Chapter 10 Two conditions
The next morning, the sun was shining, the rain had long since stopped, and all the buildings and plants were washed by the rain, making them look exceptionally bright. The smell of plants and earth fills the air, making it particularly refreshing to smell.
The fish that escaped from the river to the ground last night and frolicked before the rain receded, and became food for birds and beasts.
The villagers moved into the house the earthen jar that had been left under the eaves last night to accumulate water for daily consumption. In fact, the villagers originally settled in Fesdena because there was a small river next to Fesdena, which was suitable for survival, but they did not expect that hundreds of years later, the dead bodies of the war would be thrown into the river to fester, festering and stinking, so that the villagers' water source was cut off and even affected the villagers' living experience.
After the rain, the villagers moved the rainwater-filled earthen tanks into their houses, and went to the wheat fields to check on the survival of the crops, and sometimes threw the dead bodies that had drifted up from the river back into the river to prevent the spread of the plague.
It is said that last night Witt saw the girl fainting under the gallows, and once he left her alone, then the girl would definitely not be able to survive in the pouring rain. Witt couldn't bear it, so he had to temporarily put the bundle of firewood under the plank of Xingxingtai, just to keep out the rain and moisture, and then carried the girl home.
Witt wasn't sure his parents would take the girl in, because the family of three was already having a hard time surviving, let alone being an uninvited guest. However, it's one thing to take it in or not, let's save the girl's life first!
When Witt carried the girl home, Witt's parents happened to be moving the earth tank to prepare to accumulate rainwater, and they were stunned when they saw Witt suddenly carrying a strange girl on his back, and even forgot about buying firewood, just watched Witt carry the girl into the house blankly, then looked at each other and hurriedly followed up the house.
I saw Witt put the girl on the straw bed where he usually slept and stood there panting and unable to speak.
Old Witt stood behind Witt and paused before asking, "Witt, what are you...... Who is this girl? ”
Witt gasped for breath for a while, swallowed his saliva, and then said with difficulty: "I just saw her faint in Xingxingtai, and I was afraid that she would make a mistake, so I brought her back first." ”
Old Witt originally looked at the girl in front of him carefully, and felt so familiar, but when he heard his son say this, he was shocked, wasn't this the father and daughter he met when he went to the chief of finance and taxation to buy flour two days ago? Old Witt learned that the man was hanged on the gallows, and he felt sympathy for the girl. However, if the chief of taxation knew that he had saved this girl, he would definitely find himself in trouble at that time. It's really hard to sympathize with this kind of thing in troubled times, it's good to save yourself, how can you have the leisure to care about others!
Old Witt immediately scolded his son angrily: "You hurry up and send this girl back, this is the treasurer in the lord's hall who deliberately threw her there, you will come back now, isn't it clear that you are against the chief of finance and taxation?" If he finds out to the old man, our whole family will be doomed! Old Witt said that the back of his right hand was slammed on his left palm, and he was still not half leaning over, looking extremely anxious.
"Even if you have to send it away! Then you have to wait for the rain to stop, the child wakes up, doesn't he? You sent them back again, didn't you put them to death? What's more, it's still raining heavily, you want Witt to catch a cold and fever? As she spoke, Witt's mother had already prepared a dry towel and retorted angrily when she saw old Witt's words, and at the same time came to the bedside to dry the girl's face.
"Come on! You both go out! This little girl is soaking wet, and I will help her change into dry clothes. Witt's mother muttered as she pushed the two out of the door.
Old Witt had no choice but to walk out of the door, and Witt's hanging heart finally let go, and when he walked out of the door, he remembered that his bundle of firewood was still under the gallows! What's more, there is a freshly polished logging axe inside.
So Witt hurried to the gallows in the heavy rain. Old Witt shouted behind him, "Where are you tossing again?" Old Witt looked at his son's distant figure and didn't reply, so he hurriedly added: "Don't stab me again?" ”
When Witt ran to the gallows to move the bundle of firewood out, he was shocked to find that the bursack that had been placed there had long been gone. For a while, the fire hat was three, and he looked around, but there was no one in sight, the door was closed, and he didn't know who stole his coarse sack. Forced by the heavier and heavier rain, in desperation, Witt had to drag his tired body and return empty-handed in frustration.
By the time Witt got home, it was already dark, and her mother had already dressed and wiped the girl, and her hair was no longer as messy as it had been before. Witt's mother also cooked some hot porridge for her to feed, although her head was a little hot, but it should be fine.
Witt looked depressed, and didn't hear what his parents said, but changed his dry clothes in a trance and lay quietly on the hay, unable to sleep at night.
When Witt woke up the next day, the rain had already stopped, and the scorching sun was once again high in the sky, burning his buttocks.
The noise outside upset Witt, who had been sleepless last night. Witt was already in a bad mood when he lost the coarse cloth bag, and suddenly came out of the inner room with a gloomy face, but he smelled a pungent smell of meat, which made Witt, who had not eaten last night, swallow his saliva.
I saw that the girl who was unconscious last night had already woken up, and was sitting at the wooden table drinking broth at the moment, and Joey was sitting opposite the girl looking at her, smirking from time to time.
Witt looked at the pot again, it was a hare, and immediately understood the general idea. This rabbit was brought by Joey's guy, and as for why he suddenly appeared here? Witt couldn't say why, but there was certainly no good idea to bring a hare here. Witt even suspected that Joey had hit this girl's idea, mixed with the events of last night, and was suddenly a little annoyed, but he suppressed the anger in his heart.
"Say it! What are you doing here? It's not your style to come over and give gifts out of the blue! Don't make any fussy ideas, I'll tell you first. Witt's voice suddenly sounded from behind Joey, which really startled him, and he quickly turned his head to look at Witt with a serious face. The girl also looked up at Witt with a straight face, obviously a little scared, but mainly a little strange, and then looked down at the bowl in her hand and was silent.
"Yo! You're awake! I've been waiting for you for a long time! Idea? No, I'm just here to ask you to accompany me to the lord's hall. Joey's smiling face grew serious, and the girl's hand holding the bowl shook slightly.
Witt noticed this detail and said to the girl in a measured manner, "Go back to the inner room first!" When the girl entered the house, Witt put ten thousand question marks on his face and asked suspiciously, "The hall of the lords?" What are you going to do if you have nothing to do? ”
Let's say that yesterday Joey wanted to go alone to the forest to hunt a reindeer, but God did not care, and it rained heavily, and the reindeer did not say anything, and turned into a soup chicken, and only brought a hare back. Joey thought he would be taunted by the old man when he returned, but he was nowhere to be seen all night. Finally, I asked someone, only to find out that before the rain yesterday, I saw old Joey on the road accompanied by a guard in the direction of the lord's hall.
It's almost noon now, and there's not a word from Old Joey. Although Joey usually always works against old Joey, now that he hasn't seen him for a day and a night, he is a little worried, so he has to come to Witt and ask Witt to accompany him to the lord's hall to ask what is going on, and the two of them can take care of each other.
After Joey explained the origin of the incident to Witt, Witt was silent for a moment, and then smiled at Joey: "I have thanked you for the hare you sent, but if you want me to accompany you, you can do it, but you have to promise me two conditions first!" As long as you agree, I will accompany you. ”
After Witt finished speaking, he put on an indifferent look, which made Joey a little crazy, thinking that this monkey was really not a fuel-efficient lamp, so he had to say: "You tell me which two conditions first, as long as I can do it, I will promise you." ”
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