Chapter 16 Angus Village
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The narrow and long neutral land is divided into three parts by the three major cities, the knowledge capital on the northwest border, the free city on the southeast coast, and the innocent city on the northeast border. Because there is no army and no relatively complete government agency, most of the towns and even the villages under the town are nominal belongings and only have unified and relatively loose laws. The city lords of the three major cities have the right to remove the leaders of their subordinate towns and have the right to mediate disputes between cities. The rest of the specific government affairs are carried out in an autonomous manner.
Angus Village is such an autonomous medium-sized village. Every ten years, villagers choose a village chief and send it to the city for filing. Each household's grain output is paid 10% as tax on land use every year. The rest, including public security and trade, all of them are self-responsible. Under such laws, some villages have become increasingly declining, but most villages are in a prosperous scene, and Angus Village is one of the prosperous villages.
In Angus Village in September, it started to get dark early. Just after six o'clock in the evening, the sky gradually became dark. Usually, the villagers in the village had already returned to their homes to enjoy dinner. It was difficult to see the villagers passing by on the way in the village. But today is different. Dusk has arrived, but a large number of young villagers are still gathering on the streets, busy decorating the venue for tomorrow's harvest festival.
Outside the circular village is vast farmland, with plump and golden wheat ears emitting a unique fragrance, swaying lightly in the wind in the dusk. Among the farmland, a small path made of gravel winds along the terrain, connecting the villages in the farmland on one end and leading to the connection between cities in the distance.
"Tao tread." Stepping on the glimmer of dusk, the two horses slowed down and turned from the main road into the gravel path. Angus Village slowly walked towards him.
"Is this Angus Village?" Panis took a deep breath of the evening breeze with wheat fragrance and looked around.
"It should be, that's what the map says anyway." Lina jumped off the horse, stretched her legs that had been nervous for a day, and led the horse toward the inside of the village.
"I'm hungry." Panis seemed to have no feeling at all, holding a grass stick in his mouth, searching in his empty food bag for a long time, but in the end he couldn't find any surprises.
"Bastard." Lina turned her head and glared at Panis: "You guy, you have eaten five meals along the way. I haven't eaten a single meal yet. I haven't called hungry yet. Are you hungry again? You are not hungry at all, you are obviously greedy."
"Haha, what's the same thing when you're hungry and greedy, it's almost the same. Don't care about these details." Panis smiled dryly and waved his hand: "And, you don't want to eat it yourself, I'll give it to you."
"You think everyone is like you, and you have such a good appetite on horseback." Lina gave Panis a blank look and threw a small bag to Panis with hatred: "Eat, eat, you will be exhausted."
"Cream biscuits, your girls' favorite food is not delicious." Panis took the package easily, opened it in a hurry and looked at it. He sighed regretfully, and while saying it was not delicious, he brought the biscuits into his mouth.
"If you say nonsense, just give it back to me." Lina kicked a stone under her feet in dissatisfaction.
"Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo."
"Don't talk to me." Lina covered her face and moaned, "It's so embarrassing, I don't know you."
"Ah, I almost choked to death." Panis swallowed the biscuits stuffed with his mouth and gently pounded his chest: "I can't eat too much, otherwise I will be in the village and have no appetite to eat a regular meal. The farmhouse homemade bacon, sausage, black bread, butter soup... Hey, don't pull me, it's going to fall."
"Damn guy, don't talk about food anymore." Lina angrily pulled Penis off the horse: "You come down and walk together."
"Haha, you're hungry, too, but you're not used to eating when you're on the road, but you don't have the appetite to eat." Panis smiled and said, "I heard your stomach scream."
Lina's cheeks were slightly red, she turned her head and ignored Panis's jokes.
The sound of the wheel suddenly rang behind the two people, and a convertible carriage drove past the two people who were making way out of the road.
"Hey, man." Panis suddenly shouted: "Is Angus Village ahead? Let's give us a ride."
"That's right." The man driving the car replied: "You are going to Angus Village too? Come on the car and take you all the way."
"Thank you, man." Panis gently pushed Lina from behind. Lina looked back at Panis, handed the reins to Panis, and jumped into the carriage lightly. Panis did not get on the carriage, but instead jumped onto his own horse, holding Lina's reins while riding with the people who drove the carriage.
"Uncle, are you going to Angus Village to do business?" Lina asked with a smile while gently kneading her sore and numb thighs.
"Hey, little girl, I'm only forty years old, so I'm going to call myself a big brother." The driver with a big beard laughed heartily: "This is the best trading season. We who do business traders must look for business opportunities everywhere."
"Uncle Xingshang." Lina blinked and gently patted the carriage covered with thick cloth, and continued to change the position of the beating.
"Hey, girl, don't shoot hard, there are clay pots and plates inside." Xingshang quickly stopped Lina's movements.
Panis nodded: "That's right, stop taking pictures, there will be no wolf girl hidden inside."
"Huh?" Lina looked at Panis in surprise: "Have you read that book too?"
"Of course, the wolf girl is a businessman." Panis said: "I've seen it."
"Haha, that's a novel that was almost a hundred years ago, the work of Little Carra and Lion Lion. Hey, this name sounds so familiar." Lina said happily.
"What are you talking about?" Uncle Shang asked confusedly: "Maybe there is a wolf hidden in my car?"
"No, uncle, it's a story." Lina said while patting the baffle of the carriage: "The story also happened during the harvest festival in a village. A story happened after a half-wolf and half-human girl incarnated by the goddess of earth..."
As the story is told, the winding gravel path has come to an end. As night falls, the festive village arranged in the setting of the village is also silence of the night, with only the sound of gurgling wheels and the crisp narration of the girl still echoing in the night.
"That's how the story is." Lina stopped telling and jumped from the slowly moving carriage on a small square: "Thank you for sending us, uncle."
"It's the eldest brother, not the uncle." Xingshang stroked his beard and smiled: "You have arrived? Is there a place to live? It's hard to find a place to live in the village before the harvest festival. The hotels and farmers' homes are probably full."
"Uncle, don't worry." Lina took the reins handed over by Panis: "We have a place to live. Thank you, goodbye."
"Very good person." Panis stood there and watched the carriage leave.
"Yes." Lina gently patted the head of the mount: "Thank you."
"Ah? What's the matter?" Penis asked inexplicably.
"Nothing." Lina turned her head and muttered in a low voice: "Idiot."
"Ah? Why am I a fool again?" Panis rolled his eyes and said, "Forget it, just fool, you just said we have a place to live?"
"Yes." Lina pointed to the Temple of the Goddess of Earth on the other side of the small square: "I live in the temple, and there are guest rooms behind it."
"So there is a temple here." Panis asked strangely: "Since there is a temple, why do you still need to preside over the memorial service?"
"Because the head of the temple here is just a priest, not a priest, and does not have the ability to preside over the tutelage." Lina and Panis walked around the back of the temple, tied their horses into the stable, and knocked on the back door of the temple.
"Oh, Lord Priest, you finally arrived." The back door opened quickly, and a middle-aged priest appeared behind the door, looking relieved: "I have been waiting for you for a long time, I am really worried that you will not be able to catch up with the time, you...you, you, the sinner?"
Lina pointed at the stammer on her forehead without any concern, and walked into the temple with Panis, closed the back door casually, took out a fire-covered letter from her pocket and handed it over: "Are you Pastor Mirak? I am Lina, Reverend Lina."
The middle-aged pastor Mirack took the letter suspiciously and opened it. After carefully reading each word, he stared at Lina with strong suspicion: "Are you here to preside over the harvest festival?"
"Yes, it's not written in the letter." Lina pointed at the letter in Mirac's hand as usual: "The Lord of the Priest is not feeling well, I'll preside over the festival on his behalf."
"But you are not a priest." Mirac waved the letter in his hand angrily: "You are just a priest, how can you preside over the festival? You are not qualified to preside over or have the ability to preside over. I will never allow an ordinary priest to preside over such an important ceremony, and I will definitely not allow it."
"Oh?" Lina tilted her head and looked at Mirak with a pure look: "Why am I not qualified?"
"A ritual, you need to communicate directly with the goddess during sacrifices, and a priest can't do it at all." Mirac's voice became louder and louder: "If there is a problem with the ritual, the villagers who have worked hard for a year will be very sad. Do you understand? Your irresponsible behavior will hurt the feelings of thousands of villagers and make them feel frightened that the goddess has abandoned them."
"You are right." Lina smiled, stretched out her hand calmly, and pulled out the letter from Mirac: "But unfortunately, I am qualified to preside over the festival? What you say does not count, what I say does not count, what I say does not count, this letter only counts. So, you cannot change any result. With this letter, I can temporarily take over all your power in the temple."
"You." Mirac yelled angrily: "I will accuse you to the Bishop."
"You can do whatever you want, but that's what happened later." Lina said: "Now you have two choices. One is that you and other priests and nuns in the temple resist me preside over the festival and refused to cooperate. Then, the festival will inevitably fail. The other is that you and others will actively cooperate with me. Then, there may be a glimmer of hope for success in the festival. Which one would you choose? Think about it carefully, Mr. Pastor, I'll go to rest first. After thinking about it, welcome you to see me."
"Haha, you look like a villain." As he left, Panis touched Lina with his elbow and laughed in a low voice.
"Who made his reaction so excited?" Lina snorted: "And dare not trust my strength."
"But you have indeed not presided over the festival." Panis asked with some concern: "Are you so sure?"
"Of course." Lina smiled confidently and touched her chest and said, "I will invite a friend, a friend I haven't seen for a long time. This time the format is different from when I got along with my friends in the past. She will share her rich experience in the festival with me, and there will be no problems."
Chapter completed!