On the eve of the twentieth day of the lunar month, it snowed, and overnight, the town of Xiadi was covered tightly with snow, leaving no gaps.

The next day, when the sky was bright, Lu Cong, who was wearing a new and old jacket, was holding a shovel in his hand and shoveling the snow in the courtyard to both sides under the command of Zhou Shu, so as to make a way for her.

Today, Zhou Shu and Li Xinting were going to the neighboring town of Wohu Town for a banquet, Zhou Shu was afraid that the snow would dirty her shoes, so she hurriedly pulled Lu Cong out of the bed, and after there was a road in the yard, she went out and stepped on the snow outside with peace of mind.

Zhou Shu also ignored Li Xinting's dissuasive hand, and when he came to the door to get into the carriage, he said to Lu Cong in an unkind tone: "Lu Cong, today you have to shovel out all the snow in the yard for me, if I come back and haven't finished it, I have your good fruit to eat!" After speaking, he got into the carriage.

Looking at the carriage that was driving away outside the door, Lu Cong took a breath, stretched out his palm to catch a snowflake falling from the sky, looked at it, and then picked up the shovel in his hand that was higher than himself, and pushed the snow out of the door with great difficulty, and fell several times halfway.

Until noon, half of the snow in the yard had not been shoveled, but Lu Cong had no strength, so he had to rest first.

Lu Cong, who was silent everywhere, sitting in the yard and eating steamed buns with water, hummed some nursery rhymes taught by other children in the private school while eating, and sang them softly to himself, which seemed to be good.

Half an hour later, just as Lu Cong was about to get up to work again to warm up his body, Liu Mang, who looked anxious at the door of the private school, looked around in the private school, and shouted: "Mr. Li!

Lu Cong on the side opened his eyes wide and said loudly: "They are out!"

Liu Mang turned around and squatted in front of Lu Cong. "Where did your cousin go?"

Lu Cong said: "They went to Crouching Tiger Town for a banquet, do you have something to do with them? You can also tell me first!"

Liu Mang stared at Lu Cong, looking at Lu Cong's eyes full of innocence, he couldn't bear it, but he still gritted his teeth and said, "Xiao Cong, this is news about your father!"

Lu Cong suddenly jumped up and hurriedly said, "My father, is my father coming back, when will he come back?"

Liu Mang paused, his eyes were complicated, and finally said in a low voice: "Xiao Cong, your father can't come back!"

Lu Cong was suddenly stunned, hesitated for a while and asked, "Why didn't my father come back?"

Liu Mang took a deep breath, looked at Lu Cong and said, "Xiao Cong, there was a fire in the house where your father and your uncle worked a few days ago, and your father and your uncle... Didn't get out. ”

The original smile on Lu Cong's face flowed away in an instant, leaving only a pair of big eyes, flashing back and forth, and asking in a somewhat weak voice, "What you said is true?"

Liu Mang nodded.

Immediately, the shovel in Lu Cong's hand fell straight to the ground, and he jumped twice on the ground before falling silent.

Lu Cong looked at Liu Mang, and suddenly asked softly with a smile: "Uncle Liu Mang, are you lying to me?"

Liu Mang was silent, hugged Lu Cong, and in an instant, Lu Cong cried bitterly.

After a long time, Lu Cong cried until he fainted, Liu Mang sent him into the outermost firewood room, covered him with a quilt, and then turned around and couldn't bear to look at it a few times, sighed, or closed the door and left.

At night, Zhou Shu and Li Xinting came back. Zhou Shu, who was holding the lantern, saw that the snow in the courtyard was still there, but Lu Cong was nowhere to be seen, and suddenly became angry again, so he wanted to pull Lu Cong out, looking at this posture, if Lu Cong didn't finish shoveling the snow tonight, I'm afraid he wouldn't want to sleep.

Zhou Shu rushed into the firewood room with a fierce momentum, lifted the quilt on Lu Cong's body, and shouted: "What are you sleeping! Don't you know that the work is not done?"

Lu Cong, who woke up in a dream, suddenly looked like a frightened deer, his eyes confused and helpless.

Lu Cong said timidly: "I... ”

Zhou Shu immediately interrupted: "What are you, hurry up for me!" After speaking, he picked up Lu Cong from the bed and threw him on the side of the bed.

Lu Cong didn't dare to resist, so he had to go to the courtyard immediately, while Zhou Shu was like a mouse behind, impatient.

As Lu Cong picked up the shovel on the ground again and began to shovel the snow, Zhou Shu said viciously: "You remember for me, if you don't finish the snow in this courtyard today, you don't want to sleep!"

Lu Cong was like a puppet, pushing a shovel and shoveling out the snow.

Late at night, Lu Cong's brain was originally blank, but now his hands were shaking uncontrollably, and his feet were as heavy as lead.

Fortunately, the snow in the courtyard had been shoveled, and Lu Cong dragged his feet and put the shovel in the corner and headed towards the firewood room.

Lu Cong, who took off his clothes and got into the bed, found that he couldn't warm up at this time, his whole body was cold to the bone, and the little wooden man in his hand suddenly broke apart.

After struggling in his heart for a long time, Lu Cong suddenly seemed to have made a decision, got out of the quilt, put the old and new jacket on his body again, and then draped the quilt on his body, and put his other little wooden figures, the kraft paper wrapped in half a piece of peach crisp, and a pair of rotten shoes on the bed sheet, wrapped Lu Cong's treasures with this sheet, and finally carried them on his body, and quietly walked towards the courtyard. After arriving in the front yard, Lu Cong gently opened the door of the private school, and the small figure slowly squeezed out, and then ran away from the outside of Chaoxiadi Town without looking back.

The snow began to fall again, and in the dark night, a small figure made shallow and deep footprints on the snow, and no one knew where his destination was, just kept running.

Even if he kept falling to the ground, even if it was a sky full of snowflakes flying, Lu Cong had only one thought in his heart, which was to run, keep running, run to a place where there was no one, run...

Under the candlelight of another place in Luoxiazhou, Lu Xiao settled in an inn at the foot of Xinhuafeng Mountain, and it was not until today that he arrived at the highest peak located in the west of Luoxiazhou, close to the sea, Xinhua Peak, which is also the location of Luoxia Academy in Li Xinting's mouth.

It's just that Lu Xiao was a little uneasy at this moment, it stands to reason that he should arrive at the Luoxia Academy tomorrow, Lu Xiao should be happy in his heart, but he always felt that something bad had happened, just like he suddenly felt this way a few days ago.

Lu Xiao didn't want to be upset, so he immediately blew out the candle and lay down on the bed to sleep.

Early in the morning, a group of bandits who had just finished looting in Crouching Tiger Town were on their way back to Crouching Tiger Village. This gang of bandits is composed of a group of refugees after the flood in Luoxiazhou, and the base camp is located on Crouching Tiger Mountain, led by seven bandit leaders with outstanding martial arts, known as the "Crouching Tiger Seven Stars", and there is also a woman among them.

The people of Crouching Tiger Town talked about the seven bandits and made up a story, saying that the seven people fled to Crouching Tiger Town at that time, although they all had martial arts, but they had nowhere to throw, and in desperation, they happened to meet together in order to survive.

After that, the seven took in many refugees who had nowhere to go, plundered unscrupulous families in the surrounding towns, and fed the 100 people in this village. However, this group of bandits under the leadership of the "Crouching Tiger Seven Stars" did not rush to exterminate them, they did not take much, and they also maintained the stability of the party when the whip was beyond the reach of Xiawei City, and the people of Crouching Tiger Town were also afraid from the beginning, and gradually accepted the robbery of this gang of bandits after a few months.

At this time, this time the leader of the team down the mountain is the second of the seven stars - An Douxing in the east direction, he is a ranger and righteous, and when the road is uneven, he will inevitably draw a sword to help, and he looks like a powerful force, and his figure is also five big and three thick, tall and straight.

At this time, the group was talking and laughing, drinking the warm wine in the gourd in the east direction, humming an unknown song, but the lyrics sounded like they were opening the yellow cavity. The bandits who followed Dongfang asked, "Second master, which song are you singing?

"Damn, what do you know!"

"Hahaha! Let's open our eyes and have a long insight!"

"Lao Tzu won't talk about it, you boys who haven't grown all the hair, can you talk about these things?

"Oh!~ The second master, you can steal the fun by yourself!"

"Well, your way is that ordinary thing, but I only take it seriously, and the two of them know each other。。。。。。 Suddenly, the east direction of the lyrics was singing, and the voice suddenly became smaller again, and suddenly no one played anymore.

When no one spoke, the bandit who was walking with a lantern suddenly stopped his horse, walked to the middle of the road to check, and after a while, came to the east and said: "Second master, there is a child on the road, frozen and fainted. ”

Dongxiang came back to his senses, waved his hand, and said loudly: "Take the child back to the mountain and let Wu Niang govern." ”

The lantern bandit hurriedly beckoned two accomplices to pick up the unconscious child, Lu Cong, on the horse, and then threw the reins in his hand to the east, and the stirrups under his feet were clamped, and a group of bandits and several fast horses went up to Crouching Tiger Mountain with wind and snow.