Chapter 401: Heart Knot
Coming to the factory that produces artillery and various types of shells again, Doris and Bernie look at the endless production of shells, and their mood is completely different from when they came.
When I came, I was more curious, I only knew that these shells were used to deal with those demonic beasts, but I didn't know exactly how to deal with them and how powerful they were.
After returning from the battlefield, although it was only two or three hours, seeing these produced shells again, I couldn't help but think of the scene outside the city of the Duk Mahon battlefield that bloomed everywhere and blew the demonic beast into a pile of fragments, and a feeling called awe was born.
Especially when the Warcraft Babi Lizard climbed up from the city wall, those who carried small cannons on their shoulders and blew the Warcraft and their own people to pieces with cannonballs, which impressed them even more.
"Shall we go and see how the artillery is made?" Bernie said to Doris as he slowed his speed.
"No, no, forget it, Bernie, let's get out of here, I want to change my mood, and I feel a little uncomfortable. ”
"Good!"
Since Doris didn't want to see it, Bernie was not reluctant, and drove the magic RV directly out of the scope of the Ministry of Works.
They had lunch at noon and began to inquire all the way to the battlefield of Dukmahon, and they did not stay long on the walls of the battlefield before they caught up with the incident of the Babi lizard climbing the city wall, and then returned the same way, so it was still early.
Bernie was going to drive the magic RV back to the Propaganda Department, but Doris said, "Bernie, I don't want to go back, let's go shopping." ”
The fiancée wanted to go shopping, but Bernie certainly wouldn't object, so the magic caravan turned around and followed the newly built road all the way to the commercial street of the aristocratic district near the palace.
Of course, it will not be civilians who can consume here, only in the central area of the imperial capital, a small number of people in this aristocratic gathering place can afford to consume.
Usually Bernie and Doris rarely come to this commercial street, but today both of them are in a heavy mood, Bernie doesn't want to go to too many places, and his fiancée wants to go shopping to change her mood, so she drove the magic RV here.
This commercial street is not long, but it sells almost some of the most expensive goods in the entire human continent, so of course there is not much traffic, and it is now in the afternoon, and there are not many people in sight on the entire street.
Parking the magic RV, Bernie took Doris's hand out of the RV and wandered aimlessly down the street.
I went into several stores in a row, except for buying two pieces of chopped akane melon in a fruit store to quench my thirst, the two of them just watched, and they didn't have a strong desire to shop.
Of course, Doris can barely afford it here, and Bernie is at most just looking.
In the end, the two moved to the largest, most luxurious, and most extravagant "Maria's Love Luxury Jewelry Store" in the imperial capital.
Bernie's greatest wish now is to save enough gold to buy the cheapest ring in this jewelry store to marry Doris, but with his current income, he will have to work hard for at least another two or three years.
No way, the price of even the cheapest ring in this jewelry store is something that a down-and-out nobleman like him needs to look up to.
In the imperial capital, almost all the rings used by nobles to propose marriage were purchased here, otherwise, no noble girl would agree to the other party's proposal, because it would be too embarrassing.
It's just that Bernie couldn't help but gasp when he looked at the price of the cheapest ring in the jewelry store, he thought he could save enough in two or three years, but now he found out that this time will be doubled.
Doris had a preoccupation, but she didn't notice Bernie's anomaly, and browsed in a trance, until she stopped in front of a gold-trimmed glass display case carved with esoteric and pleasing patterns.
Doris didn't care about a necklace with the material used and the name of a master jewel carver on the bottom of the display case, but she looked at the price of the necklace for a long time.
"Three hundred thousand gold coins!" Bernie's head "buzzed".
If Doris really fell in love with this necklace, he estimated that he would never be able to buy it for her in his life.
Fortunately, Doris just looked at it for a while, didn't say anything, and continued to the next showcase, and Bernie breathed a sigh of relief, but a cold sweat was already breaking out in his head.
When he came out of this luxury jewelry store, Bernie suddenly had a feeling of running away from the desert for some reason, and Doris seemed to be in a better mood and had no desire to go shopping again.
Back in the magic caravan, Bernie was just about to start, but Doris said quietly: "Bernie, that necklace costs 300,000 gold coins......"
The cold sweat that Bernie had just gone down suddenly came out again, and although he was terrified, he still said gently: "What?
"No, I don't like it!" replied Doris earnestly.
Bernie, who was relieved in his heart again, was a little strange and didn't know what Doris meant.
But before he could ask, Doris continued, "Do you know how much a soldier is paid when he dies in battle?"
"Ten gold coins, twenty gold coins? I don't know, but it shouldn't be more than fifty gold coins. "Bernie really didn't know anything like that.
"Fifty gold coins, hehe. Doris sneered and continued, "A necklace is worth the lives of six thousand soldiers?
So it turned out, and Bernie was once again impressed by Doris.
But he didn't know how to answer Doris's question, should he say that the soldier's life was too cheap, or should he say that the necklace was too expensive?
The two sat silently in the RV and didn't speak for a long time.
"I don't think we should think about it. ”
"Why? Don't you think it's pathetic?"
"Yes, it's sad, but it's not something we can decide, the only thing we can do is to change the situation. ”
"Change, how change?" Doris shook her head.
"Doris, you're a journalist!"
"What's wrong with the journalist? Will the journalist be able to bring the dead soldiers back to life?"
"No, as long as people die, they can't be resurrected, but they can make their families live a little better, reporter...... Should you have the ability?"
As if listening to Bernie's words, Doris asked, "Do I have the ability?"
"Public opinion, you should use the pen in your hand to record the heroic deeds of those soldiers on the front line, and then publish them in the newspaper, so that everyone knows, and everyone knows, that is, the public opinion that Lord Fran said is formed. ”
The more Bernie spoke, the smoother he became, and the more he spoke, the more excited he became.
"And then?"
"Then we go and interview the wounded soldiers, or the families of the dead soldiers, and use the facts to win the sympathy of the public. ”
"Sympathy?"
"Yes, it's sympathy, they were injured and sacrificed to defend humanity, those of us in the imperial capital enjoy peace and tranquility, they all paid for it with their lives, and we should do something for them!"
"Yes, it should be done!" Doris's already gloomy eyes lit up.
"As soon as public opinion is formed, we will lobby those rich nobles and wealthy businessmen to donate money for the sacrificed soldiers, I think, they will not refuse, after all, this is also their chance to be in the limelight!"
Doris frowned again and said, "Why let them be in the limelight?
"Whether it's supposed to be, or it's in the limelight, at least the wounded and dead soldiers are compensated, aren't they?"
"That's right. Okay, let's do it!"
With a goal in mind, Doris's mood was a little better again, which allowed Bernie to send him back to the Earl's Court.
......
In the evening, after the Minister of Culture Clarence came home from work, he went to his daughter's study to take a look around, and saw that she was honestly writing something on the manuscript paper, so he let go of his heart that had been hanging for a day.
Pretending to be fine, he walked up to his daughter, and casually glanced at the article she was writing, and suddenly the heart almost jumped out of his throat.
"You, you, you went to the battlefield of Dukmahon?" Clarence was shocked and angry.
"Yes, Abba. Doris didn't panic at all, and turned her head to look at her Abba seriously.
"Didn't I not let you go!Why did you run away secretly!" Clarence was angry, and in the morning he had clearly rejected Doris's request to go to the battlefield of Dukmahon, but he didn't expect her to go secretly.
Not only that, but looking at what she wrote on the manuscript paper, she really encountered danger!
What would happen if his delicate daughter touched a monster? He didn't dare to imagine it.
"You...... I'm mad, I'm mad!" Clarence saw Doris admit directly, and was so angry that he stretched out his hand and wanted to hit her, but after stretching out his hand for a long time, he was still reluctant, and finally he could only "snap" and slap on the desk.
If Clarence had been so angry in the past, Doris would have panicked, but today she went to the battlefield of Dukmahon, and she felt that she had grown a lot, and her anger towards her father was still calm.
Seeing that he couldn't scare his daughter, Clarence couldn't do anything, and after a few breaths of heaviness, his tone softened.
"Did it hurt anything?" he glanced his daughter up and down, and saw that there was no injury, and there was no painful expression, so he put a snack.
"Abba, no, I'm not hurt. ”
In fact, after she went home, she checked the place where she was hit, and the shoulder was already black and purple, but after a long time, the pain was not so strong, and she gradually got used to it.
In the end, father and son are connected, Clarence only has a daughter like Doris, and after seeing that she is fine, the anger can't help but rise again.