The place where Xiaoxiao hanged herself is not far from the Hidden Dragon Village, but the mountain road is rugged, and the one-eyed can walk for an hour. At this time, it was late, and it was quite difficult to walk, so the four of them groped and slowly moved forward.

The wind was a little cool at night, and Xiao Wei and One-Eyed asked them to return Xiaoxiao's clothes and put them on their bodies, which was a little better. The Broken Wind Mountain is not very high, but it is twisted and twisted, stretches for dozens of miles, the grass and trees on the mountain are verdant, covering the sky and the sun, it is early autumn at that time, most of the flowers have withered, but you can still imagine the summer scene.

They climbed a small hill, and the fat man was so tired that he wiped his sweat, so everyone had to rest on the spot. Xiao Wei stood on the top of the hill and looked up, but saw that the sky was clear and the moon was cloudy, and the silver glow was everywhere, although in the night, the scenery in the mountains had a unique charm, which made people feel transparent and comfortable. Under the feet is the lively chirping of insects, squeaking and cooing, far and near, one after another, like a mist gently enveloped on the mountain, and like a shy woman snuggled up to her beloved man, murmuring, the years are quiet.

Xiao Wei suddenly had an idea in his heart: "It seems good if I can stay here forever." She smiled and said, "Your place is quite beautiful!" One-eyed glanced at her and "hummed" and said, "What is there to see about the black and bare here!" Xiao Wei asked, "Then what else is beautiful in this mountain?" One-eyed said angrily: "What's not good-looking, we live here to be bandits, not to see the scenery!" ”

Xiao Wei saw that his tone was not good for no reason, and he was about to get angry, when suddenly the fat man said sarcastically: "You say such things again, but you are jealous that the owner of the village is rich and capable, and the dragon col picked by people is safe and good-looking, and the wildflowers bloom all over the place in the spring, how good-looking, there are lotus flowers in the lake in summer, and there is a large bamboo forest, at that time, people picked lotus flowers and made wine, recited poems and played the piano in the bamboo forest, and you also scolded people behind your back, at that time you said, 'We are here to be bandits, It's not like this to be a god', but later it got hot and rotted your mouth, or someone fried lotus leaf soup for you to go to the fire, why are you so conscienceless! ”

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Wei's anger subsided, and he laughed unceremoniously, and One-Eyed said very unconvinced: "That's what he owes me, I was the boss here!" This is my territory......"

"You can get it, back then we were all young and ignorant to follow you out to mix, now I feel ashamed to think about it, just the three of us dare to form a group to be bandits, every day without even a house to hide in the cave, for several months can not rob a robbery, you look at our big village master, that is the real green forest hero, it's only been two years, how many people rushed to take refuge, people still don't accept it!"

"Phew, you were young and ignorant? Save some face for yourself when you are old! You were both twenty years old, okay? It's only been three years! Besides, how could I be as unbearable as you said at the time, and in the end, didn't I remember to pretend to be a ghost and scare passers-by, telling them to spend money to avoid disasters and buy a life, and make a lot of money? ”

"Are you embarrassed? That haunting almost brought the people of the government to us, and we were almost arrested and imprisoned! ”

"That will also make you live a long and comfortable life, okay! Now those people still don't fancy him for being rich and powerful, and rush to stammer? At that time, we could still be frank and carefree, I ran like a horse in the grass, swam like a fish in the water, jumped like a monkey in the trees, I had never been so happy, I didn't have to look at other people's faces, I didn't have to be whipped by others, I didn't do so much work every day, and all I got in exchange for saving my own life was just enough to save my life...... Hey, I often thought at that time, what is the purpose of human life, and then I became a bandit before I became white, people have to be happy when they live, if they are unhappy for the rest of their lives, it is for nothing. At that time, the division of labor between the three of us was very yin, I could swim, I could climb trees, I could shoot the slingshot accurately, and the fruits of the prey were carried by Lao Tie, and he had the strength to carry it home to Lao Bai to cook, and Lao Bai was the best at cooking. Another time I found a hornet's nest, and it took several days to prepare things, and at that time we were hungry for three days, and Lao Bai was deflated hahaha...... Later, our honey-roasted pheasant, roasted in a pine tree, hey, I've never eaten such a delicious chicken in my life......"

"Hahaha...... Old iron? Your surname is Tie? Xiao Wei patted Zhang Fei's shoulder and asked, he said: "No, I don't have a surname of Tie, my ancestors have been working for iron, this is a nickname." ”

Xiao Wei wiped the tears of laughter and said, "Lao Tie, Lao Tie!" This nickname is so cute! He is Lao Tie, so you are Lao Bai? She patted the fat man's belly, the fat man was punched by her today, and he was a little stunned, so frightened that he immediately closed his clothes and said, "Don't touch my stomach!" ”

Xiao Wei laughed even harder, and suddenly had a sense of wanting to "tease" him, and reached out to break his hand and said, "Don't! It's white and tender, give me another touch! Lao Bai, who had always been clumsy and slow, immediately got up smartly, rolled to the side, covered his clothes and said with a red face: "You...... You girl, why are you so unashamed! Xiao Wei laughed even harder, now even One-Eyed and Lao Tie couldn't help laughing, Xiao Wei was frank, and for a while they forgot the contradiction at the beginning.

"Forget it, I won't tease you! One of them is called Lao Tie and the other is Lao Bai, so what is your name? Xiao Wei asked One-Eyed.

"Me? Hmph, it doesn't hurt to tell you, my surname is Hou, I don't have a name, they all call me Monkey. But don't expect you to really know my name, although our village has its own rules, according to the etiquette I invite you to go up the mountain, but you are still our opponent. ”

Xiao Wei only smiled and ignored them.

The monkey said: "It's not a short time to rest, it's so late, let's go quickly." The four of them set off to hurry, Xiao Wei felt more and more that the three bandits were interesting, especially the monkeys, and the four of them chatted all the way, and they couldn't stop chatting.

Xiao Wei asked the monkey, "Hey, how did you come up to be bandits?" ”

The monkey said ignore her, but Xiao Wei's question hit his heart, and he couldn't help but shake it out to him: "We had a hard time in the village, the rich man oppressed, bandits robbed, there was a plague one year, and many people died, the fat man and I asked for food to come here, we are strangers, we begged for food all the way, we couldn't stay anywhere, and finally came here." What happened along the way makes us feel that people like us can't live at all, but we are not reconciled, why, don't we have the ability, I can climb trees, Lao Bai can cook...... But he is too slow with his hands and feet, we can't play our strengths, we can't climb trees as a rice rut, Lao Bai can't be a cook, he can't cook big dishes, big restaurants are not rare, small restaurants don't need it, half a big and not small and I think he is slow, I was not white at that time, why is it so difficult to just survive? What to do and what to do, then the heart is crossed, and what conscience and morality are disregarded, others gnaw our meat, we can't live, we have to gnaw on other people's meat, they suffer, then blame them for their bad life, anyway, we have to live! The three of us only Lao Tie has lived in that town for generations, he has a hand in iron-making skills, but his parents died early, at that time he could not take care of the shop, the blacksmith shop was blackmailed by a local bully, he later went to work as a coolie, we all met when we were working as coolies in Anping County, we were beaten every day, we could only get a few copper plates a day, and at the end of the day, I changed two sorghum flour nests, barely so that I would starve to death...... Hahaha! ”

He laughed at the end, but in the faint moonlight, his eyes flashed like stars, but not as lovely as the light of stars.

Lao Bai and Lao Tie were silent.

Xiao Wei's heart was also sour when she heard it, she could empathize, she was also as difficult as them, and she couldn't help but pity them in her heart. It took a long time to think of comforting words: "Forget it, it's all over, aren't you doing well now?" ”

Lao Bai said: "Yes, no one bullies us anymore, we can eat three meals a day with peace of mind!" ”

Speaking of this, One-Eye sighed with some pathos: "But I'm just awkward in my heart, I'm ...... I still want to live like an ordinary person, Dazhai master? Hmph, since he came, the bandits are not like bandits, and the cottage is not like the cottage, he is a local emperor, who paid us to build a house for him, and hired us as slaves, so that we can serve him and show him his home......"

"Oh, don't say it so ugly! If it weren't for him, how could we have survived until now! Lao Tie's voice was dull.

The monkey hurriedly said, "Why don't you understand what I say?" I don't want to be a bandit, it's not cloudy after today. I want to be an ordinary person. ”

Lao Bai said: "Monkey, I am becoming less and less white, we were not happy in the past, you said that you also want to be happy like ordinary people, and then we were very happy, and you want to eat every day, and now I have food to eat, why do you think about anything else?"

The monkey looked up at the starry sky at 45 degrees and sighed: "I still have dreams that have not been realized!"

Lao Bai mocked: "There are countless gold, silver and jewelry, and the rich one?"

The monkey gave him a blank look: "Vulgar!"

"And what exactly are your dreams?" Xiao Wei asked reverently, because she was also a person with dreams, and she couldn't help but feel sorry for the monkey.

The monkey said: "I hope that people who are desperate like us in this world can live the life they want." Just like me, I just want to honestly farm the land, collect firewood, and marry a daughter-in-law...... But I'm a bandit now, I don't deserve to farm honestly, and I'm a bandit if I plant again, and I don't deserve the respect of others...... Actually, I don't want to be a bandit, and I don't want the girls to run away when they see me, but if I don't become a bandit, I'm going to be a coolie, either starving to death or dying of exhaustion...... What a dilemma! But if there is a little way, I will not be a bandit, I am also afraid of killing, robbing other people's money I am not comfortable, they may be as bitter as me, I remember when I met bandits before, the hard-earned money was robbed, my heart is hated and there is no way, now those people are robbed of money by me, my heart is also the same sad as I was back then, my heart is the same as fried in the oil pan every day, but there is no way, I can't die like this. It's really hard to be a human being! ”

Lao Bai said: "You, you just think too much." When the two of us thought about the road of bandits for so long, and thought of all the consequences, we might be cursed in the future, we might have to go to jail, we might have to cut off our heads, and we would leave a lifetime of infamy, we thought of the worst ending, at that time you said that we would die if we died, and we must be happy before we died, and now that you are full, you forgot the determination of the year? ”

"Hey! At the time, I thought that the three of us stinkers wouldn't last that long, but I wanted to meet a Mei Yuexue later! ”

"Mei Yuexue, your big village master?" Xiao Wei almost vomited blood when she heard this name.

"That's right! It's him, he has a very high martial arts, and he can shoot birds from the sky by picking a leaf...... If you are afraid, just say it, but you still have to see the face of the master of the village, and our master of the village will show mercy. "The monkey actually worships the master of the big village.

Xiao Wei thought to herself: "The monkey always says that the owner of their big village is a sissy, and he thinks he is a man." Just hearing this name is really perverted enough, and I don't know what kind of person he is. Thinking so in her heart, she couldn't help but be more curious about the big village owner, she smiled and said, "Even if I lose, I can't lose face." You haven't said yet, what happened to you when you met him? ”

"Then we really became a den of bandits, and he also recruited a lot of people, all of them were bandits in the neighborhood, and he himself didn't see anyone all day, and he didn't allow us to rob the people nearby, but every time he came back, he brought money from somewhere, and when I told him that I didn't want to be a bandit, he asked me what I wanted, and I told him what I thought, and he laughed at me for a long time, and they all laughed at me, saying that I was pretending to be a saint! I ......" He was very angry, and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and said with a dejected face: "I also know that my idea cannot be realized, it is not something I can do, so I have never mentioned it again." But...... But I just can't swallow this breath! ”

Xiao Wei smiled: "I can see that you can't swallow this breath, so as soon as I asked, you couldn't help but say it all." Thank you for speaking from your heart to an outsider. Actually, monkey, your idea is very good, if you were born in a princely family, you will definitely be able to do something. ”

"It's a pity that he was born as a bandit, and he had a bad life, and if he had such an idea, it would become a fool's dream, and people would worry about the sky." The fat man lazily sarcastic.

"Hey, you fat man! It's amazing to know two idioms! ”

Seeing that the two were about to fight again, Xiao Wei hurriedly said: "People always have to dare to think and dare to do, and the days can get better and better, life is against the current, if you don't move forward, you will regress, and the days will not be so peaceful forever, only if you have a dream all the time, can you reach a height!" You look at how many people are still doing coolies outside, they don't dare to come out and be bandits like you, so they can only continue to suffer, you dare to think and dare to do it than them, so you can live better than them, but you have to become strong quickly, in order to maintain the current stability, if you are not moved, once the government reacts one day, you will be finished. ”

The monkey pointed at Xiao Wei in surprise and said, "Oops! Bosom friend ......" Xiao Wei was moved to stretch out his hands representing peace, but he shook them empty, and the monkey immediately retreated and said: "Ha, ha! Hell, what's the use of me telling you this, I'm so hungry today! The woman...... You, what's your last name? ”

Xiao Wei smiled and said generously, "My name is Xiao Wei." But I thought in my heart: "This bandit has some meaning, his ambition is similar to mine, maybe he can find an entry point from him, anyway, their big village master has not come back yet, and there is time to do tricks, and when the time comes, ...... Why don't I be the master of the big village, take my brothers to dominate the martial arts, make a fortune, and carry out my dream to the end! I have experience in counterattacking this kind of thing! ”