The fast-traveling girl has no feelings for her

Chapter 272 The Witch's Little Red Riding Hood ([-])

The sun in the sky is gradually slanting to the west, and on the other side of the sky that has lost the sun, the moon is eager to come out with the stars, and the bright white light spots that belong to them are looming in the sky.

In an open space deep in the village, a ten-man witch hunting team from the small town was surrounding a burning bonfire, waiting for dinner.

In a rural village like this, you can't find any good food.

Above the blazing flames, a large iron pot was burning. In the pot, there were simmered beef bones and beef, emitting bursts of meaty aroma.The woman who cooked the supper saw that the meat was almost done, so she sprinkled some salt, some chickpeas, and some fresh green leaves.

In addition to this pot of hot food, women in every family in the village brought out a small basket of homemade black bread as the staple food tonight.

This meal was already the best food their village could produce.

If they could, they hoped that this team would catch the witch tomorrow and go back to town tomorrow, because if they fed these people like this again, everyone in their own village would starve to death.

After all, these people caught the witch and the bounty was theirs and had nothing to do with the villagers.

The villagers must not lose any of the taxes and food that should be paid to the town.

Beside the fire, Rozok, who had just come out of the head of the village, raised his hand to stroke his curly hair.

In the "check" he conducted on the village women before, he found a woman with a good appearance and figure.

It just so happened that the girl was still unmarried to Yunying, and she was clean.

The only drawback is that like all country people, I don't take a shower all year round and my body smells like mud.

However, the person in charge had already promised him that he would wash the person and send him to the house where he lived at night, so that he could "in-depth check".

Thinking of having something to do at night, Rozock hummed a little tune and walked towards the edge of the fire ahead.

Supper by the fire had just begun, and he came just in time.

"You're coming, we're having people call you!"

Seeing the captain appear, some team members greeted Rozok, and the latter nodded as a response.

A thick-handed peasant woman was filling a large bowl with bean broth for the witch-hunters, and giving them bread first.

After all ten people got food, it was the villagers' turn to come forward and eat the remaining food.

Granny Na who was present was also given a small bowl of broth and three slices of half-hard and half-dry black bread.

She sat on a small stone pier, put the soup bowl on her lap, tore the bread with her hands, and dipped it in the soup bit by bit.

God knows how long it had been since she had tasted meat.

As she is getting older, she can't do farming and herding sheep, and her whole life is on Little Red Riding Hood.

But now her only lifeblood has been taken away by the witch, how will she live in the future?
Every time she took a bite of the bread that was full of the aroma of the broth, Granny Na would wipe the corners of her eyes with her hands, which made people look extraordinarily sad.

Jenny, who was sitting next to her, couldn't bear to take out two slices of bread from his small basket of bread and put them in the other person's hands.

"If you don't have enough to eat, I still have bread here." Jenny said.

Granny Na glanced at the young man in front of her, put down the bread in her hand, and sighed involuntarily.

She hasn't had a good life for most of her life.

She was born into a peasant family, and followed her parents to become a peasant in the territory of a noble vassal.

At that time, because of his young age and good looks, he wanted to change his fate, so he taught those dog legs sent by the big family to patrol the countryside to cheat him for nothing.

Later, her parents arranged for her to marry an honest man, but they never thought that her health would break down early and she would be unable to have children.

Honest people also get angry sometimes.

After the other party learned about her situation, he determined that she could not have children, so he abandoned her and kicked her out of the house.

From then on, she wandered around, left her former homeland, and came to live in this foreign land.

Here, relying on her strength and hands, she works for others every day, barely able to make ends meet.

Later, she accidentally picked up Little Red Riding Hood in a forest. At that time, she felt that her whereabouts for the rest of her life depended on this child.

But she never thought that the well-behaved child raised by herself would disappear one day.

"...That damned witch actually took my Little Red Riding Hood away just like that! Young man, all the hopes of my poor child are placed on you! Please, please help me find that child !"

As she spoke, crystal clear tears slipped from her cloudy old eyes and accidentally fell into the soup bowl.

Seeing this, Jenny quickly comforted her and said, "Yes, we will definitely find that child."

Several other teammates who are close to Jenny also echoed, "Don't worry about this. As long as the other party is really a witch, they can't escape our hands!"

"That's right, even if the child really disappeared. When we catch the witch, we can either send her to the gallows or burn her to death. In short, it can be regarded as revenge for the children!"

The continuous booing of these people made Rozok feel a little bored.

How to catch the witch, and what to do after catching the witch, these are all matters for the captain to decide, where is it the turn of these fools to decide?
All of them pretending to be big in front of these country people who will never be promising, what's the point of this?
The more he listened to these people talking, the more irritated he became. He simply drank the broth in the bowl in a few mouthfuls, stood up and planned to go back to the house.

But as soon as he got up, he unexpectedly saw a slender little girl standing outside the fire.

This girl looks not tall, but slender, with her exposed face, neck and arms looking white and tender.

Rozoke suddenly became interested, and opened his mouth and shouted to the person in charge beside him, "Hey, what's the matter with you? Didn't you say that everyone in the village is here? Why is there another one over there?" The kid didn't come over for dinner?"

The middle-aged head in charge, who was eating bread dipped in broth with great relish, put down the bowl in his hand and stood up when Rozok said.

In the end, he saw a timid little girl standing in front of the fire, but this little girl made him feel unfamiliar.

Is there such a person in their village?
Because the sky was getting dark at this time, and the other party was facing the sun, he didn't notice that the little girl's face was a little pale at the moment.

After hearing the words of Rozok and the person in charge, the others also turned their heads and looked towards the rear side.

Facing the unanimous gaze of everyone, Little Red Riding Hood took a few steps back in fear.

Her eyes quickly searched the crowd, and soon saw Granny Na's familiar face in a corner.

(End of this chapter)