Chapter 114 Old Hank’s eighth update
The countryside of Bit City is filled with fields. At this moment, although it is already noon, there are still many people working in the fields. There is nothing that can be done about it. For the poor farmers in the countryside , Only your own hard work will not deceive yourself.
"Tommy, hurry up, you won't be able to see if you stay out in the sun any longer." A farmer passing by on the field ridge smiled and shouted to the farmers who were working hard in the field.
Tommy, who was working in the fields at the moment, put down his work when he heard this, and said with a smile: "We just have a little strength and can work, unlike that guy like old Hank, who enjoyed it for a few days You don't know that you are a farmer."
"Huh? What happened to Old Hank? I just listened to a few words. It seems that I heard that he went to the city to enjoy his life, but later he came back in despair. ." The visitor jumped into the field, looking interested.
"What else could it be? It's just that little thing." Seeing the other party's interest, Tommy put down the work in his hands again, squatted down, and let it go.
Seeing this, he took out the wine bottle hanging from his waist and handed it to Tommy: "You guys always care about my wine."
Tommy took it and took a sip, and then said: "Old Hank, did you know that guy had an adopted son named Sith?"
"Sith? Of course you know. How could I not know that he has been in our village for so many years, but he seemed to have left later." "
What happened? , I heard that just a few years ago, the Viscount invited a magician. Ai, you know what a magician is, right? It is the kind of mysterious and powerful magician. Anyway, the Viscount can only follow behind. Served."
"That's when that Sith had some shitty luck. The magician actually fell in love with him, and then asked the viscount to take good care of him and said he would come back in a year." Tommy has a nose and eyes. said.
The visitor was even more interested: "Did the Viscount take good care of him?"
Tommy said with an envious tone: "Of course, how dare the Viscount neglect the Master Magician's orders for a whole year? I heard that old Hank and his adopted son ate and drank well in the Viscount Mansion all day long. Not to mention how beautiful those days were." "Then what happened next? Why did
Old Hank come back? ?"
"Later." Tommy took another sip of wine and said, "Later, the magician came back, and then he chose the son of the Sith and the Viscount, and said that he would take them away and let them become magicians. , I heard that there were a lot of people there that time."
"Since Sith was taken away by a magician to be trained as a magician, why did the Viscount leave old Hank alone?" The visitor asked in confusion.
"It has been several years since this Sith was taken away. There has been no news at all for so many years, not even the Viscount's son. So the Viscount was not willing to raise such a person in vain, so he sent the old man to Hank kicked him out and asked him to pay back the money he owed for living here for so long. If he still doesn't pay, his legs will be broken!" "Oh,
then old Hank should now..."
But at this moment, from Tianlang, Another man passed by, his back stooped, his whole head had turned snow-white, and a beard had grown on his chin. Perhaps because of neglect, this beard was messy.
There are deeper wrinkles on his face, and his hands are covered with scars from being exposed to cold and heat and calluses from doing heavy work. There is a basket on his back with a few sparse wild vegetables in it.
After watching the visitor walk away, Tommy let go of his hand covering the other person's mouth: "You tell Old Hank when he comes over, be careful he starts a fight with you." The
visitor pointed at Old Hank's face with disdain He spat in the direction and shouted deliberately loudly: "So what? I'm not like those old and immortal guys who thought they looked down on us because they hugged the Viscount's lap. Now that they're kicked out, you know, huh, What the hell!"
"Hahaha!!!" Tommy couldn't control himself when he heard the words, and he burst into laughter.
Old Hank heard the words behind it and also heard the taunting sounds. He paused for a moment, but then he thought again and continued walking without paying attention to them.
He is already old. He has aged faster since the Sith followed the magician. His hair has turned white, even his beard has turned white, and his waist has become more stooped. In the past, he could work for a whole day. I'm not tired. Now after walking for a while, I feel like my legs are no longer strong.
Unable to walk any longer, Old Hank sat down on a stone on one side and placed the basket behind his feet. How could he not hear what those villagers said? He had been listening to them for a long time.
These people have been saying this about him since he was kicked out by the Viscount, as if seeing a person who had enjoyed a few days of happiness come out to suffer again, these people feel that life is very good.
Since Sith left, his life has been boring. Sith is the pillar of his heart and his pride. Which farmer's son can be taken away by the magician?
Over the years, the villagers laughed at him. When he entered the city, the people in the Viscount Mansion laughed at him, especially those who had served him before. They kept laughing at him. Old Hank felt that he was used to it.
Because he had no strength anymore, the fields were taken away by the Viscount, and the work in the city was not allowed to be done by the Viscount. Old Hank, who had lost his source of livelihood, could only drag his legs and walk a long mountain road every day to dig something in the mountains to sell. , dig some wild vegetables to eat by yourself.
The old horse at home is still struggling to survive after so many years. Sometimes old Hank will drive the broken carriage that Sith grew up riding in to help others pull things, but because the horse has already He is very old, cannot pull heavy things, and walks too slowly. He is often scolded for being late.
I lived like this every day, and with the help of several previous neighbors, I finally managed to survive without starving to death.
After resting for a long time, Old Hank picked up the basket in front of him and walked towards his dilapidated hut with his hunched body again. The wild vegetables on his back were ones that he and Sis often dug. The boy was particularly good at eating them. With these wild vegetables, you can eat three large bowls of rice.
It's a pity that there is no news after Sith's death. Many people said that Sith was dead, but old Hank didn't think so. He felt that Sith must be alive. For this reason, he dragged the old man and others Fight...
Back to the hut, the old horse is tied there, chewing something leisurely. Go up and say hello to the old horse. Old Hank enters his shabby hut. The viscount is asking him to pay back the money. If he doesn't pay, he will interrupt. Legs, he still thought that Sis must have left money for himself when he left.
But, fight. Anyway, I can hardly walk now, and I have no money to fight for anything.
(End of chapter)