166 – Parenting(4)
Of course, Rex, whose teeth grew as he grew up, graduated from insect juice and ate meat, fruit, and vegetables normally.
And, of course, he started eating unbalanced, saying he would only eat what he liked, just like children with thick hair.
Thanks to that, the recent mealtime with Rex has become a war, in a different way from the struggle to catch bugs in the past.
“You should eat vegetables too!”
“… … !”
“Hey! What will happen if you keep your mouth shut!”
“… … !”
“Oh, don’t dodge!”
“… … !”
While Monia was chasing Rex, who was avoiding by clinging to various parts of the house, Chester read Rex’s movements.
After reading Rex’s movement while looking at the line of light, he moves his body faster than his brain can sense Rex’s movement and grabs Rex.
“?!”
The moment Rex was caught and surprised, the bundle of vegetables in Chester’s other hand was revealed in Rex’s mouth.
“Keee!”
While Rex, who was forced to eat vegetables, screamed, Chester, who grabbed Rex and fed him vegetables, and Monia, who pretended to chase Rex to make it easier for Chester to catch him, gave high-fives.
“Whoa. I finally ate it.”
“Yeah. great job.”
“No. I can’t catch Rex, so I have to do it like this.”
Monia looked at Rex, who was chewing on vegetables even though she hated it while wiping the sweat from her eyes.
Rex never wants to eat vegetables, but once he puts them in his mouth, he eats well, enduring his dislike.
“So it was nice to just eat it.”
When Monia said that, Rex waved his hands vigorously and protested silently to Monia.
“You can’t do that to your mother.”
Chester lightly scolded Rex, but this time brought a well-roasted bone.
“yes! yes!”
If vegetables are Rex’s least favorite food in the world, on the contrary, well-roasted bones are Rex’s favorite food in the world.
On the day the black wind came to play, he taught Rex how to eat bones, but then he followed the black wind and ate the bones, and the taste was gone.
Rex saw the well-roasted bone Chester had handed him, licked his lips, put it in his mouth, and chewed it like it was a snack.
“Eat well… … .”
“Yeah.”
It’s not that the two don’t eat bones.
Chester can eat the cartilage or the marrow inside the bone, and Monia knows of the existence of fish dishes that she enjoys chewing even the bones together, but on top of that, if they’re both really small creatures, they often just grill them whole and eat the bones at once. , I really didn’t understand how to just roast and eat raw bones.
Still, Rex liked it, so if he had any bones he could eat, he would roast them.
“yes! yes!”
Rex expressed his delight as he ate the bone. Is it because the bones are more delicious than usual because Chester and Monia hunted them, not because they hunted them themselves?
Monia also liked fruits grown in her own yard more delicious than fruits picked in nature.
Monia looked at Rex, who was delighted, and took one of the dumplings she made for dinner tonight.
Although the dumplings are made with only grain powder and water without eggs and made with a tough, non-sticky dough, the juices and vegetable juices trapped inside the dumpling skin spurt out at once and the taste spreads enough to make the dumplings delicious.
“I want to try kneading with eggs.”
“Then shall we go get it? The birds must have returned, perhaps even made nests.”
“egg… … . What dishes can you make with eggs? I don’t know, except that it goes into the dough. boiled egg?”
“Even nobles eat eggs in the same way as we do.”
“Is there anything special? It’s an egg.”
“That’s right.”
Perhaps other countries have more diverse recipes, but in the kingdom where the two lived, eggs were boiled, baked, or scrambled.
The reason there is no mediocre recipe is that chicken, along with potatoes, is the main meal of the common people. Nobles rarely touch it, so recipes are not developed, and common people waste precious ingredients and do not make recipes on a trial basis, so recipes are limited.
“Then let’s look for eggs tomorrow.”
“Well. Are the birds okay?”
“Even if we don’t eat, snakes and other birds will attack us. It’s just that we get a little stuck on it.”
Chester tells the story of Takran. Some birds lay eggs similar to those of other birds and hide them in the nests of other birds.
“Ugh. There are cases like that.”
“what?”
“Why? I thought it was my own baby, but when I saw that my hair was growing, it is often said that it was a child with hair that could not come from the family line?”
“Sigh.”
Hearing Monia’s story, Chester sighed.
“Nobility.”
Beside him, Rex imitates Chester’s movements.
“Don’t commoners talk like that?”
At Monia’s words, Chester fell silent for a moment.
“Well. Like the story of a soldier who went to the battlefield and returned home and found his wife pregnant… … .”
“That one is the same.”
“Whether in the aristocratic world or in the commoner world, dirty people are dirty everywhere. Wouldn’t the royal family be similar?”
“Ugh. Because each generation of the royal family gets married with other countries and various aristocratic families, each blood is mixed.”
“Isn’t the royal family betrothed to the duke’s family from birth?”
Monia shrugged.
“Have you ever heard of a king having only one wife?”
“Well. no. Right. The royal family is from the duke’s family, but the concubine is a different story.”
“right. The next king will appear among the concubines. Wasn’t that the case with Jordi?”
“Then, wouldn’t it be fine if I married you and waited a bit before taking that commoner woman as my concubine?”
Chester and Monia looked at each other for a moment, then both sighed.
“If you have that kind of brain, you won’t do such stupid things.”
“I do not care.”
In Chester’s lamentation, Monia said so and clung to Chester.
“Thanks to you, did this happen with you?”
“hahahaha. That’s right. That too.”
Chester hugged his waist and carefully stroked Monia’s head as she rubbed her face against her thigh.
Monia, who had been quietly stroking her hair, turned her body over and stared blankly at the ceiling of the house.
“I know that? If Jordi becomes king, the country will surely be ruined. Castles and lands are burning, thieves are seething, rivers of blood and mountains of corpses.”
“… … .”
“I’m just saying this because it won’t work that way if you just listen to the words of your competent servants. If it was Jordi’s hair, the servants wouldn’t listen.”
Chester laughed at Monia’s harsh words.
“Oh, this story is not interesting. Any interesting stories?”
“Anything interesting?”
“I like old stories that mom and dad tell their children. yes?”
“It’s an old story. That’s right. Then, to the story of the tribal hero born from an egg. Will Rex come and listen?”
Chester beckoned, and Rex lay comfortably in Chester’s arms.
With his wife and child in his arms, Chester began to tell the story he had heard from his father, in a low voice that sounded like a natural drowsiness.
* * *
“Kyaaa!”
“There, bitch! Give me that!”
The hair of a woman who tried to escape is caught by a thief. The thief, who looked like a miserable loser, pulled out her hair while gnashing her teeth, and threw the woman to the ground.
“No no!”
“Give me!”
The thief, whose eyes had gone back, violently took away what the woman was holding in her arms, then confirmed the identity of the object and gnashed her teeth.
Inside the cloth the woman was holding, there was nothing the thief wanted, only a crying baby.
“Aww! these twins! Give me something to eat! Give me the food! You can’t eat a bastard like this!”
The thief threw the cloth containing the baby to the ground, and the surprised woman threw herself to protect the baby.
“please! please stop! We have nothing to eat! Nothing really! Just let it go!”
“Why! nothing! Aren’t you!”
The blood and flesh of the thief holding the spear turned dark red and bumpy, and the hideous blade of the spear aimed at the woman and fell down.
Such tragedies did not occur in any one place.
Chaos in the capital of the kingdom due to the rampage of the revolutionary army. The participation of neighboring countries in the war caused by it. The situation has already gotten out of hand.
Neither the duke who started this war nor the kingdom can stop the war. We have come to a situation where we cannot do anything with the will of one country or one power.
The barbarians from the north, who lived in a cold land that was forever frozen, came down aiming for a warm and rich land.
The warriors of the desert, who lived in the endlessly hot and dry desert, and the forces that spread throughout the desert joined forces as one and came up as a kingdom.
Not only the countries that were clustered around the kingdom, but also the weaker countries that were sandwiched between many countries stood up.
The battlefield was not limited to the kingdom’s territory.
To the surrounding country, to the surrounding land, and to the surrounding people, just like a handful of fire falling on a field where the grass has dried up under the scorching sunlight on a dry day with no moisture, the flames of war spread out of control. .
Already, it didn’t matter why the war started.
It didn’t matter what purpose the country wanted to achieve by intervening in the war.
The important thing is that you are at war.
A cat, led by sailors to a small island, catches birds that live only on that island to relieve boredom, and kills and kills them without stopping just because the birds, which used to live without predators, were so easy to catch. like you did,
No one cares about the purpose of the act, and only the act that has occurred for the neglected purpose is repeated endlessly.
Flames raged, blood flowed like rivers, corpses piled up like mountains, and human screams reached the high skies and endless hell.
“Aww! aaa!”
“Don’t cry, this damn is a kid! don’t cry! Because you’re crazy! Go over there and die! Just die!”
“aaang!”
“Damn it! Somebody! please! I’m hungry! I haven’t eaten anything for a week! Give me something to eat please! Is anyone there?!”