However, although the two seemed to be arguing, it was always Qin Ke who was angry, and Cai Yan seemed leisurely, and even laughed like silver bells from time to time.

Qin Ke finally couldn't hold back his face, and let out a long sigh: "Really...... If something happens, I can't control you. ”

It's that I can't manage it, it's not that I don't want to manage it.

Cai Yan blinked and snickered: "Don't worry, I'm very careful, I'm still wearing gold silk soft armor, which Lao Gao found from the public loser's treasury, and I tried it myself, within fifty steps, the iron arrow can't be shot in, do you want to ...... I'll take it off and show you?"

"Don't make a fuss. Qin Ke blushed inexplicably, "Take it off or something, it's not decent, you better continue to wear it, I can rest assured." ”

He looked at Cai Yan's cheeks stained with some pot ash, and felt a little distressed, and took out a towel from his cowhide armor: "Wipe your face, look at you, like a flower-faced cat." ”

Cai Yan shook his head: "It's better not to wipe it first, I finally wiped it, so I haven't been recognized." ”

Qin Ke thought about it, it seemed to be such a reason, and put the towel back again.

Now that she has come out, there is no way to send this arbitrary eldest lady back, not to mention that she is right, Jinzhou is now also a place of right and wrong, if the Tang army launches a madness regardless of the loss and continues to attack the city, it will be a matter of time before Jinzhou falls, she has not cultivated, maybe it will be easier for her to stay by her side to protect her.

Abu leaned closer and said softly: "We have to hurry, although we have run for more than ten miles, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no pursuers behind, the cavalry of the Tang State has suffered a lot of losses, but we can still get together tens of thousands of cavalry when we regain strength, and we are not under the city of Jinzhou now, and we have no crossbow protection, facing the Tang army head-on, we can't beat it at all." ”

Qin Ke nodded, let go of the reins holding the war horse, and solemnly said to Cai Yan on horseback: "From now on, you have to follow me, don't run around." ”

Cai Yan rarely smiled sweetly, and his tone was full of meekness, and said, "I know, I will listen to you." ”

Qin Ke glared at her, shook his head helplessly, he really couldn't fully believe her sugar-coated guarantee, before leaving the city, he still muttered in his heart, the ordinary people in the city had come out to send the army, but Cai Yan didn't come to give him a ride...... It turned out that she had already quietly slipped into the team of the expedition and gave herself such a big "surprise".

No, it's a fright.

Qin Ke turned over his horse, drove his horse closer to the cavalry man before, and asked, "What's your name?"

"General, my name is Ah Guo. ”

"Ah...... "Qin Ke couldn't help laughing, "It turns out that there is a person in my village with a similar name to you, when we were children, we called him Xiaocauld, and later he was called Dacauldron, but now he is an errand boy for the county lord, and the county lord appreciates him and gives him a big name......"

Ah Guo scratched his head and said with a smile: "I'm not that blessed, my father and mother haven't read a book in my life, and I can't even write my own surname...... But I don't think it's anything, Ah Guo is very good, I don't think I will starve when I hear the name, hehehe. ”

"Really...... It's nice not to starve. Qin Ke's expression was a little bitter, and he raised his eyes and asked, "What about your father?"

Ah Guo's eyes darkened: "When the Tang army came over, they couldn't give up the food at home...... Later, my uncle ran out with me, and they were left behind, probably ...... They're all dead. ”

Qin Ke nodded abruptly, not knowing what to say, but at this time, Cai Yan beside him suddenly bowed respectfully and said, "I'm sorry." ”

The tall Mo family man looked at Cai Yan blankly, although the little man on horseback deliberately lowered his voice, he still heard a crisp female voice, but it seemed that she and Qin Ke seemed to be very familiar, and he naturally wouldn't ask too much.

What made him feel puzzled was Cai Yan's inexplicable apology, what was the reason for this?

However, the Mo family man has always been very arrogant and will not think too deeply in twists and turns, so Ah Guo returned the salute and grinned: "It's nothing, it's all over, my father and mother are looking at me in the sky, I killed three Tang people today, and I have already avenged their share of revenge." ”

On the way, Qin Ke looked at Ah Guo who was leading the way in front of him, and turned his gaze to Cai Yan's body, of course he knew what Cai Yan said about the excuse.

She is a Tang national.

And her father, Cai Yong, once led soldiers, and he attacked the Mo family no less than Xiang Chu, maybe he was not as brutal as Xiang Chu, but in the chaotic army, it was common for a few, dozens of dead and wounded, and even hundreds of Mo family people.

Of course, when the Mo family attacked the Tang State for the so-called ideal of "helping the world", their hands were also stained with the blood of the people of the Tang Kingdom.

Maybe this world is actually a battlefield?

Qin Ke remembered the stories that his master had told him at the beginning, it seemed that from thousands of years ago to hundreds of years ago, the conquest of the lower kingdoms had never stopped.

When a dynasty rises for less than 100 years, it will be annihilated in the long river of history for various reasons, and what will follow is the turbulent times that last for hundreds of years.

It's like a dinner table, people keep coming to the table to eat, and people are constantly kicking off the chair by latecomers, what changes is the face sitting at the table, but what remains unchanged is their greedy eating appearance, in the eyes of these people, the world is like a banquet with endless tastes, even if they know that they can no longer eat, but they still can't help but continue to stuff things into their mouths until they die......

Qin Ke trembled slightly, as if the table of gluttonous feasts appeared in front of him, and behind those delicacies, it was the flesh and blood of the people who were cooking.

"It's not your fault. Qin Ke said softly, "You can't decide these either." ”

Cai Yan looked at him sideways, her big eyes flashed with a warm light, and when she laughed, she showed two sharp tiger teeth: "You think I'm sad?"

Qin Ke looked at her smile and frowned, "Isn't it?"

"Of course not. Cai Yan magnified his smile: "I apologize because although I am in the Mo family, I am now wearing the armor of the Mo family's cavalry, but I will not carry a knife into battle, let alone help them kill." You want to ask me if I feel guilty about the Mo family, but I just want to say ...... No. ”

Cai Yan looked ahead: "Of course, I will sympathize with them, because they really deserve sympathy." But I know it's not my fault, and as you said, I can't decide on that. What's more, when the Mo family attacked the Tang State on a large scale, the people of the Tang Kingdom were not very lucky, I went to the palace to see the lord of the country at that time, and I also heard the war report from the front line, hundreds of thousands of acres of land were burned, and tens of thousands of people were displaced...... Believe it or not, if Ah Guo can live forever, one day he will definitely wield a butcher's knife against the people of the Tang Kingdom. ”

Qin Ke was dumbfounded.

Cai Yan's eyes are very dark, very bright, pure like black gems, and her smile is as clean as a child, which makes people feel no whimsical in their hearts.

But this time, Qin Ke saw something from these eyes as pure as a child, which he hadn't noticed before.

In this world, some people are clear, some people are confused, some people pretend to understand, and some people pretend to understand.

Cai Yan should be the kind of person who understands in his heart, but does not show it. Although sometimes she is very childish, and she has to seriously grab even the child's sugar gourd, but in the face of some major rights and wrongs, she is far wiser and free than herself.

She wasn't sad, she wasn't dwelling, because she knew she didn't have to, and she didn't bother to do so.

Qin Ke lowered his head, but felt a little ashamed: "Maybe." But I hope ...... I will never have that day, my sword will never ......"

Before he finished speaking, he felt a pain in his abdomen, and he almost carried it in one breath.

Cai Yan poked his ribs hard with the unsheathed knife in his hand, but there was a casual expression on his face: "Look at your expression, are you thinking nonsense again? Really, you are not the kind of smart person that Lao Gao, why do you have to rush to put so many messy things in your head? If you continue to be so entangled, beware of decay before you grow old, or do you want to be an ascetic monk to purify all sentient beings?"

She glanced at the Sanskrit words engraved on the scabbard in Qin Ke's hand, and read it softly: "The heart is free of obstacles, there is no obstacle, there is no terror, far from the upside-down dream, the ...... Nirvana"