Walking through the forest, the first thing Shinozuki and Floya saw was a newly reclaimed farmland, followed by densely distributed villages in the distance.
The working villagers noticed two beautiful faces and cast their eyes one after another. Some of them came forward enthusiastically.
This is a man who looks to be in his twenties, with a strong build. In this cold weather that has not completely dissipated, he only wears a simple vest on the upper body, and a pair of slightly dirty fur pants and long leather boots on the lower body.
The simple attire makes people wonder, does he really not feel cold?
But if you look around, everyone else around you is dressed similarly. His hands were still working, and there was sweat on his forehead.
"Good morning. The weather is very nice today. I hope it stays like this all day long!" The muscular man looked a little naive when he spoke, "I haven't seen you before. You are here to find someone. Or do you buy and sell things?”
Floya asked familiarly: "What do you mean, is there any difference?"
The big man rubbed the back of his head and said, "I blame me for not finishing my words. If you are here to do business, I can only tell you that the families in the village have stopped doing business for the time being. Everyone is paying attention to the rebels recently. In that matter, the only people who can come to the village and get money are the intelligence dealers."
"If business stops, won't there be problems in your lives?"
"Now our village can still be self-sufficient in a short period of time, which is very different from before!" The big man puffed up his chest proudly, "Even if something goes wrong, we can still call people to the city to call for help. , there is absolutely no way something can go wrong!”
"Wow~" Froya showed an amazed expression and gave a thumbs up.
The conversation between the two made the nearby villagers express their heartfelt pride.
After the big man was stunned for a while, Froya continued: "It seems that the changes here are really great. How about it, are you confident that you can find a way?"
She said the second half of the sentence to Xiaoyue.
After Floya finished speaking, she suddenly remembered something, pulled Xiaoyue forward, pointed at her and said to the big man: "By the way, brother, can you recognize who she is? She is also from your village."
The big man was stunned for a moment, looked at Xiao Yue for a long time, and scratched his head: "I know a lot of people, but there are so many people in the village, I can't remember them all, and you seem to have been out for a long time, right? Hmm, But it looks a bit...familiar..."
Froya looked at Xiaoyue again.
Xiaoyue showed a helpless look and answered much more succinctly than the big man: "I haven't been back for seven or eight years, and even acquaintances may not be able to tell who I am at a glance. In my memory, this brother and I have never met. Pass."
"You are also from the village!" Hearing that Xiaoyue is a fellow villager, the big man suddenly became more enthusiastic, "Hey, I have never seen anything normal. I only came back in the third year after the village was reorganized. Counting the time, I should be with you. The days when you left the village happened to be staggered. The village has developed in the past few years, and many brothers and sisters have come back to help..."
He talked endlessly, and the content matched what Xiaoyue and the others knew about the village's past.
In that era of war and poverty, if you didn't want to be a gangster, the only way was to find another way out somewhere else.
This also made the reconstruction extremely difficult at the beginning. Later, people were transferred here and the original villagers were called on to come back. Countless ways were thought of.
Fortunately, many people who had no choice but to leave their hometowns still have nostalgia for their hometowns in their hearts, so the call did not take much effort.
With the joint efforts of many people, this half-dead place was finally saved and developed into what it is today.
In this village today, many people did not know each other in the past, but after experiencing the same difficulties and living together until now, even strangers will naturally become a family.
After nagging for a long time to no one else, the big man finally seemed to realize the problem.
"Okay, okay, let's not talk so much!" The big man said to Xiao Yue with some embarrassment, "I will take you there. The village has changed so much over the years, and you will definitely not know where it came from!"
Xiaoyue looked surprised: "Really? Thank you so much!"
"It's okay, just tell me which one it is."
"My uncle's name is Andy. Do you know his family?"
"Ondy... Ondy...ah! I really know!" The big man thought for a while, then clapped his hands and said, "His home happens to be not far from our home. We usually call him carpenter master. Please mention his name. , I haven’t thought of it for a while.”
"My uncle was really good at woodworking."
Xiaoyue smiled so sweetly that the big man was stunned for a long time.
"...Uh, why uncle...ah no, it's nothing, it's my fault."
The big man who reacted wanted to ask Xiao Yue why he reported his uncle's name instead of his parents', but then he remembered that in that era, too many people died unfortunately. If the relative someone was looking for here was not their parents, That's probably...
"It doesn't matter." Xiaoyue shook her head.
The atmosphere was silent for a moment, and Xiaoyue said with a smile: "I still need to trouble you to lead the way."
"Okay, let's go, then..." The big man turned around and said to a smiling old man, "Big brother! Keep an eye out for me, I'll take them to the village!"
"Okay, no problem, young man, you have to behave well!" The old man looked at the three of them happily.
"What are you talking about!"
The big man took Xiaoyue and Froya away as if running away.
The journey was longer than expected. The three of them chatted all the way. Near noon, they came to a door with a wooden fence.
"Master carpenter, are you at home?" The big man shouted at the door.
No one responded inside.
The big man shouted a few more times at a louder volume.
"I told you I won't take any jobs recently, why are you arguing? Don't you know that you need more rest as you get older?!" The middle-aged man with a beard kicked open the door from the house and yelled at the big man angrily.
The big man laughed naively and said, "Now is the time for you to be strong and healthy!"
"Okay, stop flattering, what's the matter..." The middle-aged man turned his head impatiently, but saw Xiaoyue and Floya, and his words stopped immediately.
Froya quickly scanned the surroundings, and after confirming that not many people were paying attention, the hands behind her back began to tighten a little bit, and her eyes naturally turned to the big man...
"Long time no see, Uncle Ondy." Xiaoyue's eyes were filled with tears.
"Okay, okay... okay, you came to see me." The middle-aged man's lips couldn't stop trembling, and tears welled up in his eyes.
The big man, who had never seen him like this before, unconsciously became quiet.
Froya's hand slowly loosened.
"You...you have become...more beautiful than before...than before." Andy took a deep breath before speaking the complete words, "Why didn't you write me a letter before you came here?"
"I wrote it, didn't you receive it?" Xiaoyue wiped her eyes and asked doubtfully.
The big man reminded: "Maybe they are piled up in the city. I heard that the messengers have been resting recently."
"Forget it, don't worry about that, just get here." Ang Di paused and looked at the big man with an unkind expression, "Wait a minute, why did you follow my niece?"
"I'm just leading the way! Leading the way!"
The big man immediately raised his hands.
"Thanks to this brother, otherwise I might not be able to find your home."
With Xiaoyue's help in explaining, Ondy's face improved a lot.
"Okay, I owe you a favor, now get out of here, as far away as you can!"
"ah?"
"Climb further away from me, do you think I can't see it?! I..."
"Okay, okay, I'll get out right away."
Before Andy could finish his irritable words, the big man immediately rubbed oil on his soles.
"Hmph!" Andy snorted coldly, looking back at Xiao Yue, as if she had a different face, "Let's go in and talk... Hey, who is she?"
"This is my colleague." Xiao Yue looked into Ang Di's eyes.
"Oh, I see."
Froya looked around, and finally her eyes fell on Ondy's back, her eyes curious. She followed Andy and Xiaoyue into the house.
The door closed, cutting off the view to the outside.
