The slums of Kieran are built on both sides of the streets, and to be precise, the two busiest streets of Kieran are located on the boundary between the rich areas.

The dividing line between the slum and the rich is the high courtyard wall on the south side of the shop on the south side of the long street, as if the courtyard wall is not built a little higher, the warehouse in the yard will be lost, and the rich people of Kieran Town are almost all immigrants from Bena City, who have lived in Kieran Town for so many years and have accumulated some wealth.

As for the people living in the slums, almost all of them are local indigenous people, who were stripped of their land by the army and forced to migrate to small towns, where they had nothing and are still ...... Except for a few shacks that leak rain in the summer and wind in the winter, there is still nothing.

The rich built their houses on the slopes of the mountains, and the more they looked at the mountainside, the more gorgeous the houses became, while the shacks of the poor were built at the foot of the mountain, and the more they looked at the foot of the mountain, the more simple the shacks became, and when those shacks spread to the Bailin River, or even a few bent timbers formed a four-cornered frame, and then surrounded by straw mats or felt, these aborigines lived on the ground in the shacks.

Many poor families don't even have an iron pot, several poor families share a pot abounds, usually this pot will always be boiling boiling water, everyone only eats one meal a day, that is, at noon to eat a lunch, before eating, the poor families who share the iron pot will put some food into the iron pot, broken rice, vegetable leaves, animal meat and the like, anyway, as long as it can be boiled and eaten.

If you don't want to put food in the iron pot, don't run over with a wooden bowl to eat when you eat.

Usually the caretaker of the pot is the most respected old man in several poor families, or the real owner of the pot.

Nika, the aboriginal girl who was rescued by Surdak, lived in a shack by the river, and she was carried home from the square by her mother, and her injuries were already healed, but she was chained to the punishment stone for nearly three days, and her physical strength was already overdrawn, and her body was extremely weak, and she could only lie in the damp shack when she returned home.

It's summer now, there will always be some sharp-billed white-scaled fish in the Bailin River, so the poor people's life is still passable, there are always some half-grown children with good water characteristics can fish out some white-scaled fish from the river and throw them into an iron pot to cook into fish soup, at this time there are endless wild vegetables in the pasture, some holes can also find guinea pigs and hares, snakes and lizards can also be seen from time to time, as long as they are willing to make some effort, they can always get some food back.

Usually the few partners who envy Nika for being able to be a maid in the Baron Goss manor sit silently beside Nika at this time, usually Nika takes care of them a lot, and can always bring back something from the baron's manor that they have not tasted, this time Nika was chained to the punishment stone and was almost sunburned to death, the impact on them was too great.

A girl fed Nika a little water with a wooden spoon.

That's when a boy said:

"Nika, you're so lucky, if it weren't for the Baron Surdak today, you might have been sunburned to death on the punishment stone, although there are so many people gathered on our side, once the infantry regiment in the garrison camp is dispatched, I'm afraid no one will dare to stop the spear of the infantry regiment."

He was telling the truth, and although everyone sympathized with Nika and was willing to run into the square for her, and was willing to raise a plank to shield her from the sun, no one would hold out for long in front of the spears once the infantry in the garrison camp ran to the square to disperse them.

If the local garrison determines that it is an aboriginal riot, Nika will not be the only one who will die.

Another girl also said, "We know that the vase must not be your own, but what's the use?" The young masters of the Goss family believe that you did it, and no one can argue with it. ”

The girl with the wooden spoon in her hand said:

"Nika, I think you and your aunt should thank the Baron, maybe that's what he wanted, and he was willing to save you from the Punishment Stone, at least we should be thankful."

Nika opened her eyes and looked at the girl, a little excited and a little timid, and she was so weak that she couldn't get up at all.

At this moment, a child suddenly shouted outside:

"Nika, Nika, the baron who saved you at noon is heading towards your house."

The shacks in the slums were closely connected, and the child's voice almost made many of the poor people in the shacks around hear it, and many people ran out of the shacks to see the excitement.

The girl with the wooden spoon in her hand said happily, "I will say that the Baron must have taken a fancy to Nika and would be willing to save her from the punishment stone." ”

The boy sitting next to Nika looked gloomy, and secretly lowered his head, saying no more.

But the middle-aged aboriginal woman sitting at the door of the shack, Nika's mother, was a little at a loss for a moment, she wiped two handfuls of her linen dress with her hands in a little panic, and said a little absent-mindedly: "What can I do, there is not even something decent in the house......

The girl with the wooden spoon stood up and said to Mother Nika at the door, "I'll go and see if lunch is ready, or we'll treat the baron to wild vegetable and fish soup." ”

"People are Lord Barons, they will be willing to eat your cauldron chowder, save it!" Someone among the friends said.

……

Surdak and Samira walked along the river, where the road was muddy and difficult to navigate, in addition to the smell of fish.

Although these aborigines in the slums look very pitiful, sometimes they cannot fully attribute the blame to the cruel exploitation of the imperials, and they also have reasons for poverty, especially their attitude of getting by, the inert idea that if you have food today and do not think about tomorrow, and if it is not cold in summer, you will not consider winter, which is also another reason for their poverty.

Terrified natives ran outside their tents and watched Surdak walk past their doors.

Surdak just asked a child where Nika's house was, but he didn't expect that the child would enthusiastically take Surdak all the way to Nika's house, and there were some onlookers on both sides of the road behind, and everyone even made way for a road to Nika's house.

The child pointed to the hut made of some felt and tattered linen and said, "My lord, this is Nika's house." ”

Surdak and Samira looked at each other and approached slowly, only to find Nika's mother bent over outside the hut, and when she saw her humbly prostrate on the ground, Surdak said to her, "Get up quickly, we have come to see how Nika is doing." ”

Nika's mother got up from the ground, and without bothering to pat the dirt off her knees, she said respectfully to Surdak, "Thank you, Lord Baron, for saving Nika." ”

Surdak glanced into the shack, where the girl lying on the mat was so shy that she covered her face with her hands.

There was hardly anything else in the hut except two clay pots and a wooden basin in the corner, and all the linen and felt and straw mats were covered in the hut, and in the corners of the hut were some red plant rhizomes, about the thickness of little fingers.

Surdak did not get into the low shack, but stood outside the shack and said to Nika's mother: "I have come this time to ask you and Nika to come with us, we are about to leave Kieran tomorrow, I am afraid that Baron Goss will still find you trouble, we will go to Dodan Town, if you will come with us, please come to the cavalry camp tomorrow morning to find me......"