Chapter Twenty-Seven-[Ah Niu]

I looked out the window at the dim night, the north wind was still howling after the Spring Festival, and all that poured in through the cracks in the window was the icy cold wind.

I took some hay from the corner of the house and plugged it up, but it was still cold, and the Spring Festival did not bring much to the town, and the birch tree in the courtyard outside the house, which was not very tall, was still as dry as the claws of a demon.

Bald trees

Ghost Claw

candlepower

Ah Niu was in a trance all of a sudden

At this moment, his father's voice coughed violently in the room

Ah Niu brought the medicine to his father's bed, picked up his father from the bed, and sent the medicine to his father's mouth. But Ah Niu's father coughed violently after two sips, coughing more violently than before, coughing so much that he even vomited blood on the dirty quilt.

Ah Niu's father gasped violently, but no longer drank the medicine, his hand tightly grasped Ah Niu's arm, refusing to let go, at this time, Ah Niu's father seemed to say something to Ah Niu, but Ah Niu's father opened his mouth but couldn't say anything.

Ah Niu put his father down slowly, but Ah Niu and his father stared at the bedroom door curtain, he tried his last bit of strength, pointed at the door curtain with his finger, his eyes were staring at the bedroom door obliquely, and kept moaning: "The world, the world, the world."

Although Ah Niu's father didn't say anything else, Ah Niu knew what his father was calling - it was "her" - the beautiful and quaint knife, although Ah Niu's father never told Ah Niu "her" name, Ah Niu knew that his father was calling "her".

Ah Niu went out the door and walked to the table of the Eight Immortals, he stood so straight in front of the Eight Immortals Table, the candle was faint but jumping, projecting Ah Niu's figure on the dim loess wall

The candlelight was jumping

I walked out the door and walked to the table of eight immortals, the candles were faint but jumping, and I looked at the two candles with the words "Tianxia" placed in the middle.

I was going to take that beautiful knife to my father, a sick old man, and I reached out and took it.

When I was a child, my father forced me to practice and left me in the deep mountains and old forests, so only this knife guided me, cut down the wolves, and walked out of the forest.

When I was a child, I asked my father, what about my mother? The result was a beating, so I didn't ask anymore, because in my dreams I no longer saw the hazy face of my self-righteous mother, because there was "the world" with me, accompanied me to travel all over the "world", and in the dream I saw the world and the people of the world that I had never seen before

I don't care who my mother is.

Because she couldn't get me out of the forest, she couldn't let me see the light of the morning sun shining into the forest, I still remember surviving lying on all fours on the ground, looking at the light shining in the forest and smiling, I remember that the swaying leaves made the sunlight break up, and in my eyes it was like the stars of the night, and then we came to this dry town

I heard the dog barking outside the door, I picked up the knife, lifted the curtain in front of my father's house, and walked in.

The candlelight was still jumping

My father died peacefully, without much pain, and I picked up the badge that my father told me on his deathbed - a word was printed on it, and although I did not know why, I still cherished this badge and kept it close to my body, and then wrapped it in a cloth "Tianxia".

At this moment, the loess road in the desolate town outside the door sounded a rapid sound of horses' hooves. Was it the soldiers who were ten miles away who took advantage of the darkness to go out of the barracks to visit the kilns and have fun? But the hurriness of the horses' hooves was not as ostentatious as they did not dare to be so ostentatious.

At this moment, there was a sound outside the door that seemed to be a sharp arrow breaking through the wind, and then the nearby dogs barked wildly, accompanied by a group of dogs barking, and then the sound of breaking into the door

Here's what's going on.

The candlelight flickered on and off

When Ah Niu was about to run out of the loess house, a sharp arrow came through the papier-mâché window that was already full of holes, and pierced the table of the Eight Immortals.

Ah Niu immediately pressed against the wall, cautiously leaning against the wall, squatting slightly, looking out of the window, although it was dim outside, only some torches were seen circling back and forth in the dark, followed by howling and fighting.

Soon, the kiln of the Qinglou in the town also caught fire, followed by a woman's shrill voice, as if it was from a dream cave

The candlelight still flickered on and off

When I looked carefully into the darkness, there was a certain indescribable feeling coming from the sword in the world, and I vaguely understood what was happening in the dark.

At this moment, a group of horseback robbers dressed differently are skillfully slaughtering the people in this town, whether they are men, women, children, chickens and dogs, they can't escape the knives of those who are strong on horseback.

Soon I heard the sound of horses approaching the place, as if a strong man had dismounted from his horse and made the sound of his clothes rubbing against his stirrups.

I gripped the knife tightly, and sweat began to break out in my palms. I don't know how, but I didn't seem to be afraid—I remember that the first time I was afraid was that my father had left me in that forest, but the sword came with me, and I was no longer afraid.

On the contrary, I seem to be a little looking forward to it, a little excited, in the dream of a hundred turns, I rushed to kill hundreds of times in the battle array, perhaps, this is my past life

When the door panel sounded the sound of being kicked open

At this time, the candlelight went out

dark

dark

Dark!

Ah Niu was surrounded by the group of horseback robbers, some with torches swaying, others with bows and arrows, and their covered faces showed only two eyes.

The ground was full of corpses, and Ah Niu could still see that those corpses were dead with their eyes open, and those strong men were laughing and laughing, ridiculing someone's uselessness, and actually died at the hands of a mountain hunter, and those with bows and arrows also slowly put away their bows and arrows, and only regarded Ah Niu as a pig and dog that could be slaughtered at any time.

Ah Niu listened to it in his heart, these people don't seem to be from here, and their voices are not like those here.

At this time, a strong man who seemed to be the leader drank something, and the others drew their knives and slashed at Ah Niu

Ah Niu and the world stabbed some people, and he was cut many places by the surrounding knife soldiers, but the leader's people were cut off by Ah Niu with a knife, and Ah Niu tore off the jute grass cloak covering the whole body of the leader, and used it to resist the sharp arrows that were fired.

Ah Niu saw a delicately embroidered brocade robe under the headless leader's jute grass cloak, but Ah Niu didn't know what was embroidered on the brocade robe, and he just wanted to live now.

Ah Niu didn't know how to ride a horse, so he pushed down the headless corpse, then attached himself and grabbed the horse's mane tightly, and then followed the galloping horse to the dust, and the strong men chasing behind him shot at them with bows and arrows, but they did not hit them

luck

The luck of the knife in the world

The horse fell to the ground, and Ah Niu hid in the cave of the twists and turns of the loess hills and mountains in the Loess Plain, and when Ah Niu heard the sound of the hooves of the horses chasing him away, he fell into a deep sleep (to be continued). )