Rebirth: Romania Rising

Outside Dobrich City, there is a residential area of ​​thirty or forty households. Because it is close to the factory, it is called "work shed area".These residences are crude and crowded, without adequate sanitation and infrastructure, and the living conditions are difficult.

There was a shabby house in an alley in the workers' district. Early that morning, an angry voice came from outside the door.

"It's obvious that they have no foresight and only see the immediate benefits, so they are going to fall out with Mistry. There is no such thing as a waste of equipment. I don't know who the bad-tongued person is talking nonsense. This has to be the case. What a grudge, you want to completely ruin my brother’s reputation!”

Kirill is 34 years old. Although he is tall, his waist has been bent early due to years of hard work in the fields, his hair has fallen out, his skin is dark, and his forehead is full of wrinkles.

This morning, he went out to farm early in the morning and heard the rumors outside slandering his family.He is an impulsive person, and suddenly he was shaking with anger. How could he bear this?He argued with those who spread rumors and almost got into a fight, but was finally persuaded by his younger brother to go home.

"Everything is my fault. It was my incompetence that dragged down my brothers and let down the Zlatar family."

Mistry, who is only 20 years old, is different from his elder brother. Although he is dressed in rough clothes, he can't hide his tall and straight figure. Although he is a bit thin, because his elder brother gives him all the good food first, he has been able to survive for so many years. I never let him go hungry, so he doesn't look like a child from a poor family at all, and has a more bookish temperament.Although he studied mechanical engineering, he was not a highly regarded person in Dobrich.

"It's not your fault, it's not your fault, it's the Zlatar family that doesn't know how to recognize people."

My brother was so angry that his stomach ached. He sat on the floor covered with wheat straw and panted. His old habit relapsed. Years of overloaded work were very damaging to the human body.

Despite this, Kirill still braced himself and said to Mistry: "You are a person who wants to do big things. You can't let such vulgar words distract you from your goals. I will go to the fields to see what this year's income will be." When you eat, you’re counting on the summer harvest, so you can’t relax at this time.”

After Mistry watched his brother go out, he looked back at his empty home and sighed.The whole house consists of three low houses with thatched roofs and a small courtyard surrounded by a broken fence.

When I walked into the largest main house, I saw that the floor inside was full of pits, with only a long-cooled earthen stove, and the walls were blackened by firewood smoke.Apart from this, there is no other furniture, so the house is really bare.

Next to the main house is Mistry's sleeping area, which is even narrower and can only accommodate a floor bed full of wheat straw. Fortunately, the window here is opened very large, providing excellent lighting, and the sun shines in from the outside. Scattered on the loosely-threaded book on the floor...

This reminded Mistry of the past.His parents passed away when he was a child, so he lived with his eldest brother Kirill and was raised by Kirill. The relationship between the two was more like father and son than brothers.

Kirill is a kind person. He always thinks that his parents died early, leaving only Mistry a young brother. The eldest brother is the father, and he should be responsible for everything about the younger brother.

He did not want his younger brother to be burdened. He did not send Mistry to help in the fields early like other poor families. Instead, he fully supported Mistry's study and study, letting him let his nature take its course.Victor has never liked working and laboring since he was a child. He loves reading and science.

Although he was worried that this was not a career that the poor could afford, Kirill would rather suffer a little for himself and support his brother's ideals. He gritted his teeth and maintained everything by cultivating [-] acres of poor land and doing odd jobs in the city, and subsidized rice. Sterry went to school to study.

Kirill always felt that his younger brother was different from him and was destined to be extraordinary in the future. How could he be buried in the countryside?So on weekdays, when his brother was farming to earn a living, Mistry didn't even need to cook, he only had to light up and read books.And Mistry found another job in a factory in the city, and it seemed that the future for both brothers was getting better.

But now that this series of things have happened, how can Mistry still understand even a single word?Many years later, the electronic engineer and big entrepreneur is still a 20-year-old young man who has not experienced too many setbacks.He has a personality as raw as jade, but it has not yet been sculpted by time.

After counting the time and confirming that his brother had arrived at the edge of the field, Mistry came to the yard, picked up the hemp rope for tying firewood, silently left the house and walked outside.

Usually, his brother did all these jobs, but now he was kicked out as soon as he found a job. He also wanted to do the work of collecting firewood and cooking. He couldn't let his brother drag his tired body back like before. , Facing the cold stove, I can't even eat a bowl of hot rice.

That's right, Mistry's heart is as high as the sky. He is unwilling to accept this day-to-day farming life. He aspires to one day escape from poverty through his own efforts, make inventions, start a business, and become a city like the people in the world. Even the pride of a province!

But no matter how high your heart is, it is still a human conscience!At least, that must be the case for the closest relatives who raised him.

……

Mistry walked out of the work shed area, and there was a group of young girls washing clothes by the ditch nearby. When he saw Mistry, who was cleanly dressed, his eyes lit up at first, and then he thought of something, or turned around and ignored him. He might have said something loudly on purpose, causing everyone to burst into laughter.

Mistry ignored him and continued walking. His destination was the woods outside the city.This forest is supposed to be the hilltop of the Zlatar family in the west of the city, but their patriarch takes more care of the residents and simply opens the area completely so that poor families can come here to collect firewood at will.

So here, Mistry can meet many people who also come to collect firewood, and some of them are neighbors.After seeing him, they all smiled meaningfully, and various questions floated from their mouths.

"Mistry, after so many years, it's rare to see you collecting firewood."

"Mistry, your family is obviously so poor and your brother works so hard. Are you embarrassed if you don't help every day?"

"An old classmate said that your pen and paper were stolen. Is it true or false?"

"Mistry, I heard that the Zlatar family drove you away from the factory? Why? Could it be because..."

Every word she said seemed to be caring, but in fact it was not intended to hurt him with good intentions.In the eyes of many people, Mistry is an idle slacker. He has accomplished nothing even at the age of 20. He does not engage in farming or business. He just holds a few books and pretends to be a good scholar all day long. He really thinks that he is a capable scholar. Already?

It's a pity that Mistry didn't have more bad things for them to criticize. Now, it's good that Mistry had an even bigger scandal, that is, he was driven away by the Zlatar family, which was recognized by the citizens as good people.

So everyone was extremely excited. As soon as they saw Mistry, they whispered, pointed, and deliberately used words to stimulate him.They really wanted to see the famous "scholar" in the Quan Gongshan District reveal his ugly true face!Then he pointed at him and said contemptuously: "Look, he is really a villain."

Mistry is poor but very ideal. With the support of his elder brother, he does not have to work as hard as his peers, but can do things that they find relaxing and comfortable, such as studying and going to school. Therefore, in their eyes, Mistry It's just wrong.

This is how gossips come about. Any changes in his family will be magnified, and people will always speculate on dissidents with the greatest malice.

But Mistry's handling method was different from Kirill's. He just smiled without any reply, which made the person who ridiculed him feel like he had punched cotton, which was quite boring.

Under the boos, Mistry silently did his own thing. He lifted the firewood behind him and started walking back. He had already collected enough firewood for three days.

In the past, he was not involved in production and rarely did this work. He seemed a bit unfamiliar. Although the firewood on his back was not much, it made Mistry feel very heavy. It was as if all those slanderous words combined made him breathless. Don't get angry.

Although Mistry has learned knowledge, he knows that he cannot get rich by relying on it alone. He is worried about his current situation and is still worried about his future.The Zlatar family only values ​​immediate interests and does not know the future trends.And most people only use one or two one-sided trivial things to comment and measure a person's status, good and evil, right and wrong.

Mistry was a little worried that such a problem would follow him throughout his life and become an indelible mark on him, even though he was indeed driven away by Zlatar

This will greatly affect his reputation in the city. Although Dobrich is about to be ceded to Romania, even so, his reputation in the city will still affect whether he is voted for by the committee. That is the best thing in life. The key to people.

"If I am considered a villain with low morals, then it will be difficult for me to stand out in Dobrich."

This is what troubles Mistry, but as a different kind of person, he can't defend this kind of thing at all, otherwise the more he smeares it, the darker it becomes.say what?If you say "I didn't steal the equipment," the rumors will probably spread wider.

While resting on the roadside, Mistry turned his head and saw some red spots on his shoulders under his clothes. The hemp rope was strangled on it, which was painful. Blood.

Mistry is not worried but happy. The bleeding is not terrible. On the contrary, it reminds him that he must not carry firewood for his whole life and live a life that is unchanged and can be looked over at a glance. This is the most terrible thing.

"Even if no one comes to help, I have to find a way to get out of the predicament as soon as possible."

Gritting his teeth, Mistry stood up again and walked into the inner door again. The women who were washing clothes here were no longer there.When Mistry was about to arrive home, he found that they were all gathered outside his yard, and the place was already completely surrounded.

"Mistry is back!" Someone with sharp eyes shouted, and the neighbors gathered around the door immediately turned around and looked at him, most of them were gloating about his misfortune, only one or two looked worried.Chen Ping had an ominous premonition in his heart. Could it be the Zlatar family?No, their family has always been friendly to others...

As soon as the hemp rope in his hand was loosened, the firewood on his back immediately fell to the ground with a crackling sound.When Mistry pushed through the crowd and walked to the door of his house, he didn't see his brother. Instead, he saw several Romanian soldiers with live ammunition standing in the yard of his house!

Among them, the officer who was wearing a military cap and clearly looked like a figure had his hands behind his back and was walking around with interest, looking at his vegetable garden and the worn thatched roof, and even wanted to poke his head into the house to take a look.

"Romanian?"

Mistry's heart skipped a beat, but he didn't panic at all. He opened the dilapidated fence, walked into the courtyard, and greeted the sheriff respectfully, as if they were his expected guests.

"It's actually the Sheriff who is inspecting this. I'm really sorry for you."

Sheriff Victor quickly turned around, looked Mistry up and down, and then mumbled a few words in Romanian, asking Gruul to translate.

"Sir asked, are you Mistry?"

"It's me." Mistry was even more surprised when he learned that this person was the sheriff named "Victor". Why did the Romanian come to his door for no reason?

But he remained calm on his face, observing this person carefully.But seeing that he was tall and tall, almost the same height as himself, his eyes were fixed on Chen Ping, with an expression like a hunter staring at his prey...

At this time, Victor suddenly burst into laughter, and then said in an extremely stiff Bulgarian that sounded like he had just learned a little: "Mistry, you are the one I am looking for!"

After that, Victor said loudly to Mistry and to the crowd outside who were not too concerned about the matter: "Recently, soldiers were inspecting civilians and heard rumors that Kirill's brother Mistry had stolen equipment parts. ! The army was shocked after hearing the inquiry. The Zlatar family is an unlimited partner with our army. If they dare to steal their family property, they are stealing the resources of our army. It is really a heinous crime. How can this kind of behavior be allowed to go unchecked? "

"So, our army came here specifically today to bring Kirill, Mistry, representatives of the Zlatar family, and the neighbors who had spread rumors about this to the court for questioning! This case of theft of equipment parts must be revealed today. !”

After speaking, Victor asked the Gruul translator to repeat what he said. Regardless of the uproar of the people outside, he smiled at Mistry who was confused:

"Mistry, today you go with our army to the court for trial. Before you go in, you are stigmatized, and it is impossible to distinguish the true from the false. But when you come out, you may have committed evil deeds and you will be judged by the law. …”

"Or clear up the injustice done to you."