I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 438 The Ending of "Ordinary and Great"
"Hey……"

see here again,
Professor Worth still sighed.

In the book "Ordinary and Great", after this paragraph, it ushered in the end.

It was many years later, a middle-aged military officer, wearing plain clothes, arrived in the village.

The two soldiers who followed him were left by him in front of a pile of ruins.

It was a ruin with only broken walls and overgrown weeds. Occasionally, in the gaps of the ruins, burnt and carbonized wood could be seen.

……

"You guys are waiting for me here."

The middle-aged officer looked at the ruins and was silent for a long time.
Then turned around and walked in the other direction.

Surrounded by many residents of the village, they looked at the officer curiously,
Although he was persuaded to leave at this moment, he still whispered in the distance and looked towards the officer from time to time.

The officer turned a blind eye to the gazes of those residents in the distance, but walked the familiar road, a little silent, and walked step by step to the cemetery in the village.

The cemetery in the village is still in its original location,
It's just the forest where the cemetery used to be, no longer belonging to the nobles and churches in the city.

In this cemetery, and next to the cemetery, the officer saw the graves of "Mediouc", "Melia" and "Hoth" successively,

He stopped, pulled off the hat on his head, squatted down, his eyes were red.

This middle-aged officer was the former Little Gretel.

"...Father, I'm back. But you may have the answer to your question."

Squatting in front of the tombstone of his father Hoss, Gerrit was silent for a while with red eyes,
Then, sitting in front of the tombstone, I don't know how far away the wind blew, and took away some of the dust and long-standing sadness on Gerrit's face.

Just like when I left home to go to school in the early morning, and went home to walk with Hoss in the evening, talking some things, it seemed that I never left for too long.

"Father, do you remember General Autoliv? A bard once told you that General Autoliv overthrew the previous king and became king himself."

"To be more precise, it is the previous king."

"Shortly after Hoth you left, because the war against neighboring countries was unfavorable, a large number of soldiers were recruited to the battlefield, and the little food left by the farmers was expropriated, which aroused public resentment. They overthrew General Autoliv's comrades again. .”

"Of course, this is just their excuse, and Autoliv is just their scapegoat. They never care about public grievances, and this battlefield was forced and brought about by them."

"The birth of textile machines has made the production of wool, the raw material for textiles, very valuable. They, like Mr. Raleigh, took away a large number of other farmers' fields and used them to raise lambs."

"Our land is limited, and the number of fields used to grow food has decreased, which has caused the price of food to rise rapidly. Our people have not decreased, but our food has decreased."

"This forced Autoliv to launch a war against neighboring countries, as you can see, let people who have no food to eat die on the battlefield, and at the same time grab more land for farming or continue to keep in captivity sheep."

Gerrit narrated what he had seen and heard to the tombstone of his father Hoss,

And these are also the answers to some of the original questions,

"And after the outbreak of the war, the departure of some men in the family also allowed people like Mr. Raleigh to take away more fields at a lower price."

"Did you know? In fact, at that time, Autoliv just announced that after the harvest of the next season's crops, the grain that needs to be paid will be increased to [-]%, but there is no such thing as a supplementary collection of [-]% of the previous year's grain."

"The [-]% of the grain may never have gone to the battlefield, but it has just gone to the grain store in the town, and it has gone to the hands of people who don't have enough food at a higher price."

"And Mr. Raleigh took this opportunity to take away those people's fields."

"It's like a question from the past, why the church clearly has a clear law, but didn't tell the farmers in the village."

"Because the farmers in the village are told, they need to follow the law, and if they don't tell, they can act according to their anger or pleasure."

"Like Medioc, pronounced dead by angry knights."

Gerrit turned his head and looked at Medioc's tombstone not far away.

This is one of the questions about Medioc's death.

After a pause, Gerrit turned his head back again,

"Autoliv only became king for a few years, so short that many remote places have not yet known that he once ruled the country."

"But there's one thing we should probably be thanking him for. That's the establishment of the school in the town."

"Do you still remember that you spent your life savings and sold half of our land in exchange for the admission qualifications and study fees?"

"In fact, in order to promote education and acquire some talents, Autoliv's new school will not charge students at all."

"The ten silver coins we paid never reached the king's hands."

"In fact, in the whole school, more than half of the students did not pay the school fees, but only collected money from students like me and Aimeng."

"But even so, we should also thank them. Although it was only a few years, I did learn some knowledge that was impossible to learn before.
And in the entire kingdom, there are many people like me. "

Gerrit looked up, remembering,

"Father, do you still remember the advice I gave you when I first started studying?"

"At that time, I naively thought that what was right could be implemented. It was like we could give up those mortgaged fields and end the repayment of those loans."

"At that time, I didn't understand that you were so sure to deny what I thought was the right thing."

"However, when I walked into Mr. Raleigh's house that time, when Mr. Raleigh's servants were standing around with weapons, when I saw Mr. Raleigh's knights in heavy armor."

"I understand. Rules can only be enforced by force, and the comparison of force can determine whether correct behavior can be upheld!"

After saying this, Gerrit's gaze became firm.

"...we were gathered together. We saw them kill Autoliv and install a new king."

"But nothing has changed. The kingdom is still fighting against its neighbors. And they even sell weapons to their neighbors at the same time."

"The kingdom still recruits farmers to become warriors, and the harvested food is still taken away under various names."

"So, we acted."

Gerrit stood up, wearing a military uniform, he was almost middle-aged,
There are many scars on the exposed skin on the body, even deep scars from the cheeks to the forehead.

"Father, perhaps you have seen it."

"That forest no longer belongs to the nobles and churches in the town."

Gerrit said firmly.

"We may not have won a complete victory, but at least this forest no longer belongs to the nobles and churches in the town."

Gerrit raised his head and looked at the forest beyond the cemetery.

And this time,
Here in the cemetery, an elderly figure came.

It's Leina.

Gerrit turned his head when he heard the voice,
What I saw was a haggard old woman with messy hair and dirty body,
She is bent, her face is full of wrinkles, and she is very old.

Carrying a bamboo basket, she also came to visit the deceased in the cemetery.

She looked up and saw Gerrit.

Gerrit saw her face too.

"Greet?"

"Aunt Leina."

(End of this chapter)