“…… I still have ...... over there."

Miria was so eager to harvest from her field and give some to pay off little Horse's debts.

These were also cultivated by little Hoss, and they were also a family.

But little Hoss refused.

Holding the three strips of cloth for proof of repayment, little Hoss stood beside him.

Looking at the man who came to collect the debt, in the field where he and Miria had worked hard all year to cultivate,

The harvest from the fields that Medioc had left him was all carried into the wagon.

Until the room where the grain was placed in the house on Little Hoth's side was emptied,

The man sent by Mr. Raleigh to collect the debt left with a smile.

Little Hoss stood in the courtyard again, watching the wagon that had taken the grain go away until he could no longer see it.

“…… Alright, little Hoth, I'll go back to lunch, I've cooked you some minced soup......"

"Hmmm......"

Little Hoss lifted his cuffs and wiped the sweat from his forehead,

Then, with some expectations, he followed Milia to Miria's house,

The meat was bought by little Hoth when he went to town yesterday, so he bought a small piece, and Milia used it to cook the meat and rice soup.

I haven't eaten meat for a long time,

Little Hoss couldn't help but look forward to it.

“…… Eat some black bread first, pad your stomach and then eat it, otherwise you will have diarrhea if you eat meat like this. ”

"yes, I know."

……

“…… Sir, why didn't Mr. Raleigh take the family's land directly, and what kind of mortgage loan did he do. ”

"Stupid fellow, after the fields are harvested, does Mr. Raleigh still need someone to cultivate them?

And now, there are already people who farm, and every year in order to repay the money, he will also cultivate carefully, and every year the grain is taken away by Mr. Raleigh, and Mr. Raleigh does not have to spend the cost of hiring people to farm.

And these fields have already been mortgaged to Mr. Raleigh, and when they can no longer pay the interest, these fields will still be Mr. Raleigh's. ”

The people who left to collect the money exchanged with the people who came to carry the food.

"And what if one day they pay it back? Stupid guy, how can it be finished. Even if they can repay the principal of three hundred copper coins every time the grain is harvested, you don't know how long it will take. ”

"I can't count...... It's probably going to be more than ten years, right? ”

"I'll tell you, at least twenty or thirty years...... Moreover, they have a good harvest this year, can they still harvest well every year? If the interest is not repaid in one year, the interest in the second year becomes the principal, and it will be returned. ”

“…… That's ......."

“…… Hurry, I have to go to the next place, and delay the punishment of Mr. Raleigh. ”

"Good, good ......"

……

The contrast between the two plots makes the reader particularly uncomfortable,

Professor Voss had seen the same before,

Sorry for little Hoth, angry for the whole world in the book.

Here, although little Hoss is distressed that the grain that has been cultivated for a year is gone,

But it's also a lot easier for me to pay off part of my debts,

I still think about paying off more this year and more next year, whether I will be able to repay the debt soon.

Perhaps when the debt was paid, his father, Mediaoc, would be able to return to the Lord's kingdom.

The tombstone before his grave did not have to be hidden in the ground by him, as it is now, but was erected in the open.

On the other side, the person who received the money talked to the person next to him, but he explained a desperate truth.

This money, little Hoth may never be able to repay.

……

The story in the book does not stop because of the reader's discomfort,

Keep going.

Time flies, month after month, year after year,

Little Hoth's skin was getting rougher and yellower, and the calluses on his hands and feet were getting thicker.

Though Miriah had some of the work in the fields for him,

But Xiao Hoss, who works in the fields all day long, is becoming more and more like the residents of other villages.

The burden of debt and farm work made little Fox have no time to take care of too many things, and the thoughts that belong to children are becoming less and less whimsical.

Most of the time, the expression on his face was the same as that of most residents.

It's just that when I get along with Miria too much, it's easier.

In the past few years, little Hoss has become taller, and he has gradually lost the appearance of a child, like a younger farmer in the field.

The debt that little Hoss owes to Mr. Raleigh has also been repaid in recent years,

One of the years, because of the dry weather, Medieok alone had not been able to pay off the interest on the debt owed to Mr. Raleigh, though the principal had been repaying some of it.

But the interest has always been the interest on the previous year's principal, always a year after the principal is repaid, Mr. Raleigh said. Little Hoth couldn't refute it.

That year, I still took some of Miria's fields to harvest grain, and only then did I repay enough interest.

However, that year also made little Fox and Milly Asia too tight.

One day after so many years,

It happened to be the time when the grain crops had just been harvested in the field.

Little Hoth went to the edge of the village cemetery and saw the grave of his father Medioc.

Mrs. Miria followed him to visit Mr. More.

When the two of them returned from the cemetery in the evening,

But he saw a man in the courtyard,

Dressed in old clothes, his body is dusty, and his face has a long and messy beard.

On his waist, he has a kettle pinned to one side and a bag in one hand.

“…… May the Lord protect you, sir, and madam. ”

When the man saw little Hoth and Miriah too, he smiled and greeted him.

Little Hoth and Milly answered too quickly.

"May the Lord protect you."

“…… Madame, sir, I am a bard, the one who takes the story of one place to another. ”

"Passing by here, can you ask for a little water, preferably burned."

The man then put the water bag on his waist,

"There's water in the river......"

"Don't you know, the water of the stream is the water, and it is easy to get sick if you drink it, and you have to boil the water to bring health and strength, this is what an old priest told me."

The man smiled and said,

"Hmm...... But we don't have that much firewood and always come to boil hot water to drink. ”

Miria took the water bag too,

"Thank you."

"To thank you for the water I gave, I would like to tell you some stories from afar."

Little Hoss, standing beside him, was a little more interested when he heard this, and turned his head to look at the bard,

“…… Sir, do you know that in a distant land, the master of our kingdom, the king, has changed people. ”

"The King?"

"Yes, King! It was General Autoliv, who overthrew the rotten rule of the old king and ascended to the throne! ”

"How could it be, why did he overthrow the king and the church did not punish him! Isn't the king a child of the Lord? ”

"Because General Autoliv is the one the Lord has truly chosen, he is the successor of the new King favored by God, and he is also the bishop of the Church, the Pope says that General Autoliv is God's spokesman for walking on the earth."

"General Autoliv, who was brave, wise, and merciful, announced that he would build free schools everywhere for children to learn the knowledge of God!"

The bard praised the heroic General Otoliv.

And before that, little Hoss didn't know that the country had changed owners.

Just then, Miria came out of the house and handed the bard a water bag full of water.

The bard also told little Hoss stories from afar,

At this time, another person came,

"Hoss, little Hoss...... Hurry up, let me count the food you have harvested this year, and I have to rush back. ”

He was the one who had come to collect the debt on Mr. Raleigh's.