Chapter Seventy-Nine: I Recognized a Sister
Lin Haoyan's wedding and Empress Dowager Mei's anger did not affect the situation in Lanting City, and the Lanting defenders and Templars were still the same, they should be beaten and killed.
The main battlefield of Lanting also shifted from siege warfare to street fighting, and the street fighting was quite difficult, and the defenders of Lanting could only set up one defense line after another in residential areas without the benefit of city defense. They could only rely on their familiarity with the terrain to constantly cause problems for their opponents, but even then they could not compete with the imposing Templars, and the defense line was constantly shrinking.
It has been three days since the city was broken, and Ma Xiong is in a very bad mood. Feng Yu was also responsible for the defense of the city walls elsewhere, and Xia Yingyang was still drinking his wine there like a nobody, knowing that he couldn't beat Feng Yu and Xia Yingyang, so he had to carry the banner of fighting the invading Templars in the city alone. The battle situation is not very good, and the entire South Gate has completely fallen into the hands of the enemy, which means that the Templars of the Holy Sect can drive straight into the city and continuously bring troops into Lanting City, which also means that the flames of war will soon ignite in the entire Lanting City, if there are no variables.
What made Ma Xiong even more worried was Qin Zhirou, not long after the city was broken, the guards he sent to take care of Qin Zhirou came back to report that Qin Zhirou was missing. This really frightened Ma Xiong, the identity of Miss Qin was known to everyone in the entire Lan Ting, and everyone understood that this was Zhao Fu's daughter-in-law. It was precisely because of this that when Qin Zhirou found Ma Xiong and wanted to stay in Lanting City secretly, Ma Xiong had no choice but to transfer his personal guards to take care of her.
Originally, Ma Xiong thought that he was just temporarily lost, thinking that as long as it took some time, Qin Zhirou would find the City Lord's Mansion by herself, and then she would be scolded by Feng Yu. It's just that he didn't expect that three days had passed, and no one had visited the City Lord's Mansion, and the people he sent out to search had found nothing.
Fortunately, after three days of fighting, no claims were heard from the Templars that civilians had been captured. This shows that Qin Zhirou is still in Lanting City, which is probably the best news for Ma Xiong.
Qin Zhirou didn't know that Ma Xiong was looking for her, but she was very busy. The battle in Lanting City had not yet affected the lives of civilians, but the safe area in Lanting City was shrinking step by step, and Qin Zhirou also followed the displaced refugees to the courtyard.
Qin Zhirou originally just wanted to stay in Lanting City and wait for Zhao Fu to come back, Qin Shangxi's approach to his daughter can be regarded as turning a blind eye, with the further implementation of Zhao Fu's power, more and more people want to climb this path, and Qin Shangxi naturally wants to let his daughter marry as soon as possible, even if it is unmarried, he doesn't mind at all. It's just that no one thought that the Holy Church, which had always been peaceful and honest, would suddenly make a move at this time, not only cutting off the connection between Lanting City and the outside world, but also really breaking into this fortified city.
The soldiers and civilians of Lanting City were caught in fire, and Qin Zhirou was coerced by the refugees to a place that was divided to settle the refugees.
Qin Zhirou, who has always been regarded as a treasure by Qin Shangxi, and is cared for by Zhao Fu, and lives in a honey pot finally received a human experience card this time. Yes, it didn't look like she was alive before. Yilai stretched out his hand to eat and opened his mouth is just the most basic, if Zhao Fu is because of his father's identity and Lin Haoyan's trust, he is the man at the top of the food chain in Lanting City. That Qin Zhirou is the woman who has always been by his side, no one will embarrass her, even Xia Yingyang, who has always been strict and scary, would rather drink a few catties less wine to buy her candy. Even in the imperial capital, she also lived in Shi Yiqiu's place, and several night wolves took turns squatting, and no one dared to embarrass her at all.
Qin Zhirou's sweet appearance is indeed worthy of the kind of treatment she receives, Qin Zhirou has already quietly grown up, no longer the immature child she was at the beginning, she is the most beautiful her now.
This property was the courtyard that was bought by Xu Lingling before, and Qin Zhirou saw Xu Lingling distributing pancakes from the crowd at a glance. In fact, it's not just Qin Zhirou, Xu Lingling has always been the center of the world, her sacredness is like a god descending into the world, but at that moment, the center moved down slightly, compared to Xu Lingling who was veiled, at that moment it was still the pancake in her hand that was more attractive.
Qin Zhirou has a special curiosity about Xu Lingling, perhaps it is the temperament between Xu Lingling's hands that makes her admire, she has always envied Shi Yiqiu's temperament freely, in other words, it is to take it out to increase her face, and she can be gentle and lovely at home. But Qin Zhirou will always only have that second half, and now seeing such a woman again makes her more curious about it. Of course, it may just be a natural curiosity between the same women.
In short, this is fate. Because of her curiosity about Xu Lingling, Qin Zhirou was a little less afraid of war, in essence, she was actually just a child who had grown up.
Because of the veil, Qin Zhirou didn't know what the appearance of the woman with an extraordinary and elegant temperament was, she didn't really care about the appearance of other women, because among the women she had met, the only one who could make her care was Shi Yiqiu, but Shi Yiqiu was the queen, and she knew that she couldn't compare. So when Qin Zhirou took the pancake, she didn't deliberately pay attention to Xu Lingling's slender and white wrist that she couldn't hide.
Qin Zhirou was just curious about why they were distributing such things as pancakes in the crowd of evacuees, obviously there would be soldiers who regularly distributed food to everyone every day to ensure the stability of the soldiers and civilians in the city, this pancakes were obviously redundant. Xu Lingling didn't explain anything, and still tried to distribute the still hot pancakes to the women and children. The tradition of Lanting City is that after a long period of war, the soldiers and civilians in the city still maintain their unique order: simple and tough, and there is no further chaos caused by the destruction of the city, and the darkness in human nature has not been awakened.
The order is orderly, and no one is dissatisfied because they did not receive the pancake and fight, on the contrary, some women are unwilling to accept this kindness, and are more willing to give it to those men who have contributed to it.
Qin Zhirou observed Xu Lingling with some curiosity, and unconsciously took a bite of the pancake, only to find that the cake was full of minced meat and soaked with fat, although the taste was not very delicious, but it was more human than the food distributed by those soldiers. The current Lanting City is not warm, it is the late spring and early summer at the turn of the warm wind still residing in the south and does not want to come to this bitter cold place, and it is also the cold wind leaking from the big mouth on the southern city wall that blows the soldiers and civilians in Lanting City. Qin Zhirou seems to have understood the simple meaning of this pancake, warming this person's heart.
He's a very kind person! Qin Zhirou thought so, and her mood became much better. Her gaze unconsciously moved to Xu Lingling, even if it was just the back, it was so kind, Qin Zhirou thought that there were really people in this world who could be compared to Shi Yiqiu.
"Huh?" Qin Zhirou noticed that someone was pulling her clothes, she withdrew her gaze, and turned back to see a little boy, looking at the pancake in her hand with a longing gaze.
"Ah, you want to eat this?" Qin Zhirou pointed to the pancake in her hand and asked him.
"That...... They didn't send it to me, sister, can you give me a share? The little boy asked her politely.
"Take it, remember to wipe your mouth clean before you lie next time." Qin Zhirou didn't mind, she generously handed the pancake to the little boy, and then pointed to the corner of her mouth very cutely, indicating the oil on the side of the little boy's mouth.
"Actually, I only need half of it......" The little boy was a little embarrassed after being recognized, and he quickly defended: "I wanted to give it to Grandma, but she just didn't want it, I thought it was delicious and I finished it after a while, and I forgot to leave it for Grandma......"
"It's okay, my sister isn't hungry." Qin Zhirou touched his head: "Go ahead, give it to your grandma." ”
"Hmm!" The little boy ran two steps and turned back to Qin Zhirou to thank him: "Thank you, beautiful sister!" ”
After doing this, Qin Zhirou felt comfortable, she went to the crowd to chase Xu Lingling's figure, looking at the warm back, she suddenly made up her mind.
"Let me help too!" She couldn't tell whether she wanted to help the people of the city or help Xu Lingling, but she wanted to stand by her side, thinking that it would be warmer.
Xu Lingling happened to see the previous scene, and after she briefly asked Qin Zhirou some questions, such as age and family, she agreed to her idea of wanting to be together.
"Miss?" Xie Xiyan was a little worried, he couldn't question Xu Lingling's decision, so he had to remind Xu Lingling helplessly.
"It's okay, the beauty trick is useless to me." Xu Lingling smiled so that Xie Xiyan didn't have a little temper.
Then, she turned to Qin Zhirou and said, "I'm older than you, just call me sister." ”