(Amitabha, today's second chapter is in the yard, from now on, this week's beacon smoke is guaranteed to be two changes a day!)

As the most powerful country in the alliance countries, Yan Country not only has the distance beyond the reach of small countries such as Ning and Leshan in terms of population and economy, but also its capital is twice as high as the city wall of Fire City than other countries, and many people can't understand why humans who are less than seven feet tall live in the city wall of nearly twenty zhang, this question is in "Yan Biography" He said that the country is prosperous and the city-state is towering, which is also the reason why the fire city of the Yan country became the only city in the alliance country that has not fallen when the tribes and the alliance countries fought three hundred years ago, although it was besieged for three months, although it took three years to repair the walls of the fire city, but it was an indisputable fact that the one million people in the fire city at that time only lost less than 100,000 people.

Now the population of Lihuo City has exceeded two million, with the growing strength of the Yan Kingdom in the past few hundred years, many people come here every year with the dream of being promoted and making a fortune, and some people even want to buy a piece of land in Lihuo City for this reason, so there is an extremely strange phenomenon, the title deed in the Fire City has increased nearly a hundred times in the past hundred years, and some people are often seen on the street with silver and some rare treasures to visit the people who lived in Lihuo City in those eras. The life of the citizens of the city may not be rich or illustrious, but their waists are very straight, why? They have a land deed, and if this land deed is sold, at least they can eat a lot of fish and meat for a lifetime, despite this, few of the civilians who leave the fire city choose to leave, and more people choose to live here painfully and happily.

Today is a special day, the New Year is coming, the civilians from the fire city are happily enjoying the tranquility of life, and the magnates are busy running, in this era of accompanying the king like a tiger, there are unimaginably many officials from the fire city, the governors of each yamen, each city...... This is also the origin of the saying that there are 100,000 people in the city of Huocheng, sometimes it is a restaurant running the hall, maybe it can be related to the people of the Taifu family.

Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, just like a small soldier in the army, who wants to be promoted, there is a centurion above him, a deputy army above him, a general above the lieutenant, a commander above the general, and a military officer above the commander -- power is actually a pyramid, and the one who stands at the top is the most dazzling.

Few people notice that the world is actually made up of people who live at the bottom, and people's eyes are always looking up and reverie. And those in positions of prominence do not look down to see how the lives of those who are trampled under their feet are doing.

With the passage of time, those families that were once glorious in history have declined, such as the Gongsun family, such as the Qi family, and the Du family.

When it comes to the Gongsun family, people remember Gongsun Invincible, when it comes to the Qi family, people remember Qi Lingyun, and when it comes to the Du family, people remember Du Batian.

Now Gongsun has mistakenly become a swinger who lingers in Qinglou, and now Qi Luoge even has to be incognito to live, and the Du family is better, Du Linlou's previous household registration is still in the army, although he is just an ordinary soldier, he can still hold a knife.

For a soldier, the battlefield is the place they yearn for the most, and Du Linlou has never been on the battlefield since he was a child, and the Du family, who once dared to fight with the Qilin Army in Lihuo City, is now only Du Linlou alone, and a person who checks his genealogy will find that he has a prominent family history in the past.

How many years ago was that? In the years that Yan Guo had just seen, the South was invincible and dominated the sky and the north Lingyun.

The Gongsun family still has the wrong line, the Qi family still has Qi Luoge and is ready to go, and the Du family is ...... It has been deliberately erased in the Yan Country.

Because the Du family's Du Batian lineage is all dead, this is almost one thing that all the people of Yan Country know.

Three years ago, Lu Tianxing specially held a grand worship ceremony to commemorate the Du family, although it was a memorial, but it announced one thing, that is, the thirteenth generation of the Du family, Du Linlou, has died, and there is no one in the Du family.

Du Linlou is dead, the Du family is empty, and a once brilliant family has disappeared like this.

But the truth is that three years ago, fifteen-year-old Du Linlou ended his filial piety and received a secret letter, which was Du Linlou's death certificate, and a letter, which was covered with a bright red seal, and the crimson font was still a little dazzling when Du Linlou remembered it.

From that day on, Du Linlou disappeared from the Fire City.

From that day on, Du Linlou was taken to a strange place by a person.

Since that day, Du Linlou has been living here for three years.

This place is the dungeon of His Royal Highness Jin Luan of the Imperial Palace-underneath the Imperial Palace of Yanguo, there is a dungeon known to no more than five people in the world-although the dungeon is built luxuriously, it is still a shut-in-the-dark person.

For a person, if he loses his freedom, what is the difference between him and a dead person?

The dungeon is not big compared to the heavenly dungeon where the Qilin Army is stationed in the Fire City, but it is full of organs, and all kinds of torture instruments show a cold light under the light of the torches.

Because the ventilation effect is very good, the dungeon is not damp, on the contrary, the temperature in the dungeon is a few degrees higher than the temperature on the ground at the moment, which is a little warm.

After drinking a glass of wine, Du Linlou closed his eyes and felt the mellowness of the liquor in his throat, then opened his eyes lightly and looked at a wall in front of him, there were no calligraphy and paintings on the wall, only the words carved out with a knife.

If you look closely, you will find that every stroke and drawing of the mound characters on this half wall is the same depth, as if carved out of a mold.

Ten paintings of the mound character, one painting a day, the mound character of this half wall represents how many days Du Linlou has lived here.

Looking at the one hundred and nine mounds on the wall, Du Linlou got up, and then walked towards the wall - Du Linlou's walking posture was a little strange, because his left hand was holding something in one hand, which was a scimitar wrapped in rags.

For as long as Du Linlou can remember, he has held this knife in his hand for ten years, even when he eats and sleeps, and no one has ever seen his left hand leave the handle.

The candlelight flickered, and the half-written mound on the wall had a new handful.

Du Linlou, who seemed to have not moved his left hand at all, silently looked at the newly written stroke, and then walked out of the door, because it was time for him to inspect the prison every day.

There are three people locked up in the dungeon, three people who were there when Du Linlou came here, three people whose names and surnames Du Linlou doesn't know until now, but Du Linlou knows a little, if these people live on the ground, they must be great people.

The first place Du Linlou went to was the cell of an old man whose lower limbs were exposed.

"I wrote a picture today, can you see?" said the man in the prison in a hoarse voice when he heard the sound of footsteps.

Du Linlou was silent, as if he was used to such conversations.

"Water can carry a boat, and it can also capsize a boat. Watching a word slowly drift towards him, although it has long been commonplace, Du Linlou still has a wave in his heart, and now there are not many people in this world who can hold the strength just right on a piece of paper.

The black and white words stayed in front of Du Linlou for a moment, and then slowly flew back into the house.

Through the iron bar, seeing that although the old man was full of iron chains, he was still holding a pen and writing something as before, Du Linlou walked towards the second iron door of the dungeon, and there was a person who was close to the age and was not confused, with a Confucian spirit and politeness.

"It's the New Year, isn't it?" Hearing such a question from inside, Du Linlou hummed softly, and then walked towards the third door.

The third person sat quietly cross-legged, when Du Linlou saw him for the first time three years ago, he sat facing the wall like this, a strange person.

"Looking at the past, counting the romantic figures, and looking at the present. Hearing this muttering, Du Linlou frowned, this was the first time he had heard this person speak, but Du Linlou didn't say anything, just turned around and walked towards the exit of the dungeon, where someone brought food in a hanging basket at a fixed time every day.

Life is like this, life is a year, a year is a day, the morning sun and the sunset, like some people's dazed and silent side faces.

Smiled unconsciously, Du Linlou's mood suddenly improved a lot, and he whispered to himself while walking, "Let's live well, although it is dark in this dungeon, it is not an honor to lie down and taste courage." ”