The villagers had already dispersed on their own, and the courtyard instantly fell silent.

The village chief stood in the courtyard with an excited face, and wanted to say some words of encouragement to Surdak, but when he saw this scene, he didn't understand what was going on for a while, shouldn't he be happy that the child returned safely from the army?

"Sheila, what's wrong with the kids......"

In terms of seniority, the old village chief was much taller than Surdak's mother, and he was used to calling this title in his usual days.

The gray-haired old woman smiled reluctantly at the old village chief and said, "Please come and sit in the house!" ”

Although the inside of the stone house looks a little old, it is full of life.

The atmosphere in the room was a little dull, and the eyes of old Sheila and Natasha and Rita were full of wariness in Surdak, and their eyes were not only suspicious, but also very hateful.

Little Peter, who was only four years old, seemed very happy, and insisted on sitting in Surdak's arms despite the objections of his mother and aunt.

The old village chief sat on the only chair in the house and smoked a dry cigarette, glanced at Surdak, and after taking the last puff of the cigarette, he knocked the wooden pipe twice, put it into the pocket containing the tobacco, and smashed his mouth, and he probably saw that there seemed to be a barrier between the people in the house.

But the old village chief didn't think about it elsewhere, after all, Surdak was only 17 years old when he left home, and he was drafted into the army shortly after he got married, and now he has returned and is a head taller than himself, the old village chief has not been very impressed with Surdak, he only feels that the body outline looks a little similar to the previous boy, and it is normal for his appearance to change a little.

After all, Surdak had returned to the village in the personal company of Lord Bird, the tax collector.

And after being away from home for so long, Surdak didn't recognize his sister and childhood friend at a glance, and the family was reluctant to speak to Surdak with a cold face, in the eyes of the old village chief, maybe it was because Surdak rarely wrote letters home after joining the army, so that his family was worried and afraid, so he was complained by his family.

The old village chief thinks that if there are some things that please say, it will not be a problem.

He sat in the room and thought: Maybe Sheila's family was bullied by the harsh women in the village, and they had not dared to speak out before, but now that their son has returned from the army, some accounts naturally have to be settled. I was also worried that after Surdak became a knight, it would not be good if the young and vigorous person died.

The old village chief decided to coordinate it, so he asked:

"What the hell is going on?"

Old Sheila and Natasha's eyes flickered, and they looked at each other before they stopped talking.

Seeing Surdak's wife and wife react like this, the old village chief was even more sure of his guess that he must have encountered some grievances, so he said to old Sheila:

"Now that Surdak has returned, what else is there to say, your son has become a noble knight, and if you have any complaints in your heart, you should be diluted by this matter."

The old village chief felt that most of the women of the village had never seen the world, and perhaps did not know what a knight meant, so he said to them:

"When I heard the news from the tax officer's entourage today, I was also taken aback by this, how much credit does it take to be elected as a knight by the noble lord, we have never had a knight in Vol Village for so many years, knight! The tax collector told me that we don't have to pay any more taxes in the village, and even if we do, we will pay them to Dack. Now he's so bad that even I have to shout out to Lord Knight. ”

Speaking of this, the old village chief couldn't help but smile on his face, taxes are the largest expenditure in Wall Village every year, the land here is barren, and the grain produced by his own family is not enough to eat, where is there any excess to pay taxes? If you have to pay taxes to Surdak in the future, you may be able to be accommodating and pay less.

The old village chief touched the pipe in the cigarette pouch, but finally held back, and only said: "If you have anything difficult to say, tell Surdak behind closed doors, even if the lawsuit reaches the city of Hailanza, no one will take care of it." ”

Hearing the old village chief say this, Sheila and Natasha's eyes were even more worried.

"Just today, the people in the village and the people of Guta Village fought for the boundary of the pasture, and they injured three, and in the afternoon I suddenly heard that there was a knight in our village, and Guta Village actually took the initiative to send three bags of tree rice, which was their compensation to us, and the death and injury of the ranch boundary have always been borne by themselves, when has there been compensation? After all, it's still a knight in our wall village. When the old village chief talked about this, he couldn't stop smiling on his face.

Every year, the villages of Vol and Guta will make a lot of money for the pasture in the valley, and most of the time it is the Guta village with the advantage of numbers that takes advantage of it.

This year, the situation suddenly turned around, and the reason was that someone in the village of Vol became a knight and returned safely from the front......

The old village chief said proudly: "At the boundary of the grassland in our village, Guta Village took the initiative to retreat ten meters, you see, when did those guys in Guta Village admit it?" As long as Surdak is here, we won't have to be afraid of those guys in Guta Village in the future. ”

Speaking of this, the old village chief was also full of emotion, thinking back that he had been working hard for Vol Village for so many years, and now there was finally a young man better than himself to take over this responsibility, so he looked at Surdak with a look of relief and said:

"I, the village head, have served for so many years, and it is long overdue for me to rest."

The old village chief coughed dryly twice, stood up, bent his old waist and walked out, and said as he went:

"I'm going to see how the room arranged for Lord Bird Tax Officer is arranged, I have been taken care of by Lord Bird Tax Officer in the past few years, so naturally I can't neglect Lord Tax Officer."

When he came to the door, the old village chief turned around again, and nagged earnestly to the old Sheila, who was going to come out with him:

"Old Sheila, there will be a long life in the future, there must be nothing that you can't think about, let go of it in your heart, otherwise you will take revenge on others now, and when little Peter grows up, other children's children are better than little Peter, do you also want to settle the past grievances?"

The old village chief's cloudy eyes glanced at little Peter, who was nestled in Surdak's arms, and said with a mouthful of yellow teeth:

"Even if you don't think about anyone else, think about Peter!"

This last sentence said the last bit of courage of old Sheila.

Originally, she wanted to chase him out, and quietly told the old village chief that his child was afraid that he would be dropped, and that it was a stranger who was sitting at home, but now she couldn't say anything, and she looked at Peter worriedly, and the child's innocent eyes were full of happy smiles, and the stranger was taking out a handful of candy from his arms.

Old Sheila could only agree with a word:

"Oh......"

Watching the old village chief slowly disappear into the night, old Sheila closed the door, turned around and walked in front of Surdak, and took little Peter from Surdak's arms.

Little Peter didn't want his grandmother to hold him, but he couldn't break free no matter how hard he struggled, and old Sheila handed little Peter to Natasha and commanded:

"You two take Peter to sleep first, and we'll talk about it tomorrow!"