Qin Dong rode a horse to find the fifth tent on the left at the exit of the wooden fence on the west side of the royal court, dismounted and tied the reins to the wooden fence next to it, this was a happy girl's voice from the tent: "Sister, are you back?" ”

As soon as the words fell, a little girl opened the curtain and ran out, and at this time, Qin Dong was also turning around when he heard the voice, one big and one small looking at each other.

"Who are you?" The little girl asked in a trembling voice.

Qin Dong tried his best to pretend to be kind, with a smile on his face, but unfortunately now that the moon was hiding in the clouds, there was no light, and the little girl couldn't see his face clearly at all.

Qin Dong said "kindly": "Little sister, your name is Sophia, right?" I'm your sister Lucia's friend, let's go into the tent and talk! ”

The girl was about ten years old, and when she saw Qin Dong coming over, she stepped back step by step, with a frightened look on her face, "What about my sister?" ”

Entering the tent, it was pitch black in the tent, Qin Dong took out a fire fold to light it, and found the location of the oil lamp by the faint light and lit the oil lamp, no wonder there was no light in the tent, the position of the oil lamp was too high, and the little boy was too tall to reach, and there was nothing else in the tent to step on.

After lighting the oil lamp, Qin Dong looked at the situation in the tent, there were a few sheepskins hanging on the pillars supporting the tent, and some cooked wild vegetables were contained in a clay pot in the corner, this may be the food of this little girl in the past two days, the sheepskin for sewing the tent is still very new, a few pottery bowls are still new, and the sheepskin mattress on the bed is still new, it seems that the sisters have not been here for a long time.

"Where's my sister?" Sulida is still this sentence.

Qin Dong looked at Sophia at this time, this little girl had long red curly hair draped behind her head, her delicate face was stained with a little mud, her eyes were blue, and she was wearing a calf-length linen robe, her clothes were already shiny, and she was barefoot. Qin Dong was a little puzzled, Lucia, such an assassin who could come up with that way to kill Attila, shouldn't be short of money, why couldn't he let his sister dress better?

After looking at it, Qin Dong took out a necklace that was taken off Lucia's corpse and handed it to Sophia, and she panicked: "My name is Qin Dong, I am a friend of your sister Lucia, you see, this is her necklace, she is worried that you won't believe me, so she gave me this necklace and asked me to hand it over to you, your sister temporarily went to Sedica for important things, she asked me to take you with me, and then we met in Sedica!" ”

Sophia took the necklace and looked at it, confirming that it was indeed her sister's necklace, but suddenly left tears: "You lie, you lie, my sister won't leave me alone, no, she swore to me, you sue me, is my sister dead?" ”

What a clever girl, it seems that Sophia knows about Lucia's assassin business, and she knows very well the dangers of this business, and she is in danger of losing her life at any time.

The Assassin profession was not very developed and not taken seriously during the Roman Empire, but after the Dark Ages of the Middle Ages, Europe was full of Assassins, and Assassins were rampant in medieval Europe, and even gave rise to Assassin families.

Qin Dong was not a person who was easily soft-hearted, but at this time, he felt that he was suddenly stabbed in his heart, and he couldn't help but lie again: "No, no, no, you have to believe me, your sister is fine, she just has something to do and can't come back to take you with her, so please ask me to take care of you and take you to Cedica to find her, really, I swear!" ”

Sophia's eyes were swirling with tears, she stopped crying and looked at Qin Dong and asked, "Really?" You didn't lie to me? ”

"Oh, I swear to God what I said was true! Okay, Sophia, you know, I'm your sister's friend, if something really happens to her, will I still be so happy? Right, you should think of it if you are so smart, hungry, come, I brought you a leg of mutton, a whole leg of mutton, enough for you to eat for a few days, and mare's milk" Qin Dong hurriedly took out the food, opened the oil paper, took out the leg of mutton, cut a large piece of mutton with a knife and handed it over.

Sophia wiped a handful of tears, almost grabbed the piece of meat and gnawed it, it looked like she hadn't eaten for several days, Qin Dong thought about it, isn't it, Lucia must have hid under the floor of the dormitory a day in advance in order to assassinate Attila, and it has been a total of two days until today, and no one has given Sophia anything to eat in the past two days, so she can only dig some wild vegetables and cook them, as evidenced by the wild vegetables in the clay pot just now.

"Sophia, eat slowly, there's a lot more here, a whole leg of lamb, come, take a sip of mare's milk!" Qin Dong said as he handed over the sheepskin bag containing mare's milk.

Here in the Xiongnu Empire, although there are herds of cattle and sheep, the number is amazing, but not everyone can eat beef and mutton every day, not to mention slaves, that is, the average herdsman can only eat a meal of meat in ten days and half a month, and some even eat a meal of meat for several months.

It wasn't until she ate more than a pound of mutton that the little girl was full, and after drinking the mare's milk, she touched her bulging belly and walked on the sheepskin mattress and said, "It's delicious!" ”

"You haven't eaten in two days before you feel delicious!" Qin Dong said with a smile, in fact, the taste of this mutton roast is just like that, there is only a little bit of salt, and it is not refined salt, there are no condiments, and the taste is naturally not much better.

Sophia began to talk to Qin Dong, "Your name is Qin Dong?" Do you like my sister? ”

Qin Dong was stunned, what kind of logic is this? Lucia was dead anyway, so she said, "Sort of, otherwise why would she ask me to take care of you?" Right? ”

Sophia asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"Royal court guards, I will go to Saidika to garrison in a few days, and you will go with me then!"

The two of them were talking, and they both fell asleep unconsciously, Qin Dong was not idle all day today, and he had experienced three or four crises in a row, and finally turned the crisis into safety, he was already exhausted, and now with this Sophia, who was about ten years old, he felt very quiet and safe, completely relaxed, and soon fell asleep.

Qin Dong got up early the next morning, and he still had something to do today, so he got up and made a fire outside to roast the leg of lamb that Sophia hadn't eaten yesterday, and used a knife to remove all the meat on the leg of mutton, and put it on the table in the tent in a clay pot.

As soon as he finished doing it, he was about to leave, when Sophia's voice came from behind him: "Brother-in-law, are you leaving?"

Brother-in-law? Qin Dong almost stumbled, and suddenly had an aunt for no reason, Qin Dong really couldn't cry or laugh, but he didn't want Sophia to notice anything, so he pretended to acquiesce, turned around and smiled: "Sophia, you're up, I've already warmed the mutton and mare's milk for you, you eat first, but it's not good to run around, just stay in the tent, I still have something to do, I'll come back in the afternoon after finishing things, okay?" ”

"Are you sure you won't leave me?"

Qin Dong was stunned, he felt that Sophia already knew that she was lying to her, and she had already determined that her sister Lucia was dead, and she was worried that she would not come back if she went, so she asked such a thing.

He smiled and said, "Don't worry, Sophia, I promised your sister to take you to Cedika to find her, I'll mean what I say!" ”