Chapter 9: Departure
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"Humph!" Audrey stood up with her hands on the table, snorted coldly, and turned to leave.
"Hey, dear......" Charlie tried to stop Audrey.
"Don't eat, don't bother me!" Audrey replied coldly, disappearing into the hallway.
"Hiss!" Xia Zuo made a strange voice at Charlie, and waved his head to signal Charlie to chase after him to comfort and comfort, he knew that his mother was very unhappy now.
"Naughty!" Charlie squinted at Xia Zuo and replied with a smile, put down the cutlery and walked to the side shelf, picked up the top hat and buckled it on his head, picked up the cane again, and slowly chased Audrey step by step with the cane.
Fifteen days later.
Xia Zor brought hundreds of Sersa warriors to make a deal with Peña's family, and the other party sent 300 security troops to complete the deal.
Xia Zo got a thousand gold, let Peña go, and learned Peña's identity, Peña's full name is Peña San Martín, and her father is José San Martín, the new magistrate of Puerto de Seado, because he was transferred in a hurry, he didn't have time to take his daughter away, so he sent a master to escort Peña back to Puerto Deseado, but he didn't expect to be robbed.
The sheriff is already the third person in Puerto de Seado, and his status is second only to the governor and the top general of the Spanish garrison, so it can be said that his status is prominent.
The deal went smoothly, there were no conflicts between the two parties, and the deal was completed in a very short time.
At noon, in the desert, Xia Zuo, who completely hid his body in his robes, was mixed among the hundred people of the Sersa tribe, and was silent as he watched the security army gradually disappear after completing the transaction.
"Young master, have you taken a fancy to that little girl, why don't we rob you back now!" Ah Shou came to Xia Zuo's side and said with a smile.
"Fuck off, you're talking a lot!" Xia Zuo kicked Ah Shou out of the way and scolded with a smile.
In fact, Xia Zuo just sighed in his heart, maybe Peña is just a passerby in his life, a short contact, may never see him again, as for liking Peña? This is impossible! Xia Zuo's standard for judging women comes entirely from movies, he really only likes women with big breasts.
Half a year later.
New Earth, June 6, 1811.
Xia Zuo ushered in his thirteenth birthday, according to the customs of the Sersa people, Xia Zuo will officially come of age on this day, for this reason, Audrey held the most solemn coming-of-age ceremony for Xia Zuo, but on this day, Audrey has no good face, because tomorrow, Xia Zuo is an adult of the Sersa tribe, and he has the right to decide whether he leaves the desert or not.
For half a year, Audrey calculated Xia Zuo in every possible way, and she was already eager to break Xia Zuo's leg, in order to let Xia Zuo not leave the desert when she became an adult, but in the end, she didn't really break Xia Zuo's leg, and after all kinds of means were punctured by Xia Zuo, she could only let this day come.
Although Shazo is of Sersa descent, he has a great advantage over other Celsa people when he leaves the desert, because his appearance is basically indistinguishable from that of white Europeans, that is, Caucasians, and it is difficult for him to be recognized as a Celsa as long as he does not speak the language of the Celsa and disguises his accent.
In fact, in addition to his own language, Xia Zuo also knows Latin and English, which were taught to him by Charlie, Charlie's wishes have always been diametrically opposed to Audrey, he hopes that his son will go out of the desert and see the world outside, but he never tells Xia Zuo what the world outside is like, he hopes that Xia Zuo will see it with his own eyes, to experience, to understand this world.
June 7, morning, desert.
"Do you want to take good care of it?" Xia Zuo handed the cage in his hand to Millie, bowed his head and said.
"Zhilu said, it is very well-behaved, Millie will raise it, brother should remember to come back to see Millie!" Millie, who was just five years old, lifted the cage in her hand, looked at the red-tailed golden scorpion cub inside, and raised her head to Xia Zuo and said cutely, with reluctance flashing in her big eyes.
"Millie, my brother will come back to see you, do you want to listen to my mother's words?" Xia Zuo instructed.
"Mmmmmmmm
"Good!" Xia Zuo squatted down, touched Millie's head, and turned his face sideways, Millie "snapped" and kissed it, and Xia Zuo's face suddenly became wet.
A pair of men's hands suddenly hugged Millie, Charlie picked up Millie and looked at the son who had grown up in front of him, and instructed: "Child, pay attention to hiding yourself outside, the outside is no better than the desert, it's not us Sersa people who have the final say, you have to learn to grow up, understand?" Charlie's voice was feminine.
"Don't worry, father, I'll be careful!" Xia Zuo looked at Charlie and said, with an excited look on his face, Charlie chatted with him all night last night, and there is no need to say much at this time, Xia Zuo understands Charlie's worries and reluctance to leave the desert for the first time.
"Oh yes, give me your baggage!" said Charlie, as if he had remembered something.
Charlie put Millie on the ground, took the burden handed over by Xia Zuo, touched it inside, took out a money bag from it, opened it and looked at it, there were at least a hundred gold coins in it.
"Your mother misplaced something again, what a mistake!" said Charlie in a feminine tone, and of course carried the money bag into his arms and handed the burden back.
Xia Zuo's forehead was faintly black on his back, and he didn't know what to say, according to Charlie's words, Xia Zuo should have left the desert with nothing and broke into the world with his own hands, so he didn't even prepare a camel for Xia Zuo, let alone give money, and the money that was just taken away by Charlie should have been secretly put in the bag by Audrey.
"Let's go, kid!" Charlie said with a wave of his hand to Xia Zuo.
"Then I'm leaving, father, sister, see you again!"
Xia Zuo is gone, and in the wind and sand, he walks alone to the east, and he will walk out of the desert with an area of 670,000 square kilometers to see with his own eyes what the world world outside is like.
Charlie, who was holding Millie, looked at Xia Zuo in the distance, he suddenly raised his head, looked at the clean blue sky, and said softly: "Take good care of him!" After that, he raised his head and gestured to the sky to shoot a gun, and gently blew his fingertips.
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Bright room, richly decorated, on the chair by the window, Audrey looked out the window with red and swollen eyes, she didn't go to Xia Zuo, because she was afraid that she would not be able to control it.
Click...... There was a sound of soft footsteps, accompanied by the sound of crutches hitting the ground.
"The little conscienceless gone?" asked Audrey looking back.
"Let's go, he'll be back!He'll be fine!" Charlie walked to the window, took Audrey in his arms as she sat in her chair, and whispered comfort.
"Why do you want him to go? Why do you want to let him go? You know, Lord Fiona has seen his fate, he can't leave here, he's going to die!" Audrey, who was terrified in the desert, cried out, like a soft woman, grabbed Charlie's clothes and shook them, and then fell to her knees with a thud, and begged Charlie: "Let him come back, you let him come back! Don't let him go!"
"You can't protect him for the rest of your life, and neither can I, he won't die, you have to trust me, can you calm down?" Charlie reprimanded Audrey in a stern tone.
Audrey hid her face and wept bitterly.
"He'll be fine, trust me......" Charlie slowed down his tone, stopped Audrey in his arms again, patted Audrey's back lightly with his hand, looked out the window and muttered: "My son of King Charles, how can he die so easily?"
In the endless desert and the scorching sun, Xia Zuo, who was dressed in a black robe, walked to the east alone, because of habit, he still hid his body in the dirty robe.
This time, Xia Zuo left behind everything related to the Sersa except himself, and even the clothes on his body were newly made, and of course they were dirty now, because he had been walking in the desert for a long time.
Xia Zuo has grown a lot taller in the past six months, and his height has grown from the original one meter five to about one meter fifty-five, half a year, five centimeters, it is not easy for Xia Zuo, who inherited his father Charlie's genes from his body.
The desert doesn't get cool until nightfall, and it gets cold in the middle of the night, and the desert is too hot during the day, and running will consume too much physical energy, so Xia Zuo chooses to walk during the day and run at night, his plan is to sleep four hours a day, and the rest of the time is used to move forward, so that about two days and two nights can enter the wasteland.
Xia Zuo had never left the desert, so he was excited.
"Run, there are sand bandits!" suddenly shouted in the distance, and a man with blood stains on his body rode over the small sand dunes in the distance, and ran in the direction of Xia Zuo.
"Sand bandit?" Xia Zuo stopped, the corners of his mouth turned up, and he muttered to himself in a playful tone.
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