Chapter 18 The Last Conscience
Xia Mo walked home with Oscar on his head, followed by the little girls Poppy and David.
After Xia Mo gave her a gold coin, Bobby's big round eyes smiled into a crack! This was the first time she had such a huge sum of money! The little girl walked with a whisper!
Compared to Xia Mo and Bobby's good mood, David, the senior entourage of the Gordon family, was obviously depressed! He originally thought that he could complete the task today and would not have to return to the extremely disgusting land of the Feruda District. However, things went against his wishes, and he did not receive the favor of the goddess of luck!
When Xia Mo returned to the house that he had been demolished last night, several bricklayers were cleaning up the ruins. At the beginning, Xia Mo planned to use the building materials for the new house on the spot. In any case, there were many abandoned and unowned dilapidated houses around, so they were just demolished.
But now there are ten, oh no, nine gold coins are recorded, and you can fully pay for the materials needed to build a house, so there is no need to demolish those broken houses without owners.
Xia Mo stood on the bridge and looked around the slums watching near his home. These people who had completely lost hope for life were all watching coldly, both men and women, with a blank expression on their faces, without jealousy or envy, and their eyes were as calm as stagnant.
Xia Mo frowned, thought for a while, then turned around and walked along the Viadoro Avenue, which symbolized "The Way of Fellowship"!
Bobby, who was demolishing a broken wall with a hammer, looked up and stopped paying attention.
Anyway, there is a high-level knight following behind. Although this guy is a bit "favorable but not useful", the title of the top noble entourage is still very intimidating!
Poppy swung the hammer that was much taller than her, and with a "boom", the whole wall fell down! The bricklayers who were originally standing beside each other and waiting with kindness to watch the little girl's joke were stunned!
"The hammer is the main force, I am just responsible for dumping it!"
Not long after, when Xia Mo came back, there was a mule cart full of baskets beside him.
After a civilian carriageman in his forties parked the mule cart, Xia Mo jumped to the shaft of the mule cart and shouted loudly to the untouchables in the slums watching around:
"Recruiting workers! Digging trenches, moving stones, transporting bricks, men have three horse bread a day, women and elderly people have two pieces a day, and children have one piece a day!"
Although horse bread is called bread, it is not the case at all! It is actually a bean cake used to feed horses. To put it bluntly, it is horse feed!
Many poor people will eat this kind of food when they can't afford to eat black bread. Although it is extremely unpalatable, it can at least fill its stomach and will not be starved to death! But even with this kind of horse bread, there are still a lot of people in the slums who can't afford it!
After hearing Xia Mo's shouting, there was silence around except for the bricklayers' work! The onlookers turned to look at the thin child standing in the mule cart, with a numb look on their faces!
It was not until Xia Mo called out the second time that there was a slight fluctuation in the stagnant eyes of the untouched people, but no one came forward!
A moment later, just as Xia Mo was about to shout for the third time, he suddenly heard a weak voice on the left saying:
"May I ask, can I?"
Xia Mo turned his head and looked at the person who was speaking. A thin girl with withered hair and a dirty face was holding a thin skinny three-and-bone three-and-bone three-year-old child with his hands looking at him timidly.
After seeing Xia Mo looking at him, the child hurriedly hid behind his sister in fear. Xia Mo nodded and said:
"Can!"
After saying that, he asked the girl again:
"How old are you this year?"
After hearing Xia Mo's question, the girl looked at this child who was born in a slum in the same slum and was much shorter than her. Then she looked at the burly knight wearing bright armor beside her and said tremblingly:
"Ten, fifteen!"
After saying that, the girl lowered her head guiltily. Xia Mo looked at the girl who was obviously falsely reporting her age, at most twelve years old. He did not expose the other party's lies, but said calmly:
"Two horse bread a day, your brother once a day!"
The girl suddenly raised her head, looking surprised! She thought it would be nice to have one a day. Unexpectedly, not only two a day, but also one a day with her younger brother. What can a young brother do? It would be nice not to cause trouble!
A horse bread is saved by my brother and sister, and I can eat it for two days. This is only three, and I will no longer have to worry about food in the next week!
The girl hurriedly pulled her brother down and kowtowed to Xia Mo. The little boy had no idea why he did this, but just obeyed in a daze.
Xia Mo stood there, motionless, calmly receiving the other party's kneeling.
It has nothing to do with arrogance, but he knows that if he does not accept the other party's worship, the girl will always be trembling and nervous as if walking on thin ice!
Life is already so difficult, and that overwhelmed heart can withstand several seemingly insignificant pressure?
Things in the world have always been easy to save one’s body, but difficult to redeem one’s mind!
After the other party stood up, Xia Mo lifted the rag covering the basket in a corner, took out three horse bread from it, handed it to the girl and said:
"Eat it, work hard for me when I'm full!"
The girl wiped her tears, took the extremely rough horse bread, and nodded heavily. With the example of this sibling, the onlookers suddenly rushed up to Xia Mo on the carriage!
But before they could get closer, David, a high-level knight standing beside Xia Mo, took a step forward and then let out a heavy cold snort!
The untouchables who had originally surged up like a basin of cold water were poured on, and they immediately woke up!
They looked at David, who was wrapped in bright armor in awe, and then lined up silently!
Although in just a few minutes, the untouchables in the Feruda District were a world apart!
Although they may have to put in a lot of effort next, there is something called "hope" in their eyes! This is a luxury that they never dared to think of before!
On the way of suffering east of Xia Mo's family, an old man who had just returned from baptism to the grandson of the Imperial Privy Council, the second minister of the State Council, gently lowered the curtains of the carriage after witnessing the whole process.
The red archbishop of the Vantes Holy See who had just arrived in the imperial capital for a long time drew a sacred triangle on his chest and smiled at the corner of his mouth.
"As long as you continue to sow seeds, even the barren land will sprout! Praise the Lord!"
There are many people and great powers. This sentence makes sense, both in China where Xia Mo was in the past life or in the epic continent at present.
With the joint efforts of everyone, the gravel, bricks, wooden boards and other items on the original site of the Xia Mo family were cleaned up in just over an hour.
The next step is to lay the foundation, dig the sewage channel, and connect the sewage channel of the house to the sewage channel of the city according to Xia Mo's design drawings.
Although the untouchables in the Feruda District dumped their excrement on the street, the streets were extremely dirty and stinky!
But in fact, the underground sewers in the Feruda District are very developed, which is no less than the other areas in Jupiter!
The reason why today's dirty situation is because when the poor living here build their houses, in order to save manpower, material resources and financial resources, they did not connect their own sewage channels to the main underground sewage channel. Even most families did not build sewage channels at all!
When the city of Jupiter was being built, the imperial prime minister who was responsible for coordinating the matter put a lot of effort into the sewer matter and spent a huge amount of gold coins. He was once ridiculed by his political enemies as the "sewer prime minister"!
Even the king at that time was shaken by the financial tension of the state treasury, but the old prime minister always disagreed with his own opinions!
Just now, this city of Jupiter, which has not been flooded for hundreds of years, has not been flooded!
Many of the old prime minister's achievements have been forgotten by history, but a sentence he once said has been talked about by historians of all generations!
Chapter completed!