Gawain put down the last engineering report that he needed to confirm personally, moved his neck to relax his somewhat stiff cervical spine, and then looked around.

The study was very quiet, but he was not alone, not far from Gawain's large desk, there was a small table against the wall, and Betty was lying on the table, bowing her head and writing the words she had recently learned to spell.

It seems to have become Betty's daily routine to spare two hours every night to go to night school to learn spelling, and then practice writing in front of the textbook during the day, which seems to have become Betty's daily routine, and in order to make this little girl who loves learning a more convenient study space, Gawain specially allowed her to practice writing in his study, and arranged a small desk of her own here.

This was obviously a bit more than a maid should be, but no one in this place would question Gawain's decision, and as for Betty herself, her mind didn't seem to be complicated enough to think about the problem of "rules transgression".

Betty is indeed a not-so-smart girl - in fact, she is a bit stupid, and Gawain knows that there is a word to describe this kind of girl, which is the so-called "silly", but he does not feel the slightest joy from Betty's stupidity - this girl has no birth defects, her "stupidity" is just the result of malnutrition and family life difficulties since childhood.

Just like most of the destitute children of this era, like most of the kitchen maids, low-level handymen, and children of serfs, the lack of nutrition at the critical stage of development and the lack of education during the most important learning period of life often affect their lives, they lack knowledge, are worn out of curiosity, have no ability to learn, and do not know how to think independently, the nobles will often regard the "inferior people" as stupid and ignorant, and regard them as a natural defect, and will even use this as evidence to support the "truth" that "nobles are born noble" Of course, there are exaggerated and unjustified discriminatory elements in this, but as he learns more and more about the world, Gawain also has to admit a fact:

There is really a gap between the children of extreme poverty and the children of the nobles who live a well-off life in terms of learning ability and thinking speed, although this gap has nothing to do with the so-called "blood superiority and inferiority", but its own existence is an unavoidable reality.

So Gawain is trying to reduce this disparity, whether it is the introduction of free children's meals in night schools or the distribution of food subsidies to children under the age of six in the territory, it is part of the effort, first to solve the malnutrition of the children, so that their minds can be fully developed like the children of the nobility, and at the same time to educate them, this is the most effective way he can think of, but what about those who are already adults or about to become adults?

Gawain stood up and came behind Betty, watching the stupid girl try to spell word by word, her mistakes were few, and her handwriting was much more neat than at the beginning, but she had to spell a word dozens of times to remember, and to this day, she is still learning many things from the first two months of night school.

Betty is already much better than most people of her class, she is almost an adult, but she still has a strong curiosity, and actively and spontaneously likes to learn, she likes to write, and longs to be able to read and write fluently like Rebecca, Hertie and others, but she is still very difficult to learn - she is not a buried genius in anything, she has missed the best age to learn, which is difficult to make up for with acquired efforts.

In fact, if it weren't for a catastrophe in the territory, if it weren't for Gawain taking her to see too many things in the "outside world", Betty probably wouldn't have learned any other way to survive in her life than doing rough work in the kitchen.

Just like in the days when she had just escaped from the territory, she had always held her pan - that was because there really was nothing else in her entire life, and as a kitchen maid, that pan was the highest honor and mission she could imagine.

Betty finally noticed the figure beside her, she raised her head in some fright, and wanted to get up in a panic: "Master......"

"It's okay, I've just finished my business and come to see how you're doing," Gawain pressed Betty's head to calm the girl, "Ah...... You're already able to write neatly. ”

Betty laughed a little embarrassedly, and she was happy to receive the compliment, but she was a little aggrieved: "Peas learn faster than me......"

"She's still young, it's normal to learn things a little easier," Gawain comforted the little maid, "You're working hard, and sooner or later you'll be able to catch up with the others." And if there is anything you don't understand, I can teach you at any time. ”

"Hmm!" Betty nodded vigorously, and at this moment, Gawain noticed a few pages of scratch paper poking out of the stack of books next to the small desk, and he curiously pulled them out to see some simple basic runes depicted on them.

"You've already started learning runes?" Gawain asked in surprise.

"Hmm......" Betty bowed her head, "Mr. Santis, who teaches runic literature, opened the classroom and allowed other classes to observe, and I followed......"

"Do you understand?"

"Yes...... I understand a part," Betty gestured with her hand, indicating that it was a very small part, "Mr. Santis spoke very carefully and patiently, and the people in the audience could also ask questions, so I learned a little." Mr. Santis said that if I could write down the basic twenty-eight runes, he would let me officially go to class. ”

Gawain couldn't help but think of the thin and tall mage young man in a shabby mage robe, his hair was messy and a little cowardly, since he arranged for the second-level arcanist to go to Cecil's general academy to teach runes and magic, he hadn't heard anything about the other party, that Mr. Arcanist was really a fairly low-key person, it seemed that as long as he was given a job, he could continue to work silently in the post - but in terms of the final result, He seems to be doing a good job as a teacher?

Few full-fledged mages have the patience to be as patient with the common children as he is, and he can even explain the relatively complex runic theories to the point where even Betty can barely understand part of it, which is a remarkable talent.

After all, no one had ever thought about explaining magic to a group of people who didn't feel magic at all, and Santis's educational path was entirely his own.

"Mr. Santis once said, 'You can't see magic, but it's there,'" Betty whispered, "but he wouldn't let us carve runes on copper plates and black stones, he told us to practice on sand, paper, and clipboards, and we had to wait until we were proficient before we could touch the magic materials......"

"Security awareness is the first step to learning magic," Gawain laughed, "and he's right to hear that." ”

With that, he suddenly turned around and looked in the direction of the window—he sensed the scent of amber rapidly approaching the place.

Unfortunately, this time the anti-amber device didn't work - Miss Shadow's gifted half-elf jumped over the rat trap on the windowsill and landed safely on the ground, while Gawain noticed that her expression was a little serious.

It was rare to see a serious expression on Amber's face, so Gawain temporarily put away the idea of replacing the mouse trap on the windowsill with a tripwire next time, and he looked at the other party curiously: "What happened?" ”

Amber casually picked up Gawain's water cup on the desk and poured the herbal tea in it, and only after drinking it did he take a big breath: "Whew-I'm tired of running all the way." The patrol in the mountains returned early, where they encountered a group of suspicious militants and returned with two crippled prisoners. ”

Gao Wen suddenly frowned: "Suspicious militants? What's going on? ”

"I don't know, there is nothing identifiable on those people, but I found map tools and some sketches of the Dark Mountains on them," Amber waved her hand, "The two captives I caught couldn't ask anything, and they were not lightly injured, and Pitman didn't dare to pour potions on them to extract confessions—for fear of accidentally killing someone." Now the people are being held in the barracks, and the priest is treating their wounds. The patrol who came back was also there. ”

Gawain frowned and glanced back at Betty: "You watch the door at home, I'll go out for a while." ”

The little maid nodded stunnedly, and the next second saw that her master and Amber had rushed out of the window in a hurry, and only the voices of the two faintly came from the air:

"Oh, I'll go to this rat trap!"

"You deserve it, who told you to trap me with a rat trap - this time I caught myself!"

"I can't go with you - why do you think I'm jumping out of the window with you!!"

Betty was stunned for a moment, then lowered her head and continued to write—it was too difficult to understand how the old man and Amber behaved together, so it was easier to learn.

On the other side, it didn't take long for Gawain and Amber to arrive at the "Prisoner Detention Cell" located in a corner of the barracks area.

Here he saw the patrol soldiers who encountered the enemy, and the two captives they defeated and captured, indeed, as Amber said, the two captives were really injured - they were pierced by the scorching rays, and there were many places on their torsos that were grazed by the heat rays, and the metal armor that was melted by the heat made their injuries particularly serious, and if it wasn't for the soldiers of the patrol who poured them healing potions in time, and returned to the territory with the priest's holy light, it is really hard to say whether they would have survived.

Priest Wright had already completed the emergency treatment of the captive's wounds - through a series of effective treatments such as orthopaedic (physical), cleansing (physical), and healing (physical), as well as a little insignificant holy light effect, he stabilized the captive's condition, and after seeing Gawain enter, the priest immediately greeted him: "Lord, you are here at a good time. ”

Gawain saw the blood on the hands and body of this priest at first glance, and was shocked: "If I come later, you will kill people, right?!" ”

"Huh?" Wright was stunned for a moment, and quickly waved his hand, "No, no, their injuries have stabilized, I mean if you come a little later, I'm going to be ready to release the Tranquility Spell on them and make them fall asleep - then I can't ask." ”

Glancing at Wright's casserole-sized fist, Gawain was convinced that Mr. Reverend's tranquilization technique would work so hard that anyone could shut up......

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