The Qin soldiers and Yiqu people in the village were all in a circle, Meng Tian and Zi Yanran were in the middle, and both of them were staring at each other intently. For Meng Tian, this battle can be lost, but it is not necessary. And compared to Zi Yanran, she must win, whether it is for herself or for her compatriots.

Suddenly, Zi Yanran began to attack, and the scimitar in her hand instantly unsheathed and wiped towards Meng Tian's neck. Meng Tian saw that Zi Yanran was attacking fiercely, and when he came up, he killed himself, unhurriedly, his body leaned back, and he took half a step back to avoid the knife that wanted to divide his body.

Zi Yanran saw that a move didn't work, and the other party easily dodged her attack, knowing in her heart that this was an unusual opponent, at least her strength would not be below her. But it seems that the other party is a lot younger than himself, but he can have such skills, I really don't know who taught him, he grew up in the grassland since he was a child, and followed his father and the clansmen to hunt tigers and kill wolves, so he practiced a skill, but he didn't expect to meet an enemy more powerful than the tiger wolf today.

Thinking of this, Zi Yanran no longer showed mercy to her subordinates, and then slashed back, wanting to cut Meng Tian in half from the bottom to the top. Meng Tian then turned to the side and dodged this move again. Zi Yanran saw that Meng Tian didn't take out his weapon after taking two moves, so she stopped and pointed at Meng Tian with the tip of her knife and asked, "Why did you make a move? What about your weapon, why do you think I'm not your opponent?"

Meng Tian smiled and shook his head, "Because you are a woman, I let you make three moves, and I will make a move after three moves." ”

Zi Yanran snorted coldly, feeling that Meng Tian just looked down on herself as a woman, so she continued to attack Meng Tian. Meng Tian dodged another move, and the opponent's attack was even more fierce, so he didn't hold it up anymore, stood up with the scabbard in his hand, blocked Zi Yanran's knife, and said, "Since you want to lose, then I'm really welcome." ”

Zi Yanran didn't speak, raised his hand and slashed towards Meng Tian, Meng Tian stuck the scabbard on the ground, pressed the live buckle on the handle, pulled his knife out of the scabbard, and held the knife horizontally in front of him with his backhand, blocking all Zi Yanran's attacks, and then pushed it out, pushing Zi Yanran's knife out. Meng Tian continued to hold the knife in his backhand and slashed at Zi Yanran, Zi Yanran returned the knife to block it, but was slashed back by Meng Tian and took two steps back.

At this time, Zi Yanran already knew that she was not Meng Tian's opponent, but at this point, it was no longer a matter of saying that she would not fight if she didn't fight, and she knew that a cold-blooded battlefield general like Meng Tian would definitely hunt her down to the end. Thinking of this, Zi Yanran smiled sadly at the corner of her mouth, for the sake of her clan and her father, she would lose decently even if she lost, but she couldn't escape.

The next battle was completely Meng Tian pressing Zi Yanran, and Zi Yanran was completely downwind, leaving only the parry. The two continued to fight for nearly a hundred moves, and after Meng Tian repelled Zi Yanran with another two steps, he stopped his attack and just looked at Zi Yanran.

Zi Yanran's back was already soaked with sweat, her beautiful black hair was also scattered, there were beads of sweat on her forehead, and her mouth was also wearing rough air, so she put the knife on the ground and quickly adjusted her breathing.

Meng Tian looked like he was still unsatisfied, but he didn't expect that this Yiqu woman would be able to take over nearly a hundred moves from him, not to mention that although he had suppressed his size and strength, purely judging from the tricks that the two had just fought again, this Zi Yanran's tricks were quite a bit of the style of martial arts in the Guannei. Before coming to Northern Xinjiang, Meng Tian's concept of Hu people was still stuck in horseback archery, but when he met Zi Yanran today, he found that if these Hu people were like Zi Yanran, wouldn't it be too terrible.

Meng Tian looked at Zi Yanran, walked over and stopped about five steps away from Zi Yanran, and asked, "What, do you regret it now?"

Zi Yanran wiped the sweat on her forehead with her sleeve, looked at Meng Tian and said coldly: "Regret? I have never taught my father and mother to regret since I was born, and besides, I have never done anything that I regret." ”

Meng Tian then asked: "Have you ever thought that you can make your people live a good life without robbing? Or are you willing to be a robber for the rest of your life, and after you have children of your own in the future, do you want your children to continue to be robbers? If I release you today, I am afraid that it will really harm you." ”

Meng Tian's words were not only for Zi Yanran to hear, but also for the other Yiqu people next to him. After listening to Meng Tian's words, the surrounding Yiqu people began to discuss, what Meng Tian said had a certain truth, he could be a robber in this life, but what about his own children, what about his children's children, do they want their descendants to live forever in the name of a robber? Presumably no one would want to be like this, the reason why he became a robber was to live a better life for himself and his family, but the robber never knew if he would be killed in the next robbery. Take today as an example, if it weren't for the big boss who came to save people in person, I'm afraid that some of his people would have died under the crossbow arrows of the Qin army.

Zi Yanran looked around and found that all the Yiqu people were looking at her, and Zi Yanran knew in her heart that I was afraid that after Meng Tian's words were finished, some people had already begun to waver. This can't be helped, when my father began to take people to be robbers on the grassland, he was not yet five years old, I only knew that my father went out early every day, and would come home late every night, sometimes carrying some food and some things that only people in the Central Plains would have, or returning home with some yellow glittering gold in small boxes, but sometimes they may return empty-handed for several days. Since a few years ago, my father took people out to rob, and as a result, he encountered a caravan escorted by an elite army, his father was shot with two arrows, and only half of the people and horses he brought back came, and since then, for the survival of the clan, Zi Yanran has taken over his father's responsibility and continues to take the clansmen to rob on the grassland for a living.

Zi Yanran looked at Meng Tian and said, "Do you think we really want to be robbers, we haven't been persecuted by your Qin people."

Meng Tian was a little confused after listening to Zi Yanran's words, and asked, "How does this matter have anything to do with the Qin people, you come and listen to me." ”

Zi Yanran turned his head and didn't speak, but a Yiqu man next to him spoke, this person was the small leader of the group of Yiqu people who were surrounded before, he stood up and said in the not very skilled Qin Guohua: "Back to this general's words, our purple leader's father, you Central Plains people, came to us to escape the war, led us to build a house with muddy water, and taught us how to sew clothes with needle and thread, although our life was a little harder at that time, but everyone took care of each other, which was not bad." Since the king of our Yiqu people died in your capital, and then the Qin army captured Yiqu, and then you sent a Qin man to manage us, a small tax for three days, a big tax for six days, and if the money is not enough, we will take cattle and sheep to offset the number, so we will be robbers here in Yiqu now. I hope the general can let us go, and let us go Purple Chief. ”

After listening to the words of this little leader, Meng Tian thought about it carefully, and remembered that he had read the tax reports in various places in the palace before, and he clearly remembered that Yingzheng had said that Yiqu was vast and sparsely populated, and it had just returned to the Qin State for a few years, so he did not set a high tax on Yiqu, so why did Zi Yanran say that the Qin people who are now officials in Yiqu have collected so many taxes?

Meng Tian asked Zi Yanran, "I'm sorry, Miss Zi, I remember that I heard him say that he wanted to reduce the taxes of Yiqu by our Qin King before, how could he be subject to so many taxes as you said?"

After listening to Meng Tian's words, Zi Yanran stood up from the ground, walked in front of Meng Tian, and said, "What, do you think I really lied to you, and then find a reason to excuse myself?"

Meng Tian nodded, but did not speak.

"Although I know that I am no match for you, but since I lost to you today, then I will accept my fate. But these men are following me, and I hope you will let them go? They are just trying to provide for their families. ”

Meng Tian nodded, Meng Tian called the scout over, waited until the scout arrived, and then Meng Tian whispered something in his ear, and the scout left the village and walked towards the depths of the grassland. "They can go, but you have to stay. After Meng Tian and the scout finished talking about the matter, he said to Zi Yanran, "I have already sent someone to you to investigate just now, to see if the Qin people who manage your Yiqu people are really as you said, privately increasing taxes, if this is really the case, I will slaughter this Qin people for you." ”

"Really, you Qin people would kill one of your own for the sake of us people?" Zi Yanran couldn't believe Meng Tian's words.

Meng Tian nodded, and then said to Du Hui: "Brother Du, you lead these brothers to catch up with the team first, I will follow this purple leader to Yiqu, and I will catch up with you after the matter of Yiqu is over, you go back and tell your father and Uncle Wang Ben first, just tell the truth." ”

Du Hui said: "Young General, otherwise we will all follow you to Yiqu, if you are alone in this prairie, I am a little worried." ”

Meng Tian shook his head and said, "No, the more people there are, the easier it is to expose the target, so I'll just go by myself, you guys go back first." Rest assured, with my ability, how can I have anything. Okay, Brother Du, you don't have to worry about me, go back quickly, just remember to tell my father. ”

Du Hui saw that he couldn't compete with Meng Tian, so he no longer persuaded him, so he had to leave the village with people first to find the Qin army's large army.

Meng Tian said to Zi Yanran: "Okay, Purple Leader, let's go, I'll go to Yiqu to see what is going on with this Qin man you said, if he is really what you say, I will definitely help you kill him with my own hands." ”

Seeing Meng Tian say this, Zi Yanran's good impression of Meng Tian increased a lot in her heart, and said, "Okay, I'll take you to have a look." Then he went up to his horse, rolled over and fell on the horse's back, and then whistled loudly, and all the Yiqu men began to mount their horses and prepare to return.

Just when Meng Tian was about to leave with Zi Yanran, Mu Lituo, who had been watching the battle from a distance at the beginning, ran over, and his daughter and the Loulan people who followed him to the Qin Kingdom also ran over.

Mu Lituo walked up to Meng Tian, who was about to get on his horse and follow Zi Yanran, and asked, "Young General, is today's matter over?" Are those robbers ready to leave?"

Meng Tian turned around and said, "That's right, Mu Lituo, your goods are all in the old place, hurry up and take your goods and Miss Tunazha home, if you come to Qin next time, I guarantee that you will not encounter this kind of thing again." ”

Mu Li's face suddenly became happy, and said: "Thank you so much, Major General, you saved me once in the Qin Kingdom, and you saved me again here today, I really don't know how to thank you this time." ”

Meng Tian waved his hand and said, "Mu Lituo, it was a pure coincidence to save you this time, of course, if it was someone else, I would also come to the rescue." At this time, Tunazha also came behind his father, Meng Tian looked behind him through the wood, and it happened to be intertwined with Tunazha's eyes, Tunazha's face turned red when he saw it, and then Tunazha crossed his hands in front of his chest and bowed to Meng Tian. Meng Tian hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop it, and said to Tunazha: "Today has frightened Miss Tunazha again, I hope that Miss Tunazha can often come to our Qin country in the future, it can be seen that the people of our Qin country still like your Loulan things, and I also hope that next time when Mr. Mulituo comes to Qin again, Miss Tunazha can continue to come." ”

Tunazha nodded and said a word in Loulan, and then Meng Tian wanted to know what Tunazha said, so he asked Muli to take Tunazha to what he meant. Mu Lituo didn't tell Meng Tian, just smiled and said it was nothing, and then pulled his daughter behind him to walk towards the place where he stacked the goods. Tunazha was dragged away by her father, and kept looking back at Meng Tian on the way, until she entered the courtyard and couldn't see Meng Tian. When she ran to the place where Meng Tian was just now, it was already empty, and there was a sound of horses' hooves in the distance, it seemed that Meng Tian had indeed gone away from the gang of Yiqu robbers.

Walking on the road on horseback, Zi Yanran rode a horse and slowly approached Meng Tian and asked, "Do you want to say something to you until the beautiful Loulan girl just now?"

Meng Tian said, "Why, can you understand Loulan?"

Zi Yanran nodded proudly, "Of course, my father used to be a scholar of Confucianism, and then our family suffered a war, and my mother was hacked to death to cover me, and by the time my father found me, I had been under my mother's corpse for nearly a day and a night, and I was almost fainting from hunger." So from then on, my father gave up his martial arts to better protect me. Before that, my father studied the languages of various countries", and he had learned this Loulan for a while, so he taught me a little bit later. I don't really know much, but what the Loulan beauty said is just within the range of what I know. ”

"Oh, what do you mean?" asked Meng Tian with interest.

Zi Yanran looked at Meng Tian with faint eyes, and said, "That sentence is 'Wanda Luduo' in Loulan dialect, and it means 'I love you, great warrior' in your Qin dialect!"