The aunt glanced at Betty: "What's the use of resting more? Betty's old bones have been ill for so long and there is no improvement. No matter how much medicine she takes, it has no effect. Betty, look, in a few years, Betty He is about to be buried.”
"Aunt! Don't say that!"
"My child, alas..." Aunt stretched out her wrinkled and calloused hands and touched Betty's chin: "How come you are about to cry after just saying a few words? You are so weak. It seems like, when my aunt is gone, how can I trust you alone?"
"Then aunt, please don't leave. You can get better. You can get better. Betty will definitely try to kill many wolf cubs in exchange for money..." At this point, Betty's heart moved: "Otherwise, Betty will try to catch as many flowers as possible. The meat is ready."
"Huarouzi is a level 0 plant. Although it can move, it has no attack power at all. You are already 12 years old, but you can only catch Huarouzi. It really worries me." My aunt sighed again. : "If I hadn't been seriously ill, the level 3 little wolf wouldn't have been able to defeat me."
My aunt is just an ordinary housewife, but the people here have received some training and guidance since childhood. Usually when farming and raising livestock, or walking on the path back to her parents' home to go to the market, if they encounter a wild beast that suddenly rushes out of the woods, they can handle it alone and have the ability to protect themselves. Children in Kuha Village can leave the village on their own after the age of 10 and go fishing or hunting near the village.
In places where humans live, usually even if a wild beast occasionally rushes out, the level will not be too high, at most around level 3. Level 4 is the leader of the beast king. If there are two women, they can sometimes handle it.
But if a beast king appears, there will usually not be just one. Therefore, when leaving the village to go somewhere far away, women usually ask men to accompany them. As a man, even if he can't hold a prestigious profession, he can still deal with three adult beasts alone with weapons.
In addition to children, as for the elderly, as long as they are not extremely weak, slow and seriously ill, if one or two wild beasts occasionally break into the village, the 60 or 70-year-old elderly can also deal with them with weapons. Therefore, under such circumstances, Betty, who was already 12 years old, could not even kill a level 1 wolf cub, and her aunt was very worried about Betty.
"Betty, why are you so kind-hearted? You can cut down the wooden piles in the village. Why are you always being chased around when you cut down a wolf cub?"
In an open square in the village, there are several wooden stakes erected. Those wooden stakes are specially used for training. From the age of 3, children in the village will practice strength on the wooden stakes with small weapons. When Betty used those wooden stakes to practice, her strength was also good. A wooden pile made of four or five logs bundled together. Betty can chop down the wooden pile three times with a machete.
But I don’t know why, when Betty faced a living wolf cub, Betty couldn’t use that strength anyway. Betty always felt that when the wolf pup was hit by a chop, the blood rushed to her face and her life was cut off, which made Betty feel very weird.
Betty has had a very special feeling about life since she was a child. Whenever she saw animals on the verge of death, she always felt that she could save them. However, she really does not have such ability, so in the contradiction between the two extremes, Betty will subconsciously try to avoid killing scenes.
When my aunt was young, she was also a good player in the village. How many adult male wolves had fallen on her hands, so she couldn't understand Betty's feelings.
"Well, Betty, if you can't become a professional, then you will have to find someone to marry early and find a family to protect you." said the aunt.
"Ah, getting married?" Betty was stunned: "Betty is only 12 years old, aunt."
"Twelve years old is not young anymore. A fully developed child can be born at the age of 13. I have been sick for so long, and I don’t know when I will die. Once I leave, who else in the world can protect you? Now it’s time to Xiu can help you fight wolf cubs, but sooner or later he has to go out to learn skills. He wants to be a professional warrior. After he goes to learn skills and joins the army, can he still take care of you? Leave you alone. Man, how can I rest assured? Although you are the baby I picked up, I have worked hard to bring you up alone for so many years. You are just like my biological daughter. I have never seen you have a good destiny. I can’t feel at ease even if I die.”
The aunt said these words sadly under the candlelight, which made Betty's nose feel sore for a while.
"Aunt, you will be fine, you will be fine. Betty will work hard, and Betty will work hard to earn many, many gold coins back to buy herbal medicine for her aunt."
Auntie patted Betty's hand.
"Compared to those herbs, as long as you are no longer afraid of killing, my aunt will feel at ease."
Betty hugged her aunt and cried loudly.
"Son, let's find someone to get engaged first. When my aunt goes there in the future, if you need anything, someone will be able to help you."
Betty cried harder.
The moon at night is always so bright. Hanging high in the sky, like a huge gem emitting gentle light.
It was already late at night, but Betty still couldn't sleep. My aunt was coughing in the room. She had been ill for a long time. She took a lot of medicine and saw many doctors, but she didn't get better. Looking at this situation, it seems that just as she said, she may not be able to hold on for long.
Whenever she thought of this, Betty felt panicked. Betty is an orphan who was picked up by her aunt on the roadside during an outing seven years ago. If Betty hadn't been picked up by her kind aunt, Betty would have become food in the wolf's mouth. Although Betty was already 5 years old when her aunt picked her up, Betty had no memory of her past. Except for the name "Betty, Betty" she muttered in her mouth, Betty couldn't remember anything about her parents' names, etc. Over the years, her aunt has raised Betty as her daughter, and she has been very kind to her. Betty has long regarded her as the mother in her heart.
Every time she heard her aunt's heavy cough, Betty's heart ached.
What to do, what to do? Is there really no way out, can we really just watch my aunt get weaker day by day?
By the way, Pastor!
Betty suddenly thought of something. If an ordinary disease cannot be cured, it is said that people who become high-level professional priests will use a blessing spell to relieve the patient's pain and even make them recover.
Why didn’t she think of it until today? She's so stupid!
Betty patted her head and hurried into her aunt's room.
"Aunt, aunt!" Betty shouted: "Aunt, don't worry, Betty will definitely find a way to cure your illness. Aunt, you will be fine, you will be fine!"
The aunt who was lying on the bed coughing raised her eyelids and looked at Betty: "Betty...what can you do?"
"Aunt, Betty should go find a priest. Betty should go to a senior professional priest. The priest will definitely be able to cure you."
"Really?" My aunt's eyes lit up, then dimmed quickly: "But where do you have the money to hire a pastor? A high-level professional pastor requires a lot of money..."
Don't be afraid of a lot of money, as long as there is a way, Betty can overcome her timidity and fight more wolf cubs!
"Even if you kill wolf cubs every day, the money in exchange won't be enough..."
The energy I had just mustered up for myself was immediately dampened by my aunt. The aunt looked at Betty with a look that said, "I knew what you were thinking." "In my early years, my aunt once saw someone hiring a mid-level priest to treat a disease for 500 gold coins."
500 gold coins! OMG.
Betty sat back weakly on the ground. Brother Matthew helps Betty hunt the wolf cubs every day. A piece of wolf skin and four wolf teeth can be exchanged for 15 copper coins. It takes 100 copper coins to get 1 silver coin, and 100 silver coins to get 1 gold coin. 500 gold coins, how many wolf cubs will Betty kill? Moreover, it was only an intermediate pastor. I don’t know if the intermediate pastor could save my aunt. If I hired a senior pastor, I would need more money...
When Betty was sold, Abby said he was not willing to pay even 1 gold coin.
Betty couldn't even exchange for a gold coin, so where could she find so much money to hire a high-level priest?
****
The next morning, Betty got up with two dark circles under her eyes.
"Betty, what's wrong? You're in a bad mood." Matthew came over from the house next door early in the morning and asked immediately when he saw Betty.
Last night, my aunt had a cough all night, and Betty had been taking care of her. She didn't sleep much, so how could she be in good spirits?
"It's your aunt's illness that happened again." Matthew guessed the reason at a glance.
"Alas~" He put down the things in his hands, entered the door, and asked Betty to give him the wolf cub that he had beaten yesterday.
"There is no solution for your aunt's illness if it continues like this. When I go to the city next month, I will ask someone to ask if there is any pastor I know, and ask him to contact us so that the pastor can come to your home to pray for your aunt. Fu, maybe it can cure your aunt's illness."
Brother Matthew's words really spoke to Betty's heart. But even if it’s a priest you know... you’ll still need gold coins. Betty's family didn't have half a gold coin, and even if Betty was sold, she wouldn't get a single gold coin. Moreover, Brother Matthew has just gone to study and owes such a huge favor. How bad it is.
"Brother Matthew... no... no need, Betty's family has no gold coins." Betty lowered her head and said softly.
Brother Matthew helped Betty drag the body of the wolf cub into the kitchen. He took out a skinning knife that he brought with him and slashed the wolf's belly. After cutting the wolf open, he used the skinning knife to cut into pieces. to separate the wolf's skin from its flesh.
A completely skinned wolf skin sells for more than a skin that has been skinned in pieces. Brother Matthew has practiced skinning since he was a child. So every time he helped Betty fight back the wolf cubs, he would also help Betty skin the wolf skin. After that, take out its teeth. Leave the prepared meat and let Betty make the bacon ingredients.