On the way to Guanzhai, we walked for three days.

The ranks of the People's Liberation Army have pressed in front of Tusi's official village. In the middle of a forest at the foot of the mountain, red flags are waving in the wind.

They had blocked all the roads and set up machine guns at the intersections.

Accompanied by Cui Zhongshi, I secretly returned to my home at night. He told the soldiers guarding the road that we were going to persuade us to surrender, and that the stubborn feudal toast in the official village was my father.

Walking into the gate of the official village, there were people with loaded guns and ammunition ambushed everywhere, including our people, but more of them were white Han people.

In the courtyard downstairs, there are some people who have just died during the day, and this hard battle has been going on for more than ten days, and the dead have nowhere to bury them, and they are gradually stinking.

Cui Zhongshi followed me into Tusi's room, and the two guards guarding the door did not dare to stop me, but they yelled at Cui Zhongshi viciously, saying that he would break his head if he took one step forward. These words instantly sent chills down my spine, and the top of my head heated, and I reached out and grabbed one of them by the neck and threw them to the ground.

"Young Master! The eldest young master spares his life—"

He shuddered and shouted, "I am loyal to Toast!" ”

"Then remember to keep your eyes open before you speak!"

I shouted angrily, but was pulled by Cui Zhongshi from behind.

At this moment, the muffled voice of toast came from the room.

"Let them in."

He spoke aloud, without a hint of doubt or fear.

"What should come will come."

We pushed the door open and entered, and Toast sat on a chair in front of the window. He had his back to me and Cui Zhongshi, no older, although his hair was already gray.

After a moment, Toast turned his head, his usually cold eyes reflecting the light, and a sneer on his lips.

I looked at his face and felt fear for the first time, didn't Toast really care about human life, even if it included his own!

I raised my voice as best I could, and said loudly, "I've come to persuade you to surrender, and everyone will die if you continue like this!" ”

However, Toast smiled faintly and said that he would not go anywhere, he would die when he was old. But I thought I was just going to die a dull death.

Speaking of this, Toast, who had always been arrogant and indifferent, finally sighed with satisfaction.

"I didn't expect to catch up with such a good time."

"A toast, a man destined to be noble, is to complete his life with a bang. No one has done it before, but I'm going to do it. ”

He stood up and patted me on the shoulder and said, "I'll be the last toast, and this history is coming to an end." I'm sorry for you, my son. ”

That's when I felt like a fool.

During the three days I was on the road, I imagined more than once that father and son would meet. I thought I would be sad, regretful, and even unwilling.

But now, all I have in my heart is anger.

"Why do you want to?!"

"As long as you open the door, everyone here doesn't have to die!" I yelled at him with red eyes.

"You won't understand. Outside the gate of the official village is the flood. He said calmly, "Open the floodgates, and the flood will come in, and you will die." ”

"Not necessarily!" I sneered, "It's just your own idea." ”

Toast listened to me, but he was still not angry. He walked back to the window with his hands behind his back, and watched the moon in the night sky pause for a long time before finally speaking.

"Okay then."

"Anyone who wants to leave can leave, I won't interfere, and neither will you."

I listened to his commands, and my hands holding the gun were already wet with sweat. Toast also glanced down at the gun in my hand at this time, and said, "Put your gun down, I want to talk to you one last time, is it okay?" ”

I relented and handed the thing to the guy at the door. Cui Zhongshi asked me if he wanted to avoid it first, and Tusi nodded and said, "You go down to rest first, I have something to say to Meng Ao." ”

Cui Zhongshi has never dared to look at Toast's eyes, even now there are still some sequelae. He whispered with a shy look, "I see." ”

Toast nodded and asked his subordinates to take him away.

"Are you satisfied with my arrangement?"

My father had always disliked selling guanzi.

"I still don't get it."

I shook my head and closed my eyes. The incense on the toast case made me dizzy and my eyes hurt, and after the anger passed, I found that I could barely stand.

"You know that it is the Han people who are using you to fight the Han people."

"Yes."

"Then why do you have to do that?"

"Because this is history. A long history is coming to an end. But it is not possible for everyone to enter the new unhindered. ”

"Okay then." I opened my eyes and stared at him, and said astringently, "Will the gods of Toast spare me?" ”

"Maybe."

"What about the Communist Party?"

"Maybe."

"You are my son, I can let you go."

Toast, who turned around, suddenly grabbed my arm and laughed, his voice getting colder and colder the more he laughed.

But the Han man ...... "He had a tremendous power in his hands that I had never experienced before."

"He can't."

At dawn, the moon went down. An officer carried a white flag with a bayonet and walked towards the PLA position in the moonlight.

As soon as he went out, the machine gun on the opposite side went off, and he fell headlong to the ground. As soon as the machine gun stopped, he got up again and walked forward with a white flag, and the machine gun roared again in a state of motion, causing dust to fly around him.

The other party saw the white flag in his hand and stopped shooting. After a while, he returned. The PLA agreed that anyone in the official village who did not want to resist could go out and would not be blocked by machine guns.

This brave man said with emotion in the square of the official village that the other party was a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and at the same time sighed, but their previous path was different.

The first to go out were some white Han soldiers, who raised their hands high and went to the opposing position. Tusi's men who didn't want to die headed west, towards a place where there were no Han Chinese. At that time, I was tied to a bumpy truck, and a slightly rotten sweetness rose and lingered around me, but there was still a dreamlike starry night scene in front of me.

I was choked by the incense of the toast.

It was also at this time that Cui Zhongshi was escorted to his room by my father. He took out a pair of handcuffs made of sterling silver that had been in his closet, and tightly cuffed his wrist with Cui Zhongshi's.

"You stole my son's soul, stay with me now, you can't be with him anymore."

Tusi sneered, looking at Cui Zhongshi, who was already in a desperate situation beside him, like a dying prey.

Perhaps in his heart, this is God's punishment for us.

The thin man who clung to my heart smiled bitterly, and he lowered his head and said, "I don't dare, but now the executioner is finally useless." ”

By daybreak, the captives were gone. The other party attacked for a few days, and then released all the people who didn't want to die, which can be regarded as benevolence and righteousness, this time, no longer polite, the soldiers attacked with guns and bullets.

Maybe the white Han people here still want to fight gun-to-gun, but they are already impatient to catch up with others, and they directly bombard with shelling.

The first shell landed on the square in front of the official village, and with a bang, it blew up a huge earthen pit. The execution rack was blown to pieces, and the fragments and powdered particles flew into the fields.

Another shell landed on the back of the village. Next, the other party actually stopped for a while.

In a panic, a few of the little servants ran to Toast's room and told him that several of his aunts had hanged themselves. But Toast just waved his hand and told them to retreat. My father sat aside-by-side with Cui Zhongshi indifferently, waiting for the new shell to continue to fall, but the shell never followed, and the boys ran in again to tell him that the butler had been blown in the head by the bomb. Toast shook his head and was silent for a while, just asking them if they had any big smoke bubbles and tea leaves.

Cui Zhongshi said: "Why is this difficult? ”

But the toast beside him didn't have tears or sighs, just smiled coldly. He looked at Cui Zhongshi and said in a hoarse voice, "Aren't you afraid?" ”

"I'm not afraid." The shy man shook his head, "The day I was rescued from the execution rack by Meng Ao, I wouldn't be afraid of death anymore." ”

Toast smiled unexpectedly at his reply, paused, sighed, and said that if he had been twenty years younger, he might have liked him as much as his eldest son.

The white Han officer outside the official village threw his gun, sat on the ground, and said that people used cannons, which was boring. The third bullet is about to fall on your own heads.

At this moment, the sound of cannonballs whistling in the sky sounded again, but instead of a single shot, a group of shouting shells flew straight over.

The official village, which has stood still in this land for hundreds of years, is now crumbling in the sound of violent explosions-

For the rest of the night, I was dreaming about it. Fragmented. But I recalled all my life for the past 20 years.

Most of these memories are about Cui Zhongshi.

When the sun was shivering, I woke up and found myself sleeping in a room. Everything was familiar, as if it had been a snowy morning many years ago.

The thrush chirped outside the window.

The sound of the explosion had passed, and the fire, smoke, and dust rose and fell, obscuring everything in sight.

Only then did I know that in the fierce artillery fire last night, the huge stone building in Tusi's official village finally collapsed.

It is said that the sensation of the collapse is very magical, and the earth is sinking like a land, making everyone feel as if they are flying lightly.

Even my Cui Zhongshi is in it......