305 Escape in troubled times
A small town in the Northeast.
As soon as the morning light rises, the village is filled with the crows of chickens, occasionally mixed with the barking of dogs. The hazy night has not faded, and the sparse morning candles have been lit. The toiling people dragged their sleepy eyes to get up and prepare for a day of mediocrity. Suddenly, the south side of the town was blazing, and the horses' hooves were hurrying, accompanied by an earth-shattering roar, followed by a ghostly howl from a human voice. Hundreds of black-clothed masked men rode into the town on tall horses, burned, killed, and plundered, and none of them were spared! The people who escaped were like headless flies, scurrying around.
"Close! Close the door! ”
To the north of the town, families heard the wind and roared to close their doors and windows, looking for hidden hideouts in terror. However, in the troubled times, it can be described as a dwelling of egg shells, which can be broken at the slightest touch, and there is no place to hide and nowhere to escape. A straw mat, the bottom of a bed, a tank of pond water, a cellar...... All that can be hidden is a blank hope! The opportunity to "survive".
In this small town of less than 1,000 households, only one mansion located in the middle of the city can be regarded as a large household. Every day, Ding Yahuan, the family of the mansion, has been in place one after another, cooking early, cleaning the courtyard, and taking care of the garden...... But the opening of the day was different from usual, with the exclamation of a housekeeper, "Close the door!" The heavy wooden door that had just been opened immediately closed in a hurry.
The housekeeper immediately pointed at a few of his subordinates and shouted, "I'll go and inform the master, you go and wake up the young lady!" Unexpectedly, when he turned around and wanted to enter the back hall, several cold arrows flew down rapidly in the air, "whooshing" through the heart, and the maids and maids present, including the housekeeper, fell to the ground and died.
"My mansion is loved by the emperor and protected by the gods! How can these mountain bandits be trampled on! A terrible cry came from the back hall, and the pain was endless.
"Master, run away!" This was followed by an urgent persuasion.
There was another loud "boom", accompanied by the glow of hot fireworks, and the heavy wooden door was uprooted and flew straight into the back hall. Wild laughter swirled over the dim sky, the intruders demonstrating their power to conquer—wild, shocking, with a mockery of death and an endless desire to kill. There is no "civilized" language that belongs to the human beings in this world, only the bright sword light and the flames that soar into the sky......
Death is so simple in this moment.
"Miss, quick!"
A few whispers, only to see the candlelight in a room deep in the backyard. Then the bamboo door was pushed open, and a woman in pink stepped out of the hut, followed by three housekeepers and two maids, and hurriedly left towards the backyard door.
The woman was in her early twenties, her eyebrows were delicate, her cherry lips were rich and light, and her facial features were almost perfectly imprinted on her clear skin. Pink lace bottom skirt, a thin wing silk white yarn, a light blue ribbon tied around the waist, slender but not thin. Xu is eager to escape, the woman's long hair has not been taken care of, only a blue ribbon of the same color as her waist, and the broken hair around her ears is gently pulled, which also adds a little casual beauty.
The woman walked in a hurry, but her demeanor was hurried but not chaotic, panicked but not rough, and at a glance she knew that she had been taught etiquette, and she was a model of everyone's beauty. Stepping out of the backyard, a black carriage was already waiting. The maid immediately pulled the curtain and helped her to the back seat of the carriage.
"Where's Daddy? What about my sister? The woman asked softly, frowning.
"The lord and the eldest lady have already been sent away!"
The family jumped in front of the car in response and pulled the reins. Seeing this, the maid immediately stepped into the carriage. The other two family members jumped into the carriage as well. With a shout, the carriage whizzed away. The burning flames, the cacophony of screams, and the brutality of the slaughter were left behind, and they were finally able to be quiet for a while.
"Do you know, who is it?" The woman couldn't help but whisper.
"It's said that there are a kind of mountain bandits." A girl replied in a whisper.
"A hundred years of peaceful town, where did the mountain bandits come from?" The woman's eyes showed surprise.
"Little ones don't know."
The maid lowered her head and did not dare to look at it, her frightened expression was undecided. If they hadn't followed this master, they would have been afraid that the corpse would have been scattered somewhere in the courtyard earlier. The woman asked no more. The incident happened suddenly, and no one could answer the questions in her heart at this moment, just hoping that her family would be safe and that he would find an opportunity to reunite again one day.
After traveling for several miles, the neighing of horses was suddenly heard, and the carriage shook violently. The front curtain was torn off with a "swish", and the bloodied family member leaned into half of his body, shouting in his last voice: "Escape!" ”
The two maids were already screaming in fright, looking at the woman at a loss. The woman rushed to the side of the family and saw that he had been hit by several arrows, and the other two were also killed in front of the upside-down car. The sound of horses' hooves resounded constantly in the hollow, from far and near, accompanied by outrageous lewd laughter. The woman calmly looked at the two disgraced maids, and said in a deep voice: "Hurry up! ”
Then she rushed out of the carriage and clutched the reins, trying to steady the panicked horse. Suddenly, a gust of wind swept through his ears, and the side of his face was cold, and then the pain was unbearable. She saw an arrow slash under her nose and stab the horse's buttocks. The slightly stable horse neighed again, kicked its front hooves into the air, and the carriage nearly toppled over.
"Haha! This is spicy and pink, the boss must like it! ”
"Hahaha! Catch it alive! ”
……
Behind him, the horse's hooves swept up the dust and chased him, and shouted frantically. The woman turned her head and looked calmly at the two maids who were hugging each other. Although they were frightened, they had a firm belief in their eyes: it is better to survive in the clutches than to die!
The woman quickly turned and jumped onto the horse's back, clamped the horse's belly tightly with her legs, pulled the reins with one hand, and pulled out the short arrow on the horse's ass with the other, and plunged it into the horse's neck. There was a long cry of pain, and the horse sped forward out of control. The woman had to hend over the horse, clasping the horse's neck with both hands, and letting the flying sand and broken branches hit her petite body. The wind and dust are flying all the way, and you can't see the end of the jungle trail......
Finally saw a thin slit of blue sky at one end of the green mountain forest, she couldn't wait to turn around and look back, only to find that the carriage had fallen off at some point, and the maids didn't know whether they were alive or dead! She was not allowed to express her sadness, and then the horses screamed. With even greater fear, she had no choice but to leap down the cliff with the sudden fall of the horse's limbs. It turns out that the end of this mountain forest is the edge of the sea cliff! It is as deep as a bottomless abyss.
The moment she fell into the deep sea, her mind went blank. All mottled memories were instantly empty, and time seemed to stop at that moment...... Floating in the dark, his near-paralyzed senses slowly recovering after countless days and nights. She wanted to grab something but couldn't move her finger bones, knowing that her eyelids hadn't opened, but she clearly saw the firelight and the woman in white beside her.
"Sister? Sister! She screamed hoarsely.
She remembered that face, born as twins, indistinguishable from herself.
"Sister."
Under the faint firelight, the pink and translucent face of the woman in white showed a light smile. The heart instantly became warm, and the regained family affection was extremely moving. She wanted to rush over and hug her sister tightly, but unfortunately her feet were imprisoned in place, and she had no strength to move. Suddenly, the woman in white turned dark, her limbs stiffened, and her throat trembled in horror:
"Sister, why don't you wait for me?"
At the same time, his chest seemed to be pierced by a sharp sword, and blood splattered...... There was a harmonious cry in the darkness, as if a cappella:
Born as a man, dead as a ghost! Millennial Demon, Ten Thousand Years of Tears! Forge the soul of the sword and cut off the afterlife.
"Sister!" She cried out, sober in grief.
It turned out to be nothing more than a nightmare. At this moment, she was lying flat somewhere, her whole body was in tearing pain, and even her heart seemed to be torn apart. Dragging the remnants of her breath, she instinctively looked around—there was no moonlight, only darkness. She could only close her heavy eyelids again, and before she knew it, she fell asleep again...... In the confusion, I seemed to hear the song of the mermaid, and the low washing sound of the waves, it was so quiet and tactful:
"Who sang that song and danced over the wall of tears for thousands of years?
Who is the audience who has watched from afar for several generations and never forgotten?
Who listened to the three watches and woke up in a foreign land?
Who has kept the thoughts of several lifetimes in exchange for the peace of the soul in the next life?
……
The fragrance of tea is in the sunset, ethereal and wounded.
Who wanders in whose dreams,
and who passes by whose tower,
Recite a song:
Don't forget the original intention, no words! ”
The piano has not been broken, the song has not stopped, and the nine songs have left the mourning to sing the end of the world, leaving a name in a foreign land...... She opened her eyes again, and saw a glimmer of morning sun hanging brightly between the sea and the sky. It turns out that it is so beautiful to be alive and see the rising sun again. She couldn't help but smile slightly.
"What's your name?"
A whisper suddenly drifted in his ears, with magical power.
"Ryoha." She answered without hesitation.
The face that suddenly hovered above her eyes, with a mysterious look, did not allow her to think at all. It was as if the soul had been completely subdued in that moment, leaving only an unconcealed confession.
"Why are you here?"
Why?
Looking at the deep eyes in the sky, the corners of her lips trembled, but she couldn't speak. The family is ruined, the people are killed, the troubled times escape, and the deep sea is mistakenly ...... How did she know why she came? The forbearance of grief and indignation turned into a shallow smile at the corner of her mouth, and she indifferently spit out two words:
"Fate!"
"Sleep."
The voice was magnetic and confused. Then, a palm fell to her forehead, with a warm scent, like the fragrance of early spring flowers.
How does this make her resist?
Can you still dream? Can I see you again in my dreams?
Baisha Island, the golden feather flowers, and the vigorous figure under the flower tree, looking into the distance motionless like a rock! But in the distance, there is nothing, only a blue ocean...... Above the blue sea is a fiery red flame, burning endlessly!
My Boundary? Divine Fire Phoenix?!
The flames were blazing, the hooves of horses were deafening, and the eyes were full of people and cattle fleeing from the fighting, and women struggling and shouting in pain......
"Hahaha! Kill the damn! It's fun! ”
"My mansion is loved by the emperor and protected by the gods! How can these mountain bandits be trampled on! The old man's voice swirled in the air, "You must take the young lady out of the mansion and go to Xianyu Mountain!" ”
"Sir, what about you?"
"I live and die with Yiwufu!"
"Miss!"
"Hurry up and take your sister away, I'll protect my father! If she wants to ask, she says we'll go before her! ”
……
"Daddy! Sister! She screamed and woke up again, rushing into the dark depths with painful memories.
The gradual recovery of her perception makes her grief-stricken! Born as a compatriot, my sister is always prescient. And she is painful to be one step late to her sister every time, and she realizes it later! It's not that I didn't want to cry before, but I lost the ability to cry! At this moment, I have regained my strength and the ability to vent!