Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 554 I hope she is well but I don’t want her to suffer

If it were somewhere else, it would be impossible to give these female professionals such generous treatment.

The Lord of Qingfeng Territory doesn't care much about the difference between men and women. He has only one requirement: the ability to abide by the rules, the willingness to be loyal to the territory, and the willingness to devote his energy sincerely.

Even in the Qingfeng Knights, who are good at fighting and can endure hardships, there are several female knights.

This was almost impossible in the past.

Even if these female knights do have the talent and are willing to endure the hardship, the lords will still place them in the castle guards.

It's not that they are stupid enough to discriminate on sex. Even if decent nobles have any preferences, they will not show them. But... it is too troublesome and wasteful to build two sets of service and living areas for their own knights just for some female knights.

There are too many inconveniences for women, even bathing requires a dedicated area... Even if they don't care, it will cause the lord to be attacked by public opinion.

Except in times of war, those things will be tolerated only when necessary.

In the peaceful times when men are in power, if no lord is willing to spend the money, the female knights will naturally be sacrificed... Without a say, most female talents lose some autonomy after awakening. What they learn is different from that of men, especially when differences in strength begin to appear.

When they reach the professional stage, they no longer understand why they are worse than men, so they naturally accept the status quo.

For the high-ranking officials in the North, the most talented civilian children, regardless of gender, will be sent to the King's Army for training anyway, so they will not care about the fate of the middle class.

Furthermore, there is no water supply or drainage, no electric heating, and no washing machine or dryer. All problems have to be solved by magic circles and manpower. One can imagine how much money it would cost to build a Knights' exclusive camp.

This kind of thing only happens in territories where women are in power.

Men in power naturally choose to sacrifice those on the other side.

But, at the beginning, when children are just beginning to develop their talents, how is it possible that boys will always make up the majority?

Talent can indeed be cultivated, but it is still basically random.

However, when the power gap between boys and girls begins to appear, people naturally think that only men are the main force on the battlefield... Of course, in the Dark Night Zone or some areas where women are in power, the reason why women are vigorously cultivated is also because of their keen senses, tenacious endurance, and strong control.

Men may also be arranged as inferior choices because of some weaknesses in their nature and some areas where they are inferior to women.

Therefore, there are a lot of male adventurers in the south... They cannot accept the fate of being lower-class citizens despite their talents.

The main reason why many girls in the north, especially those in northern China, choose to return to their families is that the environment is so good.

It is true that some people from the poor will make choices that ruin their children... They will not cherish their sons, but most children, as long as they have a little talent, can basically have a way out.

Castle servant is also a good job!
The royal family and nobles in the north are still checking and balancing each other, and they can see a bright future. Even if the tax rate is a little higher, it will not be to the point of killing the fish to get the eggs.

Therefore, some girls can make up for this artificially created gap through unremitting efforts, but others have indeed chosen to retreat.

Ezra didn't think there was anything wrong with choosing a more comfortable life. Just as Pearl preferred to stay at home, he would not ask her to join that cruel competition.

There are so many people trying to make a living.

He and his wife had worked so hard to make a living, so there was no need for their daughter, whom they were sure to protect for the rest of her life, to go through the same hardship.

Although Ezra is doing well now, when he looks back on the road he came from, he clearly sees how many dangers he has experienced and how many times he almost went astray.

The same thing happened to his wife. Moreover, she really took the wrong road and there was no way forward.

As long as Pearl is willing, Ezra is willing to support her for the rest of her life.

But at the same time, Ezra also respected these strong people who came from a world more dangerous than theirs.

There is no need to distinguish between men and women in this regard.

Unfortunately, the world is not so fair yet. Women living in areas where men are in power will have a harder time.

The North is too far away from the Dark Night Zone. Even moving there requires extraordinary courage and powerful abilities... But if one has such abilities, why bother moving?
Even though he didn't want his daughter to be as determined as these strong women one day... that kind of thing was really hard to exist naturally, but Ezra still wanted his daughter to see more of the outside world and know how much effort normal strong women needed to put in to reach her level.

He couldn't let Pearl see the cruel reality in person, nor did he want society to educate his children... Earl Hamilton could only do this. He even did this behind his wife's back.

Ezra, holding his wrist, watched his daughter's eyes sparkle as she enthusiastically communicated with a certain female warrior... The female knight with a muscular body and a heavy hammer on her back had just come down from the arena.

Because she had a conflict with some people on the iceberg, but the severity was not high enough for Qingfeng and the monitoring array to consider that they could kill them, she simply challenged them to a fight and fought them thoroughly.

The female knights Pearl had met in the past, although they also had strong personalities, were not very tough...so Ezra really felt that she needed to broaden her horizons.

Pearl's disdain for Celestia McMillan that day had given him the idea.

His daughter was really a little too self-righteous and didn't understand how cruel the world was.

Celestia's behavior was not a problem at all in the world of aristocrats... She didn't use any coercive means, at most she just gave some hints.

Even though she didn't give up completely because of Almes's rejection, she just persisted there and didn't harass their family.

Almes himself didn't show any dissatisfaction, so why would Pearl, as a sister, be so annoyed?

It was then that Ezra realized that his daughter had been raised too proudly by the couple.

Especially his wife, who wanted her daughter to be strong in everything, but also didn't want her to be polluted by the filth in the aristocratic society... The result of keeping things too clean in front of you is that you can't see far into the distance.

Although he was confident in his own abilities, and believed that even if something happened to him, Almes would definitely take good care of his sister, but Ezra really didn't want to let his daughter be without the ability to be independent.

You don't have to do it, but when the need arises, Pearl's first reaction should definitely be 'I can also support this family', rather than 'What should I do, do I need to find someone to rely on'.

They worked so hard to raise their daughter well, not for her to be dependent on others and bow down to them!

Fortunately, he discovered this underground city.

Moreover, he also gained something else.

Ezra has been communicating more with adventurers during this period and found that Baron Qingfeng is a very interesting person.

Although he was very strict about things like murder, he didn't lump all killings together.

He would not think that his observation of the birds and the strict judgment of the magic circle were the best results.

Mage Lori actually understood at such a young age that sometimes the sins committed with words are more serious than those committed with physical actions.

Verbal provocation is also a behavior that requires retaliation and cannot be tolerated.

For example, the duel invitation from the lady with the giant hammer... The reason why those people accepted it even though they knew they could only beg for mercy under the hammer was because according to some underlying logic, there was no difference in strength between the two sides.

Baron Qingfengling couldn't monitor everything on the iceberg all the time, but he patched the bird's eye formation...some special words would be transmitted directly to him, and then he would look at them directly.

In other words, when you feel that the other party's insult to you has reached the point where you need to retaliate by killing, you can ask Lowry to be the witness.

The birds may not understand how disgusting the bullshit coming out of the smiling people across the street is, but Lowry certainly does.

If you are willing to pay some price, it is not completely impossible to do it.

That is, you can only kill the ones who do the P, and those who accompany them can only be beaten half to death.

Of course, it would be best to just beat them half-crippled and let the harsh environment of the iceberg take care of the problem... In this way, we don't even have to go to Qingfeng Valley to do some public welfare services, such as cleaning the roads and clearing garbage.

Otherwise, you will have to accept the punishment of not being able to enter Qingfeng Valley within half a year.

Many people are not happy to receive this punishment… They can choose not to go, but they cannot refuse to enter.

Although the Big Iceberg has been very stable for many years and the group of ice dogs are relatively well-behaved, it would be really stupid for anyone to truly believe that the dogs of the Lord of Ice will always be so honest.

(End of this chapter)