Mornings in the countryside began at dawn, and in the mountains it was even earlier, and it wasn't until Zhang Yao walked out of the house with the help of Lilia Marie that he saw that there were already several adult men chopping wood and carrying water.

Thinking like this, Zhang Yao looked at Lilia Marie with suspicious eyes, but in exchange for Lilia Marie's gentle and puzzled lookback, Zhang Yao made Zhang Yao blush again.

There's no way, you can't win Lilia Marie, and if you calculate that you have been deceived, you can only consider yourself unlucky.

As soon as Zhang Yao walked out of the room, everyone's eyes were focused, and he could feel that these eyes did not contain kindness, but only vigilance and disgust. Zhang Yao didn't know why these people looked at themselves like this, could it be because they had been taken care of for free for too long and caused dissatisfaction? If that's the case, he can only thank him well, solemnly and sincerely.

Lilia Marie greeted everyone with a smile as if she hadn't noticed the strange look in their eyes.

"May everyone live spiritually today. ”

As soon as Lilia Marie spoke, everyone put down their work for a moment and bowed to Lilia Marie with one hand on their chests.

Zhang Yao, who realized for the first time that Lilia Marie had an unusual status in this village, was a little puzzled, what did Lilia Marie do, even if it was the old doctor's assistant before, it was impossible for him to be sincerely respected by so many people, right?

"I'm a nun, or I used to be a nun. ”

Waving her hand to the crowd and motioning for them to continue their work, Lilia Marie led Zhang Yao towards the outside of the village, saying as she went.

"I turned my back on God, I turned my back on my faith at the beginning of the war, and now I live here as a village girl. ”

As she said this, a look of pain appeared on Lilia Marie's face, and she could see that she felt an unrelieved sense of guilt for what she had done.

What the hell is going on? Why didn't the people of the Holy See contribute to the war? Zhang Yao wanted to know, but he couldn't dig into the hearts of others out of pure curiosity, so he could only follow Lilia Marie with his head down.

The two walked in silence for a while, and came to a small clear lake. It is said to be a small lake, but it is actually a stream with a wide point, and it forms a puddle because it is deeper than other places and wider than other places.

"It's close downstream, it doesn't affect the drinking water, you just take a shower here. ”

After saying that, Lilia Marie turned around and leaned against a large rock by the water's edge, with her back to Zhang Yao.

At this time, Zhang Yao remembered what kind of smell would be on his body after sleeping for half a month? He didn't dare to smell it, but he didn't go into the water.

"W-What...... Miss Lilia Marie?"

In any case, this is on the side of a young woman, even if the other party has his back to him...... It's still too shameful to take off, naked, clothed, and bathed.

Is Lilia Marie worried that he will run away, so she stayed here? This thought made Zhang Yao a little sad, but the most important thing at the moment was the issue of dignity, so he quickly used his brain to think about how to let Lilia Marie let himself finish the bath alone.

"Lilia"

"As for me, I was raised by the Holy See. ”

Lilia Marie suddenly spoke, interrupting what Zhang Yao was about to say.

"It's not that I'm an orphan or anything like that, I still lived with my parents when I was a child, and my parents had a son and two daughters in addition to me, the younger brother was the youngest, and the second. ”

This is a very common family composition.

"The family was very poor, there was little land, and after paying taxes, it was barely enough to feed the family, and after my brother was born, he gave all the best things to my brother. ”

Patriarchy is not a case in any country in the world, and it is not only a matter of inheritance, but the inequality between the two can be understood by considering the labor force, especially in the countryside where manual labor is more reliant on manual labor.

"After that, because of the drought, the already poor harvest became more and more difficult to feed my family, so I was sold to traffickers in the city. ”

As the youngest daughter in the family, she could not work as much as her sisters, nor was she as important as her younger brother, so it was only natural that such an unfolding would take place.

"I understand the horror of hunger, so I can understand my parents, so that my family can get a match of money, and if I'm lucky, I can go to a place where I can eat. ”

It doesn't matter if it's right or wrong, it's something that only people who have leisure after satisfying food and clothing will think about it, and for hungry people, survival is the first priority, and it doesn't matter what the future will become.

"Originally, I was going to be sold to a brothel, but when I was examined, I found that I had the literacy to learn magic, so I changed from a worthless imp to a noble imp, and the place I wanted to go changed from a brothel to the Holy See. ”

It's hard to say whether this is a good thing, no matter how it changes, it won't change if it is not sold. It may be a bit confusing to say this, but for a child who is only a few years old, there is not much difference between the two choices, and she has not yet learned to think about the future.

"In this way, I have lived in the Holy See for fifteen years, these fifteen years are really hard, even if the little ghosts I bought are qualified, they will not be treated seriously by others, even the Holy See, which claims to be loving and equal, cannot really act like a saint, bullying will definitely exist, and there will definitely be no less difficulties. ”

It's just a little ghost that was bought, even if it died and scrapped, it was just a loss of money, and in that environment where everyone was working hard for themselves, even if there was kindness, it could only be suppressed, this is life.

"I put in more effort and more hard work to become a nun, and sometimes I feel tired, I feel that everything is meaningless, and I want to give up. But in the end, I couldn't give up, because I was afraid, I finally survived to this day, how could I give up so easily?"

So, the girl named Lilia Marie made a vow that she would survive, desperate to survive, and become the kind person she had hoped for but never appeared, just like in the picture book. If no one wants to help others, she will play this role, otherwise, wouldn't it be too pitiful to expect someone to help her children like her?

"It's not that I didn't want to repay the Holy See, but I couldn't let go of the villagers, whose homes and fields were destroyed in skirmishes, and who didn't have the courage to join the army, who didn't have the courage to destroy the lives of others, so they had to run away, to hide in this deep mountain where no one cared, even if they were poor, as long as there was peace. ”