986 Normality
Roya was two years younger than Arthur and as old as Gavin.
The development of girls is earlier than that of boys, so it seems that Luo Ya is more mature than Gavin, although Luo Ya's clothes are also school uniforms, they are obviously carefully made, which is not the same as the school uniforms issued by Los Angeles No. 1 Middle School, Luo Ya herself is also very beautiful, Xiao Si and his wife attach great importance to Luo Ya's education, and they have never relaxed.
"There is an outing arranged by the school tomorrow, are you going to go?" Roya was looking forward to the outing, though she knew that Arthur and Gavin didn't have much hope of participating.
"I may not be able to go, I still have four classes tomorrow, two in the morning and two in the afternoon." Arthur didn't look forward to it, being born in an aristocratic family meant more homework, and he really didn't have time to go out and surf, Arthur's daily schedule was full, and he didn't even have a normal family holiday.
Don't think that the children of rich families are as described in literary works and do not learn and have no skills, there may be arrogance and domineering, but there are really no people who do not learn and have no skills.
Most of them are born in nouveau riche families, and parents neglect to discipline their children because of their work, or they don't know how to educate their children, so their children will not learn and learn no skills.
Ida and Phyllis were both born into aristocratic families, and such families both know the importance of their children's education, so they never relax their work on children's education.
For Arthur and Gavin, multilingualism was just a basic skill, and they were exposed to literature, history, economics, geography, and even international relations at a very young age, which can be difficult and obscure for children, and they simply did not have time to participate in group activities such as outings.
Of course, growing up in such an environment, it is not impossible to grow crooked, but the probability is much smaller than that of children born in civilian families, which is the so-called survivorship bias, and individual exceptions do not represent the overall level.
"Then I'm not going either, I'll read at home tomorrow-" Luo Ya was not much disappointed, Ida would have been disappointed if Arthur had left Luo Ya alone.
It is difficult for girls from aristocratic families to achieve something, and most of the time they will become tools of family marriage, but this does not mean that the education of girls will be relaxed, on the contrary, the education of girls will be stricter than the education of boys.
There is also a basis for family marriage, it does not mean that Xiao Si's daughter will definitely be able to marry Roque's son, if Arthur is not satisfied with Roya, then Arthur will marry Christian's daughter the same, even if Christian's daughter is unwilling, Christian will tie up his daughter and send it to Roque's house.
Therefore, the story of the prince and Cinderella is a fairy tale, but the story of the Seven Fairies and Dong Yong is a myth.
"I really want to go to college soon, and we can be a little freer when we go to college." Gavin yearns for college life, or for the adult world.
"Don't expect too much, we will have more homework and heavier workloads when we go to college." Arthur didn't expect much, their lives were planned from the beginning, and there were mature routines for what to do at any age, and there were basically no exceptions.
Unless it's the mud that really can't stick to the wall, it will be given up by the family, but being given up is not to fend for itself, no matter what you do, not being able to damage the honor of the family is the bottom line, and the consequences of breaking the bottom line are very serious, and being confined to death is a relatively light punishment, think about the princess who died in the French tunnel, you know the consequences of pursuing individuality.
For Arthur and Gavin, the student stage, like the average student, was the easiest stage for them.
Ordinary students may face problems such as work, marriage, family, and house after entering the society, but Arthur and Gavin will begin to get in touch with the operation of the family business, and if they perform well at work, they will be further cultivated by the family; If you don't perform well, or even perform badly, then your status in the family will continue to decrease until you are completely abandoned by the family.
Don't think that Arthur and Gavin have a title guarantee, then everything must be worry-free, if the heir to the title behaves badly, the title inheritance will be revoked, even if he inherits the title, if the performance is too outrageous, the title may be withdrawn.
"Well, it's desperate to think about—" Gavin actually knew that going to college wasn't going to make it easy for him, just a hope.
"Don't think so, you're the next Marquis of Nyasaland, and you're born to take on more pressure than ordinary people." Arthur is only 15 years old, and his mind is already quite mature.
"I know, I know, but sometimes I really want to give up my title and go to a place where no one knows me for the rest of my life." Gavin is still very naïve, but this is understandable, after all, Gavin is only 13 years old, and it is normal to have a little secondary disease.
"You won't." Arthur smiled, he had also been in secondary two, but after being beaten up by Ada, Arthur never had a secondary two again.
"Why?" Gavin hadn't been beaten yet, and that was the case with people who hadn't been beaten.
"If you give up your title inheritance, your father will be disappointed in you—" Arthur was very patient with his younger siblings, regardless of the other side.
Gavin stopped talking, the emotion of "disappointment" was invisible, intangible, but deadly.
"My father had a friend who did the same, but he gave up not the right to inherit the title, but the inheritance of the family business, and then this friend of my father was sent to London by his father, without giving money, without help, without asking, and within three months, my father's friend borrowed money to buy a ferry ticket back to Rhodesia, knelt before his father and begged his father to forgive him." Luo Ya is not in the second grade, and girls always mature early.
"Who's such two?" Gavin was curious, his so-called renunciation of inheritance rights was just talk, and he wouldn't really do it.
"Uncle Aiden." Luo Ya puffed out her cheeks and smiled, spreading the black history of her elders behind her back was an unladylike behavior.
"Wow, I didn't expect congressmen to be so willful." Gavin laughed that little ones are always keen on this kind of gossip, just as boys are keen to get their friends to call them "Daddy".
"What is this, Your Majesty was also very willful when he was young." Arthur didn't have much respect for His Majesty the King, after all, Southern Africa was far from the emperor.
"So, Uncle Anton was also very willful when he was young, otherwise he wouldn't have come to Southern Africa." Luo Ya actually wanted to talk about Roque, but she really didn't dare.
Now Luo Ya is systematically studying Chinese history, not only Chinese, but also Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Slavic history, as well as Arthur and Gavin.
"This is the difference in ability, there are only a few who have the ability to jump out of the original family, and can be better than the original family after all-" Arthur concluded, before the words fell, the school bus suddenly made a sharp turn, Arthur was almost thrown out of his seat by inertia, and the school bus was full of exclamations.
Before Arthur and Gavin could react, the bus suddenly accelerated, as if it had hit something.
The driver didn't brake, but still accelerated forward, and it was then that Arthur and Gavin noticed that there were a few more black sedans in front of and behind the school bus.
"What's going on?" Gavin was curious, and got up from his seat to look back, as if there had just been a car accident and the school bus was quickly leaving the scene.
"Don't worry, Uncle Tiger will take care of something." Arthur didn't panic, Tiger was Ada's escort for Arthur.
Although they attended a public school, Ida and Phyllis never relaxed about the safety of Arthur and Gavin, and Los Angeles No. 1 High School visited the Nyasaland Evening News, which was protected by a car escort throughout the whole process.
In the last black sedan behind the school bus, Tiger was looking back to see what was going on.
"It seems like a car accident, don't worry-" Tom beside Tiger is also the escort that Ida arranged for Arthur.
Tiger didn't speak, he kept looking behind him with his pistol, and there was a loaded shotgun on the door next to his leg, though Tiger never had a chance to use it.
"The school is also looking for trouble, how good is it to be honest in school, if you have nothing to do and do some social practice, who is responsible for what goes wrong?" Tom muttered as he stuffed the gun back into the holster under his armpit, and Los Angeles No. 1 Middle School actually doesn't engage in social practice every day, only once a month on average.
"Don't complain, do you think the way the Lord raises children the same way we raise them?" Tiger didn't notice a car catching up, so it was really just an accident.
"Well, our children don't have titles to inherit when they grow up—" Tom said with a casual expression of envy, but not to the point of jealousy and hatred.
There is nothing to envy about this kind of thing, nobles have the life of nobles, commoners have the life of commoners, the same is a lifetime, vigorous and vigorous, although it is popular, it is not bad to be plain.
"Don't think too much about it, as long as my children can grow up safely, if you are lucky enough to be admitted to the University of Nyasaland, then go find a good job, if you can't get into college, then you can simply run the farm honestly at home, or continue to serve the little marquis like us." Tiger is content, an ordinary person like him, it is already very good for the next generation to have two or three choices, even in the UK, those ordinary British children do not necessarily have so many choices.
At the very least, it is impossible for the British in Britain to have hundreds or even thousands of acres of farms in the United Kingdom.
To own thousands of acres of farms in Britain is basically the aristocratic class, and the commoners don't have to think about it.
Even in the UK, there are public schools, but it is difficult for ordinary children to get into university, and in the end, they do not have to work in factories, or go to the army to serve as soldiers, repeating the life of their previous generation.
For ordinary people, this is the norm.