In the dark night, there was a sound of rapid breathing, Xu Mu endured the severe pain, leaned on the wall with one hand and dragged his leg with the other, the blood penetrated the gray cotton pants and dripped to the ground, the pain in his leg became more and more numb, and he only felt that his left leg was becoming more and more disobedient to his own call. His eyelids drooped and he became more and more tired, and his consciousness became weaker and weaker, and at this time he had only one thought in his heart, to escape from Yunxi Town.

Xu Mu was stupid as soon as he dragged his legs out of the alleyway, looking at the empty fields around him and not knowing where to step. Suddenly, in the dark wilderness, Xu Mu vaguely saw dim lights like stars in the distance. Xu Mu's frozen lips trembled, and now that he saw the light, it was like seeing a life-saving straw, and his steps suddenly got faster and walked towards the dim light.

Night, no wind, night, no moon. Dark, silent, still could hear his frantic heartbeat. The fields were potholed and uneven, and the clods of soil that were turned up were frozen and hard to walk, Xu Mu didn't know how many times he fell, and he endured the severe pain in his calf and got up again and again.

It was a small mud hut with dim yellow lights shining through the window. Xu Mu tried hard to open his eyes, raised a pair of big hands stained with blood, and slammed the wooden door weakly. The creaky door opened halfway open, and an old lady poked out half of her head to watch vigilantly, looked at Xu Mu, who was covered in blood outside the door, and hurriedly closed the door in fright.

"Auntie, auntie. Don't be afraid, I'm from our Yunxi Town, my name is Xu Mu. Auntie, auntie. Xu Mu patted the wooden door outside the door and said weakly.

As soon as the words fell, a crack opened in the door, and one eye looked Xu Mu up and down with both cunning and nervousness in the door, and said in a hoarse voice: "Are you really the big filial son Xu Mu in the town?"

"Yes, it's me. Xu Mu's face was painful, and he replied forcibly.

The old lady hurriedly opened the wooden door and helped Xu Mu to sit on the side of the kang tremblingly. The old lady picked up a towel and washed it in the bucket for a while before wiping the blood stains on Xu Mu's face, Xu Mu was suddenly startled by the cold towel, and said with a puzzled face: "This, why is this so cold." ”

"I can't help it, the first fire in the house has long been extinguished. The old lady let out a long sigh, but her hand did not stop.

Xu Mu settled down and looked at the earthen house in front of him, which was less than ten square meters. The interior of the house is simply furnished, there is a simple stove built with an earthen foundation under the corner, the walls have been blackened by smoke, the old table is placed with simple daily necessities, and an oil lamp adds a little warmth to the whole earthen house.

Xu Mu's body eased slightly, and the bone-eating pain in his leg became more and more penetrating, Xu Mu grinned and gritted his teeth, and beads of sweat the size of beans kept oozing out of his forehead.

"Xu Mu, what's wrong?" the old lady had just finished wiping her face but saw Xu Mu with a pale face, and asked a little anxiously.

Xu Mu opened his eyes with great difficulty, and pointed to the wound on his left calf tremblingly, and the old lady hurriedly looked at Xu Mu's calf, only to find the bleeding wound. I saw that Xu Kapok's pants and shoes were all soaked with blood, and there was a pool of blood on the uneven ground.

"Xu Mu, your wound is a gunshot wound, what's going on in the town?" The old lady hurriedly took out scissors from under the mattress, and asked nervously while treating Xu Mu's wound.

"A herd of cattle in military uniforms came to the town, and they took all the people in the town and killed my mother. Xu Mu tilted his head and gritted his teeth, tears gradually appeared in his eyes, as if he recalled the scene of grief.

"Alas, Xu Mu, you have to mourn! In these years, the world has been turbulent, and there are murderous lords everywhere. My old man was captured by bandits, and he was never heard from again. Alas, it's not easy, it's really not easy!" the old lady said with a look of pity on her face, and comforted Xu Mu while bandaging her wounds.

Xu Mu's tears could no longer be controlled, and he cried lowly.

"I'll stop the bleeding for you at most, I can't get the bullet, you have to go to the town to find Dr. Wang after dawn, maybe he can get it." The old lady had just finished the rough bandage, and suddenly remembered something, and asked anxiously, "You said that all the people in the town have been arrested?"

Xu Mu's face was full of tears and he nodded slightly.

"Then my son is in town, and I need to go find him. The old lady stood up tremblingly on her knees and was about to go out.

"Auntie, can't you go?" Xu Mu hurriedly grabbed the old lady and said: "I just came from the town, you will definitely be caught by them if you go, they are a group of murderous animals without blinking, maybe something will happen." ”

"Xu Mu, my aunt has long heard that she is a filial son, and it is fate to see you today, if my son can be half as good as you, my old woman will be content." The old lady said with a sad face: "Alas, my son is not filial, and he sold his property to drive me out of the house, but no matter how he said it, he was also a lump of flesh that fell from my body, how could he be willing to be a mother?" The old lady seemed to remember something, and her eyes were a little moist.

Xu Mu looked at this old man who was already in his old age, and inexplicably touched the scene, remembering the bits and pieces of his mother in the past, and tears couldn't help but fall again.

The old lady looked sad, and said with a long sigh: "Baby, don't cry, ah! They all say that a manly husband, how can you easily shed tears?" After speaking, she helped Xu Mu wipe the tears on her cheeks: "You just rest here, just like your own home, there are still a few taro in the pot, eat some when you are hungry." However, you have to watch this boy for me, if I can't come back, you will have to take care of him. The old lady looked at the kang horn with a look of unbearability and said.

Xu Mu looked at the old lady's gaze with some confusion, only to see a baby boy falling asleep with his eyes closed in the shadow of the lamp. The baby boy was wearing a black Xiao Tang hat on his head, the quilt was covered on his chest, revealing half of the black Xiao Tang clothes, and a dark red oval crystal hanging on his chest also slipped down his neck.

"It's all hard-working babies! This child was picked up by the field two days ago, and I look at this child for about a few months, I don't know which father and mother are so ruthless, and they are thrown in the field on a cold day, alas!" The old lady said with grief: "But look at the child's clothes, I think he must have come from a rich family." I don't know what's wrong with this child, I've been lying like this since I picked it up, it's been two days, if it weren't for the breathing, I thought it was a baby who died young. ”

As soon as the word "untimely death" entered Xu Mu's ears, he immediately shuddered, turned his head and looked at the baby boy suspiciously. I saw that the baby boy was still sleeping with his eyes closed, and there was no movement on his white and tender face, and he was surprisingly quiet. Xu Mu stiffly put his hand in front of the baby's nose to probe, and the baby breathed evenly, but it seemed that the voice was very soft, and it was a little imperceptible.

"Xu Mu, you should rest early! I am an old bone, don't persuade me anymore, I have to go to my son to see this last face, or ...... Alas. The old lady looked sad, got up, waved her hand, and staggered out the door.

Xu Mu looked at the back of the old lady going out, and his heart was inexplicably stinged, he would rather suffer more than his son suffer a little more.

Xu Mu lay on the kang head and stretched his neck and blew on the table, the oil lamp went out suddenly, and suddenly the entire small earthen house fell into darkness. Xu Mu struggled to open his eyes in the dark, staring in the direction of the kang corner, if it wasn't for the old lady, he wouldn't have realized that there was still a person in this house. He felt that this baby boy was full of weirdness, which made him feel an inexplicable sense of fear, especially the black little Tang costume, the more he thought about it, the more he felt like a shroud, and he couldn't help but shudder when he thought of it. There were so many things that happened that night that he didn't even have a chance to breathe, first his mother suffered an accident, and then the enemy died tragically under his knife, he couldn't believe that it was himself, regardless of life and death, he swung the knife and fell into his neck.

He couldn't think about anything anymore, he was so tired that he just felt his eyelids getting heavier and heavier......

At night, it was even darker, there was a dead silence outside the house, the messy wild grass beside the field did not move at all, and all the mosquitoes, insects, snakes and ants were also sleeping underground in this winter. The dark earthen house was filled with the smell of blood, and Xu Mu was lying on his high clothes and snoring and sleeping, but he didn't know that the wound on his calf oozed crimson blood.