Pullman's home is in Brownwood Village. The village is close to the forest in the Tissilan Mountains.
The only specialty in the village is the gooseberry native to the forest. The bright red grape-like gooseberry is a rare berry with a sour taste. Some nobles like to eat it, so every year, merchants come to the village to buy it, which is also one of the first in the village. largest income of the year.
It happened when businessmen came to buy it this year.
The most important thing about fruit is freshness. Mr. Mok will come to Brownwood Village a week or two earlier every year at this time of the year, and sell the gooseberries produced in the village this year to nearby cities in batches. This kind of fruit sells very well. In order to show their status, those rich people in the city often purchase some hospitality to show their superiority and wealth.
Besides, it's not expensive to buy. If you give these silly villagers a basket of silver coins, they will be very happy. And after he transported it to the city and washed it, he could sell it for 60 silver coins a basket on a clean plate, which is a huge profit.
In the high-end shops in the noble districts of the city, these dusty country bumpkins will never have a chance to enter, and they naturally don't know what prices these fruits will sell for. Mr. Mock has been doing this business for many years.
On the way, he happened to meet Pullman's sister Ashley.
Ashley is 14 years old this year. She just came back from a bath by the river. Her youthful and beautiful face immediately attracted the attention of Mr. Mock.
Pullman's sister was spotted by the merchant Mock, and told his parents that he could take her sister to the city as a maid for the nobleman.
Being a servant for the nobles is much happier than that of ordinary villagers. It is stable and will not starve to death. In this dangerous world, it is a career that many commoners yearn for.
So Pullman's parents happily agreed, and Mok also gave Pullman's parents a sum of money, and Pullman was also very happy.
After all, his sister has a good job, and he vaguely felt that if he had this money, he could discuss his marriage with Joanna.
But what he didn't expect is that since then, he has not been able to see his sister, who is a little thin, but obedient and obedient.
After his sister left, two months later, he entered Trin City to find out the address of the nobleman's house and wanted to see his sister, but was stopped by the guards.
He was just a commoner boy, and naturally he couldn't enter the nobles' courtyard, so he stayed on the opposite side and inquired about his sister from the servants who came in and out.
But the strange thing is that no one knew his sister. In the end, he felt something was wrong. One day, he sneaked in at night. Because he was not familiar with the terrain, he was quickly caught by the guards.
In the West Wind Kingdom, the life of a commoner is not valuable. Besides, he broke into the mansion privately and was soon tortured. Fortunately, he was indeed a teenager from a nearby village, and many people recognized him. After a while, it was finally released.
But he still didn't give up, kneeling on the ground with his scarred knees, constantly begging the guard to let him see his sister.
In the end, a young guard couldn't stand it any longer. When he left, he whispered in his ear, "You can go to the barren hills in the south of the city to find it."
When he staggered to the barren mountain, what appeared in front of him were small mounds with exposed bones.
This is a mass grave.
A bad expectation appeared in his mind, he rummaged around, and finally found only a corpse with a similar shape.
But it was still recognizable from the torn clothes that it was his sister.
That's right, the noble man wanted a maid, but he wasn't the kind of maid who served daily life as everyone imagined, but a plaything that could be thrown away at any time.
The young man shook his hands, unable to accept the fact, so he sat beside the corpse for a whole day and night, and finally wept open the soil and buried the thin body in the soil.
When he said this, the boy's voice was a little choked, and remorse filled his heart. If, if only he persuaded his parents at that time, it would be good, if only then he didn't indulge in his fantasies about Joanna.
Why, why is this, their family just wants to live a better life! Is such a small wish not allowed
"Do you want revenge?"
The clear voice of the silver-haired girl came from across the fire.
"I think, but I don't have the strength, and my parents don't allow me to do it."
The teenager's parents also vaguely noticed the truth of the matter afterwards, but perhaps considering the huge gap in strength, the difficulties of adult life, or perhaps they didn't care about this daughter, they did not seek revenge from Mok, and they were ready to calm down and reassure Pullman. Work at home and stop going to Trinity.
"Why? Why are they so indifferent."
The boy grabbed his knees tightly, his voice full of confusion and anger.
In the eyes of children, parents are heaven, aren't they omnipotent
Roland Hill also recalled some past memories. After junior high school, the myth of her parents in her heart had been shattered, and she thought she was much smarter than them.
However, after graduating from work and being beaten by society, she began to understand some of her parents' choices. Many things were not unwilling, but not possible.
Just as Roland Hill was about to enlighten the boy, the mechanical voice of the system emerged again.
New quest: Answer the doubts of the young Pullman, and get a reward based on the completion, at least 70%. (Current progress is 0%)
Rewards: Every time you reach 20% of the progress, you will get a chance to draw a lottery. When the completion level is 100%, you will get an extraordinary creation formula.
Well, does this system also come with real-time emergency missions
Loren Hill began to carefully recall the experience of the teenager and the possible doubts in his heart.
"Perhaps, the parents also have their own considerations."
Lorraine Hill began to explain to Pullman the difficulty of adult life, not only to support a family, nobles and businessmen are powerful, even if they appealed, they would not die, and they had to consider the future survival of their only son, Pullman, and so on.
But the teenager was still a little dissatisfied. He couldn't accept such a result, and the progress showed that it was stuck at 26%.
Roland Hill also understands that such a gentle explanation is not enough to convince the other party, and it would be difficult for her to listen to it.
Then tell him the cruel truth.
"Because you have no power."
The girl stirred the fire, added a few dead branches, and saw that the flames that were about to go out became bigger.
The boy stayed for a while, then lowered his head again.
"Yes, I can't beat that noble."
"No, I'm not talking about this power. That noble doesn't give birth, so his body is probably not as strong as you. One-on-one, you should be stronger than him."
"What does that mean?"
"Have you ever thought about why some people do nothing, but have more wealth than you, and can act unscrupulously, oppress and plunder."
"I, I don't know."
A question that had never been thought of appeared in the boy's mind.
"Their fields are planted by civilians, their clothes are woven by civilians, their food is looked after by civilians, and they have civilians as escorts to protect them. Why can they do this?"
"Because they gave money?" The boy hesitated for a while and replied.
"Where does their money come from?" the girl asked rhetorically.
"Their money..." The young man began to desperately recall the experiences in his short life.
"Their money comes from collecting taxes, collecting rent, and you laboring for him," the girl answered Pullman.
"Yes." But there seemed to be something wrong, and Pullman couldn't tell.
"Let's not talk about tax and rent collection first, don't you think it's strange that the commoners work and produce for them, and they give the commoners money."
"Why are they getting richer and richer and not even having to work."
"Probably because there is more money for labor and production?" The boy answered suspiciously, and then the progress began to move forward.
Roland Hill secretly praised, and began to recall the era in his memory. Countless people worked hard, and even 996 worked overtime without any entertainment. Why could they still not be able to buy a house.
"Yes, the deal is not entirely fair, you are producing more money and they are only giving you part of it."
"This... .."
"Is it really that simple? Why don't the commoners produce it themselves?"
At this time, the teenager has no idea of the answer at all, yes, why not
"Because they have resources that civilians don't have. This resource can be a lot of things, it can be a cow, it can be a shop, it can be a special relationship, it can be a certain right."
"These are scarce and necessary things that you don't have and have to rely on, so they can make this unfair deal."
"Yes." The boy's voice was a little low.
"Can they stay like this forever, and poor people like me have to work for them forever?"
"It's not always like this. Maintaining such behavior requires a good order, provided that everyone is reasonable."
"You must have heard of robbers, the kind of unreasonable people who take everything from you and give you nothing."
"So, they will spend a part of the money to hire guards, although these guards do not engage in production and do not generate money, but they can ensure the long-term existence of interests."
The young man seemed to understand a lot, but at the same time, he seemed to understand nothing, and the world unfolded before his eyes in an unprecedented way.
Watch the progress on the system advance to 68%, then stop again.
Roland Hill sighed slightly in his heart, it seemed that he had to finish the speech completely.
"They have 10,000 gold coins in their hands, and they only use 10 gold coins to hire guards. Why don't these guards guard and steal?"
Roland Hill's voice gradually became more formal.
"Why don't you defeat the guards hired by 10 gold coins and snatch the 10,000 gold coins?"
"Because there is a kingdom as the last guardian of order, and those who break laws and systems will be suppressed, exterminated, and executed."
"Why does the kingdom protect these people, even if they do wrong, why do they tolerate each other, why is the law not on your side?"
"Because they are the masters of this country, they are nobles and wealthy businessmen, not your commoners."
"Of course, they want to defend the interests of their own class."
"Even if you kill this noble, as long as this environment exists, this kind of thing will still happen again."
Having said that, Lorraine Hill paused for a while, waiting for the boy to think slowly.
Pullman was silent for a long time before asking slowly.
"I still don't understand, can it be so unfair, is it always like this?"
"The state, to a certain extent, is the embodiment of a just order. If justice is lost, the foundation of the state will also be destroyed."
"Do you want to ask me how to change all this, that is to build a country where all are equal, a country that is fair and just, wise and firm, rich and powerful."
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In his previous life, Loren Hill took the science college entrance examination and studied engineering. For Marxism-Leninism, his studies were not very good.
But fortunately, this country, which has been struggling and built in the wind, rain and suffering, clearly writes the art of slaughtering dragons in the textbooks of every middle school student. Where did this country come from, how was it established, what mistakes we have made, and how to resolve these contradictions, we have clearly told every citizen.
Maybe it is not perfect, there are still many problems, but there is no denying its greatness, our warrior, the sacred faith, will never be wiped out.