What to do if your crush is the Earl

"But what about tomorrow?" In the room, the boy with light blue hair bit his lips tightly, watching the woman gently wipe the injured ankle with a cloth sterilized with alcohol.

"We still have a piece of toast. It's really not good. Tomorrow, we will take the hoes to the blacksmith's shop and sell them for some change." The woman said.

"No! We can't sell hoes, so what shall we do next year?" The boy cried and hugged his mother's waist.

"Silly boy, there will always be a way." The mother stroked the young son's hair.

Two or three pieces of old wood were burned in the dilapidated stove, because the cold wind leaked from a crack in the door frame, which blew the small flame left and right. After burning for a while, the flame flickered and dimmed. .

The insignificant warmth and cold wind alternately make people wander back and forth between the world and hell.

"It's all because I'm too stupid, I can't catch anything." The boy sobbed in self-reproach, and he had already decided in his heart that he couldn't let his mother sell the hoe tomorrow.

He can try again in the field to see if he can catch a little gray rabbit with a better appearance and sell it for money, so that he can get dinner for five days again.

And when my brother comes back the day after tomorrow, they will not have nothing to welcome and entertain him, making my brother feel that life at home is hard and burdened.

The woman didn't say anything more, she patted the boy's back lightly, and the two of them snuggled up in front of the stove, absorbing the faint heat.

It was starry night outside the window.

The next day was bitterly cold.

Anio got up very early. With arrowheads on his back, he dug a pit outside the house and buried all the valuables at home, before going out in peace.

Archery was taught by his elder brother. His father died early. Anio was brought up by his elder brother more often. He admired his elder brother who was excellent in everything. He was very active since he was a child, with ideals and beliefs. Went to participate in the field battle city defense.

Although he and his mother are the only ones left in the family, both of them are in good health, and it is not a problem to take care of the family's fields.Occasionally, my brother would bring back things and money.Life can get by.

But in recent years, heavy snowstorms have raged, and the crops have been exposed to the cold early, greatly reducing production, and the food that was originally enough in previous years has become stretched.

One year is fine, two years, three years, there are less and less things left over, the wheat seeds, the bacon and ham left over from the year before last, are gradually bottoming out, until they are reduced to products that need to be smuggled into the noble woodland, they can get by .

According to the laws of the empire, nobles and local governors have the right to punish those who smuggled the private property of nobles, and even beheaded in severe cases.

It’s not that there are lessons learned from the past. There was a fool in the village who was beaten to death with sticks for stealing fish from the landlord’s pond.Everyone just gathered around to take a look, and then walked away as usual.

But Anio didn't care anymore. In order to fill him up these days, his mother had been drinking snow-water wild vegetable soup for six consecutive days. Her face turned from rosy to pale, but she gave him the remaining potatoes.

He swore he would get some bread for his mother.

I met a few strangers in that forest yesterday, so it is probably not safe.Today Anio plans to go to the north to look for it. He also secretly buried a few traps there before.

There are thousands of miles of fertile soil in the north, and there are layers of forest belts. Such a vast land belongs to only one nobleman, Earl Sade.

Anio had never seen this lord before. In Anio's imagination, this gentleman had a mustache unique to nobles, his old-fashioned thick white hair was neatly coiled behind his head, and he held a long pipe in his hand. , leaning back in the easy chair and watching them with disdain.

This is the image of the nobility that Anio saw on the mural brought back by his brother, and it is also Anio's only impression of the nobility.

In the freezing weather, the forest in the north was also very quiet, except for the walking of people, almost no other sounds could be heard.

It turned out to be a birch forest here, all the leaves had fallen in winter, and the whole branches were bare. The black transverse lenticels on the trunk looked at Anio like human eyes.

He wasn't afraid though, he traced his way and checked the trap under the first marker.

In a sunken meadow, the thin snow layer was pulled away, and some grass clippings were brushed away, revealing an eagle-claw-shaped iron tool.Anio opened the iron fence and dug inside. It was empty and there was no prey.

He sighed, and as soon as he exhaled the warm air with body temperature, it turned into mist when it was cold, showing the coldness of the Northland.

The second trap is under the third big tree from the right in the east, and there is still nothing in it.

In such a frigid climate, brown bears have hibernated, and northern wolves have returned to their lairs on the mountain. It is difficult to see even small animals.

There were four traps in total. Anio scratched his light blue hair, groped his way to the third one in the snow, and opened the haystack, but there was still nothing.

He suddenly felt a little dejected, there was not even a single fresh leaf in the icy forest, only the sound of the cold wind blowing mercilessly, it seemed that he was the only one on the white land, desperately chasing after something to feed himself .

The dizziness caused by hunger and the despair rising in his heart made his steps feel like a thousand catties, and he almost wanted to sit down on the spot.

at this time,

"Cuckoo-"

"Cuckoo-"

A few small voices suddenly came from not far away.

Anio stopped his movements, listened carefully for a while, identified the direction, and found that it was the place where the last trap was buried.

His eyes lit up, his heart was pounding, and he tiptoed over there.

It's two gray rabbits! !

Anio's face was facing the entrance of the hole, and the joy and joy that had been hidden for a long time appeared on his face. He closed the gate of the trap, intending to catch the two rabbits and put them in the bag.

suddenly,

"Wow--"

A large net popped down from the air, and the ropes were bundled. Anio was caught off guard by the whole person and hung in the air.

There was inertia in the movement of the mechanism, and the rope was still spinning, and Anio's world was flickering, and finally saw a man in a coarse short shirt appear in the field of vision on the third turn.

"Haha!! Poachers! I've found you!!"

The author has something to say:

About the sound of the bunny:

For this reason, I went to the Internet to find a video, and after listening to it for a long time, it was indeed a "cuckoo-cuck" sound.Well, trust me!