Charlie has been yelling at Nebula, beating and scolding, after all, this is just a kid who is fostered to eat white rice at his own house, and he has the final say on him.

After learning that Nebula was fostered by a noblewoman of a large family, and that he would send a fixed amount of 100,000 gold coins every month, Charlie's attitude towards Nebula immediately changed 180 degrees.

Although Charlie is an idle hunter, he knows a lot about those family gossip and gossip, for example, some noble ladies of big families took advantage of the absence of the head of the family to have a private meeting with their lover and gave birth to such an illegitimate child, because the illegitimate child cannot stay in the family, so it is common for him to be sent to a remote place like the frozen snowy region.

A few years ago, Charlie also heard that an ordinary textile peasant woman's family was rewarded with nearly 10 million gold coins by that family for raising the illegitimate child of a second-rate family. At that time, it happened that the heir of the second-rate family died young, and a new heir was urgently needed to support the scene.

When Charlie heard the news, his eyes immediately turned red, if it weren't for the peasant woman who moved to Treasure Island after she had money, maybe the envious and jealous Charlie would have gone to the peasant woman's house to grab a sum of money.

And now this opportunity is in front of him, as long as he bluffs this kid well, when the big family wants the child back, he can take the opportunity to ask for a high amount of child support, with the kind of big family that can make the Gretel family bow their heads, 50 million gold coins should be just a small amount!?

So, Charlie pulled Elena and began to call herself Nebula's parents, and every day after returning home from work, he greeted Elena and Nebula with a smile, and sometimes brought Nebula some novel toys and fairy tale books from the market.

At night, Charlie even told Nebula a story in front of his bed, even if his voice was stiff and not beautiful, but for Nebula at that time, Charlie was really a loving father, it was like a dream.

Right! It's like a dream!

Sweet dreams are here, and they are almost awake

About three months later, Yelena, who went to the Maple Leaf Chamber of Commerce to receive gold coins, found that the alimony that should have been 100,000 gold coins per month had shrunk to 50,000 for some reason.

Yelena asked the person in charge of the Frozen Snow Branch of the Maple Leaf Chamber of Commerce, but the person in charge said that when she sent it here, she did only send 50,000. Elena wanted to ask about the noble lady who had fostered Nebula with her that day, but she didn't know anything about it except that the noblewoman's name was Sith and possibly her distant relative, and she didn't even know if it was a real relative.

When Elena told Charlie about the situation, Charlie hesitated for a while, and did not immediately change his attitude, after all, if Nebula is really the illegitimate child of a big family, then when he is asked to go back, he will always give himself a little child support, even if they may not give as much as 50 million, but even if it is only 10 million, it is enough for himself and Elena to live a rich life.

However, things did not go as well as Charlie had imagined, and the alimony sent by the noblewoman became lower and lower, fifty thousand, thirty thousand, ten thousand, and then she stopped sending alimony.

In fact, when she handed over the alimony money sent by the Sith, it was quietly withheld by the guard, because the guard had tried it, and the other party who sent it could not get in touch with the family at all.

Although there are indeed some risks associated with doing so, 100,000 gold coins is a lot of money for the guards who have worked hard all day.

However, Elena and Charlie did not know about these circumstances, they only knew that the other party had stopped sending child support, and if it was not what happened to the family, it was that the other party had completely stated that they did not want the child

Another month later-

"What!? Charlie, you mean to say so, not very good!? Yelena said to Charlie with some hesitation.

Charlie frowned at Elena and said coldly, "Are you embarrassed to object!?" Do you have what it takes? Didn't you say you had a very rich uncle? A lot of gold coins are sent to us every month? As a result, if you lie to me, forget it, that damn lady dares to lie to me! If she doesn't give child support, who will help her raise her child!? That's it, I'll go and talk to the foreman tomorrow! ”

Elena grabbed Charlie's arm and said to Charlie, "No! You can't do this! The child is innocent, Nebula is so cute!! ”

Charlie stroked Yelena's stomach and said softly to Elena, "Honey, you still have to think about the child in your belly. After the birth of the child, my income will only be able to barely support you, if we add the oil bottle of Nebula, we may live the kind of life that we can't eat enough to eat, even if we can bear it, but what about our children? ”

"So, it's an excellent choice for us to send him away, and you should also see the adoption message on the bulletin board, as long as you give him to the contractor in the area of the magic vein to adopt, you can get a benefit fee of 100,000 gold coins, with this money we should be able to live a good life." Charlie said to Yelena.

Elena pondered for a while, and pleaded in a low voice to Charlie: "Then you must promise me that you can't gamble anymore!" The nearly five million child support given by that noble lady have been gambled and lost by you one after another. This time, we must live a good life, and we can't live like this decadent anymore. ”

After hearing Yelena's response, Charlie chuckled and nodded, since Elena said so, it means that she has no objection to her own approach, and it is time to say goodbye to that annoying little ghost

The next day, Charlie took Nebula out in the name of going shopping, and Nebula didn't know anything, and followed Charlie out happily and excitedly.

Elena grabbed Nebula's arm and wanted to say something to Nebula, but under Charlie's threatening eyes, she didn't dare to say anything, and could only watch Nebula being taken out of the house by Charlie.

After going out, Charlie did not take Nebula to the market as he said, but came to a house with a spacious plot and seemed to be rich.

I don't know what Charlie said to the head of the household, Charlie touched his bulging waist and walked out with joy on his face.

Charlie tells Nebula that he is going to do something very important and asks Nebula to wait here.

Nebula didn't doubt him, so he played alone in the yard, waiting for Charlie to pick him up.

But until the evening, his adoptive father did not come to pick him up, and Nebula wanted to run home, but was stopped by the guard at the door.

One of the young guards, spitting on the ground, yelled at Nebula, "Want to go out? Don't be delusional, boy! You're a slave that we Olot-sama bought, how could we just let you out!? ”

Although Nebula was still ignorant at this time, he also knew that slave was a bad word, and he probably knew what it meant to be bought.

It's like buying and selling things, and the self that has been sold is no longer a member of the adoptive father's or mother's family

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Frozen Snow - The area of the Magical Gem Vein

Ever since the discovery of the Magical Gem Vein in the Frozen Snow Region, the four major forces of Treasure Island have been jointly controlling all the vein mining.

Since Treasure Island is a long distance away from the Frozen Snow Region, in order to ensure the mining of the magic gem vein and the safety of the vein, the four major forces of Treasure Island have set up the Elder's Mansion in the largest village in the Frozen Snow Region, and each of the four major forces has sent an elder to temporarily reside in the Frozen Snow Region.

However, the elders of high status did not actively participate in the management of the ore vein, and as long as the family they hired to be in charge of mining could produce the magic gems they had set for within the agreed time, the elders would not bother.

This also leads to the chaotic mining of the Magic Gem Vein area, which is irregular and very dark.

The families in charge of mining, whether they robbed or bought and sold, got thousands of mining slaves from villages large and small.

Almost every moment, the blood of slaves is spilled on the land of the veins, and what they, the heads of the families in charge of mining, say is the rules of the vein area.

They are like the emperors of the soil in the mining area, firmly in the grip of the life and death of thousands of mining slaves

Magical Vein, Sector 1 -

On the gray gravel field, several mining slaves were pulling the cart with difficulty with ropes, slowly pulling forward along the railroad tracks built on the ore veins.

The yellow-skinned, skinny slaves struggled to drag the minecart, dripping black beads of sweat on the cold, hard gravel floor.

"Hurry up! You damned slaves, you're lazy all day long! Drag so much ore to grind and grind, do you want Lao Tzu to use a whip to make you sober up? One of the one-eyed overseers at the entrance of the cave waved his whip and scolded the slaves with great displeasure.

If there are slaves, there must naturally be overseers, and for every hundred slaves, there must be an overseer above level 30 to take care of them, otherwise it will be very troublesome if there is a riot among slaves.

Overseers also have ranks, comfortable tents, easy patrols, naturally not the turn of low-level overseers like One-Eye.

A hired overseer like One-Eye can only accompany a group of slaves at all times, supervising the work of the slaves, and the only privilege is probably to fiddle with the leather whip in his hand.

At this time, the one-eyed overseer seemed to see someone walking in from the entrance of the mine, and when he saw who it was, the one-eyed overseer flattered the man and said, "Agent Oro, you are back!" Yo! You've brought a few cubs with you, and I'm sure Mistress Guise will be pleased. It just so happens that the previous batch is almost dead, and I hope this batch can last a little longer."

Agent Olo, who had a striking red beard, stroked his small red beard, nodded to the one-eyed overseer, and said, "Hehe, Barrett." You're pretty good at talking! I'll borrow your good words, and if you really get the reward of Lord Guise, I'll treat you to two drinks!" ”

"Hey! Blue-haired imps! What are you staring at Lao Tzu!? I warn you, be honest with me here! Not everyone is as good-tempered as I am! The one-eyed overseer circled the leather whip in his hand, and used the leather whip ring to smack the arm of a blue-haired child near the head of Agent Olo, and said viciously to him.

(Well~~~ It's been very busy these days, if you can't wait, you don't have to wait, you can watch it tomorrow.) Thank you Ozawa Zhou for the tip)