"Most of my customers are high school boys or manual laborers who don't have much money in their pockets."
The aunt scratched her head and a strange look appeared on her face.
Amiya's outfit.
He looks quite refined and doesn't look like a poor student at all.
"Would you like to change to eel rice and salad? That would be better and not expensive, only 1,000 yen."
She made some kind of offer.
Those words made the petite girl shake her head vigorously, and then she handed over a banknote with a face value of one thousand.
"No, no thanks, this is good enough."
"Ah... like this?"
The saleswoman thought about it and stopped trying to persuade him.
"So, do you need me to heat it up?"
"Thank you, big sister."
The petite girl uttered a sound of thanks.
Thirty to forty.
Considering the life span of the Terrans, he is still considered a young man.
"Ah... I'm not young anymore, I'm an old man."
The aunt had a look of joy on her face, and the wrinkles on her face seemed to have been smoothed out a lot.
"Little girl... here you go."
She took the bento out of the microwave, added a box of juice on top, and gave her three hundred yen in change.
Amiya took the juice.
Then, he found a seat and sat down.
Open the lunch box.
The food inside came into view.
First of all, there is a large amount of rice soaked in red stewed tomatoes... This rice, with bacon bits and tomato sauce, accounts for half of the weight of the bento.
Then there were two fried eggs, a large hamburger patty, a large piece of fried pork chop, a few pieces of fried chicken and a small piece of grilled eel.
Amiya picked up the chopsticks and picked up the grilled eel.
The use of a large amount of spices makes the eel taste very fragrant, but the texture is really not very good.
Then she picked up another pork chop.
It is pork tenderloin wrapped in flour and fried. Probably because of the reheating, the outer layer is a bit soft and not crispy.
The quality of the meat in the patties was not very good and the starch content exceeded the standard.
As Kal'tsit's favorite, Amiya is not having a bad life.
The world of Terra is in turmoil.
However, it did not affect Wei Yanwu's three wine cellars, which made him dazzled by the sight of the fine wines, and he also earned tens of millions of Victoria gold coins as extra income every year.
It did not affect Russell, who was still a baron, eating steak, keeping maids and living in a big house.
After she became the Demon King's successor, she really never suffered from material hardship in life.
It's easy to point out the many shortcomings of this bento.
but...
"Most of my customers are high school boys or manual laborers who don't have much money in their pockets."
The aunt's words cast a shadow on the face of the girl who was eating.
She took out her cell phone...which she had manipulated a passerby to help her buy.
Searching for local minimum wages.
Changkong City is a Class A city with a statutory minimum hourly wage of 700.
Then came various sharp voices criticizing the government.
"Why is the minimum hourly wage so low? Can you really survive in Changkong City with this kind of income?"
"The eight-hour workday is clearly stipulated, but why are so many employees forced to work overtime until late at night? Is this really reasonable?"
"The rent is too high. If it continues like this, many young people will be forced to live in Internet cafes."
Probably because I searched for information about people's livelihood, various discussions popped up.
A very common social problem.
You can see it in any country.
However, as she read the information, Amiya gradually lost her appetite.
She was actually very hungry.
Because Xiao Ke was missing, she had been busy since morning. Later, she sent Hong to look for him, but he got lost again.
After that, he fought against a prince of Dayan, was defeated, and then was driven out of the underground city. He had not eaten or drunk anything for the whole day.
But now, she had no appetite at all.
“It’s something only poor students and construction workers would eat.”
The aunt's words echoed in her ears.
One hour's work and I'm full...
Only poor people eat this.
She looked at the poor guy's meal and for some reason, she suddenly thought of her hometown.
Her hometown, RIM Billiton, is a country that relies on mining as its mainstay.
The mining industry is always associated with "hard work", "high salaries" and "death".
Mine accident.
It is the psychological shadow of almost every REM Billiton person.
In childhood memories.
It seems that we can always see women wailing and screaming, and children at a loss on the streets.
It's always been like this in Rem Billiton families.
My father worked in the mines, exchanging his "high salary" for coarse grains that were enough to feed his family. Then, one day, he got mineral sickness, or simply died in a mining accident.
Then, the hostess, who had to raise five or six children while working, could only take the "generous" pension and beg someone to send her eldest son to the mine.
Only in this way can you earn enough money to support your family.
If there is really no money, the only option is to drive some of the children away.
It's also selling labor.
Also for making a living.
She looked at the two-pound cheap lunch box, was silent for a while, and continued eating.
She ate. The high-fat and high-carb food should have been a delicious delicacy for a hungry person, but when Amiya put it into her mouth, she only felt a numb feeling.
Why is it like this?
Is it that everyone in Terra is not working hard enough?
Hell, it was normal for Terrans to work sixteen hours a day!
Why is it that people in my hometown try their best, even at the risk of losing their lives, but still cannot get enough pay to support their families...
She ate half of her bento and put down her chopsticks.
Then he packed up the rest. For a dwarf, a poor man's meal was indeed a bit too much.
"Ah...packing?"
“It’s really rare.”
That scene made the aunt next to her speak out.
"what?"
"is it not OK?"
A look of surprise appeared on Amiya's face.
"No, it's just that young people have basically never been hungry, so they don't value food very much."
The aunt sighed.
"After all, technology is very advanced now, and food production is so high. If you think about it carefully, it's no different from industrial consumables."
Are we living a good life because of advanced technology?
Amiya reached out and connected to the memory of the woman in front of her, flipping through memories of technological change.
When she was young, human life didn't seem as colorful as it is now, and hunger also existed.
She reached out to the men, women, young and old on the street and read their memories about food.
The understandings gained are also similar.
What changes all this is the power of technology.
only...
It seems that Terra also has a lot of the technology in her aunt's memory.
But they are generally quite expensive and most people can’t afford them.
in contrast.
There are many things from Terra that cannot be found here.
Space jump mechanism, celestial controller, dead soul battleship, plasma weapon, source stone skill diffusion device, autonomous spell unit, transformed soldier...
On Technology...
Maybe Terra would be more outstanding?
Amiya listed the various areas in which Terra excelled, and a shadow gradually covered her face.
It's all military technology.
Terra is leading in military technology!
Do not know why.
She suddenly remembered what the short-lived emperor of Dayan had said.
“If there is no fairness and justice in a country, then its strength is the greatest misfortune for its people.”
"A country that indulges in war cannot understand where Yan's prosperity comes from."
Those words were obviously meant to sarcastically attack Ursus.
But now it seems...
It seems that those words are true in every country of Terra...
Do you want to meet the real dragon?
Extremely abrupt.
An emotion arose in Amiya's heart.
She suddenly remembered.
A certain true dragon, at the beginning, seemed to be just a lower-level lord of Ursus.
But, on a certain day.
He suddenly obtained a large amount of supplies in exchange for the sovereignty of Londinium, and then step by step became a true dragon that sneered at all countries.
