Chapter 85: The 'Dignity' of the Little People
Exhausted, Marlena walked from the tent area back to her 'home' on the outskirts of the slums, feeling the bruises on her waist that had been left by one of her clients.
The 'tent area' naturally has the rules of the 'tent area', just like they never mention the truth of the 'tent area', no matter how vulgar they are, but what is forbidden by the 'boss' is not to do it, otherwise they will be thrown to the bottom of the river to feed the fish.
Thanks to this 'boss', a woman like her, who has no skills and a child, can earn a living here, and the money she earns has not been robbed by anyone else because of the 'order' left in this slum.
She died of her husband a few years ago, and in order not to be bullied by the local gang, she had to run away with her daughter to Greenland with the help of her husband's friends.
Her husband had a grudge against the local gangs, but his husband was a good adventurer, and those gangsters did not dare to trouble her and her daughter, and then her husband died outside, and with the help of a few of his adventurer friends, he ran to Greenland, but there was only so much they could help.
After wandering in the city for a long time, she could only take her daughter to the slum with a disgraced face, because the prices in the city were too high, and they could not buy a house with their money.
Her 'home' was 'built' by her and her daughter's own hands, although it was only a shack, although it was only a house made of some sewn rags and wooden planks, although there was nothing now, but ...... She wanted to buy her daughter a house 'in the city', no matter how remote and cramped.
She hopes that her daughter can marry an honest man, not like her, marrying a man who can't settle down, and doesn't want her daughter to embark on the same path as her.
Marlena bought a black loaf of bread, and the black bread at home was finished this morning, and Anna should go upstream to get the clean water - black bread and water, this is their food for the past few days, if she could, if she could make enough money this week, she wanted to take Anna to the 'butcher's tavern', because Anna should have a meat meal, she was too thin.
She saw the ash at the door of her house, and said nothing, just sighed and pushed open the door, but her body froze.
"Anna?"
She walked into the 'house' with anxiety, a straw mat on the floor, a table made of wood, and a few small suitcases...... Nothing was missing, but one 'person' was missing.
"Anna?"
She walked out of the 'house' and shouted in a hoarse voice.
"Anna, where are you?"
The uneasiness in her heart intensified, and Marlena shouted in a panic, "Anna, where are you? Answer me!
Marlena was drenched in sweat, but her eyes were still searching, and she walked quickly into the alley, shouting, "Anna, Anna, where are you?"
With tears in her eyes, Marlena screamed desperately at the empty 'streets' and alleys: "Anna, Anna, where are you, Anna!"
"Yes!
Marlena suddenly remembered her 'neighbors', and they should know!
She turned around and ran out of the alley, but bumped into a person, and after getting up in a hurry, she kept bowing to the person who was knocked down, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry......"
But three seconds later, she hurried away.
The Grim Reaper priest, who was knocked to the ground by her, patted his robe and couldn't help but complain: "Really, I finally found a clue, but I didn't expect to be killed, thrown into the sun and turned to ashes - damn, why did that vampire come out during the day!"
The temple guard patted him on the shoulder, but didn't say anything.
The Church of Death felt that there should be someone behind the vampire, after all, it was just a vampire, even if he was a necromancer, but he actually dared to do something at such a time, and at a glance, he knew that it was premeditated, although he 'certainly' didn't know that the whole city would be under martial law at this time, and he didn't know that there would be a big nobleman assassinated, but after inspection, they found that the necromancer's arrangement in the cemetery should have been a matter of nearly two weeks, not more than half a month.
Because of this, some of the grave keepers were punished, and a quarter of the cemetery was set up with an undead awakening circle, and they didn't even know anything, which was a very serious dereliction of duty.
If it weren't for those two wanderers who 'happened to be passing by', a quarter of the graveyard's undead would have stormed the city last night, and there was a demon corpse among them, which would have been even worse!
Although they are only low-level undead, they can cause great chaos and damage to Greenland, and at least many civilians will lose everything they have - including their lives.
Necromancers can do this kind of thing, after all, 'they' are all 'things' obsessed with 'death', in 'they'' eyes, the undead are like the embodiment of death, 'they' even thought about turning this world into a world of the undead, but then they were stopped by the gods and many races, and the lich and the undead king who set off the 'undead scourge' were expelled from the world of Assatom.
There must be a force behind that necromancer, but they didn't expect to be killed like this, which undoubtedly disappointed them, and the momentum was so dissipated.
Bang bang bang!
"Suanna, Suanna, open the door, open the door!"
Marlena kept banging on her neighbor's door, and unlike her 'home', Suanna's home was built of mud and stone, and it was large, with a kitchen and several bedrooms - although she never went inside, she often heard Suanna show off.
"What for?" said the fat woman named Suanna opened the door impatiently.
Suana has never liked her 'neighbor' very much, and since Marina 'moved here' with her daughter, her husband and her son have been very fond of coming to her, and even after being scolded by themselves, they still can't control their eyes.
"Anna, do you know where Anna has gone?" asked Marina eagerly.
Su Anna snorted coldly: "Someone has been arrested!"
With that, she slammed the door shut, Marina's lips twitched, her hand hung in the air, and finally she put her hand down, and walked back to her 'house' in despair, looking at the shack built by her and her daughter, she seemed to hear Anna's voice again.
"Mom!"
Anna, the girl who was captured by the black dragon, hugged her mother hard from behind, and cried in fear because she almost couldn't come back.
Marina's body froze, then she turned around and pulled Anna in front of her, touching her daughter's dirty face, "Anna, Anna...... Anna!"
The tears that had dried up were moist again, and like her own daughter, Marlena hugged Anna tightly, for fear that she would leave her again.
The black dragon looked at this scene, his heart was very complicated, and he felt very uncomfortable, so he twisted his head to the side.
"Do you know what's wrong?" asked the maid softly.
Cervantes grinded his teeth and said in an inaudible voice, "...... Got it. ”
After their mother and daughter had finished crying, the maid stepped forward and bent down to apologize to them: "I'm sorry! It's all because of the willfulness of my master that all this has happened, I'm sorry!"
Marina looked at the woman with extraordinary temperament in front of her, and the tall man behind her who kept looking at this side with his peripheral eyes, her mouth snorted, her eyes kept flashing, and finally she smiled reluctantly and said, "No, no...... After all, you brought Anna back...... Isn't it?"
The maid saw the complicated smile on her face, couldn't help pursing her mouth, turned her head and whispered to the black dragon: "Cervantes, don't come here to apologize!"
"No, no! really not!" said Marina in a panic, holding her daughter tightly in one hand and waving her hand.
The black dragon pursed his lips, looked at the mother and daughter with complicated eyes, then gritted his teeth, straightened his rickety body, and then bent down and shouted, "I'm sorry!"
"No, not really......"
As she spoke, she didn't know why, but Marina's tears flowed down her eyes and wiped them with her hands, but she still couldn't stop.
Finally, she hugged her daughter and bowed her head to the maid and the black dragon and said a word.
"Thank you......"