LOL: Summoner of Goddess Janna

"Happy New Year." LeBlanc pouted and said to the visitor reluctantly.

"?" Seraphine turned her head and looked at Levi in ​​confusion.

She has been busy on the front lines in the countryside of Ionia for more than two months, and she only goes back to her home in Zaun to rest at night.

Because today is the New Year, she gave herself a day off at Li Wei's request and went back home during the day.

As a result, Seraphine met a strange woman on the curb in front of her house, standing upright like a robot, before she entered the house.

"she is?"

"LeBlanc." Levi explained casually.

"She..." Seraphine looked at her carefully: "She changed her appearance?"

"Yeah." Levi nodded.

The situation in which Noxus was secretly controlled by the Windleader, and LeBlanc's confession and defection, remains a public secret.

Ordinary people only know that the Noxus Empire experienced a coup d'état, and two months later experienced an internal purge at the upper levels of the empire.

In short, for some reasons unknown to outsiders, Amystan and some other high-level empire generals lost the favor of Commander-in-Chief Swain and were completely and ruthlessly liquidated.

On the surface, the Noxus Empire is still controlled by the military nobles represented by Swain and Darius.

But no one could have imagined that these two "emperors" were both leaders. As for Amystan and other senior generals who participated in forcing the palace, their vacated positions were quietly replaced by imperial officers who were promoted by Swain and believed in the leader.

In other words, the current Windleader Association is like the Black Rose before, and has become the "deep state" behind the Noxus Empire.

However, in order to prevent the name of the Wind Leader from irritating the warlords within the empire, Levi still needs to keep the Wind Leader in the shadows and let Swain continue to disguise himself to maintain the old order in Noxus. But collapse too soon.

Therefore, LeBlanc's current existence in Zaun is still a secret.

Her clones were all transformed into different people before being allowed to work on the streets.

"But...what is she doing in front of our house?"

"Look at the gate."

"?" Seraphine asked with a question mark on her face: "Do we still need a doorman?"

"Don't we need to help her work harder?" Levi said: "This guy can create tens of thousands of clones by himself. I really can't find any job to satisfy her, so I can only help her create some unrelated things. An important position has arrived."

"Moreover, she can not only guard the door." Under Miss LeBlanc's almost lustful eyes, he chuckled: "She can also stand guard on the street, guide the way, help guide traffic order, and supervise uncivilized phenomena on the road. , and can also provide some simple first aid diagnosis and treatment to passers-by in need at critical moments.”

“I call this project ‘Neighborhood Assistant.’ It’s just a trial run right now.”

"Once we have trained her well and smoothed her attitude, we can spread it to Quan Zu'an."

As he said this, the bluebird avatar on LeBlanc's shoulder nodded slightly...

Then he pecked her on the head very rudely: "Warning! If you fail to provide service with a smile, you will be deducted 1 silver wheel from your food bill this month."

"You?!" LeBlanc gritted her teeth.

"Huh?" Qingniao tilted his head.

LeBlanc immediately forced out a smile like a bank clerk caught on camera: "Happy New Year."

Seraphine: "..."

She felt a little instinctively sympathetic. But thinking about what LeBlanc had done before, she had no sympathy.

"Let's go home." Levi ignored LeBlanc and only asked her to walk around this street more and practice her service skills with a smile.

Then, he held Serafani's hand and walked into the house side by side: "You have been too busy recently. Even I haven't seen you for several days."

"Look at you, your appearance has changed."

Seraphine's appearance has indeed changed.

However, she has become darker and thinner. As an extraordinary person, staying up late and overworking cannot affect her charming beauty that is nourished by magic power.

Seraphine's main change is in her appearance.

She took off her favorite princess dress, white stockings and cowhide boots, and put on an Ionia country-style coarse cloth robe.

At this moment, Seraphine's exposed calves were still covered with fresh mud, and a pair of crude straw sandals were stepping on her white feet. The row of pink toes protruding from the straw sandals were still covered with mud that had not been cleaned.

At first glance, it looked like he had just returned from the front line in Ionia, and he hadn't even had time to pack it up carefully.

Levi knew that fashion and dressing up were Seraphine's biggest hobby after music.

Seeing Seraphine now dressed like an Ionian village girl, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

"Actually, you don't need to go to this point, Xiao Sa." Levi said; "After all, the leader relies on faith, not clothes. Even if you dress better and go to the front line, no one will blame you. .”

"No, the situation in Baru'e is different." Serafani was quite free and easy.

"I just realized this in the past few days."

"What we are facing there are not the leaders who have read through the theory and the workers of Zaun who have heard enough of propaganda and education, but the vast number of Ionian farmers."

The local culture of Ionia is very conservative and exclusive. Especially for those villagers who have lived in the traditional order all their lives.

Although the Windleaders had fought against the Noxian invaders, they had gained their gratitude and trust.

But if you dress differently than them, speak differently, or even look like Miss Pi Chengyang from overseas, a big leader who came down for inspection...then the attitude of the villagers will change when they communicate with you. It becomes very unnatural unconsciously.

"In your words, I dress like this to make it easier to get closer to the masses." Seraphine said with a smile, "Besides, a little dirty is nothing."

"Those who lead the way are not afraid of getting dirty."

These words are not expressive, but realistic.

Seraphine threw the dirty straw sandals on her feet at the entrance, and then summoned a ray of breeze. The airflow circled back and forth close to her skin, and easily removed the stubborn dirt between her toes and on her calves.

Then, Seraphine playfully flew up to the sofa and thrust her white and tender feet in front of Levi who had just sat down: "Look, is this clean?"

Levi: "..."

"What?" Seraphine pouted, a little dissatisfied with her boyfriend's reaction.

But Levi was just silent for a while: "You..."

"Did you step on fresh cow dung when you went to the countryside?"

Seraphine was stunned for a moment: "Didn't I wash it off?"

"..." Levi was speechless. Janna flew away silently.

"Well..." Seraphine is a Piltover lady after all.

She retracted her feet a little embarrassed, then changed the subject with a blush: "Is Lina coming back?"

"Lina is not coming back." Levi shook his head: "There was a little trouble with the work she was responsible for in Ionia."

"Oh?" Seraphine was curious: "What is Lina's responsibility over there?"

Although they are both on the front line in the Ionian countryside, the work they are responsible for does not overlap. She also hadn’t seen Lina for a while.

"Grassroots village autonomy pilot." Li Wei replied: "In short, it is to let the villagers choose who to talk to."

The current Leader Association is really short of grassroots cadres, and it is impossible to send Leader cadres to every village for long-term management.

Moreover, most of the current cadres of the Wind Leader are from Zaun and Piltover. They have faith and enthusiasm, but they have never seen the countryside in their lives, have never practiced agriculture, and have no understanding of the complex conditions in the Ionian countryside. Any understanding.

Even if the Windleader Association is willing to take the risk of causing Zaun's administrative system to malfunction and parachute large numbers of cadres to Ionia and every village in the province of Balu... the outcome may not be as they imagined. as beautiful as.

"So after discussion, we decided to only extend the presence of leader cadres to villages and towns for the time being. For the most basic village-level units, the villagers themselves elect the village chief."

"Oh." Seraphine understood a little bit.

Isn't this the community self-governance that Piltover used to do? However, now it is applied to the rural areas of Ionia.

"What, is there a problem?" she asked.

"Is there no problem?" Levi shrugged: "Sarefani, think about it, was there any problem with community autonomy in Piltover before?"

Seraphine's pink hair trembled, and she understood instantly.

That's a big problem.

Community autonomy sounds good, and it seems to be working well in Piltover—but that's only in wealthy neighborhoods and relatively upscale middle-class neighborhoods.

As long as it is a slightly lower-level and disorderly community, this community self-governance system will immediately appear in chaos such as vote-buying, forced elections, statistical cheating, and underhanded voting.

And if it's a Zaan community, a shabby community full of poor people... then even operations such as vote-buying are omitted.

The gangs are the actual controllers of this community. The community council has long been completely controlled by the gangsters and has become in name only.

And if this situation goes one step further, it will be Old Zuan.

Zaun was completely split from Piltover. There was community self-governance and community councils here at the beginning, but as they were chosen, everyone became gang bosses, drug lords and warlords... In the end, the Alchemist Baron simply came to the front and let this set of quilts The omnipotence system that Piltover people have been preaching for years has become a joke that is malfunctioning.

"But..." Seraphine frowned: "On the Ionia side, Lina and the others are in charge of supervision."

“If we promote villagers’ self-governance under such circumstances, can we still resort to bribery to force elections and elect local tyrants and village tyrants?”

"It's not like the local tyrants and village tyrants..." Levi shook his head: "After all, we just killed a batch."

This has just been cleaned up. It will take some years to form another group.

"But the minds of some villagers are indeed too flexible...or, in other words, too stupid."

"They also thought that the village chief under the leadership of the leader could still be a local emperor like the previous village chiefs, so they wanted to choose this talkative person."

"With the supervision of Lina and other leader cadres, they don't dare to go too far. However, small tricks such as vote buying are still inevitable."

"Vote bribery?" Seraphine was puzzled: "How did they do it with leadership supervision?"

"They don't give money directly." Levi said: "If someone has a good relationship with you, they will use their own money to buy a pound of meat, a dozen eggs, or a few cigarettes imported from Zaun, and come to your house to sit there."

"You had a great chat while eating, and finally decided to choose him - even if the higher authorities investigate this matter, it's hard to classify it as vote-buying, right?"

"This..." Seraphine instinctively questioned: "Ionian villagers can be bribed with a pound of meat, a dozen eggs, and a few cigarettes?"

But soon, what she had seen in the past two months overshadowed the instincts she had developed as a Piltover lady for more than ten years.

Yes, that's enough.

To the farmers of Ionia, although this gift was not heavy, it was no longer light.

"This is after we distributed the free money to the villagers, so that everyone had some money in their hands."

"In the past... maybe two eggs would have been enough to bribe those extremely poor farmers."

After all, this is also the first time village self-government has been implemented.

Who can do something and who can't do it, who will be really good to everyone when he becomes the village chief... How can the villagers tell the difference between people's hearts?

In the end, I could only choose someone who could chat and send things. No matter how bad he does in the future, I can still get a dozen eggs, right?

"So, we can only wait." Li Wei said: "There are many problems in the attempt of villagers' self-government, but in the final analysis, it is a human problem... It is a human problem, and it can be solved through the leader's belief measurement .”

"As long as we wait a few years and the team of leaders is truly cultivated from among the masses, each village will have enough leaders. Then we will add another leader to run for the village chief election. The problem can be solved by the rule of "being given priority for employment"."

"They want to become village tyrants, but it's impossible."

In an agricultural society, the existence of village bullies is inevitable. And in the industrial age, it is difficult for their influence to completely disappear.

Because even the current leaders cannot completely solve the problem of wealth inequality. Once people become rich, they gain energy in society, and they will want to use this energy to gain corresponding political status for themselves.

As a result, the upper-class villagers who got rich first formed different factions in the village in order to compete for political power and the power to redistribute resources. The factions bribed votes in order to be elected. After being elected, they tried to monetize their power to earn back the cost of bribery... These Situations are almost unavoidable.

But fortunately, the Wind Leader Association has the plug-in of Goddess Janna. They can avoid this "inevitability."

"That's why we can win." Seraphine said with emotion.

"Okay, okay..." Seeing that his girlfriend was more concerned about work than he was, Levi couldn't help but hit her on the head: "Today is the New Year, so we won't talk about work."

"New Year..." Seraphine blinked: "What's wrong?"

In fact, she had always wanted to ask.

Levi seemed to take the New Year holiday very seriously. 007 usually works all year round, but today he took leave for both himself and her just for the sake of the New Year.

But in reality, New Year's Day has never been an important holiday in Zaun.

The people of Zaun don't celebrate the New Year at all. Only Piltover people celebrate the New Year, and even regard the New Year as an important holiday second only to Evolution Day.

Although Seraphine grew up in Piltover, she was unable to go out all year round because her talent was out of control at a very young age, so she was unable to enjoy the fun of celebrating the New Year together.

In addition, her parents are both Zaan people who do not celebrate the New Year, so her family has never had the custom of celebrating the New Year.

After the Wind Leader took over Zaun, the Wind Leader Association, which was dominated by Zaun people, continued this trend that was not new to the new year.

Although the Leaders have recognized the New Year as a legal holiday this year, there is still no festive atmosphere on the streets of Zaun. Everyone just treats this holiday as an ordinary weekend and goes by to rest and relax.

So Lina would rather work overtime on the front line in Ionia than come back to celebrate the New Year.

Because she felt that brother's request was simply inexplicable. It’s an insignificant day, what do you do when you go back?

Therefore, Seraphine couldn't understand: "Is this day important?"

Levi thought for a while. Maybe it doesn't matter.

Celebrating the New Year is just a habit he inherited from his previous life, and it does not conform to his customs as a Zaan people.

"But it's strange, isn't it?" Levi said: "The New Year is the beginning of the year, symbolizing the rotation of the years and the renewal of everything."

"Whether it's Demacia, Noxus, Shurima, or Ionia. No matter which civilization uses which version of the calendar, it is an extremely important festival."

"But why do the people of Zuan hardly celebrate the New Year?"

"Well..." Seraphine thought carefully.

If it were in the past, she might have answered from the perspective of cultural differences.

But now she can quickly see the essence.

The people of Zaun are not just celebrating the New Year...

"Zuan people have no festivals at all." Levi gave the answer: "We don't have any festivals."

"Because the prerequisite for celebrating the festival is that the Alchemist Baron will kindly give you a holiday."

"Not to mention, most civilizations celebrate family reunions during the New Year. And most Zaun people... don't have families."

Although I have money or not, I go home to celebrate the New Year.

But if you don’t even have a home, what’s going to be good this year?

"So, the people of Zaan in the past couldn't celebrate the New Year." Levi sighed: "But now, they can have a good New Year."

"It's just that everyone has been suffering for too long and they haven't realized it yet."

"Levi..." Seraphine couldn't help but think of her boyfriend's life experience.

She gently held Levi's hand and said, "Let's call Lina back. The family is together..."

"No." Levi shook his head: "This is also Lina's own choice. If she wants to work, let her go."

"Yes." Seraphine sighed thoughtfully and emotionally: "Perhaps for us leaders, this process of pursuing our ideals and constantly moving forward is more joyful than the holidays."

"Lina is a true leader. She doesn't celebrate the New Year just to let more people have a good New Year..."

"Stop, stop, stop." Li Wei held down the excited and trembling pink hair.

Don't sublimate yet.

"What I mean is..." he said: "Lina and I have been dependent on each other for half our lives, and we are tired of being with me as an old brother."

"It doesn't matter if she doesn't come back. This year, two people will have their own troubles."

"How?" Seraphine was stunned for a moment.

"It's all up to you." Li Wei said, "New Year's Eve is all about fun."

"Do you want to eat first? Or watch a movie first? Or..."

"I..." Seraphine thought seriously for a while.

Then she lightly pecked Levi on the face, and like a happy bird, with bare feet and long hair flying, she flew into the air on the wind: "Wait a minute."

"I'm going to take a shower first."

Janna: "..."

The goddess thought for a moment and finally flew further.