Chapter 023: Mutual Affection

When the three of them arrived outside the tallest yurt in the camp, Qin Shen raised his head to look at the clan flag painted with totems on the top of the tent.

I don't know what beast is painted in the faint light before the twilight, looming, only a pair of eyes staring at everyone, like a declaration, like showing off, and like intimidation, so that he feels extremely dazzling, and he does not hesitate to pull the bow is an arrow.

In the sound of "squeak", the clan flag slowly fell, and there was a desperate cry of horror in the land where the Huns were encircled, and then wept and howled-

The flag is down, and they know what that means.

Soon, or just a moment later, this tribe will disappear forever from the steppe, never to exist again, and how can they remain indifferent in the face of such an impending fate?

Qin Shen glanced back indifferently, turned over and dismounted and stepped into the luxurious tent in front of him that had not long ago that he had to pass through before he could enter.

The dim tent had already been lit with an oil lamp, and under the slightly beating light, the fat and indistinguishable Augustus fell in a pool of blood with an extremely ugly appearance, and his breath was completely gone.

In the corner of the yurt, a beautiful woman with messy hair and unclothed clothes was forced by the long sword of the soldier to huddle and tremble with an eleven or twelve-year-old child in her arms.

Or, in other words, an eleven or twelve-year-old child clutched a scimitar in both hands to protect a beautiful woman who was not covered in clothes, and showed an angry and unyielding expression in the face of the persecution of the soldiers.

When the soldier saw him come in, he said, "Duber, just as I was just coming in, I happened to meet this boy who took advantage of the chaos to stab Augustus to death. ”

Qin Shen nodded in clarity, walked straight to the couch without saying a word, picked up a piece of clothing and wrapped it in a ball and threw it over.

His action undoubtedly made the other two of them obviously stunned, the beautiful woman looked at him timidly, and then slowly reached out and picked up the clothes and hugged them into her arms, and then her eyes wandered, as if she was hesitating whether she should dress and change clothes in front of everyone.

The child seemed to understand what the woman was thinking, and looked at everyone with a threatening gaze to raise their knives and slowly stand up, blocking the woman's figure more or less into the shadows, and the immature body combined with the fierce demeanor of a little adult, all revealed a kind of gimgerking funny, and several soldiers in the room couldn't help but let out a slight mocking laugh.

Qin Shen's nose was inexplicably sour, and after the other party smiled gently, he glanced at everyone dissatisfied, picked a clean place on the couch, and sat down with a big thorny back.

The rest of the people were frightened by his gaze, and they also put away their smiling faces, and solemnly turned their heads slightly to avoid their eyes.

There was a squirming movement from the corner of the tent, and when there was no sound anymore, Qin Shen didn't reply: "You are very brave, I don't know what to call it?" ”

After a moment of questioning, just when he thought that the other party could not understand Chinese, a female voice that was not considered serious but extremely pleasant replied like a mosquito sound: "General Hui, the slave's name is Arjuna, and the child's name is Saqira." ”

"Saqira, Saqira......" Qin Shen knocked lightly on the case and groaned for a while, turned his body and looked directly: "Saqira, now the situation is clear at a glance, if you continue to confront each other with a knife, as long as I give an order, you and Lingmu will have no life, it is better to put down your weapons, how about it?" ”

After a slight pause, he continued in an affirmative tone: "Don't worry, I won't hurt your mother and son." ”

Cao Jin felt that something like this seemed to have been heard once today, and he turned his head slightly to think about it, and then remembered the events of the day, and couldn't help but look at the past with different colors, and secretly said in his heart, here it is again!

Feeling a strange gaze on him, Qin Shen glanced sideways and saw Cao Jin's eyes and immediately understood what it meant, and replied with a glare, "Am I as unbearable as you think?" He didn't pay attention to it, and continued to look directly at each other with a harmless smile on his face.

However, Saqira didn't seem to understand, but just clenched the scimitar with both hands, and her eyes looked fierce.

Seeing him so stubborn, Qin Shen sighed helplessly, although he had been touched by the other party's behavior before, he felt inexplicably compassionate, but in the face of righteousness, he would never allow himself to have the slightest kindness of a woman.

Xu smelled a hint of danger, and Arjuna quickly tugged at the corner of her son's clothes and whispered in Xiongnu to persuade her.

Saqira's expression gradually relaxed, but she didn't know what her mother said, her face suddenly tightened, and she couldn't help but refute it.

Arjuna's expression also became serious, and after he was quiet in a low voice, she firmly and anxiously persuaded again, until Saqira bit her lip and nodded in agreement, and said softly with relief in her eyes: "Put the knife down." ”

Hearing her mother's instructions, Saqira's hands holding the knife moved but did not let go, as if she was extremely conflicted.

"Put down the knife!" Arjuna reprimanded in a low voice without doubt, and then lowered her head and said: "The dog may be frightened, and I ask the generals to bear with me." ”

The hesitant Saqira finally let go of her fingers, and looked back with tears in her eyes with the sound of "clang" on the ground, as if she was reluctant to part with life and death.

Seeing this scene, Arjuna's eyes were also suddenly red, and she hurriedly held back her tears to avoid her eyes, and stretched out her hand to slowly get up with the support of her beloved son.

Looking at the mother and son who were in love with each other, Qin Shen's heart was filled with a sadness that he couldn't talk about, and he sighed slightly to suppress his mood fluctuations, and said with relief: "The Han army is not cruel and murderous, otherwise, with the situation of Fang Cai, even if it is said that your mother and son have died thousands of times, it is not an exaggeration, Madame, should know that the scimitar in the hand of the order cannot stop us and others." ”

Arjuna, who was bowing her head to hide her emotions by arranging her clothes, stopped her movements when she heard this, raised her head and glanced at him lightly, reached out and brushed the messy hair on her forehead to her ears, and said in a calm and almost indifferent tone: "Thank you, General!" Thank you generals for not killing! ”

In the face of the other party's cold and sarcastic response, Qin Shen was like a fish in his throat but didn't know what to say, and he caught a glimpse of Cao Jin with straight eyes in his heart, and then he found that Arjuna under the lamp did have a peerless demeanor of a mature woman in every move.

Although he is nearly thirty years old, his cheekbones are slightly high, and his clothes are slightly untidy, his willow eyebrows and apricot eyes, his skin is tender, and his figure is straight, and what he sees shows that the other party is indeed a very charming and attractive beauty on the grassland...... Please. ”

Arjuna silently took her beloved son's hand and walked out of the tent as if no one was around.

Qin Shen shrugged his shoulders inevitably for her reaction, took a few steps forward and slapped his palm on the shoulder of Cao Jin, who was still in a daze, until the other party woke up and looked at each other, which gave a dissatisfied glare.

"Hehe, I haven't touched a woman for too long, so ...... Therefore......" Cao Jin wiped the corners of his mouth with the back of his hand, and explained with a faceless smile, but he couldn't think of a more euphemistic statement for a while.

Qin Shen shook his head with a strange smile to show disbelief, and walked out.

"Huh! Dubo, I'm not the kind of person you think! Cao Jin saw a hint of contempt in his eyes, and his heart hurriedly followed the pace.

"Oh? So what kind of person are you? Qin Shen stopped and asked with interest.

"I ...... I am naturally honest and reliable, honest and not deceitful, and kind......" Cao Jin rolled his eyes, patting his chest with righteousness and boasting, but he was stuck and unable to continue.

The ridicule in Qin Shen's eyes became even stronger, and he said with interest: "Huh? What else? ”

"Hmm...... There is also ......" Cao Jin scratched his head and scratched his cheeks to recall more praise words, but at this moment, Arjuna, who stepped out of the tent first, suddenly let out a sharp reprimand and passed into the tent.

Qin Shen's voice changed when he heard this, and he no longer cared about appreciating Cao Jin's wonderful performance and teasing the other party, so he pushed his hand on the other party and rushed out with his strength.

Just as he lifted the curtain and stepped outside the tent, he saw two guards lying on the ground in embarrassment trying to get up under the faint light of fire in the distance, while Saqira sat on horseback, bent over and stretched out her hand to her mother with a panicked expression.

Arjuna? The righteous and deplorable paused and angrily rebuked his beloved son.

At this time, the soldiers scattered outside had already been gathered, if Saqira fled at this moment, I am afraid it would be difficult to stay, Qin Shen, who had a full view of all the conditions at a glance, immediately drew an arrow and pulled the bow without hesitation......

At the same moment, Arjuna also heard the movement and looked back, and the look of begging was written on her face in panic.

Seeing that he was unmoved, he suddenly looked back and let out a terrible roar at his son, which caught the two soldiers who had just gotten up off guard and scared him again, and at the same time, with Saqira's face struggling slightly, he turned around and flew in front of Qin Shen, rolling and clasping his legs and begging: "General, please, he is still a child......

Everything happened in an instant, feeling the warmth and delicacy of the other party's legs, Qin Shen's heart seemed to melt with it, so that Saqira's figure gradually disappeared into the darkness, and his long arrow had not yet found its target.

Arjuna, on the other hand, just hugged his legs and muttered weakly, "Please, he's just a child!" ”

He's just a kid! Listening to this complaining narration, Qin Shen was unmoved in the hesitation and released the long arrow in his hand after all, and with a sound of "Zheng", he said lightly in the sound of the strings: "You get up first." ”

Hearing the heart-wrenching chord sound above her head, Arjuna stopped crying, looked back, and found that there was already nothing behind her, and she was dazed for a moment, and whispered from her heart: "Thank you, General!" ”

"Alas!" Qin Shen sighed faintly, looked back at his hands with a wry smile, exchanged helpless glances with the people who followed, and escorted Arjuna to the place where the Huns were confined.

When night fell, hundreds of torches in a circle illuminated the small corner of the steppe as bright as day, and also reflected the fear, hatred and despair in the eyes of the Xiongnu women and children.

Qin Shence rode all the way through, feeling the other party's various complicated eyes like a mang, and he didn't know where he belonged.

Because no matter what, the other party is just a thousand old and weak women and children who are dying and old, down to more than a thousand old and weak women and children, even if he has no woman's kindness, it is inevitable that his heart is like a mess, and it is difficult to start, not to mention that he does not seem to be the case.

"I'm afraid that there will be another name in the world as 'people slaughtering Qin Shen'."

Qin Shen suddenly stood up, and the meaning in his words was incomprehensible.