"Ha...Eyefut..." Lily narrowed her eyes, and the smile on her face made little Aurelia tremble - What, what's wrong? Could it be that she found out that she was not the person she was looking for?
Are you ready to eat yourself?
"Then it's decided!" Lily stood up, making little Aurelia tremble, "I'll call you Aurelia from now on!"
"Okay...ok..." Little Aurelia didn't dare to refute Lily. Although she was reluctant, she had no choice but to agree... first calm down the demon...
After hastily finishing the game, Lily hugged the frightened little Aurelia and entered her dream contentedly. Little Aurelia also gradually fell asleep. In Lily's arms, she felt an inexplicable sense of peace of mind...
Early the next morning, Lily led little Aurelia and walked all the way to the east. I'm afraid this area is not safe now. Carretta is no better than other places. The trees in the woods here are relatively sparse. If those slave traders come after them, I'm afraid
She couldn't hide with Aurelia. Based on her feeling, Lily kept walking eastward, so even if she couldn't reach Dix, she could still reach the eastern city-state, right? Lily thought this way.
Because the space ring was taken away, when Lily, who was penniless, came to a small village, she hesitated for a long time before deciding to take little Aurelia into the village. However, little Aurelia may have been killed because she had been raped before.
Due to the experience of being abducted, she was very resistant to contact with people other than Lily. After Lily comforted her for a long time, she agreed to follow Lily in and take a look.
This village is not too big. There are only a dozen households in total. When the children who were playing in the village saw Lily and the others arriving, they all stood curiously and looked at Lily and little Aurelia. Among them,
A child ran away, and after a while, an old lady who looked like an elder in the village came. Different from the old man in Lily's impression, although her back was slightly hunched, this old lady was still tall and straight, looking very tall.
Spiritual appearance.
"Little girl, what are you..." When she saw little Aurelia's long ears that could not be hidden no matter how hard she tried, the old lady seemed to have some idea of what was going on, and she looked at her with sympathetic eyes.
Lily and little Aurelia said slowly: "Can you understand what I say?"
The old lady is from Kaleta and naturally speaks Kaleta. However, with Sofia's help, Lily can now basically understand the languages of more than 80% of the races on the Garsain continent, so communication is naturally no problem. But little Aurelie
Aurelia looked wary, obviously not understanding what the old lady was saying, but she was right. Although little Aurelia was eighty or ninety years old, she was still a child among the elves. Her appearance
He only looks like an eight or nine-year-old child. Such a small elf usually still plays in the Bartlea Forest. It is normal for him not to understand the languages of other races.
Lily nodded to the old lady, held little Aurelia's skirt and saluted: "Hello, grandma, my name is Lily. We just escaped from the slave traders, and all our money and weapons were taken away by them.
Please, can you help us? We will do our best to repay you."
"Come with me, poor child..." The old lady sighed, dismissed the urchins surrounding them, and led Lily and the others towards their residence, "Those hateful slave traders have become more and more aggressive recently.
In the past, we only sold prisoners of war and civilians who were forced into slavery, but now we actually dare to arrest people blatantly! Last time, the children of the old Wilton family were almost captured by the slave traders, but luckily I caught them
The old bones are here to prevent those guys from succeeding. Today's nobles... are becoming more and more depraved. I heard that these slave traders are secretly funded by those nobles..."
Along the way, the old lady was chattering away, which made Lily's head full of black lines. However, people do like to talk a few words when they are old, and since she has requests from others, she will not interrupt her rudely.
. And little Aurelia kept shrinking next to Lily, letting Lily completely block her. Whether it was the pity look of the old lady or the curious looks of the naughty children before, little Aurelia was depressed.
When they arrived at the old lady's house, the old lady invited them to eat. Although the village was relatively small, the food was quite abundant. It was probably close to the woods, so every household had game, and it was much more delicious than what Lily cooked.
Lily ate happily, but little Aurelia only tasted it briefly, and then she held her little head and looked at Lily blankly.
Because she had been locked up in a dirty and smelly slave carriage for so many days, and had to trek through the muddy forest, Lily's body was already dirty. Not to mention little Aurelia—
-Her short hair, whose original color was almost invisible, was as messy as a chicken coop, and her clothes were as torn as old sacks. The old lady pushed them to take a shower, and then went to help Lily and the others prepare a change of clothes.
.
Lily had long wanted to touch little Aurelia from head to toe... ahem, she had to wash them all, especially the bird's nest-like hair, which was simply too ugly compared to the moon-white long hair that was like a waterfall later.
Already.
Lily was humming a little tune while helping little Aurelia wash her hair, while little Aurelia kept her head down. At first Lily didn't pay attention, but later she found that little Aurelia seemed to be sobbing.
Lily quickly hugged her into her arms and asked softly: "Oni, what's wrong with you? Did I hurt you?"
Little Aurelia shook her head, looked at Lily with tearful eyes, and said with sobs: "No one has ever been so kind to me...I...I...wuwuwu..."
From little Aurelia's intermittent narration, Lily learned about little Aurelia's past experiences. It turned out that little Aurelia's father was summoned by the Elf King to go to the Elf Clan when little Aurelia was only in her twenties.
Holy Land. In addition to Aurelia's father, there were many high-level elven magicians who were traveling with her at that time, but her father never came back.
This reminded Lily of what Aurelia told her about the Gate of Realm later. It seemed that Aurelia's father was sacrificed by the backlash of magic after the Elf King failed to forcefully open the Gate of Realm.
Because of what happened to her father, her mother and other bereaved tribesmen went to the territory of the high elves to ask for an explanation from the elf king. However, the elf king who returned from the Holy Land became extremely cruel and ruthless, and could not help but kill a large number of people, including Aurelie.
The moon elves, wood elves, including Ya's mother, and even the high elves who dared to ask him about this were all imprisoned by him.
Aurelia lost her parents and became an orphan. Although the kind-hearted tribesmen would help her, most of the tribesmen were intimidated by the elf king's power and even regarded Aurelia as a plague! And the elf king did not let go of these things.
He actually cruelly captured all the orphans who had lost their parents and sold them to the passing Orc Empire slave-catching team!
Listening to Aurelia's story, Lily's mood became heavier and heavier. She wished she could find the Elf King now and poke some transparent holes in his body!
A large number of the young elves who were sold out with little Aurelia were bought in the Orc Empire, and little Aurelia was very clever. She cut off her hair with sharp stones and then deliberately cut herself off.
She was dressed very ugly, so no one bought her. Otherwise, Lily might not be able to see her in Carretta.
When she heard that little Aurelia had cut off her hair, Lily couldn't help but feel distressed. She hugged little Aurelia and kept comforting her: "Don't worry, little Aurelia, as long as I'm still here, I won't let it happen."
Anyone who bullies you!"
Little Aurelia didn't understand why Lily was so kind to her. She just kept sobbing, as if she wanted to vent out all the grievances she had suffered during this period, and Lily just held her so that she could vent properly: "
Little Aurelia, promise me, after crying today, we will live strong and face everything with a smile, okay?"
"Hmm." Little Aurelia shrank into Lily's arms again, and finally she was tired of crying and actually shrank directly into Lily's arms and fell asleep. Lily was a little dumbfounded - the bath hadn't been finished yet...