"Uncle, don't be kidding, it's a penny, right?" Big Waist asked him as he took out the money.

The old man was silent.

I looked around again, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't think of it for a while, but I still pulled my waist and left the steamed cake stall first.

He was still reluctant: "What's the matter, can't you eat something?"

"It's not that simple. If you look around, I thought it was a village, but you look there. ”

I pointed to the tiles on the beams.

"You take a closer look, this tile is a single-petaled lotus pattern tile, this is a typical early Southern Dynasty Jiankang City, talk about the Northern and Southern Dynasties said at that time, do you remember?"

He stretched out his head to take a closer look, and said to me, "Could it be that the merchants here brought the imitations from the south and think they look good and keep them for them?"

"It's not that simple, I saw their celadon cup just now, and it is definitely a utensil of the Southern Dynasty."

"It may be that their family likes imitations of the Southern Dynasties, what's so strange about this?"

"Why don't you understand what I mean, things look like real things. And now people collect money, is there still a five-baht penny? Do you think that old man looks like a joke? ”

When he heard me say this, he was obviously a little uneasy.

I continued, "Don't be afraid, that's just my speculation. Even if it's a strange thing, it's not the first time I've met this time, there should have been danger a long time ago, I was just thinking, why do they live with the same appearance as ordinary people in the Southern Dynasties, this is obviously City A? ”

City A was Chang'an in ancient times, which is well known, the Southern Dynasty was in the south as the name suggests, and the capital was in Jiankang. I carefully recalled the history of the Northern and Southern Dynasties after the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Song Qi Liang Chen, the only time the Southern Dynasties hit Chang'an was Liu Yu and Liu Jinu, and then it seemed that he was busy going back to seize power and establish Liu Song, and lost Chang'an?

Could it be that this is Chang'an City, which was defeated by the Beifu soldiers before the establishment of the Liu Song regime?

Even so, why did they appear? Or how did it come about? If these ordinary people are weird, then isn't the place where we are an out-and-out weird city? It was obvious that the most important thing in front of me and Big Waist was to get out.

"I have a suggestion, let's ...... Let's go back? Big Waist whispered, he really had a place with me.

"Let's go, this place is not suitable for a long time."

So saying, we turned and walked towards the way we came, but the place where we had just entered, which should have been empty, now there were roads and houses, as if out of thin air, and no matter how we walked, something kept appearing in the darkness and fog in front of us.

Looks like we're trapped in this strange city.

Just as we were in a hurry while walking, someone on the side of the road actually shouted: "Housheng!"

Big Waist and I stopped and looked over there, only to see an old man standing outside a house, facing us.

I shuddered, a little nervous, because I had been lucky before I turned back, but now it seems that this strange place basically does not look like the territory of the living. I was greeted by a monster, but it was the first time.

We looked at him like this, and when he saw that we were not moving, he shouted again: "Two descendants, come here quickly!"

I listened to his voice as if he was a little anxious, not like some kind of vicious person, but seemed to bring a little concern, and gave me a sense of intimacy.

I was about to walk towards him, but my big waist grabbed me: "Hey, are you still awake?"

I smiled and said to him, "Don't worry, I don't think he will hurt us, there is nothing to do at this time, let's take one step at a time."

The two of us walked towards him, and the old man was also very mysterious, and he led us into the door, and then closed the door, and there was only a flickering oil lamp in the room, but it could be seen that his house was basically surrounded by walls.

"Judging by the two of them, are they Jin people?" He began to ask questions in classical Chinese again.

I casually replied, "Exactly, exactly." What this old man said confirmed my thoughts even more, before Liu Yu built the Song Dynasty, wasn't it the Eastern Jin Dynasty? The Eastern Jin Dynasty was the name we gave later, and at that time, the common people must have felt that they were the people of the Jin Kingdom.

I said in my heart that I was a scholar of gold and stone, and I had a little bit to do with history, and I had read a few ancient books, so it was not a matter of two sentences.

"I see that the clothes of the two of you are very different, not from Chang'an?"

"However, I live in the south, and this is the place for trade."

"It's no wonder that you don't know what is happening now, and you are still walking in the Dao Ear!"

"What?"

"Hu Xiatun is outside the city, the city is in danger, the soldiers defending the city are young and strong, my two sons are not exempt, and the two of you are rampant on the road, and they are bringing disaster upon themselves!"

I kind of understood, this is Chang'an's urgency, arrest Zhuangding, this old man was afraid that we would be arrested like his son, so he hid us in the house.

I quickly recalled this history, this has reached the point where the Great Xia lord of the Sixteen Kingdoms attacked Chang'an? That said, Liu Yu would have returned to Jiankang a long time ago. There is another thing in this history that makes me a little uneasy, after L Bobo captured Chang'an, he slaughtered the city, that is, these people may have died in this battle.

Anyway, if what he says is true, he's a good guy, no, weird, all the same.

I looked at the big waist, and he looked at me, but he didn't know what to say or do.

But I finally met an ancient man who could chatter, so I simply said a few more words to him, and I learned to talk about the people in the play, and bowed to him: "Thank you for the life-saving grace of the old man, dare to ask who is guarding the city today?"

The old man said: "The three generals under the original Song Dynasty, Shen Jingguang, Wang Zhenwei, and Wang Shuzhi, are now all dead, but their son Liu Yi is really ear." Liu Yizhen, isn't it the ridiculous guy who abandoned the city with the jeweled palace maid? Now that the three great generals are dead, isn't the ruined city just around the corner?

I asked him again, "Why don't you go east, old man?"

"I live here, and I have no relatives anywhere else, and although I can do it, I don't know where to go. My life is cheap, so I stay here and live and die with my son. Those who have not escaped are all like me. ”

The sentence "Xing, the people are bitter; Death, the people suffer" is true, no matter what dynasty or generation, the war brings only pain to the people.

To be honest, I don't know how to get out of this place right now, maybe it's safer to hide inside than outside.

We exchanged a few more words with him, but after a short time I heard the sound of horses' hooves, shouts, and cries not far away.

The old man hurriedly stood up, and out of nowhere he had made a dark cellar for us, motioning for us to take refuge in. There was no ladder either, but I was pressed for time, so I jumped off, just over the top, and the big waist jumped down after me.

As soon as I went down with Big Waist, and as soon as we tried to help the old man in, he closed the board of the cellar, and we heard him seem to push something against the board.

It was pitch black in the cellar, and the big waist said, "Damn, it should be almost three o'clock by now, right?"

When he said this, I suddenly had an idea, yes, if the time hasn't changed, then after this late night, will we be safe when the day dawns?

But I motioned for Big Waist to be quiet, for I was afraid that the noise would attract the attention of the people above. The noise above is getting louder and louder, shaking the heavens and the earth, and the ground is also trembling, the two of us are squatting on the ground together, our hearts are pounding, for fear that someone will lift the board at once, you don't have to think about it, you know, this is definitely not the sound of catching strong men, it should be - the soldiers and horses of Daxia are coming into the city!

We waited underground, and after I don't know how long, the mess finally fell silent.

After waiting for a while, I was sure that there was no sound, and I said to the big waist, "What time is dawn here?" I thought it would be good if it was dawn. ”

"Well, don't forget that we're underground now, if the strange city disappears......"

yes, will we be buried in the ground?

"Shall we go up and have a look? Listening to the sound is like walking away. ”

"Alright, we've got to get out of here first."

I stood up and stretched out my hand to push the cover, but I couldn't push it much, and sure enough, I was pressed against something, and I motioned to help, and he also stood up, stomped his feet, and pushed it together, and pushed the board up a bit, maybe a table or a box on it.

As the saying goes, people have no overpower, and the hands over the top of the head are basically not forceful, only pushing can rely on the cooperation of the whole body to barely do it. But now neither of us seems to be tall enough to push the board away.

"Come, you step on me, take the ladder." So saying, he was about to kneel on the ground.

I grabbed him: "Listen to me, you step on me, you are better than me, I may not be able to climb up if I push it away, you go up first, and then drag me up."

Presumably he also knew that it was useless to be humble at this time, so I squatted on the ground, put my hands on my knees, he took off his shoes and stood on my hands, this height was enough, he slammed his force, and with a muffled sound, something fell to the ground, and the board was successfully pushed open. We cooperated again, and I lifted up, and he jumped hard and climbed up very smoothly.

After the big waist pulled me up, although there was no natural light, the whole environment was illuminated by a burning flame, and this flame was not the yellow-red we usually see, but a blue and white color, and even if we got close, we could not feel a trace of warmth. This may be, Strange Fire?