Lord Highlander

   Chapter 216 215. Mother

  Natasha and Rita took little Peter into the inner room of the stone house.

  An oil lamp was lit outside the stone house. The pea-sized flame made the room extremely dark. Only old Sheila and Suldak were left in the room. Neither of them spoke, and the atmosphere became extremely dull for a while.

  Old Sheila sat at the door of the inner room, looking at Suldak warily.

   "Where's my little Duck?" Old Sheila asked with a trembling voice.

  Her eyes were full of expectation, pleading, and a touch of sadness, and she seemed to have some bad premonitions, but before she got the truth, Old Sheila still wanted to ask and get a definite answer.

  Old Sheila finally asked the question that was holding back in her heart.

  Suldak rubbed his hands together, took a deep breath, and said, "I died in battle. One month before my full military service, the Bena Army launched the Battle of Moyunling..."

Hearing Suldak's first words, old Sheila felt like the whole sky was about to collapse. Her nails were almost embedded in the flesh of her palm, and her heart was like a mess of rags, which had been pulled hard by both hands. Screw them together and wring out all the dirty water inside.

  Suldak explained in great detail, telling old Sheila exactly what happened to him in the two months in the expeditionary army.

The Fifty-seventh Heavy Armored Infantry Regiment belongs to the Bena Legion. It is a well-known heavy armored infantry regiment that went out from Hailansa City. In the past few years when the plane war broke out, the number of soldiers killed in battle has continued Increase, almost half of the young people in the village who serve in the military will die on the battlefield. When Sulda overcame his military service, old Sheila spent all her family savings in order to let Suldak join this excellent infantry regiment. She only hoped that her son would return safely, but she had been looking forward to it for four years. There was a death message.

Old Sheila leaned against the stone wall by the door, thinking sadly: If Ken had given out a little more money back then, or even borrowed a little more, Suldak could have stayed in Hailansa City to serve in the military , then maybe this kind of thing wouldn't happen.

  In the years when plane wars broke out frequently, under the system of universal military service, it was not uncommon for civilians to join the army and die on the battlefield.

   It's just that this kind of thing is spread on my head, and outsiders will never be able to understand the grief and sadness.

  Old Sheila tried her best to cover her mouth, not wanting to cry out. There were no tears in her eyes long ago, and her rough hands were covered with calluses and cracks.

  Suldak said to Old Sheila: "Before he died, he hoped that I could return to Wall Village to take care of you."

  Old Sheila glanced at Suldak, the guard in his eyes had been removed a lot, and asked him, "Are you Dak's companion on the battlefield?"

   "Yes!" Surdak replied.

  Old Sheila looked at the young man in front of her.

In a trance, the figure of the young man overlapped with the little Duck in his memory. Little Duck wanted to reach out and touch the old Sheila's face, wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said in his mouth, "Let little Duck take care of you." You guys! '

  Old Sheila still wanted to take a look at the illusory little Duck, but unfortunately, the illusory light and shadow disappeared without a trace in an instant.

   Sitting in front of her was still this strange young knight who was somewhat similar to Suldak.

  Old Sheila lowered her head and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes. She thought a lot about her future life.

"Our family lives fairly well in Wall Village. We have clothes to keep out the cold, and we also have rice and wheat to fill our stomachs. Although life is not rich, it is not too difficult. Although our life is ordinary, But at least we can live on without you taking care of us." Old Sheila finally made a decision and said to Suldak.

  Old Sheila said that life was not difficult, but Suldak didn't really believe it.

   "..."

   Facing the distrust on old Sheila's face, Suldak didn't continue to say anything.

There was no extra bed for Suldak, so old Sheila built a temporary bed outside the stone house with the only chair and half of a wooden box for Suldak to sleep here, and she didn't have any Back in his room, he sat on the wooden bench, leaning against the door of the inner room, and watched silently all night with his eyes slightly closed.

  Suldak rode a horse for a day, and lay hungry on a bed made of wooden boxes and chairs, and fell asleep all night in a daze.

In the morning, the sun shone through the window into the stone house, and a beam of dazzling light shone on Suldak's face. In his sleep, Suldak wanted to turn his head away, but he hit his head on the back of the chair, and instantly woke up over here.

  A bowl of porridge made of cassava and crushed chestnuts fell in front of Suldak with a bang, and old Sheila turned and left with a cold face.

Suldak quickly sat up from the wooden box and drank the bowl of gruel, which didn't look very good. The cassava cubes in the porridge had a faint fishy smell, but it wasn't too bad. It was tightly closed, but a pair of clear eyes could be seen looking out curiously through the gap in the door panel, and Suldak immediately recognized that it was Little Peter.

  Little Peter wanted to run out of the wooden house, but was hugged tightly by the woman behind him, and even covered his mouth.

  Surdak stood awkwardly in the stone house outside, scratched his head and said, "I want to look around in the village. I've heard a lot about the village."

  He tidied up the monster leather armor on his body, left the modified Roman sword and blue iris shield in the stone house, turned around and walked out of the house with his head bowed.

Old Sheila looked at Suldak's back. She stood at the door and watched without saying a word as Suldak untied Guberai's horse, watched him drink half a bucket of water for the horse, and then Pulling the reins, he led the horse out of the yard, until he was far away, and then he sat limp and powerless at the door...

  …

   It wasn't until dinner that Suerdak led the horse back from outside the village.

  The ancient Bolai horse had a full belly, standing in the yard and wagging its tail leisurely.

  Old Sheila prepared an ordinary dinner for Suldak, scones with chestnut noodles, a bowl of dark stew, and nothing else, and it seemed that the others had already finished eating. Rita and Natasha were still hiding in the inner room and refused to come out, but this time little Peter ran out cheerfully, pestering Suldak and asking him to tell some stories about the battlefield.

  Looking at the yearning eyes of little Peter, Suldak could only bite the bullet and say: "People will die in battle, whether they are nobles or commoners, there is no difference in front of evil spirits, they are very vicious..."

  Suldak grabbed a handful of lizard claw fruit from his backpack, and pulled out a gleaming dagger from the outside of his thigh. Old Sheila, who was cleaning the table next to him, trembled in fright, and the rag in his hand almost fell out.

Little Peter looked enviously at the exquisite dagger in Suldak's hand, and watched him tell a story while peeling out the nuts. Little Peter had never eaten such a sweet nut, and he ate more than a dozen in succession. Ke was worried that little Peter would have indigestion, so he stopped after eating only fifteen, and promised little Peter that if he was willing to go to bed on time, he would have nuts to eat tomorrow.

Finally persuaded little Peter to go to bed, and old Sheila took Suldak to another room. The stone room was so small that it could only accommodate a wooden bed, and half a bag of chestnut rice was placed on a wooden shelf against the wall. There is a pile of cassava with wrinkled skin, which is probably their daily ration.

  Old Sheila remade the old but clean sheets, and said to Suldak seriously: "You will sleep here tonight, and you can leave tomorrow morning!"

  Suldak saw the firm look in old Sheila's eyes, so he could only sigh slightly, and said:

"Well, I will leave tomorrow. I will live in Hailansa City for a while. If you need anything, you can send me a message from the village. Go to the Knights in Hailansa City and you will be able to find it." I."

  Seeing that Suldak agreed, old Sheila turned and walked out.

  Suldak was lying on the bed, and through the gaps in the thatched roof, he could almost see the stars in the night sky.

  He thought in his heart that if he failed to fulfill Suldak's last entrustment before his death, he could only leave the gold coins with them to them. If they could hide these gold coins properly, they should be comfortable enough to spend the rest of their lives comfortably.

  Thinking of this, Suldak took out the bag of gold coins from the magic pocket and hid them in the cassava pile in the corner.

  Lying on old Sheila's bed, Suldak tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. It wasn't until the moment before dawn that Suldak fell into a deep sleep.

  (end of this chapter)