Chapter 79

Compulsory education.

Compulsory education......

What exactly is the ...... of compulsory education?

The word sounds like a very ordinary word, but it is difficult for Anna to understand.

obligation, easy to understand.

Education, too, is very simple.

Both words are very commonly used words, but when combined, Anna doesn't understand them.

How is this kind of education possible?

Knowledge, knowledge is the most expensive thing!

"Noi, can you go for a walk with me to Weiming Lake?"

The pictures in the movie are still so beautiful, Noi and his stocks are still so eye-catching, and the noble ladies around him even covered their mouths and let out excited and restrained cries.

But Anna had a hard time concentrating.

She was thinking about her barren 14 years of life and a bleak future.

She was born into a most ordinary civilian family - the so-called poor family, the slum, but even more different from ordinary families, her mother was a prostitute.

His father was a porter at the docks, but he had a habit of drinking heavily, and he couldn't drink with that little salary, let alone raise the three children in the family.

So he asked his mother to pick up the guests.

It was under this circumstance that Anna was born.

His mother picked up customers, and his father collected money, and as soon as the money arrived, he would use it all to buy alcohol and drink.

My mother was good-looking, so she had a lot of guests, and my father was able to drink more and more, and slowly, he began to beat people.

Hit the mother, hit the child.

Then the mother became pregnant.

I don't know whose child it is.

I don't know if it's because she's a wild seed, or because she can't take customers to make money after she is pregnant, her father forced her mother to kill the child.

The mother resisted, just as she had resisted countless times when she had been forced to pick up customers, and her resistance stopped after being beaten to death.

She decided to get rid of the unformed child in her belly.

It's too bitter, this world is too bitter, there's no need to give birth to another world like this.

But Anna survived tenaciously.

The bottom is a consumable, although it is very low, but abortion is not allowed by law, and if you want to have an abortion, you can only use "accident".

Falling, kicking, kicking......

Anna was born, and after so many "accidents", Anna was born in this gloomy world.

Father didn't like her very much, because Anna was not only a wild seed, but also because she delayed him from drinking!

Perhaps it was the tenacity in his mother's womb that made his father worried, afraid that she was the reincarnation of some kind of demon and did not dare to strangle her, so he could only throw her out.

Anna has no talent for light, so she can't be sent to the Temple of Light, so she can only find a random place to throw it away.

But the brothers and sisters got her back again and again.

Her father hated her, and her mother was always full of guilt and sadness, as well as timidity.

Anna is a monster, such frequent "accidents" can't kill her, what a terrible existence she is!

But her brothers and sisters loved her very much, they took care of her, and tried to save food for her.

Anna's first seven years were not good, with hunger, cold, pain, and fatigue tormenting her like a shadow.

The happiest moment in my life was probably when I received the acceptance letter from the Royal Academy of Magic.

She was ecstatic, and her gloomy life seemed to finally have a bright future.

What's more—she's not a demon, she's not a demon who can't be killed no matter how much she can't kill!

She's just a little bit better, no, she's so talented!!

But her happy time only lasted for a short time.

She was finally able to fill her belly, but her father demanded more and more from her.

Boxes and boxes of gold coins were brought to her and then taken by her father.

He drank a lot of expensive alcohol, but the lives of his older siblings and mother didn't seem to change much.

They still have to do a lot of heavy work, earn a negligible living expenses, and although they don't have to pay taxes, they can only fill their stomachs.

That's enough.

Anna persuaded herself, isn't it the biggest dream for people like them to be able to fill their stomachs? Now that it's been realized, what's not to be satisfied with?

Anna tries to get satisfied, but the high cost scares her.

The money ...... Someday it will have to be returned.

But can she really pay it back?

Anna didn't know.

Since going to school, Anna has rarely gone home.

The brothers and sisters got married one after another, and although Anna was very promising, their brothers and sisters were not talented, and the object of marriage was only ordinary middle class.

- But at least it's much better than before, mothers don't have to go out to pick up customers, they can eat well, they can afford to wear warm clothes, and they can live in a safe house that doesn't leak wind or rain, there's nothing more happier than that!

But Anna is still in a trance sometimes, is this really the life she wants?

Anna didn't know, but she didn't feel happy at all.

Why?

Presumably......

Everything you have now is like a mirror that may disappear at any time.

The gold coins were not earned by herself, and her status was not earned by hard work.

She's just gone from being a slum girl Anna to being a low-level Anna at the Royal Academy of Magic.

In a different environment, it seems that she has everything, but in fact she is still the same Anna, and even in this environment, she doesn't even have a brother and sister who will give her loving care.

"Compulsory Education ......" If she had attended a compulsory primary school instead of the Royal Academy of Magic, what would she be like now?

But she just thought about it for a moment, and didn't think about it further.

She will study hard and gradually become a useful person. It may not progress as quickly as it did at the Royal Academy of Magic, but hard work will not disappoint people!

If you work hard to make money during the winter and summer vacations, you may not be able to earn more than you can count the gold coins, but you can also earn some money.

There are no big expenses, little by little planning how to save money. Although the income is copper coins, it only needs to spend copper coins, and there is no need for all kinds of favors to slap a swollen face and become fat.

She would come home every week, and she could see her brother and sister, her mother combing her braids, and her father would have the power to stop him when he was drunk and beating.

Just a "casual thought" imagination suddenly became a flood that broke the levees.

However, Anna controlled her emotions a second before the levee burst.

There is no need.

There is no need to assume such a thing that simply does not exist.

I don't know exactly what a "movie" is, but I think it's all fake.

Compulsory education, the price of a street that can be eaten for 1 gold coin, and a road that is so clean that it seems to glow...... It's probably all imaginary.

"Boom la la ......"

There was a rattle in the plastic bag in her hand, and Anna felt it for a while, only to realize that she had unknowingly eaten a large bucket full of popcorn.

She lowered her head, wanting to be surprised by her addiction, but the words "30 copper coins" once again caught her eye.

Wait, if those are fake, then what is this 30 copper coin bucket of popcorn in her hand?

At this time, in the movie screen, Noi and Monaya's date location was set in the movie theater, and they coincidentally bumped into Edward who was "passing by", and a Shura field began vigorously.

The aristocratic ladies clenched their fists, watching intently, their emotions being touched, and they wanted to rush in to mention the fight they supported.

Anna also clenched her fists, her face flushed with excitement, and the knuckles of her clenched fists turned white, looking unbearably excited.

But what excites her is not the tense atmosphere of the Shura field fight, but the price tag that appears in the background.

Hot Dog (Original 15 Copper/Root)

Hot Dog (Corn Flavored 15 Copper/Root)

Hot Dog (Orleans Crispy Bone 20 Copper/Root)

Hot Dog (Black Pepper Flavor 20 Copper/Root)

Popcorn (small) 15 copper/bucket

Popcorn (large) 30 copper/bucket

Happy Water 15 copper/bottle

Mocha coffee 60 copper/cup

……

I have to say that the majority of the profit of the movie theater is on this price list like grabbing money.

As a background, it's pretty unremarkable, with most of the audience's attention on the Shura field, a small portion on the food, and as for the price list – no one else is interested.

But Anna just noticed.

In a large piece of text, when she saw the caramel-flavored popcorn (large) 30 copper/bucket, she trembled with excitement.