Heroes of Silver Moon

Simon had a vague impression of the Acropolis of the Royal Capital. When he came to the Royal Capital from the southern border, he seemed to pass by there. At that time, Guy and the others were too tired and wanted to go in and find a hotel to stay for a night.

But considering that they were following the Knights, it was not appropriate for them to run around, so Simon fooled Guy and the others and gave up that stupid idea.

At this time, Cirillo whispered in Simon's ear, "His Royal Highness, I heard that something happened at the Acropolis, and the squirrels have all passed."

Squirrel and the others are talking about the group of people sent by the Moonlight Church to protect Simon during the last experience, and they are also the group of people who have been secretly protecting Simon.

Simon frowned slightly, and even the power to defend the Holy Son had to be withdrawn, which showed the seriousness of this incident.

"Do you know what it is?" Simon asked.

Cirillo shook his head: "The other side only said yes, many evil creatures suddenly appeared, maybe some evil **** is doing something!"

Naturally, it refers to the Moonlight Church. This kind of vague rhetoric can only explain the Moonlight Church, and the specific situation has not yet been clarified.

Simon's brows are a little melancholy, is the evil **** doing something, or is it next to the capital? This world is really dangerous!

"What are you talking about?" Her Royal Highness suddenly came over, startling Simon.

Simon smiled humbly: "It's nothing, it's just that I'm suddenly curious about the Acropolis of the Royal Capital."

When did you come here? I don't know how much she heard? Simon murmured in his heart, if his identity was revealed, the days of ease would be gone forever.

If his identity is exposed, the church will not allow him to wander around in public, and will lock him up 100% in the small black room under the cathedral for meditation.

Hiss, when he thought of the small black room under the cathedral, Simon shuddered all over. He had stayed there twice before, both to train the etiquette that might be used during the Luna Festival.

Well, how should I say it? It can only be said that the place is really not for people!

In the dark underground room, there is no other light except for the candlelight. A group of old men and old women who look like bones have been chanting teachings there.

Anyone who knows it understands that that place is the foundation of the Moonlight Church, all of them are retired high-level church leaders, and there are a lot of master-level professionals inside.

If you don't know, you probably think it's an underground labyrinth full of undead creatures!

"You probably haven't heard much! Otherwise, you wouldn't be so calm." Seeing Her Royal Highness still looking cheerful, Simon let go of his hanging heart.

Wandering aimlessly, even Simon felt a little tired after a long time.

Of course, it was mainly because he was tired. He thought that Irina was going to some kind of gray area, so he chose to follow the princess.

But now it seems that this is not the case at all! It looks like this princess is just wandering around!

As she was walking, Erina stopped suddenly. Simon didn't pay attention, and bumped into her directly from behind.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Simon said quickly when he came back to his senses.

Irina didn't reply, she was still staring at something, so Simon also looked at it.

At a slightly old street corner, a big beggar aged 14 or 15 was begging with a young beggar aged 7 or 8. They were all dirty and only had a tattered single garment.

At the beginning of February, when the cold winter was at its peak, they shivered from the cold without cotton-padded clothes, so they could only hug each other to keep warm.

Ai Ruina was silent for a moment, then stretched out her showy hand in front of Simon: "Take the money!"

Simon was also silent for a moment, and said, "I only have gold coins with me."

Not understanding what Simon meant, Irina seemed a little unhappy, thinking that it was Simon who was reluctant to give the gold coins to them directly.

So she frowned and said, "Then give them gold coins!"

Simon sighed softly, and he recalled Greybeard, an ordinary elf antique long sword, which could kill that honest and honest man, and his granddaughter was captured by the Hood family and returned to the castle to be humiliated.

In the same way, giving them money such as gold coins directly is bound to bring disaster to them.

After explaining the situation to Irina, Her Royal Highness was stunned, but then she seemed a little unbearable. Could it be that she just looked on indifferently like this?

Seeing the unbearable expression on Irina's face, Simon sighed again in his heart.

He took out a gold coin, went to the tailor shop next to him, bought two cotton coats that were about the size of a beggar, and bought some black bread in the bakery. Simon handed these things to Irina.

Ai Ruina was a little moved in her heart, and then she was a little puzzled, and asked: "You can just give it to them, why not give it to me?"

Simon shook his head with a wry smile: "It's you who feels compassion, I'm just doing things for you."

He is a very contradictory person. In his opinion, since Irina first moved her compassion, then Irina should be the one to give this kindness.

Because if he passed by here alone, he would completely ignore these two beggars, and buying these things now is purely to help Irina.

Ai Ruina didn't understand, but still took the things handed over, walked up to the two beggars, and put these things in front of them.

The big beggar was suddenly ecstatic, while the little beggar stared at the black bread and swallowed his saliva.

"Thank you, thank you, my lord." The big beggar pulled the little beggar, kowtowed and said thank you.

Although the little beggar didn't understand, he kowtowed along with this "big brother" who took good care of himself.

There is no blood relationship between them. It is purely that the parents of the little beggar died. The little beggar lives on the street.

The big beggar saw that he was pitiful, so he took him to beg together. At least he would not starve to death on the street here.

Amidst the thousands of thanks, Irina returned to Simon with a heavy heart. Both of them were silent, and then continued to move forward.

Irina felt a little heavy, and asked, "If you passed by here, would you help them?"

Simon shook his head and truthfully gave his answer.

Erina fixed her eyes and asked, "Why!"

"Hey!", Simon sighed, stopped and pointed forward: "Do you still want to help?"

On the side of the road ahead, there was another beggar who was begging along the street. He was gray-haired, about sixty or seventy years old, and his right leg was empty, apparently missing a right leg.

Erina stood still for a moment, her mood was agitated, and she somewhat understood what Simon meant.

But immediately, Her Royal Highness gritted her teeth: "Help!"

Simon didn't say much, and took out another gold coin, bought a cotton coat and bread, and handed it to Irina.

Her Royal Highness took these things, trembling slightly, and put them in front of the old beggar. The old beggar burst into tears and thanked him again.

Back to Simon, the two went on the road again. Irina's face was terrible and ugly. After walking for a long distance, they met a beggar again.

A frail little girl was curled up in the cold wind and waited silently.

The two stopped again, and this time, even Irina was silent.

The complexion continued to struggle, and finally Arina stretched out her hand in front of Simon.

Simon closed his eyes, his breathing suddenly became heavy, then he grabbed Irina's wrist and dragged her into an empty alley.

In the alley, the two were almost close to each other, and they could even hear each other, their hearts were beating violently, and Cirillo was waiting outside the alley.

Simon's face was a little ferocious: "You can't help!"

Irina was trembling all over, suppressing the discomfort in her heart and said: "Are you going to turn a blind eye like this?"

Simon's breathing was almost stagnant, and then he quickly took a deep breath to suppress the anger in his heart.

"The desperate world they live in, hope is completely poisonous to them, don't impose hope on them anymore," Simon's eyes revealed pleading.

Erina's face was full of pain, she raised her right hand to touch Simon's chest, her violent heartbeat showed that the boy's heart was hard to calm down.

She suddenly understood that it wasn't that Simon didn't have kindness in his heart. This young man just buried all those good things deep in his heart.

At this moment, in the deserted alley, two kind hearts resonated.

Cirillo leaned against the wall at the entrance of the alley, and let out a long sigh in his heart. With the hearing of a master fighter, he naturally heard the conversation in the alley.

In the past, he was also Irina, and later he became Simon. This world is like this, and kind people will eventually be defeated by reality and understand their own powerlessness.

After a long time, tears flowed from the corners of Erina's eyes, so she withdrew her right hand and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

Burying the sadness deep in her heart, Erina regained her firm expression and nodded to Simon.

The two left the alley in silence, Cirillo followed behind them, and the three passed the little girl indifferently.

Seeing the flamboyantly dressed Irina go straight away, the curled up little girl sighed in her heart, but then regained her strength.

For people in despair, hope is poison, but because of despair, they are stronger than anyone else.

Today there was no charity, and it seemed that she was going to be hungry again. The little girl felt a little helpless, and then pulled the broken bowl used for begging in front of her.

Looking at the broken bowl, the little girl froze instantly, and a piece of black bread was silently sitting in the bowl.

"It's strange, there wasn't one just now!" the little girl murmured.

Without further thinking, the little girl wolfed down the whole loaf of bread with clear water. The black bread was very hard, even hard enough to smash a stone, but it still filled her stomach.

Just like this world, although it is full of coldness everywhere, there is always some kindness that can warm the world.

On the way, Cirillo took a deep look at Simon. His skill in mobilizing mental power was so superb that even Her Royal Highness, an intermediate mage, didn't realize it, but he couldn't hide it from him, a master fighter.

"Duplicity," Cirillo shook his head helplessly.

Looking at the beggars along the way, Her Royal Highness, who had suppressed her compassion, still felt a little sad in her heart.

Although she knew that the life of the people at the bottom was very poor, she never thought that it would be so difficult.

Therefore, Irina asked Simon for advice: "Since my great-grandfather came to the throne for 60 to 70 years, there has never been a large-scale war in the Silver Moon Kingdom, and there are almost no large-scale natural disasters. Why is the life of the people at the bottom still so difficult?"

Simon thought for a while, and then gave his own promise: "It's pretty good now, if the country has been fighting for years, or there are large-scale natural disasters, then when we come out of the noble area, what we will see will be this scene! "

Erina remained silent, and began to recall the scenes along the way.

In the aristocratic area, the aristocrats were dressed gorgeously, and most of them were nestled in the mansion by the stove, playing cards and eating pastries with their noble friends.

Outside the aristocratic district, people come and go in the shops, and the people passing by are well-dressed and ruddy, and they can tell that the family conditions are very wealthy.

After walking for a while, it was almost at the place where the idiot baron was encountered. Most of the vendors there were setting up stalls on the side of the road, and there were very few shops with storefronts.

Although the clothes of the passing crowd were shabby and their faces were a little thin, they always had cotton clothes on their bodies and at least something to eat for every meal.

From the first encounter with beggars, big and small, the situation has completely changed. The shops and vendors have completely disappeared~www.readwn.com~ Most of them are dilapidated houses, and only a few places have tailors and bakeries.

And along the way, there are more and more beggars on the roadside and on the street. They are either young, old, physically disabled, or mentally handicapped.

The cold wind howls in winter, but they still wear single clothes. They are hungry and full every day, and their lives are completely insecure.

If according to what Simon said, once a large-scale war or natural disaster occurs, everything outside the noble area will become what it is now, Irina can't even imagine that kind of scene.

Her Royal Highness was a little sad and asked, "Is there any way to change this situation?"

Simon remained silent. The royal family basically didn't care about these impoverished people. The Moonlight Church has been dealing with it, adopting orphans, supporting the elderly, and so on.

But Moonlight Church's ability is limited after all. When I met the Pope before, the Pope told him that the Holy Son was poor. Every income and every expenditure of the church has been clearly stated.

The number of monasteries established now is already the limit of the church. Unless more gold coins can be obtained, it is impossible for the Moonlight Church to build more monasteries.

The church wants to get more gold coins. There are two ways, one is to ask believers to collect donations, and the other is to ask the royal family to allocate funds.

Believers solicit donations? Most of the people who believe in the Moonlight Church are just ordinary people. Their lives are very difficult, and it is impossible to raise many gold coins.

As for the nobles, don't even think about it, it is more difficult to collect donations from them.

Crown appropriation? The royal family still owes a large foreign debt to the nobles, where can they get money for the church?

Although the paper-making workshop has brought a lot of profits to the royal family, after all, the paper-making workshop has only just opened, and it is impossible for the royal family to squeeze money out of the hands of the church for at least three to five years.