Volume 1 The Winter of Halma Chapter 36 Pete's Wounds

"Because I borrowed it!"

In the kitchen, Elizabeth looked at Andu like a fool, and looked at Nunu in the direction of the next door.

"Mr. Hozia's family is still good, their family has a late dinner, I borrowed the tools in advance, and I will return them in a while. ”

Elizabeth explained.

Andu wouldn't have asked that, and even the nerd wouldn't have known that there was only one pot in the kitchen, because he hadn't even been in it.

Andu was very dissatisfied with Elizabeth's explanation, and he said with a straight face.

"Go back and buy what you lack, now that we have money, we don't have to be like before. ”

"Where is the money, we don't have any savings at all, and you will marry a wife in the future!"

"Didn't I give you twenty silver dollars after the last auction?"

"That's your wedding bride price, just in case you have to keep more, look at you, you don't understand anything!"

Andu looked at Elizabeth with a confused expression, he never thought about marrying a wife!

He was only sixteen years old!

"That ......" An Du pondered for a long time before he said cautiously, "Then what do you think of the house?"

Elizabeth thought for a while, went to Andu's desk and took out a notebook, spread it out in front of Andu, and began.

"You see, first of all, according to the salary you told me, after three months it will be two silver dollars a month, and a year will be twenty-four silver dollars, and if I take charge of the accounts, then the annual expenses will certainly not exceed six silver dollars. ”

"In this way, you can save eighteen silver dollars a year, and according to the current house price in Halma, it will be about one hundred and fifty silver dollars in the middle area. ”

"Considering your work problem, my plan is to buy you a house of more than two hundred silver dollars, so that it will not be so cheap. ”

"Considering the extra income you're likely to make, and the increase in your monthly income after you get promoted through the job, we'll be able to save enough money for you to buy a house in about 10 years. ”

"When the time comes, you will be about twenty-five years old, and we will be suffering for a few years, saving up the house decoration, furniture, and wedding money, and you will be able to get married!"

Andu listened to Elizabeth's crackling tirade, and her mind couldn't turn a little, until she asked stupidly.

"What about you?"

"It's good if I get married, oh, by the way, so I can still collect a bride price!"

Elizabeth said suddenly, and she picked up the pen and counted it in her notebook.

"Anyway, my money is your money, your money is my money, if I marry early, you can save enough early, so you don't have to wait until you are almost thirty years old to get married. ”

Andu looked at Elizabeth with a blank stare, he never thought that Elizabeth would think so long-term.

This is how the family policy for the next fifteen years has been decided?

It's too casual!

Andu thought about it and felt that he couldn't let Elizabeth plan it, and he said solemnly.

"And before that?"

"Before what?"

"Where are we going to live until we save enough money for a house?"

"You don't have a place to live now?"

"What you mean is that the two of us will live here for at least ten years???"

"It's not us, it's you, if I marry early, then you'll be the only one living here. ”

“......”

Andu's idea of wanting to move, in the face of Elizabeth's family policy, was completely sentenced to death before he could really speak.

Elizabeth closed the notebook with satisfaction, looked at the distressed expression, and said strangely.

"What's wrong? Can't wait?"

“......”

Andugan laughed twice and did not continue the conversation.

The two simply solved the dinner problem, and chatted casually during the period, and the atmosphere was quite pleasant.

"Do you have something on your mind?"

Andu looked at the girl who had been talking several times, and suddenly asked.

"Well, there's something I want to tell you. ”

Elizabeth thought about it, looked at Andu seriously, and said with a straight face.

"Pete's leg was injured, but he didn't want to go for treatment. ”

"I took a look at it today, and the injuries were very bad, and they were all suppurated!"

Andu looked at his sister strangely and wondered.

"You went to the orphanage today?"

"Well, I went in the afternoon. Elizabeth nodded and continued, "You didn't see that Pete's leg could be disabled if it wasn't treated. ”

Andu's expression gradually changed, and after a moment of silence, he asked the doubts in his heart.

"Why don't you go and see it?"

"Because he didn't have any money, I told him I had it here, and he didn't want to. ”

Elizabeth shook her head, dejected.

Andu thought for a while, then suddenly looked at Elizabeth and smiled.

"I'm going to check on tomorrow morning, and I'll go back to church and ask the teacher. ”

"Really!?" cried the girl with joy.

As if she felt a bit out of shape doing so, she calmed down a little and changed her expression to just a little happy shy smile.

Andu looked at the girl's appearance and stopped asking for details.

After returning to the room, Andu sat at the desk as usual, picked up the pen, and recorded the daily life of the day, as if writing a diary.

It took an hour to reflect on his own shortcomings, and Andu changed to an introductory guide to drawing, and looked at it casually.

It wasn't until it was almost eleven o'clock that Andu finally felt a little tired.

He simply packed up the paperwork, burned the "diary" as usual, and went to bed to get ready for bed.

Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, I will find a time to go to the central district of the city to solve the problem of basic materials.

Andu lay on the bed, closed his eyes and thought.

......

The orphanage wasn't too far from MacDonald's district, and it took Andu about fifteen minutes to get here.

Looking at the slightly open, rusty gate, Andu walked directly in.

Looking at the weeds everywhere in the yard and the dust that rolls and drifts with the wind from time to time, An Du's heart is a little heavy.

"Mr. Andu!"

Pete was cleaning the corridor when he suddenly saw Andu in a white priest's robe, and was surprised.

"How's it going?"

Andu looked at each other with a smile.

Obviously, it was the first time he saw him, but the familiarity like an old friend made him quickly enter the role.

"It's good, but I often don't have enough to eat!"

Pete smiled innocently, and then hurriedly beckoned Andu to sit down.

Andu took up his priest's robe, sat down on a chair in the hall, and said casually.

"Are you working now?" Andudo said, looking around, and added, "I mean the formal, weekly one." ”

Akmund's salary was weekly, as was the case in the church.

Usually only regular jobs are done on a weekly basis, and as for coolies, casual jobs are paid on a daily basis.

Pete touched his head in embarrassment, blushed and said, "Not yet." ”

Andu smiled, and then remembered what Elizabeth had said to herself yesterday.

"Which leg of yours is hurting? Can you show me?"

He asked, gesturing to Pete's legs.

"Well, it's the left leg. ”

Pete didn't react for a moment, and it wasn't until Andu's hands pointed to his legs that he realized what he had said.

He slowly rolled up his trouser leg again, and strangely enough, his left leg didn't seem to hurt anymore today?

Andu looked at him with a smile until he lifted his pants completely, revealing his injured left leg.

"Does it hurt?"

Andu slowly stood up, walked up to Pete, and asked in a concerned tone.

"It doesn't hurt anymore. Pete shook his head and sighed, "I don't know, usually it's just fine, but sometimes it has a sudden attack." ”

Andu squatted down slightly, and leaned out his right hand with a calm expression.

"Does it hurt?"

He asked, tapping on the area around Pete's wound.

"It doesn't hurt. Pete shook his head.

He leaned closer, slowly withdrew his right hand, and switched to another.

"So what?"

Before Andu could fully poke out his left hand, Pete suddenly let out a loud scream!

He sat down on the ground in pain, holding his left leg in his hands, and kept rolling back and forth.

Andu looked at Pete expressionlessly, and once again focused his gaze on his calf.

Pete's calf, about the size of a child's fist, was in a black mist.

The ugly wound twisted and wriggled, as if it had a life of its own, desperately struggling.

There was no red blood flowing from the wound, only black pus, which overflowed with Pete's wails of pain.

Pete's cry drew the children of the orphanage, and a dozen and a half children gathered the two in the middle again, as they had done to Elizabeth yesterday.

But today, they didn't speak, they just looked at Andu curiously.

Abt was not a big child, only eleven years old, he stood inconspicuously in the pile of children.

As Pete's favorite younger brother, he was extremely nervous at this time, but he didn't dare to speak out.

He looked at the gentleman in the white robe, and could vaguely feel that the white robe worn by the other party was very noble.

Just when he was a little anxious and thinking about whether to call the dean, the gentleman in the noble white robe suddenly stretched out his left hand again!

Then he saw the most beautiful and incredible picture he had ever seen in his short life!

A dazzling golden light instantly illuminated the entire hall of the orphanage!

The light was so pure and bright, like the sun!

Abt raised his hands to block the light, but squinted his eyes through his fingers.

He felt as if his whole body had become warmer.

......

Andu looked at the black smoke floating on Pete's calf and said calmly.

"Where have you been lately?"

Pete was sweating profusely and panting, looking at Andu with a shocked expression.

After the initial severe pain in the injured left leg, the pain was barely felt at this point!

He gasped into the winter chill and shuddered.

"No, I haven't been anywhere. ”

Andu looked at Pete's flickering gaze and smiled.

"Let's be honest. ”

"Have you ever been to a cemetery, an ancient house, a suburb, a mass grave or something like that?"

Pete looked at Andu's calm gaze, lowered his head weakly, and his face showed shame.

"Went to the cemetery once......"

Andu withdrew his left hand, his gaze deep, and the dazzling light gradually dissipated.

In fact, when he first stretched out his left hand, he didn't use the Holy Light Technique, but Pete still showed symptoms.

The light and life attributes of the Ring of Origin had already triggered the faint force on Pete's wound before he could fully approach him.

This result, as well as his conjecture, was that Pete's injuries were caused by something unclean.

It is also commonly known as evil things.

It could be a demon, it could be a devil, it could be an undead.

Andu looked at Pete's calf after being treated by his Holy Light Technique, and did not speak immediately.

He dipped his hand in some black pus dripping from Pete's wound and slowly approached his face.

There is no smell of sulfur and no smell of decay......

He looked down at his empty left hand and confirmed his inner thoughts.

"Why go there?"

Andu lowered his head and squinted his eyes as he looked at Pete.