However, the small town of Jianyi in Huainan Province, far away in the southern part of Daqin, is a scene of singing and dancing, and flourishing: on the street, there are people selling oil-paper umbrellas pushing a small wooden cart before it rains; candy sellers, repairmen walking the alleys, and hawkers from all walks of life shouting and shouting in various parts of the town; storytellers are still telling stories in the teahouse, which is full of people; and the customers of the winery are lined up at the door as in the past.

The civilians here were ignorant of the tragedy that had befallen the Zhongshan Kingdom, which was so far away from Huainan Province that it would take a long time for even official news of the Empire to arrive.

But even if they knew this cruel news, the people of the small city would only applaud, not why, just because it was the soldiers of Zhongshan who insulted the Qin women first.

The people of Great Qin did not feel that Yanbei Hou had done anything wrong, since Zhongshan dared to offend the empire, the empire could certainly destroy it as a matter of course, for the enemy, the Qin people were eager to eat their flesh and gnaw their bones, without the slightest sympathy at all, since the founding war thousands of years ago, the kindness and sympathy of the Qin people has always been only aimed at their own people.

The children frolicked and ran from the south of the city to the north of the city, chasing and screaming and scolding without stopping for a moment, two seven or eight-year-old children ran in front, and finally ran into a dead end, and the children chasing behind laughed together: "Sister Su, Ah Qiu, do you continue to run?

"I'm not called Sister Su!" the two replied in unison.

In Huainan official dialect, cutting means to be beaten.

"Slightly, slightly, let's call!" The group of children grimaced, deliberately angry with Su Jie and Ah Xiao, making Ah Xiao and Su Jie so angry that they stomped their feet.

Su Jie is very tall, probably because he inherited his father's appearance, his still immature face has revealed a heroic spirit, and his body is also very strong, he is a head taller than A Xiao of the same age, and his strength at a young age is much greater than that of his peers in Xiaocheng.

He was a little annoyed, he was determined to be a great general in the future, riding a heavily armored war horse, galloping in all directions, how could he be called such a name?

"I don't know who gave me a nickname, phew! If you have the ability to stand up, you will be disgusting behind your back!" Su Jie scolded.

"I got up, what's wrong!" One of the children stood up without fear.

"Okay, it's you kid!

The other children gathered around and shouted, "Fight, fight, don't fight, who is the grandson!"

"Stinky boy!" Su Jie saw that everyone was screaming, but he couldn't get angry, so he went directly to press the child who was not afraid of things to the ground, put his knees on his stomach, pressed his neck with both hands, and said proudly: "You have the ability to get up!

The kid wanted to stand up and resist, but Su Jie's strength was not small, and after a few attempts, he still couldn't stand up, and scolded unconvinced: "Sister Su, Sister Su, Sister Su!

"Okay, you! Su Jie gritted his teeth in anger.

"Get up, hit him, hit him, hit him......" The children next to him were very interested in seeing this kind of scene, none of them were willing to pull away the two people in the dispute, the children of this age already like to play, how interesting the fight is, if they pull away, how can they see the two of them fighting?

Ah Xiao's long eyebrows are clear, very cute, and a little honest, so he was given the nickname "Ah Cut" by the child of good things, although he didn't like this name, but he didn't hate it much, after all, he didn't lose anything.

Ah Xiao is honest, but he is not stupid, on the way here, a child disappeared.

There were seven of these people, including himself and Su Jie, and now there were only six.

"Stop fighting, stop fighting!" Ah Xiao ran over and spent a lot of effort pulling the two people in the dispute apart.

The child finally stood up, panting, his face flushed, and glared at Su Jie fiercely.

"Ah Xiao, why are you pulling me? Let me tell you, this kid hasn't suffered enough......" Su Jie raised his chin very proudly, looked at the child provocatively, and said proudly: "Xu Cai, don't stand up if you don't have the ability, what kind of bird should you be?"

"You! Su Jie, don't be too complacent! I'll call my brother in the afternoon, if you have the ability, stay here in the afternoon and don't leave!" Xu Lai was so angry that he smoked and said, "Also, my name is Xu Lai!

"Xu Cai Xu Cai Xu Cai!"

"That's it!" Ah Xiao said loudly, ending the scolding battle, and then he looked at the group of children and asked, "Ah Qi is gone! Do you know where Ah Qi went?"

"That's right, this guy has been there all along, I didn't pay attention to him, why did he disappear all of a sudden?" Su Jie scratched his head and wondered.

"I didn't pay attention either, could it be that I was hiding and eating alone again?" Xu Lai also scratched his head and said.

The other three looked at each other and shook their heads.

Several children have grown up together since childhood, don't look at Xu Lai and Su Jie's scuffle together, but the relationship has always been very good, everyone will take out anything, but Ah Qi, a little fat man, often secretly goes to buy food alone, and comes back after hiding and eating. This time, he slipped away alone without saying hello, which made the children angry.

"Otherwise, let's go find Ah Qi, maybe he has something to leave beforehand, if he dares to leave us alone to eat alone, we will beat him up!" Su Jie asked.

"I think so, both hands in favor!" Xu Lai raised his hands in agreement.

......

There are not many streets in Jianyi City, but there are a lot of alleys, just now the children chased and played all the way, I don't know how many intricate bluestone alleys they ran through, and the six children followed the road to find the street, but they still didn't see Ah Qi's figure.

The crowd didn't think much of it, and one of the children said, "I guess I went home by myself, right?"

Su Jie bought six strings of sugar gourds on the way, a bunch of them, and it was more than enough to buy these with Su Jie's pocket money, he took six strings of sugar gourds from the vendor's hand, looked at everyone and smiled: "Oh, sugar gourds, Ah Xiao, do you want to eat them?"

Everyone and Ah Xiao were not pretentious, only Xu Lai's eyes were horizontal, his mouth was high, and he looked to the other side. Su Jie stuffed the string of sugar gourds into Xu Lai's little palm and said, "Xu Cai, don't be angry, come, big brother will give you sugar gourds to eat." ”

Xu Lai swallowed in his throat and muttered in a low voice: "For the sake of the sugar gourd, I don't care about you, and my name is Xu Lai." ”

"Okay Xu Cai. Su Jie frowned and said.

"You ......"

"Eh, look, is it Ah Qi behind that wall?" said a child, pointing to a figure not far from the street.

Su Jie and Ah Xiao looked back: the back figure's hair was slightly curly, with a chubby body, wearing a gray-blue cotton shirt, holding some food in his hand, and a little cringe.

"That's right, it's this kid!" Su Jie shouted loudly. Ah Xiao and the others chased after him when they saw this, and the chubby figure seemed to know that someone was chasing him, so he was so frightened that he ran forward until he ran to the old street, drilled into the alley, and the figure disappeared.

There are many forks in the bluestone alley, and for children who grew up in a small town, it is not easy to get lost, but it takes a lot of time to get out.

"nnd, why did this fat man run so fast today? Axiao, Xu Cai!

Ah Xiao and Xu Lai nodded, Ah Xiao chose the alley on the left, Xu Lai chose the alley in the middle, and Su Jie went to the right.

"Ah Qi, you come out for me! Ah Qi!"

"I saw you, Ah Qi, don't hide!"

"Ah Qi, we promise not to rob you of food, you come out! There are snakes and centipedes, and the bite will be fatal!"

Ah Xiao called Ah Qi's name all the way, but Ah Qi didn't respond to him.

The bluestone alley of the old street is a little gloomy, and the water in the potholes on the bluestone slab has evaporated, and there is no poetry when it rains, but it looks like a toad with rotten sores on its back. Ah Xiao remembered that a few days ago, she met a stupid big sister in the old street.

"I wonder how she's doing now, has she found her family?" Ah Xiao thought.

Ah Xiao searched along the alley for a long time, but still didn't find the little fat man Ah Qi, and just when he was about to leave, he heard a wheezing sound in his ears.

The wheezing sound seemed to come from the side of the alley, Ah Xiao leaned his ear to the wall, the wheezing sound still existed, Ah Xiao cleared his throat and asked the other side of the wall, "Ah Qi! is that you?"

"Ah Xiao, save me, Ah Xiao save me, save ......" The voice of the little fat man Ah Qi was like a gossamer from the opposite side, Ah Xiao was startled, but he still put his ear against the wall and asked: "Ah Qi, what's wrong with you, don't scare me!"

Ah Qi's voice became smaller and smaller, with a crying tone, and kept shouting: "Ah Xiao, save me, save me......" and then seemed to hit the alley wall frantically with his arm, crying: "Ah Xiao, save me, woo...... He...... He's coming, run, run......."

After hearing this, Ah Xiao anxiously walked around in place, and even wanted to climb over the gambling brick wall, but he was only eight years old now, and he was not tall enough at all, how could he climb over it? He patted the brick wall vigorously and asked loudly, "Ah Qi, what's wrong with you, are you okay?" Ah Qi?"

However, at this time, there was no sound on the side of Ah Qi's brick wall.

Ah Xiao was so anxious that he shouted: "Su Jie, Xu Lai, you guys come here, Su Jie, Xu Lai!"

The old street was very long, but with Ah Xiao's shouting, the two of them should also hear Ah Xiao's call, and the strange thing was that the two of them did not reply.

There was silence all around, and the silence was somewhat terrifying.

The brick wall in front of Ah Xiao suddenly collapsed, Ah Xiao ignored the danger of the brick wall collapsing, walked forward quickly, and finally saw the little fat man Ah Qi lying on the ground, pushed his body, and asked anxiously: "Ah Qi, what's wrong with you?"

He probed Ah Qi's snort and found that the breath was still there, so he planned to pick up Ah Qi and carry him away first, but as soon as his hand touched Ah Qi's neck, he was retracted with a hot "oops".

Ah Qi suddenly opened his eyes, but his eyes became a little dull.

"Ah Xiao, it turns out that the person who came is you, Ah Xiao, Ah Xiao hehehe......" Ah Qi's voice became a little mechanical and rigid, he stood up and stared at Ah Xiao in a daze, with a weird smile on his face, held Ah Xiao's hand, and said with a smile: "My friend Ah Xiao, I'm Ah Qi, come with me......"

Ah Xiao was stunned, got rid of his hand, took a few steps back, looked at him vigilantly, and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Come with me, Ah Xiao, why are you so far away from me, am I not your friend?" He stepped forward with a smile, stared at Ah Xiao's face, still smiling stiffly, and said: "Ah Xiao, I am your friend Ah Qi, I have played with you since I was a child, you live in Tuochuan Street, and you were raised by your grandfather." ”

Ah Xiao took a few steps back.

"When I was a child, you and Su Jie often robbed me of things to eat, and last year, I, you, and Su Jie secretly went outside the city, and your grandfather is a fortune teller, right?"

Ah Xiao took a few steps back.

"Ah Xiao, I'm Ah Qi, the Ah Qi who stole food behind your back. Ah Qi stepped forward and said with a smile.

Ah Xiao took a few steps back, but found that he had reached the bottom of the alley.

"You're not Ah Qi. Ah Xiao looked at Ah Qi who came forward and shook his head.

"Who the hell are you?"