White Orchard Village.

As the name suggests, it is an area famous for its orchards, and the river Ismina runs through this area, and at the lower reaches of the river, the army of the Nilphgaard is stationed.

Although the region was occupied by the Nilfgaard after the tragic Battle of White Orchard, there is still a peace that is difficult to see anywhere else. Aside from sporadic fights between some pesky men in black and guerrillas, the rest of the place is barely satisfying.

— as long as it is not openly opposed to the fact of the rule of the Nilfgaards.

According to Bram, the village is famous not only for the high-quality fruits, but also for the highest-quality, furniture-grade wood in the Foxy Grove......

Of course, these things have become insignificant in these chaotic war years.

What's more, in the cunning fox forest, there are still ferocious griffons making nests. Soldiers walking through the woods are at risk of being killed by death, let alone ordinary villagers.

Connor helped Bram push the latter's wagon, and with some difficulty walked along the road to the white orchard, watching the sunlight pass through the leaves and branches of the surrounding forest, and when he was out of the forest, he could see the outline of the village in the distance.

From a distance, the Temerian village has an almost idyllic scene, with vast orchards full of trees blooming with white flowers under a clear blue sky, and the figures of peasants walking through the village, curling smoke rising......

But as he got closer, Connor, who had been an officer, easily noticed the proof that he had experienced war here.

Collapsed houses, damaged vehicles abandoned on the side of the road, farms where large areas of spring crops were flattened by the army, the occasional floating corpse in the wide river, and the faint cry of some peasant women......

The sunny countryside and the traces of war are in conflict with each other.

This world is real......

Connor took a deep breath, then lowered his head, pretending to be a stuffy cart to hide his face as much as he could.

He was now approaching a bridge that led to the interior of the village of White Orchard, on which a sentry post had been set up after the occupation of Nilfgaard. Dressed in black armor and helmets, Nilfgaard soldiers with various weapons are standing guard or patrolling.

There are not many people, and they add up to about a dozen, but Connor doesn't think that he is Ip Man, and he can fight ten at a time.

As for who the Chinese name "Ip Man" is, Connor also forgot, but since he can be remembered by him because of the impression of "one hit ten", he should be a strong man.

However, he soon found that he didn't have to be so cautious at all, and those Nilfgaard soldiers didn't stop the two of them at all, whether they were standing guard or patrolling, or they were lazy in the sun in the sentry post, at most they just swept over and didn't care.

That's too perfunctory, isn't it?

Or is it that the war has been going on for a long time, and the soldiers themselves have slackened? Connor frowned slightly, he could only guess, but he could only guess that he could not have come up and ask these soldiers why they did not take their duties so seriously.

After entering the village, you can feel the lifelessness even more, the villagers don't seem to see any hope, some people are busy like a machine, and they don't know what they are busy with. Some people are drunk and depressed.

There were many people who dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, but they could only humbly bow their heads and step aside when the black-clad Nilfgaard soldiers approached them. When the soldiers walked over, they looked sideways at each other's backs, cursing silently with hideous faces, and mouthing quickly and urgently.

"Bram? What's wrong with you? Where's your horse? ”

There were also some familiar villagers, who saw the sad-faced foot-walking merchant pushing the truck into the village, and immediately came forward with some surprise and asked.

"Don't talk about it, my horse was killed by a griffin, and it took it away...... "Bram replied frustrated and annoyed, "but two witchers helped me, and this friend I met on the road saved my life." ”

"You're really unlucky, you must have suffered a lot of losses, right?" The villager suddenly showed a sympathetic look, "But did you guide those two demon hunters to Baiguoyuan Village?" ”

"yes? What's wrong? Bram felt a little uneasy in his heart, "It can't be an accident, right?" ”

"It's not a big deal, it's just that the group of people found fault in the inn and were beaten up by the white-haired witcher...... I was watching from the road outside the hotel, but you didn't see that. The villager shook his head with a somewhat ostentatious tone.

"Well, as long as nothing major happens......" Bram breathed a sigh of relief, and then his face quickly turned to frustration again, "Damn, I'm going to get the rest of my cargo out quickly, the longer it drags on, the more I lose!" ”

"Oh, yes, good luck then."

The villager nodded sympathetically, then swept his gaze over Connor, who had not spoken, and without asking anything, he turned and walked away.

These days, strangers are not such a surprising group, deserters, merchants or homeless wanderers can be found everywhere, as long as they are not "mutants" and "aliens" with obvious appearance characteristics like witchers, then it is difficult to attract the interest and attention of ordinary people.

"Thank you, Connor, if it weren't for you, I'd have died on the riverbank...... Or maybe in the griffon's belly right now. ”

Bram found a place at the entrance of the village, parked the truck, unloaded the goods, and carried the wet goods to the sun by the way, and Connor was also very enthusiastic to help him with this troublesome job.

This embarrassed the trader, who decided to pay his friend:

"I don't know where you're from or what happened to you, but it's not easy for everyone in this shit year, so I won't ask you...... But you've helped me so much and saved my life, so please take this. ”

He gave Connor a money bag with fifty crowns in it.

Connor didn't postpone it, and besides, he was penniless now, and he really couldn't be tough if he wanted to.

"Even if it's to join the army, it's better to get a job quickly, everyone says that the arrival of the man in black ruined everything, but in fact, although the situation is terrible, job opportunities are everywhere."

When he was paid, Bram was kind enough to show him the way.

"As long as you are diligent, you will not starve to death...... If you can't, you can also tutor some wealthy families in need, and your Nilphgadian speaks pretty well, and the Temerians are in need of it right now. ”

Connor smiled and nodded, indicating that he would think it carefully, and his mind did move.

As a businessman, Bram saw it very accurately and in one sentence, and now he seemed to be all over his body, and his only skill was that he didn't know why, but he somehow mastered Nilfgadian and various other native languages.

As for the various abilities and specialties he possesses, such as the various specialties and skills required by officers, if you look at the standards of the U.S. military in the 21st century on earth, it is naturally of a very high standard.

But in this medieval-like magical world, it doesn't come in handy.

Don't expect the soldiers of the cold weapon era to understand the necessity of modernizing military literacy, and don't disregard the reality of thinking that the "advanced" experience of the 21 st century can certainly be applied to the armed forces of the backward cold weapon era.

Connor even decided to forget about his military skills for a while, when they didn't exist at all, lest the Nilphgaard people think he was a soldier of Temeria and hang him.

Or maybe the remnants of the Temerian army thought he was a spy for Nilfgaard and hanged him.

- His identity is too embarrassing, which is simply not pleasing to both sides.

After parting ways with Bram, Connor first went to the inn in White Fruit Orchard Village to buy some food and water to prepare for the rest of the day.

When the proprietress received him, he seemed to inadvertently "discover" that the old witcher named Viselmir was still in the lobby, so he greeted the other party, and then naturally let the proprietress know that he had saved Bram's life.

As a result, his food and water were also free, and it seemed that Bram's face was not bad in front of the innkeeper's wife, a distant relative, and the family relationship was relatively stable.

It was a savings of less than a crown, but Connor thought it was a good start. He had only fifty crowns on him that Bram had given him, and of course he had to save as little as he could.

On the way to Baiguoyuan Village, he did not search for the corpses on the side of the road, and also got some coins, but the tragic discovery that the reason why it was his turn to loot instead of being taken away long ago was because those coins could not be used at all.

Because of the war, the economy of the entire continent was turned upside down, and the currency in particular was particularly affected.

The currency with the most guaranteed value today is the krona, which is said to be a coin minted by Novigre. Because of the economic prosperity of that place, the value of the krona has naturally increased, and it is now the only payment method accepted in the world.

It was the merchants, nobles, townspeople, and peasants of the North, or the quartermasters, dwarven bankers, dusty women, and, of course, demon hunters.

As for Oron, the official currency of the Kingdom of Temeria and its surrounding vassals, it was one of the biggest victims of the war, just like Temeria itself. The value of the currency of the occupied country, while stable, is very low.

There is also the florin of Nilfgaard, a currency that circulated in the Nilfgaard Empire and its provinces, and its value was determined not by the amount of gold, but by the empire's economy. Originally, the Imperial army won consecutive battles, which caused the value of the currency to rise significantly.

But after a few months, the conflict dragged on, and the value of Franc began to slowly and persistently decline.

Anyway, whether it is Oren or Florin, it will not work in the northern realm now, only the krona is the best.