Chapter 254 Betty Is Studying Hard

Gawain put down the last engineering report that he needed to confirm in person, moved his neck to relax the somewhat stiff cervical vertebrae, and then looked around.

The study was very quiet, but he was not alone. Not far from Gawain's large desk, there was a small table against the wall. Betty was lying beside the table, bowing her head and writing seriously. with words that you have recently learned to spell.

Taking two hours every night to study spelling at night school, and then practicing writing against the textbook 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 to learn to have a more convenient study space , Gawain deliberately allowed her to practice writing in her study, and arranged for her a small desk of her own here.

This is obviously a bit more than the maid should be treated, but no one in this place will question Gawain's decision, as for Betty herself - her mind seems to be not complex enough to think about "beyond the rules".

Betty is indeed a not-so-smart girl—in fact, she is a bit dumb. Gawain knew that there was a word to describe this kind of girl, the so-called "dumb", but he didn't feel it from Betty's cuteness. The slightest bit of happiness - this girl does not have any congenital defects, her "stay" is just caused by malnutrition and the embarrassment of family life since childhood.

Just like most of the destitute children of this era, like most kitchen maids, low-level chores, serf children, nutritional deficiencies during critical stages of development and lack of education during the most important learning period of life often affect them throughout their lives, they lack Knowledge, curiosity, no learning ability, and no independent thinking. This is evidence to support the "truth" that "aristocrats are born noble". Of course, there are exaggerated and unreasonable discriminatory factors, but as he understands the world more and more, Gawain has to admit a fact:

There is really a gap between the poor children and the wealthy noble children in terms of learning ability and thinking speed. Although this gap has nothing to do with the so-called "blood quality", its own existence is an unavoidable reality.

So Gawain is trying to reduce this gap. Whether it is implementing free special meals for children in night schools or providing food subsidies to children under the age of six in the territory, they are all part of the effort. First, solve the children's malnutrition and let their health The brain can be fully developed like the children of nobles, and at the same time educate it, this is the most effective way he can think of, but what about those who have grown up or are about to grow up?

Gawain stood up and came behind Betty, watching this stupid girl spell each word hard. She made few mistakes, and her handwriting was much neater than at the beginning, but she had to spell a word dozens of times to remember it. , to this day, she is still learning many of the first two months of night school children.

Betty is much stronger than most people in her class. She is almost an adult, but she is still very curious, and she likes to learn actively and spontaneously. People can read and write fluently, but she is still very difficult to learn - she is not a buried genius in the novel, she has missed the best learning age, which is hard to make up for with acquired hard work.

In fact, if it wasn't for a catastrophe in the territory, and if Gawain hadn't brought her to see too many things in the "outside world", Betty probably wouldn't have known anything other than rough work in the kitchen in her life. way of life.

Like she was holding her pan in those days when she first escaped from the territory - that's because there really was nothing else in her entire past life, and as a kitchen maid, that pan was The highest honor and mission she could imagine.

Betty finally noticed the figure beside her, and she raised her head in shock,

In a panic, he wanted to get up: "Master..."

"It's alright, I just finished my official business and came to see your progress." Gawain pressed Betty's head to reassure the girl, "Ah...you can write neatly."

Betty smiled embarrassedly, she was very happy to receive the compliment, but she was a little aggrieved: "Pea learned faster than me..."

"She's still young, it's normal for her to learn things easier," Gawain comforted the little maid, "You work hard, and sooner or later you will catch up with others. And I can teach you anything you don't understand."

"Yeah!" Betty nodded vigorously, and at this moment, Gawain noticed a few pages of scratch paper sticking out of the stack of books beside the small desk, he curiously pulled it out and saw the description on it. with some simple basic runes.

"You have already started learning runes?" Gawain asked unexpectedly.

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

"Can you understand?"

"I can understand a part of it," Betty gestured with her hand, indicating that it was a very small part, "Mr. Santis speaks very carefully, and is very patient, and the observers can also ask questions, so I learned Some. Mr. Santis said that if I could memorize the basic twenty-eight runes, let me officially go to class."

Gawain couldn't help but think of that thin, tall young mage wearing a worn mage robe, messy hair, and a little cowardly. Ever since he arranged for the second-level arcanist to teach runes at Cecil General Academy After dealing with magic, he never heard any news related to the other party. That Mr. Arcanist is really a very low-key person. It seems that as long as he is given a job, he can keep silent in the job. Go on work - but in the end, he seems to be doing just fine as a teacher?

Few formal mages are as patient as him in front of commoners, and he can even explain relatively complex rune theory to the extent that even Betty can barely understand part of it, which is really a remarkable talent.

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

"Mr. Santis said, 'You can't see the magic, but it's there,'" Betty whispered, "but he wouldn't let us carve runes on copper plates and black stones, he let us Practice on the sand, manuscript paper, and writing board first, and you must wait until you are proficient before you can touch the magic materials..."

"Security awareness is the first step in learning magic," Gawain laughed. "It's right to listen to him in this regard."

After saying this, he suddenly turned around and looked in the direction of the window - he sensed that Amber's breath was approaching here quickly.

It's a pity that the anti-amber device didn't work this time - the half-elf lady who was skilled in shadow went directly over the mousetrap on the windowsill and landed firmly on the ground, while Gawain noticed that her expression was 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 mousetrap on the windowsill with a tripwire next time. He looked at him curiously: "What happened?"

Amber picked up Gawain's water cup on the desk and poured the herbal tea into it. After drinking it happily, he took a deep breath: "Huh - I'm exhausted from running all the way. The patrol team in the mountain came back early, They ran into a suspicious gang of militants and brought back two crippled captives."

Gawain frowned suddenly: "Suspicious militant? What's the situation?"

"I don't know, those people don't have anything that can identify them, but I found tools for drawing maps and some sketches of dark mountains on them," Amber waved, "The two prisoners I caught couldn't ask anything. , and their injuries are not serious, Pittman did not dare to give them potions to force confessions - for fear of accidentally killing people. Now the people are being held in the barracks, and the priest is treating them. The patrol who came back The team is there too."

Gawain frowned and looked back at Betty: "You keep the door at home, I'll go out."

The little maid nodded, and the next second saw that her master and Amber had rushed out of the window, only the voices of the two faintly came from the air:

"Oh, I'm going to the mousetrap!"

"Deserving it, who asked you to trap me with a mousetrap - this time you caught yourself!"

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

Betty was stunned for a while, then lowered her head and continued to write hard - it is too difficult to understand the behavior pattern of the master and Amber when they are together, it is better to learn it easier.

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

Here he saw the patrolling soldiers in the mountains who encountered the enemy, and the two prisoners who were defeated and captured by them. Indeed, as Amber said, the two prisoners were seriously injured-they were penetrated by the scorching rays After the hands and feet were removed, there were also many places on the torso that were rubbed by the heat energy rays. The metal armor melted by the high temperature made their injuries extremely serious. With the priest's holy light to rescue them, it's hard to say whether they can survive.

Priest Wright has completed the emergency treatment of the captive's wounds - through a series of effective treatments such as bone setting (physical), cleansing (physical), healing (physical), and a little bit of holy light special effects, he let the captive's The situation stabilized, and after seeing Gawain come in, the priest immediately greeted him: "Lord, you came in time."

Gawain saw the bloodstains on the pastor's hands and body at first glance, and was immediately surprised: "I'll come later and you'll put the man to death, right?!"

"Ah?" Wright was stunned for a moment, then quickly waved his hand, "No, no, their injuries have stabilized, I mean if you come a little later, I will prepare to release them with the magic of tranquility to make them fall asleep - when the time comes There's no way to ask."

Glancing at Wright's casserole-sized fist, Gawain particularly believed that the priest's calming technique was absolutely effective to the extent that anyone could shut up...

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