Zheng Quchi inquired about the location, and then went all the way to the "Kezi Forest". She recalled that on the way here, she passed a red pine forest. When the season came, and the pine cones were ripe, it would be hard to save them. Less pine nuts.
There are many people in the Kezi Forest digging for something in the ground. There is very little food to be found in winter. If they don’t hide some food for the winter, they may not be able to survive the winter.
Zheng Quchi roughly estimated the size of the forest. There were about dozens of acres of land, all with trees more than ten meters high. The annual chestnut production must be quite high.
Gan Xin didn't understand what she was thinking about, so he asked: "Master, aren't you going to find someone?"
"I was looking for it, but I just happened to think of a deal that I might have done, so I came over to take a look," she said.
"Business? Master still knows how to do business?"
Gan Xin thought that Zheng Quchi only knew civil engineering, not business?
Zheng Quchi shook his head: "I don't really understand, so this matter needs to be investigated by someone who really understands it. At most, I can just give you an idea."
She kept this matter in mind first and prepared it as a demonstration project. She would talk to the local government later to see if she could expand the development of poverty alleviation and solve the problem of Wubao's current massive population loss, abandoned farmland, and people's poverty. A desperate situation.
There was a large reed marsh in front of Fengdu. Zheng Quchi looked at the lake, which had been frozen by snow and frost. The harsh north wind was blowing, and the reeds were swaying in the wind, as if they were dancing. The unique scenery made her stop and watch for a while.
The rush of time and heavy tasks have made it so long since she could calm down and look at the sky, the earth, and the scenery in front of her.
The earth is vast under the sky, and the reed flowers in the wind are like plucked strings, displaying stillness through movement, and everything becomes silent and mysterious.
But all the good things are often accompanied by sudden dangers. Suddenly, an arrow shot through the reeds in the Dukou River. The strong wind overwhelmed the reeds and shot towards Zheng Quchi.
Before she could react, Gan Xin's cold gaze behind him instantly caught sight of a direction, and he had already jumped away like a nimble flying leopard.
He grabbed the bone arrow and rubbed his body like a powerful whirlwind. Although he no longer had the crazy sword in his body, his body skills and internal strength were still overbearing. With just a turn of his head, Zheng Quchi saw that he had already grabbed the bone arrow. Here comes the backstabber.
"Let go of Wa, let go of Wa!"
He is a young boy named Barbarian who is only as high as Gan Xin's waist. It is not difficult to recognize that Barbarian's clothing and appearance are obviously different from those of the Central Plains people.
He struggled desperately in the palm of the tall Gan Xin, but was suppressed to death. The bow and arrow in his hand fell off, and he immediately yelled: "Damn Ye people, let go of Wa, let go of Wa!"
Zheng Quchi frowned and looked behind the young barbarian boy. No one else was following him. She felt both ridiculous and surprised.
This kid looks only eleven or twelve years old, how dare he?
When he accidentally met his eyes that glanced at him with anger, Zheng Quchi couldn't help but feel a little dazed.
"Gan Xin, lift his head up." Her voice was warm and light, like water, soft to the touch and cold at the same time.
Gan Xin immediately followed the instructions. He tied the little barbarian's arm with one hand and clamped his chin with the other hand, raising his face.
Zheng Quchi came closer, she met his eyes, and he looked at her too.
After a long time, Zheng Quchi asked, "Look, are my eyes similar to his?"
Gan Xin was startled for a moment, and carefully observed the difference in the eyes of the two, but shook his head: "It doesn't look like that."
Her eyes were bright and shining, like clean and clear stars in the stream, but the barbarian's eyes were like those of a wolf cub. Just because he dared to shoot arrows to kill people, we knew that he was a cruel person.
Zheng Quchi didn't believe it, and asked other people behind him. Some of these soldiers said they were somewhat similar, while others said they were not very similar.
No one was sure what Zheng Quchi was thinking at this moment. Why was she asking if her eyes looked like those of a barbarian?
In fact, what they said is correct. The shape of Zheng Quchi's eyes and that of Xiao Manyi are not very similar, but the color of their pupils is very similar.
Zheng Quchi's pupils were much lighter than those of the Ye people. His pupils were brown, which was somewhat different from their dark eyes.
She didn't think there was anything wrong with it at first. In modern times, people with eye colors like hers abound. But then she slowly discovered that the locals in Ye country all had normal black pupils.
Only barbarians or barbarian hybrids have this kind of eye color. They have green pupils and blue pupils, and more of them have brown pupils.
Zheng Quchi suspected that Sang Xuan Qingzu was mixed with the blood of other races, right?
It's just that her facial features are soft and her eyelashes are thick. She looks like a pure Central Plains person. Otherwise, having eyes like hers would easily cause trouble for her.
Zheng Quchi was not in a hurry to ask Xiaomanyi why he killed her, but instead became curious about who he was.
"Which tribe are you from? What's your name?"
"Bah——" The little barbarian was so proud that he turned his head and said nothing.
But when Gan Xin looked at him with the cold eyes of a child looking at Ye Weng, he immediately felt a little scared.
"...Zhu Zhu."
She didn't really know which tribes there were among the barbarians, but wasn't Zhu Zhu the tribe that worried Wu Bao so much?
Wubao is located in the northwest. The landforms here are complex and diverse. What you can see are mountains, plateaus, plains, and farther away river valleys, deserts, Gobi, etc. Originally, Wubao, Luochuan, and Lianyuan were all within the territory of Ye State, but Luochuan Sichuan and Lianfan were occupied by the Zhu tribe in the early years, and the Ye Kingdom has not yet regained its lost territory.
The Zhu tribe is distributed in a long and narrow way on the borders of Ye, Hongsheng and Beiyuan Kingdom. They are obviously adjacent to the Three Kingdoms, but they are picky about the soft ones. The two countries dare not offend them, so they often come to Wubao to make trouble. The demon has made the people of Wubao miserable and full of complaints.
"Zhu Zhu?"
Zheng Quchi only got a simple piece of information, but Gan Xin obviously knew something inside. The next second he quickly searched the young boy and found a lot of bottles and jars as expected.
Zheng Quchi was puzzled by his behavior: "Gan Xin, what's wrong?"
Gan Xin said solemnly: "The people of the Zhuzhu tribe are somewhat special. Compared with other barbarian tribes, they are average in all aspects. They are only good at casting poisons. Their methods are vicious and insidious, so we must guard against them."
Zheng Quchi was stunned.
insanity?
"Give it back to Wa, return Wa's things to Wa, you despicable and shameless Central Plains people, let go of Wa, Wa will kill you!" Seeing that his important things were taken away, the little barbarian had no hope of escaping. , immediately ran away and shouted angrily: "Wa curse you, Wa -"
Gan Xin directly pulled a handful of grass and stuffed it into his mouth. His pupils were so wide that they were red with anger.
"Tie him up first. I think his identity is not simple."
Look at this outfit, he is much wealthier than the people of Wubao. He is wearing all kinds of silver jewelry, and his tone and demeanor are so willful that he is not like the ordinary Zhuzhu barbarians.
After taking the person down, Gan Xin asked Zheng Quchi: "Master, why don't you continue to ask him why he killed someone?"
"He won't tell."
There was disapproval in Gan Xin's eyes. If you can't be soft, then be tough. How big a thing can a little kid handle.
After understanding his thoughts, Zheng Quchi asked him: "Then are you sure that everything he confided is true?"
Gan Xin was silent.
This guy looks dishonest at first glance, I really can’t tell.
"I still have a way to deal with this naughty kid."
She took out the map and looked at it again. The troops were stationed by the Mohe River, probably a few hundred meters away from the creek. This guy came here to lie in wait. Who was he originally planning to deal with? Why did he shoot the arrow at her in the end? Already?
With all kinds of doubts and unreasonableness, Zheng Quchi deliberately sent other people away during his lunch break to be alone with him.
Zheng Quchi waited for him to calm down, then pulled out the grass from his mouth and brought him delicious food.
The little barbarian was indeed hungry, but he refused to accept the food that came to him, pursed his lips and rolled his eyes.
"Boy, did you sneak out?"
Her casual words made the little barbarian widen his eyes and look at her warily.
Zheng Quchi smiled. She had a kind face and a good-looking appearance. After looking left and right, she secretly said to him: "Actually, I am also a member of the Zhuzhu tribe."
Of course the little barbarian didn't believe it: "Fart!"
Seeing that he finally replied, Zheng Quchi immediately produced evidence.
"Look at my eyes."
She deliberately widened her eyes to show him, and when he saw her brown eyes, the little barbarian was stunned for a moment.
"you--"
"My mother is from the Zhu tribe, and my father is from the Central Plains. That's why I look like this. But I know that I also have the blood of the Zhu tribe in my body. So even though you want to kill me, I don't have the heart to kill you." Zheng Quchi He made up a short story seriously.
However, the little barbarian is not so easy to deceive: "You lied, that's not what you said just now."
"There were many people at the time, and I couldn't expose myself. You didn't believe me?"
"Do not believe."
"Then if I let you go, will you believe me?"
The little barbarian was surprised: "Are you really going to let me go?"
Zheng Quchi said sincerely: "Well, of course, but I can't do it now. I have to wait until they all go to bed at night, and then I will let you go quietly. By the way, there is a question that I have never been able to figure out. Do you have any grudge against me? , why did you want to ambush me in Xidi?"
Little Barbarian didn't know whether what she said was true or false, he was confused by her.
Although his mind told him not to trust a stranger easily, he wanted to believe that what she said was true. After all, although he looked calm, in fact he was only twelve years old and was far from as powerful as an adult. mentality, this time he lost and was caught, and his heart was actually filled with regret and fear.
He pursed his lips and struggled in his heart for a long time before he spoke: "...I had a quarrel with Ada (father). I just wanted to kill a very powerful person to prove that I was better than my brother. I saw that so many of them were surrounding me. I just wanted to look at you, and thinking that your identity must not be simple, I wanted to kill you and go back to the tribe to claim credit."
"So that's it, but Taylor is really amazing. He is good at archery and brave. I believe that Taylor is better than your brother. One day your Ada will definitely treat you differently. By the way, My name is Zheng Quchi, what is your name?"
The little barbarian thought she would be very angry after hearing this, but he didn't expect that she would still look gentle and smiling. Not only was she not angry, but she wanted to exchange names with him. He stuttered a little: "My, my name is Letai."
The women in the tribe are all very fierce. This is the first time he has met such a kind of intimate elder sister, and he can't stand it at all.
"Le Tai, why did you sneak out alone? How dangerous it is. Aren't you afraid of being caught by the Ye army stationed there?" Zheng Quchi said with a look of disapproval.
Letai raised his chin: "Of course I'm not afraid. I, Ada, said that he has his own way of dealing with the new general of Ye State. He said that he had already seen that he had something in him -" (End of Chapter)
