Chapter 175: Asking for Directions
In the northeastern corner of the Hillivan district, a large cluster of shacks gathers a group of the poorest people in the whole of Hillivan. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn fact, the people who live here are only one step away from bankruptcy or debts that they can't afford to pay for the rest of their lives, in other words, the "living dead" of Poole.
Slimy, soft, and dirty mud that seems to never dry out, the wanton flow of sewage, crawling all over the ground, and the rats and cockroaches that will come out at some point and start, almost write poverty and backwardness into every corner, every place, this is a place where even the ordinary people of Hillivan do not want to come, and ordinary people simply cannot bear to live here.
However, man is a very peculiar creature, sometimes he is not happy in the most luxurious and all-encompassing environment, and sometimes he can live like a mouse in such an inhuman place, and I don't know how many people live in this shack area, in which many huts are layered and thatched.
And the kind-hearted, who specializes in adopting orphans, our venerable Lady Vialli, lives in this shantytown.
One day, like dead wood flourishing and iron trees growing flowers, a horse-drawn carriage that looked quite magnificent suddenly appeared in this shantytown, just like the emperor walked out of the palace gate and appeared on the street in a dragon robe, this carriage in the dirty and dilapidated shantytown, like a firefly in the dark night, conspicuous and abrupt.
"Damn it, this damn place!", cursed the coachman who was driving the carriage, and then cursed a lot of nasty words like a cannon, and he was understandably angry, because it was very tiring and patient to control the horses in this small, tortuous and complex shantytown.
He cursed a series of swear words, and with a random "whoosh", stopped the carriage, and looked at the several forks in front of him, and finally found that there was something more rare than driving the carriage here, that is, to find the way, and he found even more sadly that he seemed to have lost his way.
"Schelle, why stopped. A male voice came from the carriage.
"Wait a minute, sir, this place is so chaotic that I can't find my way. The coachman replied hurriedly, and even though no one saw him, he reflexively bowed down and replied.
"Then hurry up and ask someone, just a little bit of the way when you will find it. ", said the man in the carriage impatiently.
"Yes. Saying that, the driver wanted to jump out of the car, and asked someone to get off the road, but when he saw the black, I don't know what substance was mixed with, and the road surface had a slightly pungent smell, he grinned and couldn't jump.
There was no way, so he had to open his throat and shout: "Is there anyone? Who knew that as soon as he finished speaking, from the black shanty, many people suddenly appeared, and surrounded the carriage, like rats asking for the smell of cheese, and they all came out of the mouse holes at once.
"Are you going to Vialle's orphanage?", "How much can you reward?", "Find me, find me, I'm cheap." The sound of chirping was noisy, and the noise made the groom's head hurt.
He randomly picked a child who was still pleasing to the eye, "It's you." The boy screamed excitedly, jumped out of the crowd, jumped with one step, supported with both hands, and the little man jumped into the high carriage with agility, and watched his movements, very skillful.
"Why is this bastard boy again. "When he comes back, sooner or later he will be skinned." The strange thing is that the coachman has already picked up the manpower, but the people of the shantytown still surround the carriage and refuse to leave.
"Sir, you have to give some reward, or these bastards won't leave. The boy leaned into the driver's ear.
The first time he was called the master, the coachman was also a little fluttering in his heart, but when he heard that he was going to give money, he suddenly felt a sudden, "These people are Diao." He gritted his teeth and scolded, and then asked with a straight face: "How much do you want to give." ”
"You just look at it, just throw a few dozen coppers. ”
Dozens of coppers, although it is not a lot of money, the coachman is a little reluctant in his heart, but remembering the impatient tone of the old man just now, the coachman shuddered. If you want to delay in this kind of place any longer, when you return to Manny, the lord will have to tear him down.
Thinking like this, he took out a handful of copper coins from his arms and threw them out directly, "The rewards are all given, hurry up and get out." Then the reins were lifted, and the carriage moved forward again. The inhabitants who were round about it were also amused, and at once they all dispersed, and dodged a way, and when the carriage had passed, they all threw themselves down to the ground to pick up the copper coins, and a few fierce fellows began to fight with each other.
"Little one, let me ask you, are there many people going to that orphanage these days?" the male voice in the carriage sounded again.
The little boy was also clever, knowing that the one sitting in it was the one who was really in charge, so he hurriedly replied loudly: "If you go back to the master, there are more than a dozen, we are here and there, and people who come for the first time always have to ask for directions." ”
"Oh, what kind of people are those who ask for directions? Think about it. ”
"At the beginning, the few masters who came to ask for directions were still very generous, and after asking, they could always give some rewards, I have never seen these masters, and I dare not talk nonsense. As a result, some of the people around this fork in the road started to think about it, and those people at the gate of the city of Xuecheng, if someone wanted to ask for directions, they surrounded them and asked for rewards, and I saw that the road was blocked, and some of the carriages looked very beautiful, and they were decorated with many shining stones. Some of the carriages looked a little colder, quite ordinary, hey, but the people in these ordinary carriages were arrogant, and they kept their heads up, eager to break their necks. As if thinking of something bad, he said a little indignantly.
"They have their own reason for leaning their necks, who will let them have someone behind them?", the man in the carriage sighed, his tone was quite melancholy, and after a while he continued, "Then let me ask you, is there really a mage genius in the orphanage opened by Viali?"
"You ask me, where do I know, who understands the matter of this mage, but in the past few days, we have spread it all over here, saying that there are noses and eyes, and the villain ponders whether this slap will not make a sound, and it will be a bit true in the streets and alleys, otherwise how can it be spread so powerfully. ”
"Is it another Medea Merlin?" muttered the man in the carriage, but the last sentence was so light that no one could hear it.