Wei XVII had a distant dream.

The energy is not good, the eyes are yellow, the hair is shaking, the old age is drooping, and half of life has quietly slipped away, and the year of no confusion has quietly arrived.

On that day, he threw away his mobile phone card, carried a simple bag, boarded the high-speed train to the south, and came to a warm and unfamiliar city to start a new life. One person rents a house, one person looks for a job, one person eats, washes dishes, reads, reads, and sleeps. He worked in the real yàn room of a middle school, commuted to and from work on time, earned a meager salary, had morning tea in the morning at the small shop next to the street, ate claypot rice in the canteen of the unit at noon, and opened his own gang in the evening, with miscellaneous grains, vegetables, and a little hot soup of meat, simple and healthy.

Abandon all the past, bear the blame and self-blame alone, don't make a phone call, don't want to know any news, just to have more time that belongs to you, no one to disturb, drink tea quietly, read a book, turn on the computer when you're tired, listen to music, watch movies, watch those young girls in crop tops and miniskirts jumping up and down and singing songs that you don't understand, or affectionate, or rhythmic, and feel a little younger in a trance.

A month, two months, a year, two years, he gradually fell in love with this southern city, there are not many people he knows, the people he knows are general friends, polite, polite, keep the right distance, everyone is a porcupine full of thorns, isn't it? cruel, autistic, withdrawn, as long as you live comfortably, there is nothing bad, the simpler your life, the more you can feel a faint happiness.

With a regular diet and daily life, and away from the trivial things that worry about it, the body slows down aging, and should be able to live longer. In the dead of night, the light of the screen illuminated his face, he watched those familiar old people gradually withdraw from the stage, and the newcomers picked up, regretting and feeling relieved, alive, this world has meaning, and when you die, this world does not exist. From the moment of birth, people go to the grave step by step, life is bound to die, there is no escape, and everyone spends only a long or short waiting time. This time of waiting needs solace, otherwise life is too boring, and the life he chooses, the one he does, can make people forget the shadow of death for a while, and continue to live peacefully in the world......

No matter how long the dream is, there is a time to wake up. When he woke up, Wei Qiqi was still lying in the boundless quiet room, Yu Yao was in his arms, his snort was heavy, looking at the dark night outside the window, he thought, "Who am I? Where am I from? Where am I going?"

He had never been happier since he came into this world.

Wei Qiqi woke up Yu Yao, who was pretending to be asleep, and the two put on their clothes, held hands and came to the soup boiling room on the lower level of the plank road, drank hot tea, ate oil apricots, and chatted with Lao Feng.

Lao Feng was quite happy to see the two, took out the treasured wild boar, and roasted it on the fire to soften it as tea. Wild boars are hunted from the Nanhua Valley, two or three years old, the most fat and tender, rubbed with good coarse salt and spices, baked on a charcoal fire, carefully stored, and can be stored for a long time.

The baked wild boar was hard and fragrant, and Wei Qiqi liked the taste, so he ate a lot of tea. After a bit of gossip, he asked about the gambling game held by Liushi Feng at the end of the year, and Lao Feng and Yu Yao both knew that you and I would explain the origin of the gambling game clearly.

It is said that his original words are like this, "At the end of the year, the snow covers the mountains, and it is idle to be idle, so it is better to open a gambling game, have a lively time, and be the head of the sect and the elder to put some blood, and make a colorful head, so that the disciples also have a hope." ”

The rules of the gambling game are set by the head, once every four years, take turns to sit in the village, each sect out of two disciples, the dealer out of four disciples, cultivate for the sword below, hold the color head into the gambling game than the sword, the head of the head first, the disciple in the point to pick the opponent, each person challenge once, should fight once, the winner from the loser to hold any one of the color heads, if the last piece of the head is lost, it will be out, can only be gloomy, as a wall watch.

Wei Seventeen calculated for a moment, according to such rules, the five sects of Imperial Sword, Five Elements, Poison Sword, Hook Sickle, and Flying Feather had a total of twelve disciples, half of whom were out of the first round, and returned empty-handed, and the remaining disciples won two games at most, three lottery heads, one win and one loss, and one lottery head, and in the most extreme case, the six disciples who won the first round were all challengers or all responders, and the gambling ended here, there was no second round, of course, the possibility of this happening was very small.

It's fair, but there are a lot of variables, the lottery heads taken out by each sect are all good things, but they can only get three pieces at most, and these three pieces may not be satisfactory, get what they want the most, and it depends on chance and luck.

Lao Feng inadvertently reminded Wei Qiqi: "Don't underestimate the year-end gambling game, this is not a sword competition with the same door, but a life-and-death fight. ”

"Life and death fight?" This was unexpected by Wei Qiqi, "Can a disciple miss?"

"There are people who miss and hurt, but I haven't seen death, the disciples of each sect are competing swords in the Taiji diagram, if you want to put people to death, hehe, it's really not easy. ”

Wei Qiqi couldn't help but slander, the lineage is really the lineage, the side branch is the side branch after all, compared to the Chixia Valley sword, the year-end gambling game is obviously more high-end and high-grade, and even the magic weapon of the Taiji Diagram against the sky was born, just to ensure the safety of the disciples.

However, the year-end gambling really made him a little excited.