Paul's head is in a state of panic right now. Why do you ask? Damn, he just wants a small home from Mark where he can live and settle down. According to Paul's idea, a suite is enough. It's best to have a small courtyard, but you
Now look what is this in front of him?
This is a small urban manor. Although it is not enough to say that there is horse racing in the yard, the area is still a bit big for Paul.
If calculated based on the area of Paul's previous life, this yard would have occupied at least five acres. Before coming here, Paul asked Mark to evacuate everyone in the manor. His original idea was to live by himself.
It is not only inconvenient but also unaccustomed to having outsiders hanging around in front of us. Even if the house is bigger, it will be fine for me and my mother to gesture slowly. At most, it will be a little tiring.
But now judging from the area of the manor, the two people are too exhausted to clean it up, and Paul is already preparing to recruit people. No wonder little Mark said that this house was worth 1,000 gold coins. It turned out that Paul thought it was because the house was in a noble area.
, so the price is more expensive than other places in the city, but based on the area of the manor in front of you, this is still the price after Mark gave him an unknown amount of discount.
Paul was depressed. He had the urge to rush back to the magic shop to drag Mark out and beat him up, but there was nothing he could do about it now. The hotel room had been checked out and it was already evening. He had never heard of him.
Is there anyone who doesn’t stay in a hotel?
In desperation, Paul could only pull his mother Catherine into the courtyard. Catherine was in a sluggish state when she saw this big courtyard. After all, she was also a poor child. Even though she used to be a maid in the Earl's Palace, but that
After all, it's not your home.
Although this courtyard is not as good as the Earl's Mansion where he originally stayed, it is not much worse. However, this is the place where his mother and son will live in the future. How can you not make Catherine excited?
The mother and son entered the courtyard. It was already getting late. After quickly tidying up the two sleeping rooms, they got some food and went to sleep separately.
Early the next morning, Paul washed up and rushed out of the house and went straight to the slave market. Slaves were a unique product of the cold weapon era. Especially in this era when the war had just subsided and frictions between countries continued, the slave industry was extremely prosperous.
Paul is a good man, not a saint. Slaves are the product of this troubled world, and cannot be changed by one person's power. The only way to change the status quo is to wait until the day when the continent is unified.
But let alone this continent, which is larger than the original total area of the earth, even the ancient China where Li Ye was originally did not know how many years of war it took to gradually abolish the slavery system and enter feudal society, so let alone
This continent.
As mentioned before, it is good if a person can keep his own piece of the world. A capable person may be able to take care of things around him, just like what our Comrade Paul is doing now.
Paul came out in a hurry in the morning and did not have breakfast. Since the slave market was located in the west of the city, he had to pass through the civilian area in the west of the city to get there. When he was about to pass through the civilian area in the west of the city, suddenly, his five internal organs screamed.
When he got up, he thought of finding a place to solve people's livelihood problems.
But just when he wanted to find a place to solve people's livelihood problems, he discovered that the civilian area is worthy of being a civilian area. Not to mention restaurants, there are not even a few pubs. And from the environment of this place, it is not so much a
A civilian area would be more appropriately called a slum area.
After all, in this aristocratic society, most civilians have little status, and the gap between the rich and the poor is huge. Paul didn't want to turn back and go back for dinner. He felt that it was a waste of time during the round trip, so Paul decided to do business first and endure the pain.
Let's wait until he has finished his work. Anyway, he is a big young man, so it's not a big deal if he goes hungry.
But when he walked through a street corner, a very special smell attracted him. This was soy milk! Paul followed the smell and found a breakfast stall in a small alley.
A food similar to soy milk. Here we have to admire Paul's sense of smell. He could smell it and chase him from such a distance. I'm afraid even a hunting dog's sense of smell can't match his.
Paul quickly found an empty seat and sat down, ordered a bowl of something similar to soy milk, and took a sip. The taste was very similar to soy milk, and there was basically no difference. Paul was excited now. In his previous life, although he had already practiced Mahayana, he
He has long since reached the point of avoiding eating, but for him eating is still one of the greatest pleasures in his life.
I think back then, when his previous life, Li Ye, was traveling around the world, he traveled all over China and ate all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas, various snacks, and the eight major cuisines of Shandong, Sichuan, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, and Hunan.
He even ate them all, and his favorite breakfast included soy milk. It would be best to have a few fried dough sticks or a small dumpling, the taste is really... hehe!
After this reincarnation, people on this continent seem to eat only meat. If they are vegetarians, the common people just add a few kinds of wild vegetables. Although the nobles have more, they are not much better. The food is boring!
If he hadn't been so busy recently, Paul would have tried to find some ingredients to make something to satisfy his craving.
While Paul was sipping the soy milk in his hand, he recalled the delicious life in his previous life. He missed it so much! This stall was open at the door of a small hut. The hut was very dilapidated. The soy milk seller was a little girl who looked less than twelve years old, with a disheveled look on her face.
, obvious malnutrition.
I heard from people who often come here for breakfast that this girl also has an older sister. Their father used to be a mercenary, and later he was seriously injured and was bedridden at home. The mother of the child got up early and worked undercover to earn money to treat their father's illness.
, but no matter how much money civilians like them could earn, they could only barely support their father's life. As time went by, their father still passed away, leaving their mother and daughter behind because of his worsening condition.
But bad luck seemed to favor this poor family. Not long after their father passed away, their mother was completely exhausted from working day and night. In desperation, her sister, who was only 14 years old at the time, took the initiative.
relieved the burden on the family.
Later, the life of this family completely fell into a vicious cycle. After the death of their mother, the elder sister fell ill, and the younger sister continued to shoulder the burden of the family. After listening to the stories of people around him, Paul felt pity for the little girl and planned to
I reached out to help them, and at this moment an accident happened.
No matter what world or era, there are a group of people who base their happiness on the pain of others, and Karl Continent is no exception. Two low-level mercenaries got up and left without paying after eating.
When the girl pathetically went up to ask for money, they kicked her to the ground. They turned around and started smashing the little girl's breakfast stall.
"Woo! Please stop. I still rely on this stall to earn money to treat my sister. Please, I don't want your money anymore. I don't want it now." The little girl knelt on the ground and held her arms.
The thigh of one of the mercenaries was crying.
The mercenary didn't even look at her. He slapped her thin body aside and continued to hit her. Although the civilians watching were inexplicably angry, they all dared to be angry but did not dare to speak.
Such low-level mercenaries do not have any status in ordinary mercenary groups, but they are still very powerful for ordinary civilians, and these low-level mercenaries can only be used by these civilians.
Find this feeling of being superior to others.
The little girl no longer cried and begged them. She knelt on the ground in a daze, letting her tears fall to the ground. Her eyes were blankly looking at the two mercenaries who were still beating them, and the one who was already in dire straits.
, the breakfast stall that she and her sister only relied on, the little girl felt that the sky was falling, and there was no hope in her life. Without this small breakfast stall, she would no longer have the money to help her sister see a doctor. The little girl's only
Her relatives will also leave her.
"God! What did I do wrong? You want to punish me like this? My parents are dead, and now even my sister has to leave me? What should I do? What should I do in the future?" The little girl's consciousness
He was already in a trance, and his already weak body could not withstand such a blow. He only saw his figure swaying slightly before falling backwards.
Just before the last trace of consciousness disappeared from the little girl's heart, he felt a pair of strong arms hugging him. The breath of the owner of these arms made him feel very warm, as if he had returned to his mother's arms.
"Mom, Dad, I'm so tired, I miss you so much!" the little girl murmured in a daze while shedding tears. At this time, a gentle voice sounded in her ears: "Have a good sleep and wait until you wake up.
When that time comes, everything will be over and all suffering will leave you."
This voice was so gentle, making the little girl feel peaceful in her heart. "Really?" the little girl murmured, closed her eyes, and fell asleep quietly.