I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 434 Panic News

"Slow down, eat slowly..."

Little Gerrit just couldn't stop after taking the first bite of meat,
He was spitting, almost stuffing his mouth, and ate the meat, whether it was chicken or bird.

Leina comforted little Gerrit, but didn't let little Gerrit slow down a bit. In the end, she just stroked little Gerrit's back, lest he choke.

Sitting like this, eating all the meat into his stomach, little Gerrit finally had other thoughts in his mind.

"Aunt Leina..."

There are some leftover small bones in my hands, and my hands and mouth are full of oil,

Little Gretel raised his head and looked at Aunt Leina, with some worry in his eyes.

He thought of Aunt Emma beating and scolding Aunt Leina in the evening,
And even Aunt Emma's house should not have such meat.

"Aunt Leina...how did you get all this meat?"

Little Gerrit asked,
"Why did you give me..."

Leina listened to little Gerrit's question, just smiled and stroked little Gerrit's hair,

"Okay, you're done eating too, and I'm leaving. Don't tell anyone else, okay?"

With the last words, Leina was careful and took away the small bones that had been eaten by Little Gerrit.
Then he left in a hurry, and Little Gerrit followed him two steps out full of doubts and worries.

Just watched Aunt Leina hurried away, and then gradually disappeared into the distant night.

Standing outside the door, little Gerrit looked at the night, still a little worried.

After a pause for a while, he turned around and went back into the house.

After returning to the house, he saw that the door of his father's room had changed from being closed to being ajar.

Father Howth may have woken up, but he didn't come out.

Little Gerrit looked around and went back to his room.

Lying in bed,

Little Gerrit was still worried.

The images of Aunt Emma beating and scolding Aunt Leina in the evening were all in my mind.

but,

Probably because he was not so hungry anymore, Little Gerrit was still a little drowsy and fell asleep in his worries.

……

The next day, little Gerrit was woken up because of an upset stomach.

He has diarrhea.

From the dawn of the morning, he had constant diarrhea until before he went out,

It finally eased a little, but it still made him feel a little tired all day long, and his face turned pale.

Little Gerrit went to school that day.

In school,

He asked the teacher a question about Mr. Raleigh.

Mr. Raleigh bought the fields of the women in the village with grain, took some of them away, and made them slaves.

Why is that, is Mr. Raleigh right?
But little Gerrit didn't get the answer he wanted from the teacher,

The teacher just sympathized with the experiences of those women, saying that they would pass the Lord's test and return to the Lord's kingdom of heaven if they were devout.
Then I was moved by the kindness of Mr. Raleigh.

These words sound like Grandpa Burton, or even the previous Leina,
But little Gerrit's question was left unanswered, and it wasn't the answer he wanted.

At last,
After leaving school that day and working in Dr. Monk's office for an afternoon,

Little Gerrit asked Dr. Monk the same question again.

"The teacher said that Mr. Raleigh is kind. Even if these people are taken as slaves, at least they can survive."

"Haha, kindness? Raleigh is kind? Let your teacher treat his brain well. Maybe he can come to me. I will perform an operation on him and ask him to cut off his head, since it doesn't work."

Hearing Little Gerrit's question, Dr. Monk immediately laughed.

"Perhaps you can go and see. Every day, the bodies of several servants are thrown out of the Raleigh house. To save trouble, those people just throw them in the woods outside the city. Do you know how these people died? Starved to death of."

"Even if the Raleigh family has so many fields, he wouldn't feed so many servants with so much food. It's not just your village, there are other villages around here. Why does Raleigh want so many servants.

It's just that he became a slave, and even saved the ten fields and one bag of grain. "

Dr. Monk said casually, and then his expression changed,
"Okay, stop asking me those weird questions, take your own pay and leave... By the way, you went to the bathroom three times this afternoon, I don't want it to be the same tomorrow, it's just a little herbal medicine left over Dregs, maybe it has some effect on diarrhea, take it, and get out."

After giving Little Gerrit today's ten copper coins and a pack of medicine, Dr. Monk urged Little Gerrit to leave.

"Thank you."

Little Gerrit looked at Dr. Monk, then at the medicine and copper coins in his hand, and thanked him earnestly before leaving.

"Go away, go away."

……

"Father... do you know where Mr. Rowley's house is?"

"I know, why ask this?"

"I want to go there and have a look, just to look outside the door."

"Um……"

When he came out of Dr. Monk's consulting room, his father Hoss was waiting for him across the road.

Listening to Little Gerrit's request, Hoss didn't ask much, nor refused,
He led little Gerrit to the other side of the town.

Through the deserted streets,
Go some way.

When he arrived at a place full of buildings, his father Hoss told little Gerrit,

"This is Mr. Raleigh's house. But the door is in front."

Following the courtyard wall of this building again, little Gerrit finally saw the door of this building.

The door is tightly closed at the moment, and even at this moment, there are still people guarding the door.

And even if the door is not open, through the courtyard wall, little Gerrit can see behind the wall,
The light reflected in the stretch of buildings.

Light,
Probably candles, at night, there are so many candles,
Little Gerrit and Hoss didn't go all the way to the door, but just looked at the wall and the building at the door from a distance.

"Is this Mr. Raleigh's house?"

Little Gerrit knew, but asked repeatedly.

"Yes."

Hoss nodded in response, and also looked at the light shining through the wall.

Little Gerrit didn't speak any more, just stood here.

Hoss stood by him.

At this moment, the door a little further away opened.

Someone who was probably Mr. Raleigh's servant,

Lifted something and threw it out,
It was probably a little closer before Little Gerrit noticed that the one thrown out was a human.

"Just throw it here first, and throw these things outside the city tomorrow morning."

"Okay, then you have to get up early tomorrow morning, so that Mr. Raleigh can't see it."

"Um……"

Those who threw people threw those people away from the door, where they could not be seen in the night, and went back again.

Little Gerrit stood here, opened his eyes wide, and looked towards the several figures thrown on the ground.

Then the eyes opened wider.

He saw one of the figures move his hand and then stop again,
Probably these dying figures have not completely died yet.

Like a fish off the shore, it twitches subconsciously from time to time on the soil.

Little Gerrit watched, stood on the spot, stopped his movements, did not step forward, but kept watching.

Finally, Hoss embraced the body of little Gerrit,
"Come on, we're going back."

Hoss took little Gretel and left here, left the town, and headed back to the village.

Little Gretel, on the other hand, was silent all the way.

In his mind, he probably understood some things, but he had more doubts.

until returning to the village,

Only then did little Gerrit come back to his senses,
Because he heard another piece of news that made him panic.

(End of this chapter)