Almost every afternoon, near the only creek in this small mountain village surrounded by mountains, there is such a conversation, a boy no more than 8 or 9 years old and a thinner little girl

"Let's come to the lake to catch fish every day from now on, I can swim to protect you!" The little boy blushed, straightened his thin chest, and solemnly announced to the little girl next to him who was a little absent-minded.

"What do you think the other side of the mountain looks like??"

"It's not the same as this one!"

"Oh."

"Let's go back, my father and mother should be in a hurry." I don't know why, looking at the expression of the little girl looking at the sky on the other side of the mountain, the little boy felt inexplicably irritable.

It's coming, it's almost there, alas, it hurts, no, I'll be able to see it soon, I can see it......

The girl muttered in her dreams that she really wanted to see the other side of the mountain

"I'm almost 10 years old, it's time for it"

"But... But..."

"She's never here," the couple sighed helplessly as they looked at their sleeping daughter.

"There's a big fish here!!" The boy jumped to his feet and shouted

Why didn't you wake up without seeing it?! The girl lowered her head and thought about yesterday's dream

"Dye, hurry up and catch it!!"

That's pretty much

"Ahh

"Dye, you will marry me in the future, okay?" The cocoon was still blushing, and cautiously asked the girl next to her, who was always in a daze

"Oh, if I had a new pair of shoes, I would have been able to climb this mountain."

"Really, great, we're done!!" The boy happily jumped around the girl

"Okay" I'm so tired, I really want to go home and sleep, and by the way, tease that round stupid brother.

"Kid, haven't you always wanted to know what the other side of the mountain looks like? I can show you around."

This old man standing at the door of the house looks so familiar, but he obviously doesn't remember seeing it

"Mother?" The little girl looked at her father blankly.

"Well... Go for it ... Before she could finish speaking, she cried and fell into her husband's arms.

The girl left the small mountain village like this, and she didn't even have time to say goodbye to her friends, but she didn't think about saying goodbye to anyone, as if everything here had never been relevant to her

The boy only learned in the afternoon of the next day that the girl he had been thinking about had left, and really went to the other side of the mountain that she thought about every day, and he cried for many days, until the adults were impatient to coax him, and then slowly calmed down

In the second year after the girl's departure, on an autumn night, the entire mountain village was shrouded in fire and smoke, the sound of swords was mixed with the cries and screams of men, women and children, and an army dressed in black iron armor and masked faces razed the place to the ground, leaving only an ignorant boy

The boy was already stupefied by the horrors of the night, his face was splattered with the blood of his relatives, his eyes were so closed that he didn't even have the courage to look at the executioners, and sat down on the ground

"Your birthday is the first day of the first month of the first month of the second year?" The leader of the army, sitting on a tall horse, asked loudly

"Yes... Be... Yes... The cocoon replied with a shudder, and he still hadn't opened his eyes, as if waiting for the knife that had slashed at his mother's mother to fall on his neck as well

"From now on, you are the prince of the city" The stern voice was full of anger and could not be ignored

"But, but I," the boy trembled, so frightened that he couldn't even finish his words

"No, however, your life will be at the mercy of me and my son, and if I leave, he will be your master"

For many years afterward, he longed to remember the scene, but there was nothing in his mind but blood splattering everywhere, wails everywhere, and deep fear, and even he had no memory of how he came to the capital of the city or how he entered the palace......

When the memory began again, it was when he woke up in the dormitory of the palace, his eyes were full of novelties that he had never seen before, and a lot of palace ladies who said that he was coming to serve him, he was still very afraid, afraid of all the people who came around, afraid of this palace full of tents and jewels, without those ironclad soldiers with swords, he seemed to have more courage, the courage to escape, so every day he tried to escape from here, but it was too big, he was found before he even stepped out of the garden in front of his palace

On this day he finally saw the gate at the other end of the garden, and ran there desperately, but a girl in fine clothes outside the door and the attendants on the third floor and the outer three floors around her blocked his way

"Who are you?? This is the royal palace, how did you get in?? The girl raised her chin arrogantly and accused the thin boy in front of her

"I, I, I live here now," the boy hurriedly explained

"Really?? Then you can take me to my dad, the first time I came, my dad said let me walk around by myself, but it's too boring here."

"Your father, who is your father??" The boy began to feel at a loss,

"My father is a general, and I am the second lady of the riveting family," the girl said proudly

"But, I don't know...... I, I haven't ever left this yard."

"Why are you blushing?"

"No, it's nothing" The more nervous the boy became, the redder his face became, and the more indistinct his speech became

"Haha, what's your name"

"My name is Cocoon"

"Cocoon, my name is 涣" Cocoon, cocoon, the boy who blushes, the first boy to know my name.