Chapter III Arrangement
Belparo is a small city, this city is somewhat similar to the small county town in his previous life in the sixties and seventies, there are basically no high-rise buildings, some are just low houses, and the teenager was born in this quiet small city.
Originally, the boy had a warm family, just like all ordinary families, not wealthy, with a strict and kind father, and a mother who liked to chatter.
As the saying goes, there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck.
A year ago, a plague suddenly broke out in the small city, the source of the plague is still unknown, and in half a year, the plague raged everywhere, and the whole small city was full of mourning.
The plague took away the parents of the teenager!
Medical expenses and the aftermath of the parents completely destroyed the family, which was not well-off.
In the past six months, Bello is in the stage of growing his body, lacking food and not enough nutrition, he is just running up rapidly, without any muscles, tall and thin like a bamboo pole, his sleeves can't cover his wrists, his pants can't reach his ankles, and he hangs empty in the air.
The so-called good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil, which means that when the world is full of malice towards you, there are still well-meaning people by your side.
There is no shortage of people around who have good intentions towards Bello, and among these people, Bello is most grateful to Uncle Otto.
If it weren't for Otto reaching out and pulling him, perhaps the boy would not know which slave owner's cage was waiting to be sold right now. Or have starved to death in the hut on a cold night.
Bello's memory is full of gratitude and closeness to Otto.
Bello's memories could not affect Zhang Bin's senses, as a soul far more mature than Bello, Zhang Bin dug out some strange information from Bello's memory.
Otto was a close friend of Bello's father, Jesno, and during Jesno's illness, Otto visited frequently at his Taoist home. At Bello's father's funeral, Otto did not appear. Bello's mother then fell ill and died three months later. During this time, Otto did not appear once. Bello, the original owner of this body, was still very sad and felt that Otto had neglected him. It's a very childish idea.
It wasn't until Bello fell ill with grief and overwork, and almost lost his life, that Otto reappeared. Judging from the relationship between the two families, this is definitely abnormal, you must know that Otto and Bello's father Jesno have been good friends since childhood, and Bello's deceased brother and Otto's daughter Ruili were also married. Otto even regarded Bello as his own son, and Otto should never have failed to appear at this time unless there was something more important. Zhang Bin speculated that Otto should have more important things to deal with, and even the Bello family could put more important things in the future.
"It seems that Uncle Otto is a man with secrets!" thought to the person named Bello who is actually Zhang Bin, "Could it be that he has a little lover? No, if it is a little lover, just take it home directly, Uncle Otto is single! It is also necessary to have a good woman." Is it because I'm afraid that Sister Ruili won't agree?"
It's definitely not this kind of little three or something, in Bello's memory, Uncle Otto is a very responsible person, in the case of the death of his best friend and wife, leaving only orphans and no one to take care of, Otto did not appear for the first time, which shows that his affairs must be extraordinarily important.
Thinking of Ruili, Bello's mind naturally portrayed a pretty face that seemed to be angry and angry. Ruili is Otto's daughter, a very pretty blonde and blue-eyed girl. Before Bello's eldest brother passed away, the two had a very good relationship, to the extent that they talked about marriage and were already engaged, but unfortunately later Bello's eldest brother died, and Ruili also left the sad place of Belparo.
"Let's go and talk to Uncle Otto about this first, and see what he can do. If even he can't do it, then go to the temple and have a look. Bello made a decision.
After eating dry bread, Bello, as usual, went out, and he first went to see Uncle Otto in Lucbeck's workshop. Uncle Otto is the workshop director of the workshop, and he spends more time in the workshop than at home, and if you look for him, you may not be able to find him at his house, but if you go to the workshop, you will probably be able to find him.
Neither of the two families on the left nor the right of Bello had yet to get out of bed, and the men of both families were begging for a living in the docks of Sacnas City, and they did not return home for a long time. Women are at home with children and take care of the elderly. The yard here is small, and they are piling things at the door of each other, so these two families have had several conflicts with the Belo family, and the relationship is not very good.
As soon as I walked into the alley, a strong wind blew, and a dead branch was blown off and fell from the tree at the entrance of the alley. Belo couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when he saw the falling branches. The mysterious feeling appeared in his mind again: "This branch will knock down my left foot in three seconds!"
As soon as the thought came to him, Bello felt a little funny, how could the branch fall more than three meters away from him, how could it fall on his foot?
"Smack!"
Before the thought could turn, the dead branch struck Bello's left foot. It turned out that the dead branch fell and hit the wall first, and I don't know where it stumbled, and it bounced towards Bello, and finally smashed on his left foot.
This?
What is the situation?foresight?or prophecy??, Bello wondered as he walked. Even as a good young man born under the red flag and growing up in the sun, he is resistant to such strange and chaotic things.
Suspicious, Bello walked down the path to the workshop while using the elimination method to verify his speculation. It takes about half an hour to walk a little further from the avenue to the workshop. Copying the trail leaves half the time. Some of these trails are next to garbage pits, and some are between two houses, and it is impossible for anyone who is not familiar with the urban area of Belparo to know these paths.
Towards the workshop, Bello verified his final guess of verification. This judgment of oneself is an intuition.
This intuition is illogical, it is a judgment based on the brain's five senses pooling information. As far as Bello is concerned, only things that have a direct effect on the body can trigger this feeling. For example, if a stone is thrown over, if the stone will rub against the body, then the brain will naturally appear that kind of mysterious cue. If the stone can't be rubbed against the body, even if it flies 1 millimeter close to the body, the brain will not warn you.
This...... Forget it, let's call it "sharp intuition"!) The boy thought to himself.
After a fifteen-minute detour around the city, we arrived at the workshop. The workshop is located in the west of the small city, and the factory is made of gray cement prefabricated tiles, and a large area is enclosed by a red brick wall.
The entrance of the factory is facing north, and a bucket-thick poplar tree is lined up at the door, stabbing straight into the sky, like a loyal guard, a gust of wind blows, and the leaves rustle.
There is no signboard, and on the outer wall, one foot above the ground, a white part about one meter and two meters high is painted with white paint, and the six large characters "Luc Beckbeck Workshop" are written on it. Bello knew these characters, which were structured like cuneiform. It's not a spelling language, and it's not like a pictograph.
On the left and right sides of the door are two thick square columns, two large iron doors made of silver-white snowflake iron, the gate is closed as usual, and a small door is opened at the corner of the gate on the west side, and only one person can enter and exit. Bello entered the workshop through the small door, followed the road, went to the end, turned left, and arrived at Otto's workshop.
Uncle Otto is not in the workshop. In the dismantling workshop, the old workers are carefully peeling off a batch of pomelo roots that have just arrived with their apprentices. This tender green plant is the raw material for glue, and there is a kind of white tendon in it that needs to be peeled out, and the skin needs to be removed for other purposes. A few apprentices grinned at the spherical grapefruit root, and it took a long time to dare to disassemble it and cut it out, like a dog biting a hedgehog and nowhere to put it.
Bello was secretly amused, the juice of the grapefruit root was very sticky, and it was not allowed to be cleaned if it accidentally stuck to his hands. He didn't have much contact with this thing, and everyone had to suffer a little bit at the beginning.
The pomelo roots in the workshop are piled up like a hill, and it is estimated that they will not be dismantled in two weeks.
The workers took the two-inch-long blade and skillfully cut out the white tendons on the grapefruit roots, and the knives turned quickly in their hands. Seeing Bello, they teased one by one: "Bello, I haven't been here for a long time, and I'm missing you in a hurry!
"Bello, I heard that you use a knife well, hurry up and sit down, you can catch up with the good time!
"Are you feeling better, Bello? I heard you took a few days off. Pay attention to your body."
Bello responded one by one to each kind greeting or teasing. Greeted everyone in the workshop with a smile. Even the new apprentices didn't miss out, Bello smiled and got to know a few of the new apprentices, and joked about the ugly things he had when he first came to the workshop, which made the dismantling workers around him laugh.
In public, try to be as attentive as possible. That's upbringing.
In the past, Bello couldn't do such a thing, and some people in the workshop faintly felt that Belo seemed to have changed a little, and they didn't think about it.
After the greetings were over, Bello pulled the apprentice closest to him and asked, "Did you see Otto, why didn't I see him when I came over?" Uncle Otto usually stayed in the workshop at this time.
"Director Otto, I don't see it! he doesn't seem to be here today!" the apprentice, who was wearing blue overalls and was stunned, thought about it, and really didn't see Otto today. "You're looking for him?"
"My body hasn't slowed down, and I have to take two days off!"
"He didn't come, you better go to the door and ask for leave!" The stunned apprentice said that the door was a two-story red brick building on the right hand side of the door, which was where the office was located, and the person in charge of the workshop worked there.
I walked all the way to the small red brick building and asked for leave. The person in charge of the workshop happened to be there, and Wen Yan encouraged Belo a few words. Let him take good care of his body, and by the way, he was given an advance of two months' salary, but the person in charge didn't say anything, but the old accounting woman was not happy, and scolded Huai crookedly and said that the workers did not do anything, and the workshop would close down sooner or later, as if she was thinking more about the factory. Bello listened, ignored her, waited for her to advance her salary, turned and left.
After asking the person in charge, I learned that Uncle Otto had also asked for leave for three days. It seems that something is wrong with the relatives and they went to visit.
Could it be that something happened to Ruili? Otto is a dismantler, and Ruili does not follow her father's old path, she is a low-level craftsman who goes to work in Saknaas City. It's a day's journey from Belparo in a horse-drawn carriage.
Otto hurriedly asked for leave and ran out, could it be that something happened to Ruili. Thinking of this, Bello felt a pang of worry in his heart. Watching myself grow up since I was a child, this feeling has been imprinted in the depths of my memory, and even if I change my soul, it is difficult to erase it. But now Bello has no money and no ability, and he is not even qualified to help the other party.
After taking a leave of absence and picking up his salary advance, Bello ran to the temple as he had planned last night.