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Chapter 236 Slave Class

Chapter 236 Slave Class
Solandelle was in front, and the little girl was behind. The two chatted as they walked. Although their dresses and origins were two extremes, their bouncing appearances were not the same. They all reflected the unique innocence of this age. This may be one of the few similarities between them.

The southern city of Dusk City is a fertile land, completely opposite to the barren northern city. From a distance, it can be seen that there are very dense greening plants here, and the lush trees are connected together, standing quietly under the blue sky, with luxuriant branches and leaves. Open your arms and welcome the sun.

The sun is like strands of golden sand, shining in through the overlapping branches and leaves, mottled and sprinkled on the grass, everything revives in the foggy and rainy season, and all kinds of vegetation are covered with glittering dewdrops, exuding green grass, flowers, moist The smell of earth, full of vitality.

Row upon row of houses are interspersed among trees and grasslands. Different from crowded private houses, each building here is a duplex villa with at least three floors, and has its own balcony and garden. From time to time, you can see well-dressed nobles coming in and out, followed by Hordes of servants and guards.

In the courtyard in front of a villa, a middle-aged noble took out a plate of freshly roasted beef, placed it in front of the sleeping deerhound, and teased it with a slurping sound: "Honey, the freshly roasted beef, Come and have a bite!"

The shiny-furred deerhound opened his eyes, lazily leaned over to the plate and sniffed it, then returned to the dog house with a look of "you're kidding me" and continued to sleep.

Soon, the hostess complained from inside the door: "How many times have I told you that our Barbie only eats the meat from the back of the beef, what's the use of feeding it the beef leg?! Old, Barbie doesn't like to eat!"

The middle-aged nobleman rubbed the back of his head and said with an apologetic smile, "I can't tell the difference. I don't like beef, so I don't know what part it is."

"Pour it out quickly, it's so stupid." The hostess came out to take the plate, directly poured the barbecue into the gold-encrusted trash can outside the door, and then returned to the house, a faint voice came: "Archie, you Immediately take someone to the meat market to buy sirloin, don’t make a mistake, or I’ll cut off your hand!”

"Obey, Master." A servant with only one hand left ran out the door, accompanied by guards, left the courtyard, and hurried to the meat market. The wind lifted his sleeves, revealing the slave marks on his wrists that were scalded with a branding iron.

Solandelle didn't care about the little episode over there, it was a very common scene in the palace, it was nothing to see, it's just that the palace didn't have such stupid servants.

Solandelle was looking for a restaurant at this time, looking for it, she suddenly found that the little girl was not behind.

"Hey, where did you go?" Solandelle looked around, and suddenly found the little girl hiding in the shadow of the corner, shrinking her body and poking her head, like a little cat about to steal.

After the servants and guards left, the little girl sneaked up to the trash can of the noble family while there was no one around, and began to rummage through the trash skillfully. She picked up all the inedible things and quickly found The beef shank that was just dumped and the dogs wouldn't eat it.

She pulled out the meat and put it in a cloth bag. She didn't care about getting her hands full of oil, and put it directly into her arms, and then continued to rummage through the garbage inside to see if there was any other discarded food.

Solandelle hurried over to dissuade him: "It's too dirty! Don't look through it! I invite you to eat at the restaurant, eat as much as you want, and you won't be hungry!"

"You don't understand, it's useless for you to ask me to eat once. We people don't eat the next meal. I have to think about my future life. If I find something to eat, I have to save it first, so as not to starve." The girl was like a hamster looking for food at this time, constantly digging out the edible things in the trash can and hiding them. The only difference was that the hamster hid the food in its pouch and she hid it in her pocket.

"You really can't afford to eat, you can go to receive relief food. Every city's grain depot has a quota, which is specially distributed to civilians who are living in difficulties." Solandelle suddenly looked fixed, as if she had discovered something Something, and subconsciously pushed back the little girl's sleeves.

This action made the little girl tremble like an electric shock, she quickly pulled up her sleeves, her face sank quickly, and she stared at Solandelle with vigilant and hostile eyes.

Although the little girl reacted quickly, Solandelle could still see clearly that there was a hideous scar on her wrist, which was a knife wound, and a whole piece of flesh had been cut off.

An injury on the hand is nothing, but as a royal princess, Solandelle knows better than anyone else that it is the position three inches below the heel of the palm, and it is also the designated position for the noble lord to brand the slave.

Signing the deed of sale and branding this position means that you will become a slave class from now on, not protected by the "Dugland Code", and lose all civil rights, even the basic right to life. "Animals" instead of "people".

For slaves, nobles can raise or slaughter them at will. If an outsider kills a slave, he must pay compensation according to the crime of "damaging other people's property".

A piece of flesh was cut off from the little girl's wrist. Solandelle quickly thought of it and asked tentatively, "Are you a slave?"

The little girl knew that she couldn't escape, so she simply showed the expression of a dead pig not afraid of boiling water: "Yes, yes, I was discovered by you, okay? I'm a slave, not a commoner, so I can't receive relief food."

The little girl continued to rummage through the trash can, muttering: "I escaped from a noble mansion, cut off the branded piece of meat with a knife, and ended up in exile in Twilight City. So, I am very afraid of you."

"Afraid of me?" Solandelle was at a loss.

While rummaging through the trash, the little girl said silently: "Yes, I am afraid of you. Because although I have no brand marks, if you see the scars on my wrists, you, a royal princess, can quickly guess who I am. Slave, you can kill me at any time."

"I don't know your true face, I don't know if you are really as sunny as the surface, or if you are secretly trying to deceive and play with me, after gaining my trust through a smile, you suddenly stabbed me from behind, so I dare not walk in front of you , and dare not tell you the truth."

Solandelle did not expect that she would be treated like this, she asked blankly: "Then your mother."

Little girl: "It's all lying to you. I have never met my biological mother, and I don't know who my biological father is. Since I was sensible, the first thing I knew was my contract of prostitution. It is said that my parents used to In exchange for a few bags of copper moons, I was sold as a baby to a noble mansion as a child slave."

"The 'mother' I'm talking about is the woman who took me in after I came to Twilight City. She was also a slave who escaped from other places. She worked illegally everywhere and fed me with every bite of rice."

"The only thing I didn't lie to you is that she died. She really died of a cold - last winter, I remember very clearly, that day was Huixue 30th, the last day of the old year, when the farmer crossed the river The jewelry fell into the river, and someone was paid to retrieve it."

"My mother fumbled in the icy river for more than an hour in order to allow me to eat a meal of meat during the Chinese New Year. Finally, the jewelry was fished out, and the hard work of 30 copper moons was obtained. She also suffered from a bad cold. Finally I couldn’t make it through and died on the hospital bed on the first day of the New Year.”

Solandelle's eyes became more and more dazed, and she felt in a trance for a while.

Huixue's 30th is her birthday.
Think back, what was she doing on her birthday last year?

She remembered that she and Lorna had been choosing dresses all afternoon, and at one moment they disliked the bad fabric and the bad color, and finally chose a purple silk dress.

That is not ordinary silk, the silk used for its weaving is the first silk spun out by the best spring silkworm in this life, only the tenderest and most essential first "virgin silk" is selected, and the second one is not used.

The unimaginably harsh conditions naturally lead to its extremely high price. The virgin silk of this kind of top-quality spring silkworm costs a silver moon, and the silk needed to weave a dress dress costs a few dollars at least. Ten thousand roots, or even hundreds of thousands of roots.

Why do you make such a dress?In fact, there is no other reason, that is, she passed by the tailoring room of the palace once, and accidentally saw the conceptual design drawing in the book, and said casually, "It's so beautiful", and her father spent a lot of money to order the tailor to make it out.

But in fact, she only wore this dress once at the birthday dinner. After the dinner, she asked the servant to put it away and it is still lying in the closet.

And the birthday gifts I got that night, not to mention priceless treasures such as unicorns, remnant night swords, and dragon crystals, ordinary jewelry can no longer be counted by "pieces", but by weights To say the least, there are more than a hundred catties, and each piece costs tens of hundreds of silver moons, and some top-notch ones even need to be settled in gold moons.

There are also dishes at the dinner party, such as lobster, abalone's fin, and delicacies on a jade plate. All the seafood is transported from the Sea of ​​Broken Moon in a hurry. , just to ensure that when the box is opened, those fresh seafood are still bubbling.

The meat of rare birds and animals comes from the "Ember Forest", the capital of "Flying Kite Province". Because long-distance transportation will make the prey feel fearful and the meat will turn sour, so the prey are all hunted by elite royal hunters themselves, ensuring that the prey will not feel it. Under the circumstances, it will be killed by one blow, slaughtered on the spot, and then transported to Wangcheng by the winged beast cavalry of Lengliegu from the air.

Solandelle's deepest impression is a bottle of deer antler blood, which is taken from a 29-year-old deer king antler. The nobleman begged for a sip, but she just took a sip and spit it out, for no other reason, just because it was too fishy.

Oh yes, and the night of the birthday party, she was actually sick.

Because the dress was so thin, she caught a cold after the dinner, and when she returned to her room she started to have a fever.

That night, the entire mansion was on the verge of an enemy. Her father summoned the royal doctor overnight to prepare her prescriptions. Two brothers, Andre and Bolton, stood by the bed day and night. Wiping sweat with a towel, he insisted on finishing the work of the servants.

The servants had no work to do and didn't dare to be idle, so they knelt down in front of the mural of the Sun King and prayed for her until dawn.

The next day, early in the morning of the new year, when she recovered from her minor illness, she was alive and kicking, and ran to the city with Chinolona and the others to play.

Solandelle has read a lot of books, so she is not so naive as to be completely ungrounded. She is very clear that there are poor and rich people in this world, and she also knows that she belongs to the rich, and she is a very rich person.

But what she thought of as "poverty" was like this - the whole family lives in a small house, which seems a bit crowded, and cooks a big pot for one meal, and the whole family eats separately, occasionally drinks a little wine in their free time, and roasts when they are greedy. A piece of meat, if you can carry it when you are sick, you can carry it by yourself, and if you can't carry it, you can see a doctor.

It wasn't until she met the little girl this time that Solandelle realized that the "poor" in her previous concept was not poor, but the sentient beings of ordinary civilians.

Not all civilians have houses and food, and a large part of them live without a fixed place. They can only go to the granary to receive relief food, and they can barely live with a full stomach.

And people like little girls who can't even guarantee the most basic life are the real "poor people".

On the 30th day of Huixue, when she was wearing expensive silk, she could only cover her body with torn linen, shivering in the cold wind.

She despises the bloody smell of velvet antler, and thinks the seafood tastes weird, but she is very happy to chew on the rotten bread, and even finds someone else's discarded barbecue in the trash can.

On the same day, Dido was cared for by her parents and spoiled by her two older brothers, but she didn't even know who her biological parents were, so she stayed alone in front of the hospital bed.

Even the "mother" who was dependent on each other died of illness in bed because of lack of money to see a doctor. At the same time, she was sleeping in the warm bed to recuperate, dreaming sweet dreams.

The same kingdom, the same age, but the fate is very different.

Solandelle realized for the first time that the gap between people can be so great. She couldn't imagine how hopeless it would be if she lost her parents one day.

Solandelle pursed her lips hard, her voice trembling: "Are you alone, will you be lonely?"

At this time, the little girl was peeking at the noble courtyard to prevent someone from coming out suddenly, while speeding up her movements, she said casually: "Yes, I will, but I'm used to it, it's the same as being beaten. I used to be a slave in the noble mansion." At that time, because I broke a plate, the hostess took the tongs and pulled out all my nails."

"At the beginning, I couldn't sleep all night because of the pain, and my fingers were swollen as big as my toes. But after a long time, it became a part of my daily life and gradually became numb. The same is true for loneliness. I feel it."

"Occasionally, I dream that I am with my parents, but because I have never seen them, the faces in the dreams are all blurred-oh, no, sometimes the mother in my dream, the face will become The later 'mother', I threw myself into her arms and clinged to her, acting like a baby."

"My mother told me before that death is not terrible. As long as someone remembers you after death, you can live in the hearts of others. The real goodbye is not death, but forgetting."

"So, I must live. If I die, not only will no one remember me, but no one will remember my mother, then we will be completely forgotten, and there will be no traces in this world anymore, really' dead'."

(End of this chapter)

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