I, a mercenary, became a beautiful silver-haired boy

Alina asked Elena to accompany her, but she really just wanted to accompany her. They didn't say anything serious along the way, and looked for various interesting things along the way.

At this time, the two stopped at a small stall selling drinks. After walking for so long and talking so much, they were both a little thirsty and just wanted to find some refreshing drinks to drink.

"Hmm... What a novel taste, can this really be considered sweet?"

Listening to the stall owner's yo, Alina really believed what the other party said that this drink was sweet, but it was so bitter that she spit out her tongue after drinking it.

A bitter taste of grass plus a little bit of sweetness, it is hard to imagine that it is the favorite drink of people in the South City District.

"Haha, it may be hard for you to believe, but this is indeed one of the sweetest drinks in the South City District."

Looking at Alina's embarrassed look, Elena couldn't help laughing. For the noble lord, such a drink is really not delicious.

"Sugar and butter are semi-luxury items. No one dares to buy or eat them except some nobles and wealthy businessmen. With this money, common people prefer to buy nutritious meat, and few people choose to satisfy their appetite."

Spices and various condiments, including sugar, are not cheap. The survival ability of this society is still too low, and enjoying delicious food is too luxurious for ordinary people.

It is not difficult to see from the fact that most of the common people's three meals a day are black bread and various wild vegetables that most people in this world do not live well.

Under the threat of monsters and the oppression of nobles, just filling the stomach is a luxury, and eating something good is really only considered when good things happen.

"But some people just like to drink sweet things, and people also need to accept sugar. People are eager to find substitutes for sugar, from wild fruits to various strange plants, trying to find foods that can replace white sugar to provide the body with sugar needs."

Hearing this, Elena subconsciously looked at the juice in her hand, recalling the operation of the store manager when squeezing juice. Some unknown wild fruits were mixed with some strange grasses to make this drink.

"So this is the wisdom of the people in South City?"

Although Elena looked a little naive, her brain was very flexible, and she understood what Elena meant at once.

"Yes, this juice mixed with Zizi fruit and Gula grass is the substitute for white sugar that people are looking for. Because it is wild fruit and wild grass, there is no technology to remove the impurities in it, so the taste in the mouth is astringent, and the sweetness accounts for a small proportion, which is very incomparable to the sweetness of real sugar and fruit."

As she said, Elena also drank a sip herself, but the bitter taste made her face shrink into a ball.

Putting aside the memories left in this body, it was the first time for him to drink this kind of thing, and the taste was really novel.

"The advantage is that the quantity is large. Whether it is Zizi fruit or Gula grass, it is everywhere outside the city. If you don't clean it up in your own yard, some will occasionally grow out. If you want to eat something sweet, you usually choose to drink it. A cup is only two copper coins. What else do you want for this price?"

With the principle of not wasting, Elena continued to drink the drink in her hand. The bitter taste burst out of her mouth again, but with the psychological preparation, the stimulation was not so difficult to accept.

On the contrary, if you drink too much, the taste is unexpectedly addictive. It is the kind of taste that you will want to go back and taste one or two mouthfuls after not drinking it for a long time.

"Bicycle?"

However, Elena was still thinking about what Elena meant by the last sentence, but the other party did not mean to explain it, so she had to give up in the end.

"Elena, you know a lot. This is the first time I feel so ignorant."

As she spoke, Elena showed a somewhat lost expression. The environment she lived in when she was a child was too closed, and she didn't know many things.

After finally being able to freely control her own life, she encountered such a thing as soon as she came out. Her own men who led the Knights were almost wiped out. This incident was enough to become a shadow for her whole life.

"It's not that I know a lot, but I have experienced a lot and know how to accumulate experience."

Irina glanced at Elina with her peripheral vision. The reason why he knew so much was nothing more than living in the South City District, and he had experienced many hard days during the mercenary period. At that time, there were many special "foods" like this drink, which were all the poor people's joy in misery.

When encountering similar things, Elina will naturally draw inferences from one example, but if he is asked to explain the situation in the North City District, he will still be as ignorant as Elina is now.

"Really? Obviously, Elina, you are younger than me, but you always say something very reasonable occasionally. The last time was also, and I benefit a lot every time. "

Although Elena didn't want to comfort her, she cheered up after hearing his words, holding Elena's hand tightly with her right hand, as if she wanted to find courage from her.

Elena didn't say anything, but turned her head away with a guilty conscience. It was impossible for him to tell Elena that the soul in his body was actually the soul of an old man in his thirties and almost forty years old.

If his experience at this psychological age is not greater than that of Elena, a young man, and he can't squeeze out a few words of truth, then he has been active as a mercenary for so many years in vain.

"Let's go, it's still early, and there are still many places we haven't visited. I didn't know anything about the civilians in the South City and the entire kingdom before, and now I have to make up for it. "

Although she is prone to autism, Elina is not the kind of person who likes to be bound by the past. She actively walks towards the sunny place and tries to dispel the shadow in her heart as much as possible.

Elena reluctantly let the other party pull him. He was actually quite confused. Obviously, there was a good friend of the same sex like Xiaoyue in the Red Lotus Knights who could accompany Elina.

But why did the other party have to go all the way to find him out of kindness? What he is doing now does not seem to make up for the favor, but just a simple date on the street.

But the other party is willing to go out with him, and Elena has nothing to say. Who made him think he owed him Fang was doing a favor, and he would accept any request as long as it was not outrageous.

Shortly after the two left hand in hand, two sneaky figures appeared from behind them.

Coincidentally, one of them was Xiaoyue, whom Elena had just remembered, and the other was naturally Dennis.

The two wore clothes that matched the atmosphere of the South City District, and they had undergone a certain degree of disguise. They looked at the backs of Elena and Alina with unwavering eyes, and it was obvious that they had been following them from the beginning.

Until now, they have not revealed their tracks, at least Xiaoyue thinks so.