On the Seven Towers

Baron Gregory had already left with his men, but Xiao Chen didn't see much joy on the dwarf's face. Farrell looked at Xiao Chen solemnly, and then said: "Mr. Master, even if you save me, I still won't go with you."

Xiao Chen did not answer, but walked around the room that was messed up by the soldiers. The shelves fell to the ground, armor parts were scattered on the floor, and many weapons were bent and broken. Farrell followed him with one foot high and one foot low, and repeated: "The dwarf always means what he says, I will not follow you."

"Are you going to clean up this place and continue to open?" Xiao Chen asked, pointing to the messy ground.

The dwarf looked around, shook his head dejectedly and said, "I can't stay any longer. I will leave here tonight with my sons. That bastard Gregory must have done it on purpose today. I guess the city lord has already taken a fancy to my property." …”

Xiao Chen sighed and shook his head: "Then where are you going? Go to a strange city and start from scratch? And then in a few years, you will be bankrupted by those greedy lords like wheat?"

"I..." The dwarf was speechless and looked at him with red eyes. Xiao Chen could see the anger like volcanic lava in his eyes.

Xiao Chen added, "Or, being imprisoned on some crime? Making weapons for the lord every day in a dungeon where no light can be seen? Is this your plan?"

"Ah~~" Farrell roared, picked up a mace from the ground, exerted force with both arms, and the two-finger-thick hammer handle was broken by him. He threw the two-part hammer on the ground, as if throwing away the corpse of his enemy, and said angrily: "Those bad guys can't defeat me, I will resist. If you hadn't come in just now, I would have used this hammer to hit the flat grid." That bastard head of Ligaoli! Those who want to bully us in the past and in the future, I will let them know that no dwarf is easy to bully!"

"Yes, Dad! We start over, and we can earn back a shop in less than a year! With the craftsmanship, we are not afraid of anywhere." One of Farrell's sons echoed loudly.

The other son said: "If you hadn't told me not to do anything, I would have broken the necks of those two soldiers."

"Shut up. Shut up, you two idiots!" Farrell said angrily: "Go and pack your things, take the valuable ones with you, throw away the cumbersome things, and load them all onto the flatbed truck. . Let’s get out of this damn place.”

The two young dwarves didn't know what made their father so angry. They were stunned for a long time before going to the back room mumbling.

Xiao Chen looked at the backs of the two people leaving, and then at Farrell, who looked like the evil fire was coming out of nowhere. Knowing that the dwarf was actually struggling in his heart, he changed to a more relaxed tone and continued: "Mr. Farrell , I have been in this city for a while, and I have met many people in the city. You have to know that Gregory, the bastard and bastard you call him, actually has a good reputation in the city: be cautious. "Gregory the Good-hearted Sir, Gregory the Baker, oh, he got this title because he bought some bread to feed some poor people last winter."

"What do you want to say? Tell me that bastard is actually a good person? They are all pretentious bad guys. You should know it just by looking at the blood on my son's face." Farrell said with his eyes widened.

"I want to say, why does a person who occasionally shows kindness to the poor become so vicious when he comes to your shop?"

Farrell was in a daze, lowered his head and said nothing for a while, and finally said angrily: "Just because I am a dwarf. A dwarf is not a human being! A dwarf is a deformity, a monster. They are similar to cattle and sheep...livestock! I I have heard countless people say this, and I understand that even more people think so viciously.”

Farrell walked back and forth in the room, appearing to be upset: "However, this is how I survived, and this is how I survived. You see, I built my own shop in the big city of mankind. Use your forging hammer to show them that dwarves are awesome!"

Xiao Chen looked at the dwarf silently. The dwarf loudly told his hardships, but his voice started to sob. The big tears flowed down his rough cheeks and soaked into the big beard, "But...but these are gone again..."

"Are you really not considering going with me to a safe, free place where people respect you?" Xiao Chen asked sincerely, "I promise, nothing like today will ever happen."

"Haha." Farrell smiled with tears on his face, "But you are also a human. To you, an exiled dwarf like me will always be an alien. We are too different in height. Everyone will lower their heads to look at me. Ever since I was exiled from the dwarf kingdom, I feel like I am stuck in a chimney that is emitting black smoke. I can swing a two hundred kilogram hammer without breaking it. The power of this layer of black smoke.”

Farrell glanced at Xiao Chen, whose face was full of regret, then turned and walked towards the back room, "I'm fed up with looking at my face. I just want to live my own life, or hide in a ravine at worst."

Xiao Chen looked at Farrell depressedly. He didn't expect to encounter such a good opportunity. He tried to pull him, but he couldn't convince this stubborn dwarf. But there was nothing he could do. Without basic trust, it was impossible to start.

"Are you willing?" At this time, Luo Ling, who had been silent, spoke up. Her voice was like a needle, piercing Farrell's heart. "Have you ever thought about whose fault is the cause of all this? Yes. Who made you wander around, who made you lose your wife, and who made you run away like this at night? "

Farrell stopped and turned around: "Woman, what do you want to do! Don't use such despicable means to anger Farrell."

"I just want to ask you if you have the courage to take revenge. A person may not have the ability to take revenge, but if he doesn't even have the desire to take revenge, it's useless to be called a man."

"Who says I don't want to! I want to let those old stubborns know in my dream that it is them who are at fault! I want to let them know that my miserable life over the years and Lisa's death are all their fault! I just , I just don’t want to…”

"You don't need any explanation. You want to take revenge on your own. You are not even willing to make sacrifices to rely on others. Is there any possibility of success?!" Luo Ling's voice was cold and sharp, mercilessly poking at Farrell. sore spot.

"What do you know! I have believed in others, and I have believed that I can go back and prove it to them. If I have believed in myself, those old guys will eventually pay the price. In order to achieve this, I worked day and night, but in the end I What did you get? Nothing, but lost Lisa! Everything was fake, cunning humans easily deceived a stupid dwarf again and again." Farrell's face showed anger and disappointment alternately. , finally settled in sadness, "You say, what do you think I should do? How can I still trust humans? How do I know if it will end like this again after I leave with you?"

"You have no way of knowing. I won't guarantee it either." Luo Ling said seriously, "But besides us, who else trusts you like Xiao Chen and lets you test his folding knife with confidence? Who else will listen to you seriously? Anguished, how about talking to you with such an equal attitude? Maybe this is your last chance worth trying. If you still have a little bit of courage, you should take a gamble."

Farrell stared at Luo Ling. Luo Ling's gaze was penetrating and scorching, and he soon did not dare to look at her. He grabbed hold of his beard and twisted around in confusion.

At this time, his youngest son's voice came from the door of the back room: "Father, maybe we should try again. I was born outside the dwarf kingdom, and I have never seen what my hometown looks like. You said that every dwarf I should be born on the banks of the lava river in my hometown, feel the hot breath of the God of Forging, and should be buried in the lava river and become part of the bloodline of the God of Forging, but I can only imagine the magnificence of the lava river. "

"Yes, I also want to see the Valley of Ten Thousand Hammers again. How wonderful it would be to wake up to the sound of countless forging hammers every day." said the eldest son.

Farrell looked at the faces of his two sons that looked like his own when he was young, and sighed in a low voice: "I have... given up. I have become a coward with no strength, and I just want to take you to a place where no one cares. I don’t want anyone to dominate you and turn you into slave craftsmen. But, damn it, maybe running away for a lifetime is too unfair for you...it’s too unfair for us. Fair enough!”

He stared at Xiao Chen fiercely and asked, "Are you really prepared to let me go one day, and let me return to the dwarf kingdom with the latest technology, and slap those old fools in the face? The iron ingot is so red? Do you swear by your heritage?"

"In the name of the magic tower I belong to, I promise." Xiao Chen replied solemnly.

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When Xiao Chen came out of the blacksmith shop, his face was excited and his spirit was different. Cai Long and Cai Long were left in the blacksmith shop to protect the Farrell family, while Xiao Chen was going to ask Baron Goya to smoothen the relationship so that Gregory would no longer cause trouble to the dwarves.

"See how happy you are." Luo Ling shook her head and smiled.

"You are really sharp and you immediately grasped the dwarf's vital points." Xiao Chen praised.

"That's because you're in the wrong place."

"You mean about discrimination?"

Luo Ling sneered and said, "Don't you think we people won't discriminate? When Farrell arrives at school, will he receive less strange looks?"

"Hey, it's better than these locals. Modern people still take equality seriously."

Luo Ling shook her head and said: "Do modern people have less discrimination? In our world, can you truly treat white people and black people equally? Can you truly treat urban and rural people equally?"

Xiao Chen pondered for a moment and said, "I know everything you want to say. After all, I have worked as a reporter for two years, and I also investigated the illegal stay of black people in Guangzhou. I admit that I couldn't stand it at the time and felt that they were of low quality. , I think it would be better to repatriate them all.”

"So let's talk less about equality and more about reality. We need to tie them up with benefits instead of all the lies."

"Of course interests are important, but we must not underestimate the power of values!" Xiao Chen stopped, stopped Luo Ling, and said seriously: "This moment, that moment. When we arrived in the new world, we became an absolute minority. If you still hold the same prejudices, you will not be able to integrate into this world. This is a matter of life and death, and we cannot stop fighting discrimination just because we cannot completely eliminate it.”

"From acceptance to habit, from habit to integration?"

"Yes, and it must be an integration centered on me. Our values ​​must be attractive to achieve this! The addition of people like Xi Luo, Morey and Farrell is a good start. We must make them feel that we really accept them."

"This must be difficult. Maybe it won't be done for several generations."

"Although I can't reach it, my heart yearns for it."

Luo Ling found that Xiao Chen at this time was no longer lazy as usual. His eyes were focused and clear, like a baby, which made her feel a kind of moving power.