may be because there has been no rain for a long time, Ren'an in late spring, not only can not see even a trace of spring, but on the contrary, there is a sense of late autumn solemnity and sadness. This sadness, after the continuous rendering of the broadcast, in people's hearts, can't help but become more and more intense, and finally like the overwhelming Mount Tai, crushing people to the ground.

"Lao Liu, you are here too." On the outskirts of Ren'an, by the Jingnan River, two dying people met, one of them held a bottle of his favorite soju in his hand, and the other held a pack of cigarettes, his favorite cigarette. The two are like two friends who have been separated for many years, and today, they finally met by the mighty Jingnan River.

"Well, old house, long time no see." The two crumpled, loose, age-spotted hands clasped together weakly, but somehow, as soon as the hands touched, they seemed to be caught in a magnet and could not be released. On the other hand, looking at the ravines and ravines on the faces of these two people, not only did they not have the joy of reuniting after a long absence, but there seemed to be a deep sense of sorrow in their eyes that had seen countless ups and downs.

The shorter old man lit a cigarette for himself: "Your strong baby should also get married." ”

The taller old man pulled out the lid of the wine bottle, poured a sip, and slowly a trace of heat rose in his chest: "At the end of the year, alas, I don't know when I can hold my grandson." ”

"He is a good family, and he will be able to give you a big fat grandson."

The tall old man's eyes were slitted, and the old yellow teeth were all exposed in the air, and after a while, he said, "Your brother, have you found someone?" ”

The short old man took a deep breath for a long time before slowly exhaling a large smoke ring with a diameter of nearly forty centimeters: "I originally had a favorite, but a few months ago, the hometown defense regiment came to his door and insisted that he was sick and cut it down." ”

"Bang", on the Jingnan River, suddenly splashed a huge, mud-yellow splash, this splash, is another old man provoked, just now, this rickety old man, standing twenty meters away from them, lonely, not even a companion. In fact, on this embankment, in addition to the two of them, there are more than 100 people, both old and young.

The expressions of these two people were very calm, and they turned a blind eye to the old man who jumped into the river, maybe they didn't see it at all.

"Where's my wife?" The short old man lit another cigarette.

"Liver cancer, myrrh, gone the day before yesterday." The tall old man took a sip of wine, "Where's Aunt Liu?" ”

"Gone." The short old man threw the half of the cigarette into the river, and the smoke fell in the river, and not even the water splashed.

"Dong" in the lower reaches of the Jingnan River, another splash of water. This time, the short old man finally reacted a little, and his body shook slightly. And the tall old man's face also began to turn red, and he seemed to be a little drunk.

"Is the baby settled?"

The short old man shook his head and lit a third cigarette: "I don't agree to kill her, she also said to take me away and go outside to live." Alas, I don't want to think about it, how can a girl take an old man like me to go outside? ”

"Hahahaha, it's the same in my house. I can't take care of myself and still want to take care of me. ”

The short old man pinched the cigarette in his right hand, looked at the smoke cloud drifting downstream with the wind in a daze, and muttered after a while: "You say, is the food distributed by the government enough for my brother to eat?" ”

The tall old man smiled again: "Oh, I said you, my grandson is enough to eat, your daughter, one person eats three people?" ”

The brow of the short old man stretched a little.

Smoke, smoke one by one, wine, drink one sip, talk, say sentence by sentence, after more than half an hour, smoke, smoke, wine, drink, talk, also said the same. On the Najing Nanjiang River, there were also seven or eight splashes.

The tall old man put the empty wine bottle in his pocket: "Have you thought about it?" ”

The short old man also put the empty cigarette case in his trouser pocket: "I have to let you take a hand." ”

"Slow down." The tall old man supported the short old man in the back and pushed him up to the guardrail, and when he had sat down on the guardrail, he sat down himself. The two sat side by side, looking to the east, the sun that had just risen over the mountain. The muscles of his face twitched slightly, as if he was reminiscing about the past.

"Old Fang, are you afraid?"

"The Vietnamese are not afraid of guns, but they are afraid of this water?"

The two laughed loudly, for a long time, the short old man stretched out his left hand to the tall old man and said "um", the tall old man put his hand on it, the two laughed again, four feet at the same time, lightly kicked, the two old bodies, and left the guardrail.

"Knock", "knock" on the Jingnan River, there is the sound of falling water in one.

Halfway up the mountainside on the south side, Qin Tianwu put down his binoculars, and behind him, followed by Xie Lingguang and five or six others, all of whom held standard weapons in their hands. From this mountainside, you can overlook almost the entire river valley, and the Jingnan River, which has no end in sight, is like a yellow dragon, lying at the bottom of the valley.

"How long?" Qin Tianwu asked the people behind him.

"It's been four days." A young man dressed in the uniform of his hometown defense regiment said, he has been stationed here since the end of the meeting that day, monitoring the river, "Sir, do we really care? ”

Qin Tianwu slowly lowered his hand holding the telescope, trembled slightly, and slowly retreated until, the entire Jingnan River was covered by mountain cliffs. He handed the telescope back to the few people on duty here, and turned to leave. There is no need to stay here any longer, after all, compared with the times, individuals are just grasshoppers and elephants.

On the other side, on the main road out of the city, the wreckage of those cars has been pushed away by the forklift, and those infected who act as door gods have naturally "retired". However, the passage out of the city was not unimpeded because of this, because the garrison set up two drainage horses on the road, leaving only a small gap for people to pass, and between the two drainage horses, there was a jeep with a heavy machine gun parked, although its muzzle pointed at the mountain on the side, but the murderous aura it exuded did not weaken in the slightest.

In front of these things, there was a row of tables moved from an office building not far away, on the table, a red tablecloth was spread, and in front of each seat, there was a water sign that read: Out of the city registration office. Behind the table, there is a large blackboard, on which are written in white chalk in five large characters: think before you act.

On both sides of the road, every three or five meters, there is a blackboard, iron board, each board, is full of patterns, full of words, these words, at first glance quite pertinent analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of staying and going out, but under a closer look, it is not difficult to find that they are all intentionally or unintentionally indicative that the uncertainty of going to live outside the city is greater than staying in the city - the land in the city must be scheduled and distributed, and it will be planted outside, whatever you want.

Although the time is less than half past seven, but the door out of the city, it is crowded with people, people are holding large bags and small bags, basically all of them are dragging their families, and only these people will hold the mentality of going out to fight, after all, if there are only two mouths in a family, the daily rations are still enough to cope.

As soon as he arrived at half past seven, the registration work of leaving the city officially began, and the people sitting behind the table were carefully selected, one was to have a firm heart, the second was to have a good temper, and the third requirement sounded a little strange, but it was specially ordered by Jia Zhongquan - it must be a native of Ren'an, and be able to speak fluent Ren'an.

This is a bit of an unbounded request, in fact, it is to no longer stimulate those who are going to go out of the city, after all, after so many days of intentional or unintentional rendering, everyone's mood is extremely irritable, like a powder keg, one point will explode, and this person is always xenophobic, if you find a person with a Chixian dialect to go through the procedures for those people to go out of the city, maybe those people will blow up on the spot - Lao Tzu Ren'an locals, all have to be "driven" away, why are you a foreigner, can you be qualified to stay here?

But this requirement made Wei Yilin difficult, because, he didn't understand Ren'an, not only did he not understand, but most of the people in his detachment didn't understand, if those staff members mixed in with a blood-worshipping remnant and took the opportunity to make trouble, it would have a big impact, so in order to ensure that there was no accident at the entrance of the city, Wei Yilin asked those garrison members who could understand Ren'an's dialect to stand behind the staff, which was regarded as monitoring, but in this way, those who went out of the city probably would not feel good in their hearts.

Qin Tianwu strode over from the side path, and as soon as he stood still, he said, "It's all arranged." ”

Wei Yilin raised his head and looked in the direction of Qin Tianwu's gaze, there seemed to be a faint cold air in the mountainside full of vegetation, but where this cold air was, Wei Yilin couldn't see it for a while.

"This old Xie is quite able to hide."

Qin Tianwu nodded approvingly: "After all, he is a second-class sniper." If you turn it out so easily, it's too cheap. ”

"How's the situation on the riverside?"

"Listen to the brother over there, it's been four days of dancing." Qin Tianwu suppressed his voice, "Old Wei, is there really no other way?" That's a miserable one. ”

Wei Yilin did not answer positively, but chose to "kick" the ball to Hong Caijun, after all, he couldn't agree with this way, since this is the case, there is no need to defend him: "You have to ask Hong Administration, his idea." ”

Qin Tianwu seemed to understand why Wei Yilin was just desperately emphasizing that no matter what happened, he had to obey the orders of the martial law headquarters, it turned out that this kid didn't want to be on the same front with Hong Caijun's guy.

"Hey, Lao Wei, you said that somewhere else, would it be the same?"

Wei Yilin couldn't help but be stunned, the face that still had a little sunshine left, was also slowly, covered by dark clouds, He raised his head slightly, but was surprised to find that the mountains on both sides of the river valley were so thick, and above the mountains, I don't know when, dense black clouds surged in, like a huge dome, covering the earth, and a feeling of powerlessness arose. Because, he suddenly thought that when the historians of thousands of years later talked about this matter, I am afraid it would only be: Geng Yin year, the great epidemic, the dead, nine out of ten. Not even a single comment, a word of regret, there will be no more. After all, history will never record the helplessness and strength of the mayflies.