I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 349 The Ordinary Chapter Ends
"it is good……"

Little Hoss nodded in response, walked over, and led the debt collectors into the house.

The harvest in the field this year is good. Perhaps all the grain authorization in the ten fields left by Medioc can be used to repay the debt, and a lot of principal can be repaid.

"...Little Hoss, or is all the food here used to pay off your debt to Mr. Raleigh?"

"Correct."

"Then I looked at the grain here, and it's probably just enough to repay the interest for this year, six hundred copper coins."

"How could it be? I obviously gained more here than last year, so how could it be only enough to repay the principal."

"... this year, the grain harvest in all places has been bumper, and the prices of these things have dropped, you know, so although there is more grain, it is not so valuable."

To the words of the debt collectors, to the grain that I harvested after working in the fields for a year, sweating for a year, and falling down in the fields when I was the most tired,

Little Hoss, with rough and yellow skin on his face, bowed his head and remained silent for a long time.
"Little Hoss, Hoss, you make up your mind quickly, how can I pay back, I have to rush back..."

……

"……What's going on here?"

Little Hoss led the debt collector into the house, while the bard and Mrs. Milia in the yard outside the house were still talking,
Seeing the high-spirited and menacing debt collector who followed Little Hoss into the house, the bard couldn't help asking,
"Collection. We owe Mr. Raleigh a debt."

"How much do you owe?"

"It used to be seven silver coins, but now it's been a few years, and I still owe six silver coins."

"Why so many?"

The bard was very surprised. This is wealth that most farmers who work in the fields may not be able to accumulate in their entire lives.

Mrs. Milia was silent and did not answer.

The bard took the water bag, but walked into the room on the side of Little Hoss,
He just heard the debt collector urging Little Hoss,
"...In this case, if you have some money, you might as well pay back part of it with grain, and keep the rest of the grain and pay it back with money."

The bard gives Hoss a piece of advice.

Little Hoss looked up at the bard, then nodded at the debt collector,
"That's it...you take away the food of four hundred copper coins, I still have three hundred copper coins."

The debt collector also turned his head, glanced at the bard, and agreed to Little Huss's repayment method.

"...Here, this is a proof of one hundred copper coins...Okay, move quickly, go back quickly, here, here...all for me to move."

"Hey... don't you want to say it?"

"Each bag of grain weighs about the same. You don't need to weigh it. Mr. Raleigh has always been so windy, so he doesn't care about these little things."

"Oh...then you said earlier that the grain is worth six hundred copper coins in total. If you remove the grain of four hundred copper coins, there will still be one-third left, and there must be at least nine bags left here."

"You... move quickly."

The debt collectors look one more time at the bard,

Then waited for Little Huos to give him three hundred copper coins, then turned around and left with the people.

"...If you have accumulated money, it is actually better to use the money to pay off your debts instead of directly using food...Although the price of food may drop, it can be eaten."

The bard said to Little Hoss,
"I once walked through a place where pests and drought were rampant, and there was no food harvested in the fields. I almost died there."

"...you don't always have money."

Little Hoss said to the bard.

The bard nodded, and then went out with Little Hoss,

Then in the yard, the bard couldn't help asking Little Hoss again,
"Sir...why do you owe so much money?"

Little Hoss didn't speak.

Mrs. Milia answered,

"It was his father who unfortunately violated the church knight's fine, a total of ten silver coins. His father's savings paid back three silver coins, and the remaining seven silver coins were borrowed from Mr. Raleigh."

"Ten silver coins? How come?"

The bard said in surprise,

"According to the law of the church, if there is an additional fine for colliding with the knights of the church, it is only one silver coin. If, if your father has unfortunately passed away, there should be no fine."

The bard said this, Little Hoss looked up at him, and then lowered his head.

"Where is your church law?"

"Naturally it belongs to the church, the headquarters of the church in the capital."

"That may be because the church laws in different places are different."

Mrs. Milia replied.

The bard didn't know what to say.

Little Hoss still keeps his head down, he's not stupid ignorant,
It's just that the laws of the church never clearly tell them these people.

It is only when they violate the laws of the church that they know the existence of a certain law,

As for the amount of the fine for a certain law and what the punishment is, it is naturally up to the priests and knights of the church to decide.

"Sir, what is your father's name? Maybe I can bring the injustice your father suffered to far away."

"Mediouk, his name is Medioc."

Little Hoss raised his head, faced the bard, and answered the question,

He remembered that there was no tombstone in front of his father's grave, only the small tombstone he buried in the ground, and he didn't know if it would rot,
Maybe many years later, people will forget this name. He is now pinning his hopes on this bard, hoping that he can remember this name,
"Okay, I remember, Medioc."

"Sir, can you tell me what happened then?"

Little Hoss told the bard all about the past,
After the bard finished listening, he left under the gazes of Little Hoss and Mrs. Milia,
Lopsided.

After the bard had left,

Little Hoss and Mrs. Milia live on.

Once the harvest in the field is over, a new cultivation is about to begin.

Little Hoss had to get busy in the field again to cultivate things.

Time passes year by year,

Little Hoss spends most of his time in the fields,

He seems to have lost his youthful time, and also his youthful time.

Little Hoss gradually became Hoss in the field, and became more and more like other farmers in the village.

The face is rough, the hands and feet are full of calluses, and the dirt that doesn't seem to be washed clean, there is no smile on the face, and he is busy in the fields every day.

It's just that Mrs. Milia helps to plow the fields at night,

Hoss can finish the farm work earlier than other residents in the village,
This gave him some free time to go to town and find an extra job,

Although it is also a tiring job, it also allows Hawes to obtain an extra income.

Hoss saved the extra income and rarely used it.

In recent years, the harvest of grain cultivated in the fields has also been good.

Although there are still debts and interest that need to be repaid every year, they are still doing well and can live on.

And Hawes also received the same praise as Mrs. Valina's Mrs. Burton's family,

'Hoss is a man favored by the Lord. '

And every time he heard such words, Hoss remained silent.

Only under the reminder of Aunt Varina, Hoss would occasionally send some gifts to Grandpa Gus.

Sometimes it's a small piece of meat, sometimes it's soybeans or other grains, even though Grandpa Gus doesn't seem to have answered any questions for him.

……

"Hoss...do you want to go to church? Today is Sunday. Maybe we can go to church and pray."

"...What are you praying for? Pray that your wife will give you another child?"

At this time, when the farmland was already busy, Hoss found a heavy manual job in the town,

He just got off work at the moment, and invited him to church with a worker who worked the same as him,
Maybe he responded with a smile, and mixed in among these workers, he couldn't tell the difference.

"Don't talk about me, Hoss, you should get a wife at your age, and let her have a baby for you."

The man also said with a smile.

Holden nodded, smiled and didn't respond.

"Hey, Hoss, going to church? Let's go together?"

The worker greeted Hoss again.

Hoss stood still and hesitated, then nodded.

He seldom went to church, although the church door seemed to be open at any time,

But even passing through the church door, the tall church building made Hoss, who was dressed in coarse linen and covered in dirt, dare not enter.
Even bypassing it most of the time.

Hoss felt that he might be a sinner. The death of his father, Medioc, made him have a deep fear and tension about the church.

The priests and knights who might come out of the church also made Hoss a little worried that he would run into them unfortunately.

I was even a little scared that Milia was also working in the field when people in the church found out.

In such entanglement, Hoss followed the worker to the door of the church.

In front of the church,

The worker who called him was afraid to go in,
Looking up at the tall cathedral door above the steps,
The worker looked down at the dirt on his rough clothes,
"Hoss, why don't we go home and change into clean clothes and come back tomorrow."

Hoss didn't speak.
The worker took another step up the steps, then stood on tiptoe, raised his head, and looked at the darkness in the church door,
"There seems to be no one else in the church...how about we go in? Just say a prayer and leave."

It was late afternoon and evening, and there seemed to be no one in the church.

After hesitating, the worker still led the way and entered the church with Hoss.

In the church, the priest was absent, and there were no other people praying.

The worker breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't dare to make a sound in the church.
Silently walked to the side, silently praying something in front of the church.

Hoss stood in this quiet and dim church, his eyes fell on the front of the church again,

On rows of burning candles, rows of candle flames danced, reflecting in Hoth's eyes.

These candles seemed to be the same as the ones he saw when he was a child.

Under the light of the rows of candles in front of the church, Hoss's cloudy eyes seemed to look a little like when he was a child.

Rows of candlelight fluttered and jumped slightly with the breeze, changing their appearance.

The fiery red flames seem extraordinarily magical and attractive,

Howth couldn't help but keep his eyes on those candles, unwilling to move away.

"Hoth? Hoth..."

The worker next to him had finished praying, and came over to see Hoss standing here,

Call him carefully,
"Ok?"

Hoss paused again before turning his head back.

"I've prayed, did Hoth pray? If it's over, let's go."

Staying in the extraordinarily quiet and tall church, the worker was always a little embarrassed.

After praying, I wanted to leave quickly.

"Um... let's go."

Hawes followed the worker out of the church,
Before leaving, Little Hoss took another look,
In front of the church, rows of burning, dancing candles.

After leaving the church,

Howth and the worker separated and went home.

……

"Hoss, why did you buy candles today? Did you run out of candles at home?"

"Um……"

Hawes came home with a candle in his hand.

Seeing this, Milia asked in surprise,
Hoss responded silently.

Milia looked at Hoth, and then went to work on dinner,

Hoss sat at the door of the house at night,

Lighted that candle, held it in hand,

He kept his eyes on the candle,
The appearance of the flames was reflected in Hoss' eyes.

"...Hoss, Aunt Ariel in the village, you know, she has a daughter in her family, who is about your age."

"It's almost time to get married at your age, so why don't you go and have a look when you have time?"

"it is good."

"Well... When you get married, you should have a baby earlier."

"Well...but I'm going to send him to study."

"what?"

"I'm going to send my kids to school...I'm saving money."

Howth was impressed by the words of the bard who had only met once, and his wealth of knowledge.

"What? Reading?"

"Can we afford it?"

Melia came out of the room and asked Hoss with some concern.

Hoss didn't speak, just holding the candle in his hand, still looking at the candle flame on the candle,

He remembered,
The bard told him that the kingdom has changed masters,

The new king issued a policy to have schools everywhere.

He firmly remembered this matter.

……

The content of the "ordinary" chapter ended in this conversation between Hoss and Mrs. Milia.

It ended in the evening, sitting by the door of the house, holding a candle in the conversation between Hoss and Mrs. Milia.

Probably because Hoth's ordinary life is difficult to make any changes.

It may also be because Huoss said that when he wanted to send his child to the selection, the ordinary changed.

Professor Voss as a reader,

After reading the content of the 'ordinary' chapter for the first time,
The end of the "ordinary" chapter made him a little sudden, and it ended here, a little unexpected,

However, after thinking about it carefully, I feel that it is very appropriate to end here.
Because further down, it is no longer a story of ordinary chapters.

This is the end of the story of Little Hoss, the protagonist of the ordinary chapter.

And the story of the great chapter may start here.

in the study,
After taking a sip of warm water, Professor Voss briefly read through the "Ordinary" chapter,
Take another long breath,

Soothe your emotions,
Focusing on the great chapter of "The Ordinary and the Great",

The ordinary chapter tells an ordinary story, and the great chapter should be a great story.

Perhaps an epic of such a great character as ABC's "Empire"?
With this expectation,

Professor Worth put down the water glass, and with an almost pious attitude,
Opened the manuscript for the 'great' chapter,

"...Grete calculated based on the knowledge he learned at school. It would be very difficult to pay off the family's debts, so he made a very bold suggestion to his father Hoss."

The beginning of a great chapter begins with a sentence like [-] million.

Professor Worth's gaze has been fixed on the content of the "great" chapter displayed on the computer screen,

As you read down, with the words described by the author,

Professor Worth was quickly and easily drawn into the world in the book,
Immersed in it, reading down carefully,

I forgot the exhaustion of not sleeping all night.

outside the study,
Professor Worth's wife woke up on the sofa at this time,
Opening his eyes in a daze, he saw the thin quilt covering his body,
There was a smile on his face, then he got up, looked around the room,
But still did not see the figure of Voss,
I went back to the bedroom and looked, but there was no one in the bedroom.
The wife went to the door of the study again,

Gently opened the door of the study,
I saw Professor Worth still in the study, in front of the computer, looking intently at the computer,

I was so absorbed in reading that I didn't even notice my wife opened the study door.

The wife looked at Vos helplessly, and finally exited the study carefully, closing the door gently.

(End of this chapter)