Chapter Seventy-Four: Returning
One day, a man suddenly stood outside the village. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoAll the villagers noticed that he was indeed standing outside the fence!
He was dressed in silver-white armor, but he did not have any other decorations, weapons, or other tools. Instead of stepping over into the fence of the village, he stared at the villagers with hoes on their backs.
His gaze was so cold that the villagers passing by would involuntarily feel a chill from the soles of their feet.
This kind of look made them feel much more terrifying than the eyes of the beasts they saw at night. A little less bloodthirsty, a little more cruel. It is not the relationship between the prey and the hunter, it is the relationship between flight and pursuit, but more like the relationship between man and the harvest of grain!
As a result, before the man stepped into the fence, the villagers did not dare to come forward to talk to him, but only hung him there, occasionally glancing at his position with a little bit of their peripheral vision.
This is a difficult person to provoke. They all thought so. At the same time, he is also paying attention to the armored man outside the fence, when will he leave, what is he waiting for, and who will boldly step forward to ask and talk?
It was still morning, and the time when the villagers had just started farming. Although there were men watching, there was no superfluous movement, which made them continue to be busy with farm work, and if the crop was not prepared on time, the subsequent delay would be longer, or the harvest would not be possible.
It wasn't until it was getting dark, and the villagers who had finished their farm work realized that the armored man had disappeared.
They breathed a sigh of relief.
But what was puzzling was that the next morning, the armored man reappeared in their field of vision. just changed corners and continued to look at them coldly. The inexplicable sense of fear brought about by this cold gaze and silence made them feel anxious. Gossip circulated in the village, talking to each other about the purpose of the man bringing this place, what his identity was.
The area of the village is not large, and the number of people is not large, so there is always a short exchange of people for special things. Even the scattered villagers knew that there was such a strange figure, whose main characteristic was that he was wearing armor, standing motionless, staring at them with cold eyes.
You can see it from the morning, and you leave quietly at night. This strange thing, only the woman kept silent and did not participate in talking about it.
A week later.
As soon as it was dark, the villagers woke up from their slumber with their tools on their backs. Preparing for the next day's labor, they still hesitated in their hearts whether the man in armor was still outside the village, and what his purpose was. Will you stand on the edge of the village again today? Keep an eye on them.
Even after such a long time, the villagers still did not adapt to the strange behavior of men. They simply can't understand what men want to do, what they want to do. In a barren village like theirs, outsiders don't want to enter, and insiders can't get out. What can be the place to attract men.
Open the wooden door. The villagers saw a silvery white flash passing in front of their eyes.
The metal armor made his distinctive clashing sound.
An icy feeling rises from behind.
He's in!
Seeing such a scene in front of him, the villager who opened the door was stunned for a moment. He never imagined that the armored man who had been watching them outside the village walked in! Wasn't it been a week?
During these seven days, the villagers would often discuss: Is this man standing outside the fence afraid to enter the village? If they don't go out, then there should be no threat, right?
They were still a little scared at first, but after a week, they could barely accept the fact that the man was standing outside, although there seemed to be a glitch in their hearts.
Men in armor should not enter the village! they are sheltered people! just as the wild beasts are kept out by the fence!
Even if they are a little creepy to men, they have developed a self-functioning survival cycle after staying in the village for so long. As long as you don't go hunting and eat meat, you don't need to go out of the fence at all!
At this time, the arrival of the armored man made his whole body tremble and he was unsteady on his feet.
It's the time to get up early to do farming. The villagers in the village walked out of the door one after another, but at a glance, they saw a tall and fierce man wearing silver-white armor walking by. Many of the villagers were frightened and behaved.
The man finally walked to the door of the man's house under the stiff gaze of the villagers.
Is the woman there?' the armored man said.
Yes, what's the matter? The farmer replied with a slight stammer.
The male farmer was a little frightened in the face of the tall and armed man, and he forced himself to stabilize his body and asked with his fighting teeth. Although there were such heavily armed merchants in the village. However, they usually settle down when they arrive, live there for a while and leave immediately, and never cause trouble. Therefore, the male farmers do not know what to do now.
I'm here. The woman stepped out of the other room. She said to the armored man.
Her face was different from her usual kind expression, and there was no joy or sorrow on her face, and she did not show a trace of emotion. The male farmer had never seen such a woman. He wanted to ask about the relationship between the two and to resolve the contradiction. But now, because of fear, the words are stuck in my throat and cannot be spoken.
Go back with me. The armored man said.
The woman shook her head. She disagreed with the armoured man's decision.
The armored man narrowed his eyes, turned around, turned to the onlookers in the village, and said, The people in this village have obviously been using you, asking you to help them do some chores all the time, and even shamelessly take the sauce you worked so hard to make every day. Don't you want to leave either?
I know. The woman said.
The words of the armored man are not unreasonable. The sauce brought by the woman, although it has a unique taste, takes the food to the next level, turning the most ordinary, hard-to-swallow food into a delicious nut. However, the process of making sauces is more demanding, and even if they can be successfully made.
But because of the production, I know how complicated the making of sauce is, and if it weren't for the constant guidance and correction of women on the side, they would have failed.
It is dried, ground into a fine powder, blended, and fired. It takes at least half a month to make it smoothly. The difficulty can be imagined.
After the daily farm work, I have to do this laborious and laborious work. Although they have a lot of free time every day, their enthusiasm for sauces is diminishing.
Let those who know how to do it do it.
So, the villagers gradually made requests to the woman from small things. I hope to help him dry the materials. Anyway, in the morning, you have to take a woman to dry your clothes, don't you?
After a few more weeks, they hope that the woman will help them polish the material. You're going to have to play with the kids anyway, so isn't that the time you can tell a story while you're doing it?
The woman frowned, but at this time, the villagers showed a more tangled and troublesome expression and explained to her that the farm work was heavy these days, so ...... Hearing this, the woman couldn't help but sigh, and finally agreed.
And so on, and so on, the woman eventually took over all the sauce mixing work in the village. Busy with green, constantly busy in the village sauce materials, along with the village affairs to take care of the affairs of the village. Except for going to the outer forest every fifteen days to harvest water seed fruits, she never left the house a hundred meters away.
None of the villagers squeaked.
They begin to introspect. The words of the armored man were not wrong. Indeed, now they are taking the sauce directly from the woman, without leaving any compensation and exchanging things. That was from a few months ago, due to the poor yield of the crop, in order to reduce hunger due to insufficient food. They had to ask the woman if they could survive these quarters, and when the income was good, they would give her more.
The woman, who was in a small village, knew about the development of the crops in the season, so she naturally agreed very generously, and even offered some extra edible plants. That's what she picks when she picks the water seed fruit. Although the number is not large, it can barely satisfy its hunger for a day or two without food.
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The woman stood in front of the armored man all the time and did not speak.
After a moment of silence, the armored man spoke again: "Tomorrow the women must go back! If you don't go back, then tomorrow I will lead the guards to level and destroy this place. Let them truly understand what it means to be inviolable!
What? The excavated object? The woman hurriedly explained: This has nothing to do with them, the materials are all picked by me!
She taught the villagers how to make the sauce so that their quality of life would be better. And those water seed fruits are located in the vicinity of the village, and should not belong to the territory of other parties.
Hmph! The armored man snorted coldly. His eyes were fixed on some of the villagers. As soon as those few people came into contact with their gaze, they immediately retreated a few steps.
Don't you understand?' the armored man said.
They followed you out of the village, digging out for edible fruits and vegetables. Even though they were warned, they dared to pick again and again.
The woman looked at the villagers in surprise.
Several villagers bowed their heads in shame. Women do go out every fifteen days to pick water seeds. And they will follow the women and the male farmers. The villagers did not dare to go out of the fence alone, after all, it was very complicated outside, there were wild beasts that would prey on them, and there were several crises when they did not go out with the woman, but were pursued by wild beasts.
But when the follower woman goes out together, this does not happen. A woman is like a natural barrier against the beast, and she will no longer be threatened by the beast. So every fifteen days they would follow them from a distance with sacks of hemp cloth on their backs, and use this beast to avoid the habits of women, and to go frantically picking and digging for something to eat.
Farming requires effort and effort to take care of. And this way you don't need to work hard at all. What a simple way to get something for nothing. Moreover, this kind of food that they can get at hand tastes much better than the coarse grains they usually make.
Whether it is the style or the taste, it is a big difference.
Of course, they didn't think about planting, but the food they picked couldn't be transplanted or the seeds could be obtained. Maybe their level of knowledge is not enough. None of the replanted plants were able to grow roots or leaves and continue to survive.
The same goes for freshness. Naturally, the villagers will waste food and eat all the picked plants during the shelf life.
However, the ingredients in the forest are abundant and preserved for a long time, nearly ten days. Half a morning, save a little, and mix some food from the usual fields, and you can eat for a full fifteen days. It's such an easy and enjoyable way, why not?
They secretly made small moves and made mental calculations: Although the forest is rich in resources, if outsiders know about it, then these plants will not be picked all at once? When I came back, I still followed the woman from a distance, and when I arrived at the entrance of the village, I turned to the dark passage and the grove that blocked the view, so as to prevent outsiders from seeing it.
The woman's gaze was a little glazed. She seemed to understand what the armored man meant.
Come back with me. The armored man said again. The woman, who understood more information, bit her lip and ran into her room. Closing the door, she isolated the armored man from the villagers, and she needed to calm down now.
sighed. The armored man said in a deep voice, "I am a soldier from the south of the village. You need to sever your relationship with the woman and hand her over before sunset tomorrow. Otherwise, as I just said. Flatten this village!
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