Biting into the unpalatable and hard black bread, Ezio glanced at the girl who gave him a small piece of bread last night, feeling slightly guilty. She did not show up at work in the morning, and the reason was quite obvious.
, the girl was so thin that it was difficult to even stand, and she coughed heartbreakingly from time to time.
Watching her take a small piece of black bread from her eldest brother, she only took one or two bites and then put the rest away. Of course Ezio knew that for a child like him, eating so little would not be enough.
I want to help her, but I don’t know where to start.
At this time, he remembered a doubt he had had before. He had a particularly good eye, and he remembered that the reward received by the boss did not match up with the final payment for the black bread.
Compared with other children, the difference between Ezio and them is that he has a certain concept of numbers. This is due to the several sisters in that family who count things all day long. Under the influence of his ears and eyes, he has a certain understanding of numbers.
I also understand a little bit.
It may not be possible to accurately calculate how much money the boss kept privately, but he knew that they should be able to buy more of that unpalatable bread. At least, it would allow everyone to eat more. So Ezio decided to ask the leader
's boss.
The areas where these children live are all within a certain range. It doesn't say which side is particularly comfortable and which side is particularly uncomfortable. In Ezio's opinion, they are all equally bad. And the position of the boss seems to be bypassing that area.
Block a wall and walk only a few steps.
But just as he was about to round the corner, he saw the child who must have been the oldest, talking to an adult. Ezio subconsciously took a few steps back, hid in the corner, and peeked.
The adult looked quite slovenly and wretched, and his tone of speech was very arrogant. He reached out and took the money bag handed out by the child in front of him. After cursing a few words, he slapped the person to the ground with his backhand. It was vicious.
He looked just like the magician who didn't care about adults or children and would beat anyone to death if he caught him. He was just as hateful.
When he saw his newly recognized boss being defeated, Ezio wanted to rush out and fight that adult. But the magician's teachings... were perverse and made him slow down. It was this step that made Ezio slow down.
Gio was grabbed by the shoulders by the person behind him and dragged back behind the broken wall.
The girl's eldest brother grabbed Ezio and put a finger in front of his lips to signal silence. He moved a little further away and asked the little fat guy, who had just arrived and didn't understand anything yet, to follow him.
When he was a little further away, Ezio asked: "Who is that person?"
"What a disgusting scumbag," the girl's eldest brother criticized. But then he said dejectedly, "But we can only work here with their permission. Otherwise, we won't be able to stay here at all."
At this moment, Ezio suddenly remembered that the two sisters had said something about their adventures. They had mentioned that children in the slums would steal things for a living, but there were still despicable adults controlling them. He couldn't help but think.
He exclaimed in a low voice: "Are we going to be pickpockets and steal things?"
Regarding the fat man's imagination, the girl's brother had a dark face, shook his hands and said, "No, no. We won't do such a thing."
"Well, so actually, the man who just beat the boss is a good man?" Ezio asked doubtfully.
The girl's eldest brother said categorically: "No, this is even more impossible."
"Then why?"
"Don't you know where you are?" The girl's eldest brother looked at the little fat man in front of him with strange eyes. He continued: "This is a city of magicians. If you steal things casually,
I haven't heard of anyone who stole something that was marked by a magician and then came to the door again."
The situation the boy mentioned is the reality of the holy city of Estali.
Like most cities in the Lost Lands, the holy city of Estali also has so-called slums, slums, which are called "lower streets" here. Most of the people living in them come from other places to work as Buddhist monks or slums.
Magic apprentices who think they are superior are unwilling to do menial jobs.
Of course, in such a place, dragons and snakes are mixed together. There will also be some low-class people doing dirty things. But the problem is that this is a city of magicians, not a city of ordinary nobles or a city that grew up because of trade routes and sea routes.
.The biggest difference between the two is that the Holy City does not have public prisons or dungeons.
This means that if you commit a crime in the holy city of Estali and are caught by a prosecutor wearing a yellow shawl, your hands and feet will either be amputated or you will be executed on the spot. There is no such thing as being put in jail to make people repent and rehabilitate.
chance. If you survive, please find an opportunity to commit suicide. Because it will not be safer if it becomes a material for magic experiments.
In addition to the yellow shawl representing the public power of the Holy City, there are also many "brave" magicians. They will also do some uncivilized actions to criminals, and as long as it is proven that these people are indeed criminals, the prosecutors will not
Any punishment will be imposed on the magician who resorts to lynching. Then the property of the criminal will naturally become the trophy of the magician who acts righteously.
Therefore, in the Holy City of Estali, when members of the Thieves Guild were at their most rampant, magicians would occasionally lose items that had been marked with magic. Then the magicians would follow the clues and go to the door to greet these little thieves and recover the stolen items.
At the same time, they will also take away the things they like. As for the little thieves who are not discerning, they will be killed. It is a typical situation where life and money are both important.
It is precisely because this kind of fishing is so rampant that the master who dares to do this is not a three-legged cat. The crime situation in the holy city of Estali has unexpectedly reduced theft, a major crime. Gradually
Land, theft has become a taboo in this magician city.
Of course, there are some veterans who think they can tell the difference between fat sheep and fishermen, so they act unscrupulously. However, most people will still carefully avoid situations that give the masters reason to take action, and the same goes for children. Don’t think so.
No matter how much sympathy a child can gain, the masters don't care about age when they want to torture people or put them on the dissecting table.
To this day, no thief or smuggler dares to test whether the masters have relaxed their guard. Therefore, this group of orphans gathered are not forced to do any criminal things, they just do what most people do.
Dirty work that you don’t want to do.
Ezio's little mind couldn't figure out the reason behind this. But for him, it was enough for him to just know what the current situation was.
The current situation is that these children are still on the weak side and are exploited by those despicable adults.