Chapter 16: The Calm That Comes to an End
The supplies and trailers were quickly dragged to the middle of Sean Square by the townspeople, four large trailers loaded around the Sean memorial, and caravans and vigilantes slowly carried out the contents of the trailers, stacking them into a hill in front of the carts.
Bundles of pig iron and iron products, shovels, shovels, iron sandpaper used to wipe the surface of pottery. A new generation of hand-cranked generators, flashlights, radios. Bundles of plant fibers and tendons for women to weave, oils for maintenance equipment, medicines, sweets, and others.
It is better to say that it is a caravan, than a material distribution team. The caravans' foreign trade was done by bartering, but for the people in their own towns, it was directly distributed, how much oil, how much salt, how much soy sauce, how much candy, and so on. As for the distribution of supplementary exchanges, the pickled fish that the townspeople had consciously stored every few days, the adobe bricks fired on the construction site, and the fresh water that had been abundant in Spayes were poured directly from the town's treasury.
The townspeople lined up to receive the supplies, which was orderly and very harmonious. There was not much noise, and the occasional child crying for more candy and the reprimand of the parents was only a moment, and then peace was restored.
Mountain and Blair led the security team in the crowd to prevent accidents from happening, while the dusty caravan and the group disbanded and went back to their respective homes to rest, leaving only the elderly but still in good spirits Mr. Sean and Garcia chatting about family stories on the stones outside Sean Square. Mr. Sean talks about the journey, the legends and anecdotes of the various towns that Garcia knows or doesn't know, Garcia talks about the daily life of the town, Mrs. Moby talks about Old Bill and Sophia's grandmother who is crazy but still remembers Mr. Sean, and the vigilantes about the earthworm invasion.
"I haven't seen you for another two months." Mr. Sean is old, but he is very cheerful and talkative, and his body is strong. Even the oldest man in town doesn't think of himself as an old man in the slightest, and he talks to Garcia as if he were his peers.
"Well, it's been two months." Garcia responded. The old man does not have the frame of his elders, but he can't help but keep the etiquette of his juniors. It's just that the words are not inhibited, after all, after many years of chatting, they have long been familiar with it.
"When will the gentleman come back this time?" Garcia looked at the crowd in the square, at the four trailers and the vigilante in the crowd.
"As before, today the supplies are distributed and then boxed, rest for the night, and leave tomorrow." Sean straightened out his old military coat, which had worn out for decades, and cotton wool was sticking out of the holes in the corners of his clothes. However, the military coat is a very expensive thing in Spice, and this kind of clothing is only available to the mayor's family and Mr. Sean, and it was only when he was lucky enough to meet a border merchant who transported supplies from a more prosperous area to the prosperous border area. I don't want to mention it. It's been more than 30 years now.
"I guess I won't be wearing this dress for a long time." Garcia caught a glimpse of Sean's movements and smiled, "Why don't you ask the mayor to give you the one he pressed at the bottom of the box to be replaced." ”
"You've been saying this for three years, and you've been telling me since the year you started as a teacher." Sean said with a smile as he pressed back the cotton wool that had come out of his fingernails. "Rest assured, this garment will last for a few more years. It's like my old bones. ”
"You're still young. Thirty more years is not a problem. Garcia laughed too.
During the small talk, the distribution of supplies in the distance also came to an end, and the townspeople who smelled the queue scattered in twos and threes with their things, and gradually saw the stacks of materials that were also gradually getting shorter and smaller in the middle of the crowd.
"It looks pretty much the same." Mr. Sean dusted off the hem of his clothes and stood up, "I'll go find someone to load the things I want to exchange and load them up, and then I can go back to rest." ”
"Let the vigilantes do this kind of thing." Garcia stopped Sean, who was old and strong, and refused to accept the old age. "I have something to tell you, about Raymond...... Mountain! Blair! Take the security team to help Mr. Sean load the trailer with the goods! Garcia raised his voice and called over the two captains who were patrolling and resting in the distance.
"Mr. Xiao, you say." Mountain and Blair were slightly dissatisfied with Garcia's call, but when they heard Mr. Sean's name, they came over respectfully and bowed to the old man.
"Don't don't, I can't stand your bowing, three young men bow to the old guy at the same time, I won't become the spiritual seat enshrined in the ancestral hall?" Sean waved his hand half-jokingly and half-seriously, "It's still the same list as before, two truckloads of water, a cart of bricks, a cart of pickled fish, and then stuffed seven or eight cans of pickled vegetables." ”
"Okay." The security team soon pulled four empty trucks to various places to load goods.
"Say, Raymond, that's the little fat guy you just talked about, what's wrong?" Sean lowered his head and continued to weave down the cotton wool that was showing elsewhere.
"That's right, I would like to ask you to take him to the Yingxi Vocational Appraisal Center this time to take the junior walker's badge...... I think he has what he can do. ”
"A little fat man goes to the test...... Hehe, it's the first time I've seen the old man in 70 years. ”
"Who isn't? However, including me, including the two captains of the security team, everyone thought that Raymond could indeed break through the level test of the laboratory, and asked the old gentleman to take him with him. ”
"Since Hyde's own apprentices have said so, I still believe in your eyes, old man...... But he can't go alone. ”
"Huh?" Garcia was stunned.
"I don't know why the underground river in the cave about 100 kilometers away from Yingxi Town has been rerouted, and I think something might happen when I go out this time...... I'm going to take you and the two captains of your vigilante with me. Plus the little fat guy you just said, four people. ”
"Ah, this is a good feeling!" Garcia was pleasantly surprised, but then Sean gave him a blank look.
"Accept your childish temperament, I just said, I vaguely feel that this time I go out is different from the past."
"yes, got it."
"You also go back to rest, and by the way, tell your four companions that tomorrow morning at six o'clock, return to the stone cave and gather and set off."
"Okay."
So the two people, one old and one young, each walked towards their own house. Garcia found the three men who were packing the boxes, Shan, Blair and Raymond, and the three of them expressed their joy and attracted the envy and congratulations of their fellow vigilantes.
"Lei Xiaopang, this time you must give us another professional to come back!" Kane, who said this, rubbed Raymond's head half a head shorter than him fiercely, and then his stomach was stabbed by the little fat man's elbow fiercely.
"Raymond, it's up to you." The little man Andre was half a head shorter than Raymond, but his words were short and blood-inducing, "Come back, you are the vice-captain." ”
"Captain, when will there be another professional in our team! You see that there are two teams next door~" This sentence is naturally the voice of the players of the team next door complaining to their captain. Shan shook his head and smiled, and then his face was straight and he knocked the team member who asked the question.
"It's not that you don't fight! Listen, give me a good practice! I'll come back in two months, and if there are any good seedlings among you who have made great progress, I will also train him to be a professional exam! ”
"Roar!" With a majestic roar, the struggle index of the first team was filled with stars in a moment.
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Soon, it was time to get off work. As the men returned home in twos and threes, the security team also loaded the trailer and dragged a group of people to the east in front of the gate of the cave of return.
There were fewer and fewer people on the streets, and soon, the smell of food was coming from the boxes in the streets and alleys.
And Spice soon fell back into silence. Only the laughter in the box from time to time and the small power perpetual motion light that is lit outside the box but not very far away.
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"Dad, Mom, I'll go out with Old Man Sean tomorrow." This is Garcia's voice.
"Okay, old Mr. Sean is the hero of the town, and you will definitely learn a lot from him." This is Garcia's mother's voice.
"Look at your brother! Look at you again! Study hard, do you know your brother? "This is Daddy Garcia's voice.
"Oh. Got it. "Dan is still going to admit his mistakes as always.
"Okay, don't talk about my brother, I even peed on the head of the Sean Memorial when he beat him like this." Garcia still protects his brother as always.
"Hey, you kid!" Daddy Garcia is still as easy to get angry as ever.
"Alright, eat." This is Garcia's mother's voice.
"Oh, okay." Garcia's father is also as afraid of his wife as ever.
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"Wanzi, I'll leave tomorrow......" was Raymond's voice.
"I know, take the test well, you said yesterday that when the junior walker comes back, you will ......" This is a weak and delicate female voice.
"I'll go to your house to propose." Raimondell was adamant.
"Hmm." Wanzi's voice was inaudible, only half of it, and then it seemed to be blocked by something.
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"Far Away...... You can improve your abilities this time. "It's the sound of the mountains. He clutched the ancestral amulet that hung around his neck, and lay on the bed looking up at the ceiling.
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"Far Away...... Food...... Meat...... Purr ...... Travelling far ......"
Tsk, this is Blair's voice.
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"Dan, I'll leave Mr. Hyde's notebook with you. You have time to read it. "The light from outside the box shone into the box, and two figures were reflected on the wall. The taller one seemed to hold a rectangular notebook in its hand, and it handed it to the shorter shadow.
"Well, I will." The shorter one took the notebook and put it away in his arms.
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On this night, except for a very few people, for some reason, the people who were going to leave tomorrow morning could not sleep. Garcia looked at his sleeping brother and for some reason a thought popped into his mind.
"A peaceful life is coming to an end."
He shook his head and expelled the idea of unknown meaning from his mind, and couldn't sleep, so he simply rolled over and poured out the things he was going to bring from his backpack to the bed for tomorrow's departure, checked it carefully, put it back into his backpack one by one, and lay back on the bed again.
"Far away, ......"
Garcia eventually fell asleep slowly.
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This is the end of the first volume of peace, which was not written last night because there is more to talk about in this chapter...... To be precise, it was written, but I felt that it was not well written, so it has been delayed until today, so I'm sorry everyone. Tomorrow a day on the road bumpy day back to my hometown.,I don't know if I can open the second volume in time.,In short, I'm trying my best to bring you the "Underground Country" that I think I'm satisfied with.,I hope you can like it.。
Stay tuned for the second volume that will surely appear the day after tomorrow night, Volume 2 Ripples.
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"It's the first time I've seen such a large underground cave in seventy years!"
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"Green town...... Anyone? ”
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"Stop! This is a once-in-a-decade earthquake! Get under the trailer! ”
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"Cockroaches! Cockroach! Damn it! It's a cockroach! ”
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"Mountain! I can't kill it! I cut it off and still can't kill it!! ”
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"Garcia! Grab my hand! ”
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"Sean !!"
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