Chapter Twenty-Six: Tarot Stern
As night fell, Goldbeard took all the dwarves back to the cave with a big bag of fish, and after returning to the cave, under the arrangement of Goldbeard, he began to clean the fish scales and entrails, prepare dinner and clean the cave in an orderly manner.
After surviving this day, the cave was full of firewood, which was almost enough for them to use for a month, and the people who went out to fish almost caught an average of seven or eight fish per person, so many fish were enough for them to eat for three or five days, and they sang the unique songs of the dwarves while working, and the cheerful songs echoed in the cave for a long time.
In the desolate wilderness, where there was no light in sight, Stern found a crack in the stone with a large open opening that seemed safe and firm, and they raised a fire on the ground to give the cold and dark field a little more warmth and light.
They had eaten some dinner and began to rest on the spot, and Thea had gone on the road for a day with numb feet and was too lazy to move while lying on the ground.
"Uncle Andy, where is your hometown?" Shia asked Stern as she ate.
Stern said to Thea:
"My hometown, on the mainland on the west side of this small island, is rich in produce, with so many good food and fun, and there are many restaurants where the food is very delicious, and there are luxurious carriages, and very tall houses, and there are many beautiful gardens, and there are very beautiful singing and dancing in the theater. โ
"Wow~, it must be fun, I really want to go there and see it. Thea heard Stern's description, and her eyes were full of tiny stars.
"I can live dozens of people in my house, and if I have the opportunity to go back in the future, I will take you to see it and stay with me for a while. โ๏ผ
"Really? That's great, I've hardly been anywhere except the hills I've grown up on. Shia's face was full of yearning.
Andy Stern has no brothers and sisters, he grew up in the imperial capital of the Bauhinia Empire, and his grandparents are still alive, his grandfather came to Yunmeng City from Tucker Town to do business when he was young, and met his grandmother in Yunmeng City, and the two finally settled down in Yunmeng City, and then he had his only son, Tarot Stern, that is, Andy Stern's father, he is a sergeant registration officer in Yunmengcheng, in charge of the registration of enlisted sergeants in Yunmengcheng, he has been an official for more than 20 years, during which he was prudent and prudent, upright and honest, and was awarded the title of hereditary baron by the royal family five years ago, and since then the Stern family has become the hereditary nobles of the empire, although it was a low-level hereditary nobility, it was a noble honor for the Stern family.
Tarot Stern has been in officialdom for many years and has accumulated a lot of contacts, and he could have arranged a stable position for Stern, leading the country's generous salary, and An An lived a worry-free life.
But the young and vigorous little Stern was unwilling to live a life of inaction, refused his father's help, registered as a mercenary in the Holy Dragon Mercenary Guild, and constantly took on all kinds of tasks in the guild, as simple as transporting goods, as difficult as hunting monsters, he traveled through the north and south of the empire, and also met a lot of friends, and he can be regarded as a person who has seen a lot of the world.
Before coming to the island, he only needed to do a few more missions to become a high-level mercenary, but he didn't know how many times he went to the Sauron Empire, but he was shipwrecked and trapped on this small island and had no way to get out.
In fact, it stands to reason that the real Stern is dead, and now he should be Lin Yifei from the earth, from the perspective of all conditions, Lin Yifei, who has undergone systematic training and has had countless life and death tests of bullets and bullets, is more than a little stronger than Stern, if he can return to the mainland, he will definitely be able to mix the wind and water.
In the middle of the night, Stern felt something fall on him in a daze, he slowly opened his eyes, the black night sky was full of goose feather snow, and the white snowflakes lit up the whole earth, fortunately, this stone crack was big enough, and there were no snowflakes falling in the place where Thea slept, Stern stood up and moved towards the place where there was no snow in the stone crevice, half leaned on the stone wall and continued to sleep, and the little ash on the side also squeezed inside.
It's been almost two weeks since the cold spell, the weather has been gloomy, and it is only a matter of time before it snows, as long as the snow is over, there will be sunny weather, and then the cold wave will pass, and the warming season is coming.
This night, a lot of snowflakes drifted into the crack on the roof of the cave, and several dwarves who woke up in the middle of the night couldn't help but cry out when they saw the snowflakes, causing a lot of commotion, which will add a lot of difficulty to tomorrow's fishing task.
Goldbeard woke up all the able-bodied dwarves and hurried to the valley, where they were to gather more fish before the snow was piled up, so that so many people would not cause a shortage of food in the future.
Goldbeard, with Stern's gelled candles, led the dwarves slowly towards the valley.
When they came to the lake, Goldbeard lit the gelatinous candles with flint, and gave the lit gelling candles to the dwarves one by one, so a large group of dwarves bent down to remove the snowflakes on the ice under the faint candlelight, looking for frozen fish, and after finding them, they slowly picked them out with tools and put them into burlap bags, and it lasted for three or four hours, and the snowdrifts were too thick, and they could no longer continue to work, so they returned to the cave with sacks, and they were covered with snowflakes, as if they had become a short and moving snowman, and the group returned to the cave and roasted the fire for a while and then went to sleep, and this night's action increased their day's food, frugality should be able to last for a week, and what will happen after a week can only be said.
The heavy snow continued to fall until dawn, and Xia was shocked when she woke up, such a heavy snow made the mountains and rivers in front of them look like they were covered in snow, which would greatly slow down their hurry.
Stern took out a bunch of pige leg meat from the space ring and threw it to Ash, and the next morning his space ring was half less than half of the contents, and he put the luggage on Thea's back into the ring, which could also relieve Thea of a lot of burden.
The road away from the stone crack is quite flat, the little gray carrying a big and a small two people did not feel much difficulty, it ran quickly on the snow, the speed is more than three times faster than normal people walking on the snow, so slowing down the trip due to the snow is not the most worrying thing for Stern, he is worried that the traces that may be left after the dwarves and goblins fight will be covered by the heavy snow, so he will not be able to find any clues to find the whereabouts of those dwarves, this is what makes Stern a headache, if it really can't be done, he can only prepare for the worstใ
According to Thea's description, the distance they had traveled the day before was equivalent to the three days that the dwarves had traveled south into the valley, and at today's speed, it was estimated that they would be able to reach the pass where the dwarves would stop the goblins from pursuing them tomorrow morning.