The dust settles

Chapter 27

That night, I slept very soundly.Usually, I always think about Tana for a long time before I can fall asleep, but I didn't think about it this day.During this period of time, when I woke up in the morning, I always thought of Tana.This morning, as soon as I woke up, before I had time to think, I heard people in the yard neighing.

Many more horses were loaded with wheat for Rong Gong's family.After a while, these horse teams and the back of the female chieftain disappeared from our eyes.Father looked very tired and went back to bed.

Before going to sleep, he said: "Wake me up when it starts."

I didn't ask him what to start with.For me, the best solution is to just wait.The older brother is expanding his victories on the southern border.His method is to use food to attract the other party's people to become his own people.When our father dies, he will have more people and a wider land.When he succeeded everywhere on the southern front, we gave a lot of wheat to Chieftain Ronggong.Therefore, he said: "Those two people are fascinated by the women of Ronggong's family. One day, the female chieftain will sit in Maiqi's official village and give orders."

The tone in which he said this clearly regarded his father as a fool like me.

Brother said these words to those closest to him, but we soon learned.The father listened and didn't say anything.When everyone had retreated and it was just the two of us, he asked me, "Is your brother a smart guy, or a guy pretending to be smart."

I didn't answer.

To be honest, I can't find much of a difference between the two.Now that he knows that he is a smart person, he must want others to know this smartness.He asked me that question the same way he always asked me, are you a fool or a dude on purpose.My father said to me: "Your brother must not have imagined that you can do it better than him. You can do what you want. This is right. I'm going to bed. Call me when it starts."

I didn't know what was about to start, so I turned my blank eyes to the open fields around me.

The scenery on the ground is green and lacks change, as if there has never been a change of seasons. Summer has been in this wilderness for two or three hundred years.Facing such a scene, I also yawned.Before I closed my open mouth, the two servants also yawned.I want to kick them twice, but I don't want to use force.I just want to know what the hell is going to start.The more I thought about it, the more I couldn't figure it out, so I had to imitate my father's tone and yell at the two boys: "Don't yawn, call me when it starts!"

"Yes, sir!" they said.

"What started?"

"It's about to start, Master!"

I also asked the answer from their mouths.Later, my mind became a little confused.

It seemed as if he saw something, but he couldn't see it clearly.When I opened my eyes, I knew I had just fallen asleep.He fell asleep lying on the railing of the corridor on the floor.Opening my eyes again, I saw a light gray in the dark blue of the sky.The clouds are blown by the wind in strands, faster than snakes swimming against the base of the wall.It was already afternoon, and I slept standing up for a long time.I asked, "Have you started yet?"

The two boys slipped away.

No one answered questions, and I panicked.At this moment, footsteps sounded from behind.

As soon as I heard it, I knew it was Toast Maiqi and my father.He came closer and said, "You are very lucky. I never fell asleep in bed, but you fell asleep standing up."

That being the case, it's up to me to ask him, "Have you started yet?"

Father shook his head, with a blank expression on his face, and said: "It is supposed to start, that place is not far from here. They should have reached it." He also stretched out his hand and pointed to the place where there are towering peaks in the distance , where many hungry people starved to death.

Now that I knew pretty well what was going to happen, I let out a long yawn.Father said: "You go into the house and go to sleep, I will call you at the beginning."

I went in and lay down on the bed.Before falling asleep, I covered my head completely with a quilt. After falling asleep, I didn’t care if it was still covered.There is no way to manage it even if you want to.I had just entered the darkness when I suddenly felt as if there was a loud noise coming from somewhere.This sound is also like a huge light, illuminating everything.I lifted the quilt, rushed out the door, and shouted: "It's started, it's started!"

At this time, the entire fortress was shrouded in the last and warmest sunlight of the day.People had nothing to do, but at this time, they were all in the sun, lazily showing an appearance of enjoying life wholeheartedly.Two boys are playing Connect[-]. In this world, there are only the two of them. No matter what I do, I will not show any surprise.

When I yelled, Xiao Eryi didn't even raise his head, Suolang Zelang smiled foolishly at me, and buried himself in playing chess again.

To my surprise, the chieftain and the housekeeper were sitting cross-legged on the ground, playing backgammon as well.

The sun, too, slanted down on them.

My cry didn't seem to disturb them.I think they just pretended not to hear.They didn't want to embarrass me.Everyone knows that something is going to happen today, and they have been waiting for it. At this time, even if one person whispers to himself that something has started, so many pairs of pricked ears will hear it.What's more, I yelled so loudly: "It's started!"

In my father's eyes, my image is changing, from a fool to a wise man.And all my efforts vanished in one stupid cry.The servants were looking at me from the courtyard below, holding their damned hands on their foreheads to shield them from the harsh sunlight in order to find out exactly where the sound was coming from.

But the housekeeper and chieftain remained motionless.

My shouting died away.The afternoon sun poured down, illuminating everything near and far.

I'm hopeless, I'm a hopeless fool.Then make me a fool!Let everyone in the world, toast, housekeeper, servants, men, women, laugh at me secretly, spit on my face, say haha, fool!say bah!Fool.Fuck you, the idiot is going to sing.So I sang to the tune of the ballad "King Bender is Dead":
It's started, it's started, the planned things don't start, the unplanned things start, start!

it has started!

While I was singing, I walked up and down the corridor like a demonstration, kicking the railings on the corridor to hide my disappointment and anger with myself.If the singing continues, the foolish son of the Maiqi family will cry bitterly for his stupidity.

But wait, let me take back my tears!

Because, it started at this moment, when I was singing.At this time, my heart was full of despair, so I didn't hear it when it started.I sang, sang, and saw the chess players throw the pieces into the sky, and saw the servants running downstairs.I sang with my mouth, looked at the chaos with my eyes, and thought, these people, they thought I would jump off the building because of my sadness.Father rushed over, waved to me, and then pointed to the direction of the valley in the distance.At this time, I also heard a fierce gunshot from the direction my father pointed.

I don't sing anymore.

The father yelled at the steward, "He knew it before us, he knew it before we did! He's the smartest fool in the world!"

The housekeeper also shouted: "Long live the Maiqi family! He is a prophet!"

They yelled and came running to say something to me.But I have nothing to say.

Maybe I used too much energy to sing just now, I said to them: "I'm tired, I want to sleep."

They followed me all the way to the house.Gunshots rang fiercely in the distant valley.Only the weapons of the Maggie family can make such a dense and joyful sound.

I fell asleep.The steward said: "Master, rest easy and sleep. There is no one who can't deal with the weapons of the Maiqi family."

I said, "Go out, you can handle it."

They went out.

Chief Maiqi sent people to set up an ambush in the mountains, waiting for chieftain Lareba to come out to grab the grain of the female chieftain.Now that the mystery is out, I'm going to sleep.What the world will be like when I wake up tomorrow, I don't want to know now.

I just...want to...sleep...

For food, our two northern neighbors fought.

In this land, as long as there is a chieftain fighting a war, there will be chieftains who don't want to sit around running around to do some work to resolve it.

This time, the war over wheat between two neighbors in the north was seen as instigated by the Maggie family.The lobbyist came to us, and my father said very rudely: "You also want to get my wheat, I think you'd better not talk."

Maggie's foolish son said to them: "If you have a lot of wheat instead of opium, you can say whatever you want."

The housekeeper set up a sumptuous banquet to entertain these unexpected guests.

What else could they say?They do feel that they have nothing to say.

After sending these people away, my father will also go back to the official village.Before leaving, he only asked me one sentence: "Let them fight." The meaning of this sentence is very clear, and there is nothing that will cause misunderstanding.

I said, "Okay, let them fight.

The chieftain patted me on the shoulder and headed back to the official village with a few guards.

The chieftain rode out on his horse for a long time, and the horse started to trot. Suddenly, he pulled the horse's head high, turned around and shouted to me: "Do whatever you want!"

I said, "Why does this sentence sound familiar?"

Solang Zelang said, "You told him that."

I asked the cripple butler, "Did I say so?"

"I seem to have said so." Once he came into contact with the relationship between my father and me, the butler was always a little evasive.I don't blame him.He does a lot of things for me. For example, right now, since my father is like me, he can do whatever he thinks he can do. I will ask the steward to feed the Ronggong family with grain, and secretly deal with the hungry Laura. Sherpa chieftain's men and horses.I sent some machine gunners and some grenade throwers to the chieftain.In this way, a war between chieftains has just begun, and the outcome will be decided by me.

30. New subjects

Let the chieftain win, that's what it's supposed to do, and I'll do it.

Then, I was going to do another thing.

I said at the beginning that my brother should not build a fort on the border.The official village of the Maiqi family is a fortress, but it was built in the era when the Maiqi family was often beaten, and it was built in the era when there were no machine guns, grenades and cannons.Times have changed, Feng Shui has taken turns, and the Maiqi family no longer has to worry about other people's attacks as in the past.Even if you are on the border, don't worry.Now it is the turn of others to worry about us.All I have to do is to step in when others are fighting and determine the outcome of the victory in advance.Our two northern neighbors have no idea that they are fighting an open war.It doesn't take much trouble for me to do this, just wait for the female chieftains to come, load their animals with wheat, and add some bullets to the machine gunner.When the situation is good and the mood is good, even a fool will be smarter than usual, and any action will become a stroke of genius.

Well, let's do what I want to do.

I asked the cook Zhuoma to set up a row of five cauldrons by the river.Pour the wheat into a large pot, put a little salt, and put a little aged butter. After the fire is boiled, the tempting aroma floats far away in the wind under the clear sky.I sent a signal to give food to the hungry people again.In less than half an hour, the hungry people who had disappeared for a while reappeared.When they reached the little river not far from the fort, the hungry people wanted to lie down, as if they were content to prove that the fragrance was from the wheat.It was Sangji Dolma, the cook, who waved the spoon and shouted: "Those who fall asleep will not be able to eat, stand up!"

They stood up again, and walked across the river as if they were sleepwalking.

Everyone got a big spoonful of wheat cooked in oil soup from Dolma.

Now, Zhuoma also got a taste of power.I think she likes this smell, otherwise, she wouldn't be too tired to sweat and refuse to put down the alms spoon.Such a wonderful feeling, if you stay in the official village as a cook, you will never experience it.Only by following me would she be able to wave a spoon in style to a large group of starving people staring at her hands.

"One scoop per person, no more and no less!"

She kept shouting angrily, "Anyone who wants to eat another meal after this meal must go to work. Go to work for our kind and generous young master!"

The people of Lashepa came to work for me after eating boiled barley rice with oil and water.

According to my opinion, the steward ordered these people to tear down one side of the square fortress.

I'm going to tear down the row of houses facing east.In this way, as soon as the morning sun rises, her light will shine on us unobstructed.At the same time, because of the open yard, this building is connected with the whole vast wilderness.The cripple butler wanted to build a wall somewhere with the adobes he had taken down.I do not agree.There is no need to do that.I think I see a vision of the future in which a wall somewhere at the door is the same as no wall at all.I asked him, "Don't you see a vision of the future?"

"I see it," he said.

"Okay, tell me what you saw?"

"A large group of attackers, such as charging cavalry, can be killed in the open with a machine gun."

(End of this chapter)