Chapter 258: 257. Old Sheila's Dream
Chapter 258 257. Old Sheila's Dream
Little Peter secretly ate some jerky and scones during the day. This kind of jerky was a bit salty, and he drank a lot of water after eating, which made him feel a little bloated at night, and he lay down on old Sheila after a long fuss. fell asleep in his arms.
The family sat quietly around the dining table, and Suldak felt that he might be judged by the whole family, and felt a little uneasy in his heart.
A few apples and plums were placed on a plate on the table, and a candle was fixed on the table. Occasionally, the wax oil would break through the oil pool and slide down like tears.
Seeing that the candle light was too bright, old Sheila felt a little distressed, so she burned a candle like this, quickly inserted her fingers into the candle flame, and pinched off a section of the candle wick in the flame. The light in the room became dimmer, and she I was a little dissatisfied that Rita took out a candle instead of lighting the oil lamp, thinking it was a waste.
Before this, oil lamps were rarely used in the house, but at the moment the atmosphere was a bit dull, and old Sheila didn't reprimand Rita.
Under the illumination of the candlelight, old Sheila's face had some obvious wrinkles, but her complexion was much better than before, with at least a layer of oil on her face.
"...You shouldered Dak's friendship, you came to our house from a long distance, and helped us overcome the difficulties before us. Our hearts are full of gratitude." Old Sheila mumbled, and then she glanced at Suldak again , followed by:
"Accordingly... whoever you want to marry is your right, and we naturally have no right to interfere, but you have taken a fancy to Selena, and I, an old woman, have to say a few more words to you. I hope you will be cautious about this matter. Consider, since Selina married into our village, some weird things have been happening around her. She is called an ominous person in the village. This is not because of everyone's slander, but because of , Many people who got close to her died suddenly for no reason, and she may bring you endless disasters."
Old Sheila's words were very pertinent. Suldak could only rub his nose, and explained to Old Sheila: "I think maybe some things are coincidences, of course... I'm not denying anything, I saw it at the entrance of the village a few days ago Seeing Signa, I just feel that she is too young now, if the two clerks take Selina away, maybe Signa will become an orphan in the village."
Suldak glanced at the sleeping little Peter, and said: "She is different from other children, she is too dependent on Dailina, if you really want to keep her in Wall Village, she may have a very difficult life , or I won’t be able to survive, I just want to help, I think if Darke is here, he will do the same, this is how he pulled me out of the corpse and gave me a new life."
Rita held an apple in her hand and said beside her: "I heard from Sandy that Selena can do witchcraft. Once, she saw Selena quietly praying to the moon in the room..."
Old Sheila glared at Rita.
"..."
Suldak didn't know what to say for a while.
Old Sheila gently stroked Little Peter's forehead, her eyes glowed with love, and she said with emotion: "Recently, I often dream of Duck, and he is standing on the cloud with a smile like that, with the same silly smile on his face like before. Talking to me, he asked me if Peter, Natasha and Rita are doing well recently. In fact, I have been thinking about some things these days. Now that Duck has completely left and we went to another country, We can't let him miss, we should live better."
Old Sheila looked through the window into the dark night.
His eyes glowed with hope, and she said: "It is my greatest wish to see little Peter grow up healthy and healthy with my own eyes."
Then, she paused again, and said: "Of course Rita can save a dowry and find someone she can rely on to live happily in the future. Natasha shouldn't live so hard like me in the future. A child who pulls the child and doesn't care It's not easy, let alone you are so young..."
Rita's face turned red immediately, she felt a little embarrassed, and held the apple in her palm.
And Natasha lowered her head like a quail.
At this time, Rita couldn't help asking: "When Dad passed away, were you also coerced by the census clerks at the city hall?"
Old Sheila curled her lips slightly, and said, "Old Sur died just in the year that Duck attended the coming-of-age ceremony. Who would want an old woman who is about to lie in the coffin?" There was a hard knock on the top of the tower.
Old Sheila looked at Suldak, put Little Peter's hand in his rough palm, and said to Suldak:
"Since little Peter is your son in name, and he likes this child very much, and he is willing to bring him up, and Natasha is also your wife in name, and she is destined to continue living with us, she You really need someone to rely on, so are you willing to marry her?"
"I..." Suldak didn't know how to answer, so he paused before saying, "I will take good care of her for the rest of my life."
There was a kind of wisdom in old Sheila's eyes. She looked at Surdak and said with a serious expression: "It's not the kind of person who stutters casually, has a shelter from the wind and rain, and has clothes to keep out the cold. It is enough, in fact, everyone will yearn for a happier life..."
Suldak didn't expect that the old Sheila would say these things, and he hasn't thought about it seriously yet.
He hesitated for a while, and worried that keeping silent for too long would be a kind of harm to Natasha, so he could only bite the bullet and said with a guilty conscience: "This is unfair to Natasha, I hope she can also have the opportunity to choose ?”
"Then what is fair? What choice does she have?" Old Sheila asked aggressively, and then she asked Natasha on the opposite side: "Natasha, what are your thoughts?"
Natasha didn't expect that old Sheila would discuss these tonight, and said blankly: "I haven't thought about these..."
Old Sheila glanced at Natasha with some resentment, and said earnestly: "Sometimes you have to fight for something that belongs to you, and some things don't give you too much time to make decisions. You just It just so happened that I was lucky..."
Blushing, Natasha looked up at Suldak, not knowing what to say for a while.
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There is a sulfur ore next to it. The smell of this thing is a bit pungent. The old village chief compared it with his hands for a while, but finally gave up on measuring its specific size.
Back then, Charlie took out a piece of sulfur ore the size of his fist, and the caravan leader took out three silver coins to buy it for the reason. Now the sulfur ore lying in the canvas pocket is at least a hundred times that of that ore. The old village chief knew that it must be Worth a lot of money.
The five young men who went to collect sulfur mines all sat on the benches in the living room of the old village chief's house, and Suldak and the old village chief sat on separate chairs opposite them.
The wife of the old village chief came out to make some lemon tea and a plate of boiled chestnuts for everyone.
"Are we going to sell these to the caravan?" Charlie said with some excitement.
Suldak frowned slightly, he glanced at the old village chief, and said: "I think it is very necessary to establish a good trade relationship with the caravan, but we can't take out so much sulfur mine at once, I guess They will calculate the approximate scope of the sulfur mine based on our travel time. It is still an uninhabited land. I am worried that other people will discover the open-pit mining area. Maybe more people will compete with us for the resources there. "
"So we'd better take out some of the sulfur mines, and let those merchants think that we can find sulfur mines, but it's not worth their effort to find them..."
(end of this chapter)