Jiang Jin didn't have the courage to look up again, so she simply went back home. Passing by a large open space, Yager told Jiang Jin that it was the garden of the City Lord's Mansion.

Really, Jiang Jin swore, she had never seen such a dilapidated garden.

From a high vantage point, it looks like a large circle surrounding a small circle.

In winter, the flowers do not bloom and the bushes are all covered with snow, which looks a bit desolate.

It was only after Yager took Jiang Jin around and explained everything that Jiang Jin tried hard to memorize the general idea of ​​the garden.

There is a large lawn outside the City Lord's Mansion. If you follow the path into the garden, you can see the panoramic view of the garden.

"In the summer, the outer edges will be in full bloom with colorful azaleas, and the central flowerbed will be filled with vibrant sunflowers. When you walk along the circular path, you will circle around the flowers."

A happy expression appeared on Jacob's face. "It's such a wonderful thing to be covered with the fragrance of flowers!"

Jiang Jin nodded in approval, a rare gesture.

This garden is not very big. From the entrance to the exit, it circles around the flower beds.

It takes about ten minutes to take a leisurely stroll, which is very suitable for taking the little ones out for a walk in the summer.

The two of them had been walking around outside for nearly an hour. Yager sneezed a few times, and Jiang Jin remembered that the housekeeper next to him was still sick. "Let's go. That's all for today."

"Yes." Yager bowed to Jiang Jin gratefully.

The two of them walked back, and as they walked, Jiang Jin suddenly saw a few women with thick scarves wrapped around their heads squatting by the pool in the corner, washing things.

There was a slightly plump woman who looked particularly familiar.

Jiang Jin had a good memory and quickly remembered that this woman was Lina, whom she had seen not long ago when the previous city lord was executed.

"I remember that they shouldn't be the maids of the City Lord's Mansion, right?" Jiang Jin turned her head to glance at Yager, and the expression on Yager's face became a little subtle.

"Yes, Lord City Lord, they are not maids in the City Lord's Mansion, but..." Yager paused for a moment, and then spoke with difficulty: "They were invited back by the maids to do housework."

Jiang Jin raised her eyebrows.

It was the first time she heard of a maid asking someone to come back to do housework.

The world is so big that there are all kinds of wonders. Jiang Jin walked towards Lina and others with his hands behind his back.

The ladies were squatting by the pool, each with a large basin of clothes in front of them. Lina looked up and saw Jiang Jin's appearance, and was shocked. She stammered, pointing at Jiang Jin and calling out, "Magic...Magician!"

The five women around her stopped what they were doing and looked at Jiang Jin in surprise. They didn't expect that this great magician was so young.

"How dare you! Who allowed you to point at the city lord so rudely!" Yager stood up from behind Jiang Jin and started scolding her. Lina was so scared that she quickly withdrew her hand and shrank into the shape of a quail.

She was a little fat, shrunken like a quail, but still so big. Jiang Jin was almost laughing to death at her actions, "Yage, step back."

Yager reluctantly stepped aside, still staring at the six women with disdain, his face full of disgust.

"Did the maid ask you to come back and work?" Jiang Jin asked Lina.

Lina nodded immediately upon hearing this. Without waiting for Jiang Jin's inquiries, she immediately confessed everything about the maid's private dealings with her. "Your Excellency, Lord City Lord! It was Ivy. Lord Ivy gave us one silver coin each every month and asked us to come to the castle every day to clean the utensils and wash clothes."

She felt a little embarrassed and tucked her fat hands, which had turned purple from the cold, into her apron. She looked at Jiang Jin cautiously, fearing that if she made a sound, they would lose this profitable job.

"How long have you been doing this?" Jiang Jin was silent for a while and then asked.

Lina and the others exchanged a glance and replied awkwardly, "We come every winter. In other seasons, Lady Ivy only visits us once every three months."

"How much salary does the City Lord's Mansion pay to maids every month?" Jiang Jin asked this question to Yager who was behind her.

The expression on Yager's face was even more subtle. She tilted her head and whispered in Jiang Jin's ear: "The City Lord's Mansion doesn't pay salaries. Those slaves were bought from slave traders."

"Except for the Knights, who are free and need monthly food and wages, all the residents currently in the city are your subjects. They all bear the mark of slavery, and if they leave Alicante without your consent, they will be sentenced to death."

Jiang Jin was stunned. She looked at Lina and others and found that these women all had more or less flattering smiles on their faces, and looked humble and pious.

No wonder, the environment they live in has become so bad, but these people still want to stay in Alicante, probably because of this reason.

"Lord City Lord! We! We are all good citizens!" As the only woman who had met Jiang Jin once, Lina had to bite the bullet and speak to Jiang Jin under the instigation of other people's gazes.

Jiang Jin smiled. She squatted beside Lina, patted her shoulder and said, "The clothes are washed well."

"But it will be cleaner if you wash with hot water. I'll ask the maid to boil some hot water for you to wash." Jiang Jin's gentle smile made Lina a little flattered.

"No, no, no! We are used to it." When Lina heard that the maids had to boil water, she shook her head quickly. Several women also shook their heads quickly, and put the clothes in their hands into the sink very quickly, and then picked them up and put some soap nuts in them, and then rubbed them with their hands, proving that cold water can work!

Their hands were frozen purple and swollen, but they had smiles on their faces. Jiang Jin sighed.

She's really not the type of person who desperately exploits the city's citizens.

But Jiang Jin also knew that she couldn't change these people's minds with just a few words. They had become accustomed to living this way, and any sudden changes would make them panic.

Jiang Jin didn't say anything more. When she took Yager with her, she said to her, "Starting tomorrow, let them have a place in the kitchen to heat water for washing clothes."

"Isn't this... too much of a luxury for them?" Yager said, a little worried. "Lord, they are just slaves."

What a life of slaves! Although she had long known that in this world, everyone's life was life unless they were slaves, but when Jiang Jin thought of Lina and the others' flattering smiles, she really couldn't treat these living people as slaves and livestock.

Jiang Jin paused. "Yage, a passerby can often tell the quality of a city by its slaves."

She wanted to change the city, and she started by slowly improving the lives of the slaves.

Yager was a little surprised, and now she was more certain of what she was thinking.

Only children raised by aristocrats would have compassion for these slaves.

It took a long time to get out. Jiang Jin was worried about the little one, so she walked quickly. But just after a while, the cold wind brought the sweet laughter of several girls into Jiang Jin's ears.

"Ivy sneaked into the Knight's room again yesterday. How disrespectful!"

"That's right. As soon as the city lord died, she immediately found another man and kept mentioning the God of Light. Even the God of Light would retreat in fear if he saw someone like her."

"The city lord has so many mistresses, but only Ivy is still hanging around. She can't stand the hardship of being a maid."

......

Wow, so exciting! Jiang Jin was once again grateful for her extraordinary hearing.

It took her a while to finally look up and see the maids standing together chatting on the second floor. Yager was a little surprised, "Lord City Lord, what's wrong with you?"

"It's okay, go ahead." Jiang Jin smiled softly.

This butler Yager hid a lot of things and didn't tell us.

It was so interesting that there were so many troubles in the dilapidated city of Alicante and the small city lord's mansion. It made Jiang Jin find the enthusiasm she had when she first entered the workplace!