Where heaven and earth are on the line, the sand dunes are undulating like waves. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the border of Liangzhou, the most remote town in the Song Kingdom is only inhabited by a dozen families, the town is called Huyang Town, the town is surrounded by poplar trees with dead branches and some rocks as a fence, the town is full of dilapidated adobe houses, most of the adobe houses have a sheepfold built on the side, and almost every household has sheep.

And the largest sheepfold in the town rests on one of the most dilapidated houses.

In the early morning in the desert, when the wind was dry and cold, out of this most dilapidated room came a thin and small black-faced young man, tightly wrapped in a coat made of sheep felt, with a long whip in his hand, and there was nothing in his body that was not dirty because he had not been washed for a long time, only a pair of eyes that were surprisingly bright.

He is the fattest sheep herder in the whole town of Huyang, and his name is Tang Hong at the age of 12 this year.

Today, as a few days ago, a fat and strong yellow sheep were driven out of the big sheepfold that had just been repaired a few days ago.

"Old man, I went out and didn't have to keep my food today, I brought dry food to eat on the way", he turned to the old man who was sitting on a stone at the door and wrapped his whole body in a black robe, "Da Da Da" said loudly to the old man smoking a dry tobacco pouch. The old man glanced at him, took the tobacco pouch in his hand, pointed to a stone beside him, and motioned for the young man to sit down.

When Tang Hong sat down, he said as he had done every day in the past few years.

"Ah Hong, you must be careful today, you must bring enough dry food and drinking water."

Tang Hong was accustomed to taking down the one he was carrying behind him and not reporting the dry food and drinking water, and carefully checked it.

The old man nodded.

The boy drove a flock of fat sheep and sang a little song to the outside of the town.

"Grandson, don't blame grandpa for being ruthless, you are my grandson of Tang Gong, the world will be chaotic, if you don't even have the ability to protect yourself, you will definitely be better off dead in the future", the old man shrouded in the black robe looked at Tang Hong's gradually tiny and finally disappeared figure, and some helplessly spit out the smoke ring, this small circle of smoke is like a hovering dragon, becoming thicker and thicker, and finally turning into a small ball of smoke to envelop the old man, and when the smoke dissipates, the old man also seems to have dissipated, without a trace.

Tang Hong walked out of the town, as if because he got up too early, he was the only shepherd, no matter how long he walked, he didn't see anyone along the way.

"It's impossible that no one will come to herd sheep now" Tang Hong looked at the sun, usually at this time, the sheep herders were already noisy because of the distribution of places, and it was so quiet at this time.

If Tang Hong doesn't put these abnormalities on his mind, he just thinks about it, and he doesn't take it to heart, and all he worries about is the stomach problem of this group of sheep.

Almost all of Huyang Town has been shepherding sheep for a living for many years, but the lack of planning and care has made the nearby grassland long gone, and if you want the sheep to eat enough, you can only try your luck farther away.

Tang Hong checked the dry food and drinking water on his body again, there was no problem, so he turned around and walked towards the desert, the grass nearby was almost eaten, and the seats were all occupied, if you want the sheep to be full, you can only go to a farther place.

Intent on walking farther to find a better meadow, the sun turned from the east to the sky, and when he noticed that the sky was darkening imperceptibly, his ears were full of noisy sounds, and countless black crows flew south. Tang Hong immediately understood, and secretly said that this was a precursor to the coming of the wind and sand, and the number of black crows was not an ordinary wind and sand, so it was impossible not to predict. But he didn't have time to rush back to Poplar Town, and if he didn't find a place to shelter from the wind quickly, the sheep would definitely be difficult to preserve.

Every sheep here is a handful of copper, which has been raised by Tang Hong in the early years, and the loss of any head is like cutting meat on Tang Hong's body.

"Don't run, don't run, don't run" Tang Hong hurriedly shouted, tidying up the scattered sheep and looking around at the same time, on the continuous desert between heaven and earth, there is a slightly hideous stone forest in the blur, as if there are sharp teeth without flesh and blood. I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in my heart, and immediately drove the sheep to run there, and after running for a while, the stone forest was getting closer and closer, but Tang Hong didn't dare to go forward, because the shadows there were intertwined like ghosts, and it was clearly a devil's city.

"It's so unlucky" Tang Hong spat fiercely, it is said that people in the desert will definitely die in the desert sooner or later as long as they enter the devil's city, even if they just see it, they will be doomed.

Tang Hong looked around again, and there was no place to shelter from the wind as far as his eyes could see.

And with the sound of "whirring", a strong wind was already blowing behind him, and there were blows of sand and gravel in the wind, which fell on his neck that was not tightly wrapped and felt like being scraped by a knife. Tang Hong's face sank and became very unsightly, he originally thought that even if it was a strong wind and sand, he would lose a few sheep at most, but now it seems that if he doesn't think about it, his life will be lost here.

After looking at the wind and sand that had already had an overwhelming trend, and then at the Devil City in front of him, he couldn't open his eyes after a while. The flock also became a mess.

"It's a gamble", Tang Hong slapped his hands fiercely.

Then he was almost pushed by the wind and drove the sheep into the Devil's Town. There is no way to do it, if you don't go in, you will die, and if you go in, you may die, but of course it is better to die early than to die late.

The entrance to Devil's Town is very small, but the inside is very wide, and once you enter, the wind and sand are obviously much smaller. Tang Hong breathed a sigh of relief, and finally lived up to the place where he blocked the rest of his life, and planned to stay here at the entrance and leave as soon as the wind and sand stopped. Hearing the legend of Devil's City since he was a child left a deep shadow on his psyche.

The sound of the wind and sand became louder, and the sheep that had been quiet became agitated again, and then with a loud "bang", a pile of stones at the entrance was scattered by the strong wind, and fell into the flock, and the sheep screamed in horror and ran towards the depths of the devil's city. "Come back, come back" Tang Hong scolded loudly, and then another gust of wind blew him away, and unlucky collided with a stone in the air, and finally looked at the scattered sheep helplessly, and simply closed his eyes and fainted. After thinking about it, the days ahead will be sad.

The wind and sand swirled over Devil's Town for a long time, and many grazing people did not return to the town for the next few days, even near Poplar Town. This sandstorm is really ridiculously big

The cold dark stone cave has a millstone-sized pool in the middle, from which a few white fish jump out from time to time.

Tang Hong woke up slowly, immediately turned over, and looked around, but where was the shadow of a sheep.

"Alas" Tang Hong sat down on the ground dejectedly, and couldn't help but feel a pain, this is not a desert with soft sand everywhere, but a hard and hideous rock.

"This place is also good", the long-lasting cold wind in the cave, Tang Hong shivered, lifted his spirit and looked around, this stone cave is natural and extremely wide, only there is a small gap above his head, this small is just in his position, it should be a big opening up close. I should have fallen from that opening, and it is unknown why it was intact.

Tang Hong walked around the cave, and finally found that there was no other exit in the hole, and no matter how high he jumped in that crack, he was still the same size as when he stood in place, which was a desperate distance.

"Whatever, you can live a life here, anyway, the old man himself can live a much more chic life", Tang Hong said optimistically, so he found a gentle place to lie down comfortably, his eyes narrowed, and he glanced at the surrounding stone wall, which was vaguely engraved with words, but most of them were covered by moss, and he could only pause when he looked at it, and then Tang Hong simply turned it up and began to look carefully at the words on the stone wall.

Compared to him, what had been relatively peaceful was now in chaos, the streets were lined with dilapidated buildings, and the windy sand that had swirled over the Devil's City a few days ago swept here, and not only here but also many small towns around it, equivalent to one-tenth of the territory of the Song Kingdom. Heavy losses. And to add insult to injury, the Wei State and the Qin State began to have a surplus of troops, and the Wei general Gongzi Wei will attack the Song two months later.

Now the entire Song Kingdom is panicked. The king of Song has been overwhelmed by the war of the ministers of the court and the two factions.

In the dilapidated adobe house in Huyang Town, the old man in a black robe was smoking a dry cigarette, and the old man looked like he had seen all kinds of life at this time. From time to time, he said to himself: "Song Guo can't stay any longer, let's go to Qin State."