In the early morning, the golden light passed through the tips of the dead wood and sprinkled on the long-abandoned courtyard, waking up two people who were sleeping in happiness.

"Sleep a little longer!" When Xiao Meng was about to get up, Yan Sheng's slightly domineering words sounded, and he hugged her into the crook of his strong arm again, making her feel the warmth of her chest.

Xiao Meng didn't struggle, she quietly felt Yansheng's strong heartbeat, thinking back to Yansheng's mysterious smile yesterday, a flush flashed on her face, and she couldn't help but bury her head deeper.

Yan Sheng felt that he was a person who belonged to the ranks of 'hypocrites', why did he suddenly have such a thought yesterday? Maybe it was a signal from his body, or maybe this thought had been hidden in his heart for too long?

The first warmth was carried out in the semi-natural and unnatural situation yesterday, and the memories of the taste and feelings of the hour made him can't help but look at Xiao Meng in his arms, and that silly smile unconsciously appeared on his face.

Xiao Meng only felt that Yansheng's heart was beating a little fast, and he couldn't help but stick his head out of the quilt, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that the mysterious and slightly obscene smile from yesterday resurfaced again.

"Also... Come?"

"One more time!"

It's already afternoon when I walk out of the room, the sun is scorching, the wind in the courtyard is beginning to bring the coolness of early autumn, the most obvious change of the four seasons should be the scene, but now you can't feel the change of scenery, because it is getting more and more the same!

Xiao Meng changed, and his originally fair skin looked like an egg that had just been peeled off, round and shiny! The moment Yansheng turned around, he was stunned and froze in place.

The two looked at each other stupidly, which seemed to restore some vitality to the silent world under the sun.

"Let's go!" Xiao Meng shouted, leading the horse out of the courtyard.

"Do you want to rest for two more days?" said Yan Sheng hesitantly as he looked at the winding path ahead.

"Listen to you!" Xiao Meng replied cheerfully.

"Okay, then wait, it's a big deal to go to Bronze City and find them again!"

The two led the horse back to the courtyard again!

At sunset, you can see curling smoke rising from the house.

Hong Cong and the others were kidnapped by the bandits again, when they were only a day's journey away from the Bronze City. Hundreds of bandits rushed down from the mountain and took him up the mountain!

This mountain is called Vulture Mountain, it is high and dangerous, and you can even see the Bronze City in the distance.

"Hey, your family is a big family?" In the cave of Liangtang, the bearded boss patted Hong Cong's face with the back of a knife and shouted angrily.

"Not really, but it's not a small household!" Hong Cong replied calmly.

"In the Bronze City?" the bandit asked again.

"In Jirui City!"

"108,000 miles away, the road is so dangerous, you seem to have only one dead end!"

"Then what do you have to say, just kill me!"

"Well, if you like to die so much, then I will kill you, but you will die in the end, because I will kill the child first, then the woman, and then you!" shouted the bearded man.

"What the hell do you want, I have relatives in Bronze City!" Hong Cong had already seen the behavior of these bandits, and more than a dozen people had been killed in front of him, both adults and children, and he knew that there seemed to be no good fruit in his recklessness.

"That's right, then tell me, are the relatives of Bronze City big or small?"

"Big family!"

"How big!"

"Mountains of gold and silver, thousands of acres of fertile land!"

"Well, I only need food, not gold and silver!, write a letter, and ask them to exchange gold and silver for food, in exchange for all your lives, otherwise the consequences will be the same as those of them who are poor and stubborn!" shouted the bearded man, pointing to a dozen corpses in front of him.

Hong Cong nodded and was taken into prison.

In the cage, Ao Cang, Liu Meng, A Yi and others are among them, when they set off from Fengyuan City, there were dozens of people, and now there are less than twenty, which shows that the road is indeed dangerous.

The two women couldn't stop sobbing, maybe they thought of what happened to them, their home was destroyed, they fled here, and ended up in this end, and the pictures they saw along the way stimulated their fragile nerves, and after sobbing, they couldn't help but cry out loud.

This is not a world of kindness, and tears only invite disgust.

"Cry, cry, cry, chop you into minced meat and fry you!" the bandits outside the prison threatened viciously.

"Two sisters-in-law, don't cry, we have all come here all the way, at this time, only by persevering can we reach the Bronze City, you know?" Liu Meng calmly persuaded and looked at the prison door, she hoped that Hong Cong's figure would appear outside the prison. This look is like the look she looks in the courtyard every night waiting for her husband to return.

Hong Cong's figure appeared, and she slowly exhaled a breath to calm the turbulent undercurrent in her heart.

Ao Cang showed an inquiring look on his face, and Hong Cong told everything he had seen and heard in the cave.

"It seems that I really met a bandit!" Ao Cang's tone became extremely unnatural after hearing Hong Cong's statement, and he was suppressing his anger.

"Who would have thought that outside this Bronze City, there is such a place, since arriving in the north, the road has been much smoother, then you know, someone dares to do such a thing at the foot of the national city!" Hong Cong said angrily.

"Did you tell who you were?"

"I gave a fake address and asked their people to deliver the letter, and of course the letter will eventually be delivered to the General's Mansion!" Hong Cong said in a low voice.

"But this place is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the number of these bandits has reached thousands, and it is no longer a problem to fight against one enemy and ten, is it possible that the General's Mansion will send an army of tens of thousands to come here?" Ao Cang asked suspiciously.

"It's me who didn't think about it properly, but for now, I can only drag them down first!"

"I know the general very well, his bones are arrogant, your behavior of bowing to the bandits, you will definitely be looked down upon by him!"

"If you look down on it, you can look down on it, and I didn't come here to make him look good!"

"You can see it, no matter what, there is no way to do it!"

"I just want to keep my wife and children, I just want to protect my sister-in-law and nephew, and if I am selfish, I am selfish!"

"Hey, who would have thought that the actions of the country of Java would be so despicable!"

"They are all beasts, no one is a good person, I have seen too much along the way!" Hong Cong said in a low voice.

"Do you regret leaving Jirui City a little?"

"There is no regret or regret!" Hong Cong was a little aggrieved, he also wanted to die in Jirui City, he also wanted to resist without his life, and not to be this 'deserter', but when his father and two brothers were sacrificed, looking at the faces of Liu Meng and the children, could he still die?

There is no good stubble between the dead and the living dead, and those strong forces are not something he can compete with!

Hong Cong fell on the hay and stopped talking, and the trembling of his body was enough to show the grief and indignation in his heart.

Outside the city of Jirui, a large group of people walked in rags and embarrassed under the scorching sun, and behind them were Javanese soldiers armed with spears, pressing on them step by step.

"Let's go!" the roar was followed by the sound of whip swinging.

The freshman, the second, the third, the fourth, and the sixth are among them, their eyes are numb, their faces are dead, their eyes are red and swollen, and there are traces of tears in their dirty faces. Perhaps, their tears have long since dried up.

Poof!

Under the scorching sun, someone couldn't hold on and fell to the ground with a bang, no one to support, no one to stretch out his hand, because the next moment, this fallen person would be pierced through the body by the spears of those sergeants.

There were already many uncollected corpses on the road, stenching under the scorching sun, the earth was dark red, and the blood had long since congealed.

"We... Where are you going?" asked Xiao San weakly.

"Die!" Yu Si replied simply.

"Where do you die?" asked Nakji .

"Soul Burial Mountain!" Yu Si replied again.

"How far is it?" Fu Liu asked weakly.

"Not far!" replied Yu Si weakly.

"How far is it?" asked the freshman.

"It's down, it's here!" Yu Si said.

"Then what if you didn't fall?" Xiao San's eyes showed hope.

"They'll send us!" Yu Si said with a wry smile.

......

"Big brother, is your restaurant closed?"

"It's closed, it should be my wife's grave now!"

"Second brother, where's your gallery?"

"It's collapsed, and it's a grave!"

"Three, where's your stage?"

"It's sunken, it's sunk into the ground, and it's estimated that it will become a grave!"

"Six, where's your wine?"

"If it's buried, it may become the best wine in the world in a hundred years!" Fu Liu suddenly said loudly!

"Okay, the wine you brew is the best!" Yu Si laughed, laughing loudly.

"Fourth brother, where is your treasure shop?" Fu Liu asked.

"That's all treasures, I can leave them to them, bury them, bury them all!" Yu Si said loudly, his face full of smiles, and tears flowed from his eyes.

Several people laughed, laughing in the crowd, laughing wildly in the scorching sun, and in this desolate world, they laughed the loudest, laughed brightly, laughed hysterically.

"What do you say Duo Wu is doing?"

"He, he's wandering, he must have slept under a flyover, and what kind of paper skin did he wrap himself in!"

A few people couldn't help but laugh again, remembering the boy who liked to walk around.

"Three, sing us a song! Brother hasn't heard you sing for a long time!" Yu Si shouted.

"Okay, I'll sing a good song to your brothers, you guys listen well!" said Xiao San in a loud voice.

"Wait, let Fu Liu report to you!" Yu Si said loudly.

"Okay, I haven't reported to the third sister for a long time, I'll report one!" Fu Liu said briskly, his voice suddenly raised, and said: "Next, please invite the king of Jirui's voice, Miss Tian Xiaosan, to bring you a song of her fame "Vitality"!"

After speaking, several people laughed and applauded vigorously!

The sound of singing sounded in the crowd, the ethereal realm was revealed, under the scorching sun, the sound slowly flowed, turning into a refreshing spring breeze, everyone stopped, San'er showed a bright smile on his face! The song gradually stirred from small to large, waking up the sleeping earth, breaking through the smoke of gunpowder in the sky, and everyone seemed to return to that bright spring day.

The freshman stood in front of the brightly lit stove with an apron and a smile on his face; the second junior was silently picking vegetables in the vegetable washing room, and at the same time conceiving the works he wanted to paint in his mind; Duo Wu stood in front of the vegetable pier, constantly waving the kitchen knife, chopping the green onions, ginger and garlic, and constantly counting the places he had walked through; the junior danced in the courtyard in front of the non-drunk building with his ice blades, and then sang loudly; Yu Si nodded and brought tea and water to the guests in the living room, while smiling and recommending dishes for them; Fu Liu developed a new product, and rushed out of the cellar with a dirty face, excitedly let Jiang Cuihua taste and give advice.

In front of the door, Luo Ju'er's hearty laughter was echoing, and under the scorching sun, everyone's minds were fixed with that smiling face, full of hope.

The spear pierced their bodies, and everyone fell in response, and the song echoed, and they looked at the sky with a smile on their faces, as if they had retained some kind of beauty.

Luo Congyun and his wife suddenly felt extremely uncomfortable in their chests, and the pain for no reason stimulated the two of them, looking at the dark clouds overhead, the faces of the freshmen and others flashed in their minds.

Yansheng felt that he suddenly had a stone in his heart, and he couldn't help but look up at the sky, and the faces of the freshmen and others appeared in his mind.

The world is still running, the sun is still rising, who will remember this group of ants in the troubled times, their lives are destined to be a sad song!