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Chapter 336 Chapter 330 "But my hair is turning gray"

After Su Mingan returned to his room, he fell asleep.

Due to the night stage of the Demon Lord and the Hero, he is currently extremely sleep deprived.

But before he had slept for a long time, he was suddenly awakened by a sound outside.

"In order to ensure the safety of the Eastern District... Wangcheng... Taxation..."

"Please...please...if...we..."

The noise outside became more and more intense, causing Su Mingan a headache.

He sat up, rubbed his eyes, and the watch on his left hand suddenly lit up.

"Good afternoon, master! It's [-]:[-] system time, and I will play relaxing and soothing wake-up music for you..."

"Shut up." Su Mingan said.

The light of the watch was immediately retracted.

A timid voice came from the watch: "Master, you haven't named me yet."

"You take it yourself." Su Mingan stood up from the bed and went to listen to the movement outside.

"But master, how can you name yourself..."

"Then your name is A Du." Su Mingan said casually.

A Du is the name of the goldfish that Su Mingan raised before.

The watch smart got its name, and it seems to be very happy.

Su Mingan walked to the door and listened to the voices from outside.

"My lord, [-]% of the tax has already cost my life, can you respond to Wangcheng..."

Su Mingan pushed open the door.

On the bluestone road that was piled up with rubbish, a tall man stood in the middle of the road with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. Behind him were several guards in royal city uniforms.

"Do you dare to disobey the orders from the royal city?" The man yelled at the crying woman on the ground: "Now that the enchantment is weak and the storm is raging, adding [-]% to taxes is already considered kindness from the royal city. You people who only know how to live Parasites, selfishness should have a limit!"

The man stepped forward, snatched the jade ring from the woman's wrist, turned his head and left regardless of her pleading:
"The day after tomorrow is tax day, you moths, don't forget to pay your taxes honestly! Praia doesn't raise waste!"

The residents on the side went to help the woman and patted her on the back to calm her down.

"Kasanna, don't be sad, everything will be fine..."

"The child's father just went to sea. We have lived in Praia for generations, so why have we become moths..." The woman sobbed.

"Cassana...how about you go to the tavern we introduced before, there should be a sum of money for you to help you tide over this difficulty..."

Under the persuasion of the residents, the expression of the woman kept changing.

Finally, she nodded with difficulty.

It seems that the "tavern" that people call is a very scary place for her.

Su Mingan leaned against the door, watching the scene not far away.

In the room next to him, the old lady was stepping on the sewing machine, the sewing machine creaked, and there was the sound of fine thread rubbing.

"Hey, let me see who is standing at the door...Young man, young man, hey, it's from Su Lin's family!"

As soon as Su Mingan turned around, the old lady's voice came from the window.

Su Mingan hesitated for a moment, and the old lady opened the door directly to let him in.

The house is small, but it looks very clean. There is only a screen between the dining room and the bedroom, and a woman's cough can be heard from the screen from time to time.

When Su Mingan entered, Lele, the granddaughter of the family, came out holding an empty bowl of medicine, and frowned slightly when she saw him, as if she was very defensive towards him.

"Lele, let me talk to this young man." The old lady said.

Lele pouted, turned around and continued to enter the screen.

Sitting by the sewing machine, the old lady sorted out the clothes in her hands.

"Young man." She said, "You still go to sign up for soul hunting?"

"..."

"You didn't come back last night, so I knew you must still be a soul hunter... Don't be nervous, I don't mean to blame you." The old lady smoothed the fabric: "I think the feast at sea will start soon." , I just want to ask you for a favor."

Su Mingan said, "Say it."

Communicating with local residents is beneficial for him to collect some information, and he did not refuse.

The old lady grinned.

She put down the needle and found a photograph.

The photo is extremely blurry, and the faces are also blurred. Only a family of four can be vaguely seen standing inside.

She stroked the black and white photo with trembling fingers, and after a moment's pause, she handed the photo to Su Mingan.

"Young man, you are a child of Su Lin's family. You are a good young man." She said, "I'm getting old and I can't walk anymore. I can only live in this small room all day and all night..."

Su Mingan took the photo.

"I would like to ask you to send this photo to the Central Soulhunting Department." The old lady said, "After the soulhunting dies, their photos will be kept in the Central Soulhunting Department. I thought, the old man has already If you can’t come back, let’s fulfill his wish...I hope this photo can still see the faces of both of them clearly..."

Su Mingan took a look.

The photos are blurry, and it is impossible to tell who is to whom.

"I can see it clearly." He said, "I will submit it to the Soul Hunting Department."

He accepted the photo, and the old lady seemed to have something to say.

"You have probably seen it in the past few days since you came back." She said softly, "This Praia is not a kind hall."

Su Mingan remained silent.

"You have seen the scene just now. There is nothing we can do about the increase in taxes in Wangcheng..." The old lady said, "I saw a knight of light coming nearby last night. Maybe the church can't tolerate us being so poor." It's the neighborhood..."

"The Knight of Light?" Su Mingan guessed that Sherrod probably came to him to do the mission last night, but unfortunately he was still with the soul clan in the southern area last night: "It should not be the church. They don't seem to care about it."

The old lady laughed: "In Praia more than 60 years ago, our life was not so sad... My old man is a cultural person of the older generation. At that time, he could still talk about literature, history, and Praia. The local conditions and customs of Asia. Even if I work as a lobbyist for people and write tabloids, I can barely live...

"He likes to be brave, and his favorite thing to do is to help search for clues at night. I persuade him not to do it, but he still does it without telling us. He is too stubborn, no matter how much he persuades him...

"Later, when his daughter Jiajia got sick, he went up to Yunshang City, saying he was going to find medicine.

"Our family is waiting. Waiting for him to come down, waiting for him to bring the medicine back.

"...When granddaughter Lele was born, and little Hull died, he didn't come back either.

"I still remember his appearance when he was about to leave, what a glorious man, he still sends us letters every year, asking us to wait, and we are waiting too.

"Wait until my hair turns gray, my eyes can't see clearly, until I can hardly sew any more stitches.

"Finally he has news.

"...He said that I don't have to wait for him.

"But my hair is all gray."

Maybe it was because she had someone to talk to, the old lady was a little rambling.

She really seemed to be unable to see clearly, there was a faint white circle in her pupils, and the needle was pinched by her fingertips, and it hadn't penetrated into the thread for a long time.

"You don't have to worry too much." Su Ming'an said, "I read the regulations from the Soul Hunting Department, and relatives who sacrificed their soul hunting should receive financial assistance and care. In your case, it should be from the Soul Hunting Department." I didn't pay attention. I will go to the Soul Hunting Department tomorrow to respond and let them send the aid, and your living conditions will be much better."

Listening to his words, the old lady was silent for a while.

She put down the needle and covered his hand.

The hand she covered was a little cold, much colder than ordinary people, like ice. After a moment of silence, she continued to smile.

"Thank you." Her voice was very soft: "In this way, Jiajia and Lele will have a better life."

Then, the old lady took his hand again and talked to him a lot.

She said that the situation in the eastern district is indeed not very good. The tax increase in Wangcheng makes the residents unable to live.They can only choose to join some taverns that deceive outsiders, abduct and sell slaves, and obtain money to support the whole family.

Some people will deliberately seduce outsiders and exchange their bodies for the capital to survive.

There are also people who will take the initiative to clean up the battlefield, tidy up the dirty work in the block, and risk the remnants of the soul clan to move the corpses and get paid.

Some of them out of desire, some out of involuntary, and some out of family considerations.But everyone is trying to survive in this damn world.

That's what happened just now.The woman whose jade bracelet was robbed was forced to decide to join that kind of tavern for the sake of her child, and to do those unconscionable abductions.

Through the words of the old lady, Su Mingan gradually remembered the chaos he encountered when he first arrived in Praia.

Slave taverns to deceive outsiders, overly enthusiastic women, clean and tidy neighborhoods, corpses covered with white cloth...

All the unreasonable phenomena gradually became reasonable in the old lady's deep and hoarse voice.

This is a world where we have to hurt each other in order to survive.

Humans and souls, souls and souls, humans and humans.

In this morbid way of life, people deviate from their original intentions and gradually coexist with pain.

Bear the dirt and humiliation, drag out an ignoble existence.

...Is this really just a fictional copy of the game?
……

The old lady chatted with him for a long time.

She told him that being weak was nothing to be ashamed of.Life does not necessarily have to pursue something, as long as you can look back on this life without feeling ashamed.

She told him, don't violate the basic rules, and don't try to stand out for anyone else, people at different levels will see it differently.

She told him that the human concern is not to obtain pleasure or avoid pain, but to see the meaning of life.Man will find answers to his own questions in this lifetime.

She told him to cherish those years that now seemed extremely free.

She told him that wisdom can also represent a kind of strength, and people have infinite possibilities.

She told him to live well.

"...In short, don't be afraid, you are still young, and you still have a long way to go. Even if you will see a lot of darkness and injustice along the way, you should give priority to protecting yourself... Soul hunting is not something that eats people The place, Wangcheng also has their own considerations, and they can't blindly fight against injustice...Only when you stand up, stand tall, and see far, you can understand that some things are not that simple." The old lady held him hand, and said hoarsely: "Su Lin, Su Lin's child...you are a good boy, you become a soul hunter, and you will realize your dream."

Su Mingan nodded.

He lived in an unhappy native family since he was a child. Except for his father, no one from the older generation would tell him these truths.

Now listening to the old grandma's rambling words, he felt inexplicably kind.

She would tell him about the past, her parents' short stories and common sense in the world, her life experiences and stories, her son little Hull, and how cute he was when he was young.

Her voice is gentle and her tone is soft, like a flowing stream.As he listened, his tense mood relaxed a lot, and his numb emotions began to soften.

After the world game started, he felt the feeling of being taken care of by his elders for the first time.

He sat here for a long time, about two or three hours, when the setting sun slowly fell on the window sill like a band of light, the door rang.

The old lady let go, stood up, and opened the door.

With a handsome face, like a bright knight bathed in the setting sun, he is standing in front of this house.

(End of this chapter)