The golden autumn is cool, and walking in the cool breeze of late autumn seems to be much faster than usual. Raising his head and looking at the rising sun slowly rising in the sky, Chen Zhinan grinned, wiped the sweat on his head with his sleeve, the city wall in front of him was already faintly visible, presumably after walking for a while, he would be able to enter the city of Chizhou.

Liu Menghan followed behind Chen Zhinan, maybe the cloudless clear sky was too beautiful, or maybe the breeze was not dry, Liu Menghan, who had already experienced deeply, was also infected by Chen Zhinan's excitement at this moment, and was secretly happy to see the not magnificent and gorgeous city wall of Chizhou.

Pursing his lips, Liu Menghan gently stripped the messy hair next to his ears to the back of his head, pulled out a Xiu Pa from the cuffs, carefully brushed away the sweat on his forehead, and said with a smile to Chen Zhinan: "Xiao Nan, in the past, the old people had an old saying, called to watch the mountain run a dead horse, don't look at this Chizhou City in front of you, but if you want to walk over, I'm afraid it won't be a moment away." ”

"Oh, I thought I would be able to enter Chizhou City soon. Sister Menghan, you say, how do the people in this city live on weekdays? Although Chen Zhinan was a little regretful that he could not enter the city immediately, but it did not dispel his excitement at the moment, he grew up in a small mountain village at the foot of Qi Mountain since he was a child, and this is the first time in his life that he left Qi Mountain, for the outside world, he has been yearning for a long time, this world is full of flowers and green, once only appeared in his dreams.

"People in the city? If it's an ordinary person, it's actually no different from the village. I work as hard as I can for my family's three meals a day. It's just that in this city, there are more privileged people than in the village, those who are born in rich and noble families, and the hard work of their fathers makes them worry about food and clothing all their lives, they can spend all their time and enjoy the wealth of the world, and it is precisely because of this that there are many more places and things for pleasure in the city than in the village. Of course, people have privileges and can easily become bad, and there are many more random villains than in the village. Liu Menghan thought for a moment and gave such an answer.

For this answer, Chen Zhinan at this time could not fully understand, especially the sentence that there were many more wicked people than the village, he didn't pay attention to it at all, but the sentence had a lot of pleasure places and things, which inspired Chen Zhinan, a fourteen-year-old boy. Although at that time, fourteen years old was already the age when he could get married and have children, but at the moment, fourteen years old was just a child.

As Liu Menghan said, Wangshan ran a dead horse, although they had seen the shadow of Chizhou City before, but it really took them half an hour to really walk in front of the city gate. But Chen Zhinan has been in excitement, although it took a long time, but it seems that it has only passed for a moment in his eyes.

At this moment, he came to Chizhou City in person, and Chen Zhinan was disappointed. It didn't seem to be as lively as he had imagined. The gate of the city was deserted, and not a single pedestrian could see it. The city wall made of blue bricks is mottled with traces of time. The city wall is cold and cold, and it seems that in the baptism of history, it has seen all the swords and swords, and looks down on the success or failure of the rise and fall.

The morning sun shone on the city walls, which reluctantly cast a bleak and bleak shadow. In this bleak and bleak shadow, there was a thin and short old beggar huddled aside, he looked at the city gate indifferently, looking at the street, even if Chen Zhinan and Liu Menghan had come to his side, he did not take the initiative to come forward to ask for a bite to eat. It seems that he has looked down on everything, on life and death. A kind of helplessness that is not so much indifferent as resignation, using the file of life has already polished the old man in front of him alive, without a trace of vitality.

What's really going on in Chizhou? Liu Menghan secretly doubted in his heart.

She is not Chen Zhinan's kind of ignorant teenager who has never gone out, she has traveled all the way before, naturally she has passed through the city of Chizhou, although Chizhou a few days ago is not how prosperous it is, but it is also lively and extraordinary, where is such a bleak scene at this moment?

Liu Menghan took out a few copper coins from his pocket, walked in front of the old beggar, slowly squatted down, put the copper coins into the bowl in front of the old beggar, and asked softly: "Uncle, what happened in Chizhou recently?" How do you feel so lonely all of a sudden? ”

Seeing the copper coins in the bowl, the face of the old beggar, who was stiff like a corpse, finally softened. He stiffened his neck, looked down at the copper coins in the bowl, slowly raised his head, looked directly at Liu Menghan for a long time, and slowly said, "Little girl, you are from out of town." ”

As soon as this voice came out, it almost startled Chen Zhinan on the side. Where is this human voice, this voice is hoarse and obscure, it sounds like metal rubbing.

"We passed through Chizhou, and if we wanted to stop here for a while, we had to hurry." Liu Menghan replied.

"If you want to hurry, let's go as soon as possible, Chizhou has been in turmoil recently, don't get involved in this troubled water." The old beggar seemed to have opened his mouth, and gradually became familiar with the function of the language that had not been used for a long time, and when he spoke at this moment, his voice was much softer than before, and the speed of speech was also a little faster.

"Ups and downs? Can you tell us more about it, and we should be on guard. Liu Menghan took out a few copper coins from his arms again and handed them to the old beggar.

Flipping the copper coin with his hand, the old beggar nodded, put the copper coin in the bowl in front of him, and said: "Recently, I don't know what kind of madness a few sects in Chizhou have been, and suddenly there was a riot. No, yesterday they joined forces and slaughtered the headquarters of the rich bank. The scene at that time, it was really miserable. Several sects surrounded the money village, and even birds couldn't fly out. The rest of the people were crazy to kill and rob in the bank, and the money bank was really bloodied that day. At that time, the cries and screams of the people in the money village could be heard from a mile away, and the voices of people begging for help and pleading. ”

"These sects have been slaughtered in the Qianzhuang for nearly an hour, and when they came out, not to mention the masters in the Qianzhuang, even the hundreds of maids, hundreds of servants, dozens of beautiful wives and concubines, and more than a dozen children, were all killed by them, and the entire Qianzhuang, after they left, didn't even leave a living creature that could breathe."