"Wow-" A child's cry suddenly sounded in the woods. In a few moments, six or seven beggars, disheveled and ragged, stumbled out of the woods. The eldest of them was only in their teens, and the younger one was still unstable on his feet. Looking at the sharp swords in the hands of the soldiers, they shrunk and huddled together, leaving only a pair of black and white eyes with fear on their little faces stained with black mud.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid! Tell me, where are you from? Beru walked over to the children, smiling and bent down.

His face was soft, but the children were so frightened that they took several steps back, and a child of more than two years old fell to the ground with a pop of his legs and cried.

I walked over to pick up the child, but a girl in her early teens stopped in front of me, she looked at me warily, lowered her head and picked up the child on the ground, and replied loudly, "Defective City." ”

The flawed city is in Jin, they are Jin people? But why did you come to the Qin State?

"Don't be afraid, we're also from the Jin Kingdom." Beru told the soldiers to put away their swords and smiled, "Why are you hiding here? What about Daddy and Auntie? ”

"The Qin people burned our village and robbed us of our food, and we escaped." The girl replied.

"Then how did you escape to the Qin State?"

"It's all Ah Yang who led the wrong way! We can't go back, we're going to die in Qin......" A boy cried as he pointed to the girl in front of me.

The girl named Ah Yang lowered her head in the cry, she bit her lip tightly and stopped talking. Beru took her hand and asked, "Where is your father and mother?" ”

"Dead." She choked up.

"Your father and mother are dead, but my father is not dead, he escaped. Noble, please send us back! The boy knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately, and the other children also knelt down, and the camp burst into tears.

Blemish City was a small city on the border of Qin and Jin, and the army of the prince was stationed near Bin City. Killing people and burning the village, didn't Wu Wangfu quit the army? The three kingdoms of Qin, Jin, and Wu have already gone to war!

Beru had the soldiers take the children to a clearing not far away, and sent for them a pot of boiled food. Looking at the gobbling child, I asked Zhang Mengtan beside me softly: "King Wu has attacked Jin?" ”

"No, King Wu has already accepted the invitation of the alliance between Jin and Lu. Zhou Tianzi had also promised them to meet in Huangchi in two months. ”

"That Qin Jun ......"

"Qin Jun should retreat if he thinks about it, and burning the village to grab grain is probably a move by Prince Qin to vent his anger before leaving." Zhang Mengtan said with a cold face.

yes, that's a lot like what the prince would do. This time, he secretly contacted the coalition forces of the two countries of Bashu and insisted on sending troops to the Jin Kingdom, thinking that he would make a name for himself in the first battle and consolidate his position as the crown prince, but he did not expect that the battle would not be completed, but let Gongzili marry the Baili clan, and take advantage of the weakness to seize his military power in the north. He himself is incompetent and arrogant, but he has made these children fall victim to his anger.

"Brother Meng Tan, do you dare to have a competition with me?" A thought popped into my head.

"Than what?"

"Catch fish." Without waiting for him to answer, I shouted at the sunspot next to the campfire, "Kuroko, let's go, let's catch fish!" ”

Bolu drank the fish soup I cooked, turned his head and chuckled at Ming Yi beside him: "She, it's still comfortable to be noisy." ”

Mingyi glanced at me and replied lightly: "She's not arguing, she's on the run." ”

I pretended not to hear Mingyi's words, turned my head and asked the soldier next to me to borrow a light bow and try my hand, and then said to Zhang Mengtan and Heizi: "We have more fish than anyone who catches, and the one who loses has to promise the winner one thing." ”

"Hahaha, catch fish with us? Girl, you're too crazy, if you lose today, I'll get down and ride you as a dog! Kuroko drew his sword and shouted.

"What about you? Than that? I lifted my chin at Zhang Mengtan.

"You're doomed." Zhang Mengtan lowered his head and chuckled, and pulled out his sword.

Bo Lu pulled Ming Yi, got up and said with a smile: "Let's go and see it too, and give Hongyun'er a witness!" ”

When a group of people walked to the bank of the river, I tied my hair high with a silk ribbon and pulled my shirt two inches above my knees with a rope: "Five fish, the first wins." ”

"Good!" The two beside him responded in unison.

At this time, the night sky is like a wash, without a trace of clouds, blue crystal, high and far. A full moon rose to mid-heaven, dispelling the shadows at the water's edge, and even the stems of the aquatic plants on the shore could be seen clearly. I took my bow and arrows and carried the arrow basket on my back and slowly stepped into the water. The coolness of the river in spring reveals a hint of warmth, which makes people feel refreshed. Once I was still standing, I spread the handful of grass seeds I had just grabbed from the shore evenly on the surface of the water and waited intently.

After a while, several dark shadows swam slowly towards me in the water. I took three arrows from the quiver and bit them in my mouth, wound them and waited quietly until the prey swam nearer......

It's here!

In an instant, I loosened the string, took the arrow, turned around, and shot three arrows in the blink of an eye. The three fat fish struggled to swim a few laps in the shallow water before floating up with arrows.

Then, there was another quiet wait. The river rolled and the waves gently lapped on my legs, and I took my breath and imagined myself as a swaying aquatic weed waiting for the fish to pass me.

At this moment, the water behind me moved again, and I quickly turned around and pulled a full moon bow. But there was no fish in the place where the arrow was pointing, only Zhang Mengtan's slightly distracted face.

"You've already caught five?" Frustrated, I put away my bow and arrows back in the quiver behind me.

Zhang Mengtan stood in the moonlit river, looking at my eyes without blinking.

"Hey, Brother Kuroko, how many have you caught?"

Kuroko was still squatting in the water at this time and poking his sword indiscriminately, and when he heard me shouting, he straightened up and said, "Two! What about you? ”

"You've lost!" I grabbed a pebble from the bottom of my foot and threw it at him, smiling triumphantly.

Zhang Mengtan helped me pick up the fish, took my hand again, and shook it tightly: "If you continue to laugh like this, be careful that the prince kidnaps you as a concubine." ”

Concubine? I glanced at the smiling Berlu on the shore and immediately put away his smile.

The three of them each carried the fish ashore, and Bolu looked at me thoughtfully, turned back to Ming Yi and smiled: "There is a woman under the moon, with red clothes and blue eyes, standing in the spring water, and those who do not know and see it think that they are gods." ”

His praise immediately reminded me of Zhang Mengtan's reminder just now, so he hurriedly shook his head and waved his hand and said: "Don't make fun of Ah Shi, Ming Yi standing by the water is the Xiangjiang Shenjun and the Han Water Wandering Girl." After I finished speaking, I suddenly felt that comparing Mingyi to a goddess was a loss of his manhood, but I couldn't take it back when the words were out.

Luckily, neither of them cared, and after a few jokes about us, they turned around and left.

Zhang Mengtan handed the fish in his hand to the two soldiers behind Bolu and ordered, "Stew the fish and send it to the children." ”

I was slightly stunned, and said in my heart, this person understands my mind, and knows that my competition is just to make a pot of fish soup for the children.

"Girl, tell me, what do you want me to do?" Kuroko leaned over and asked wiltedly.

I pointed to the ground and said with a smile: "Didn't you say that if you lose, you will lie down and make me a dog ride, do you want to break your word?" ”

"Change one, change one, there are a lot of people here, why don't you save a face for your brother." Kuroko pestered me and began to play tricks in every way.

"Okay, I'll just say something."

"Okay, let me say anything!" Kuroko slapped his chest and was arrogant.

"Not to me, but to Xiaoqiu. In a few days, you will go to Fenglingdu, and when you return to Tianshu, you just need to tell Xiaoqiu that you like her, and that's it! ”

"You... Who said I... You ......" Kuroko was poked in the soft underbelly by me, and she was ashamed like a girl.

"You don't look handsome, and your kung fu is not good, I advise you to say it early, so that Xiaoqiu won't fall in love with the other sons in your courtyard, don't regret it when the time comes!" I teased.

"Dead girl......" Heizi raised his fist to hit me, I pulled Zhang Mengtan's arm and hid behind him, and said with a smile, "I'm annoyed when I say it, and you're not ashamed!" ”

Kuroko scolded twice, and said loudly: "Doesn't it mean that you like her, just say it!" When you get back to camp later, don't tell anyone that I lost to you!" ”

"Got it!" I poked my head out in response, and Kuroko turned and ran away in shame.

"Now it's my turn, right?" Zhang Mengtan took me from behind and asked with his head down.

I nodded generously: "You won me, you say, what do you want me to do?" ”

Zhang Mengtan looked down at me, his eyes were slightly narrow, it was obviously the same face, the same person, but the aura around him suddenly became completely different from usual. I was puzzled when his slender fingers had slid past my neck, and with a gentle stroke, he wrapped a bunch of green silk in his hand: "When you are ready, I will help you pull your hair." ”

He looked me in the eye and his voice was low and misty. I looked at the long hair tangled in his fingers, and my heart turned a thousand times. Growing up, I used to fantasize countless times about myself and my hair. Dai Mu Lu, or Yu Lu? Wear Tsing Yi or Zhu Yi? In my fantasies, what changes is always the object, and what does not change is the person behind me who pulls my hair.

"You don't want to?" Zhang Mengtan saw that my expression was gloomy, and the red clouds on the tips of his eyebrows were slightly condensed.

"No, a woman can only be fifteen and fifteen if she has a marriage contract. I will not make another marriage contract with anyone in this life, and if you want to pull my hair, I am afraid that you will have to wait another six years, and when I am over twenty years old, I have to pull my hair. But the world is unpredictable, six years later, you and I may have been separated by the end of the world. ”

"The world is really unpredictable, if you want to, just do it. As for how long to wait, that's my business. Under the melting moonlight, his eyes were like torches.

I was in a trance, and I didn't hear the meaning of his words in the slightest, so I nodded.