Although the tax collection was postponed until the afternoon, the villagers gathered in the square still did not disperse. Instead, they gathered in twos and threes in the square to chat.
The children ran out of the square in a hurry, not knowing what to do again.
Brutus knew what they were busy with recently, and he often didn't see them in the village.
Just as he was thinking about it, a slap on his shoulder made him come back to his senses. He turned his head and saw that it was Fabrice.
"Well done, my impression of you has improved a little bit."
Brutus rubbed his shoulders: "If you didn't slap it so hard, maybe I would be very grateful for your improved evaluation of me."
"Reading is still useful. I think Mayor Lorenzo won't have anything to say to you." Fabrice looked at Lorenzo who was chatting with the women in the crowd. "It was originally the time recently.
Plan for the next few days, maybe you are really lucky."
He showed an ugly smile to Brutus and patted him heavily on the shoulder again: "Work hard, city man."
"Why don't the village chief want to let the children in the village study?" Brutus heard Fabrice's words and must have known something inside.
"Oh, you don't know?" Fabrice was a little surprised, and he mentioned a name, "Pansy."
"The one who left the village and went abroad?"
"That guy learned some weird theories from somewhere, and he preached his incomprehensible words to the villagers all day long. After he left, he didn't send any messages to the village." Fabrice nodded, "It turns out that the village chief
He doesn’t really want the children in the village to study, so this just gives him an excuse.”
"originally?"
Fabrice smiled dryly: "City people, don't you know that the number of good jobs in the city is limited? The son of the village chief got a job as a clerk in the town just by relying on literacy."
So that's it... Now Brutus understood the reason. No wonder the village chief didn't teach the children to read.
"I quite agree with what Pansy said." Brutus said, "It's very realistic. After studying and finding a good job, we can't just let them continue to live a daily life in this small village when they grow up.
A life of monotony and poverty.”
"City people, I said, good jobs are limited." Fabrice didn't want to continue chatting anymore. He waved his hand and left the square without giving Brutus a chance to continue.
Brutus looked at Fabrice's back and whispered: "How could it be? Human needs are endless, and jobs will continue to increase..."
"Besides, it's not a bad thing to have more knowledge..."
"Yes, it's not a bad thing to have more knowledge. Didn't you see that Mr. Brutus showed us a lesson today?" Marcus squatted on a piece of grass and talked to Marvin, Rivas and others beside him.
his thoughts.
"Although I don't know what he said to the vampire, you all saw that Mr. Brutus pointed at the book and said a few words to scare the vampire away."
"You don't need to stress, we have all seen it." Marvin and others replied in unison.
Marcus broke off a clover and threw it on the grass after realizing that he didn't want it: "If you can't even understand the contents of that book, how can you do the next thing?"
"We all agree with what you said, but what does this have to do with what we are doing now?"
"I heard Mr. Brutus mutter something a few days ago, as if he was calculating his salary. There were some calculations written on the paper on his desk. I took a peek at it——"
"What's written on it?" Sonia asked impatiently.
"Sonia, don't interrupt me, I was about to say something. I took a sneak peek, as if I was calculating the travel time from the village to the town."
"Mr. Brutus is not planning to leave, is he?" Marvin and others were shocked by his words, "But he has only stayed in the village for half a month."
Marcus nodded seriously: "I guess so, that's why we have to do this as soon as possible."
"Just picking these four-leaf clovers?"
"Have you forgotten the legend in the village? It's the one with a four-leaf clover for each person." Marcus reminded his friends, "I plan to give it a try when Mr. Brutus leaves.
Give it to him as our parting gift."
"That's what you said!" Sonia remembered, "But I think that story is just to deceive us children."
"Whether it is true or not, at least it represents our feelings."
"What you said makes sense." Marvin agreed with Marcus's idea, "How much have we saved now?"
"More than twenty plants, still less than half."
"We alone may not have enough time, and we don't know how long it will take Mr. Brutus to leave the village." Sonia was a little worried, "Maybe we have to call others to look for him together."
"I have already thought of it, they are looking elsewhere now." Marcus smiled proudly at Sonia, "At least it is certain that Mr. Brutus will not leave at least after the forest celebration.
He promised us that he would participate."
Marcos's words gave the other people a lot of confidence, and they looked for four-leaf clovers on the grass with great enthusiasm.
"It would be nice if Mr. Brutus didn't leave and stayed in the village." Someone murmured in a low voice.
"Yes." The others agreed, they all didn't want Brutus to leave.
Although Brutus came to the village not long ago, it is undeniable that he and the children quickly established friendship, and the hand he showed them today made the children even more admired - after all, the children in the village
We all have fantasized about defeating vampires so that our parents will no longer have to worry about heavy taxes.
Marcus stopped what he was doing and looked at his friends: "Mr. Brutus told me before that he has his pursuits and we also have our lives."
"We are lucky to have known him. When he sets off to pursue his goals, what we should do is support him unreservedly."
"Perhaps one day in the future he will return to Laxius Village again, and then we will meet again."
Marcus glanced at his friends one by one: "But friends, what I hope even more is that some of us can walk out of this village one day and follow in his footsteps until we catch up with him."
"The people who stayed in the village tried the methods Mr. Brutus told us, or explored other methods on their own to change the village and everyone's lives, so that when he comes back, he will be treated like what we did.
It was a shock.”
He lowered his head and prepared to continue looking for the four-leaf clover, and a four-leaf clover happened to appear in his sight.
Marcus rubbed his eyes to make sure he saw it correctly. This was a four-leaf clover that he had been looking for for a long time but could not find. It was outside his memory.