From Beiyang City to the south, a young man dressed in black carried a black box on his back, holding a black umbrella in his hand and still hurrying.

He had already walked this road once last year, and that time it took him a full month to travel thousands of miles from Beiyang City to Sifang City, and he didn't rush for a moment.

Because his teacher told him not to go too fast on the road, so that he could see more people and experience more things.

But now he is walking unusually fast, and he is unwilling to stay a little longer because his teacher asked him to return to the capital.

If you don't say fast, you don't say slow, then you want to be fast, and there is nothing to see on a rainy night in summer, but to experience.

When I encountered the lights, my eyes never stopped, and my footsteps had no intention of slowing down.

Although I don't know why I went back, this is something I need to think about after returning to the capital, and now it is enough to hurry as soon as possible.

On this night, many people had no intention of sleeping.

On the border of the Dachang Dynasty, a drizzle was drizzling outside the city called Wanqiu, and the guards in charge of patrolling above the city walls still had resolute faces and did their duty.

A middle-aged man is still sitting quietly at the gate of the city, but his heart is not as calm as it seems.

In front of him was a jar of pickles, which was empty, and even the juice left on the inside of the jar of spicy cabbage had been greedily scraped clean with steamed cakes and filled into his stomach.

Although the war horse in front of him has gone through the wind and rain, it is still full of majesty, and it hangs its head as if it wants to compete with it for the smell of pickles.

Its strong limbs were already in the wet ground, but it could pull out its hooves and run wild in the rain whenever it wanted.

The horse's back was covered with large and small packages, which had been soaked by the rain, and many of them should have been unable to eat anymore.

The man didn't take some more out of the horse's back to continue to fill his belly, but just quietly watched the rain fall from the sky.

The guards patrolling the wall above his head did not reveal any strange or confused feelings on the surface, but the surprise in their hearts could not be suppressed.

Just as the war horse was about to sleep in the rain, the picture in the man's eyes began to change.

A moment ago, all he had in his eyes was the spear erected in front of him, the war horse in front of him, and the black rain that was in the sky, but now although it was the same, there was a trembling weak boy in the picture.

The man's slightly trembling hands had slowly regained his calm, and his figure that was sitting in a precarious position seemed to be a little relaxed without leaving a trace.

The war horse glanced at it slightly, as if he smelled some unpleasant smell on his back that made the horse feel ashamed, and hurriedly said goodbye to it.

A young man walked towards this side with heavy steps, trembling, what he looked like when he went, and what he still looked like when he returned.

The rain on his body did not worsen, and his body did not look a little more embarrassed, because he was already embarrassed enough, no matter how embarrassed he was, it was still like that, and the rain accumulated on his clothes was even more saturated.

Summer rain and winter snow are the least difficult to guard against.

When it is first poured on the body, it will even give birth to a cool feeling, which can drive away the heat brought by the season, but after the coolness, it is the cold that cannot be driven away.

He's feeling cold right now.

After a long time, the small figure in the rain began to enlarge, and the man sat on the spot and said, "I'll let you go back." ”

The boy did not answer immediately, but first looked around to find a place to shelter from the rain, and very cleverly got under the horse's back, glanced up at the pickled vegetable jar that had been opened, wiped the rain from his head and face, and wrung off his clothes with both hands.

Finally, he shrunk into a trembling ball and replied, "I know, but I don't need to listen to you." ”

The man was a little surprised by his answer, and still replied with a straight face, "As long as I speak, you will be trampled to death by that horse at any time." ”

The young man squatted under the war horse and talked to him, although the man was no longer as tall as before when he sat there, but because Yu Ming was squatting on the ground, the other party was still tall in the eyes of the young man.

The boy's voice was a little choked, "This is my horse, it won't trample me." ”

The man couldn't help but laugh and said, "Why are you coming back?"

The boy didn't think about it anymore, because he had thought a lot about it in the long time he had chosen to leave.

Spit out the rain that fell in his mouth, and replied directly, "This horse was given to me by my husband to prevent me from getting lost, and my mother helped me up and ran here." The jar of vegetables you eat is my mother, who is afraid that I will starve if I don't eat well in the barracks after I join the army, so I have begun to pickle it twenty-eight days ago, and it is the spicy cabbage that I like to eat very much, and the taste of Kaifeng is the best today. I'm coming back because it's all mine!" the boy finally began to cry out.

When the man heard these words, he was not angry, but asked with a trace of doubt, "What did you just do?"

The young man still squatted under the war horse, wiped the rain that kept dripping from his face again, and replied, "I just walked for a while, and it rained for a while. I cried for a while, and thought about it for a while. ”

The man did not laugh, but asked seriously, "What are you crying about, what are you thinking?" ”

Yu Ming wiped away his tears and replied, "I thought of my mother, if my mother knew that I threw the things she gave me here like this, I would be beaten to death by her when I go back." ”

The man was a little amused and asked, "It's that simple?"

Yu Ming shook his head, hugged the horse's legs, and replied firmly, "It's not simple, the jar of vegetables you eat can be regarded as a gift from me, and my mother won't blame me." But this horse and all these things on horseback are mine!"

The man stood up and said coldly, "What if I don't agree?"

Yu Ming was still holding the horse's legs, choked up and replied, "Then I will scold you." ”

The man was slightly stunned, and asked with some confusion, "What are you best at?"

"Swearing. ”

The man suddenly realized, and said with a smile, "In the face of a strong enemy, I have to use my best means, which seems to be good." But you will die, you are not afraid of death?"

Yu Ming looked towards the place where he came from, wiped the rain from his face again, and began to get out from under the horse, looking at the middle-aged man and finding that the other party was still so tall.

Looking up at the middle-aged man, he replied, "I don't know what death is. But I guess I should have been scared. Every time my mother says that she wants to kill me, that pain may be death. My father went to sea and never came back, so he should also die, and if the fish can be cooked and eaten in his stomach, he may also die. I'm afraid of all these kinds of deaths, but I'm even more afraid of being beaten to death by my mother. ”

The man thought carefully for a long time before he understood what the young man wanted to say.

Yu Ming is not very good at speaking, and if these words in his mouth are said by a stinky boy, he will definitely be much more imposing. But Yu Ming is very different, some people say that his father can't come back when he goes to sea, and he doesn't know until a long time that he can't come back when he dies.

He will be sad about his mother's sadness, but it has nothing to do with his father, he just feels sorry for his mother.

Every time I go to the outside of the city to catch fish and come back, the fish are jumping around so that they are full of joy, most of the fish have no time to return home and give it a knife is already lifeless, that may also be dead, some are thrown into the pond outside the yard by someone, and after two days do not float up and turn over the white belly, that should be alive.

For Yu Ming, the difference between life and death is only whether he can go home to eat after he has made a meal, and whether he can go home to sleep when it gets dark. The fish caught will not move, and if they can move, they can't go directly to the pot, and they can only be boiled and eaten if they can't move, and chopped to make dumplings.

Another experience made him more intuitive, when the kid was lying in bed last year, he knew that if he couldn't get up to play with him, he would be dead.

He also knew that if the spear in the other party's hand stabbed him, he would die, and he also knew that he would freeze to death, starve to death, and be bitten alive by wild dogs.

There was nothing he wasn't afraid of, but what he was most afraid of was the first one he said.

Because he has never experienced other deaths, although the mother has suffered, he has rarely been starved and frozen, and even if he has, he has never felt the proximity of death, but he has personally experienced being beaten by his mother.

The unknown is scary, and there are some things that are even more frightening.

The man laughed twice, pointed behind him and said, "You can enter this city, but you have to understand, because I won't let you out easily." ”

Yu Ming blinked, puzzled, "Why?"

The man stabbed the spear in his hand straight into the ground, put his hands behind his back and said, "There is no reason, because I have the final say in this city." ”

Yu Ming looked at the tall man blankly, looked at the spear that pierced the ground, and felt that this person was so tall again.

There were two cautious laughter on the city wall, and one couldn't help but say, "Our boss is still so domineering." ”

"Who says it's not, otherwise you can be our boss?"

"I don't know if that kid will survive. ”

"I think the boy should have led the horse and ran away, and I saw that he was not lightly frightened. ”

"Well, it's all at the door, and the horse can follow him?"

"That's not exactly. ”

Yu Ming couldn't hear the conversation coming from above the city wall, he could only hear the man's words still echoing in his ears, and he tried to lead the horse next to him, and found that he could pull it.

He looked up at the man and said, "I can pull it, it's my horse." ”

The man's face was calm and he did not reply.

Yu Ming looked behind him, did not hesitate, but led the horse into the city in front of him.

When passing by the man, the other party spoke again, "As a soldier, we can lose what belongs to us, but we must take it back." Whether it is a spear, a gun, a slap, even a small horseshoe, a jar of pickles, or a steamed cake, as long as it is ours, it is ours. ”

The young man led the horse into the city and replied seriously, "I gave you that pot of vegetables." ”

A chuckle appeared at the corner of the man's mouth, and he said, "You don't dare to ask me for it back?"

Yu Ming used a little more strength in his hands, led the horse rope and walked forward, shook his head and replied, "My mother knows that if I dare to eat alone, she will scold me." ”

The night rain was bleak, and the man stood alone at the gate of the city, looking south, with a smile in his eyes, and said, "Close the door!"

Then slowly walked into the city.