Henir ran from night to dawn along the only road connecting Poplar to the outside world.

A village gradually emerged in front of me, and smoke was already curling from the village chimney in front of me.

This was the first time he had left Poplar since he was sold as a serf.

He had become a professional, and he was very tired from running intermittently throughout the night.

But for him, who used to be a serf, it was already easy.

At least the humble kettle hanging from his waist and a few pieces of black bread in the package would keep him from being hungry and thirsty.

Henir was going to go to the nearest big city, but he really didn't know anything about it as a serf.

I don't even know how to get there.

Henir, who had no choice but to go into the village, planned to ask if there were any good Samaritans to show him the way.

He deliberately moved some of the linen-wrapped straps to make sure that all traces of the slave's imprint were obscured.

Only then did I really walk into the village.

In front of a slightly shabby but very clean cabin, watch the smoke wafting from the chimney.

Henir knocked softly on the door and shouted loudly outside the house.

"Hello, is the owner of this house there?

I want to ask you for directions, and

I will pay you back.

Henir shouted and waited at the door for a moment.

Then there was a creak at the door, and a little tired girl poked her head out.

After seeing that Henir was carrying a hoe behind him, he looked at what he was wearing.

She opened the door as if relieved.

"Where are you going? I guess you're a farmer's sub-professional.

Are you going to work as a farmer in the nearest Cross City?" the

little girl in her headscarf and coarse apron blinked her big blue eyes, and her unassuming freckled face was full of confident self-questioning.

Is it called Cross City?

Henir, who had only learned a little bit of information from the other party, immediately nodded with a pretended certainty.

"Miss, I just want to go to Cross City, please tell me the direction.

After speaking, Henir took out the two copper coins that he had prepared in his hand.

I've heard people say it's worth a good black loaf.

But he still endured the pain and reached out to the little girl.

The little girl saw the two copper coins handed over and grabbed them in her hand without hesitation and put them back in her pocket.

Coherent.

The hand was so fast that Henir almost didn't react.

"Ahem

, just walk along the road outside for two days, Cross City is the only major city in the entire Holy Quartet Count.

I heard that there are more than 200,000 people living in it, no, it seems to be a population of 300,000.

You don't know how to get to Cross City, did you come from another territory?" the

little girl seemed to be a little chattering, but she also provided Henir with a lot of information because of this.

"Yes.

Henir nodded again.

Of course he had been to the Cross City.

He was bought back as a serf by Baron Poplar in Cross City many years ago.

"But I see that you are so powerless, white and tender, I advise you not to go there!

I heard that it is a place that eats people and does not spit out bones, and a city that specializes in the slave trade.

Beware of the gangsters and black-hearted nobles in the city who sell you as slaves!" Perhaps

thinking that the black-haired boy in front of him looked very pleasing to the eye, Bonnie still persuaded him with a lot of words.

"Then where is the safer city?"

Henier, who felt that his strength was low and needed to ensure the safety of his own life, asked again.

Bonnie's face darkened when she was asked.

She hadn't even been out of the village.

What I saw and heard outside was only hearsay, and I heard more from my old soldier's father.

"I don't know.

However, I would advise you not to go, as there seems to be a bandit haunting the section near Cross City.

If you don't have a job and want to settle down, it's good to settle down as a farmer in our village.

We only have the village chief in Guoshu Village, and we only need to pay taxes to the Holy Sifang Count!

There is no exploitation by the overly greedy aristocratic lord.

During the exchange, looking at Henier's dirty but somewhat beautiful face, Bonnie said with a ghostly expression.

She grew up in Guoshu Village, and it was the first time she had seen such a good-looking person of the opposite sex as the one opposite.

And they do lack a population in Fruit Tree Village.

In recent years, the lord has been conscripted, and more and more villagers have been forced to join the army, and the population of the village has become smaller and smaller.

Hearing the little girl say that the village can contain her, Henir is a little moved, but for the cause of God.

He decided to go to the Cross City anyway, and only where there are many people can there be soil for the development of the church.

"Thank you for your kindness, but I'm going to go to Cross City anyway.

I have responsibilities that must be done.

Henir bowed gratefully to the kind little girl in front of him, the first kindness he had ever encountered since he was freed.

It was also the first time that I had normal and equal communication with people.

Seeing that he had persuaded himself like this, the simple-looking farmer boy on the opposite side still chose to go to the Cross City like a cow.

It was as if Bonnie had seen the last shred of his value devoured by the Cross City and reduced to slavery.

But it's just a meeting in the water.

I saw that he was good-looking and pleasing to the eye, and he persuaded everything he should have been persuaded.

"The road is ahead, just keep going!

"

Bonnie's tone became cold.

"I'd like to buy you some food and ask for more news. Knowing

that he would have to walk for another two days, Henir found that there was not enough food and decided to buy more.

Soon, after spending another 8 copper coins.

Henir replaced it with three pieces of black bread the size of two palms, and filled the kettle with water.

Henir bowed again and thanked him, then turned to leave.

"Wait, my name is Bonnie!

What's your name?" asked

the little girl behind her, Huang Ying, in a pleasant and hurried voice, as if she was a little shy.

"My name is Henir, and I thank the kind Miss Bonnie for her help.

But Henir did not hear at all, but proudly said the name that God had given him.

Full of hope, he once again walked to the narrow road in the wilderness.

"Hennir..."

, looking at Henir's immediate back, Bonnie murmured in disappointment.

Looking at his handsome appearance and special temperament, he looks like a down-and-out nobleman!

For a moment, she fantasized that she would get a wonderful love story like a boudoir novel.

But this is just the fantasy of her, an ordinary-looking village girl.

"When will Daddy come back? The sun is fully out. Having

just sent off a passerby, Bonnie looked out at the road, hoping that her father would come back sooner to have dinner with her.

She got up early to make a hearty meal and waited for it.

Among them was a grilled fish with some coarse salt, the only fish that the family had kept in the tank for a long time.

She had found it in the creek with great difficulty.

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