Chapter 414: Ugliness in the Firelight
In the firelight, stood proudly a giant bear as tall and strong as a hill, carrying a shell gun, with a bear's face blackened and a pair of ugly eyebrows twisted to pretend to be hideous.
"Get out of the way for Lao Tzu! See clearly, Lao Tzu eats meat, and would rather eat people than grass!"
More than ten meters away from the firelight, dozens of people stood in the dark, some old, some young, some sick, some weak, some women, but they were not young and strong. Dirty faces illuminated by the firelight, some frightened, some emaciated, some numb, some lost, this is a group of wandering and struggling surviving refugees, attracted by the firelight and the smell of roast chicken.
The bear looked terrifying and hideous, even if he didn't say that he was the master of the Black Wind Mountain, these weak people in the night wind also knew that he was not a good person, and no one dared to move forward, so he could only be far away from the edge of the firelight, smelling the smell of meat, and biting his lip quietly.
"Deaf, step back, don't bother Lao Tzu!"
The ragged men were frightened by the shouts of rage and retreated a few distances away from the campfire.
The bear was satisfied, picked up his gun, sat down by the fire again, picked up the branch with the chicken again, smashed it and continued to roast it.
In this case, is Luo Fugui still at ease? The answer is yes, the unscrupulous bear who is giving himself a vacation to travel has long forgotten that he is an Eighth Route Army, and he is at ease! Because he and his mother have lived like this half-dead since he was a child, displacement, hunger, disease, death, and stench, and it is these things that built his world when he was born, and it is still such a world, so this is nothing more common in the eyes of Xiong. How can a frozen lake ripple? The frost on the snow surface has no meaning at all, and it is difficult to distinguish between frost and snow.
Roasted and roasted, the chicken was cooked, and it was burnt and shiny, so that the bear couldn't help but smile, this is his happiness.
Removed the roast chicken from the fire, and was hesitating whether to tear the chicken leg or gnaw the chicken head first, Leng Buding heard someone approaching nearby, and immediately changed his face, and slowly turned his head to look at the side of the fire with gloomy eyes.
A woman with a dirty face, holding her dirty child at her side, appeared more than ten meters away by the firelight. The child looked at the bear with horror on his face, and swallowed weakly. The woman mustered up the courage to make eye contact with the bear, then told the child to sit down and wait, and she began to slowly approach the fire again.
"Tired of being crooked?" the bear warned.
The woman stopped a few meters in front of the bear, and instead of looking at the bear, she looked at the roasted chicken, and after a few seconds of silence, said in a weak voice, "Do I use my body to wrap my line?"
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The woman wiped her dirty face with her tattered sleeves, then changed the other sleeve and wiped it vigorously. In the firelight, her face was cleaner, not pretty, not ugly, just a little pale, a little weak, and then she tried very hard to squeeze out a very unnatural smile at the bear, which she wanted to make him look better, but the smile was ugly and bitter.
Xiong didn't speak, she was at a loss, and she couldn't help but see a slight crystal under her eyes: "Just change a little." โ
The bear turned to see the child sitting in the dead grass ten meters away, but still did not speak.
Seeing this, the woman hurriedly turned her head and said in a trembling voice: "Baby, you wait for your mother in the distance." The child obediently got up and hid in the dark.
"Sit here. The bear pointed to the side near the fire, expressionless and speechless.
The woman covered up the corners of her eyes, tried to show gratitude and pleasure, moved in small steps, and finally reached a distance of half a meter from the bear, sat down stiffly, and the nearby firelight gave her pale face a trace of blood, and she looked at the burning fire motionlessly.
The bear raised his hand and tore open half of the chicken and handed it to the woman next to him: "Now eat it in front of me!"
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"Grandma, how can you serve me if you don't have the strength? Don't eat? Don't give me face? Believe it or not, I brought your little cub over and threw it in the fire to roast and eat it?
The woman's tears could not be stopped and flowed silently, and she did not dare to look back at his child, so she carried out the shameless orders given to her by the wicked man with tears.
Eating a small portion she tried to put it down, but the hideous bear eyes forced her to continue.
Halfway through she tried to say she was full, but the bear continued to stare at her coldly.
She finally understood that she could not leave the child with a little bit, that this despicable wicked man was torturing her and threatening her, and she had no power to resist at all, and cried completely, but the bear did not react at all.
Having eaten half a chicken in threats and tears, she no longer tried to flatter and feign gratitude, and looked at the fire in despair with tears on her face, waiting like wood for the despicable bandits to spoil.
The bear's ruthless color disappeared, and he was replaced by a helpless look, looking at the flames and muttering angrily: "Grandma, I'm really cheap! It seems that the plan to find a restaurant can't be successful!" sighed heavily, and suddenly turned his head to the woman next to him and said, "It's still a fart, go find your little cub, that half of the chicken is his." โ
The woman didn't understand for a moment, and turned to look at each other with a tearful face.
"What do you see, don't you want to be the lady of the village, follow me into the mountain at dawn!"
The woman was stunned on the spot, she was afraid that she had misheard: "But I have to ......"
"I know, you're going to take your little cub with you. The bear grabbed the other chicken and started gnawing on it.
Knowing that this is a bandit, looking at the five simple and vicious appearances, he may be full of blood debts, but for the victims who are struggling with hunger and death, his acceptance is simply a gift of life. The woman made up her mind without hesitation, even if he was a man-eating ghost, she would follow him, no regrets!
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The bonfire was still the same one, but now there were three figures sitting by the fire, except for the bear, a woman, and a mud boy gnawing on chicken bones.
The woman said to the bear that the origin of these people, they were all flooded by the flood home, scattered and fled out, some time ago, when wandering to the boundary of Meixian County, I heard that the Li family compound in the Fallen Leaves Village gave soup to the disaster victims, so I heard the wind and came. I can really get two bowls of gruel every morning and evening, and at the same time, the young man was directly absorbed by Li Youde as a soldier, and if he had a family member who became a soldier, he was also placed in Deciduous Village. Later, there were not many refugees again, the Li family compound no longer gave porridge, they did not have young and strong men to serve as soldiers for Li Youde refugees were driven out of the village, more than 100 old and weak wandering near the village of fallen leaves, nowhere to go, and some people began to starve to death, some people died of disease, and now it is about to enter winter, and it is no longer possible to expect the grassroots wild vegetables to survive the coming cold.
The woman asked, "You say...... Are you the master of Black Wind Mountain?"
"Of course. โ
"What about you...... Killed someone, right?"
"You should ask me how many I've killed!"
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"Hehe, you're scared, aren't you?"
"Nope. I was just...... I don't believe you can really take us with you. โ
"I don't believe it!"
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At this time, Xiong suddenly twisted his face: "Who?"
Two figures gradually walked into the firelight, one old and the other young, the old hunchbacked, the young not tall.
"Uncle, I don't have any chicken for you to eat, can you not come to me?" Luo Fugui said unhappily to the old man.
The old man dragged the young man unhurriedly in front of the fire, and smiled bitterly: "You say...... You're the master of Black Wind Mountain, aren't you?"
"How?"
"Since...... Hero, you have accepted her as the lady of the village, so I want to ...... I'll send you a small one. After the old man finished speaking, he pushed the young man to the fire: "Take her in, keep it for you, and give birth to a big fat boy for you in the future, count me as an old fellow, please you! Just take her, don't worry about my old man." โ
Bear Eye turned to look at the young man, he was not very tall, and he was a little thin, and he couldn't help but say angrily: "Uncle, why do you want to find fault? Hmm? Lao Tzu is a gentleman, and he is not interested in your son!"
"Good man, this is my daughter! I don't believe you touch it, a real yellow flower girl!"
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"What's wrong with you?"
The young man's face was angry, he couldn't hold back any longer, and said in a crisp voice: "What do you see? It's a big deal, can I be a bandit with you? Can I carry a gun for you? Can I rob and kill people with you? But I must take my father with me! Since you say that you are a gentleman, then hurry up and give a happy word, drop your chin and look at a fart!"
Oh, I'm a grandmother! Luo Fugui's breath finally came up, what a big girl with yellow flowers, she looks better than Lao Tzu to ward off evil spirits! It's not that I don't want to bring more people, the key is that the wine station is not rich, there are dozens of mouths here, if you bring too much, the food plan will have to be adjusted and saved, this is not what unscrupulous bears want to see!
After thinking about it again, although this is a girl, it doesn't look much different from a man, it's no problem to work, this courage to carry a gun and be a militia is more than enough, at least it's not a burden, this can be paid.
"That'...... Okay! Lao Tzu will make do with it and continue to make a small one. can be said to be good, I admit to giving birth to a son in the future, if I give birth to a girl, I resolutely don't want it!"
"If only I raised the girl myself!, are you satisfied?" the answer made the bear's ears buzz.
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The bonfire was still the same one, but now there were five figures sitting by the fire, and in addition to the bear and the woman and the child, there were more women and her father.
Luo Fugui pondered, how good it would be if he was really the master of Black Wind Mountain, this guy has a big and small wife, and even a son and father-in-law, is there anything happier in the world?
At this time, there was a sound from the Suosuo, and when he turned his head, he saw two figures staggering towards the firelight.
When they entered the light, Luo Fugui's heart trembled, he stood up, raised his big hand and hurriedly signaled: "Stop! Stop! Stop! Don't come again!"
The old man raised his head haggardly: "Good man, listen to me, this is ......"
"Don't say it!" Xiong interrupted the old man's words without hesitation: "Now that Lao Tzu has a wife and a concubine, there is no shortage of anything, you give me a dead heart as soon as possible!"
The old man pointed to the old woman beside him and smiled bitterly: "This is my old woman." โ
"Cough-" almost choked to death on the spot, Xiong felt a pain in his chest, and said angrily: "That Lao Tzu won't do it either!"
Seeing this, the old woman hurriedly shook her hand at the bear: "Good man, you misunderstood, my old man didn't mean that." Aren't you the king of the mountain, my old man is a blacksmith, think about where you must be useful, don't look at his age, he has strength. If you think my old woman is cumbersome, just take him with you. โ
The old man hurriedly shook his hand: "No, no, forget it, just when we ask, just ask." After finishing speaking, the old woman was going to turn back.
Grandma's, it's in the play! This thing is ...... Bear smash it: "Hey, that...... You can still wield a hammer?"
The old woman turned around and replied for his old man: "He looks old, he is only in his forties, don't look at it now, he is hungry." โ
"Wellโyou both come here. โ
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The bonfire is still the same bonfire, and now there are seven people, Xiong quietly looked at the fire in front of him, waiting for the next time he was harassed.
But...... No one had ever come to harass them again, and they were all curled up in the distance beyond the firelight, ready to survive another cold night. They were all screened out by Li Youde, a 'purposeful' good man, most of them were old people and women, who could not be puppet soldiers, waiting to die in this winter.
It's strange to say, no one dares to come over anymore, and the unscrupulous bear's heart is a little chaotic.
Shouldn't God be the one who determines life and death? The right to life and death, this is the greatest right in the world? Luo Fugui finally realized that he actually held supreme power in his hands at this moment, but he actually didn't feel a trace of excitement and glory, but instead felt that this right was a very disgusting thing, a very hateful thing. If back then, someone gave my mother a way to live......
"Forget it, I can't find a restaurant to eat anyway, I already have to bring six anyway, what if there are forty or fifty more mouths?
The woman raised her head when she heard the voice: "Big boss, what are you muttering?"
"It's nothing, you go and ask them, who else wants to be a bandit with me? It doesn't matter if you're old or weak, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman, if you want, just come here, and we'll leave in a while." โ
Except for the ignorant mud child, everyone else at the fire raised their heads at the same time, quietly looking at the ugly bear face in the firelight...... He's really ugly......