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"Zhou Bo, no, no, let's rest. Without waiting for Zhou Bo to answer, he pulled the reins and made the horse slow down and stop.
Zhou Bo looked helpless, so he had to accompany Xu Xiangtian to restrain the horse. These three horses were also tired enough, first they were busy on the battlefield, and now they were running long distances with people. He looked around, and his group had already left the official road, and was about to be located in a low mountainous area.
After turning over and falling off the horse, he found a hillside for Xu Xiangtian and Qin Yanei to dismount and rest, and then led the three war horses to a meadow and tied them up, allowing the horses to eat some grass.
Qin Yanei didn't speak from beginning to end, but his face turned paler from riding a horse for a long time.
Xu Xiangtian lay on the hillside with his head up, smashed his tongue, and said, "Zhou Bo, I'm so thirsty, is there water around here?"
Zhou Bo was stunned, this Xu Xiangtian was letting himself go to find water. He scolded secretly: Damn, Lao Tzu saved you, but you called Lao Tzu as a human being, if it weren't for your father's sake, Lao Tzu would have put you in this barren mountain and wilderness with a knife.
However, when it came to thirst, he felt a little hungry, so he sold a favor and said, "Xu Yanei, let the officials go around and check around." ”
Zhou Bo found a few jujube trees on the mountain, and the jujubes were not fully ripe at the current time, and they were all green and tender jujubes. But it doesn't matter, anyway, the sour it is, the more it can make people happy, but it can quench the thirst of that Xu Yanei. He climbed up the tree and picked a few handfuls of dates, then folded his robe and returned to his resting place.
"The two yamen, the lower officials found some fruits. Quench thirst and craving. He said. stretched the folds of his robe in front of Xu Xiangtian.
Xu Xiangtian hurriedly grabbed a large handful with each of his two hands. Suddenly, more than half of the dates in the folds of the robe were missing.
Zhou Bo then asked Qin Yanei to arrest it. This Qin Yanei shot very delicately, only grabbed three or five at random with a small hand, and then turned his back to prevent others from seeing the appearance.
Zhou Bo thought secretly, but he didn't care about anything else, found a place to sit down, and began to eat dates.
Qin Yanei took less, and quickly ate it. He glanced at Zhou Bo unsatisfactorily, but he seemed embarrassed to ask for dates again, so he had to turn his face away and stop looking.
Zhou Bo sighed, why are these rich children so face-loving? He stood up and walked over, grabbed a handful of dates and stuffed them to Qin Yanei, and said, "Yanei, you can eat more." ”
Qin Yanei looked at Zhou Bo with some astonishment, he didn't speak, but there was a little gratitude in his eyes.
That night, the three of them rested on this hillside. It's autumn now, and the cold wind blows in the middle of the night and makes them all shiver. But it's still because I'm too tired. Although the cold did not affect sleep.
At dawn, Zhou Bo woke up, he slept for a few hours and was full, after all, the situation would be unsafe after dawn, and someone had to come to sentry. He looked at Xu Xiangtian, this pampered guy is still sleeping dead. looked at Qin Yanei again, but was surprised to find that the place where Qin Yanei slept last night was empty, and he didn't know where to run.
He became worried, and quickly got up and looked around. When he came to the top of the hillside, he suddenly heard a faint crying sound not far away, and in search of this cry, he saw a figure in a forest in the shade of the mountain.
Zhou Bo walked over cautiously, and finally saw clearly that the person sitting under the tree and crying was Qin Yanei, but the strange thing was that listening to this crying sound was like a girl's voice. He came behind Qin Yanei and asked quietly, "Yanei, what's wrong with you?"
Qin Yanei turned his back to Zhou Bo and didn't notice that someone was quietly approaching, so he was immediately startled and looked back.
This turn finally allowed Zhou Bo to see Qin Yanei's true face clearly, only to see that the other party's big eyes were full of tears, and his fair face looked pitiful, with a bold nose and a cherry mouth, he was not a man at first glance. It turns out that the other party is a fake yanai disguised as a man!
"You... You're a woman?" he said, a little surprised.
"How could you...... Hello so rude!" Qin Yanei was extremely shy, and hurriedly wiped his tears with his sleeve, and his little face turned red.
Zhou Bo gradually understood why this Qin Yanei wanted a woman to dress as a man, in this era of feudal constraints, women's moral integrity is very strict, especially those who are beautiful, and it is very rude to often go out and show their faces. Of course, yesterday Xiangyang City was broken, and it was also necessary to pretend to be a man in order to hide his identity.
"Lady, don't worry, I won't say anything?" he said again and again.
When Qin Niangzi heard Zhou Bo say this, she felt a little warm in her heart. I didn't expect him to be a rough man who is also very sensible. She lowered her head, and a grief condensed on her pretty face.
"However, Xu Yanei should know your true identity, right?" Zhou Bo asked.
Qin Niangzi nodded slightly, she was still a little shy and didn't speak.
Zhou Bo asked again: "Dare to ask the lady, since you are a daughter, what is the relationship between you and Qin Lang, the envoy of the Guanghua Army?" He was worried that Xu Xiangtian's kid was fooling him, so he asked this question.
Qin Niangzi replied: "Qin Lang is indeed my father, but Jia Yan only has the only daughter of the slave family, and there are no other sons. Xu Yanei was worried that the identity of the slave family would be exposed, so he deliberately covered up for the slave family. ”
Zhou Bo was finally relieved, as long as you still have a relationship with the Jiedu Envoy, then you will not be saved in vain. He walked up to Qin Niangzi, because the little lady was petite, he still squatted down in order to facilitate the conversation, and asked, "I don't know what sad the lady has, why is she crying here?"
Qin Niangzi blushed and said, "Last night, the slave family dreamed that Jia Yan was killed by Qi soldiers. The slave family and their relatives have been missing news for several months, and they are very worried. ”
Zhou Bo smiled secretly, it turned out that this little lady was thinking about her family. He thought about it, and suddenly congratulated Qin Niangzi: "Congratulations to Niangzi!"
Qin Niangzi was stunned and said angrily: "You...... You are really hateful, and the life and death of the slave family are uncertain. You're here to congratulate the slave?"
Zhou Bo looked at the little girl's angry look. I think it's cute. He smiled and said, "Lady is angry, please listen to the next word." In the past, I once heard a person point out that the dreams I did were often the opposite of reality. Since the lady dreamed that the festival caused the adult to be killed, then the festival made the adult must be safe and sound now. ”
Qin Niangzi asked again and again, "Is what you said true?"
Zhou Bo nodded and said, "It's true." ”
Qin Niangzi breathed a sigh of relief, and a relieved smile appeared on her face. She looked at Zhou Bo a little shyly, and said in a low voice: "So that's the case, I misunderstood Zhou Bo just now." ”
Zhou Bo felt that the little lady in front of him was indeed a beautiful embryo, although she was not very old. But it is charming and cute, especially after a woman dresses up as a man, there is a different kind of beauty. He politely bowed and said, "No way." Dare to ask the lady's name?"
"The slave family has a single name. ”
Zhou Bo agreed: "The name is beautiful, and the person is also beautiful." ”
It was the first time Qin Han was praised so directly by the opposite sex, and there was a warm sweetness in his heart, but people seemed even more shy.
Zhou Bo looked up at the sky and said, "Qin Niangzi, you should take advantage of the daytime to rest more, we will be very hard to travel at night." ”
Qin Han now untied the knot in his heart. In a much better mood, she nodded in agreement.
After Zhou Bo brought Qin Han back to the hillside. So he ran to find some food. It's autumn now, and there are a lot of wild fruits on the mountain, and they are still pure green food that has not been polluted in ancient times. He gathered some food, wrapped it in a cloth torn from his clothes, and barely used it as dry food for the rest of the journey.
After another day's journey, nothing major happened on the way.
But on the third day, Xu Xiangtian's sleep time seemed to have returned to normal. Originally, the second half of the night was a time period for hurrying, but he couldn't support it at this time, so he must ask to dismount and rest. But when he was not in a hurry the next afternoon, he woke up from a full sleep, and seemed to have nothing to do.
In the afternoon, the three of them rested in the woods by a river.
"Zhou Bo, I don't think we have met Qi Jun again in the past two days, so let's continue on the road now. Xu Xiangtian leaned against a big tree and said in a somewhat serious tone.
At this time, Qin Han was still lying on the side to rest, but after hearing Xu Xiangtian's words, she immediately sat up, her big eyes were still a little sleepy, and she asked weakly, "Are you going to go on the road now?"
As a daughter, she fled with two big men, and she naturally felt nervous when she slept every day, often later than Zhou Bo and Xu Xiangtian, so she still felt tired at this time.
Zhou Bo naturally noticed Qin Han's point, and he said: "Xu Yanei, we have been traveling for more than a hundred miles in the past two days, if we guess correctly, we should enter the Suizhou territory." Suizhou and Ezhou are only two hundred miles apart, and the two armies intersect in important places, and the Qi army will definitely press heavy troops in this area, and it will be very dangerous to rush during the day. ”
Xu Xiangtian thought about it, but still felt that his life was important, and finally dispelled the idea of continuing to hurry, but he said again: "Zhou Bo, do you still have the fruit you prepared a few days ago? ”
Zhou Bo frowned, damn it, didn't you eat all the fruits yesterday evening, didn't you ask knowingly?
Of course, he knew that this pampered and unruly Yanai was hinting that he was looking for food, although he felt uncomfortable, but since he decided to endure it from the first time, he naturally couldn't give up halfway.
He immediately ran to find something to eat, and thought that there was a small river nearby, so he decided to go to the river and catch some fish. In his previous life, he had organized many field camps in college, during which he learned the skills of catching fish with his bare hands with a few classmates from the mountains, which finally came in handy.
However, the theoretical knowledge of catching fish with bare hands was mastered, but the actual combat experience was lacking, and it took more than half an hour to catch three fish.
Zhou Bo walked to the woods with the fish, and when he was still some distance away from the resting place, he suddenly heard Qin Han's scream. He immediately quickened his pace and ran back, and just returned to the resting place, he saw that Xu Yanei was grabbing Qin Han's two little hands and pounced on Qin Han's body.
"Sister Han, my father has already proposed to Ling Zun, why do you want to resist?" Xu Xiangtian looked bad, and kept sticking his face to Qin Han's face.
"Don't, Xu Xiangtian, you scoundrel, let go!" Qin Han shrunk tightly to avoid Xu Xiangtian's indifference to herself, she was ashamed and angry. However, he was powerless. Where is the opponent of this man in front of him. After struggling for a while. I cried urgently.
Xu Xiangtian's life was originally very arrogant, and he was exhausted these days, and the **** in his heart had long been unbearable. Facing the struggle of the delicate woman under him, he felt more and more excited, and he was about to tear Qin Han's clothes with his free hand.
Zhou Bo hesitated when he saw this scene, listening to Xu Xiangtian's words, maybe the two of them were already engaged, and he was afraid that it would not be good for him to interfere now, and he would offend Xu Xiangtian. But when he saw Qin Han who was full of tears of humiliation. I couldn't help but thump in my heart.
Taking a step back, Qin Han is the daughter of the Jiedu envoy, and Xu Xiangtian is just an observer, and the official rank is far behind. At this time, he went to help Qin Han, maybe this little beauty would be grateful, and let her father reward herself when the time came, even if Xu Xiangtian held a grudge.
At this time, he thought of a clever trick, and immediately got up and retreated some distance one after another, as if he didn't see it. Then, humming loudly, he walked over with three fish.
"Two of you. ...... you guys," Zhou Bo suddenly pretended to be shocked and exclaimed.
Xu Xiangtian and Qin Han were both shocked. Qin Han looked at Zhou Bo pleadingly while crying. However, Xu Xiangtian was interested, and he saw that he was about to succeed, but he was spoiled by Zhou Bo, and he immediately became angry.
"Look, go to the river and grill the fish. He glared at Zhou Bo angrily.
Zhou Bo was immediately angry by this scolding, he tried his best to be patient with his temperament, walked up quickly, and said, "Xu Yanei, Qin Yanei is a man!" He deliberately pretended not to know Qin Han's identity.
Xu Xiangtian was used to being stubborn, and seeing that Zhou Bo didn't know the current affairs, he immediately jumped up from the ground and kicked at Zhou Bo.
Zhou Bo didn't expect Xu Xiangtian to make a move on himself, and he couldn't dodge this kick, and kicked it right in his waist. He felt a pain in his lower back, and the wound he had been stabbed by Qi Bing the day before suddenly ruptured. His face suddenly became extremely angry, Lao Tzu finally gave you a step down, this bastard didn't even give him any face!
"Xu Yanei, if I kill you now, I can completely treat it as if I never saved you!" Zhou Bo's face was gloomy, and he reached out and grabbed the hilt of the knife on his waist.
Xu Xiangtian saw that Zhou Bo was serious, so he took two steps back in fright, and begged for mercy again and again: "Zhou Bo...... There was a misunderstanding just now, Qin Yanei ...... Actually, it's the daughter, and my father has already proposed to her, just now...... Just a misunderstanding. ”
Zhou Bo secretly ridiculed: To deal with this kind of gentleman, you have to be ruthless. He dissipated his anger, he killed eight people in a row two days ago, and the feeling of killing people was still very uncomfortable for a rookie like himself. He snorted coldly and warned, "Xu Yanei, since I am escorting you, I naturally want to ensure your safety. You and Qin Niangzi's private affairs will wait until you arrive in Ezhou, if you dare to make a mistake next, don't blame me for being unkind. ”
Xu Xiangtian's face had already turned the color of pig liver, and he nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, there will be no next time." ”
Zhou Bo walked up to Qin Han and pulled her up. Qin Han's two small hands were tightly protecting his chest, and the tears on his face were still obvious. He took Qin Han to the other side, turned back to Xu Xiangtian and said coldly, "From now on, you are not allowed to approach her Sanzhang. ”
Qin Han looked at Zhou Bo's tall back, and his heart was very warm.
Xu Xiangtian naturally didn't dare to make a mistake, so he had to hide far away. But when he turned his back, his face flashed and he gritted his teeth: Hmph, you, a nine-grade young general, dare to do bad things about Lao Tzu, wait until you go to Ezhou to see how I kill you.
After Xu Xiangtian retreated, Zhou Bo turned his head to look at Qin Han and asked in a cut voice, "Are you okay?"
Qin Han nodded shyly, thinking that Xu Xiangtian's rude appearance was seen by Zhou Bo just now, he was very annoyed in his heart.
At this time, Zhou Bo couldn't help it anymore, his figure shook a little, and he suddenly sat down on the ground. There was already a feeling of wetness in the lower back, and it was clear that the wound was bleeding again.
Qin Han saw Zhou Bo's painful appearance, and hurriedly asked, "Zhou Bo, what's wrong with you?"
Zhou Bo pretended to be strong and said, "I'm fine, uh!"
Qin Han saw Zhou Bo covering his waist with one hand that had just been kicked by Xu Xiangtian, and asked again, "Zhou Bo, you don't look like you're okay, are you injured?"
Zhou Bo didn't speak, he brought the hand covering his waist to his eyes, only to see that his hand was already stained with blood.
Qin Han was surprised, she immediately squatted down, her long eyelashes flashed with concern, and asked in a serious voice, "Zhou Bo, how can this be?"
Zhou Bo smiled reluctantly and said, "Don't be surprised, lady, two days ago, I fought out of the siege from Xiangyang City, and I had eight soldiers in my hand, and this injury is nothing." He deliberately changed his escape to fight his way out, so as to leave a heroic impression in the heart of this little girl.
Qin Han really showed a look of admiration, and sighed: "Zhou Bo is really a loyal and righteous person, many of my Great Song Dynasty soldiers stooped down to surrender to the enemy when they were deeply besieged, but Zhou Bo would rather die than surrender, which really makes the slave family admire." ”
The reason why Zhou Bo wanted to please Qin Han was because he had already seen that Xu Xiangtian must have a grudge against what happened just now. There are two reasons why he doesn't kill Xu Xiangtian now, in addition to his unwillingness to kill indiscriminately, and more importantly, Qin Han is on the side. If Xu Xiangtian is really killed, Qin Han, the little girl, will return to Ezhou and leak this matter, I am afraid that she will not be able to eat and walk away.
However, after arriving in Ezhou, Xu Xiangtian will definitely wait for an opportunity to take revenge on himself, so at this time, he will have a good relationship with Qin Han, and at least he can use the name of the Guanghua Army to cover himself at that time.
"The lady has an overreputation, and as a soldier, she swears to serve the country to the death. It's just that the battle of Xiangyang City made Zai Xia deeply regret, and he kept this cheap life in the Xia, hoping to recover the lost territory one day, and only on the battlefield of the counteroffensive would he feel that he had died well. He said in a deep voice with a look of foresight.
Of course, Qin Han didn't see Zhou Bo's scheming, her little heart was moved, and she immediately said: "Zhou Bo, please Kuanjia, and the slave family will clean up the wounds for the general." (To be continued.) )