In the first year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Mobei Fengzhou, Taoyuan Village.

Snowflakes are falling, and the village is filled with a joyful atmosphere. It's been a busy year, in order to have a good year. Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and every household has already put on lights. Neighbors met and greeted each other happily. Naughty children run around in groups, and the adults in the family have already bought firecrackers, and the sound of firecrackers can last until the next day.

Xiaoliu is also a leader among the half-grown children in the village. Dad is the sixth in the family, and Tao Lao Liu, a person in the village, Tao Lao Liu, shouted, and when he arrives, he will naturally become a little six. Xiao Liuda is clever and lively when he is a child, and every time he celebrates the New Year, he carries a string of home-pickled bacon in one hand and his sister who is five years older than him in the other. Two children with pink jade carvings visit each other, and they always receive a lot of gifts and compliments.

Xiaoliu helped his parents paste the Spring Festival couplets, and went to the firewood stack to cut some firewood. When he was finally done, he watched his sister pull the corner of his clothes, gesture to him, and drag him out of the village.

At the north end of the village, a group of children are playing and playing. A little chubby dun wrapped in a thick cotton jacket had red hands from the cold, and he was holding a snowball, and his snot was snorting. When he saw the little six sisters and brothers, he shouted: "Sixth brother, come and play together." ”

"No, no, no. I still have business to do. ”

Chubby replied with a smile, and a snowball fell on his head behind him. The little chubby monster screamed, took the snowball and rushed into the group of children.

My sister covered her mouth and grinned. Xiaoliu dragged his sister away from this "land of right and wrong", for fear that a snowball would hit her sister somewhere.

To the north of the village is a hill with rugged winding mountains and lush trees. The mountain roads are crisscrossed, and it is easy for people who do not often walk in the mountains to get lost. The siblings have followed their parents up the mountain since they were children, and they are even more familiar with the mountain roads. The two children turned left and right, and finally stopped in front of a cave.

In front of the cave, a white fox cub runs and frolicks happily. The palm-sized body is covered with snow, the white fur stands out in the snow, and the flat snow is covered with small scratches the size of plum blossoms.

Xiaoliu gestured for his sister to stand and wait for him first, and he squatted alone and crept forward cautiously. Then he jumped and heard a "whoosh", and the little fox cub was held in Xiaoliu's arms.

"Okay, you little bean ding, I said why didn't I see you early in the morning, it turned out that I came here again, don't think about eating meat and bones today."

The little fox cub shrunk into a small fur ball, whining and whining, and looked at Xiao Liu with a little resentment.

Xiaoliu's sister ran over and snatched Xiaodouding over. A pair of beautiful big eyes stared at Xiao Liu, and his mouth was "babbling". Xiao Liu immediately drooped down and followed behind his sister with a smiling face.

My sister was born speechless, and Xiao Liu felt pity for this sister who was five years older than herself. When she was young, a group of children in the village were ignorant and surrounded her sister and laughed at her for being dumb. My sister didn't shed a single tear, she just locked herself in the house and didn't go out for a whole day.

Xiao Liu didn't say a word, copied a brick from the corner of the wall and went out. From the head of the village to the end of the village, the group of children was found. It is said that if an adult hadn't seen it that day, there was a chance that someone would have died. After that, his father beat him hard, covering his red buttocks, and seeing his sister's crying red eyes next to him, Xiao Liu felt that he would do it again if he did it again.

As they grew up, those children gradually grew up, and one by one they apologized to Xiaoliu and his sister. But there was still no one to play with her sister, she just sat on a rock and watched her peers play and play, so Xiaoliu stayed with her sister all the time.

"Sister, don't be angry, I don't care about Xiaodouding." Xiao Liu's farts followed behind her sister, the little girl pretended not to hear, her head twisted, and the little man's boots stepped on the snow with a loud sound.

The little greyhound lies in his sister's arms, licking his lips with his little tongue and narrowing his eyes comfortably.

"Little Bean Ding is so cute, how can I starve it. Our mother's stewed meat is the most fragrant, and I will call the shots when I go back, and give the bone with the most small bean meat, so that the rhubarb will be hungry on the side. ”

The little girl paused, and the corners of her mouth curled slightly. Xiao Liu's eyes were sharp, and he clapped his hands and smiled: "Laughed!" Laughed! Don't be angry when you laugh. ”

The sister and brother walked down the mountain, and Xiao Liu rubbed a snowball from the snow on the side of the road, thinking about how to surprise Xiao Chubby Dun. At this time, I heard my sister "babbling", Xiaoliu raised her head, and her sister's face was pale with snow.

At some point, a group of cavalry appeared at the head of Taoyuan Village, all in bright light armor, carrying a spear on their backs and a horizontal knife at their waists. At the head of the army stood two horsemen, a masked general carrying a large sword, and the war horse under the seat snorted from time to time.

The villagers do not see outsiders a few times a year, let alone these officers and soldiers. Today happens to be the Chinese New Year, and every household has no heavy farm work, so they all come out to see the excitement. The children did not dare to approach, but one by one they craned their necks to see clearly.

The village chief is an old man in his seventies, who used to be a border soldier at the border, so he has a wider range of knowledge. The old man came to the horse on crutches, and knew that Taoyuan Village could not afford to provoke these soldiers, so he boldly asked, "Master Jun, is this going to war?" The food in our Taoyuan Village is sufficient, and the military master can take it casually. It's just that the young and strong have gone to the county seat, and the children in the village are still young. Just a few of our old guys still have the strength, if you can see it, just look for us! ”

The general directly waved his hand to interrupt the village chief's speech, and said in a deep voice: "Are all the one hundred and eighteen households in Taoyuan Village here?" ”

"Yes, what does the military master command......" Before the old village chief finished speaking, he saw the big knife in the general's hand rise and fall, felt a chill in his chest, and then fell to the ground. Before he died, he didn't understand why the Great Zhou soldiers would swing knives at him.

"Kill them all!"

The cavalry behind the general all raised their spears and charged forward in unison. The Great Zhou Tieqi, which made all countries frightened, easily tore apart the villagers of Taoyuan Village. The village, which was once full of joy, has become a hell on earth in the blink of an eye.

Blood, permeating the entire valley.

Crying and screaming came and went.

Xiao Liu's eyes were cracked, and he saw with his own eyes that the little fat dun who had played since he was a child was cut off with a knife, and his body was torn apart by the war horse. He thought of his father and mother who were still at home, and his eyes turned red for a moment.

"You bastards!"

Xiao Liu ran down the mountain with a roar. My sister wanted to catch Xiao Liu, but she suddenly felt that Xiao Liu's back was becoming more and more distant, as if she couldn't catch it, and she would slip away from her.

Xiao Douding was let go and fell to the ground by her, whining.

She ran a few steps quickly, and her little hands tried to grab Xiao Liu's clothes. But Xiao Liu ran too fast, and she could only grab the jade plate hanging around his neck.

The string holding the jade plaque snapped and broke, and his foot tripped over a stone hidden in the snow. She couldn't control her body, and fell heavily to the ground, but she didn't know that it was a snow nest, and as soon as her body fell, she fell.

Before falling, she saw that Xiaoliu was impaled through the body by a spear and fell to the ground weakly.

Tears flowed out involuntarily.

The snow pit was extremely deep, and she looked at the sky outside the cave, only to feel that the sky was becoming more and more mottled and blurred, the sky was spinning, and her consciousness was constantly dissipating.

"Bah...... Creak! ”

She tried to call her brother's name, but she could only murmur silently.

She also held a jade plaque tightly in her hand, and she also had an identical jade plaque, which was carved by her father and mother in the county seat. One is engraved with Xiaoliu's name "Tao Fengnian", and one is her name "Tao Qingyu".

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On the Chinese New Year's Eve of the first year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there was a heavy snowfall outside Fengzhou.

The soldiers made sure that all of them were dead, cut off their heads, and walked away.

No one knew that on the snow-covered floors, there was a faint sound of a heartbeat......