261, lover
The girl had long been away from that brothel. Faust injured someone in the brothel and disappeared. He injured a young officer who had just returned from the front line. The soldiers who came to seek revenge could not find Faust, so they found trouble for the brothel. They smashed the door of the brothel and demolished two wing halls, and injured several guards.
The brothel was the property of the Alpha family, the prime minister of the empire, and the incident happened during the funeral of Emperor Sinach, so the officer was severely punished. Because of his military merits, he was not thrown into prison, but was demoted and compensated a large sum of money. This was more or less the Alpha family was taking the opportunity to establish their authority. The impulsive officer became a bad guy, and the girl was implicated.
The girl spent a lot of money to help the officer compensate, and this money was the divine stone that Faust generously gave to the girl for several days. The girl left the brothel and was said to be going to marry the officer who was demoted, which was a good destination. However, the officer did not marry her or did not have time to marry her. He accepted the girl's money and took her home, and was immediately sent to the front line.
This officer was a sixth-level warrior. Although he lost his official position, his role in the battlefield is still very important and highly valued by the commander of the army. He continued to command a team of cavalry. If he made merit, he might not be able to restore glory.
The officer went to the front line and the girl stayed at the officer's house. No one knew whether the officer really wanted to marry the girl, but he did take a lot of money to save himself from prison and promised to marry her. In addition to compensate the officer for the losses of the brothel, the girl's money was left with a small half of it, and it was also given to the officer to subsidize the household so that he could not worry about the front line.
The officer was born into a lower-class aristocratic family without a title and fiefdom. The family was very similar to Medanzo at that time. His father had died. There was an elderly mother and a group of servants in the family. However, the officer's family, especially his mother, disliked the girl very much. After the officer left, the old lady did not treat her as a daughter-in-law. She was treated not as good as the maids at home. Even the servants often humiliated and bullied her under the indulgence of the mistress.
The reason is very simple. The old lady believes that it is because this prostitute fascinated her son that her son committed a crime and even lost his official position. The girl is the culprit of all this. It was because the girl needed her money to relieve her son of prison, so the old lady was not good at opposing her son's decision. But when the matter was over, the officer went to the front line again. How could this family give this girl a good face? How could the old lady be willing to marry a lowly prostitute? Her beauty also became a sin.
With Faust's status and means, it is naturally not difficult to find out the whereabouts of the girl, nor can anyone intrude into the officer's home to see her. Only then did the Sage Master realize that the girl's real name was Maganlei.
Faust once again saw Magan tears. It was early winter season. There was a small wind blowing in the backyard, and there was a lot of dirty clothes piled up in the large wooden basin. The girl sat down by the wooden basin and washed her clothes. She was wrapped in a worn turban on her hair. A strand of hair drooped on her forehead and shook rhythmically with the action of scrubbing hard. Her face was still beautiful, and her skin was still so white and tender, but she couldn't hide her haggard look. Her hands were frozen red in the cold water, and many places were cracked.
Faust stood opposite the tub and looked at her quietly, feeling sad inexplicably in his heart. Did he cause her to encounter such a fate? But she had never seen Faust, and what happened a few years ago?
Magan is weak and kind, otherwise she would not have used her money to save the officer who caused trouble. But the abuse she suffered in the officer's house now cannot be said to be unreasonable. The thoughts of the officer's mother are common in the world. If you want to lament, just lament this world. Isn't those who are powerful and knowledgeable as Faust also full of regrets and helplessness?
Faust was hiding his body and sighing. A male servant walked into the backyard, threw a sheet into the wooden basin, and shouted in tears: "Why are you washing so slowly? You're about to have dinner, and the work in the kitchen has not been cleaned yet. This is not when you were in a brothel, you can live a comfortable life by selling laughter. Just put your hands and feet hard!"
Maganchi didn't say anything, silently soaked the bed sheet in cold water and then washed the pile of clothes. Suddenly a drop of hot things fell on her cracked hands. It turned out that she was crying silently. Maganchi raised her arm and wiped the corners of her eyes with her sleeve, but her movement suddenly stopped, and she opened her mouth and looked ahead blankly, because Faust showed his figure.
There was a man suddenly in the yard, and he suddenly appeared like a ghost. Magan Tears were frightened. After she saw the man's appearance, she was shocked again. Faust used the space magic technique to gather his voice and said softly: "Magan Tears, don't be afraid, I came to see you specifically. Do you still remember me?"
The girl finally shouted: "Master Sage National Master, you are Faust! Who in the empire does not know you? I once saw your face from afar at the sacrificial ceremony, and I never dreamed that you would appear in front of me! Have you heard my prayers and calls to the gods?...You must have heard that people say that you are the messenger sent by the gods to the world, and have the magic of omnipotence!...Master Sage, it was the gods who heard my call, and let you appear here?"
Faust's appearance has changed. Magan didn't know that Faust in front of him was the person who brought her bad luck back then. She didn't even dare to think so. But she knew Faust today and had seen the most charming man in the empire at the sacrificial ceremony. Faust was in the center of attention in any sacrificial ceremony, and people made him more and more magical.
Faust felt a little sorry for him and asked with a kind look: "What kind of prayer and call did you send to the gods? At the imperial sacrifice ceremony, you should be far away from me. You can only see from the square at the moment when I walked out of the temple. Why do you remember my appearance so clearly and be so sure at first sight?"
In front of Faust, Magan's tears completely opened his heart for some reason and was willing to tell the secret in his heart. She stood up in a panic, wiped her hands on the apron, took a few steps back and knelt on the ground and bowed: "In front of you and the gods, I dare not hide anything. A few years ago, I was a prostitute in Neveh City. I loved one. I asked me to accompany you every day, but I angered another guest, the son of the mistress of this family. He is a general..."
Magan Tears briefly talked about his experience back then, and finally explained with fear and trepidation: "I have heard people occasionally mention that the unknown guest looks a bit like the Master of the Sage, and you are also very curious. There was a chance two years ago that I saw you from afar at the Imperial Sacrifice Ceremony. Since then, whenever I have the opportunity to go out to attend various sacrificial ceremonies in the Empire, I will look at you from afar, so I remember your appearance very clearly. I confess all this to you, please forgive my offense and blasphemy. I am just out of curiosity."
Faust asked again, "I have come to you, please take a look, am I that person?"
But the girl lowered her head and did not dare to look directly at her. She crawled on the ground and said, "Master Sage National Master, the omniscient god must have noticed the disrespect in my heart. Are you here to punish me? I have indeed blasphemed you, and I don't know how to forgive my sins?"
Faust sighed in his heart, but he didn't expect that when he saw Maganlei again, the girl no longer knew him, but he could recognize him as the sage national teacher Faust. Faust originally wanted to tell Maganlei that he was the person he was back then, but he didn't speak. Even if he said it, the girl wouldn't believe it, and she would be frightened instead.
He wanted to repent and seek forgiveness, but he didn't have the courage to say everything. Perhaps nothing was necessary. Now he was just thinking about how to compensate the girl and save her faults.
Faust waved his hand, and the invisible power lifted the girl up from the ground like a gentle embrace. He said softly: "Magan Tears, I am not here to punish you, and you did nothing wrong. It is the God who heard your call, and let me help you and satisfy your wishes. Please speak your prayers to God before me."
Magan's eyes showed an almost crazy surprise, and she covered her chest and exclaimed: "Is this true? Great God! Great Enrile."
Faust almost felt his legs weak and he couldn't stand firmly. The girl still praised Enriel in front of him! But he couldn't say anything, he could only use the magical technique of praying to comfort the girl's soul, and said without any objection: "Please tell me your prayer. What wish do you want the gods to help you realize it?"
Magan replied excitedly: "My prayer to the gods is to hope that the gods can forgive my mistakes. If it weren't for me, Xism would not have caused a big disaster and lost her official title. I hope the gods can bless Xism to be safe on the front line, establish achievements and restore glory. I also hope that Xism's family will not abuse me anymore and allow me to live a stable life."
Hisam was the officer who was demoted. Faust asked, "Is that the only one?"
Magan lowered her head in tears, rubbed her apron with uneasy hands and said, "I am already grateful for the gods who can forgive my mistakes and dare not have more extravagances."
Faust nodded with regret, stared at Magan and said, "What does it mean to live a stable life? Hisam once said that you want to marry you. Do you want to wait for him to make contributions on the battlefield and return home to marry you after he is restored? Please tell me the truth, and there is no need to hide anything."
Magan bit his lip and shook his head as if he was determined: "No, I don't want to marry him, nor can I marry him."
Faust asked again, "Oh, why is this? If I were willing to help, just ask someone to pass on a word. Xism will marry you obediently, and their whole family will not dare to be disrespectful to you anymore."
Xism replied in a weak voice: "I dare not hide my voice in front of the gods. I have no doubt that you can do all this, but this is not what I want and what I can get. If that is true, Xism married not me, but what you said. I now know that Xism does not really want to marry me, he just needs my money to help him get out of prison and place his family.
And his mother hates me, and it is not without reason. If it were any mother, she would inevitably think that way. These are my misfortunes, but I don’t know how to get rid of this misfortune, so I called the gods in my heart, but I didn’t get the answer. Today I finally met you! What should I do, the wisest sage master in the entire empire?”
This sentence stunned Faust's question, and he couldn't answer it, just like he had too many wishes to realize, but he didn't know how to do it. With his status and means, there are many ways to help Magan Tears, but these are all things that need to be done by others, and Magan Tears' question obviously does not mean this.
She was asking Faust, the most wisest in the empire, what should she do? In fact, with Magan Tears' situation, she had already given everything and could not do anything better.
The girl's question seemed to have become Faust's self-question, and he called Satan in his heart. What should he do in the current Assyrian Empire? Seeing Faust fall into deep thought, Magan tearfully after a while before he asked carefully: "Master Sage, can you tell me?"
Faust came to his senses and reached out to take out a small bottle out of thin air and handed it to her, "This is a magical bottle of medicine. Apply a little before going to bed every day. It can cure the cracks in your hands within a few days, and make your hands feel more sensitive and your joints more flexible. If you want to know the answer, try to do something first. Find an opportunity to tell the mistress of this family that you can knit and embroidery, process the aristocrats' favorite clothes and embroidery, and make a lot of money."
Magan said in confusion: "I can knit and embroidery, but I can't embroidery that well."
Faust smiled: "I will teach you in one way to imprint your skills into your soul. Only if you are attentive enough and skillful enough can you do it."
Magan Tie: "Thank you for helping me in this way, so that I can do more and more useful myself. But I understand the temper of this mistress. If I can really do it, she will urge me to process more embroidery day and night, nothing more than to go from one abuse to another."
Faust reminded: "It depends on what you do. The skills are in your hands. You must know how to use its value to improve your own situation. For example, you can declare how much you can only embroider in a day and need to have a good rest. If all this is important to your mistress, you will naturally be able to improve your situation."
"But this..." Magan was crying and stopped. He always felt that Faust's method was a little problem, but he couldn't tell where the problem was. Then he said to himself: "Thank you for your help, thank you for your guidance!"
"You will hear my voice and know how to do it. In this way, at least you have the chance to go out frequently and I will see you again." When Magan raised his head again when he heard the sound, Faust was gone. She was holding an exquisite medicine bottle in her hand, showing that everything that had happened just now had actually happened.
...
Maganchi did as Faust said. I don’t know what method Faust used. The bottle of medicine was really amazing. After the cracks in her hand were healed, she became more agile than before. There seemed to be a voice in her soul teaching her superb knitting and embroidery skills.
Finally one day, she told Hisham's mother about her skills. The old woman was scolding Maganlei for being whimsical, but when she heard that her craft could make a lot of money, she was moved, so she asked Maganlei to try it. However, all the materials needed Maganlei to go to the store to credit, and she also had to take the embroidered items to the store to sell them.
There was a voice in the soul telling Maganlei to go to the store in Neveh City to credit the materials, what kind of embroidery will the store ask her to process and give her wages.
It was naturally easy for Faust to arrange this little thing. His original idea was that even if he spent a lot of money to secretly help the girl to do something that made her feel more useful. But the situation later was beyond his expectations. Professor Faust's teaching Magan Tears was naturally the most brilliant skill, and the jewelry embroidered by this girl was almost the most exquisite in Neveh City, and was loved by noble customers, and each piece was very valuable.
The store has no worries about not being able to sell it, and even accepts special commissions to find Maganlei to process it. In other words, there is no need for Faust to do more. Maganlei can make enough money with its own craftsmanship. For wealthy people, although this money is nothing, the money earned by Maganlei is enough to make ordinary families live a prosperous life.
So Maganlei didn't have to do heavy work day and night, as for knitting and embroidery. Hisam's mother naturally hoped that the more she did, the better, and it would be better to keep going day and night. However, Maganlei replied according to Faust's words: "These are custom-made jewelry by nobles. If they are accidentally broken, they need to pay a lot of money. I have to rest before I can do these things well."
Maganchi's situation at Hisam's house has improved a lot compared to before, but she still felt uncomfortable. In addition to resting and eating every day, she had to process one exquisite embroidery after another under the urging of the old lady. But the kind girl still prayed devoutly every night to express her gratitude to the gods and Faust.
One night, the girl heard Faust's voice again: "You don't owe this family anything, you have given them all, why don't you leave?"
Magan replied in tears: "I have no home anymore, where can I go after leaving this place?"
Faust said: "With your current craftsmanship, you can fully support yourself. You can process as much embroidery as you want every day, and then do what you want."
Magan was silent in tears. She was obviously moved but worried. Finally, she sighed and replied: "I can't do this yet. I promised Xism to take good care of his mother. This is my promise. Even if I want to leave this family, I will have to wait until he comes back. Because of me, he lost his position and lost his generous salary. Life at home is difficult to maintain as before. When he establishes meritorious service and resumes his position, everything will become like before, and I will make up for my fault."
Faust advised again: "It was not your fault that the first thing happened. Hisam drew his sword and caused trouble, but because of his impulse, anger, jealousy, arrogance and arrogance, why should you blame all of this on yourself?"
The girl thought silently and replied: "What you said naturally makes sense, but I have promised. Although I will not marry him, I will wait until he comes back and will follow your advice to leave here."
The dignified sage national teacher Faust had so many military and national affairs to deal with, but he spent these thoughts on Magan, because of some of the mentality of atonement and compensation. This girl symbolizes the unknown secret of the empire chief high priest who is respected by all people, just like the imprint of Satan lurking in his heart.
Faust had many ways to help Magan Tears, but he only followed Magan Tears' own wishes, which was also a kind of self-compensation and redemption. He wanted to let Magan Tears find happiness in life step by step, and before he could make more arrangements, the outbreak of war made him busy.
First, the Kingdom of Poz annexed the weak country in the north of Assyrian, and then Hathi and Assyrian jointly sent troops to repel Cyrus' attack on the northern front. Then, Cyrus, the King of Poz, sent General Darius to attack the six city-states of the Kingdom of Baron from the southern front to the Assyrian Empire.
The Assyrian Empire was defeated, and all the expanded territory in the Sinach era was lost. The Pots army established a new province, cut off the connection between Assyrian and Barron, and then annexed the Kingdom of Hati, completely surrounding the Duke Plain and the Assyrian Empire in its territory.
Although the war has not yet spread to Assyrian land, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the fate of this empire is in danger. What makes Faust speechless is that the more setbacks the Assyrian Empire has suffered throughout the line, his position in the empire becomes more and more important. The people regard this seemingly omniscient and omnipotent sage national teacher as the last hope to save the fate of the empire.
Empress Semir, who was unable to turn things around, was increasingly valued and relied on Faust, and asked him for advice in everything. Faust had received the power guided by Satan and had never been so powerful, but when faced with the situation in the Assyrian Empire, he felt that he had never been so weak. He had no way to save the Assyrian Empire, and his knowledge and wisdom made him see the situation clearly than anyone else.
Even though he knew it was irreversible, he still had to make all efforts in vain, accept people's praise every day, and look at the eager expectations in people's eyes, Faust's mood can be imagined. He felt very tired, either his body and energy could not bear it, or the helpless fatigue in his soul.
The most attractive man in the empire finally once again preferred to sink and indulge deep in his heart, even if he could escape for a moment and find a trace of comfort. He once again possessed Magan's tears, yes, he seduced her. Not to mention how irresistible Faust's charm is now, he could not refuse like a god in her mind, and the girl was also very willing to obey his will in her heart.
Maganlei often went to the shop, took the materials needed for embroidery, and sent the processed embroidery back, and there were many opportunities to go out. Faust bought a secluded yard not far from the shop. Finally one day, he decided to quietly guide Maganlei to come here for a tryst.
Chapter completed!