Chapter 254 Betty is studying hard

Gawain put down the last engineering report that needed to be confirmed by himself, moved his neck to relax his somewhat stiff cervical spine, and then looked around.

The study was very quiet, but he was not alone. Not far from Gawain's big desk, there was a small table against the wall, and Betty was lying on the table. Beside him, he lowered his head and wrote carefully the words he had just learned to spell recently.

Spending two hours every night to go to night school to learn spelling, and then practicing writing with textbooks in her spare time during the day, this seems to have become Betty's daily routine, and in order to allow this little girl who loves learning to With a more convenient study space, Gawain specifically allowed her to practice writing in his study room, and arranged a small desk of her own for her here.

This is obviously beyond the treatment that a maid should receive. However, no one in this place will question Gawain's decision. As for Betty herself - her mind does not seem to be complex enough to think about "violating the rules." "A problem of this magnitude.

Betty is indeed a not very smart girl - in fact, she is a bit stupid. Gawain knows that there is a word to describe this kind of girl, which is the so-called "cute", but he does not know how I feel the slightest happiness from Betty's cuteness - this girl does not have any congenital defects, her "dumbness" is just caused by malnutrition and family life embarrassment since she was a child.

Just like most of the extremely poor children of this era, just like most of the kitchen maids, low-level servants, and serf children, they often lack nutrition during the critical stage of development and lack of education during the most important learning period of life. It will affect their lives. They lack knowledge, are wiped out of curiosity, have no learning ability, and do not know how to think independently. Nobles often regard "lower people" as stupid and ignorant, and regard them as a kind of Natural defects, and even use this as evidence to support the "truth" that "nobles are born noble". Of course, there are exaggerated and unreasonable discriminatory factors, but as Gawain understands the world more and more, Gawain also We have to admit a fact:

There is a real gap in learning ability and thinking speed between children from extremely poor families and children from aristocratic families who live a comfortable life. Although this gap has nothing to do with the so-called "blood quality", it does Its own existence is an unavoidable reality.

So Gao Wen is working hard to reduce this gap. Whether it is promoting free special meals for children in night schools or distributing food subsidies to children under six years old in the territory, it is part of the effort. First, solve the problem of children. Malnutrition, so that their minds can develop as fully as the children of nobles, and at the same time, educating them, is the most effective way he can think of, but what about those who are adults or are about to become adults?

Gawain stood up and came behind Betty. He watched this stupid girl trying to spell words one by one. She made very few mistakes and her handwriting was much neater than at the beginning, but she needed to spell every word. She had to spell it dozens of times before she could remember it. To this day, she still studies a lot of it in night school.Something for the first two months of childhood.

Betty is already much better than most people of the same class. She is almost an adult, but she still has a strong curiosity and actively and spontaneously likes to learn. She likes to write and yearns to be able to communicate with others. Rebecca, Hetty and others can also read and write fluently, but she still has a very difficult time learning - she is not a hidden genius, she has missed the best learning age, which is difficult to make up for with acquired efforts. of.

In fact, if it hadn’t been for a catastrophe in the territory, and if Gawain hadn’t led her to see too many things in the “outside world”, Betty might never have known anything other than doing menial work in the kitchen. There is no other way to survive.

Just like when she first escaped from the territory, she always held her pan - that's because she really didn't have anything else in her entire life, as a kitchen Maid, that pan is the highest honor and mission she can imagine.

Betty finally noticed the figure beside her. She raised her head in fright and tried to get up in a panic: "Master..."

"It's okay, I just took care of it. After finishing the official work, let’s take a look at your progress.” Gawain pressed Betty’s head to reassure the girl, “Ah... you can already write very neatly.”

Betty. She smiled sheepishly. She was very happy to receive the compliment, but she was a little aggrieved: "Peas learn faster than me..."

"She is still young, so it is normal for her to learn things easier. "Yes," Gawain comforted the little maid, "You work hard and you will catch up with the others sooner or later. And if you don't understand anything, I can teach you at any time." "Well!" Betty said, please try harder. Gawain nodded, and at this moment, Gawain noticed a few pages of draft paper protruding from the pile of books next to the small desk. He took it out curiously and saw some simple basic runes painted on it. .

"Have you started learning runes?" Gawain asked unexpectedly.

"Well..." Betty lowered her head, "Mr. Santis, who teaches runes, opened the classroom and allowed other classes to observe, so I followed..."

"Can you understand?"

"Can...understand part of it," Betty gestured with her hand to indicate that it was a very small part. "Mr. Santis spoke very carefully, and He was very patient, and the observers could also ask questions, so I learned some. Mr. Santis said that if I could memorize the basic twenty-eight runes, he would let me officially attend the class. ”

There are few official mage who are as patient as him in front of civilians, and he can even explain the relatively complicated rune theory to the extent that even Betty can barely understand part of it. It's really an amazing talent.

After all, no one had ever considered how to explain magic to a group of people who couldn't feel the magic at all before. Santis' educational route was completely figured out by himself.

"Mr. Santis said something, 'You can't see the magic, but it's there'," Betty whispered, "But he didn't let us just carve the runes on the red copper plate. And on the black stone, he asked us to practice on the sand, manuscript paper and writing board first, and we must wait until we are proficient before we can touch the magic materials..."

"Safety awareness is the first step in learning magic," Gawain laughed and said, "I heard him right about this."

After saying this, he suddenly turned around and looked in the direction of the window - he felt the breath of Amber coming rapidly. Close here.

Unfortunately, the anti-amber device did not work this time - the half-elf lady who was skilled in shadows directly jumped over the mouse trap on the windowsill and landed firmly on the ground, while Gawain paid attention Her expression looked a little serious.

It was rare to see a serious expression on Amber's face, so Gawain temporarily put away the idea of ​​replacing the mouse trap on the windowsill with a trip wire next time. He looked at the other party curiously: "What happened?" What's wrong?"

Hubo casually picked up Gawain's water glass on the desk and drank the herbal tea in it. After drinking it, he took a deep breath: "Huh - I'm exhausted from running all the way here. The patrol team in the mountain came back early. They encountered a group of suspicious militants and brought back two disabled prisoners."

Gao Wen suddenly frowned: "Suspicious. Militants? What's going on?"

"I don't know, there's nothing identifying them, but I found mapping tools and some sketches of the Dark Mountains on them," Amber Waving his hand, "I can't ask anything from the two captured prisoners, and they were seriously injured. Pitman didn't dare to give them potions to force them to confess - for fear of accidentally killing them. Now they are in the barracks. The priest is treating their injuries."

Gao Wen frowned and looked back at Betty: "You stay at home and look after the door. I'll go out for a while." "

The little maid nodded blankly, and the next second she saw that her master and Amber had rushed out of the window in a hurry, and only their voices came faintly from the air:< /p>

"Oh, I'm going to use this mousetrap!"

"You deserve it. Who told you to use the mousetrap to trick me - you may have caught yourself this time!"

"I can't go with you - why do you think I should jump out of the window with you!!"

BettyAfter being stunned for a while, he lowered his head and continued to write hard - it was too difficult to understand the behavior pattern of the master and Amber when they were together, so it was better to learn something simpler.

On the other side, it didn't take long for Gawain and Amber to arrive at the "prisoner holding room" located in the corner of the military camp.

Here he saw the soldiers patrolling the mountain who encountered the enemy, as well as the two prisoners who were defeated and captured by them. Indeed, as Amber said, the two prisoners were seriously injured - —Their hands and feet were penetrated by the scorching rays, and there were many places on their torsos that were rubbed by the heat rays. The metal armor melted by the high temperature made their injuries particularly serious. If the soldiers on the patrol had not given them timely treatment, After returning to the territory, they were rescued by the holy light of the priest. It was hard to say whether they would survive.

Priest Wright has completed the emergency treatment of the prisoners' wounds - through a series of effective treatments such as bone setting (physics), cleansing (physics), healing (physics), and a little bit of insignificant holy... Using special light effects, he stabilized the prisoner's situation. After seeing Gawain come in, the priest immediately came up to him: "Lord, you came just in time."

Gawain's first glance When he saw the blood on the hands and body of the pastor, he was suddenly shocked: "If I come later, you will put people to death, right?!"

"Huh?" Wright was stunned for a moment and hurriedly Waving his hand, "No, no, their injuries have stabilized. I mean if you come a little later, I will prepare to release the Ningshen Technique on them to make them fall asleep - then there will be no way to ask."

After taking a look at Wright's casserole-sized fist, Gawain was particularly convinced that the priest's tranquilizing technique was absolutely effective enough to shut anyone up...