When the caravan set off again, the two female martial arts sects and the mercenaries who went to chase and kill the bandits had already returned, and there were two martial arts sects in the lead, so none of the mercenaries who chased out were killed, not even seriously injured, only a few were slightly injured.

This night was undoubtedly the most pleasant night for the mercenaries after entering the desert, they could only let the thieves slaughter the situation, but suddenly reversed, and after they returned, they also received gold coins equivalent to half of the full commission from the Chang army.

After the caravan departed, Chang Jun and Dugu Yi and the other four returned to the position they had before they encountered the bandits.

At this time, Huan Ming played with the two gold coins he had just gotten in his hand, and said to Dugu Yi with a smile: "Boy, you are really our nobleman, the eldest brother just rescued you, and we will get these two gold coins for nothing." ”

"It's none of my business. Dugu Yi closed his eyes and lay on the goods, and returned to his previous indifference, of course, only on his face, his heart was not so calm. It was not that he had never seen murder in his six years of wandering, but it was the first time he had seen a scene like tonight, where hundreds of people died in just half an hour, and he had no sympathy for the dead in his heart, but only hoped that he could also cultivate his skills.

"How can it be irrelevant?" Huan Ming looked up, and said in a low voice: "I see, that little girl must have taken a fancy to you......"

"If she hears this, she will definitely kill you. Dugu Yi sat up and coldly interrupted Huanming, looked up at the night sky high above, and said, "She and I are like the sky and the earth, she is not something I can touch." ”

"No, it won't. Haiyan also interjected softly. "I think this Qin Qin is quite enthusiastic about you, you see that she is extremely cold to her eldest brother. ”

"Didn't she say the same, so it was only because we were the same age that she thought she and I should have something to talk to, so she was a little more enthusiastic about me. Dugu Yi denied that Qin Qin had a good impression of him. In his mind, he himself was just a beggar, and Qin Qin was a young lady from a family who had never looked at three hundred gold coins in front of him, and there was nothing in him that could make Qin Qin feel good.

"You two don't talk about him anymore. Changjun smiled at Huanming and Haiyan, and this smile means 'don't say much, just look at it'.

The two who understood what Chang Jun meant also had a playful smile on their faces. Dugu Yi couldn't guess what they were thinking from the expressions on their faces, but because they didn't bother themselves anymore, they went with the three of them.

After quietly walking out of a distance, Chang Jun took out a small bag of coins from his arms and threw them at Dugu Yi, saying, "This is the fraction left after the distribution of the three hundred gold coins, you can keep it." ”

"It's your reward for saving me and the food for the next few days. Dugu Yi picked up the money bag and threw it back, and the money bag never stayed in his hand for more than three seconds.

Chang Jun, who caught the money bag, looked at Dugu Yi with stunned eyes, and after a few seconds, he smiled and said: "You don't even look at how much money is in it, this money is enough for your kid to eat dry bread for a few years." ”

"I have no reason to accept it. Dugu Yi was unmoved, and continued: "And if I take this money, it will only attract the sword of the greedy, and I don't want to be a ghost under someone else's sword. ”

The three of Changjun were stunned when they heard Dugu Yi's words, this young man, this beggar, he was unmoved in the face of a huge amount of money that he might have never seen so far, and said such a thing, what did he experience before?

After a long time, Chang Jun came back to his senses from the young man's words, looked at Dugu Yi with serious eyes, and said, "I still want to ask again, are you really a beggar?"

Hearing this, Dugu Yi stood up in the carriage, spread his hands from his chest, and said with a smile: "As you can see, he has no long things, like a beggar who is fake." ”

"Haha!" Chang Jun stopped talking after laughing dryly, Huan Ming and Haiyan stopped talking, and the four of them fell silent again.

The night in the desert is cold and difficult for ordinary people to accept, but in order to get out of the range of thieves' activities as soon as possible, they can only rush overnight tonight, although the caravan already knows that there are two martial arts powerhouses in the caravan, but they don't want to alarm them because of their incompetence to cause the thieves to chase them.

The chariots had been replaced by hired mercenaries, these cultivators were much stronger than ordinary people, the cold night wind couldn't stop them, and those merchants who were just ordinary people had already slept in their warm carriages.

Although Dugu Yi did not have a warm carriage for him to rest, and he was not a cultivator, he was able to walk to the center of this desert alone, and Chang Jun had no doubt about the young man's ability to resist the cold wind.

As Chang Jun expected, Dugu Yi, who was lying on the goods, didn't know when he fell asleep. After Haiyan gently covered him with a blanket, she herself changed into a comfortable position and closed her eyes to recuperate.

In the past, Dugu Yi would wake up in the middle of the night no matter where he slept, but tonight he slept very peacefully, and when he woke up, it was already noon in the scorching sun, and the caravan had stopped to rest.

"You've finally woken up. ”

Dugu Yi's eyes opened slightly, and the girl's voice with a little coldness and a little joy came from his ears. "I thought you'd have to sleep until lunchtime. ”

"Oh. ”

Dugu Yi replied indiscriminately and sat up, only to find that he was in a spacious carriage, and he didn't have to think much to know that this was the carriage that Qin Qin's master and servant were riding, and now there were only two people in the carriage, he and Qin Qin.

When did you come here, and why didn't you have any impression at all? Dugu Yi thought about these two questions, and his brows gradually furrowed.

Qin Qin's white fingers lightly touched Dugu Yi's forehead, and said softly: "You didn't wake up when I went to look for you, and then, the mercenary named Changjun moved you here after asking my opinion, but I didn't expect you to sleep so deeply, and they didn't wake you up." ”

"Chang Jun. Dugu Yi chattered hatefully, and when he thought of the ridicule of the three of them last night, his bright left eye was about to burst into flames.

"What's wrong?" Qin Qin didn't understand where Dugu Yi's hatred came from, and thought that her unauthorized decision had made him angry, so she apologized weakly: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have ......"

"No, no, no......" The girl's sudden appearance of the delicate side actually made Dugu Yi panic, and she hurriedly got up but couldn't stand firm because of numbness in her legs and feet, and when she fell, she pressed Qin Qin's shoulders tightly with both hands, and the two fell on the soft bench one by one, at this time, no matter how you look at it, it is the posture of Dugu Yi knocking Qin Qin down and pressing under him, if the two of them are older, this posture is easy to cause others to misunderstand.

At this time, the cheeks of the two were not too far apart, looking at Qin Qin's watery eyes, Dugu Yi only felt that his mind seemed to have been lost in them; such pure and bright eyes, Dugu Yi felt very familiar and nostalgic! It seems that a long time ago, there was such a beautiful and gentle pair of eyes behind him quietly looking at his back, and at that time he did not look back at it, and he did not even slow down the pace of leaving.

Looking at Qin Qin's eyes, Dugu Yi forgot where he was now, only to feel a tingling pain in his heart, and his chest became sour, as if he had really lived up to 'someone's expectations and feelings.

"Lonely and Alone. ”

It seemed that a long time had passed, and it seemed that it was just an instant, Dugu Yi suddenly came back to his senses when he heard Qin Qin call his name, and only then did he realize his gaffe, hurriedly let go of Qin Qin and sat on the other side, not daring to look at the girl who was pressed under him just now, and forgot to think about where the familiar and bitter feeling that arose in that moment came from, and his flushed cheeks drooped very low.

"Yes... Right... I'm sorry, I... I'm the first... Once... See...... So...... ...... panicked, "Dugu Yi stammered and hesitated for a long time, but he couldn't explain what he wanted to say clearly.

Qin Qin smoothed her hair and flattened her wrinkled dress, then she turned her eyes to Dugu Yi and said with a smile: "You look very interesting now." ”

"I ......" Dugu Yi heard the voice and knew that Qin Qin was not angry, but he still didn't dare to look back at Qin Qin.

"Tell me about your past. When Qin Qin said this, she took the initiative to sit next to Dugu Yi again, as if what had happened just now had never happened, and it didn't make her feel embarrassed or embarrassed at all.

"My past?" Dugu Yi only looked back at Qin Qin at this time, he wanted to refuse, but he thought that such an embarrassing thing had just happened, and now he couldn't be cold anymore, so he took a deep breath and spoke: "For some reason, I was abandoned by my mother when I was born, and my father never said a word to my mother in front of me after that, so until now I don't know my mother's face and name. ”

Dugu Yi shook his head slightly, shook off the bitterness on his face, and continued: "And my father was also killed when I was three years old, and since then I have lived alone in this world. I wanted to avenge my father, but I didn't even know who the other party was, why he killed my father, not to mention that I didn't have the ability myself, just burying my father at that time was tired and fainted several times, and I am no different now than then. ”

Speaking of this, Dugu Yi paused again.

"I have been living alone since I was three years old, and at first I didn't even know how to eat the food in front of me, so I had to learn to swallow it alive like an animal, until one day, a woman from the same village came to my door, and she said that she would take care of me as long as I paid for it, and I gladly complied, and at that moment I was still happy that I didn't have to eat raw food, and how could I have thought that at the age of three I didn't even think about taking care of me, she just needed a reason to enter my house at will, and from the day she entered the house, the things in the house were constantly lost, and I was deceived by her with all kinds of reasons; , there will be a second, a third...... Finally I was kicked out of my house, and my house became theirs, and with nowhere else to go, I became a beggar, eating what the animals did not want to eat, sleeping in a dilapidated house with no shelter from the wind and rain, under the corner, and so on for three years, and then they drove me out of the village. ”

Although he was talking about his past, Dugu Yi's voice and expression were unusually calm, as if what he was telling Qin Qin now was just a story he heard from someone else.

"After leaving the only place I am familiar with, I wandered around, and I have been to many places in the past six years but have never found a place for me, no matter where I go, all I get is cold words from others, even fists and feet, so that I have been bullied so that I have also had a few thoughts of life and death, but every time at the last moment I will remember what my father said to me, so although I hate and resent the world very much, I have to live, because this is my father's last hope. ”

Dugu Yi's face was no longer as calm as before, and his small fists were clenched very tightly.

"Why? I was born with the so-called 'curse' when I had never done anything, why was I abandoned by my mother? Why did I watch my father die tragically, why did I have to be driven away from the place where I was born just to live...... If, if this is a curse from heaven on me, I will ......"

Dugu Yi didn't finish his words in the end, his right hand clenched into a fist and slammed it on the wall of the car, and Qin Qin also saw anger and hatred in his only left eye, this was the first time he showed his emotions undisguised since he was rescued by Chang Jun, and perhaps it was also the first time in a long time.

Qin Qin didn't say a word of comfort or sympathy, and she didn't even ask what the 'curse' was, she just looked at Dugu Yi quietly, as if imagining in her mind how a three-year-old orphaned child survived to this day, or how to help him change his fate.