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Chapter five hundred and fortieth our home

The crisp and beautiful piano sounded again, light and empty, without any fireworks, as if nothing had happened.

Until night falls, the beautiful melody still echoes over the city.

This is an era when electric lights have not been invented, so after nightfall, almost no one is still active outdoors.

Finally, after the sobbing cold wind brought the bell tower sound that had been hit ten times in a row, Luna stopped her hands pressing the keys.

It seems that Spring Leg Jack will not come tonight.

Luna couldn't help but wonder: As a demon famous for attacking passers-by late at night, what meaningful target can she find when she goes out and wanders around at this time? At best, they are just homeless people. What kind of gain can they bring to him by ravaging these people and getting a cruel reputation?

So this image of cruelty and cruelty is just a vest used to divert attention and conceal responsibility.

At this moment, a bang knock on the door suddenly appeared, and it seemed particularly loud in the cold night sky.

"Come in, I'm not closing."

But after saying this, no one came in.

Luna thought for a while, and when she came outside the door, she saw a stiff figure lying in front of the door.

After a quarter of an hour, the frozen man gradually regained his consciousness and found that he was already in the house, wearing a thick fur coat, his whole body was warm, and there seemed to be a heat current circulating.

Under the dim halo of a kerosene lamp, she saw a vague figure standing straight up, staring at herself.

"Thank you..." A word was squeezed out of your teeth.

"Linda, what happened to you. Why did you come so late?"

"Sorry, I heard the sound of the piano. I knew there was someone else here..." The woman named Linda suddenly reacted, "Huh. Do you know me?"

"Yes, I was once accused of stealing my master's property and being taken away by the police."

"You, are you Luna?" Linda's heart suddenly jumped, and after carefully identifying it, she shouted in surprise, "How come you are here?"

Luna smiled slightly, "Since I was framed, I met many people like me, and we didn't want the same thing to happen to us again. So we set up an interconnected association, both to keep warm and to help more unfortunate people."

Linda suddenly became silent.

"You haven't answered my question yet."

"What's the point of saying it?" Linda was depressed. "Will you help me?"

"This is a place to accept help from the maid. You can tell me any difficulties you have."

After waiting for a while, Luna saw that she had no intention of answering the conversation, so she said, "Aren't you really here to ask for help? Then have you encountered no problems with Professor Claire?"

Linda looked hesitant and gritted her teeth, "Mr. Claire has driven me out."

Since the other party has directly said this, she doesn't intend to hide it anymore.

"Why?" Luna asked, "Have you served him for many years? You should be indispensable to him, right?"

"Actually... I stole that gold watch." Linda said hesitantly. "I was discovered by Mr. Claire today, and he was very angry. He drove me away immediately."

"Why did he find out?" Luna was puzzled, "Have you dealt with that gold watch? Haven't you sold it early?"

"I didn't want Mr. Claire to suffer losses. I just wanted you to be driven away." Linda lowered her head and said awkwardly, "So that gold watch, I want to find a chance to rediscover Mr. Claire accidentally, and make him think he was forgotten somewhere."

"But your plan failed?" Luna continued, "Although Mr. Claire discovered the gold watch, he did not think it was caused by his forgetting, but inferred the correct result, so you were driven out?"

"……Yes."

The professor is indeed a person with high IQ and is not so easy to be fooled by a maid.

"Then I came here." Linda finally said on her own. "I heard that this place provides various help to maids, not only to protect their rights, but also to help find a job."

"Yes, you said something good." Luna nodded, "How do you want me to help you? Should you get unfair treatment, or find a job again?"

"Unfair treatment?" Linda said in shock, "I deserve it, right?"

Luna sighed, "It's so cold and so late, Mr. Claire said he would drive people away. Have he considered you'd be frozen to death outside? Have he considered the risk of you being attacked late at night, as an alone woman?"

"this……"

"You would rather risk freezing to death and immediately rushed to our association for help because you still have three children. If you lose your job, they will all starve to death, so you can't wait to get the hope of a new job." Luna continued, "Mr. Claire will definitely give you a negative job evaluation, so you are too afraid of losing your job. You must know immediately if our association can help you."

"Wait, how did you know I have three children?"

"This is also something that people hear about," Luna replied. "For London maids, our association tries to collect and record information as much as possible. In this way, when you come to ask for help, we already know some basic situations, and we can better minister specifically, and you will feel that this is your home."

Linda murmured, “Is this our home?”

"Yes, no matter what happens, we will definitely help you." Luna asked softly, "Tell me the truth. How many days can you last if you can't find a job?"

Linda hesitated for a moment and said with difficulty, "I am already penniless. I haven't given it to me before Mr. Claire drove me away."

"What, you don't even have any living expenses?" Luna said in surprise. "He suddenly terminated the contract. It's fine if he doesn't pay the penalty for liquidated damages or severance, why do you still have to deduct the wages you should have?"

"For Mr. Claire, he is already generous."

"I'll go, which group of people is so generous?"

"Mr. Claire could have handed me over to the police in the name of theft. He just drove me out." Linda said bitterly, "so even though he didn't give me a month and a half, I can't ask him for it, right?"

"That's two things!" Luna said angrily, "The professor has not suffered any losses and has already taken back his gold watch. Even if you did something wrong, no matter what, you have followed Mr. Claire for so many years, it is impossible for him to not know your family or your current situation. But he doesn't even consider your situation at all. Isn't that a chill?"

"Professor Claire was very angry at that time and felt that I had fooled him." Linda whispered, "and he felt that I was a sinner, and he would ask for his own fault no matter what he ended up."

"Yes." Luna smiled, "For him, because it is related to his self-esteem and satisfy his sense of justice, no matter how he sends you, he can feel at ease, and it is not too much. As for the life and death of a little maid after he vents, your three children are all insignificant dust and trivial matters that don't need to be considered."

"What else can I do?" Linda said helplessly, "We maids, we live with our employer and rest on our noses."

"It is because of your mentality that we are always at mercy." Luna looked calm, "If you don't have the courage to fight your employer, you will always be bullied by them."

Linda stumbled, "How do we fight?"

"For example, we can sue Professor Claire for committing intentional murder."

"What!" Linda was shocked, "He is committing murder?"

"You are too despised of your life." Luna looked at her pity, "I drove people to the streets late at night in the cold winter and deducted all my wages. What is this not to force people to death?"

"I……"

"You are so grateful that Claire didn't hand you over to the police for your theft?" Luna said sternly, "You are so stupid. He just let you go for theft, and you let him go for the murder! It's not just your life, but even your three children."

In Luna's opinion, Linda was far inferior to the migrant workers in the Celestial Empire. She was forced to the dead end and didn't even dare to ask for wages, and she didn't even blame the other party at all.

"What should I do?" Linda cried, "I asked me to go to a lawsuit with Mr. Claire. I didn't even have money for dinner and didn't understand the legal provisions at all. How could I go to court?"

"Yes." Luna nodded, "It is a difficult and basically hopeless road for a single maid to protect her rights. But, we have an association now!"

Linda was excited, "You mean, the association would be willing to help me and Mr. Claire with me?"

"Of course the association can help you, but the most important thing lies in yourself." Luna sighed, "If you don't feel oppressed, and if you don't feel wronged, then even if we want to help you, we have no way to start."

"I have, I have..." Linda sobbed, crying and said, "I have served Mr. Claire diligently for so many years, why didn't I even give me a way out in the end? I feel very, very uncomfortable, very wronged!"

"Yes, you have served him for so long, and there is hard work without credit, and there is fatigue." Luna nodded, "Since you already want to get back unfair treatment, our legal team will make corresponding preparations, and you can cooperate in court at that time."

"Oh." Linda came back to her senses and said pitifully, "Miss Luna, I'm here not only to protect my rights, but also to find another job. Will you help me?"

"How could you not help you? You don't have to look at me so nervously."

Luna paused and said, "Because Claire must have made a very bad review record of you, and there is no way to find you a job for the moment."

"This..." Linda felt her heartbeat stop suddenly.

"So I will give you a hundred pounds of relief first, and you can go home and take good care of your children."

Linda showed joy. Even if she spent a year, it was not a long-term solution. "So, when will I be able to work again?"

"It depends on the course of the court proceedings. When Mr. Claire loses the case, you can turn it over."

"It seems a little wrong?" Linda hesitated, "Mr. Claire's mistake was to drive me out. There should be no error in my evaluation record? After all, I did steal his stuff."

"You are so honest." Luna sighed. "We have a lawsuit with Claire, which makes him exhausted and he will be willing to reach an out-of-court settlement with us. At that time, we will withdraw the lawsuit against him, and he will withdraw your job evaluation and compensate you for your wages. Wouldn't both parties take the needs?"

"It turns out that the purpose of the lawsuit is to reach an out-of-court settlement?"

"Prosecution is not necessarily to win, but to put them in trouble with litigation. Let them realize that they cannot control us at will." Luna said, "only in this way, they will restrain their willfulness and rudeness to the maid."

"I understand." Linda nodded, "Luna, you are such a great person."

"You don't need to say that."

"I'm telling the truth." Linda looked grateful, "I did something so sorry for you before, but you didn't care about your old grudges and helped me so enthusiastically. In my eyes, you are exactly the same as the Virgin Mary!"

"No!" Luna shouted, "Don't say I am the Virgin, I have nothing to do with this word!"

"How come it doesn't matter?"

"I help you because of my duty." Luna said seriously, "I am the president of the Maid Association. The establishment of the Maid Association is to help all the maids in the world. As a maid with unfortunate encounters, since you come to our association for help, I must help you wholeheartedly, so that you can be worthy of the responsibilities and goals of our association and continuously improve our cohesion and unity. Therefore, I will never retaliate against you for some of our past grudges. This will affect the overall situation of the association's work and damage my personal image as a leader. It is really an invaluable deal."

Linda was stunned, "You are so straightforward..."

"It's not that I'm straightforward, but that there are no saints in the world." Luna told earnestly, "Sometimes you feel that some people have a high level, but their interest demands are already on different levels, so the forms of expression are also different."

"Although you said that, I didn't understand." Linda said, "President Luna, please tell me, how should I express my respect for you?"

"oh."

Luna thought for a while and stretched out a finger to point high, "If you really want to respect me, then call me a member of the society, grow, grow, grow, and be a human being!" (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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