…… Today was a cloudy day with no sun, the sky was white, and the warm spring breeze with the scent of wildflowers slowly drifted through the alleys. He led the three-year-old horse slowly down the alley. His surroundings were also white, and the courtyards of the houses on both sides were hidden in a veil-like mist, with only a hazy and vague outline. The alleys, which used to be filled with children crying and adults barking and dogs barking, were now so quiet that he could not even hear the hooves of a three-year-old horse, as quiet as in the middle of the night...... But it's daytime, and even in the middle of the night, you should hear birds chirping and crows chirping. In confusion and doubt, he looked at his small courtyard. The coiled osmanthus tree in the courtyard is still bare, but on the sunny side, a few lonely green leaves hang on a branch on the courtyard wall, as if the osmanthus tree stretched out its hand to greet him, and as if it put its arms on the courtyard wall, lowered its head, and watched his every move coldly.

The door of his own courtyard was tightly hidden, and the left and right door gods attached to the door seemed to be channeled, one holding a steel whip and the other holding a copper mace, glaring at him angrily, as if to prevent him from entering his own courtyard. There seemed to be a dog barking in the house, and the barking was as intermittent as if it were separated by several courtyards, and if it was absent, I listened carefully, but I couldn't hear anything. A big rooster with a red crown suddenly appeared on the wall, tilting his head proudly, stretching his neck and making a silent long crook.

Why is there no sound when this rooster crows? Is it deaf yourself? He became more and more confused. He had wounds on his face and body, but his ears were not hurt, so why couldn't he hear even the slightest sound?

Confused and confused, he stepped on the stone steps in front of the courtyard gate with one foot. Suddenly, the courtyard door gently parted to the two sides. He heard neither the squeak of the doorway turning, nor the movement of the doors, as if they had always been open, and then his own courtyard appeared silently before him.

Lianniang stood in front of him with a smile and a smile on her belly, and affectionately stretched out her hand to pick up the blanket on his shoulder. Her big eyes were filled with affection and longing, and the strange voice seemed to be directly reflected in his mind: "Why are you here? ”

The surprise and confusion in his mind deepened. He set off from Beizheng early in the morning, walked so far without eating or stopping, and didn't even bother to take a sip of water, was it just to exchange for his wife's inexplicable "Why are you here" at the door of his house? What made him even more strange was that this was his home, why couldn't he come?

He stared at his wife as she lifted the coat over her shoulder. I suddenly found that my wife's stomach was deflated, and her plump and slender figure was exactly the same as when she just married him. What about the doll in her belly? What about his son? Where did my son go?

But his wife didn't mean to explain it to him, she reached out and brushed the dust off his shoulders and arms, pursed her lips and said quietly, "Come back, come back." My dad and my grandpa, they both want to see you......"

He opened his mouth but couldn't speak. Haven't Lianniang's father and grandfather passed away a long time ago? How could they be in their own homes? How could they still see themselves?

His breathing was a little unsmooth, and his throat was as dry as the land that had been dry for seven or eight months, and the saliva he swallowed desperately left only a shallow mark on the scorched earth, and even the dust was stirred up and disappeared without a trace. He licked and licked his lips before finally opening his mouth with difficulty to say something: "......"

The moment he spoke, he came to the arch gate in the evening. Under the light of the torches above and below the gate, the Shanzi battalion failed to attack the pass again, and dozens of new corpses were added under the wall; A seriously wounded soldier of the Zhao Army was silently tossing and wailing in the pile of dead, and only painful torture and the struggle for death remained in his desperate eyes.

It's our turn. He turned his head and said to Ji Zheng and Fan Quan. As he spoke, he reached out and unbuckled his leather armor, dragged the straight dress on his shoulder with his left hand, snorted and showed the right shoulder blade with overlapping new injuries and old wounds, pulled out his waist knife and danced in a circle on the top of his head, and pointed at the wall; Follow me! Rush out first. More than 500 soldiers followed him closely and rushed to the wall......

Liu Laozhu, who closed the wall but became a wooden smile, was handing him two wheat cakes. In the blink of an eye, Liu Laozhu transformed into a mountain baby again, carried his daughter and rode it around his neck, and learned to run back and forth in the yard with the sound of the packman driving the horse, and his face was full of sweat; At a time, he became his brother-in-law Fan Xiang, standing under the eaves with a book on the line, smiling at himself affectionately...... The face changed faster and faster, and he could no longer clearly recognize Mian's face, some of which he knew and some he didn't, there were packmen and villagers, there were border soldiers and guards, there were officers and villagers, some people had only fought side by side with him, some people had only glimpsed it by chance on the battlefield, and some people had only seen that face in the pile of dead people......

Lianniang raised her big black eyes to look at him, and said softly, "...... If you don't want to see them, find another time. I've told them all about it, you're working hard for our family right now. Her obsessive gaze locked tightly on his face. After a while, you'll come and see us, okay? Baby hasn't seen you yet......"

He stood in the courtyard for a long time, gazing affectionately at his wife, his lips trembling so much that he could barely control himself, and tears streaming down his cheeks.

Okay, my love, I promise you, when I'm done for a while, I'll come to see you, see you and our baby; I will definitely come, will definitely come, waiting for me......

Lian Niang's eyes were full of tears. She tried to keep the smile on her face, but her description and body slowly melted into the white void......

He suddenly found that his wife was still holding a small figure in her arms, and the little figure with a blurred face crawled on his wife's shoulder and stared at him.

It's the son! It's my son! Oh my son!

Lotus Niang! Lotus Niang! Don't go, don't go...... He wanted to catch up and see the baby's appearance, but his feet were like a boulder of 10,000 catties, and he couldn't move a single penny; He wanted to call out to his wife to stop her, but no matter how hard he tried, he made a little noise; He was so anxious that he was covered in sweat, and his hands were clawing in the air, but he couldn't grasp anything, he couldn't hold anything. He desperately widened his eyes to see his son's appearance clearly, but his teary eyes were hazy and his eyes were foggy, until the figure of Lianniang's mother and son completely disappeared, and he couldn't remember his son's eyebrows and eyes......

In a trance, he seemed to hear the sound of the vessel tipping over and breaking, and then someone took his arm and called to him anxiously: "Brother monk, big brother monk, wake up...... Wake up the monk, big brother ......"

He opened his teary eyes, and Yue'er's thin little face was looking at him with anxiety and worry.

He closed his eyes again, reached out to wipe the tears from his face, let out a long breath, and quietly recuperated before reopening his eyes and saying to Yue'er, "I'm fine." I had a dream and saw your sister-in-law and your little nephew......"

Yue'er bit her lip and lowered her eyes, and only said after a while: "The chicken soup is spilled." You sit down first, and I'll serve you another bowl. She crouched down and picked up a few pieces of clay bowls, and carefully tossed a few pieces of soil-stained chicken into half of the bowl. This meat is edible. Take it back to the stove and wash it, boil it in water, and you can eat. ”

Erya had already come over with a bowl of steaming chicken soup. She just put the bowl on the table next to the couch, and immediately pinched her ears with both hands and jumped on her feet to sigh, and then put her hand to her mouth and blew the cool air vigorously, and jumped for a long time before shaking her hand and saying to Yue'er: "Don't go, I'm here." One by one, there is this. She took out a gourd from behind her back, shook it in Shang Cheng's ear, and said proudly, "Guess, what is in here!" ”

Is this still a guess? It must have been Erya hiding from her father and mother that she went to the street to secretly get a gourd of wine. Alas, since Shang Cheng was able to walk on the ground and no longer taboo oil and meat, Erya almost every day had to play this cookie-cutter trick in front of Shang Cheng, and almost every time she was caught by her father, and then she blamed everything on Shang Cheng One by the captain asked her to sell wine, if she didn't listen to the captain of the school, did she want to die? Every time she said this excuse, she was justified: The captain was injured in the fight against the dog, can't she drink if she wants to? Besides, 100 wines can cure 100 diseases, and even the life-saving benefactor of the captain Zhu Daichun Zhu Divine Doctor said that wine is a good thing......

No one can refute her words, because these words were indeed said by Dr. Zhu himself; But everyone didn't think much of his words, because Dr. Zhu said these words at the wine table, and on the night that Dr. Zhu was so drunk that his face was red and his neck was thick, and his tongue was knotted when he spoke, so most of the "100 wines can cure 100 diseases" was not the medical proverb he saw in the previous medical books.

Erya splashed the cold tea in the teacups on several cases, poured most of the wine and handed it to Shang Cheng, and said, "Brother, you drink." ”

Shang Cheng shook his head, indicating that he was not thirsty. It's not that he's worried about his body and he's taboo about eating, it's that he's really not thirsty. In his opinion, this cloudy home brew is actually a drink.

"If you're thirsty, drink some air."

Er Ya waited for him to say this. As soon as he finished speaking, the little girl picked up the teacup and drank all the wine in the cup, smacked her tongue and drank the wine, poured more than half a cup with a smile, and then handed it to Shang Cheng: "Brother, you drink it too." She saw that there was no one left and right, Yue'er went to the stove room again, and whispered in Shang Cheng's ear, "This is the 'Four Seasons Fragrance' that I went to sell in front of 'Liu Ling's drunk', and one hundred and forty Wen is only a mile ......."

Shang Cheng squinted his eyes and pretended to sleep, ignoring her.

Yue'er turned back with an empty pottery bowl, a pair of chopsticks and a spoon, and just happened to hear Erya's words, so she asked, "How many have you sold?" ”

"Two mentions. No more gourds can fit it. ”

Yue'er asked, "Have you given anyone money?" "Two mentions of wine are 280 Wen, the seventeenth uncle's family is strictly disciplined, and it is impossible to give Er Ya such a lot of pocket money in a year, and now most of the house of the seventeenth uncle's family that has been burned down is being renovated, it is the time to use the money, and it is impossible to let the second girl spend money indiscriminately.

Erya rolled her eyes at Yue'er and said, "...... I didn't have enough money with me. If you say that you will give it on credit first, you will go back to them. ”

"How much worse? I'll get it for you later. ”

Erya's eyes immediately narrowed into a slit: "...... It's just two hundred and seventy-six words. ”