episode_0045
by fnovelpia“Mom. Hehe. I worked hard today!”
“Yeah. Our son. He’s so handsome~”
Celine, who had lost her husband and was raising her children alone, had one major worry.
It was his son, Jean.
Her son Jean was born a little short of birth.
It was natural for a mother to worry about her son, who could be said to be naive at best and stupid at worst.
A son who can’t find a decent job because he lacks money, so he helps his mother with sewing.
“Hehehe! Mom, I’m tired. I’ll carry you!”
“Thank you.”
Her face was always filled with worry, even though her kind son always brought a smile to her face.
If something were to happen to him, would such a kind son be able to survive in this cruel world?
It’s not that I didn’t think about getting my son a job somewhere else.
But he was repeatedly defeated by evil people who stole his son’s wages.
Besides, it would not be an exaggeration to say that no one would hire a son who was lacking in anything if he were not that kind of person.
Medieval welfare was the worst.
Of course, it was natural that my son Jean, who was mentally retarded, would not receive any legal protection.
But which parent would take that for granted and let it slide?
“Sigh… ”
Celine’s sigh deepened.
“Mom. Alright! Wheeze!”
The son, Jang, returns home humming a song, unaware of his mother’s worries.
Groan, groan.
As she listened to her son’s humming, Celine, who was walking on her large back, saw a crowd of people gathered together.
These are all parents who are raising children who, like themselves, are mentally retarded or have missing body parts.
Most of them are widows and they live in their own communities.
So it wasn’t such a strange sight to see people with similar pain gathering together.
If there is anything different from usual, it is that everyone is raising their voices and fighting.
“Of course it’s a lie! You even wrote this to say you’re going to exploit our children!!”
“I wonder if the Lord would do that… ”
A person who is angry and resentful and a person who tries to appease him.
“What’s going on?”
Since most commoners could not read, Celine could not understand the posters. Eventually, she had no choice but to ask others.
“Oh, Jang’s mother. Well. Do you see that poster over there? I heard it says that they’re going to hire people with disabilities like our children in the estate, right?”
“I see.”
Because it’s a land business…
Celine often sent money to Jean, knowing that even though it was only a small amount, it would not be embezzled.
The estate business was not something that happened often, but it was not something that was rare either. Furthermore, since it did not cost money, the estate business was the best job for his son, Jang.
That’s why Celine couldn’t understand why other widows were swearing so loudly.
“But why are you so angry?”
“Ah! Well, this time, if you participate in the land business, you get a whopping 4 silver per day, right?”
“4 Silver?”
The average daily wage for a healthy adult male is 6 silver per day.
So how much would those with intellectual or physical disabilities receive? Surprisingly, most people only received 1 silver.
The land business did give 1.5 silver each, but… it was still a pitiful amount compared to what regular people received.
Even for individuals who are not involved in the real estate business, even that small amount of money is often stolen.
But 4 silver…!
Even though it was a spiritual business, it was natural that people did not believe it.
“Fuck… And you’re not even going to hire me for a day, you’re going to hire me for months? I can’t believe it!!”
The grandmother, who was about to collapse, cried out loudly. Her daughter was born with a disability, having no arms.
As if the disability was nothing, she was able to demonstrate fine footwork, to the point where she could sew using her legs instead of her arms.
But even she was robbed of the money she earned from sewing several times.
Now, without her aging mother, she wouldn’t be able to eat properly.
“Why on earth do they torment us with these lies… ”
The grandmother sat on the floor and began to cry, perhaps because she was tired.
The daughter, who had no arms, held a handkerchief on her legs instead of arms and began to wipe her mother’s tears.
Even the handkerchief was something she made herself by weaving thread and thread together, even though she had no arms.
“Oh my. Is that true?”
“I hope that’s true.”
After the incident had passed, people returned to their homes, each with their own feelings of anger, disappointment, or anticipation.
As time passed, the date written on the wall finally arrived.
Celine took her son Jean to participate in a strangely named estate business called the Environmental Beautification Project.
It was written that guardians who would work for the same salary were also welcome, so Celine was planning to run away with her son if she sensed something strange.
Celine wasn’t the only one who thought that way, as most of the people around her were accompanied by their guardians.
“Thank you all for coming.”
As these socially marginalized people gathered and waited for the time to come, a handsome man began to climb up onto the pre-installed platform.
If she hadn’t had a son, Celine would have thought of seducing him with the same alluring manner she had used to seduce her former husband.
But mothers are strong!
Celine didn’t even blink at the handsome man and just held her son’s hand tightly.
As the poster said, he wished he could pay a high wage to his son, who was not very intelligent.
*
“Alpha-nim. Thank you so much for accepting me as your disciple. Such a great person has appeared. This is a blessing for the entire continent beyond this territory!”
“Ah… Okay.”
Jemel Weiss.
Real name: Gemini Vice.
She was quite a capable person, in my opinion.
Although her movements were unnatural because she was wrapped up so tightly that it was hard to tell that she was a woman, her administrative skills were outstanding.
He had not only administrative skills but also a very deep knowledge of medicine.
Even in this era, cold medicine was invented.
When you say cold medicine, you might think it’s nothing special, but the fact that cold medicine was created in this day and age is a surprising thing.
For people of that era, a cold was a disease that could kill them.
Especially for children.
Children with weakened immune systems who did not eat properly during their growth period usually get the flu when they catch a cold.
If we had gotten flu shots like we do today, even if our immune systems were a little weaker, it might not have been a fatal disease.
But this is the Middle Ages.
There is no such thing as a preventive vaccine.
That’s why treating colds was important.
So, it goes without saying that Gemini is a great doctor who created a cold medicine that reduces fever and boosts immune function, even though it doesn’t contain antibiotics.
Of course, the nobles who paid huge donations to priests and received treatment through prayer might not know this.
“Thank you for showing such kindness to the disabled!!”
If there’s a problem, it’s the eyes that have been looking at me like they’re worshipping a god lately.
This is the kind of reaction I get every time I see a document prepared to hire people with disabilities.
“Mr. Jemel? Wouldn’t it be better to stop?”
“I’m sorry, Miss Elisa. But! I hope you understand. How could I not say anything when the saint I only read about in the Bible is right in front of me!”
This happened so often that even Elisha Soryu, who had initially found Jemel difficult, had to tell him to be careful.
But that alone wasn’t enough to stop Jemel.
Originally, a genius is unstoppable once he or she becomes obsessed with one thing!
“And all this knowledge! Ah! With this, we can save more people! Invisible germs, bugs that breed in dirty places!!”
Based on the facts I had given him, he was learning, studying, and enlightening himself.
Even though I explained it in a way that a medieval person could understand, Semel had already come to understand bacteria to a level close to modern knowledge.
‘Can we make penicillin too?’
Jemel was so talented that I even thought that if I mixed Jemel and Helen, I might be able to make antibiotics later on.
Helen too.
Since Jemel had the medical knowledge necessary to make medicine and Helen had the manufacturing knowledge, it seemed like it wouldn’t be a problem for them to create penicillin.
Anyway, even though Jemel was running after me, I wasn’t doing it out of kindness because I felt sorry for people with disabilities.
Even if you have a disability, you are only slightly behind an average person.
It’s not that they can’t do their work because they’re lazy. Rather, in most cases, they work even harder because they know their own shortcomings.
And the environmental beautification project that I am trying to do now requires a lot of diligent people.
In that respect, people with disabilities were perfect.
Workers who are diligent and honest, but don’t need to be paid a lot.
People with disabilities were the perfect fit.
“It seems like everyone is gathered here.”
I moved out of the castle at Erica’s words.
In front of Yeongju Castle.
He climbs up onto the platform that has been set up in advance in front of a plaza where people gather.
So many eyes looking at me.
Their eyes were filled with a mixture of emotions: doubt, hope, anger.
I get it. People with disabilities aren’t treated well in this world.
The Middle Ages was a place where it was common to work overtime and still not get paid.
But I am different.
They thought they could hire them cheaply, but they wanted to pay them a fair wage.
Are you eating in groups?
conflict!!
There are no alpha males who lie or cheat. That’s all done by beta males who imitate us with the help of modern medicine!
“Thank you all for coming.”
I slowly opened my mouth to speak. Elisa was next to me, amplifying my words with magic so that many people could hear.
It’s convenient to have a wizard.
“I know there are people who are worried that they won’t get paid properly. So I will pay you 2 silver in advance now. I will pay you 2 silver again after the work is done.”
“… … .”
dump-!
Someone collapsed as if they had heard something unbelievable from what I said.
The person is also older…
“Please take the person who has collapsed to Dr. Jemel.”
It’s not something you can just leave someone who has collapsed.
I asked Leona to have the soldiers who had been summoned take the fallen man to Jemel.
Because we can certainly provide this level of welfare to working workers.
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