Chapter 7 Bitterness Comes Sweetly
After the "wave", the most left is mutton. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info "mutton" gives new hope to refugees. They broke through the walls and received the supreme reward of surviving. Those muttons will sustain them to the promised end of the Empire.
Arcanis did not intend to act with the group of refugees who were renewed in hope, and she formed a group with the Ramon father and son and left the group. Her departure has cast a shadow over the hearts of the refugees, who have come to a deep understanding of the primacy of the defence force. So they persuaded and even begged the girl with a broken arm.
When they found that they could not persuade and plead to change the mind of the girl with the broken arm, they withdrew their respectful faces. Raise the moral whip and whip it to Arcanis. Accuse her of breaking promises, being selfish, cold-blooded, and so on. Arcanis looked at them coldly, at the uneasy expressions on their faces, at their anxiety about the future, at their anger at themselves.
"If you want to blame him, blame him. Arcanis was very patient, waiting until they were tired of the moral whip. He pointed to the young man who had reported her in the refugee group, "You actually slandered me as a wanted criminal? If there is one, there will be two, and I don't want to be hanged because of someone else's slander. ”
With that, she turned her head and walked quickly towards the Ramon father and son, not giving the refugees a chance to "remedy". Acanis, amid the anger of the refugees against the young man, embarked on a journey of escape with the Ramon father and son.
They laughed and laughed along the way, and Arcanis's grief and sorrow were gradually diluted by the innocent laughter of little Ramon.
With little Ramon, the tragic scene on the road is not so desperate. Little Ramon wasn't always so happy, though, and sometimes he kept calling his mother's name. At that time, Ramon would comfort him, saying that his mother had been in a small town where she played hide and seek and hopscotch all day long.
"Mom is playful, but she hasn't forgotten you. With that, Ramon took out a yellowed letter from his pocket and read, "My dear husband, dear son, are you all right?" Aunt Bella, who was next door, said that little Ramon was scared to tears, so he was deducted 100 points. Oh my God, we could have won chocolate candies, but now we can only get some ordinary candies (Ramon winks at little Ramon at the thought of this). I'll send you the candy you won, but there are no chocolate candies. ”
"Daddy, Daddy. Does Mom really send us candy?"
"Of course. Ramon laughed and scratched his nose, "The owl will bring." ”
In order to fulfill the lie of the "owl", Arcanis imitated the cry of the owl more than once. Children are easy to deceive after all, and little Ramon has a smile on his face again.
At night, Arcanis sat on a hillside stone and looked out at the dimly lit city in the distance and the shadows of the tents in the camp on the outskirts. After a few days of traveling, they seemed to have come to another world, where there was no famine, no disaster. In this world, small country towns, living as usual, famine hardly affected their lives. Because no refugee can break through the blockade of the soldiers, sneak into the town and rattle their ears with the miserable sound of begging.
Little Ramon's father, who had slept with him, walked over to Arcanis wearily. There was no smile on his face, so that his face, which had been covered by a smile, was completely revealed. He gave too much of his own food to little Ramon.
"The escape has finally come to an end. Ramon exhaled a relaxed sigh and looked at the city in the distance, "I've heard that they will distribute food and arrange for us to live in a stable place. ”
"I'm not interested in farming in the wastelands of the West. ”
"Don't worry, with your force, the Empire won't give you a job farming. ”
Arcanis didn't want to talk about it anymore, what job doesn't work, isn't it asking for death to accept the job given by the empire?
"What's the matter with his mother?" asked the girl with the broken arm casually.
Ramon didn't speak, and Arcanis glanced at his silent face and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to stir up your sad past. ”
"You're mistaken. Ramon squeezed out a smile and waved his hand, "The kid isn't dead." ”
"Oh?" Arcanis looked at Ramon, piqued by curiosity.
The latter let out a long sigh and looked very weak. Arcanis saw such a weak expression on his face from the end.
On the third day of her escape, she remarried to a small town where she didn't have to worry about food. She's still young......"
Arcanis was silent for a moment, and the memories of her past life popped up and told her a cold truth. In the midst of famine, young women are selected from the refugee population to carry on the family (or to raise a few more concubines). Of course, those villages will also select the craftsmen they need from among the refugees. This is how many families have been torn apart.
She didn't know how to comfort her. In this case, all the mercy and comfort that does not help substantially is not only useless. Instead, it will make her look like a good person who eats the blood steamed buns of other people's suffering, in order to show that she is a good person with compassion.
Finally she said, "I'll take good care of little Ramon, I swear." ”
"Thank you. ”
The next day, at noon, with a slow crowd, they finally reached the "checkpoint" of the Empire, at least that's what the sign says. It was noisy, but under the threat of the steel spears of the soldiers on the side, they barely obeyed the order. Buried your head in a long flowing trough and drank like an animal.
"I'm thirsty and drink water!
On the stone watchtower on the other side of the sturdy wooden fence, an officer shouted with a megaphone.
Arcanis twitched as he looked at the dirty water flowing in the sink, mixed with hair, tiny floaters, and even lice. She couldn't accept drinking such water at all. The hundred-meter-long sink, after the clear water flowed through the mouths and faces of many people, it became like this in front of her.
"What a peace of mind, great empire. ”
Arcanis looked at the source of the sink, where more than two hundred refugees were lying on the sink and drinking to their heart's content. Under the backdrop of railings and steel spears, it looks like a flock of sheep returning from pasture.
After a while, the steel spears began to stir the refugees, as if paddling water, rowing them forward.
"Let's go! Don't dive!"
Several refugees, who tried to wait for the water to clear, were "lightly stabbed" a few times, fell to the ground, got up and hurried to follow the team. The entire group of refugees, as the soldiers in blue armor and blue hair on their heads wished, sprang up.
In the thrust, Arcanis firmly grasped Ramon's hand and finally made it to the next stop.
They walked into the "site" surrounded by a sturdy stone wall. Strong-willed soldiers, armed with iron shields and short swords. Let the refugees honestly walk into the passage made of iron bars to get bags of boiled potatoes. There were still all kinds of pleadings, they were hungry for more food, and the potato delivery man was tired of the endless pleading.
Arcarnes saw that an old man who had been annoyed by a pleading old man had annoyed the delivery man, and he frowned in disgust and took back the sack of potatoes that he was about to hand out.
"Let's go!"
"But you haven't given it to me yet?"
"Guards!
He shouted, and the guards on the side impatiently grabbed the old man's arm and pulled him to the exit.
"Let's go!"
The old man fell to the ground and was about to cry, but it just so happened that the guards were not soft-hearted people, all of them were legal guards. In front of the snowy white sword, the old man got up, and with the idea that maybe he would also distribute food, followed the crowd to the next area.
"All of them are slackers, using our taxes to feed lazy people. ”
The delivery man cursed and threw a bag of potatoes in front of Arcanis. Arcanis picked up the bag of potatoes and stood there, looking at the delivery man obliquely.
"Why don't you leave? You still want more?" No way!" saliva foamed from his mouth and floated onto her dirty cloak.
Arcanis stared at him, the expression on his face clearly saying, "You begging worms, are you still picky?" her eyes danced with angry flames, and she began to tremble as she carried the bracelet on her wrist with her heavy bag, and her scimitar was ready to appear at any moment. The girl with a broken arm had an impulse, so much, so much to want to stab his face, which was so "fat" that she couldn't see her cheekbones.
But she shouldn't have done it, it's a military camp, and once her identity is revealed, she is almost certain to die. Arcanis' sanity was warning her, telling her to hold back her impulses for a moment.
"Kill, kill, kill, kill. Kazkaz's beautiful voice rang out, "Give him a good lesson, give the soldiers who don't take you seriously an unforgettable experience, and let the townsfolk who hide in the fortress also experience the despair of death." ”
Arcanis began to lose control of his emotions, and the dispatcher, seeing her ugly face, shouted, "Ugly thing, don't go yet!"
The inside of her body began to tremble, as if the organs were beginning to alienate, into something terrifying, this was Kazkaz quietly alienating her body. Arcanis didn't notice the change at all, as anger took over her mind, and she stared fiercely at the vicious food distributor. The whole world was blurred, except for his constantly wriggling lips....