The slums and the wealthy areas of Jilan Town are clearly separated from each other on both sides of the streets. To be precise, the two most prosperous streets in Jilan Town are located within the boundaries of the wealthy areas.
The dividing line between the slums and the wealthy areas is the high courtyard wall on the south side of the shop on the south side of the long street. It’s like if the courtyard wall is not built higher, things will be lost in the warehouse in the yard. The rich people in Jilan Town almost
They are all immigrants from Bena City. They have lived in Kilan Town for so many years and have accumulated some wealth.
As for the people living in the slums, they are almost all local aborigines. They were deprived of their land by the army and forced to move to small towns. At that time, they had nothing. Until now... except for some that leak rain in summer and blow wind in winter.
Outside the shack, there is still nothing.
The rich build their houses on the slopes of the mountains. The further up the mountainside you look, the more gorgeous the houses will be. The poor people's shacks are built at the foot of the mountain. The further you look towards the foot of the mountain, the simpler the shacks will be.
The shacks spread to the Bailin River. They were even simple shacks made of a few crooked logs that formed a four-corner frame and were surrounded by straw mats or felts. These aborigines lived on the ground in the shacks.
Many poor families do not even have an iron pot. It is common for several poor people to share a pot. Usually this pot will always keep boiling water. Everyone only eats one meal a day, which is one at noon.
Before lunch, the poor families who share this iron pot will put some food into the iron pot, such as broken rice, vegetable leaves, animal meat, etc., as long as they can be cooked and eaten.
If you don't want to put food in the iron pot, don't run over with a wooden bowl to grab food when eating.
Usually the person guarding the iron pot is the most respected old man from several poor families, or the real owner of the iron pot.
The aboriginal girl Nika who was rescued by Suldak lived in a shack by the river. She was carried home from the square by her mother. Her injuries were already healed, but she was still there.
The punishment stone was chained for nearly three days. His physical strength was severely exhausted and he was extremely weak. When he returned home, he could only lie down in a damp shack.
It is summer now, and there are always some white-scaled fish in the Bailin River, so the life of the poor is not bad. There are always some half-year-old children with good water skills who can fish out some white-scaled fish from the river and throw them into the iron pot.
Boil it into fish soup. At this time, there are endless wild vegetables on the grassland, guinea pigs and hares can be found in some burrows, and snakes and lizards are often seen. As long as you are willing to put in a little effort, you can always get some food.
The friends who usually envied Nika's ability to work as a maid in Baron Goss's manor were all sitting silently next to Nika. Nika usually took good care of them and always brought back some food from the baron's manor that they didn't try.
This time, Nika was tied to the punishment stone and almost sunk to death. The shock to them was really too great.
A girl gave Nika a little water with a wooden spoon.
Only then did a boy say:
"Nika, you are so lucky. If it hadn't been for Baron Suldak today, you might have died on the punishment stone. Although there are so many people on our side, once the infantry regiment in the garrison camp
If we go out, I'm afraid no one will dare to stop the spears of the infantry regiment."
What he said was the truth. Although everyone sympathized with Nika and were willing to go to the square to demonstrate for her and raise wooden boards to shield her from the sun, once the infantrymen in the garrison camp ran to the square to disperse them, no one would do it for a long time.
Holding on to the front of the spear for too long.
Once it is determined by the local garrison to be an aboriginal riot, Nika will not be the only one to die.
Another girl also said at the side: "We know that you definitely didn't take the vase, but what's the use? The young masters of the Goss family believe that it was you who did it, and no one can argue with it."
Girl holding wooden spoon in hand says:
"Nika, I think you and your aunt should go thank the Baron. Maybe this is what he wants. He is willing to save you from the punishment stone. At least we should thank you."
Nika opened her eyes and looked at the girl, her eyes a little moved and a little timid, but her body was extremely weak and she couldn't get up at all.
At this moment, a child suddenly shouted outside:
"Nika, Nika, the Baron who saved you at noon is coming to your house."
The slums in the slums were closely connected together. The child's voice was almost heard by many poor people in the surrounding slums, and many people ran out of the shacks to watch the fun.
The girl holding the wooden spoon in her hand said happily: "I will say that the Baron must have taken a fancy to Nika before he was willing to save her from the punishment stone."
The boy sitting next to Nika looked sad, lowered his head secretly, and said no more.
On the other hand, mother Nika, a middle-aged aboriginal woman sitting at the door of the shack, was at a loss for a moment. She wiped her hands on the linen dress in a panic, and said absently: "What should I do?
There isn’t even anything decent at home…”
The girl holding the wooden spoon stood up and said to Nika's mother at the door: "I'm going to see if lunch is cooked. How about we treat the Baron to some wild vegetable fish soup."
"I am a baron, and I will be willing to eat your big pot of chowder, so save it!" one of the friends said.
…
Surdak and Samira walked along the river. In addition to the fishy smell, the road here was also very muddy and difficult to navigate.
Although these aboriginal people in the slums look very pitiful, sometimes they cannot fully attribute the responsibility to the cruel exploitation of the imperial people. They are poor for their own reasons, especially their muddled life attitude, the kind that they have nothing to eat today.
They don’t think about tomorrow, and their lazy thinking about winter when it’s not cold in summer is another reason for their poverty.
The frightened natives ran outside the tent and watched Surdak pass by their door.
Surdak just asked a child where Nika's home was. Unexpectedly, the child actually enthusiastically took Suldak all the way to Nika's home. When he got to the back, there were some aborigines on both sides of the road. They even asked
A road was opened leading to Nika's house.
The child pointed to a shack surrounded by some felt and tattered linen and said, "Sir, that is Nika's home."
Surdak and Samira looked at each other and approached slowly, only to find Nika's mother bending over and waiting outside the shack. Seeing her humbly prostrate on the ground, Surdak said to her: "Quickly
Get up, we came here to see how Nika is doing."
Nika's mother got up from the ground, without even bothering to wipe the dirt off her knees, and said respectfully to Suldak: "Thank you, Lord Baron, for saving Nika."
Surdak glanced into the shack. The girl lying on the mat was so shy that she covered her face with her hands.
There was almost nothing else in the shack except two clay pots and a wooden basin in the corner. All the linen cloths, felts, and straw mats were covered with the shack, and there were also piles of
Some red plant rhizomes are probably only a little thicker than your little finger.
Surdak did not get into the low shack, but stood outside the shack and said to Nika's mother: "I came here this time to ask you and Nika to come with us. We will leave Jilan tomorrow.
I'm worried that Baron Goss will still cause trouble for you. We are going to Dodan Town. If you are willing to follow us, please come to me at the cavalry camp before tomorrow morning..."