A Beta boy working part-time in another world

Today is the grand rain-praying festival in the country of Lapra.

The platform under the statue is filled with offerings from believers, including rare fruits, scarce prey, precious flowers and so on.

Ye Sui stopped and watched, not understanding why they were wasting food here.

But at the same time, we can understand the blind faith of lower civilizations in God.

It is nothing more than a means of ruling over mankind.

As he was about to leave, the scene suddenly became noisy.

"Hurry! Don't let these thieves get away!"

"Dare to steal food given to God and blaspheme God's majesty! Execute these greedy thieves!"

Three ragged children were surrounded by the crowd. The soldiers who arrived pressed them to the ground. The angry crowd shouted that they wanted to kill them as a sacrifice to the gods to apologize.

Ye Sui took a look at the ages of the three children. They were probably in their teens, probably less than fourteen.

It would be too cruel to execute someone just for eating some food.

Ye Sui came to the platform above the crowd and said, "Maybe God has mercy on them and gave them food?"

His words silenced the crowd for a few seconds.

Then, the soldier who was maintaining law and order said to Ye Sui: "What nonsense! How can God have mercy on these thieves who don't contribute anything!"

Ye Sui couldn't understand how a person could contribute to society and the country when it was difficult for him to even survive.

"Then how do you know that God won't have mercy on them?"

The sheriff's face turned red with anger at Ye Sui's words.

The women watching found it understandable.

Therefore, the sheriff had no choice but to show justice by pressing the three children who stole the food under the statue, and the sheriff would make the decision by throwing a card at the stone tablet holding the prayer stone.

This stone tablet represents the so-called answer from 'God'.

One positive and one negative means disagreement.

The opposite of both sides is guilt.

Two positive sides mean consent, or not guilty.

The sheriff threw it into the sky proudly, and as the stone tablet fell, the three children's eyes moved with it.

This is the stone tablet that determines their life or death, it is hard not to pay attention to it.

With a thud, the stone tablet fell to the ground.

the crowd exclaimed.

"It was two heads, God really agreed to give them food!"

"Oh my god, it turns out we misunderstood them..."

"Be quiet!" the sheriff said in disbelief, "One time doesn't count. To be more accurate, of course we need three times!"

So the sheriff tossed it twice in a row, and each time he got two heads and no tails.

He was so angry that he didn't believe it, and he did it several times in a row, and it was still face-to-face. This time, he felt a chill on his back and looked up at the majestic statue. He didn't dare to do it again.

If the gods were really watching, wouldn’t he be a sinner?

"Okay, they are innocent. For the sake of God's mercy, let them go."

The sheriff and his men left in disgrace, and the three children came to Ye Sui to thank him.

"You're welcome. Are you still hungry?" Ye Sui asked.

The three children nodded hesitantly, and the youngest one stared at his toes embarrassedly.

Ye Sui smiled and said, "Why are you still hesitating? There is so much food under the statue. Go and eat it. The gods have given us permission."

The three children ate a meal and then ran off to eat something.

Because of the slingshot scene just now, people who came to pay tribute to the gods no longer drove them away.

Ye Sui pulled his hood closer and turned to leave.

When Luka finished eating and looked back, the man who helped them was no longer there.

Luka tugged at Hemet’s sleeve and said, “Hemet, that man is gone.”

Hemet wiped the berry juice from his mouth, grabbed a handful of bread and stuffed it into his brother Acosta's clothes, and grabbed a handful for himself before leaving with Luca.

They are wandering orphans.

But Luka is not like that. He also has a sister who ignores him. Except for occasionally coming to check on him, she basically doesn't care about his situation.

In Hemit's eyes, Luka's sister's behavior was to confirm whether Luka was dead.

As the three of them were walking back, Hemit complained, "Your sister is a devil. You are almost starving to death, but she doesn't even give you any living expenses. She just wants to marry a rich man and become a rich wife every day."

"Don't say that Hemet, Natasha can't do anything about it."

Even though his sister had never taken good care of him, Luka still couldn't bear to complain about her.

"I'm right, you're almost a beggar like me, Luka!" Hemit told him, "You have to be brave and ask your sister for living expenses, otherwise you will starve to death! We are not so lucky every day to eat the food under the statue!"

After saying that, he walked to the fork in the road.

Hemitra took his brother's hand and left.

Luka was left alone in his poor mud house.

When Luka was very young, his parents were around and his sister would carry him on her back to play in the mud after it rained.

His sister taught him how to make clay figures and how to distinguish the sounds of the cuckoo bird and the cuckoo beast.

That was Luka's happiest time.

But after his mother died, his father despised him and his sister for being a burden, so he followed the young woman and left, never to return.

Luka thought of Hemit's words, and recalled that his sister's life in the noble family was not easy either, so he did not have the courage to ask for living expenses.

On the other hand, Acosta felt that what his brother said was a bit serious.

"He'll be miserable."

"I'm not wrong. Since his sister has a job, she should support him. He's not like you and me, who are both beggars."

Acosta looked at his brother and explained, "But Luca said that his sister wasn't having a good time either."

Hemet said helplessly: "We can't let him starve to death."

Acosta stopped talking.

Actually, what his brother said was not wrong.

These days, life is so difficult for everyone.

There was no rain all year round, the crops died, and the farmers had no harvest. The nobles were so rich that they would feed their food to their dogs rather than give a single cent to the beggars on the street.

Ye Sui found a hotel to rest before sunset.

The boss gave Ye Sui a key with the room number written on it.

After going upstairs, Ye Sui realized that there was no bathroom in the hotel because there was a severe shortage of water. There was only a bed and a retro wardrobe in the room.

Ye Sui wanted to take a shower, but gave up the idea.

Before long, downstairs became lively.

Ye came down from upstairs and saw many diners in the hotel, so he sat at the bar and asked the boss for a piece of barbecue and a glass of fruit wine.

The boss saw that Ye Sui's eating movements showed that he was not from here, so he started chatting with him enthusiastically.

"From out of town?"

"Yes."

"It just so happens that this meat was bought by my wife from the market. It tastes good, doesn't it?"

Ye Sui smiled, but his smile was hidden by the hood and the boss couldn't see it.

"By the way, boss, how long has it been since it rained here?"

"It's been five years." The boss said sadly, "We offer sacrifices to the gods every year, but in the past five years we haven't seen even a drop of rain."

Ye Suihe asked the boss some questions he wanted, and went upstairs after eating.