Chapter 23: Cloud Shadow in November 1994
Cloud Shadow in November 1994
I became an office worker. In my original idea, Ah Fu and I would fight the beasts that attacked the village and the evil robbers, and then we would die. It turned out that I thought too much.
In addition to patrolling the village, our most work is to stand at the entrance of the village to check the people and goods entering and leaving the village. Sometimes we will catch some thieves when we receive a report, or listen to the old woman babbling and crying about how my son and daughter-in-law are greedy. It takes a little bit of money We were paid to repair her son and daughter-in-law, so that they could "reform".
I don't hate my job. Although it's not as grand and shabby as I thought, I still like it. It's an opportunity for me to become a part of this village and a guarantee for my new life.
With the most mighty "villain dog" in the village and the most decent and handsome job in the village, I should have been able to show off my power and be invincible, but I keep in mind the creed of "being humble and full of harm" as a low-key person and patrolling When someone needs help, go to the leader, or stop to greet them in my poor local dialect, I hope they understand that I and Ah Fu are the ones to protect them, and I hope they can trust me and support me Work.
At present, the children in the village like Ah Fu very much. When we patrol to a fixed place to rest, those children will come together in groups, just to get my permission when we are lucky and touch them with our hands. A touch of Ah Fu's shiny hair.
The fur on Ah Fu's body is brownish-gray, and the colors are a bit mixed. If it weren't for its big head, which is basically square, and its long and fluffy tail, I really think it looks more like a wolf.
Being able to get close to the mighty Ah Fu is the most proud thing for children. I will only reward the child who washes his hands the whitest and cleanest to touch Ah Fu, so those children who usually have dirty hands will do it even just to touch Ah Fu. In the ditch, the little hands were repeatedly rubbed and washed in vain.
I patrolled the streets more and more all day, and it didn’t take long for me to recognize everyone in the village. Not only did I memorize a lot of names, I even knew the preferences of some people.
Now I know that there are farmers and hunters in the village, as well as lumberjacks and craftsmen. The most special one is the witch doctor in the village, a middle-aged woman with a wrinkled face, with long reddish-brown hair that reaches her waist. Wearing a large necklace of unknown stones. Her eyes were so white that she could barely see her pupils. I guess they were cataracts. She couldn't see anything, but she was so daring. I gather some weird berries, mushrooms and plant roots, sometimes it's dark before I come back slowly, and I'll break a cold sweat for her.
When she met me for the first time, she had a very strange expression. She looked at me for a long time with her white eyes, babbled about things I didn't understand, and then shook her head as if regretful. I didn't understand what she meant, only When she pretends to be a ghost.
The traveling merchants who passed by the village would always bring her scary things like live bats, cockroaches, and giant spiders. I was horrified, and it was really hard for the villagers to want to see her when they got sick.
Wandering around in the village and getting familiar with it, I really know a lot of bad habits that are unacceptable in this village. The first one is the thing that kneels down and licks shoes to express my supreme gratitude. It just makes me disgusted. Will you come up with this way to "respect" others?
The key is that the villagers don't find it strange at all, but feel that there is only one way to express their heartfelt praise and gratitude. If others don't accept it, they will be extremely frustrated, and even hate it because of love. , I don't believe there is such a thing.
After the first eight days of work, I used the second gold coin I got with the first one to ask the lumberjacks in the village who can build roof sheds to repair the house.
The lumberjacks completely ripped off the roof and replaced the original roof beams of my house with thick, processed wood. The sides of the same thick wood herringbone framed and then snapped together. It looked strong, and then the poles were long and tied. The fine branches of the mat are spread on the top, and then the thick straw mats that have been smeared with animal fat and dried for drying are covered from bottom to top, so that an adult weighing hundreds of pounds can stand on the top without walking around. A solid roof that will collapse.
In the future, you will no longer have to worry about the leakage of rainwater and snow. This kind of roof is neither insects nor moldy. Even if it is not maintained at all, it can easily be used for ten years.
Two gold coins is not enough to ask someone to spend so much material to make such a high quality roof, it is just a "down payment", plus I asked them to bring a large stone and disassemble the fireplace made of small half stone walls at my request, I They have to pay them five gold coins for labor and materials.
But the fireplace is definitely worth the money, as long as the fire inside is on, the whole house will warm up very quickly, plus I modified the door, extended the entrance a short distance and replaced it with a thick wooden door. Now comparable to my old crypt den.
The weather continues to get colder, and the flow rate of the river continues to slow down. According to my estimation, Shanghe Village is about to prepare a sacrifice to the gods. So recently, I often stare at the distant mountains along the direction of the river. I miss it a little, and I don’t know how the people there are. .
I have adapted well to my work, and this stupid dog, Ah Fu, has already realized that he cannot escape the fate of going to work every day, so he obediently works with me seriously.
I have never embezzled the subsidies that belonged to Ah Fu. Every time the salary was paid, I would buy meat from the hunters and cook it for Ah Fu. Ah Fu devoured it with a wooden basin, and the four of us gulps aside.
I am not poor. After I paid back the money for repairing the house, I gradually became wealthy. Because I am familiar with the people in the village, it is very good to buy firewood from a lumberjack. I bought a piece of leather from an unknown animal from a hunter. The fur is short but very soft. The bright red background is covered with a lot of bright yellow spots. It looks a bit like a deer, but it seems to be larger than the deer in my impression. The leather has been tanned very soft and has a very light taste. I was the quilt cover, and I slept soundly every night with Afu covering it.
The widow gave birth to a child before the first snow. Perhaps it was because of her experience. She was hanging up the laundry when she suddenly felt that the child was born while standing. I hurriedly boiled hot water to help. When the baby was scrubbing, she was very calm, and her expression was gentle only when she held the little baby wrapped in burlap in her arms.
The widow nurses the healthy baby boy, and the older brothers and sisters look around curiously, both of them rejoicing at the birth of this little life.
The widow was not happy. She knew that I had a salary of one gold coin every eight days. I could give her the money to buy her son and daughter in a few dozen days, and then take care of her for a whole year as agreed, and then pay her Please leave my house with the baby in her arms.
The widow who used to be disgusting in my eyes now relies on me to pity her to make a living now, I don't hate her or hate her anymore, as long as she doesn't cause me trouble, I'm willing to take care of her for a while, Nina and brother now They have grown up very quickly. Both of them have surpassed me in size and work harder than me. I believe that they will be able to take care of themselves soon, as well as support the widow and younger brother, so that the family can live a good life.
The first snow in the village stopped in less than half a day, which disappointed me, who thought that the snow would accumulate in a thick layer and could make a snowball fight. The direction of the mountains was covered with dark clouds, and the widow said that only the mountains would fall down because of the patron saint there. With such a heavy snow, although the winter here in Luhe Village is cold, the snow is rarely below the knees.
The wind, rain or snow will not affect my work. On a snowy day, Ah Fu, who is lazy, is obviously reluctant to go out. I grabbed his ears and said something, and only reluctantly agreed to leave the warm grass nest to go to work in the wind and snow after promising to give him sausages. .
It's an incompetent lazy dog. It's boring after only a few days of work. If it wasn't for my supervision, he would think about deserting him all day.
I wrapped the animal skin that I usually use as a quilt as a cloak and went to meet my partner at the entrance of the village. Today, the young man named "Sande" was patrolling with me. He is very talkative. When we patrol together, he will speak slowly to I tell some things that he finds interesting, we have a good relationship, and even the person I hired to repair the house was recommended by him, which saved me a lot of money.
Sander came late, and he was shivering while wearing a helmet and shrugging his neck.
I'm okay, it looks like my clothes are more tattered than his, but under my tattered clothes are new underwear, long pants, sweaters, and cotton socks, plus I ate something and warmed up before going out. not cold.
For Sander, patrolling is just walking around a fixed route to see what’s going on. I’m different. I’ve always been in high spirits when I patrol the village. Even if I listen to my companion’s speech, I won’t completely divert my attention. I still learned from Big Dog. Even when the village is closed and it can be considered completely safe, it never relaxes its vigilance. Luhe Village is far from safe, so I can't relax my vigilance.
In the blink of an eye, I have been a guard for two months. Ah Fu and I discovered and chased away the wild boars that broke into the village; arrested the hairy thieves who were hiding behind the haystacks of other people's houses and prepared to commit crimes; broke through the men and women who were cheating on the outside in the middle of the night; We've also dealt with more trivial things, and we haven't encountered a more dangerous beast yet, but I've been training Alfred to always be ready to fight terrifying opponents like "Buff".
God is pitiful, as a full-time guard, not only do I have no armor like others, but I don't even have an iron sword. I have been at work for two months, and the only weapon is a one-meter-long hardwood stick.
My boss, Uncle Galle, was also very guilty. He said that he would find a way to get me weapons and equipment. I told him that I would just give me the weapons. I could owe the equipment first, otherwise I would still be growing. If I get a child now The money is sent to me, and it won't work when I get older.
Uncle Galle was very pleased with my reasonableness. Sometimes I did some work in the village to help out debts or seek revenge, and I would not stop me.
I love money, but I have a sense of proportion, and the price is clearly marked. I always only charge a quarter of the handling fee for debt collection. In this village, I can be considered a conscience. My toss, I will pay back the money obediently within a few days.
Moreover, I pay attention to a "just right" approach. Hire me to seek revenge, so that I won't cut people out with a knife and hurt feelings, and I won't beat them too lightly to relieve the hatred. Two and a half boys, Nina and I, rushed in with sticks. Even the adults were stunned. The most important thing was that there was a ferocious wolf dog baring its teeth and grinning. Someone dared to resist and could take off a leg in the past, even a person with a knife in his hand had no courage. Fighting desperately with the beasts who patrolled the village all day, he could only cover his head and be beaten to admit that he was unlucky.
Of course, this kind of black money can’t make more money. I’m a messenger of justice in this village. It’s okay to play like this when money is tight. I will definitely lose people’s hearts if I do this. If the villagers regard me as a scourge, then my good The days are coming to an end.
I stopped in a timely manner. In less than a month, I announced my personal revenge, and I cleaned up the village slickers who were not used to it before. After I made a name for myself and Benina, I stopped immediately, and someone will pay me to do similar things in the future. I don't even consider participating.
Debt collection and being a thug have really relieved my urgency. I have long wanted to take some gold coins and sell them in another world to improve my life, but the money is a bit slow here, and I need to buy things in my new home. I need it everywhere. Money, I have earned a total of 17 extra cash. I have already planned to bring it back to my mother at the end of the seventh to sell it. I will keep the 10 here myself to add more things and tools to the house so that the winter will pass. Be more comfortable.
I never dreamed that I would be stolen.
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