Chapter 09: The Enemy Retreats, and Mr. Och Stays
Father slowly walked to Wuge's side, looking at Wuge who was very peaceful with his eyes closed, at this moment, his heart was like a knife, but he couldn't do anything.
I turned my head and watched my father gently hold Wu Ge in his arms and walked towards the four of them in the green robe, and my heart was also very unpleasant, every step my father took was extremely heavy in front of my eyes, I believe that for him, the same can be seen, from the unwillingness and helplessness shown on his face.
I suddenly realized the true face of this world, it turns out that laughter, happiness and well-being are only the surface of this world, and if you look beyond the surface, you will find that this is a world where the weak eat the strong, and the strong are respected.
I clenched my fists, stared at the four leisurely intruders with red eyes, and asked myself countless times: "Why? Why let them kill the Wuge and forget it, why do you want them to take the body of the Wuge with you?" This inner cry replayed in my ears over and over again, and I wanted to rush over and beat them to the ground.
"Who made me weak, who put me at the bottom of the food chain?"
I didn't choose to rush out in the end, even though the desire was so strong, it still lost to my reason, and I hated this kind of reason that suddenly appeared to prevent me from doing anything, and I hated it very much.
Perhaps, only the truly strong can do what they want, can they embark on the path of true freedom, and can they not be bound and constrained by reason.
"I want to be strong, I want to be strong, absolutely!" was a cry from the depths of my heart.
The father gently put Wuge in front of the green-robed old man, the green-robed old man looked at Wuge with low eyebrows and nodded, and then looked at the giant man with a double-edged axe.
Perhaps my father's thoughts in his heart at this moment are probably the same as mine, and even I, an eight-year-old child, can understand the truth that people are swordsmen and I am fish and meat, so how could he not understand it? If it weren't for the lives of the whole village, I believe that my father would have fought with them without hesitation, and that was another story.
On the surface, I saved my father, and Wuge saved me, but in fact, it was because of my recklessness that I killed Wuge, although I saved my father, but if I hadn't suddenly appeared at that time, maybe my father would not have had any accidents, maybe Mr. McCasse would have hit a firebird in time to miss the flying sword, or maybe the man riding the white bear would have frozen the man with the sword on his back into a lump earlier.
"Perhaps, my recklessness saved my father's life is false, even without me, my father has a great chance of saving the day, but Wuge, it is indeed because of me that he died, I killed Wuge. "Thinking of this, an invisible huge pressure fell from the sky and made me breathless, and I really wanted to crash into the tree and die.
The funny thing is that at this time, reason suddenly appeared again, stood in front of me and told me that I can't do this, even if it is death, it must be worth dying, at least it must be dignified, if you really want to die, then take advantage of the fact that Wuge has not been taken away, just rush over, fight with those four invaders, and die?
The most ridiculous thing happened, just when I was ready and courageous enough to rush over and fight them to the death, reason once again stood up and told me that I couldn't do it.
"Wuge is dead, I am now the only spiritual sustenance of Chawu's father and Golfang's mother, once I rush up like this and have an accident, then my father and mother, without exception, will inevitably follow my example and rush up to fight those four invaders to the death, and then there will be a series of chain reactions, one after another villagers are completely enraged, rush forward one after another, and then fall to my side, all killed. β
"I've been reckless once, I must not be reckless, I have killed Wuge, I must not kill anyone else, I can't be the fuse that killed the lives of the whole village, but... What the hell am I going to do?" Thinking of this, I fell to my knees helplessly.
"In the final analysis, who told me to be so weak? Now that I have to bargain for my life, what qualifications do I have to ask for justice? Don't people often say that justice is in the hearts of the people, but now justice is not on the side of the strong?"
"Ugh," I let go of my clenched fists and sighed helplessly.
The green-robed old man exchanged a few words with the man riding the white bear and then turned around and left with the other three, and the figures of the four of them disappeared into the thick fog.
In the blink of an eye, three months have passed, the crisis has been lifted, and everything has returned to calm, as if the events of that day had never happened, and no one wants to talk about what happened that day, but those who died have left us forever, and one family after another is still unable to get out of the abyss of pain of losing their loved ones, and they are depressed and tearful all day long.
The old village chief is gone, the father was elected by the villagers as the new village chief, the father is very happy, busy all day, only at night can see his figure, the family sits around the dinner table, the father always deliberately dodges the mother's gaze, the mother is still complaining that he handed over the body of Wuge to others without her permission, and because of this, the father always likes to keep looking for things to do outside, not letting himself be idle, he does not dare to go home to face his mother, maybe he blames all this on himself, after all, his own son was taken away by others under his nose, but he can do nothing, that is a kind of weakness that has to be admitted, is the end of no effort to change.
Mr. Ochie, the man who suddenly appeared on a white bear and saved countless innocent lives, learned from his father that his full name was Marindo Och, and he was going to stay in the village for a few more days to think about something, and he would leave after thinking about it, not only his father, but all the villagers were all happy when they heard the news, everyone in this village had witnessed the strength of this man, and with him in this village, even if the four invaders went and returned, they were bound to be cocooned.
The next day he mobilized all the villagers to build a grass house for him, and nailed a wooden fence around the house to enclose a yard, so that he could grow some vegetables and fruits in the yard when he was idle and bored.
In order to keep Mr. Ochie from feeling that there was nothing to do, the people of the village decided to give three carts to his father every month after deliberation, and then let his father pass them on to Mr. Ochie, and specially appointed Mr. Ochie as the head of the young men in the village, so that those with hoes could also learn the skills of fighting, Mr. Ochie was more resistant at first, but after his father's bitter request he agreed.
In fact, this is also a clever plan for the whole village to discuss how to keep Mr. Ochie, as long as Mr. Ochie has something to do here, he will not be bored, as long as he has more contact with the people in the village, he will definitely have feelings after a long time, and will not leave rashly and suddenly.
Because there was no one in the village who knew how to read, my father accidentally found that Mr. Och could not only read but also write, and he happily pulled all the villagers outside Mr. Ochie's house and begged for a long time.
In this way, the only school in the village was built, and Mr. Ochie taught us children to read and write in the morning, and in the afternoon went to the large open space in the village to train the villagers, and every day was very busy.
I know very well that Mr. Ochie is powerful, so every time I come into contact with him, I am always very cautious and careful, when he lectures, the other children are busy sleeping or in a daze, only I listen carefully consistently, I want to leave a good impression on him, and then, I beg him to teach me magic, super magic, in the blink of an eye, I can freeze people into ice cubes, I want to be strong, I must be strong.
Vaguely, I could feel that Mr. Ochie had begun to pay more attention to me, many times he always stared at me alone during the lecture, as if the whole lecture was for me alone, and the rest of the people were just listening, I don't know if this was my delusion or if he had indeed begun to pay more attention to me, so I was very happy, but whenever I took the initiative to talk to Mr. Ochie after class, he always ignored me, and judged me like two people in class, which made me more and more suspicious that the kind of special attention I thought he paid to me was just my delusion, and I was no different from others in his eyesγ
Five years have passed, and in the past five years, I have been waiting day and night for the opportunity to confide in Mr. Och alone, but his attitude towards me has always been close and far, hot and cold, so that I really have no clue, and it is difficult to guess what he is thinking.