"Thank you." When Glarel went to the nineteenth house, she finally had someone willing to sell her a bowl of gruel "for God's sake", and after thanking the family, she picked up the wooden bowl, which made her frown involuntarily, and if she had not seen it scooped out of the master's pot, she would have thought that the other party had poured the dog food on her because of hostility.

Even in the days of monastic life, the nuns who "lived in a hard life" never ate such a thing, and in their stories, the ascetics who walked in the wilderness lived on bread, water, and wild honey, and did not eat anything else, a way of life that was considered to be extremely abstinent, extremely religious, and renounced all the pleasures of the world. However, the ordinary villagers of Barbado Village ate less food than even the reclusive ascetics.

Grirrell ate slowly, and it was not easy to swallow that kind of thing, and the bitterness flooded her mouth, which came from acorns and other wild plants, which were mixed into the paste to increase the weight of the paste, and this "gentle" way of eating finally made the family curious about her, and talked more.

"Looks like you're a good kid." The housewife said curiously, "Why do you want to do things for the 'government'?" ”

"Because the government is working for the benefit of the people." Graire's answer did not move or convince the family, in fact, they did not understand at all, so the two sides went their separate ways in the rest of the conversation, but probably because villages like Barbadore do not usually have much entertainment, so they still accompanied Grirrel to talk.

"We've always done things for Count Edward, from our grandfather. Grandpa's grandpa, that's it. We don't want to do things for other people. ”

"The government won't tell you to do things for nothing, we're going to improve your quality of life. Your children will all be literate in the future, and that's what I'm here for. My companions who have come with me are to check the militia here, so that the robbers of the mountains can no longer harm you. ”

"Good young lady, go and talk to your 'government', and let us do things to Count Edwa as before, as we did before."

"You'd be much better off with the government than under Count Edward."

"We countrymen, we don't know anything about the 'government' and the city. But Count Edward has always been our master. ”

When Grirrel had finished eating, the family took back the wooden bowl of porridge, no, they didn't have much place for her to sleep, not a single family in the whole village had more than one place, she had better hurry back to the city, and tell her "government" the opinion of the people of the village of Barbado, and send a new Count of Edwa to take care of them, what? The carriage has already gone back? She couldn't leave the village that night?

"This ...... There are two haystacks at the head of the village......" said the man of the house, scratching his head. "You can pick one and sleep in it."

"Thank you." Graire's face was almost frozen with laughter, it was not easy to deal with the villagers of Barbado Village!

Returning to the place where she had broken up with Beryl, she felt the need to inform the slacker, no matter what he was. In the end, he is also doing things for the government, of course, her tone is not so kind to the villagers at this time, and she doesn't have to force herself to smile. "Hey! There are two haystacks at the head of the village, you can pick one first. ”

"Ahh You seem to have forgotten one thing. ”

"What?"

"Bring me dinner." The young man's stomach rumbled as a reminder to Mademoiselle Grirrell how hungry he was, and how cruel it was to leave him to feed himself.

"I didn't forget." Looking at the other party's blinking little eyes, Grirrel dropped a sentence extremely coldly, "But I think a proper diet will help your body and soul health." ”

"Woo won't you......"

"Since you don't want to sleep, I'll pick it first." As she spoke, Grirrel found a haystack and lay down in it, leaving Beryl, who had been wounded physically and mentally by her, in his place.

"It's cruel! Woo woo...... "Belier had to wearily carry the package and go to the village to look for food, "Wait, where did you buy food?" ”

The next day Grirrel hit more walls than on the first day, and when she returned to the haystack at the head of the village in discouragement, she could not help complaining to Belier about how difficult the work was here, and the villagers would not even tell her how many people there were! She didn't know how many school-age children there were in the village, let alone who their parents were, and when she finally caught a child and asked who his parents were, they all stared at her, biting their tongues and not speaking, and occasionally one of them opened their mouths, and was immediately pulled away by a woman who claimed to be a neighbor.

If this continues, how will she do her job!

She didn't even know how many school-age children she had, so how could she get them together to go to school? She also expects them to go back and teach their parents how to read!

"There were about 170 people in the village, 41 adult men, 61 adult women, 39 who looked like children, and three babies."

"How do you know? Did they sue you beforehand? Or did some of the villagers tell you when I wasn't there? ”

"I counted." Bailier replied to her weakly, as a real slacker, after training the sheepdogs, he only had one job left, counting sheep. And he was so gifted at this job that he could scan the exact number of more than 300 sheep that bleated and moved, and he could come up with a precise number, "so many fewer men than women...... It's not normal. ”

"This village is not normal at all!" "They look at us like man-eating ghosts!" ”

"It's not so strict...... "Beryl curled up again, as a former shepherd, he thinks the haystack is quite good (ordinary people sleep in their own homes is just wheat straw) Especially valuable, there is no chief of staff boss here to pick him up and force him to participate in any budget war before breakfast, if only they provided a more delicious meal, however, he is not the niece of the former archbishop, this kind of food is acceptable to him, and, He was also able to think of ways to improve his food without overexerting himself.

When Grerell went from house to house to survey school-age children, he had already made a simple fishing rod out of the needle and line he had brought with him and a branch he had picked up, and caught fish in the pond at the entrance of the village.

He caught a handful of weeds on the shore and scattered them in the pond, and then lowered the hook made of a sewing needle into the water, without baiting, and he knew that it would not fail to catch a fish.

When Graire came back from hitting enough walls in the village, he had already caught three or four small silver palm-length fish and lined them up beside him.

"It's just so strict!" Glarrell huffs and says that there's nothing more annoying than you're busy with work and your colleagues are crunching their snacks! Does he remember that he went to the countryside to check on the militia? "No, I'm going to report! Something is wrong here! ”

"Didn't you report to them, what are you going to report? Villagers won't cooperate? Let the higher authorities send soldiers to go from house to house with knives to force them to send their children to you? I think that when the time comes, your image in the hearts of the children must be like that of a man-eating ghost," Beryl said lazily, "I don't think you sent the two of us down for nothing, just wait and see, these villagers are not specially trained, and there are confused old men and naïve children in them, there will always be people who can't hold back and expose the horse's feet, we just have to wait quietly." ”

"It sounds like a good idea, but," Grirrel pointed out with a puzzled and pointed, "aren't you really taking the opportunity to be lazy?" ”

"Ahem, how could it be." "Anyway, I'm also the assistant to the chief of staff, and I've passed the test and come here with a mission, so believe me for the time being, it won't be long." ”

"Then I'll trust you for a few days." Grirrell said compassionately.

"Very good, I have a basket in my package, take it and go to the forest to pick some berries and come back, it will be delicious with grilled fish."

"......" (To be continued......)