"Little rock, don't run out until I'm done with this job."

"Okay mom." The little stone responded obediently.

Xiao Shi didn't have a surname, and the name was also found casually, his mother was a slave, and he couldn't think of a name when he was born, and the vocabulary in his brain was close to nothing, so he named him directly after the stone on the side of the road, and he usually called him Little Stone.

Xiao Shi shook the furry dog ears on his head, as a kobold in the orc clan, he also has a human appearance, as well as normal human limbs, only the hair has more dog ears, and the tail is also a dog's small tail, furry.

As for why his race is kobold, not called dogman, Xiaoshi doesn't understand it very well, and his mother doesn't understand it either.

"Mom doesn't understand, I heard that there is a teacher in the village school, and when we are promoted to free people, Mom will provide you with education, and you will learn by yourself in the future." So said the dog-headed slave mother.

So Xiao Shi sat next to the construction site of the house every day, looking at the elementary school hall standing there a few hundred meters away, with a look of longing in his eyes.

After a while, the children at the construction site next door also shook over and deliberately looked for small stones to play with.

It was broad daylight at this time, and the children of the freedmen were in school, and the slave children were not studying, and they were dangling around the workfield while the slave parents were working.

It is better to have children of the same age, they can play together, provided that they do not destroy public property.

"Little Rock, let's play together!" A few children play on the sand and build sand together.

There are many types of slaves, and some of these children are kobolds, pigmen, and lionmen.

This sand is the sand that some of the children's slave fathers have gone to the river to dig and bring here to mix with cement to lay bricks.

Little Stone glanced a little frightened at the masons who were supervising the work on the site, and the stonemasons turned to look at the children and shouted, "Don't touch the sand, go play with the mud, or catch bugs." ”

It seems that as long as these children don't go too far, the stonemasons won't be too strict.

This is completely different from the slave management atmosphere in Morning Glory Town, where slaves are not allowed to bring their children to work at work, let alone touch the things they need to use when they are in these buildings.

A couple of slave children obediently retracted their hands and went to play with the mud with small stones.

The little stone played with the mud and was absent-minded.

He's playing with mud, and the freedfolk kids are reading, and what it's like to read, he wants to know.

At noon, the elementary school ended, and Xiaoshi saw two little girls of the same age who had returned from the elementary school.

"Good afternoon, Efe, what did you learn today?" Little Stone looked at Effie with longing little eyes.

Effie and Ena are inseparable, their pure hair color of black and white is also conspicuous among the cat-eared orcs, they are like little angels who have beaten the Holy Light, and as soon as they appear, they make all the little slaves with low self-esteem respect.

The children of slaves are also slaves, and Xiao Shi did not dare to communicate with the children of the freedmen, and the person who opened up this class situation was none other than Ena Efe.

Every time they saw a bitter slave child, they would try to communicate, try to listen to the pain of others, and the angelic mind melted the slave children in the whole village.

Of course, every time I listened, I was yearning for the life of a free man, and the pain was not too painful, after all, Allen's new slave policy was very lenient, and at most the place to live was a little simpler.

Slaves did not have a house to live in, they lived in a large grass hut en masse, they did not need to cover a quilt in hot weather, they could sleep on the spot, and they could only go into the forest to avoid the rain during the rainstorm season.

"I taught the ninety-nine multiplication table today." Ena tilted her little head, like a treasure.

Effie also showed a contemplative look, recalling that the content of today's class was all what she had learned, and she didn't listen carefully, so she could only vaguely say: "It seems that twenty words have been taught." ”

In this era when slaves could not go to school, the slaves of their infancy were in the period of advancement, and the last hope had not yet been worn out by life, and the slaves such as Xiaoshi put down the mind of playing with mud and catching insects, and stared wide, and the dog's ears on their heads were erect, so that the listening area of the ears reached the maximum, and greedily absorbed all knowledge.

"One by one, one by two, one by two, one by three, three by three......" Xiao Shi muttered this multiplication formula, at first he didn't know what to say, but after the explanation of the two primary school masters, several slaves felt as if they understood.

After the two little Lori finished speaking, Xiao Shi all regretted it: "Thank you for your hard work, but it's a pity that we can only play outside." ”

"You can go to school too."

"What?" Little Stone didn't hear clearly, so he asked again.

"Brother Allen said that all the children in the village can go to school for free and do not need to pay money."

"Can we too?" The little stone was agitated and couldn't extricate himself.

"Yes, slave children can also go to school, this is what Alan said personally, I look at it, I don't believe I will take you to Brother Allen!" Effie patted her little flat chest and said.

How dare the slave's child ask the village chief for an explanation, and immediately shake his head like a drum.

"Anyway, you can go to school in the afternoon." Ena added glutinously behind her sister's back.

"Shall we sit by the wall?" Xiao Shi wanted to go into the classroom to look at the blackboard, and heard that the blackboard is a magical thing, and the knowledge will be left on the blackboard, so that those students who learn slowly will remember it slowly.

"No, there are stools in the classroom."

"I had to ask my mom ......"

Effie waved her hand and dismissed the little slaves who were eager to go to school, "Go, go, go." ”

The little slave scattered away with a few voices, and it was just time for the slave to eat lunch, just in time to report the latest news brought by Ephiena.

The little kobold ran back to his construction site, his mother was still working, meticulously laying cement, and his father was still moving, and he didn't immediately run to eat, very dedicated.

"Daddy!"

"Don't make noise about the little stone, today we will eat white rice porridge in our group, you go and help us bring it." His father glanced at the small stone, and Nunu asked him to serve the porridge.

"Mom!"

"Little stones, go quickly, don't hinder the slow laying of bricks, Master Mason said, the bricks must be flattened, don't distract your mother." His mother's eyes were fixed on the brick surface, and his steady and unshaking movements were better than what the stonemasons did.

Xiao Shi knew that his parents were working very hard today, and tried their best to let everyone in the family have white rice porridge to eat, and his eyes were slightly hot.

"I know, I'll go right away...... Mom and Dad I'm going to school in the afternoon, that's what Master Allen said. ”

Xiao Shi came back with porridge and couldn't help but say the good news.

Hearing this, the two slave parents raised their heads and looked sharply at their son.

"What did you say?"

"We're still slaves, how can we let you go to school?"

"Don't worry, son, the most desperate group of the slave group on the construction site, escort the family to become a free man, and I will definitely let you go to school when the time comes."

The old father did not believe that slaves could go to school, and he could not bear to see his son depressed, and when he saw that the other slaves had already begun to work, he raised his head and swallowed the white rice porridge in the bowl, put down the bowl and let his son wash the dishes.

After a while, Xiaoshi's father stood up, with the sun on his head, and carried the bricks again to those who needed them.

His mother also put down the empty bowl and touched her son's head, "Good, I'll wash the dishes after eating." ”

The whole porridge eating time did not exceed ten seconds, and no one who worked enthusiastically could persuade him, so he devoted himself to the construction of private houses again.

Little Stone choked up, looked at his parents' hard work, and secretly vowed to learn something in the free class.