The female tenant looked thin and weak, but her voice was loud and she easily drowned out the noise in the house.
For a moment, all the tenants looked outside together, and all kinds of eyes fell on Lin En.
Under the sudden extreme silence, a woman with dull eyes, wearing rag clothes, who looked to be fifty years old popped up and looked timidly.
The female tenant standing at the door waved to her: "Meira, this noble gentleman is looking for you!"
"Me?" The old and tired woman pointed at herself, a little in disbelief.
She is just an ordinary worker. It is difficult to even meet decent nobles, let alone communicate with her. How can she attract nobles to visit her?
When she was confused and uneasy, Lin En recognized her as the woman she had saved three years ago. Compared with three years ago, the biggest change in her face was her face.
In my memory, this woman was probably not even thirty years old three years ago.
Anyone who meets her now would think she is a fifty-year-old middle-aged woman.
"Ms. Meira, can you come out and talk about something?" Linn called.
"Ah... ok..." Meira did not dare to neglect, so she comforted her daughter who was lying on the bed and was used to sleeping in a noisy environment. She hunched over and walked out of the door slowly.
Other tenants came over curiously.
When Lin En saw this, he took Meira to a remote place: "Do you still know me?"
"Hug, I'm sorry, I..." Meira looked at Linn carefully, shook her head apologetically.
The perpetrators forgot that they had hurt Lynn.
It turns out that even the people who have been helped cannot recognize each other face to face.
Lin En felt a little sad for the original person: "I am Lin En, the one whose leg was run over by a powerful man's car three years ago to help you and your daughter."
"It's you?!" Meira's eyes widened, her wrinkled face full of shock, "You, your legs are not..."
"It's cured." Lin En said.
"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, but, but I really don't have the money to thank you for your help..." Meira mistakenly thought that Lin En was here to ask for the medical expenses he deserved.
Linn interrupted Meira: "I'm not here to ask you for money. I'm looking for you this time because I hope you can do me a favor."
"What... what's the favor..." Meira breathed a sigh of relief, but she was also afraid of the help Lin En asked her to do.
How can she help?
Will there be danger?
"Things are a bit complicated. I'll try to be as simple as possible. A certain powerful person who hurt us in the past is now engaged to the sister of a friend I know. I hope you can come forward and provide witness to prove that the powerful person is a bad person. Let's
My friend’s sister should not be deceived and stop all interactions with that powerful man,” Lin En said.
"Me? Am I a witness..." Meira waved her hand timidly, "Can I...can I refuse?"
"Are you afraid that the powerful man will find out about it and incur revenge?" Lin En could see what Meira was worried about. "Don't worry, you are only unilaterally contacting my friend's sister to let her know who is about to get engaged.
The true face of the man. Later, my friend will find another reason to deal with that powerful man, and no one other than us will know that you have interfered in this matter."
"I……"
"After the matter is completed, my friend will give you a sum of money, and then you will no longer have to live in a place like this with your daughter." Lin En added.
When it came to money, Meila was moved.
"How much, how much?" she asked.
"No less than one hundred gold." Lin En didn't quote very high either. After all, he hadn't discussed the matter with Reiner in advance, so he couldn't actually make any decision.
"Really... won't there be danger..."
"I promise you, you will be safe." Linn looked at Meira's information.
[Depravity value 35]
This value is extremely common in slums.
If you are not selfish or bad, you will easily be bullied by others and become the lower class being stepped on by the lower class.
"You...don't hate me?" Meira didn't understand why Linn could be so calm.
If not to help yourself.
He would not have broken his leg and dragged his family into the abyss of despair.
The most important thing is that as the person being helped, I only visited him once, bringing a small amount of fruit, and refused to share the medical expenses.
"Let this matter pass." Linn didn't want to mention it.
What's the use of mentioning it?
Say you hate it? Then listen to Meira confess a few words and apologize a few words, and the knot in your heart will be relieved?
Saying that he doesn’t hate? Lynn is not qualified to forgive others, and no one is qualified to advise victims to be generous or to judge from the sidelines.
"I'm sorry, it's not that I don't want to help you share the burden, it's just that I...I don't have any money at all..." Meera didn't know whether she was ashamed to begin with, or she said this because she was afraid of being held accountable when facing Lin En. In short, she put on a show
Such a pitiful look makes people like Lin En do nothing but turn the page.
"Then I will come to you tomorrow morning and take you to meet my friends to discuss the specific situation." Lin En did not let his emotions get stuck there and went on to talk about business.
Meira said sheepishly: "In the morning... not in the morning. I was working at that time. If you are absent from work, your wages will be deducted..."
"So until what time do you work?"
"I work until six in the evening, but I go home to put my children down, and then go to another factory to work the night shift before the curfew starts. I work until dawn the next day."
"Aren't you going to take a break?" After listening to Meira's daily work schedule, Linn found that she didn't leave any time for herself to take a break.
Meera lowered her head: "After working the night shift, I can sleep for an hour when I go home during the day, and I can sleep for an hour after get off work at night. In addition, I can find some breaks in the factory to relax for a while, which is almost enough..."
Enough?
Through fragmented time every day, I can't rest for a total of four hours. Is this enough?
When Lynn was working in a cannery, it was just as hard, but she could still sleep about six hours a day.
If you only rest for less than four hours for a long time, it will still be fragmented. Your body will definitely not be able to endure it, and various problems will gradually occur.
No wonder, Meira, who is only in her early thirties, looks as old as fifty...
"How much can you earn in a month?" Lin En asked, hiding her surprise.
"The one during the day can earn one hundred copper coins a month, and the one at night is better, about one hundred and twenty copper coins..." Meera replied.
The total amount is only two hundred and twenty copper coins, a little more than two gold coins.
Lin En now sits at his desk and can earn in an hour and a half: "Why is it only this little? This should be much lower than the normal salary, right?"
Normally, a month of normal low-paying work would be about this amount.
Mela worked two jobs, which together only amounted to one job.
"It's so hard to find a job in winter, my health is not good, and the competitiveness is not that strong. And there are a lot of young men vying for jobs with a monthly salary of two hundred copper coins, and they are even willing to lower the price to squeeze out competitors.
If I don't take the initiative to lower my salary by more, no factory will be willing to hire..." Meira explained.
This situation, on the Earth where Lynn lived before, was called "involution".
A kind of irrational internal competition and internal consumption that does not benefit oneself but has to be carried out.
Jobs are in short supply because there are too many people wanting to get them, so they have to lower their requirements to win the favor of employers.
There are ten people competing for a position with a monthly salary of two hundred copper coins.
As long as one person stands up and takes the initiative to show that he can accept the monthly salary of one hundred and ninety copper coins, the others will have to follow suit to start this 'involvement competition' that is not beneficial to them at all and will only make the employer laugh out loud.
You want 190 copper coins, he only wants 180 copper coins, then I want 170 copper coins.
All this may stop when the price drops to a level that no one can accept and only one out of ten applicants is still standing in front of the employer.
The arrival of winter, the increase in living costs, the reduction of jobs, and the frequent occurrence of internal problems in the Kingdom of Ven have further intensified this 'involution'.
There are also people like Meira who have to take the initiative to reduce their salary to an extremely low level in order to get a job, and then because the salary cannot satisfy their survival, they have to sacrifice their rest time to find another job with the same extremely low salary.
Phenomenon.
They are all miserable people.
By now, Linn no longer had any resentment towards Meera.
If he were in such a situation, he would really have no choice but to follow Meira's path.
If you don't leave, you will freeze to death or starve to death.
People at the bottom should not fall into endless infighting because of issues above.
Lin En knew what the problem was and where to vent his hatred: "You resign. My friend will give you a hundred gold, which is enough for you and your daughter to move to a better environment and go to school.
Spend this winter peacefully."
"this……"
Meera is very realistic.
She will not give up her current two 'precious' jobs until she actually gets money.
After all, what if Lynn fails to fulfill her promise?
I didn’t get any money, my job was gone, and I didn’t even have a few dozen copper coins left on hand.
What do you pay for the rent?
What to buy for food?
In the face of life, verbal promises are worthless.
"I will give you ten gold coins on his behalf first." Lin En understood Meira's thoughts. In order to prevent Meira from taking the money and running away, and considering that the money given was enough to make her give up her current job, she only gave a part of the money at first.
, "The remaining money will be paid to you after the matter is completed."
"Can I... take it?" Meira stared straight at the five two-gold bills that Linn took out from his pocket, and couldn't help but swallow her saliva.
This is a lot of money for people at the lowest level.
With this money, it is not difficult to survive this winter.
If I save a little more, this money will be enough to pay for three or four months' rent and food expenses.
"Take it." Linn put the banknote into Meira's hand, "There is no need to go to the factory tomorrow. I will come to you in the morning and take you to the rich area."