Son of the Olden Days

The weather is getting colder and colder, and it seems that even words will freeze.

Shuggs has rarely gone out recently. Most of the time, he stayed at the bottom of the well with Sol, either helping with some chores or replacing fishing with Sol, or chatting with each other about endless topics.

One day in the second month of the cold winter, Thor was shrinking in a corner wrapped in bloated clothes, fishing by candlelight while reading a tactical paper on how assassins should face heavy armored swordsmen.

Shuggs suddenly returned to the bottom of the well, and his whole head came up.

"Guess what I found?"

Saul turned his head and saw the excitement on Shuggs's face, like a cat wandering near the mouse hole.

"food?"

Shuggs shook his head.

Saul stopped guessing. In his opinion, food is the most important thing in the current period.

Maybe Shuggs found some coins in a certain house, but Thor was not very interested in it, and the coins would not be able to regain their trading ability until at least winter.

Shuggs couldn't wait to say the reason for his excitement.

"I found the sisters of Joyce's family."

After hearing the answer, Saul shrugged disapprovingly, with that kind of expression.

He didn't have any deep impression of Joyce's surname, Sol, only vaguely knew that it seemed to be the cobbler's house in the town. Today, there are more or less people hiding in the darkness in Gray Screen Town, and they find that two living people are nothing special.

"They are doing... well, it seems not very good. Anyway, I have already negotiated with my sister. As long as you pay a few salted fish and a small amount of food, you can choose one of the sisters first, and then we will spend the whole winter. The warmest night."

Saul turned his head again a little speechlessly, but Shuggs's appearance was obviously not joking, and Saul could only refuse decisively in the end.

"That is impossible and meaningless. Whether the current food reserves can survive the winter is still a problem. Every bit of food must be strictly controlled."

Saul doesn't reject the opposite sex, and he doesn't have any ethics. It's just a trivial thing in his eyes to find a woman to spend the night in Gray Screen. At the current age, there is no need to be so urgent about that kind of thing, not to mention that it is still in a difficult time when food is extremely precious.

"Pointless?"

Shuggs asked with inexplicable anger in his rhetorical tone, as if Saul had trampled on his faith.

After a while, he bent an arm, clenched a fist in the air, shook it vigorously, and began to announce some of his ideas to Saul.

"Listen, girls become women through us, and in turn we can also become men from them. Compared to the **** coming-of-age ceremony of letting the monastery fools in robes pour a few drops of rotten water on their heads, don’t you think Is it a sacred ceremony between men and women?"

Shuggs's words caused Thor to sneer, and he didn't expect this guy to link finding a woman overnight with the coming-of-age ceremony.

Regardless of whether this view is absurd or not, Thor knows that the reason for this is definitely not due to some **** sacred ritual. Maybe Shuggs simply wanted to have something to happen to the girls, but made up such a crappy theory because of the embarrassment to speak out.

When the children in the territory reach the age of fourteen, they will receive the bar mitzvah at the Phoenix Monastery, after which they will be treated as adults.

As for orphans, the monastery will definitely not hold a ceremony for an orphan, but gather a group of orphans of similar age to be baptized together at different times.

Although Saul felt that the so-called bar mitzvah process was really not so good, he had just passed his thirteenth birthday in the winter, and the bar mitzvah was at least a year later, and it was still far away.

Being watched by the blazing gaze of Shuggs, Saul shook his head again.

"Anyway, I won't participate, and you don't want to try to fish me."

Faced with Thor's non-advanced attitude, Shuggs rolled his eyes.

"I stole food from the guild for you. Do you know what kind of risk I am taking? You will have such a **** face as a miser when things happen?"

Sol answered without burden.

"But I have shared most of them with you, and if you calculate carefully, you will find that the food you consume is almost greater than what you create. Also, don’t forget that your life is still in my hands. The formula for the antidote I didn’t remember it very well, and I probably forgot it suddenly because of some accident."

Sol raised his fishing rod and threatened carelessly. After speaking, he suddenly realized that there was no movement around him.

Looking back, Saul saw that Shuggs was lying on the ground with his arms and legs open and his belly facing the sky, like a gecko sunning to death in the sand, staring at him with a resolute expression of going to death.

"Anyway, I have reached an agreement with others, either you go with me, or you poison me now!"

"..."

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Somewhere in a dark room, a slender figure was tossing and turning on the bed, making it difficult to sleep.

It is not easy to fall asleep in such a cold winter.

It has been a long time since the fireplace emits a warm fire, and the damp quilt and clothes are no longer reliable. In the dark, she can only hold her shoulders tightly, curl up and endure the suffering of cold and hunger silently.

The cold wind whistled occasionally outside the window, and most of the time there was only the sound of snow falling on the ground.

I don't know how long it took, a dark shadow entered the room lightly.

After hanging up the old coat that had been dusted with snow, the black shadow sat down gently by the bed.

The cold outside is obviously very uncomfortable, and the black shadow keeps warming his closed hands, and the whole person can't help shaking.

"Is there any gain? Sister." The **** the bed stretched out a slender hand and gently stroked the smooth long hair of the black shadow.

The person called the sister by the bed shook his head tiredly.

It is deep winter now, and although the streets are relatively safe, travel is getting more and more difficult.

In order to avoid the crazy living people in the North District, each trip has to take more long roads.

Those closed doors are afraid to approach. Perhaps someone is hiding behind the door waiting for the prey to come, and those with open doors have already been raided thoroughly by the predators.

It is really frustrating to be cautious, vigilant, and not hesitating all the way, but in the end often get a result of returning empty-handed.

"Quickly step into the blanket to get warm, and leave it to me. Yesterday I found a few empty houses, but unfortunately I didn't have the energy to conduct a detailed search at the time. Today I am going to go directly."

"Don't worry, sister, you know my luck is always good."

While talking, the younger sister got up from the bed and gave her sister a cheering hug.

The elder sister also raised her hand to respond to her, and the two embracing figures fell silent in the darkness.

In fact, the sisters are very clear, luck has been away from them for a long time.

After the famine came, the parents left most of the food for the sisters, and then formed a team of adventurers with hunters who were familiar with them, and left the town into the dark wilderness to find a way out.

After the parents left, the sisters began to go out to search for food in turn, eating very sparingly, but no matter how they deducted it, it was the hardest time after all. A few days ago, the two had eaten the last grain of breadcrumbs.

Putting her head lightly on her sister's forehead, her sister sighed slightly and began to talk about the day she had achieved nothing.

The only difference from usual is that my sister mentioned that she met an orphan today and reached some helpless agreement with the other party.

Listening to the heavy weight in her sister's tone that was almost uncontrollable, her sister's mood was surprisingly calm.

In fact, I barely survived to this day, and I was prepared to anticipate and accept various endings.

The matter of exchanging the body for food is not the worst of all kinds of results, and even in the current period, having to exchange it is simply a kind of luck.

This **** world has long reduced the dignity to the dust, and the sisters' persistence has finally reached the moment of fragmentation.

"I asked him for a certain amount of food, and when he and his companions arrive, you will find a place to hide and let me deal with them."

My sister made her tone as relaxed as possible, as if it was just a trivial matter that was about to come.

"No, sister, I will face everything with you. Since father and mother leave us more opportunities, we must survive on our own."

"We will definitely survive."

In the darkness, the younger sister hugged her sister and said firmly in the ear of the other party.

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