The sun is setting, and the heartbroken man is at the end of the world

Three years ago, in the early autumn, outside Chengdu, on a deserted ancient road.

In the evening, thick clouds and mist are entrenched in the sky, and the sunset can only take a little gap, bursting out of the crimson glow, like a swimming fish in the sinking sea, occasionally rolling golden scales.

A young man in ragged clothes, facing the setting sun, staggered forward.

The past fades into the afterglow of the past, they are so close and familiar, and yet helplessly far away from you. At this time, there is only a little comfort, or pain, precipitated in this gloomy twilight.

The young man's childish face was slightly dusty, and it seemed that he had been gone for a long time. His bright eyes are like a deep starry sky, hiding some unknown sorrows, his expression is calm like water, his steps are slow and firm, what story is hidden in him, where is he going, where is he going?

As night fell, the boy had entered the city.

Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, curfews have long been abolished. Especially like Chengdu, one of the only few big cities in the country, it is brightly lit at night and full of tourists.

At this time, the lights are on, and the rows of lanterns of different shapes are unusually bright, illuminating the bustling crowd on the street. The street vendors shouted loudly, shouting at the literati and ink writers, the chivalrous warriors of the rivers and lakes, and the ladies of the noble family. Eating, wearing, using, playing, watching, as well as fortune-telling, reading and writing, selling words, attracting people to stop and be amazed, it is really lively.

The boy walked alone through the bustling streets, walking expressionlessly, unmoved by everything around him, and he remembered this day seven years ago.

It was the Mid-Autumn Festival, the full moon was rising, his parents took him to the street to play, that night, he was very happy, his parents bought him a lot of new clothes, new toys, and a lot of desserts of all kinds, the martial artist at home also made him a particularly large lantern, but he was careless, almost burned the backyard, but his mother spoiled him very much, and didn't even say a word of blame.

In this way, the boy walked through the streets, the flow of people, and finally stopped at the entrance of a quiet alley, in front of a high-rise mansion. He remembered that in the past, no matter what time it was, day or night, there were always many knights in his home, rich businessmen and magnates came in and out, and every day, he could also receive a lot of strange gifts.

Today, only two red lanterns hung high emitted a faint light, and a chill evening breeze blew, reflecting the two desolate and quaint stone lions in front of the door. Indescribably lonely and lonely.

The boy shook his head, looked around, and one jumped over the high wall and into the courtyard.

The once lively and energetic martial arts training ground has long been dilapidated, overgrown with weeds, and under the high walls, vines are overgrown and clinging to it.

The young man stared at the west side of the gate, the fire was extinguished, illuminating an old man with gray hair leaning against the wall and smoking a dry tobacco, the old man was carrying a pot of wine in his other hand, and took a sip from time to time, the old man looked serene, just quietly smoking a dry cigarette and drinking wine, the young man suddenly felt as if nothing had changed, and he returned to that happy Mid-Autumn Festival night.

Suddenly, an intermittent coughing sound came, breaking the boy's thoughts and pulling him back to reality, and the boy remembered that the uncle who guarded the door didn't cough, and he didn't have so many gray hairs.

The boy turned, took a breath-holding, carefully surveyed everything around him, and after a few moments, when he was sure that there was no one else in the courtyard except the old man who was guarding the door, he walked slowly towards the hall.

As soon as he stepped into the inner hall, darkness hit like a tide, engulfing the young man's figure in an instant, blocking out the cold moonlight. The young man groped around his waist, lit a fire, and then stood still, the faint light of the fire reflected his trembling hands, the light of the fire swayed, and the boy's breathing seemed to become heavy.

After a long time, the boy seemed to have mustered up a lot of courage, clenched his fists, and stepped forward with heavy steps, one step, two steps, three steps.

The first thing illuminated by the firelight was a huge bronze statue of Guan Gong, only to see his eyebrows like a lying silkworm, his face like a heavy jujube, his hands were long haired, and the long knife was held directly, revealing a bright righteousness and masculine majesty.

The young man took a deep breath, folded the fire and moved it down, and the spiritual position made of nanmu appeared in front of the young man's eyes, and the young man had a bang in his head, almost unable to stand, and caressed the spiritual position with one hand, and cried on his back, and two lines of hot tears rolled down.

The boy stood quietly with his eyes closed, tears streaming down his cheeks and dripping down his chest.

I don't know how long it took, until there was a rooster crowing in the distance, the young man opened his eyes, the young man took a few breaths violently, calmed down, and then wiped the spiritual position and the offering table with his sleeve, burned three incense sticks, held it high above the top, turned around in the air, inserted the incense burner, and then took three steps back, respectfully kowtowed to the ground and kowtowed four heads. Then he got up and strode away.

From the beginning to the end, the boy did not say a word.

Soon after the young man left, the old man who guarded the door also staggered into the hall, looked at the three incense sticks on the offering table that had not yet been burned, leaned against the door, glanced at the statue of Guan Gong thoughtfully, and then looked at the spiritual position, silent, and his cloudy eyes were filled with tears.

The sun rises in the east, the sun shines on the slightly dilapidated door, although the gold paint has peeled off, it can be vaguely seen, the four big characters of the three-point dart game, the morning fog surges, as if returning to the glory of the past.

Come on, come and see, Taiping Villa has released a bounty again. With a shout, the crowd gathered under a stone wall on the side of the street, pointing and whispering to the bounty order.

I only listened to the obscene man and said: Ren Zhuang is really the luck of the martial arts, and the blessing of the people, all relying on the Taiping List formulated by him and the Seven Great Sects, so that these adulterous and plundering thieves are exposed to the scorching sun.

I heard a person give a thumbs up and answered: It's good to be the owner of the village, but isn't it even more remarkable to get rid of these thieves.

Everyone, you say a word to me, and there is no intention of ending.

I saw a hand suddenly stretched out and patted the shoulder of the person who had just spoken, and the man turned his head and said with a puzzled expression: What is the matter with the little brother?

The young man said: When I first entered the rivers and lakes, I don't know what this Taiping list is?

The lewd man looked at him with disdain, looked at him like a monster, and sneered: Little brother, did you come out of the mountains?

The boy smiled silently.

The lewd man was about to continue to taunt him, when a voice came from behind: Brother, let me tell you.

The young man looked up and looked back, only to see a burly man standing behind the crowd, more than a head taller than the crowd around him. Everyone was tall and mighty, and there was no drama to watch, so they boasted about it again. Ignore the teenager anymore.

The young man squeezed out of the crowd, came to stand in front of the burly man, arched his hand, and said: Thank you brother Taiwei for relieving your doubts.

The burly man grinned, showed his neat white teeth, and said with a smile: What brother is under the platform, my name is Da Xiong, what is your name?

The young man groaned for a moment, and then replied with a smile: "Ann, safe Ann."

The burly man said to the big bear: There are a lot of noisy people here, you come with me.

Then he turned around and took the lead to leave, and only stopped when he was in a broken temple.

When the two of them stood still, the big bear said: I have no father and no mother, since I was a child, I have been with my brother Ding Monkey, the four seas are home, wandering the world, recently came here, saw the lively and prosperous place, and Ding Monkey planned to stay for a while, this is my current home. After speaking, he looked around the broken temple and scratched his head, as if he was a little embarrassed.

After listening to it, I felt that this person was scheming and simple, and he was very impressed, and said with a smile; I am also an orphan, I have been living in the mountains, and I have only recently come out to wander, who knows that as soon as I come out, I will meet your brother, it is really fate.

The big bear grinned again, smiled and said: Fate, fate.

Ann then smiled and said: Just now you said that there is a brother, I don't know where he is?

Big Bear Road: Ding Monkey is active by nature and loves to be lively, so he may not know which gambling house or which Qinglou he drank and had fun with those smelly women.

Before Ann could reply to him, he only heard a voice in the distance: Big Bear, you are slandering the monkey master behind your back again. Before the words fell, a figure turned in from outside the temple, and turned seven or eight somersaults in the air in a row, hanging upside down on the beams in the broken temple.

Ann looked up and saw that the person who came was thin, as old as him, with a pair of big black eyes that were gurgling around, really like a monkey.

Da Xiong didn't expect him to come back suddenly, and he was speechless for a while, touching his head and smirking.

Ann looked at the stupid appearance of the big bear, and laughed in her heart, thinking that a person like you must not be able to make a home and wander the world.

With a roll of his eyes, he opened his mouth and continued: You should be the good brother Ding Monkey who took care of him since he was a child, cared for him, and pulled him up.

When Ding Monkey heard this, he turned over, landed next to Da Xiong, circled around him twice, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: I didn't expect it, Da Xiong, you still have a good conscience.

The big bear was covered with the ground again, and he smirked.

Ding Monkey looked at An, rolled his big eyes, looked up and down carefully, and said seriously: Although you are ragged and dirty, I see that you are clear and beautiful, and you don't look like a bad person, so I Ding Monkey will hand over you as a brother. By the way, what's your name? My name is Ding Monkey.

Ann couldn't laugh and cry, and reported her name again.

The three of them are all teenagers, of the same age, and they are all orphans, and they soon got together and chatted hotly. In fact, most of the time, Ann and Da Xiong quietly listened to Ding Monkey tell those anecdotes and celebrity anecdotes.

For example, the pig of Landlord Li's family arched the land of Zhao Yuanwai's house, and Zhao Yuanwai was angry, so he asked his subordinates to lead their own pigs at night and ate the cabbage of Landlord Li's house. The young lady of the Feng family married the son of the Liu family, and on the night of the cave room, when Liu Gongzi unveiled Miss Feng's red hijab, he was frightened and fainted... Etcetera.

The smiling Ann leaned back and closed, tears flowing, sweeping away the haze in his heart before.

When Ding Monkey finished telling a joke, Da Xiong patted his head and said: Take care of the joke and forget about the business.

Ding Monkey smiled and said: What is your business, isn't it just to eat and sleep, sleep and eat. After saying that, he laughed again.

Big Bear said with a smile: I just met Ann at the stone wall where the reward order was posted on the street, he was a little curious about the Taiping Bang, you know that I can't speak clearly, so I brought him back, and asked you to explain to him.

Ding Monkey lay on the ground, rested his head on his hands, lifted Erlang's legs and said: I thought there was something big, but it turned out to be such a small thing.

Ann looked at Ding Monkey and smiled: I would like to hear about it.

Ding Monkey straightened the right way: Ten years ago, after the tragedy of the three-point dart game, Chu Daxia's sworn brother Taiping Villa was the owner of the village, after a long time of painstaking investigation, it was suspected that someone colluded with those evil demons in the rivers and lakes, and the extremely vicious people brutally killed Chu Daxia and his wife, but there are so many wicked people and villains in the rivers and lakes, even though the owner of the village has a big family and strong strength, but with the power of one person, it is difficult to find out the identity of those murderers. If you can catch one, you can also comfort Chu Daxia and his wife a little in the spirit of the sky.

So he posted a heroic post, convened all the major factions of martial arts, and the major money houses, forces, and powerful people in the rivers and lakes, with his and Chu Daxia's status and reputation in the rivers and lakes for many years, persuaded a lot of people, and the major money houses paid for it, and the major gates sent their forces to formulate the Taiping List, secretly investigate the thieves who have done a lot of evil in the rivers and lakes, and delineate the reward amount according to the degree of their evil.

For a time, there was a bloody storm in the rivers and lakes, and countless thieves were caught and killed, including many chivalrous warriors in the rivers and lakes. But this has nothing to do with the people, as long as life is better.

But when he had closed his eyes, he went to sleep.

An nodded thoughtfully and said, "I see."

Da Xiong suddenly said: Monkey, you also tell Brother An about the endless list.

Anqi Dao: Endless list?

Ding Hou'er muttered, and then said: Not long after the Taiping List was formulated, a new sect in the rivers and lakes, called Senluo Palace, the hall master is extremely powerful, mysterious, and united a group of underworld forces to try to confront the martial arts righteous path, so as to formulate a list of reward white road personnel. The heads of the major sects of martial arts, and the characters in the rivers and lakes are among them.

Speaking of this, Ding Monkey paused and said: But these heroes of the martial arts are not afraid, but proud, and compare the amount of bounty in the endless list with each other, so as to chase down those bastards on the Taiping list even harder.

So far, the rivers and lakes are in chaos, you come and go between the two sides, today you kill me, tomorrow I kill you a pair, so it's not lively.

Da Xiong intercepted: What is the meaning of this name, you say it and I understand.

Ding Monkey muttered that he didn't know, but fell into a deep sleep.

At this time, An suddenly said lightly: The road is one foot high, the magic is one foot high, and the more you advance, the more you resist, and it will never stop.