Vol 2 Chapter 4 (1/2)
Chapter 20: Deflowered
When I open ’s eht, with the vast desert, the only sounds are the horse hooves I look at the two or three faint stars in the sky, my heart co things Xiao Tao, loves to annoycare of Xiao Tao’s Xiao Qian…
“Awake?” Huo Qu Bing lowered his head and looked at“Where are we? Xiao Yue shi+?”
He raised his head and looked towards the distance “You’ve slept for a day and a night now We’ve passed Xiao Yue shi+, and are almost at the Qi Lian Mountains You’re faht?” I softly answered yes My body feels weak but I straighten ently said “You were so distraught back there so the doctor upped the dosage to knock you out Even though you are awake now, you likely can’t exert any strength I’ll take you the rest of the way” I was silent and then nodded my head
In the darkness the shape of the rows closer In the distance coripped Huo Qu Bing’s arm “Can you hurry? I hear…” I bit my lip and s the rest of what I wanted to say, only turning my head towards the Qi Lian Mountains
Huo Qu Bing urged his horse faster and quickly bypassed everyone, rushi+ng straight ahead Gradually we’ve left everyone behind I turn to give hilance and he just smiles “I hope it’s that wolf of yours”
A feolves are lurking in the base of theus My heart leapt and I howled towards the Qi Lian Mountains Huo Qu Bing’s horse almost stumbled and wanted to throwh the hillside The horse continued to go wild so Huo Qu Bing had no choice but to get off the horse, holding round
I immediately tear myself from his embrace and he doesn’t stop me He lets me howl and run towards the wolves at the base of the ave a fels and then ran aith their tails twitching All rily yelled “Wolf 89, why are you hiding fronize me?” A few sesture for the close when their ain I stoo warm yourself next to a fire”
Huo Qu Bing stood to the side and laughed, shaking his head “Yu Er, I thought you were the princess of the wolves, and the wolves would come welcoht now”
I glared at hi closer and closer, with a final resounding howl that shook the trees A silver wolf bounded out from the forest directly forhis neck and the two of us rolling on the grass Brother Wolf sniffed ed his neck, my nose all wet and my eyes all teary
I fussed with Brother Wolf for some time before we calmed down Brother Wolf howled towards the forest and a snohite female wolf and a silver and white baby wolf sloalked out to greethappily to Huo Qu Bing “I have a little niece She’s the real princess of the wolves Isn’t she beautiful?”
Huo Qu Bing save a warning howl I shot Huo Qu Bing a pleased expression “She doesn’t like you, they don’t think you’re a nice person!” Huo Qu Bing had no choice but to halt
Little Princess has a small face and spiky hair, like a sobll she rolls all over me Brother Wolf used his tail to play with her and Little Princess was non stop leaping and ju to ue out at her father I can’t control hter and wolf happiness sounds through the hillside Huo Qu Bing stands off to the side and watches us, with an expression of worry mixed with self-blame
The sound of horses at the base of thelooked towards the foot of the mountain and the looked at me “Yu Er” I looked at him and he stared directly into uys have reunited after much ti!” I looked at hily but he smiled warmly “Just don’t leave Qi Lian Mountain anyti in his eyes al for me to be happy
I solemnly nodded my head and he looked towards Brother Wolf “I’ll leave Yu Er in your hands for now” and then not even waiting to see whether Brother Wolf understood what he said, it was like he was treating Brother Wolf as an elder brother and he gave Brother Wolf a respectful bow before turning and quickly running down the mountain
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Little Princess follows behind me and Brother Wolf and aardly tries to play in the water Our queen Snow Lady rests on a big rock and gazes gently down at us I kick Brother Wolf, wondering how he ed to hoodwink such a beautiful wolf to be his bride Brother Wolf howled and then his claws came towards my face, and I immediately chopped hi us fighting as usual, finally quietly sat back down
Poor Little Princess was sprayed by the water we splashed, causing her to choke and start sinking in the water I stopped fooling around with Brother Wolf and pulled her up, and Brother Wolf halted his clahich was about to strikeme thethe air She gave a pitiful whi her back to shore
Snow Lady immediately came to lick the water drops off Little Princess, who nestled next to her mother with her stomach in the air She used her paws to swat her mother’s face and made happy noises, which made me happy to watch
Brother Wolf caave hi me to shake The water sprayed outward and landed on ain I start a fire to dry my clothes, but Brother Wolf doesn’t rests next to me like usual Because Snow Lady is not used to the fire, he keeps her coive each other head rubs or lick each other’s fur
Watching them, I know that Brother Wolf will never accoain He will be Snow Lady’s partner from now on, and I am all alone to sit by the fire
As hts swirled around, so and those folks? Suddenly there came the sound of a howl fro? I sat there in silence for some time There are no absolute victories on the battlefield, not even Huo Qu Bing I suddenly get up and dress ave me a quizzical look I take the roasted meat off the spit and hand it to him It’s still rare but he shouldn’t mind
“I have to leave for a bit” and I stroked his head He howled in protest but I could only apologetically slap hiot up to accompany me but I stopped him I didn’t want him involved in our human battles
Brother Wolf howled in frustration Snow Lady gave a fels and Brother Wolf ied steel nevertheless can’t withstand a gentle force I laugh at Brother Wolf and then quickly leave before he gets ht, their shadows intertwining I smile but my heart hurts Brother Wolf has his own family now, and all I have are a heart full of memories I don’t want to remember
I traveled all night and it was almost dawn by the time I reached the battlefield I hid on a tree and looked into the distance After battling for a day and a night, the battle is nearing the end The ground is littered with corpses and the trees and grass have all been stained red The sound of steel striking steel reverberates in the air, giving as a war a chilly aura
I juh the corpses How s of the Han dynasty, and howNu And all these dead bodies, how s will be created because of this Will e the death of their fathers and brothers? How many dead bodies are there? Are there forty to fifty thousand people laying silently here? I ought to have been prepared to walk into this living hell, butti sea of dead bodies The bottoh the blood Everywhere I look there remains just dead bodies and blood
Froreat defeat, with the Xiong Nu dead greatly outnu Nu soldiers seeand knock away their weapons I walk right past theive hi Nu “Hurry up and leave Run as fast as you can Yourfor you” They halted and looked wary, but ultimately decided to leave
The Su the trees extra green In the verdanta black robe with a silver arht and tall, was surveying the battlefield froe point
The silver ar that one can’t look directly at him Mixed with the blood scented breeze, his robe and his hair, which is free of his circlet, billows in the wind On the ground is the ugly truth of blood stained dead bodies, but up high there are green trees and red flowers under the warm sun The contrast is vivid, especially because he is standing there These two seeether because of hi visual clarity The warrior Gods of the legend could not possibly bethan he is
He’s fine, so I let out a pent up breath I turn to leave “Yu……Er……” a loud and joyful cry reverberates in thethe chilly aura in the air I turn around and he is quickly traversing the trees and the flowers, his hair flying in the wind “You came here to look for me? You orried about me?” I checked him out “What happened to your hair?”
He laughed “The circlet accidentally got shot off by an arrow” I point to the battlefield “Did the Xiong Nu suffer a defeat?”
He smiled and nodded his head “Not just a defeat, a complete and utter defeat I captured one tribal leader and five small tribal heads We had less men but they lost almost all their soldiers and we only lost a third of ours”
Zhao Puo Nu ca Nu dead, a total of thirty thousand two hundredNu will have no ability to aht we can rest The General can ad Nu” Huo Qu Bing looked at me and then waved Zhao Puo Nu off
“How co asked me “This battle is for the Emperor to win more territory and expand his empire and open more roads to Xi Yu What does it have to do with ’s death, but then this type of vengeance will never end” He raised his eyebrow “It’s rare to e the subject and point to his head “Go bathe and change! I also need to change”
He sht now you ht, so just behave yourself” He kept s hands, so what’s the reticence with hand holding all of a sudden?”
I glared at him and he quickly retracted his hand with a smile “Fine, but at least you’re o” I startle for a ain I shake my head and silently walk away, and he also quietly walks beside radually leave the battlefield behind and the smell of flowers permeates the air My emotions have calmed down considerably
As alk through the wooded forest, our shadows are overlapping I suddenly remember how the shadows of Brother Wolf’s faht
A fire is blazing in the , the wine is flowing Only Huo Qu Bing and I sit around our fire, but soldiers would co handed me a flask of wine I’m about to decline when I smell it and immediately ask “Is this horse wine?” He nods “The spoils of today’s battle Our wine can’t even coerly take a sip, the taste bringing back memories
Huo Qu Bing takes a few sips and then hands it back to me, but I shake my head He smiles, which is when Zhao Puo Nu arrives with tls to toast us Huo Qu Bing laughingly yelled at hiet me drunk? You toasted already so why are you back?’
Zhao Puo Nu handed a bowl to me “This wine is not for the General, it’s for Brother Jin I want to apologize for earlier I have never seen pigeons who dare to battle a falcon, and I never knew your pigeons would be so brave I could never replace those pigeons of yours, and I ask you to please forgive ret in his eyes I didn’t say anything or accept the wine, so his sy, I understand” and he downs his bowl of wine and bows tobowl froulp withme to choke a little