Xin Yao had been walking for a few months, and when it got dark, she tied a homemade hammock to the tree at the high point, and at the high point above the ground, she was building a fire so that she could hide from the beasts.

At first, she didn't know that she could hide from the beasts, nor did she expect them to be, so she leaned against the tree and slept when she was tired.

It was still just leaving Tanzhou City, one day was close to evening, Xin Yao couldn't walk a little, her feet hurt in her heart, she found a big tree, sat down, took off the shoes on her feet, and wanted to relax her feet, so she straightened her legs, leaned against the tree, tired and sleepy, and gradually fell asleep. Suddenly, I felt that there seemed to be some movement in front of me, I opened my eyes and was startled, only to see a dog-like animal grinning very close to her, staring at her, she didn't know that it was a wolf, but felt that the dog's appearance was very terrible, Xin Yao suddenly sat up straight, to get the sword leaning on the side, I didn't expect the wolf to see her move, pounced, and was about to bite up, only to see the wolf's body crooked, fell at her feet, stuck an arrow in her neck, still alive, panting on the ground. Xin Yao stared at the wolf and froze.

"Are you alright?" Someone came up to her and asked.

Xin Yao raised her head and saw a very strong man, who looked less than thirty years old, walked up to her, squatted down and asked her, "Are you okay, if I hadn't been chasing this wolf, I really don't know if you could be so lucky." ”

The man smiled at her.

Xin Yao realized that it was this person who saved herself, looking at the man's dress, with a piece of animal skin tied to his body, like a hunter, he hurriedly stood up and thanked the tree: "Thank you, big brother, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't know if I still have a life." ”

"It's fine if you're okay." The Orion saw that Xin Yao was holding a sword in his hand, and he must be a young junior who practiced martial arts. Carrying the wolf, he was about to leave, thought for a while, and then turned back to Xin Yao and kindly reminded: "It's not early, you are not safe on this mountain." ”

Xin Yao saw that he was a hunter, and thought of the terrible wolf just now, what if he encountered it in the future. So he stepped forward and asked, "Big brother, please stay, can you ask big brother, how can you ensure safety in this barren mountain and wild mountains?" ”

"You're not going down? Staying here at night? ”

Xin Yao didn't answer him.

Orion saw that Xin Yao didn't speak, but looked at her clothes and knew what she meant, so he didn't hesitate, taught her how to do it, and gave her a few packets of snake venom powder

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Xin Yao thanked him for his kindness, accepted it, took out a piece of broken silver from his arms, and handed it to Orion. Orion said that he didn't want anything, and said: "You sleep outside here, and you refuse to go to the town to stay in a hotel, presumably you are also extremely short of silver, and these packets of medicine are not worth anything, so take them!" Xin Yao saw that he was cheerful and upright, so he accepted it.

Orion saw that Xin Yao's shoes were in tatters, and blood was oozing from the socks on his feet, so he took out a pair of shoes from his backpack and handed them to Xin Yao: "You take them." Xin Yao hurriedly excused herself: "No, no." ”

Orion looked at the shoes, and then looked at Xin Yao's feet, his shoes were a little big, so he scratched the back of his head, and smiled embarrassedly: "The shoes are a little big, but they are better than nothing, you look at your feet, there is no way to go, little brother, don't dislike it, this is my mother's new one." ”

Xin Yao listened to the tears and came out, she thought that no one in this world would love her anymore, she didn't expect a person she didn't know to care so much about her, she was aggrieved and moved in her heart, tears flowed loudly, and Orion was in a hurry, I didn't know what to say, Orion looked at Xin Yao Although she was wearing tattered clothes, she had an extraordinary temperament, thinking that this child should be from a big family, it must be that the family suffered and ended up in such a field, and her heart softened and said: "Little brother, it's getting dark, or go to my house in the village below the mountain and rest for one night, My lady is very nice. ”

Xin Yao nodded. Enduring the pain in his feet, he followed Orion to his house.

His wife is also a kind-hearted person, so she hurriedly cooked for Xin Yao, cleaned up a room, made a bed, and let Xin Yao go in to rest.

This night was the first time Xin Yao slept in bed in the past few days, as if she had never been so steady, or maybe she was too tired and slept until dawn.

Early the next morning, Xin Yao got up, and the Orion Lady had already cooked the meal, and the three of them sat down to eat together. Xin Yao took out the pearl hairpin that he had taken out of the Qiankun bag last night and said goodbye to Orion and his wife.

"Thank you eldest brother for taking it in, this is what my mother left me, so I will give it to my eldest brother and sister-in-law, make a thought, and ask the two of you to accept it."

Where is Orion willing to ask for it, his wife heard that it was left by Xin Yao's mother, and she refused to ask for it. Xin Yao had no choice but to say goodbye to the two: "Big brother, sister-in-law, I'll leave now." ”

The Orion lady said, "Don't worry, child, wait. Hurriedly went into the house and took out a pair of shoes, that was the size of the shoes on Xin Yao's feet, and stayed up all night for Xin Yao to make them, the sewing was sturdy, and the bottom was very thick, let Xin Yao change them. Orion took some of his dried meat to Xin Yao, put it in a cloth bag, and stuffed it into her hand.

Xin Yao couldn't help crying with emotion, the more the two looked at it, the more sad they felt, last night they learned from Xin Yao that she had no relatives at home, and the Orion Lady thought that the child was not big, but he had to wander around, which was really pitiful, so he persuaded: "Otherwise, don't go, just settle down here, although it is not very good, you can live a peaceful life." ”

Xin Yao shook her head and knelt down to thank you: "The great kindness of the two of you cannot be repaid, but I have to go, I still have very important things to complete." After saying that, he kowtowed to the two of them, cried and got up and ran.

Seeing that Xin Yao was so resolute, Orion stopped the lady who chased him out, and said, "That kid has a knot in his heart, let him go, don't persuade him." ”

Since then, Xin Yao has tried her best to go away from remote towns but close to some remote villages, so that if she needs anything, she can supply in the nearest village, and if she encounters bad weather, she will stay in a nearby village, so that she can't let herself get sick, so she has to go. Sometimes you can hear the news brought by some people who went out and returned to the village: "The people of the Jin Kingdom have come in, burning, killing and looting, doing all kinds of evil, and countless people have died." Many people in the city, including the town, ran away, some ran to other countries for refuge, and some ran into the mountains, which is really miserable! It's a good thing we're in the middle of nowhere, otherwise we'd have suffered! ”

Xin Yao listened, feeling uncomfortably panicked, and it seemed that she saw one by one fresh lives in front of her again, shattered. She covered her face with her hands in pain, tears streaming down her face. Xin Yao tried her best to restrain herself, and it took a long time to recover. Prepare what you want and move on.

At night, Xin Yao lay in the hammock, always thinking of her father and queen mother, as well as her brother and Xiao Tao and Master, with tears streaming down her face, and her heart was like a knife. Even if you fall asleep, you will be awakened by nightmares, every time you wake up, you can no longer fall asleep, you simply get up and take out the master's sword book, and start practicing swords, slowly, the swordsmanship has improved a lot.

Sometimes I think of Du Wenbo, thinking that he doesn't know what happened? The Jin State has already occupied the Chu State, did he escape? There should be time to escape.