"Eight thousand mud bodhisattvas on the mountain, two hundred years of peace outside the pass."

The convoy went out for fifty miles, and then arrived at a pass, the two sides of the sky are dangerous, leaving only the middle sheep intestine path, a city gate wall made of mud and stone, blocking the pass, on the book: "Ansheng Pass".

After this pass, there are fourteen self-governing small cities, no one controls them, only when there is a great crisis, can they ask for help from the sect forces, help or not, they have to be searched by various schools for a while, so the people live a difficult life.

Outside the pass, no matter whether the people are good or bad, they are called barbarians, the land outside the pass, hundreds of miles of inland barrenness, no grain harvest, the barbarians eat all rely on wild pasture, often full of hunger, and there is a river in the pass, through the fourteen cities and raise ten thousand families, the grain is sufficient, therefore, the pass is always coveted by the barbarians, perennial looting and violation, and they only rob but not occupy, after taking away the property and grain, they will withdraw from the pass, and wait for the harvest in the next year, they will make a comeback, it is very vicious.

The people of the fourteen cities can not bear it, work together to build "Ansheng Pass" in the pass, and select the high-rollers of each city to garrison, and all the needs in the pass, are jointly borne by the fourteen cities, the barbarians invade year after year, the keepers of the pass are difficult to have a day of rest all year round, death and injury are more common, every ten people die, they will build a mud bodhisattva with mud and stone on the dangerous peak on the border of the pass.

The bald head took the convoy and came to the "Ansheng Pass", behind the city gate wall, a small village has been formed, and all the people living in it are the keepers and their families.

After the car stopped, Sun Zikai immediately jumped out of the car, observing the surrounding situation, the women were washing clothes, talking and laughing, one person saw Sun Zikai, shouted and asked: "Lao Yang, why do you bring back a child?" Whose children? ”

The bald head replied: "Pick it up, I'll live here in the future." ”

The woman wiped her hands on the cloth, walked up to Sun Zikai, and shouted, "Oh, mom, he has another one on his back, why is it like this?" Lao Yang, you picked it up from the beggars' pile. Wild Child, what's your name? ”

"Sun Zikai."

"What about her?"

Sun Zikai looked back at the girl, shook his head, and replied, "No name." ”

"Is it your sister?"

"No, I picked it up."

"What are you doing with this broken tile in your hand, it's bloody, disgusting." slapped off the tiles in Sun Zikai's hand, the woman pulled the two of them to the basin, and the woman said, "It's almost clean, it's smelly." ”

Sun Zikai and the girl were stripped of their clothes and sat in the hot water basin, this was also the first time they took a bath in such a long time, and the clothes were thrown on the ground by the woman, and the woman shouted: "When the rag is used, the daughter-in-law of the Zhao family, take a piece of cloth and cut clothes for the two of them." ”

Sun Zikai washed quickly, and after finishing the matter, he sat in the basin, observing the people in the small village, the people here are very busy, as if each has its own work, but it is like a whole, condensed together, the household routines are exchanged and chatted, salt is eaten, oil is used, a piece of cloth is made into this family's clothes, and it becomes that family's trouser legs, and there is almost no process of integration, and everyone readily accepts these two wild children.

That night, the men put on the table the food and drink they bought from the city, and they had their fill in the city, so this time the women served the table to drink, while the men enjoyed themselves outside the house.

The girl was brought to the table by the women, and Sun Zikai sat next to the bald head, scalded the pot of wine with the bald head, and poured a bowl for Sun Zikai, "Drink, it's cold in this pass, and it's even colder in winter, this thing has to be prepared all the time." ”

Sun Zikai took the wine, drank it all, and then put the bowl back very calmly, the men looked at the child and were amazed, and said: "Boy, this is a big knife, you bear with it, spit it out!" ”

Sun Zikai's face changed at this time, he hurriedly opened his mouth, spewed out the wine that rushed to his brain, his eyes were closed, and he almost lay on his back on the ground, the men laughed, Sun Zikai sat upright, his face was still calm.

The bald head said: "Just call me Lao Yang, we are all gatekeepers, and I am the boss here." ”

The men drank wine and ate meat, so they were happy, Sun Zikai asked Lao Yang directly: "Why are there no children here?" ”

Lao Yang replied: "Child, they are all sent to the city, we are living a life of licking blood on the tip of the knife, maybe when, the barbarians will rush in, send the child away, and leave a seed for yourself, and when you settle down, I will also pick a place for you, and send you to the city to do a small errand, at least you can eat." ”

Sun Zikai replied: "No, I can guard the customs here." "He is from the city, naturally I heard my father and mother talk about Anshengguan, and the people in the city have great respect for the gatekeepers, because no gatekeeper can retreat at the pass, and when they accept that identity, the end is already doomed.

"You want to be a gatekeeper?" A man asked.

"Hmm." Sun Zikai nodded.

The men laughed again, and one man said, "Son, you are so born and alive in the city, and we have carried this life-threatening errand." ”

Sun Zikai lowered his head, he no longer had any thoughts about that city in his heart, and then raised his head and said: "Just stay here, I won't treat it in vain, I will have some medical skills, and I can also kill barbarians." ”

"Boy, you can still kill, how many people have you killed." The men quipped.

Sun Zikai recalled seriously, and then said indifferently: "There are a total of twenty-three people, sixteen small ones, and seven big ones. ”

The men laughed again, but gradually, the laughter became lower, because they found that Sun Zikai didn't look like he was joking, which couldn't help but remind them of the scene they saw outside the city this morning, a hungry wolf that no adult man dared to deal with easily, was slashed alive by this five-year-old child.

Lao Yang's face also became serious, and he asked Sun Zikai: "Why did you kill people." ”

"They're damned." Sun Zikai's bland attitude made everyone's drinking sober up for the most part.

Lao Yang said coldly: "Why should you die." ”

Sun Zikai replied: "They beat me, I endured it for four months, I didn't fight back, I fled from Dongcheng to Xicheng, and they followed me to Xicheng." ”

"What did you do? They're going to beat you. ”

"I asked them, and they said they just like to hit me, and there is no reason for that." Sun Zikai seemed to be narrating other people's stories, "The life in the city is too hard, the barbarians came in and ransacked half of the city, there are more wandering people, they all gather in a bunch, only I am alone, wandering people, what can I do?" Seeing that I was one, I thought it would be a daily fun thing to chase and beat me. ”

Lao Yang looked at the five-year-old child in front of him, as if he was looking at a seventeen or eighteen-year-old person, and the child's tone and mentality had nothing to do with the word immaturity at all.

A man asked, "So you.... How do you do it. ”

Sun Zikai said calmly: "I finally confirmed it, and found that the truth doesn't make sense for them, weakness and seeking perfection are the happiest reactions for them, they will continue to beat me and bully me until death, so I opened that guy's chest, and then, kill them all." ”

"You... You're not going to kill anyone. The man said, "You kid... Why is the anger so heavy, how can it kill people? ”

Sun Zikai glanced at the man indifferently, but the man felt deep disdain, Sun Zikai explained: "I am only five years old, I can only heal, I only have one chance to resist, that is, when they think I am just a temperless rabbit, and want to trample me to death, this is the only chance, I have to kill, they will be afraid because the rabbit has fangs, and lose their minds, and become only fleeing for their lives, and I will kill all the people who beat me in the shortest possible time." If I don't, I won't have a chance to live when they react. ”

The men were speechless, and Lao Yang was also shocked by the child's words, he calmly seemed to be analyzing another person's story, in the men's concept, how can a child kill someone? But when they came back to their senses and substituted themselves into that role, they found that their ending was just like the child's analysis, they couldn't live at all, they would be bullied until death, and they didn't have the courage and brains to calmly make the decision to kill, and they were able to implement it successfully, because he was only five years old, a ten-year-old child, enough to completely suppress him.

And Sun Zikai didn't ask the adults whether what he did was right or wrong, because the world's judgment on killing is selfish, there is no absolute sense of good and evil, in his own perspective, there is only one way to survive, and this one is the most correct choice.

The men were silent for a long time, and could only hear the fireworks of soju, and then, Lao Yang spoke: "You stay, you belong here." ”

Sun Zikai nodded and said, "I know some medical skills, but I need herbs, you can take me with you when you go to Guanwai, and I can also learn your skills by the way." ”

"No" Lao Yang refused, "The barbarians outside the gate are not beggars in the city, they will not only resist, but will also take the initiative to put the knife on your neck, you should be a child first, and then be a gatekeeper." ”

"Okay, but I see that you have a training ground here, and starting tomorrow, I'm going to start learning from you how to kill barbarians." Sun Zikai's attitude of speaking was always very indifferent, which made everyone feel very strange and wondered if he was a child.

took another bowl of wine, and a man touched the wine bowl with him, and suddenly smiled: "Welcome to join, little gatekeeper, just call me Brother Dog, everyone calls me Dog." ”

Sun Zikai called Brother Dog, and then asked, "A few days ago, why did some barbarians rush into the city?" ”

When the men heard this, they clenched their fists one after another, and Lao Yang also showed a fierce look in his eyes, and said hatefully: "Someone helped them cross the peak of that day's danger, we didn't know anything at all, when the city was captured, we were still guarding the 'Ansheng Pass'." ”

Sun Zikai was silent for a moment, and then spoke: "Oh, I originally thought that you deliberately put it in, only the barbarians can keep entering, so the guards will be enshrined." ”

"Why do you think that?" The men said angrily, "We brought the whole family here, when we came, we gave our lives to this place, no one wants to retreat, and we can't retreat, people don't want to come here to see, how many times we want to give up this errand for the sake of our families, but we can't, once we leave, the barbarians come in again, how many people have to die, pin our heads to the waistband of our trousers, we stay up day by day, hoping to survive to death, but in fact, no one will survive to death, they are all hacked to death by the barbarians." ”

Sun Zikai nodded and said, "I understand, you are all heroes, I have wronged you." ”

The man laughed again: "Ass, bear it." ”

The men laughed, only Lao Yang was still angry, and directly grabbed the wine jug and drank it to his mouth. Sun Zikai touched Lao Yang's leg and said, "It's my fault, I'm sorry." ”

Lao Yang said: "I'm not angry with you. Lao Yang stretched out his hand and touched Sun Zikai's head, "Hey, our brothers are working hard here to guard the pass, but some people don't let the people in the city live, and the people in the city live comfortably, but they are not comfortable." ”

Sun Zikai said: "I understand, whoever gets the most things after the barbarians come is the one who helps the barbarians cross the peak of natural danger." ”

Lao Yang was shocked by Sun Zikai again, turned his head and looked at him calmly, and said, "You.... Do you really think so? ”

"Yes."

"But what can you do? There's nothing we can do about it. ”

Sun Zikai replied: "I'm too young to do anything, you can teach me how to kill people." ”

Lao Yang was stunned, and after a long time, he replied: "You live in Youmai's house, and you have cleaned it up, go and take the monkey girl to sleep." ”

"Okay." Sun Zikai got up and left, not entangled at all, everyone understood that his calmness may also be his way of self-preservation and restraint.

After he left, next to Lao Yang, a man with a scar on his face said: "'Anshengguan' never has children, this is our rule, he is just a child, let him go back to the city to live a good life." ”

Lao Yang looked at the fire of the soju, his eyes became more and more determined, and he said, "This kid belongs here." ”

Scar Man said: "No child is born to be a gatekeeper, he should die, he just wants to live, we can't judge him to be killed when he is five years old." ”

Lao Yang always looked at the flames, and after a long time, he replied: "No, he will not be killed, wait and see, how many years later, he will grow up." Turning his head and looking at the scar man's eyes, Lao Yang said firmly: "His name will make all the barbarians outside the gate frightened!" ”

The fire of Ansheng Pass has not been extinguished, when the men finished drinking, the women finished eating meat, they held the flame with an iron basin, sent to the wall, the fire light did not shine far, under the night, it was a star, but this inextinguishable star, at all times to the darkness outside announced, there are people here - the gatekeeper, the mud bodhisattva on the eight thousand mountains, two hundred years outside the pass Changsheng.