After doing this, he returned to the back window, and retreated silently, and then carefully climbed over the fence and ran towards the fork in the road that had returned in the afternoon.

Zhao Ning didn't know that as soon as she left the small courtyard, her room suddenly fainted with a starry silver light.

The figure of the old man emerged from the silver light, and instead of looking at the empty bed, he walked to the table and sat down, with his arm half-propped up on the tabletop, and lit the oil lamp with one finger, picked up the immortal knot she left, and looked at it carefully through the oil lamp.

After running for a long time, Zhao Ning saw a small town when she was close to the fifth watch, the gate of the town was tightly closed, and she raised her eyes to look at the stone characters reflected in the torches at the head of the town.

"Yongning."

It is indeed Yongning County, but Zhao Ning has no joy, she even set off a little fear, this is not the town in her memory.

She remembered that the town had been affected several times in the melee of several major gangs, and the two big characters in the town were missing "" and "less", but the old town in front of her was intact, without the slightest trace of repair, and even seemed to have been hanging on it for decades.

In an instant, my heart was beating violently, and I didn't know if it was close to a day and a night without sleep, or a huge panic shrouded me.

Zhao Ning has been shrinking at the entrance of the town, until it is close to Mao, there is a donkey cart outside the town to carry firewood, Xu is to send firewood all the year round, the old donkey knows the way, the old man who drives the donkey droops his head and dozes off.

The donkey cart stopped, and the old man said to Hatche, "Why is it early today?" ”

He rubbed his eyes, and then saw a little girl in the town staring at him with red eyes.

The old man was excited, "Where did the little girl come from, why did she shrink here early in the morning." ”

Zhao Ning stood up against the wall and asked, "Uncle, do you know where this is?" ”

"Yongning County." The old man pointed to the gatehouse suspiciously, "You don't know how to read." ”

"Is it the county seat of Yongning, Nanjun County, Nanjing?" Zhao Ning asked again.

The old man frowned and tightened his neck, and unconsciously grasped the donkey rope in his hand, "What are you talking about, this girl is talking about, Nanjingguo was destroyed seventy or eighty years ago, and now it is Wujingguo." ”

"Seven...... Seventy or eighty years ago...... Annihilation? ”

Zhao Ning was extremely frightened for a while, and she used all her strength to keep herself from trembling, and asked, "The Qingyun Gang and the Eight Gangs...... What about the gangs......"

The old man also became nervous, and even drove the donkey cart back to push, "You...... Are you human...... Is it a ghost...... Now there is no Qingyun Gang, what Eight Gangs, those hundred years will be destroyed......"

Zhao Ning's lips moved, she couldn't believe what she heard, the realm in her memory was a hundred years, and she couldn't even understand the concept of a hundred years.

"You...... Are you ...... Crazy in frustration...... "The old man smoked a piece of firewood and protected it in front of him.

Zhao Ning pursed his lips and whispered "I'm sorry".

He turned to half-prop himself against the tower to stay away from the panicked old man, but he probably shrank for too long, his legs and feet were a little numb, and he staggered and almost fell down after taking a few steps, and then the old man was so startled that he lifted the firewood and danced.

Zhao Ning didn't look at him, and forced himself to leave the town.

But she didn't go far, just hid behind a big tree dozens of feet away.

Zhao Ning slid down the tree.

However, at the age of twelve, she didn't understand what she had experienced, why she woke up and was not in the Qingyun Gang, Grandpa Qin, who saved her, was kind but eccentric, and finally arrived at the familiar realm, but in a blink of an eye, she learned that the Yongning County seat in her memory was already the Yongning County seat a hundred years ago......

What is it?

Huangliang is a dream, will you wake up in a hundred years?

Zhao Ning shrunk his legs and feet, and buried his face in the palms of his hands.

She was tired, but the experience had been stimulating her consciousness.

Until the sun rises, the town not far away is crowded with people and is extremely noisy.

Zhao Ning was half-hiding behind a tree, and she looked to see that the nearby villagers had brought their belongings into the city to sell, and some people were rushing to the morning market.

A hundred years later, even the dialect tone of Nanjun has changed a little, with a sense of biting words close to Wu Mingguo's side.

Reason kept telling her that everything had indeed changed, and in an instant, Zhao Ning didn't even have the courage to enter Yongning County.

She sat back down, leaning against the tree, looking up at the small patch of sky that was still visible in the shade of the trees.

For a long time, until the morning rush into the city had passed, the sound of the town was much quieter.

Zhao Ning, who was struggling with reason and emotion, shrank his body, and finally couldn't resist the sleeplessness and running for more than a day and night, and fell into a deep sleep.

The moment her figure slid down unconsciously, the silver light fainted beside her, and she fell into the arms of a person.

*

Early in the morning of the second day.

Zhao Ning woke up.

The light poured in through the cracks in the window, and as soon as she woke up, she noticed that it was strange how she was in a strange room and not in the Qingyun Gang.

There are still two days to go into the mountains.

In the past few days, she has been shrinking in Qingyun to help the medicine boy Xiaotong look through the medicine book, and she has hardly gone out.

A hint of sweet potato fragrance also came in, Zhao Ning hesitated for a long time, walked to the window, and glanced through the gap.

There was an old man in the courtyard who was carrying a pot of roasted sweet potatoes and placing it on the stone table.

As soon as he put it down, he glanced in her direction, "The little girl has a sharp nose, she smells the fragrance." It's almost time to come out for dinner, so I'll go and bring some more porridge. ”

Zhao Ning froze slightly, and for a moment there was the shock of being caught peeping, and the embarrassment of hearing his stomach growling.

After half a cup of tea, Zhao Ning pushed open the door, looked around the small courtyard, and then looked back at the room, making sure that all this was strange, strange people, strange places, and strange kindness.

She stood cramped in place, watching the old man come out with two bowls of porridge.

After a moment's hesitation, he asked, "Grandpa, I don't remember why I'm here." ”

The old man paused, then naturally put down the bowl.

"Of course you don't know why you're here." When the old man picked you up, you were unconscious. ”

Zhao Ning asked, "Picked up?" Am I not in the Qingyun Gang? ”

"Of course." He pointed to the other side, "Come on, my stomach is screaming." ”

Zhao Ning was a little embarrassed, and confirmed that it was impossible to hear it from such a distance, so he walked over with his head down.

The old man asked again, "Where were you before you fell unconscious?" ”

Zhao Ning held the bowl, a little nervous in his heart, but he hid it stiffly, making himself look very calm on the surface.

"In the Qingyun Gang, I will enter the mountain in two days, and I shouldn't be able to help."

The implication is that he still refuses to believe that he is here for no reason.

"Hmm." The old man answered, and muttered in a low voice, "It's only been a day." ”

This made Zhao Ning's hand holding the bowl tight, and he didn't know what he would say.

Then he heard him say, "Do you want to go and see where I found you?" ”

“…… Good. ”

After finishing the meal, the two went out, and the old man slowly walked in front with his back hand, and Zhao Ning took two steps to follow.

Seeing that the old man turned out of the mountain on the fork in the mountain, he breathed a sigh of relief without a trace.

Walking slowly all the way, two hours later, Zhao Ning saw the shadow of the county town tower, and unexpectedly, she felt a little familiar.

When she arrived at the city tower, she looked at the word "Yongning", and for a moment she was terrified and crawled densely in her heart, this "Yongning" is not the other "Yongning".

At this moment, the old man suddenly pointed to a big tree not far away, "I picked it up there." ”

Frightened and then weird, she walked over and looked around, but she didn't see anything special, she didn't understand why she was unconscious here, and ...... Why was it picked up by the old man in a mountain hut so far away?

"What are you thinking?" The old man walked over.

Zhao Ning hurriedly shook his head, "It's nothing." ”

"Then go to the city and buy some food." As he spoke, he went to the county seat, took a few steps, and looked back at Zhao Ning.

Zhao Ning followed at this time.

It was already noon, there were not many people on the streets of the county seat, and the street vendors were looking at passers-by with tiredness.

Zhao Ning looked at the buildings and plans in the city, which were not much different from those in her memory, but they were partial and had a sense of oldness, at least a lot older than the Yongning County in her memory.

The shouting of street vendors was not the same as before, and the occasional official words spoken by pedestrians on the road seemed to have changed their accents.

She saw that the old man really just bought some food, and when she walked to the end of the street, she saw a vendor who was making a candy man.

The old man turned his head to look at her, "Does the little girl eat candy?" ”

Zhao Ning smelled the sweet smell, which stimulated her taste buds, but she still shook her head.

"Thank you, grandpa." This is not only Xie Lao Lao's proposal to buy candy, but also thanks him for saving himself, "I want to go home." ”

"Home? Back to the Qingyun Gang? ”

Zhao Ning was silent, she knew that she would definitely be beaten when she went back, and she was not allowed to go back, this Yongning County was different from her memory.

But she insisted, touched her sleeve pocket, found that she had touched nothing, and said, "When I have the money, I will definitely come back to thank you." ”

As he spoke, he bowed to the old man, who was not very skillful, and then quickly turned around and ran into the alley and disappeared.

The old man looked at it for a long time, turned around slowly, and still asked the vendor how to sell it.

Zhao Ning walked roughly through Yongning County, and was suspicious in her heart, she was told everywhere that this was Yongning County, but it was not the Yongning County in her memory.

After hesitating in the county seat for a long time, Zhao Ning still followed the route of the Qingyun Gang in her memory, not really wanting to go back, but she wanted to see what happened.

But the more you go to Qingyun Mountain, the more desolate it becomes, and when you walk to the door of Qingyun Gang Zhuangzi, the dilapidated buildings in front of you make Zhao Ning freeze in place.

The gate was half reclining and half lying to the ground, already rotten into lumps.

Two steps closer, the weeds in the courtyard were already one person high, and the beams of the house were covered with cobwebs, and no one had come in for a long time.

She didn't care about these dilapidated buildings, and went to the medicine boy building, the courtyard of the small building was even more barren, the second floor completely collapsed, and the first floor was tilted by half with it, Zhao Ning stood in front of the room where she lived before, and people couldn't enter, but she could barely see the blackened blood stains on the floor of the room from the window.

How could it become like this overnight, like a dream for a hundred years.

She stood blankly on the steps of the small building, sat down again, looked around the ruined, and couldn't find the answer.

After being depressed for a long time, she got up again, and did not know where to go, so she went south.

Until late at night, I found a ruined temple and hid it behind a stone statue to rest.

Soon after closing the eyes, a deep sleep followed.

The silver light floated silently, and the old hand took her into his arms and disappeared.