That night, my grandfather pulled me to sit on the ground outside the house, the sky was full of stars, and fireflies occasionally appeared in the grass by the river, and my grandfather asked me for a paper cigarette, lit it with a match, and took a deep breath. He had not seen the pipe out since the six men had come.

"Xiaohua, you should have a lot of questions, right? What exactly do you do grandpa and me, what do we do? I used to tell myself that the past would never be told to you, and that it would be enough to keep you safe and secure until I died. However, this should be what others call fate. Whatever is supposed to come will come, and you can't hide from it. Since you have come, as a man, you must face it bravely, no matter whether the result is good or bad, you have resisted, you have struggled, and this process is victory. ”

I lit a cigarette and exhaled a long string of smoke rings, "I don't know what you mean by that, but the seven of you don't look like you're doing good deeds. It's strange that it's strange that I don't know these three people, grandpa, Kuroko, and Big Head. The other four people are all people who can be said to have achieved fame and success in their careers in this society. What kind of bait did you and Kuroko use to make them willing to put down everything in their hands and accompany them to do whatever they were about to do. I don't understand this. ”

Grandpa laughed, and the laughter was hearty and simple. It's rare to see him so happy.

"Where is the bait, before I set out, I thought it would be difficult to convince them, but in fact? When they saw me and Kuroko appear in front of them, they already knew that there was something they needed to do. ”

"It's as simple as that?"

"It's that simple. Because it doesn't matter how good they are now, how high their status is. Once when they were worthless, we were by their side, working together, those life-changing brotherhood, unless they died, I don't think they will forget. ”

"Brother?" I thought about it, in a society like this, such words are really a bit empty, as the saying goes, the tree is down, where can there be any brotherhood.

"Yes, probably only people of our time understand the preciousness of these two words."

Grandpa sighed, "Xiaohua, in fact, I don't want to take you to this job at all, although it is so easy to say during the day, it feels easy to decide." But this kind of thing that may lose one's life at any time, where can it be decided casually. The idea of a few of them is to let me hide it from you, and let you take one step at a time and then talk about it. But you were brought up by me, so I hid you like this, and I really don't want to go in my heart. ”

"It's too early to say this, I'm afraid it was predestined as early as when you were born. If Kuroko doesn't appear, you will be lucky enough to live this life uneventfully, but as long as he appears, your fate is doomed. Look at the seven of us, which one is not an old guy in his fifties or sixties, and it is unknown how long he can toss it, but unfortunately the next road to take, since it has begun, there must be an end. If it doesn't end in the hands of us old men, it must end in the hands of you, the younger generation. You also heard it during the day, and Liu Yangui's granddaughter will also accompany her this time, but not as he said, just pestering to go. That girl's fate is the same as yours. Kuroko has no children and no daughters, and the grandchildren of the other four have already been sent abroad, but sooner or later they will have to come back and join you. So you see, it's fair too. ”

I lit my second cigarette. "I said grandpa, you said this as if you were going to do something earth-shattering, and there was no return, is it so serious?"

"Hehe, I hope not."

"You're going to tell me this tonight? So that I can retreat? ”

Grandpa shook his head. "This is your life, you have no way back, I called you out tonight, first, to make you mentally prepared, and secondly, to give you a briefing on the situation, lest you follow us with an ignorant look and drag back."

"Hey, you're underestimating your grandson."

"It all started when I was twenty years old, when the situation was turbulent and everyone didn't have enough to eat, and all six of us, except for Heizi, were assigned to a village in northern Shaanxi to go to the mountains and go to the countryside, as you should have heard. But there, I had to work every day, day and night, I couldn't eat enough, and I was tired, and every day people ran away, and some people died of exhaustion and starvation. The six of us belonged to a production team at the time, and we didn't know each other at first, but then we slowly became familiar with each other. After a long time, they became good friends. Later, the situation there got worse and worse, and we decided to run away together, but we said, where to escape, in those days, it would be bad luck to be caught escaping. As a result, it was still a big-headed ghost, saying, "Run to the mountains, there will never be anyone to catch us, and besides, there are all kinds of wild animals in the mountains, and with everyone's ability, they should not starve to death." When he said this, it was easy for us who were desperate to decide. Everyone ran into the mountains together. At that time, it was too easy to run to the mountains, and most people chose to run to the city, after all, it was because they couldn't stand the countryside that they wanted to run, and it was the most normal to run to the city. Therefore, the city is also the most powerful in catching people. Only if we choose to run into the mountains, it is extremely simple. At the end of the day's work, a few of us hurriedly packed up our poor luggage, tore off the sheets, wrapped up the things, tied them in a knot, and ran away with them. After running like this for a day and a night, we didn't even know where we had gone, only to see that there were trees all around, and we couldn't see the edge at a glance. I was so tired from running that as soon as the six of them stopped, they felt that their whole body was going to be weak, so they simply leaned against a big tree and fell asleep. I didn't know how long I slept like this, until I felt that my face was sticky and uncomfortable, and I opened my eyes, and saw that there was no rain at all, even the moisture of the woods shouldn't be so sticky, so I looked up and looked, this was unbelievable, and almost scared my souls and souls. I saw that the big tree we were leaning on was about twenty meters high, and in the middle of the thick trunk was coiled a huge snake that I had never heard of or seen, and at this moment it was opening its big mouth, and its saliva could not stop dripping, and it seemed that it was treating us as its dinner. Thinking of this, I endured the trembling of my whole body caused by fear, and bent down to wake them up, but when I touched it to the side, I touched it empty, and then touched it to the other side, and touched it again, and I was so scared that my whole body was drenched in sweat, and I thought to myself, this is terrible, everyone leaned on each other to sleep before falling asleep, did they all eat it?

My mind turned here, and I thought that I could only run away with my legs, but at this time, my legs did not obey the call at all, as if I had no legs at all, and the giant snake on its head finally began to crawl, and its huge body circled the trunk of the tree, making a clicking sound, and I couldn't run away, and my companions around me had to be eaten again, so I simply closed my eyes and prepared to die.