Therefore, the old legend says that there are two stars in the lonely night sky, and their names are called participating merchants. Legend has it that they will never see each other: together at dusk, at dawn, at a time of difficulty, and from afar.

——There is a place name in the south of Huaishui, and the name is called Mall.

The mall is a small town.

Midnight in the city is quiet.

——Yi Yi came out of Lu'an, wanted to return to Huaishang, passed through here, and rested here.

The castle walls of the mall were destroyed in the fighting and have not been rebuilt since. There is a pond on the edge of the city, which was originally prepared to extinguish the fire, but at this time, the dark pool is dark at night, and the stars are quenched.

There weren't many people in the city, and they were probably asleep by this time. During the day, it is a day of hard work for the difficult survival in this troubled world, and only this sleep is a gift from creation to people, right? The fragments of life are stuck into the dream, and the silence dissolves in the dream, but the desire for life that has been crushed and suppressed is slowly revived through this sleep, so that tomorrow can barely put together a relatively complete life.

——Born to endure the unbearable repetition and fatigue of life.

Blessed are those who fall asleep.

Yi Yi walked to the suburbs alone. The wind in the suburbs blew through the mountains and fields, and his squirry shirt brushed the rocks and grass in Huainan, trying to wash away the trivial chores in his heart.

- If there is no such self-disciplined effort, I'm afraid no one will be able to survive in this chaotic world, right? Yi Yi soaked in Huaishang for a long time, and felt that day by day, his inner world gradually became as complicated as this mess of rocks and grass. Fortunately, there is always something in life that can over-reference you. He's thinking of a person—a kind of person you can't help but think about when you pick your eyebrows in the middle of a thick crowd, but only on such a night, in such a suburb, in a lonely long robe, in the midst of broken stars, will you feel his eyebrows and eyes in general.

The night was quiet, Yi Yi Yi frowned, his heart groaned, and a thought gradually entered his breath.

He took out two cups from his bosom: a new cup and an old one. He placed the two cups on the ground, as if planning to drink each other.

"The two of them drink the flowers in the mountains" - Yi Yong has studied painting, and the place where he sits is quite patterned, the two cups are placed in the chaos of stones and withered grass, and a poem seems to jump out between the cups:

The two of them drink the mountain flowers blooming,

Cup after cup.

——In my memory, I used to toast to each other like that, and after a few cups of hazy in my memory, the mountain flowers would always be rotten in the winter field no matter how Xiao Ling......

Yi Yi frowned, and he saw a figure on the ground. The figure was quite thin, and the shadow reflected on the ground was faint, like flying smoke, which was an anomaly that people who practiced the art of 'fireworks and fireworks' could not hide in normal times. Yi Yi turned his head and stared: "Brother Yu? ”

The man nodded. The person who came was Yu Buxin, and he sat down on a rock. Although he and Yi Yong are moral friends, the two have always been busy with each other and rarely have the opportunity to meet. Yu does not believe in the bandit background, in Shaoxing for six years, sad and troubled, suddenly angry, want to help others with a skill, a lifetime of ambition, the original 'Luo Tuo League' gathered in northern Jiangsu. He was chivalrous, and the head of one of the three largest anti-gold forces in northern Jiangsu that Yi Yi funded was the one who always needed the least funding. I only heard him say: "I'm sorry to disturb Mr. Yi alone." But the situation was urgent, I had to pass the book on the flying pigeon of Brother Jiasui, and when I knew that Gongzi was on the way back to Huaishang, I immediately flew over. ”

Yi Yong sighed slightly, calmed down, and pondered the surrounding situation recently, and guessed what Yu Buxin meant. After a pause, he asked, "Boss Yuan has already started to attack Subei?" ”

Yu nodded in disbelief.

What he admires is the ability to be easy to converge but expected, and to be successful.

——Yi Cup Liquor has long learned from Du Huai Pass that Yuan Chenlong suddenly made a move because he was not angry with Luo Han, disrupting the situation in Jiangnan and causing rebellion in the rivers and lakes.

And the Huaishang forces, the one that is the most south and across the river from Tiqi is the 'Luotuo Alliance', and of course it is also the direction of their first boss Yuan.

Yi Yong let his old white clothes fall to the ground, his neck was slightly raised, and he only heard him mutter: "The Huaishang Alliance has no southern crossing, and the Ti Riding Journey is not more than the Jiang - does he Yuan Chenlong really want to turn his face?" ”

Yu Buxin said: "It's no wonder that he is not to blame. Since the appearance of the arc sword, which has disrupted his years of hard work, he must have been under extremely heavy pressure in Jiangnan. Not only was Qin in the court dissatisfied with him, but even a small party in the Wen Mansion had recently heard the news. When I came this time, I wanted to ask Yi Gongzi for advice - what should we do in this mess. ”

He said it very kindly. Yi Mujiu smiled slightly: "What should I do?" I can't get anyone here. 'Ten years' and 'five watches' are all important tasks, and Mr. Jiasui has also gone to Xiangfan. Mr. Yu, what's the matter, is Boss Yuan very heavy this time? He may not really want to clear Huaishang and face the existence of the 'Jin Zhang clan' in the Northern Dynasty? ”

The Northern Dynasty's 'Jinzhangmen' has been pressing Huaishang recently, and it is annoying that Huaishang has few available talents to compete with it. Yu doesn't believe it, so he knows the weight of the pressure on Yi Cup of wine.

Yi Yong smiled, knowing that his unintentional words had deepened Yu Buxin's sense of powerlessness, and said: "Brother Yu is close to Jiangnan, do you know what actions have been made recently in the 'Nine Surnames of Jiangchuan'?" ”

Yu Buxin's eyes lit up, and when he saw Yi Cup's wine and said this, he knew that the two of them had the same idea. I only heard him say: "Qian Laolong's 'Yiyantang' power is still solid, and Poyang Chen Wangsun is still working hard to integrate the remaining seven surnames. Maybe we have another chance, and that woman is ...... Jiangnan Wenfu Wen Hanlin and Boss Yuan have a hatred for taking their wives, and she will definitely be dragged into this troubled water. ”

He froze at this point, but Yi Yi raised his eyebrows: the clan is a bifid celebrity grass, and the nine surnames of Jiangchuan are beautiful and hemp-yes-yes-it is that woman...... There is also a woman among the nine surnames of Jiangchuan, a romantic woman, a woman known as the first talented woman in Jiangnan, and a woman who lives on the cusp of the peak. Her complexion, her art industry - even if these are not enough to make her any different, but the opportunity to marry Wen Hanlin of Wenfu and pass on the fame of the rivers and lakes, the family background of the nine surnames of Jiangchuan, and the special identity that she is actually the woman of Boss Yuan, is enough to turn the entire rivers and lakes.

Yi Yi was thinking about this woman's name.

Her name is Xiao Ru.

Yi Yi's expression froze for a while. But to solve this game, does he still need an extremely fast and sharp sword?

He suddenly poured a glass of wine into the lamp opposite him and said, "Please." ”

The word 'please' is not to Yu Bu Believe but to say - Yu Bu does not believe in Su does not stick to wine - Yi Yi looks at the opposite side - on the other side, it is Jiangnan, Yuan Lao Zhi Zhenjiang, Wenfu people are undercurrent, and Qin Cheng is far away from the Jiangnan of the Dynasty.

He spat out a single word: "Dry." ”

Then he raised the lamp and drank it all, as if a little smoke and dust in his chest was crushed by the rustic taste contained in the wood grain of the poplar outside the plug.

He poured himself another glass, and then looked back - behind him was Huaibei, there was no need to look back, he also knew that the "Golden Zhangmen" had been gathering momentum for a long time. Jin Zhangsun is known as the world's first master in the northern country, and three years ago he asked for a comeback for Beiting's generous courtesy. This is a feeling of thorns in the back - Yi Yi lives alone in Huai, plans food and grass, plans supplies, and supports General Xiangfan Chu, Subei Yu Buxin, and Henan Liang Xiaoge between Jianghuai and Huai, but what makes him feel the most pressure is not these cumbersome details, but the 'Jin Zhang' faction that has recently forced Huaishang.

According to reason, the situation has come to this point, the situation in Jiangnan is chaotic, and he should have gone south in person. But he didn't dare.

- No one dares to leave easily under the peep of Jin Zhangsun.

He raised his eyes to the clouds on the high post, and his lips were deeply sunken, showing bitterness. - Three years into a cup, just this cup he has exhausted that person does not know how many, this time he has to work hard to take risks, put himself in unpredictable danger?

Yi Yi sighed in his heart - he was born between the tumbling since he was a child, and he knew the suffering of the small people who made a living between the borders of the two Koreas. All history and wars were written by these slaves, but there are always people, there are always people who are unwilling to indulge in the enslavement of this historical impermanence, and want a little autonomy, right? He looked at the sleeping mall behind him—like looking at the boiling world, the people who were sleeping, and the little nostalgia in their hearts.

Yi Tu flicked his sleeves and picked up the glass of wine in front of him—this was the brand new cup he had just received, and it would be another three years since he drank it. How many three years are there in your life? What can he do when he is in this chaos and forced on his back? He glanced at the old lamp, as if he were looking at the light brown hand that had personally roasted and fried the medicine and held this cup, and then said softly: "Then I will come and ask someone to do this for me." ”

He sighed, knowing that this old lamp came out, and someone would help him do it again no matter what. - Night Field, in the middle of the night, he raised his head, looked up at the starry sky, and tried to find the two stars in the sky that he had heard of since childhood—that is, the participant. As soon as they came out of dusk, they dawned together—the legend says that these two stars would never meet, and he had not seen them together in his more than twenty years of life. - But what if you don't see it? They should always know each other's existence, right? - Isn't it the subtlety of ginseng that confirms the existence of Shang?

There is a song that suddenly seems to sound in Yi Yi's heart:

I have never tasted the joy of people's words;

When the third watch opened the door, he saw the midnight change;

……

Hundreds of billions of years ago are still difficult to meet, in decades of life, real friends, can really wash their hearts and minds, how many sides?

And this life, everything seems to be as far away as yesterday, but outside the body-

Midnight has changed.