girl riding a horse

Chapter 34 You are welcome

"You little brat, what do you know? Look at his face! That face is obviously not from the Central Plains, but from the Northern Yi, so killing him won't hurt!"

A wounded soldier pointed at the ground behind him and roared angrily. He didn't know that the boy had already got up and leaned against the wall. If it wasn't for a dead end, the boy would have run away long ago.

"My father is from the Central Plains." The young man who had never made a sound before being beaten suddenly said, his voice was weak, but stubborn, "My father was also a soldier, just like you."

The three wounded soldiers turned their heads to look at him in unison, and were stunned.

They had just experienced a fiasco, and many of their comrades and friends died, so that the anger in their hearts had no place to vent. When they saw this young man on the road, they didn't like it, so they dragged him into the alley and beat him to vent their anger.

But what the boy said made them instantly think of those comrades who died on the battlefield. When they felt sympathetic, they felt guilty for the arbitrary bullying and beating just now...

But this is only for a moment, how many people will easily admit that they made a mistake?
"Bastard!" a soldier with a wound on his arm cursed.

"You're worthy of being a father to something that was born by a bitch from Beiyi?!" Another person also said viciously.

"My mother is not a bitch! My father and mother are a serious couple who have worshiped heaven and earth!" The feeble boy suddenly became ruthless and roared unwillingly.

Such a tone angered the wounded soldiers, just when they were about to turn around and beat him up again, Xie Yuan suddenly spoke in a confused and naive tone, and asked:
"What do you mean bitch?"

She asked such a sincere question, and she was a half-grown child, so the three wounded soldiers were at a loss for what to do.

Another moment of silence.

"Damn it, this kid doesn't even know what a bitch means... Where does he live? Isn't he an idiot?" one said.

For some reason, Xie Yuan's clean innocence brought them a sense of absurdity, but it also reminded them of their children far away in their hometown.

So the mania in my heart disappeared inexplicably, and I couldn't bring up the beating heart again.

The shorter wounded soldier in the middle said, "Forget it, it's boring, let's go!"

After finishing speaking, he led people past Xie Yuan and left together.

Xie Yuan looked at the boy leaning against the wall opposite him.

The young man looked at the person opposite him who obviously lived in a different world from him, and he was naturally hostile, even though he had just helped him out of trouble...

"Are you okay?" Xie Yuan asked with concern.

The young man said angrily: "Stop being hypocritical, come to me to fight for justice. You pretend that I don't remember, it was you who slashed my sword last time?"

Xie Yuan narrowed his red phoenix eyes, narrowed them a bit, and said with natural power, "One yard counts for one yard. I will stop you from robbing, and if it doesn't delay, I will stop others from hitting you for no reason."

The boy looked at her straight, but didn't speak.

Seeing that there was no need to stay any longer, Xie Yuan turned around and was about to leave.

As a result, as soon as he turned around and stepped out of the alley, he saw Shen Liuzhen leading someone over here.

From the way he looked, he was here to find her.

Xie Yuan immediately turned on his toes, looked back, and wanted to find a place to hide, but there were residential buildings on both sides, and she couldn't jump into other people's homes.It would be really embarrassing to be caught as a thief.

So she ran directly behind the boy and stood still, pulled the boy who was much taller than her, and hid.

"What are you doing?" the boy asked impatiently as he was about to leave.

"Shh...someone is looking for me, you can hide for me for a while." Xie Yuanmao said from behind him.

Shen Liuzhen rode on a horse and led the people through the alley slowly. He turned his face to look into the alley, and waited for him to pass by before turning his eyes away.

It was the weak counselor they robbed last time, the boy thought.

It was just when he passed by, the look in his eyes that seemed to know everything in his chest made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

"People have passed away." The young man felt the hands behind him pulling his clothes, and suddenly realized that he was actually as old as those vagrants who had been following behind him to make a living, so his mood changed from the hostility just now to another. In terms of protection, even the tone of voice is much gentler.

Xie Yuan cautiously stretched out his head, only exposing his eyes to observe the entrance of the alley, for fear that Shen Liuzhen would kill him with his carbine.

"Why are you so afraid of him? Aren't you amazing?" the boy asked again.

Xie Yuan came out from behind him, and said with a serious face, "I'm not afraid, I'm annoying him."

She walked to the edge of the alley, looked out, and saw that there was no one there, so she untied the horse tied to the side of the tea shed.

Before untiing it, she paused.Because she suddenly thought that the horse was tied outside just now, and Shen Liuzhen might have seen it long ago...

But what about people?

Xie Yuan looked around again, but there was no sign of him at all... He also brought many people here.

Didn't he come to look for her, but some other errand sent by his father?

what errand?
Xie Yuan got on the horse with a heavy heart, while the young man stood under the horse, looked up at her, and suddenly said a word:

"My name is Guan Yifei."

Xie Yuan took the reins, stepped on the stirrups and straightened his waist. He didn't know why, but he still said, "My name is Xie Yuan."

"Do you have money? Give me some." The young man looked straight into Xie Yuan's eyes and said frankly, making his face thicker than a city wall.

Xie Yuan's downcast Danfeng eyes showed anger: "I robbed you just after I saved you? Ask your parents to go!"

"My parents have died a long time ago..." Guan Yifei said expressionlessly, with messy hair, bloody wounds, and despair-to-numb calm in his eyes, "Do you have money? Give me some."

He said it again stubbornly, without the slightest fluctuation in tone.

Xie Yuan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly he read despair and sadness from his thick skin.So he took out the money bag he was wearing when he left home, and gave it to him intact.

It was all saved from the lucky money given to her by her parents and master during the New Year's Eve.Because she was afraid that she would come out and run around, most of them were collected by mother, so she left such a little meaning for her.

...and now it's all gone.

Xie Yuan looked at the small fish purse that she had given away. The cloth bag embroidered with blue fish scales was opened by Guan Yifei, revealing the silver coins inside. She licked her lower lip regretfully.

Guan Yifei looked up at her and asked, "Give it all to me? I don't have any money to pay you back."

Xie Yuan hesitated and was about to speak, but the young man seemed to have seen what she was thinking, and quickly tightened the rope of the fish's mouth, quickly put it into his arms, and said:
"Thank you then."

"Ah..." Xie Yuan forced a smile, and could only say, "...You're welcome."

(End of this chapter)