Looking at this paradise-like mountain village, Jenna couldn't help but speak.
"Where is this?"
"Well... how should I put it? This village does not have a specific name. We followed the guidance of the villagers in the surrounding villages and walked all the way." Sophie pointed to her chin with her finger and said while thinking.
"Let me help you sit there for a while. There is a tree stump there."
Sophie helped Jena to the foot of an apple tree, then slowly put her down and let her sit on the tree stump.
"It's very peaceful here." Jenna looked at the people working in the fields, with hats on their heads and sweat on their cheeks. But when they were tired, they would sit aside to rest and chat with others from time to time.
"Yes, if we don't stay here for a few more days, we will have to wait for the villagers to finish harvesting the apples before we leave."
"I'm afraid this won't work. I'm still being hunted, and I'm afraid it will hurt you." Jina shook her head.
"Chasing, have you committed any serious crime?"
Sophie jumped up in surprise and looked at this young girl. At first, she thought she had accidentally fallen while traveling in the mountains. There were many bruises and small scratches on her body.
"Criminal, I'm afraid, I offended some people from the Halberd Sect."
"What is the Halberd Sect? Why haven't I heard of it?" Sophie looked at the girl in confusion.
"Don't you even know about the Halberd Sect? They are a group of people who were mercenaries who used to be outside and then returned home..." Jenna explained.
"Hey, but this is Crancia. It seems you ran far away." After hearing this, Sophie breathed a sigh of relief and patted her chest.
"As long as you don't violate the laws of Crancia, otherwise we won't be able to protect you. As for Black Rock, I don't know about it. They don't dare to come here anyway." Sophie was sitting on the grass next to Jenna again.
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Crancia, listening to this familiar name, Jenna thought of the West Wind in the past. Her father had been a mercenary in the West Wind for many years and told her many things about the West Wind, so she despised the corruption of the West Wind, but
What I didn't expect was that my own country was actually not much better, it could only be said to be worse than worse.
"How is Clancia now? I am from Black Rock and know very little about this country. My only experience was when I took an airship and passed by Red Boulder City that year. However, it was a big city in Clancia and I have never been to other places.
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"Very good." Sophie said simply.
"Although there are occasional famines, everyone can basically eat enough and no one will starve to death. The country is currently very peaceful."
"Moreover, there are really no bandits or various checkpoints for collecting money now, which is the best thing." Sophie commented as she recalled her childhood experience.
"It was not easy to do business in the past. Not only did you have to pay various tolls and taxes, but you also had to be careful about robberies. Now the public security is very good. As long as you walk on the road, you will not see robbers. Even if someone does bad things, you have to be very careful.
, because the law enforcement agencies are very powerful and they have various means to arrest people."
"Sounds like a good idea."
Jenna nodded doubtfully. Maybe it was just that the local environment was good. There were no bandits or robbers in the whole country. She didn't quite believe this. In fact, many robbers were not completely independent professions. There were quite a few of them.
It's the local villagers who made a cameo. It's actually very difficult to get rid of it if it's hidden like this.
"Jena doesn't believe it?"
"No, maybe I haven't seen it before, and I might not be able to accept it for a while." Jina was a little embarrassed. It was really not polite to do this.
"Haha, it's actually nothing. If I told people 2 years ago, they would also say it's a fairy tale."
"But it's really different. Today's Clancia."
Sophie looked at the field under the sun and stood up suddenly.
"Wait for me." After saying that, the girl jumped down from the hillside and ran down the hillside of green grass. She opened her hands and shouted a cheerful tune.
Soon the girl jumped over a few stones in the grass, jumped up high, and then fell down, slowly turning into a little person in Jenna's field of vision.
Finally, Sophie stopped under the shade of a tree, where a fruit farmer carrying a bamboo basket sat.
She seemed to say something, and then the fruit farmer took out a few fruits from the bamboo basket behind his back and put them in Sophie's open pocket.
Then Sophie nodded with a smile, and then walked back carrying the fruits. When she saw Jena looking at her, she waved a few more times.
The weather at the end of April was no longer cold. Jenna was sitting in the shade of a tree, with a little sunlight falling through the young leaves and feeling warm.
After a while, Sophie climbed up the hillside again and walked to Jenna. She was panting slightly and there were a few beads of sweat on her forehead.
"Huh, I finally climbed up." She slumped down next to Jenna, leaning her back on Jenna's waist, spreading her legs, and a few yellow fruits rolled out of her skirt pockets and fell into the green grass.
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"Thank you for your hard work." Jenna felt the body that was still panting, as if a stove was leaning against her.
"Give."
Sophie took out a fruit and handed it to Jenna. The light yellow skin was very smooth. Only when you look closely can you see the faint dots. This is a yellow apple.
"By the way, I'd better wipe it off." Sophie took back the apple belatedly, wiped it clean on the skirt beside her, and then handed it to Jenna again.
"Thank you." Jenna took it, and Sophie's fingers fell into the palm of her hand like a warm stone, and then disappeared in an instant.
Yellow apples do not mean they are not yet ripe, some apples are naturally yellow. After taking a bite, a sweet taste and juice fills the mouth, making people unable to resist eating more.
"Hey, is it delicious?"
"It's delicious." Jenna replied softly, and heard a crisp sound coming from beside her. It turned out that Sophie was also holding an apple and chewing it.
Eating crispy and sweet apples, Jenna asked Sophie curiously.
"What did you say to the old man just now, and then he gave you a few apples."
"He just said that I was from the Lake Chamber of Commerce and wanted to buy some apples to eat. Then he said no, and gave me a few directly without asking for any money."
"Grandpa is a good man." Sophie said happily.
"Is it that simple?" Jenna recalled her experience in the black rock, a little unbelievable. Those bow hunters were very strict about what they produced in their fields and fruit trees, for fear that others would steal it.
"Yes, actually this is very common, because our Chamber of Commerce has also been here for a few days, and everyone is already familiar with it."
"Actually, as long as we get to know each other, it's easy to get along with each other. Occasionally, I will give candies to the children, just like the eldest lady."
"I'll look for it, maybe there are a few left in the bag." Sophie said as she flipped through the small leather bag she carried with her.
"But aren't candies very expensive? Is it really okay to give them this way?"
"What if they can't eat it for the rest of their lives, wouldn't it be a kind of torture..." Jina thought about those figures in her hometown.
A small cube was stuffed into her mouth, forcing Jenna to close her mouth and feel the sweetness flowing on her tongue.
"How can you say that?" Sophie stood up unhappily and put her hands on her waist.
"Just because they eat candy, they will yearn for this beautiful world even more, and then try to get out of the mountain village and experience this vast and wonderful world."
"And the sweetness in this memory will become the beauty that they will never forget in their hearts and the motivation to move forward."