Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 1858 Homecoming

The man looked at her with bright eyes, and the girl's figure was reflected in his eyes. Facing Ying Baoyue's question, he said calmly.

"My name is Du Ziqing."

Du?
Ying Baoyue was startled, for some reason, she inexplicably remembered Du Siqi who had fought against her in the elementary ceremony.

The surname Du is a common surname in the south. There are many aristocratic families surnamed Du in Southern Chu and Eastern Wu, and the most prosperous one is the Du family in Danyang who is as famous as the Ye family in Danyang City.

If she remembers correctly, when Murong Heng first disguised himself as a disciple of Beihan Pavilion and stayed beside the Northern Wei saint girl, he used the alias Du Heng.

Why is the surname Du so closely related to Xirong?

"Senior, you..."

Ying Baoyue looked at the person who was sitting by the fire and called himself Du Ziqing, and asked softly, "Are you a descendant of the Du family in Danyang?"

The man glanced at her and said expressionlessly, "No."

That's right, the descendants of a family with the surname A would never end up living in this kind of place, and stay there for 18 years.

only……

Ying Baoyue silently stared at the ragged man who looked like a beggar in front of him.Although this person behaved casually and sloppily, she inexplicably sensed a little bit of a son of an aristocratic family from his every move.

Some habits are engraved in the bones, as indelible as the color of the eyes.

The environment in which this person grew up when he was young should be very favorable.

But the more this happened, the more Ying Baoyue couldn't figure out why he lived in this kind of place.

"Senior, you haven't told me why you live in this kind of place," Ying Baoyue asked.

"I didn't come here by myself," Du Ziqing said calmly, and he took a sip of his wine, "I was driven here to herd sheep."

arrived?

Ying Baoyue's heart tightened. Ding Ling had always been the place where Xi Rong exiled prisoners. Could it be that this person was also exiled here?
"Who chased you?"

Du Ziqing glanced at the south, and said neither happy nor angry, "White Wolf King."

But not any Central Plains person is eligible to be exiled by the White Wolf King himself, Ying Baoyue asked calmly, "Then why did you come to Xirong in the first place?"

Du Ziqing was silent for a moment, touched the long pole in his hand, "I came to deliver something, and was detained here."

detain……

Ying Baoyue stared at the bare pole, her heart beating faster and faster, and her vague guess before was confirmed.

If she guessed correctly, this person should have been an envoy to Xirong.

Before the Battle of Great Qin and the founding of the country, in order to stabilize the situation in the north, the six countries in the Great Wall tried to coexist peacefully with Xirong for a period of time.

It was during this period that the two parties had several marriage ties, and envoys were naturally sent to discuss the marriage.

Ying Baoyue vaguely heard that an envoy once lost his way in Xirong due to the sandstorm and failed to return.

Going on a mission is inherently risky, and sandstorms are natural disasters, so the people of Xirong cannot be blamed. In the end, these things can only be left alone.

It now appears that not all those envoys died in Xirong.

Ying Baoyue looked at Du Ziqing with a complicated expression. It is estimated that many envoys were detained in Xirong just like this.

"you……"

She was silent for a while and asked, "Don't you want to go back?"

According to the rules of selecting envoys from the six countries within the Great Wall, those who have not left incense will not be selected. In other words, if Du Ziqing can be an envoy, he must already have a wife and son in his hometown.

"go back?"

Du Ziqing clenched the long pole in his hand, and said calmly, "According to what the White Wolf King said, I will let the ram here have a son before I can be released."

Rams give birth?

Ying Baoyue's heart skipped a beat.

When the White Wolf King proposed this condition, he was simply looking for an excuse to trap him until he died of old age.

What kind of hatred does this person have with the White Wolf King?Don't kill or let go, you must trap this person here.

There was movement in the tent next door at this time, hearing the woman's busy work and the children's play and crying, Ying Baoyue's mood suddenly became complicated.

It is almost impossible for this person to go back.

Ding Ling is the hinterland in the hinterland of Xirong, even if Emperor Taizu was alive, he would not be able to reach this place.

What's more, in the past 18 years, the emperor has changed twice. The official who sent Du Ziqing as an envoy at the beginning is likely to have disappeared. It is estimated that no one in the Great Wall remembers this person, let alone special personnel and troops. Xi Rong came to fetch him back.

18 years is enough to turn youth into middle age, enough to turn black hair into gray hair, make parents die, and wives and children be separated.

Even if this person returns to his hometown now, few people probably know him.

"Father!"

At this time, there was a crisp call from outside the tent, and a five-year-old boy dressed as a Xirong child ran into the tent barefoot.

Ying Baoyue's heart skipped a beat, and she stared at the child in a daze.

The boy threw himself on Du Ziqing's lap and looked at her curiously with wide eyes.

"Wuenqi!"

At this time, a Xirong woman opened the tent door and chased her in. She woke up and froze at the tent door.

Du Ziqing sat quietly by the fire, took a sip of wine, glanced at the woman, and murmured a few words in Xirong.

The woman froze for a moment, lowered her head, and exited the tent cautiously.

Ying Baoyue looked at this scene with mixed feelings in her heart, "Is that your current wife?"

Du Ziqing was silent for a while without speaking. He drank the wine in the wine bag in one gulp, stood up, "It's the woman arranged by the White Wolf King for me."

After he finished speaking, he seemed impatient with her asking so many questions, he held the little boy under his arm with one hand, walked out of the tent, and left a word.

"Ah Heng will be back soon, you should take care of yourself here."

……

……

When Murong Heng came in with the freshly squeezed goat's milk, he saw Ying Baoyue sitting on the floor in a daze.

"Baoyue, are you awake?"

Ying Baoyue nodded, forced a smile on his face, "Where did you go?"

"Get you something to eat," Murong Heng poured the goat's milk into the iron pot on the firepit and started to boil.

The next moment he caught a glimpse of the fresh wine stains on the edge of the firepit, and was stunned.

"Baoyue," he looked back at Ying Baoyue with a complicated expression, "Have you seen him?"

"You mean Senior Du?"

Ying Baoyue nodded, "He just went out."

Murong Heng was startled when he heard that, "He told you his original name?"

Ying Baoyue nodded.

The expression on Murong Heng's face changed suddenly,
Du Ziqing has a weird personality, and has always lived in the tent next door, rarely coming to his side.

It was he who begged Du Ziqing to come and see how Ying Baoyue was doing before, so he reluctantly came.

Unexpectedly, Du Ziqing actually came here while he was away, and even told Ying Baoyue her real name.

You know, he didn't know Du Ziqing's Zhongyuan name until he had herded sheep for three months.

"Murong Heng, do you understand this person's situation?"

Ying Baoyue asked, "Which country is he originally from, do you know?"

Murong Heng shook his head, "He rarely talks about his own affairs."

Du Ziqing was tight-lipped about her past, and besides herding sheep every day, she lived with the Xirong woman next door.

Murong Heng also thought that he was some kind of extraterrestrial expert, but as time passed, he became more and more disappointed with Du Ziqing, and always felt that he couldn't find anything from this person.

"By the way, Baoyue, I already have an idea about your plan to go to the White Wolf King's Court."

At this time, Murong Heng suddenly looked at Ying Baoyue and said.

Ying Baoyue's attention was immediately concentrated.

"how to get to?"

(End of this chapter)