Chapter 204: Extraordinary
Destitute, it really fits Bella and her family very well. Since that vicious persecution, the days that have improved a little have gone, and the most left behind except for Bella's death is the increasingly repressive theocracy and the lingering nightmare of money transactions between nobles and Tenaia.
There was nothing left at home to properly dispose of Dr. Bella's body. With the consent of the old woman Prasvia, I wrapped her bedding in the bedding of her life, and there was nothing good to bury with me, except for the little herbs that had been stored and not destroyed. As for the destruction of herbs, that was what Dr. Bella meant when he came out, along with all the notes of clinical treatment that he had recorded himself, and all the notes on clinical treatment were burned. I can't understand what a great asset this is for this age, but why Dr. Bella still refuses to leave it behind. But I learned from the old woman Prasvia that Dr. Bella had come out as if she had been brainwashed, firmly believing that what she had done was heretical, and claiming more than once that it was a betrayal against God's will, and that it was wrong from the beginning. So he will burn them and leave them in the world, or the wicked will kill a successor in the name of God who has learned these heretics.
So simply, religion has triumphed, although the victory is not glorious, but at least it has allowed this young religion to be more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, after all, this is the era of religion, not medicine and science.
"Okay!" I let out a long sigh, thinking that even if other people don't believe it, I believe that other people don't learn, my idea of learning, if I can get Dr. Bella's surgery, then there is a chance, I said that if I have the opportunity, I will make a big difference on the front line, but now it is impossible, but I can understand and respect Dr. Bella's decision. "Then, in the future, their mother and daughter will be handed over to me!" I said, weaving myself into a simple cross. Dr. Bella is a staunch believer in God, so I hope that after he goes to heaven, God will not treat him badly and will not let his faith waver.
I did what I said, and for Tenaia, who was almost helpless, I had to take on the obligation of a man, first and foremost, how to feed such a family of three.
As the saying goes, a penny is a hero, this is true, there are thousands of jobs to make money, but to make a lot of money, you need a doorway, otherwise you can rely on the work that sells your physical strength to support yourself to no problem, the problem is how to feed Tenaia and the old woman Prasvia.
I was so impatient for work that I went out to look for it on the first day, and the least I liked was the craftsman who had the most movement in the city. If you want to be a craftsman, I don't have that skill, and I can't get paid for it when I enter as an apprentice. I had to give up on this, so on the first day, I didn't get anything and went back. How can that stop me? You must know that when I came out of college, I also looked for my first job for half a month, and I was not convinced, so I thought of planting grapes, yes, wine grapes, not the good wine of the Romans, the blood vessels are all diluted wine pulp, so there must be a market for growing grapes. So I ran to the vineyard outside the city, the vineyard that stretched for hundreds of meters, and there was no end in sight, and it was full of slaves who came from nowhere, and it turned out that wine grapes were high-end goods that could only be grown by nobles, and a poor man like me, even if he sold himself, he would not be able to make a decent piece of land, let alone grow grapes.
Eyes are high, this word is used to describe me now, I have a shadow in my heart for this type of work, I still have a shadow in my heart about Xiaoya's departure, not to say that I complain about her ruthlessness, forget the original vows, and have no patience to accompany me to make a comeback. Rather, it focused on why I lost my job, and it created a chain reaction that eventually led to my failure. I don't understand, I don't understand, why when God is targeting me, he always makes me feel very deeply the truth that blessings and misfortunes do not go alone, and I put myself in the shoes of the truth and enshrine it as the truth.
"Is this fate?" I couldn't help but smile bitterly, seeing that the mother and daughter would be hungry if they couldn't find a job anymore, and the mother and daughter were getting more and more emaciated, because they didn't even have the money to buy fish, and they couldn't pick up the rotten vegetable leaves in the market, so they could only reunite with Bella in the sky!
I thought it was a man who made a woman hungry and hit him in the face, so I had to go out again. One new day, I walked out of my house and looked left and right at the two ends of the road, which led to the center of town to the north and to the land to the north, and to the south to the ocean, which led to the docks, which was the busiest place. After a few days of evaporation in the sun, the mud on this road is no longer too serious. The poor people who come and go are all ragged, whether adults or children, although they are dressed in shabby, but they are well nourished, which is often inseparable from Genoa's proximity to the sea, the fish in the sea are inexhaustible for them, naturally the price is not high, even if there is no money to buy, go to sea by yourself, you can't catch big fish, just some small fish near the sea, go home is also a delicacy, you can't go hungry, naturally you won't be malnourished.
Offshore, the sea breeze blew from the other side of the street and passed in front of me. I looked up at the shore at the end of the street, and at the distant horizon, and the water was the same color as the sky, and sure enough, the turquoise sea was gradually turning blue, separated from the distant sky by only an inconspicuous dotted line.
"Well, go there and have a look, there will be a good job."
Well, it was decided, and I secretly said to myself in my heart to cheer. Then he set out on the road to the pier that he had not walked in the past few days.
The street was not long, and it was only a two- or three-minute walk before I came to a low-lying clearing that could be called a port. The sun was shining here, and the surroundings were empty, and because of the goods to and fro, it was much wider than the street behind it, and there were people who came and went, including civilians, fishermen, and slaves. They were busy with their own business on the docks, and I stood at the very edge, feeling like I had been given a chance to relax.
I pumped up my lung capacity and inhaled into the ocean, and the damp and salty breeze instantly filled my lungs. It is crowded with people, and noise is naturally indispensable, and another cargo ship has entered the wharf, and the workers who have been waiting on the wharf for a long time have already been eager to try and seize the time to work.
"I'm coming!" I was ready to try, yes, I was going to do this hard work that I had never wanted to do!
In this era, what was lacking was a temporary worker like me, so I talked to the overseer of the dock and registered, and I became a regular worker, fifty fuli copper coins a day.
I thought I was in good health, because my military background had laid a good foundation for me, but I couldn't bear to work for half a day in heavy barrels, and I couldn't bear to work all day until the evening.
Fortunately, the merchant of the cargo ship was a good man, and he gave us an extra twenty bronze coins after we had finished our wages.
Holding the heavy money bag, I couldn't help but smile bitterly, because I had never seen so many copper coins when I joined the army. Not to mention the fact that the failure of economic reforms caused inflation in Rome to be several times higher than it was a hundred years ago, and in this era, the silver dinaris could hardly be considered a basic unit, let alone this worthless fortune.
"Forget it, it's money!" I weighed the purse, exhausted from a long day's work, and the sore muscles were unbearable. Go home, I silently told myself in my heart that at least let Tenaia and the two of them know that I can earn money, although it is not much, but with income, life will definitely improve! At least in a few months I'll be able to go out and never have to be tired again!
When I got home, the mother and daughter saw the Fuli copper coin in my hand, and their haggard faces showed a long-lost smile, yes, I saw hope in their eyes, at least there was hope for the next few days.