Chapter 1465: Fighting the Tiger (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
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The courtyard wall is a little broken, the door is a little old, the thatch on the roof is much thinner, and the chickens in the yard are no longer the same as they used to be......
Amu looked at the humble courtyard and the two equally modest thatched huts in which he had grown up.
When Amu reached out to push the door, Fǎngfo felt like a heart, and the two dilapidated doors made a squeaky and dry sound, and the hard door shaft made a tooth-aching sound and opened from the inside.
Immediately, a diminutive woman appeared in front of her.
When Amu left, his gray hair was now completely white, his face was covered with deep wrinkles, and his eyes had become a little dry and dull, no longer moisturizing as before, as if a person's soul had been drained.
If it weren't for the faint glimmer of hope in her heart, she would have become a walking corpse long ago.
When the woman opened the door and saw Amu in military uniform, she couldn't help but be stunned. Then the basket in his hand fell to the ground, and the contents were spilled all over the ground.
She stared at Amu deadly, her hands tightly covering her lips, tears flashing in her eyes, afraid that she would cry the next moment.
Amu was also excited, smiled reluctantly, and said in a hoarse voice, "Mom, I'm back." ”
As he spoke, he stretched out his hands.
The skinny mother grabbed Amu, then put her arms around him, and began to cry bitterly.
Amu also choked up for a while, and tears came out of his eyes. For two years. I haven't been at home. Only his mother was left alone, and the army had never paid him a military salary, even if he received a military salary later, he was far away on the human continent and could not send it to his mother.
Losing Amu, just thinking about it, you can already know how difficult her life is.
The surrounding neighbors heard the cry. I couldn't help but walk out of my house.
There are no idlers in this small village, the men go out to sea to fish or work, and the women are at home with their children sewing and mending, and there is always endless work waiting for them.
Seeing the thin woman pulling a strange soldier to cry there, everyone was amazed. But then someone recognized the soldier's identity.
Seeing the two of them hugging and crying there, everyone couldn't help but sigh for a while.
"Unexpectedly, Amu, this kid is really fateful, and he actually struggled to come back. ”
"I thought that under those nobles, this kid would not live for more than three months. ”
"Looking at his beautiful military uniform, it's obvious that he's mixed up. ”
"This is the life of the old lady. With the blessing of the Great Demon God~!"
“......”
Immediately, everyone stepped forward to comfort the two of them.
Amu's mother also invited everyone into her courtyard at that time.
The originally deserted courtyard suddenly became lively.
All the neighbors poured in. Congratulate Amu on his reunion with his mother.
He has not been heard from since he was captured, although the villagers have not said anything, and they all suspect that the boy may have died in that place.
Amu's mother also pulled him and told him that if it weren't for the help of the surrounding villagers, maybe she would have starved to death as a lonely old woman.
She made a living with the help of her neighbors and the weaving of fishing nets.
And everyone is naturally humble, and the villagers are always the most simple.
Amu was grateful, and immediately took out the things he bought at the Military Welfare Club and distributed them to everyone one by one.
"Hello Uncle Amu. ”
These are all children, and this white rabbit toffee naturally has to be given away.
"Uncle Amu is so handsome~!"
Needless to say, the little mouth is sweet, the child is smart, and he will become a big tool in the future, so he has to secretly add two pieces.
"Ouch~ Amu is out of breath. ”
This is the neighbor's aunt, and she has to be offered half a catty of flying eagle sugar.
Those white sugars are as white as sand, the grains are pure, and there is no trace of impurities. At that moment, everyone was amazed.
When these villagers enter the city, they can take out two copper plates and buy a light glass of sugar water for the children as a snack reward.
"Amu, I haven't seen you for two years, and I've grown so big. Hey, you don't recognize me? When you were a kid, I hugged you. ”
This is the neighbor's uncle, and it must not be offended. First, you have to respectfully hand over a cigarette.
The uncles took the cigarettes, and there was a burst of admiration at the moment, this cigarette is a high-end product, only the nobles and rich people in the city can buy it.
They'd heard of it before, but they'd never tried it themselves.
Immediately, Amu took out a match and helped light it.
Everyone learned from Amu's appearance, a burst of swallowing clouds and spitting fog, although some people were choked and coughed, but after all, this represents an elegant way of life, smoking a cigarette, spitting out a white smoke, but it is very magnificent, just like a nobleman.
Everyone was also hard at work and took a few more bites.
Immediately, some people felt the wonderful taste in it, took a sip, refreshed, and there was some fluttering feeling, which was really good.
Seeing this, Amu also handed over a pack to each person, and then offered a box of matches.
The cigarettes of the Military Welfare Society are definitely not high-end goods, and naturally the price is not too expensive.
It's a pity that the old man just took the match in his hand, and before he had time to take a closer look, he was immediately snatched away by the old ladies next to him.
This match is a great thing.
With a slight stroke, a fire comes out. It is extremely convenient to make a fire and cook a meal.
There is no need to knock on the ground for a long time with a fire knife and sickle as before, and when the sparks come, you have to quickly put some hay to ignite it, if you turn your hand slowly, the fire will be extinguished again.
It takes a long time to get it every time. It's so troublesome to death~!
The old man found that his things were taken away by the woman on the spot, and he didn't save face at all, and he was furious at the moment. It's about to have a seizure.
Amu hurriedly took out the second pot head of the flying eagle he brought. Pour a small glass for each of them.
As soon as the bottle was opened. The smell alone made the drunkards drool, and it was the first time that these hillbillies, who had only drunk inferior potato wine, had smelled it.
Those who want to make noise are no longer noisy, and those who want to make noise are not noisy.
Everyone picked up their wine glasses and drank them all.
The wine burned like a fire from the throat to the stomach, and the men who were stimulated were dislocated one by one, grinning their teeth, and after a long time. That's why I praised it one after another, it's really a good wine~!
As if playing a trick, Amu picked up a match and gently shook it back and forth on the wine glass a few times, and then saw a blue flame rising from the wine glass.
Everyone couldn't help but look stunned again, and gasped: the wine can be lit, if you don't see it with your own eyes, who can believe that it's true?
Water can catch fire, God, this is simply a miracle~!
As the novelties were taken out, the small courtyard became more and more lively. These rare goods from the human continent can be an eye-opener and amazement for villagers who have never been out of the Caribbean.
Everything Amu took out was looked at over and over again.
Many girls from the village also rushed over when they heard the sound. Then he stood afar aside, curiously and timidly beating Amu.
In the past, Amu was a thin and timid teenager, always silent and just an inconspicuous child in the small village, compared to those who followed his father up the mountains and down to the sea, and were physically strong, more popular with the girls.
At this time, Amu is no longer the thin teenager he was two years ago, and after two years of training, he has grown into a standard soldier.
Although he kept circling in the crowd, his waist was straight, his demeanor was generous, and he was dressed in a beautiful woolen military uniform with shiny leather boots.
looks magnificent, heroic, extremely heroic, and a good man of the Semitic clan.
The girls who were pregnant with spring were all squinting...... Uh, looking at him silently with affection, some of them were bold and even flew over with a charming eye, and the girls of the Semitic tribe have always been unrestrained and enthusiastic, daring to love and hate.
Amu, who was busy with the hook, also blushed and heartbeat, and then secretly flirted with the most beautiful girl among them, Erya.
That girl is a flower in the village, two years ago, the thin Amu was still very inferior, and only dared to peek from afar, but now......
The aunts next to them discovered their small movements, and these women with knives and tofu hearts immediately showed no mercy and publicized them with their voices.
The crowd burst into laughter.
Amu's mother shuttled back and forth in the crowd, glorious, and her face was happy, and even the original wrinkles were smoothed out a lot, as if she was suddenly twenty years younger.
Everyone praised Amu for being young and promising, so that she, a mother, listened to it in her ears and was sweet in her heart.
"This Amu is really getting more and more promising. ”
"That is, the military salary of two gold coins a month is more than the dead old man in my family earns in a year. ”
"The eldest sister-in-law will be happy in the future. ”
"Just wait and hold your grandson, see the little girls outside are drooling......"
“......”
All kinds of praise poured in like a tide, and she couldn't close her mouth with joy, but then she couldn't help but shed tears.
Many years later, when a reporter interviewed General Amu's mother, he wanted to know how General Amu had become successful. is going to come up with a long inspirational story about growing into a rich and handsome, and by the way, pat the sycophants of this famous general in the republican government.
The old lady was rubbing the bud valley at the moment, and she couldn't help but sigh with tears in her eyes: Amu was pulled into a strong man, and she thought that she would never see her again in this life......
Later, in the book "From Poor Man to General Amu", it was written: General Amu lived in the free Caribbean Special District, and he was exposed to it and broad-minded.
Therefore, there are few strange ambitions, and since childhood, they have set up ambitions to strive for the reconciliation of the human and Semitic peoples, and for world peace.
Later, when he heard the news of the conscription, he resolutely joined the Semitic expeditionary force and did a lot of work in the process.
Risking his life to deliver all kinds of information. Braving artillery fire during the war, going back and forth between the trenches of both sides, and finally reconciling the two communities. It made a huge contribution to the independence and freedom of the Semitic people. Indelible contribution~!
Just as almost the whole village gathered in the small courtyard to talk lively. As Amu recounted the adventures of their Fourth Division over the past year, he suddenly heard the sound of footsteps.
Immediately afterward, a burly man strode in, surrounded by a dozen hunters armed with spears and bows and arrows.
Seeing that person, the atmosphere in the courtyard suddenly became cold.
This big man is the hegemon of their area.
Although the Caribbean depends on the sea, many people depend on the ocean for their livelihoods, fishing or boating.
But these people are different, they live on the hills and forests of the Caribbean. Generations of hunting, a family of its own.
This also created their vigorous skills, outstanding archery, and superb martial arts.
This big man's name is Kane, and he is a well-known hunter, strong in martial arts, and he used to go out and break out when he was young.
It is said that he was almost selected to become a knight of the Royal Praetorian Guard, obtained a capital household registration, and achieved a glorious career, but later he was hit by an arrow in the knee. Naturally, that glorious career came to an abrupt end.
But even so, in the Caribbean. He remains a highly respected heroic figure.
When the big man came to the courtyard, he couldn't help but be stunned when he looked at the crowded villagers in the courtyard, especially when he saw Amu in a military uniform also standing in the crowd, his eyes couldn't help flashing several times.
Someone greeted him and said, "Kane, what are you doing here?"
The big man snorted coldly, then looked away, and turned his head to search the crowd. Then he saw the village chief hiding in the crowd, and then stepped forward and said, "Barr village chief, you are really hiding here." ”
The village chief couldn't help but smile bitterly, and said astringently, "Brother Kane, what is the matter with you coming this time?"
Kane raised the steel fork in his hand and said with a smile: "What else can there be, of course it's to fight tigers." ”
Hearing this, everyone present fell silent.
Amula looked at the people around him and asked softly, "What's going on?"
The man stole a glance at Kane and whispered, "After you left, a fierce tiger came to our back mountain.
Every once in a while, he would come down the mountain and steal a cow or a sheep in a few nearby villages, and he would bite a few people to death. ”
Amu couldn't help but be surprised: "There is such a thing?"
Behind the Caribbean is a stretch of swamps and forests that stretch for hundreds of miles, and wild beasts in the forest often come out, and each time the villagers solve it at their own expense.
The man laughed a little, and then said, "When Kane heard about it, he took the job and demanded a lot of gold and silver from each village. But now, it's been two months, and I haven't even fished for a single tiger hair.
And every time I went to the villages, I ate and drank for nothing, and I had to take some more before leaving. It's just a bully for the troubled side.
The villagers are almost exhausted of the chickens in their house.
That's fine.
Now that he has a crush on Erya, he has to ask Erya to marry his eldest son. ”
Amu's heart sank.
The man paused for a moment and continued: "You don't know, his eldest son is a fool, if he marries, Erya's life will be ruined." ”
Amu looked not far away, and immediately saw a pair of bright eyes staring at him without blinking, with a hint of pleading and expectation in his pitiful eyes.
Young Amu immediately felt his blood rush to his head.
At this time, Kane was heard to say loudly, "Village Chief Barr, I have discussed it with you many times. When will you marry Erya?
If you don't get married, we won't fight this tiger~!"
Village Chief Barr grinned and said with a wry smile: "Brother Kane, Brother Kane, don't worry about it first, let's discuss it again, discuss it." ”
Immediately, the young man next to him said impatiently: "I still discussed a fart~!
To tell you the truth, if you want your two to marry into our family, it is the high incense you have burned for several lifetimes.
I don't have to worry about eating and drinking, the wind can't blow, the rain can't hit, and I wear gold and silver all day long. What more do you dead poor people want?"
Everyone in the village couldn't help but look at each other, and from their hearts, his words seemed to have some truth.
These hunters rely on their skills not to bird the government, never pay taxes, and when the government comes, they hide in the mountains, and often do some business without capital, which is better than their poor fishermen.
The young man stepped forward and said coldly to the girl, "Hurry up and clean up, this time we will come back from the mountain, and you will come with us." ”
As he spoke, he turned his head, his eyes swept fiercely over the people present, and he said, "If you dare not agree, you will fight this tiger yourself." If anyone gets bitten to death again, it's none of our business......"
I have a grass, this is a frame to be robbed~!
Although the people in the village are a little ignorant, they are all out-and-out Caribbeans, and they are very shrewd in their calculations.
The tiger didn't hit it, they had already collected the money. Then he fell in love with Erya and planned to snatch Erya away. Who knows if they will continue to rob the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth girls...... The marriage problems of the old and young masters of their family have been solved.
It's easy to eat, maybe you have to have a second wife or a little third or something.
The crowd in the courtyard was in a commotion.
The young man immediately took off his coat, threw himself heavily on the ground, and said in a strange voice: "What?
Looking at his revealing strong muscles, everyone present couldn't help but fall silent again. The other party has practiced martial arts, and one can beat eight of them, ordinary people with dung forks.
The village chief of Barr was also anxious, and said, "You guys...... What are you doing here? Do you want to rob openly? You fight tigers, and we have given money. ”
The young man snorted coldly and said disdainfully: "Don't forget, we have to fight hard, and no amount of money is enough." ”
The village chief of Barr froze for a moment.
The young man paused for a moment and said, "So, if you want us to fight for our lives, you have to exchange people for you." You must marry those two girls to my brother. Otherwise, you won't go yet~!
In the future, whoever I love, I was bitten to death by a tiger, and I thought I was unlucky. ”
As he spoke, he casually pulled over a stool and sat down with his face closed.
The village chief of Barr looked at the group of fierce hunters, and then looked back at his fellow villagers, and everyone immediately lowered their heads in a weak heart.
Although the village chief has a good relationship with himself, he can't afford to fight with those strong hunters for him, let alone others.
Not to mention, this is to eliminate the tiger, the common enemy of everyone. Although the daughter of the village chief who died, everyone also has a little heartache. But from a dialectical point of view, if you get married, you will have jumped out of the sea of suffering and want to live a good life.
It's really not good, everyone can also angrily condemn it afterwards: this good cabbage was arched by the pig again~!
Chief Barr couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and then looked at his daughter. found that she didn't look at herself, but looked at Amu on the other side pitifully.
The village chief of Barr moved in his heart, then gritted his teeth, turned his heart sideways, and then said loudly: "Okay, if you want to marry my daughter, it's not impossible. But let's talk about the ugly things ahead, no matter who wants to marry my daughter, they must exchange it for a tiger skin~!"
Kane looked at the village chief of Barr, and couldn't help but curse in his heart: This damn old fox~!
He was afraid that he would marry his daughter and not do anything. That's why there is such a rule.
But then, he burst out laughing. Then he stretched out his hand and said, "A word is a certainty?"
The village chief of Barr gritted his teeth and slapped him hard, and said, "A word is a certainty~!"