"The store is in poor condition. This is the best room I can get my hands on. Look, Sir Knight..."
"It's okay, just step back."
"Alright, Sir Knight, if you have any orders, please tell me. I will be waiting for you at any time."
"..."
The landlady faced us and retreated to the stairs, then turned around and went downstairs. Although she didn't have any figure to speak of, she was not malnourished like those in the village, which showed that basic life could still be guaranteed. It seems that my previous thoughts were still there
There is a problem. People in this era make money not for enjoyment, but to ensure their survival rate in sudden disasters. If you have money, you can at least ensure that you will not starve or freeze, but if you don’t have money, you can only be like those villagers.
Just leave it to fate. People who don't produce food have food to eat, and people who produce food don't have food to eat. This absurd and realistic problem exists in every world.
"Amy, what are you looking at? You're not interested in the boss lady anymore, are you?"
Baiyanghua asked, waving her hand in front of my eyes.
"How is that possible? I'm just thinking about whether she is living well or not."
"You actually started to care about the life and death of ordinary people~ It's not easy."
"What are you talking about? I've always cared about it, okay."
"No, no, no, what I mean is that you have started to take the initiative to care. Generally speaking, you never take the initiative to ask about things that have nothing to do with you, right? You only take the initiative to pay attention to beautiful girls."
"it seems to be like this?"
Bai Yanghua's words reminded me, when did I start paying attention to the lives of passers-by? Did I send away those patients in the village? Or was it earlier, when the daughter of the local snake wanted to commit suicide?
"Hey~! This house is still so dirty! How can we live in it!"
While I was distracted, Bai Yanghua had already gotten into the room and started shouting again.
"Shout whatever you want, didn't they say they have already cleaned it..."
I suppressed my words, because the room in front of me, not to mention simple or not, are the dust, fluff and cobwebs hanging on the roof serious? Has it really been cleaned? The landlady is definitely not here
court death?
"Hey~! The straw mattress on this bed stinks! No, this is not a bed! Isn't it just a few wooden blocks holding a few boards! It's not even flat! Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh," no, this is not a bed!
!!!Amy, there are so many bugs in this place!”
Baiyanghua, who was checking the bed, jumped up and shouted, waving her hands and rushing over to hide behind me.
"Sister, should we arrest the proprietress and question her?"
I looked at Sister Sai helplessly and asked.
"No, this level is indeed considered clean here. At least there are no excrement basins left by the previous guest in the room."
"...Isn't this requirement too low?"
"It's not bad. The noble families of this era also had this kind of virtue. At most, the workmanship of the furniture is a little better, and the places that should be dirty are just as dirty."
"Don't they have maids to clean it?"
"It's not that no one cleans, but that there is no awareness of cleaning. People in this era don't know how to be hygienic."
"How is that possible? Isn't it human nature to be hygienic?"
"Of course not. Humans are just a type of animal, and animals are not inherently hygienic."
"No way! Even a fly knows how to rub his hands!"
"That's just to avoid being stained with dust on their feet and unable to stand. Similarly, pigs roll in the mud to remove parasites, and ducks peck their feathers to keep the oil on their feathers for waterproofing. None of their behaviors are for the purpose of 'cleaning'
'."
"But people are different! Isn't it an evolved instinct of humans to pursue a clean living environment?"
"Human beings have never had such an instinct, and a clean living environment is not necessary. If you don't believe it, you can go and take a look at the male dormitory of the university."
"Well……"
I thought back to my experience of going to college when I was still a homebody, and it seems that this is indeed the case...
"How about we sleep outdoors! This kind of ghost place is worse than sleeping on the ground!"
Even the hard-working Baiyang Hua can't stand this room, and I don't think I can stand it either.
"Sister, we can't accept this kind of environment, why don't we forget it? Let's find another place to stay?"
I asked Sister Sai for instructions.
"You figure it out on your own. Theoretically, I won't allow you to do anything beyond this world."
Sister Saiyi said calmly, the implication is actually "as long as it is not discovered, it is not a crime"!
"Yanghua, come, let's discuss something."
I waved to Baiyang Hua.
"What are you doing, Amy?"
This girl ran up to me obediently.
"You take this little animal out for a while, and I'll clean the room."
"no problem."
Although Baiyanghua has a social disability, she and I have a tacit understanding of sisters, and she immediately understood what I meant.
"Come on, come on~ I'll take you to find something to eat, she asked me to take you there~ Don't be afraid, okay?"
Baiyanghua put on a smile to coax the little animal, because she knew that the child was relatively cold to her. But the amazing thing was that this time the little animal looked at her and then at me, and without much reaction, she stretched out her hand to let Baiyanghua
Got it.
"Come on, come on, I will buy you whatever you want to eat~~~"
Baiyanghua left with the little animal, and I don’t know if she had money to buy food, or whether the food here was edible. But in short, the only witness present is gone, so I can do whatever I want...
Uh, wait, why is Sister Sai still staring at me? Doesn’t she plan to be an NPC throughout the whole process?
"Sister Saiyi, why don't you go downstairs and sit for a while? I'll call you after I've tidied up the house~"
"Um."
Sister Sai actually accepted it so easily! Could it be that she didn't leave just now just waiting for me to find an excuse? Is this making trouble?
In order to avoid accidents, I checked the surroundings again, and after confirming that there were no other living people, I boldly released the purification technique to annihilate everything in the room that should not be there. With one skill, the whole room seemed to be clean.
It has become what it was when it was first built, or it is much cleaner than when it was first built. Those rough tables, chairs and beams have revealed their natural wood color and are no longer gray. The most important thing is that it has always been
The strange smell lingering in the physical world is gone, and now there is only odorless and clean air. I conveniently added a fixed purification technique to the windows and doorways so that the odor from outside cannot invade.
Now, I can finally take off the big bag I have been carrying. Although I don’t feel tired, I still feel uncomfortable with such a burden. Baiyanghua also gave me her bag just now because she thought it was dirty and there was no room.
Put it up. I opened the bed, and it was actually just a large bed made of wooden planks and covered with hay. The faint smell of grass and wood came to my face, and I couldn't find a single bug or strange dirt. Now it's finally okay here.
It's occupied~ I just wonder if the landlady will be scared when we leave? If not, let's make it dirty again, um...