Almost without thinking, she turned the car around and ran back.
But the donkey was very stubborn and refused to turn around. It snorted, rolled its eyes, and stayed where it was. Shen Yinxiao took out an apple plug and hung it on a bamboo pole with a rope. The apple hung precariously in front of the donkey's eyes.
As soon as the donkey saw it was eating, it immediately started running with its hooves shining brightly.
"Run faster." She touched the mane of the donkey that had been with her for almost two years. This donkey had a nickname, Xiaofu. "Xiaofu, run faster and I will give you corn when I go back."
Those people were Qiang people, and her heart sank slightly.
The Qiang people are divided into many branches, including Shaodang, Baima, Xianling, Shenlang, Baihe and other dozens of large and small tribes. Some tribes have tens of thousands of people, and some only have a few hundred. These Qiang people have arrived In winter, when food and clothing were no longer enough, he liked to rob the surrounding Han people's things and raped and killed many women.
The other party was wearing armor and sabers. It could be seen at a glance that they were the troops sent by the governor of Youzhou to suppress the rebellious Qiang people.
This place is located in a remote place, and the Qiang people make a living as nomads. They are elusive and move frequently. Maybe there are still some escaped Qiang people nearby.
Dots of cold sweat broke out on her forehead, and the hand holding the reins was so hard that the palms of her hands were strangled red without noticing.
"Xiaofu, run faster!"
The sound of swords and the sound of horse hooves behind her followed her like a shadow. She swallowed, and Xiao Fu spread his hooves very vigorously and ran wildly. He seemed to know that it was not safe at this moment and was afraid of being made into donkey meat and burned.
She was so frightened that her heart was beating wildly until Xiaofu led her to a dense forest. After stumbling around in various directions, she finally had no strength and stopped.
Only then did she dare to look back.
The figure was finally gone.
Her hands and feet were weak and she fell to the ground, panting heavily, and her inner clothes were soaked with cold sweat.
Xiao Fu knelt down on the ground panting, drinking the water on the ground. Shen Yinxiao fed him another apple, and then he was able to look around.
The woods here are dense, and there is not a single human habitation at a glance. I don't know the specific location here. There are not even stars in the sky. It is cold and dark, and from time to time there is the howling of wolves.
Fortunately, she brought a cloak and wrapped it around her body. She did not dare to light a bonfire and huddled next to a bag full of soybeans, feeling sad.
The wolf howled far and near, and she was so frightened that her teeth chattered, and she regretted why she went out today.
I don’t know how long it took, but the sound of horse hooves sounded again.
Her hair stood on end, and she even forgot about her fear. She pulled the reins and drove Xiao Fu away. Xiao Fu rested for a long time and regained a lot of strength. He started running "da da da" in the lonely woods.
"stop--"
The gang shouted harshly.
"Those in front, stop!"
"Great, it's a girl-"
As soon as he finished speaking, there were bursts of strange laughter, which looked as terrifying as a night owl in the dark night.
Her accent was not that of a pure Han Chinese, but rather that of a foreigner. Her heartbeat was beating like a drum, and she drove like crazy. The group of people on horseback could not catch up with her for a while.
She could almost imagine what would happen to her after they caught her. Uncle Wang's daughter on the same street was raped and killed by drunken Qiang people at night. She gritted her teeth, pulled out the dagger from her arms, and slashed the car. Soybean bag.
"Wow--"
The bag was opened, and soybeans poured out from the car like water, like pearls scattered on the dark night.
Sure enough, it worked. After all the soybeans were poured on the ground, the group's speed was indeed slower, but it was a pity for these beans.
She felt some pain in her body, but she didn't have time to feel the pain for long before her body suddenly became suspended in the air.
A chasm of unknown depth lay at the foot of the hillside. Xiaofu ran too fast and couldn't see the road clearly. He crossed it in one fell swoop. Shen Yinxiao didn't even have time to scream before he was thrown to the ground.
Severe pain came from all the limbs, as if the bones were about to break.
She held back her moans, held the dagger in her hand, grabbed everything she could on the ground, and crawled to a place where she could be covered.
Big raindrops fell down, cold to the bone, hitting her face and forehead little by little. She stuck out her tongue and drank the rainwater greedily. She didn't know how long she crawled, taking advantage of the fact that her body was not completely frozen. , finally found a naturally formed cave.
The howling of beasts in her ears could no longer wake her up, and she fell asleep wrapped in a cloak, her eyes darkened.
In a daze, she seemed to be dreaming about her parents making a swing for her when she was a child. Her neighbor's brother came to play with her and pushed her up and down.
So hot--
it hurts--
She cried softly in her dream, and in a daze, she felt a rough, big hand covering her forehead.
"Brother Xingzhou..." Shen Yinxiao murmured unconsciously.
Wei Cheng, who was raising his hand to test whether Shen Yinxiao's fever had subsided, stiffened.
He frowned, thinking he heard wrong.
"Brother Xingzhou..."
Chen Yinxiao's cheeks were flushed, as if he was drunk. He was nestled in the coarse quilt, his eyes were closed, and he was murmuring in a low voice.
Wei Cheng finally realized that he heard correctly.
The originally gentle and kind face fell instantly.
The temperature of the originally warm room suddenly dropped sharply.
The peasant woman on the side was trembling with fear, her teeth were trembling, her legs and feet were so weak that she almost knelt down. Wei Ning on the side said: "Second Young Master, you have been awake all night to find Mrs. Shen, why don't you eat something first and then rest for a while."
"Did you hear something just now?" Wei Cheng did not answer, but turned to ask him quietly.
Wei Ning was stunned for a moment, then shook his head: "This subordinate didn't hear anything."
Wei Cheng stretched out his hand, and his slender fingers lingered on Shen Yinxiao's cheek. He felt the warmth on the woman's face and felt a little at ease.
Thinking of the report he received from his servants last night that Shen Yinxiao had not returned home all night, and also heard that Shen Yinxiao had discovered Qiang people making trouble on the road he passed by, he could hardly resist the urge to kill.
These Qiang people didn't shed tears until they saw the coffin, and they even dared to touch his people.
Boating...Brother?
She is the only daughter of her parents, so there is no brother.
I've never seen her call him so affectionately.
He gritted his back molars and snorted coldly.
The farmer and Wei Ning on the side swallowed nervously.
Especially the peasant woman, who still had lingering fears about what happened last night.
Last night, her family was sleeping soundly. Suddenly, a group of soldiers in armor broke into her home. The handsome man in the leader, who was well-dressed, held a girl who was dirty and covered in mud in his arms and walked straight in with a gloomy expression. .
The black nursing dog at home jumped up and barked several times. Seeing that the man was motionless, he continued to bark.
"Noisy."
After the handsome man at the head carefully put down the girl in his arms, he directly took out the sword from his waist and slashed the dog he had raised for several years with one blow.
She was about to scream, but the sergeant named Wei Ning threw a gold ingot at the side, and she immediately did not dare to say anything.
