under the field

Scarlett

"You don't have to get up quickly! The street market is so lively today! Let's go and have a look!" Lily dragged me off the bed, and I didn't bother to change my clothes, we ran among the crowd.

We came to the place where the people gathered, which was the gallows in New Sierre. "What crime is this?" asked someone nearby.

"They said they were rebels against the royal family," someone replied.

We pushed through the crowd in front of us and finally reached the front circle, where we saw several gallows with prisoners standing in front of the ropes.Starting from the left, officers and soldiers began to put ropes around their necks.I saw clearly the people standing on it, and saw Claire's staring eyes, and I looked at the rest of the people with feeling, Mia, Brianna, Otis, Knight and Colin...

I wanted to scream, but I couldn't make a sound. I saw the planks being pulled away, and they immediately hung on the stage like torn cloth strips, and their legs struggled like dehydrated fish...

"Little Scar." Lily called me, and I turned my head to look at her. There were only two blood holes on her face, and I realized that I was screaming, but I couldn't hear my own voice, only heard her. There was the sound of the dead fish's tail flapping dying on the deck.

……

Because I recovered from the nightmare, there was no one in the hospital when I came down from the stairs, only Dr. Knight was sitting in front of the cabinet reading a book regardless of the weather. "Good morning." He didn't look up.

As I routinely walked into the basement, Shay saw me first and greeted me warmly.I checked Dunken's leg. The hole pierced by the bullet had begun to close tightly and scars had formed, and he would be able to walk normally soon.

"Sister, look at my back too, isn't that all right? Then I can go with Lord Colin!" Shay asked while looking at me.

The bearded Nigel on the lower bunk gave him a sideways glance, "You're the only one who follows Colin."

"Lord Colin said that I'm excellent! I'm sure I won't hold back!" Shay argued.

Nigel said sarcastically, "That's right, walking without making a sound is the potential of being a thief. What kind of excellence is it?"

Shay blushed with anxiety, I patted his shoulder and quickly smoothed his hair, he obediently lifted up his clothes and turned to lie down, I looked at the wound on his back and asked: "Dr. Knight should have checked you in the morning Bar?"

"He didn't care about us for a long time." Shay curled his lips aggrievedly, saying that Knight is really a strange doctor. When people are in danger, he is nervous and half dead. For a period of time, he didn't bother with these people during the recovery period, and just waited for them to leave on their own.

"This is the iron bone of a man. What do you want a big man to care about you? If you want someone to care about your injuries, you might as well just marry a woman." Ken shouted from the opposite bed.

I immediately remembered Lily's feelings for Shay, but I heard Shay say: "I don't want to marry a wife, I want to follow Lord Colin to take risks and do great things!"

"Then your Lord Colin has never married a wife in his life, so you will never marry in this life?" Nigel echoed.

"You guys know it again? It seems like you know everything!" Shay buried his face in the pillow angrily, and turned to look at me, "Sister, do you have a boyfriend? They all say you are Hai Si on the wanted list Ding girl."

"No." I pulled off his clothes and covered his back, "Your wounds are healed, don't keep bouncing around, or they will tear apart if they are not completely healed."

"Don't worry, I can protect you too, and I won't let that disgusting old bastard touch you!" Shea said, "The old bastard has seized a lot of wealth privately, and he is responsible for the sudden increase in land taxes in the north." You are making trouble, the harvest is already very bad, and you don’t even know that those farmers are almost out of food.”

Otis came back from outside sweating profusely, "What are you talking about, so excited?"

"When will the man talking about Jacob start a family and start a business!" said the man occupying the plank bed, not forgetting to wave his injured arm. The man is back.

Otis laughed, and clapped his big hand on the shoulder of Colin who came in after him. "That's where you're going to ask the most popular man in Carolina land."

Shay sat up first and asked him, "Lord Colin, will you get married?"

Nigel pointed at him, "This kid said that if you don't get married all your life, he will follow you all your life and wash your stinky socks!" Shay hurriedly denied, and everyone laughed.

"What I mean is, I will fight side by side with you until the day you get married and start a business!" Shay straightened his tongue and argued.

"Almost the same meaning!"

The person being ridiculed by everyone laughed, but Otis continued, "Stinky boy! You don't need to be that person, women who are willing to wash his socks can go to Orlando from here!"

Someone answered quickly, "We have a girl from Orlando here!" Seeing that everyone turned their gunfire on me, I couldn't help blushing and stood up.I understand that men can speak without regard for scale, and leave the battlefield before their words are astonishing.

I left the teasing behind me and ran out like a rabbit, and Nate looked up at me with that "I knew they were like that" look on his face.

"Xiao Scar, your face is so red." Lily bumped into me on the porch and looked at me suspiciously.I touched my face and said, "It's too stuffy inside, what are you doing?"

"I'm going to take this to Shay." She was holding a tray with five or six bowls of sweet soup in her hand. I looked at her silly look and sighed silently. Still, still so cute.

"Don't go in yet, they're talking." I think everyone can see the difference between Lily and Shay, and it's inevitable to make fun of them.I prevented her from going in like a calf, and the door to the basement was pulled open.

Colin came out from inside, and she greeted him warmly: "Master Colin, would you like a bowl of sweet banana soup with rock sugar?"

Colin took out a bowl of sweet soup from the plate, and quickly dried it along the edge of the bowl without a spoon. Lily watched him adoringly put the empty bowl back on the tray like a fool, and sighed "Wow".

"Come with me." He grabbed my wrist and was about to leave. I wanted Lily not to go into the basement, but I saw those two pretty braids disappearing into the basement.Is it true that someone I like will look so stupid, I sighed and turned my gaze back to the man in front of me.

Ignoring Knight's teasing whistle towards our backs, I followed Colin to the outside of the hospital. There were two horses standing there. I recognized the white horse named Angus, which belonged to him. It also carried me for a while before I came to New Shell.He let go of me in front of another tan foal and motioned to me, "Try."

I touched the reddish-brown hair, and the soft touch reminded me of the horses in the manor. I couldn't help being excited, "Is this for me?"

"No way, you're too short." He replied indifferently.

I ignored him, my eyes were already attracted by the beautiful coat color in front of me, this is definitely a high-quality and beautiful horse, I patted its nose with my hand, stroked her head, and looked at her long eyelashes She blinked curiously at me, "Hi..." I whispered to her.

"She's Ollie," said Colin.

I neatly got on the back of the horse and showed off to the people beside me, "Competition?" Before he could respond, I rode the horse and rushed out.

Soon there was the sound of horseshoes behind me, I laughed, gripped the horse's belly and rushed forward more quickly. It didn't take long for me to feel complacent, and I found that I was not familiar with New Sierre, and I usually went shopping with Lily. It's just a fixed market. I didn't come back to my senses until I ran into a deserted alley.

There was only the sound of horseshoes echoing in the alley, but Colin hadn't caught up yet.I slowed down and wandered in this unfamiliar area.

I turned out of the alley and found him in front of a row of closed shops.He leaned leisurely outside a shop, patted the horse beside him, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

I approached to dismount and he helped me lead the pony and said, "How's Ollie?"

"Amazing! I love it!" I replied holding Ollie's head.

We didn't speak for a while. "Scarlett." He suddenly called my name.Usually, when teasing me lightly, he would not call me Xiaoba like other people, and would say "hey" more often.He would call me Scarlett, usually in serious situations, like the last farewell.

It's been almost a month since we met again last night.But I can still think of his outline and figure, and wonder where and what he and Otis are doing now and then, even if I delude myself into thinking it's a hunger and miss for a friend.

"Have you really thought it through?" he said, and I knew exactly what he was going to say. "You know, none of this is a joke."

"Follow Jacob's men, you are no longer just the earl's fugitive." He said word by word, "This is a capital crime, rebel." As if to engrave the last three words into me In my head, keep me awake.

He was giving me a chance to back off, and let me back out. He continued, "The youngest daughter of the Hasdin family is no longer just a fugitive with a huge reward, but also a member of Jacob who is against the royal family."

"You might die, aren't you afraid?"

I suddenly remembered the nightmare this morning. The people I loved and those who loved me died in front of me, the pain I couldn't speak.

"You haven't seen how the poor people live in the dirtiest streets on the edge of the town. The laws of the country can no longer govern them, because the existence of the royal family has broken these laws, and everyone is wantonly hurting each other. , do not know how to commit crimes for a piece of bread."

"You haven't seen it, maybe you can't understand it, so you still have a chance to go back to Orlando to be that carefree Viscountess, you still have a chance to go back, and I will take everything you said last night as if I didn't hear it , and then arrange the way home for you, this is what I can do."

I know that behind these words is a watershed moment, and this may very well be the last time we have a conversation like this in person.I know very well that in the end I chose the latter, chose to leave and return to Orlando, and I would really never see this man in front of me again.He will continue to charge forward and do what he is doing, and under his arrangement, I will go back to Orlando secretly to avoid the eyes and ears of Count Reggie and continue to live. I never doubted his ability to do these things.just then what?

We will truly part ways.