Chapter 43: The Twins (Part I)
Somehow, the moon was so bright that the camp where our mercenaries didn't need a campfire, and when Andrew and I got back to camp, we saw that they had already set up their tents.
"I'm going to change places tomorrow, why did I set up my tent tonight?"
I looked at them and asked, puzzled.
"Because it's the last time we sleep together." Andrew said earnestly on the side: "Although we haven't been together for a long time, after all, we have all fought together, and we all have some feelings more or less. ”
"You're saying they're not from the Twins?"
"Only you and I were assigned to the main Twin Legion, and they were all assigned to the Twin Auxiliary Legion." Andrew smiled and said, "If I hadn't given that flag to the officer who issued the military card, I'm afraid we would have only had this distribution." ”
I didn't say anything more, but I just felt that there was some truth in Andrew's words, and we had to pay more than them, at least Andrew gave up the banner of a legion. And those people didn't give anything, so naturally it was not for nothing that Andrew and I were transferred to the main army by that corrupt officer for the first time.
Andrew and I hastily picked up sticks and cloths, and in a few clicks we set up a simple tent and were about to lie down in it.
"Wait, Luga."
Andrew stopped me again.
"What's wrong again, Andrew!"
I looked at him impatiently, only to see him hand over a sword with a very fine carving on the hilt, which resembled the sword on the phone of the traitor Levi this morning.
Andrew held the sword in front of me and said to me, "Here, Luga, this is yours!" ”
"Me?" I pointed to myself in surprise, and then looked at the sword, was it the standard for the Twins? But I think Andrew's waist is still the humble Spada iron sword that he snatched at the Akway-Sexestia venue.
"Where did you get this?"
"Livito, I gave you, this is a high-grade cavalry sword." Andrew said: "Actually, he also returned all the commission for robbing you this morning, but I took your money to the doctor." ”
"What's that?"
Just as I was thinking about how I should clean him up, he brought out a large piece of bread and my jug, which was filled with water. I came back to my senses, it turned out that yesterday I was running all day, my mind was full of national affairs, but I forgot the indispensable things of the day of eating, all blamed on this stomach, why did I not scream or make trouble so obediently today, it seems that it was the unprecedented support for me.
Without saying a word, push the sword away, I have to think carefully about what this traitor to the Romans has been thinking about. But the bread was harmless, and taking the bread and the kettle, and feasting on it, could not have been more appropriate to describe me now.
I lay in my tent all night, and I ate so much bread that I couldn't sleep. The snoring was already thunderous, and in such a noisy but quiet environment, I still felt that I could calm down alone.
Laboriously took off the chain mail that I had worn for a long time, and in the dead of night, I thought of Xiaoya again, the woman I am now desperately trying to forget, recalling the past with her, her smile, I beat my chest hard, forcing myself to forget her, forget this bit of the past.
"Liu Ende, Liu Ende!"
I felt sorry for myself, beat my chest, why didn't I cherish it at the time, why did I regret it at this time, if I worked a little harder at that time, I wouldn't have lost my job? Am I going to see her again, am I not going to have to break up with her, am I not going to be so disheartened by the robbery, am I not going to die like this, I won't be reborn in such a desperate world, everything because I lost my job at that time, and then my fate just changed.
It wasn't until early the next morning, when I rubbed the dark circles under my eyes and got up, that I couldn't name the soldiers, got up and walked out of the tent, carrying their packages, without any words of farewell, just trying to keep their voices as low as possible, walking out of the camp and disappearing from my sight.
"Looks like it's time to leave."
I muttered to myself and pulled out of my tent.
"Hey, Luga, what are you doing?"
Andrew lay on the other side and rubbed his eyes, it seemed that my actions had woken him up.
"Let's go, Andrew, it's time for us to report too!"
Pick up the package that hasn't been opened, and with Andrew's help, put on the chain mail, my chain mail is rusty, it's time to clean it in the new barracks. I thought so, if it weren't for the layer of shirt, I'm afraid my health would have been ruined by this rusty chain mail.
Pack up your ropes, and you don't have to say hello to strange comrades-in-arms and leave, maybe this is the custom of the Romans, although they have experienced life and death together, they are not friends with each other.
No bread was delivered today, and it seems that the unit in charge of logistics already knows that our unit no longer exists. So I also want to save trouble, and save our fixed food.
"Let's go, Andrew, at least we'll have a decent meal when we get to the Twin Legion camp."
As soon as I said go, I hastily cleaned up the unnecessary bits and pieces on hand, stretched my muscles and bones, the bloodstained shirt made my skin very uncomfortable, and then I turned back to look for the backpack, and then I smiled bitterly and found that I didn't have even a decent shirt in my hand.
I couldn't wait any longer, I strapped on my backpack and followed Andrew out of the ruins of the camp, which wasn't a camp at all.
"Excuse me, is it Mr. Luga and Mr. Andrew?"
He had just taken a few steps when he was stopped by a woman. The woman was dressed completely different from the homeless people roaming the streets, and the light blue dress was a little white although it was a little old and washed repeatedly, which was probably the best dress for this girl. A thin girl carrying a wooden basket. She washed her face very cleanly, and her fair skin looked really good, but it still couldn't hide the bloodless and pale lips.
"Ana?"
I'm not sure, because yesterday the girl was grizzled and didn't remember her appearance, but her facial features were somewhat similar.
"Yes, I'm Ana."
This girl is still a little embarrassed, but it's not like the Asian girl who lowered her head for a long time and didn't say a word, she looked at me, maybe she didn't organize the language, she said it in a slurred way.
"Well, okay, I'm mainly here this time to thank you for what you did yesterday, um, really, thank you very much, I'm grateful to you, and of course Mr. Andrew, thank you for visiting."
As she spoke, she took a piece of toasted bread from the basket and handed it to me, and I instinctively wanted to refuse, damn it, this habit I had developed since childhood was still working. I held my breath, trying to resist my urge to refuse, and I saw the silver ring on her ring finger with the bread in Ana's hand.
"Thank you."
I swallowed my saliva and took a bite of it just after I arrived, it was really good.
Anai then handed Andrew another loaf of bread and said to the two of us, "Thank you so much for coming forward, but unfortunately our family has nothing else to repay you, so we have to use the rest of the flour to make these two loaves for you, I hope you don't mind." "Poor woman, who has just lost her child, has come to repay her kindness when she should have cultivated.
I ate the piece of bread in my hand, thinking what could I do to repay the poor woman, and took the old Spada's iron sword from my backpack (I had already thrown away the broken one, it was worthless anyway) and handed it to Anai.
"Take it, instead of being bullied, it's better to draw your sword and resist!"
Anai looked at the sword in my hand, hesitated for a moment, but still reached out to take it, it was not too early, I Andrew hurriedly said goodbye to her, and continued on the road.