The city of Tokyo is distinctly organized. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoFrom the imperial city to the west, there is a wide royal street, the road is lined with a variety of shops, from inns, tea houses, wine shops, brothels, casinos, to small roadside merchants and vendors, and the sound of selling is endless.

Walk straight from the Imperial City, about five miles, turn left, pass through a few alleys, and walk three miles, which is the south of the capital, that is, Nanhua Street. Compared with the bustle of the Royal Street, it seems much quieter, and inadvertently reveals a serious, majestic atmosphere. It was the residence of most of the officials and wealthy merchants in the capital. Wealthy businessmen naturally have a lot of money, so if they have nothing to do, they invite a few more caretakers to show off that they are rich. Not to mention those who are officials, there are many people who offend, and they are always afraid that the person they offend will always want his life, and his followers never leave their bodies day and night, and they are on duty in shifts. Therefore, walking on the streets of Nanhua Street, you see not vendors, not ordinary people, but guards.

On the other side of the Royal Street, it is also the same location, turn right, and also pass through a few alleys, and in about a quarter of an hour, you can reach the north of the Imperial City, that is, Beiwu Street. But the people in the capital generally don't call it Beiwu Street, but call it Bei Poor Street, because this street is not inhabited by dignitaries, not merchants, merchants, and merchants, but the lowest people in Tokyo, the poor. Because they are poor, they are not even as good as the last merchants of the Shinong business, and even the girls in the brothel.

In this capital, east, west, north and south, the emperor's majesty, the official cage family, the common people, the emperor, the powerful, the rich and the poor, like cutting tofu, draw a very clear boundary.

At night, the capital city seems to be studded with diamonds of all sizes and pearls of the night, twinkling and flashing. Today, it is the annual Qixi Festival, and it is even more lively, the large and small shops in the central street are hung with colorful lanterns, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and purple, rippling in the night breeze, as if the daughters of the Queen Mother are dancing. The lake was full of people, especially the little girls who had not yet come out of the pavilion, all of them innocently pointed to the lanterns in the river and smiled like flowers, praying that the lover in their dreams would appear immediately, or that they would be safe and healthy.

At this time, at the back door of a compound on Nanhua Street, a man's head quietly poked out, looked left and right, saw no one, turned around and nodded to the person behind him, and then took the lead out of the small door, followed by a beautiful young woman and an eleven or twelve-year-old boy, all three of them were in a hurry and frightened, and were running quickly towards the central street. The man is of medium height, dressed in a blue embroidered robe, with a mustache, and holds a long sword, not angry but mighty.

As soon as they walked out of the tea room, the three of them heard shouts not far behind. "Stop, don't run."

The man looked back, and a group of soldiers in official uniforms were chasing them with torches, and the man shouted in his heart that something was wrong, urging the people around him to leave quickly.

"Stop, don't run." "Don't run, stop." The sound was getting closer, the footsteps were getting more urgent, and the friction of armor and swords was getting louder and louder.

"Master, what should I do? They caught up. The beautiful young woman cried out in alarm.

The man looked at the pursuers behind him, then at the woman in front of him, and finally his eyes fell on the child beside the woman. The man closed his eyes and sighed deeply, his face was full of helplessness, he couldn't hide after all! This child is his only bloodline, he is desperate to the death, and he has to protect his child. When I opened my eyes again, my eyes regained the decisiveness and tenacity they had just had. "You take the child with you."

"What about you?"

The man looked at the faces that were getting closer and closer, his eyes were full of reluctance, the woman in front of him, since she married him, had not lived a good life, and the frequent gathering and separation made him feel too much guilt about this woman and the child. However, there is no time to make amends. "Leave me alone, you take the child and go as far as possible."

"Father."

Hearing his son's immature voice, the man squatted down, his hands stroking the child's cheeks, his eyes full of love. "Yi'er, take your mother away, remember, Yi'er is a man, you have to take care of your mother."

Even if a child is only twelve years old, he grows up in a deep house compound, and is naturally more mature than other children, and even if he is young, he knows what will happen next. His arms went over his father's neck, and the tears were gone. "No, father, I'm not leaving."

"Good, Yi'er still has a mother, take her mother out of here, leave Tokyo, don't go back here for the rest of your life, you know?" The man patted the child's back, this is probably the last hug, this feeling, this temperature, I really hope that time can always stay in this moment.

However, the development of things will never be transferred by human will, time cannot stand still, and the officers and soldiers who are chasing after them soon catch up with them. "Stop, don't run."

This angry shout can't help but say goodbye to their family, this is a gamble of time and life, one more word will waste a second of time, and their lives will be in more danger.

"Let's go." The man pushed away the child, drew his sword, and attacked the soldiers not far away, the swords collided, and in this beautiful and romantic night sky, splashed sparks, and the muffled humming overlapped and undulated, like the fairy music played under the seat of the Queen Mother. The clothes were torn, the bundles of hair were scattered, and when the long sword fell off from his hand, the sound of "dang", like the sound of a horn on the battlefield, announced the end of the battle, and it was needless to say who won and who lost on both sides. Whether it was blood that lit up the night sky, or whether it lit up the red of the ground, no one could tell.

With a "jump", the tall body fell heavily to the ground, and the small figure in the man's bloodshot sight who kept looking back at him was getting farther and farther away, smaller and smaller, and what he heard in his ears was his shouts and cries. The man's lips moved, as if he was saying something, but when he listened closely, it seemed that there was nothing, and the eyes that were slowly closing, as if he were looking at a certain focal point in the sky, prayed reverently.

Compared with the thrilling of Nanhua Street, the bustle of Central Street is extraordinary, and Bei Poor Street is much quieter. People have already gone to sleep, and they will have to go to work tomorrow to support their families, who has the heart to go to the Qixi Festival, besides, lighting the lamp has to waste the money for lamp oil, and no one in the poor street is willing to waste it.

There is a big banyan tree planted in the middle of the street, facing a small courtyard of a family, and there is a brown-yellow rhubarb sleeping at the gate of the courtyard.

A small figure in the distance panted and panted, because he was running too fast, and he didn't pay attention to the sounds around him, until he saw the rhubarb holding his legs, and the two green eyes were glaring at him angrily and yelling, so frightened that he just gasped for breath in his throat and swallowed it back hard, and his heart rose to his throat, afraid that if he was not careful, it would become a supper on his plate.

There was no offensive weapon in his hand, there was a stick a few meters away, but unfortunately it was too far away to reach, and he would definitely not be able to beat this beast in an empty-handed fight, but if he didn't get rid of it quickly, the people behind him would catch up. It's really a dilemma.

Just as he was in trouble, the door of the front yard creaked open, and a little girl came out with an oil lamp. "Daylily."

A light in the dark night, that is not a symbol of hope. The light was facing the little girl's face, and only half of the face below the nose was seen, and there were two eyes that were gathered, and a face of black and white, which was not a person, but like a courtyard where the night was dark and windy and did not live for a long time...... Hell!

The little boy didn't dare to breathe, his legs began to tremble, his lips trembled and he muttered, "Don't come, don't come."

But Rhubarb seemed to know the little girl, and when he heard the master's voice, he stopped roaring, let go of the trouser leg that he had bitten tightly, and turned his head to look at the master with his tail wagging his tail. Hearing the master's command to say "daylily, let go", he glanced back at the little boy in front of him, twisted his ass proudly, and ran back to his kennel to continue sleeping.

"I'm sorry, my daylily didn't mean it, don't you mind."

The little boy wanted to run, but when he saw the figure reflected on the ground, he breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was not a ghost, it was a person, and ghosts would not have a shadow. When he looked closely, the little girl's clear smiling face came into his eyes. With two small braids on his shoulders, his floral clothes swaying slightly in the breeze, and a pair of simple cloth shoes on his feet, the little boy took a deep breath and smelled a vague fragrance of jasmine.

"It's okay."

"Why don't you go to bed at such a late hour??"

Go to bed? He didn't want to, but he couldn't! I didn't even dare to close my eyes.

"Hurry up, don't let him run."

A deep and powerful voice suddenly came from behind him, and the two looked at the place where the sound came from at the same time, the little girl looked at the person in the distance, and then looked at the nervous little boy, and asked, "Are they here to arrest you?" ”

"I gotta go, goodbye." After the little boy finished speaking, he pulled his legs and ran.

"Wait a minute." The little girl ran to the boy and said in a serious tone, "You can't outrun them, they have longer legs than you, and they have more people than you." ”

"Then I'll have to run, too."

The little girl looked at the boy in front of her, then at the sleeping rhubarb, and said, "Come with me!" ”。 Then he dragged the little boy into his yard, and kicked Rhubarb as he passed him. "Daylily, bark, scream at them."

When Rhubarb heard his master's order, he ran out and shouted vigorously outside the door. After a while, the two people behind the courtyard gate heard the voices of people stopping outside the door, as well as the sound of talking. "My lord, are you sure he's running this way on such a dark night?"

"You're questioning my judgment, boy, smart! The more impossible the place, the more likely it is, there are our people on the three main streets, east, west, north and south, and he can't run. ”

"But we have been looking for a few days and we haven't found it, according to our subordinates, will he have left the city?"

"Impossible, the city gates have been checked these days, and anyone between the ages of eight and fifteen is not allowed to go out of the city, if there is a suspicious direct seizure, the official is sure, he is still in the city, I always have a hunch that this kid is around us." The speaker's eyes swept around the perimeter, their sharp eyes as if they could see through the darkness and obstacles.

"What the lord means is that he is hiding in a certain house in this slum street, and if so, should he go from house to house. Yes...... This brute dares to bite me, and see that I will not kill you. The bitten man was so angry that he drew his sword from its sheath and tried to cut at the beast that was biting his leg.

"Daylily."

The little girl behind the courtyard gate saw that the daylily was in danger and immediately rushed out, but it was too late for the little boy to stop it. The little girl ran to Rhubarb and put her arms around her neck. "What is your name, you've been screaming for so long just now, you're not tired! If you call it again, you won't let me sleep! After speaking, he raised his head and said innocently: "Are you here to catch the thief?" ”

The leader of the officers and soldiers, that is, the "adult" in everyone's mouth, heard the little girl say this, bent down with great interest, and said with a smile: "How does the little girl know that we are catching a thief, have you seen him?" ”

"I haven't seen it, but just now my rhubarb barked for a long time, and I thought it had touched a big mouse, so I ran out to take a look, as if there was a shadow running over there. Big brother, you must catch him, he always runs to other people's houses to steal food, yesterday he stole three big sweet potatoes from my family, it's so annoying. ”

When the person who wanted to kill Rhubarb just now heard the little girl's words, his eyes turned to the face of the leader, meaning to ask: Adult, what should I do?

The leader said in a deep voice. "Chase ahead."

"Yes."

The sound of armor and footsteps appeared earth-shatteringly, and then disappeared in the direction pointed by the little girl, and the night returned to calm. The man who gave the order looked at the little girl before leaving, and then at the rhubarb in the little girl's arms, and the corner of his eye swept over the wooden door hidden behind the little girl.

When the group of officers and soldiers walked away, the little girl instantly sat down on the ground, and when her hand touched her forehead, she was shocked to realize that she was in a cold sweat. Even the person who collapsed, as well as the person behind the wooden door, if it wasn't for the pain in his fingers, he wouldn't have paid attention to how nervous and scared he was just now, and even picked off the sawdust on the door panel. It's dangerous! But fortunately, he escaped.

After passing through the courtyard, I came to the little girl's room, which was very simple, with a table, a bed, a cabinet, and nothing else. The little girl was helping a little boy with medicine in the dim light.

The little girl held the medicine bottle in her hand and said, "If you bear with it, it will hurt." ”

"Come on, I'm not afraid of pain." The little boy was brave on his face, but when the powder was sprinkled on the wound, he couldn't help but gasp.

"What's your name?" After applying the medicine, the little girl asked while bandaging.

"My name is Zhao Yi."

"Is it Hou Yi who shoots the sun?" Seeing the little boy nodding, the little girl said happily: "Brother Yi, my name is Ji Moyu." Do you know why my name is Moyu? Because when I was born, my father gave me a piece of ink-colored jade carving as a gift, so my name is Moyu. Mo Yu said as he took out the ink-colored jade carving on his neck and stroked it carefully a few times. You can rest assured, those officers and soldiers are gone, and they will not find you. ”

"Well, thank you tonight! I live here, will your father and your mother disagree? ”

"Don't worry, you live quietly with me, just don't tell her, only my mother is here in our house, and my mother is very good." After Moyu finished taking the medicine, he went to bed and sat side by side with Zhao Yi, "But I can only keep you tonight, you still have to go, if you are caught......"

"Don't worry! I'll leave tomorrow, and it won't bother you. You just said that there are only you and your mother in your family, but what about your father? ”

Mo Yu turned her head to sleep in the bed, "I don't know, I haven't seen him." Come in and sleep! ”

Zhao Yi's face was slightly red, and he said embarrassedly: "My mother said that men and women can't kiss each other, and boys and girls can't sleep together casually, otherwise they will ....... Will ......"

Mo Yu glanced at him and yawned, "What will happen?" "Seeing that Zhao Yi couldn't give an answer for a long time, he simply slept with his eyes closed." Okay, then I'll sleep, and you'll just sit there! After saying that, he closed his eyes, and after a while, there was an even sound of breathing.

Zhao Yi hesitated for a long time, seeing that Moyu had closed his eyes and fell asleep, and he was indeed sleepy, so he finally picked up the quilt and lay down, looking at the mosquito net above his head. His father is dead, and his mother is also dead, whether he is afraid of affecting this Moyu by his side, or for the sake of the future, he must leave, otherwise, the sacrifice of his father and mother is not worth it.

The night sky is still beautiful, and the sporadic lights are lit up until the second half of the night. The capital of the Zhou Kingdom was able to rest in this silent night, waiting for the dawn to come.