Chapter 484 A-Ting: The thing about my robbed husband [8200 words]
"It's so boring... I want to find something interesting to do..." The girl with a red headband squatting beside the grass was playing with the grass blades underneath.
As for her best friends, the girls wearing orange, purple, and blue headbands are now standing next to the girl with the red headband.
"If you feel bored, just go practice archery." Purple Headband said casually.
"I don't want to." The red-headed belt said, "I practiced this morning. My arms are still sore. Now I just want to play."
"Then... why don't you come and sit at my house?" Orange Headband suggested in a low voice, "Let's sit together and chat. The time will pass quickly."
"And my grandma just made a new dress recently, so we can take turns trying it on together."
"Oh!" The girl with the red headband stood up from the grass, "Ashley, your grandma made a new dress... huh? That's right!"
Before the girl with the red headband finished speaking, she suddenly paused and said "Yes" abruptly.
When the other three girls standing next to her cast doubtful glances at the girl with the red headband, the girl with the red headband said excitedly:
"How about we let Ashley's grandma go see those foreign gods possessed?"
Possessed God - the Ainu word is "Torumpei".
The Ainu believe that everyone is possessed by a god from birth and is protected by the possessed god.
Everyone has different possessed gods, so everyone's personality and abilities are different.
The more powerful a person is, the more powerful the possessed god is.
The possessing spirit usually attaches itself to the back of everyone's neck and enters and exits the person's body from the back of the neck.
Some people with special perceptions in this regard can see what other people's possessed gods look like.
The girl with the orange headband, who is Ashley's grandmother, is a well-known expert in Qina Village who can see clearly what other people's possessed gods look like.
Hearing the suggestion from the girl with the red headband, Ashley, who was wearing an orange headband, was stunned for a moment and then said hesitantly:
"Isn't this...not good?"
"What's wrong?" the girl with the red headband retorted without hesitation, "Ashley, aren't you curious about what the possessed gods of those foreigners look like?"
"Maybe we can see an interesting possessed god."
What Red Headband said aroused the interest of Blue Headband and Purple Headband.
Ashley, who happened to be bored right now, also became slightly interested.
"Then... let's ask my grandma." Ashley said softly, "See if she is willing to go and see the possessed gods of those foreigners."
"Okay! Let's go!" Red Headband raised his fist high, then took the lead and ran towards Ashley's house.
The four girls arrived at Ashley's home with great fanfare.
Ashley's family was originally a perfect family of four - grandma, father, mother, and Ashley herself.
What is regrettable is that Ashley's father also unfortunately disappeared in the previous "disappearance incident".
Since then, Ashley's family has become a broken family, with only her, mother and grandmother left in the family.
Red headband, purple headband, blue headband and Ashley - as soon as the four girls rushed into Ashley's house, they saw Ashley's grandmother making clothes and Ashley's grandmother weaving.
Mother.
The four girls straightforwardly explained their reasons for coming to Ashley's grandmother.
When she learned that these four people wanted to take her to see the gods possessed by foreigners, grandma was a little bit reluctant.
But unable to withstand the coquettishness of the four people, grandma finally agreed to their request.
Ashley carried her grandma on her back and, surrounded by her three friends, looked around for the group of foreigners who had just visited their village.
"Where have all those strangers gone?" The girl with a red headband put her palms on her eyes and looked around.
"I'm more curious about what the possessed god of the male Kazuto is like." The girl with the purple headband smiled, "If he is really a fake samurai, then his possessed god must be very weak."
"I would rather see those gods possessing white-skinned people." The girl with the red headband answered.
"I don't know which of these foreigners is more powerful than the men of the same age in our village... Ah! I found it! It's a white-skinned foreigner!" The blue-headband pointed his finger not far away.
One finger.
The rest of the people looked over one after another - and happened to see Skulucci and others coming out of the house of the village chief of Chepke.
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Led by the two middle-aged men sent by Chepke, Skulucci and others strode out of the village.
Along the way, it naturally attracted all kinds of eyes.
Some people simply cast curious glances at Skulucci and the others.
Some people stared at Skulucci and others as if they were wary of thieves and thieves.
Scrooge turned a blind eye to the various types of sights projected from the surroundings, held his head high, and strode out of the village.
Just like a general returning triumphantly from a victorious battle.
Avger and Lev, who were brought into the village by Skulucci and are now following closely behind Skulucci, do not have the good concentration of Skulucci.
The two of them never lifted their guard from the beginning to the end, and kept observing their surroundings with vigilant eyes.
Looking at the surrounding low houses made of vegetation and furs, the Ainu people who were not very tall due to racial issues, and the bows and arrows they carried on their backs, Avjie whispered to Sku in front of him.
Lucci asked:
"Boss Skruchi. What did you just say to those Ainu people?"
The language Afjie and the others speak is Lucian, so there is no need to worry about the villagers of Qina Village hearing their conversation.
"I'm just reminding them that Vladimir's gang plans to plunder everywhere, and this village may suffer, so I suggest they make preparations in advance."
Avger and Lev, who talked less, both had their eyes widened at this time.
"Then what?" Afjie asked, "How will those Ainu people answer?"
"They seem to be planning to defend their village." Skulucci spread his hands, "It's a pity. It's in vain that I kindly suggested that they lead the whole village to temporarily hide in the mountains."
"Boss Scrooge, why are you always like this..." Avji's face was full of helplessness.
"It's okay if you don't participate in Vladimir's robbery, but you even came here to report the news to the surrounding Ainu people..."
"It's not that I came here specially to report the news." Skulucci hurriedly corrected the errors in what Avger just said. "I just came over to inform them."
"Boss Scrooge. That's why you are always called a weirdo by others."
The look of helplessness on Avji's face became more intense.
"Why do you always do such thankless things..."
Although Avger is not considered a veteran subordinate of Skulucci, he is also an old man who has been following Skulucci for a long time.
Because his life was saved by Scrooge, he has been following Scrooge wholeheartedly.
Because he had served under Skulucci for many years, Avger was sure that his boss must be the strangest one among all the Cossacks.
Skulucci was one of many Cossack expeditions sent to explore the Far East.
Although the formation of the Cossacks is somewhat romantic - a group of people who could not bear the oppression fled to a new land, established a new home, and absorbed various ethnic groups except the Jews, gradually growing stronger
, are called "free people". ("Cossack" means "free people" in Turkic language)
But in fact, anyone who knows a little bit about the Cossacks knows how cruel and murderous the Cossacks are.
Before Avger was born, the vast land east of the Ural Mountains and west of the Pacific Ocean was already under the rule of the Tsar.
When the Tsar conquered the lands east of the Ural Mountains, the main force was the Cossacks.
In the process of conquering this large land, the various things the Cossacks did made it difficult for Avge, who was also a Cossack, to talk about it.
Not to mention burning, killing, looting, and even cannibalism, his father and ancestors had done it.
People in Europe know that the Cossacks are murderous and brutal.
However, Skulucci, who is also a Cossack, does things that are not what a Cossack would do.
Since being sent to the Far East, Scrooge has never done anything that would be criticized as "cruel" or "bloody".
The group of people who were sent to explore this large island inhabited by the Ainu people were asked by the tsar to "explore, focus on reconnaissance, and avoid causing trouble."
Therefore, the various expedition teams sent here had to restrain their brutal nature.
But despite this, almost all expeditions will still do something from time to time that makes people sigh: This is worthy of the Cossacks.
Many villages on the northern end of the island have suffered varying degrees of damage from various expedition teams.
In this era, technology is underdeveloped and information transmission is slow.
In addition, the Ainu are not monolithic among themselves.
Therefore, villages located in the south such as Kuma Village and Qina Village still do not know that many Ainu villages in the north were razed to the ground by the Cossacks.
But Scrooge is the only one who has never done anything bad so far.
I have always made no mistakes and only devoted myself to exploring and drawing.
So Skulucci was always denounced as a "weird" by the rest of his fellow Cossacks.
Skulucci's behavior of never burning, killing or looting has always been criticized as thankless - in fact, it is true.
Many people felt that being under Skulucci's command was not enough and they could not rob money or women, so they all left Skulucci's command and went to work for other people who could make their lives comfortable.
Those who are still under Skulucci's command are either explorers who just want to concentrate on exploring.
Or someone who is indebted to Skulucci - such as Avger.
Or they are people who admire Skulucci and are attracted by Skulucci's charm - such as their second-in-command: Vasily.
Even though his style of never doing bad things caused many of his subordinates to flee, Scrooge had no intention of changing his ways and continued to be a "weirdo" in the eyes of others.
In response to Avger's helpless emotion, Skulucci just smiled without making any response.
Avger stopped talking about this topic, but asked Skulucci a new question:
"Boss Scrooge. What are we going to do next?"
"What the hell can I do?" Skulucci shrugged, "I have said everything I should say and done everything I can do. Let the people of this village make up their own minds about whatever they want to do in the future.
"
"Whether they want to hold on to this village or flee with the whole village - I have no control or control."
"We will leave the village now to join the others. After spending the night here, early tomorrow morning..."
Before Scrooge finished speaking, he paused.
"Yes..."
Scrooge muttered.
"I almost forgot about Ayaka and his two Kazuto friends..."
Scrooge looked around.
"Hey...where are they?"
Skulucci looked around, only to see the villagers of Qina Village, but not at all Aiyaka and the two Kazuto friends Aiyaka had brought.
But at this moment, he saw not far away from him, four girls wearing headbands of different colors, and a very old lady.
These five people stared at them with strange eyes.
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Turn back time to a few minutes ago——
After discovering Skulucci and his party, Ashley and others stood aside from a distance and looked at Skulucci and his party.
"Grandma, how are you?" The girl with the red headband asked eagerly to Ashley's grandma, "Can you see those people's possessed gods?"
Grandma nodded: "I can see it."
The purple-headed man looked expectantly: "Then their possessed gods also have expectant faces."
Grandma raised her chin towards Scrooge and the others.
"The possessed gods of these three people are very powerful."
Grandma said slowly.
"The young man who has been talking to the red-haired man just now is the one with the weakest possessed spirit among the three of them."
She was referring to Avji.
"The young man who has been silent just now is a little stronger."
She was referring to Lev.
"As for the red-haired one...his possessed god is so powerful."
What grandma was referring to was, of course, Scrooge.
Looking at Scrooge in the distance, a hint of surprise and praise appeared on grandma's face.
"I have lived for a long time, and this is the first time I have seen such a powerful possessed god... The red-haired stranger's possessed god is stronger than all the possessed gods I have seen before.
sharp."
"That red-haired stranger must be an extraordinary man."
Grandma's words directly caused the four people in Ashley to involuntarily widen their eyes in surprise and slightly open their red lips.
"Is that red-haired guy so powerful..." The red-headband stared at Scrooge who had not noticed them in the distance, "Is his possessed god more powerful than all the men in our village?"
Grandma nodded without hesitation and added ruthlessly:
"And he is far more powerful than others."
"Grandma, can you tell what their personalities are like from their possessed gods?" the girl with the red headband asked.
"I can vaguely see it." Grandma nodded, and then turned her attention to Scrooge and the others again.
Because Skulucci and the others kept walking towards the outside of the village, Ashley and the others had to follow closely behind Skulucci and the others and keep moving with them.
After taking another deep look at Scrooge and the others, grandma said calmly:
"The young man with the red hair who has been talking to him should be a very loyal person and has a cheerful personality."
"The one who has been silent. His personality is not very good. People with this type of possessed god do not like to communicate or interact with others, and they have a very withdrawn temperament."
"As for the red-haired one... he has a very good character."
The look of praise appeared on grandma's face again.
"Compassion, kindness, and broad-mindedness...that red-haired stranger is really awesome."
"Not only is he powerful, he also has a very good personality."
"This is the first time I've seen grandma, you praise someone so much..." Ashley murmured in a low voice.
At this moment, Red Headband let out a low exclamation: "Oh, have they discovered us?"
At this time, Skulucci found Ashley and others who had been staring at them closely.
After looking at Ashley and others with doubtful eyes, Scrooge smiled and shook his hand at them.
"Let's go." said the girl with the purple headband, "We have already seen the gods possessed by these white-skinned foreigners. Let's go and see the pair of gods possessed by Kazuto."
"Yes, I agree!" The girl with the blue hairband nodded in agreement.
So, Ashley and others took their grandma and left quickly from Skulucci and others.
"Where are the Kazuto couple now?" the girl with the red headband asked.
"Who knows." Purple Headband replied, "Let's look around first. Anyway, our village is so big, we can always find it."
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After watching the girls wearing headbands of different colors and the old woman leaving, Avji murmured in a low voice:
"Who are those people?"
"Maybe it's because you've never seen anyone with white skin before, so you came here to see us." Skulucci shrugged, "Don't worry about them."
Having said that, Skulucci looked away from Ashley and the others who had left.
"Okay... where should we find Aiyaka and his two Kazuto friends..."
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Qina Village, somewhere——
Ogata, Atachi, and Aiyaka filed out of a certain house.
"We found nothing again..." Amachi murmured in a low voice that only he could hear clearly, and flattened his lips.
They have now interviewed about a quarter of the villagers in Qina Village.
So far, the harvest is nothing.
No matter who I asked, they all said "I haven't seen it" or "I have no impression".
Although there has been no harvest, Ogata is not anxious or worried.
He only said to Aiyaka in a calm tone:
"Let's go to the next one."
"Yeah." Ayaka nodded.
So far, Ogata has deeply felt how short of young and strong men there are in Qina Village.
Whether walking on the road in the village or entering other people's homes, there are very few young and strong men in sight.
"It's getting dark now." Ogata raised his head and looked at the sky, which had begun to turn slightly darker. "Let's ask another family."
"After questioning the last household, we will stop here today, and we will ask the remaining people who have not yet been questioned until tomorrow."
"What a coincidence, we thought of going together." Aiyaka said with a smile, "Let's spend the night at a friend's house with whom I have a good relationship."
"After a night's rest, we will continue asking other people in the village tomorrow."
"Let's speed up a little while it's still daylight."
"The next family is..."
Ayaka turned to look at the house next to her.
Looking at the house next to him, Aiyaka raised his eyebrows.
"Oh, the next family is doing something serious."
"Is there anything special about the next family?" Ogata asked.
"Well. The next family is indeed a little special."
Ayaka nodded.
"The old woman in the next house is a very capable person who can see the torrents on the back of other people's necks."
"Toronpe?" Oufang looked confused, "What is this?"
Amachi, who was standing beside Ogata, also cast a doubtful look at Ayaka.
"Tolunpei... should be translated as 'possessed god' in your and other people's languages."
"We Ainu people believe that all people will be possessed by gods and protected by gods since birth. We Ainu people call these gods who possess us humans 'Torumpei'."
"The possessed gods are different in each person. Therefore, everyone's personality and abilities are different."
"The more powerful a person is, the more powerful the possessing god is in him."
"Possessed gods generally attach themselves to the back of a person's neck."
"Some people are born with the ability to see what the possessed spirit looks like on the back of other people's necks."
"The old woman in the next house has such ability."
Ayaka touched his neck.
"That old woman has seen my possessed god."
"The old woman said that my possessed god is very strong. He has rarely seen such a powerful possessed god."
Ayaka grinned.
"Mashima, Atachi, if you are interested, you can ask that old woman to see what your possessed gods look like for you."
After that, Ayaka led Ogata and Atachi and strode towards the house next to them.
Ogata was not interested in the "possessed god" that Ayaka just mentioned.
Ogata had no interest in anything related to gods and ghosts.
On the contrary, Amachi was very interested in the possessed god mentioned by Aiyaka, and he was eager to try and wanted the old woman to see what her possessed god looked like.
Arriving at the door of the nearby low house, Aiyaka shouted at the door, and a beautiful woman about 30 years old quickly walked out of the house.
After Ayaka chatted with the woman for a few words in Ainu, he raised his eyebrows, turned to Ogata and said:
"What a pity. The old woman who can see the possessed god is not here right now. She was taken out to play by her granddaughter. I don't know when she will come back."
Ogata didn't care much about whether he could let the old woman see his possessed god.
But he was very concerned about whether the old woman was at home or not.
Because that old woman might have met Xuanzheng and Xuanzhen by chance.
If you miss the opportunity to meet the old woman, you might miss precious clues.
The beautiful woman said something to Aiyaka and others at this time.
"She asked us to go inside first." Aiyaka translated the woman's words, "Let's go inside first. The old woman should be back soon."
Ogata and Atachi nodded.
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"What? Did that couple go to Ashley's house?" The girl with a red headband looked at a middle-aged woman in front of her in surprise.
The middle-aged woman standing in front of the girl with the red headband nodded:
"Well, I just saw the couple Kazu and Aiyaka going to Ashley's house."
"We have been looking for them for so long, but we didn't expect them to go to Ashley's house..." The purple-headband muttered helplessly.
They had been looking around for the pair of Kazuto who arrived in the village almost at the same time as the white-skinned strangers.
But no matter how hard I looked, I couldn't find them.
It wasn't until I asked someone now that I learned that they actually went to Ashley's home.
"Why are they going to my house..." Ashley asked timidly.
"Who knows." said the girl with a red headband, "Anyway - let's go to Ashley's house quickly."
"Let grandma see their possessed gods, and also see what they do at Ashley's house."
After that, the most energetic girl with a red headband once again took the lead and rushed towards Ashley's home.
While running towards home, Ashley's grandma suddenly turned to Ashley beside her and said:
"What a pity for that red-haired stranger just now."
"If he is a compatriot of our Ainu, I will definitely hold his hand and let him marry my Ahili."
"It's rare to meet someone as powerful as a possessed god, so you can't miss it."
As soon as grandma finished speaking, Ashley's face turned red.
"Grandma! What are you talking about?"
"I'm not talking nonsense." Ashley's grandma said seriously, "You are 14 years old and will get married soon."
"I will not allow my granddaughter to marry a weak person who possesses a god."
"My grandson-in-law can only be a man with a powerful possessed god."
"The stronger, the better."
"It's still too early for me to get divorced..." Ashley muttered in a low voice.
"It's getting late." Grandma shook her head, "Don't worry. Ashley, your future husband, grandma, I will take care of it for you."
"I will never let a weak possessed god become your husband."
Grandma's remarks made Ashley's three friends all laugh.
"Ashley, we will also check for you." The purple-haired girl smiled, "We will never let a boring, weak man become your husband."
"Don't talk about this topic anymore!" Ashili scolded with a red face.
"It's a pity that in recent years, there have been few people with powerful possessed gods..."
Grandma looked sorry.
"It's rare to meet someone with a powerful spirit of possession, but he's a foreigner... Sigh..."
"Grandma, you don't have to let Ashley marry an Ainu compatriot, right?" the girl with the red headband said, "There's nothing wrong with marrying someone from another race, right?"
"Didn't our village also have a few people who married Kazuto?"
As soon as the girl with the red headband finished speaking, grandma shook her head.
"No, I still hope that Ashley will marry an Ainu, not a foreigner."
"Different nationalities have different living habits."
"So it's very hard to start a family with a foreigner. You have to get used to it and adapt to their living habits."
"That's why I won't let Ashley marry a foreigner."
"Not even with Kazuto."
"I told you not to talk about this topic anymore." Ashley's face turned redder.
"Grandma, what would you do if one day you meet a person who possesses a very powerful and powerful person?" The girl with a purple headband asked in a joking tone, "I think as long as you are good enough, you can be a good person."
It doesn’t matter if people of different races get married.”
"Even if there really is such a kind of alien possessed by a god who is powerful enough to allow me to ignore ethnic differences, I probably won't be able to meet him." Grandma shook her head helplessly.
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Their steps are fast.
In just a blink of an eye, they returned to Ashley's home.
As soon as I walked through the door, I saw Ayaka sitting on the floor, and the pair of Kazuto.
In fact, Ogata and the others had just come in, and the floor hadn't even warmed up yet.
Looking at Ashley and others returning, Ashley's mother, who stayed at home, quickly introduced Ogata and others' purpose of coming to Ashley and others.
Ogata and Atachi, who were sitting on the floor, quickly got up from the floor and said hello to Ashley and others who suddenly returned.
While saying hello, Ogata simply looked at the old woman and the four young girls who suddenly arrived.
There's nothing much to say about that old woman. From the outside, she's just an ordinary old woman.
——Is she the old woman who possesses gods who can see other people as Ayaka said...
After muttering in his mind, Ogata turned his attention to the four girls surrounding the old woman.
The faces of the four girls surrounding the old woman were all white and without any tattoos.
Ogata remembered what Ayaka had told Ogata before - among the Ainu people, if you see a woman without tattoos on her face, it means that the woman is underage.
Among the four underage girls, the one with the orange headband is the most beautiful.
She has big, dark eyes, a round yet small face, and fairly delicate facial features. She seems to be the youngest of the four girls.
After Ashley and others nodded casually and returned the gift, the girl with the red headband quietly asked her grandmother beside her.
"Grandma, how about the possessed god of Kazuto... hmm? Grandma?"
The girl with the red headband was surprised to find that Ashley's grandma had her mouth wide open and her eyes widened.
He looked like he had seen something surprising and scary.
The gaze from grandma's eyes was directed towards the person standing in front of her - Ogata.
Everyone present, including Ogata and Atachi, noticed the strangeness of grandma at this time.
Ogata looked puzzled and looked at the old woman who was looking at him strangely.
He thought the old woman's eyes were strange.
Because the old woman didn't seem to be looking at him.
It's more like looking behind him...
——Is there something strange behind me?
Ogata turned his head and looked behind him.
But nothing could be seen except air.
"Grandma." Ashley asked her grandma with a worried look on her face, "Why are you..."
Before Ashley could finish her words, she saw her grandmother suddenly rushing in front of Ogata.
"#￥%@&*#￥@%%@(Ainu language)" the old lady spoke a lot of Ainu language at high speed.
Ogata and Atachi didn't understand what she was talking about at all.
But Ogata was surprised to find that after the old woman finished speaking, Aiyaka and others showed horrified expressions.
The most beautiful girl with the orange headband had the most violent reaction.
Not only did her face look horrified, but her cheeks also turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"What did the old woman say?" Ogata asked Aiyaka.
Ayaka pursed her lips, glanced at Ogata and Atachi with strange eyes, and said slowly:
"She said: She wants you to be her grandson-in-law..."
"...Huh?" Ogata tilted his head.
On the side, A-Machi instantly showed an expression that was difficult to describe in words.
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