Heimarian Odyssey Chapter 34: The Rock Family
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In the Kingdom of Faustan, Del Province, Kaidoqi collar, Maple Leaf Village, a young woman with a white hairband is washing clothes by the river.
Although it is late autumn, Kaidoqi collar belongs to the south, and the temperature is not too cold, so it is reasonable that the woman is still washing clothes at this time. Although her hands were frozen and white.
"Leah~Tia called you to go home to eat~" A middle-aged woman holding a headscarf shouted at the entrance of the village in the distance.
"Got it~ Aunt Mary~" The woman replied, and quickly put away the washed clothes and put them aside, ready to come back tomorrow when she has time.
After the woman cleaned up, she found Aunt Mary was still waiting for her at the entrance of the village, and rushed over with her things quickly.
"Aunt Mary, let's go." The woman held the wooden basin with clothes in one hand and Aunt Mary's arm in the other.
"Hey, Tia really has a good daughter, I really envy." Aunt Mary exclaimed.
"Aunt Mary, Hank and the others are also pretty good. Tian would like to thank your family for your help this year," the woman said.
"Those boys, apart from giving birth to a few mouthfuls for the old lady, how can they have any other skills!" Aunt Mary is always so aggressive.
"Hehe~" The woman covered her mouth and chuckled.
"Your brother is the most promising in our village. It has only been a few years now as the team leader, and I will still have it in the future?" Aunt Mary exclaimed.
Xu was thinking of her younger brother who hadn't seen him in a few years. The woman Chen Mo for a moment, then smiled and said, "Hans is also very good. As for the third-class soldiers, everyone in the village praised him."
"That kid doesn't have to rely on your brother. Locke, I thought this kid was clever since I was a kid." Aunt Mary was very happy when she heard the woman praise her son.
The two walked in the village together, and the villagers passing by were very enthusiastic about taking care of them. There are mostly elderly parents in the village, and most of the young and middle-aged have joined the army and have not returned.
After walking to a yard west of the village, Aunt Mary chatted with the woman and left. Their home is next door, not far away.
The woman waved her hand, and after watching Aunt Mary enter her yard, she also pushed the door into the house. The door leaf is just an ordinary Zai door, but it looks quite new, it should have just been repaired.
"Mother, I'm back." The woman called.
The woman is Leah, Locke's sister, and this yard is also the home where Locke has lived for 14 years.
"Oh, my daughter is back." An old man with gray hair squatted on a wooden pier in the yard, smoking a dry cigarette while saying hello. This is the father of Old Locke, Locke and Leah.
Popular people don’t have surnames, only names, such as Locke and Xia Qian. In some low-education families, when there is only one boy, the child will inherit the father's name. For example, Locke inherits his father's name. The villagers I know call them both, Old Locke and Little Locke.
Of course, Locke is now a young man, and his status is not low. Everyone will no longer call him Little Locke, but Locke.
Nobles are different. Each noble has its own surname, family, and clan emblem. These three are important criteria for judging the size of influence among nobles. Outsiders generally call the nobles' surnames. For example, Kaidoqi is a surname, and the surname represents the face of the nobles. Only the head of the noble family is eligible to be called the surname.
For example, there is only one Baron Kedozi. Although Master Sauron is also surnamed Kedozi, others only call him Sauron.
"Father, how many times have you said that, don't always smoke!" Leah is a sensible and well-behaved girl, but only on the fact that her father likes to smoke, Leah always disagrees with her father.
"Cough cough... Anyway, I have been alive for a few years. I had a mouth addiction before he died." Old Locke coughed twice, and after extinguishing the smoking gun, he tied it to his back, still listening to his daughter.
Leah put the clothes and tub back in the house, moved out a small stool, sat behind Old Locke, and knocked Old Locke on his back.
"It's better to be a daughter~" Old Locke stretched out and exclaimed comfortably. Old Locke believed that the two most successful things he did in his life were adopting the daughter of his sister and giving birth to Locke, a good son. Of course Leah is not his biological daughter, only he, his wife and some old people in the village know.
Not long after, the smell of rice came, and a middle-aged woman came out from the house with a bowl. This woman with crow's feet and gray hair was the mother of Tia, Locke and Leah.
The bowl is just flour cakes and a few corn cobs, but this is also a rare delicacy. If it hadn’t been for a younger brother who had been taking care of the family for the past two years, he (she) might not even be able to eat them.
Tia put the bowl on a wooden pier, and returned to the house to bring out a large bowl of soup. The soup was water boiled with corn cobs. Tia added a few wild vegetables to the water to make this bowl of soup both It has the sweet taste of corn and the fresh vegetable taste of wild vegetables. A simple dinner is the norm for most civilians in this world.
The three of them took a small bench and sat around the wooden pier, and started dinner. Although Kaidoqi was in the south, in the late autumn, when the north wind blew through, the three people who ate still couldn't help but shudder. In the low temperature environment, several people speeded up the meal.
It’s not that I don’t want to eat in the house, but the wooden house of Locke’s house is only a small 20 square meters. This small space is divided into three parts, one kitchen, one room for Lao Locke and Tia, and one Leah In the room with Locke, except for the stove and two beds, there was no extra furniture. The meals of Locke's family or some manual work done by Tia and Leah were all done by sitting in the courtyard outside the house.
It's not just the Locke family. In the small village of Maple Leaf Village, most people are like this. Standing in the room was too crowded, let alone sitting around for dinner.
At the dinner table, the three of them ate silently, and the wooden piers around them vacated a place, which was once Locke's place. Old Locke has an honest character. Leah's character followed his mother Tia. She is also a hard-working and simple woman. The family gathers to eat together and always thinks of Locke, so although there are some small chats at the dinner table, there are not many.
Old Rock grabbed a corn and began to gnaw, and from time to time he lowered his head to take a sip of soup. Leah followed her mother Tia, just biting the noodles, very softly.
"The food prices in the town have gone up again." Tia said while eating. The Rock’s family is different from the Hans’s next door. He does not have young men. The two acres of land in the family depend on the body of the old Rock and her wife. The food they grow is not enough to eat. They can only guarantee that they won’t die. You have to buy food if you are full.
"If it goes up, go up. Nobody has any more food these days." Old Locke said as he ate, "How much money Locke sent back last month?" Old Locke asked.
"Half of the money sent back last month has been saved, and the other half has 30 copper Delers left." Tia said.
"Enough, I guess the Baron’s caravan will be back in these two days..." Old Locke said nothing. The Baron’s caravan was back, but there is no guarantee that their children will be sent back. When the money came, they couldn't come back after seeing too many young people in the village going out. What they came back was only compensation and bad news for the death of the baron caravan. They are too scared to receive notice of their child's death one day. Like most villagers, they have mixed feelings about the baron caravan wishing to come but not to come.
"Don't just think about the bad news." Tia knew what her wife was thinking, and she said in a positive way, "I have saved a lot of money that Locke has sent back in the past few years, plus I became the team leader last year. The money sent back is more, the family is enough, shouldn’t it be time to find a daughter-in-law for Locke.” Tia is very concerned about Locke’s marriage, Locke is now 18, early to get married and have children.
"Well, Locke has been doing well in the baron's army these years. It's time to find him a good daughter-in-law." Old Locke nodded and replied. When his wife wanted to find a wife for Locke, Old Locke had two hands. Yes.
After the meal, Leah and Tia cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, while Old Locke hunched back and checked whether the door in the yard was closed, put the farm tools and other items in the yard, and finally carried them while eating. The three small benches returned to the house.
In the late autumn, it is always dark and fast. Not only the Locke family, but most of them have gone to sleep at this time.
After finishing the dishes, Leah greeted her parents and went back to the house. This is a seven-eight-square-meter hut, with only two thin wooden beds and a half-meter-high cabinet. This is not only Leah’s wardrobe, but also a box for Leah’s gadgets, such as bundles. Hair scarves, handkerchiefs woven by yourself. . . . . .
Leah took off the white silk scarf tied to her hair and placed it carefully in the cabinet. In addition to this white silk scarf, there was also a blue one in the cabinet. Leah bought this year, just because A word from the front-line brother, asking the businessman. Leah stroked the silk scarf, not knowing where she was. When she recovered, her face turned red and she put the silk scarf back in place.
Leah was lying on her bed, looking at the empty bed beside her, her heart was also empty. She thought of her brother, Locke, the naughty and sensible little boy. Or remembering how she was sleeping with Locke when she was a child, Leah wrapped her arms around her, with a cloud of air, thinking of Locke.
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Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, I will start the exam again. Xiaodou can only resume writing after getting around the 15th. I don't have any manuscripts in his hand. I have been busy reviewing recently and I don't have time to write, so I will start this chapter today. Xiaodou may be more before the 15th, but not necessarily, forgive me.