After playing around in the neighborhood for a long time, Solandale was tired of playing, so the three of them found a breakfast shop to drink soy milk.

Solandale was halfway through her drink when she suddenly stared in one direction.

Lorna looked up and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Solandale said silently, "Look over there." ”

Chino and Lorna looked back to see that a shop was being stocked, and the owner was sitting in a carriage, sipping hot tea while lazily directing the slaves, all of whom were underage children, to carry heavy loads.

Child labor was not illegal in Dogoland, and many poor families with poor incomes would try to have more children, and then sell them to the nobles as slaves, or simply use the whole family as slaves in exchange for monthly coins and shelter.

According to the Code of Doguland, signing a deed of sale and branding as a slave is equivalent to voluntarily relinquishing citizenship, no longer under the protection of the Code, and no longer being considered a human being, but an "animal", no different from a pig, a cow or a sheep, and the owner is free to decide his life - a principle of the Code is not even dictated by the ruler of a kingdom, but inherited from the Sun King, the chief of the gods.

No, a few of the children were too thin and slow to carry heavy loads, and they were immediately whipped by their bosses.

Among them, there is also a little boy and a little girl, it should be a pair of brother and sister, the elder brother in order to prevent his sister from being whipped, with his body to protect her underneath, which also inspired the boss's ferocity, and hit him harder, beating him so that his back was bloody.

Pedestrians occasionally stood and watched, but soon dispersed.

Not to mention beating slaves, even if these slaves are killed on the street, no one will care.

It has been a concept since ancient times that if a slave is branded, he is no longer human, and his life is not protected by the code.

Solandale looked at these tortured children and said faintly: "I have been thinking that if the schools in the kingdom can relax the restrictions, no longer have the rules of silver moon settlement, or allow private schools to exist, these children will have the opportunity to go to school, gain knowledge, and change their destiny." And not as it is now, where origin determines everything. ”

Lorna didn't know how to answer, so she simply picked up her chair and said, "I'm going to beat that boss up." ”

Chino shook his head, "You're not helping those kids, you're hurting them." ”

"Why?" Lorna was confused.

Chino: "Because you didn't change the status quo." After you beat someone, the boss is still the boss, and the slave is still the slave. ”

Lorna said strongly: "Then I will warn him, don't beat the children in the future, let them be fed and clothed, and treat them well." I am a nobleman of the royal family, and he dares not to listen to me? ”

Chino smiled briefly, "He really wouldn't dare ignore your warning, but instead of treating slaves well, he would choose another more economical method - sell these slaves and buy a new batch of slaves back." What are you going to do then? Flying from the Cold Valley, one more warning? ”

"Taking a step back, even if the boss really treats these children well in order to please you, what will the other slaves under his command think when they see it? They will think, "As slaves, why should I suffer here when you can eat and dress well?" Jealousy is a terrible emotion, and these children will be ostracized by other slaves, and their lives will be worse. ”

After Lorna hesitated for a while, she stubbornly said, "Then I will buy them all and send them to the province of Tayu to be servants, and I won't abuse them, it's all right?" ”

Chino: "No problem, but still no point. You can help individual slaves, but you can't help all slaves, can you buy all the slaves in the kingdom? ”

Lorna was speechless.

Maybe she was young and vigorous, or maybe she wanted to show herself in front of Solandelle, Lorna snorted heavily, carried the bench and said, "I can't help everyone, but I can at least help these people in front of me, even if I can help one." ”

With that, she rushed over with a bench.

The boss drank tea well, and suddenly there was a "bang", the brain was buzzing, and the whole person was knocked off the carriage.

He reached out and touched it, it was all blood, and turned back to Lorna and scolded angrily: ", why are you beating me?!" ”

Lorna said coldly, "What are you doing beating these children? ”

The boss laughed angrily: "I beat my slave, what's the matter with you?" ”

Lorna didn't say a word and was on the bench again: "Then I beat you, what's the matter with you?" ”

The boss covered his head with a question mark on his face.

Lorna carried the bench and beat the boss wildly, beating him to cry wolf, and kept crying: "Soldier! There are no soldiers! There's a madwoman here! ”

The royal city was very safe, and soldiers arrived within half a minute.

When the captain saw that someone was fighting in the street on New Year's Day, he immediately felt bad luck and shouted: "Someone! Take her down! ”

Lorna fell off the bench, took out her second series badge, and said in a cold voice: "The four wings are here, who dares to step forward?!" ”

Exclamations came from everywhere, and the soldiers were stupefied.

The girl in front of her, who doesn't seem to be an adult, is actually the four wings of the Regnome family, one of the twenty-four dragoons in the Cold Valley?

The boss was scared half to death, knelt on the ground, and didn't dare to come out: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry... I... I didn't know you were a dragon knight..."

The soldiers also shrank their heads, as if a mouse had seen a cat.

Most of the soldiers in the royal city were from noble backgrounds, and their status was higher than that of ordinary soldiers, but in front of the royal family, it was still several grades behind, let alone the noble dragon knights.

Lorna threw the bench to the frightened children and said, "Come, how he beat you, you beat you back now!" ”

The children and the boss stared at each other and trembled, "My lord, he is our master, we can't do this..."

Lorna thrust in: "From this day on, he is not your master. I'll send you to Taba Province at once, to serve as servants in a friendlier nobleman's house. Therefore, if there is revenge, take revenge and flatten him! ”

The long-term oppression has made the children dare not be presumptuous, and the idea of slavery in their minds has long been ingrained, and no one dares to move.

But the brother and sister should have just been sold as slaves not long ago, and their minds have not yet been enslaved, and the elder brother thought that his sister had always been bullied by the boss before, and now he had more powerful aristocrats to support him, so he immediately grabbed the bench and crooked the boss's front teeth with a "bang".

"Good!" Lorna applauded wildly.

In this way, Lorna instigated the children to take revenge on the boss in a frenzy, and then took them for herself, and asked the soldiers to contact the post station and send them all to the province of Tayu one by one.

The most laughable thing is that Lorna didn't pay the ransom, and the boss didn't dare to ask for it, so she lost more than a dozen slaves for no reason, and was beaten badly, which can be called a disaster.

Solandelle looked at this scene and did not feel amused or relieved, but lowered her head and said quietly, "Chino, I have read a lot of books. Throughout the ages, the slave class has always existed, and the idea of 'slaves not being human' has been accepted by everyone. I don't know why, even though it's written like this in every book, even if this rule was first made by the great Sun King, but I just think this perception is wrong..."

Chino: "The things in the book are not all right, and it is better to believe in the book than to have no book." The same has been true throughout the ages—it has always been that way, right? ”

Solandale raised her head, and her tone was very urgent, as if trying to catch a ray of light in the darkness: "So, you also think the same as me?!" ”

"What I think doesn't matter to you, what matters is that you stick to your ideas and don't get moved by others." Chino gave an ambiguous answer.

"My thoughts are... Slaves weren't supposed to be treated like animals, they were human too—" Solandale pursed her lips and asked tentatively, "Do you think anything can change that?" ”

Chino: "The sun confers royal power, and the concept of slaves being inhuman is inherited from the sun king, the chief of the gods, and in the interests of the ruling class, it naturally forms an impregnable system." If the system remains unchanged, this kind of thing will always exist. ”

"There's nothing you can do..."

"Unless—"

"Unless?"

"Unless you change the world."

Unless you change the world...

This sentence lingered in Solandale's ears for a long time, and it seemed to be real and illusory.

On the first day of the year 513 of the Huoyao calendar, a seed was planted in the heart of the little princess, who had just turned 12.

The Grim Reaper, who knows people's hearts well and has no last resort, may not really have thought about how much impact his words have on others and himself.

Primitive man looked up at the starry sky for the first time, and it was destined that human beings would set foot in the sea of stars in tens of millions of years.

And when this seed is planted, it is doomed that the fear of the gods is all vain.