After Rosa came out of the warehouse that served as a school, she felt very depressed. She always felt that she and Doris were on the same side, but she didn't expect Doris to protect Jenny for no reason. That was the bad boy of the enemy!
When she thought about the difficulty her mother had to raise four children alone after her father died, endless hatred welled up in her heart.
Her mother and she made a living by spinning linen. Sometimes, her mother had to sell her body to merchants to maintain the balance of the family. This kind of thing was very common in this town located at a transportation hub. Even her own virginity was given to an old and ugly merchant in exchange for twenty bronze shields.
But even so, it is still too difficult to maintain life at home.
Her younger brother died of starvation, and her older sister became an idiot due to a persistent high fever. The family had no food left to feed a useless person, so they had no choice but to strangle her to death.
Now the new mayor has killed the baron and distributed food to them. She and her little sister had a full meal for the first time since their father's death. Her whole family supports the Chinese. But sometimes, she feels that Mayor Chen is too soft-hearted. If she were here, she would not give anyone in the baron's family a chance to live a peaceful life. A young lady like Jenny should be allowed to live through the hard life she had before.
Rosa returned home angrily, picked up a basket and walked out of town. She was going to go to the woods to relax and pick some wild vegetables and mushrooms. It turned out that every plant and tree in the surrounding woods belonged to Count Carlos and Baron O'Farrell. Generally, no one dared to pick anything to eat, otherwise he would be whipped by the guards.
But after Mayor Chen came, he opened up the surrounding forests. Everyone could go to the forest to find food, but they were not allowed to cut down trees at will. This improved the food for the townspeople a lot.
Rosa was lucky today, picking up a lot of wild vegetables and mushrooms along the way. She recalled the embarrassing scene before and got angry secretly. She walked forward searching the ground and unknowingly walked into the depths of the forest.
She found a big white mushroom near the root of a tree, but when she reached over, she saw a pair of boots stepping on the edge of the mushroom.
Rosa screamed and found that it was a middle-aged man in a black cloak. The middle-aged man's face was very pale, his eyes were dark blue, but there was a hint of green light in the middle. The man held a short staff with a black gem on it. This posture was really scary to Rosa.
Rosa stepped back with the basket, and then she remembered that someone had said that two older children had disappeared two days ago. She didn't want to talk to this person at all, so after taking a few steps back, she turned around and ran away.
But after Rosa took two steps, her body was frozen there, maintaining the posture of taking steps and not moving.
"What a great material. Since you are so thoughtful to come here on your own, as a reward, I will try my best to make you suffer less." The middle-aged man spoke in a gloomy and gentle tone.
"I, I'm just an ordinary villager. Please let me go." Rosa lost control of the part below her neck, only her head could still move.
The man walked slowly past her and came to her, "I'm sorry, your body is already mine, I will use it well. Now go to sleep..." The middle-aged man put his hand on her head, and Rosa completely lost consciousness.
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The next day was a rest day, but the students still had a lot of activities. As part of the teaching plan, Krit took the students of the school to participate in farm work. Dozens of students were assigned to dig canals.
Krit assigned each person an area to be responsible for, and asked the students to work in groups of three or four. The students had limited strength and the area they were responsible for was short, so they all gathered together.
The four people who had joined the study group yesterday naturally came together. The other students were surprised to see this scene. They did not expect that Doris, who had the deepest hatred, would get together with the Baron's daughter.
Doris is the oldest in the class, the vice president of the Women's Association, and she is pretty. Whatever she does and says in the class can influence the students. Today, she and Jenny appeared together, which saved Jenny from a lot of cold stares. Some people even nodded to Jenny when they came to greet Doris and the others.
This made Jenny feel flattered.
"Don't worry. In fact, most of your classmates don't have any big thoughts about you. They just follow others and talk nonsense. As long as you are sincere to others, their feelings towards you will get better little by little." Doris said.
"Yeah!" Jenny nodded in response, and she actually hugged Doris gently.
Doris' heart softened and she touched her head. This child was six years younger than her, and she was really just a pitiful child.
Later, Doris learned that although Krit walked out of the classroom yesterday, he had not gone far. He used a little magic to observe what was happening in the classroom. In the end, he was very satisfied with Doris's performance. He talked to Doris alone for a few words and praised her for her actions. This was really a pleasant surprise for Doris. Thinking of this, she secretly glanced at Krit and found that he and Chen Hansheng were talking about something on the ridge of the field. He looked so handsome in the sunshine.
"Doris, do you know? Rosa didn't come home yesterday." Andre interrupted Doris's gaze.
Doris said with some concern: "Of course I know. The Women's Association sent people out to look for her, but they found no clues. The guards watched her leave the village and she never came back."
"Ah? How could this happen?" Jenny covered her mouth. She was very worried that this was the result of the quarrel yesterday. "Could it be, could it be because of me?"
"You think too much. Rosa is just a little unhappy. It has nothing to do with you that she went to pick wild vegetables by herself." Doris comforted her.
"Some people say that there are a few new wolves in the forest, and those missing people must have been eaten by wolves." Andre whispered.
"Don't talk nonsense." Although Doris said this, she knew in her heart that the missing person must be in a bad situation. In the past few days, everyone was required to go out in groups. The soldiers of the escort team would also search the surrounding woods. Everyone was a little worried about this matter.
At this time, Jenny said, "Sister Doris, look, there are three people coming over there, isn't one of them Rosa?"