Nightfall Chapter 16: He came from the mountain with a little girl
Chapter 16 He came from the mountain with a little girl()
A **** and fierce battle was over. The survivors looked at Ning Que's gaze, and their attitude towards him silently changed slightly. During these days of leaving Weicheng, they might respect Ning Que’s ability to be a guide. When it comes to certain major events and important decisions, Ning Que is just a big stone in the eyes of the guards, but now No matter what people do, they will subconsciously seek his opinions.
Reported to Her Royal Highness for approval. The head of the guards listened to Ning Que's opinion and did not immediately withdraw from the Beishan Pass, but decided to rest on the spot for all the wounded, hoping that the troops at the southern foot of the Beishan Road could arrive at dawn.
Lv Qingchen, a weak old man, quietly looked at the young man by the fire, with a smile on his face, and gently rubbed his right thumb on the belly line of his index finger, but in the end he just shook his head.
Two fires were lit next to the carriage. Although the dense forest was stern, but fortunately, the rotting leaves carried the night dew, I was not worried about a troublesome fire. The head of the guard and the wounded gathered around a fire, leaving another fire with a better location for His Royal Highness, the old man, and the little boy. Even in this embarrassing situation, they still did not forget the distinction between honor and inferiority.
Lashing and taking medicine to eat, the barbarians on the grassland could not help their hunger and thirst after the war, and sipped wine. People by the fire passed the wine pouches, and when they handed them to Sangsang, the little maid gently shook it. Shaking his head, then the barbarian named Dumu walked to Ning Que with a very respectful expression, and passed the wine pouch with both hands.
Someone watched this scene, her delicate eyebrows frowned slightly. She knew very well that these prairie barbarians who were loyal to her were arrogant and unruly horse thieves on the prairie before they were conquered. Others except themselves show respect, not to mention that there is obvious fear in their respect at this time-even if the teenager played a decisive role in the previous battle to make them grateful, where does the fear come from?
Ning Que took the wine pouch and took a sip, frowning his brows burned by the strong wine. He looked at the old man by the fire, his heart moved slightly, propped up his tired body with his hands, and walked over there, but before he bowed or arched his hands, he even kneeled down on his knees and asked for a big gift as he imagined when he was a child. Enlightenment, was intercepted by a faint voice.
"Sit down."
Ning Que turned his head to look at the maid by the fire, and at her face that became more and more beautiful with the fire light, he sighed in his heart, saluted very respectfully, and then sat down to be away from her. Not far or near.
Although he insists that she is different from the world's chants, she is an idiot. But even if it is an idiot, the difference in status between the two parties is like Fanxing and the loach in the rice field, so he must pay attention to his etiquette and respect.
Because she is not a maid, she is Li Yu, the fourth princess of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Yu quietly looked at the young man’s profile, his youthful face looked very ordinary, except for the small dimples that occasionally opened when he laughed and the freckles that were not unsightly under the firelight, he couldn’t find any special places. .
However, the performance of such an ordinary young soldier in battle reminded her more than once of the indifferent tiger leaping over the bushes on the grassland. For some reason, she had just experienced a thrilling assassination. As long as she looked at Ning Que, who was not far from herself, she felt a lot relaxed and calmer.
Perhaps because the young man is guarding his side like a tiger.
The problem is that she doesn't like this boy. From Weicheng's boxing to control the servants and then to see all the way, regardless of disguised as a handmaid, but now reverting to the princess status, she is extremely disliked by this border city soldier.
What makes her even more unpleasant is that she always feels that Ning Que’s respect to herself is just a demonstration of her kung fu, she can’t see any sincerity, and she always feels that he should secretly laugh at herself in some dark corners—have to It is said that a woman's intuition is always a terrible weapon, whether it is a peasant woman in the country or a bitter woman in a deep palace.
His Royal Highness, the most noble princess of the Datang Empire, should be angry as long as she thinks that a certain low-level soldier is laughing at herself, but now the feeling of this princess is that she is sitting with her, sitting by the fire. You will feel the sense of relaxation and security, and the feeling of being protected.
She likes this feeling, but she doesn't like this feeling because of Ning Que. So instead, he was a little bit inexplicably embarrassed. He slightly squinted his eyes and looked at his profile, and the tone of his speech deliberately became much colder.
"When the enemy attacked just now, it seemed that you wanted to go to the carriage to save the palace?"
What palace is this palace? Daming Palace? Leaving the lower palace? Anyway, at that time, the real palace was not in the carriage, and now the palace said that you wanted to save the palace at that time, it was ironic that you only wanted to make merit.
"Actually...I have known that His Royal Highness is His Royal Highness since I was in Weicheng."
Ning Que looked at her and explained earnestly, Your Royal Highness is His Royal Highness, and the main palace in the car is naturally not a princess. There may be some useful little tricks to lure enemies, but in the eyes of really smart people, it can only be something Low-level blindfold.
Li Yu frowned slightly. She didn't ask when and why Ning Que was able to see through her identity. It was probably because of the previous battles and subsequent sense of security that gave her a very good judgment on the ability of the teenager.
She suddenly asked coldly: "Before you said that all killing skills were learned in the army, but you are only fifteen or six years old this year. When Weicheng recruited troops, I was afraid that you were still a child. Why do you want to enter the camp?"
Ning Que thought that you are a sixteen-year-old girl. She was not the same as marrying the grassland. When she was about to fool a few words at will, Sangsang walked over quietly and sat down at his. Beside.
Looking at the real little girl who was quietly next to him, he was in a soft mood, looking at the flames floating in front of him, and recalled: "His Royal Highness should know that this girl Sangsang was picked by the roadside when I was young. At that time, we were all very young, and we ran into the vast Minshan Mountain by mistake. When we were about to die of starvation and thirst, we ran into an old hunter."
He raised his head, looked at the princess’s beautiful face, and said, “The old hunter is not a worldly expert. He didn’t necessarily have a good idea to save the two of us, but in short he taught me to hunt. The archery technique was learned at that time. Later... the old hunter died, so I took Sangsang to hunt for a living in Minshan."
It is very simple to tell, but in the eyes of Her Royal Highness, a very vivid picture emerged. A ten-year-old boy carrying a five- or six-year-old **** his back was struggling in the vast Minshan mountains full of beasts and cliffs. Moving forward, he carried a small boxwood hardwood bow in his hand, and the little girl was carrying a simple barrel of wooden arrows behind her back.
Sometimes I can’t shoot my prey for a few days, sometimes I’m chased by leopards and fall down the hillside. Occasionally I shot a gray rabbit and two children jumped for joy. Sometimes they looked at the lights from afar. The cottage left in silence.
In Li Yu’s eyes, Ning Que’s face was no longer as nasty as before. She frowned and asked, “The mountains are so dangerous, why don’t you go to the government? My Datang should do something about widows and widows. It’s great."
Ning Que lowered his head and picked up a burnt wood, and said in a low voice: "It's actually easier to live in places with few people."
A very simple sentence, but I don't know how many hardships and blood and tears are hidden. Li Yu stared at the master and servant by the fire, and suddenly frowned and asked, "That old hunter... how did he die?" /
Ning Que raised his head and replied calmly: "I killed it, I killed it with a knife."
As for why he wanted to kill the old hunter, he didn’t explain, he wouldn’t explain to this noble princess who had never experienced the darkest and filthy part of the bottom of the world. He probably won’t explain it to anyone in his life. He just rubbed Sangsang's little head fondly and took her into his arms.