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Chapter 177: In danger (2)
Qing Geer laughed out loud, she could speak a small amount of Central Plains dialect, and could barely communicate with Ji Cheng. She was very curious about this Central Plains girl who lived alone outside the Great Wall and kept silent all day long, with big eyes full of sadness.

"How did you come to our place?" After laughing, Qing Geer sat next to Ji Cheng, and drove two more sheep over to keep out the wind.

Ji Cheng pointed to the sky on his finger, meaning that God sent her here.

"Where's your family?" Qing Geer asked after a moment of silence. She was actually a little afraid that Ji Cheng would say that her family was killed by their Turkic people.Before Qing Geer knew Ji Cheng, she felt that they killed the Central Plains people because they were bad, they were rich, but they were poor, and the Turkic people robbed the rich and gave to the poor, and the Central Plains people looked down on them, so they fell into the hands of the Central Plains people The Turks also died miserably.But after getting to know Ji Cheng, Qing Geer hoped that Ji Cheng's family members would not die at the hands of the Turks, it would be difficult for everyone to get along with each other.

Ji Cheng shook his head and said in a low voice, "It's gone."

Qing Geer looked at Ji Cheng sadly: "It's okay, you will be my younger sister and live in our house from now on."

Qing Geer is actually only 15 years old, but she has herded horses and sheep since she was a child, and her skin looks old when she is exposed to the wind and sun, so relatively speaking, Ji Cheng, who is 19 years old, looks a little younger than her. called sister.

Ji Cheng thanked her, she believed that Qing Geer's heart is extremely sincere now, but the premise is that Sai Ya's husband and son, Qing Geer's father and brothers can come back.

The hatred between nations is the accumulation of these blood feuds, but the original cause is not the hatred between the people, but their leaders for their own merits, for power, and for occupying more land And provoked.

The people are actually so innocent, all they yearn for is peace.

Therefore, as a citizen of Great Qin, although Ji Cheng hated the Turks, a bandit nation on horseback, when she faced the Turks alone, she didn't have any hatred in her heart.Unless of course this person killed her relatives.

"Ah Cheng." Qing Geer called out Ji Cheng's name somewhat awkwardly, "Why are you always so sad?" Qing Geer's heart is as pure as the white snow on a snow-capped mountain, and his face is always sunny She couldn't see any sadness on anyone's face, "You always look at the south, do you want to go home?" Qing Geer asked again, thinking in her heart, when her father and elder brother come back, let them take this The beautiful little sister was sent to the border, and sent back to the Central Plains.

Ji Cheng shook his head: "I can't go back." It was because he couldn't go back, and he didn't have the face to go back, that's why he looked at Nanbian'er day and night.

The innocent Qing Geer really didn't know how to comfort Ji Cheng, she suddenly stood up and shouted, and then began to sing the long tune on the grassland.

In the grassland nation, everyone is a singer. Qing Geer's voice is as beautiful as the sound of nature. She pulled Ji Cheng up: "Sing with me, I will teach you."

Ji Cheng knew Qing Geer's good intentions, and he didn't want to disappoint this kind girl, but the corners of her mouth couldn't be pulled away, and her heart was dripping with tears and blood. Others saw her as cold and heartless. Only she herself knows what kind of rotten heart she has become.

Qing Geer tried his best but failed to coax Ji Cheng to sing a song. The smile she forced was uglier than crying, so when the sun was setting and the sheep were driven back to the pen, Qing Geer found out from nowhere. He handed Ji Cheng a dusty flute.

The flute is inlaid with gold, and the phonology is grand, elegant and deep. It must be from the hands of a famous teacher, and it is also rare in Daqin, but I don't know how it ended up in Saiyan's house, but it may not be because I don't know it, but I just don't want to think about it.

Can't sing a song, but can play his heart with the sound of the flute, Ji Cheng is sitting by the door, playing low and low, the tune can't be tuned, the tune can't be tuned, it's unheard of before, just follow his heart .

Qing Geer hugged his knees and listened, his face was already full of tears, and he couldn't wipe it off.Saiyan's thick voice suddenly rang out, Qing Geer was taken aback, and quickly pulled Ji Cheng to stand up, and without knowing what to say to Saiya, he dragged Ji Cheng and ran outside.

"Mommy said it's too ugly, so you're not allowed to play it." Qing Geer said sadly, "But I know, she is listening to your flute and misses her father and brother. When we go to herd sheep tomorrow, you will teach me Can you blow it?"

Ji Cheng nodded.

The days are like a river on the fortress, meandering away and never returning, the first snowflakes fell from the sky, the men on the prairie have not come back yet, Saiyan’s tent is like a paradise, sheltering Open all the news.

But in fact, everyone is eager to hear the news of the war, even if it is only a little bit, it can stop people from thinking wildly, so as not to scare themselves so much that they can't sleep.

This night, a guest came to Saiya's tent, and it was Saiya's sister Dolan who was married to another tribe.

Dolan was born very burly, estimated to be as heavy as two Ji Chengs, with a red face, a thick chest, and a voice that was even more resonant than that of Bija, and the moment he opened his mouth, it could almost shake people's feet.

Dolan's husband's tribe also went south with Zheli, but because her home was close to Xitou Town, the gossip knew much about Saiya's family.

Dolan rode the horse for several days this time to tell Saiyan the good news.It's not easy for a woman. Once she gets good news, she will naturally go out of her way to tell her sister.

Ji Cheng leaned against Qing Geer and listened nervously to Dolan's words. She could only understand a few words in Dolan's words, but they couldn't understand them all together.

All I know is that Saiyan and Qing Geer were all smiling after hearing it, and Qing Geer couldn't help humming.

Ji Cheng gently pulled Rachinger's sleeve, and asked in a low voice, "What did your Aunt Dolan say?"

Qing Geer said: "We Turkic people won a big victory, and now the grasslands are all spread. Aunt Dolan came to tell us specially. Tonight we will have a good meal, my mother will kill the sheep, let's eat the roasted whole sheep .” Qing Geer took a sharp breath, as if he could already smell the aroma of roasted lamb.

Saiya's family was very happy that night, but Ji Cheng rode the horse that brought her here to a distant hill and played the flute all night.

You never know you'll miss it so much until you've ever left your hometown.

Ji Cheng's mood fell to the bottom, and Turkic won a big victory, does it mean that he is deeply involved...

Ji Cheng quickly shook his head, telling himself that these were all temporary.Dolan may not be able to understand the war, she herself said it was hearsay.Even if the Turks win temporarily, it may be just a trick of the northern army, she can't think about it.

Ji Cheng's heart saws like this, without stopping for a moment.

So is time.

The grass is withered and the leaves are yellow, and the snow is falling one after another. Counting the days, it is already the winter solstice. This is the most solemn day in Daqin. When it comes to reunions and ancestor worship, Ji Cheng can almost smell the scent of incense candles.

"Abba! It's Abba!" Qing Geer's voice sounded in the vast night sky, cutting through the darkness like a sharp knife.

Ji Cheng, who was feeding the sheep in the sheep pen, ran out when he heard the sound, and saw three horses jolting towards the tent, and he could vaguely distinguish that they were three men.

Sai Ya had already rushed out of the tent and ran towards the horse. The man on the horse quickly jumped off the horse, hugged Sai Ya, and Qing Geer followed.

In the light, Ji Cheng was also happy for Saiyan and Qing Geer.Although Saiyan's husband broke a leg, but the man came back, that is Saiya's greatest expectation.

Because Qing Geer's two elder brothers were young and agile, they did not lack arms or legs, but one had a long scar on his face and saved his life, while the other had a broken arm and had to recuperate for a while. months.

But no matter what, Saiyan and Qing Geer were so happy that they shed tears of joy.

The Turks were defeated, and many men and sons never came back, but the Saiyan family was really blessed.This evening, Saiyan's house was full of singing and dancing, and it was extremely joyful.

Qing Geer pulled Ji Cheng and yelled: "Ah Cheng, play a song for us, play a song, want to be happy, be happy."

Even those who are defeated can be happy, how can Ji Cheng not play a happy tune for them?

As long as people don't only think about themselves all the time, it is easy to be happy.

Qing Geer's joy was so pure and enthusiastic, Ji Cheng was also infected by her, played a toast song of Da Qin, and then was pulled up by Qing Geer, holding Qing Geer's hand on the left and Qing Ge on the right The whole family danced around the fire together.

The mutton was roasted with a tangy aroma, and the kumiss was also full of milky aroma. Ji Cheng seemed to see Shen Che's figure in his drunken trance.

She was almost obsessed with watching, and after walking around the fire twice, she realized that the singing and laughing around her had disappeared without a trace.

A neat row of black iron armor stood upright ten feet away.

Qing Geer and her little sister were so frightened that their legs limp and trembled, and their father and brothers blocked them with one step.

Saiya, who was like a hen, opened her arms to protect her man and son, and stared at the Central Plains man in front of her hatefully, as if she could pounce on him and tear him apart if he dared to take a step forward.

Shen Che just stood there without moving.

The jug in Ji Cheng's hand fell to the ground, splashing her shoes.She took a few steps forward and passed Saiyan, only then did she hear Shen Che say in a cold and indifferent voice: "Take it away."

A maid jumped off the horse, walked up to Ji Cheng, and beckoned her to move forward.

Ji Cheng looked back at Qing Geer's family, Qing Geer had already run out from behind her father, and shouted, "Ah Cheng."

Seeing that Qing Geer was about to catch up, Ji Cheng hurriedly said loudly, "I'm fine, Qing Geer."

Qing Geer burst into tears, those people looked so vicious, but she couldn't help Ji Cheng, so she could only cry.

Ji Cheng was helped onto the horse by the maid, and he could only look back at Qing Geer's tent from a distance. The orange fire was like a big warm orange.

Sai Ya's family was still in shock, they all thought it was the Daqin people chasing and killing them, they thought they were going to die, but they didn't know that the group of black armored soldiers were just trying to catch the Central Plains woman.

As soon as Saiyan rubbed his chest and breathed calmly, before he could let go of his hands, he heard the sound of horseshoes again, and someone came in after opening the curtain of the tent.

Qing Geer and her little sister screamed again, and it was the Daqin man who was as cold as a ball of ice who came in.

Shen Che held a cloth bag in his hand, bent down and put it down on the small table in the middle of Saiya's tent, and then made a Turkic salute to them, then turned and left.

The whole family of Saiyan looked at me and I looked at you, but they didn't know what was going on.

It was the little sister who was the most frightened and recovered the fastest. She looked curiously at the cloth bag on the table, and then ran over.

"Ah, what a big piece of gold." The little sister exclaimed.

Those are four ingots of gold ingots, which can buy all the cattle and sheep in Saiyan's family, and they can't spend them all.

At night, Saiyan and her husband were lying in the same bed, and they were still discussing this matter.

Hu Lie asked Sai Ya, "Why is that girl in our house?"

"Shortly after you left, Qing Geer and I picked her up when we were grazing sheep on the side of the hill. She was lying on the horse's back, almost out of breath." Saiya said, "She is usually very well-behaved. She doesn't like to talk. I don't know who it is, why did she use so many people to catch her?"

Sai Ya is a woman with little experience, but Hu Lie has been on the battlefield: "That is the black armored army of the Shen family of the Great Qin."

One of the top ten elites on the battlefield is said to be the personal guard of Marshal Peking University.A team like Saiyan's has no chance to face such an elite army, so the Black Armored Army is just a legend.

But this time the Turks fought well, and they were about to win, but in the end it was this black armor army that turned the tide of the battle, and then returned in a big defeat.

Hearing that the Hei Jiajun was so powerful, Sai Ya whispered: "My God, what is the origin of Ah Cheng girl?"

Hu Lie also wanted to ask this question.

"Why did that person give us so much gold?" Saiyan asked one after another.

After thinking about it suddenly, he finally said: "It should be thanks to our family for saving that girl."

Ji Cheng, who was "caught" back by Shen Che, never saw Shen Che again along the way, but was "escorted" back to Daqin by members of the Black Armor Army.After passing the border, they were replaced by low-key guards to protect them all the way into Beijing.

Ji Cheng saw Shen Che again in the gazebo on the outskirts of Beijing, and the two teams reunited and went to Shen's residence together.

She was sitting in the carriage, while Shen Che sat on the horse in front without looking back.

Seeing Shen Che's eyeballs, the old lady couldn't move, and her eyes were full of tears: "You're thinner and darker." The old lady held Shen Che tightly.

"With such a big sun, it will naturally get dark. Isn't it more like a man when it's dark?" Shen Che said with a playful smile.

The old lady gave Shen Che an angry look: "In a few days your elder brother will go to Beijing to offer prisoners, why don't you come back with him?"

In this great victory at Leyuanguan, Shen Yu won many with less, and even captured Zheli, the chieftain, alive.That's why the old lady complained about Shen Che, if he came back with Shen Yu, he would probably be able to take off his dandy hat.

Shen Che wiped away tears for the old lady: "Didn't grandson miss you? It's enough for our family to have an older brother. This time, the third brother has also made a contribution. Our family has taken over all the good things in the world. , I still like to be my rich and idle person leisurely."

The old lady knew that she couldn't control Shen Che in major matters, and could only let him make troubles by himself.When people are old, they don't care about wealth and glory, and what they care about most is the word "safety".The old lady dragged Shen Che for a long while, and then looked at Ji Cheng: "Oh, you said you are one or two, why are you so thin?"

Shen Che's thinness may have been imagined by the old lady, who was always worried that he would not be used to eating outside food, but Ji Cheng's thinness was real, she was already slender, this time she might have lost about ten catties.His eyes were sunken, his face was so small that he could cover it with a slap, and his bony figure lost three points of his appearance.

When the old lady saw Ji Cheng, she knew that she might have suffered a lot, she turned around and blamed Shen Che, "How do you take care of your wife, look at this skinny one."

Shen Che's eyes glanced across Ji Cheng's face coldly, as if disgusted and intrusive, he quickly passed by.

Ji Cheng smiled at the old lady, "It's all my own fault. I can't get used to the stuffed food. I eat beef and mutton all day long, and I don't have any vegetables. If I get angry, the aphthous sores at the corner of my mouth will not get better."

The old lady nodded, believing Ji Cheng's words.

But after Ji Cheng returned to Jiuliyuan, her two sisters-in-law started discussing behind her back.The Fourth Young Mistress Li Rui and Shen Yu's wife Cui Long said: "Sister-in-law, do you see how the second sister-in-law looks like? She looks like she is four or five years older. Have you seen her hands? Tsk tsk, it's so rough, I see It seems that there are still cocoons, and I don’t know what I have experienced.”

Cui Long said: "I'm afraid she is not acclimatized to the environment outside the Great Wall, besides, she is at war, she is not as careful in taking care of her as at home, suffering is unavoidable, after returning to raise for a while, it will naturally become plump."

"She asked for this hardship. Knowing that there are many wars ahead, she thought she was going on a tour. Now that she has suffered a lot, it will save her from wandering around in the future." Li Rui pouted.

Cui Long didn't answer Li Rui's words. She heard from her cousin Cui Ling that her second brother still cared about her sister-in-law very much. Cui Long didn't want to offend people out of thin air: "She didn't go outside the Great Wall to take care of her. Second brother."

In Li Rui's heart, she only thinks that this well-spoken sister-in-law is very boring. Although she doesn't like her sister-in-law Shen Cui, she has to admit that sometimes talking to Shen Cui makes people happier. With Cheng's current appearance, he doesn't know how to gloat over others' misfortune.

But she said that Ji Cheng didn't care what Li Rui was talking about her behind her back, even if she heard it, she just laughed it off, but when she saw her appearance in the mercury mirror, she was shocked, and it was a lie to say that she didn't care about her appearance.

Even if she wanted to die just a moment ago, a woman still cares about her appearance, and she wants to die like a beauty.

(End of this chapter)