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"I understand. I will find a way to save them."
Emilia nodded. After seeing so many tragic scenes, she no longer had time to guess the motives behind Roswaal's actions. She just wanted to help those who had become disconnected from society and abandoned by the world.
"Then I will take my leave first. I hope you can rescue them from the sea of suffering as soon as possible."
Roswaal rushed to Emilia, then flew into the air and disappeared in the north.
Emilia hurried back to Roswaal's mansion.
"Lady Emilia, do you have any requests for tonight's meal?"
As soon as I returned to the mansion, Frandelica came to greet me.
"Put aside dinner for now, go to the treasury and get fifty holy gold coins and follow me."
Emilia quickly ordered.
"What happened to you all of a sudden? Why did you withdraw such a large sum of money at once?"
Frandelica looked at Emilia with some surprise. Even for the great noble Roswaal, fifty holy gold coins was not a small amount, so she had an obligation to ask the reason.
After all, although Emilia is the candidate supported by Roswaal, she is not the head of the Roswaal family.
"We are going to buy food and distribute it to the people in the slums. Roswaal has to go to the north for important matters. Before he left, he handed over everything in Roswaal to me and said that I could use all resources to do what I planned to do."
Emilia explained.
"But the people in the slums are all thieves, criminals and prostitutes..."
Regarding what Emilia was planning to do, Faldelica spoke with an embarrassed look on her face to remind her that she thought Emilia was doing something extremely stupid.
This matter will undoubtedly consume a lot of manpower and material resources, but will rarely yield any results.
"I admit that there are indeed thieves, criminals and prostitutes in the slums, but we can't just kill all the people in the slums. I went to see there today and there are still many children and old people who have no ability to make a living. Don't they have the right to live?"
"this..."
Frandelica remained silent. Although she wanted to say that those people's affairs had nothing to do with her, she knew from her conscience that some of those children and old people had done nothing wrong and had ended up in the slums just because of fate.
"Don't worry. Lord Roswaal also supports my decision. If you don't believe me, you can make a soul contract with me to prove that I am not lying."
Emilia spoke up.
The so-called soul contract is the safest and most reliable means in this world.
Once such a contract is made, it is absolutely impossible to violate it, because if the person violates the contract, he will die on the spot.
She has already put herself in a good position by suggesting this.
"Not really, not really. I believe you, but I just want to remind you that doing this kind of thing won't be of much help to your participation in the royal election. On the contrary, it may cause your support rate in our area to drop."
Frandelica spoke up to remind him.
"I will find a way to convince everyone. Please quickly execute my order. Every minute and every second, someone in the slum may starve to death because of our negligence."
Emilia said seriously.
"Well, if that's the case, please wait a moment. I'll go to the treasury to get the money."
Frandelica bowed politely, then turned and walked quickly into the depths of Roswaal's mansion.
After a while, Frandelica returned to Emilia with a small purse.
"Considering that you are going to distribute food to the people in the slums, I think we need to prepare a truck."
Frandelica began to speak.
"Okay, I'll leave everything to you."
Emilia nodded. She was not very good at math, so it would be better to leave this matter to Frandelica.
"I understand. Please come with me to buy a dragon car."
Frandelica then brought Emilia to the dragon cart shop in the royal capital and bought a dragon cart. Then they went to the bakeries in the city one by one to buy the cheapest black bread.
However, since there is not such a huge demand for black bread in the city, after running around all the bakeries in the royal capital, he could only buy less than a quarter of a truck load of black bread, which was far from enough to feed the poor people in the slums.
In desperation, Frandelica had to pay part of the deposit and agreed with the bakery owner to continue baking large quantities of black bread. Then she drove the dragon cart to the slums with the black bread she had bought.
The two men had just driven the dragon car into the slums and hadn't started yet when the people around them surrounded them with green eyes shining as if they had seen delicious prey.
"Everyone, please don't be so anxious. We are here to distribute relief food to you. I promise..."
Before Emilia finished speaking, several nimble children climbed over the wheels and jumped into the cargo hold at the back of the dragon truck, grabbed a few loaves of black bread and jumped out of the truck. Seeing the children starting to grab the black bread, the adults around them also reached out to grab the black bread.
In less than two minutes, the black bread brought by Emilia and Frandelica was sold out.
The little boy who was closest to the car and didn't get any bread started crying loudly, while the adults yelled at Emilia to bring more bread.
"Little guy, don't cry. I will bring more food. Don't worry, everyone will have enough to eat."
Emilia reached out and touched the little boy's head and spoke to comfort him.
"You liar, you will never come again, I will starve to death! I'm so hungry!!!"
The little boy cried out sadly.
"Well...then why don't you come with us to the city? How about we give you some of the bread we bought on the way?"
Looking at the crying little boy, Emilia was suddenly at a loss as to what to do.
"Okay!"
When the little boy heard there was food, he stopped crying. But when the dozens of children around him saw that the child had something to eat, they also started crying and climbed into the cargo hold of the dragon truck. There were even a few adults who wanted to squeeze in. However, under Parker's threatening ice cone, these adults restrained their desires.
After all, they only have one life and they don’t want to die now.
Emilia had a terrible headache when she saw the children filling up the cargo hold in the blink of an eye, as well as the children trying to climb in by climbing onto the wheels.
If she brings such a large group of children into the city, the guards will not let her in, because there may be children with bad conduct among them. In order to maintain law and order in the royal capital, the guards will definitely not allow her to enter the city.
If she only brought one or two people, she could ask for some privileges as the chosen one, but it was unrealistic to bring dozens of people in the car.
But if she only took the first child, she didn't know what excuse to use to get the other children off the bus.
Now she was in a dilemma.
Frandelica on the side was watching the situation in front of her without saying a word. It was true that if she got angry, she could scare these children off the dragon carriage, but she did not intend to do so.
After all, she did not support Emilia's distribution of food to the slums, after all, it was all using the Roswaal family's property.
Plus, this was a thankless task, so she just stood there in silence.
Although she would not openly go against Emilia's decision, she would not actively cooperate with Emilia's actions either.
"Everyone, please listen to me quietly for a moment."
When Emilia was at a loss as to what to do with the current situation, Parker stepped forward, and then dozens of ice cones condensed from behind her.
After feeling Parker's strength, the previously noisy crowd gradually quieted down, and the children dared not cry anymore.
"First of all, if you all crowd into the car, then no one will be able to enter the capital to get food, because the guards will not let you in. You know why. If you all crowd in here, no one will have anything to eat. So you go down first. Leah and I promise that we will come back with more food."
Parker spoke to the children in the car.
The children hesitated for a moment, and finally got off the car awkwardly. Only the first little boy who was allowed by Emilia was left, looking at Emilia with pleading eyes.
Emilia looked at Parker with some embarrassment.
"Well, one can still be brought in."
Parker waved his cat paw.
Although they were dissatisfied with Parker's decision, the slum children finally gave up their plan to resist when they saw the icicles behind him.
"Then, it's you adults. You really went too far. I saw quite a few people snatch three or four loaves of bread and run away. If you do this again next time we bring bread back, I promise to pierce your bodies with icicles."
"Liya and I sent the food here to give life-saving food to those who are about to starve to death, not for you to take our reserve food from us!"
Parker declared in a murderous tone. The people in the slums looked away and took a step back.
"Now, go and inform the other people in the slum about this. We will bring you bread later. Don't rob us, or we will never come again."
Parker started talking.
"Well, what if you lie to us and don't come this time?"
Someone who was starving to death and didn't get any bread asked doubtfully. After all, Emilia and the others were his hope of survival, and he couldn't give up this opportunity.
"Liya is the 43rd candidate for the Lukenica Kingdom's royal election. Will she break her promise over such a small matter?"
Parker snorted coldly. Since Emilia was going to save the people in the slums, she should at least leave a name so that they would remember Emilia's kindness.
The assets of the Roswaal Mansion must be transformed into fame and fortune.
Hearing that Emilia was the chosen one, the people in the slums had some conviction and light in their eyes.
"Does Lady Emilia intend to speak up for us?"
an old lady asked excitedly.
"Yes, if Emilia can become the king of the Lukenica Kingdom, she will make sure that you can all have hot meals three times a day sooner or later, so you must not let her down. You must wait here obediently and receive the food in an orderly manner after we bring it over. Don't grab everything, otherwise Emilia will be sad."
Parker started talking.
Having been with Emilia for such a long time, it understands Emilia's character very well. Emilia is determined to take care of the slum issue. In order to save more people, more resources are needed. If it wants to use the resources of the entire kingdom, it can only do so by becoming a king, so it begins to help Emilia build momentum.
Even though it had somewhat understood Roswaal's intentions, it could only follow Roswaal's lead now.
Otherwise, if I tried to dissuade it, Emilia might even fall out with it.
Since there is no way to persuade Emilia to change her mind, the only choice is to go all the way with her.
"Understood. We will collect food in an orderly manner as long as everyone can get a bite to eat."
The people in the slums spoke up.
"Very good, then we will go back to the city to buy bread."
Parker waved his cat paw, then waved his cat paw at Frandelica, and then the four of them drove the dragon carriage back to the town.
Chapter 1055: I am not afraid of teammates who are like pigs, but I am afraid of opponents who are like gods
On the way out of the slums, Emilia felt very heavy.
The bread she brought earlier could have saved more people, but because of the selfishness of those who rushed to grab the bread first, children like the little boy sitting next to her had to continue to go hungry.