The sun is blazing, and the twilight is late.

The bridge over the moat of Suzhou still comes and goes, crowded with many people, driving and busy with life, looking very happy.

In the midst of this crowd, two very conspicuous people were begging for pedestrians on the side of the road. A wrinkled face, nearly sixty years old, with gray hair, looked terminally ill. The other was six or seven years old, young and ignorant. Both of them are dressed in tatters, and they are skinny, and when they look at it, they should be grandchildren. The old man held a broken bowl in his hand, and the child looked pitiful with his fingers dirty.

The reason why it is conspicuous is because the two ancestors and grandchildren go to beg when they see people, so that no matter how crowded they are, they do not look at the disgusting and discriminatory eyes of everyone, as if the world is a bodhisattva with great compassion in their eyes.

"Open up, open up, stinky food. Passers-by were annoyed by the old man's entanglement, and naturally they would not leave virtue on their lips, and their swear words and saliva flew everywhere, and they were not ashamed of their demeanor at all.

"Okay, okay, okay, reward the old man with a mouthful of food, the poor baby hasn't eaten for three days......" The old man still begged the passers-by on the road, and sometimes did not forget to look at the child who was tied up, as if he had long been accustomed to such humiliation.

Suddenly, just as the old man was still begging passers-by, a commotion faintly broke out beside the pushing gate. I saw a carriage rumbling from a distance, rushing into the panicked crowd, and the coachman drove like a madman, not at all avoiding the passers-by, and with a whip fell on the neighing and galloping horses, and the crowd retreated like a tide to both sides. Just as the carriage was about to rush through the narrow city gate, the child led by the old man shook off the old man's shackles with one hand, and staggered towards the galloping carriage, as if to touch the flying mane. The coachman could not see the young child, and the blindfolded galloping horse could not stop its footsteps, and when the raised hooves were about to fall on the child's immature body, everyone stopped and watched with bated breath at this miserable moment.

The child's mouth opened wide in horror in the shadow of the huge horse's hooves, and his fingers had unconsciously detached from the small mouth, and the screaming crowd fell silent in an instant, except for the old man's muffled screams to pierce the sky. The blood-colored remnant sun also flickered away at this moment, and the earth fell into a haze.

Suddenly, a figure slid like lightning through the middle of the street, flicking the hooves of the horses that had swooped down with one hand, and picking up the frightened children with the other, and before the crowd had time to exclaim, it spun back to the corner of the street.

This man was a young man, and he stood proudly, as if he had never moved half a step, but there was an extra child in his arms. The galloping horse stumbled a few paces at the same moment, and finally dragged the carriage away with a stagger.

The passers-by around looked dumbfounded, and at this moment, the child was lowered from between the elbows of the boy and threw himself at the ecstatic old man on the side of the road. At this moment, everyone saw that the young man who came to the rescue was only seventeen or eighteen years old, with a green hairpin on his head and a cloth coat, and he was inconspicuous in the crowd, just like an ordinary peasant boy. However, in the twilight, he could faintly see his thick eyebrows like a sword, his face was clear, and a short black mustache on his lips showed a compelling heroic spirit.

After the young man comforted the old man who had been grateful for his kindness, he looked back and whispered: "Senior sister, let's go, there will be half an hour to climb Jinling here, and I don't know what happened to the master!"

As the young man spoke, he only heard a soft response of "um" from behind him, and then a slightly shorter boy with a hat flashed out from behind the boy, but under the hat was a childish face. At this moment, everyone noticed that the young man was followed by a girl who was also dressed plainly. This girl looks about fourteen or fifteen years old, with beautiful eyebrows and a graceful posture, although she is also a cloth dress, it is difficult to hide her moonlight and beautiful appearance. What's even more rare is that his temperament is elegant, down-to-earth and generous, leaning in front of the young man like a pair of beautiful people, everyone is fascinated by it, and he forgot the thrilling scene just now. The young man dragged the hem of his clothes by her and walked all the way to the city in the admiration of everyone.

Looking at the figure of the two teenagers who were gradually walking away, the old man held the child in his arms to avoid breaking away from his own ties again, the thrilling scene just now almost made him lose his soul, and he was afraid to think about it.

The two grandparents and grandchildren, the eldest and the youngest, are the orphans of the old man Ge and the Shi family six years ago. When Old Man Ge was still full of joy and wanted to go back to the village to make the villagers envy him, everything changed dramatically. The village, which had always been in conflict with the world and lived in the middle of nowhere, was brutally persecuted, destroying all the vegetation of people, animals and animals.

Looking at the corpse that was still alive in the early morning, busy harvesting under the farm, Old Man Ge was stunned, full of disbelief, holding the baby in his arms and squatting at the head of the village for a long time. He didn't know that the village had offended the evil god and would slaughter the whole village so viciously, but it was already the case.

Overnight, the original black silk was replaced by white hair, and the wrinkles on the face were deeper and older. Listening to the unstoppable crying of the bereaved baby in his arms, Old Man Ge looked very helpless.

Since then, Old Man Ge has begun to wander around with the baby in his arms. The village was destroyed and he was left homeless. Penniless, he took advantage of his own strength, so he relied on selling some chopped firewood to find milk for the baby, and when he was desperate, he went to the mountains to catch some animals with breast milk to feed the baby.

Time is flickering, and time flies.

Later, Old Man Ge's body deteriorated day by day, until the baby picked up in the forest grew up, Old Man Ge no longer had any strength. It is common to rely on begging every day, without enough food and clothing.

In a peaceful and prosperous world, people are like dogs.

Old man Ge took the children all the way down the Yangtze River to beg until the current boundary of Suzhou. Although it was peaceful along the way, I also suffered a lot.

A young soldier defending the city saw Old Man Ge standing in the middle of the city gate with a child in his arms to block the way, walked over fiercely, kicked at Old Man Ge and said, "Mother, don't go quickly, stand here and block the way." ”

Old man Ge was kicked back to his senses by this kick, and hurriedly got up to protect the child and said yes again and again, "Hey, hey, let's go, let's go!"

At this time, another middle-aged soldier also came over and persuaded: "Hey, what are you and the two beggars called, just send them away." As he spoke, the middle-aged soldier kindly took out two copper plates and handed them to Old Man Ge and said, "Let's go, see that there will be heavy rain in the evening, hurry up and buy some food, and take the child to take shelter from the rain." ”

Old man Ge took the copper plate, thanked him again, and then led the child away. With the haggard backs of the two departed, the middle-aged soldiers guarding the city shook their heads and sighed: "Alas, there are many hardships in the world, how many people can Deshi save." Pathetic, pathetic!"

[To be continued]