Chapter 222 221. A Bag of Gold Coins
There is actually a plate of pickled vegetables for breakfast, which is a kind of young tree buds similar to Chinese toon tree buds, kneaded with salt, and then stored in a jar. It tastes very crisp and has a slightly sour musty smell, but it is not It's not bad, especially when paired with chestnut rice porridge, it's a good side dish. Even Peter ate a bowl of chestnut rice porridge with relish. Obviously, this kind of breakfast is not often eaten.
The square table is not too big. The two plates on the table are made of rough pottery. Everyone’s rice bowls are open wooden bowls. The wooden spoons used for eating are very rough. All the decorations have a strong primitive atmosphere. .
Old Sheila sat across from Suldak, her eyes swept across his face from time to time, and she seemed to have some concerns about him.
Rita sat on the left side of Surdak, holding the wooden bowl with her head down, occasionally peeking, her bright eyes full of curiosity.
Natasha hugged Peter and sat across from Rita, bowed her head and said nothing.
This is the first time Suldak has had breakfast with his family face to face when he came here. He tried his best to control the speed of eating, thinking that it might be impolite to finish eating too early! But a simple bowl of porridge can be drunk in one bite, there is no need to sit on a wooden bench and wait for others to finish eating.
Old Sheila glanced tenderly at Peter who was writhing in Natasha's arms, and said kindly to Peter:
"Peter, can you help grandma take out a piece of cassava from the house?"
Peter nodded obediently, climbed down from Natasha's arms, and slipped into Sheila's bedroom.
Sheila pushed Peter away, put down the bowls and chopsticks in her hand, glanced at Suldak, and then said to Rita Natasha:
"He is Duck's close friend on the battlefield, and he will live in our house in the future, but don't tell Peter his real identity for now, and we will call him Duck in private in the future."
"knew."
Rita and Natasha answered in unison.
It seems that old Sheila still has the right to speak at home, she paused and said:
"I'll go to the village chief to ask for some wooden planks later. We have to repair the firewood house. The current situation of air leakage is not acceptable, and we should open a window on the wall. If possible, we can change the residence in the future. This is the only condition at home for the time being."
"Rita, you go with me." Sheila said to Rita.
"Yes!" Rita nodded while holding the wooden bowl.
It was as if the chestnut rice porridge in the wooden bowl was so delicious that she couldn't bear to raise her head.
Her face is clean, her hair is golden, and her light blue eyes are like a quiet lake.
Sheila turned her head and said to Natasha on the other side: "Natasha, you stay at home and take care of Peter, just tidy up the firewood house."
Suldak didn't know how to face Natasha. Although Natasha was still his wife in name, he didn't know anything about Natasha until now, and Natasha was even deliberately avoiding her. Suldak, but think about it, it should be like this, with such an embarrassing identity, the two of them didn't know what to say when they greeted each other...
"Okay." Natasha's voice was slightly hoarse, which didn't match her weak appearance. She was like an ostrich with its head buried in the sand.
Old Sheila looked up at Suldak, trying to keep her voice calm and majestic, making her look more like the head of the family.
She said to Suldak: "Dak, you go to the river bend and cut some red thatch. The roof needs to be re-laid with a thick layer of red thatch. Otherwise, if it rains, the stone house will not leak at all. A way to live in people."
'It is indeed time to repair it. ’ Suldak thought to himself while looking at this simple stone house.
Seeing Suldak's calm face, old Sheila thought for a while, then agreed to Suldak's proposal: "Okay..."
Old Sheila looked at Suldak on the opposite side. His appearance coincided with the appearance of her son in memory again and again, which made the old Sheila a little trance.
"Come with me later, I have something to say to you." Old Sheila turned away from the dining table and returned to the room that was both a granary and a bedroom.
"..."
Suldak had already finished eating, and when he heard what old Sheila said, he immediately followed.
At this moment, Little Peter ran out of the room staggeringly holding a cassava. Old Sheila was worried that Peter would fall, so she rushed to help him, and then handed Peter into Natasha's arms.
Suldak came to old Sheila's room, and old Sheila struggled to pull out the bag of gold coins from under the bed. She put the gold coin pocket in front of Suldak and said:
"Don't hide gold coins in the cassava pile in the future, I don't intend to help you save these things."
Suldak scratched his head in embarrassment. When he left these gold coins, he thought of leaving. This would at least give the old Sheila's family a little life security, but now he was left behind. , Suldak could only bite the bullet and say:
"These are Duck's, he's in the army..."
But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by old Sheila:
"You don't need to make up lies to lie to me. It's impossible for Xiao Dake to have so much money. Although our family is a little poor, it's not ours, and we won't take it."
Suldak felt that he should make up a more reasonable reason, so he said:
"This is what our second team obtained from hunting monsters together and killing evil spirits..."
Old Sheila took a deep look at Suldak, and the warning in her eyes was obvious. Although she was an ill-informed country woman, it did not mean that she was a fool who could be deceived. Old Sheila said: "If it's the whole squad, you have to find a way to distribute the money to their families."
Suldak felt that once he agreed, the hundreds of gold coins he worked so hard to collect would be divided into thirteen points. Although he didn't mind giving some financial assistance to the other family members of the second team, it didn't matter. It means that he is willing to divide such a large amount of gold coins equally, and he also has his own selfishness.
"..."
"The money is yours, right?" Old Sheila stared at Suldak and asked seriously.
Suldak nodded, but he immediately said, "It belongs to me and Dak."
Seeing his persistence, the layer of ice in Old Sheila's eyes finally melted a little bit, and Old Sheila couldn't help but ask, "Why are you willing to help us?"
"It was your son who turned me out from under the corpse of the evil ghost, and then led someone to carry me to the barracks of the 57th Regiment, where he took care of me for three months. At that time, I heard him talking to me all day long. Said, he is about to retire, and when he retires, no matter whether I get better or not, he will take me back to Hailansa, and then I gradually recovered, we waited for him to retire and return to Hailansa, For this reason, I did not even join the 57th Heavy Armored Infantry Regiment..."
Suldak had to tell those experiences again:
"...He was favored by Baron Sidney by chance, he was promoted from an ordinary first-class soldier to a small captain, and later promoted to a squadron leader, and was awarded an official knight by the Green Empire, but I didn't expect it"
After listening to these stories seriously, old Sheila's eyes darkened, probably because she thought of her son, and she blinked her old eyes, trying to hide the tears, and she said to Suldak: "Maybe you are just talking to us. I am curious about the life at home, but no matter what, I am very pleased that you can come here to visit me. You can completely ignore those promises, and you should have your own life..."
"I'll go to the village chief to discuss the repair of the house." Suldak quickly stood up and said to old Sheila.
After finishing speaking, he turned and ran out...
(end of this chapter)