Chapter 14: The Man in the Mask

Qin Ruoruo couldn't help but tighten his sleeves, listening to those frightened moments, he couldn't help but murmur: "Just for the sake of ambition, is it really worth risking your life?" ”

"The Third Highness is not for ambition, but for his mother."

A low and hoarse voice sounded in Qin Ruoruo's back, and the warm breath sprayed right on her neck, instantly causing a string of goosebumps.

Not only did she murmur unconsciously, but she didn't even notice when someone was standing behind her.

As soon as she opened her mouth, the man immediately covered her mouth from behind, for fear that she would leak the slightest noise.

Eagerly spoke: "Don't make a noise, I'm just hungry and come to steal a bowl of milk to drink, if you disturb them, not only will you not be able to steal milk, we will both be killed." ”

Qin Ruoruo lowered her eyes, and she saw that the sleeves she was wearing covering her arms were woven of coarse cloth.

After a moment's hesitation, he nodded.

Slowly turning around, a wolf totem appeared in front of him, making Qin Ruoruo not mentally prepared for a while, and fell directly on the snow without standing firmly.

The man in front of her was tall, wearing a black leather mask, and the wolf she had just seen was in the shape of that mask, which looked even more hideous and terrifying in the dark night firelight.

The man's entire face was under the mask, and only a pair of eyes were revealed.

Slightly bowed with just the right kind of greeting, but inexplicably a little disobedient, just like such a person should not be a subordinate, but the dress and eyes around him are the appearance that only an inferior person will have.

His dark eyes looked at her fixedly through the mask, and he reached out to help her up from the snow.

Just looking at the little smile in his eyes, it made Qin Ruoruo suddenly raise his guard.

Since she came, everyone has either ridiculed or ignored her, or is hateful, and it is difficult for her not to think about the conspiracy of the person in front of her to approach her.

Perhaps, Yan Jinyuan hid around here, watching her being fooled......

Avoiding the hand in front of him, Qin Ruoruo stood up from the snow by himself.

"You ......"

"Shh

The man cocked his finger, pointed at the figure in the tent, and then pointed in the opposite direction.

Motioned for the two to change floors to talk.

Qin Ruoruo hesitated for a moment, and the figure in the tent stood up shakingly and was about to walk out.

There was no choice but to let the man who suddenly appeared pull her and hide behind a rock hidden by the wind and snow.

Quietly observing the situation of the tent.

The night watchman, drunk, staggered out of his tent, glanced casually into the sheepfold, and began to undress.

Qin Ruoruo frowned and before she could react, the man's palm was attached again.

Cover her eyes.

It was pitch black in front of him, Qin Ruoruo panicked, and subconsciously hit the man's chest with that intact elbow.

I heard a heavy snort from the person behind me, but I still didn't let go.

Keenly aware of the sound of water accompanied by a fishy smell, Qin Ruoruo reacted that the Yan man who was on duty at night turned out to have drunk too much wine and came out to relieve himself.

Immediately bit his lower lip, a little embarrassed.

Fortunately, the swallow man who was on duty at night quickly finished and returned to the tent.

The hand on the curtain of his eyes was released, Qin Ruoruo's vision gradually recovered, and he immediately turned his head to see the man covering his chest, leaning against the stone in an uncomfortable appearance.

In addition to the tightly closed eyes, I could only see the Adam's apple rolling up and down under the corner of the collar because of the pain.

"I'm sorry, you're alright."

Gasping, the man smiled helplessly: "Princess, don't worry, people like us have rough skin and thick flesh, and this pain will pass." ”

"Do you know who I am?"

"The posture of the princess, don't say the grassland, even if you have read all the countries, it is also one of the best."

The drooping eyelashes quickly concealed the brilliance in the pupils.

"It's just that I didn't expect that the former princess would also do things like stealing goat's milk."

"In extraordinary times, do extraordinary things."

Qin Ruoruo was only embarrassed for a moment, and then immediately regained his composure.

Even the royal city was occupied, her father, queen and mother were slaughtered, what kind of princess is she now, why should she pretend to be noble.

Carefully let out the little wolf in his arms, stretched out his little finger and felt the little wolf suck in small mouths.

"If it weren't for saving it, I wouldn't have taken the risk."

"It's a blessing to have a princess to adopt."

With such a compliment, Qin Ruoruo only smiled lightly, only as polite, not seriously.

This wolf was originally separated from the mother and child because she was involved, and now she doesn't even stutter.

What a blessing.

Sensing that her interest was not high, the masked man pursed his lips and changed the subject: "The people in this tent will be completely drunk to death after a while, and it is safest to go in and get milk at that time, but it is really wronged to let the princess and people like me stay in such a cold place." ”

"What grievances? What is there about a person like you who is inferior to others? ”

Qin Ruoruo's eyebrows condensed, and he slowly raised his head with disapproval.

"What a high or low, what a noble, I used to be a princess, and now I am not even a prisoner who is inferior to a beast. No one knows what kind of change fate will take in the next moment, and we must seize fate at any time and not give up ......"

Qin Ruoruo said to herself that she didn't notice the man behind her, a light smile appeared on her lips, and a shallow nostalgia crossed her bottomless eyes, and she quickly regained her calm.

Sighing lightly, listening to the laughter in the tent not far away, Qin Ruoruo remembered what the two of them had said halfway just now, and said faintly: "You just said that Yan Jinyuan didn't want to die like that back then, it was for his mother's concubine?" ”

"Yes."

I didn't expect Qin Ruoruo to bring the topic back here, the masked man's eyes froze, and he turned his head sideways and only stared at the snow marks under his feet.

"Back then, the mother concubine of the Third Highness was sick and needed herbs, so in order to win the life-sustaining lottery, he signed up for the beast fight, and was bitten through the chest by the wolf king, and won."

He said it simply, but Qin Ruoruo already understood the scene at that time.

If you want to survive, you can only use your life to fight.

"Princess, do you still think that Her Highness is for ambition?"

"Yes. Still think so. ”

Qin Ruoruo opened his mouth without hesitation, and the expression on his face could be said to be cold: "Yan Jinyuan wants to show his face for the sake of the medicine is true, but he is smart but smart and mistaken, so he was chosen to be a proton." ”

Saying that, he suddenly smiled bitterly, no wonder when Yan Jinyuan first came to the Qin Kingdom, every time it was cloudy and rainy, or it was cold, he always had chest pain and coughed up blood.

There is such a past.

It's just that it is pierced through the chest, and that kind of injury alone can make people lose all their strength in pain, and they can die of pain.

How did a six-year-old endure the pain and kill the wolf?

Qin Ruoruo only looked at the layers of bandaged arms on his hands, and fell into deep thought.

"Do you have a medicine in the grassland that can paralyze the nerves and not feel pain?"

"Nope."

The masked man's eyes were a little dim, which made Qin Ruoruo inexplicably a little frightened, and when his eyes shrank and he wanted to see clearly, the man's eyes returned to normal, and he was still just the right amount of respect.

"It's time to act."

Qin Ruoruo turned around, and sure enough, he saw that the tent was extinguished, and the candle flame was pitch black.