Chapter 5:

Chapter 5. Jack's whereabouts

Master Brian's maid


Brian seemed less frightened than before because he felt the man was not so dangerous compared to what he had thought badly of him. Jack let go of Brian and Mathew, he walked over to the kitchen and said:

“Would you like some tea and cake?”

Brian and Mathew raised their eyebrows and looked at Jack intently, Jack looked at the two children's faces quite funny, so he continued:

“That's what the nobles who usually greet you say, but I don't? There is only a little fish and chicken here.”

Jack said as he gestured to the two children to see a chicken roaming in his house. A large rooster, it walked while looking at the two strangers standing in front of it now. So did Brian and Matthew, looking at the chicken with interest and curiosity.

But the chickens are usually kept in the cage, why are they here now, right in Jack's house. The answer is very simple is that since the chickens are usually left loose by Jack in a low barn behind the house, they seem to be quite free when they are not completely forced into a place like the children, living in a mansion. Giant villas sometimes feel more cramped than blending in with nature like this.

Like the other children, Brian saw a rooster for the first time at this close range, and jumped to the rooster about to embrace it, and as Jack and Matthew had predicted, Brian didn't. catch it. The boy fell to the ground from chasing after the little animal that liked to run around, and Matthew stood there laughing as he saw his brother like an idiot running around the house just to catch a chicken.

But a short while later, Matthew joined in the chase when another chicken jumped on top of him, and worse, its legs were covered in dung, leading to one side of Matthew's shirt covered in chicken droppings. Matthew shouted angrily, he bit his lips, took a tree next to it to beat the chicken. Jack watched two children running and jumping with two chickens in his house making a mess, he shouted loudly:

“Hey, stop now.”

Brian heard Jack's screams, he stopped first, then Matthew, both children in positions of falling and sitting in the mess they made.

Jack angrily rolled up his sleeves, revealing his athletically coiled muscles, he went over to pinch the ears of the two children moved to another place, another corner next to it and said:

"Let's stay here now, no touching or moving."

He went to pick up two chickens, one in each hand, and brought them back to the back of the house, keeping them in the coop. Brian and Matthew took advantage of Jack's departure, they quickly went to the kitchen to see what their uncle had cooked for them. Matthew winced when he saw two big fish placed in two large plates, he said:

“Aww, I guess Jack thought we were cats and gave us fish to eat, I didn't expect him to give me and you fish to eat. Why not chicken?"

The boy picked up the fish and looked at it with a face that couldn't swallow this dish, he even put his nose to see if they smelled fishy? Certainly true to what Matthew had thought, that fish was too fishy, ​​Matthew immediately threw his hand aside, he pushed the other plate of fish to Brian's side and said:

"Here, leave it all to you."

Brian also showed a timid expression before the dish, he sniffed with his nose and the result could not be swallowed by the fishy smell of the fish. Brian pushed the fish plate aside, he saw some fruit, including a few apples, the boy immediately took one, took a few delicious bites.

Brian ate while walking around the house to visit, he didn't pay attention to Matthew because his brother was busy playing with a place where handmade arrows and bows were kept. Matthew took it out to observe and examine, he said to himself:

"This is really cool, it seems that this is an indispensable item for old Jack when hunting."

Matthew said while admiring, the boy with the bow and arrow tried to shoot an arrow on the wall, unexpectedly missed, the arrow flew in the wrong direction and hit Jack's animal skin hanging on the wall. Matthew ran over to remove the arrow, but he was too short for the height above that he couldn't reach it.

At the same time, Jack was still unfinished in the chicken coop at the back of the garden, when a few other chickens jumped out again, they refused to stay in one place in the coop, which led to him having to work hard to catch them, he had to running around to grab them by the neck and put them in the cage. Jack said angrily to himself:

“Tomorrow I have to fix up the barn so you won't run around anywhere anymore, that's enough trouble you've caused.”

While Jack was suffering with the chickens in the back of the house and the two children took the opportunity of his absence to mess around inside the house. Then in the distance, beside the big trees in the forest, a pickup truck drove up to the old man's house.

The truck stopped in front of the door, a blonde woman got out of the car, she was dressed in dusty clothes and a cowboy hat like no other, with a cigarette in her mouth. That person is none other than Daisy, a mistress of Jack, she comes here once every two to three days to visit Jack and exchange necessary items with him.

Daisy stepped closer, looking in front of the house with two small bicycles, she curiously entered, and as soon as she entered the house, she saw Brian and Matthew messing around where his rare things were stored. These were the items from the hunts of leathers, furs, animal horns, and many other things that were precious to him. Daisy glanced at the two children for a moment, then walked over to the chair and sat down, she said:

“Oh, we have a visitor today, welcome here.”

Matthew snorted lightly and took a step closer and asked:

“Who are you?”

Daisy looked at Matthew with a smile and didn't answer, she continued to smoke the cigarette in her hand. That woman said:

“Your face is really handsome too, I guess you're from the nobility. Completely different from us, the savages are only suited to living in the jungle.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Daisy smoked a cigarette, looked at Brian and asked:

"Is that kid your brother?"

Matthew glanced at Daisy without bothering to answer, he stepped onto the chair and sat across from her, playfully holding out a deer horn. Daisy saw it, she knew the boy was glaring at her, he was not a good or polite child, and indeed Matthew had a strong personality, which attracted Daisy. She looked surprised and said:

"It's a bit of a surprise that you're here today. I thought Jack was lying because he said he knew a man in the aristocracy, if I didn't tell you, you would know. It's your honorable father, who passed away with his dear wife a few days before."

Brian heard that and got angry and said:

"You mustn't talk about my parents in that tone."

The boy looked at Daisy with sullen eyes at Daisy while she remained indifferent, indifferent to Brian but she could not hide her surprise. Daisy praised the boy:

“Imp, you really are a good boy to react like that but I am speaking in a normal tone, we usually communicate like that, you should know that.”

The boy pursed his lips and didn't answer, he glared at Daisy, taking advantage of her not paying attention, Brian hurried into the kitchen, the naughty boy filled a bucket with water, fish and chicken manure mixed in it. . Brian picked them up quietly when he saw Daisy sitting on the sofa soaked in the smell of cigarettes, he motioned for Matthew to keep quiet while watching his actions, his brother nodded in agreement.

Brian put some wooden sticks on the ground and stood up, he quickly threw a bucket of water on Daisy's head, making her whole body wet. Daisy angrily shouted curses while the boy was able to quickly run to the back of the house to hide. Jack was surprised to see Brian hiding in his chicken coop, he guessed something was wrong in the house, Jack immediately grabbed the boy's collar and questioned:

"You're giving me trouble again, aren't you?"

Before Brian could answer, Jack heard Daisy's screams in the house, he looked at the boy frustrated, implicitly understood everything. Brian smiled and replied to Jack, the boy was brought into the house by his uncle to await punishment.