Chapter 589 Genius Girl! (Two in One)
When Bellemeier brought the two girls Nokigao and Nami back to the small town at the foot of the mountain, Colonel Mouse and his subordinates had already started a banquet under the hospitality of Ajian.
There is a gap between the navy and these ordinary people. Even under A Jin's kind invitation, Colonel Mouse and the others still did not choose to land on the island, but held a banquet on their ship.
The previous politeness shown by Colonel Mouse, Ajian and others was just lip service.
In their view, even just setting foot in a poor place like Cocosia Village already made them feel uncomfortable. Even if they eat their food and drink their food, they still don't take the lower class people of Cocosia Village seriously.
After Ajian and others prepared some food for the navy, they summoned the whole town to hold a "villager meeting" on the square.
If you want to meet the requirements of the navy, it is simply impossible to rely solely on the wealth of a certain family. If you want to send these people away, every family staying on this island needs to contribute their own strength.
"I think everyone has seen what happened today."
"This time, let's still follow the practice of previous years."
βThose who have extra money will provide money, and those who have less money will provide food.β
"In short, I hope everyone can work together to get through this difficult time together."
"By paying this amount, we can get a safe living environment. No matter what happens, it will not get worse."
Cocosia can be regarded as a standard rural area, with underdeveloped maritime trade. Each family relies on farming, fishing, and hunting to maintain their lives.
Fortunately, the climate conditions in Cocosia Village are quite favorable and the land resources are rich enough. As long as people are diligent enough, filling their stomachs will not be a problem at all.
Even some farmers who grow cash crops can satisfy their deep foundation when the market is good, and at the same time, they can also leave some spare money to buy some furniture to resist unknown risks.
The villagers here are actually a reflection of the vast majority of ordinary people in the world, and a large part of the people cannot even live up to their level. In the maritime environment of the pirate world, if you want to live smoothly Living an ordinary life is not an easy task.
"Ajian. Look, I have some difficulties here."
"My wife injured her leg while working at the beginning of the year. It has been more than half a year and she has just recovered."
"Dr. Nagao also knows about this."
"I have to feed my children by myself. I can't take care of so many fields at home."
"In addition, this season's wheat is not ready to be harvested yet."
"My house. Look"
After Ajian finished speaking, a woman in simple clothes squeezed out of the crowd with a half-grown boy of about four years old in her arms.
The woman's name was Kanae. She was in her early 30s, but her face was already covered in weather. Her hands holding the child were dark and rough, and it looked like they were hands that had been working all year round.
After hearing that the Navy would be "rewarded" again this year, Kanae's face also showed embarrassment. When she said these words, her face was full of misery.
Kanae's words made the atmosphere in the square become even more depressing. The people of Cocosia Village were already burdened with a heavy burden of gold from the sky. Now, they have to give benefits to the navy every year. The heavy pressure has already overwhelmed the people. Come.
For a family of three like Kanae, when the family has the slightest problem, life will break their backs.
"this"
The injury to Kanae's husband is nothing new. We all live in the same village, and we don't see each other every day. If something happens to a certain household, the whole village will soon know about it.
Taken knew that Kanae was not lying, and it was precisely because of this that his face became extremely heavy.
Every family has sutras that are difficult to recite, but with a head like Miao Xiang's, it is impossible to open up.
The surrounding villagers also turned their attention to Ajian in the field, waiting for him to make a decision.
But before Ajian could speak, the village doctor Nagao on the side took over the conversation:
"Everyone knows that Takeru and Kanae's family situation is indeed difficult."
"I was the one who looked at her husband's legs. The cost of purchasing medicinal materials is indeed not a small amount, and it is not easy to recover before the autumn harvest after a hundred days of strain."
"You think it would be better if this were not the case, I will help cover the missing parts of her family first."
"Kanae, don't blame Taken, he had no choice but to do it."
"When your family is rich, you can pay it back to me."
In order to get rid of the navy, the village collective also made a rule. Each household "contributes" its own strength according to the number of people. The elderly and children will be halved, and the whole village's strength will be pooled to deal with the people of Colonel Mouse.
Such rules are recognized by everyone. As a "Kochi" doctor, Nagao naturally knows that such rules cannot be easily broken.
He is the only doctor in the village, and he is alone, an old man, and the financial pressure is relatively small, unlike a family like Kanae's.
In order to maintain the order that was finally established in the village, Nagao would rather take on more of his own responsibilities at this moment.
Moreover, Nagou had a keen mind. He knew what consequences he would have if he did this. After finishing speaking, he immediately said to the surrounding villagers:
"If anyone is in trouble, I will help if I can."
"For those of you who are wealthy, I don't ask you to do the same thing as me."
"But we are all fellow villagers. If you can help, please do so."
Even in places like Cocosia Village, there is still the so-called gap between rich and poor. People's abilities are different. Different people have different results from farming the same acre of land.
Moreover, some families may have seriously ill elderly people who need support, and some families may have children who need support. Different family conditions are also one of the important reasons for the gap between rich and poor.
Nagao only hopes that the villagers can unite as one and pay attention to the collective interests.
The poorer the place, the more it is necessary to unite, and only in this way can they overcome one difficulty after another.
The people of Kekexia Village are generally considered to be simple and honest. Under Na Gao's probe, families with abundant spare capacity also responded one after another, and some other villagers who live in relatively poor life are also very sensible. Unless their life is really unsustainable, they will not Complain in front of Ajian.
Seeing the villagers being appeased by the police, Jian, as a peace officer, breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
That's fine
What he feared most did not happen, which made Jian feel a lot better.
As a peace officer, Ajian is in his prime. The kingdom provides an annual subsidy for people like him. Although it is not much, it is enough for him to make a living. Moreover, Ajian usually has nothing to do. He has opened up a farm in the backyard of his home. There is a piece of farmland where vegetables are grown and some chickens and ducks are raised.
Ah Jian, who is alone in his family, is not short of money. He has a leader who can take the lead. Ah Jian also echoed:
"I am the same as Dr. Nagao. If anyone needs help, I will do my best. I will pay twice the head fee."
The two speakers came forward one after another, which also made the atmosphere in the square calm down a little.
Afterwards, Ajian took out the roster and started asking the villagers to prepare supplies. At the same time, the large warehouse in the center of the town was opened, and the money, grain and supplies sent by the people were transported into the warehouse and stored.
Bellemere, who was taking her children home first, was notified by her neighbors that the navy had arrived on the island before she could even step into the house.
Although he didn't go into details, Bellmere, who had lived on the island for so many years, naturally knew what it meant for the navy to go to the island.
Although she was born in the navy, she was discharged and returned to her hometown. She was completely different from those officers who had worked in the navy all their lives and finally retired.
When she retired from the army, in addition to her salary for those years in the army, she only received a retirement payment of 200,000 Baileys.
She had already used that money to settle real estate and fields. Being able to raise the Nami sisters so well, and at the same time being able to buy books to support Nami's hobbies, had already made her devote all her efforts.
The arrival of the navy this time put Bellemare under great pressure.
She is a little different from other farmers in the village. She grows cash crops and has no other source of income until there is a harvest.
Moreover, it is not easy for a woman to raise two children, and she does not have much savings.
Bellemere rummaged through boxes and cabinets at home to collect less than 100,000 beli. After taking the money, Bellemere left home in a hurry. Before leaving, he also told his two children to stay at home and not to go out at will.
When Bellemere rushed to the large warehouse in the center of the village, the huge warehouse had been filled with a small amount of supplies. There was a long queue in the yard at the entrance of the warehouse. Some of them even had food, but they still hugged each other. Holding some rations, waiting for the food to be delivered to the warehouse.
Bellmere saw all of this in his eyes, and had no choice but to secretly grit his teeth and feel resentful in his heart.
She is a person with a sense of justice. When you encounter this kind of situation, you will naturally be impatient and have a fierce conflict with the navy.
But what happened to Cocosia Village later made Bellemeier realize the reality. There was no way to change the status quo by relying on his own strength.
In order not to drag down other villagers on the island, Bellemere finally had no choice but to go with the flow and choose to compromise like everyone else.
Just as the villagers were queuing up to "offer offerings," neat footsteps sounded on the street not far away.
The villagers looked back and happened to see Colonel Mouse walking towards the warehouse with two teams of 8 people.
The leader of the mice looked at this scene with a bright smile on his face. His eyes swept through the crowd in the queue, and then fell on Bellemere in the queue.
Bellmere watched Colonel Mouse approach with his men, with obvious disgust on his face.
"Oh~"
"Isn't this Bellemere?"
"Long time no see, are you okay?"
Bellmere and Colonel Mouse had "fighted" before, and the two were actually no strangers to each other.
"Go away."
Bellmere glanced at Colonel Mouse with disgust on his face and gave a low drink.
"Hoohohoββ"
Seeing Bellemeier's angry expression, Colonel Mouse raised his hands and let out a strange laugh, as if he could clearly see the angry look on the other person's face.
"Don't be so angry!"
"Your temper is not good for everyone, right?"
"After all, we used to be colleagues and we were harmonious, wasn't that good?"
Colonel Mouse's words did not get Bellmer's response. Feeling that he was ignored, Colonel Mouse also snorted lightly, ignored the other party, and walked towards Ajian.
At this time, Ajian changed his expression, complimented him, and stood up and handed the list in his hand to the other party.
After a simple glance at the list, Colonel Mouse nodded with satisfaction, and then rolled his eyes and waved to Bellmer in the queue:
"Hey, Bellmer, come here!"
Hearing Colonel Mouse's call, Bellmer actually didn't want to pay attention, but under the crazy eyes of Ajian, he finally walked out of the team unwillingly and came to the front of several people.
"Well, Bellmer, speaking of it, how are you going to support our navy this time?"
"We are all our own people, I think you shouldn't be stingy, right?"
Colonel Mouse chuckled and looked at Bellmer with expectation.
Under the gaze of several navy and Ajian, Bellmer put the more than 80,000 Baileys he had collected into Ajian's hand.
It was a lot of money. Bellemere was a woman, and her two children had to be given half. The 80,000 Baileys were actually enough for the "head money".
Ajian nodded with a slightly heavy face. He knew that this was the result of Bellemere's best efforts.
"Hehe."
"Hey! Bellemere! Do you underestimate our navy?"
"Is this what you call sincerity?!"
"Are you kidding!?"
The originally amiable Colonel Mouse suddenly got angry, stretched out his hand to grab a handful of Baileys from Ajian's hand, and smashed it directly on Bellemere's head.
"Hua Laββ"
As the banknotes flew, the navy following Colonel Mouse raised their long guns and pointed them at Bellemere.
Bellemere, who was straightforward and irritable, had not intended to endure the humiliation of Colonel Mouse, but when a black gun was pointed at her, she forced herself to calm down and looked at Colonel Mouse in front of her with a fierce face.
Seeing Bellemere's face full of rage but not daring to act rashly, Colonel Mouse also laughed "giegie".
He couldn't stand Bellemere's righteous look and the way she looked at him.
A civilian dared to look at him like trash, how could he tolerate such a thing? !
If he wasn't afraid that the "business" of Cocosia Village would be affected, he would have killed this woman long ago!
"Don't go too far! Mouse!"
Bellemere spit out such a sentence from her teeth, but her anger was insignificant in the eyes of Colonel Mouse.
"I heard that you have an adopted daughter named Nami, right?"
"Very talented, she can draw sea charts at a young age?"
"Haha, you educated her well!"
"Well, let your daughter come to the navy and work for me."
"Don't worry, I will definitely train her well."
Colonel Mouse didn't know where he got the information from, but he knew that Bellemere's daughter could draw sea charts, and took this opportunity to recruit the child into the navy.
On the one hand, Mouse was impressed by the other party's talent, and on the other hand, if he could control Bellemere's daughter, this annoying woman would know who is the "big king"?
"What?!"
Bellemere's eyes widened when she heard this. The other party dared to threaten her with her daughter. This was something she absolutely could not tolerate. She bent her body and was about to take action. Colonel Mouse in front of her suddenly pulled out a gun and pointed it at Bellemere's forehead:
"Don't get excited, calm down-"
"When you get excited, I get nervous. If it goes off, don't blame me."
