CHAPTER XV. The Tale of the Two Kugits 5
After a few days of rest, Rhine's body has begun to recover. But she really couldn't stand the feeling of being in a cramped carriage, where no one could settle down, and people were groggy and disgusting. Every time the car stopped, she watched her father get out of the car to get out of the car to breathe, and then she carefully followed behind and jumped out of the car.
Most of the time in the car, Rhine was sleeping. Father's ointment tasted strange, but it was pleasant and cool to apply on the body.
Rhine had a silent dream: in the dream she was back in her little village, where his father was chopping wood in the sun in front of the door, and the cherry tree at the door was hidden in the halo, and the sunlight shone into the house through the cracks in the shack, and in those pillars of light, countless small dust flew quietly. She also dreamed that her father was sharpening his knife in the moonlight, and the knife was full of rust and could not be sharpened, and her father kept his back to him. Then she found that the windows were on fire, and the whole village was on fire, while her father rode a horse farther and farther away from her in the cracks of the flames. The dark earth seemed to leave the village, and the village burned in a frenzied flame. Countless people with distorted expressions smelled of sweat, laughed maniacally, and rode on horseback to rampant through the village in flames. Suddenly, the silent world in the dream was infused with sound. Rhine saw the four men in front of his bed again, and one of them came to grab her by the hair, and suddenly there was a lot of noise?????
Rhine woke up, and vaguely felt that the voices in those dreams had not only not dispersed, but had become clearer. Her master, my father, frantically touched his saber, and the young man on the other side had already taken out the sword and stood between his legs, his hands lightly pressed against the hilt.
There was a knock on the carriage door, and the coachman trembled and said, "Come out, gentlemen." These good men let you down.
Rhine, who didn't know what had happened, turned his head to look at his father. My father didn't have time to explain to Rhine, so he simply said, "It's okay, we're in trouble." ”
My father was wondering what to do. His father and old Bianwen told him what to do under what circumstances. But they never told him what to do in a small carriage where the enemy did not know what to do.
Rhine grabbed her father's sleeve, and his father comforted her and himself, "It's okay." ”
The father suddenly noticed that the young man opposite him was very calm, as if everything had nothing to do with him. Father thought of what the elder Pianwen had said to him: "The best warrior is the quietest warrior." At this moment, my father suddenly felt in fear that his heart had not become calmer after a year of training. In a slight comparison with the man opposite, my father understood the complicated eyes of my grandfather and old Bianwen when he said those words of pride before leaving the valley.
"Listen, you're meeting Uncle Kazak. Our leader just needs some funding from you, and then you can continue to strap on your wagon and go to the edge of the sky. Come down. ”
The father looked at the young man across from him with an even pleading look. The man gave his father a fixed look, then silently looked at the back of his hand, and ignored his father no more.
Rhine noticed that the other two passengers in the car, a sausage merchant and his wife, were already sitting trembling together, their hands clasped tightly. Rhine remembers that when she was a child, when her mother died of illness in bed, she also held her father's hand tightly in this way, and until Rhine's mother died, Rhine's father held his wife's hand until the hand was as cold as ice cubes in his hand and did not let go.
At this time, the door of the carriage suddenly shook violently, and a man put a wooden stick into the crack of the door to pry it open.
The young man across from his father stood up softly, drew his sword and aimed it at the slit, and after holding it steady for a few seconds, stabbed it out. Then there was a scream from the people outside the door, and then the sound of him falling backwards in a panic came in. After a while, there was a jumble of laughter outside. The men outside laughed at the unlucky guy who had been stabbed in the arm.
"All right, gentlemen inside. You have injured one of our brothers in the arm, and now I am afraid you will have to pay some more medical bills. Come out, even the royal guards from Paraven have no chance, because if you dare to resist, we will shoot you into hedgehogs. ”
The young man motioned to his father and the couple not to sit against the inside wall of the car. My father stood up tremblingly with Rhine in one arm, and at that moment a cluster of arrows came in from outside the plank that my father had just leaned on.
"Come on, we still have more than a thousand small gifts like that just now."
At this time, the sausage merchant settled down, and said to Wright in a trembling voice: "Kind sir, let me and my wife go down, I have heard of this old man Kazak, and he is very measured. My wife and I went to her parents' house with only a basket of sausages and a big bottle of kimchi. If the robbers want these things, take them. I'm afraid you've angered her, and my wife and I will have to pay for more than just sausages and pickles. ”
Wright asked his father if he was also going to beg for mercy from robbers like a coward. My father actually wanted to get out of the car, but when he heard this, he could only insist that he was willing to stay in the car.
Wright said that he had no objection to the sausage merchant couple getting out of the car, which made the sausage merchant's wife grateful to Dade, and the sausage merchant had just been called a coward by Wright, and at this point he didn't say anything more.
Wright told his father to go to the door and pull the latch, telling the merchant couple to jump down as soon as the door opened.
Wright nodded to his father, who slammed the latch open, and the merchant and his wife jumped out of the car with a large basket of sausages and a large bottle of pickles. Wright yelled at his father, "Shut the door! ”
The father was stunned, pushed Rhine, who was holding him in his arms, out of the car, and shouted to the merchant, "Say she is your daughter!" ”
Then the father slammed the door shut.
Outside the door, Rhine cried and banged on the door, and the merchant's wife hugged Rhine and comforted him after reacting, and the thieves were in a commotion.
Rhine didn't know why the owner suddenly pushed her out of the car, and at that moment, she felt the incomparable fear and loneliness when her mother left her.
Now only my father and Wright were left in the carriage.
"My name is Wright, and I'm glad we could die together."
"I'm Arcadio the second ,????????????" Father said weakly.
At this time, a voice came: "Okay, tonight we can eat sausages with kimchi, let's thank this honest businessman for his funding." Now please wait patiently on the side, and when the gentleman inside comes out, you can sit back in the carriage. So, how many people are in it? What kind of people are they? ”
The merchant was embarrassed, afraid that the people in the car would say that he was a traitor after they had identified him as a coward, so he had to whisper, "Two." Two reckless young men. ”
Kazak could see his heart in the merchant's expression, and he laughed, "Okay, thank you." Then again, your daughter seems scared. ”
The merchant took off his hat to show his gratitude: "Huh?? Yes, the girls in the countryside have never seen the world. ”
"But I've heard that one of the little nobles in there has a lady-in-waiting," said Kazak. Sir, is there a little girl in there that you don't just see, or is this little girl not your daughter? ”
The merchant's mouth was dry and he didn't know how to respond. The merchant's wife went to hug Rhine: "Sir, this has nothing to do with this little girl. Don't be embarrassed for her. ”
Kazak said to the merchant, "Well, your wife has answered for you." I'm not going to embarrass a little girl, but I want to talk to her and let her persuade her master," said Kazak, holding out his hand and patting little Rhine's tearful face.
Rhine felt someone slapping her face in the blur of tears, which reminded her of the lewd behavior of someone before her. Frightened, she closed her eyes and bit down on her calloused hand, biting her finger.
The Kugit bit the Kujiit.
Kazak's blood flowed from a row of tiny tooth marks on his fingers.
The last time his finger bled was many years ago. At that time, he played the dongbula for three whole days, and the strings cut his fingers. He looked at the bright red blood on his fingers, like the bright red sunset in front of a yurt he watched many years ago, and greeted the light, a woman he would bury in his heart for the rest of his life walked out in a wedding dress and smiled.
For a split second, Kazak fell into a distant thought.
When he turned around, one of his men was beating Rhine hard. Rhine, dressed in linen as white as a dove, was kicked around, fluttering in the wind like a light handkerchief.
Kazak ordered his aides, who raised his bloodied right hand to his side, one of whom bandaged his fingers with a thin cloth bandage.
He looked at the fiery little girl on the ground, and the little girl looked up at him and scolded in the little girl's shrill voice: "Bastard! ”
Kazak was taken aback, for the first time since entering Svadia, someone called him a bastard in Kugit dialect.