After taking the kettle from Fake Beru, Lu Li returned to the convoy.
"Do you want to tell her the truth directly?" Pusius followed Lu Li's feet on all fours.
"Um."
"But she will be very sad!" Pusius felt that this was too cruel to an old man.
Even Catalina thought so: "You don't have to tell her the truth, just say that a girl named Beru asked you to send it."
"Sooner or later she will know the truth." Lu Li said calmly.
"At least we are not the executioners." Catalina shrugged, feeling that in some aspects, Lu Li was rational and almost indifferent.
Not far ahead, an old woman stood beside the carriage, waiting for the girl who would never come back.
"Remember what I told you when we first met? You have to try to change yourself and stop being so cold..."
Catalina whispered as she and Lu Li approached the elderly woman.
"Beru, are you back?"
The old face covered with black cloth turned around due to the sound of footsteps.
"yes."
Catalina spoke before Lu Li spoke.
The old man tilted his head slightly, his eyes covered with black cloth seemed to be observing her: "Who is the person next to you?"
"We are her new friends." Caterina replied, and added: "We are in the same compartment as her."
"Have you made a new friend? That's great." The old man said happily, taking the kettle handed to him by "Beru".
Woo——
The low horn sound echoed over the motorcade, and the motorcade was about to set off.
"It's almost time to set sail. Get back to your carriage, Beru." the old man said.
Lu Li played the role of a dumb girl, Katarina said goodbye to her, and they returned to their carriage.
"We just did something good?" Pusius, who returned to the carriage, quickly shook his tail. "This is the first time I have done something good!"
"Isn't this a good deed? It's a white lie at most." Katarina frowned and loosened the leather armor that tightened her waist.
The carriage trembled slightly, and the convoy slowly left the shelter village and continued its journey.
Night in strange times always comes quickly, and it is difficult for young people to understand that in the old days it was only dusk at nine o'clock in the evening.
They don't even understand the word "twilight" itself because they have never seen the sun.
The beautiful sunshine, which is brighter than lamps and warmer than fire, only exists in the conversations and oil paintings of the old people.
The next stop for Prissy's convoy is Octopus Town, located in the wilderness of Darkfield.
After traveling peacefully all night, the convoy arrived outside Octopus Town early the next morning.
…
The sound outside the carriage woke up Lu Li and others who were sleeping lightly. They opened the windows and entered the carriage like the noise of a market.
The smell of perfume suddenly became strong around her. Catalina leaned towards the window and said enviously: "I have never seen such a huge motorcade in Jiangge Town... Why is she here?"
The elderly Carolina wandered around the periphery of the convoy, groping with crutches and asking passers-by, gradually approaching here.
But she couldn't see anything, and the noise made her unable to hear. The old man bumped into the workers who were walking towards him to carry the goods.
The old man fell and the iron box fell out of his arms. The worker holding the wooden box also tripped over his crutches and fell.
Carolina groped uneasily on the ground with her hands, touched the iron box, and nervously checked whether it was intact, regardless of the dust on her body: "I'm sorry, have you seen a girl with braids who can't speak?"
"Hiss...I didn't see it."
The worker rubbed his arm that was scratched by the wooden box. Because the old man was a passenger and could not complain, he picked up the wooden box and left in a hurry.
The old man's back is more curved and his movements are slower, still looking for her niece.
"Katerina, call her over."
Lu Li said, watching this scene silently.
"Um."
This time, Catalina did not object. She got out of the car and walked towards the old man. After talking to the happy old man, she took her to the carriage.
The dusty old man carefully took out the treasured iron box from his arms and opened it: "I baked some of your favorite baked cookies yesterday, but I forgot to give them to you...it may be a little cold and hard now."
There were only a few round cakes in the tin box that were a little burnt and not very good looking.
Lu Li reached out and took the iron box.
After a brief silence, Catalina spoke for Beru: "Beru is thanking you."
The old man smiled happily: "Of course, I know... this child has always been very introverted."
"Ugh——" Pusius, who was huddled in his black robe, let out a sob.
"Is there anyone else in the carriage?" The old man tilted his head towards Pusius.
"Psius, a puppy." Caterina grabbed the exposed hind legs of Psius and dragged him to the back of the old man's hand.
The old man raised his hand and gently stroked Pusius's yellow and rough hair. When he wanted to touch Pusius' head, he avoided it.
"It's so naughty." The old man smiled kindly and waved gently to Lu Li: "Come here, kid, I'll tie your hair."
Lu Li and Pusius, who hid in the corner, looked at Katarina at the same time.
Catalina glared at the two guys, untied her hair, and sat stiffly in front of the old man.
She was unusually cautious and allowed the old man to gently tie her hair back up.
Caterina and Beru's hair seemed to be the same length, which did not arouse the old man's suspicion.
"Okay. Beru, I'm going back. I'll come back next time I park my car."
The old man left the carriage and looked at his stumbling figure as he left the carriage.
"Woooo..."
Pusius couldn't hold back his whimpering sound again.
"Are you crying hyena?" Katarina looked.
"It's your perfume that's too choking..." Pusius's face turned to the side.
Lu Li didn't eat the cookies, but just put away the tin box.
After that, every time I stopped in a village or town, the old man would come to see me. As time went by, they gradually became familiar with each other.
Sometimes the old man would tell Katerina the story of the shelter village and the reason why they wanted to go to the ice-free port of Vina: a dream.
One day, they heard about the ice-free port of Vina, so they really set off.
But Carolina was the only one on the journey.
Occasionally, the elderly will suddenly not be able to recognize people clearly, or they will think that they are still in a sheltered village.
Lu Li and the others, who pretended to be very good and in a very poor mental state, never discovered the truth.
Until the afternoon of the third day.
"She clumsily threw the hot cake into the stove, and when it came out, it was covered with wood ash... Beru didn't take it to wash, and after eating it, she looked like a tabby cat..."
The old man smiled happily and suddenly fell silent. His old face turned towards Lu Li and asked: "...You are not Beru, are you?"
The warm atmosphere in the carriage gradually cools down
Before answering, an ominous and panicked shout suddenly sounded outside the carriage.
The shouting fragments transmitted into the carriage revealed that there was a strange leader chasing them behind the convoy.
"What did you think of?"
Uneasy, Catalina subconsciously held down the dagger and looked at Lu Li.
She was vaguely aware of what was strange about that leader.
