Chapter 12: Misery
Sending off the viscountess who had a good impression, Rogge walked to an inconspicuous place with a resolute face, and when he saw that no one was coming, he opened his wallet with a cheap smile. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"It's a big family! Tsk, it's basically gold coins, not even a copper-colored one!"
The man is poor and short-minded, which best describes Rogge's current state, and a bag of coins is still unfinished after counting three times with a smirk.
"Eighty-seven gold and thirty-five silver!" After a long time, Rogge touched his mouth and stood up, let out a long breath, put his wallet away, and sighed slightly: "I was worried about money in the morning, but in a blink of an eye, the matter was solved, it is really impermanent!"
"A nobleman is a nobleman, a little girl's pocket money is enough for a commoner family to be rich for ten years, it can't be compared!"
After the excitement, there was a numbness in his legs, and he felt hungry in his abdomen, Dale County is not small in the size of the county, and naturally it is not something that a thin body like Rogge can turn.
Looking at the sky, Rogge raised his eyebrows helplessly: "The body is still too weak, it's not early, pick up Asuna first......"
This was the first pleasant thing that Rogge had done when he came to this world, he was in a good mood, he walked naturally fast, humming a little song that was strange and novel to this world, and Rogge disappeared into the crowd.
As everyone knows, there are two people who are in a completely different mood from Rogge's happiness, and they are frowning at this time, and they are walking into a bedroom in the viscount's mansion with angry faces.
These two are naturally the Viscountess and the eldest lady of the Viscount's Mansion, and today's incident can be regarded as throwing into the face of the Viscount's Mansion.
As the supreme administrator of a county, under the rule of the noble hereditary viscount, the common people lived a miserable life, the poor grew day by day, and the officials did not govern it, and there were still people who deceived and concealed it, and did things that humiliated the dignity of the nobles.
How can this not make the mother and daughter angry, but their own family affairs, their own knows, although the viscountess is angry, she still knows restraint and does not lose the courtesy of the nobility.
But the daughter who was full of a sense of justice on the side didn't think so, and after entering the house, Shirley kept pulling her mother to her father's residence.
In desperation, the Viscountess could only hastily instruct Alvin a few words, and came here, this is a sunny bedroom, unlike the rest of the Viscount's Mansion, the whole bedroom is too simple, without the slightest sense of luxury.
And this bedroom, only three people can enter the entire Viscount's Mansion, except for the mother and daughter, who are the famous Deacon Owings in Dale County, all those who violate the order have been executed, and after a long time, this has become a forbidden place for the people of the entire Viscount's Mansion.
At this time, on a spacious and tidy bed in the center of the room, a middle-aged man about thirty years old was lying on it with a tired face, and an old man was holding an official letter and reporting softly.
The man's face was haggard, his complexion showed a gray color that ordinary people did not have, and his eyes were tired, even so it was difficult to hide the man's dignity and handsomeness. This is the hereditary viscount of Dale County, Kliman Affleck!
The old man on the side, with white hair, a mustache at the corner of his mouth, dressed as a deacon, and his whole body was neatly groomed, giving people a sense of ability.
The old man was the deacon of the Viscount's Mansion, and he was standing straight in place at this time, looking at the mother and daughter who came with a puzzled face.
"Damn Owen, tell me what's going on..."Before she could speak, Shirley looked reproachful and said angrily.
"Beautiful young lady, what's the matter?" The sudden question made Owen puzzled, and Shirley grew up watching herself, and she was usually very close to herself, but today's attitude really made Owen scratch her head.
"Shirley?!" came a weak reproachful voice, "Didn't the nobles teach you to speak like this in etiquette?!"
"Father..."Blamed by her father, the little girl looked aggrieved and turned her head to look at her mother.
"What's wrong Nina?" Seeing his daughter's temper, Chris smiled a little, looked at his wife and asked, "What is it that makes Shirley so unhappy?"
Looking at Chris on the bed, the viscountess no longer had the graceful look on her face outside, her look of pity and sadness was overflowing, and there was a hint of resentment in her eyes.
As always, she came to the bed, checked Chris's physical condition, and told her what happened today, and Shirley did not hide her anger at Owen in the process.
After Chris listened, he lovingly stroked Shirley's hair lying beside him, smiling, but not saying a word, and the room was suddenly silent.
Seeing this, Owen bowed forward, already Owen's understanding of this viscount, which was completely different from the calm on the surface, Chris was probably full of anger at this time.
"Master!" said Owen, in a low voice.
"Owen, has our Everrec family fallen to this point, and even a first-order commoner would dare to ruin the reputation of the Everleck family like this?" Chris's words were flat, but there was not the slightest emotion in his voice.
"My subordinates know!"
"Father, you have to take care of your body quickly......" Hearing this, Shirley's mood on the side improved significantly.
In her young impression, there was nothing dissatisfied with her father who said such things, and how could she not be happy when she thought that those bastards who bullied the poor in the name of the viscount were going to suffer this time.
"Father, father, do you know that the child is not as old as me today?......!
"Father, when are you doing, didn't you promise me to go hunting monsters in the forest?!......
In the eyes of outsiders, a child is a child after all, and Shirley, who rarely sees her father, can't hold it anymore when she opens the clip.
But the three people in the house knew that the twelve-year-old Shirley was much smarter than her peers, and every time she saw her father, she would deliberately look for a topic, even if she said something many times, she still enjoyed it.
For it was only at this time that the haggard Viscount smiled, and the little girl used her wisdom and methods to encourage her father who was lying on the hospital bed.
But today, it's a little different, because two of Shirley's three sentences are inseparable from Rogge, maybe they are all children, maybe out of sympathy, maybe out of curiosity, anyway, in the eyes of the three of them, Rogge is 'remembered' by the little girl.
After some jokes, Shirley was sent away, and Nina looked at Chris helplessly: "Shirley has not had any friends of the same age since she was a child, and when she went out this time, she inevitably felt sympathy when she met that poor child." ”
"Nina..."Talking about Shirley's matter, Chris's words were no longer calm, but with unwillingness and anger: "They don't plan to let us go, but what should Shirley do......"
"Master, I'm here ......"
"I know, you've done your best, Owen. As he spoke, he looked at Nina, who was secretly crying on the side, and the hereditary viscount smiled slightly: "It's okay, this body can last for a while......"
"By the way..."Chris seemed to remember something, and looked at his wife differently: "Madam, just now Shirley said that the child is a little different?"
"Yes, black hair, black eyes. ”
"Master, is that from that clan?" asked Owen with a frown.
"I don't know, that kind of human empire is not common, let alone here......" Chris frowned and pondered rarely, and said slowly: "Five or six years old? Maybe it's a child who was trafficked..."
"Owen!"
"Master!"
"Go and check, if that child's character is really as Madame said, then our little Shirley will have a knight of his own!"
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"What about that bastard scolding me, sneezing all the way!" Rogge was holding bread in one hand and rubbing his nose in the other, depressed.
"Captain Charles is still on duty?!" Arriving at the city gate, Rogge stepped forward to greet him.
"Yo, little Rogge, it's done so quickly today?" Charles saw that it was Rogge and laughed: "Isn't it being kicked out!"
"How can it be, by the way, Captain Charles, it's freezing this day, and the big brothers must be frozen, these are gloves, I specially prepared them for the big brothers!" Rogge stopped by to Ed's house, and in addition to arranging some things, he took a few pairs of gloves out.
"That's really good! The boy is very good at doing things, go back and prepare a few more pairs for me!"
After a few pleasantries, Rogge went out of the city, and didn't say a word about the viscountess, but when he came to the slum, Asuna was not at the Keanes' house!
The Keanes told them that little Asuna went out not long after she left, saying that she wanted to help herself and earn some wages, but she couldn't stop her.
Seeing that the sky was getting darker and darker, and the scattered snowflakes were gradually getting bigger, Rogge suddenly became anxious, and couldn't help but blame the Keanes and his wife.
"Wait, wait......" The couple pulled Rogge, who was going out to find someone, with a bitter face, and they didn't want to offend this little guy who dared to talk to Buck and was not afraid of anything.
"Wait, I know wait, let you see that you can't stand it, can't you stop her little body?"
"Little Asuna said I want to help you, I... It's hard for us to refuse, after all, what you said last night ......" Keane remembered what Rogge had arranged last night, and his voice suddenly weakened, in their opinion, it was not a big deal for children in the slums to go out to make a living, it was too common.
"It's just her, how to help a lame leg, it's been a day......" Rogge became more and more angry, almost roaring in annoyance.
"Brother, Brother Rogge......" A voice came, Rogge turned his head instantly, and saw Asuna carrying a small basket walking from the side of the alley.
The heart fell, but the anger did not decrease but increased, and the brows twisted: "Where did you go!"
"I..." Rogge's sudden rebuke startled Asuna, who suddenly stopped her small steps and looked at Rogge from a distance, speechless.
"You..." Looking at the frightened Asuna, Rogge's heart suddenly softened, and he held his stomach in his heart, and complained softly: "I said that I don't need you to go out, just recuperate at home......"
"Come here, let me see the wound, what do you say, what can a child do when he goes out, the bad guy can't take you away, the beast can't take you away? next time....... I won't give you bread to eat... Got it?!"
"Hmm... Listening to Rogge's incessant reproach, Asuna's heart swelled with warmth, she had never heard such a concerned word for as long as she could remember, and stood there for a while, just nodding her head, speechless with joy.
"Still laughing ......"
......A slightly hoarse laugh came from behind Asuna, and Rogge only then noticed that there were two children, one older and one younger, behind Asuna.
The youngest was a girl about the same age as herself, and the eldest was a boy, about fifteen or sixteen years old, and according to the laws of the Empire, he should have reached adulthood.
Rogge looked at the two of them, the girl had clear eyebrows, but her clothes were thin, and her little hands were red from the cold, but she was also fully dressed, with clothes and shoes.
The boy was wrapped in a hide, and was much stronger than the average slum child. Judging from the clothes alone, the two of them are doing well in the slums.
What caught Rogge's attention was that the mark on the back of the seemingly honest boy's hand, according to Rogge's inference, the mark should be a tattoo, the light is too dim to see clearly, in the empire, ordinary people don't seem to have this kind of mark?!
"Say Asuna is a child, as if you were how old you are. The girl who spoke at the beginning of the term had a hint of disapproval on her clean little face, covering her mouth and snickering.
"Who are these two?" asked Asuna, turning to him.
"Ah, this is Roland, this is Roland's brother Roque..."
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