Shivaish emerged from the carriage, this time holding the silver-encrusted cane and not carrying a briefcase.

"You wait for me here."

Zhou Jinru stood in place, watching the man climb the steps step by step, and the sound of leather shoes stepping on the stone slab made a particularly loud sound in the silent night.

Not long after he left, from the other side of the street, a group of half-grown children came and were sharing food with each other.

"Adella, do you still have anything to eat?"

"No, that's all I have."

"I'm so hungry."

"I'm hungry too."

Frustrated children looked up at the quiet church, which was erected on the pointed roof of the church to symbolize the sun.

The cold wind blew on the children, and their tattered clothes did not provide warmth, so one of them suggested, "Let's go to church for the night." ”

"We can't sleep in the park, it's cold, and the patrolling gendarmes will drive us away."

"Don't mention those greyskins!"

"Quiet."

The girl, who was half a head taller than the others, raised her voice, and the noisy children immediately quieted down and looked at her.

"We asked Father Albert to stay with us for one night, and he probably wouldn't refuse."

"Yes, he didn't say no last time!"

"He's a good guy, much better than those factory owners!"

"And we'll be fed."

Some people echoed it, some people seemed to find light, and some people remembered the good of the priest.

And so it was, and a group of beggar-like children went up the stairs, and the doors of the church slowly opened, and the decent and polished Mr. Shivaish walked down the steps, and they passed by.

"Sir."

"Father Albert is taking care of a sick nun, he has a tight schedule, I should come back at another time."

As if to explain something, Shivaish noticed that Zhou Jinru's gaze fell on the backs of those children, turned around, and those children had already entered the church, and he said softly: "They are orphans in the fog capital, you should have heard of them, their parents gave birth to them, but they were unable to raise them, and they were raised by the welfare home of Lentinium until they were ten years old and left, looking for a new life in the city. ”

"Ten?"

Shivaash's expression barely changed: "Maybe it's smaller, the funds of the welfare home are quite limited, it is not easy to support these children, there are many factory owners who are willing to take these children in, but this was last week, and now it is different." ”

The man boarded the carriage and his voice came from inside the thick curtain: "Just last week, Parliament passed a document abolishing child labour, and Victorian business owners can no longer hire children under the age of 16 at low wages, and lawmakers say that children should be given more love." ”

Zhou Jinru didn't know what to say: "This is a good thing. ”

"Not really."

Shivaish coughed twice: "Ahem, they have a serious disagreement over which side will raise the child until the age of sixteen, and the president of the council has not been able to quiet the quarrelling councillors by shouting hoarsely, and they have decided to discuss it again at the next parliamentary meeting. ”

This time, Zhou Jinru understood that after the abolition of the Child Labor Act, the factory owners did not dare to risk breaking the law to hire children under the age of 16, and the officials who abolished the law failed to properly accommodate children who had not yet reached working age.

"Zhou, it's time for us to go back."

Zhou Jinru retracted his gaze and, at the urging of Shivaesh, drove away.

Returning to the man's manor, Shivaish took off his coat, untied his tie, and wore only a snow-white shirt, and he turned on the electric light casually, and the light shone on the two people's bodies, and the two shadows were far apart.

"It's still a long time tonight, and if you want to go out and have fun, go ahead."

"Where should I go?"

Shivaish took his wallet out of his coat pocket, pulled out a few notes, grabbed a handful of change and handed it to him: "It depends on where you want to go." ”

In order to continue to play his role, Zhou Jinru decided not to resist the wishes of the male owner, and after taking the money, he left the manor alone.

"Shivaish is deliberately pushing me away, he has important things to do."

"Where should I go, or to that intersection?"

Zhou Jinru grabbed the money in his pocket and didn't know where to go for a while.

He pulled out a coin, rubbed his fingers over the polished old coin, flicked it up, held it in his palm, and stuffed it back into his pocket.

After a few moments, he returned to the old crossroads, which was still as prosperous as before, and the gentlemen who passed by looked as usual, all dressed in crisp gowns, and the ladies wore cute little hats, and their ankle-length fluffy skirts swayed gently.

"Sell the newspaper! Sell the newspaper! Sir, would you like a newspaper? ”

The newsboy standing at the intersection held a newspaper aloft and sold it loudly, occasionally selling it to passers-by.

"The distinguished guests of the Yan Kingdom are here! A fire broke out in the occupied zone of Letania! The Child Labor Abolition Act was passed! ”

Zhou Jinru grabbed two coins: "A newspaper." ”

He looked at the headlines of the newspaper, and the huge printed font read: The Child Labor Abolition Act has been passed, and the factory owner declares that the factory is about to close!?

There is a big question mark at the end.

Zhou Jinru didn't need to figure out where the newspaper's ass was sitting, what he really cared about was the time of the newspaper, but he couldn't find the specific time after searching the whole newspaper.

"Melodramas are by no means groundless, and it's not difficult for me to figure it out, but what is the real content of this drama, such a slow pace, if it were placed in the 21st century, it would have been violently killed and taken off the shelves."

Zhou Jinru exhaled, flipped through the newspaper casually, looked at some specious news on it, and walked into a bar that was open.

"A glass of milk."

"You're here just to drink milk?"

The sound was familiar.

Zhou Jinru raised his head and saw Ke Song in a bartender costume at a glance, the girl didn't seem to know him, and was staring at a pair of eyes, asking him what he wanted to drink.

"A glass of milk."

He's not someone who can change decisions casually.

Syllable.

Two coins were slapped on the bar, along with the newspaper.

Ke Song stared at the newspaper in his hand: "Sir, we don't take garbage. ”

"Where's the garbage basket?"

The bartender pouted to Nunu on the opposite side of the bar, and Zhou Jinru rolled up the newspaper casually, threw it into the garbage basket, and placed a glass of fresh milk in front of him.

Zhou Jinru drank milk:

"What's the news lately?"

Ke Song snorted: "Please drink before inquiring about the news, this is the rule." ”