Chapter 38 A Sad Guess: You Must Live!
Ya Ya Lian never imagined that she would have the chance to go back to this land of sin after leaving her hometown in her lifetime!
Flower fairy servants are of a higher status than slaves, but only slightly higher. The reason they go to serve as servants under nobles is mainly because their families are too poor to afford the magic tax. This is how Ya Ya Lian left home to become a servant.
The servants, in exchange for their freedom, received a reduction in the magic tax, thus preventing their families from having their land and houses confiscated and ultimately becoming slaves.
Generally speaking, becoming a servant is far better than being a free person. Serving nobles not only ensures they have enough to eat, but also provides them with thicker and more exquisite clothing when they pray to the magic tree. However, even so, given a choice, flower fairies still prefer to be free but poor commoners.
In most cases, the flower fairies have no choice but to choose between becoming slaves and servants. Therefore, to become a servant, one must go through a selection process.
Yaya Lian was chosen because of her outstanding talent in miniature garden magic. The flower fairies who were not chosen could try their luck with the nobles in other territories if they had time. If they were unlucky enough not to survive the harvest month, they could only use their houses and fields to offset the magic tax after the harvest month was over.
Of course, if one isn't so unlucky and dies directly from the attack of the outer continental magical beasts during the Harvest Month, then one can be exempted from paying their share of the magic tax.
However, the nobles of the territory would organize patrol teams, and no extraterrestrial magical beast would be allowed to enter the civilian settlements until all the patrol members were wiped out. Even if all the patrol members were killed, the powerful nobles would intervene.
Even if a commoner is killed by a monster from another continent, the nobles will be executed by the elusive patrolmen. If there are no civilian casualties, but the houses and fields of the commoners are damaged, it will be considered a dereliction of duty by the nobles.
The nobleman that Yaya Lian served was particularly unfortunate to encounter a magical beast from another continent that was skilled in long-distance teleportation during the harvest month. That damned beast threw him directly into a civilian settlement, destroying countless houses. In the end, the gentle nobleman was judged to have committed serious dereliction of duty and had to leave his hometown to become a lord in the land of sin.
As a servant, Ya Ya Lian could only follow the nobleman to the land of sin.
The nobleman soon fell ill, weakened, and died. The flower fairy servants who had come to the Land of Sin at the same time as Ya Ya Lian also gradually developed fevers and eventually all died.
Even though Yaya Lian tried her best to unleash her most proficient miniature garden magic to create a more comfortable living environment for the incredibly gentle and kind nobleman she had always followed, and for her incredibly clever and hardworking servants and friends who had been with her for so long, she was ultimately not a healer, not to mention that the magic power in the Land of Sin was so scarce that by the end, she could no longer cast magic at all.
After seeing off all the flower fairies, Ya Ya Lian also collapsed. She thought she would slowly weaken until she died completely, but unexpectedly, a tax official took the initiative to come to the Land of Sin and found a crop that could grow in the Land of Sin. Although this wheat called bitter wheat was really bitter, she survived by eating it.
She was over eighty years old. Although her physical condition was much better than that of other flower fairies of the same age because of her innate magic, which was the magic of the miniature garden, she knew that she was probably going to die in the land of sin.
Even today, she heard that respectable tax official announce to his servants that anyone whose family possessed magical talent related to wand making could not only obtain the status of a free citizen but also acquire a house and land in the Land of Sin if they came to work for the Flower Fairy in the Land of Sin!
Yaya Lian almost immediately thought of her poor daughter, Beibei Luo!
Because of Bebelo's birth, the already impoverished family could no longer afford more magic taxes. However, Ya Ya Lian did not think it was Bebelo's fault. Bebelo was a blessing bestowed upon her by the Flower Goddess. It was only because they were too incompetent that they could not bear this blessing. Bebelo had a very rare magical talent. Her innate magic was refinement magic!
Shortly after Bebelo's birth, Yaya Lian and her husband planned to become servants to ease the burden of magic taxes on their household. However, her husband failed the selection process and had to return home.
Although she can only go home to visit her daughter once a year during the harvest season, Ya Ya Lian feels incredibly satisfied every time she returns home to see Bei Bei Luo growing bigger and more lively and adorable under the loving care of her family.
Until misfortune struck—the nobleman she served was convicted of dereliction of duty and forced to go to the land of sin, she was unable to see her beloved child one last time before leaving.
If it were the previous Land of Sin, even if the nobleman had made such a generous promise, Yaya Lian would have kept the fact that Beibeiluo had the talent for refining magic a secret. She would never want her daughter to live like her, a life where she could only sleep in the wheat field at night and eat bitter wheat leaves during the day!
But now the Land of Sin has undergone earth-shattering changes. The noble and holy Flower Fairy has descended here with the great ideal of purifying the Land of Sin. She is exceptionally sensitive to the concentration of magic power and has already noticed the huge changes in the magical environment. She believes that under the rule of the Flower Fairy, the Land of Sin will definitely become better and better.
Moreover, these servants can now even enjoy a fragrant, rich, and magical mutton soup every day!
While drinking the mutton soup, Ya Ya Lian thought to herself, "How wonderful it would be if my dear Bei Bei Luo could also taste the mutton soup!"
Ya Ya Lian's only worry was that her Bebelo might have already become a slave.
After leaving her hometown with the nobleman and coming to this land of sin, her magic tax should still be reduced, but without the money and food she sent home every year, she doesn't know if her husband will remarry, or if his new wife will have children. If there are new children in the family, she doesn't know if the family's fields and house can still be saved.
If Bebelo becomes a slave... Flower fairy slaves will lose their magical talents, all the flower fairies believe so, and Yaya Lian doesn't even dare to think whether her dear daughter is still alive!
Not daring to hide this fact, Ya Ya Lian found the former tax official, who is now the civil servant, and told him her sad speculation.
The usually stern nobleman comforted her in a calm tone:
"Don't worry, Yaya Lian, Her Highness the Princess has already considered this. If your daughter is indeed talented in refining magic, even if she becomes a slave, you can bring her over. Her Highness the Princess is willing to give you enough money so you can buy your daughter from the lord."
Ya Ya Lian wiped away her tears: "Thank you, Fairy Flower! As long as my daughter is alive, I will definitely bring her here!"
"Bebelo, my dearest baby, my most beloved daughter, you must live!" Ya Ya Lian prayed to the Flower Goddess as she embarked on her journey home.
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