By the lake, the girl in white helped Wang Xiaotao wipe the blood on her face, put the small lamp she brought on the ground, and beckoned Wang Xiaotao to squat down, "They are still asleep, you might as well wash your face here first and sober up, and we will leave at dawn." There is still some ash on your face, you can't see it yourself, and now you don't have a mirror, squat down, I'll wipe it clean for you. ”

"Who are you?" Wang Xiaotao came back to his senses, took a few steps back, and vigilantly pressed his chest, between the clothes and the flesh, was the storage bag that Changsheng handed over to Wang Xiaotao, which contained all the hopes of Wang Xiaotao in this life.

"You are the only orphan in Jinghe that Changsheng said, right?" The girl saw that Wang Xiaomoss was so defensive, and she was not angry, and said with a smile, "Speaking of which, we are still fellow countrymen, I am stable, where are you from Jinghe?" ”

Wang Xiaotao raised her head suddenly, just her eyes, she is also from Anding County, Jinghe, Shaanzhou, she didn't expect to meet a fellow villager here, "I am also stable." ”

The name Shaanzhou, Jinghe, Anding County, Anding is somewhat ridiculous now.

Stable and stable, how could he have been stable, the drought for two years, it seems that it is about to pass, the dragon disaster came, the Qiantang dragon burned 800 miles, devoured 600,000 people, most of the corpses were gone, and became the rations of the rats.

The girl in white sighed, looked at the sparkling Buddha Lake in the moonlight, frowned slightly, and seemed to be worried, "My name is Bailian, although we are fellow countrymen, but in fact, I haven't been home for a long time, and I have long forgotten what stability looks like." ”

"They all said that the eight hundred miles of Jing River, everyone died, even the trees were burned, my father and aunt probably don't have the luck like you, and they can survive." beckoned, seeing that Wang Xiaotao really didn't want to do it with her, wash her face and wash her hands or something, Bailian didn't force it, took off her shoes and socks, and put her feet into the Buddha Lake, and poured water on the ground, the ripples spread, and the moonlight broke.

"Can you tell me about stability?"

Wang Xiaotao looked at Bailian's back and said something? What is there to say? She recalled everything that happened suddenly, obviously it happened so quickly, but everything seemed to be very slow in her memory, and every frame of the slow track was properly stored by her in the deepest place, never forgetting.

"The girl who was sacrificed is my friend," Wang Xiaotao said suddenly, "Everyone doesn't know, but in fact she is my friend, that day, she was going to be dragged to sacrifice to the gods, and I was very envious of her, because we haven't eaten for a long time, in order to let the souls of these sacrificed people go to the gods to say something good, they will save food for the sacrificed people to eat, and they will also save water to give her a bath, that night I saw that she ate so well, in fact, I was very envious." ”

This is something that even Wang Xiaotao's parents don't know, but inexplicably, in this early morning, when she saw the Buddha Lake, she was willing to say these words to Bailian, perhaps because Bailian didn't look at her directly, didn't care for her with very pitiful eyes, she looked at Bailian's back, but suddenly had a sense of security that was tolerated.

"I was drooling outside her window, and she saw me, and she gave me all the food, tortillas, lentil soup, and black rice porridge and a boiled egg, and she only ate half of the tortillas, as if she saw me, and she couldn't eat them. She cried and gave me all this food, and she said that she didn't want to die, she wanted to change with me. ”

"Moss, we're best friends, right, can you save me! You're so good, I don't want to die! Swap with me, I'll go out, you come in, let's change, okay? ”

Wang Xiaotao's memory suddenly jumped to the night before everything happened, that ordinary night.

She and her secret friend looked at each other through the pigsty, there had been no pigs here for a long time, so the pigsty did not have any special smell, her double-pupiled friend held the food in his hand and handed it to her, crying and begging her to accept the food, she knew that Wang Xiaotao was already hungry, can you change it with her, Wang Xiaotao came to eat a full meal, Wang Xiaotao went to the sacrifice table, even if she starved to death in the end, she didn't want to die so early.

Wang Xiaotao looked at the food in her hand, swallowed hard, thought about it, ran back, took an axe that had not been used for a long time at home, raised her thin arm high, she took the axe to cut the lock on the pigsty, "I'll split this lock, you run!" Dandan, you don't have any family here, you can run far, far away, and don't come back in the future! ”

Wang Xiaotao desperately tried to cut the lock, desperately picking up the axe that was thicker than her arm again and again.

Dandan inside covered his mouth and burst into tears, "Little moss, little moss, little moss, I······ I'm sorry, I just want to live! I shouldn't ······ I'm so scared, moss, moss, what should I do, moss······"

Wang Xiaotao watched with satisfaction as the huge iron lock was slashed by her, "Don't be sorry, don't give me food, Dandan, we are friends!" ”

Even if no one knows, but when I was the hungriest, you gave me half a steamed bun, it was you who climbed through the window to accompany me when my father and mother were not at home, it was you who accompanied me to catch fireflies that didn't exist by the dry river, it was you who were willing to sit down and listen to my stupid words, even if no one knew, but we were friends!

After all, the sound of cutting the iron lock was too loud, this was the pigsty of the priest's house, his bedroom was on the side, and soon the movement was heard, and this sound also woke up many residents on the side, who had been wary of the escape of the sacrifices, but now that there was movement, they hurried out to check, and the lights gradually turned on one by one.

Dandan pursed her lips, she looked at Wang Xiaotao sweating profusely, desperately trying to cut this iron cable, she saw that Wang Xiaotao's arms were already trembling and did not stop, the sound on the side was getting louder and louder, it seemed that many people were gathering in this direction, Wang Xiaotao was still cutting the iron lock, she was so focused on cutting so much that she didn't seem to hear the sound of the gradual noise on the side.

Dandan bit his lip stubbornly, and was cheering Wang Xiaomoss in his heart, hurry up, hurry up!

The light is getting closer and closer, Dandan has already seen a figure through the window, if they are caught and destroy the sacrifice, Wang Xiaotao will definitely be killed, but ······ Maybe the sacrifice could be changed to a different person?

She really didn't want to die.

Do you want to remind Wang Xiaotao? Dandan's tears flowed down like she didn't want money, and she didn't know that she still had so much water in her body.

Seeing that those people were about to see themselves, seeing that Wang Xiaotao's axe to cut the iron lock was getting lower and lower, her arm was shaking violently, obviously she had no strength, Dandan suddenly reached out and wiped away the tears on her face, and she said, "You go." ”

Wang Xiaotao didn't hear it, and riveted enough strength to cut the iron lock, but her strength was too small, she was hungry for too long, and she only cut half of it for half a day.

Dandan rushed to the door and shook the door inside, "Go, you idiot!" Hurry up! Who is friends with you! You fool! You idiot! I'm so much smarter than you, you know! I'm smarter than you, so you'll have to listen to me, you know! I've been taking care of you all along, who wants you to save you, fool! Get out of here! ”

"Get out, I'm not running, my dad is dead here, my aunt is dying here, I'm going to die here! Let's go, Wang Xiaotao, go find your father and aunt, we, don't be friends. ”

"Did you hear that? Wang Xiaotao, get out of here! We're not friends anymore! Dandan shook the door frantically inside, screaming loudly, as if he hoped to break with Wang Xiaotao in this way.

A big hand carried Wang Xiaotao to his shoulder, picked up Wang Xiaotao and ran behind the pigsty, Wang Xiaotao stretched his neck on his shoulder and looked back, watching the figures holding torches getting closer and closer to Dandan, and he was getting farther and farther away from Dandan, and finally shed tears.

After going home, the father put Wang Xiaomoss down and beat her hard, and the mother was also wiping her tears on the side, and the father was called out before he had time to say anything, probably to ask him to go to see the situation on the pigsty side together, the mother was distressed and smeared herself under the oil lamp, and the hot tears fell on her body one by one, Wang Xiaomos also cried and sobbed, and fell asleep tightly by A-Niang. The family didn't say anything that night, just shed endless tears.

The next day, Dandan was tied to the sacrificial table as scheduled, Wang Xiaotao didn't say a word to her, she always felt that even if she couldn't get her out, she felt that she should at least say goodbye to Dandan, but she didn't have time to do anything, Qiantang came, and when she saw Dandan again, it was her strange eyes that were splashed into Wang Xiaotao's mouth, and then exploded in her palm.

It was the last time they looked at each other.

Probably the tears have dried up, and now Wang Xiaotao doesn't have any tears, she is just a little confused, are they friends or not? What would their future be without that dragon?

Wang Xiaotao only knew that her name was Dandan, Dandan's parents died early, and Dandan himself forgot what his surname was, just Dandan, Dandan called.

What kind of friend is this?