(a)

In a groggy state, I woke up from my sleep to hear chaos in the courtyard downstairs. Someone is running, someone is screaming.

Red light jumped all around, and smoke poured in through the crack in the door. I realized that the whole small building was burning.

I was taken aback, got up quickly, and tried to open the door and escape.

Immediately I noticed that the doors and windows were all locked from the outside.

I shook the door and shouted for help, but there was no response but the sound of the flames burning.

Smoke was already billowing from the room, and I was choking on coughing.

I found a little leftover tea in the teapot, wet a towel, covered my mouth and nose, and rummaged around the house for a working tool to pry open a window.

At this moment, I heard movement on the roof. I looked up and saw that a few tiles on the roof had been removed from the outside, revealing a dark sky.

You slid down the pillar from the roof like a tanuki and appeared before my eyes.

I look at you in amazement, as if watching a world come out of magic.

Before I could figure out what was going on, and why you were here, you kicked a window open, you pulled me to jump onto the table, and you picked me up and threw me downstairs.

Before I could scream, I fell into Wu Shun's arms. Then you jump down the stairs. You take my hand. Wu Shun said: "Hurry up, the horse is over there!" Wu Shun opened the way in front and led us in the direction of the stable.

We blended in with the crowd fleeing for our lives.

(b)

I ran after you as hard as I could, tripped over obstacles under your feet from time to time, and they were all dead or dying family members. You kept pulling me up and dragging me on.

Just when I was dizzy and exhausted, we turned a big corner, and Wu Shun in front of me suddenly stopped, he turned his head and said, "Enemy! Come on! ”

It's too late, it's too fast, you suddenly pushed me violently to a straw stack next to me, and then pushed Wu Shun in. Before we could understand what was happening, you jumped over and covered us with your own body, crushing both of us under you.

Then I heard the chaotic sound of horses' hooves and bowstrings, and the sound of screams all around me.

I heard you snort and a stream of hot, sticky liquid squirted on my face, dripping down my hair, shoulders, ears.

I heard people yelling and cursing in foreign languages. There were footsteps in close proximity to me.

This was followed by the sound of metal. You swung your sword cleanly in the direction of your shoulder, and a severed wolf's tooth arrow fell on me.

You jumped up from the haystack, and then Wu Shun pushed me away and jumped out of the haystack.

A headless corpse slammed down on top of me. I screamed, pushing the blood-soaked object aside.

When you were in shock, you had already ridden a tall earthy yellow war horse, and Wu Shun also jumped on another one.

With your uninjured arm, you lifted me up on horseback and placed me in front of you. And so we ran into the night.

(c)

We were running at a gallop. They were chasing us from behind. Countless arrows whizzed by.

But why is all this? As human beings, why do we kill each other like this? Why are they so struggling? To put the other party in such terror and danger?

I saw a pale golden glow appear around us. But the light wasn't as big as the last time I saw it. Three or five arrows hit the aperture, and as if touching some smooth interface, they slid to the side, deviating from direction. But the light only appeared for a moment before dimming. You try a little harder, and the light brightens for a while, then dims again. And then you can't do it.

Obviously, you wanted to protect yourself with a golden bell jar, but it didn't work.

My heart ached. This means that your body has not yet recovered.

I'm sitting in front of you. You protect me with your whole body. I see arrows brushing against your cheeks. I see you turn around and use your sword to block the arrows that are flying close.

We ran for our lives in a dense rain of arrows.

You suddenly rein in your horse and quickly change the direction of the horse's run. As soon as the horse twists his shoulder, your body turns to my right. There was a pop, and an arrow shot from under your side into your body. If it hadn't been for that action you just did, it would have shot me!

I see the feathers of the arrow's tail fluttering at your side as the horse runs. You reach out and grab the shaft of the arrow, and you try hard to pull it out of your body. However, you did not succeed.

You broke the shaft of the arrow. The side of your body is soon completely red with blood. Then, both sides of the horse's back were dyed crimson.

I feel you leaning forward. Your weight is on my shoulders and back. But your hand is always on the reins. Then, I saw Wu Shun speeding up from behind, and he got close to us, running behind us, using his own body and the body of the war horse to block as many arrows as possible for us.

In a flash of lightning that swept through the sky, I saw that Wu Shun's face and body were also bleeding. Blood kept falling from his forehead and running down his eyes. He rubbed his eyes from time to time to keep his vision clear.

At this point, I roughly understood what was happening: Cuijiaji was attacked by enemy troops, which means that Yukou should have been lost. The enemy is massacring the village, and almost everyone in the town will die, and someone took advantage of the chaos to set fire to my small building, trying to lock me up and burn me to death. The only person who wants me to die so much should be my aunt. But I haven't figured out why you've suddenly appeared here from the sky.

In this way, in the turbulence of death, we desperately rushed to the depths of Beitou Mountain.

I ran out for a long time, and it was pouring rain. Dense heavy rain soon rained and smoked wildly. The road ahead became blurred. Now, we're pretty much entrusting our lives to the horses. We can only trust them, and they will choose their own path according to their instincts. Because the rain was getting heavier and heavier, the pursuers behind him gradually pulled away, and they could no longer fire their bows and arrows. Their wild roars and screams were drowned out in a torrential stream.

We finally saw the outline of a hidden outpost at the boundary between Qingfeng Village and Yukou. The yellow-fated horse stopped in front of its familiar outpost hut. You fell from your horse and fell heavily into the rain. In Wu Shun's voice, two or three soldiers came out of the outpost, and they set you up into the wooden house with all hands and feet.

A bright bolt of lightning streaked across the sky. Spring thunder rumbled overhead. I see a small river of dark red blood flowing behind you.