Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 148 Misunderstanding
"I don't believe it. A fool would say that he is not a fool, and a lunatic would not admit that he is a lunatic." Rhodes shook his head, and punched him with the other fist.

The burly man easily grabbed Rhode's fist, stared at Rhodes and said righteously
"I really didn't do anything bad, all I did was help the poor here."

"Training pickpockets and beggars to make money for you doesn't count?" Rhodes smiled.

"I did have people teach them this, but I didn't let them make money for me. How could I, Bruce, do such a thing?" I don't want a penny of the money that came, and I, Bruce, will be short of this money?"

"Then where did you get your money?" Rhodes asked again.

"You can find out by asking about it. My father is the lord of this city, although I am not the first heir." Bruce explained.

"Then why do you still do this kind of thing?" Rhodes didn't look like he was lying.

Bruce let go of Rhode's hand, sat on the leather sofa next to him, picked up a bottle of wine and took a sip, showing memories in his eyes.

"I was awarded the title of knight when I was very young. My title of knight was not obtained by relationship, but by my merits. A few years ago, I replaced my father in response to the emperor's call to participate in the battle with Nord In the war of the kingdom, we lost miserably in that war, almost all the soldiers I brought died, and even I almost died," Bruce said.

A few years ago, the Roman Empire was indeed defeated by the Nord Kingdom. After that, the Nord Kingdom occupied the lands south of Winterfell Fortress.

"These children you trained to be pickpockets and beggars are the orphans of those soldiers?" Rhodes flexed his wrist. This Bruce still has some strength, and he just took advantage of it at the beginning. After spitting it out and sobering up a bit, it even gained the upper hand.

Bruce nodded.

"Then why don't they have a pension?" Rhodes asked again.

"Pension? What's that?" Bruce looked puzzled.

"I don't even make up a good story. It's getting late, and I don't have time to listen to your nonsense." Rhodes took out the dagger again, ready to kill Bruce.

"Don't be so excited, I didn't make up a story, wait, I know what you're talking about, compensation for the soldiers who died in battle, right? This kind of thing is only available in the Fish Kingdom." Bruce said quickly.

"Don't you have any in your country?" Rhodes asked again.

"No, only the wealthy Fish Kingdom has it." Bruce explained.

"Then you teach the orphans of your soldiers who died in battle to do evil? And exploit them." Rhodes said again.

"I also know that stealing and begging are wrong, but what can I do? I gave all my money to these poor children, but it was not enough for them to grow up and live independently. I asked my father to give I have more money to raise these children, but he still laughed at me as a fool. And the money I gave to those children before was also robbed and cheated by others. In anger, I asked someone to teach them how to steal. Those who did not have this On the other hand, I accepted my kindness giftedly, and felt embarrassed, so I went to beg to hope to lighten my burden." Bruce sighed.

"I know you still want to ask who owns this house. This house was built by the people who really oppressed this slum. Later, in order to protect these children, I moved to this stinky place and arrested that bastard. In prison," he added.

Is the tavern owner's news inaccurate?Rhodes was a little skeptical.

"Then why do you teach these orphans how to steal instead of some serious crafts?" Rhodes asked again.

"Don't you know that if you want to be an apprentice, you must agree with the master? After I came back, I first gave apprentices to those craftsmen who were willing to accept apprentices. Later, many children had no support, so I could only teach them these things." Bruce said helplessly. Said.

People in this era generally think that teaching apprentices will starve the master to death, so they are very cautious in recruiting apprentices, unlike before time travel, there are special schools.

"I regret it now. I shouldn't have directly distributed my savings to them at that time, and they don't need to steal to survive now." Bruce sighed again.

"Then why do people say that you will take a large part of their harvest, and if you can't meet your requirements, you will beat them up." Rhodes asked again.

"This is something done by the Blue Fox Gang next door. Most people don't understand, so they just take what they do as what we do. You can ask your family members at random, I haven't even collected protection money." Bruce explain.

According to the tavern owner, the Tiger Gang and the Green Fox Gang both do this kind of thing. In addition, the Green Fox Gang also trains killers and accepts some commissions to kill people.

Rhodes is hesitant to kill him now, in case what he said is true, after killing him himself, these children in the slums will really live a miserable life.

After thinking about it, Rhodes used the mage ball to control Bruce.

"What do you want?" Bruce asked, immobilized.

"Tie you up and ask others if what you said is true or not." Rhode held the mage ball with one hand, and tied Bruce up with a rope with the other hand.

What Rhodes didn't expect was that Bruce struggled for a while at first, but he didn't resist after that, and he also told his two younger brothers not to resist.

Rhodes opened the door and went out to ask a few people before deciding how to deal with him.

He ran to a nearby house and flipped inside.

There was no need to turn over at all, the door and the wall were broken, and Rhodes got in directly through the hole in the wall.

There was no bed in the messy room, and a teenager fell asleep on a pile of straw. Rhodes woke him up.

"Shh." Rhodes made a silent gesture to him.

The boy woke up from his sleep and looked at Rhodes holding the dagger in fear.

"You answer my question honestly, otherwise, hum." Rhodes frightened the boy.

The boy nodded in horror. He looked to be only thirteen or fourteen years old, not much younger than Rhodes, and he hadn't bathed for a long time as he was dirty.

"Do you think the leader of the Tiger Gang is a good guy or a bad guy? Did he beat you because you couldn't steal money?" Rhode asked.

The boy was a little puzzled, but he answered his question honestly, "He is a good man. If it weren't for him, we would have starved to death, and he never beat us."

"Go ahead and sleep." Rhodes nodded and walked out.

Then Rhodes asked a few more children in a similar way. The youngest was estimated to be only five or six years old, and the oldest was the thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy before. Their answers were the same as the first boy.

It seems that this Bruce is not lying, Rhodes sighed, fortunately he listened to Bruce's story patiently.

Rhodes returned to Bruce's mansion and found that he had already untied himself, and now he was sitting on the sofa waiting for Rhodes to come back.

"I didn't lie to you, did I?" Bruce said with a smile.

"Don't let those children beg or steal anymore, these are wrong." Rhode looked at Bruce and said word by word.

"Then how do they survive? My father hasn't given me any money for a long time, and I have no territory. Even these bottles of wine were stolen from my father during the day, and I brought them to my brothers for dinner." Bruce laughed at himself. smiled.

"Go to the Reiner family's casino and ask a few more people to go. I killed all the people there before, and there is a lot of money in it, enough for you to let these children grow up without any worries." After finishing speaking, Rhodes turned Turn around and prepare to leave.

He turned around and "taught them how to read, instilled in them correct ideas, so that they can be good people in the future."

After leaving the mansion, Rhodes walked towards the territory of the Green Fox Gang. Looking at the slowly increasing Chivalry Points in the system, Rhodes was a little happy, not only because of the increase in Chivalry Points but also because he helped others...

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(End of this chapter)