It was a dilapidated alley, and there was only one house in the alley. But there was only one door in the family's house, and the other was crumbling to the ground. The grass in the courtyard is three feet high, and Pei Hongli doesn't know why she came here.

The horse fell in the courtyard, and galloped down all the way, relying on the effect of bloodletting. This is a very cruel method, but Pei Hongli is also helpless. Er Bing was still in the car, and the little boy sat obediently on the wheel, as if he was asleep at this moment. It's so quiet in the hospital.

Pei Hongli had also been to Lintong before, and that was with Yue Zheng. Lintong is close to Chang'an, and it is also a small but lively city, she didn't expect that there was such a deserted alley in the most prosperous east gate of Lintong. Why did Smith Kline let her here? It's a deserted house, and there's no one!

Pei Hongli was sitting on the stone steps at the entrance of the courtyard at this time. She stared blankly at the main hall of the courtyard. The door of the main hall was also ajar, and most of the furniture inside was in tatters, and a couplet was carved on the pillars in front of the hall. It didn't look like it had been carved by a skilled craftsman, but rather as if someone had carved it out with a knife. Pei Hongli only felt that the handwriting was hard and his arms and legs were stiff, and he looked at the man. The handwriting is written with these two sentences:

A lifetime of cold embarrassment and a thousand drunkenness

Twenty lonely widows and half shoulders

The signature at the end is the three words "Lu Crazy". Pei Hongli was stunned, she seemed to have an impression of these three words, but she couldn't think of anything. She felt her brain getting more and more dizzy and heavy, and finally she couldn't help but fall asleep against the broken wooden door.

When Pei Hongli woke up again, the first thing that caught his ears was the sound of sweeping the floor. When she opened her eyes, the sun exploded, and then she saw the broom, which was in the hand of an old man who was hunched over, with gray hair and a shoulder—the left shoulder was collapsed, as if he had been mutilated in some way. At this time, he only held the broom in the armpit of his right hand, and he was not seriously sweeping the path in the courtyard at all. Pei Hongli didn't expect that there would be someone in this desolate courtyard, it seemed that he was a gatekeeper. It was almost noon, and Xiao Zhi woke up early, and a pair of eyes were blinking at the old man.

Er Bing also woke up, and Xiaozhi was eating dry food with dry food in his hands. The old man finished sweeping the floor for a while, walked into the stove house, and came out with a large pot of boiling water, he pointed to a stone table and the only three stone benches left in the courtyard, and motioned for Pei Hongli to sit. Pei Hongli's whole body was sore, but he was still not rude, and only after thanking him did he go to sit on the stool. The old man took three large bowls, and one of them made them a bowl of chrysanthemum tea, and he sat down at the stone table with Pei Hongli and Xiaozhi with a wooden face.

Pei Hongling watched the dried wild chrysanthemums slowly bloom in the water, and sat in this courtyard, feeling that it was really unworldly. If possible, as long as she and Xiaozhi are allowed to live, as long as God gives them a chance, she is willing to live with Xiaozhi forever in even such a desolate courtyard. When she opened her mouth, she realized that her throat was swollen and painful, and she asked in a swollen voice, "Uncle, where is the master here?" ”

The old man shook his head, it turned out that he was dumb, and he wrote on the ground with a bamboo stick in his hand: "Dead." - Please drink tea. ”

Pei Hongli smiled appreciatively. This courtyard, this tea, this old man, in such an embarrassed escape, almost gave her a feeling of absurd epiphany. Is life what to tell her? Why don't you say it clearly? She sat there in a daze, unconsciously an hour had passed, remembering everything she had experienced these days. …… After Yu Zheng's death, the iron blue jaw was the last beard she gave him little by little...... The little boy between the white silks cried and fainted half-incomprehensibly...... The cat's skin lying on the brocade used to be the meowing Afi...... Auntie's blood and greens, dazzling colors...... Their sad faces as they were dismissed...... Also, the iron box...... Chang'an Yue ......

Her tears dripped down her cheeks. This sunshine...... No, this old thing really really can't bear it.

In front of Chang'an Yue's sturdy dart, in front of Er Bing's lonely loyalty, and in front of the surging waves along the way...... Pei Hongli was not weak. However, this courtyard, this sunshine, and the old and the young at the stone table can't help but make her sad. It's such a life, she suddenly has a feeling that she can't grasp anything, she can't grasp anything. - We are a mother and son who are being hunted down - the person who used to be able to shelter us from the wind and rain - when everything is no longer - I, me, me, how can I persevere?

At this time, the old man drew two words on the ground: "Say it." ”

Pei Hongli looked at the old man's face in a daze, she had never had the habit of talking to people, except for Yue Zheng. But at this time, she seemed to be hypnotized, and suddenly began to want to talk, and then Mu Mudi began to tell her own experience, as if she was talking about someone else's business, someone else's nightmare: the death of her husband, the revenge of destroying the door, the lonely incense, the betrayal of 'Chang'an Yue', and even the secret key like "Liver and Gall Record" She couldn't help but reveal a little. The more she spoke, the more excited she became, and the people in the story and the narrator slowly overlapped, and a trace of aura and unwillingness came back to life—no: I—no—no—willingly! Pei Hongling thought: I'm unwilling! Why am I destined to be in the wilderness with Xiaozhi in this escape, the sky has eyes! The sky has eyes!

A touch of excited red rubbed on her cheeks, and she suddenly stood up and said, "Thank you, uncle." ”

Then she took Xiaozhi's hand: "Zhi'er, we should go." ”

The horse had a little bit of a rest. Er Bing put it back up, Pei Hongling and Xiao Zhizhong went to the side of the car, and the car was about to squeak and drive out of the courtyard again, when he suddenly heard an old voice in the courtyard say, "Don't go." ”

"This dart—"

"—I took it."

Pei Hongli was stunned, thinking that he had misheard. Looking back, in the sunny courtyard, there was only one old man with a white beard. She smiled wryly, she was so desperate for help that she was hallucinating, and she had to turn her head at the thought of it.

The old man suddenly knocked on the ground with a bamboo cane, Pei Honglian was stunned, only to see him use the bamboo cane to point to the depths of the grass in front of the hall, where there seemed to be a piece of something, like a plaque, showing a corner obliquely in the grass. Pei Hongli walked over suspiciously, gently parted the weeds, wanted to see what they were, and then saw a swarthy old plaque. The paint on it is cracked, and a few golden characters have fallen off a lot, but if you look carefully, you can still recognize the four big characters of the dragon flying and the phoenix dancing: "Weizheng Dart Bureau"!

"Weizheng Dart Game"?

——Pei Hongli was stunned, and seemed to have an impression in a trance. Trying to recall, it seems to be back to the time when she was four years old: at that time she had remembered, it was the little daughter of Pei Shangshu's family, that year's birthday, her grandmother in Xiangyang sent her a gift, and the escort gift seemed to be the executioner of the 'Weizheng Dart Bureau', their dart flag was black and golden, the words were very good, Pei Shangshu worked in calligraphy, and praised it at that time, so Pei Hongli still remembered. She remembered that this was the most famous dart game in Chang'an City twenty-five years ago, and the martial arts of the masters in the bureau were legends in the city.

But how could this plaque, and the words on the plaque, be found in Lintong, a deserted courtyard hundreds of miles outside Chang'an, twenty-five years later?

- Wei Zheng Dart Game?

The old man spoke at this time: "I am the master and chief dart head of the dart game, Yu Meng-Yu Guolao." ”

"I'll take your dart."

Pei Hongli was stunned - what is a hero? Are you in charge of the Nine Guards, and the famous side is a hero? Do you kill millions of people, and the nine surnames of the corpse are considered heroes? Are you a hero if you oppress the good and put your pride on the personality of others?

No, a hero is a calm commitment, a little wisdom and courage and a redemption after doing his best in this desolate world, and the hero is from being insulted and damaged!

So twenty-five years later, the old dart head would say, "I'll take this dart." ”

The envoy buries the bones,

The red mullion falls.

The childish life hangs in the balance,

The decrepit man catches the dart.

——Just when Pei Hongli was thinking about this. The old man suddenly picked up a large porcelain bowl. He took a sip of the water that should have been cold, but there was heat in his eyes: "Yu Guo? How old is the aftermath? - Is it true that my Yu Guo is really old, and the robbers dare to follow me to my bureau! ”

As soon as he said a word, Pei Hongli was startled, and then heard the courtyard door flickering, and there was the sound of people sneaking in the grass around him, the roof tiles on the house were ringing, a few mice in the kitchen between the stoves screamed, and a bat actually rushed out of the roof beam in broad daylight, and the old man Yu had already smiled and said: "To deal with the loneliness and widow of the imperial envoy Xiao, Dongmi actually dispatched five interception masters of 'five sacrifices and five brakes', don't you think it's too much of a fuss?" ”

There was already a shrill voice first in the grass, then on the wall, and suddenly turned to the courtyard gate and flickered: "It's not a trivial question, hehe, how is it a trivial question?" That Xiao Yuzheng left a book before he died, bitterly Chen traitorous party, and he would also disturb the court and rivers and lakes when he died. He handed down the secret document "Hepatobiliary Record" of the communication between the important officials of his faction and the chivalrous way of the rivers and lakes in his hand. His mother-in-law is also bold, we scared her three times and haven't cheated her yet, she still has the ability to almost move out of Chang'an Yue, how can it be a big fuss? ”

Another person screamed: "Yu Lao'er, since you know that it is a matter of 'Dongmi', don't interfere if you know each other, we will sell your face, and wait for her to come out of your door before doing it, how about it?" ”

Pei Hongling looked at Yu Guolao, only to see that his face was cloudy. After a while, I saw him wave his hand: "I'm sorry, Mrs. Xiao, you can walk out of this door." ”

Pei Hongli only felt a desperate broken sound in her heart, but she was unwilling to beg for help, but raised her head, took Xiaozhi by the hand, and asked Er Bingtao to get out of the car and walk out of the courtyard together. As soon as she left the hospital, she heard the sound of the door closing behind her, and she sneered in her heart, and then she heard the sound of a tea bowl first. She was startled, and the childish hand shook in her hand, and then all kinds of voices came out of the courtyard. The sound of pots, bowls, stone benches rolling on the ground, plaques falling to the ground, rats, pigs humming, miserable laughter, among all kinds of sounds, one person said: "Yu Lao'er, you are so shameless." ”

Old Man Yu smiled and said, "I asked Mrs. Xiao to go out, but I didn't say it, you can also go out." ”

Pei Hongli held Xiaozhi's hand tightly, and for the first time there was a warmth in her heart. She felt that Xiaozhi's hand also trembled, this child, she has seen a lot of horror and indifference these days, and she has not cried under Pei Hongling's calmness. At this time, a tear crossed his good-looking little face, and his face was full of admiration for the old man.

Pei Hongli didn't care about him, although Xiaozhi was also crying this time, but these tears were not weakness, but a warm voice of resurrection of faith.

Ping-pong in the courtyard, the wind is noisy, only to hear the previous scream: "Yu Lao'er, you sneak attack", the speaker seems to have suffered some losses.

Old Man Yu smiled and said, "The two of you together want to kill an old man who is older than the two of you combined, and you still preach morality to me, what if I don't sneak attack?" ”

Then, only listening to the sound of "Huo", Pei Hongli raised his head and saw that an elm tree that was at least twenty years old in the courtyard had fallen, and in the midst of a bang, a miserable scream sounded. Pei Honglian's heart tightened, and he couldn't tell whose voice it was. Actually, it wasn't a long time, but she felt like it had been a long, long time. She finally couldn't help but push open the courtyard door, and saw that in the courtyard, Old Man Yu was standing extremely tall with a three-foot big knife, but there was a black shadow in front of her, and it was two figures who climbed over the wall. On the ground in front of the old man, there was a white man's arm.

Pei Hongli looked at the old man, and the old man also looked at Pei Honglian, wanting to see how the other party reacted to this situation, and then suddenly had a feeling of sympathy. Although they have white hair and red faces, and their ages and experiences are very different, in their hearts, they feel that they have the same trace of courage and chivalry in each other's bones.

Xiaozhi pushed open another door and came out of Pei Honglian's skirt, he glanced at the scene, and cheered: "Ah——! ”

Old Man Yu also laughed loudly: "Mrs. Xiao, the old man said to take your dart, most of you still think it is 'Shou Xinggong hanged - looking for death', now look at my Yu Guo is really old?" ”

After laughing, he looked up to the sky again and said haha, like a thunderbolt in the clear sky: "Yu Guo is old? Yu Guo is old?! ”