After rushing for a few days, the few of them were extremely tired. Fortunately, they could enter Xunyang City after one more day. The refugees that could be seen everywhere gradually decreased in number when they arrived.
This was not surprising. After the Xiongnu had besieged Xunyang for so many days, those who could escape had long left Xunyang. The closer they were to Xunyang, the fewer refugees there would be.
Shen Yijia and the others stopped and ate a few mouthfuls of dry food. They were about to continue on their way.
More than ten refugees suddenly rushed over from the front. They were chasing after a child and screaming bloody murder.
In a few seconds, the child ran up to them.
Only then did Shen Yijia realize that the child’s eyes were azure blue, as beautiful as two sapphires.
However, his face was bruised and his clothes were dirty. There were also many dark marks left behind by dried blood. It was obvious that he had been beaten up badly.
The child saw that Shen Yijia was not unhappy with him. Instead, she was stunned. Suddenly, the child lost his balance and fell at Shen Yijia’s feet.
“Please, save me.” He raised his head and looked at Shen Yijia pitifully.
Shen Yijia was shocked. His eyes looked even better covered with tears in his eyes.
“Beat him to death, beat him to death…” The refugees arrived in front of them like a swarm of bees. Some of them were holding wooden sticks while others were holding rocks. All of them were clamoring to beat this child to death.
However, Furball did not dare to approach.
Someone in the crowd threw a stone at the child’s head. Shen Yijia subconsciously kicked the stone back.
This kick was incredible. The refugees thought that Shen Yijia had teamed up with the child, so they raised their weapons and were about to attack.
Rooster and Mo Yuan quickly stepped forward to protect Shen Yijia.
An old man in the crowd suddenly stood up and stopped the refugees. He looked at Shen Yijia and the other two with red eyes. “Are you still from Great Xia? Since you’re protecting this barbarian.”
“A barbarian?” Shen Yijia blinked and asked Rooster.
Rooster said, “He’s referring to the Hun people.”
They were always talking about the Huns. This was the first time Shen Yijia had heard them call the Huns ‘barbarians’.
Upon hearing that this child was from Xiongnu, Shen Yijia’s face darkened. If not for the fact that these Xiongnu people had nothing better to do, she would still be living a peaceful life in Xiagou Village with her beautiful husband.
How else could they have been apart for so long?
“I’m not.” The child shouted at the top of his lungs and spoke fluent Central Plains Chinese.
The crowd was silent for a moment before the child continued to sob with red eyes. “My mother was from Great Xia and was snatched away by the Huns. Later on, my mother gave birth to me.”
When he mentioned the Huns, his face was filled with hatred. It was no less than the hatred these refugees felt when they mentioned the enemy.
He wiped his tears with his dirty hands and gritted his teeth. “They bullied my mother and even hit me. They said that my mother and I were their slaves, not one of the Huns.”
My mother told me that she was from Great Xia. I was born to her, and I’m also a citizen of Great Xia.
“My mother is dead. It wasn’t easy for me to escape back to Great Xia, but why do you say that I’m not from Great Xia? Then who am I?”
After saying that, the child sobbed.
It was not uncommon for the Huns to kidnap women from Great Xia. There were even daughters or sisters among the refugees who were snatched away by them.
The children’s cries immediately resonated with the refugees.
They thought about how their relatives had been humiliated in the Hun Empire. Even if they had a child, that child would still be disliked.
They hated the Huns for causing them to be separated from their family and leaving their hometown. However, they could not bear to kill the child who had half of the bloodline of Great Xia in his body.
No one knew if there was another child with the same origin as them somewhere else, but they were also being beaten up like street rats wherever they went.
Looking at the injuries on the children’s bodies, the refugees lowered their heads in shame. They threw away the weapons in their hands and started sobbing.
Shen Yijia thought, “This kid is so incredible, yet he still needs to ask me for help?”
However, she did not know that when the refugees saw this child, they did not even give him a chance to speak.
Seeing the refugees leave one after another, the child’s lowered blue eyes revealed a complicated expression, but no one saw it.
“Master, what should we do with this kid?” Rooster was knowledgeable. Although this kid had cried sincerely just now, he still felt that something was wrong.
His words just now seemed to be a simple explanation of his background, but they were clear and without nonsense. First, he said that his mother was from Great Xia to tug at the people’s heartstrings.
Then, he explained how they had been bullied by the Huns. He expressed that she hated the Huns just like these refugees.
The last sentence was amazing. “Mother is gone. She was bullied in Xiongnu, and when she came to Great Xia, she was beaten up by you.” The refugees were just ordinary people, so it was easy to appeal to their emotions.
They felt that they had lost their family, but they did not expect this person to be even more pitiful than them. Thinking about their family members who had been kidnapped, they felt a sense of sympathy.
With just a few words, the refugee’s hatred for him turned into sympathy. This kid was so good at seizing people’s hearts to create opportunities for himself at such a young age. He had to be on guard.
Most importantly, Rooster glanced at Little Furball. Since this kid was not afraid of Little Furball at all, he did not think that the person who said those words would be the kind of child who could treat Furball as a cat and not know anything.
Shen Yijia glanced at the child who was looking at her with admiration and felt her jaw ache. “What else can we do? We can’t bring him to Xunyang.”
She thought for a moment, then bent down and grabbed the child’s collar to lift him up. She couldn’t help but look into his blue eyes before asking, “We’re leaving. Where are you planning to go?”
“Can I follow you?” When he said this, he pinched his fingers timidly and looked at Shen Yijia hopefully.
Shen Yijia held her forehead. She felt that something was wrong. She was here to look for someone, not to pick someone up.
When she started on this journey, it was just Shen Yijia and Rooster.
Mo Yuan was quite skilled, so she might be able to help if she went. This was different, so she shook her head decisively. “No, you escaped from the Huns to Great Xia. You should know that Xunyang is fighting a war. It’s very dangerous there now.”
Moreover, even if this kid went with her, it was hard to guarantee that he would not be torn apart by the citizens of Xunyang City as soon as he entered the city. In order not to make him sad, Shen Yijia did not say this out loud.
The child pursed his lips and pulled a red string from around his neck. A pouch hung from it.
He held the pouch in his hand, and his eyes turned red. “But my mother’s family is in Xunyang. When she died, her greatest wish was to return to her hometown to take a look. Please, can you bring me along? I promise not to follow you after we enter Xunyang.”
I… I don’t want to leave any regrets for my mother.”
“Oh my god, this child is crying so beautifully.” she thought.
Shen Yijia agreed without thinking further, not giving Rooster a chance to speak.
Thank you for reading on myNovelFull.Com
