"I'm back with my mother again. Although I'm still young, I can still do some simple things. Even if I leave my hometown again, we, mother and daughter, can barely survive relying on each other. I guess the reason why the Emilio family doesn't Driving us away was probably to take advantage of my status. A woman can win over a male leader from another family for the family. At worst, she can also bribe an outstanding subordinate. Naturally, I am not willing to take that path. Road, but we, mother and daughter, were unable to resist, so I had to learn those messy things from the people they sent, but I still practiced martial arts desperately in secret, because this is the only way I can protect myself."
"Later, my mother finally left and lost my only relative. I originally wanted to leave that damn place, but my mother was buried there. I couldn't abandon her. It was already very pitiful for her to be alone. How could I let her stay away from her hometown after death, but my family's intentions towards me also made me understand that if I could not prove my usefulness to them, I might soon be sent to an old man's home. Man** and then go through what my mother went through."
"In order to live well, I practiced martial arts even harder. Finally, three months after my mother passed away, I picked up a wooden stick and became an adventurer. That year, I was 16 years old."
When Vivian said this, she let out a long sigh, and there was a little mist in her eyes. Ryan patted her shoulder gently to show sympathy for her, while Vivian forcefully He waved his hands, as if to expel those past experiences from his mind.
After finishing this action, Vivian changed her tone and said to Ryan again in a relatively relaxed tone: "This is really a long, boring story, isn't it?"
Ryan didn't say anything more, just shook his head slowly. Vivian understood what Ryan wanted to express. She felt relieved and continued to speak: "It's been 10 years, a full 10 years, a young girl, again Among the mixed mercenaries, there is no need to go into details about the discrimination I suffered, but I survived it all. Every year I would go back to the place where my mother was buried, and then tell her my experience of the year with great care, and then proudly tell her She and I are living a good life now and have not followed her old path.”
When Vivian said this, her tone and words were slightly aggravated, as if she was emphasizing something for Ryan. Ryan's heart moved slightly, and he also had some understanding of Vivian's hidden meaning, but this Naturally, neither of them could tell such a thing face to face, so Ryan still listened quietly to Vivian's story for him.
"In total, it's almost my mother's death anniversary. In fact, even if Uncle Bill doesn't come to see me, I will go back. But suddenly, I feel a little scared again. I don't know how to face my mother. , I survived the previous 10 years, what about the future, am I going to survive like this for the rest of my life? Now I am still young, in good health, and able to fight hard, but what will happen when I get old? Also, even though that bastard Paul It's not good for me, but after all, he is mine... For so many years, as long as I can get a large amount of money back every year, he will ignore me, and that bastard Toby... "
When Vivian said this, her emotions began to light up again: "Oh, I'm sorry, it's wrong to describe Toby as a bastard, because it will taint the word bastard. He is an even more bastard than his father when he was young. Paul is getting older and has been in poor health. In recent years, Toby has been handling family affairs. Do you know what the first thing this bastard did?"
"I guess it's probably an increase in taxes." Ryan thought for a while, going through all the situations that he could think of, and then said what he thought was the most serious thing. Unexpectedly, Vivian smiled contemptuously. Getting up, she said to Ryan: "If you become this lord, the people in the territory will laugh out of their dreams."
"Oh, what's that?" Ryan didn't expect that what he thought was the most serious thing was actually the greatest preferential treatment for those people. Instead, he became slightly interested, so he asked, "Is it more serious than this?"
"Seriously." Vivian smiled contemptuously again: "That bastard is more despicable than a pig and more vicious than the devil. The first thing he did after becoming the acting lord was to promulgate the law of 'sexual power'. In the entire territory of the Emilio family, women are not allowed to have sex with their husbands on the night of their wedding, and they can only serve that shameless, dirty and vicious bastard."
"What." Ryan stood up immediately after hearing Vivian's words. This was the first time he heard such a thing. For Ryan, this was simply unbelievable. He grabbed Vivian's arm and squeezed it hard. Shouted: "What did you say?"
"Ah, you hurt me." Vivian's hand hurt. Despite the protection of the poisonous manticore's armor, she still screamed, and Ryan realized that he had lost his temper because of Vivian's voice. , he quickly and embarrassedly let go of Vivian's hand, and whispered: "I'm sorry, but is this true? How is this possible? Isn't there anyone who resists?"
"Hmph." Vivian's face was full of disgust, and her tone was full of helplessness: "How to resist? The lord has the only army in the entire territory. Resistance can only lead to death, and even if the people in the territory flee, as long as they are caught No one can protect them, this is a law enacted by some idiot 200 years ago."
"Then, then..." Ryan only felt that his head was in chaos. He never dreamed that such shameless things could happen on this continent. When he thought of Luke and Orlando working so hard to govern this country, and the country's The people had to endure such a shameful thing, and Ryan only had one thought in his mind: "Have their efforts become meaningless?"
"In the past few years, there have been no more than 20 men and women getting married in the entire territory, and their first children have nothing to do with the father." Vivian spoke again: "For this matter, Paul once reprimanded Toby once , after all, these people and their descendants are the foundation of the family, but do you know what Toby did? He promulgated another law. Any woman who has not married by the age of 25 will automatically become Toby's daughter. slave."
"Bang." With a bang, Ryan smashed the wooden table in the room with one punch. The furnishings on the table immediately fell to the ground and became a mess. Vivian was also shocked by Ryan's actions. If Unless she saw it with her own eyes, Vivian would never believe that this was the result of a magician without using magic.
"What are you going to do?" Ryan calmed down after venting some of his anger. He said to Vivian calmly: "Tell me your plan."
"Come back with me to pay homage to my mother. After Paul's death, my mother and I's situation will become even more difficult. This is the last time I go back. When I leave, I will take her with me. Obviously, Toby would not agree, because a few years ago he had already planned to marry me to another family, and what he was planning was the daughter of the patriarch of that family. If possible, I even wanted to take him with me An army goes back, but it’s a pity that the only one I can rely on now is you.”
Ryan looked at Vivian with pleading eyes, opened his mouth and said only four words: "As you wish."