When people were very young, they had more or less looked at the stars and fantasized about the future.

And Shen Zheng's biggest wish when he was a child was to have less alcohol in the house, less running around in the house, more days to stay in one place, and more of his father's increasingly stingy appreciation.

Of course, it would be perfect if the three meals could be cooked by the mother herself.

It's a pity that the reason why the wish is called the wish is basically because the fantasy it contains is too beautiful and unrealistic, Shen Zheng has changed many homes in the past 12 years, and he has left many friends in the new land and the old land, and no matter how far the new home and the old home are separated, the smell of the inferior ale wine has always been with him, because his father has never quit drinking, and he has long lost his mother, and there is only a younger brother who is three years younger than him and can't speak clearly.

Children always can't hide their hearts, in the process of a certain move, because there is no way to respond to the little partner's agreement to hide and seek at the entrance of the town on the second day, Shen Zheng's suppressed emotions finally broke out, asking his father why they always have to move again and again, the feeling of adapting to a new place is really not good, and habits do not mean that they can accept it indifferently, other people's children are running all over the place, why can't they have two or three friends?

Even if there is any reason why he has to go, he should be allowed to say goodbye.

The child's questioning did not make Shen Zheng's father have too many emotional changes, but he only had a cold face and told him that we had to go, if we still wanted to live.

Life and death, there is no heavier topic in life than this.

Perhaps because of some unspeakable weight in these two words, Shen Zheng finally reluctantly began to pack his luggage, this packing work he has been doing since he can remember, and he has been honed for twelve years to be extremely natural and skillful, and it will not take long to organize the luggage beautifully.

"Even if you are a helper on a dock cargo ship, you are definitely a good hand!"

The young Shen Zheng looked at the luggage, thinking bitterly, and suddenly envied his younger brother.

At least he is young enough to understand too much, and the main thing is that his body is tender and he doesn't need to carry too much luggage.

Shen Zheng is actually only twelve years old, and he is young.

But in this small family, which was not considered a family, he was the largest laborer besides his father, and in addition to carrying his luggage, he had to hang a bag on his chest, which was used by the woman to carry the baby, and the father filled it with a piece of floral cloth to barely fit the younger brother.

The luggage is not big, but there are also 100 catties, plus a nine-year-old child, its weight is already equivalent to the weight of five bags of grain on the granary laborer, Shen Zheng has never read a book, and he does not know much about the vocabulary of expressing weight, but his small body has already been able to carry these treks for dozens of miles without feeling tired.

He doesn't understand the abnormality of his body.

Because he has long been accustomed to such a place, and the days of exchange from place to place.

The life of running around began to repeat, not much the same as before, unlike most travelers, Shen Zheng's family rested during the day and hurried at night, like a ghost who could not see the light.

"You have to go, if you want to live......"

His father's cold words echoed in his ears, so in the night of the same world, Shen Zheng had a deep understanding of the word "escape" for the first time.

Since then, he has never questioned why his father moved like duckweed again and again, only burying his wishes in the bottom of his heart, and preferring silence more and more.

In the boring and repetitive journey, listening to people gossip during the break has become the only pleasure to pass the time, one day to Liuzhou, Shen Zheng and his younger brother stayed at the tea stall at the gate of the city to eat buns, passing by a large group of gongs and drums of the armor, shouting,

"The old calendar is renovated, the country name is apocalyptic, the old currency is invalid, and the new currency enters the WTO. ”

slogan, all the way to the north gate, along the way the people on the street onlookers, pointing.

It was at this time that my father rushed back in dust, his sleeves stained with blood, and he was holding a cloth bag, and through the cracks he could see that there were brand-new copper coins.

Shen Zheng knew that his father had killed again, and he also brought back a shocking news.

The Tang army rode into Luoyang City, set the capital in Chang'an, and the Great Sui was finished!

Shen Zheng only let out a faint "um" after hearing this, his expression did not change much, and he still lowered his head and nibbled on the bun.

The imperial family, the change of dynasties, what does it have to do with him?

He is just an ordinary person, he should eat, eat, sleep, and hurry, the emperor Lao Tzu changed his surname, and it was the sky that changed hands, and it was not his turn.

At a young age, Shen Zheng is no longer like his peers with a stable heart.

And the father, who has always had a cold face and did not smile, was extremely happy after learning the news of the demise of the Great Sui, and it was rare to praise Shen Zheng a few words, although it was just a painless word such as eating well, but that was also a compliment, wasn't it?

Shen Zheng was surprised, and also smiled, feeling that the bun in his hand was more fragrant.

However, there seem to be a lot of happy events today, and after the rare praise, my father suddenly made a decision and said that he would not leave!

Settle in Liuzhou!

Shen Zheng was stunned when he heard it, and he didn't even realize that the bun fell to the ground.

In this way, they made their home in Liuzhou......

Perhaps it was the habit of fleeing for their lives in the past, and they did not settle their home in Liuzhou City, but settled in Miasma Cloud Mountain, thirty miles outside the city.

Hundred miles of mountains, June poisonous miasma, this is a wild place that ordinary people dare not enter at will.

Shen Zheng followed back and forth a few times, but his father only said the word "good", and the location of his new home was thus completed.

Right in the heart of the mountains, where the miasma is at its strongest.

The foundation of the new home is obviously the house, there is no shortage of wood in the mountains, there is no need for tiles, and the thatch is laid to shelter from the rain, Shen Zheng and his father worked together, and three wooden houses were erected in a few days.

My father rarely had Yaxing, and he erected a fence in front of the house and evenly planted the branches whose names he didn't know.

In this way, Shen Zheng's family spent a winter in Miasma Mountain, and when the spring rain was coming in the spring of the second year, the spring flowers bloomed in front of the wooden house, and Shen Zheng knew that the things planted last year were called spring flowers.

That year, Shen Zheng was thirteen years old.

It was also the first time I knew that the dry and gray branches could actually bloom.

"No matter how unbearable the days were, the flowers that should bloom will still bloom on time when spring comes. ”

The father touched Shen Zheng's head and smiled at him,

"So, never be disappointed in the world!"

The world is worth it.

The same goes for wind, frost, rain and snow.

Thirteen-year-old Shen Zheng listened to it ignorantly, he didn't understand his father's words very well, but he felt that he gradually had a bit of a taste of home.

In March, his father taught Shen Zheng and his younger brother Shen Fanghao a set of breathing and breathing methods, telling him to practice diligently for six hours a day, and if he did not meet the requirements, he was not allowed to step out of the house for half a step.

Carrying a gun on his back when he left, the black gun that had been on hold for I don't know how long.

Also that month, the Southern Turks of the Tang Kingdom crossed the Great Wall, broke through the Shanhai Pass, and invaded the empire's territory on a large scale, the Tang Emperor thundered and was furious, and the emperor drove the expedition in person, led by two Zhenguo generals, led an army of 300,000 to the desert to suppress the Turks, and the peace was less than a year, and the war broke out again, although the battlefield was far away from the Central Plains, but the sudden increase in taxes and conscription still made the people who had just taken a breath miserable.

The fields are barren, cattle and sheep are scarce, and the world is once again under a barren scene.

For Shen Zheng, this "troubled time" is really the happiest time in his thirteen years of life, he has a family, he doesn't have to live a wandering life, his old-fashioned and serious father goes far away, and he doesn't have to worry about being reprimanded for not being able to complete his daily assignments, although he doesn't like to talk, but he doesn't like to be depressed.

The younger brother Shen Fanghao is like a copy of his father, he gets up every day to dress and make the bed meticulously, obviously he is a ten-year-old baby, but he has constant tea in the morning, lunch and evening, practicing boxing in the morning, meditating and vomiting in the afternoon, silent every day, worried, nostalgic, loving, as if the best feelings in the world are not in his eyes, only when facing the emerald mountains will he show a little smile.

"Standing on the top of a high mountain, everything below the mountain is insignificant, do you think so, brother?"

Shen Fanghao often said such strange things to him, Shen Zheng didn't understand it, but he felt that such a state of mind was so terrifying, just like the statue of the mud fetus god in the temple, it was powerful at first sight, but it was empty and terrible when you looked closely......

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