Chapter 56, Have You Learned It Yet?

Ryan thought that although Teresa promised that she would treat everyone equally, it is impossible for her to change immediately. This woman is just willing to make some changes for herself. Or being slapped in the face, the concept in her bones will not change too much.

Let’s do this for now, it’s not just a few words to change a person’s notions that have been ingrained in him since he was a child.

After listening to the story for a while, Ryan seemed to be about to leave. At this moment, the old woman suddenly said, "Mr. White Wolf Knight Ryan? Please stay, please? I have something to ask."

The children all turned around, looking at Ryan with immature eyes, not daring to speak.

"What do you want to do by teaching these children valuable knowledge?" Ryan did not agree, he asked back.

"They are all good children. They will grow up in the future. Most of them will not be able to pay for the awakening talent. They will continue to work for the nobles, or they will farm the land by themselves, and then wait until they are 20 or 30 years old. Try my best to save some money, find someone who can spend my life with me, then get married, have children, and then grow old in a hurry in raising children. I am here to teach them, and I just hope that I can do more for their future A way out, am I right? Lord 'Sledgehammer' Lane?" The old woman was smiling, the wrinkles on her face crowed.

"I appreciate your generosity." Ryan gave the old woman a knightly ceremony. In this era when knowledge is monopolized by nobles, she can generously share knowledge just to give these children more possibilities in the future. Such a noble act is admirable.

The children gradually dispersed, Ryan took a stool and sat down, expressing that he was willing to hear what Nora wanted, and Teresa stood behind Ryan: "Please tell me, lady. "

It seemed awkward for the sorceress to say this, but she had promised that Ryan would treat everyone equally, so she forced herself to do so.

"As you can see, I am already an old woman in her fifties." The old woman's hair was already gray, and she smiled self-deprecatingly: "But once, I was a beautiful young woman like this young lady."

Teresa frowned subconsciously, and the sorceress thought that her appearance would not change even in another fifty years, but she didn't say anything, because she still approved of the second half of the old woman's sentence, and she could vaguely see it from her eyebrows. She shouldn't have looked bad when she was young.

"You used to be a nobleman?" Ryan immediately thought of something.

"Yes, I used to be an aristocrat, but bankrupt aristocrats like me are not uncommon on the mainland. Am I right? Mr. Ryan?" indifferent.

Lane nodded.

Bankrupt nobles are not uncommon, because there are always stupid and smart nobles, some who can manage and those who can't manage. Some nobles don't know how to make a living, so they rely on taxation from their own land as their main income. Enjoying a luxurious life, in this case, the nobles would go bankrupt and flee, and all their land would either become wasteland, or be re-entrusted to others by their superior nobles.

Because after some land is abandoned, powerful wild creatures or monsters will come to occupy it, and some lords are unwilling to spend military power and energy to redevelop this land.

It has been more than 150 years since the establishment of the new empire, and the nobles have also been divided. In recent decades, the number of bankrupt nobles has gradually increased. Bankrupt nobles like old women are not uncommon, especially in this high-risk environment. In such an environment, a large number of nobles without strength and ability were eliminated.

So what is this old woman trying to say?

"So, Mr. Ryan, would you like to hear a story from my old woman?" The old woman's eyes were full of hope.

"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't stay here." Ryan nodded.

"Well... um... when do we start? Let's start when I was young. I was born in an aristocratic family. When I was born, my family was no longer able to survive. There was only one family property left. The manor is about seven or eight kilometers away from Miljordenhaven." Nora's eyes began to slacken, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help showing a little smile: "At that time, my parents were there, and there was an older brother who lived be happy."

"However, when I was fifteen years old, a half-elf bard came to my family's manor. He happened to come to stay at our house. His handsome appearance and elegant conversation quickly attracted me deeply. So, during the few days when he stayed at home, I fell in love with him crazily." Nora looked fascinated, as if she had returned to the best days.

"It's a pity that the good times don't last long. You know, bards don't stay in one place for a long time. Soon, in a few days, he will leave our manor and go to the next place. I can't accept my happiness It was so short, so I made a crazy decision." The expression on the old woman's face gradually became painful and obscure: "I decided..."

"You decided to elope with him?" Teresa immediately guessed the ending of the story. Although the sorceress was inexperienced in wild adventures, she was proficient in court affairs and gossip among nobles.

"Yes, I knew it was wrong for me to do this, but at that time, when I thought about being separated from him, I couldn't think about it, so, on the night before he left, I secretly took my dowry and chose Eloped with him, and we left the city by boat together."

"In the first few years, because I brought a lot of property and was young and beautiful, the relationship between me and him was like a fish in water, and we spent several years of happy time."

"It's just that the good times don't last long. Money will run out one day, and my appearance will also fade due to time. The time of half-elves is different from ours. After more than ten years, I began to age gradually, and the dowry I brought also used Most of the time, I could feel that he was getting tired of me, didn't like me, didn't need me anymore."

Normally, most men are like this, Teresa thought to herself, a woman must be self-reliant, and not exist as a vassal of a man.

"So one night, I left him and went home alone. It took me years, and when I got back to my hometown, I found that everything had changed."

"After I eloped, my parents searched for me like crazy and died of depression after years of not finding me. My brother was not a good business guy and he lost his fortune very quickly. A few years later, the manor was attacked by a manticore, and the manor guards organized by my brother were unable to fight against this terrible monster, and he also died of poisoning."

Needless to say, the old woman, Ryan and Teresa could probably think of it. After the death of her father, mother and brother, Nora, who had a weak claim, inherited the ownership of the manor as a matter of course. The Lord Earl of Jordan Haven got the land contract here.

The problem is that this manor has now become the lair of the manticore, and Nora definitely has no way to drive out the manticore by her own strength.

"Haven't you looked for the Justice Church?" Ryan knew what the old woman was asking for.

"I've looked for it, but justice requires a price. Manticore is not an ordinary monster. After investigation, this manticore is a monster at the peak of the elite. I can't afford the price given by the Church of Justice, so I can only find it in Find a corner in the city, rely on some savings from the past and teach and work for a living, and then live on memories." Nora sighed, and the wrinkles on her old face seemed to be a little deeper.

"Then why do you think I can promise you to help you expel the manticore?" Ryan became interested.

"I don't know, maybe it's my intuition, maybe it's just my naive idea, the fact is, I really can't get the corresponding reward." Nora sighed: "This may be my last effort, if you don't want to, Mr. Lane , then let’s listen to a story, the old woman still has a little savings, it shouldn’t be difficult in a few years.”

"I agree." Ryan said with a sudden smile.

"What?!" The old woman raised her head in surprise.

"I said, I agreed." Ryan nodded: "Don't worry, I didn't do it for nothing, I will get my own share of the reward, but the money will not come from you. Next, you follow my Do what you say."

--split line--

After saying goodbye to the old woman, Teresa asked curiously: "What are you going to do? It won't be for nothing? But where will the money come from?"

Ryan smiled, and said his thoughts softly: "First, I will write a letter and notify Earl Albert as a knight of the kingdom, saying that there are monsters haunting Nora's manor. Under such circumstances, the earl must express something. According to your information, Albert is not a lord who likes to send troops, and the manor is already a landless and property owner, so the most likely situation is that he will send someone Post a notice on the bulletin board, offering a reward to those who can solve this problem, this is the first income.”

The sorceress immediately understood that in the face of Ryan's inquiries and warnings, Albert, as the lord, must have something to say, so even if it is just a pretense, a reward for prevarication must be required, and the income must be There you have it.

"Then, Ms. Nora will go to the Church of Life alone. She will promise the bishop of the Church of Life that if her estate can be taken back from the Manticore, she will pay tithes to the Church of Life." Ryan crossed his arms, Said the second step.

"For the Church of Life, it is blasphemy to have a piece of barren land that cannot be cultivated, and it is the ultimate goal of the Church of Life to make all farmland pay tithes, so the Bishop of the Church of Life has no reason to refuse, but Ms. Nora can't give a ready-made one. Reward." Teresa's eyes became brighter and brighter: "So if I were a bishop, I would post a reward. If the reward is successful, then the commission paid by the church can be offset from the tithes that Ms. Nora will pay in the future. If no one completes the bounty, then the church will not lose anything! As for Ms. Nora, her manor has no income at all. If she can pay tithes in exchange for her own manor, she must be willing."

Ryan held out his second finger: "So, this is the second income."

"As for the third stroke, don't forget that Manticore is full of treasures, and many kinds of precious alchemy materials come from this beast..."

"It's Sister Dietlinde! She is definitely willing to buy these alchemy materials from you at a suitable price!"

"So, the sum of these three incomes is enough to hire me." Ryan stretched out his third finger, and then looked at Teresa with a smile: "Teresa? Tell me, have you learned it?"

What answered him was a coquettish white eye: "It's the two of us."