Chapter 202: The Light in the Night (I)
Chang Le grabbed a handful of gold coins, gave one when he saw a beggar, and asked them about their respective situations by the way.
These untouchables are all newcomers, and they are supposed to go to the "paradise of untouchables", but the cruel rule of "those who do not work shall not eat" is applicable everywhere.
The first batch of untouchables who followed Changle at the beginning all opened up the wasteland and cultivated the land, and after a summer of farming, there was also a harvest, even if they were not rich, there was no problem in having enough food and clothing to survive the winter.
But the newcomers have no land, and even if Amy encourages land reclamation, stipulates that "whoever cultivates the land owns it", and grants untouchables three years of rent exemption, where can they go to open up land on this cold day?
They are illiterate, and even have to break their fingers in arithmetic, making it difficult for them to do complex work.
They were also emaciated and weak, unable to hunt demonic beasts to make money like cultivators.
Only a few lucky people can find jobs, except for craftsmen who are skilled themselves, the rest of them are nothing more than street sweeping, dung, carrying and selling coolies, and being able to make ends meet is the best result.
As a result, most of the untouchables are still poor and sick, and almost every day people die of starvation, and if no relatives can identify the corpses, they have to be pulled away by wagons and thrown outside the Devil's Forest to be eaten by wild beasts.
The scenes that Changle is accustomed to seeing in Kassel continue to be repeated here.
It is inevitable that some people will commit crimes in such a homeless and desperate homeless, so it is not surprising that the tavern owner said that "the town dungeon is full of untouchables".
I can't blame the "city lord" Amy for not doing things well, she fully implemented all Changle's instructions, at least in the system, she did not discriminate against the untouchables. For the situation in front of him, he can only meet and discuss with her.
What made Chang Le even more angry was the contempt of the "superior people" for the untouchables, the kind of trash-like gaze and the figure that was busy hiding away always stimulated the anger in his heart.
He had already stood in the air as a god that day and addressed all the worshippers:
"There are no untouchables with me, everyone is a child of God!"
However, the order is easy to order, the system is easy to determine, but the cancer in the hearts of those people is difficult to eradicate.
Chang Le's face gradually became hideous, and a new plan came to mind:
Overkill is overkill, since those white-skinned and high-nosed commoners look down on dark-skinned untouchables and feel that treating untouchables equally is a gift, it is better to make them untouchables in reverse!
In the new territory they have conquered, the untouchables will no longer be untouchables, but saints!
The saints are higher than the commoners, and the saints are God's favorites!
Civilians should retreat and salute when they see the saints!
Civilians quarrel with the saints and unconditionally convict the civilians!
The saints are not guilty of killing civilians, and the civilians beat and curse the saints to death!
If the civilians dare to kill the saints, they will punish the whole clan!
Today's nobles have all been deprived of their territories and reduced to commoners, and only saints are qualified to be lords!
In the future, the rules of order in this world, the saints have the final say!
Only then, when the slave status of the commoners is one day lifted and equalized, will they be grateful to Dade and to the saints!
The plan lasts for 50 years, even 100 years, 200 years, until everyone has a change of mind.
Chang Le sneered:
"This is called the 'Holy People Project', in the future, the saints will be the first, the orcs will be second, and the civilians will be third! You will make you proud, I will make you pretentious! Whoever disobeys, who resists, kills!"
I don't know if Chang Le's expression was too fierce, and the untouchable little beggar he was holding suddenly became nervous:
"Where are you taking me?"
"Go see the lord of the city. ”
"No! no!" the child broke free like crazy, "I didn't steal money! I didn't commit a crime!"
Chang Le grabbed the child who was about to run again, and comforted him with a smile:
"What are you afraid of? I'll let the city lord see you, it's the city lord's mistake to have a poor child like you, I want her to know her mistake!"
"I'm afraid!" the child sat desperately on the ground, refusing to leave.
"Of course he's afraid!" Betty's voice suddenly came from behind, "I've seen with my own eyes that the mercenary who cleared the way for the city lord's carriage kicked the beggar to the side of the road!"
The beautiful tavern girl came to the child, and once again crouched down to look at her, but this time she did not pinch her nose again, but smiled softly:
"Where do you usually sleep?"
"Garbage heaps. The child replied honestly, "If you bury yourself with garbage, you won't freeze to death." ”
"No wonder you stink. Betty smiled and touched the child's face, "Sister is afraid of smell, but she doesn't hate you, you are a strong and good boy!
The child was a little dazed, and after a moment shook his head:
"I haven't cooked. ”
"It's okay, sister will teach you. Betty plucked some dirty things from the child's hair and gently persuaded, "In the future, you help my sister cook, my sister earns money to support you, provide for you to go to school, help you marry a daughter-in-law, let's be a family, okay?"
The child's eyes widened suddenly, as if he couldn't believe that there was such a good thing.
Chang Le smiled:
"Do you want him to pay half the rent?"
"You have to pay, he's free. Betty gave him a blank look, then turned to the child, "There is a fireplace in my sister's house, it's very warm, and my sister already has a child at home, you can sleep in the same bed with him and be a companion!"
"Hmm!"
At this point, the child finally understood that the other party was not joking, and a bright smile appeared on his face, and he nodded vigorously.
So Betty took the child in this way, turned around, staggered drunk, and walked to her own house in the inner city.
On the way, the two of them were still giggling and laughing, and the little beggar reported his name, which was called "Bingbing", because his hands and feet were often cold, so his parents gave him his name.
Dalits don't have surnames, and their names have always been so arbitrary.
Chang Le was stunned for a while, this girl obviously hates untouchables, what is crazy now?
She undoubtedly has a good heart, but when she wakes up and finds out that she has adopted a pariah's child, will she regret it?
After thinking about it, Chang Le followed again, repeatedly reminding Betty of the child's identity, telling her to think about it and not let the child whose parents died be hurt again.
Betty didn't hear it, and she sang loudly, suppressing Chang Le's words.
In case she is sincere, of course it is a good result for Bingbing, and Chang Le should not forcibly snatch the child, so he can only continue to follow behind.
Soon arrived at Betty's house.
The house is really two floors with a yard, located in a corner of the inner city, Chang Le recognizes this place, it is a small building built when this place has not yet developed into a town, and it is still called "Wild Rose Camp", for adventurers to rent, and the specifications of the "City Lord's Mansion" where Amy lives.
The inner city is well-defended, in a sense it is a "rich area", this area is relatively quiet and safe, the houses are warm in winter and cool in summer, and it is normal for rents to be high.
Betty led the child up the stairs into the house, and when she was about to turn around and close the door, she looked at Changle and shouted with a smile:
"Hey, what are you looking at? Do you want to come in? If you don't come in, I'll close the door!"
Chang Le hesitated for a moment, then stubbornly followed in.
"Don't put on a stinky shelf!" Betty finished inserting the deadbolt and looked at him with drunken eyes and smiled, "I have a crush on you because you look like the lover of my dreams, and there is nothing to be proud of!"
"Isn't the lady of your dreams the crown prince?"
"Hee-hee, I can't enjoy the romance of the crown prince, I like to be wild! I like bad men!" Betty laughed evilly.
"You're in love with a badass, and you're going to make me a stand-in for a badass?"
Betty sighed and punched Changle in the chest again:
"Don't say it, you are such a small heart, don't be angry with you!"
Then she took Bingbing to see the residence, and soon after she went downstairs with another child in her arms, and sighed loudly:
"Our family of two has become four from now on, and I'll cook something delicious at night!"
Chang Le deliberately agreed to live with her in the tavern, and then confessed his status as a pariah, originally to see her stunned and remorseful expression.
Unexpectedly, Betty did not regret it, and announced that "there will be four people in the family from now on", which made Chang Le extremely embarrassed.
After being stunned for a while, he came to Betty and looked at the child in her arms:
"You gave birth to it?"
"Picked it up. ”
The child's name was "Sid", about six or seven years old, with blue eyes and white skin, and an innocent expression, which was particularly endearing.
Chang Le first heard that Betty's family had a child, so he naturally thought it was born to her and the tavern guests, but now it is impossible to look at her age, Betty herself is less than twenty, and she shouldn't have such a big son!
This child is also an adopted orphan!
When Betty explained, Changle was dumbfounded.
The child was picked up by her on the way to escape during the war!
Betty lost her family and property in the war, and a penniless single girl who had to adopt orphans was not making trouble for herself?
Even when she came to Heaven Town, she chose to go to the tavern to accompany the wine to earn money, in order to raise this child, to save money for him to study, to go to the best school, and to send him to a sect with expensive tuition fees to learn and cultivate!
Betty, a girl from a good family, fell into the dust, and there is also a "credit" from the city lord Amy.
When a large number of refugees arrived at the camp, Amy decided to let everyone show their strengths and fend for themselves, among which the beautiful girl should naturally go to the tavern to provide services to the adventurers and let the camp patrons relax, and the word "wild rose" on the camp sign was not fake.
Many girls refused, but after Betty asked about the income of this industry, she decisively joined.
First, she felt that she had no family, and that she had lost her innocence under the clutches of the invading army, and that her life was hopeless; second, since she had adopted an orphan, she should fulfill her duties as a mother, and she should double the compensation for her lost happiness.
"But there is an orphanage in the town, why don't you send the children there?" Chang Le couldn't help but ask.
"The orphanage?" Betty sneered, "go and see how miserable the children are inside!"
Then she smiled again:
"Don't be nosy, the child doesn't want you to raise it, I can't get married anyway, if you sympathize with me, why don't you marry me?"
The wine girl has a bad reputation, and it is indeed not easy to get married, but as long as she leaves here and starts over in another city, she doesn't worry about marrying at all with her beauty, but it is very different with children.
Betty picked up Sid, pinched his little cheek, and smiled softly:
"What a lovely child, if it were you, you could watch him sit on the side of the road crying, desperately pushing his mother who would never wake up, and go away ruthlessly?"
Her face with heavy makeup was now no longer the charm of the tavern, replaced by a smile full of love and pity.
Chang Le looked at her, his heart melted unconsciously, and even the resentment against the "superior people" just now gradually disappeared.
So he took out another handful of gold coins from the beast soul space, ready to use it to fund this kind girl, just like when he funded Amy.
As a result, before she could speak, Betty looked at the gold coin and laughed:
"Are you in a hurry to pay the rent now? put it on the table, and I'll count it later!"
After speaking, she hugged Sid in one hand and Bingbing in the other, turned around and walked towards the kitchen, still staggering and drunk, and shouted at the same time:
"Bingbing, I'll teach you to make a fire, take a shower after boiling water, you stink like! When you're done washing and it's warm, I'll change your name to Nuan Nuan! If you can't wash it clean, I'll call you stinky!"
"Stinky ......" Bingbing grinned, and it was the first time Chang Le had seen the little beggar smile so sweetly.
The child was very diligent and immediately began to work in the kitchen to make a fire, and Betty returned to the living room, and while carrying Sid up the stairs, she turned around and waved and smiled:
"You sit down for a while, I'll go change my clothes, don't peek!"
She didn't say that Changle wouldn't follow, but when she said this, it was like taking the initiative to invite you to watch.
Of course, Chang Le was not so obscene, and only stayed downstairs to wander around.
The living room is very clean, and it can be seen that it is cleaned frequently, but things are placed quite messily, from which you can get a glimpse of Betty's personality, which should be more rough and leafy, and is not good at careful planning like Amy.
However, Betty's kindness is far from being comparable to Amy's, she is simply a saint!
After waiting for a long time, I didn't see Betty go downstairs, Chang Le shouted a few times and didn't move, so he couldn't help but be worried, and quickly went upstairs to check.
The girl had no accidents, but she had drunk too much wine, had just removed her makeup, and fell asleep on the bed before she had changed her clothes, while Sid sat on the floor obediently, silently playing with blocks.
Chang Le shook his head, helped Betty take off her boots, moved her feet to bed, and then turned her over and covered her with a quilt.
When he saw the other party's face clearly, he was suddenly stunned.
After Betty removed her makeup, she revealed a plain face as pure as water, her face and lips were slightly pale, like a fragrant narcissus, delicate, beautiful, elegant, and even her age was much younger, looking no more than sixteen or seventeen years old.
She can indeed only be a sister to Sid and Bingbing, and being a mother is too young.
She shouldn't wear heavy makeup at all, she is more beautiful without makeup!
Maybe for her, heavy makeup is not for beauty, but a "mask" on that occasion, covering her true self and covering up excessive beauty!
And Changle has seen her!
Near Cessnek, when the Hanhai people attacked the refugees, her family was killed, and she herself was being violated.
At that time, the combat effectiveness of the untouchable cavalry was insufficient, and Chang Le could only fight against a hundred bandits on his own, break the enemy army individually, and finally attract the remnants of the enemy to one place, and get it done with a fireball technique.
Chang Le then ordered the Dalit cavalry to be on guard along the way, escorting the refugees north, guiding everyone to the Wild Rose Camp to escape the fighting, while he himself ran against the tide of refugees to the western front, starting from the containment of the rout, kicking off the prelude to the imperial counterattack.
"Rogue Thief" has since become "Commander-in-Chief".
Chang Le still remembers that when his eyes swept over Betty, his heart trembled, because she looked very similar to Fanny!
But without any exchange, he threw a suit of women's clothes to the girl, and then continued to pounce on the remaining robbers.
I didn't have time to pick clothes from the beast soul space, and I vaguely remembered that it was an otherworldly style, a camouflage skirt for a female soldier, and Lan Yue had also worn it once.
And Betty was in tattered clothes at that time, holding the uniform thrown away by Changle in her arms, and her eyes were staring at him, both the sadness and despair of losing her family, and the gratitude and worship of him, that look was impressive, as if she wanted to engrave him in her heart with that look.
However, now that she says that Chang Le looks like her "dream lover", who is she referring to?
Chang Le turned his eyes away, and immediately saw the uniform neatly folded at the head of the bed, and the yellow-brown camouflage spots were clear at a glance.
"Sure enough, it's you......" Chang Le's voice trembled a little, took his uniform, and stroked it gently.
Betty snorted and opened her eyes, then reached out to take them back with an "ah", then rolled over and lay on her side, holding her clothes in her arms, muttering with a slurred mouth:
"He sent me ...... He sent it to me...... No one can touch it!"
Soon she fell asleep again, but this time there was a smile on her lips.
It seems that this outfit has been at the bedside all the time, as someone's incarnation, sleeping with her every night.
Chang Le couldn't help but smile bitterly, touched the stubble on his face, do you want to shave off her beard and let her recognize it again?
Forget it.
Even if her dream lover is really "Rogue Fury", he must have been constantly processing in his imagination during this time, fantasizing the other party as the perfect hero.
Changle himself is not perfect, so he should be an "stand-in" honestly, don't ruin other people's beautiful dreams.
"Fury" was originally a pseudonym, and that bandit career was only a short moment, so it was better to stay in history and let it be annihilated.