Little Peter secretly ate some jerky and scones during the day. The jerky was a bit salty. After eating, he drank a lot of water, which made him feel a little bloated at night. He was upset for a while before he lay down in Old Sheila.
fell asleep in his arms.
The family sat quietly around the dining table. Suldak felt a little uneasy as he felt that he might have to be judged by the whole family.
There were a few apples and plums on the plate on the table, and a candle was fixed on the table. Occasionally, the wax would break through the oil pool and slide down like tears.
Old Sheila saw that the candle light was too bright, and she felt a little distressed, so she burned a candle like this, quickly reached into the candle with her fingers, and pinched off a section of the wick in the flame. The light in the room became dimmer, and she
She was a little dissatisfied with Rita not lighting the oil lamp but taking out a candle, thinking it was a waste.
Before this, oil lamps were rarely used in the house, but now the atmosphere was a bit dull, and old Sheila did not reprimand Rita.
Under the illumination of candlelight, old Sheila's face had some obvious wrinkles, but her complexion was much better than before, at least with a layer of oily color.
"...You shouldered Dak's friendship and traveled thousands of miles to come to our home to help us overcome the difficulties we faced. Our hearts are full of gratitude." Old Sheila said nonchalantly, and then she looked at Suldak again.
He glanced at it and then said:
"Ordinarily...who you want to marry is your right, and we naturally have no right to interfere. But if you fall in love with Selena, I, an old woman, have to talk to you more. I hope you want to do this."
After careful consideration, since Selena married into our village, some weird things have been happening around her. She has been called an ominous person in the village. This is not a slander by everyone, but in recent years.
Among them, many people who were close to her died suddenly for no reason, and she may bring endless disasters to you."
What Old Sheila said was very pertinent. Suldak could only rub his nose and explain to Old Sheila: "I think maybe some things are coincidences. Of course... I'm not denying anything. I met him at the entrance of the village a few days ago.
But when I saw Xigna, I just felt that she was still too young. If the two scribes took Selena away, maybe Xigna would become an orphan in the village."
Suldak glanced at the sleeping little Peter and said: "She is different from other children. She is too dependent on Delina. If we really want to leave her in Wall Village, she may have a very difficult life."
, or will not survive, I just want to help, I think if Dak was here, he would do the same, he picked me out from the pile of corpses and gave me a new life."
Rita held an apple in her hand and said beside her: "I heard Sandy say that Selena can do witchcraft. Once, she saw Selena quietly praying to the moon in the room..."
Old Sheila glared at Rita.
"..."
Suldak didn't know what to say for a moment.
Old Sheila gently stroked Little Peter's forehead, her eyes showing the brilliance of love, and she said with emotion: "I often dream about Duck recently, and he is standing in the clouds with a smile like that, with the same silly smile on his face as before
Talking to me, he asked me how Peter, Natasha and Rita were doing recently. In fact, I have been thinking about some things these days. Now that Duck has completely left us and gone to another country,
We can't let him miss him, we should live a better life."
Old Sheila looked through the window into the pitch-black night.
Her eyes glowed with hope, and she said, "It is my greatest wish to be able to see little Peter grow up healthy and healthy with my own eyes."
Then, she paused again, and then said: "Of course Rita can save a dowry and find someone she can rely on to live happily in the future. Natasha should not live so hard like me in the future.
It’s not easy, not to mention you are still so young..."
Rita's face immediately turned red. She was a little embarrassed and held the apple in her hands.
Natasha lowered her head like a quail.
At this time Rita couldn't help but ask: "When dad passed away, were you also coerced by the census clerks in the city hall?"
Old Sheila curled her lips slightly and said: "The time when Old Suer died happened to be the year that Dak attended the coming-of-age ceremony. Who would want an old woman who is about to lie in the coffin?" After saying this, she pointed at Li with a ruler in her hand.
There was a hard knock on the top of the tower.
Old Sheila looked at Suldak, put Little Peter's hand in his rough palm, and said to Suldak:
"Since little Peter is your son in name only, he also likes this child very much and is willing to raise him, and Natasha is also your wife in name only, and she is destined to continue to live with us, she
You do need someone to rely on, so are you willing to marry her?"
"I..." Surdak didn't know how to answer. He paused before saying, "I will take good care of her for the rest of my life."
There was a kind of wisdom in Old Sheila's eyes. She looked at Suldak and said with a serious expression: "He is not the kind of person who stutters casually. He has a shelter that can protect him from wind and rain, and he has clothes to protect him from the cold.
That's enough. In fact, everyone yearns for a happier life..."
Surdak didn't expect that Old Sheila actually said this, and he hadn't thought about it seriously yet.
He hesitated for a moment, and was worried that being silent for too long would also hurt Natasha, so he could only bite the bullet and said with a guilty conscience: "This is unfair to Natasha. I hope she can also have a choice.
?”
"Then what is fair? What other choices does she have?" Old Sheila asked aggressively, and then she asked Natasha opposite: "Natasha, what are your thoughts?"
Natasha also didn't expect that Old Sheila would discuss these tonight, and said blankly: "I haven't considered these..."
Old Sheila glanced at Natasha with some hatred, and said earnestly: "Sometimes you have to fight for something that originally belongs to you. Some things won't give you too much time to make a decision. You just
It just so happens that I’m pretty lucky…”
Natasha blushed, looked up at Suldak, and didn't know what to say for a moment.
…
There was sulfur ore lying next to it. The smell of this stuff was a little pungent. The old village chief measured it with his hands for a while, but finally gave up on measuring how big it was.
At first, Charlie took out a fist-sized piece of sulfur ore, and the caravan leader took out 3 silver coins to buy it. Now the sulfur ore lying in the canvas pocket is at least a hundred times that piece of ore. The old village chief knew this must be
Worth a lot of money.
The five young men who went to collect sulfur ore were all sitting on the benches in the living room of the old village chief's house. Suldak and the old village chief sat on separate chairs opposite them.
The old village chief's wife came out to make some lemon tea and a plate of boiled chestnuts for everyone.
"Are we going to sell these to the caravan?" Charlie said excitedly.
Surdak frowned slightly. He glanced at the old village chief and said: "I think it is very necessary to establish good trade relations with the caravans, but we can't take out so much sulfur ore at once. I guess
They will calculate the approximate scope of the sulfur mine based on the time of our trip. It is still an unclaimed land. I am worried that if others discover the open-pit mining area, more people may compete with us for the resources there.
"
"So we'd better take out part of the sulfur ore to make those businessmen think that we can find the sulfur ore, but it's not worth their energy to find it..."