristocratic lord wants a maid, but it's not the kind of maid who serves daily life as everyone imagines, but just a plaything that can be discarded at any time.
The boy trembled his hands, unable to accept the fact, and sat by the corpse for a whole day and a night, and finally cried and cut open the soil and buried the thin body in the soil.
At this point, the boy's voice was a little choked, and remorse filled his heart, if only he had persuaded his parents at that time, if only he had not indulged in fantasies about Joanna at that time.
Why, why is this happening, their family just wants to live a little better! Isn't such a tiny wish allowed?
"Do you want revenge?"
The silver-haired girl's clear voice came from across the fire.
"I think, but I don't have the strength, and my parents won't allow me to do that."
The teenager's parents were also vaguely aware of the truth of the matter afterwards, but maybe considering the huge gap in strength, the difficulty of adult life, or maybe they didn't care about this daughter, they didn't seek revenge from Mock, and were ready to settle the matter, and let Pullman work at home with peace of mind and not go to Terring City again.
"Why? Why can they be so indifferent. ”
The boy clutched his knees tightly, his voice revealing confusion and anger.
In the eyes of children, parents are heaven, aren't they omnipotent?
Loren Hill also recalled some memories of the past, after junior high school, the myth of her parents in her mind had been shattered, and she thought she was much smarter than them.
However, after graduating and working, after being beaten by society, she began to understand some of her parents' choices, and many things were not because she didn't want to, but because she couldn't.
Just as Loren Hill was about to enlighten the boy, the mechanical voice of the system resurfaced.
New Mission: Answer Teenage Pullman's doubts and receive a reward based on completion, at least 70%. (0% current progress)
Rewards: For every 20% progress achieved, you will get a chance to draw a lottery, and when you complete 100%, you will receive a Transcendent Creation Recipe.
Well, does this system also come with real-time emergency missions?
Lorain Hill began to think carefully about the experience of his youth, and the questions he might have in his heart.
"Perhaps, parents have their considerations too."
Loren Hill begins to explain to Pullman the hardships of an adult's life, not only to support a family, but also to the nobles and businessmen, who will not be able to do so even if they go to appeal, and to consider the future survival of their only son, Pullman, and so on.
But the teenager was still a little dissatisfied, he couldn't accept the result, and the progress showed that he was stuck at 26%.
Loren Hill also understands that such a gentle explanation is not enough to convince the other party, in other words, it is estimated that it will be difficult for her to listen.
Then tell him the brutal truth.
"Because you don't have the strength."
The girl stirred the fire and added a few dead branches to it, and watched as the flames that were about to go out grew larger.
The boy froze, then lowered his head again.
"Yes, I can't beat that nobleman."
"No, I'm not talking about this power, that nobleman doesn't have to produce, and his body is probably not as strong as you. One-on-one, you should be stronger than him. ”
"What does that mean?"
"Have you ever wondered why some people do nothing but have more wealth than you and can act unscrupulously, oppress and plunder."
"I, I don't know."
A question that had never been thought of appeared in the teenager's mind.
"Their fields are planted by civilians, their clothes are woven by civilians, their food is cared for by civilians, and they have civilians as guards to protect them. Why can they be like this? ”
"Because they gave money?" The boy hesitated for a moment and replied.
"Where does their money come from?" The girl asked rhetorically.
"Their money....", the boy's mind began to desperately recall what he had seen and heard in his short life.
"Their money comes from the collection of taxes, by the collection of rents, and by the work which you produce for them." The girl replied for Pullman.
"Yes." But there seems to be something wrong with it, and Pullman can't say it.
"Let's talk about collecting taxes and rents first, don't you think it's strange that the commoners work for them and produce, and they give money to the civilians."
"Why are they getting richer, even if they don't have to work?"
"Maybe it's because there's more money to work and produce?" The boy replied suspiciously, and then the progress began to move forward.
Lorain Hill secretly praised, and began to recall the era in his memory, countless people worked hard, and even 996 worked overtime without any entertainment, why they still couldn't afford to buy a house.
"Yes, the deal isn't entirely fair, you produce more money and they only give you a part."
"This ....."
"But is it really that simple, why don't civilians produce it themselves?"
The boy didn't know the answer at all, yes, why not?
"Because they have a resource in their hands that civilians don't have, and this resource can be a lot of things, it can be a cow, it can be a shop, it can be a special relationship, it can be a certain right."
"These scarce and necessary things, you don't have, you have to rely on them, so they can make this unfair deal."
"Yes." The boy's voice was a little low.
"Can they continue to be like this, and that poor people like me can only work for them forever?"
"It's not always like this, and it takes good order to maintain such behavior, provided that everyone is reasonable."
"You've probably heard of robbers, the kind of unreasonable people who take everything from you and don't give you anything."
"So, they're going to spend some of the money on hiring guards, and even though these guards don't produce and don't generate money, they can guarantee the long-term existence of the benefits."
The boy seemed to understand a lot, but he didn't seem to understand anything, and the world unfolded before his eyes in a way that he had never seen before.
Watch the progress on the system advance to 68% and then stop again.
Lorain Hill sighed slightly in his heart, it seemed that he had to finish talking completely.
"They have 10,000 gold coins in their hands, and they only use 10 gold coins to hire guards, why don't these guards guard and steal from themselves?"
Loren Hill's voice gradually became official.
"Why don't you take down the guards hired by 10 gold coins and snatch the 10,000 gold coins?"
"For there is a kingdom as the last guardian of order, and those who break the laws and institutions will be suppressed, exterminated, and put to death."
"Why does the Kingdom protect these people, even if they do evil, why do they tolerate one another, and why is the law not on your side?"
"Because they are the masters of this country, they are nobles and rich merchants, not you commoners."
"Of course, they want to defend the interests of their own class."
"Even if you kill this nobleman, as long as this environment exists, this kind of thing will still happen again."
At this point, Loren Hill paused, waiting for the boy to think slowly.
Pullman was silent for a long time before he slowly asked.
"I still don't understand, can it be so unfair, will it always be like this?"
"The state, to some extent, is the embodiment of the just order, and if justice is lost, the foundation of the state will also be broken."
"Do you want to ask me how to change all this, and that is to build a country where all people are equal, a country that is fair and just, wise and firm, rich and strong."
In his previous life, Loren Hill took the science college entrance examination, studied engineering, and did not study Marxism-Leninism very well.
But fortunately, this country, which was founded by struggling with wind and rain and suffering, clearly writes the art of dragon slaying in every middle school student's textbook. Where this country came from, how it was founded, what mistakes we have made, and how to resolve these contradictions are clearly told to each and every citizen.
It may not be perfect, and there are still many problems, but it is undeniable that its greatness will never be erased, and our warriors, the sacred faith, will never be erased.