This year's snow in Yongcheng was heavier than ever, and snowflakes swirled down from the gray sky like flakes of bird feathers. Long ices have been formed on the eaves on both sides of the long street, and snow has occasionally fallen from the roofs of the makeshift sheds erected by the merchants. By the time Si'er and I walked to the market, there were still vegetable farmers, and even the workshops on both sides of the street had closed.

"Tell you that there won't be anyone, you still don't believe it." The snow on the ground was already very thick, and the puddles were frozen again, and I took Si'er's hand and slid away step by step, "It's too cold this day, the big head master won't know that you are always stealing food in the kitchen, so he deliberately teased us, right?" ”

"No, it won't. Are your faces numb? I'll rub it for you. Si'er put his hand to his mouth and sighed, rubbing it vigorously on my face.

"How? Better? Si'er's round little face was frozen red, like ripe fruit in autumn. Her hand on my face was cold, but I liked it.

I nodded, pulling her along and moving slowly. Before he had taken a few steps, Si'er stopped again and pointed to a small alley on the left and shouted, "Look! It looks like someone. ”

I looked in the direction of her finger, and saw two figures, one blue and one gray, lying upright in the snow.

"It can't be a dead man, right?" Si'er pulled my clothes and hid behind me.

"You'll know if you see it." I dragged her straight down the alley.

Lying on the snow were two teenagers, disheveled and bruised, who looked like they had had had a fight before they fainted. The brocade and jade belt lying on the outside was the aristocratic boy that Si'er had seen in the carriage a month ago.

"Do you think he's frozen to death?" Si'er squatted beside the boy for a while, patted his face for a while, rubbed his hands for a while, and was so anxious that he was about to cry.

"Or ...... Is it still warm when you touch his belly? "I actually don't know how to tell if a person is dead, I only know that A-Niang was cold everywhere when she died.

Si'er used his fingertips to open the placket of the young man's clothes, puffed up his two cheeks and breathed desperately into the palms of his hands.

The little brother on the ground had frozen into ice, and she was afraid that she would startle him with ice in her hands. I looked at Si'er and shook my head, leaned over and touched the young man with the scar under his eyes lying in the alley. There was a hint of warmth under the palm, but I retracted my hand, turned to Si'er and said, "I'm dead, are you still alive?" ”

"It's still hot, he's still alive, let's carry him back quickly!" Si'er's tears hung on his cheeks, but the corners of his mouth smiled.

"If your grandfather knew that we picked someone up and went home, he would definitely throw him out again. Later, we'll have to go through the little door at the back to pour the rancid water, so that no one can see it. ”

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

I helped Si'er pick up the man and stumbled down the road, and after a few steps I couldn't help but glance back at the man lying in the alley.

"What's wrong? Let's go! Si'er urged, and he couldn't wait for a moment.

"Oh, got it, let's go!"

I actually know the boy in the alley. He was a beggar who once tied me up in the middle of the night and threw me in a mass grave. When Ah Niang came to save me, he instigated the other children to hit us with stones. A-Niang was injured a lot because she was protecting me, and she fell completely ill soon after I went back. Later, when I was begging alone, I always avoided him carefully, and I didn't expect to meet him here again many years later.

He didn't die, but I don't want to save him, and in another hour, he will be as cold as A-Niang, and then die.

From the moment I decided to leave the beggar in the alley to die, I already knew that I was not kind, at least not like Si'er, whose whole heart was clean.

From the General's Mansion to the West Market, we didn't walk for more than half an hour when we walked the road that usually could be completed in two quarters of an hour. The person on my shoulders became heavier and heavier, but the strength on my feet became less and less, I took the arm of the young man in Tsing Yi off my shoulder, and said to Si'er with a rough breath like a cow: "This can't be done, you guard him here, I'll go find a plank, get a pampa rope, we will pull him away, maybe he can walk faster." ”

"I'll go, I know where these things are. It's close, I'll be back soon! Before Si'er finished speaking, his footsteps had already stumbled eastward, leaving me to support an unconscious fellow squatting on the deserted street.

I don't know how long time has passed, but Si'er has never returned. The sky overhead became more and more gloomy, and after a while, the snowflakes the size of plum blossoms were floating densely again. It was as if a huge white net hung between heaven and earth, and the towers in the distance disappeared, and even the streets of a place could not be seen clearly.

I rubbed my unconscious calves and reluctantly lifted the man on the ground on my back.

Uh, what the hell did this man grow up eating, and how could he be so heavy?!

I walked ten steps out with the man on my back, and before I could reach the scaffolding outside the workshop by the roadside, I fell to my knees in the snow with my legs limp. The man on my back pounced on me and made me a dog gnawing on snow.

I had been kicked in the waist a few years ago, how could I withstand such a heavy pressure from him, a breath of cold air poured into my stomach, and I pushed people off myself with my backhand. As a result, the boy's forehead hit the pillar on one side of the scaffolding, and the reed mat on the top of the trellis was two fingers thick with snow and fell with a thud, so that I almost fainted.

"Big brother, that beggar didn't know what was going on and froze to death in the alley, and that kid from the Jin Kingdom was gone, he wouldn't have escaped from the city, right?" Suddenly, a man's hoarse voice came from outside.

"The gate of the city is guarded by our men, and he cannot get out."

"But this Yongcheng is so big, where can we find it? Otherwise, our brothers will return the ten gold to the Jin people. On such a cold day, let's go to the widow who sells wine? ”

"Idiot, who do you think that man is, and that we have to return the money? If you take this job, you will either cut off the boy's head and send it to Xinjiang to ask for wealth, or you will wait for someone else to cut off our head. ”

"I knew ...... earlier"

"Don't talk nonsense, that kid is injured and can't run far, you look around here, I'll go over there and have a look."

I lay under the reed mat and didn't dare to move, the snow on my back had slowly melted, and the cold snow water seeped into my clothes through the reed mat. The jacket was filled with some broken hay, and at this moment, it sucked the snow water so heavy that it seemed to press a thousand catties of ice on his back. I shivered with cold, and I was afraid that my teeth touching my teeth would cause people outside to hear, so I stuck my tongue out between the two rows of teeth and let it suffer up and down.

"I killed someone's father, and I didn't let go of someone's son, this nobleman of the Jin Kingdom is really poisonous." One of the men outside left, and the other was so reluctant to move that he simply sat down on the reed mat.

Si'er, Si'er, what kind of troublesome people are you recruiting!

I hid under the mat and cried out, but my body was so tense that I didn't dare to move at all.

This man has received a bounty for his life, and I am now lying with this young man, and he probably won't bother to keep his head for me. If you can't escape for a long time, what can you do?

I was thinking about how to escape for my life, and the corpse-like boy next to me woke up at this time. It was dark under the reeds, and I was lying on my stomach, and he was lying on his back, head to head, face to face, and he was looking at me with big eyes, and I wished I had knocked him to death with a stick.

"Who are you?" He asked.

"Uh-" I can't afford to scold him, my heart said, die or die, sooner or later, the same day.