A Tale Of Thousand Stars – Novel BoyLove – Chapter 4.2
In a bamboo hut, has a narrow balcony outside with an empty square space inside. Tian was looking for some kind of switch on the wall, but then he remembered that he was inside a ‘Forest. There was no electricity or running water here, but. How did the people here live? Tian put his backpack in a corner of the room then suddenly saw a big glowing
lamp set nearby.
The youngest son of a former military leader sat down and tried to use some natural moonlight to look at that lamp. And finally he found a small text under the lamp. lt was very small. He turned to
take the lantern, then remembered that he left it outside the hut.
So, he took out his cell phone and turned on the flashlight, as he could no longer use it here inside this village, because there was a completely zero phone signal here. The young man tried to read the
words so shattering that it hurt both eyes. Although Tian had never used such things, he was not stupid enough to not understand these messages.
He placed the lamp on the floor made of a cork trunk, turned the foot of the lamp and caught the protruding plastic oil pump. He jerked the oil pump button dozens of times before turning on the ignition, He turned the valve fully clockwise and that gave a lot of gas to maximize the light. The fire suddenly burst into the strong fire, make Tian surprised then move away.
He looked at the lamp for a few minutes, but the fire didn’t seem to weaken. It making him afraid that his hut might be burned. so he decided to reach out to turn the valve counterclockwise with courage
and fear. The fire immediately decreased to a safe level. That city boy stroked his chest relieved and was happy not to burn his hut.
He placed the bamboo lamp next to the wall of the house so that it would not clog the small space in this house and started looking at what was inside.
There was a low table was placed to write and old mattress, a wrinkled blanket, an old handmade square pillow and an old mosquito net, it has been used many times but still looks usable. Everything was placed on the floor, without any dust. There must be someone who came to clean and prepare this hut for him.
Tian sat on he knees for a while and looked around, as if he didn’t know what to do first and he decided to pull the mosquito net out. Although, he attended a
military training camp in high school, but he never use it before.
Tian stretched out the faded shade mosquito net awkwardly, with ropes stuck at the four corners which meant that he had to hang them on something. As soon as he looked up through the ceiling and wall, he caught nails on four sides, and then he wired them up. Finally a asymmetrical mosquito net.
Tian sighed heavily, he sat on the floor when he started feeling exhausted. The sound of his stomach rumbling in the silent atmosphere reminded him that he hadn’t had anything in his stomach since
noon. Tian was a little angry with that giant captain. the captain must know that he was traveling all day and had no opportunity to eat on the way. He should
at least prepare something to eat for him.
The fashionable man crawled to his backpack lazily, remembering that he had brought three or four bars of dry food, he glanced around and saw a tall stainless steel lunch box with a few layers on top of each other and one the bottle of drinking water in the corner behind the door, which he didn’t see when he got here.
Tian gulped down his saliva. It was a mistake to blame Ms. Thorfun’s lover. The wrong person shrugged as if he didn’t care because he couldn’t hear those words. Tian ran with his hungry stomach,
but when he opened the lid, he saw only Thai friend eggs, tofu soup and white which were already cold.
..how did Captain Phupha know that he didn’t eat spicy?
He shook his head to get the idea out of his head because his stomach was growling even louder. And started to dig. To be honest, if the food was really spicy, he would eat it anyway.
Those who know Tian Sophaditsakul who only eats at luxurious restaurants would certainly be shocked to see the scene where he spooned dry rice into his mouth and chewed them nicely. When you are hungry, the crispy fried egg is also delicious, the tofu soup is even more wonderful.
Tian ate so badly that there were no grains of rice left, then he grabbed the bottle of water and gulped
down the water in large sips.
“I’m so full!”
He murmured to himself. After sitting down for a few minutes, Tian started to unpack his personal belongings from the backpack and took out his toothbrush, toothpaste, soap and towel, then realized it was completely dark outside. Where
should he take a shower?
Tian stopped everything and tried to think if Sergeant Yod or Captain Phupha mentioned something and had already forgotten. But then he remembered that they certainly didn’t mention anything about it. There was also no point in doing some research outside the hut at the moment. it was
dark and he lived inside the ‘forest.
Well, just go to bed.
Tian took the mattress and placed it under the mosquito net. The musty smell make him not dare to lean back on the mattress, but how could he sleep all
night? In the end, Tian closed his eyes, held his breath, and then laid on his back on a stiff rectangular pillow.
He looked up at the light emanating from the flashing bamboo lamp reflected on the ceiling, then he grabbed the phone placed next to him and clicked it as usual. tian realized it was a desperation to use
his phone here. No signal at all.
The young man tossed the phone that had now become an expensive paperweight aside and continued to sigh for the hundredth time. The sound of insects mixing with some icy winds was silent in
a moment. A few tears began to flow from both eyes.
what are you doing here. Tian?
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..The sunlight crept through the identical, majestic mountains. But the young man was still huddled and sleeping inside the asymmetry mosquito net. The tall man, wore a military T-shirt and camouflage pants, stood with a bored expression when he saw the new teacher was still sleeping and had never intended to wake up.
The young soldier put the lantern that Tian dropped last night on the ground before seeing the lighted bamboo lamp turn off the fire. Looking at the open-oil valve, it could tell that the lamp had been working all night, until it was completely empty.
Although Tian came from the city, he was smart enough to know how to use this lamp, but he shouldn’t have left the light on all night. He could set the whole place on fire. The gas inside this lamp was
flammable. Not batteries
Phupha took a deep breath and recited Buddha’s name to regain his composure. Then, opened the mosquito net on all four sides, shaking the person who was still curled up.
“Tian! Wake up!”
The person called up turned his back on Phupha and continued to sleep, causing the commander to frown. He decided to lower his head and whisper in the opponent’s ear with a small sound.
“What are you doing here as a volunteer teacher? Isn’t it better to go home and sleep on a soft bed?”
After realizing that this was not his private room in Bangkok, Tian jumped up, changing his position from Lying to sitting so that the tip of his nose was
against the Captain’s cheek.
..Did i just.? Touched his face?? Did i?!
The handsome face suddenly turned bright red while Phupha was stunned and didn’t say or move an inch. But only a few second, The soldier slowly stood up
before speaking with a stern tone as if he was ordering his subordinates.
“Get up to take a bath!”
The young master rubbed his face with his hand to ease his embarrassment, and he immediately sidestepped the matter by pretending harshly.
“I know! Where’s the bathroom? Yesterday, you didn’t say anything to me, so I had to sleep like this!”
“Not too far, but I don’t recommend going there when it’s late. If you’re just defecating or urinating, there’s a toilet-covered toilet in the back of the hut
for you.”
Tian could not imagine what the toilet pit looked like? But being able to go to the toilet is fine!
He grabbed the furniture that he pulled out last night and stopped again. Captain Phupha looked at the pile of clothes, shampoo, and toothpaste in the
teacher’s hands for a moment and then said a short sentence.
“Follow me!”
Tian almost couldn’t follow the tall soldier, because after finishing his words, he turned away, without hesitation. Outside the sunlight was very strong and
hurt his eyes. But it also helped him see the village of Phu Pan Dao more clearly. In fact, people live only a few dozen meters from his Hut, most of the houses
here have the same architecture as his house, varying in each size.
The Bangkok boy saw the people and the children here wearing colorful Thai traditionally clothes, which looked very strange, but some of them wore ordinary T-shirts. It was very mixed culture between the tradition of his tribe and the external culture, which meant that this city had already opened up to external city.
Tian felt embarrassed that wherever he went, he was faced with eyes that looked at him like a strange object. But when he turned to look at them, they bowed their heads shyly.