"...Hmm?"
Aiwass, upon hearing this, was a bit surprised, "Teach you to read?"
"Yes," Hayna said with a mix of nostalgia and amazement, "In our village, actually, there were very few educated people.
"In the whole of Shepherd Bay County, there were only a little over three hundred thousand people, most of whom were herders, with only one real city; the rest were towns and villages. And in Eagle Cape Village, we had less than a thousand people, a few more raising cattle than shepherding sheep. Farmers usually grew potatoes and turnips and occasionally some would grow ginger to earn money.
"There were no factories in our village, no high-rise buildings; the tallest building was only three stories high, and we didn't even have a middle school. I went to middle school in another town in Shepherd Bay County. The most famous cultured person in our village was Grandpa Jacob.
