Chapter 28: Cloud Shadow in January 1995
Cloud Shadow in January 1995
Day and night are still reversed this month.
I still have to get up to go to work every night. My son doesn’t sleep well and has a lot of temper tantrums. I don’t worry about leaving him alone at home, so I still go out on patrol with him behind my back, tease him and tell him stories between patrols. All are rare pastimes.
Afraid that he would always be bored in the swaddling clothes, I sewed a doll for him out of the old clothes that had been dismantled and washed earlier. The doll was a bit ugly, and the size was just right for him to hold in his hand or hold it in his arms. It seemed that he liked it very much. I was worried that playing with dolls for a little boy would make him a sissy, so I didn't use wool for the doll's hair. Not only did I leave the doll bald, but I also used black thread to sew two pectoral muscles on the doll's chest and abdomen. Eight pack abs, I hope to help my son develop the correct gender concept.
There is another blizzard this month. I heard from my colleagues that the coldest days of the year are only these few days. The weather is so cold that the torches have been blown out. It is rare that we do not need to patrol, so we just keep vigil by the fire at the entrance of the village.
There is our barracks at the entrance of the village. Sometimes the militiamen sleep in it for the night. I never want to go into it. It looks like a prison to me. In the grass shop, is it difficult to pull some dry and clean wormwood back?
After a few days of use, the grass bed in my house will be burned in the fireplace and replaced with new grass, so I often feel uncomfortable. Even Ah Fu knows that the grass nest needs to find a clean and soft place to lie down, but those people do not do not know.
It was too cold and the snow was heavy, so even if you sat by the fire during the vigil, you would not feel much warmth. When you got home, you had to bake for a while in front of the fireplace to completely warm your frozen body.
Damn, no one has a bed in the village, and I haven't gotten a big piece of wood, otherwise, I'd give myself a simple bed to sleep first.
Of course, what I want most in my heart is a kang, the kind of kang that can burn a fire underneath, and sleep warmly on top in winter, not to mention how beautiful.
I just moved this year and the money is too tight. I guess I can't enjoy the heated kang. Considering that I may move next year, I don't know if I can build a heated kang in the new home next year.
It’s hard to find information about the heated kang, and I couldn’t find any relevant books. My parents and my mother lived there when they were in the countryside, but they didn’t know the specific structure inside. , or find a ready-made heated kang to study and study the structure, if it is really not possible, I will find a master who knows how to cook a kang at my house.
In the yearning for the heated kang, the days continued, and the life of day and night was reversed for more than a month before it was completely over, and I was finally able to return to normal work and rest.
In previous years, the coldest days often happened, but this year is different. According to my colleagues and the villagers, this winter is a rare and peaceful winter. The robbers and beasts who came to the village to make troubles were only small troubles and caused no casualties. Petty theft from other villages has also been greatly curbed in the village, which is invaluable in troubled times.
When I first heard the word "chaotic times", I didn't understand it. After someone explained it, I realized that more than ten years ago, the army of the Principality in the northeast sent troops to attack the lord of the village. At that time, not only the lord's castle was completely captured and burned down. , the villages and towns to which it belonged were also burned, killed and looted, and Luhe Village was severely damaged at that time.
I asked the old man of Galle who Luhe Village belongs to now. The old man said that the village is still under the control of the town. Although the lord’s family has been beheaded and the castle has been reduced to ruins, many of the lord’s relatives have survived, and the surrounding area is still considered nominally. It turns out that the territory of Sir Brahey has a lot to do with the invaders leaving their hometown in a hurry after being attacked by other forces. The invaders fell into civil strife before they really took over the place. It has been more than ten years, and the civil unrest there has not subsided. , here is poor and there is no big man to control, so it has been going on.
I probably understand. The surrounding area of Luhe Town is a remote and remote area. There have been wars everywhere in these years. However, this area is located on the frontier and lacks oil and water. Even the refugees who escaped from the war are reluctant to come. Jun also disliked this place, so he was lucky to maintain a fairly peaceful life.
Really miserable here.
The local food production is pitifully low. Even after the town stopped collecting grain, the life of Luhe Village is still extremely difficult. Although the number of people dying of starvation has become less and less, the vast majority of people still cannot eat enough.
The lives of people outside the village are even more difficult. Sometimes they have to take risks and come to the village to find a way to survive. But this year, A Fu and I have greatly increased the vigilance of the village. They all stopped thinking about it. Many of them starved to death. The old man Galle said that there were many tragedies of cannibalism outside.
The old man Galle was afraid that I might not understand, so he emphasized the tragic situation outside the village and the dissatisfaction of the villagers four times.
I understand what the old man in Galle said. It means that I guarded the village too tightly and did not allow those outside the village to survive at all, so this year the situation of cannibalism by outsiders in the village will be so serious that even several households near the village were still able to protect themselves. Able farmers were killed and eaten by their entire families, which had never happened before.
I scoffed at this statement, and I asked him, is there no one eating people in previous years?
The old man Galle said that there are also, but not as many as this year. In previous years, they could touch something to eat in the village, unlike this year, which caused almost all the peasants around the village to be harmed.
I went to ask other people, and many people had a similar view. I was too hard on protecting the village, and people from outside could not enter the village to seek a way to survive, so the farmers around the village were all killed.
interesting.
I protected them, so that no one in the village suffered major property losses this year, and no one starved to death because they lost their rations. As a result, they blamed me for being too serious and forcing people outside the village to death.
Yes, I understand that most of the peasant households outside the village are related to the people in the village, but many people who enter the village to steal or even rob things are peasant households outside the village. If these people in the village really care about the life and death of their relatives outside the village, Why don't you help those people, or even invite them back to the village to raise them?
I really want to ask them, in the past years, there were always people in the village who were stolen or robbed of food rations and starved to death. This year, there were none. Could it be a good thing, but a fault?
What the fuck does this make sense?
Hehe, just because I'm a newcomer, I'm an outsider, they see that I'm unbalanced when I'm full and clothed all day long, and it's not pleasing to the eye!
"Those white-eyed wolves, the scars are healed and the pain is forgotten." It was the first time I had a black face in front of the old man in Galle: "You tell those mud legs clearly, I eat well and dress well in the village because I have the ability. , next time let me know which one is behind my back, my dog and I will fight him one-on-one, do you think I dare to tear him up?"
"Cough! Don't bother with those idiots, they are just casual. Talking about it, I don't dare to do anything..." The old man Galle found that I was very excited, and unexpectedly, he acted as a peacemaker to appease me, for fear that I would make things worse and everyone's faces would be ugly.
In the end, I didn’t really make trouble with anyone because of this. I thought about it a lot myself. The biggest possibility is that I took my work too seriously and was so energetic that the guards felt the pressure. They were worried that they would follow suit. I was too incompetent in comparison, and I was more worried that the village would think that me and the wolf dog would be enough and would lose my job and cut off my livelihood, so I was not pleasing to the eye.
After I figured this out, I didn't feel the need to argue with anyone anymore.
What's so hard about this?
I might not be better at doing the job at hand, but wouldn't I be cutting corners and taking it easy?
I don’t need to be persuaded by others to work too hard, I just relax myself. Originally, every time I patrolled, I carefully planned the patrol route and time according to my reading and the situation of the village. , just take a walk and look around. When you find the situation, ask your colleague. The other party will investigate if they think it is necessary, and I will not take the lead, only assist.
My suddenly lazy attitude made my colleagues less stressed, and they all showed their happy expressions. Seeing this situation, I can be considered to have completely confirmed my conjecture, and I will no longer be willing to go to work with all my heart. In a short period of time Just adjust yourself and become a jerk.
The people in the village are a little uncomfortable with my changes, but in general they say they like me better now, mainly because they are more friendly, not as unreasonable as they used to be, and always different from everyone else.
I don’t see anything like taking the initiative to help the villagers like before. Some people are slow and don’t notice my changes. They still call me for help when they see me patrolling like before, and I will ask him cheerfully: “You How will you repay me?" Then they would smile frozen in embarrassment for a long time.
I don't want to be paid for good deeds only when I want to, now I don't, and seeing someone slip and fall in the dung on the road I just walk by as briskly as my colleague without even looking at it .
It's enough to be lazy at work, and I've become stiff in dealing with others. Now the fools know that I'm throwing a temper, but what can they do? I was a good person and they blamed me behind my back. Now I am not a good person. They say that I have become ruthless, but what's the point? I don't rely on them, I don't care what they say.
The gods are pitiful to see, with a beast weighing more than 120 pounds. It is already a blessing for them that I am not domineering in the village and harming the village. They are always staring at me and trying to find fault, they are really blind!
Of course, I'm not a fool either. I won't be determined to fight against everyone in the village just because others bully me. It took me only ten days to find a way of doing things that suits me. I don't want others to think I'm too aggressive. , and don't let people think I'm a useless guy who procrastinates.
The work has become easier, and my own leisure time has greatly increased. In addition to cleaning the house and doing housework, I can have more time to take care of my son.
My son was raised by me to be white and fat. He is a beautiful young man. When I take him on patrol every day, I will hold him around the village to see the scenery. The white snow field will be boring to see too much, but I have to say that it is really good. The beauty, the endless mountains and the vast forests in the snow really look like a landscape painting, if I had a camera, I must take some good pictures.
When I was basking in the sun and looking at the scenery, I also told my son what those things were called. Sometimes he would open his eyes and listen carefully, and sometimes he would dance and babble as if he wanted to learn to talk with me.
The food I brought was still small, and the milk powder was enough, but the rest of the food was consumed in less than half a month, mainly because the cellar was damp, and the food could not be stored for longer. The more I looked at the cellar, the more dissatisfied I became, and it also strengthened my determination to move in the spring.
It doesn't matter if the new house is small, but even if I hire someone to dig it, it must have a strong and dry cellar.
Passing through Shimen at the end of the month, my whole body relaxed again.
My work in the opposite world is not as hard as before. It has become much easier. After I got the long gun, I have a little self-protection ability due to continuous training. Coupled with Ah Fu, it stands to reason that no one in the village can bully me. No need to strain the nerves any more.
If you want to blame it, you can blame the goddamn world. When I think that if a large group of robbers or soldiers from other forces attack the village, Luhe Village will be slaughtered in an instant, and I will die without a place to be buried. .
Only in a backward and chaotic era will we understand how valuable a peaceful and stable life is.
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