beg for chivalry

In the blink of an eye, ten days have passed.

On this day, the sky is blue and the clouds are high, and the geese return to the swans.Red maples, autumn chrysanthemums, phoenix trees and hibiscus are dotted in the picturesque autumn scenery, adding a poetic feeling.

Three feet of yellow soil was dug beside the persimmon tree, and a small slope was shoveled up. In front of the slope was inserted a rough square wooden plaque, with the words "Golden Eighteen" written on it with a vermilion pen.A boy in black was lying on his back with Tangdi's core in his mouth, staring blankly at the blue sky.Upon closer inspection, his black hair was disheveled, his body was covered with dust, and the shovel used for soiling was wrapped with cloth strips on his legs, which was also dirty and mottled.

This disheveled man is Jin Wu, the young master of Houtianlou.Still unable to use his hands, he tied the shovel to his leg and dug the grave.From the first rising of the sun to the setting of the crescent moon in the west, Jin Wu stayed here without sleep, without a drop of water, and finally dug out a hole.So he put Jin Shiba's relics into the pit, but he didn't rush to fill the soil, but lay in front of the grave in a daze.

The assassin of the Ministry of Jin handed over Jin Shiba's relics to him. There were not many things left by the man, a few mended military uniforms, cotton buckskins for wiping knives, and a fine soil box, all of which were broken items. , the most precious of which may be a plum red box.

When Jin Wu opened it, he saw a few polished Tongbao scattered inside, and carefully folded a piece of embroidery bought from an aunt in a Taoist temple.He first mocked bitterly in his heart, thinking that Jin Shiba was seduced by a woman in the brothel before he was alive, and asked the temple aunt to embroider a picture of a beauty and hide it in a box as a treasure.When it was unfolded, it was discovered that it was a landscape painting: continuous mountains, jade gates and natural moats, with dried snow plums sandwiched between them.

He suddenly remembered that Jin Shiba said that he was from Yanqing Prefecture, maybe this was the scene of his hometown in his dream.

Jin Wu buried everything in the grave, staring at the wooden sign in a daze.This is the tomb of that person's clothes. From now on, there will never be another annoying person who chatters to talk to me.

He suddenly felt that the world was clean, but at the same time he felt that it was so clean that it made people panic.So he started talking to himself, talking to himself, and even bought some wine from the foot shop in town to drink.He drank one jar, but he didn't feel much; he drank five or six jars, but he didn't feel drunk at all-"Wangyou" can make people feel drowsy and drowsy!Therefore, alcohol cannot buy drunk, but it makes him more sober and feels powerless.

Is Zuo not going to drive him crazy?Jin Wu lay in front of the grave and thought.No, absolutely impossible.He's not crazy, he's still alive, but not so well.

It's just that when he glanced at Jin Shiba's grave and the wooden plaques beside the grave with the names of the deceased written on it, he couldn't help being disturbed.Jin Shiba was not the first friend Zuo Buzheng killed. Before that, Zuo Buzheng had killed more than a dozen of them, but every time Jin Wu was helpless.Either she was seriously injured and unable to move, or she was locked in a prison, unable to move an inch.

If he died, I'm afraid it doesn't matter, and no one cares about it.Jin Wu suddenly thought so.

While he was in a trance, the fair cheeks of the young girl Shui Ling suddenly came close to his eyes.Zuo Sanniang bounced up to Jin Wu with a bamboo bone umbrella, and reached out to grab the hem of his clothes. "Fifth brother, if you lie down here again, you will be dried up in the sun." She looked at him and said with a smile.

Jin Wu's eyes were still fixed on the sky, he said slowly: "...It's not human, it's mud."

He didn't want to get up.If it dies here and turns into a pile of mud and piles under the trees in the grass, it will still be able to breed and protect the spring red.His voice was lazy and lifeless, and his eyes were like bottomless black ink pools, unable to stir up any waves.

The girl tripped over the empty wine jug he threw around, so she pinched her nose and said disgustedly: "...You smell so strong of wine."

Jin Wu murmured: "...But the drunkenness is too light." As he spoke, he touched the wine jar beside him.

San Niang felt a little annoyed when she saw it.Although the previous Jin Wu was quite annoying, he not only punched her when we first met her, but also never stopped ridiculing her, and his attitude towards her has always been tepid.But at that time when he was bickering and messing around, he was still a little nimble, not like a heartless person.At this time, it was as heavy as dead wood and stagnant water, and it could not be seen that the young man was full of vigor at the beginning.

Thinking of this, she folded her hands on her hips and said in a coquettish manner: "I'm going to play in the town, you come with me."

Jin Wu turned over and said, "Go find someone else."

Sanniang leaned over and pulled up his clothes, and said coquettishly: "Fifth brother, look at how hard I've been working so hard for so many days, I've been sleepless day and night, and for the sake of finally saving you from the gate of hell, come out and play with me. "

She saw that if Jin Wu continued to be depressed like this, it would not be surprising that one day he really rotted to death in this grass mud.But Zuo Sanniang also wanted to go out and have some fun. She had been staying in Tongle Temple for several years, but she didn't know anything about the world under the gate, so she couldn't help being curious: Zuo Zhuzhu tried his best not to let What is the world that Jin Wu sees?

But Jin Wu said coldly: "Who wants you to save me? Have I said this? My wish more than ten years ago was that the poison of blood bitterness would attack faster, so that I could follow Jin Shi that day." Eight together died. My wish at this time is to quickly find a hollow to sleep in, and teach the birds and beasts to peck me to nothing but a skeleton, so that I won’t follow the old sister Zuobuzheng’s way wish."

Sanniang frowned and said, "You really don't know how hard it is to get you from the king of Hades. The poison of blood bitterness can be suppressed by other poisons. If you die, my sister will definitely be furious and will wait for you." It’s slaughtered all over the sky. This still won’t relieve her hatred, maybe she will go down the mountain to demolish the wine shop, tile market, and medicine and silver shops in the town, and then there will be nothing left, and she will be suffocated to death!”

The young man's expression became a little gloomy for a moment, and he pursed his lips stiffly: "If I die, Zuo Buzheng will kill more people..."

He suddenly turned his head and stared at Sanniang, with bitter mockery in his indifferent tone. "...It is precisely because of this sentence that I have no choice but to die."

"Isn't it good to be alive?" The girl looked at him innocently.

"Not good." Jin Wu said. "The world is full of pain, how does this teach me to live?"

But Sanniang said, "What does the suffering in this world have to do with your life and death! Do you have to feel happy to live? Do you want to die if you feel sad? Why don't you go out with me for a while? I heard from Shui Shiliu that there are Sesame candies, eight-petal pears, glutinous rice cakes, and donkey rolls, there are all kinds of delicious and interesting things, you will be happy enough if you go there, and you will not want to die if you are happy enough.”

Jin Wu put his hands behind his head and yawned, "You're drooling."

Sanniang quickly sucked it away, but found that the corners of her mouth were very clean, she immediately said angrily: "You lied to me!"

But there is a greedy heart. When she thinks of the bright red sugar piles sold at the foot of the mountain gate, and the sweet-scented osmanthus-flavored sweet-scented twists, she wants to twitch her index finger, salivating at those delicacies that have not yet been seen. went.

So she went to grab Jin Wu, but the boy lay on the ground and couldn't get up, he was really like a puddle of soft mud. "Get up!" Sanniang yelled, dragging the hem of his clothes.

Jin Wu also lazily said: "No." As he said that, he turned over and buried his whole body in the dust, throwing his black clothes dirty, so that the girl couldn't even pull him.

Only for a moment, Sanniang could vaguely understand Zuo Buzheng's feelings of love and hatred towards Jin Wu.Look at this stubborn ox pointing his fingers here and there, but he doesn't listen to people's words. I'm afraid no one in the world can talk him down.

So Zuo Sanniang said angrily: "If you don't get up by yourself, then I will drag you away." As she said that, she really grabbed Jin Wu's collar and dragged him to the mountain gate step by step.Jin Wu slumped on the ground lifelessly, letting her drag her away, leaving a few long dirt marks on the ground with his hands and feet.

The girl exhausted all her efforts and finally dragged him to the gate of the temple.She was weak, and she couldn't help but sweat a thin layer on her body after walking this trip, and her arms were so sore, but at this moment, Jin Wu said suddenly. "...Why don't you stay away from me?"

His voice was soft, as if extremely tired, with almost imperceptible ripples.Sanniang had heard his mocking, indifferent, and plain words to her, but this was the first time she heard such a tone.

"Ok?"

"Did you hide outside the court that day? You should see what happened to Jin Shiba." Jin Wu said with his head down, "Everyone who was by my side and treated me well died, and no one was alive. .”

He looked up at Zuo Sanniang, the sun shone into his eyes, there seemed to be shimmering fine golden scales, and it seemed that tears would overflow at any moment.But he couldn't cry, even when Jin Shiba died, he shed blood instead of tears.

Sanniang couldn't help but her heart skipped a beat, she finally understood that the person in front of her was not a heartless evil spirit, nor was she some kind of high-ranking young landlord or cruel black-clothed Rakshasa.

He is a man, and nothing more than a man.

The girl looked back under the golden persimmon tree, a row of crooked wooden signs stuck in the soil.There are several names written on the board, the first few wooden boards are written in beautiful lowercase letters, only the board of Jin Shiba is written in a crooked way: it is estimated that Jin Wu bit the pen holder and wrote it. For some time, his hand injury has not healed.Some of the lacquered handwriting has faded after being exposed to the sun and rain, but it has been carefully redrawn over and over again.

Even if they are dead, no one in the world remembers the names of these wild dogs, but Jin Wu will always miss them in his heart.

Even if there are no bones left, he will erect a tomb for them.Even if no one cares about it, he will still offer a bouquet of white flowers every year.It's just that there are more and more people who want to worship later, and in the end it will eventually overwhelm him.

Jin Wu was afraid that if Zuo Sanniang got close to him, one day she would sleep in the soil and fall into hell.When she figured it out, Sanniang just felt sad: This person is very talented, but he is still too stupid!Being bound by the past and not daring to wait for tomorrow, so the night is long, and he can only walk alone for a long time without anyone to accompany him.

Sanniang thought for a while, loosened her grip on Jin Wu's back collar, patted the dust on her hands, and said, "You said that the people who treated you well are dead, so I don't want to treat you well."

She bent down to poke the tip of his nose, sticking out her tongue. "You pissed me off enough before! From now on, I will piss you off, provoke you, and let you taste what it's like to turn from shame into anger."

Jin Wuyi looked a little at a loss for a moment.

But soon he returned to his usual expressionless look, raised his eyebrows and asked, "...then why are you mad at me?"

"Do you think you will die if you are your friend?" Sanniang asked him.

"It's not 'will die'." Jin Wu said. "...is 'die fast.'"

Sanniang smiled and said: "I want you to go to town with me. If you don't agree, I'll call from the Jinbu to the Tubu, so that all the assassins in Tianlou will be friends with you. I I have to go to the shops in the town, the restaurants in the streets and alleys, and tell every porter who travels: There is a golden fifth son who really wants to make friends in Houtianlou..."

Hearing this, the black-clothed boy who had been paralyzed on the ground before jumped up like a carp.Jin Wu covered her mouth with one hand, and there was a murderous light in his eyes that seemed to be murderous.

"Which town and street?" he said fiercely, squeezing every word through his teeth. "…I go with you."