372 The hard way
"Goo~~~"
Louie's stomach let out an unassailing cry, because he was naughty in his childhood, and he was often starved in a small dark house by the devil's mother, and he was not as unfamiliar with this sound as the average person of his origin, but familiarity did not mean that it was bearable, especially when he looked far away again and again, and still did not see any shadow of the village.
The tragic situation of "leaving my mother's clutches and encountering hunger" was something Louis had not thought of before, some people felt that leaving China was a foreign country, and Louis felt that leaving Neustria was a land full of light, but ...... He was now gone, and he didn't know if the land he saw was full of light, and there was no one he had proved with his empty belly.
"Quack! Wail! "The white seagulls flew noisily overhead, and the never-ending strong sea breeze along the coast carried them and the sand under their feet all the time, making it all the more difficult for the already tired and hungry exiles, none of whom had ever planted the land or tended sheep, even the weaver's son, Mirai, who had grown up in the city, who knew only a little about surviving in the wilderness, who had no experience of surviving on their own in the wilderness, nor the body of a long walk, They are simply unprepared for this.
They were going to sail straight to the foreign land of truth, but the ship they got was not in line with their ambitions, it was a small boat designed to run on inland waterways, and it was not at all suitable for sailing on rough seas. Although they thought it would be all right to get on the boat and sail out at night, apparently the sea did not think so, and as soon as they left the harbor, they were caught in a storm. Several friends who pursued the truth fed the fish before they even set foot on a foreign land.
By the time Louis opened his eyes in the sunlight, the only companion he could find was Mirai. The latter tugged at his clothes tightly.
Fortunately, Louie didn't learn well in other subjects in school, and he still passed the mandatory artificial respiration test. When Miraj awoke, they agreed to follow the knowledge they had learned in the school run by the Great Demon King of All Evils, and look for the mouth of the river and then the village along the river.
After a day of walking, they deeply missed the prison of the Great Demon King, where there was no such fierce wind, there was no such blazing sun, and there was still ...... Also on time to eat!
The latter would have been considered a matter of course. Now it is out of reach, and two friends who seek the truth have caught three palm-sized fish, a few sea crabs the size of a baby's fist, and some parasitic shells on rocks in the small waterhole after the low tide in one day. They had learned how to raise a fire in the wilderness during military training, but they had no flint and steel left, and their only option was to eat it raw.
So, when they saw a small thatched hut with smoke in the distance at sunset. The emotion that led to tears is hard to understand without what happened to human beings like them.
The hut belonged to a farmer who built it by a small river that led to the sea. And moved his family here, cultivated a small piece of land, and raised a few goats. Sturdy, cheerful, and talkative, he entertained two hungry exiles with goat's milk.
"Originally, it was a big village. But the infidels came, plundered and burned her. A few years later they came again, and the fruit of the tree was taught, and those who were not taken away fled to other places, and my grandfather left his ancestral land in tears and went to Abbot Finbetau, but now it is good! The glorious navy of Neustria beat those robbers hard! They don't dare to show their faces on this land again! In the future, we may have developed here like the fortunate Zgoch because of our proximity to Neustria - ten years ago it was the same as here, because it was plundered by damned infidels, and there was nothing but the ruins of the villages, wild birds and wild sheep, but now there was no more plundering by the blessing of the Tonustrian navy and the blessing of St. Aubrey, and there was a thriving harbour, where the travelers say, and there was now a great bazaar, and a city magistrate, Merchants from all over the country went there to buy goods from Neustria......"
Two stupid kids who had just escaped from Neustria were dumbfounded.
"Don't you believe me? This was told to me by the venerable abbot himself, and he said to me, "Goddeck, do you want to go back to your hometown?" I said, "Sir, there are pagan pirates there, who kill without blinking." The venerable abbot said, "That is all a thing of the past, and now the glorious Neustria, with the true God and St. Aubrey's blessings, has repelled the infidels, and there will be no more plundering, and your hometown will soon prosper like Zgoch, and I know that you were born there, so I have sent you there, to reclaim the wasteland, to prepare food for the passing travelers, and to tell them to come to the monastery next time to see what goods can be traded, and I have listened to the abbot's orders, and has come here with my whole family... …”
"There are no real gods in Neustria," cried Miray, who, after drinking some goat's milk, regained some of his spirits, "the gods there are false gods!" We ......"
"Blasphemy!" The peasants, who had been kindly entertaining them just now, shouted, "Blasphemy! Do you dare to say that the venerable abbot of the monastery of Fenbetau believed in false gods? ”
"We ought not have told him anything that the gods of Neustria are false gods," complained Louis to the starry sky, and the peasant Godek's hut was cramped and shabby, with its smoky fire and chickens, but it was anyway roofed, and perhaps there was dinner under the roof, "so that we could rest in his hut for the night, and he might take us to the nearest village." ”
"He believes in the devil! Didn't you hear him? He says Neustria believes in the true God! There is no true God but the truth! "He, as a heretic, should obey us and give us his hut, his goats, his chickens, his wife and children, but he did not, he has committed the sin of rebellion, and he will repent in the lake of fire and sulphur in the last days, and when the time comes, he will want to exchange his hut, his goats, his chickens, and his wife and children for a minute away from the lake of fire, and I will not allow him, and he who refuses to convert to the truth will end badly." ”
Louis was already repenting of his mistakes, and the path of truth was much harder than he had imagined, and the people he met did not appear to be eager to learn the truth, but on the contrary they welcomed the depraved things and heretical doctrines produced in Neustria...... (To be continued......)