The gray weather lasted for an unknown amount of time, as if the huge canopy of heaven had been drained and the colors were sprinkled with layers of heavy plant ash.

It's dry, there's no wind, and it's oppressive.

The gray towering huge city wall steadily surrounds the entire Chang'an City, the military camp is not far from the city wall, the people and horses are noisy, the soldiers patrol back and forth on the city wall, the endless gray and black roofs in the city wall are pressed on the ground, and there is no one to see in the streets and alleys of the north and south.

In previous years, the ten-mile long street, which was full of traffic and people, was silent.

On both sides of the street, the once bustling liquor shops and green buildings have closed their doors and windows, and the flags of various businesses hang dying outside the buildings, which are as bright as rags and lifeless.

In the past, the five-mile alley where chickens and dogs barked seemed to stop time, and it was quiet and a little terrifying.

The grey sky was getting darker, and night was about to fall.

A wisp of green smoke suddenly floated from a dilapidated courtyard not far from the alley, and when I listened carefully, it seemed that two people were talking in a low voice.

A person in the courtyard squatted in the corner, looking like a tiger's back, with a messy beard covering most of his face, his hair was scattered behind him, thick lips, a high nose bridge, a pair of blue eyes staring at the bone chopping knife with more than a dozen openings in his hand, his left hand wiped his beard and spat vigorously on the knife edge, both hands held the blade of the knife and rubbed back and forth on a gray stone, and the piercing sound broke the previous silence.

Another man who looked older was a little hunchbacked, with gray and messy braids coiled on his head, emaciated cheeks with furrows and ravines, and a pair of blue pupils in his lowered eyelids, and the loess earthen stove in front of him was half mutilated, but it did not affect an iron pot full of water on the stove, and the already hunchbacked body added dry waste wood boards from time to time from the air intake under the stove, and layers of white mist gradually floated on the calm water surface in the iron pot.

The hunchback glanced at the man in the corner of the wall and said: "Hurry up, slaughter the old one first, you can eat it for half a while, the small body is injured, and the dying body is full of sores and pus, it's a pity." ”

The man who was sharpening the knife turned his head and smiled at the hunchback, raised his left arm and rubbed his beard full of saliva and replied: "It's a pity, most of these boys were caught in the city and didn't die there, but it was a bit lucky, it should look good, if it wasn't too much injured, it could be raised, now there is not even a female fly in this city, his mother's Shi Xiong's gang of miscellaneous and picky mouths, all of which can't be changed in this world, those white flowers and flowers of the little lady are tender and tender The taste is good, but it's not better to keep it, now it's okay, The women are gone, and the white and pure Han cubs are gone, and there is nowhere to vent the suffocation,. ”

The hunchback who was staring at the fire shook his head and listened to the complaints of his son Shi Kuan, sighed and said: "This city will be broken sooner or later, and now there are less than a few hundred people left, and those Han people are almost extinct. In the past few months, no matter the Han people and Hu people who have been arrested on the city wall, none of them have all beards and tails to get off the city wall, and they will not survive for a few days if they are lucky enough to get off the city wall. ”

Shi Kuan nodded and agreed, took the knife in his hand and picked up a white bone from the root of the wall and slashed it diagonally, which wrist strength was not mastered, the white bone was not broken, leaving only a shallow scratch, the bone chopping knife in Shi Kuan's hand slid down and cut the stone on the ground, the bone chopping knife that was already without the blade was full of gaps This time cut a large gap, Shi Kuan frowned and spat on the ground, and stood up and walked outside the courtyard while holding the knife on the ground; "I'm going to find Shi Xiong to borrow a knife, and by the way, call him to help, it's a big deal to divide his arm, damn, this broken knife, bad luck."

"Go through the alley, it's not dark yet, don't be caught by the officers and soldiers patrolling the city."

Shi Kuan said impatiently: "It's all fucking dead on the city wall, except for us people in the huge city, there is not a single ghost, don't worry." ”

The hunchback looked at the courtyard door with only the door frame left, shook his head helplessly and continued to add firewood, fiddling with the fire in the furnace, probably old, looking at the flames in a daze, the old blue eyes were a little moist, the more the flames became blurred, the hunchback stretched out his rough left hand, rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand, tears and eye feces were rubbed by the rough back of his hand, and the dirt and dust on the back of his hand were rubbed into his eyes again, his eyes became more and more uncomfortable, and he squinted at the dilapidated door of the bedroom behind him, Slowly got up and groped in the direction of the well next to the wall, where there was a bucket of freshly filled water, and there was clean water in it to wash your face.

Just when the hunchback had just touched the bucket and scooped water with both hands to wash his face, someone suddenly walked in at the door, and the hunchback turned his back to the courtyard door without turning his head, continued to rub his eyes with water, and asked casually: "Why did you come back?" Got a knife? ”

Perhaps it was very uncomfortable to rub the ashes of the plants and trees into his eyes, and the hunchback continued: "I didn't pay attention just now, I rubbed the ashes into my eyes when I was burning the fire, just wash it, you go and drag the old one out and tie it to the door panel, and I'll do it......"

Before he could finish his words, he felt a heavy blow to the back of his head, and before he could react, the whole person fell into numbness and darkness, and the severe pain seemed to feel his body leaning forward and then falling in the last few seconds, and finally there was the sound of a boulder falling into the water, and then it was all darkness.

At the mouth of the well, a gray-haired Taoist priest wearing a shabby Taoist robe stood trembling a little, leaned forward to look at the dark bottom of the well, and with trembling hands, he threw away the wooden stick that had just attacked the hunchback, and ran quickly towards the house in two steps.

The house is dark, there is no furniture, except for two piles of hay in the east and west corners, there is nothing else, the Taoist priest just entered the door, near the door of the northeast of the haystack rolled out of a person, tied by a rope like a zongzi, it seems that he just listened to the movement outside and thought that the person who came to kill him came in, only to roll out of the haystack and squirm forward like a caterpillar towards the northwest haystack, his mouth was stuffed with strips of cloth and he was still trying to shout desperately, as if to wake up the people in the grass pile in the west and let him run away.

The dying boy in the grass pile in the west was woken up from his deep sleep, and was also trapped solidly, unable to move his hands and feet, looked sideways at the people who were crawling towards him in the east, frowned slightly, and then looked at the black figure standing at the door, and understood in his heart that the time limit may have come, those miscellaneous hus did not even let go of their own injuries, it seems that there is no hope outside, the young man turned his head to look at the dilapidated roof, his eyes were dull, and his thoughts were thousands, how prosperous Luoyang was in the past, those tempting delicacies, The school with the sound of books, the loving father and the clansmen, and the porcelain doll that often climbs the wall and smirks at themselves in the next door, will never be seen again, the cute little man who likes to ride on the wall and nibble on the pear that is more than his hand, and when he sees himself, his eyes will open wide to reveal two dimples and smirk.

Soon, the young man's pupils gradually dilated, his eyes slowly became unfocused, his breathing became lighter and lighter, and a huge canopy seemed to light up in his dark mind to envelop himself, and then the canopy began to flow slowly, as if entering the long river of time, and the extremely familiar picture happened faster and faster around him, and he was like an immersive bystander, standing in the river of time unable to move, and the experiences of more than ten years appeared one by one, and quickly disappeared.

Like a dream, I don't know how long it took for the huge light curtain covering me to disappear, and out of nowhere, a ray of golden light suddenly shot into the darkness Jiang Ge, Jiang Ge stretched out his left hand to cover his eyes, squinting his eyes and looking in the direction of the light through his fingers.

In the mountains and forests, the greenery is turning yellow, and a waterfall falls rapidly from the clouds, endlessly. There are two stout fruit trees in front of the main building, which are full of bright red and yellow-brown fruits, the huge brown-yellow fruits look crisp and refreshing, and the bright red fruits look sweet and soft.

It seemed that there was a little girl dressed in white under the tree who was leaning her neck, one hand covering the sunlight shining from the top of the mountain, and the other hand was clenched into a fist and a slender jade finger was stretched out to point back and forth on the two trees.

It seemed to be the return of the light after the oil ran out just now, and Jiang Ge, who had not yet seen the girl's delicate face clearly, was suddenly dragged by a cold and piercing, huge and incomparable force and galloped through the endless darkness, lost all consciousness, disappeared into chaos, and disappeared.