Fashen live room

Chapter 406 Ashley Village
"Norman, Norman..."

A voice kept calling in his ears, gradually waking up Norman's consciousness.

Under the constant calling of this voice, Norman finally opened his eyes.

After opening his eyes, with the faint light of the fire, what Norman saw was a familiar face.

This is a man.

The word "years are like knives" is clearly reflected on this man's body. His face is full of knife marks carved by the years, winding and deep like the cracked earth, and his skin has been completely lost due to years of sun and rain. Elastic, like an orange peel that has been dried and then coated with oil.

His eyes were as inert as his skin, dull and lifeless, robbed of the last gleam of life by the hardships of life.

This is……

"dad."

Norman subconsciously shouted the term from his mouth.

The person in front of him was his father, Old Norman.

Seeing that his son had finally woken up, the old Norman straightened up, turned around, walked away, bent down to move things, and said, "Hurry up, we will grab two pieces of land today. That's fine, if you can't tidy up the land before the spring planting begins, there will be no time when the spring planting begins..."

Old Norman was talking about things that Norman was familiar with.

Spring planting refers to the large-scale planting activities of Lord Barton's family every spring.

Mr. Patton's family has too many fields. Although he also has many serfs, those serfs alone cannot take care of all of Mr. Patton's fields before the rainy season. At this time, the villagers of Ashley Village are also needed. Help - this is voluntary labor, and the villagers have no right to refuse.

These common senses flashed through Norman's mind. As he thought about it, he unconsciously scanned the surrounding environment with his eyes.

This is a house made of wood, the roof is thick straw, and the straw is scarce in many places, and the stars are scattered from the middle.

The house is not big, and it is generally square. It’s just that the people who built the house were not skilled enough, which caused the whole house to be irregularly distorted in many details. Either one side protruded, or the other side was recessed; The furnishings in the house were very simple. A thick layer of straw was spread in the corner of the house. This was the bed of Norman and Old Norman. He was lying on it now. There were two black things on the bed. It was their quilts, which exuded a strange smell, a bit like the feeling of cow dung stirring vomit and fermenting in a jar for three months; on the opposite side of the bed were a few simple farm tools, and a burnt black There is a broken iron pot on it, the fire under the iron pot has not been burnt out yet, and there are strange strange objects in the pot that can't be seen clearly, and now the old Norman is The farm tools are packed over there...

This is the home that Norman has lived in for more than ten years.

"..."

After tidying up for a few times, the old Norman heard no movement behind him. He turned around and saw Norman sitting there dumbfounded and motionless, which made him frowned. The eyes that were tortured by life without strength became even colder.

"Why are you still sitting? We are short on time, hurry up!"

Being urged by the old Norman, Norman's body trembled.

As if a switch in his body had been activated, he finally came back to his senses, quickly got up from the ground, and came to Old Norman to help him get back to work.

After all, Norman was young and flexible. With his helper, the two of them quickly prepared everything for today.

Then, the old Norman turned around again, took out a pot-like container from the pile of sundries on the side, and carefully poured the contents of the iron pan into the container bit by bit, while Norman watched from the side. with.

The fields of their house are some distance away from where they live, and it takes half a day to walk there. It would be a waste of time if they come back to eat in the middle, so every time Old Norman gets up early to prepare for the day's food—— It’s not okay to eat one meal in the morning and another meal when they come back at night. With their work, no matter how much they eat in the morning, they will definitely be hungry when the sun is at its maximum. I have no strength.

After the container was filled, there was still some left in the iron pot, but it wasn't that the old Norman didn't count, but Norman's breakfast.

"Eat."

The old Norman said that when Norman heard this, he picked up a wooden spoon from the side and ate it directly from the pot.

This thing was dark and sticky. It was still dark, and there was only a little light from the fire pit in the room. The light was dim, and it was really hard to see what it was, but Norman could tell it when he ate it.

Is it wild vegetables, or the one he likes to eat most.

This made him eat faster, he kept stuffing spoonful after spoonful into his mouth, and swallowed it, not too hot, while old Norman sat aside and watched silently.

It's not that Old Norman doesn't eat it, but that he has already eaten it.

After Norman finished eating and scraping up all the wild vegetables left in the pot, he reluctantly stopped the wooden spoon in his hand, but did not put it down, but put it directly with the pot, Carefully tie it with string.

Seeing that Norman had finished eating, the old Norman finally stood up, bent down, carried a few farm tools on the ground on his shoulders, and straightened up, while Norman carefully tied the jar to the He wrapped his arms around his waist, and then he carried the remaining two items that old Norman picked up on his shoulders.

"Let's go."

The old Norman saw that Norman had also tidied up, left such a sentence, then turned and walked out of the house.

Norman followed the old Norman out of the house.

It is true that the sky is not bright yet, and the sky is still full of stars. It may be because it is approaching dawn. The stars are not very dazzling, but rather dim.

According to experience, it will be dawn when they reach the field.

The old Norman and Norman walked forward one after the other, all silent, everything was like the countless pasts they had experienced, without any difference, but Norman always had a strange feeling in his heart.

He felt as if he had forgotten something.

This feeling gently tugged at his heartstrings, once, twice, but without force.And it might be because of such a gentle force, he still couldn't remember what he had forgotten, so he could only shake his head in the end.

Forget it, I don't want to.

……

"Good job, since you were a child, I thought you would not be an ordinary person in the future, look, it really works now!"

"Tsk tsk, I really didn't see that you still have such ability? It's really unexpected."

"Norman, what do those orcs look like? I heard they all have green faces and fangs?"

"No, I heard that those orcs look similar to us, but they are bigger!"

……

A group of people are surrounding Norman, and the one surrounding him is called a solid one, which is completely impenetrable.

These guys are all villagers in the village. Normally, they are the same as old Norman, with dull eyes, exhausted by the pressure of life, and without the slightest expression, but now their dull eyes burst out with a strange freshness. Come, all of them are as excited as they are on Christmas Day when the church distributes bread.

They kept talking to Norman, who was surrounded by them, with all kinds of expressions.

"Why are you so courageous? If it were me, I might not be able to move my legs when I saw those guys."

This is with admiration.

"Those orcs are so lucky. You just happened to encounter this kind of thing. If I was there at that time, I would have arrested them by now."

This is pretending to be disdainful, and while pretending to be aggressive, he glanced at a certain corner of the crowd - in that direction, Yuna, the strongest and most beautiful girl in the village, was standing.

"Master Patton should reward you well now, maybe even reward you with two cows!"

This is to substitute himself into Norman's identity. Norman is not yet excited, he is thinking about the two cows that have not yet been settled, and his eyes are staring...

Norman didn't know where to look with his eyes, and his ears were filled with all kinds of voices, which made his head hurt from the noise.Under the words of these villagers, his thoughts unconsciously drifted to yesterday.

In the past two days, the old Norman was sick and very weak. Norman saw it and was anxious-he had seen this kind of situation, and Escher in the village walked like this.

Old Norman had to get well.

There was only one thought in Norman's mind.

Norman is not a doctor, he has never even seen a real doctor, so naturally he doesn't know how to treat the old Norman, the only way he can think of with his poor head is to find something good for the old man If Norman eats, maybe he will get better.

This was the only way Norman could think of, and then he acted.

He didn't go to the field during the day, but sneaked into the forest to the east alone—everything on this land belonged to Lord Patton, and so did the forest here.If Norman wanted to get something here, he had to apply to Lord Barton. If he went without saying anything, it would be equivalent to stealing from Lord Barton. Naturally, he would do it secretly.

Norman originally wanted to pick up some dried fruit with a mellow and sweet taste. If possible, it would be even better if he could get some meat—rabbits, roe deer, etc. For this reason, Norman also brought a Iron rakes were used as hunting weapons.As a result, he didn't pick up many dried fruits, and he didn't even see any rabbits, but he met a person he was most afraid of seeing.

Lord Button.

At that time, Master Patton was in a state of embarrassment. He used to be glamorous and always very neat, with a dirty face and filthy body. At the same time, he ran away desperately as if he was being chased by something, but his right leg seemed to be bad. It made him limping, and he couldn't run fast—it was Norman's face to describe it as "running". If you really want to say, Master Patton was crawling at the time.

If possible, Norman didn't want to worry about it, but it was unlucky that when he saw Master Button, Master Button saw him at the same time.

At that time, Master Patton's eyes lit up immediately, as bright as the sun, and they were almost on fire. He opened his mouth and was about to yell, but as soon as the words came to his mouth, he didn't yell out as if he remembered something. , but lowered his voice and hurriedly shouted to Norman: "Help!"

The majesty of Lord Patton had left a deep impression on Norman during the past ten years of his career. Seeing that Master Patton had discovered him, he couldn't pretend he couldn't see him anymore. overtake him, and run as fast as he can towards the village.

Norman didn't know what "beastman" was. He saw nothing except Lord Patton from the beginning to the end. In fact, he, the person involved, only learned from the mouths of these villagers that it turned out that Lord Patton met him while hunting. There was an attack by the orcs, so of course he couldn't answer the doubts of these villagers.

However, Norman's mind was a little drifting after being told by them.

They seem to be right. I have saved Master Button's life. Master Button should reward me with something, right?
I just don't know what Master Button will reward me with.

Thinking of this, Norman's gaze suddenly became agile, and he searched around in the crowd, and finally fixed on a direction to the left, his gaze passed through the crowd, and settled on a face.

It was a woman with big shoulders and a round waist, with a round face, a bloody mouth, copper bells and big eyes, and a strong figure.

That was Yuna, the most beautiful girl in the village, and Norman had always admired her—one of his goals in life was to be able to marry Yuna as his wife.

Yuna's eyes were also cast in this direction, and Norman's eyes naturally made contact.

There seemed to be sparks in the exchange of sight between the two. After a fierce but short confrontation, Yuna lowered her head shyly, and grabbed the hairy catkin with her hairy hand, which was thicker than a child's thigh. Her hair and her cheeks were blushed twice, making her dark skin dark red, she looked like a shy beauty, full of charm.

Norman grinned at the corner of his mouth, unconsciously smirking.

Although he didn't have any emotional experience, human instinct still allowed him to perceive the subtle meaning of it.

If it was normal, Yuna would never look at her because her family was too poor, but now she looks like this.

I don't want anything else, I just ask Master Barton to let Yuna marry me.

Norman smirked while thinking so in his heart.

He even began to think about his life after he and Yuna became husband and wife!The dense words of the villagers in his ears were getting farther and farther away from him, as if they were blocked by a thin film.

But his heart moved slightly again.

This made Norman frown slightly, unconsciously feeling a little empty.

He seems to have forgotten something.

forgot what...

Norman thought about it again, but after thinking about it for a while, he found nothing. At this moment, Yuna quietly raised her eyes and looked at him, just in time for him to catch them. There was another fierce battle in the air, which caused Norman to throw aside the weird feeling just now.

What the hell did he forget?None of that matters.

(End of this chapter)