Alien world

Chapter 1266 188. Adele

The girl had a nice name, Adele. It was the name given to her unborn child by a wizard who was passing by to show her the way when her mother was pregnant. Adele's mother treasured the name ever since.

"That's amazing. My name was given to me by my father."

Two children were playing, or rather working, and chatting at the slag heap.

By the time their families came to look for them, it was already dusk.

"goodbye!"

Adele waved her hand, picked up the heavy flower basket full of sifted coal slag, and walked towards a woman in a long, starched, bleached dress with her thin body tilted.

Wilson returned to his well-dressed and worried parents, and couldn't help but look at Adele again.

The setting sun in the west cast a long and narrow shadow, passing through the alley and separating the two people.

Wilson, who was dirty, followed his parents back to their new home. The closer he got to the strange home, the heavier his steps became.

His mother complained loudly: "Go take a shower first! Look how dirty you are! If the neighbors see us, they will think we are a group of poor people!"

Wilson no longer had the self-contained and cheerful demeanor he had shown in front of Adele, but his mother continued to chatter.

"Well, do you still want our son to stay at home all day like he did in Manka Town?"

"But we can't make it so dirty..." Mother's voice became much quieter, "The ladies will laugh at us..."

The father, who always showed a gentle look, said: "Then tell him not to get himself dirty."

"But that girl..."

"He just moved in. What are you worried about? Or do you want our son to spend his days playing knights in the streets with other boys holding wooden swords?"

"No, that won't do. It's too dangerous, too dangerous..." Wilson's mother paced back and forth.

Compared to running around with the boys and getting into dangerous fights, playing with poor girls made her feel more at ease.

Just like that, as soon as Wilson moved to Golden City, he had a completely different childhood: he no longer had to talk to the birds outside the window, and he had real human friends.

What Wilson considers play is work for Adele.

Adele became a ray of light in Wilson's dull childhood, and Wilson became a little relief in Adele's suffocating childhood.

As Wilson became more cheerful day by day, his parents, who saw the changes, would not restrict his freedom. Gradually, Wilson began to have other friends and played with Adele less frequently, but their relationship did not change at all.

Wilson cherishes his first friend, and Adele also cherishes her first rich friend.

Occasionally, they would quarrel like other children, say they would break up and never respond to each other's angry words, but a few days later they would awkwardly get together to play together again.

In addition to sifting coal in the slag heap, Wilson would follow Adele to the rivers on the outskirts of Golden City to pan for gold, and follow her to the rich areas to pick up garbage...

Black Widow lifted her chin.

She thought the story was boring, but Annan listened with great interest, as if he had never heard the story before.

"Aren't you curious?" Annan asked her softly.

"What are you curious about?"

"How did such an ordinary girl become a rebellion leader praised by others..." "Now that you mention it, I do want to know a little."

Wilson's family gradually integrated into the Golden City. His father bought several stores, and his mother got to know the wives of the neighbors and spent all day partying.

As Wilson grew older, he gradually reduced the number of times he went out to play.

There is no such scene of "rich young master looking down on his poor friends", at least not in Wilson's self-recollection and narration.

But the final result is no different...

"Adele loves eating cherries. There is a cherry orchard outside the city. The owner of the orchard loves children and is willing to let us pick cherries for free. So we made an appointment to go to the orchard to pick cherries every year."

"The next day, I came to the cherry orchard and saw her standing with the old and fat owner. She told me that her parents had sold her to the owner of the cherry orchard, and that she, who was only ten years old, was going to become the fifty-year-old owner's wife."

If this is a story that makes people laugh and cry, then the following might be: the young boy finally rescued his best friend after going through countless hardships...

But this is the reality, and what can an eight or nine-year-old child who has never been independent understand?

The tavern owner smiled bitterly and said, "You must be blaming Adele's parents, right? In fact, they are also very pitiful. That's their Adele... But maybe in their opinion, marrying the gardener will make Adele live happily."

"At that time, the Broken Mountains were spreading the news that the gold mines were exhausted. There was chaos everywhere and prices were soaring... I should have discovered it earlier. Adele was getting thinner and thinner, and her clothes were getting dirtier and dirtier..."

Although Wilson didn't understand anything at that time, he knew that Adele would not be able to go out and play with him like before after she married the gardener.

They had another big fight, and Adele said to him, "Go back, and don't come to see me again."

Wilson often blamed himself when he grew up. If he had been more mature and knew what Adele's family had experienced, he would have asked his parents to help.

Unfortunately, he didn't understand what Adele said at that time, and he really left without looking back.

He thought that this quarrel would be like the previous ones. After a few days, the two would meet again, smile and make peace as before.

Then, a few days later, Wilson heard his father talking at dinner with a sad face about the riots spreading to Golden City and a cherry orchard outside the city was burned down.

Wilson couldn't believe it, so he ran to the cherry orchard the next day and found that there was only a charred ruin left.

The young boy was sad about this for a long time, but the sadness gradually faded over time.

Missing the past is the exclusive domain of adults. They have pain and regret, so they miss the free time in the past and the regrets that they didn't have time to do.

Children don’t think this way. They are always pursuing new things and growing up through bumps and falls.

The riot was suppressed by troops sent by Lord Raymond, but the news of the depletion of the gold vein was confirmed.

In an instant, the Golden City fell from its status as the second holy capital of the Church of Wealth, where countless people came to pan for gold and became extremely rich.

Money was becoming increasingly harder to make. His father had opened more than a dozen stores, but he made less and less money, and the stores closed down one after another.

During this period, to make matters worse, a pandemic broke out in Golden City.

Wilson, a young man who traveled abroad because of his dream of becoming a bard, escaped the plague by chance, but his parents did not. As soon as he returned, his parents died one after another, leaving Wilson some property.

The tavern owner whispered with red eyes:
"There is no happy person in this story..."

(End of this chapter)