The little girl's eyes were full of hatred, which was not caused by the competition for the cake, but a hatred that had been suppressed in her heart for many years, as if she was looking at the most hateful thing in the world, wishing that it would be broken to pieces.

Being stared at by this kind of gaze, Solandale was suddenly overwhelmed: "Hate me? Why..."

The little girl sneered and said, "Heh, that's weird, isn't it? We obviously didn't know each other before, and we had no grudges in the past and no hatred in the near future, but since I became sensible, since I knew that there was such a person as you in the world, I have been hating you. Including after we met just now, my hatred for you has become deeper and deeper, and I have wanted to stab you to death with a knife several times. ”

"Why are you like this..."Solandelle only felt panicked in her heart, very aggrieved, "I am so good to you, make friends with you, take you to play, open a room to bathe you, help you buy clothes, and invite you to dinner..."

"Yes, you don't dislike my identity, you brought me to Nancheng to play, invited me to take a bath and buy clothes, and invited me to eat such a big meal, it stands to reason that I should be grateful to you." The little girl's voice suddenly became louder, and she almost screamed, "But have you ever thought that the need for food and clothing is something that a person should have, and it shouldn't be up to you to give alms!" ”

"I only learned today that people can be so different. I slept in the ruins, leaking everywhere, and I could only cover a quilt in winter, and no one would know about my death. But you can live in the royal palace, grow up with a golden key, have servants to serve you in your food, clothing, and daily life, and have a special doctor to take care of you if you have a minor illness. ”

"I searched for a target in an underground tavern, but I didn't dare to say anything when I was touched, and finally risked killing my head just to steal a bag of Iron Moon. But you even have to take a carriage to travel, and you can not hesitate to give the coachman a silver moon, and even 95 copper moon change can say no, just like losing a stone. ”

"I pick up leftovers, rummage through the trash cans, and I'm happy to see a piece of leftover meat, and sometimes even go and eat the bran that the pigs eat. You can come to this kind of high-end restaurant casually, throw dozens of silver moons with a single meal, and even have a private nutritionist customize the recipe for you. Is this fair?! ”

When the little girl said this, her breathing was as heavy as a calf, and her voice sank: "When I used to be a slave in the aristocratic mansion, I had heard of the extravagant life of the nobles, and I was not ignorant of this gap between the rich and the poor. ”

"But today, it's the first time I've experienced your life firsthand, and I know how different we are!"

"The hunger we normally endure is almost impossible for you to have! Taking away my mother's illness is a minor illness that can be cured by just taking some medicine and sleeping! We don't even pay as much as a few threads on your clothes for a year! ”

"And the smell... Where I sleep every day, you get a bad nose and sneeze after a few minutes... I really can't imagine what kind of life you're living in the palace. ”

"I thought that the difference between the rich and the poor was that the rich could eat a few more loaves of bread and bake a few more pieces of meat at each meal, and usually wore thicker clothes and slept in bigger beds than us."

"But now I know that this is no longer a difference between quantity and quality, but a difference in essence - the rich are "living", the common people are "living", and we poor people are only "living", we are not in the same world at all!"

Solandale wanted to refute, but she was silent, even if she subconsciously didn't want to admit it, but the truth was that the little girl was right, they were not originally from the same world.

One is a royal princess, the other is an exiled slave, you insist on saying that there is no essential difference in the lives of two people, who believes it?

Solandale kept biting her lower lip and clenched her fists to try to justify: "But, it's not my fault either!" Did I make you like this? No way?! If you want to change your fate, you should work hard, what's the use of complaining here?! ”

"Effort?" As if she had heard a joke, the little girl lifted her sleeve to reveal the knife wound, and said sadly, "How hard do you make me try?" As soon as I was sensible, I was branded as a slave, locked up in a noble mansion, and slept with pigs, cows, and horses. ”

"We slaves usually work without a salary, only food rations, do you know why? Because salaries were paid to "people", the nobility did pay those commoner laborers. But the Code of Dogurlander stipulates that we slaves are not human beings, but animals, and what wages do animals want? Just give it food! ”

"Can you understand what an animal is? Animals are just beaten and killed, and you will live in fear forever, and you don't know if you will be able to see the sun the next day. ”

"You did your job poorly, and the nobles thought you were useless and wanted to kill you in a fit of rage. You did a good job, and the noble lord thought that you were too smart to control this animal, and he wanted to kill you. ”

"No personality, no dignity, nothing, that's what an animal is!"

The little girl looked at Solandelle sadly, her voice trembling with anger: "You have no idea what kind of life we live... Thou hast grown up with a golden key in thy hand, thou hast been clothed and fed with bread and bread, thou hast thy father as thy backer, and thou hast been feared by all the kingdoms. ”

"As soon as you put on a straight face, the nobles will tremble, and hurry to see what they are doing wrong; As soon as you give an order, they will fall on their knees in front of you and complete all the orders you have commanded. ”

"The nobles will present you with treasures from all over the world just to make you smile; If you have any problems, just mention them casually, and they will rush to help you solve them at all costs. ”

"You were born with a position that no one else can get in their lifetime, and now you are like a successful striverman, carrying those clichés and telling me to 'go for it'? You're so hypocritical that I want to throw up! ”

Solandale blushed from being scolded and stammered, "But... But... My current status was not obtained out of thin air! My ancestors pacified the world in the "Clash of the Eight Kings", saved countless lives, and made the "Divine Calendar" forever frozen in the year 2188! In this thousand years of darkness, has our royal family not sacrificed and shed blood?! ”

"Yes, your ancestors were great indeed." The little girl said coldly, "But what does your ancestor have to do with you when he pacified the world?" ”

Solandale froze, her expression sluggish.

Oh, yes...

Does what the ancestors did have anything to do with themselves?

Just like when she asked Grabo on the street: Your father was a war hero, and you are not, what are you proud of?

In the same way, how did you get lost in yourself again...

The life she has now is not something she has achieved by her own hard work at all...

It's just because her surname is "Doguland", born in a noble royal family, that she was able to lie on the great cause established by her ancestors and enjoy all this...

The little girl said angrily: "I know that this world cannot be completely fair, there must be high and low. You're also right, if you come from a bad background, you should try to change your destiny instead of complaining here. ”

"But... You're going to give us a chance to work hard, right?! ”

"Now not only us slaves, but also the vast majority of civilians are also overwhelmed by life, why? Because there's going to be a tax! ”

"There is a tax in the kingdom called the "poll tax," which is calculated according to the fixed amount of the population of each household, regardless of income, and the tax rate is the same for each person, and the more people in the family, the more tax they pay."

"A fixed poll tax is a drop in the bucket for the rich. But for the poor, it's a heavy tax that can crush people! ”

"The poor get up early every day and work greedily at night, and most of the monthly dollars they earn throughout the year are used to pay the poll tax. Even if you start a small business by yourself, you have all kinds of harsh taxes to pay in addition to the basic tax, and you can't save money at all! ”

"There's even a rule in the code that if someone in the family is an official at the level of the main city or higher, the upper and lower members of the immediate family are exempt from all taxes – don't you think funny? The destitute poor had to bear all kinds of heavy taxes, squeezing money out of their teeth and handing it over to the royal family. And many aristocrats with thousands of dollars in their pockets can move their families without paying a single monthly coin! ”

"Under this kind of code, the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer, how do you make us who are born poor work hard, how can we change our destiny?!"

Solandale kept rubbing the corners of his clothes, lowered his head and said incoherently, "That... Then you can still find a way to try... Go and strive to become a lord city official, so that you can be spared..."

Halfway through speaking, she was speechless and couldn't go on.

The little girl scoffed and said, "Realized? Not to mention the main city-level officials, even if they want to be town-level officials, they must be top students who have graduated from school and need to participate in various assessments. ”

"But in the schools run by the royal family, the tuition fees can only be settled in silver months, and they cost dozens of dollars a year! If you have been studying since childhood, for ten or eight years, it will be hundreds or nearly a thousand silver moons! Where are you going for us to get this money together?! ”

"What's more, the code set by your royal family not only sets an extremely high threshold for admission, but also strictly prohibits private schools."

"I'll admit it to you directly, I pretended to be unrecognizable when I read the menu just now, because I wanted to cover up the fact that I had read a book. Yes, you heard it right, I've read books - when I first fled to Twilight a few years ago, there was an old gentleman in the city who opened his own school at home to teach the children of the common people, and no one refused, even me, an exiled slave. ”

"This old gentleman is selfless and wise, he taught us the knowledge of agriculture that we need for survival, takes us to distinguish between astronomy and geography, teaches us how to think about life from a philosophical perspective, and interprets various social phenomena."

"In my opinion, this tireless old gentleman should have been admired by everyone. But the result? One night, he was taken captive by the soldiers, reportedly subjected to torture for several days and nights, when the administrator of Huck Lorrisson forced him to tell him which of his protégés he did not name, and was finally beheaded and hanged at the city gates. ”

"High tuition, prohibition of private schools, recruitment of bachelors, extermination of good teachers, only nobles are allowed to study, and commoners are not allowed to open their minds, this is the status quo of the kingdom! In the end, children who can go to school, gain knowledge, and become officials in the future are originally nobles in their families, and their parents may be officials in the main city, and the children will inherit the family business after graduation. ”

"Occasionally, there are some poor children, because they have been gifted since childhood, and there are nobles who sponsor them to go to school, but that is only a very small number. There are more children in the world like us who have ordinary talents and want to change their fate, but there is no way out. ”

"You said you want me to work hard, yes! It's not like I don't want to work hard! But you've got to give me a chance to work hard! The code written by your royal family has blocked all the channels for the rise of commoners, nobles will always be nobles, commoners will always be commoners, slaves will always be slaves, how can I try?! ”

Solandelle was so scolded that she couldn't hold her head up, and she tried to remember the books she had read before, only to find that none of the knowledge she had learned could help her win.

At this time, Solandelle remembered the conversation with Chino before, and she stumbled and repeated Chino's words at that time: "However, this world does need to be divided into upper and lower classes, just like a carriage, some people want to become wheels, some people want to become horses, and some people want to become coachmen, only when the upper and lower classes perform their own duties, division of labor and cooperation, the kingdom can operate efficiently..."

"Huh." The little girl let out a short sneer, and her eyes were sad, as if looking at an incorrigible person, "Come with me." ”

The little girl strode forward, followed by Solandelle, and the two of them walked downstairs into the back kitchen.

There were a lot of uncooked ingredients in the back kitchen, and the chefs looked at the two who broke in with a confused expression, at a loss.

The boss looked at one of them and saw that one of them was a little girl with a golden moon in her wallet, and he quickly motioned for the cooks to go out, and slipped out himself, leaving them to mess around.

The little girl grabbed a potato that had not yet been peeled, put it in front of Solandil, and asked coldly, "What is this?" ”

Solandale shook her head in confusion: "I don't know..."

The little girl shouted: "Haven't you seen potatoes?!" ”

Solandelle's eyes flickered, and she muttered, "Potatoes... Aren't all potatoes yellow in slices..."

The little girl put the potato in her pocket and picked up another carrot: "What is this?" ”

This Solandelle knew her, and she said without thinking, "Carrots! Something to feed the rabbits! ”

"It's a vegetable that people eat! First it was eaten by humans, then by rabbits! The little girl wanted to smash the carrot in Solandelle's face, but she didn't want to waste food and stuffed it into her pocket.

Immediately afterward, the little girl continued to pick up the same ingredient for Solandel to identify.

Solandale has read a lot of books since he was a child, and he knows everything about the general history of ancient and modern times, and even the nickname of a certain general in a certain battle a thousand years ago is so good that even the scholars of the royal palace are ashamed of themselves.

But in the face of these primitive ingredients stained with mud and soil, she is like an ignorant child, almost unable to answer.

"Do you know how many times a day to plant wheat?"

"I don't know..."

"Do you know what season the corn is going to be planted?"

"I don't know..."

"Do tomatoes grow in the ground or on trees?"

"I don't know..."

"Have you ever planted something?"

"I've grown apples!"

"You can use a hoe?"

"No, it won't..."

"You don't know how to grow apples with a hoe, how to grow apples??!!"

"Maggie dug the soil for me, she planted the saplings, she did the watering and fertilization, I... I'm in charge of picking apples while it's harvesting..."

"Who's Maggie?"

"My servant..."

The little girl smiled sadly: "What will you be?" ”

Solandale lowered her head blankly, her voice was already inaudible, and she didn't have the slightest confidence: "I can play the piano..."

The little girl pointed out the door and asked, "I will take you to the slums now, to find those who are about to starve to death, and if you play a piano song, can you revive them?" ”

Solandale pursed her lips and shook her head silently.

"I can !!" The little girl poked hard at her heart and hissed, "I know how to grow these things!" Give me a piece of land, let me plant, and in a year I will be able to save dozens or hundreds of people who are dying of starvation! But the land has been snatched away by you nobles! ”

"We'll do the dirty work, and you can enjoy the harvest! Throw us a few bags of wheat as a 'reward', and then say to us - continue to work hard in the coming year~ disgusting! It's disgusting!! ”