[Qin] Qin Shi

When the little beggar returned to his nest, the strange man who lived with him had already woken up: "By the way, my friend, I really don't want you." He broke off half of the pancakes he stole today and threw it over, "From my It’s been several days since I saw you, and your friend hasn’t come back to look for you yet.”

Bai Shu watched the half of the pancake being thrown to his side and landed on the ground: "Honestly," his right hand was tucked into his clothes, and his left hand went around his body to hook the half pancake, "I haven't thought about it until now." Who is that 'friend' of mine you're talking about." The cake was hanging on the haystack where they slept, covered with crumbs.

But Bai Shu didn't care, he bumped his clothes to shake off the grass clippings, and raised it to his mouth: "Would you mind fetching some water for me?" Holding the pancake in his mouth, seeing the little beggar's eyes, he gave a A smile with crooked eyebrows.

"If it weren't for the knife and coin he gave me," muttering, he walked towards the other side of the dilapidated house, "I wouldn't serve you." Standing in front of a pole, the roof above the pole has long been unknown. Where to go, in the big bar exposed to the sky is ice water made of snow.

The little beggar took a spoonful of water with a broken ladle, and walked to the fire with it: "Then you will live with me all the time?" Looking sideways at the beauty, he liked it more and more, "That's not bad, wait for you I'll take you to Yanbei, I heard that people in Yanbei can live as long as they have hands and feet."

"What you said, it seems that Handan is not a good place." Bai Shu didn't ask the little beggar how much money the "he" gave, nor did he ask other questions, as if he didn't care about these issues. , "If I have iron tools in my hand, I can probably go to the woods and hunt you down."

The little beggar didn't believe this: "Put it down, where are you going to hunt in this winter." He rolled his eyes, "It's the best hunter in the town, it's good if you can catch something once out of ten. ——But when it comes to iron tools," Xiao Tigai, who didn't know that he was being dragged into the topic by the other party, continued, "Your friend seems to have something on him."

"I've said it all," Bai Shu's eyes were narrowed because of his smile, making it difficult for people to see the expression in his eyes, "I really don't know the person you mentioned." She bit her mouth After seeing the water handed by the little beggar, he put the cake on his outstretched legs, and took the spoon with his left hand.

"All right, all right," watching Bai Shu's movement of drinking water, "then that person must be a fool, he gave me free money to watch you, if I do, I'll just throw you by the side of the road, or kill you and buy some grass Don't forget to bury the table. Well, didn't you want to drink water?"

"It's too cold." Bai Shu shook his head, and handed the spoon back, "Maybe he caused me this far, but he let my life go because of hesitation in the end, maybe it's not."

"I don't look like it." The little beggar naturally took the big spoon in Bai Shu's hand, and continued to lean it against the fire to wait for it to heat up, "Don't underestimate me, I have been around for so many years, I have seen There are too many adults here." Shaking his head triumphantly, "He looks like he wants to kill you."

Hearing this, Bai Shu stopped grabbing the pancakes for a moment, but the smile on his face didn't change at all: "Then tell me, if he doesn't want to harm me, why hasn't he come to me now?"

"It's dead," the little beggar said indifferently, "the old man who raised me also said before that he wanted me to take me to Yanbei - but you see, he died, and I haven't left yet What about this town. Before he died, he said, 'You must go to Yanbei'" imitating the weak but struggling way before dying, "'I am sorry for you'."

At the end, he rolled his eyes again, and relaxed again: "Say it as if he really owes me something."

These words surprised Bai Shu: "Do you think he doesn't owe you anything?"

"He's not my real father," the little beggar looked back at Bai Shu frankly, "No one gave him money to take care of me, and in the end he can still think about me, saying that I owe him more or less. So," maybe In the past few days, Bai Shu looked sick, or he was finally able to find someone to talk about. He told everything, "I used the money your friend gave me to buy straw mats."

His expression was calm, and he didn't feel that he said anything terrible: "Then I dug him out and buried him again, and when I came back, I found that you were still alive, so I thought about it and kept you. If your friend comes back and finds you dead too, my business will be lost."

Bai Shu sized up the little beggar, and quickly lowered his eyes when the other party looked over: "Don't buy a coffin."

"What kind of coffin to buy? If someone digs it up, it's better to let him continue to be buried naked, and I still have to live." He waved his hand, "So let me say, it looks like a big family, who is not a family these days?" It would be good to just wrap it in a straw mat... Well, wait, you asked me Yanbei earlier, you can't come from Yanbei?" Turning to look at Bai Shu with a bit of surprise.

However, Bai Shu gave a negative answer: "No," he said, "I'm from Qin."

"Then you're going in the wrong direction." He stared at Bai Shu carefully, no matter how he looked, he didn't find any signs of lying, so he turned his attention to the water scoop again, "People of Qin, what is your state of Qin like? of?"

"Are you curious?"

The little beggar admitted this frankly: "That's right," he nodded, "The world is so big, I haven't seen it before."

"Qin State is Zhao State's enemy, so you don't hate me?" Bai Shu's voice occasionally coughed, but the little beggar was very patient, maybe because he had nothing to do this winter, he waited for Bai Shu to calm down After finishing speaking, he answered.

"What you said is so unreasonable. My parents abandoned me. The old man picked up the leftovers of those rich and noble people to support me until now. He died because he had no household registration and could not find a way to make a living. I don't have a place of origin either. It’s too late to worry about my future, worrying about the survival of a country? I haven’t found anything yet.”

Bai Shu laughed out loud, his chest vibrated and involved the wound, and it instantly turned into a gasp.

"You really don't need me to fetch medicine for you?" The little beggar saw that the face of the person talking to him turned pale, and he rubbed forward worriedly, "You are burning all the time, it looks like you are well protected by a rich family." Brother Young Master, don’t be so stupid just outside, and then someone will come and settle accounts with me.”

"No money," Bai Shu leaned back, "Besides, which of those doctors is willing to see a doctor for poor people like you and me for free? You also said yesterday that your father is just a cold and they are not willing to sell it." Medicine, I'm hurt so badly, it won't help you except wasting your money."

After a pause, I saw the little beggar's tangled expression from the corner of the eye: "Besides, you said that so many Zhao soldiers came to the town suddenly, didn't you, you also saw my injury, in case the doctor thought I was a deserter, those people came to arrest me— —You and I don’t even have an identity card, so let’s keep going.”

Talking about the soldiers of Zhao State, the little beggar shrank his neck and finally gave up the idea of ​​using the remaining money to find a doctor: "Yeah, it makes no sense." He also felt strange, "I grew up so big, the first time Seeing regular Zhao soldiers, I heard they came from Handan, oh, speaking of this, didn’t you ask me how far it is from Handan?”

Bai Shu hummed, showing interest in this topic.

"It's half a month's walk from Handan, but it's very close to Yanbei. It is said that it only takes two days to reach the boundary of Yanbei." The little beggar who was talking to himself didn't notice the flash in Bai Shu's eyes. An Mang, "It's so strange, why did you close down the town during the war at the border?"

The little beggar shaking his head noticed that Bai Shu's index finger knuckles holding the pancakes were rubbing back and forth: "You don't want to eat?"

"Do you still want to eat?" Bai Shu didn't deny it, and passed the cake over, "I don't have much appetite."

"It's shameful to waste food." Grabbing the pancakes, he didn't dislike the bitten places, then bit down, and handed the water in his hand up again while biting, "This time it should be warm."

Bai Shu hummed, took the water scoop, and slowly slid the slightly cooler person into his mouth, and dropped it into his lungs: "I have trouble moving," the scoop covered half of his face, and the movement of his eyes downcast made his expression I can't see clearly either, "I will continue to trouble you to inquire about the news in the past few days-I always feel uneasy."

"What are you worried about?" The little beggar's mouth was full, "Is it because the town was closed? Don't worry, our location has been abandoned for a long time. It used to be a big family, and after one family died tragically, the second family didn't end well either. , it became the residence of us refugees, and this is the worst place, so they won’t come. I saw that they were just not allowed to enter, and they didn’t say that they were not allowed to leave.”

"No, that's what I'm afraid of." Bai Shu hesitated for a moment, and it's fine not to say anything else, but seeing the little beggar's face full of indifference, he finally said, "If what I said Not too bad, I'm afraid this place will soon become a battlefield."

The action of the little beggar biting the cake was as if someone had pressed the pause button, and he was stuck there instantly. His eyes widened, full of disbelief: "What do you mean? Who is fighting with whom?"

"The town is sealed off, but the city is not searched. They are only allowed to leave but not to enter, but the people are not allowed to evacuate." Bai Shu rubbed the water scoop with his finger, "You really haven't heard any news these days?"

"No," the little beggar said blankly, "it's the same as in previous years, talking about the poor harvest this year, and discussing the family's shortcomings." He rambled on all the things he knew this year, "it's all the same thing."

"What about Yanbei?" Bai Shu noticed the difference, "Have the Huns and Qiang entered the pass to plunder this year?"

"How do I know that, I really can't get here." Holding his messy hair, "I heard about it in previous years, but this year it just snowed not long ago, so the news probably hasn't reached here yet. Wait, if there is a real war here, who will we fight with?"

Bai Shu murmured softly, put the water on his lap, leaned back, closed his eyes and leaned against the wall: "Then I hope my judgment is wrong." His voice was a little weaker, and he didn't answer the little beggar. , "I hope I'm wrong too."

At the same time, only a few kilometers away from the town, the cavalry belonging to Yanbei came in droves

The author has something to say: this chapter is more, and now there are 7 chapters left

The comment on the update at noon was particularly cheerful on the lower screen. Don't worry, it is the series of "If Now Ends", which means that it is absolutely impossible to happen, and the author will never write the IF line.

I originally wanted to write about a little girl, but as I was writing this chapter, I suddenly decided to give him a name

——Come on, everyone guess who this person is in history (if you guess right, I will add another chapter for you)~