I'm already a concubine, who wants to fight with you?

Chapter 93
Xie Feiqi asked: "Where have you been?"

Erniu chuckled and said, "My dear, the snow has melted in the mountains and a lot of winter bamboo shoots have grown. I took my brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces to dig them and just came back."

Xie Fei said: "The snow wind entering the lungs is the most difficult to cure. In such windy weather, don't go out as much as possible."

"Yes, I understand." Erniu scratched his head and asked, "But, little girl, what do you want to talk to me about?"

Xie Fei smiled and motioned for him to sit down on the stone bench first.

Erniu is in his youth, full of vigor and vitality, and is not so rigid in following the rules.

He sat down opposite Xie Fei and looked at him eagerly.

Xie Fei was amused by his well-behaved appearance. He picked up the teapot and poured tea. After handing it to him, he asked, "How old are you this year?"

"Me?" Erniu was stunned. Although he felt it was strange, he did not hide it. "I am fifteen."

"Fifteen," Xie Fei thought for a moment and asked again, "Were you born in this village? Have you always lived in the village?"

Erniu scratched his head and said, "It doesn't seem so. I still remember seeing a bright red sunset in the desert when I was a child."

I really don't have any impression of it. I don't know if it was in my dream or in the deep memories of my childhood, but there was such a lonely and vast picture.

It seemed as if we were sitting in a horse-drawn carriage, slowly driving through the Gobi Desert, with yellow sand filling the sky outside.

He was sitting in someone's arms, watching the car curtain being blown open by the wind, and happened to catch a glimpse of a lonely setting sun, as red as a summer flower in the dim sky.

The car was quiet, but there was a faint sound of someone crying, or perhaps the sound of the hollow wind, as miserable and weak as the hum of a mosquito.

He kept staring at the setting sun above the yellow sand until the bright red sun was covered by dark clouds.

Then, another man came on horseback with a gun, blocking his view.

He vaguely remembered that he was a young man with high spirits and an imposing manner. His high ponytail tied up with a silver crown was blown up by the howling wind in the desert.

He made eye contact with the young man, who smiled at him, his cold and majestic silver armor still stained with blood.

It happened so long ago that Erniu couldn't tell whether it was a dream or not when he recalled it.

He didn't understand why Xie Fei asked this, and after thinking for a while he said, "Little girl, you're not going to propose marriage to me, are you?"

Now, it was Xie Fei's turn to be stunned.

She chuckled and said, "Yes, I heard your mother and sister-in-law complain a few days ago that you run around the mountains and fields like a rascal and have no manners at all. So, I want to marry you an older wife to keep you in check."

Erniu was so scared that he kept shaking his head, "No, no, no, little girl, I don't want to get married! Look at my eldest brother, he is controlled by his sister-in-law like a turtle, and he dares not even fart when his sister-in-law gets angry!"

Xie Feile was upset and said, "Then go ask your eldest brother if he is happy with it."

Erniu replied that his eldest brother was of course happy about it. Sometimes he was very happy even when being beaten by his eldest sister-in-law, which made him very confused.

Xie Fei asked other questions in a chatty tone.

Mother Liu's family and Daniu's family are very close, almost like family members, and they came to the village together.

Da Niu and Madam Zou had two children, the older one was ten years old and the younger one was eight years old. Both of them were born in the village.

In other words, they stayed on the farm for at least ten years.

Moreover, he has never left the capital during these ten years.

Xie Fei had almost finished asking questions and was integrating the information when he heard Erniu casually ask, "Little girl, you don't look very old. How old are you?"

Xie Fei picked an age that wasn't scary, "Normally, fifteen."

Erniu: “…”

They are both fifteen years old, why is Miss Xie so calm and mature?

Afterwards, Xie Fei didn't ask any more questions and told Erniu to go and play by himself.

From Erniu's words, we can infer that they came to the village at least ten years ago.

Five years ago, General Pei died in battle on the border, and Pei Yuan returned to the capital from outside the Great Wall.

Chen Dafa said that it was Pei Yuan who saved their family, possibly including Daniu's family.

Was the person who saved them and sent them to the farm in the capital ten years ago really Pei Yuan?

Xie Fei was thinking, and he didn't even know when Yuan San would come back. He went to chase the bandits, and when he came back, he saw Xie Fei sitting in the yard in a daze.

In the bleak and lonely windy weather, even the dead branches and leaves on the ground were blown away.

Xie Fei stood alone in the pale and desolate painting, his brows furrowed in thought, his hair fluttering in the wind.

Yuan San admired it for a while before stepping forward and asking, "What are you thinking about?"

Xie Fei suddenly came back to his senses, and when he saw him coming back, his eyes lit up with joy.

"Are you back? Are you hurt?"

"How can a mere horse bandit hurt me?" Yuan San threw a bloody bag to the ground, then sat down next to Xie Fei and poured him some tea.

After taking only one sip, he frowned and spat it out, "It tastes terrible. Who made this?"

Xie Fei looked him up and down, and saw no injuries anywhere.

"The bandits have made a mess of the village. Be content if you can find some tea."

After saying that, Xie Fei looked at the sack at his feet again.

"What's inside?"

She wanted to bend over to take a look, but the bag was kicked away by Yuan San.

"Don't look at it, or you'll have nightmares at night."

Judging from the shape of the object in the bag and Yuan San's words, Xie Fei knew what it was.

"The government has offered a reward for the head of a leader, which is worth several hundred taels of silver. Although it is a good deal, how dare you go to the government?"

If Xie Fei went alone as a woman, she would inevitably be questioned by the government.

Yuan San frowned and drank the tea. Just as he was about to speak, someone came in from outside.

It was Chen Dafa and Daniu. Seeing them coming, Yuan San had no intention of hiding.

The two men first met Xie Fei and then talked about the human head.

"We have killed all the leaders wanted by the government. The reward for five heads is a total of 1,100 taels."

The two of them could go to the government to exchange silver, without the need for Yuan San, an illegal immigrant, to step in.

After saying something to Xie Fei, they left carrying the sack dripping with blood.

Seeing Yuan San's calm demeanor, Xie Fei asked curiously, "Didn't Chen Zhuangtou and Daniu ask about your identity?"

Yuan San said: "I told them that I am a brave man who saw injustice and helped others with his sword."

Xie Fei looked at him without saying anything.

He coughed dryly and continued, "In fact, I told them that my family members were also killed by horse bandits, and I followed the horse bandits' tracks to seek revenge."

Xie Fei said unhappily: "If you really said that, how can you explain why you sit with me and drink tea?"

Seeing that she was a little angry, Yuan San quickly softened his voice and coaxed her, "In fact, I said I was your personal bodyguard, young lady, and they thought I was your man, so they didn't ask any more questions."

"What do you mean you are mine? God knows what they will think if I say that."

"The problem is, I am indeed yours, girl."

Xie Fei was incredulous, "Did you really say that?"

Yuan San said innocently: "What's the harm in saying it? This is the fact."

Xie Fei stopped talking, and the two of them stared at each other.

After a long while, Yuan Sanxian looked sad, like a poor abandoned puppy, and said with tears in his eyes: "Could it be that the girl doesn't recognize me?"

Xie Fei held his forehead.

When Chen Dafa and the others heard what Yuan San said, they must have thought that she was a very dissolute and frivolous person, and that after being kicked out of the Pei family, she secretly kept a small mask in the house.

Even if they didn't tell the Pei family, who knows how they would look at her in the future.

(End of this chapter)