With half of the fat man's guards following, with Soit leading the way, Char came to the south of Osgilia.
The south of the city is an area where civilians live. It crosses the square in the center of the city and crosses the Arena Street (Char doesn't dare to approach the arena now, so he can only go around the side street far away. As for the reason, the samurai is near the arena now. There are so many, maybe knowing his identity will attract challengers.)
Continue to the south of the city. The closer to the south, the closer it is to the sea. The streets are no longer wide and flat, but gradually narrow and rugged. Obviously, the cleaning work here is not as clean as those in the wealthy areas in the north of the city. There is stagnant water left after the snow melted everywhere. Under the trampling of countless pedestrians, vehicles and horses, it has become a cesspool. It is no longer as neat, clean and solemn as the north of the city. The buildings on both sides have also become low, low earth houses. The shacks replaced those tall and majestic buildings before. The passers-by on the streets wore low-class clothes. There were no tall horses, only mules, horses, donkeys, and sackcloths. Occasionally, one or two small unicycles can be seen slowly pushing past, and there are cocks and dogs barking from both sides, as well as the noisy neighbors, the bickering and yelling of husband and wife, and the crying of children...
Xia Ya also saw two thin wild dogs barking at his group from a distance from a distance, then turned around and ran away. When passing a house, the hostess of the house splashed a basin of dirty water directly. When he came out, he almost splashed it on Xia Ya.
But then he saw Xia Ya and the guards who were riding behind him. The woman exclaimed in fright, dropped the basin on the ground, and ran back to the house.
Not only this family, but since approaching this block, the surrounding pedestrians and residents have shrouded Xia Ya and his group with curious eyes.
These gorgeously dressed gentlemen, what are they doing in such a place...
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Obviously, this is a civilian area...
If you leave out Osgilia, the first heroic city on the continent, the achievement of miracles, the ancient city with a thousand-year history, the power center of the empire, the great imperial capital... and so on, these auras - if you leave them all out, then in fact here , It is really no different from the places where poor people live in cities big and small on the mainland.
Crossing a small street and looking at the low and crooked fences in front of the houses on both sides, Xiaya frowned: "Is it just in front?"
"Yes." Soyt turned back in front and whispered: "The late Kevin's house is right in front. Usually at this time of the day, Mrs. should have just returned from the tailor's shop we saw earlier. …”
Walking all the way to the end of the small street, I came to a small two-story building that looked a bit crude. Downstairs was a small garden with simple and plain layout—or it can’t be said to be a garden, because it is too small.
Compared with the shacks I saw before, this small building is already quite good, at least it is built with bricks, not earth walls. The ground in the yard is very flat, and some unknown wildflowers are planted on both sides—they are really wild flowers, just the little white flowers that are common in the suburbs, but they are neatly dotted around the yard, and it seems that they live here. The owner is quite different.
Xiaya motioned Soyite to push the fence door open. The door on the first floor of the small building was half-closed. After Xiaya walked out of the yard, a gray dog sprang out from the door, barked at Xiaya a few times, and then asked Yite waved his hand and shouted something, the dog recognized Soyite, ran to him and sniffed a few times, and wagged his tail before retreating to the corner, but still stared at Xiaya with vigilant and unfriendly eyes.
With a creak, the door was opened, and a woman with long brown hair came out.
Soyte immediately bent down: "Mrs. Yulia."
Yulia, the hostess of the family and the wife of the late Kevin, stood in front of the door, looking in surprise at the men who entered the courtyard.
The surprise on her face disappeared when she saw Soit, and then a smile appeared - she had brown hair, a high nose, a tall figure, and green eyes. Her forehead is slightly higher and wider, and the distance between her eyes is also wider. In general, she is a woman with ordinary appearance, but there is a taste in her eyebrows.
She was wearing a wide sackcloth robe, her long brown hair was tied up casually, and there were beads of sweat on her forehead. She rolled up her sleeves, revealing light wheat-colored arm skin. She was obviously busy with housework and was fully exposed to the sun. As a result, there were water marks on his hands, and he wiped his wet hands on the robe a few times.
As for Xia Ya, what surprised him even more was that he thought a lot of words along the way. He originally thought that he had already thought about a set of words, which was a relatively mild speech, but when he really saw it for the first time When this woman was present, Xia was stunned!
He was completely stunned, and the words in his stomach seemed to vanish in an instant. He opened his mouth wide and stared at the woman in front of him.
Just because... the woman in front of me...
Under her fat robe, her lower abdomen bulged high! !
Yulia... Kevin's wife, this woman, she, she's pregnant? !
In an instant, the picture in front of him overwhelmed all of Xia Ya's psychological defenses. He even felt that his mouth was dry and his legs were a little weak.
Even in the face of the thousands of troops of the Odins, even in the face of Hasting's terrifying black gun, Char has never been so nervous as he is now.
"Soyite, you're back!" Yulia's voice was a little hoarse, she smiled happily, and looked very cheerful, and then looked at Xia in the yard and Dotara who was hiding behind Xia: "Yi? These two brothers are very eye-catching, are they Kevin's new comrades in arms? Come in, hehe... By the way, where's Kevin? Is he behind? This guy must be sneaking to buy wine... "
The woman said, she stood on tiptoe and looked out of the yard, and then smiled: "What are you doing, come in, Soyte, you can go to the street where Uncle Tom buys some bacon and come back, otherwise there will be nothing at home. Too much to eat, hehe."
"..." Soyite's face was ugly, he looked at Xi Ya as if asking for help.
It was only at this time that Xia Ya finally came back to his senses. He took a deep breath, and then slowly walked towards Yulia, step by step.
Perhaps it was Xiaya's expression or his heavy steps that made Yulia seem a little afraid, as if she had guessed something, but the woman still smiled reluctantly: "Yi? Is this guy a newcomer to your army? I You don't seem to be very old, are you twenty? Come in, I just bought a little honey yesterday, so I can make some honey tea for you."
"Yu, Yulia..." Xia walked in front of the woman with a heavy tone. The woman's face changed dramatically, she seemed to be panicked, she tried to retreat quickly, and hid in the door, Xia grabbed her shoulder: "Yulia, my name is Xia, I'm Kevin's comrade-in-arms, and he is also …”
"Don't, don't say it!" Yulia screamed out of composure, the smart woman had already guessed something, she broke free from Xia's hand as if going crazy, and screamed: "What are you doing, what are you talking about, Come and sit down first! If you have anything to say, wait for Kevin to come and talk to you later... Kevin, what about Kevin... "
"Kevin..." Xia's eyes turned red and her fingers trembled: "Kevin he..."
Yulia's body softened and her face turned pale instantly. She stared at Xia Ya with wide eyes, watching Xia Ya take a bag from Soyite's hand, the bag was opened, and there was a helmet inside. , and a dagger, a few badges, and a... parchment full of charcoal writing and blood on it!
Yulia rolled her eyes and fainted.
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Char carried Yulia into the bedroom in the house and put it on the bed. Then Soit quickly brought a cup of hot water and poured it into Yulia's mouth.
Looking at the furnishings in this room - it is very simple, crude cabinets, and the iron cladding on the corners of the wooden table and chairs is full of rust marks, but it is cleaned in an orderly manner. It is obvious that the owner here is very diligent and loves cleanliness on weekdays.
The only thing in the house that can show the identity of the owner of the house is a samurai sword hanging on the wall, and a few horseshoes thrown in the corner.
It took a while for Yulia to wake up faintly. After the woman woke up this time, she stared blankly at the ceiling of the room. Soyite shouted a few times next to her, but she didn't respond.
Xia gritted his teeth, pulled Soit away, stood in front of the bed, knelt on one knee, and whispered, "Madam... Yulia, Kevin was a hero, he died bravely, and he also Saved my life! Your husband is the bravest and noblest man I have ever met in my life!"
He put those badges, sword and helmet on the bedside. And Yulia finally moved at this time. She sat up reluctantly, but instead of looking at the badges, she directly grabbed the blood-stained parchment and opened it anxiously...
After watching for a while, tears flowed from Yulia's eyes, and the woman's hands gradually tightened, holding the parchment into a ball, sobbing softly, shrugging her shoulders...
If she howled loudly, perhaps Xia Ya could be a little better, but she sobbed so patiently, but it was like a knife that slashed into Xia Ya's heart one after another.
He moved forward: "I know very well that it is an unbearable blow for you to bring such unfortunate news to you, but I..."
"You don't need to say it." Yulia raised her head suddenly, the woman was full of tears, her face was sad, her voice was hoarse, but she had a strange strength: "You don't need to say it."
Her eyes finally fell on Xia Ya's face.
"I'm a Roderian woman, and as a Roderian woman, my mother, my grandmother, my great-grandmother, have faced things like this... Husbands or fathers and brothers died in battle... as if this is what we are The fate of a Delia woman!" Yulia continued to cry: "However, I didn't expect that I didn't marry a Roderian man, but Kevin still entered the Roderian cavalry regiment, and I... still encountered this things…”
The woman reluctantly supported herself on the bed with her hands, so she didn't fall down. She was crying, and her tears were mixed with her snot.
"Kevin... Kevin doesn't know yet, he's going to be a father... The last time he came home was more than half a year ago, and after he left, I found out that I was pregnant... I... I haven't had time to tell the news. He... I don't dare, I know that he is going to go to the Wildfire Plain to fight this time, and he is going to the battlefield. I, I have never dared to tell him, I am afraid that he will be distracted on the battlefield... I just want to endure and wait for this battle Tell him when you're done... I... "
Xia Ya suddenly knelt down the other leg, he knelt in front of Yulia, stretched out his hands, and held Yulia's hand tightly, the muscles on Xia Ya's face were twitching, and her heart was faint. In pain, he gritted his teeth and said, "Yulia... Kevin is not my friend, he is my brother!! He saved my life! Since the moment he died, his blood has been with mine. We will never be separated again!! We are brothers! We are brothers! From now on you will be my sister!! Your child, I will become the child's uncle, the uncle who loves the child the most!!"
Finally, Yulia couldn't hold back her emotions any longer and burst into tears.
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Yulia cried for a full two hours before she gradually calmed down. If it wasn't for Dodo, who had an idea, he thought of a way, and added a sentence beside him: "Madam, please take care of your body, don't forget what's in your stomach. And a child…”
Yulia heard this sentence, but it was more effective than any consolation. She finally wiped her face hard and stopped crying. The few people sat silently for a while, and a smile appeared on Yulia's face: " You, you are all Kevin's comrades in arms... It's getting late, you must be hungry, I'll go get some food... "
Where does Xiaya dare to let her do it? He quickly forced her to lie down, he and Soyite ran to the kitchen at the back to get some hot rice porridge and brought it to Yulia. Yulia reluctantly ate a spoonful, as if she could not eat it. But looking at her belly, the woman frowned tightly, gritted her teeth and ate the whole bowl of porridge.
"Thank you." The woman ate the porridge and rested for a while, her face a little better, at least she didn't want to be so pale and scary just now.
Afterwards, Yulia endured her grief and asked Xia Ya some questions, asking Xia Ya to tell how Kevin died in battle. Xia Ya did not dare to elaborate, for fear of causing the other party’s sorrow, so he could only briefly talk about it. After saying this, he helped Yulia to lie down and rest.
Xiaya took out a cloth bag and put it on the table. It was heavy and full of gold coins.
"Here are the pensions in the army... and some of our comrades in arms, please accept them, we... "
In fact, the turtle lied.
There are at least 300 gold coins on this table. The pension of the army is very small, and although other comrades in arms have collected some, but after all, everyone is a soldier, and there is not much surplus money, all add up to only seven or eight gold coins. . There are fifty gold coins in it, which were handed over to Xia privately and privately by General Adrick. Adrick was an honest general and did not have much wealth.
As for the others, it was Xia Ya who took out all of his savings, as well as being an uncle along the way, being entertained by local officials in the local area, getting some benefits, and taking them all out.
Seeing that Yulia was about to refuse, Xiaya immediately resolutely said: "I know you don't want to accept it! Because no amount of money can change people's lives! But please don't refuse! Because this is everyone's heart, even if it's for everyone's peace of mind. , don’t make everyone feel bad, and please accept it!!!”