Gao Wen put down the last engineering report that he needed to confirm personally, stretched his neck to relax the stiff cervical spine, and then looked around.
The study was very quiet, but he was not alone. Not far from Gawain's big desk, there was a small table against the wall. Betty was lying on the side of the table, bowing her head and writing seriously. with a word you recently learned to spell.
Taking two hours every night to go to night school to learn spelling, and then to practice writing in front of textbooks during the day, this seems to have become Betty's daily routine, and in order to let this little girl who loves learning have a more convenient learning space , Gao Wen specially allowed her to practice writing in his study, and arranged a small desk for her here.
This obviously exceeded the treatment that a maid should be given. However, no one in this place would question Gawain's decision. As for Betty herself—her mind didn't seem to be complicated enough to think about "overriding the rules".
Betty is indeed a not-so-intelligent girl—in fact, she is a bit dumb. Gawain knows that there is a word to describe this kind of girl, which is the so-called "dumbness", but he doesn't feel the slightest bit from Betty's dumbness. I'm so happy—this girl doesn't have any congenital defects, her "sluggishness" is just caused by malnutrition and family life embarrassment since she was a child.
Just like most poor children in this era, like most kitchen maids, low-level handymen, and serf children, lack of nutrition at critical stages of development and lack of education during the most important learning period of life often affect them throughout their lives. Knowing, being obliterated, curious, unable to learn, and not knowing how to think independently, nobles often regard "inferior people" as stupid and ignorant, and regard it as a natural defect, and even This is used as evidence to support the "truth" that "nobles are born noble". Of course, there are exaggerated and unreasonable discriminatory factors in it, but as he understands the world more and more, Gao Wen has to admit a fact:
There is really a gap in learning ability and thinking speed between the children of the abject poor and the children of the aristocrats who live well. Although this gap has nothing to do with the so-called "bloodlines", its existence is an unavoidable reality.
Therefore, Gao Wen is working hard to reduce this gap. Whether it is promoting free children's special meals in night schools or distributing food subsidies to children under the age of six in the territory, it is a part of the effort. First, solve the malnutrition of children and let them It is the most effective way he can think of to be able to fully develop the mind like the noble children, and to educate them at the same time, but what about those who have grown up or are about to grow up
Gawain stood up and came behind Betty, watching this stupid girl struggling to spell each word. She made few mistakes and her handwriting was much neater than before, but she had to spell a word dozens of times to remember it. , to this day, she is still learning a lot of things that evening school children do in their first two months.
Betty is already much better than most people of the same class. She is almost an adult, but she still has strong curiosity, and she likes to learn actively and spontaneously. People can read and write fluently, but she is still very difficult in learning—she is not a hidden genius, she has missed the best learning age, which is difficult to make up for with acquired efforts.
In fact, if it hadn't been for a catastrophe in the territory, if Gawain hadn't brought her to see too many things in the "outside world", Betty might never have learned that there is anything other than rough work in the kitchen. way of life.
Just like she was holding her pan in the days when she first escaped from the territory-that's because she really had nothing else in her whole life, and as a kitchen maid, the pan was her The highest honor and mission imaginable.
Betty finally noticed the figure beside her, she raised her head somewhat startled, and wanted to get up in a panic: "Master..."
"It's okay, I just finished my business, let's take a look at your progress." Gawain pressed Betty's head to reassure the girl, "Ah... you can already write neatly."
Betty laughed a little embarrassedly. She was very happy to receive the compliment, but she was a little wronged: "Pea learns faster than me..."
"She's still young, so it's normal for her to learn things more easily," Gawain comforted the little maid, "You work hard, and sooner or later you'll catch up with the others. And I can teach you anything you don't understand at any time."
"En!" Betty nodded vigorously. At this moment, Gao Wen noticed a few pages of draft paper protruding from the stack of books next to the small desk. With some simple basic runes.
"Have you started learning runes?" Gao Wen asked unexpectedly.
"Well..." Betty lowered her head, "Mr. Santis, who teaches runes, opened the classroom and allowed other classes to attend, so I followed..."
"Can you understand me?"
"I can understand part of it," Betty gestured with her hand, indicating that it was a very small part, "Mr. Santis speaks very carefully and is very patient. The audience can also ask questions, so I learned some .Mr. Santis said that if I can write down the basic twenty-eight runes, let me go to the class formally."
Gawain couldn't help but think of that tall, thin mage wearing an old mage robe, with messy hair and a little cowardly, ever since he arranged for the second-level arcanist to teach runes at Cecil Universal Academy. After the magic, he never heard any news about the other party. That Mr. Arcanist is really a very low-key person. It seems that as long as he is given a job, he can keep silent in the job. Keep working—but in the end, he seems to be doing just fine as a teacher
There are very few official mages who are as patient as he is in front of common people, and he can even explain the relatively complicated theory of runes to the extent that even Betty can barely understand part of it. This is really a remarkable talent.
After all, before this, no one had ever thought about how to explain magic to a group of people who could not feel magic power at all. Santis' education route was completely figured out by himself.
"Mr. Santis once said, 'You can't see the magic, but it's there'," Betty whispered, "but he didn't let us carve runes on copper plates and black stones, he let us Practice on the sand, manuscript paper and writing board first, and you must wait until you are proficient before you can touch magic materials... "
"Safety awareness is the first step in learning magic," Gawain laughed. "He's right about that."
After saying this, he suddenly turned around and looked in the direction of the window—he sensed that Amber's breath was approaching here quickly.
It's a pity that the anti-amber device didn't work this time—the half-elf lady who was skilled in the shadows directly jumped over the mousetrap on the windowsill and landed firmly on the ground. Gawain noticed that her expression looked a little serious.
It was rare to see a serious expression on Amber's face, so Gao Wen temporarily put away the idea of replacing the mousetrap on the window sill with a tripwire next time, and looked at her curiously: "What happened?"
Amber casually picked up Gao Wen's water glass on the desk and poured the herbal tea in it. After drinking happily, she took a deep breath: "Huh—I'm exhausted from running all the way here. The patrol team in the mountain came back early, and they I met a group of suspicious militants and brought back two disabled prisoners."
Gao Wen frowned suddenly: "Suspicious militants? What's the situation?"
"I don't know, those people don't have anything that can identify them, but I found mapping tools and some sketches of dark mountains on them," Amber waved his hand, "The two captured captives couldn't ask anything either. , and they were seriously injured, and Pittman did not dare to give them liquid medicine to extract a confession—for fear of accidentally killing them. Now they are being detained in the barracks area, and the priest is treating them. The patrol team members who came back It's over there too."
Gawain frowned, and looked back at Betty: "You watch the door at home, I'll go out for a while."
The little maid nodded blankly, and in the next second, she saw that her master and Amber had rushed out of the window in a hurry, and only their voices came faintly from the air:
"Oh, I'm going to this mousetrap!"
"It deserves it, who told you to trap me with a mousetrap—you caught yourself this time!"
"I can't go with you—why do I jump out of the window with you!!"
Betty was stunned for a while, then lowered her head and continued to write hard - it was too difficult to understand the behavior pattern of the master and Amber when they were together, it is better to learn a little easier.
On the other side, it didn't take long for Gao Wen and Hu Po to arrive at the "prisoner's holding room" in the corner of the barracks.
Here he saw the patrolling soldiers who encountered the enemy and the two captives who were defeated and captured by them. Indeed, as Amber said, the two captives were seriously injured—they were pierced by the scorching rays Many hands, feet, and torsos were grazed by heat rays, and the metal armor melted by the high temperature made their injuries extremely serious. If the soldiers of the patrol team hadn't poured healing potions on them in time, they would have been injured after returning to the territory. It's hard to say whether they can survive the priest's holy light rescue.
Priest Wright has completed the emergency treatment of the captive's wounds - through a series of effective treatments such as bone setting (physics), cleansing (physics), healing (physics), and a little bit of insignificant special effects of holy light, he made the captive's situation After calming down, the pastor immediately greeted Gao Wen when he saw Gao Wen coming in: "Lord, you came in time."
Gao Wen saw the blood on the pastor's hands and body at first glance, and was startled: "If I come later, you will put him to death, right?!"
"Ah?" Wright was stunned for a moment, and quickly waved his hands, "No, no, their injuries have stabilized, I mean, if you come a little later, I will prepare to release the tranquility spell on them to make them fall asleep—then they will be There is no way to ask."
Glancing at Wright's casserole-sized fist, Gawain believed that the pastor's tranquility technique was so effective that anyone could shut up...
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