Surdak quickly introduced himself and said, "My name is Surdak and I’m a friend of Carl’s. I wonder if he has come?"
The two knights heard Carl’s name and made a special trip to the mountain to see Carl’s face. The alert look suddenly disappeared.
A knight’s face smiled and said, "It turned out to be Carl’s friend. He is currently assigned to the suburb south of Hailansa City. I take the liberty to ask-who are you hanging these robbers on this mountain?" We are specially coming to investigate this matter. "
"Carl asked for help when I stayed in Hailansa the other day. At that time, I had something important that I couldn’t help. So you still investigated this matter …" Surdak said, then shrugged his shoulders and continued, "I’m sorry, I just learned that a disguised knight Yamaguchi killed a group of robbers. I don’t know many friends here and I don’t know who did it."
Two knights heard Surdak say this, and there was a faint disappointment in their eyes, but the horse said
"It’s nothing. It will come out slowly …"
Surdak saw two knights and said, "Go, mean, say."
"Since Carl don’t if it’s nothing, I will be leaving now! If you have leisure time, you might as well go to Wall Village and have a cup of lemon tea. "
The two knights responded politely, "Thank you for your kindness. We won’t bother you if we have a public body for the time being."
Then Surdak rode his horse with four big canvas bags and swaggered back to the mountain pass. When Surdak stopped his horse, he turned around and waved to the knights at the top of the mountain. A knight at the top of the mountain waved the flag of the guard camp in his hand.
Surdak took these boots to the Walcun River to swim. He poured them out of the canvas bag by the stream, then took out a pig brush to clean these bloody boots and dried them on the beach.
……
It was already noon when Surdak rode back to Wall Village.
A group of children played checkerboard games at the entrance of the village, and saw Surdak riding back to the village. Some children were bold and shouted "Surdak Surdak Surdak!"
The children have a loud voice.
Not far away, a group of women in the village got up and looked at the entrance to the village when they heard the shout.
They can do laundry by the stream at the entrance to the village. It is the old village chief’s rule that starched clothes must be swam to the entrance of the village, which will affect the drinking water in the village. See a group of women looking this way. Surdak nodded slightly to these enthusiastic women.
Riding into the village, Surdak passed a chestnut tree along the dirt road in the village, and just saw a wooden stick sticking out from behind the earth wall. A thin hand held the wooden stick tightly, and a dirty little face emerged from behind the wall, struggling to climb a wall. The earth wall was more than one meter high, which was not high for Surdak, but it was very high for Siegner.
She carefully walked towards the chestnut tree with the earth wall.
Most of the fluffy chestnuts in the lower part of chestnut trees have been knocked out, and some higher places are covered with surface burrs to harden chestnuts.
Siegner can’t reach the wall even though she still has a stick in her hand.
She lifted her head and stared at the chestnut tightly. She bit her lip stubbornly and stood on tiptoe, and finally stabbed the chestnut. But at this moment, her wall was out of balance and she watched the little girl plant outside the wall …
A big hand firmly caught the little girl on the wall where Surdak appeared and lifted Siegner up.
Siegner had closed her eyes tightly and opened her eyes, and she was sure to fall badly, but she didn’t expect to be caught firmly.
"Don’t be so rash this time. It’s too dangerous!" Surdak put Siegner to let her honestly check if she was injured and said to her
Siegner took a look at Surdak without saying anything, and turned around and ran back.
Turning the corner, the little girl threw herself into the bottom of a woman’s skirt. That woman was Selena. She reached out and pulled the little girl out of the skirt, staring at her eyes and growled, "Siegner, where have you been? How many times have I said that you are not allowed to run around and steal other people’s chestnuts … "Selena reprimanded her. She seemed to be angry and broke a Vitex negundo arm from the side of the road and violently smoked a small arm like a white lotus root, and immediately a red mark appeared.
Siegner didn’t dodge, but took the initiative to hug Selena, holding a Vitex hand and crying in tears.
"Mom, I really didn’t steal it. This is Mammy’s house. Yesterday, Mammy told me that whoever hits the chestnut in her house is the one, but she just can’t help me …"
"Mom, we have chestnut rice porridge to eat later …"
As she said this, Siegner hit her with a small cloth bag and held it high in front of Selena. She saw that the small cloth bag was full of prickly chestnuts.
As soon as Selena held Siegel in her arms, tears rolled down like broken beads.
When Surdak saw Selena through the earth wall, he planned to take the horse back quietly and bypass the road here.
But when he saw the previous scene through the earth wall, he found that he seemed to have overlooked many things. The most important thing was that the villagers’ lives might be worse than they thought. I thought that when I first arrived at the old Sheila’s house, the old Sheila’s family also ate cassava chestnut rice porridge, and this life would probably be better until chestnut rice was fully mature.
Seeing that little Siegner was actually allowed by the owner to steal her own chestnut, but the owner just didn’t want to take the initiative to give them the chestnut. It was obvious that she didn’t want Selena, a so-called ominous woman, to be involved too much.
Seeing Sienna’s clean and clear eyes, Surdak seemed to be stabbed by a thorn in his heart.
He stopped and rode his horse, turned around and went back to Selena.
Surdak dug out a bag containing several large baked wheat cakes from his magic pocket, which was the leftover food from his trip. He stuffed the bag into Selena’s hand.
Selena didn’t pick her up, so she looked stubbornly at Surdak’s blue eyes with glittering and translucent tears.
Surdak looked at Selena with a puzzled expression in his eyes and asked her, "Why … don’t you want my things?"
He crouched down to pick up Siegner with one hand and looked at the most broken stone house in the village with the other hand. Selena said in situ.
"Let’s go … I don’t seem to have been to your house officially!"
Selena didn’t follow, but wiped her tears and asked, "Aren’t you afraid that I am an unlucky woman?"
Surdak grinned and said to her, "… now you remember to ask this?"
“……”
Chapter 26 Mobilization Meeting before Travel
Selena’s stone house is located on the other side of the river. The stone house looks a little broken. The exterior wall is mottled. After some limestone is broken, the wall has serious defects, although some soil blocks the defects. After the rainy season comes, the wall soil is washed away by rain, leaving some stains on the limestone wall.
The red thatched roof, door panels and windows are new wooden doors and windows, and they also smell of varnish. A straw shed is set up next to the stone house. Through the semi-closed wooden door, you can see that there is a big wooden basin in it. The courtyard is very flat and there is a row of cauliflower in the north corner.
Selena took Signa into the stone house, and then Suldak came in. The room was very simple, and the bedroom and kitchen were connected together. There was a wooden table and two chairs in the room, and a rusty flower scissors hung on the wall.
There are some cassava on the small table next to the fireplace. Signa will collect the chestnuts and put them on the table. She sits down honestly and finds a fist from the fireplace. The big stone is sparkling, and her eyes are staring at the chestnut shells covered with hard thorns. The stones in her hand are smashed and cracked, and the brown chestnuts are exposed from the inside like horse manure eggs.
Signa’s side face and focused eyes Selena is like a mold, and all her attention is peeled off.
Surdak followed Selena into the room and sat on the wooden chair in front of the square table. This wooden chair was very smooth. There was a sand table filled with a small river sand table, and there were two twigs beside it. The sand was cut into pens and filled with imperial characters. Some of them were neatly written, while others seemed very immature. Obviously, Selena came to teach Signa to read the sand table.
Selena sat opposite Surdak, and two people sat face to face. Surdak carefully examined the beautiful face of the woman in front of her. Her waist was straight and her linen dress clearly outlined her body. She was a little thin but her eyes were very clear and bright.
She is the kind of woman who can stand looking at a well-balanced skeleton without losing her sensuality. Her neck is a little long, which makes her look very tall.
"Thank you!"
Selena said a word of thanks to Surdak.
"I didn’t help you anything."
Surdak shrugged his shoulders. His eyes fell on Selena’s chest and looked at the white greasy skin inside through the thin linen, which made him stunned. Then his heart beat violently. As soon as the blood in his body rushed to his head, he immediately realized that it was rude to stare at each other like this. He quickly withdrew his eyes and looked at the table sand table to ease the embarrassment through a dry cough.
Selena got up and went to the closet and poured Surdak a glass of water. Her fingers looked very slender and her palms were covered with some tiny cracks. She put the cup on the desktop and pushed it to Surdak.
Surdak thought we should find a topic, "Can you write imperial characters?"
Selena pulled her long hair behind her ear and looked down at the table sand table. She said unnaturally, "Well, I worked as a maid in Huo Yier Manor for three years and studied with Miss Huo Yier."
Surdak suddenly felt that he had heard the name of the noble lady from somewhere, and then remembered that it seemed to be the name that saved the noble lady after killing the robber that day, and heard her say that Huo Yier Manor was also looted by robbers.