Chapter 38: Encounter

The matter was almost over, five or six of Zhao Jun's ten were dead, almost half dead, and the rest were tied with ropes with their hands behind their backs, and they were connected together like livestock.

In order to prevent the captives from making trouble, and also to save food, the daily rations of the captives were only a little bit, and even some were not given. The Yan army's own food is not enough, how can it be evenly distributed to the captives? Therefore, Qin Xuan could see corpses being thrown out of the team every day. At first, she was also a little compassionate, but she didn't have much food left, as for letting herself starve to save others, to put it mildly, the people who dared to do this in this world were already dead and didn't even have bones left.

"Those people eat human flesh," Bi Dezhen commanded his subordinates to throw those corpses into the mountains to feed jackals, tigers and leopards, and said to Qin Xuan when he turned around, "It's okay on our side, and there is a special place to settle those Han people who have dragged their families here." I heard my uncle say that these people treat the Han people as military food, and other people carry baggage when they fight. ”

"......" Qin Xuan grew up in Liaodong, and he has only heard about the Central Plains, and he doesn't know as carefully as Bidezhen who has relatives in the army." So inhumanity? ”

"It's strange to have human nature," said Bede, as he watched the corpses roll down the hillside. He turned his head and said to Qin Xuan, "You are soft-hearted." Qin Xuan didn't say anything, nor did he give these captives food, but he himself has a pair of eyes that can see, how can he not see if people are not stupid?

"I know." Qin Xuan was a little curious if there was 'I am very kind' written on her face, and she obviously didn't say anything, "I just cut off the heads of these people's companions some time ago, what will this be soft-hearted." ”

"If only you understood." Bide Zhen reached out and patted Qin Xuan on the shoulder, "Those people are only worthy of doing some slave work of herding horses and sheep, they are not people, and don't treat them as human beings." Thinking that there are a lot of rewards after returning to Dragon City, I heard that you still have a grandmother and sister at home, with a reward, you go back to buy two slaves and maids for them, although there are men in the family, but there are some things for girls, where can men interfere. ”

Qin Xuan was stunned when she heard Bidezhen's words, it is very common to keep slaves and maids these days, not to mention that there are so many things at home, just relying on building a building and canine teeth, I don't know if I can cope with it. And Qin Xuan is also old, and there will be girls' private affairs at that time, Heba's is old, it is impossible to take care of everything, and the old man is blessed when he is old, and she is embarrassed to always trouble others.

But there are many people in the family, and she is really bottomless. Let's not talk about whether she can convince herself to go to the human market to buy a slave, even if she really buys it back, it's hard to say what her temperament will be.

"This ...... I'm worried, too. Qin Xuan thought of her sister, and rubbed her hands in embarrassment, she was also worried about this matter.

Bide really heard Qin Xuan say that he didn't want his sister to marry earlier, and immediately enthusiastically gave her ideas, not only did he come up with ideas, but the brothers hooked up their shoulders and went all the way, leaving only the soldiers who were still throwing corpses over there.

When I went out on the expedition, I was bent on meeting the people and killing the enemy quickly, and I felt that in the blink of an eye, the time of the day passed by whizzing. When he came back, he was like a year, wishing that his horse would give birth to four legs and run all the way back to Dragon City.

Most of the Yan army are Xianbei people, and there are also a few Han people, but the common thing is that they are all near or settled in Dragon City, everyone has relatives, and after this raid, they can have a short rest when they go back. Maybe you can go back and check it out. Not to mention that this time he killed the Qianren, and the military exploits he earned were so many that people could wake up with a smile when they slept. A group of people were eager to put on their wings and fly back.

Qin Xuan was similar, when she finally saw the gray city walls of Dragon City, her tense muscles were completely relaxed, and she was finally able to sleep well.

God knows that this road is not easy for her at all, because there are prisoners, or a group of captives who have heard that they eat human flesh and eat big, no one in the Yan army dares to take it lightly, in case these people want to resist, it is easy to cause a mutiny in the army. Unfortunately, there was no order from the higher authorities to let them dispose of these people, so they could only starve them, give them a little water and food, and drag them until they were weak and had no strength to act as demons. Once they enter the city gates, they will be taken over by special people.

Qin Xuan sent Murong Ming back to Yanwangfu first, Murong Ming didn't pretend to be forced along the way, but was murdered by his cousin once, he was very aggrieved, and he ignored Qin Xuan and rode a horse to argue with Yanwangfu all the way.

Qin Xuan and Bide Zhen glanced at each other, and they could see a wry smile in each other's eyes, this little noble man was really not easy to serve.

When he arrived at the Yanwang Mansion, Murong Ming got up from the horse with a straight face and was served by his family, he stood there and glanced at Qin Xuan, his lips moved, and finally he didn't say a word, turned around and walked towards the door.

Bide really didn't care what Murong Ming was thinking, who he wanted to talk to, anyway, as long as he sent this precious egg to the general, it would be considered a completion of the task.

Not long after, Murong Hyun sent someone to see them.

Murong Hyun didn't send all the pro-soldiers around him this time, he just sent a few people to his younger brother's side, and now that they are back, he also wants to meet those pro-soldiers.

The pro-soldiers were almost all from the old vassal families of the Murong Ministry, and they couldn't be used up like ordinary soldiers and let them go.

Qin Xuan and Bi Dezhen and a few other personal soldiers arrived at Murong Hyun, and when they arrived at the gate of Murong Hyun's courtyard, she saw a Xianbei girl with a raw face. The girl didn't look like the maids of the house, the maids were all dressed almost the same, and their expressions were always docile, hanging their heads and not saying a word. But Qin Xuan looked at the girl's head held high, not like a maid should be.

The girl noticed her, too, and her eyes lit up, and a smile appeared on her face. But what she wanted to say, she was pulled aside by the Xianbei old woman beside her.

Qin Xuan didn't care much about it, when she was in Great Thorn City before, she had also seen a lot of girls who talked to her.

"Grandma, did you see it, the man who led the way just now is really good-looking." Pona and Grandma said.

Grandma heard that Pona's eyes were shining, and her heart was anxious, she knew that this was not the place to talk, so she quickly pulled Pona to the room.

Qin Xuan didn't know what was going on outside, and he really went to Murong Hyun with Bide, and since Murong Hyun finished the matter at hand, Murong Kui asked him to take a break temporarily.

Murong Hyun was kind to this group of soldiers who went out to do errands to protect Murong Ming, and even rewarded each of them with ten catties of gold. As soon as these words came out, everyone was overjoyed.

Liaodong is not rich, at least compared to the Han people, they are poor, and the life of the Xianbei nobles is slightly better, but they are all slaves and maids, cattle and sheep, and these soldiers do not have many in their hands.

Qin Xuan also smiled, who doesn't like to have benefits, not to mention that these things are all earned by herself.

Murong Hyun also joked with a few people, and after everyone laughed, Murong Hyun asked them to get the money. When Qin Xuan was about to leave, she was stopped by Murong Hyun, "You stay, I have something to say to you." ”

Qin Xuan thought of Murong Ming, she didn't think that Murong Ming was doing in Yunwu Mountain, Murong Hyun didn't know at all, and probably came to ask her brother how he was.

"Sit down." Murong Hyun asked Qin Xuan to put a mattress on it, and Qin Xuan was immediately sitting on it, instead of everyone sitting on it.

"I don't have to be so restrictive here." Murong Hyun saw it and knew that Qin Xuan still regarded him as the master in his heart. He was helpless in his heart, Qin Xuan did what he should do in the eyes of others, but on the contrary, it was abnormal for him to have that kind of thought. However, he has done it in his previous life, which is even more abnormal than this, and these are completely ignored by him.

"I know all about Shiro." Murong Hyun said, Murong Qi and the Qi people are fighting, but Murong Ming will still tell him if he does something, Murong Ming will jump out very much, but he will still be of great use in the future. But if it's really because of Qin Xuan's escape, he really doesn't talk about brotherhood.

Originally, in Murong's family, the so-called brothers were a joke. He really doesn't value this yet.

"Subordinate......" Qin Xuan opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

"You're doing a good job." Murong Hyun smiled, and he asked the prepared dim sum and honey to be put on the table. The sweet aroma of honey is particularly attractive, as well as those fruits and vegetables that are in season. Qin Xuan's stomach was fluttering.

"......" Qin Xuan lowered her head, her stomach didn't scream, but she was panicked. Xianbei people originally grew up eating meat, and if they eat too much meat, their health will be bad, which will show how important the fruit is.

"Eat." Murong Hyun made people prepare what Qin Xuan liked, the two had lived together for so many years in their previous lives, no matter what kind of preference she had, he knew it clearly.

Qin Xuan got Murong Hyun's words, smiled embarrassedly, she picked up a piece of fruit that had been cut and ate it. Murong Hyun didn't look at it, he also took some food. If only one person eats and the other person stares, it will definitely not be able to swallow after a long time. Of course, this is also what she sued him before.

Murong Hyun clearly remembered all her preferences, Qin Xuan glanced at Murong Hyun, who was also eating in front of her, and the pressure on her heart decreased a lot.

"I remember you have a sister at home?" Murong Hyun said as if he had no intention of doing so.

"Well, there are grandma's sister and cousin at home." Qin Xuan subconsciously excluded the Qin family.

"It's not easy for you brother." Murong Hyun said, he watched Qin Xuan eat the fruit and honey in front of him cleanly, and let some others come up, "But my sister is always easier to come than my younger brother." ”

Murong Hyun said, shaking his head with a wry smile, "I've seen your sister, and she's also a well-behaved child, Shiro...... Shiro couldn't wait to tear off the roof. ”

"Boys are like this, maybe they will be better when they grow up and be sensible." Qin Xuan heard Murong Hyun say this, and felt a little the same, boys are naughty, she has seen a lot in the Qin family before. It's just that sister, she would rather Qin Rui be more spicy, but this matter is not in a hurry.

"Shiro's temper doesn't know when he will be sensible." Murong Hyun seemed to have found the trick of how to talk to Qin Xuan, and the rest revolved around how to teach his younger brother.

Murong Kui's favorite concubine, Mrs. Helan, already has a big belly, and she may not know when she will give birth. If it is another son at that time, Murong Xu and Murong Ming will feel uncomfortable. One is the younger brother who was born because the eldest son was afraid and his father liked it, and the other is that he has been used to eating alone since he was a child, and he will not feel good when he suddenly kills a person who competes for favor. But these Murong Hyun didn't care at all. If the boss has the ability, he will stuff medicine into Helan's mouth, and if he doesn't have the ability, he can only watch the family have one more mouth, as for the small one, it is enough to be a so-called good brother.

Qin Xuan still has her own experience when she talks about her younger brothers and sisters, and her parents went early back then. She knew that those clansmen were bastards who ate people and didn't spit out bones, but she didn't expect that people would be so evil that in order to swallow that little bit of family property, she even came up with a vicious way to cut off her brother's family.

"......" Qin Xuan remembered the past and stopped talking.

Murong Hyun looked at Qin Xuan's face a little bad, and he said with concern, "What's wrong?" ”

The softness of the speech is simply abnormal, not like the main general and the personal soldier talking at all, but like the whispering between husband and wife.

Qin Xuan didn't react for a while, his tone of voice was wrong, she raised her head, "Remember...... Things that used to be in my hometown. ”

Murong Hyun knew Qin Xuan's clan, and he didn't know much about the Qin family at that time, he only knew that the Qin family's family was wiped out by thieves in the ravine.

In these years, there is no peace anywhere, not to mention the Han people fighting and killing in the local area, even on the territory of the Xianbei people, bandits are everywhere.

I couldn't get by, and I fell into the grass, and it was the Han people who were killed. Xianbei people don't pay much attention to it.

But looking at Qin Xuan like this, it seems that the Qin family treats her very badly?

Murong Hyun's hand to get the quilt paused.

"You have a girl at home, and I'll have you get some more cloth when the time comes. When the little lady is old, she needs to prepare more clothes and jewelry. ”

"This villain doesn't dare to be." Qin Xuan is afraid of this, she gets too much, and it will be nothing for a while, and when it takes a long time, it will be troublesome.

"Everybody has it, not just you." Murong Hyun said.

"Huh?" Qin Xuan blinked, didn't she say that everyone had ten catties of gold, so there was something else?

"Of course, in the case of selling life, you can't just do that." Murong Hyun said with a smile, his eyes narrowed slightly when he laughed, which was particularly good-looking. Qin Xuan couldn't help but look at it twice.

Murong Hyun knew that Qin Xuan was coming today, so he deliberately bathed at night, and this morning he also learned that the Han men had slightly modified his face, and he really had his face covered with powder like those people, he couldn't do it, it was just a thin layer, and his skin was as white as snow from a distance, it was the best.

"That'...... Thank you, General. Qin Xuan still wanted to excuse herself, but remembering that Qin Rui hadn't worn beautiful clothes or jewelry for a long time, she could only swallow the words that had reached her throat.

She always wanted a good life at home.

The smile on Murong Hyun's face became thicker and thicker, and he looked at her with his face down, as if he had drunk a glass of honey in his heart, and the sweetness was bitter. Suddenly, he felt the urge to cross over to this little desk and kiss her eyebrows, telling him that he had been waiting for her for years, years.

"No thanks, you deserve this." Murong Hyun made people serve tea soup, and the tea soup was freshly boiled, with a bitter fragrance.

The bitter tea soup entered his throat, and it was only then that urge was suppressed. If he really did this now, I am afraid that Qin Xuan would never do anything with him for the rest of his life.

And his plan is not to let Qin Xuan be a woman.

Qin Xuan was a little surprised when she smelled the bitter fragrance of the tea soup. She had also heard how to use tea, crushing tea leaves to make tea cakes, then boiling them in water, and adding onions and garlic. Some of them have to put rice in it, and the result is not soup, but porridge.

But Murong Hyun is obviously not like this.

"Let's do it." Murong Hyun looked at her deeply, and seemed to have a thousand words, but in the end, there was only one sentence.

When Qin Xuan came out, she carried her newly acquired gold and cloth, and the beauty in her heart was almost bubbling. With these, she and her family can live well.

It's just that to protect the beautiful Qin Rui, these things are not enough. She has to work harder to be stronger.

When I went back, I passed by the human market, usually Qin Xuan couldn't avoid this kind of place, in that place, people were no longer people, only slave traffickers and buyers waiting to be sold.

However, the family is really understaffed. Qin Xuan was riding on the horse and couldn't help but hesitate. As Bide said, there is a little girl in her family, and she can't see it now, and when she gets older, she won't be able to take care of it. When girls grow up, there will always be a lot of worries. He is physically tough, but he is old, so it is best not to worry too much.

Qin Xuan stood in the human market, hesitated, gritted his teeth and went in.

Traffickers are commonplace here, and there are everyone in the market, including Xianbei, Xiongnu, Han, and even Goguryeo. Languages flew together, and there were people who broke the mouths of slaves, looked at their teeth, and bargained with traffickers. It was even noisier than the bazaar, and she looked at the women who were kneeling on the ground, unclothed, with unkempt hair and straw sticks. I was afraid for a while. If she hadn't had the strength, chances would have been.

"Does Alang buy people?" When the traffickers saw Qin Xuan's dress, and saw that she was looking at the female slaves kneeling on the ground, they immediately came up.

"Hmm...... "Buying slaves and maids is a bit of a last resort, but in Qin Xuan's heart, it still belongs to the three views of ruin, she muttered, and her eyes swept over those female slaves.

"What are you looking for?" Seeing that Qin Xuan was holding a horse lance in her hand, wearing a ring-headed knife behind her waist, and a Xianbei person's fur on her body, the trafficker regarded her as a Xianbei person, and asked earnestly, "I have any woman here, no matter what Ah Lang wants." ”

"I can cook and take care of my children." Qin Xuan had been fighting for a long time in his heart, and finally said his request. She also had to go back to laundry, cook and take care of Qin Rui personally, and build a house where the family lived, and the neighbors were all Xianbei people. Xianbei people have more men and fewer women, and the status of women is respected, even if she wants to invite people, she can't do it, not to mention that she doesn't know the character of those people, but the slave and maid are linked to the master's family, and more importantly, the slave and maid have no human rights, and in the eyes of others, they are just talking cattle and sheep, and they have a lot less concerns.

"Then you have to be younger." The trafficker laughed, doing this kind of young man's business, he has long had experience, saying that he can do housework, and in fact he likes to be able to warm the bed.

The trafficker pointed out one to Qin Xuan, "That Ah Lang take a look?" ”

Qin Xuan followed the trafficker's finger and saw a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, her eyes almost falling off.

"It's too small."

"It's not small, it's not small." The trafficker spoke fluently, "This age is just right, and he can do things, when the time comes, Ah Lang will ask someone to warm the bed and give birth to a child or something, isn't it ready-made?" ”

"......" Qin Xuan's face almost distorted when she heard this. She doesn't want anything to warm the bed! And what's going on to have a baby!

She just went to see the old, the older women in order to have a safe place, and she would not be a demon.

When the traffickers saw this, they had no choice but to ask the older women to look up. Let the buyer take a good look.

When one of the women saw Qin Xuan, it was as if she had seen a ghost, and her whole body was so frightened that she was going to go limp, "Qin Xuan, you bastard!" ”

Qin Xuan frowned when she heard the familiar voice, and looked at the woman who was scolding. She strode up to the woman and examined her face. That face was already wrinkled and dirty, and it was completely impossible to see what it was originally. Qin Xuan squinted and thought about it for a long time, before she came up with the fact that this person's facial features seemed to be somewhat similar to Chen's.

"You conscienceless!" When Chen saw Qin Xuan, he cried, "I'm sorry for you, but what did Ah Chun do wrong?" You're going to destroy him alive! Speaking of the son who had become a eunuch, Chen cried even more.

Seeing this, the trafficker lifted the whip and whipped Chen's body, immediately breaking her skin. He's here to do business, not to make enemies! The traffickers are Han Chinese, and of course they can understand Chinese, but one slave and the other is obviously a Xianbei soldier, and the latter is obviously not easy to mess with.

Harmony makes money, harmony makes money! In this kind of place where Xianbei people are together, if he offends people, he can't do business!

Chen was beaten by traffickers and rolled on the ground, howling incessantly.

Since Qin Xuan abolished her son and broke one of her hands, the Chen family's life in the clan has become sad. The clan says that they survive together in a group, but more often than not, they are man-eating wolves! The Chen clan has seen the clan take out the boys and girls in the clan on the migration road and sell them, and she will not think that this group of people is a good person. But she didn't expect her family to be treated so much.

Her arm was broken, and her son became a eunuch, and in the eyes of the clan, they were all waste and could not be used. A group of men came to the door and threatened that there was no extra food ration in the clan to distribute to their families.

Chen gritted his teeth with hatred, and when he thought of his husband, he was even more hated and wanted to vomit blood. The man seemed soft-eared, and he would listen to anything he said, but when the clansmen came to the door and threatened, he even agreed to sell her so that he could change the rations for the family! Later, I didn't know which guy with no conscience said that Xiaoya was also a burden at home, so he simply sold it together.

That's all flesh and blood! I didn't even blink an eye, and I sold them all!

Chen covered his face with both hands, and through the gap between his fingers, he saw Qin Xuan looking at her expressionlessly.

"You save Xiaoya, you go and save Xiaoya. As long as you save Xiaoya, you won't be to blame for the past! "This is something that the Chen family rarely knows.

"Blame for the past?" Qin Xuan moved, "What good things your son has done, you don't know, since I have come out, I have nothing to do with the clan." What does your family's affairs have to do with me? ”

She only felt funny when she heard Chen's words, who would save them back then.

When the traffickers heard that this slave and maid still had a grudge against the buyer, they were simply two heads and two big.

Qin Xuan turned her head, she looked at a slave, "It's a pity, people are good people." ”

When the traffickers heard this, they whipped Chen a few more times, and the force was so great that the beater convulsed directly to the ground and could no longer speak.

At Chen's age, he can't sell it for a good price, and the traffickers are not doing good deeds, so now not only can't get rid of it, but they also make trouble for him, so it's better to simply kill him.

Qin Xuan took a fancy to a Goryeo woman. She was in her twenties, and she negotiated a price with the traffickers, and she would drop them off at home later.

When she left, she looked back, and Chen's face was already covered with blood, lying there, with blood foaming in his mouth, and he didn't forget to stretch out his hand to her.

Qin Xuan knew what the Chen family meant, but she let go of the Chen family and her son in the first place, and this was what she originally meant. Their crimes, she wants them to suffer alive, stabbing them to death or something, it's very simple, but living is still as painful as a knife cutting flesh. At this moment, even if Chen died, she would not be at ease.

Qin Xuan sneered, it was so funny, the Qin family was even more ruthless than she imagined.