"Esther, you can't go to the government with me in this outfit, although it's not to mock the style of dressing, but I want you to change into normal clothes for the time being. ”

Walking out of the clothing store, Bill was a little dissatisfied.

He didn't know that Esther was dressed like this because she didn't have the money to buy new clothes, thinking that she just liked this kind of dress, and there were many weirdos in this world, and there were all kinds of weirdos.

However, when Esther heard Bill's words, he first suspected that he was hallucinating, and then questioned in disbelief.

"What, Mr. Cliff, do you mean to buy me clothes?"

"That's a lot of nonsense, hurry up. ”

"Yes, I see!"

Esther finally smiled and jumped behind Bill into the clothing store, and the man and woman in the crush often had a big and bad time, cheering at the slightest attention from the person he liked.

This cold-looking man can still see me in his eyes!

That's how Esther told herself in the depths of her heart.

Bill didn't know what Esther was thinking, and he was telling the clerk to take off the dress that matched his vision and put it on for Esther.

Strictly speaking, Esther is not ugly, especially after changing out of strange clothes, the clothing clerk uses a headband to tie up her beautiful red hair, and pairs it with earrings and necklaces that match the high-end dress.

When Esther stood in front of the mirror, she was frightened.

"Is this me?"

She squirmed out of the changing room, where Bill was sitting on the couch waiting, holding a copy of the Weekly News and reading the latest current events.

"It seems that the new editorial agency has found a direction, and they have shifted their audience to the middle class, increasing the introduction and promotion of fashion products. 」

"Hehe, they're already pretty good at writing advertorials, and they should be able to get a lot of advertising and sponsorship from fashion stores. 」

"Sir, do you think it's too strange for me to wear this dress?"

Esther stood in front of Bill with a shy face, and she was wearing a black dress with a cinched waist that showed off her slender waist.

“...... No, it's for you. ”

Looking up and down, Bill saw that the two shapely and tight calves were slender and fair, the skin was so smooth that there were no blemishes, and the small wedges elongated the leg arc, making Esther even taller and sexier.

The deep-eyed and high-nosed woman has no decoration on her face, but her facial features are so harmonious and three-dimensional, and her blood-gem-like big wavy red hair flows down her weak shoulders, and her gestures are temperamental.

It is true that people rely on clothes and horses on saddles.

"Waiter, pack the other few items I picked out as well, including accessories and shoes. ”

"Yes, sir!"

The service staff couldn't close their mouths with a smile, and helped Esther put on a handbag and put everything in exquisite packaging, and then sent the rich young master out of the store.

Esther left after Bill, and the waiter covered his mouth and snickered, joking with her, even forgetting that Bill had just said he was single.

"Miss, your boyfriend is really discerning. ”

"Don't, don't laugh, he's not my boyfriend!"

Esther hurried out of the clothing store, his face still hot red.

Covering his face and getting into the carriage, his heart was still pounding, for fear that the waiter's words would be heard by Bill.

The carriage drove slowly, and Esther secretly opened a gap in the carriage, looking at the man's back, and his heart throbbed for a long time......

Bill drove the horse-drawn carriage along the road, and many strangely shaped steam cars could be seen on the ever-changing Brittus Street.

White steam billowed out of the steel exhaust pipes, and the policeman directing the traffic stood at the intersection with a sign in his hand, nodding his head when he saw the tycoon driving by, and then straightened his face when he instructed civilians to cross the street.

The sound of jingle bells sounded, followed by woo-woo-woo-

The test train of the small steam train slowly stopped, and the screeching sound of metal grinding when braking sounded, and it was quickly drowned out in the noise and noise of squeezing down from the steam train.

Bill stopped the carriage and waited for the crowds to disperse, and the grey streets and baroque buildings looked dreamlike in the dim daylight, and the light and shadow rendered the vitality of the old and made the world more real.

When the carriage finally arrived, Bill and Esther walked into the Commercial Authority, where the first floor was a noisy business hall.

The Bureau of Commerce and Commerce was more lively than expected, and Bill could see many of the little nobles he had seen in the newspapers before, standing proudly in suits and leather shoes, accompanied by the old butler who was busy with the registration of the company.

After the fall of the aristocracy, these petty aristocrats lost their enviable status and sold their land in the countryside, intending to start factories like the capitalists and embark on the path of a new aristocracy.

Although there were a lot of people in the Business Authority, the efficiency of the relevant departments was not bad, and Bill soon received a large number of forms to fill out to apply for the registration of the company.

Bill then took Esther to the real estate bureau and applied for the most remote location in the northern industrial zone, where the rent was relatively cheap, and he quickly filled in the company name and funder, as well as the bank loan guarantee and start-up capital.

Eventually, Bill went to the Bureau for the Protection of Private Property Rights and began to work on the protection of the bicycle's property rights, which of course cost a lot of money to submit the design drawings and design concepts of the bicycle.

"In a terrible capitalist society, the poor really can't move an inch. ”

Putting the empty wallet back in his arms, Bill had no more opinions, he had no idea of organizing a workers' revolution again, and could only let himself into that class.

After nightfall, Bill and Esther return to the small town of Whipbit, where there are no pedestrians in sight on the quaint winding road, and there is only a dead silence here.

Because in this dilapidated old town, the shops are usually bought by horse-drawn carriages to the next town, so this town is hardly passed by outsiders except for Bill's horse-drawn carriage on weekdays.

Bill and Esther arrived at the convent where the only light was on, and the nuns fell ill one after another, and they did not wait for the savior, even the mayor disappeared, and he led the people out of the town of Whipbit and never returned.

"Hey, it's cruel to say that, but your mayor won't be coming back. ”

"There has been no news report of an outbreak in the small town of Whitbit in Brittus, which means that the mayor has not reported the matter to the government or to any agency that can help you. ”

Sitting on a broken wooden prayer stand in front of the idol, behind Bill was the faceless idol, the candlelight flickering on the towering black iron candelabra, which was probably the most valuable item in the Broken Abbey.

The nuns who answered Bill's question pursed their lips, they had thought that the mayor of the town, who had never wanted to come to such a town on an errand, had abandoned the town of Whitbit for a long time because he was afraid of the epidemic and infected him?

Not participating in Bill's conversation with the nuns, Esther was kneeling on the ground with a worried face, helping sick children and changing the hot towel from their foreheads.

Esther also did not know until today that the inhabitants who lived at their feet were suffering from illness, and the villa had a lot of food stocked, and there was no need to come to the town of Whitbit every day to buy it.

"Otherwise, let's go to the capital tomorrow to find a doctor, Brittus must have a doctor who is willing to help us, and the government will not ignore us!"

"Then tomorrow I will go to the capital with money to ask for help, and the Holy See will help us, ahem......"

The nuns gathered around to discuss that Bill was currently willing to participate in the epidemic in the small town of Huibit, of course, because he did not want to see the Ode Holy See involved, so he had better stop the nuns' plan.

"Ladies and gentlemen, perhaps you should not have made such a hasty decision to report the matter to the government and the Holy See of Oude, if the town of Whipbit is indeed detected with the plague, do you think the government will spare the people of the town?"

"And have you ever wondered why the Holy See of Oud once abandoned this place because of the poverty of Whipbit, why did they come back again?"

"Even if they are willing to send someone to the town of Whipbit and catch someone who points her out as a witch and says that the outbreak in the town is caused by witches, then how do you think the Holy See will deal with everyone who has been attacked by evil?"

A cold but deep voice rang out, and the nuns looked again at the man sitting on the prayer table with squinting eyes.

These words not only caught the attention of the nuns, but also the townspeople who were lying next to them, and after Bill said this possibility, they held their breath and thought of some not-so-friendly historical experience.

"The nuns said that the Holy See would burn witches, but we are not witches, and the Holy See will not burn us!"

The immature voice sounded under the prayer platform, the little girl with a sallow face raised her head innocently, she coughed violently after she finished speaking, and the old woman who had been taking care of the little girl next to her hurriedly helped her massage smoothly.

It's just that the little girl's words did not rekindle the hope of the adults present, but they were even more worried.

"Mr. Cliff, what are we going to do?"

"Yes, Mr. Cliff, you are a distinguished gentleman from the big city, and there must be a way to help us!"

"Mr. Cliff, do you know a doctor with excellent medical skills, you don't need the government's help, as long as there is a doctor willing to come here to treat us, we will pool the money to see a doctor, and we will not let him do free clinics!"

The inhabitants looked anxiously at Bill, their eyes full of helplessness and pleading, this is the sorrow of poverty, they did not dare to get sick from a long time ago, because they had no money, so even life and death had to be in the hands of others.

"Mr. Cliff, didn't you say that you were going to help the townspeople check the cause of the disease, and I will go to Brittus to find a doctor now!"

Esther stood firm, her eyes filled with compassion for the townspeople, and Bill had never known that she had a kind and nosy side.

Liar soothsayers, this is not synonymous with kindness.

"Don't rush to find a doctor tonight, it's almost late at night, and you don't know where a reliable doctor lives. ”

"In the morning I found that the water in the pipes was black, and if nothing else, the residents' illness should have something to do with the contamination of the drinking water. ”

"Do you drink this water all the time?"

Eyes swept over the nuns and townspeople, who nodded with complicated expressions, and a tall, lanky nun began to explain why.

"Dear Mr. Cliff, the drinking water in the town has been a little muddy lately, but that's how we've been here before. ”

"If you use government-filtered tap water, you have to pay a lot of sewage treatment fees every year, but we all grew up drinking water from the Aiyi River, so we don't know why we have to pay for water. ”

So in order to avoid this unnecessary, the townspeople collectively discussed with the mayor and gave him a lot of dried meat and flour, so that the mayor agreed to change the water pipes privately to avoid this expense. ”

After the nun explained, it dawned on Esther that if it was to save money, the poor would indeed do this.

"I don't want to say that, but you'd better change the pipes back, because the water from the river that runs through the northern industrial areas is not drinkable, and the government is right to treat the drinking water. ”

"Even before the big disease, you would have frequent diarrhea and abdominal pain, and children should be more severe. ”

Seeing the nuns and the residents hiding from each other, he knew he was not wrong.

Industrial effluent discharge is an inevitable source of pollution in all developing countries, but the presence of Max the Witch has made the already undrinkable water of the polluted river even more dirty.

"So Dr. Tim's diagnosis is correct?"

"If we can be sure that it's not a plague, can we ask the government for help?"

When one resident proposed such a plan, others immediately opposed it.

"If it is as Mr. Cliff said, we can't even ask the government for help!"

"It was we who stole the water pipes first, and it is illegal to damage and change public facilities at will, and we will be arrested by the police and locked up in a prison where there is no light of day!"

The frail man raised his voice and shouted out the worst consequences at such a time, and immediately many people were driven by his emotions and resolutely opposed the plan to report to the government.

"It won't be as serious as you say, we didn't evade taxes, we just didn't spend money to drink government-treated tap water......

Another voice appeared, and the middle-aged woman frowned, she was not as pessimistic as the frail man, but there was another speculation that frightened all the adults present.

"Even if we don't get arrested, the government will let us make up the water bills that we haven't paid for more than ten years, right?"

Originally, the townspeople were still arguing, but after the nun told the nuns, the scene quickly fell silent, and people unconsciously swallowed their saliva and looked at each other.

"It's better to pay the water bill for more than ten years, it's better to let the police arrest me and put me in prison, and in two years little Allen will be twelve years old, and I plan to take him from his hometown in the countryside to the city, and spend money to send him to the tanner's shop as an apprentice, and I can't survive in the city without a little craftsmanship in these years. ”

"My family too, the eldest daughter Lisa works as a servant on a steamship, and she is already twenty-three years old and has not yet married, just because my father is useless and can't give more dowry......"

"You can all save a little money, our family is barely fed now, since the child and his father had an accident working in the factory......"

The townspeople endured their abdominal pain and gathered together to tell the truth about what was going on in their homes.

Family matters may be difficult to talk about, but they are willing to talk about them because they no longer pin their hopes on the government and do not want to pay the high fees.

And their last hope was that the man who lived in the mountain villa took the initiative to go into the monastery and ask Mr. Cliff who was willing to help.

The man was sitting at the top of the prayer table at the moment, regardless of etiquette, and there was no change in expression on his face.

With Erlang's legs crossed and his chin in his right hand, Bill saw the townspeople looking at him, and suddenly jumped off the high platform and landed firmly on the ground.

"Who changed the water supply pipe in the town, I want to go to the Aiyi River in your mouth to see it myself. ”

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