Chapter 14: Evening School
The night has always been mysterious. In many stories and legends, strange things happen at night. Even if humanity is out of obscurity and into civilization. The stories and legends of the night never stopped. Sometimes the night can be a memorable one.
The red moon rises, and the whole earth is dyed red. Two figures walked slowly through the streets of Belparo. The scene was not warm at all, the taller was Bello, the shorter was the sheriff, and Bello didn't know his name now.
"Brother, it's really not me fighting, I don't know why he attacked me!" Bello has explained many times, "You see I'm hot, I'm not conscious, I'm still fighting with people, I'm sick!
"I can't trust anyone with tattoos on their chests like Nai!" The short and fat sheriff stubbornly followed Bello, walking back step by step, anyway, he asked Belo to go back to the sheriff's bureau with him and record a confession and squat for two days. The strange mask pattern on Bello's chest was taken for a tattoo by him.
"Brother! It's not a tattoo, it's not! It's a curse!" Bello felt like he was going to cry, he had spoken dozens of times from beginning to end, and this short and fat sheriff was stubborn to take himself to the sheriff's office. Bello found all kinds of reasons, this big brother just wouldn't let go, and it was the first time Bello had seen such a stubborn sheriff. But he can't talk seriously, or find a chance to run away, people have nothing to do with him, early in the morning when they meet, they help throw him into the water, and keep it for a day, this feeling, say how heavy it is, how heavy it is, people have worked hard to save his little life, can he still take people seriously? This love is too big, to say big, it is not too much to accompany this life to others.
"Hey, hey,
Bello didn't want to toss with Humpty Dumpty, he resisted the sheriff from the bottom of his heart. Along the way, he tried to convince the sheriff that there was no such thing as a brawl at all. He didn't know how to explain it, saying that there was a killer who wanted to kill him, and that person had to believe it.
"Brother, do you know the revolutionary army?"
"I know, I know, I know, I am not a reformist trade union, I am underestimated so much, like the "revolutionary army", "the light of truth", "the crimson gold", "the blood moon salute", "the glory of justice"...... All the big organizations that are reported to be famous, we sheriffs must know. These are all social unrestless elements! If you want me to say, arrest them all! Well, if you come to the bureau with me like Nai, you will educate Nai for two days and write a letter of guarantee. Let me arrest those uneasy elements, and they will be imprisoned for at least half a year! Let them recite the public order regulations every day, and catch one and educate the other! These bad elements!" The short and fat magistrate was filled with righteous indignation, and expressed great indignation at the elements of the community who undermined social stability.
"Brother, the one who beat me up on the street during the day is a member of the community!" Listening to the short and fat sheriff's scolding, Bello's eyes lit up, this can be used, "Brother, let's be honest with you, do you know why he beat me? He wants to force me into their "crimson gold", and if I don't agree, he wants to kill me! Look at my body, look at my age, look at my appearance, I'm an apprentice in the Lückbeck workshop, I don't do a good job, I run to mess with them, I'm not sick!"
"Really?" Humpty Dumpty Sheriff blinked, thinking that what Belo had said made sense, and that seemed to be the case with what he had seen during the day. Bello seemed to be resisting, and he didn't have any controls on him. "Nai does have a point, but don't pretend to be a good person, good people don't get tattoos!" he grabbed the weird mask smile pattern on Bello's chest, and decided that Belo was a restless teenager.
"At this age, it's a time to be restless!, you can't do anything!" the Humpty Dumpty Sheriff's tone loosened slightly, and he was still suspicious of Bello.
It seems to be effective, Bello is happy in his heart, and it seems that there is hope of getting out.
The two of them circled around for half an hour to come to Bello's house. All the way to the night breeze, Bello's clothes were already half dry, and when he got home, he quickly took out another set of clothes to change into. It was the only clothes he had.
It's strange, it stands to reason that Yanel should be here, I don't know if I've already come, anyway, Yanel didn't wait at his house when Bello got home.
Bello changed his clothes, lit the fireplace, and the firewood was running out again, and he had to buy it tomorrow. The sheriff was already a little sleepy as he sat on the bench, and it was hard enough to see his head poking down again and again, and the wind blew by the river for a day, and waited for Belo for a day.
Bello went over and patted the sheriff on the shoulder, and Humpty Dumpty told the "smart" to wake up and subconsciously look left and right. After looking around twice, he probably came back to his senses, and saw that Belo was standing next to him, so he couldn't help but reach out and wipe his face twice and asked, "It's already changed, let's go! Follow me to the bureau, record a confession, and write a letter of guarantee!" On the way back, Belo finally convinced this big brother that he didn't have to squat for two days, as long as he went to the road to confess and write a letter of guarantee, he could come back.
"Let's eat something first! Brother, I haven't eaten this day! I belong to the victim! This is not a big case, you see that we have all arrived at my house, I can still run? Eat something first, rest well, let's go over tomorrow, can you?" Bello asked, and at the end he added. "If I don't go, you come to my house tomorrow, I can still run away!"
This was very convincing, and the short and fat sheriff staggered to his feet, and wanted to go out: "Okay, just believe in it, come to the bureau tomorrow to find me!"
How could Belo let him go like this, and hurriedly stopped: "Don't go, don't go, brother, you're all coming to my house, eat something and then leave, you've been hungry all day, where can you go back and find something to eat?" Eat something at my place, so pad!"
Belparo is not a commercial city, there is not much business atmosphere here, and even the busier streets are closed after dark. At this time, you can't find anything to eat on the street. Moreover, his home is far from the business district, and in Bello's view, it is more akin to a large town than a city.
Humpty Dumpty Sheriff thought about it, and found that there was really no place to eat, and he was not happy to go home to do it, so he hesitated for a moment, but sat down.
The fireplace burns and the candles are lit. Bello quickly baked the bread and made a vegetable gnocchi soup from the only vegetable flour left at home.
Humpty Dumpty Sheriff smelled the fragrance of vegetable soup, and involuntarily swallowed his saliva, fragrant, too fragrant. In fact, Bello didn't do it carefully at all, he made this soup in a clay pot, boiled it with vegetable oil, and then hung it on the fire to stew. In this world, there is only dry stew and no boiling pot. This kind of soup made in a short period of time, using a boiling pot, is not comparable to other ways of stewing soup.
Seeing that Humpty Dumpty's appetite was open, Bello took out two clay bowls, both of which were large bowls that could fit a person's face into them. Use these two bowls to put up the gnocchi soup, a large bowl for each person. Then two of the loaves were taken out and brought to the low table on the wooden pier. The two of them "hulahula" began to eat.
"Eat more, eat more, eat too thin!" said the sheriff, telling Belo to eat more, and drank his share to the fullest, and then brought another bowl.
Bello made a little bit of a fuss while cooking, and he put a spoonful of the fish soup he had cooked in the morning. After this day's tossing, Bello understood that he might have been tossed by fish soup this day. He added a spoonful to his supper, wanting to see if the sheriff had any symptoms after eating. Anyway, I ate a lot in the morning, and I just had a fever all over my body for a day. With a spoonful of the amount, there shouldn't be any problems.
After the two finished eating, the sheriff didn't react, and Bello sent him out the door, and the short and fat sheriff repeatedly emphasized that he must go to the sheriff's office tomorrow to find him, otherwise he would come to Bello's house to find someone. Bello repeatedly promised that he would go back, and then watched as the sheriff lit a cigarette, put it in his hand, and walked away humming a ditty.
Bello sent the sheriff away, and waited in the house for a while, but Yanel still didn't arrive. Bello felt that he would return to his room and find a bag in the dark. Then walk out with one foot deep and one corner shallow. I haven't been to the evening class for a few days, so I have to check it out today.
In fact, Bello did not think that he could learn anything in the evening school, which in his opinion was very rudimentary, roughly speaking: history, geography, naturalism, literature, mathematics, and theology. Since he came into this world, he had never read his evening school books, nor did he think they could tell anything profound.
There was only one formal school in Belparo, the church school run by the temple, where the children of the nobility would study. It is said that the courses offered at the school include horseback riding, antique appreciation, swordsmanship, investment and financial management, and a series of abilities that only the children of the nobility will use.
Children of ordinary families and poor people, who study in evening schools for three years and are able to write and calculate proficiently, can find a job as an accountant or secretary in various workshops. This is the best way out for children from ordinary families, and if you can find a relationship, you may be able to find something to do in the government department. Bello's parents saved money to send him to night school, only in the hope that he would be able to work as a boy in a large workshop.
In terms of evening classes, Bello was able to learn almost as much.
Literary ability, literature here is actually simple literacy, three years of continuous efforts to greatly improve Bello's literacy ability, with the basic ability to read words. And all kinds of literary styles are simply trivial to the current Bello, and you can understand it at a glance.
Mathematical ability, mathematics here is still in simple mathematical operations, about three years is to be able to perform four operations on rational numbers. I can't even explain binary equations, let alone unary quadratic equations and all kinds of parabolas.
Theology and history are the same thing in Bello's view, theology tells the myth of God's creation of the world, and history tells the myth of God's creation of the world.
The geography book looks interesting, this book is not at all the same thing as the geography that Bello once studied, and the author of the book is a bit of a traveler from the content of the book. He traveled all over the world, recording all kinds of strange customs, specialties, or anecdotes he saw.
Sometimes Bello wonders if this geography is just a travelling novel? The author of this book is called Chan Tikning. I don't know what era it is, but from some common sense, the history of this book doesn't seem too old. This guy is likely to be a nobleman, probably the kind of son who is favored in the family and has no inheritance. Money can't be spent, and there are no rights, so I have this hobby of traveling and writing travelogues.
From this geography, Bello got a glimpse of the world, and it was from here that he got some of his knowledge of the beasts. There are two proper nouns for this world, one is called the Mirror Zone, and the other is called the Beast.
Mirror zones are a ubiquitous natural phenomenon where in some areas spaces suddenly break apart like broken mirrors. This phenomenon causes all matter in the space to shatter, and if any living creature lives in such an area, it may die outright. The Mirror Zone is very dangerous and unstable, and some areas may not shatter for decades, but there is no guarantee that it will not shatter at a later time. Geography books record many tragedies caused by the overlap of people's residential areas and mirror areas. This is also the reason why the world is useless in the countryside at all, and people all gather in the form of cities.
Urban areas are stable areas that do not fragment.
There is a peculiar phenomenon: the strange creatures of the Monster can survive in the Mirror Zone, and will not be harmed by the shattering of the Mirror Zone.
The author of the geography book has made various speculations about this phenomenon, and has tried to capture the beast to find the corresponding evidence, but there is no mention in the book whether he succeeded or not.
The naturalist class is a bit interesting, there are all kinds of things written here, there is biological knowledge, the talk is very rough, and it still stays on the study of animals and plants, and basically does not involve the content of biological evolution, biological heredity, biological variation, etc.
There are also some chemical and physical things, which are still in the initial stage. Physics does not even have a systematic appearance of mechanics, only some specious knowledge of celestial bodies. Chemistry, on the other hand, does not even bring up the concept of monomers and compounds, and the periodic table seems to be far away. This book is at best a common sense book, and nothing useful is reflected in it.
Bello's textbooks are incomplete. His textbooks are all manuscripts on fishskin paper. The first thing I do in class every day is to copy the textbook, there is no simple papermaking in this world, there is no movable type printing, and the book is copied out one by one, which is extremely precious.
Maybe it's a fortune!, Bello suddenly thought. He has gone through the general process of papermaking, and it is difficult to reproduce it as it is, but he can always do it after a few more experiments. Movable type printing, this thing is also more difficult, but engraving is very simple. Bello also doesn't expect to be able to do it in one step, starting with engraving, it's always possible.