Chapter Ninety-Nine: For the Town
Thor looked around, found an empty cupboard and hid in.
There was no grain, oil and food in the cupboard, apparently just decorations to hide people's eyes.
Thor shrunk and sat inside.
In order to prevent the fluctuations of mental power from causing the alertness below, he didn't even meditate, just boringly counting the cracks in the cabinet door to pass the time.
After about two or three hours, the secret door behind the stove was finally opened, and two people crawled out of it.
Listening to the footsteps, there are two people in total.
They were still talking when they came out.
“…… I'll leave it to you tomorrow. ”
"Don't worry, as long as there are a lot of things, those are trivial."
"It's just that the one will be back in two days."
"It doesn't matter."
"Yes, congratulations."
The footsteps of the two men faded away, and Thor was confused in the cupboard.
What are they talking about?
When others eavesdrop, don't they just hear the key information?
Why did he listen to a loneliness.
But in retrospect, Saul wasn't completely without gains.
Something should happen tomorrow.
One party resolves the incident, and the other gets paid.
And one more thing to congratulate.
Thor waited a little longer, but when no one returned, he ran out of the cupboard.
Maybe the two people in front of him had already walked away, and he didn't see anyone else outside the house, even the guards who were guarding had withdrawn.
Thor took another turn around the clearing where the fruit was planted, and before dawn, turned around and hurried back to Ada's residence.
After a busy day, Ada slept soundly, and he didn't know from beginning to end, that his tenant had been out all night before returning.
The next morning, Ada got up to make a fire and cook, and called Thor to help.
The rice is very simple, it is the most common green bun wild vegetables.
The earthen stove was in the house, and the wood was burned, and the smoke was full of fire.
They left Penny a lunchtime meal and hurried out.
But what Thor didn't expect was that Ada refused to take him around town in search of work.
"I saw that you have a lot of strength yesterday, why don't you go with me to farm for the mayor, there is little land here, and it is a good job. After two years of work, you will be able to build a small house outside the town on your own. ”
Thor immediately shook his head in refusal, saying that he couldn't do it.
Ada asked Saul rhetorically, "Then what will you do?" In fact, there is not much shortage of workers in the town. ”
Thor didn't say anything, just wanted to walk around the town by himself.
Ada felt that Thor just didn't want to farm, and was not very happy, but he didn't say anything.
He took Thor to a neighborhood where he could recruit workers.
"Anyway, I'll just take you somewhere else, and it's up to you whether you can find a job or not. I'm going to dig the ground in a moment. ”
But before the two of them walked to the recruitment place, they bumped into a bustle.
They came to a fairly regular street and saw a house full of people.
The people stood three floors inside and three outside, making Thor realize that this place was still quite populated.
There were cries and shouts from the crowd, and Ada, who had not planned to see the excitement, looked over with fear, and pulled Thor to get out of here as soon as possible.
Saul felt that this matter was not as simple as ordinary excitement.
He relied on his thinness and strength to squeeze into the innermost part of the crowd.
Ada wanted to go to Lasol, but found that the other party disappeared as soon as he smoked.
He was embarrassed to squeeze hard, so he had to look in on tiptoe, his brows still furrowed, and he was a little irritable.
"If it weren't for your strength......," he muttered, wondering if he regretted bringing Thor home.
At this time, Thor, who had squeezed inside, finally saw the reason for the excitement.
At the center of the crowd was a crying couple.
Next to him, there was an old man who had already grown a few strands of gray hair on his head, and he comforted him with a smile.
Captain Jeff, whom he had met yesterday, stood across from the couple with a blank face, holding the scimitar at his waist.
Behind Jeff, two soldiers were carrying a girl who was so limp that she couldn't even stand up.
The girl looked fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a blue plaid dress. Among ordinary people, it is quite a beautiful existence.
Diagonally across from Thor, a man in a black robe and hood, with his hands on his sleeves, stood straight.
There was a large area vacated around him, and there was not a single one of the townspeople watching the excitement.
"Alas, what do I have to say to you to understand, after all, this is a matter of the survival of the town, and it is not a bad thing!" Said the old man who comforted the crying couple.
Thor looked at the crying couple and the frightened and helpless girl, and couldn't imagine what could happen.
But the people who were watching the excitement around clearly didn't think so.
A woman carrying a basket cried out unhappily: "I say, what are you crying about? That's a big deal for the whole town, and if I had a daughter now, I'd be happy to send her there. ”
Thor recognized her as Aunt Jenny, who had been extremely enthusiastic yesterday.
The weeping woman put down her hands covering her face and said sadly, "But we only have one daughter, Minnie!" ”
Someone next to him immediately answered, "Isn't it okay to regenerate in the future?" Is it for the sake of one of your daughters, who harmed the whole town? ”
As soon as these words came out, the people next to them immediately talked about it, accusing the couple of being selfish and cruel.
The couple was overwhelmed by such an atmosphere and couldn't say anything for a while.
The old man patted the man on the shoulder, and a smile spread across his face.
"That's what you agree, right? Just agree, and I don't want to force anyone. But only Minnie is the best fit for the wizard-sama. It's an honor for her, and it's an honor for our town. After all, the Holy Fruit is related to the lifeblood of the entire town, and if the production continues to be reduced, it will attract the wrath of the Wizard Tower, and none of us will survive. ”
The old man said this well, and as soon as he finished speaking, the people around him began to blame the couple for ignoring everyone's lives.
Could it be that the life and death of a town are no better than that of a little girl?
The wife could no longer speak, so she had to collapse on the ground and weep mournfully.
The husband knelt on the ground with weak legs, and somehow got the courage to pull the old man's hand and shouted: "But the mayor of the town has sacrificed so many girls over the years, and we have not seen the recovery of the holy fruit production!" Isn't this the ...... method?"
The man was halfway through his speech when he heard the wizard apprentice who had been standing silent all this time snorting coldly.
This cold snort was terrible, and the performers in the center of the stage and all the people around them unconsciously covered their ears.
The two townspeople closest to the man even had their ears bloodshot and flowed out of their ear sockets.
Thor covered his ears with the people around him, only to roll his eyes when he lowered his head.
"The effect of this cough technique is too scattered, won't he use mental power to guide?"
The best performer on the scene was Captain Jeff. But his face was also distorted, and he only forcibly covered his ears with his hands.
This shock made the people present silent, and even the couple did not dare to cry loudly anymore.
So the girl was crushed away, leaving only a bag of money for the couple.
After the excitement passed, the crowd refused to disperse for a long time.
Someone stepped forward to comfort them, saying that the mayor of the town had given some compensation, and they would not have to worry about their livelihood for a few years.
And Aunt Jenny smiled and congratulated her, and instructed the couple on how to use the money.
When the crowd gradually dispersed, Ada finally found Thor mixed inside.
With a black face, he pulled Thor out and pulled him to the side of the road.
"You love to watch the excitement so much? If you weren't lucky enough to stay away from that adult, you probably would have injured your ears too. ”