All your life is gentle

Li Zishi felt a sharp pain in his back, and he couldn't help but want to curl up, but he felt that he was pressed by something, scorching hot. "Ah!" With a scream, he turned over desperately, and the thing that was pressing on his back fell aside with a "boom".

He opened his eyes, thick smoke filled the air, and there was red light everywhere, and he was actually in a sea of ​​flames.The back of his head was throbbing, and he was still not quite awake. He staggered up and was about to take a step when he tripped again.It turned out that it was something that was holding him down just now—a beam that was burnt at one end.Only then did I realize that the clothes on my body were also bursting into flames, so I rolled over to put them out, lying on the ground, using my eyesight enough to identify the direction.

I don’t know if I don’t look at it, but I’m startled when I see it.Not far away, a person has been burned into a fireball.Behind him is the bookshelf, which is crackling, and the entire wall of fire seems to be overwhelmed soon.

Li Zishi was petrified.

A tongue of fire whirled, and he instinctively turned his head to avoid it, his eyes were sore from being burnt, and tears flowed down.A voice piercingly shouted in his head: "That's your father! Your father!"

"Daddy..."

Suddenly a cough was heard.Staggering out a few steps, I saw two children tied to a post on the other side.The girl hung her head, already fainted from the smoke.The boy blushed from the choking, and tried his best to hold back, with an air of resignation from death all over his body.

"Brother and sister..."

Zi Shi came to his senses all of a sudden, picked up a large brush that was on the ground, and poured it on the two children.He left some water and poured it on his head, let go, and the pen washer shattered into pieces with a clang.Picking up the sharpest broken magnet, cutting the rope, shouting at the boy: "Xiaoquan, go!" Picking up the girl, he rushed out.When he arrived at the door, he heard no movement behind him. Looking back, Li Quan was still standing there blankly, staring at the burning dead body of his father.

Leaving his younger sister Li outside the door, he ran back to the house in two steps, slapped him across the face, and yelled, "My biological son hasn't planned to be buried with him yet, why are you fussing about as an adopted son? Save your life." Go find your own father! Let's go!" Li Quan came back to his senses, held his elder brother's sleeve, and ran out.

As soon as the three brothers and sisters rushed out of the corridor, they heard a loud bang behind them. The beams and pillars on the south side of the first floor of "Sidangzhai" completely collapsed.

Zi Shi carried Li Huan on his back, freed his hand to hold Li Quan, and ran out stumbling all the way.Passing through the hall, a group of women with white silk hanging around their necks hanging from the beams of the house had died for a long time.

"That's my mother, that's my aunt, that's sister Cuiqiao, that's sister Hongyu..." One warm name after another swirled in my mind.Zi Shi carried his younger sister on his back, pulled his younger brother, and ran forward desperately, tears flying and flying, and stayed behind.

The street was noisy and chaotic, and people were running in all directions.

Someone yelled loudly: "The black savages have entered the city, General Lin is dead, Mr. Li Ge is dead, everyone fight them hard!"

Someone shouted again: "Whatever your life is, run for your life! The south gate can still go out, hurry up!"

He ran two streets in one breath, his back was burning with pain, his legs were trembling, and he couldn't even take half a step.Fortunately, Li has woken up and can walk by himself.Zi Shi braced his back and panted heavily, feeling as if his heart was about to jump out of his throat piece by piece, and his back hurt so badly that it wasn't his own.

After a long time, I straightened up and looked in the direction of my home: the smoke and dust billowed, and the flames shot into the sky.In a trance, I felt like I was dreaming, but the substantial pain in my body was so real.There is a sink next to it, and after taking a photo, it is still the same face, but it seems to be more immature.Come to think of it, this body just turned 16 years old.My name should be Li Mian, styled Zishi.

Or Li Zishi.

Make up your mind.Now that you are here, this place is reality, and the other side is a dream.

Who told me to "suffer alive"?Sure enough, I suffered.

—Hmph, since you're still alive, it doesn't matter if you suffer.

Zi Shi laughed.

Li still looked at him, a little scared, and called softly: "Brother..."

"Can you still walk?"

"Can move."

"Okay, let's go to the south gate."

"Brother, where are father and mother...?" Li Huan was still in a coma, and he didn't see his father turned into a fireball and his mother's white silk hanging from the beam.

Zi Shi stopped in his tracks, opened his arms, hugged Li Quan and Li Huan in front of him, and murmured, "From now on... there will only be the three of us."

The relationship between these two children and myself has been separated by layer after layer, but they are connected by blood.He remembered that this body had taken care of a pair of siblings for ten years.The kind of feeling that breaks the bones and connects the tendons makes Zi Shi feel sad and heartbroken without hesitation, and he is willing.

The crowd came and went suddenly, and the two children had no time to respond to the elder brother's words, and looked around in panic.Zi Shi looked at Li again, stretched out his hand to pull out the jade ring on her head, and the velvet flowers on her temples, and went to pick off her earrings and collar, moving quickly.He said to Li Quan, "Take off the coat and put it on for my younger sister." Li Quan was still in a daze, but Li already understood: "Brother, is he going to pretend I'm a boy?"

"Small is really smart."

The girl looked excited.He quickly took off the embroidered skirt by himself, and put on the coat that Li Quan handed over.The clothes have been smoked and burned, and they have long lost their original glamorous appearance.Li Quan and she are twins, they are about the same height, and they are about the same size, so they dress just right.

Zi Shi looked at those jade rings, earrings and collars, they were worth a little money, maybe they would be useful, so he stuffed them into his bosom first.With dust on her hands, Li Huan's snow-like little face was dusted, and she untied her braids and tied them in two buns.

Li Quan couldn't help laughing at his sister's strange appearance.Li Huan looked down at his body, touched his hair again, and smiled himself.Zi Shi secretly sighed: After all, it is a child.Hold each other one by one and continue to run forward.

After running not far, I suddenly felt the ground shaking behind me.At first there was a scream, which was quickly covered by the sound of horseshoes as dense as thunder and drums.The crowd came surging, and everyone's faces were full of fear.

"Run away! The black savage is going to massacre the city—"

Massacre the city!

A black line in the distance moved quickly to this side, mixed with shining silver light in the middle.Where the black line and silver light passed, a puff of blood mist rose into the sky, and the crowd immediately became thinner.Xirong cavalrymen held long knives and aimed at the neck, often their heads rolled off and their bodies had to run several steps before they fell to the ground.

The turbulent flow of people suddenly stagnated, and the howls filling the world suddenly fell silent.Thousands of eyes and ears were instantly blinded and deaf, refusing to face the tragic scene in front of them.

Zi Shi felt that he was watching a war movie and a disaster movie, and accidentally pressed the pause button.However, the next moment, everyone reacted, screamed and ran wildly.The silver light of the black line approached quickly, and the sound of horseshoes seemed to be trampling directly on the heart.But he didn't activate the play button.

"It's true, it's true..." Zi Shi pulled up Li Quan and Li Huan, took advantage of the crowd's collision and fell down on the side of the road, pressing the two of them under him, telling him over and over again: "Close your eyes, Don't move, don't make a sound... No matter what happens, don't move or make a sound without the order of the elder brother..." The two children didn't know whether they were scared or they knew the situation was serious, so they lay down obediently.

Someone stepped on the three of his siblings. Zi Shi took a deep breath and tried hard to bear the extra weight. He almost heard the sound of ribs breaking.Someone fell on him again, his back was warm and wet, and the pungent smell of blood told him that it was a corpse that had just been slaughtered.

Consciousness gradually blurred.There was no movement under him, the two children must have passed out.That's fine, let's rest in this pile of dead bodies.Zi Shi's heart relaxed, and he fell into darkness.

Fu Sheng reined in his horse and stopped in front of the city gate. At the age of 17, he is almost as tall as his elder brother Fu Ding.Different from Fu Ding's burly and mighty, perhaps because of his mother's inheritance, Fu Sheng has a well-proportioned and tall figure, handsome features, and a much fairer complexion than ordinary Xirong men. He is known as the most beautiful man in Xirong.

Now he is straddling the horse, his waist straight as a javelin, purple cloak, black battle armor, longbow on his back, and silver spear in his hand.

Fu Ding glanced at him, feeling jealous in his heart, and shouted "Kill!" He rode his horse to join the team that slaughtered the city, and killed with his men to vent their anger.

Fu Sheng disagreed with the elder brother's decision to slaughter the city.But there seems to be no need to object.So he just waited outside the city.The meaning of the father is to follow the big brother to practice.Originally, the two brothers were at odds since they were young, but when they got older, they had a tacit understanding with each other to avoid direct confrontation.This time, I nodded because I wanted to see many places my mother mentioned before she was alive.Unexpectedly, Fu Ding didn't hold anything back, and readily agreed.

Xirong's [-] iron cavalry attacked the southeast in five ways, and the most prosperous and prosperous line was set for the eldest prince Fu.Burning, killing, looting, rape, and looting all the way, there was hardly any decent resistance.It made Fu Sheng feel ashamed for his matrilineal compatriots.Until entering the territory of Yuezhou, the atmosphere gradually changed.He is still invincible, still has the same weak body and clumsy moves, but the mental state shown by the opponent is eye-catching.For several consecutive cities, people continued to fight with their lives and die with their bodies, no matter men, women, old or young.

Fu Sheng remembered that this thing was mentioned in the articles and stories my mother taught before, which is called "integrity".

Since ancient times, Yuezhou has been rich in beauties and talents. Besides, there are more loyal and righteous people.In every dynasty and every generation, there are many people who die in the palace of the golden throne, and those who stick to it in the chaos of war.There are even more martyred widows than in other places.It is the folk custom to sacrifice one's life for benevolence and sacrifice one's life for righteousness.

So since the eldest brother entered Yuezhou, he has been fighting a lot.The opponent is weak, but he is like a fly that cannot be caught or a cockroach that cannot be trampled to death.Even if you slap it to death in the end, it's like a mosquito that bites you, leaving its corpse and a smear of your own blood in the palm of your hand, which can't be wiped off, it's disgusting to watch.

The fight in Tongcheng became even more depressed.

Guarding Lin Fan was not well-known, but he had a down-to-earth drive. He refused to go out of the city to fight, and took soldiers and people to strengthen the city wall every day.After wasting countless arrow feathers, Fu Ding finally listened to his advice, and transferred the ladders and chariots from the Xia army from Miancheng, which he had captured before, and organized the siege under the cover of archers.

Xirong soldiers are not very good at this kind of combat method. Fortunately, they are all physically strong, well-developed motor nerves, and have strong individual combat capabilities.As long as a few are turned in, the city gate is opened, and the cavalry rushes in, there is nothing to resist.

This attack lasted for five days, breaking the record since Xi Rong entered the summer.You know, it took only two days for the capital city of Yanyang to come down.

There were fewer and fewer soldiers of the Xia army on the city, and in the end they were almost all ordinary people, copying all kinds of guys to fight the Xirong soldiers who climbed to the top of the city.According to a report from a small leader who attacked and was forced to withdraw, besides guarding Lin Fan, there was another important person who organized the resistance, a scribe, but even Lin Fan listened to him, and the Xia people called him Li. Court old.

On the third day, Fu Sheng narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the top of the city, and saw a figure in a green shirt standing under the flagpole, the clothes fluttering in the wind, very thin, but his posture was as stable as a rock, standing still.

That should be Li Ge, the scribe who guarded the city, right?With my own arrow technique, if I don't spare any energy, maybe it's almost the same.But why is it necessary?Sooner or later, this city of Tong will be defeated, so why bother to vent the truth in front of the eldest brother.

At this time, I heard Fu Ding's vicious opponents from a few hundred households say: "Give me an order, once the city is broken, immediately massacre the city, and kill all these southerners who are not afraid of death! See if your neck is hard or my knife hard!"

Ever since Fu Ding burned the "Jixian Pavilion" out of some dark psychology against himself that year, and was trained by his father, his wildness has restrained a lot.This is the first time a massacre order has been issued since going south.It seems to be really depressed.

While thinking about these idle things, a small group of people came out from the city gate and walked up to salute: "The eldest prince said, wait for the second prince to celebrate in the eunuch's mansion."

"Then what did Mr. Li Ge catch?" Fu Sheng really wanted to meet such a courageous and upright scholar.

"Go back to the second prince and say it's a suicide. I heard from the brothers who went to Li's mansion that the whole house was burned down and everyone inside was burnt to charcoal."

"How do you know it's ***?"

"A few servants were caught. According to their confession, this man surnamed Li couldn't keep watch. He went back and ordered all the women in the family to hang himself. He took his son and daughter and set fire to his favorite library."

"So... let's go." Fu Sheng followed the soldiers leading the way into the city.

midnight.

Zi Shi lightly shook Li Quan to wake him up.

Turn Li Huan's face away first, and look directly into her eyes: "Xiao Huan, remember, this is a dream. Big Brother will take you out, and when we leave the city, the dream will wake up." Li Huan nodded blankly. head.Turning to look at Li Quan again, the boy looked resolute: "Brother, I know, this is not a dream. I'm not afraid."

Zi Shi patted his shoulder silently.Thinking of the slap during the day, he didn't know how much he remembered, and said softly: "I'm sorry. At that time, brother shouldn't have hit you."

Li Quan hugged Zi Shi's arm: "Brother...Brother..." With tears rolling in his eyes, he called out twice, but said nothing.

Zi Shi sighed.Children are too sensible, which makes parents feel distressed.

"Brother goes up first, puts the bucket down, and lets the younger sister go up, and you're the last one."

"it is good."

Moved the two corpses in front of him, and stepped on the small hole on the wall of the well for climbing.The shoes were wet and slippery, and it was very difficult to climb.This was a dry well, and what soaked the shoes was not water, but blood.

Zi Shi felt deeply grateful for his foresight.After waking up during the day, he immediately dragged his siblings to find this dry well by the roadside, and hid at the bottom of the well without making a sound.After the first round of massacres ended, the Xirong army began to plunder extensively, collecting gold, silver and soft goods from house to house, and found almost all the people and property hidden in the walls, cellars, water tanks, and haystacks. Light and blood, crying and screaming.

Zi Shi tore off the rags from his skirt, plugged the ears of the two children, and sat quietly at the bottom of the well with his arms around them.

Even when I committed suicide by jumping off a building in that life, I didn't feel that death was so imminent.There is such a huge difference between a moment of unconscious impulse and a sober waiting for the judgment.When life and death are at stake, where is the time to consider whether to live?Just trying to survive.It turns out that this is human instinct.

The near-death cries echoed in his ears, and Zi Shi felt infinitely desolate.

After the looting, there was silence for a while.Just as I was thinking whether to go up and have a look, I heard someone walking and talking near the top of my head, murmuring and I didn't know what to say.It turned out that Xirong soldiers came again.

Suddenly came Xia Ren's voice: "Master, please forgive me, please forgive me, I don't want to die—ah!" It stopped abruptly.A Xibing soldier said in Xia Yu with correct words: "Play dead? There is no need to pretend now. Poor ghost, this is a valuable thing..." After a while, two corpses were thrown down from the mouth of the well, "Crack! Crack! !" Hit the wall of the well, almost directly on Zi Shi's body.

As soon as there was movement above his head, Zi Shi covered the mouths of Li Quan and Li Huan.Now he is pressing the heads of the two of them into his arms desperately.A few Xibing soldiers walked away cursing, probably to collect money from other dead people.Zi Shi slumped against the wall of the well, covered in cold sweat.

Until nightfall, nothing else happened.

Zi Shi climbed out by climbing the edge of the well, removed the dead people nearby, found the bucket that had been left aside, and tied it to the pulley for fetching water.After testing the strength of the rope, it was slowly lowered.The dry well has not been used for many days, and the wheels are not turning smoothly. "Squeak--squeak--", the sound is particularly sharp in the night, and it can be heard far away.Zi Shi's heart skipped a beat, and he pricked up his ears to listen carefully to the movement around him.

It was so easy to pull Li Huan and Li Quan up, almost losing their strength.Without taking a breath, he recognized his direction and continued to run towards the south gate.Stumbling along the way, there are constantly things stumbling, or broken arms and limbs, or detached heads.There are dark shadows all around, and the gloomy wind is miserable.Under the moonlight, corpses were piled up everywhere, blood and flesh messed up.The bright moon in the sky seemed to be unable to bear to see this horrific scene, and after a while, it quietly hid in the clouds.

Except for the mid-level and above generals of the Xirong army who gathered in the prefect's mansion to celebrate with the two princes, the rest of the soldiers were drinking and reveling in the garrison outside the north gate.The faint noise and flames made the southern city even more silent.The three brothers and sister Shi Shi struggled through the mountains of corpses and the sea of ​​blood.Occasionally, survivors like them crawled out from a certain corner, looked at each other silently, and continued on their own paths.

Before leaving the city, Zi Shi stripped off a few clothes from the bodies of some less ugly corpses.He even found some Flint dagger dry food and the like, and took it for himself without any hesitation.

At dawn, I arrived at the foot of Jicui Mountain outside the south gate.The water of the Hanjiang River passes through the city, bypasses the foot of the mountain, and flows obliquely northward into the Lianjiang River.The river in the city had long been stained red with blood, and when it flowed here, the water was broad and finally diluted into a transparent pink.

Zi Shi couldn't care less about all this, and took his younger siblings to the riverside to wash their blood-stained filth.The coat can no longer be put on the body, let it go with the water.The underwear was soaked in water, rubbed, wrung dry, and carried.Put on the clothes you picked up from the pile of dead people.He picked up the dagger and cut off Li Quan and Li Huan's overly long sleeves and hem, which happened to be two bundles.

Once cleaned up, although the blood stains could not be washed away completely, it finally looked more like a human being, no longer the hideous appearance when he just came out of the hell asura field.His back was numb with pain for a long time because he was hit by the burning beam and burned.At this moment, when the water rushed, the nerve endings revived, the skin and flesh jumped up and down, and my heart didn't feel at ease.Zi Shi comforted himself: This is proof of his life, bear with it.

"Let's go up the mountain and stay for two days."

"Why?" Li Quan asked.

After a night of horror, the child not only survived, but also remained so calm and talented.

"The Xirong army will soon attack the next city, which is probably Liaocheng in the south or Xin'an County in the east. No matter where we go, we have to take the road of the South Gate. We will be overtaken by them in a short distance. Why don't we wait for them to leave? , and then slowly on the road."

"Won't they go up the mountain?"

"No." Zi Shi replied firmly, "They like riding horses, not climbing mountains."

A small head hit his arm.When he looked down, it was Li Huanmi Dengdeng who was dozing off.

Gritting his teeth, he squatted down, put his sister on his back, took a long breath, and stood up.I thought: If you carry this on your back, you are a member of the staff.

Carrying the bundle in his hand, he asked Li Quan to follow behind him, and walked deep into Jicui Mountain.This mountain can also be regarded as a small scenic spot in Tongcheng. Every year when you go out to enjoy the autumn, you always come twice, and you are very familiar with it.There is a hidden cave in the middle of the mountain, which I accidentally discovered when I was playing with my old boy friends, and it can just hide.