Chapter 1010
Two years after the arrival of Long Night, the north wind is still calling, but the wind is more than half smaller than before. The snow had long since ceased, for the whole sky was dry and cold, and there were no more clouds to drop water vapor.
All rivers in the world are frozen, Blackwater Rush, Mander, Trident, Honeywine, Greenblood in Westeros are all frozen. Rhoyne of Essos continent, also frozen from the source.
One day in the future, the human world will be the same temperature as beyond the wall, the north wind will stop completely, there will be no sound in nature, and it will be as quiet as a tomb.
In this cold world of all black, no daylight, Deziel feels that oneself is like a corpse in a tomb.
He had just brought back a basket of tree root bark from outside the city, missed lunch, huddled by the fire, numbly gnawed on the hard bread made of tree roots and bran, the flames shook, his ears He seemed to have hallucinations.
In a trance, the voice of old nurse Harvest Hall came: "People grow up in the cold winter and die in the cold winter, and there is no spring in their life.
King in the castle. No different from the basest servants, all frozen to death in the long winter.
Mother killed the children so that they would not be born to suffer, and they burst into tears, but the tears froze on their cheeks ..."
"father..."
Daughter's cat-like meowing woke him from his trance, Deziel looked all around, The sick father-in-law, the reed-stick-like daughter, and the scrawny wife bared half of her chest, with a sluggish expression, allowing the swaddling baby to cry.
"Am I still dreaming? I should be, otherwise why is the scene in front of me exactly the same as the scene in Old Nan's story..." He murmured blankly, "I'm dreaming, The story of the old nurse was too terrifying, and it scared me into nightmares.
If I don't sleep well, I will be scolded by Lord Earl for dozing off tomorrow while plowing the fields—"
"father ?" The daughter took pity on Barbara's sleeve.
"Ah!" Deziel exclaimed, the bread in his hands terrified.
My daughter swallowed at the dark and dry bread, but picked it up sensible and handed it to her father.
“Younger brother is crying,” whispered nine-year-old Dyna.
"I'm out of milk. Hanna eats bark noodles every day, so how can I feed my children." The old father-in-law turned over in the torn sheepskin quilt and sighed.
He was only fifty years old, but he looked like he lived a hundred and fifty years.
Once separated by ten acres of land, his father-in-law's loud voice could make him tremble, but now his voice is too weak to disturb Sparrow on the threshing floor... There are words for Sparrow.
Deziel was fully awake by now.
He didn't have nightmares, but lived in a real world that was more terrifying than nightmares - Pentos under Long Night.
Deziel hurriedly ran to the outer hall, took a large earthen jar from the square table, threw oneself's black bread into it, hesitated for a moment, then bent down and took out a handful from the seventh floor tile in the southwest corner of the house. Bronze key.
Climb under the square table, uncover the eight floor tiles in the center, an oak door with a large window appears in front of you, unlock it with a key, revealing a pitch-black hole under the door.
The middle age person with a yellow face and thin skin first quietly came to the door of the main room, leaned into the crack of the door, and looked into the courtyard.
Somewhat like a courtyard house, except that the courtyard is long and narrow, with long rows of houses on both sides, where dozens of families live.
Able to live in such a house, Pentos is considered to be above the middle class, at least the house belongs to him completely. More Free Folk, either by renting Merchant Prince's house to live, or saddled with a lifetime mortgage.
At this time, the yard is pitch-black, the snow has been shoveled away, the ground is black, the sky is black, only the top of the low chimney of the kang and fireplace can be seen faintly, and a small fire star rises. Black smoke.
There are no hungry refugees staring at oneself's house, Deziel sighed in relief, returned to the square table again, and got into the black hole like a groundhog.
About ten minutes later, he crawled out again and again, holding something in his hands covered in yellow mud, a shriveled apple in his left hand, and a hard-frozen turnip. , right hand holding a cell phone-sized black red bacon.
He used the attitude of a five-star chef to treat top-quality Wagyu beef, cautiously washed the turnip, apples, and bacon, cut them into pieces, put them in a crock pot, filled them with water, and carried them into the bedroom.
Two years after the Sun was extinguished, the heated kang "invented" by Dragon Queen has gradually become a standard for surviving families.
Everyone is used to sleeping in Chase as a family.
If conditions permit, an additional fireplace will be built next to the Fire Pit.
The warmer the room is, the slower the stomach will be.
"It's not dinner time yet, so I'll eat now. I'll be hungry at night." The old father-in-law muttered.
"Eat one more meal today, three meals to replenish Hanna's body." Deziel hung the crock pot on the fireplace before walking over to his wife and daughter to divide the remaining apple cores into two, half handed to the daughter, half stuffed into the wife's mouth.
"Apple?" little girl Dyna was very surprised, cautiously in her mouth.
"Did you go to the cellar to get food again?" Hanna, a middle-aged woman, was a little angry, "We now have tree root noodles, although it is unpalatable, but also not able to survive, those fruits are eaten less. One, I'll save a few for Jaime."
Deziel glanced at the baby boy in the swaddle, frowned: "He's only half a year old, and he doesn't even have all his teeth."
" Eat it when he grows up, eat it when he gets married, and wait for his baby to eat." His wife said.
Deziel was speechless, "You think too far."
"Long Night will last a generation, maybe Jaime will never see Summer, but at least let him have a taste. Fruit in Summer." The woman said sadly.
"Dragon Queen only needs ten years to end Long Night, now two years have passed, eight years left, how old will Jaime be in eight years? Will definitely see Summer." Deziel said.
"The Red God priest said The Seven Septon was lying," Hanna said.
"I believe Queen's words, our family is today, thanks to Queen's gift." Deziel said.
Well, Dany had an early encounter with him when he rode a dragon to Rhoyne to find the statue of Valyrian Steel.
But Dany didn't deal with him himself, and it was Jon Connington who gave him the favor.
"Not only the priests of Red God said this, but the priests of other temples said..." Hanna looked hesitant, "If the Dragon Queen refuses to obey the destiny, Long Night will never end— "
"pa" Before she could finish, she was slapped on the face.
Deziel said angrily: "I've said it many times, this is a deliberate rumor released by Evil God. Those filthy Justice League—"
"Deziel!" The old father-in-law opened the crack Sheepskin, got up and scolded: "Be careful what you say, Gods can't be slandered by you?
And Hanna, knowing that Deziel is the Small Captain of the Beggar Army (Poor Fellows) Small Captain, and saying Dragon to his face The Queen's bad words."
Well, the old father-in-law was angry that his daughter was not beaten - after the new son-in-law got a few Golden Dragons from Queen Knight, he had the right to beat his wife in front of his father-in-law - he It was because he was worried that his son-in-law would say nothing and offend Gods.
This is not unfounded. You scold the Justice League, and the neighbors listen to you. The neighbors casually tell the priests of a temple, and the temple generally belongs to the Justice League side.
Today, two years after the arrival of Long Night...especially the "devil riot" tragedy that occurred in Lys a year ago, which shocked the whole world, the distance between Spiritual God and mortals has become Closer than ever.
"Sorry, I..." Deziel sighed, stroking his wife's swollen cheek, and said, "You don't know how to read, and you've heard people say "Secret Record of the Gods", no. You should be so ignorant."
Hanna turned her head angrily and avoided her husband's right hand, coldly said: "The Secret Record is a banned book compiled by Maester, and the words in it cannot be trusted."
"The more Gods listed it as a banned book, the more proof..." After a moment of hesitation, he didn't say any more taboo words, only said: "It doesn't matter who is right, just who is right. Do more. Without the Church of The Seven, Pentos would have fallen like Summer Isles and Jade Sea various cities.
Even if you don't know Summer Isles and Jade Sea various cities, Qohor next door knows Right?
They claimed to be protected by Gods and did not allow The Seven Septon to enter the city. As a result, more than 300,000 people in the city, plus one million people in the surrounding towns, were completely submerged in the corpse tide.
Faced with the trifling tide of 100,000 corpses, Qohor, who was protected by Gods, did not hold back for even a day.
Before the city was destroyed, Qohor Prince had nowhere to go, no way to plead, and shamelessly asked for help. The Pentos Sept summons..."
"I was in Sept, listening to Devout Haggon preaching, and saw with my own eyes the Qohor Prince with hundreds of aristocrats and nobles in the fire of the glass candle, crawling like a dog On the ground, while begging Lord Devout to send a message to Dragonstone, while crying: Gods is incompetent, the Spiritual God who has descended has not even resisted a wave; Gods is unrighteous, saw that the situation was far from good Run away immediately, regardless of the millions of people in the city-state It's too late."
"Unfortunately, it was too late to ask for help at that time. Cohollo fell, but Pentos was next door..." Deziel frowned and shook his head with a sigh.
"Trifling a hundred thousand... a hundred thousand Wights still not terrifying?" Hanna muttered.
"One hundred thousand living dead in Westeros can only pull the city's danger index from green to pink, and only a million corpses can sound the red alarm." Deziel said proudly and bitterly.
He is a Westeros man who made his home across the Narrow Sea as an adult. Before the outbreak of Faceless Men Others, he was fortunate to be far away from home, but now he can't wait to return to Seven Kingdoms, where the risk index is green across the board.
"Gudugudu..." The husband and wife were talking, but the broth in the crock pot boiled.
The old father-in-law shrugged, surprised: "And bacon and turnip?"
"Hanna's even dried up the milk..." Deziel was even more bitter.
Hanna face changed, pointing to the three wrist-sized air vents side by side in the corner of the wall, and eagerly said: "Quickly, quickly block the openings, and don't let the fragrance drift into the yard."
The old father-in-law hurriedly got off the kang, found three pairs of broken socks and stuffed the hole tightly.
“Half a month ago, someone on Ximen Street forgot to close the window for stewing meat at night, which led to a collective riot among the residents in the neighborhood.
originally thought that the family had a lot of grain, who knows After the mob rushed into his house, only to find that there were only half-cooked children in the pot..." Hanna whispered.
"It's really cruel to eat oneself child, why don't you join the Volunteers and go outside the city to catch Wights, Wights can also eat." Deziel disdain.
“But Wights can eat people, too,” Hanna quivered.
"Others eat people..."
The old father-in-law swallowed while looking at the steaming crock pot, and said, "I'll finish eating the broth later. , I want to make a pot of pine needle tea to suppress the taste of meat in my mouth.
Also remember not to burp at outsiders, and don't poop outside for the past two days, so no one can know that we have eaten meat. ."