Chapter 71 What is he looking at?

Xie Yuan rode on his horse and looked at the city gate in the distance. Above the city gate, a large flag with the word "Wei" in red letters on a black background was flying.

The gate of the city was open, with a few scattered people coming and going. An old Han farmer, whose legs were shaking with fear, walked in from the Beiyi guards with his hands trembling.

A city, thick walls, and crowds of people are much safer than being alone in the wilderness.

She longed for crowds and a sense of security... The city was too tempting for her. What's more, there would be water there, and maybe she could buy food.

The horse jolted anxiously, Xie Yuan pursed his chapped lips, hunched his body a little tighter, turned around, and headed east.

The capital of the Southern Dynasties was in the east. Even if Master and the others were defeated, they would still go east. Besides, several cities were lost after the defense line collapsed. It was impossible for the entire border city to be lost.

Her stomach was empty and she was trembling with hunger. A bird had been shot down on the road, but when she picked it up all the way and pulled out the arrow, she remembered the hand on the campfire.

Then he vomited wildly and almost spit out blood...

Xie Yuan squinted her eyes, and Danfeng, who was a little swollen, had two green shadows under her eyes because she had not gotten any rest. She mentally pulled Shen Liuzhen out, imagining that the two of them were still at the Shen family's martial arts training ground, she asked:

"Do you know... what it feels like to be very, very hungry, but unable to eat anything?"

In his mind, Shen Liuzhen looked at her with a pair of curious round eyes, looking embarrassed, but didn't answer.

She really couldn't guess how he would answer. She thought that if they met again one day, she would definitely ask this question and see what his reaction was.

After walking for who knows how long, Xie Yuan finally saw a small mountain river in the distance, and quickly kicked the horse in the belly and ran over.

I dismounted, turned over, found a shallower river bank, lay down on a stone, picked up some water, and took a few sips.

The sweet water flowed from her mouth into her throat, feeling comfortable as if it had moistened her dry and tight skin. The satisfying pleasure in her mind directly brought tears to her eyes.

Xie Yuan immersed his entire face in the clear water, then pulled himself out and washed his face vigorously. Then he fell down and sat on the bank, looking at the clear river water as if looking at his life-extending benefactor.

He seemed to be in a daze.

She looked at herself in the river. The buns on her temples had loosened up a lot, her hair was wet and bent, and her face was gray and thin... It had only been two days, but she felt that the people in the water were unusually strange.

She was stunned for a while, took apart the hair tie, and after thinking about it, tied a bun on top of her head, but she couldn't tie it well, it was tied crookedly.

Suddenly, above his line of sight, something floated quickly past the center of the river. Xie Yuan chased it with his eyes, and vaguely saw what looked like the body of a child lying in the river. She was stunned as she tied her hair.

The dead figure of Xunya lying on the ground came to mind again...

"It would be nice if there were no more wars." said the orphans who lost their parents in the war and fled.

Xie Yuan closed his eyes and stood up from the ground.

Looking at the body of the young child floating away with the river in the distance, with his back straight and leaning sideways, he remembered what he said at that time.

End wars with war! Only absolute strength can end disputes by crushing them, just like the Qin State that unified the land of China.

When she finds her master, she will not only give herself a chance to become a general, but she will also try her best to end the war between the north and the south in her lifetime! Let more children as cute as Xunya be born in the future. Everyone can be like her, born in a home with parents’ protection, and grow up safely!

As Xie Yuan thought this, the fatigue in his eyes disappeared, and he rekindled his fighting spirit to find his master, Shen Qingzhi, and the Southern Dynasty army.

At this moment, a few more arrows floated over the river. Xie Yuan's eyes lit up. This meant that there might be a battlefield in the upper reaches of the river. If there was a battlefield, traces of the Southern Dynasty army could be found!

Xie Yuanliang quickly got on his horse and headed up the river.

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When she walked through a forest and looked at the Southern soldiers cleaning the battlefield across the river, she could not describe her feelings.

On the one hand, the military uniforms they wore were familiar to her and reminded her of her master.

But on the other hand, because last night, those two Southern Dynasty soldiers who ate human flesh had left her with a shadow in her heart. Now that she looked at these tattered clothes and looked like defeated stragglers, she felt a very bad feeling, especially When she saw them carrying the body of their companion, her stomach began to churn...

Xie Yuan was riding on his horse, looking at the few soldiers on the opposite side across the rushing river.

On this side of the river, a veteran squatting on the ground to be lazy knocked the soles of his shoes, looked at the young man riding a tall horse opposite, and narrowed his eyes.

The person who partnered with him to carry the body was a young man with tender cheeks, seventeen or eighteen years old. When he followed the veteran's eyes and looked over, he also saw Xie Yuan's figure and asked in panic:

"Uncle Fang...that one on the opposite side is the Beiyi scout? They won't want to fight back, right?!"

The veteran had a nice goatee on his chin, but the two white beards were thick, curly, and very eye-catching. He sneered and said:

"Look clearly! That's a doll! And it's a Han, and a scout of the Beiyi people!" The expression was very disdainful of the shallowness of the young soldier.

"Look..." As soon as the young soldier squatted down and uttered two words, there was a burst of angry shouts behind him:

"Old Fang! What are you two doing! His damn old devil knows how to be lazy!"

The veteran heard this and quickly put on his shoes. While putting them on, he said with a smile: "Boss, there is a stone in my shoe. I knocked it. It's okay now..."

After saying that, he quickly stood up, picked up the shoulders of the corpse next to him, and carried it back with the young soldier.

The young man lifted the corpse's feet and continued what he had just said:

"He looks like a soldier... He can't be in disguise. He didn't get it during the day. Now he's trying to find a way to cross the river."

The veteran frowned and put the body on the ground, saying, "Let's switch! It's so heavy! I'll lift my feet!"

When the young man heard this, he honestly changed sides with him and said aggrievedly: "You wanted to raise your head yourself, so why are you complaining about me?"

"You think you're stupid! Don't you blame you?" the veteran said angrily, "Didn't you see that the Beiyi army withdrew after receiving the order? Why did they come back?!"

The young man had no temper. While moving his feet with great effort, he looked at the young man on the other side of the river who was riding a horse and had not moved for a long time, and asked:

"Then tell me, what is he looking at there?"
Chapter completed!