Qingyang Dao Chang was taken aback, but he didn't expect Li Barrier to choose to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river, and hurriedly jumped to the boulder to check, and in a blink of an eye, except for seeing the rolling waves on the water, there was no trace of Li Barrier.

There are huge dark stones staggered under the river, the undercurrent is surging, it is difficult to escape, Qingyang Dao Chief stood with his hands in his hands, watched for a long time, and sighed: "Am I doing too much!" and turned to leave.

......

The river flows into the Fenshui, and although the upstream water flow is turbulent, it can flow downstream, and the water flow gradually stabilizes as the river widens.

A fishing boat stopped on the water, an old man wearing a hat, hunched over, on the boat is casting a net to fish, suddenly a osprey, fell on the floating object on the water, the old man looked, saw that the floating object seemed to be a child, the old man took off his sackcloth, revealed his shriveled body, jumped into the water, swam to the object, sure enough, it was a boy, touched his wrist, there was still a weak pulse, busy pulling the child, swam to the side of the boat, and pushed the child to the boat.

Lao Suo has been fishing on this river since he was a child, the water is better, this drowning situation, dealt with many times, quickly removed the water in the boy's abdomen, after the boy has breathing, put away the net, dock to the shore, there is a thatched house on the shore, this is Lao Suo's home, Lao Suo hugged the boy into the thatched house and shouted: "Come here, I will save a child!"

There was an old woman with gray hair sitting in the room, who looked to be ten years younger than Lao Suo, who was sewing, and saw Lao Suo coming back with a child in her arms, "What are you doing when you come back with a child, neither of you can support it, this is another mouthful, throw him back quickly!"

Lao Suo put the child on the straw mat and said with a smile: "How can you throw it back like this if you can't save it so much, besides, you see that this kid is wearing this dress, it must be a wealthy family, if we send him back, they can't thank us." ”

"Think beautifully, I think this child's home is eighty percent gone, otherwise, how could he fall into the water?"

"Go and make a bowl of hot soup, give it to him, and when he wakes up, just ask. ”

The old woman got up and complained, "If this child has no family, you will drive him away for me at once!"

Lao Suo smiled and said: "If you want to drive away, you have to recover, and if you can move, you can drive away." ”

This boy is naturally Li Barrier, after he jumped into the river with a stake, a whirlpool swept him in, and he was submerged in the water in an instant, he clung to the stake, he knew that this was his only hope to live.

I don't know how many times the water turned over, and I don't know how many times the stake hit the boulder, several times from the bottom of the boulder brushed by, a long time before it surfaced, before the big gasp, suddenly the body was light, and the torrent fell straight into the deep pool, Li Barrier was spinning, weak, this fall, hit the water, fainted directly.

After Lao Suo fed Li Barrier hot soup, Li Barrier's breath gradually stabilized, and Lao Suo looked at Li Barrier's white face and sighed: "If my son is alive, my grandson will be so old!"

The old woman said, "Do you want to keep him at home and raise him as a grandson?" ”

"Of course I want to stay, but I'm afraid that this child doesn't want to, you see this child is so handsome and delicate, how can he endure our poor life!"

"A child like him is a waste person in our family, he can't work hard, no matter how handsome he is, what's the use, he can't eat it. ”

At this time, Li Jian was short of breath, suddenly stretched out a hand, and shouted urgently: "Mother, ......" suddenly woke up.

After a long time, he realized that he was not dead, in a grass hut, an old man was looking at him kindly, Li Zhan knew that he must have been rescued by this grandfather, and said softly, "Thank you grandpa, the grace of rescue." After speaking, he felt severe pain all over his body, his lungs seemed to be torn, and he fainted again.

......

When he woke up again, he was helping him to sit up and feed him fish soup, and he asked, "Where is your home, and why did you fall into the water?"

Li Jian coughed lightly a few times and panted: "My home...... It seems like...... No home, I ...... I don't remember anything. ”

Lao Suo looked back at the old woman, the old woman's old face was pulled, and she complained: "This is good, according to your ideas, I will see what you do!"

Lao Su ignored the old woman, "Think about it again, see what you can remember, whether you remember your name, if you can remember, I will take you home, your family must be very anxious!"

Coughed a few more times and shook his head slowly, "I can't remember, I forgot everything, I can't remember anymore." ”

The old woman said angrily: "I think you want to stay here and not leave, you are also alive now, you should go!"

The old man got up hurriedly, came to the old woman's side, and persuaded, "Where do you let him go now? When he is well, it is not too late to drive him away." ”

"If he never gets up, won't we pick up an ancestor and put it at home to provide for? ”

"Why, I'll let him go as soon as he's good. ”

"This child is weak and has a very poor physique, maybe his parents were cruel enough to throw him into the water. ”

"Nonsense, how can there be such ruthless parents, let alone such a good child, others don't want me!"

The old woman said angrily: "It turns out that you still want to take in this child, Cai Laohan, let me tell you, if you don't drive him away today, then I will leave, I won't live with you!"

Cai Laohan said with a smile: "Where can you go alone, now there is a shortage of soldiers, there is famine in various places, it is good to be able to guard this river and live." ”

The old woman said sharply: "Okay, it seems that you want to drive me away, okay, Cai Laohan, do you think your broken grass house is rare, where do I not find a gentleman, life is not better than yours!"

Cai Laohan hurriedly stopped and said with a smile: "You see you're here again, don't be angry, I didn't mean that, can't I let him go after two days?"

Li Jian reluctantly stood up, left the straw mat, staggered to Cai Laohan, and said lightly: "There is no way to repay the grace of saving your life, you can only kneel and thank grandpa." As he spoke, he staggered to his knees, wanting to kowtow in thanksgiving.

Cai Laohan hurriedly helped Li Jian up and said: "It's a matter of raising your hands, you don't have to be like this, rest quickly, and then move around when you are well!"

After Li Jian was helped up, he said: "I can move now, and I don't bother my grandfather anymore, so I'll leave." ”

Cai Laohan said: "No, you haven't recovered yet, wait until you're good before leaving!"

The old woman said, "He wants to go, why don't you let him go?"

Li Barrier turned around and wanted to get out of the grass hut, Cai Laohan shouted, "You wait!" After speaking, he walked quickly outside the house, and after a while, he came to Li Barrier with two strings of dried fish, handed it to Li Barrier, and said, "Take it, fill your stomach on the way." ”

Li Jian looked at the dozen or so slap-sized dried fish strung with branches, the corners of his eyes were moist, and he said gratefully: "Thank you, grandpa!"

Bidding farewell to Cai Laohan and carrying two strings of dried fish, Li Jian insisted on walking a long distance, and when he couldn't see the thatched house, he sat down to rest, snuggled up to the tree, panting, and looking aimlessly into the distance.

Ben chose to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river, and he didn't die in the hands of that Taoist, he never thought that he would come back to life, but he didn't know how to live, he wanted to live in a thatched house, but this body, even a thatched house can't accommodate it, looking at the vast sky, he smiled bitterly and said to himself: "You are really blind to leave only a waste person like me, it's okay, live for a day, it's a day, the well can't die in the river." Thinking of this, my mood is much more open-minded.

With a gurgling in his stomach, Li Jian picked a dried fish and chewed it, this dried fish was very fishy, but Li Jian felt that it had a different taste, and said in his heart: "This taste is much better than those herbs." ”

When Cai Laohan left, he told him that there was a nearby village not far from here, in the past, Cai Laohan often sold the fish he had hit, but Cai Laohan had not been there for more than a year, because there were many people starving to death, plus conscription, there were few families left, no one bought or said, and when he saw those poor people, he gave them as soon as his heart softened, and after returning home, he was also complained.

When the sun set, Li Zhan was almost resting, and he ate two dried fish, and walked slowly towards the village with fish skewers, and saw that the fields were cracked, no one cultivated, and the grass was overgrown, and it was desolate in his heart, when he was stunned, suddenly a group of crows flew up to the sky, hovering in the air, "Ahhhhhhh Screaming, even if Li Barrier was strangely calm, he couldn't help but tremble, and almost sat on the ground, it turned out that this group of crows was frightened by Li Barrier, and then suddenly flew up, Li Barrier was about to smile bitterly, and suddenly saw a shriveled corpse lying in the grass, the body had rotted, the flies were buzzing, and it was stinking, Li Barrier hurriedly covered his mouth and nose, and almost vomited the dried fish he had eaten, and hurriedly walked a few steps, and soon found several corpses, some of which were rotten and only white bones, and some of them were of a size, which should be the bones of a child.

Although Li Jian was not afraid, he thought to himself, "If I die, I will dig a pit myself, so as not to be exposed to the wild and uncomfortable to look at." But then he thought, "Although I have dug a hole, how can I cover myself?" and in this way, he thought of many mechanisms along the way, but in the end they all failed, because no matter what kind of mechanism, there must be a living person to help him press it, and he used to think like this before.

Unconsciously, the sun had already set for a long time, he came to the entrance of the village, and found that the village was full of fire, it seemed to be a huge bonfire, and his heart was strange, so he slowly approached the firelight, came to the broken wall, hidden, and looked inside.

I saw that in front of the bonfire, more than a dozen soldiers surrounded the people in the village, and there were more than a dozen people, most of them were thin and old men, and there were also two children similar to Li Zhan, all of whom were trembling and kneeling on the ground, judging by the clothes worn by the soldiers, it should be the Qin army, and Li Zhong had described to Li Zhan the clothing of soldiers from various countries.

Li Barrier said: "It seems that the Jingcheng Pass has been broken, the Qin army has entered it, and this Zhao State should also die." ”

One of the slender soldiers with a short sword in one hand stood in front of the people and shouted at the people: "Those who have food will pay food, and those who have money will pay money, this military master will spare your lives, if there is nothing, then don't think about leaving alive today!"

A white-haired old man knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "We have been out of food for more than a year, and the bark on the mountain has been stripped away.

"Then don't blame us for being rude!" Without saying a word, he stabbed the old man to death with a sword, which frightened the people into crying.

"Don't cry, don't hand it over, this is what will happen to you!"

An old woman knelt forward, stretched out her hand tremblingly, held two copper coins, and cried: "I only have two coins, please let our ancestors and grandchildren go!"

The soldier took the coin and looked at it, angrily put the coin still on the ground, and scolded: "Zhao Guo is dead, you use this Zhao coin to fool your military master, I want silver taels!"

"I only have ......" Before he could finish speaking, the soldier slashed his neck with a sword, and blood flowed from his thin neck, "Grandma!" his grandson cried and pounced.

Li Barrier said: "Father is right, this is the country, this is the people who died in the country." I suddenly remembered my father's angry face, which was so kind.

The soldier stepped forward and pulled away the crying child and wanted to kill him, but one of the soldiers next to him stopped him and said, "Don't kill him yet!"

"Why?"

"We came down to collect grain, this has gone a few villages, the villages are like this, how do we go back, I see that this child still has a few catties of meat, it is better to keep it, and then kill it in the end, the meat is also fresh, and when the skin is picked, it is said that it is the robe meat that is called, and it is good to make a difference, and we also eat meat!"

"Good idea, someone will bring these two children back to me, and the rest will wait, leave no one behind, cut off the ears, and throw them into the fire!"

The screams rang out, and Li Jian couldn't bear to look at it anymore, quietly withdrew from the village, and walked north along the night road.

When the night is cold, I always think of my mother's warmth, but unfortunately everything gets colder.