Chapter 59: The Unavoidable Theory of Life
"Isn't there any temptation for you to be rewarded for your meritorious service?"
After arriving at the barracks in the valley, the battalion commander did not hesitate to invite Wolf to come for a night talk, but Clough expressed some concern, and finally the two parties set up the location in Clough and Wolff's tent after a little negotiation.
"Temptation?" The corners of Wolfe's eyebrows twitched slightly. "Of course, temptation was inevitable for me. But I still hope to keep my heart in the face of temptation, and I hope that the brave and wise Elta Army General from another world will give me this opportunity. ”
Listening to her words, the battalion commander here couldn't help but sigh secretly: The meaning of this is enough to punish the heart and taste enough.
The first meaning of this is to hope that the "enlightened new Elta" will not force her. It took the battalion commander a quarter of a second to pull this meaning out of the cocoon, only to find that there was a second meaning wrapped in the cocoon.
"Savage Elta" failed to trap this seemingly weak wise man. In a few seconds of silence, the battalion commander looked at the girl in front of him with an upward look. Who is she sacred?
Wolfe, a petite-looking girl, is obviously not an ordinary person, otherwise why would she be alone in the vast wilderness and city of Elta, and not be wiped clean by drooling bandits and high-sounding bureaucrats and aristocrats?
Her face and makeup, aside from her beauty, are typical of a teenage Elta. It's just more refined, and it's been maintained, obviously after the nobility.
And the most touching thing is the pair of eyes. The fiery red and warm eyeballs are not the point, the important thing is that people who talk face-to-face with Wolfe, the "Ruby Pupil", will feel the great mental pressure projected in those eye sockets.
"We, the Elta Army, and the new Elta, are the people's army, defending the rights of the people. The new Elta government, on the other hand, is the mind of the people, and if you are not willing to join your wisdom for the time being, Miss Wolfe, to make its collective decisions wiser and more suitable for the people of Elta, we will not force it. ”
This sentence is also said beautifully. The battalion commander knew that there was no need to make the worry in Wolfe's words concrete--it was the Jiang Taigong's brand fishhook thrown by the Red Jade Pupil Bachelor, and if anyone really hurriedly bit it, then he should really go to the Ulaanbaatar Sea on September 31 to drive the destroyer Xuefeng against the battleship Dasabi, then it was called a worrying IQ.
Wolff meant "worry", not "blame". Whether the new army of Elta will dare to detain a girl to do things for the government is two words, at least she doesn't know yet. So, you can hear the meaning of this statement, but you can't say it......
"Well, for the sake of the people of Elta, I'll think about it a little." Wolf neatly pushed down the invitation and glanced at Clough, who was sitting on the edge of the bed. To be honest, he was much more nervous than she was on the "battlefield" in person.
Clough's palms were sweating, and his head was covered with beads of sweat that didn't match the season and temperature. He breathed a sigh of relief when the battalion commander said that he would not force it, but Wolfe's attitude deepened the doubts and uneasiness in his heart......
Wolf didn't refuse. Of course, this is part of the art of communication, and in the old Chinese saying, "be a man and leave a line, and see each other in the future". Clough, who is also well-versed in negotiating between merchants, understands this, but he intuitively reminds himself that Wolf may really have the intention of "supporting himself......
"It's the best-case scenario we could hope for." The battalion commander dug into the pocket of his jacket and pulled out a business card with a few words written on it.
"When, if Miss Bachelor is interested, you can go to Mendong City, or other cities where the new Elta government has settled, take this card and find the local supreme governor, and he will be responsible for sending you to Mendong City to take up your post."
As for the treatment, earlier the battalion commander was not without "coercion and inducement". To shine in the field where Miss Red Pupil wants to play a role, this treatment is naturally not comparable to the "boss lady" who follows Clough to do business arithmetic.
Housing, wages, are all things that are taken for granted. The Chinese side attaches great importance to these scholars and wise men who have mastered the situation at the grassroots level in some places and a large amount of information about social classes, and is almost second only to the elves - since they are important references for the construction of Elta, why not give them treatment several times, or even dozens of times, that of ordinary natives?
The battalion commander was naturally embarrassed to stay in the middle of the attack between the two people for a long time, and after a few more gossips, he took the stainless steel cup and said goodbye, and in the tent illuminated by the energy-saving lamp, only Clough and Wolf were left.
"Battalion commander, has your persuasion succeeded?" On the edge of the guard box not far from the tent, the clerk who was inspecting the changing of the guard of the sentry happened to see the figure of the chief, and after coming up to salute, he greeted the cold and warm.
"At least Miss Bachelor doesn't want to take on this responsibility now," the battalion commander didn't look back at the clerk's expression after returning the salute, and continued to himself: "Anyway, in this life, emotional matters come second, and I really don't know what to put first." Since she's willing to do this, there's no reason for me to stop it. ”
In the tent, Wolf was staring at the words on her business card, and she didn't react until Clough touched her head.
"Well, let me see...... The above are all 'Chinese' from another world written in square characters, written like a group of infantry holding shields in a formation, but still can't see any doorway, it looks like painting, is there anything to see? ”
Clough tries to draw Wolfe's attention back with lighthearted words - but it seems to backfire. She was still staring at the few squares on it.
"Ruby Pupil - Miss Bachelor~" Clough's inadvertent joke touched the crux of the matter. "Do you know what to pronounce this word?"
“q…… in”。 (Qin, the lowercase English letters here are just to reflect the pronunciation, and the Elta alphabet is too lazy to make up, please make up your own brains.) Wolfe's red lips opened slightly, and her voice was too small to believe herself—but even more incredulous, why did she know how to pronounce the word? I should not know the "otherworld" language.
"What?" Clough thought he had misheard—Wolf had just made a sound.
"I didn't ...... No. I really don't know how to pronounce these words. Wolf hurriedly covered up the past, but the scene just now made her heart palpitate for a long time. When I was in Mendong City, I obviously didn't know anything about square characters, but why did I suddenly catch the tail of the monster that the memory stretched out at this time?
And, why should you hide it yourself? Wolfe's head was a mess, countless things flashed and dissipated, but she couldn't hold on to their tails as she had just done. I don't know how long, when she dragged out that part of her spirit from her thoughts, she was already lying heavily on the bed.
What Clough had said to her, her replies to Clough, the intimacy of the lovers, she didn't seem to take it to heart, and those daily routines were quickly fleeting, leaving only a ripple in her new memory.
For no reason, the pronunciation of "qin" is to be forcibly popped out from the depths of memory. Without giving her any chance to hesitate, this short pronunciation was projected from the deep consciousness to the superficial consciousness with a strong force, and the depth of the nick made it difficult for her to forget. But on the other hand, other looming memories don't seem to be so obedient and obedient to the brain's superficial conscious management, and remain silent among the enigmatic neurons.
"Still thinking about something? Miss Red-Pupiled Bachelor. At this time, the arm on the pillow on the marching bed reached directly over and wrapped around Wolfe's body.
"Clough, can you call me that way?" Wolff replied with a slight dissatisfaction. "I don't want to be the 'Ruby Pupil' that I used to be famous all over the world, I just want to be myself."
Little did the clever Wolf know that Clough's change in his name in just one day was a sign of his unease about who he really was, and his concern that the gap between the two was too wide.
So while the conflict was still stirring up in her head, she quickly gave an answer that could make Clough settle down.
"What about later?" Clough asked in his ear as he pressed his lover from behind. He had always thought that this promise would be asked by Wolfe, and he would give her a promise of never abandoning and not betraying. But God doesn't fulfill people's wishes, life things are unsatisfactory nine times out of ten, and now the role is reversed, and he is the one who should ask this question.
"The journey will come to an end, dear Clough......" Wolfe's voice grew softer and softer as it mixed with the sound of breathing. Maybe I'll decide to deal with this new Elta in the future, maybe I won't, but I firmly believe that there will be no end between you and me, until ...... Until ......"
Wolf didn't want to say the phrase "the end of life", even though it sounded romantic. But she knew why she didn't want to say it:
If nothing else, the man behind him will die sooner, if not earlier, than himself. At that time, facing himself who is still young and "cursed", Clough will have no regrets. But the one who really doesn't want to face this pain will be the one who stays.
Forever, there is also a time limit. This point, Wolfe, that is, the "Ruby Pupil", had heard the nobles in his life say this to him more than ten years ago. However, she herself did not expect that this sentence, which wavered in "curse" and "prophecy", would be forced to become a reality so early and make herself forced to face it.