The earth-walled house is very dilapidated, and the whitewashing used to decorate the wall has not been painted. It is completely dry and uneven.
Few furnishings in the house are valuable. Whether they are used or worn, the impression left by this village on Lu Chuan is very poor.
This is understandable. After all, this is a corner of the remote Valoran continent. This village may not belong to any country, without the protection of the country, and it has to be invaded by wild beasts all the year round, plus the labor force in the village. insufficient.
Therefore, the failure of the village to develop is also an inevitable result.
"This gold coin is used as the cost of my overnight stay here." Lu Chuan pressed a gold coin on the table, and then slowly pushed it to the elderly man.
Although he can now come up with more gold coins, this will only arouse human greed.
Originally, the people in the village were very poor, but he suddenly took out a lot of gold coins, and it was inevitable that the villagers would be worried.
Although these villagers were unarmed, Lu Chuan just wanted a good night's sleep.
"Your Excellency is going to Noxus? By the way, introduce yourself. My name is MacDonald, and your Excellency calls me Mike." Without rushing to accept the gold coin, Mike introduced himself first.
When he was young, he lived in Demacia for a period of time, and he knew a little bit about the way of life and etiquette in the town.
The act of looking at the gold coin greedily and wishing to snatch it into his hands will undoubtedly make people feel disgusted and contemptuous.
It was this subtle act of Mike that won Lu Chuan's respect for him.
"I only have a rough map. If it is convenient, can you tell me how far is it from Noxus?" Lu Chuan asked.
"It's not far from Noxus. It's about five days' journey. Just go straight east from the entrance of the village." Mike replied.
Lu Chuan roughly calculated that the distance Mike said should be calculated at the speed they usually use for driving. That is to say, it will take about half a day for him to reach Noxus.
After chatting with Mike about some unimportant things, he got up and went to prepare food. At this time, a girl walked in at the door and paused after seeing Lu Chuan.
"You are… "
"You take the liberty to bother, I'll stay here overnight." Lu Chuan nodded politely to the girl. At this time Mike opened the door curtain of the back room again, glanced at the visitor, and introduced to Lu Chuan, " This is my daughter, Peggy."
"Hello." Peggy nodded to Lu Chuan very well. This girl is not particularly beautiful, perhaps because she was born in a poor village, and her skin looked a little dark and her face was even dark. There are also some freckles, but a pair of spiritual eyes and perfect body proportions make Lu Chuan look more.
But he quickly retracted his gaze.
The house is relatively small. Except for the Mike who prepares food in the back room, there are only Peggy and Lu Chuan left in the outhouse. Since there is no intersection between the two, it is awkward to speak. After a brief sentence or two, they all went silent.
Lu Chuan simply closed his eyes and took care of the breath flowing in his body.
"By the way, sir, are you from Demacia?" After a long time, Peggy was the first to break the silence. She was a little curious when she saw that Lu Chuan didn't dress like a small place.
"Um."
"Is Demacia... very busy?" Peggy asked again.
Lu Chuan found that when Peggy asked this sentence, his eyes were full of yearning.
"Have you not been there?"
Peggy shook his head, "My father wouldn't let me go far, saying that people in big towns are very good at calculating others and are easy to be deceived."
Lu Chuan chuckled, "The atmosphere of Demacia is pretty good, and the people there are very simple and kind."
"Oh..." Peggy replied in a low voice.
No matter how good Lu Chuan said, she still can't go.
"Where is your mother?" Lu Chuan saw that the sky outside was completely dark at this time, and almost everyone around had lit the oil lamps. Although it was not very bright, it was still a trace of comfort in the dark, but he still didn't look at it. To the figure of Mike's wife.
"Died three years ago."
"Sorry." Lu Chuan said.
"There is no need to apologize, although I miss her a lot." Peggy sighed quietly.
It’s hard to imagine what fun the people living here have. During the day, you might go out into the dense forest to catch some prey. At night, after you have enough food and clothing, turn off the lights and wait for rest until the dawn of the next day. Repeatedly, go out hunting during the day.
"Your village... is it always entrenched here?" Lu Chuan glanced at Peggy, who stood up and lit the oil lamp. Under the faint light of the fire, some spots on her face were hidden away, the color of her skin. The difference has also become less obvious, adding a bit of beauty.
"Actually, I didn't live here at the beginning. As I remember, our family lived in..."
"Peggy!" At this moment, Mike who came out of the back room let out a serious groan, and Peggy immediately shut up honestly.
Immediately, Mike turned his face to look at Lu Chuan, and said with a slight embarrassment, "The food at home is not enough. I will go back to catch two fish on the river bank next to him."
"Don't be so troublesome, I'm not so particular about it." Lu Chuan waved his hand, but Mike still insisted that he was so far away as a guest, and after paying such a high price, there was more reason to make Lu Chuan's food richer. .
So he took a harpoon and went out, before leaving, he gave Peggy a fierce look, as if to beckon her not to talk too much.
Although from the short passage that Peggy just revealed, Lu Chuan could probably guess that this small village was only located here in the past few years or in the past ten years.
However, Lu Chuan didn't have much thirst for knowledge. As for what the people in this village did before, it had nothing to do with him. In short, he was just a passer-by who came to settle down.
"I'm sorry, this topic is a bit inconvenient to talk about." Peggy was interrupted when Lu Chuan waved his hand as soon as he spoke. "It's okay, I just asked casually."
The atmosphere in the house just became active just now, because of a relatively secret topic, the two people fell into silence again.
But soon the silence was broken again.
It's the noise from outside the house.