days at Hogwarts

Chapter 2 Grandpa Bates Lives on the Hill

This is a small town with pleasant scenery located at the foot of the mountains.The mountains are stretching and towering, the valley is quiet and quiet, and a small road extends behind the town, winding up the mountain.The greenery on the wilderness gradually fills the field of vision, and the unnamed flowers of various colors make breathing easier. The air is filled with the fragrance of flowers from the fertile pastures, which is refreshing.

Deacon Thorne held Loren in one hand and carried the package in the other: "Your grandfather, Mr. Bates, lived in a pasture on the mountain. He raised a flock of sheep with the townspeople and grew some wheat himself. You can live a prosperous life. "

Loren nodded, lowered his head and gasped for breath. He wore a two-layer smock and stepped on thick, heavy spiked boots.This was a valuable item brought out by the orphanage, and sister Joyce let him take it with her life or death.

The hot sun burned his cheeks red, and Loren was very dizzy as he climbed the mountain out of breath.

It has been several years since time travel, but this body is too small, and his immature body and brain can hardly support him to do too many things.

Britain in the 80s was not kind to an orphaned child.There are a lot of drug dealers, thieves, unemployed youths, and skinheads walking on the streets.A child can't bear any small accidents. Now he is no different from a 5-year-old child, and all his ambitions are difficult to display.

The residents of the small town watched the two walking up the mountain, their expressions became a little panicked, and there were many discussions.But the two didn't care.

Loren couldn't bear the heat after being away from the human habitation.

He took out the hand held by Deacon Thorne, tore off the blouse, leaving only the inner layer, took off the spiked boots, wrapped them in the blouse, held them in his hands, and stepped on the spot with his bare feet a few times. Stone, he thought, was perfectly fine.

"Let's go, Mr. Thorne, I can keep up." Loren suddenly became brisk.

Thorne smiled and walked forward, pulling Loren along when he encountered a steep slope.

In this way, after about an hour, they finally came to the alpine pasture.Three small thatched huts were built on a high ground by the roadside.The thatched hut is surrounded by wind, but bathed in bright sunshine, and the scenery under the mountain is unobstructed.

On the side of the hut was a bench made of roughly nailed planks. At this moment, an old man was sitting on it with a pipe in his mouth, watching the two people approaching. He had a long beard and gray eyebrows, and the wrinkles on his forehead were deeply carved.

Deacon Thorne stepped forward, held out his hand to him and said, "Hi, Mr. Bates, I'm Thorne."

"Hello, sir." The old man replied in a rough voice when shaking hands, while looking at the two of them, he looked at the little bean-like child in front of him, the sun was shining on the eyelashes like fine grass, and the sky-blue eyes were fluttering. A shadow, he felt a little soft-hearted.

Loren felt that the old man was paying more attention to him, so he took advantage of the situation and said, "Hello, grandpa."

He just wants to live with peace of mind until he can stand on his own, and he doesn't really care about other things.

After Thorne asked Loren to rest with the package, he talked with Mr. Bates.

Loren put the package on the stand next to the hut and looked around.The sun is full and the vegetation is fragrant. It is really a wonderful scene.

Not long after, Deacon Thorne came down the mountain, and they seemed to have completed the handover.

"Come in, you need to tidy up if you want to live here." The old man stood at the door and shouted loudly.

Loren ran into the house. There was only one room in the hut. There was a small bed next to the room, a table and some chairs beside it, a closet by the wall, a stove in the corner with a large pot on it, and a log on the other side. Together they form a ladder leading to the attic.

Stuffing the bundles and blouses into the closet, the old man had already spread coarse sheets on the attic, and stuffed some cotton wool into the coarse quilt.Such a bed is enough in summer.

"I'll make some wood for you later, so let's make do with it first."

In the evening, on the wooden dining table in the ranch cabin.

The wheat is cooked in goat's milk, and the smell of wheat and milk is mixed together. When you take a bite of smoked lamb, the salty aroma permeates your mouth. Just a bite of goat's milk, the slightly fishy smell becomes lighter. There is another plate of unknown The famous small wild berries, some are sour and some are sweet. Loren followed the example of the old man and threw a handful into his mouth. It was sour and sweet.

Compared to mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, potato cubes, and potatoes, this is heaven.

After eating, Loren wanted to clear the table.

"Boy, just live here. There are some things that you can talk about when you grow up." Bates stopped him, and took the tableware to the sink outside the house to wash.

"Okay, Grandpa." Loren felt that such an environment would be more comfortable even in the countryside.

At night, Loren sleeps in the attic, he can feel the smell of grass in the wilderness, he seems to ride the wind through the valley, skip the stream, on the tree, on the cloud, on the edge of the cliff, his head is no longer fainted.

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Waking up in the morning, with the sun shining through the attic, Loren could hardly remember where she was.The old man wants to make a bed frame out of wood in the attic, and clean up some debris by the way, and let Loren follow the shepherd to play on the mountain.

During the day, Peter, the shepherd at the bottom of the mountain, would drive up the sheep from the town and take them to the pasture on the mountain to graze and drink water together with a few sheep from the Bates family.

The shepherd is only a ten-year-old kid, and he is very tired of being alone with these stupid goats.

Hearing that he was going to take Loren up the mountain together, Pete happily accepted the errand.

Walking through the winding mountain road, put the sheep on the hillside to graze by themselves.Pete took Loren for a wild day, rolling down the hillside on soft pastures, watching eagles throw rabbits on rocks and pick brightly colored berries.

Loren was also obsessed with the wildness of the mountains. During the years spent in the orphanage, she had never been so free and unrestrained, without worrying about any safety issues.

At dusk, Pete drove the goats down the mountain with a sheep whip, and Bates led several of his sheep into the sheepfold with salt in his hand.

When Pete arrived at the small town down the mountain, he used a whistle to call the children together and brought back his own sheep.Life in the mountains reveals poverty, primitiveness but also comfort and nature.

Loren lived here and gradually got to know the town residents. They always looked at him with strange pity, as if Loren was experiencing some terrible tragedy, but when Bates appeared, they changed again. You have to be afraid, and dare not approach with respect.

He also asked Pete, and Pete told him that there were rumors of mess in the village.To say that Mr. Bates had murdered and made a deal with the devil would be ominous and not credible.

Bates always went into the mountains alone when the moon was full, and came back the next morning with a pale face, unable to do physical work for several days, and seemed to be weak.

When Loren asked, Bates always said that after checking the fruit trees in the mountains, he would take a few days off to let his old bones relax.But he never took Loren into the mountains.

[The character of Grandpa Bates is retained, it is only used to draw Bates here, Bates has his own story, and the reason for living alone in the mountains is because of the werewolf relationship.The actor of Little Heidi’s grandfather is Ganz, and the shepherd’s name is Peter. I’ll basically keep it as it is.

It is not difficult to change the appearance of Bates so that there is no shadow of little Heidi, mainly because a lot of preparations have been made before, all about the plot of little Heidi at Hogwarts, keeping it is the first time for a newcomer to write a book Be a little persistent.

If it causes a bad reading experience for the readers, I will kowtow to you. 】

(End of this chapter)