A village on the northwestern frontier of the empire, at the foot of the Sunset Mountains. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The solar term is in spring, but in the far northwest of the empire, the temperature has not yet risen, but the glacier has thawed, and the ordinary people who beg for a living in the poor mountains and bad waters have also begun to get up early and greedy for darkness to plow the land that is not rich again.

A hunter, he passed on his father's skill of catching wild beasts, leaving the village every day and burrowing into the mountains. It had been heard that the bards of the South had decorated their adventures in the form of elaborate fruit cakes and given them to countless young ladies, but in this barren land that bards did not want to visit, Ev did not feel that adventure was a great thing.

It is much better to be able to grow a little land and live a stable life than to fight with wild beasts every day, but unfortunately the hunter is not rich, and he can't save the capital to buy land.

On an ordinary evening, Yev was walking home with a few small beasts. To his surprise, on the path that he had stepped out of for more than ten years, a girl was walking.

"Hey, girl, why are you here?" Looking at the back, it seemed to be a beautiful girl, and Yev stepped forward and was suffocated by the other party's face for a moment.

"Ah, I'm ...... Lost. The girl smiled, with a strange look, calm and a little flustered, wasn't she good at dealing with people?

Every one of the more than 100 people in the village knew each of them, but the girl in front of him was not familiar to him.

"I'm going to Xiaoxia Village, are you there?" Yev was half a position ahead of the girl, "What's your name?" ”

The girl was silent for a moment, and when she squinted, it was not a deep expression of suffering.

"You can call me Xiaohan, I think I should be going there...... Let's go to Xiaoxia Village. Xiao Han looked only seventeen or eighteen years old, and her young face made Yev feel alive from his usual lonely journey.

"I don't have anywhere to go, so I'll have to stay for one night." The girl muttered.

Yev thought that this girl, who had a very different temperament from the village peasant woman, might be from the city, and that there might be some reason for her presence here, but that was not what he would have thought deeply.

After walking for a while, the atmosphere was a little silent, and Yev felt that he should say something.

"Are you a hunter?" Xiao Han looked at the basket that Yefu was carrying and the rabbit he was carrying, and asked curiously.

"Ah, that's obvious." Feeling that he had found something that filled him with strength, he held up the rabbit that had passed out, the people in the city must not have seen many living beasts, "This is what I am going to catch before I go back, it is a surprise, this thing is really fast, fortunately my archery skills are also very sharp......"

The girl smiled and listened to the speech of the uncle next to her, and from a beautiful angle, the backs of the two were dragging in the sunset, the uncle was wearing badly worn jeans, and a worn-out short crossbow twisted across his waist, perhaps the hunting knife was the only sharp thing.

The hunter was a head taller than the girl, and as they talked from time to time, they walked to the calm and serene village on the other side of the road.

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When he arrived at the gate of the village, Yefu said to Xiaohan, "This is Xiaoxia Village, then ......" Yefu looked embarrassed, in the previous conversation, he had learned that the other party had no place to stay, but his own life was not smooth, and he didn't have a wife in his thirties......

The girl seemed to see through his embarrassment and bowed, "Then thank you, Uncle Yev, I'll go first." ”

Yev smiled, waved his hand and watched the other party leave,

Back home, Yev sorted out the beasts he had caught today, and the rabbits could be sold, and the price of the live was a little more expensive. There are a few pheasants...... Forget it, let's eat one by myself and sell the other, he doesn't have the time to store it.

Hanging the tools back on the wall, Ev began to do some simple work in the cramped room to make hides and stuff.

Cutting and cleaning familiarly...... Ev was doing something that would not go wrong even with his eyes closed, and when it was completely dark, he ate some jerky bread and carefully sprinkled some oil on the lamp.

Oil isn't cheaper than wine...... Ev shook his hand and prepared to get back to work. When he walked back, he suddenly looked out the window, it was really dark, he poked his head out and looked outside, there were no pedestrians, in this isolated place, there was no entertainment at night.

Yev shook his head, concentrating on the matter at hand.

I don't know how long later, "Whew-", Yev wiped his sweat, packed his things, went to wash his face, rested for a while, and went to sleep with the deadbolt plugged in.

"I don't know what happened to that girl." Yev put his hand on the door and looked at the starry sky, "There is no hotel in this small place, wolves will haunt outside, it is very dangerous......"

That hazy but real smile in the evening is really beautiful.

Yev walked back to the bedroom, put on his clothes, grabbed his hunting knife, and went out.

There was no destination for Ev, but it seemed that he was lucky, and he saw the girl in the deserted and dilapidated temple of the Holy Virgin.

After hesitating, he went up to say hello, and the other man looked up at the statue of the Virgin that was already in the shape of stone, and looked back in confusion.

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"Looks like you don't have a place to stay, maybe you can spend the night here."

Yev stood at the door of the house that was not good-looking, and said to the girl in front of him, who had not known him for a long time.

"I'm very sorry, I couldn't find a hotel after looking for a long time, so I can only trouble Uncle Yev." The girl looked at her toes embarrassedly and reached into her pocket with one hand, "I'll pay for it, though." ”

"Oh, no, I'm not comfortable in this place, I don't have to pay." Yev hurriedly excused himself.

Yev blushed and led the girl into the house, and the sight of the night was terrible for the shrews who loved to chew the root of their tongues. Living alone for a long time, the sudden arrival of the living person still made Yev feel in a hurry, and after half an hour of tossing, he finally settled the girl.

On such an ordinary and identical night, Yev carefully closed the door of the cubicle and gently returned to his room.

Starlight was everywhere, and there were only a few cicadas chirping in the lonely village. He seemed to be able to hear the girl's steady breathing.

Yev extinguished the oil lamp with his own hands.