Chapter 3: A thief on a snowy day
I walked hungry for a day, and I was so tired that I didn't have the strength for a day. She thought about walking to Jiancheng www.biquge.info but after a day of walking, when her heel hurts, she realizes that she has gone in the wrong direction at all.
She has always had a bad sense of direction, and when she was out with troops, she often brought one or two people who were familiar with the terrain with her. But there wasn't even a usable person around at this moment, and she scurried around like a headless fly.
But if you go on like this, when you are in good spirits, you can only sit where you are, waiting for someone who will be kind enough to help. Although she has experienced many difficulties since she was a child, has been on the battlefield, and died once, she has never felt so helpless like this moment, as if she is the only one left in the world to live alone.
Her confidence had already been shattered the moment she noticed that everything around her had changed.
There is a big beauty sitting on the side of the road, no matter where it is, it is particularly eye-catching, there are peddlers and pawns passing by will come over to take a look, and the frivolous one will also ask, "What is the beauty doing?" ”
She glared at everyone who dared to be frivolous, and the dagger in her hand flashed forward, and immediately frightened the little people to retreat. If a beauty carries a knife, no matter how beautiful it is, it is prohibitive.
I don't know how long she sat there, but she was trying to figure out what had happened to her. At this moment, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves in front of me, and I looked at it and saw a convoy slowly approaching this side. There were a dozen horses pulling carts, and the cars were full of goods, so that people knew at a glance that they were caravans.
She stood up and wanted to ask the caravan to take her with her, but after thinking about it, she didn't know what to say, she didn't seem to have begged anyone yet.
While she was hesitating, the motorcade stopped, and an old man walked up to her and saluted her, "Girl, what are you doing here?" ”
She raised her head, and there was a little pity in her big eyes, "I want to build a city." ”
The old man said "ah", "To build a city, you should go to the south, and this is the west." ”
She whispered, "I don't know the way. ”
The old man was moved with compassion, "Girl, wait, the old man has gone to ask the master's house." ”
He went to the carriage at the front, and whispered a few words, and the man in the carriage also replied two words, and the voice should have been a young man.
After a while, the old man came back and said to her: "If the girl doesn't dislike it, she can follow me and the same, but I can't wait to build the city, I want to go to Koucheng, and when I return, I can take the girl there." ”
She pondered for a moment, anyway, she was penniless now, and it was good that someone was willing to take her. Otherwise, with her two legs, even if she could make it to the end, she would starve to death. Especially with the current situation, she couldn't predict what would happen to the city, or that everything would not be what she imagined when she got there.
The caravan men took good care of her, probably seeing her as a poor weak woman, and made her sit on the pile of goods without having to walk on two feet.
She also saw the owner of the caravan, it was a son who was not as weak as the crown, others called him Rong Gongzi, he looked thin and weak, and he didn't know if he had any disease, and he would cough a few times at every turn. He also seemed to have a problem with his legs, and he hadn't been seen out of the carriage since he had followed the caravan.
With such a physical condition, it is said that you should not walk outside, either because of something happening at home, or because of some other reason.
She is just an outsider, even if she has doubts in her heart, it is not easy to ask, so she will be her distressed woman in peace.
In a few days, we arrived at Koucheng.
Koucheng is a beautiful place, the scenery here is picturesque, and although it is winter, it is also a rare pleasure to walk in the snow. Snowflakes fell from the sky, and in a moment, the mountains turned white, the roads turned white, and the carriages were dyed white. Each of them had a little snow above their heads.
She reached out to catch the snowflake, and the snowflake fell on the palm of her hand, a little cold, and she was trying to see what shape it was, but it turned into a drop of water, which was really "white and flawless, crystal clear".
Childe was afraid that she would freeze outside the car, so he asked her to sit in the carriage, but she refused to agree. She loves snow, she loves to see it, she loves the feeling of it melting in the palm of her hand. It's like running around the palace with Qi every snowy day before, putting the snow into his neck, looking at the ice jumping straight to her feet, but she laughed next to her. Thinking of that good time, she couldn't help but smile on the corner of her mouth, she really wished to go back to her childhood again, to return to the carefree and happy days.
She was in a happy mood, but others were not in such a good mood as her, and many people shrunk their necks, struggled to move to their feet, and kept complaining about God's "ruthlessness".
God's coldness is not only reflected in the weather, but also in other places.
As they were hurrying on their way, they suddenly saw a man in a black horse galloping on the snow, and the horse's hooves broke the piles of snow, splashing out in pieces, and some of them splashed on the faces of the caravan pullers.
The man in the dark clothes was masked in a black scarf, and his bright eyes were smiling, looking as if he had come here for an outing and hunting.
Then a lot of shouts came from behind the Xuanyi man, and although it was chaotic, it was a lot of fun, and several cold arrows nailed through the north wind into the surrounding trees. The horse pulling the cart at the front suddenly raised its front hooves and neighed fiercely, presumably with an arrow.
As the cold arrows were released, there was chaos in the caravan, and someone shouted: "The bandits are coming, the bandits are coming." ”
The horse pulling the goods was wounded, and the wagon rushed out, scattering the bandits who had gathered in front of them.
She saw clearly from the car, picked up a wooden stick from the car, jumped down, and rushed straight to the Xuanyi man who was the leader. She could see clearly just now that there were about a dozen of these people, except for the Xuanyi man at the front, who looked like a practitioner, the rest were just a rabble, as long as they caught him first, these people would be self-defeating.
She fought with the Xuanyi people, and the steward came back to his senses and hurriedly commanded his subordinates to protect the son and protect the goods.
Many of the caravan men who had remained loyal to their masters had regrouped and stood up to the fierce bandits with their swords in hand. The two sides intersected with each other's blades, making the sound of a pawn. The clash of swords, hideous faces, bloody weapons, and low howls, the whole mountain plain was filled with the sound of fighting and the smell of misery. Many of the men were seriously injured and died, and the screams were incessant.
The wooden stick in her hand was cut off, and she could only fight with the dagger in her arms, which also came from nowhere, and as soon as she woke up, she found it beside her. Although it hates sharpness, it is slightly inferior when it comes to facing the long sword. However, an inch is short, an inch is dangerous, a short weapon is against a long weapon, as long as she does not want to die, there is no hope of victory.
Either because of her natural personality of not admitting defeat, or because of the inexplicable sullenness that has been suppressed in her heart since she woke up, every sword she stabbed with a bit of deadly momentum, and the sword stabbed at his horse's leg.
Seeing her like this, the man in Xuanyi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, "It's really hard for you, and you will work hard for irrelevant people." I haven't seen you for a few days, and I really don't know if you can do martial arts. ”
She was stunned, "Who are you?" ”
"I'm a thief, didn't that nasty person tell you I'm a thief?"
He seemed to know her, but she obviously didn't know him, so she was stunned and shouted, "Bold thief, needless to say, he will be caught before he is restrained." ”
"Tsk, it's as heartless as that annoying person, and it's not a human being when you turn your face."
He shook his head and sighed, and suddenly the horse's head turned and ran down the road. After running about a hundred meters away, he suddenly turned his head again and yelled at her, "I'll give you this face today, but I'll be back sooner or later." ”
As soon as he was gone, the rest of the bandits followed suit, and in a few moments they were gone.
The bandits were gone, and she should have been happy, but she suddenly felt a feeling of hairs standing on end in her heart, as if she had suddenly recruited someone she couldn't provoke. And who is that nasty person in his mouth? The person who can make him hate must be a person.
The people who turned to face the caravan all looked at her with a look of wonder that could no longer be described as strange, as if she were some amazing monster.
The momentum became lifeless, and suddenly there was a cough from the carriage, and this sound began to slowly soak in the quiet atmosphere, and the whole scene was alive in an instant. The extremely sluggish faces finally had other expressions.
Rong Gongzi said softly: "Uncle Cheng, what are you still doing in a daze, why don't you help me down and thank my benefactor." ”
"No."
The steward hurriedly walked over to help Rong Gongzi get out of the car.
Since following this caravan, this is the second time I have seen him get off the car, the first time was two days ago when he stayed at the inn, and the second time is now.
He knelt down to bow to her, and the steward and many of the caravan men also knelt on the ground, kowtowed three times, and said, "Thank you for saving your life." ”
She has been bowed down by many people, and she doesn't feel much burdened by their big gifts, she is a noble person among the nobles, even if the people of the whole Yan Kingdom salute her, it is a matter of course.
Inserted the dagger back into the sheath, and said lightly: "Childe doesn't have to be polite."
At this moment, she was like a mighty general who was bowing down to thousands of soldiers and horses, and that majesty and nobility made everyone look sideways.
Rong Gongzi was slightly stunned, as if he had only seen her clearly for the first time. He thought that this was a homeless and weak woman, but who would have thought that it was a female husband who was more arrogant than a man.
He fell on his knees and bowed again, this time more reverently than before.
Because of this defeat to the robbers, she became the great benefactor of the caravan, and everyone treated her with great respect and treated her like a guest. I don't know if it's her delusion, since this change of role, she is no longer regarded as a weak woman like she was at the beginning, and she takes care of everything. In particular, the boy seemed to be more alienated from her than before.
Qing once told her that it doesn't matter if you are a man, if you are too sharp to be a woman, you will have to pay a price. At the time, she didn't realize what this meant, but now that she saw this scene, she suddenly realized that the price she paid was the power that she was born to be protected as a woman. Weak women should be protected, but women with strong martial arts don't.