Chapter 38: Cloud Shadow in October 1995
Cloud Shadow in October 1995
I remembered the words until the sky was dark. After I made breakfast for my son the next morning, I and Ah Fu split the bread and ate boiled eggs and milk to deal with it, and then went to work yawning.
I was out of energy this morning. My militia colleagues who were on duty with me had never seen me like this, and they kindly asked me if I wanted to go home to sleep. Anyway, as long as Ah Fu was on duty, it didn't matter if I was here or not.
I shook my head and declined his offer.
I don't know this guy, Afu? I can only go to work with peace of mind when I'm in town. As soon as I get home, it will definitely run outside the village to play, and no one will think of calling it back.
I'm not against Ah Fu going out of the village to play. It's true that the hunters in the village set a lot of traps in the woods near the village. Ah Fu stepped on an unnecessary life, but injuries are always inevitable, so no matter how cute Ah Fu usually acts, I am determined. Don't allow it to run out and play on its own.
My job can be considered conscientious, and it is very easy to be fooled. After the patrol, I will sleep next to Ah Fu at my post. My son is holding his doll in my arms and playing by himself. Someone When entering the village, my colleagues check. Ah Fu on my side has been awake all the time, even if I dozed off.
I thought that I would be able to continue writing words after I slept on and off during the day, after exercising my body and training my superpowers at night, but who knew that I was so sleepy that I couldn't hold on, so I fell asleep with my son in my arms early.
The next day I learned well, got up a little earlier, and after exercising, I read and recited English texts in the yard while it was just dawn. My son also followed me when he saw me. Literacy seemed to have been taught to him for a long time, but in the end he really remembered a few words. When he saw the purple on the book, he called it purple-purple, blue, green, and red. What a smart baby!
In this world, my son definitely doesn't need to go to primary school to take the exam, otherwise, with my early education, maybe I can really cultivate a little genius.
Before going to work, I controlled a large handful of sand and dust in the yard to change shapes at will. Now if I simply let the sand and dust scrape randomly, it is close to 50 meters, and the farthest range that can be finely controlled has already exceeded 20 meters, which is more efficient than before. It didn't improve by a single star.
Now the fine sand in the air can become my eyes and ears. I don’t even have to climb the roof to feel the wet and leaky gaps between the roof slates. I stuff the fine sand into those tiny gaps and cracks to fill them all On the roof, I also tried to use dense sand to condense a thin waterproof layer on the part of the roof that the stone can't cover.
I was able to press together two unrelated stones to make them stick together, and I was able to make loose gravel coalesce, and the next thing I wanted to do was use my superpowers to fuse glass.
I've always been good at controlling glass beads, but I used to just move it. Now I can change the shape of rocks and sand. Glass shouldn't be too difficult for me. When I get home from get off work in the afternoon, I want to smash a glass jar and collect it. , try to recoagulate them.
Going to work today was rather boring, and we patrolled more sloppily, but we were not less careful than usual. I directed the fine sand scattered in the air to explore the corners and nooks that were inconvenient to explore, and found nothing unusual.
Then there is the stand guard. For me, it is paid to sit in the pergola at the entrance of the village and play with my son.
My son knows a lot of local words in Luhe Village. He can call all my colleagues by name accurately. When he is in a good mood, he will respond to the teasing of colleagues. However, I strictly forbid anyone to reach out and touch my son. Passing germs and parasites to my son.
Today, there are no merchants on foot, and the people entering and leaving the village are farmers, hunters, fishermen and lumberjacks from the village.
In the evening, half the young man ran back in a panic. As soon as he approached the village, he even cried and shouted that we should avenge him. The family of four left the village this morning and went to visit relatives in a neighboring village. On the way, they encountered a robber. His parents and sister were all killed by robbers, only he ran fast to save his life.
The fourteen-year-old boy was crying out of breath, and my colleague just comforted him, but couldn't say anything to avenge him.
I hugged my son and watched, my son was holding the doll and waving it, and he kept saying vaguely, "Brother, don't cry, don't cry." He wanted to hand the doll to the poor boy.
The group of robbers who robbed and killed the boy's family were also the robbers who occupied the mine. There were more than a dozen of them, and they had several iron weapons. The town sent people a few times and couldn't attack them. The guards in our village were even less capable. joined.
I hugged my son who watched others cry and shed tears to comfort me. In fact, my heart was filled with evil fire. It has not been a day or two for those damn robbers to harm the surrounding area. They passed by, and Luhe Village suffered greatly.
I really don't understand, what's the point of such a big group of robbers squatting in this backcountry?
This area is too barren, I can’t eat enough to grow anything, there are few animals in the woods, the hunters are all as thin as catwalk models, and there are crocodiles and water monsters in the river. They are starving and rely on cannibalism for the winter every year. Seeing that the scattered farmers around are all eaten up, this winter, they may have to eat in the nearby villages.
I shared my thoughts with the militiaman on duty today, and he shook his head in fright. He even said no, there are dogs in our village, and robbers dare not come.
I also think that Luhe Village is now a tough spot for the surrounding area, especially since last winter, people who ran to Luhe Village desperately did not run away alive, and there are no laws or other restrictions in these years, and people from other villages came in to steal a ginseng potato quilt. Getting caught, if we want, is also a death sentence.
But thinking that Luhe Village is safe is just my wishful thinking. I still have to tell more people what I think and see what they think.
When the village chief of this village was young, he colluded with many robbers in the surrounding area. At that time, Luhe Village was one of the largest bandit dens in the surrounding area. Unfortunately, the lord was not used to Luhe Village. After the push was over, the village chief spent money to save his life.
The old village chief is very confident. He has a contemptuous attitude towards the robbers around him. In his opinion, cannibalism can only be done occasionally due to helplessness. If he really regards cannibalism as a means of overwintering, he is seeking death.
I was curious and asked the village chief why the robbers are killing people by eating people. The old village chief was unwilling to answer and kept secret. Unfortunately, the secretary went to the town to make money and did not come back. Otherwise, maybe he would answer me based on my friendship with the secretary. .
Seeing that I was reluctant to leave, the village chief told me that as long as I go to work with peace of mind and catch a few thieves and small animals entering the village, there is no need to worry about the robbers around Luhe Village, we are very safe.
Compared with the vague old tortoise, Uncle Galle is much more cautious. He said that in previous years there were many cases of robbers attacking the village. During the war, all people in Luhe Village could resist when they picked up weapons. A dozen or so robbers did not threaten Luhe Village. The thing to guard against is their harassment of the village, if they attack the farmers and loggers, the village's production will be affected.
Understand, this is to expand the patrol range, I agree.
The old man Galle meant that it was up to me to expand the patrol range. I said no problem, as long as he matched me with a companion, I would have no problem. The old man Galle was stunned, understood what I wanted to express, and shook his head.
They are shooting themselves in the foot.
Earlier, I was worried that I would take their jobs and pushed me to prevent me from working too hard. Now that the patrol outside the village needs me, they want me to take Ah Fu outside by myself. Is it possible?
"You also have to be considerate of the village..." The old man Galle considered his words carefully: "You are a talented person in our village, and everyone depends on you..."
"It is impossible for me to go out to patrol the village alone. It’s not that I don’t know, what can I do to save my life when I bring a dog to meet more than five robbers?” I crossed my arms and said, “My dog is now of this size, and it can eat four or five people with one meal, and the village will give it a subsidy. Even half of it is not enough, it's all up to me to post it upside down, shouldn't my salary increase be on the agenda?"
"It should be, in fact, the village has also considered it." The old man Galle nodded again and again.
My dog is now 1.2 meters tall at the shoulders, 2 meters long not counting the tail, and weighs more than 400 catties. The hunters and fishermen in the village know how much meat they eat at each meal. However, Ah Fu’s subsidy is simply not enough. I'm good at digging money from other places myself, and this dog alone can eat me up.
It can be said that more than 80% of the security in the village now depends on this dog, but the salary is still the same as last year, so I can't say anything about it.
Originally, I planned to wait for the clerk to come back and then raise the issue of salary increase. Now the old man Galle himself talked about the topic of going out to patrol the village. Even now, my job as a guard is becoming more and more unpleasant. Maybe I will quit my job one day. I don't believe that they have the courage to turn against me and drive me out of the village.
I'm used to being with Ah Fu all day, and I don't think Ah Fu is big, but for the villagers, a beast the size of a calf is too oppressive. The head and mouth full of fangs are daunting. It is the patron saint of the peaceful life of the villagers. Everyone fears it, but loves it.
They say that people keep what kind of dogs, I am thin, and my Ah Fu looks skinny like me, with tendons all over his body.
The knowledgeable villagers said that Ah Fu was well nourished to grow so big. The wild forest giant wolf is also big, but it is much smaller than Ah Fu, even the alpha wolf may not have such a size.
Ah Fu's body hasn't finished growing, and he hasn't broken a pack of goat milk powder for three days. Not only the meat and bones bought by the hunters, but I also bring dozens of catties of beef, sheep and pork from another world to him every month. How do the muddy legs in the forest that are full and hungry compare to my Ah Fu?
Fortunately, such a good meal did not make Ah Fu a fat pig. Its fierceness is still full, and it does not flinch in the face of beasts of the same size as himself. When encountering people with weapons, he bravely rushes up. After biting down the prey for the first time, he ripped it raw and ate it raw, making it a mess.
The old man from Galle wanted to persuade me. He had seen me riding Ah Fu, and he said that I was riding a dog around the village very fast. If two people were patrolling with a dog, it would be too slow. .
I laughed and said, "Haha...what is this, dog cavalry?" I've only heard of 'riding a dog's crotch', but I didn't expect someone in this world to want me to ride a dog on patrol.
The old man Galle didn't know what I was laughing at. There is no word for "dog" in the language of Luhe Village, only the "wolf" of the giant forest wolf, so the dog cavalry I said was actually "wolf cavalry" in his ears, In the local history, the Duke has organized a cavalry team riding a giant wolf. Although there is no outstanding record, riding a wolf for reconnaissance is not a joke.
Seeing that the old man Galle couldn't laugh, I embarrassedly retracted my exaggerated expression.
Anyway, I've made up my mind that the salary will be increased, but I don't want to do the work alone.
The old ghost is very good. I am riding a wolf on patrol outside all day, and the trouble is solved outside the village. How much work can they have left to guard the village? Don't they just pretend to be free to get their salary? They took all the cheap.
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