Ark: I adopted Seria at the beginning

This barber shop is located between Uptown and Downtown.

The location is neither too good nor too bad, so the people who come here are a bit mixed.

The men who get haircuts often chat with customers about irrelevant things to relieve their boredom.

Even in another world where the Internet is developed, you cannot use your mobile phone while getting a haircut.

Because it is covered with cloth, even if it is transparent, it will be covered by the thick hair after a minute or two.

Kasheena was scrolling through White Rabbit's phone in boredom.

As for why she doesn't use her mobile phone, she hasn't joined the group yet, so of course she has to check the group chat.

It is really fun to watch a certain dragon go crazy in the group, and a certain demon king and a certain big green cat in the group slander each other's figure as inferior to his own.

That's interesting.

In the end, Tallulah casually said that you are all scum in front of my figure, and took a photo of her chest.

And the scale is quite large.

As long as the edge of the photo is slightly larger, you can see it...

Everyone was silent. They had never seen such a shameless person!

"Girl, you should be from a university in the upper city."

"Yes."

"Your hair is of such good texture, why do you want to cut it off? Can you sell me a section of your hair? I want to make a wig."

"Auntie, just take it if you want it. Don't say whether it can be sold or not."

"Thank you, girl. You are such a kind person. I won't charge you any money later. I'm sorry."

Yelena doesn't care, hair is not very important to her.

The aunt in the back is concentrating on manipulating the delicate scissors in her hands, clicking, clicking, and the sound of repairing is endless.

Bored White Rabbit, look at the picture frame on the tool table.

There are a lot of framed photos, but isn’t the number of people in them a little unusual?

Yelena counted carefully and found that the aunt who was cutting her hair actually had 6 children!

This is simply too...

But after thinking about it, it seems quite reasonable.

Scorpion once told himself that people in poor third world countries usually have the idea that the more children they have, the more they can help themselves when they grow up and the more they can earn.

So I held my breath and worked hard.

But this often creates a problem.

Although the population has grown, social resources are still in the hands of a small group of people, and nothing has changed.

The people at the bottom are getting poorer and poorer because the limited resources are allocated to more people.

This makes it even more difficult to centralize resources, leading to increasingly serious class consolidation.

"What should I call you?"

"I take my husband's last name, my last name is Griet."

"Okay, Ms. Grit, where are your children? Have they gone to school?"

"They went to work." The hand cutting the hair at the back paused, and then continued to work.

Yelena understands very well that even with a formal store, it is very difficult to maintain the expenses of a whole family in a developed city like Victoria.

"Actually, we were not originally locals. We used to work on the farm, but now the farm has closed down. We followed the migrating army and came to the city."

This is the work of a certain scorpion. A large number of farms went bankrupt and a large number of lands were annexed.

A large number of farmers flocked to the cities in search of a way to survive.

"Where is Mr. Griet?"

"He went to work in the Scorpion Group's mine and only came back once every half a month."

"My children all do small jobs to make ends meet. The most promising one is my sixth daughter!"

As if she was talking about something proud, Ms. Grit's tone behind her became cheerful.

There was silence after the fresh water, and finally all the infinite words turned into a long sigh.

"When my daughter was on the farm, she was noticed by a big shot. He said that she had precious Originium skills that only noble men had, and he wanted to send her to school."

Origin Stone skills are very precious and rare. Normally, ordinary people cannot be special to others without systematic training.

The easiest way for ordinary people to obtain their own Originium skills is to infect themselves with ore disease.

However, this does not guarantee that one has the Origin Stone skill, so one can imagine how precious it is.

If an ordinary person's family had a congenital user of Origin Stone skills, it would be like smoke rising from the ancestral grave.

It’s just one step away from becoming famous.

So they make people happy as a family.

But until the staff who came to recruit said that they had to bear the study expenses alone.

It's like killing a thousand cuts.

The hope of the whole family's revival rests on the little sixth sister. The whole family sells everything and finally sends his youngest daughter to college. However, in the end, the head of Gerrit's family is fired by the owner because the farm goes bankrupt.

They suddenly lost their family's main source of income.

The sixth sister, who could not afford the tuition, had no choice but to return home and accompany her family on their journey to the city.

"There is a big problem with this staff. I remember this should be subsidized. I am a teacher. How come I haven't heard of this?"

Kasheena checked the policy of the college that Ms. Griet mentioned and found that they did have a subsidy for poor students.

Not only are meals and accommodation fees free of charge, but it also provides students with work-study opportunities, and there is also a certain amount of appropriate subsidies for families.

After all, the future growth limit of users of congenital Origin Stone skills is relatively high. It is impossible for Victoria officials to pick up the sesame and lose the watermelon.

Although the nobles at the top of the hierarchy are still very corrupt, they do not care about education at all, because they know the importance of talents better than anyone else.

Especially in this world where the power of a single person can grow to terrifying levels.

There is a reason why the University of Victoria can become one of the top universities in the world.

Although the nobles were corrupt and some were even irrational, they were not stupid or old-fashioned.

"That staff member probably deducted your daughter's bonus and subsidy. This is not a new thing in Victoria's academic world."

After hearing this, Ms. Grit did not answer, but hid her words in the movements of her hands.

"How can little people like us sue big people like that? If we really find something wrong, what ability do we have to protect our rights and interests?"

"According to the people in the city, we have to go to court, but we don't even know how to read, and we can't afford a lawyer. And we don't have any evidence, so we can't fight them..."

Yelena lowered her head, that was indeed the case.

People at the bottom don't seem to have that many choices. It's good enough to live a good life.

"Then what is your daughter doing now?"

"She now works as a newsboy on the street and earns two pounds a day, which is a lot of money."

This income is really very little.