Looking at this idyllic mountain village, Jenna can't help opening her mouth.
"Where is this?"
"Well... How to say, there is no specific name for this village. We have followed the guidance of the villagers in the surrounding villages all the way." Sophie pointed her finger to her chin and thought.
"I'll help you to sit there for a while. There's a stump there."
Sophie helped Jenna to an apple tree, then slowly put it down and let it sit on the stump.
"It's peaceful here." Jenna looked at the men working in the field, with hats on their heads and sweat on their cheeks. But when she was tired, she also sat down to rest and chat with others from time to time.
"Yes, if we don't stay here for a few more days, we will not leave until the villagers have finished collecting apples“
"I'm afraid that won't work. I'm still being hunted. I'm afraid it will affect you." Jenna shook her head.
"Pursuit, what crime have you committed?"
Sophie jumped up in surprise and looked at the young girl. At first, she thought that she had accidentally fallen down while traveling in the mountains. Her body was mostly bruised and scratched.
"Crime, I'm afraid. I've offended some people of Changji sect."
"I haven't heard of the long halberd sect“ Sophie looks at the girl suspiciously.
"Don't you know the long halberd sect? They are the mercenaries who used to be outside, and then returned home to form a group of people..." Jenna explained.
"Ah, but this is clancia. It seems that you are running far away." Hearing this, Sophie took a breath and patted her chest.
"As long as it doesn't violate the laws of clancia, otherwise we can't protect you. As for black rock, I don't know. They dare not come here anyway." Sophie was sitting on the grass next to Jenna again.
Krancia, listening to the familiar name, Jenna thought of the west wind again. Her father once worked as a young mercenary in Xifeng and told her a lot about Xifeng. Therefore, she despised the decadence of Xifeng. What she didn't expect was that her country was not much better. She could only say that it was worse.
"How about clancia now? I'm from black rock and know little about this country. My only experience was that I passed red gravel city by airship that year, but it's a big city in clancia. I haven't been to other places."
"Very good." Sophie said simply.
"Although there are occasional famine, we can basically eat enough and will not starve to death. At present, the country is very peaceful."
"Moreover, now there are really no mountain bandits and all kinds of checkpoints to collect money. This is the best." Sophie thought back to her childhood experience.
"In the past, it was not easy to do business. We not only had to pay all kinds of tolls and taxes, but also had to be careful of robberies. Now the public security is very good. As long as we walk on the road, we can't see robberies. Even if someone does bad things, we have to be very careful, because the law enforcement departments are very powerful, and they have all kinds of means to arrest people."
"That sounds good."
Jenna nodded suspiciously. Maybe it's just that the local environment is good. There are no mountain bandits all over the country. She doesn't believe that. In fact, many robbers are not completely independent professions. A considerable part of them are guest stars of local villagers. In fact, it is very difficult to remove it.
"Doesn't Jenna believe it?"
"No, maybe I haven't seen it. I'll accept it for a while, but I can't come." Jenna is a little embarrassed. It's not very polite.
"Ha ha, it's nothing. If I told other people 2 years ago, they would say it's a fairy tale."
"But it's really different, today's Valencia."
Sophie looks at the field in the sun and suddenly stands up.
"You wait for me." After that, the girl jumped from the hillside and ran down the green grass hillside. Her hands were open and her mouth was shouting a cheerful tune.
Soon, the girl jumps over some stones in the grass, jumps high, then falls, and slowly becomes a villain in Jenna's vision.
Finally, Sophie stayed in the shade of a tree, where sat a fruit farmer with a bamboo basket on his back.
She seemed to have said something, and then the fruit farmer took some fruits from the bamboo basket behind her and put them in Sophie's open pocket.
Then Sophie nodded with a smile, and then walked back with the fruit in her pocket. Jenna looked at her and waved a few more times.
At the end of April, the weather was no longer cold. Jenna sat in the shade of a tree, a little sunlight fell on her body through the tender leaves, feeling a warm feeling.
After a while, Sophie climbed up the hill again and came to Jenna's side. She panted slightly, and there were some beads of sweat between her forehead.
"Hoo, I finally got up." She slumped beside Jenna, her back resting on her waist, her legs diverging, and a few yellow fruits rolled out of her skirt pocket and landed in the green grass.
"Hard work." Jenna felt the still gasping body, the feeling of the stove leaning against her side.
"Here you are."
Sophie takes out a fruit and hands it to Jenna. The light yellow skin is very smooth. Only when you look closer can you find the faint dots. This is a yellow apple.
"By the way, I'd better wipe it." Sophie takes back the apple, wipes the skirt on her side and hands it back to Jenna.
"Thank you." Jenna takes it. Sophie's fingers fall like warm stones in her hand, and then disappear.
Yellow apples don't mean they are not ripe yet. Some apples are born yellow. After a bite, a sweet taste accompanied by juice in the mouth full, people can't help but eat a few more.
"Hehe, is it delicious?"
"Delicious." Jenna whispered back, hearing a crisp voice coming from her side. It turned out that Sophie was also chewing an apple.
Eating crisp and sweet apples, Jenna asks Sophie curiously.
"What did you say to the old man just now, and then he gave you some apples."
"Just say I'm from Lake chamber of Commerce and want to buy some apples. Then he said no, he gave me a few and didn't ask for money. "
"Grandfather is a good man." Sophie said happily.
"Is it that simple?" Jenna recalled her experience in black rock. It was hard to believe that those bow hunters were very strict with their fields and fruit trees for fear that others would steal.
"Yes, in fact, this is very common, because our chamber of Commerce has been here for a few days, and we are already familiar with it."
"In fact, as long as we get familiar with each other, we will get along well. Occasionally, I will give candy to children, just like the old lady."
"I'll look. Maybe there are a few left in the bag." And Sophie turned up her little bag.
"But isn't candy very expensive? It's really good for them."
"If they can't eat in the future, isn't it a kind of torture..." Jenna recalled the figures in her hometown.
A small square was put into her mouth, so that Jenna had to close her mouth and feel the sweetness flowing from the tip of her tongue.
"How can you say that." Sophie stood up a little unhappy, her hands in her waist.
"Just because they eat candy, they will yearn for this beautiful world, and then try their best to go out of the mountain village and experience this vast and wonderful world."
"And the sweetness in their memory will become the beauty they will never forget in their hearts, and the driving force to move forward."