Many years later, when Zuo Qing met Zuo Shanwei, he remembered again the peaceful afternoon when he listened to his grandmother's story when he was a child.

That year, Zuo Qing was not called Zuo Qing, his name was Zuo Shuqing, that year, Zuo Shuqing was just six years old, that year, his grandmother told him that they were all strangers.

In Zuo Shuqing's eyes, he had always wondered why the people outside the village were so dark, with dark skin, dark hair, dark eyes, and a dark face, all of them were black except for their teeth. They never had a house, and they didn't seem to have a fixed dwelling, and at night they would jump around a campfire, howl and scream, and then fall asleep on the floor. The dark-skinned people once attacked the village, but the adults of the village joined forces to beat them away, and after a few fights, the dark-skinned people never harassed the village again.

The little Zuo Shuqing looked at his tender white yellow skin and asked his grandmother: "Grandma, why do they look different from us?"

Grandma said, "It's not that they're different from us, it's that we're different from them, they're the masters of the land, and we're the strangers." ”

"Outlander?" Zuo Shuqing asked without understanding and blinking his clear eyes.

"You remember!" said Grandma earnestly, "our home is in the far east, on the continent across the sea, where our ancestors lived. ”

"Where is that?"

"Weiping Mountain, Liaoxi County, Beihai County, where our Zuo clan is home, and your grandfather's grandfather's grandfather is there-"

"Grandpa's grandpa's grandpa's ......" Zuo Shuqing repeated, as if thinking about who it should be.

Grandma continued: "It's not like the village is hot all year round, there are four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, rain in summer, fallen leaves in autumn, snow in winter, and everything revivs in spring......

The afternoon sun was exceptionally mild, Zuo Shuqing snuggled in his grandmother's arms, listening to his grandmother tell the story of the other side of the sea, although many of them couldn't understand it, and they couldn't even remember it, but Zuo Shuqing loved it very much, and was full of yearning for the other side of the sea.

"Grandma, I must go to the other side of the sea when I grow up!" the childish voice was full of power.

Suddenly, the tranquility of the village was shattered by the intrusion of a stranger, who was not dark-skinned, but had the same yellow skin as the people in the village, but who was not from the village.

The people in the village are outsiders on this land, and that person is a foreigner from this village, although the little Zuo Shuqing can't think of too many things, he can also realize that that person is from the other side of the sea.

The man ran in in a panic, and Zuo Shubiao, who was hoeing grass in the vegetable garden, was in charge of patrolling and guarding the village, and was particularly surprised to see this stranger with the same skin as himself. The man asked him for food, and out of sympathy for the same skin, Zuo Shubiao picked a few tomatoes and gave them to him, and the man devoured two.

Zuo Shubiao was about to inquire carefully, when a breeze suddenly blew, and it was not strange to blow a little breeze in the afternoon, but the man was very flustered, took a big bite of the tomato and swallowed it violently, and then said to Zuo Shubiao in a panic and solemnly: "Run, run! Let everyone run!"

Zuo Shubiao was stunned for a while, he didn't know what this person meant, thinking that he had a mental problem, the man looked at the direction where the wind was blowing, and shouted at Zuo Shubiao: "Run, run for your life!" The man saw that Zuo Shubiao didn't react, turned around and shouted around the village, "Run, the smoke is coming, run for your life!"

The man shouted hoarsely several times, but seeing that the people in the village did not react, he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet and ran out of the village alone. There were also people in the village who saw the man's scream, the kind of roar that he did his best didn't look fake, but he didn't explain what was going on, Zuo Shubiao and the others were puzzled for a while.

Zuo Shuqing asked grandma: "Grandma, who is that person?"

Grandma said, "I don't know, let's go, go over and have a look." ”

Saying that, the grandfather and grandson held hands and came to Zuo Shubiao, and the grandmother asked, "Da Biao, what's the matter with that person?"

Zuo Shubiao held his hoe, scratched his head, and said, "I don't know, he came in to eat, and then he shouted some strange things inexplicably, I'm afraid he's a madman——"

"Cough cough-" When Zuo Shubiao was talking, grandma suddenly coughed, and then, Zuo Shuqing also covered his nose and said, "Oops! What does it smell like?"

Zuo Shubiao sniffed carefully, a slightly choking smell permeated the air, the taste was not directly choking, after inhaling, it seemed to slowly penetrate into the body, first stimulating the throat to itch, want to cough, and then slightly dizzy, the brain hurts......

"It's not good, it's poisonous!" Zuo Shubiao suddenly remembered that the man had shouted "The smoke is coming", although the smoke can't be seen in the air now, but it seems that the air is not so clear, Zuo Shubiao didn't have time to think about it, he picked up his grandmother, pulled Zuo Shuqing and ran out of the village, "Milk, Shuqing, you two cover your noses, don't inhale poisonous smoke!" At the same time, Zuo Shubiao shouted while running, "Everyone run, poisonous smoke, run to the mountain!"

When someone in the village heard it, they ran along, and some people didn't know what was going on, and when they opened the window, they smelled poisonous smoke and fell down with a dry cough. When Zuo Shubiao ran to a small hillside, he no longer had the strength, his legs were paralyzed, he fell to the ground, the seven orifices began to emit black smoke, the skin of his body began to blacken, atrophied, and gradually the whole person seemed to be scorched, and gradually lost his life, which was very terrifying.

Zuo Shuqing helped his grandmother to stand up from the ground, her grandmother's eyes were full of blood, she kept coughing, and said to Zuo Shuqing: "Shuqing, I say a word, you memorize a sentence, and you have to remember every word." ”

Zuo Shuqing nodded, and grandma said, "Qiu heirloom Guowen." ”

"Qiu heirloom Mandarin. Zuo Shuqing followed behind.

"Fengtian is benevolent and righteous. ”

"Fengtian is benevolent and righteous. ”

"Baoyu is full of Tingfang. ”

"Baoyu is full of Tingfang. ”

"Katsura Mountain is neutral. ”

"Katsura Mountain is neutral. ”

"That's all, a total of four sentences, 20 words, have you remembered?" asked Grandma weakly.

"Well, remember!" Zuo Shuqing nodded.

"To the East, that's our home. Grandma said with her eyes slightly closed.

"Grandma, grandma-" Zuo Shuqing shouted a few times, but grandma didn't respond, "Grandma, grandma!" Zuo Shuqing raised his voice and shouted more urgently, but grandma still didn't respond, and then grandma's body had a reaction similar to Zuo Shubiao, Zuo Shuqing was so frightened that he stepped back, sat on the ground, and cried wow.

At this moment, a group of dark-skinned people roared down the hillside, like a frightened herd of wildebeests, in a mess. Sometimes there are animals wailing through the grass, sometimes there are birds fluttering their wings and falling in the air, the village where Zuo Shuqing lives has been shrouded in black smoke at this time, the grass and trees on the ground began to wither, the grass leaves first appeared black spots, and then the spots became larger and larger, gradually spreading to the whole leaf, and then to the whole plant, from small grass to big trees, all of them were spared.

Zuo Shuqing sobbed, and began to cough, and at the same time felt that his body had no strength, his mind was dizzy, and his eyes were black, and then, breathing gradually became difficult, Zuo Shuqing seemed to see that his body began to emit black smoke, just on his skin, in his pores, a trace of black smoke came out.

Zuo Shuqing didn't know if this was an illusion or real, but he realized in his heart that he was about to die.