Lord Stark

Of course, Matthew heard the name Salazar Slytherin.

Although Helga Hufflepuff is not impressive, I have to say that she is a very charming woman, gentle and generous, and considerate in her words. She doesn't ask why a young man like Matthew lives in the mountains. He didn't try to solicit, just whispered some gossip.

The girl in her arms is called Liv Baker, who is only seven years old now, but because of malnutrition, she is as thin as a four- or five-year-old toddler. Roughly cut into thick slices of bread, I ate it hungrily, until it was too dry to swallow, and then I put it down and started to drink mushroom soup.

Helga Hufflepuff whispered about what she saw Liv. The Baker family worked as bakers in a small town and sold the kind of black bread that could be used as a murder weapon. Liv was the youngest, but she was not She didn't get any preferential treatment because of this, and her income is so much these years, so she couldn't afford to have more children, so the Baker family planned to send Liv to the castle as a maid.

Don't think that a maid is a good job. Before Matthew sent the mother and daughter to be maids, he had roughly checked the nobleman's reputation. It was not too bad, and he didn't have any bad habits. Even if the salary was very low, he finally Will not kill at will.But the one near Baker's house is known to be cruel. They didn't take civilians seriously. The maids in the castle have a high attrition rate and are all tortured and killed. Even girls are not spared. Therefore, the price of recruiting maids in the castle It's not bad, you will be given two silver coins when you go in, and you will be given five silver coins as compensation if you die.The Baker family agreed, and Liv, who had already become sensible, suddenly had a magic riot, and was immediately attributed to the devil. Those ignorant people in the town attributed all the misfortunes to Liv, including her family and even her. The family is even more cruel.

Helga happened to pass by, cast the Imperius Curse on those people, and rescued Liv.She sighed now, and said: "It's not decades ago now. The upper class nobles are okay, and they always have some contacts with wizards. Many times, they have to ask wizards for some things, but now, the Holy See is powerful. , They have long disliked wizards, and some wizards have joined them as paladins, and wizards are scattered everywhere, and they are not their opponents at all."

Matthew said casually: "Then why don't you just live together, or live in a little remote place?"

Helga said sadly: "It's not that simple!"

Helga has discovered that this young wizard living in the deep mountains and old forests doesn't know anything about the outside world. She suspects that this is the last descendant of a certain wizard family that has been hidden from the world for a long time, or in other words, this young wizard It might be an apprentice of a strange wizard. The old wizard died, leaving behind an apprentice who had no impression of the outside world, so he couldn't help feeling a little pity in his heart.

Helga is often said by several companions to be too sympathetic, but Helga herself feels nothing.The Hufflepuff family is nothing in the pure-blood wizard family. They are good at growing herbs. Magic plants have different tempers. Without a gentle, patient and tolerant heart, they cannot do this job well.

Helga's talent in herbal medicine is the highest in the Hufflepuff family for hundreds of years, but in the magic world where the strong are respected, she can't get more respect. She can't inherit the family as a woman. , the family's plan for her is to marry when she reaches her age. Traditional herb growing families like Hufflepuff also have fixed marriage partners, such as potion family, healer family, magic creature breeding family, etc. Well, Helga's marriage partner is a member of the healer's family, not the heir.

When everyone thought that Helga was a good-tempered person, Helga left the Hufflepuff family and escaped marriage. Before leaving, he even cleaned up the fiancé in name, um, including the one who was mixed with that fiancé. I don't know a witch from a small family. This witch has average magical power, shallow knowledge, and no special skills. Even the most basic magic will make mistakes, but her advantages are also outstanding, she is beautiful and has a good figure.In terms of appearance alone, Helgana is a bit short in stature and slightly fat, and Helgana, who can only be said to have a good appearance, really can't keep up.

Helga looks gentle, but in her heart she is an extremely proud person. Hufflepuff has been passed down for hundreds of years. She feels that her talent is not inferior to any of her ancestors, just because she is only a woman. She was excluded from the line of family succession and arranged for such a disgusting fiancé, no wonder she could bear it!

The Hufflepuff family was furious about this, and announced the removal of Helga, but Helga didn't care about it at all. For ordinary wizards, family is very important, but for powerful wizards, They alone can support a family.

Helga is extremely talented. Before she left home, she took away a batch of magical plant seeds, found a place by herself and opened up a medicine field, and planted those seeds. The herbs she planted had all the medicinal effects. Much stronger than the ones on the market, so many potionists have switched to ordering her herbs, and the Hufflepuff family is not as bad as before, but it is not as good as it used to be.

The Hufflepuff family later came out to ask Helga to return to the family, but Helga refused stubbornly. What is she doing when she goes back, is she sold by the family again?An excellent herbal planter must have a higher price tag!Helga has seen too many men who pay more attention to the appearance than the inside, and she is too lazy to be the kind of standard lady who can ignore her husband's spending time outside and play with herself. She would rather live her life with herbs, at least these The magical plants will not betray her.

Of course, these were not the first meetings. Helga told Matthew. Helga simply told Matthew about the current situation of the wizards in the magic world.

Wizards have only begun to isolate themselves from ordinary people after the witch hunts of the Holy See in recent years.The number of wizards is really too small, especially, the birth rate of most wizards is not very good, a family with two or three children is considered a lot, and in this era, even the children of wizards, it is normal to die young .But ordinary people, although they encounter many difficulties, such as hunger, cold, natural disasters and man-made disasters, they have children one after another. Anyway, this year when it gets dark, there are no other activities. Come on, let's make people if you have nothing to do!After they are born, they can be raised if they can afford them, and they can be thrown away if they can’t. A family can support even two or three children. Based on the population base of ordinary people, one mouthful of spit per person can drown all wizards. .

Therefore, those ordinary wizards have already begun to move and leave the world of ordinary people. However, the nobles of pure-blood wizards are different. The canonization, they have a large territory, not to say that evacuation can be evacuated.The most important thing is that they are not reconciled. Their ancestors followed the kings of various countries and made military exploits. With their current status, what was the Holy See doing at that time? These wizards are dead, why?

Therefore, at this moment, while those wizard nobles are secretly fighting with the Holy See, they are still trying to deal with the noble kings.

In Matthew's view, this is a delusion. Compared with ordinary people, wizards have too great an advantage. They have a small population, but their single-player combat power is strong. Even if they do not rely on magic, they become knights than ordinary people It is much easier, which is why they can get enough military merits, titles and fiefdoms.

As Helga spoke, she also sighed. She had no feelings for her own family. The Hufflepuff family also had a baronial title, and their fief included a small lake and a part of the forest beside the lake. The environment is only suitable for the survival of magic plants after being transformed by magic. If the Hufflepuff family has to relocate in the end, it will not be so easy to find a suitable place.

Matthew was noncommittal about this, and the same sentence, advanced does not mean that he will definitely win. For wizards, it is magic for success and magic for failure. The biggest problem is that wizards are a minority, and they are not popular. together.

The same battle merit, it is much easier for wizards to obtain than ordinary knights. Ordinary knights wearing heavy armor cannot guarantee that they will not be harmed on the battlefield, but for wizards, an iron armor curse does not consume too much magic power. It can last for a long time, and if it is too bad, it is also very easy to escape.

In this way, in the eyes of ordinary people, this is very unfair.The average life expectancy of wizards is also relatively long, while ordinary people, even kings, can live to 45 is a great thing.All in all, everyone's overall feeling towards wizards is one of envy, jealousy and hatred. If there are people from the Holy See stirring the wind and rain, unless the wizards have decisive power, otherwise, defeat is inevitable.

The problem is that although the wizards have a certain advantage in terms of high-end power, it is not enough to establish the overall situation. In particular, these wizards also have their own small calculations. There has never been a relationship between the white wizard and the black wizard. It's normal for people to be at odds with each other, laughing at Yan Yan at the ball on the bright side, and throwing death curses at each other in private.As for the mid-to-low-end power, the wizards are simply at an absolute disadvantage. The magic power of each wizard is limited. As long as the magic power is exhausted, they will have nothing to worry about.

Matthew thinks a lot in his heart, but he doesn't say anything. He is just a passerby. Even if he says it, so what. The most difficult thing to shake is the relationship of interests. The individual strength of wizards cannot cover up the overall strength. Weak and weak, especially at this point, he still has his own thoughts and luck, so there is nothing to say, so he just listened, and brought out tea and food to entertain Helga and Liv.

Helga is very good at cooking. However, in this era of scarce supplies, it is difficult for a smart woman to cook without rice. Many crops are still not domesticated in the Americas. The staple foods in Europe are oats and barley, but Matthew’s side is all Later generations have cultivated and domesticated the seeds for an unknown number of years, and even Helga has never heard of the seeds planted.

Helga is very interested in plants. She looked at the fruit tea in the transparent jug with great interest. There were few fruits in it that she knew. She couldn't help being curious and asked: "These fruits What is it, I've never seen it!"

Matthew didn't hide anything, and introduced the fruits in the fruit tea to her one by one. As a result, Helga's eyes were dazed. She didn't know most of the fruits in it, and she had never heard of them, especially the wizards. Latin and Old English are commonly used today, and these things are words that appeared later. Matthew said it in modern English. Even Helga could hardly associate these cut fruits with these words. status.

After thinking about it, Matthew doesn't mind the butterfly effect caused by sending some fruit seeds. If it is really something that has a great impact, the correction power of the world itself is also very strong.What's more, the universe is so big, does fate have anything special about the fate on earth?A lot of things are nothing more than letting nature take its course.

But Helga was very moved by this, the society of wizards is very exclusive, which is why even if many pure-blood wizards become nobles, they are still outsiders in the eyes of those kings and nobles.However, in this era, everyone is basically the same. Communication, sharing and so on are ideas that came out after the resources were very rich. In an era when everything is scarce, all you can do is to share all your things They are all clenched tightly.

Even in the 20th century, the magic world still upholds the tradition of this era, and each industry is controlled by a specific family. Only through marriage or other means can the in-laws be allowed to enter this industry.

Like Helga, even if she left her family, she would not teach others the seeds of the magic plants she brought out and how to plant them. At this moment, she was touched by Matthew's generosity.