Chapter 22: Cloud Shadow in October 1994
Cloud Shadow in October 1994
Shanghe Village, I learned that the name of the village is Shanghe Village. The people in that village guaranteed me to join Luhe Village in the name of being a member of their village, making me a person accepted by the world.
It was still early. After the door of the dilapidated and dusty house was opened, I took the widow's son and daughter to start cleaning. The wooden beams and pillars of the house were still intact, but most of the thatch had collapsed due to decay. When I looked up, I could see the sky. The scene is all too familiar to me.
I don't think I'll ever use the terms "widow's daughter" and "widow's son" again, now they belong to me and I can give them names.
The widow's daughter was named "Nina" by me, and her younger brother was named "Joen" by me. Both words have good meanings in the local language and are relatively common names. The two children were very happy when they got their names. Most of the people around them didn't have their own names. In their opinion, having a name is a great thing. Even if ordinary people have given their own names, no one will use them. Self-inflicted humiliation.
"At least I'll call you that, and you'll call each other." I comforted my two shy and excited children.
Usually, most people only have their own names when they become adults. I heard people in the village say that children are too easy to die, and naming them is often regarded as a burden. After the death of a child with a name, it will cause the parents to die. Doubling the pain, most of the children don't have their own names.
There are also women who regard names as a burden. Many women are reluctant to give themselves names. They prefer to be called someone's wife, or even simply "woman", "widow", "old woman" and other general terms , It is said that in local customs, people without names can escape the intrusion of ghosts and gods, and it is more difficult to be cursed by others.
After staying in this world for a long time, I will always be troubled by its ignorance and backwardness, but on the other hand, I am often amazed by their rich imagination. The so-called ghosts and gods are things that do not exist in my eyes, although they use a Fan Shimen, who does not know the origin, travels between two worlds, but I always believe that people die like a lamp goes out, and when they die, they die, and it is futile to think about ghosts, gods, or the kingdom of heaven.
Sister Nina and Yoen nodded ignorantly, and followed me to continue cleaning the broken house.
It is said to be cleaning, but it is actually just throwing garbage and junk out, pulling up weeds, and simply cleaning up the dead wood of raw mushrooms.
This time, we came here with some cooking utensils and no brooms. We put things out temporarily and planned the sleeping position for everyone.
The main wall of the house is made of large stones. The texture of the house is quite good. In the middle of the house, there is a fire pit where the wooden supports have been rotten by the rain. I stepped on the dry small trees in the yard and came back to start a fire. The dank and cold, let this dilapidated house a little bit of popularity.
Ah Fu is not very satisfied with the new home. The main thing is that there is no soft and comfortable grass nest in the new home. The bonfire is far worse than the fireplace. Like asking when will I be able to go home.
Fool A'Fu, it still doesn't know that its previous home can't go back, this is our new home.
When I entered the village before, the mighty Ah Fu attracted the attention of many people, and some people came to watch from the other side of the village, leaving their work in their hands. I really didn't expect it to be more than double the size of Shuanghe Village. There are no dogs in Luhe Village. I don't know how they can guard against such terrifying beasts as "pulling" in autumn and winter.
The gluttonous Ah Fu is now stronger than his sister. The male dog was originally bigger than the female dog, so Ah Fu's appearance is sometimes even scarier than his mother.
Ah Fu is not yet an adult, its body is still growing rapidly, but now its shoulder height has exceeded one meter, slightly higher than its mother.
In another world, a dog with a height of one meter at the shoulder is almost impossible to see. I went to the bookstore to check the information. When I introduced the tiger, I said that the tiger is huge, the shoulder height can reach one meter, and the body length is close to three meters. Ah Fu's shoulder height is now more than one meter, and the height of his hind legs is higher than that of any adult. There is no doubt that it will be a giant beast that is completely different from its mother.
Ah Fu's appetite is also frighteningly large. The reason why I kept the small ginseng potato and didn't change it for other things was also for it. Although Ah Fu can sometimes catch fish in the river, he can also chew some wild vegetables outside. Ginseng fills the stomach, but the main source of its food is the goat milk powder I brought from another world. Ah Fu has one pack of goat milk powder every seven days, four packs per month, and it has not been broken for so long.
Without Ah Fu, I would not have considered leaving Shanghe Village at all. Compared to the sense of security brought by living in a group with the widow and Nina, Ah Fu is the fundamental source of my confidence to settle in Luhe Village.
In fact, only after I came here did I realize that the reason why I was able to settle down in Luhe Village without any setbacks and exchanged ginseng for real estate was entirely because of Ah Fu.
Luhe Village needs Ah Fu, and Shanghe Village let me take Ah Fu to settle down here. Luhe Village has delivered many benefits, which I didn’t expect at first, and I am slowly reminiscing about it now.
I told the widow what I thought, and the widow suddenly realized, and repeatedly agreed with my speculation, so I went out once and took Ah Fu to the longhouse where the village chief resided to find someone to verify my thoughts.
I took a dog that weighed over 100 pounds on the road to the village. Occasionally, people passing by would avoid it. Their fear was written on their faces. I couldn’t give them half a thread with the thin hemp rope in my hand. sense of security. I try to greet them as kindly as possible, hoping to make a better impression on someone else's site.
The village chief's longhouse is very stylish. The village chief with a strange metal helmet on his head spoke to Ula Ula with a smile on his face. He said a lot of things before and after, but I couldn't understand half a sentence. Words express my thoughts. The village chief and the young man who just came back from working as a clerk nodded with satisfaction and agreed.
It seems that the pronunciation of some words in the two villages is still similar, otherwise we would not be able to communicate successfully.
My guess has been verified. Shanghe Village made a deal with Luhe Village. Shanghe Village sent villagers to bring their precious dogs to settle in Luhe Village. Luhe Village will buy Shanghe Village at a better price in the next days. and provide more and better quality daily necessities and iron weapons for Shanghe Village.
According to what Shanghe Village told Luhe Village, I am the son of a capable person in Shanghe Village. If my father hadn’t died while chasing Lahu, I would have been one of the wealthy households in Shanghe Village. After losing my father, I often lived in Shanghe Village. Being excluded, I didn’t have a good life with my dog. This time, the village half coaxed me to set up my home in Luhe Village. On the one hand, I brought the dog to patrol Luhe Village and protect Luhe Village. On the other hand, I hoped Luhe Village Take good care of me, don't let me suffer and feel wronged.
It's really embarrassing for me to be able to get so much information by talking about chickens and ducks. The people from Luhe Village originally wanted me to clean up and rest at home first, and wait for the people from Shanghe Village to convince me to bring the dog to the village when they come next time. The guard team, I didn't expect that I would come to the door directly.
When I was sent out by the secretary, my whole person suddenly became enlightened. I actually struggled before. I left Shanghe Village rashly, and I didn’t even think about how I would make a living when I went to a new place. It turned out that the people of Luhe Village had already thought about it for me. .
I was a little hungry, but I was full of energy now, cheered up and patted Ah Fu on the neck and patrolled along the village road. This was the first time I "worked" in Luhe Village. It is a job with great responsibility, which gives me full confidence in my future life in Luhe Village.
The strong and ferocious big dog was taken by me to walk the streets and alleys to smell the smell and familiarize with the environment. Since he was a child, he was taken by his mother to patrol the village. Before that, he watched his sister patrolling all day long. He has never eaten pork and has seen pigs running. Ah Fu patrols. It didn't have any difficulty at all. It searched in front, and I followed behind with a trot. In one afternoon, I patrolled all the roads in the entire village.
If the guards in the village hadn't told me it's best not to approach the reeds, there are crocodiles in the reeds, and I really planned to investigate the small reeds near the village with Ah Fu.
I ran back and forth in the village. Not only did I get familiar with my face, but I also reported to the village guards. After I became familiar with my work, I met my "supervisor", that is, the "guards" in the village who took care of us. 's head. He is a middle-aged man with a beard and a sword in his waist. He looked a little unhappy when he saw my size. I was quite satisfied. I heard someone say that I had taken Ah Fu to patrol the village once, my expression became kind, and he said a few words to me.
There are eight guards in Luhe Village. There are only three people who are really my colleagues. The others are farmers or lumberjacks and part-time militiamen. Only three of them have no other jobs. His immediate boss "Galler" is also one of them.
The reason why I can remember his name is entirely because it sounds like the name of a commissary. The commissary called "Karaoke" is a competitor of our commissary on the same street. Can't help anyone.
Of course, there are already four full-time guards in the village including me. The four of us plus the other five part-time militiamen who work in shifts from time to time are the usual guards of the village, but of course the defensive strength of Luhe Village does not stop there. It is not Shanghe Village, which is absolutely safe for ten months a year. The folk customs here are strong. According to the widow, even women can fight robbers with agricultural tools.
I didn't return to my new home with Ah Fu with a torch until it was dark. Nina and Yoen had already made dinner and waited for me. They smiled when I pushed open the half broken wooden door and entered the house.
At first glance, it was the widow's idea. I told the widow that I didn't care about such small details at all. After the meal was ready, they would eat it first. Just remember to leave me a portion, but the widow was very stubborn. She said that a servant should look like a servant. , The servant who ate before the master couldn't say where, and said that he already knew that I had rescued her son, and her son should thank me.
And then I saw Yoon kneeling in the expectant gaze of Mom and sister, reaching for my feet.
"!!" I almost jumped up like I was afraid of being bitten by a snake: "What are you doing?"
"I..." Yon was startled, knelt on the ground and looked at me bewildered, then looked back at his mother and sister.
The widow didn't expect me to react so strongly, and quickly came up to explain: "This is the custom of Luhe Village, in order to express his gratitude, he needs to kiss you..."
"I don't need to thank me like this, and you don't have to force the children to do this kind of thing! "I frowned, remembering that Nina had said something similar to me in the village before, which made me feel sick. How can mud legs have such a custom?
"But..." The widow was extremely embarrassed, Nina was very sad, and Yon, who was kneeling on the ground, cried sadly.
I asked Nina to help my brother up, and my whole mind was a mess.
I figured it out, she was worried that her son and daughter were not big or small, making me unhappy, worried that my life would be tight, and that she would find fault with her son, daughter, and her own rations, so she wanted to please me?
But her worries were completely unnecessary.
I am now a high-tech talent specially introduced by Luhe Village. I have just arrived, and my salary is the same as that of my full-time colleagues. I can receive a gold coin every eight days. Not only that, I can also receive an additional one belonging to Ah Fu Food allowance!
From tomorrow onwards, I will be a civil servant and a police officer in the village. My salary plus Ah Fu is almost the same as the secretary who writes and draws with a small notebook every day.
Putting the embarrassment aside, I slept with the dog in the grass den in the open one night, but the sweet dreams did it one by one all night long.
The next morning I went to work, and I received my first paycheck before I even started work.
I thought I would have to work for eight days before I would get paid, but I didn’t expect that the wages in this village would be paid first. I was so moved, I worked so hard, and when I went to work and patrolled, I was full of energy, and everyone looked like a gangster. Rogue, even the villagers squatted on the street and the tuba scolded and stopped it. It was so funny that the uncle "Masura" who was on duty with me mentioned that he was rolling and crawling, and A Fu and I chased and ran, covering his stomach and showing no image. laughing loudly.
In Luhe Village, there is no rule that you are not allowed to defecate anywhere. It is common for dung buckets to be dumped at the door of the house. Some people will have a manure pile as high as one person behind their houses. , no one thinks there is anything wrong with it.
This is the world, or the village I live in, at times like this, and I am a part of it now, and if I have enough power, maybe one day I can change it.
My most important job every day is to patrol the whole village in the morning, noon and night. The patrol cannot be done alone, it must be done with another guard. This rule is because too many guards who patrolled alone were attacked by wild animals. It is too late to raise the alarm, and two people can act in groups, at least one person can fight or call for help.
This is a bloody job. Among our four full-time guards, Uncle "Galler" and Uncle "Masura" are over thirty-five years old, and the other young guy named "Sand" is nineteen years old. It has been less than a year since he did this job. Last winter, a wild beast attacked Luhe Village and killed his elder brother, who was a guard. He put on his elder brother's armor and picked up a sword to take over his elder brother's job.
But leaving Shanghe Village, what kind of work is not licking blood?
The widow told me that farmers, lumberjacks and hunters die every year in Luhe Village, and the work of guards is much safer than theirs.
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