In the twenty-fourth year of King Zhou, the world will fall.

This year, the fifty-six-year-old Confucian Sage was serving in the defense of the country and was regarded as a guest by Mrs. Nanzi; In the south, the king of Wu was defeated by the king of Yue, Goujian, and died in depression, and his son and husband succeeded to the throne, planning to dominate the industry......

But none of this has anything to do with me, I just happened to be born in this year.

A-Niang told me that I was born in a place called Jingyang. Jingyang is located at the southern foot of Zhongshan Mountain, on the shore of the Jing River, in the hinterland of Qinchuan for 800 miles. A-Niang is a concubine of a wealthy family in the city, the head of the family is more than sixty, but she is in the mood for love, and one day when she goes out, she has to meet the lover in her heart. In fact, if we are lucky and hide from the world, maybe she and I will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of our lives. Unfortunately, the moment I opened my eyes, it was doomed that her fate could only be a tragedy.

In the moonlight, my eyes were different from everyone else's, not jet-black pupils but faint gray-blue, and I was kicked out of the house with my mother before I even had time to get a name.

It was a winter night, the Qin State was located in the west, and the river water had already frozen, and it was biting cold.

Many years later, I still can't imagine how a woman who had just given birth and a newborn baby had survived the long, cold nights in Qindi.

Begging, beatings, starvation, cold, that's all I've had for as long as I can remember. In four years, a sickly woman with a child walked all the way from Jingyang to Yongcheng, the capital of Qin.

In the past, Ah Niang would never stay in the same place for more than three months, she always lived in boundless panic and anxiety. She doesn't even sleep, she's afraid she'll wake me up with nightmares. But this time, she may have been really tired, and we ended up living in Yongcheng, the capital of Qin.

Life in Yong was no better than in other places, and my eyes looked like others during the day, but they were strangely blue in the moonlight. This strange color frightened the other beggars in the city, and in their mouths, my name was the mountain ghost.

A-Niang, who has been sick for a long time, is too sick to get up because she has to protect me all the time. As a four-year-old, I was left alone to beg from pedestrians on the streets and fight with vicious dogs in the alleys.

Every night, I lie in my mother's arms and always think about how good it would be if I fell asleep and died like this...... That way, you won't have to be fisted by someone else tomorrow.

It's a pity that God heard me wrong.

One autumn morning, Ah Niang died in her sleep. By the time I woke up, her arms holding me had stiffened, and she could no longer touch me with her hands or warm me with her body.

I cried with red eyes, cried hoarsely, and cried until I couldn't cry anymore, so I quietly lay down next to A-Niang's cold corpse and put her hand around my body. I thought to myself, let's sleep, let's sleep like this, I won't have to suffer anymore if I sleep for a few more days, and if I sleep for a few more days, I may see A-Niang again. We will find a place where the birds and flowers will live, forever and ever, never again......

But even such a small wish, God did not help me to fulfill. Maybe in this day and age, too many people die every day because of war and famine, and God doesn't have time to take care of me as a little person.

Two days later, the excruciating hunger made it impossible for me to sleep anymore. Beside her, A-Niang's body has begun to stink, although the place where we are staying is relatively remote, but if someone finds her, her body will be carried to a mass grave outside the city and thrown away.

I don't want her to be thrown away like garbage, and I don't want her body to be eaten by jackals.

I still vividly remember that morning, the wind blew the golden leaves flying all over the sky, the air was filled with the smell of damp dew, the smell moistened my chapped nasal passages, and a wisp of white clouds was blown above my head by the morning breeze, lingering low, as if I could not bear to leave.

Auntie, you see, it's a good day to leave......

I asked a family for tinder with a bundle of salaries, and quietly set fire to the grass hut where we were hiding, and I was going to burn myself and A-Niang's body together.

Looking at the flames that burned more and more, I didn't have the slightest fear, but felt warm. But just then, a man walked through the smoke of the doorway to me. He was tall and had cold features, and he came down to me like a god. I looked at him and smiled, because I knew that Heaven had finally heard my wish and sent God to take me away.

He scooped me up with one hand and jumped out of the house. Behind us is a grass hut engulfed in flames, and smoke and sparks are scattered in all directions with the help of the wind. He looked down at me and didn't say anything, just pressed my head gently against his chest.

Puff, puff, puff......

It turns out that the gods also have a heartbeat.

After relaxing, I fell asleep after two days of starvation. At that point, I thought I could finally die.

It was my first meeting with him, not the end of the story, but the beginning of my life of ups and downs......

When I woke up again, I found myself lying on a soft couch, my face and body cleaned, and I was wearing a white bedgown that I had never seen since I was born. The dress was huge, but I loved it.

From the mouths of the slaves, I heard that the man who rescued me was the youngest general of the Qin State, named Wu Feng, who was only twenty years old and had already led the Qin army to repel the Xirong army that had invaded the border several times. Therefore, the king gave him a mansion in the capital. But most of the time, he lived in a small border town called Lintao.

After being picked up by him, I had a new home. Because I don't have a name, and I'm an orphan who I picked up, the servants in the house call me Ashi.

"Ah Shi, bring me all the clothes to be washed in the backyard." The cypress woman in charge of washing the servants in the house sat by the well and shouted loudly. The cypress woman is a chubby woman, with a short chin and a round nose like a ball of powder stuck on her face, and she has been sleeping with her since I entered the general's mansion.

"Come on!" I answered, and ran to where the servants in the backyard lived.

The general's palace is roughly divided into three parts, the front hall is the place where the general entertains guests and meets the guests, the middle is the Ming Hall built on the high platform for worship, the backyard is divided into two parts, the general lives in the east, and the courtyard behind the west is the residence of more than 20 servants in the house. In these years, there are many orphans who starve to death and freeze to death on the streets, and no one will raise an extra child for nothing. In order not to be driven away, in order to be able to get a bite to eat in the house, I always do as much as I can. Helping the cypress woman collect clothes and serve food for the sick housekeeper, as long as I can do it, I will never refuse.

The general has been absent from the mansion for many years, but the people in the mansion dare not slack off. The sky was bright, and the maids who were picking linen had already gone out with rattan on their backs, while the men were naked in the yard drying the millet that had been newly harvested in the house at the end of last year. I greeted each other with a smile all the way, and walked along the gravel road of the west courtyard with the dirty clothes I had collected from each room.

The road under his feet was newly paved by the housekeeper so that it wouldn't be too muddy on a rainy day. But this has hurt me, a daredevil, and if I fall down again today and dirty my clothes, the cypress woman will have to beat me to death. As soon as I thought about it, my toes kicked a protruding rock, and my knees went limp, and I threw myself forward with my clothes.