The girl was no longer in that brothel. Faust was missing when he wounded someone in the brothel. What he wounded was a young officer who had just returned from the front line. The soldiers who came to seek revenge couldn't find Faust, so they found trouble in the brothel, smashed the gate of the brothel, demolished two wing halls, and injured several nurses.
That brothel was owned by the Alpha family, the Prime Minister of the Empire, and the incident happened during the state funeral of Emperor Sinach, so the officer who made trouble was severely punished. He was not thrown into prison because of his military service, but was dismissed and compensated A lot of money was paid. This was more or less an opportunity for the Alpha family to gain their prestige, that impulsive officer became a bad guy, and that girl was also implicated.
The girl spent a large sum of money to compensate the officer, and the money was the sacred stone that Faust generously gave to the girl for several days. The girl left the brothel, and it is said that she was going to marry the officer who was dismissed, so it was a good destination. . But the officer did not marry her or did not have time to marry her, he accepted the girl's money and took her home, and was sent to the front again.
This officer is a sixth-level warrior. Although he lost his official position, his role on the battlefield is still very important, and he is highly valued by the legion commander. If he continues to command a team of cavalry, if he makes meritorious service, it may restore his glory.
The officer went to the front, and the girl stayed at the officer's house. Whether the officer really wanted to marry the girl is not clear, but he did take a large sum of money from the girl to avoid prison and promised to marry her. In addition to compensating the loss of the brothel for the officer, the girl's remaining half was also given to the officer to subsidize his family, so that he would have no worries at the front.
This officer came from a low-level noble family without a title or fief. His family background was very similar to that of Medanzuo back then. His father had died, and there was an elderly mother and a group of servants in the family. But the officer's family, especially his mother, disliked the girl very much. After the officer left, the old lady didn't treat her as a daughter-in-law, and her treatment was not as good as that of the maids at home. Xia often humiliated and bullied her.
The reason is very simple. The old lady thinks that it is because of this prostitute that her son has committed crimes and even lost his official position. The girl is the culprit for all this. At the beginning, it was because the girl's money was needed to avoid the son's imprisonment, so the old lady couldn't object to her son's decision, but after the matter passed, the officer went to the front line again, how could this family give this girl a good look Woolen cloth? How could the old lady want her son to marry a lowly prostitute, her beauty became a sin.
With Faust's status and means, it is not difficult to find out the whereabouts of the girl, and he can also sneak into the officer's house to meet her without disturbing anyone. Only now did the sage Master Guoshi know that the girl's real name is Magan tears.
Faust saw Magan tears again, it was early winter season, there was a slight wind blowing in the backyard, the big wooden basin was full of dirty clothes, the girl was sitting by the wooden basin with her head down washing her clothes, her hair was covered with A worn-out headscarf, a strand of hair hanging on the forehead trembled rhythmically with the vigorous scrubbing. Her face was still beautiful, and her skin was still fair and tender, but she couldn't hide her haggard look. Her hands were flushed red from the cold water, and many places were cracked.
Faust stood opposite the wooden basin and looked at her quietly, with inexplicable sadness in his heart, did he make her suffer such a fate? But what if she had never met Faust, and hadn't had that incident a few years ago
Ma Ganlei is weak and kind, otherwise she would not use her own money to save the officer who caused trouble. But the abuse she is suffering at the officer's house now cannot be said to be without reason. The thoughts of the officer's mother are common in the world. If you want to lament, lament this world. Isn't the heart of a strong and knowledgeable person like Faust also full of regret and helplessness
Faust was sighing while hiding his body. A servant walked into the backyard, threw another sheet into the tub, and cried to Magan, "Why are you washing so slowly? Dinner is coming soon, kitchen The work in the house has not been cleaned up yet, this is not when you are in a brothel, you can live a comfortable life by showing off your smile, keep your hands and feet diligent!"
Magan cried and did not speak, she silently soaked the sheets in cold water and then scrubbed the pile of clothes. Suddenly a hot drop fell on her cracked hand, it turned out that she was crying silently. Magan raised her arms and wiped the corners of her eyes with her sleeves, but suddenly froze, staring blankly with her mouth open, because Faust showed her figure.
Suddenly there was a man in the yard, appearing like a ghost, Ma Ganlei was frightened, and when she saw the man's face clearly, she was stunned again. Faust used the magic of space to cover his voice, and said softly, "Magan Lei, don't be afraid, I came to see you specially. Do you remember me?"
The girl finally shouted: "Master Sage National Teacher, you are Faust, Sage National Teacher! Who in the empire does not know you? I saw your face from afar at the sacrificial ceremony, and dreamed of you Unexpectedly, you will appear in front of me! Have you heard my prayer and call to the gods?... You must have heard it, people say that you are the messenger sent by the gods to the world, and you have omnipotent magic!... Country Master, did the gods hear my call and let you appear here?"
The appearance of Faust has changed, Ma Ganlei didn't know that Faust in front of her was the one who brought her bad luck back then, she didn't even dare to think that way. But she knew Faust today, and had seen the most charming man in the empire at the sacrificial ceremony. Faust is in the center of attention in any sacrificial ceremony, and people render him more and more miraculous.
Faust felt a little sympathetic, and asked kindly: "What kind of prayer and call did you send to the gods? You should stand far away from me at the sacrifice ceremony of the empire. You can only stand far away from me when I walk out of the temple." At that moment, when I saw it from a distance from the square, why do I remember my appearance so clearly, and I can be so sure when I saw it at a glance?"
In front of Faust, Magan Lei opened her heart completely for some reason, and was willing to tell the secret in her heart. She stood up in a panic, wiped her hands on the apron, stepped back a few steps, knelt down on the ground and saluted: "In front of you and the gods, I dare not hide anything. A few years ago, I was a prostitute in the city of Niveh. One customer loved me and kept me company every day, but I angered another customer. This is the house now. The son of the mistress, he is a general... "
Ma Ganlei briefly described what happened back then, and finally explained with trepidation: "I once heard someone mention that the missing guest looked a bit like you, Master Sage, and I was very curious. By chance, I saw you from a distance at the Imperial Sacrifice Ceremony. Since then, whenever I have the opportunity to go out to participate in various sacrificial ceremonies of the Empire, I will always look at you from a distance, so I remember your appearance very clearly. I confess all this to you, please forgive my offense and profanity, I am just curious."
Faust asked again: "I have come before you, please take a good look, am I that person?"
The girl lowered her head and didn't dare to look directly at her. She prostrated on the ground and said tremblingly, "Master Sage, the omniscient god must have sensed the disrespect in my heart. Are you here to punish me? I did blaspheme Without you, how can I forgive my sins?"
Faust sighed in his heart, he didn't expect that when he saw Magan tears again, the girl no longer knew him, but she could recognize him as Faust, the sage national teacher. Faust wanted to tell Magan Lei that he was the same person back then, but he didn't open his mouth. Even if he told the girl, he still couldn't believe it, but would be terrified instead.
He wanted to repent and ask for forgiveness, but he didn't have the courage to tell the truth. Maybe it was unnecessary to say anything. Now he only thought about how to make up for the girl and redeem his mistakes.
Faust waved his hand, and an invisible force like a gentle embrace lifted the girl up from the ground. He said softly, "Maganlei, I didn't come to punish you, and you didn't do anything wrong. The gods heard it." Your calling, let me help you and fulfill your wishes, please speak your prayers to the gods in front of me."
Magan's tearful eyes showed almost crazy surprise, she clutched her chest and exclaimed: "Is this true? Great god! Great Enlil."
Faust's legs almost gave way, and he couldn't stand still. The girl was still praising Enlil in front of him! But he couldn't say anything, he could only use the magic of blessing to appease the girl's soul, and said noncommittally: "Please say your prayer, what wish do you want the gods to help you realize?"
Magan tearfully replied: "My prayer to the gods is to hope that the gods will forgive my mistakes. If it is not because of me, Xisim will not get into a catastrophe and lose his official title. I hope the gods will bless him. I can be safe on the front line, establish achievements and restore glory. I also hope that Hisam’s family will stop abusing me so that I can live a stable life.”
Hisham was the officer who was dismissed, and Faust asked: "Is that all there is?"
Magan lowered her head in tears, rubbed her hands restlessly on her apron and said, "The gods can forgive my mistakes, I am already grateful, and I dare not ask for more extravagance."
Faust nodded with regret, stared at Magan's tears and said, "What do you mean by living a stable life? Hisim once said that he wants to marry you, but you have to wait for him to make meritorious deeds on the battlefield." , Will I go home to marry you after my official reinstatement? Please tell me the truth, there is no need to hide anything."
Ma Gan bit her lips in tears, and shook her head as if determined: "No, I don't want to marry him, and I can't marry him."
Faust asked again: "Oh, why is that? If I'm willing to help, just ask someone to pass a word, and Hisam will marry you obediently, and the whole family will not dare to show any disrespect to you. "
Hissm replied weakly: "I dare not hide my heart before the gods. I have no doubt that you can do all this, but this is not what I think and what I can get. If that is the case, Hiss It wasn't me that Shim married, but what you said. I now know that Shisim doesn't really want to marry me, he just needs my money to help him get out of prison and resettle his family.
And it's not without reason that his mother hates me. Any mother would inevitably think that way. These are my misfortunes, but I don't know how to get rid of them, so I call out to the gods in my heart, but I don't get an answer. Today I finally met you! The wisest sage in the entire empire, Master Guoshi, what should I do? "
This sentence stunned Faust, and he couldn't answer, just like he himself had too many wishes to realize, but he didn't know how to do it. With his status and means, there are many ways to help Maganlei, but these all need to be done by others, and Maganlei's question obviously does not mean this.
She was asking Faust, the wisest man in the empire, what should she do? In fact, in Ma Ganlei's situation, she had already given her all, and she couldn't do better.
The girl's question seemed to be Faust's self-examination, and he called out to Satan in his heart, what should he do in the current Assyrian Empire? Seeing that Faust was lost in thought, Magan cried for a while before carefully asking: "Sage Master, can you tell me?"
Faust came back to his senses, reached out and took out a small bottle out of thin air and handed it to her: "This is a bottle of miraculous medicine, apply a little before going to bed every day, it can heal the cracks on your hands within a few days, and you can also get rid of it." It can make your hands more sensitive and your joints more flexible. If you want to know the answer, then try to do something first. Find an opportunity to tell the mistress of this family that you can knit and embroider, and process the nobles’ favorite Clothing materials and embroidery can make a lot of money."
Magan tearfully said: "I can knit and embroider, but I can't embroider that well."
Faust smiled: "I will teach you a method to imprint the skills into your soul, as long as you work hard enough and your hands are skillful enough, you can do it."
Magan tears: "Thank you for helping me in this way, so that I can do more and be more useful. But I understand the temper of this mistress, if I can really do it, she will urge me day and night Adding more embroidery is nothing more than going from one kind of abuse to another."
Faust reminded: "That depends on what you do. The skill is in your hands, and you have to know how to use its value to improve your own situation. For example, you can announce how much you can embroider in a day, or how much you can embroider?" You need to rest well, and if all this is important to your mistress, you can certainly improve the situation."
"But this..." Magan burst into tears, always felt that there was something wrong with Faust's method of teaching her, but she couldn't tell where the problem was, and then she bowed down and said: "Thank you for your help, thank you for the guidance of the gods !"
"You will hear my voice and know what to do, so at least you will have the opportunity to go out often, and I will see you again." When Magan heard the sound and looked up again, Faust had disappeared Now, she held an exquisite medicine bottle in her hand, showing that everything just happened really happened.
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Maganle did as Faust said, and I don't know what method Faust used. The bottle of medicine was really miraculous. After the cracks in her hands were healed, she became more dexterous than before, and her soul There seems to be a voice teaching her superb knitting and embroidery skills.
Finally one day, she told Xisim's mother about her skills. The old lady scolded Magan for her whimsy at first, but when she heard that her skills could make a lot of money, she was tempted, so Let Maganlei have a try, but all the materials need Maganlei to go to the store for credit, and she needs to bring the embroidered things to the store to sell.
A voice in the soul told Ma Ganlei to go to a shop in Niveh City to buy materials on credit, what kind of embroidery this shop would let her process and pay her wages.
It was easy for Faust to arrange such a small matter. His original idea, even if he spent a lot of money secretly helping this girl, to do something that made her feel more useful. But what happened later was beyond his expectations. Faust taught Magan that tears are naturally the most brilliant skill, and the ornaments embroidered by this girl are almost the most exquisite in Niveh City, and are deeply loved by noble customers. All worth the money.
The store is not worried about not being able to sell at all, and even accepts special commissions to find Ma Ganlei for processing. That is to say, in fact, there is no need for Faust to do more, Ma Ganlei can make enough money with his own craftsmanship. For the rich and powerful, although the money is nothing, the money Maganlei earned from her craft is enough to make ordinary people live well.
So Ma Ganlei didn't have to do heavy work day and night, but knitting and embroidery. Hism's mother naturally hoped that she would do as much as possible, preferably day and night, but Maganlei replied according to what Faust taught her: "These are all ornaments custom-made by the nobles. If the processing is broken by accident, I need to lose a lot of money, and I must rest well before I can do these things well."
Maganlei’s situation in Xisim’s house has improved a lot, but she still feels uncomfortable. Apart from resting and eating, she has to process one piece after another under the urging of the old lady. Embroidery. But the kind girl still prayed devoutly every night to express her gratitude to the gods and Faust.
One night, the girl heard Faust's voice again: "You don't owe this family anything, you have given them everything you can, why don't you leave?"
Magan replied with tears: "I don't have a home anymore, where can I go if I leave here?"
Faust said: "With your current craftsmanship, you can support yourself. You can process as much embroidery as you like every day, and then do what you want."
Magan cried silently, she was obviously moved but worried, and finally replied with a sigh: "I can't do this yet, I promised Hisam to take good care of his mother, this is my promise, even if I If you want to leave this home, you have to wait until he comes back. Because of me, he lost his job and his generous salary. It is difficult to maintain the life at home as before. When he establishes meritorious service and restores his position, everything will become like As before, I will make up for my mistakes."
Faust persuaded again: "What happened at the beginning was not your fault, Xisim drew his sword and caused trouble, it was only because of his own impulsiveness, anger, jealousy, arrogance and arrogance, why do you blame all this on yourself? "
The girl thought about it silently, and still replied: "Of course what you said makes sense, but I have already promised. Although I will not marry him, I will wait until he comes back, and then I will follow your suggestion and leave here."
Faust, the majestic sage and national teacher, has so many important military affairs to deal with, but he wasted all his thoughts on crying for Magan, which is more or less because of a mentality of atonement and compensation. This girl symbolizes the hidden secret in his heart, the hidden secret of the chief high priest of the empire revered by all peoples, just like the brand of Satan lurking in his heart.
Faust has many means to help Magan tears, but only according to Magan tears' own wishes, which is also a kind of self-compensation and redemption. He wanted to let Magan Lei find the happiness of life step by step, and before he could make more arrangements, the outbreak of war kept him busy.
First, the Kingdom of Pots annexed Elam, a weak country in the north of Assyria, then Hatti and Assyria jointly sent troops to repel Cyrus’ attack on the northern front, and then King Cyrus of Pots sent the general Darius, Attack the six city-states ceded by the Kingdom of Baron to the Assyrian Empire from the southern front.
The Assyrian Empire was defeated, and all the territory expanded during the Sinach era was lost. The Bozi army established a new province, cut off the connection between Assyria and Baron, and then annexed the Kingdom of Hatti, completely encircling the Duk Plain and the Assyrian Empire in its territory.
Although the war had not yet spread to Assyria, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the fate of the empire was at stake. What made Faust speechless was that the more setbacks the Assyrian Empire suffered across the board, the more important his position in the empire became. The people all regard this seemingly omniscient and omnipotent sage national teacher as the last hope to save the fate of the empire.
Empress Semir, who has no way to recover, is increasingly relying on and relying on Faust, and she has to ask him for advice in everything. Faust has never been so powerful under the guidance of Satan, but he has never felt so weak in the face of the situation of the Assyrian Empire. He could not save the Assyrian Empire, but his knowledge and wisdom made him see the situation more clearly than anyone else.
Knowing that it is irreversible, but still making all efforts in vain, accepting people's praise every day, looking at the eager expectations in people's eyes, one can imagine Faust's mood. He felt very tired, either physically and mentally unbearable, or the helpless exhaustion in his soul.
The most attractive man in the empire finally once again would rather sink and indulge in the depths of his heart, even if he could escape for a moment and find a sliver of solace. He possessed Maganle again, yes, he seduced her. Not to mention how irresistible Faust's current charm is, he is as irresistible as a god in her heart, and the girl is 120,000 willing to obey his will in her heart.
Ma Ganlei often goes to the store to get the materials needed for weaving and embroidery, and also sends back the processed embroidery, so there are many opportunities to go out. Faust bought a secluded yard not far from the shop, and finally one day, he decided to quietly guide Magan Lei to have a tryst here.