Zi Yan looked at his left hand expressionlessly, at this time the lava-like bright lines had faded, but fortunately there were no new black lines left on the skin, Zi Yan sighed and accelerated the speed of the horse.

At this moment, in the forest 10km away, several barbarian cavalry led their horses to search for something.

Translation – Barbarian language

"Strange, where did those guys go?" complained one of the brute cavalrymen, who was searching around.

"Eh, you said there wouldn't be an accident if we split up like this, right?" the other brute horseman worried.

"What can happen, Lord Manyou is still walking alone, let's divide into a team of three, what are you afraid of. ”

"That's not what I said, Lord Manyou is so powerful, and we are far from being able to compare with a group of three. ”

"That's right, and the wounded general on the back of that cavalry is so powerful that he can fight with our Manyou. ”

"Really?"

"What are you lying about, I was following Lord Manyou at the time, and I saw with my own eyes that the man in the white tiger skin robe fought with our Lord Manyou for a long time. ”

"Then if we really find it, we won't be killed, right?"

"No, that person was stabbed by the captain, and he was kicked by Lord Manyou, if he hadn't been rescued by that cavalryman, he would definitely have died at the hands of Lord Manyou. ”

......

The three brutes chatted as they walked, unaware that the four lines of sight from the trees were watching them.

Soon, after a few barbarians were far away, Qin Hua finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's good that it wasn't discovered. ”

"Let's go, or it's not good to be discovered. Zifei said and jumped off the tree.

"It's all that cavalry, you have to come with us, otherwise we have to hide here. Qin Hua patted the snow on his body and complained.

"Brother Ergou, are you okay?" Zifei hugged the injured Ergou.

"I'm fine, and I don't know what happened to my brother. Ergou sighed.

"Speaking of which, Senior Brother Ziyan doesn't know what's going on. Qin Hua sighed.

"Brother is so strong, it's going to be fine, let's go back to town quickly. Zi Fei said, walked to a piece of grass, if you look carefully, you will find that there is a hole in the snow, look into the hole is black, Zi Fei walked to the hole and began to pick up the snow, after a while a pit was exposed, continue to pick up, then reveal a horse's head, it turned out that this was originally a ditch, Zi Fei and a few people stepped on the snow of this ditch when they ran in the forest and fell, seeing that the pursuers caught up, they led the two horses to the ditch and buried it with snow only leaving a hole as a breathing outlet, and then several people all hid in the tree, as long as the tree does not shake the snow down, it is a natural hiding place, and several people escaped in this way。

"Good horse, come up. As he spoke, he pulled his horse up, and after a short rest, they rushed to the town.

When I came to the town, I still didn't see the residents of the town, Qin Hua didn't know why I couldn't see anyone from before to now, and the four of them kept running to the inn, in the inn, Luo Ming was humming a little song and wiping the tables and chairs, and seemed to be very happy.

"Ah, my lord, you are back, I didn't see you this morning, and I thought you were gone. Luo Ming said happily.

Qin Hua didn't stop, and walked straight to the second floor: "I advise you to pack up and leave, the barbarian army is coming." ”

Luo Ming was a little surprised when he heard this, and followed behind a few people: "Isn't there General Li Xiaohu, are you afraid that you won't be able to stop the barbarian army?"

"Hehe, I don't know if I can stop it, I want that guy to die there, threaten me, almost let me die, huh. ”

"Did Li Xiaohu do anything to you?" Luo Ming could tell that she didn't seem to like General Li Xiaohu very much, so something should have happened.

Qin Hua opened the guest room and turned his head to look at Luo Ming: "You still want to leave first, I saw with my own eyes that Li Gao fled with that bastard, and the remaining hundred or so cavalry soldiers are also afraid that they will be more than lucky, and the generals are all injured and run away, what do you expect?" After speaking, Qin Hua walked into the room and began to clean up.

"General Li Xiaohu is injured??" Luo Mingmeng, in his impression, Li Xiaohu is very skilled, and the hundred cavalry troops are all brave and good at fighting, how can they lose.

"It's true, I've seen it with my own eyes. Chen Ergou leaned against the wall and said.

"Who are you?" Luo Ming had long noticed Chen Ergou's fresh face, still wearing a soldier's armor.

"I'm in the infantry. ”

"You escaped from the battle?" Luo Ming frowned, it was a capital crime to escape from the battle.

"I ......" Chen Ergou stopped talking.

"I don't think he's done anything wrong, you don't need to make such a fuss. Qin Hua packed up his things and tied them around his waist.

"My lord, this is a very serious matter in Inuma. Luo Ming explained that he felt the need to explain the rules of Inuma to Qinhua.

"If I say no problem, no problem. Qin Hua looked at Luo Ming's eyes, in fact, Luo Ming was 203 years old, and he was still a young man in the Shaqia Morey Clan.

"Well, listen to you. Luo Ming spread his hands, he now feels that Qin painting is his own kind, as if he has found a sense of belonging, even if he grew up in the country of Inuma, but since he was a child, he is different from other children, and Qin painting and himself, is more similar.

Qin Hua glanced at them, and after cleaning up, he left in a hurry, and when he passed by Luo Ming's side: "I advise you to pack up and leave, in our Morei clan, survival is a very important thing." ”

"Can I follow you, then?" Luo Ming asked, following behind Qin Hua.

"Whatever. ”

Luo Ming stopped and stared blankly at the back of the Qin painting.

"We will wait at the south entrance of the town, not for long, we will leave as soon as the senior brother arrives. Qin Hua saw that Luo Ming was still standing stupidly, so he reminded.

"Great! I'll be right here. Luo Ming was a little excited, and immediately ran to pack his luggage.

Qin Hua glanced at Luo Ming speechlessly, rode a horse, and led the group to the south entrance of the town to wait for Ziyan to come back.

Ziyan's side met the big dog.

It turned out that Li Gao saw the big dog standing here, so he bypassed it slightly, so that the main force of the barbarian cavalry was still chasing Li Gao, and scattered a few cavalry out to kill the big dog, but he didn't want the big dog to use the snow-covered slope terrain to deal with a few people, the barbarian cavalry also dismounted when he saw this, but was hit by the big dog's mighty spear, and did not dare to step forward.

"Your marksmanship is good. Ziyan rode his horse and said to the big dog sitting behind him.

"Hehe, it's average, barely self-protecting. The big dog said modestly.

As Zi Yan, who is proficient in all kinds of weapons, he clearly knows that this big dog's marksmanship is indeed very level, and it is no wonder that this guy was not injured after two battles.

"What's your name?" Ziyan chatted as he looked around.

"My surname is Chen, my name is Big Dog, and my nickname is Big Dog, so you can call me like that. ”

"Big dog?" Ziyan was a little speechless: "Where are you from, brother dog?"

"I'm from here, and my home is in Xiaoyun Town in front, but this time we were all wiped out, so we had to go away. ”

"The hundreds of cavalry also lost?" Ziyan said in surprise.

"Don't you see? The cavalryman on his back is the general, and before I escaped, I had a rough estimate that the other side would have at least two hundred cavalry, one hundred heavy armor and shieldmen, fifty archers, and one hundred and fifty spearmen. Don't look at our numbers, but many of the infantry are old, weak, sick and disabled, and they can't beat them at all. ”

"Hmm..."Ziyan frowned slightly, this place is very close to his hometown, could it be that the unknown force that his father said is this barbarian army?

"Brother Dog knows why the barbarian army is here?" Ziyan asked casually.

"I don't know, just a few months ago, suddenly the conscription began, and then more and more, at first the town under the age of 50 and over 16 men, then women and the elderly under the age of seventy, boys over the age of 12 were all recruited, only the disabled and those with brain problems were not recruited, you don't see that our infantry is only so many now, not long ago we had four or five thousand people, but unfortunately those old, weak, sick and disabled were soon sacrificed, only those of us who are a little more powerful, now I am afraid there are no people in the town。 ”

"Brother Dog is quite optimistic. ”

"What's so sad, I originally inherited my father's blacksmith shop in the town to do the blacksmith business, although it is stable, but it is also quite boring to spend the rest of my life with my brother like this, now that the town is gone, I can go to the imperial city. ”

"You're going to the Imperial City?" Ziyan was a little surprised.

"That's right, when the time comes, I'm going to take my brother to the Imperial City, and then I'm going to apply for a royal swordsmith. ”

"The royal family must already have a swordsmith, right?"

"I'm definitely stronger than them. The big dog said confidently.

“...”

Soon Ziyan and the others came to the south entrance of the town and found many new horseshoe prints on the ground.

"It looks like the barbarian cavalry is entering the town, we need to hurry. Zi Yan's face was solemn, and he rode his horse to the inn, fortunately, there were no large number of horseshoe prints near the inn, Ziyan entered the inn, but he couldn't find Qin Painting them, and the luggage had been taken away, and he walked to the door of the inn, thinking that the departing horseshoe prints must be Qin Painting them, so he rode his horse and found the big dog who was packing up things at home, and planned to leave along the horseshoe prints left by Qin Painting them.

Following the hoof prints, Ziyan quickly came to the south entrance of the town, but found that the south entrance had already gathered a barbarian army at this time.

"Go this way!" the big dog pointed in another direction: "You can also get out of town this way!"

Ziyan glanced at the barbarian army, if he left in a different direction, he would lose the trace of Qin Hua, but when he returned to the town, he didn't see Qin Hua them, depending on the situation, Qin Hua They had already left the town and went to the imperial city, and it would be the same when they met in the imperial city.

After thinking for a while, Ziyan drove Chen Dagou to the west entrance of the town.

Out of the town, and run northwest for half a day, into an uninhabited forest, by the afternoon, the horses were exhausted, and finally in the evening found a small village inhabited by a few hundred people, the two of them were also happy, into the village, but the people in the village looked vigilantly at the two strangers with guns and swords.

Ziyan looked at it, most of them were women, children and old people, and thought that he would borrow a night here, so he found an old man who looked more kind, and went up to just want to talk, but the old man was so frightened that he hid in the house when he saw Ziyan.

Ziyan was a little speechless, and found a few others, either hiding away without saying a word or refusing without saying a few words, Ziyan felt a burst of anger in his heart, thinking that I am really so terrible, can you run away?

"Hey, look. Chen Dagou touched Ziyan with his arm, Ziyan looked in the direction pointed by Chen Dagou, and saw a young and beautiful woman walking on the road with a white hat and mourning clothes in tears.

"What are you doing, let's go, go and ask. Seeing Ziyan standing still, Chen Dagou pulled him forward.

"Not really, okay? The man looked sad. Ziyan hesitated.

"What's wrong, let's go. Chen Dagou pulled Ziyan to the woman, the woman was walking with her head down, but she was also startled when she was stopped by the two of them, and looked up at the two of them a little weirdly.

"I'm sorry girl, that's the case, we originally came from a small town in the southeast, but because of the lack of horsepower, I hope to stay here for one night, so as not to sleep in the wilderness, what do you think?" said Chen Dagou with a smile.

"You..." the woman glanced at the two of them and said to Chen Dagou, "You are a soldier?"

"Ah, the girl knows my clothes, that's great, the rest of your village is very scared when they see us, and we're not bad people, are we? ”

The woman's eyes lit up: "Are you from Liuyun City?"

"No, I'm from Xiaoyun Town, which is under the jurisdiction of Liuyun City. ”

The woman was a little happy: "Hmm... But how do you come to pass through this place alone? It's thousands of kilometers away from the outside world... The jungle here is full of fierce beasts..."

"We were fleeing from the barbarians and were going to the Imperial City, and we strayed into this place, and it was strange that there were no people in this forest for a long time, and my horses were too tired to hurry, so we wanted to come here for the night. Ziyan said lightly.

The woman looked at Ziyan and was attracted by the lines on Ziyan's face, but she didn't ask anything: "Okay... Then come with me. The woman hesitated for a moment and said.

Chen Dagou, who was following behind the woman, touched Zi Yan's arm and gave a thumbs up like an invitation, and Ziyan was speechless when he saw it.

The woman took the two of them to a decent wooden house in the village, the yard around the house is a circle of walls surrounded by yellow clay, the wooden house inside is not big, but all the way over, Ziyan felt that it was very good in the village, and came to the house, although it was dilapidated, but it was also very clean, and it can be seen that the owner of the house cleaned very diligently.

"This house is a few years old, so let's stay here if you don't dislike it. The woman looked at the two of them and said.

"It's okay, I think it's good. Chen Dagou looked at the environment happily, thinking that it was good not to live in the wild, but he suddenly thought that Ziyan should be a child of a rich family: "Brother Ziyan, I don't know if you can't live in it." ”

"I'm fine. Ziyan replied lightly, because he had to follow the master and collect medicine everywhere, it was common for him to often sleep on the trees in the wild.

"Then you're hungry, aren't you? I'll go get rice. The woman took an apron from the wall and put it on.

"Good. Chen Dagou nodded, and after seeing the woman enter the kitchen, Chen Dagou approached Ziyan with an excited face:

"Brother, should we go hunting? It's not as cold as it is in my hometown, so it's a good place to hunt." ”

"Now, I'm going to let the horses go. ”

"Hey, it's all by the way, we can't eat and live for nothing, right?"

Ziyan thought about it, there was some truth, then got up and went out of the house with Chen Dagou, there was very little snow here, Ziyan could hardly feel the cold, which showed that he had left the abnormal cold range of his hometown, and he could clearly feel that birds and beasts were active in the mountains and forests.

Leading the horse to the outside of the village, when Ziyan looked at the map, he could see that this mountain forest is actually not complicated, and there is also a trade road, not far from this village, I originally planned to take a shortcut from the mountain forest to the business road, but since I met the village, it was dark again, and it was best to rest for a night.

Ziyan led the horse through the forest for a while, then let the horse go and let the horse move.

"Hey, why are you letting it go, what if you run away in the middle of the night. ”

"No, this horse has been following me for a few years, I know best. Ziyan shook his head and looked at the sky:

"But it's getting dark, and it's hard for us to get our prey. ”

"Hey, that's okay for you. Chen Dagou smiled and patted his chest: "I used to go out hunting with my younger brother, don't look at this night, we can't see it, in fact, these beasts can't see it, you have to say that ordinary people may not be able to hunt, but we are different, not ordinary people." Chen Dagou was carrying a fine iron spear while talking and laughing.

"Well, but I don't think we'll have to wait until it gets dark, and we'll be back soon. Ziyan suddenly stopped and stared into the distance and said.

"Huh?" Chen Dagou was a little puzzled, and looked at Ziyan's eyes, and found that there was a wolf staring at this side again, but because it was late, the wolf's appearance was not very clear:

"Wolf, I don't like it, let's see if there's anything else. ”

"What's wrong?" Ziyan was puzzled, now that he had caught the wolf, dinner was over.

"It's nothing but not liking to eat wolves. ”

"Okay. Ziyan and Chen Dagou continued to move forward, Ziyan took a look at the wolf when he left, unlike Chen Dagou, Ziyan could see that the wolf was a gray wolf, and his fur was smooth and shiny, so he let it go, but it was a pity that the wolf skin was a pity.

After walking for a long time, Ziyan stopped again.

"What's wrong?" asked Chen Dagou.

"That wolf is pretty smart. Ziyan pursed his lips and said lightly.

"Huh?" Chen Dagou was a little puzzled, and he looked around, but he didn't see a wolf.

"Don't look, follow in the distance. ”

"Back?" Chen Dagou looked behind him, and he couldn't see anything in the gray forest.

"He doesn't seem to be trying to attack us, otherwise he wouldn't be that far away, so it's possible that he was spying on us. Ziyan lowered his head and said:

"But why... Is this really a lone wolf?" Ziyan continued to walk, and saw a few pheasants burrowing in the bushes in front of him, so he touched Chen Dagou.

Chen Dagou was wondering why he couldn't sense the existence of the wolf, and as soon as he was reminded by Ziyan, he also saw the pheasants, and the corners of his mouth grinned: "Brother has good eyesight." Seeing this, Ziyan immediately rushed over, only to see that several pheasants had been frightened and fluttered away, Ziyan saw this and threw the sword in his hand in the air, and with a bang, he nailed a pheasant to the ground and could not move.

"Yes, two chickens are enough. Chen Dagou ran up and picked up the spear, only to see a chicken fluttering with blood.

"......" Ziyan glanced back at the wolf at this time, ignored it, and returned with Chen Dagou.

"Hey, where's your horse?" On the way back, Chen Dagou suddenly remembered that Ziyan's horse hadn't been brought back yet.

Ziyan whistled and waited where he was, and soon the horse came galloping over. Ziyan touched Dama's chin: "Tomorrow at dawn, I will go back to the village and wait for us, understand?"

Da Ma snorted hot air in his nose, as if in response to Ziyan, who smiled slightly: "Okay, don't go too far." Then he said to Chen Dagou: "Let's go." ”

"Hey, is it really fake? Can you understand you?" Chen Dagou chased after him and said in surprise.

"Well, this horse is actually not an ordinary wild beast horse, I don't know what kind of horse it is, but it was given to me by my father, and I have been with me for several years, but it looks similar to an ordinary wild beast hybrid. ”

"Oh, I say, run fast. ”

Back in the village, Ziyan saw that the village was lively, there were many more men in their prime, these men also noticed Ziyan and Chen Dagou, there was some vigilance in their eyes, and when they arrived at the woman's house, the woman saw that the two of them came back with two pheasants, and were a little surprised: "Did you two go hunting? So fast?"

"Hehe, I guess it's a reward for taking us in for one night. Chen Dagou said with a smile.

"Okay, then I'll make dinner with these two chickens. The woman smiled too.

"I want to ask, are you alone in your family?" Ziyan looked at the desertion in the room behind the woman and asked, the men in other people's families have returned, and it stands to reason that this woman's family should also come back.

The woman suddenly froze and smiled: "Yes, I am indeed the only one in my family from today onwards." ”

Ziyan and Chen Dagou looked at each other and realized something: "I'm sorry, I asked what I shouldn't have asked." ”

"It's fine. The woman turned her back to the two and wiped her tears.

In the evening, after Chen Dagou helped the woman pluck the feathers of the two chickens and wash them, he took a pot of wild fruits given by the woman and went back to the house, and saw Ziyan meditating with his eyes closed, and also sat next to Ziyan: "Brother, what are you doing?"

"Meditate. ”

"Meditation?" Chen Dagou didn't know what meditation was, thinking that it was just a way to close his eyes and recuperate: "Do you want this wild fruit, it's sweet and sour, it's quite delicious." ”

Ziyan opened his eyes slightly, and saw that Chen Dagou was holding red fruits the size of a thumb and sending them to his mouth: "What is this?"

"I don't know, it's the first time I've seen it, and it's delicious. ”

Suddenly, there were footsteps outside the door, and a man's loud voice came: "Chidori! I've got something for you." ”

"Who? it can't be this woman's husband coming back," Chen Dagou raised his eyebrows and looked at Ziyan.

"Isn't she alone?" Ziyan replied with his eyes closed.

"Yes, who could it be?" Chen Dagou threw another fruit into his mouth.