If the first two chapters are the epics of two heroes in two races,

The third part is the story of ordinary people of two races under this epic story.

The protagonist of the third chapter is called Matt, Rain Matt. Lives in Delvien, the capital of the Kaki people.

His mother had told him that he was a descendant of the Kaki progenitor, the leader of the Rain.

But many people in the capital city say so, and many people use rain as a surname or first name.

His mother was just a laundry worker in the capital city of Delvine, who made a living by washing clothes for people.

His father, on the other hand, was killed in the war that broke out between the northern continent where the Kaki people are located, and the southern continent where the Vis are located.

Matt, on the other hand, was still young, only twelve or thirteen years old, and his lack of nutrition made him thin and short.

The family basically depended on his mother's laundry to make a living, so much so that he and his mother had to rent a cramped and dirty low-rent house in the capital after his father's death.

And the story unfolds in this context.

“…… Dirty laundry water flowed freely on the ground, sometimes mixed with mud and stinking leaves, and flies flew around the sewage, seemingly tirelessly searching for food.

Mother took Matt's hand and took Matt back to the house, and they lived in a house on the first floor of a low-rent house in this courtyard, so that his mother could wash the clothes she had collected from other people's houses.

Much of the sewage flowing in the yard was caused by his mother.

The woman was holding her hair and wearing a faded floral headscarf on her head, wearing a long dress and trousers, but she had rolled up her trouser legs and cuffs, and the skin on her face was rough, and her palms seemed to be soaked in water, and there was a lot of cracked skin.

When a woman walks through the sewage on the ground, she does not shy away from the sewage on the ground staining the soles of her shoes, and only occasionally encounters deeper sewage that she makes a reluctant gesture to step over.

The boy, Matt, seemed to care about whether he stepped on the sewage on the ground, and followed his mother forward, and every time he came across the sewage flowing from the yard, he had to take a big step, jump over, or jump over. ”

……

"Kana, you're coming back from picking up the baby?"

In another tenant by the courtyard, a slightly bloated woman came out of the house with a basin of dirty water.

Seeing Kana leading Matt into the house, she shouted,

"Yes, he just finished middle school today's class, and I'll pick him up."

"Right? Matt's grades are good, and he may be able to become a political officer in the future. ”

Kana smiled at the woman, pursing her chapped lips,

"But Kana, can you sweep the water after you wash your clothes, it's not that I won't let you wash your clothes, after all, we all know that it's your job to make a living,"

"But I also hope that after you wash your clothes, the sewage you pour out can be swept away, now it's almost summer, and there are many mosquitoes buzzing in my ears during the night and day, like the water in front of my door, I sweep it."

The woman continued.

"Yes, Lady Mary, I'll clean it up."

Kana bowed apologetically.

"It's good that you know, it's almost ...... summer now"

Kana smiled apologetically and took Matt back to the house.

The woman was still chanting and talking.

Matt was dragged into the house by his mother,

Turn back again, look back,

Then I saw the woman holding the basin of sewage, looking left and right, and finally collapsed at the door of someone else's house.

"Mom!"

Matt called out to his mother to talk about it.

Kana just pulled Matt and walked inside, shaking her head at Matt.

……

“…… There's a piece of brown bread and 'grass rice soup' on the table, so go eat it first." I still have a few clothes washed and come over. ”

The woman Kana led the boy into the house, closed the door, and stopped the stench and noise outside.

But after closing the door, the room was dark again in the evening.

The woman reached out and pushed open the window of the room again, and then walked to the side with a basin of clothes, and said to the boy Matt.

Matt nodded habitually, walked over to the old wooden table and sat down,

On the table were grass rice soup and black bread, which were upside down to keep out the flies.

Matt flipped it over, took a piece of black bread, put the remaining piece aside, and poured half a bowl of grass rice porridge into the empty bowl next to it.

Then he turned his head with the black bread and looked at the mother who was washing the clothes in the basin next to him.

"Mom...... Why don't we move to the slums, they say the rent in the slums is much cheaper, and you probably won't have to be so tired. ”

“…… It's a lot cheaper, but it's also worse, it's crowded like a cage for a market with animals, and you can't get as many jobs as you need to do laundry. ”

The woman, Kana, scrubbed the clothes in the basin, and after scrubbing, she temporarily put them in another basin and waited for a while to rinse them.

"Plus, it's a long way from here, and if you go there, you'll never go to secondary school again."

The woman looked up from the basin where she was washing clothes and said something to Matt.

"Mom, you know, my academic performance in school is not good, even if I continue to study, I can't be a political officer."

Matt took the black bread and didn't eat it, looked at his mother, and said hesitantly.

"Then study hard."

The woman lowered her head again and rubbed her clothes heavily.

Matt hesitated, didn't say anything more, lowered his head, and turned away.

"If you can't be a political officer, you can do something else, even if you work for other people, it's better than me washing clothes."

"Hmm...... I know. ”

“…… You have eaten all the brown bread and grass rice soup on the table, and I still have it in the pot. ”

"I can't eat that much, the bowl is too big, and there is too much grass and rice soup. Mother, you can eat. ”

"Huh...... Hey......"

The woman Kana sighed at the end,

"After eating, go to bed early."

"Hmmm......"

The room fell silent again.

The woman Kana was washing her clothes next to her, and Matt was eating brown bread at the table.

Wait until you finish eating,

Matt got back to his feet and walked over to Kana.

"Mom, why don't I come......"

Kana rubbed her clothes, looked up, and glanced at Matt,

"I can't sleep yet, I'll help you wash your clothes, can you tell me the story you haven't finished yet?"

"Story?"

"Hmm...... The story that I didn't finish more than 30 days ago. ”

Kana paused and nodded,

Stepping out of the way, her son sat down where she had just sat down, pulled a stool from the table, and sat next to him.

Matt bent down, reached for the clothes in the basin, and scrubbed with all his strength to learn from his mother's appearance,

It's just that his body is thin and short, and naturally he doesn't have much strength, and every time he scrubs it, it takes extra effort.

“…… I don't need you to scrub it, I'll take a break, and by the way, I'll tell you the story I didn't finish telling before, and then go to bed when you're done. ”

Kana said to Matt.

Matt was still stubborn, laboriously scrubbing his clothes.

Kana looked at Matt for a pause, then looked up again, as if to sort out her thoughts.

"It was a story about demons, right?"

"Legend has it that demons have two horns on their heads and white hair, but whiteness is just a disguise for them, and they will bewitch people and make them fall. Sometimes, they would tempt those who met him with money, promising them money and treasures, but when the Kakis were fooled, they found that the money and treasures they gave were false, disguised, and those who were often seduced by demons would eventually have their souls and lives taken away. ”

"Two horns and white hair? Isn't that like an abominable cave sheep! ”

Matt raised his head and said with some anger,

Because his father died in the war with the cave sheep.

Kana turned her head and looked at Matt.

Matt lowered his head slowly, he knew that his mother didn't like to hear him talk about his father,

Probably a fear that he would one day die on the battlefield.

Seeing Matt calm down again,

Kana hesitated, then said,

"Legend has it that the Vesdong sheep are the descendants of demons, so they look very close to the demons depicted in the scriptures and stories in the Church of the Sun God."

"Ordinary Kaki people will encounter misfortune when they encounter demons, they are born with curses and evil, and they will bewitch and hurt Kaki, so we need to stay away from them."

Kana feared that Matt would die on the battlefield like his father, and she only wished that Matt would stay away from the Vesdong sheep or something.

Matt lowered his head and remained silent without speaking.

"Knock knock...... Knock knock! ”

At this time,

The door of the house was slammed with a sharp knock,

Matt looked up, and Kana turned her head to look at her, and got up at the same time,

When he came, he seemed to be in a hurry, and he was anxious to close the door.

"Who is it?"

"I'm Father Yodel, and I'm here with the will of the sun god."

Kana was wary at first, and then heard a familiar voice,

only then did he open the door.

The man who came was Father Jodel, the priest of the church closest to where Kana and Matt lived.

The Kaki people are all followers of the sun god and the god Kaki, and the church scriptures say that these are two sides of the same God.

Every once in a while, Kana would go to church to pray that her Matt would grow up safely.

At the door, Father Yodel held a book in his hand, looking solemn and solemn,

"Father Yodel, is there something going on?"

Seeing the priest's appearance, Kana grabbed the door and stared at Father Yodel.

"With the revelation of the god Kaki and the god of the sun, the church will start the second holy war, and will send our great church army to spread the glory of the god of the sun and the god of the god of the sun to the southern continent again."

"Let the damned, blasphemous Vess Cave sheep be punished, driven from the earth, and return to their hell!"

The priest was solemn, and then fanatical.

Kana bowed her head in respect of God's revelation, but her whole body trembled.

Her husband, the father of her children, died in the Church's first war against the Visians of the Southern Continent.

“…… So what can we do about it? ”

Kana asked in a trembling voice.

"Kaki and the sun god need more warriors to spread the light of the gods for them, and we want the gods to see our piety and save us who are lost."

As he spoke, the priest looked at the thin, diminutive Matt in the room.

Kana trembled, but she still moved her feet, blocking the priest's view,

“…… Matt's father had returned to the arms of God in the First War, and Matt was too young and emaciated to be a warrior of God. ”

"Mrs. Kana, it is an incomparable honor to be able to fight for God, even if she dies, she can return to the arms of God, like the king 'rain', and stay by God's side forever."

The priest seemed a little angry, perhaps because of Kana's ungodliness.

Kana bowed her head, silent, and stopped at the door.

"Mrs. Kana, I hope you can understand God's will, damn Veston's sheep have hurt so many believers in the Lord, every one of them is a father of a child, a mother's child, just like your husband, don't you want your child to avenge your husband?"

The priest said in a different tone.

Kana still lowered her body and her head, shook her head, and just replied,

"His father simply returned to the arms of God."

She doesn't want her children to avenge his father, she just wants Matt to grow up safely.

"Matt is extraordinarily thin and short, and even if he becomes a warrior of God, it will slow down the progress of the warriors of God...... I just hope Matt stays with me. ”

It seems that Kana's first half of the sentence moved the priest,

He was looking at Matt.

At this time, Matt's whole body was trembling, and the anger just now and the fear now made him feel extremely ashamed in his heart.

But he was really afraid.

Matt was already in his teens, and he was thin and short, even younger than he looked his original age.

Such a person will indeed only become a drag when he goes to the battlefield.

The priest frowned.

"But this holy war is God's will, and every one of His people should work for it."

"Perhaps there is something else we can do to help the light of God shine farther afield."

The priest said this, and Kana immediately took over.

"For example?"

"We are willing to donate 300 ...... 400 Dimensional ...... To the warriors who fought for the gods, I hope to give them some small help. ”

Wei is the currency of the Kaki country, and three hundred Wei is already the vast majority of Kana's savings over the years.

400 Dimensions already needs to sell most of the property.

The reason why she has to save up this money under such circumstances is for today.

"Five hundred dimensions."

The priest looked at Kana and said.

"Thank you, Father."

"Everything is the will of the sun god and the god Kaki."

"Thank you for the kindness of the sun god and the god Kaki."

Kana agreed, though she was nowhere near five hundred dimensions.

"Thank you Mrs. Kana for your support of the warriors, although you have not been able to fight for the gods, the merciful gods will surely forgive you for your mistakes."

The priest said this, and Kana breathed a sigh of relief.

……

The priest left with more than 300 dimensions, and Kana needed to make up the rest.

And the whole area around the low-rent housing, with the departure of the priest, became noisy and noisy.

Some people cried and shouted, others kept chanting about the god Kaki and the sun god.

Kana closed the door, closed it tightly, and turned her head again.

She looked at her child, Matt, who was still scared.

"It's all right...... You go to sleep. ”

Kana touched Matt's hair and sat back down in front of the clothes that needed to be washed.

Then he raised his head and said to Matt,

"Don't go to school for a few days, don't leave the house, and don't let the neighbors around the low-rent house see you."

"I see...... Mommy ......"

Matt gradually recovered from his fear, listened to his mother's words, and lowered his head.

"Hmm."

Kana nodded,

Then I lowered my head and washed my clothes.

……

See here.

As a reader, Xi Yuan only feels a kind of depression that is stronger than the second chapter,

The depression of the story in the second chapter is like the ordeal that a great man must go through, but he will eventually become an epic.

But the story of this chapter is the repeated struggle of an ordinary person under this magnificent epic, and he can't even see whether there will be hope in the depression.

However, the story also writes about the current state of the Kaki and Vis from the side.

hostilities, and the reason for the first all-out war, and the imminent outbreak of the second war in the plot, is mainly because of religious conflicts.

In the church scriptures of the Kakis, the Vis are the image of demons.

It is estimated that the Kaki people are similar in the texts and religions of the Vis people,

After all, one is a cave sheep and the other is a vicious beast.

"Hoo ......"

After a pause,

Xi Yuan sighed and continued to read.

In the book,

The plot continues to develop.

Matt's mother sold the family's valuable things,

At the same time, relying on her cheekiness, she borrowed a sum of money from her family who often helped her wash clothes.

took on a lot of debts, and finally made up enough money for the lack of money,

Saving Matt from becoming a warrior who fought for the gods in the Southern Continent,

However, it is also because of the debt that Kana has to take in more clothes to pay off the debt and live.