The barking of dogs broke the quiet of the early morning in the village of Wall.

A faint morning mist shrouds the ravine, which quickly dissipates when the sun rises.

There was a gentle push of the door in the courtyard, the hinge on the door of the main house was probably a little lacking in lubrication, and when the door was pushed, it would make a jerky creaking sound, it was the sound of the door opening that woke up the sleeping Surdak, which was the sequelae left on the battlefield, and any movement would make him reborn and alert.

The blanket by the window lifted a corner, and Natasha would always quietly leave the room a moment before dawn.

She is an introverted woman, shy and reserved, and not good at expressing herself.

She lived in a small circle, and occasionally talked to Surdak about the affairs between Sheila Sr., Rita and Little Peter, and some of the troubles in life, and she didn't really need someone to help her out, but she just wanted to have a quiet listener.

In fact, Surdak is a good listener, he will not interject easily, will only express his opinion at the appropriate time, will not complain, will not have any prejudice, Natasha likes to pill on his arm, whispered to him close to his ear, the soft spread of long golden hair and lake blue eyes, the incomparably soft touch of milky white skin in the moonlight clearly told Surdak that this is not a dream.

Natasha said that old Sheila would suffer from leg pain in the winter, and that only sitting by the fireplace all day would alleviate the pain, and that she and Rita would run to the woods to pick up some pine towers and come back, pine nuts and mushrooms were their extra harvest, and although the old days were a little difficult, they were not hard, and life was always full of fun.

Rita is good at finding fun everywhere in life (tashigedoubi), her innocent/cheerful/optimistic personality always infects Natasha, all kinds of female man's behavior has also conquered many women in the village, Rita's figure and slenderness are not on the line, but her waist is definitely not thick, it is the kind of waist with a clear mermaid line and abdominal muscles, she can carry two buckets of water all the way from home to the stream and walk back a few times, she can carry grass taller than her body, Walked back from the Beigou grassland in a hurry.

In Little Peter's mind, Surdak has always been described by Sheila Sr. as a great hero, and Little Peter's biggest dream now is to become a knight like Surdak, and he practices very hard every morning.

Surdak wondered if he should be more strict with little Peter.

You must know that if you want to become a knight, you can't succeed overnight, and the hard work you need to pay is far beyond ordinary people.

At this time, Natasha must have been making breakfast in the kitchen, but even though she is rich now, old Sheila is still very frugal.

The corners of the kitchen were piled with wheat flour, and a whole row of ham hung from the beams, but every morning everyone still ate chestnut rice porridge, and occasionally some cassava was mixed with it, and only on Surdak and Little Peter's plate could you see wheat cakes and thin slices of ham.

Rita is very busy in the morning, she has to take advantage of the early morning to go to the stream to fetch water, but also to go to the Beigou pasture to cut grass and feed the cattle, especially when Surdak is at home, there is also a batch of Gubo horses, and she needs to prepare nearly twice as much forage than usual.

Surdak lay on the bed for a while, planning to get up to help Rita share a little housework, and wanted to go out with a wooden bucket to carry water, but Rita snatched it and said, "Come on, you don't know where to fetch water......

At breakfast, Surdak learned from the old Shelana that there are some particularities in the village to fetch water, usually in the morning the women go to the stream to fetch water, the water source is close to the upper reaches of the creek, if there are idlers in the village to fetch water, they will be chased and scolded by the village women with a pungent personality for half a street, if they are far away from the water source, the water can only be used for washing, although it is poor here, but the village people also attach great importance to the problem of drinking water sanitation......

After old Sheila had breakfast, she took little Peter to the yard to milk the cows, and Surdak swallowed the last bite of chestnut rice porridge into his stomach, biting the corner of the plate to bake wheat cakes, and slipped out behind old Sheila, and Rita asked behind, "Brother, are you going to the cistern construction site?" Wait for me and Natasha, we're going to ...... too."

Natasha followed Rita and stood in the doorway without speaking, her eyes full of anticipation as she looked at Surdak, her eyes full of sea-like tenderness.

Listening to Rita's crisp shout, Surdak stopped, and his heart warmed for no reason, and said, "Eh, you also want to go to the construction site?" ”

Rita hurriedly wiped her water-stained hands on her apron, took off her apron and folded it, and caught up with Surdak to walk side by side with him: "Of course, Uncle Bright selected a few of us to make lunch and dinner for those craftsmen, and we and Natasha were in charge of baking wheat cakes, you don't know how good these guys are, they can eat at least two bags of wheat a day, and Natasha and I have to bake from morning to night." ”

As she walked out in Surdak's footsteps, Natasha followed Rita, her head bowed and smiling silently.

Rita continued to say to Surdak: "There is probably not much wheat flour in the granary, otherwise you can tell the old village chief that we will fry some multigrain cakes today, and it is impossible for them to eat wheat cakes every day, we have not eaten so well." ”

Surdak pondered for a moment before he said, "Three meals a day are full of wheat cakes, this is what was agreed before, this can't be changed casually, don't worry about the lack of wheat flour, this is not something you should consider." ”

Seeing Surdak say this, Rita spread her hands indifferently and said:

"Okay...... I just wanted to remind you. ”

Then she complimented Surdak: "By the way, the wolf skin mattress you gave me is so warm. ”

"Natasha, what do you think?" Rita turned to Natasha on the other side and asked.

Natasha hesitated a little, thinking that she hadn't slept in her room at all last night, where she felt the warmth of a wolf's skin mattress, and the warmth of a big pervert, Natasha didn't know how to answer, so she could only say hesitantly: "Uh...... Still...... OK! ”

Rita asked incredulously, "You shouldn't have been reluctant to shop last night, right?" ”

"I ...... Not really. Natasha's white face turned red.

The three of them walked out of the courtyard together, along the village path towards the cistern site in the upper ravine, and as soon as they reached the cistern site, they were stopped by a young man from the village: "Knight Surdak, there is a caravan from outside the village, saying that it is specially for you to deliver goods." ”

"This is ......" Surdak didn't have time to take a look at the construction site, so he left Rita and Natasha behind, and pulled the old village chief who had just arrived at the construction site and walked directly to the entrance of the village.

The caravan brought forty sets of axles and three wagons of wheat, and two hundred bags of wheat flour were enough for the craftsmen at the cistern site to feed for two months, and after two months it was estimated that it would snow, and the cistern work on this side of the village would be halted......