This thread traces how 盲人 becomes Lázaro’s first harsh teacher, shaping both his cunning and his understanding of cruelty.
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Taking a New Servant
A Transactional Beginning
A Child Is Entrusted
Antona Pérez gives Lázaro to the blind traveler after he asks for a guide.
A Promise Recast
The master promises to treat him like a son, though their relationship soon proves governed by exploitation.
The Stone Bull Lesson
Instruction Through Injury
Master of Begging
Piety as a Trade
An Education in Retaliation
Cruelty Answers Cunning
The Final Separation
The Pupil Turns the Lesson
When 盲人 stops at the family inn
At the bridge after leaving Salamanca
During their travels through towns and villages
After Lázaro’s wine thefts and the final sausage trick
