steal light

In the lonely wilderness, the chirping of owls is chilling, the style outside the Great Wall is sharp, as if carrying a knife, Ye Donglan is carrying a person on his back, behind him is a monstrous sea of ​​fire, illuminating the night, and the sound of the sea of ​​fire The shouts of the northern barbarians.

A drop of sweat dripped from the corner of Ye Donglan's forehead, dripping into the dry land outside the Great Wall, and the wind blew Ye Donglan to the point of collapse.

I don't know how far he ran, Ye Donglan stopped, and lightly put the person on his back down. The person was obviously dead, his body was stiff, his face was blue, and there was a purple-black strangle mark on his neck. Kneeling on the ground, Donglan gasped heavily, a tear fell without warning, and sank into the yellow sand. Ye Donglan's low-pitched wails drifted away with the wind so clearly in the night, and he beat the ground with his fist, not knowing Painful.

In the barracks, Jiang Shu returned successfully, the deputy general reported to the general, Jiang Shu went straight to his tent, but there was no one there, no matter it was Ah Zhe or Ye Donglan, the bed was already cold.

When Jiang Shu went to the tent, the white pigeon in the cage was nowhere to be seen.

Jiang Shu heaved a sigh of relief. According to the time, they should have already boarded the carriage and headed southward, and they would return to the capital soon.

Soon, dawn broke in the distant sky, and the dark blue night was pierced by the blood-red morning glow. Ye Donglan once again patted the mound around him with blood and sand-stained hands, gritted his teeth and managed to The found stones were moved again to compact the mound.

There are many hungry wolves in this desert, if it is not compacted, the mound will be dug up when he turns around, and the corpses inside will be eaten clean.

Ye Donglan couldn't even set up a monument, and only kowtowed three times to the mound, "Father, my son is not filial, and I can't take you back to your hometown for burial without going to Beijing, and I can't even erect a tombstone."

"When the child returns from a hundred battles, I will bring you back home in fine clothes."

After kowtowing for the last time, Ye Donglan couldn't sit up for a long time, and deep emotions fermented in his eyes.

The body he brought back was that of his father, who was brutally killed by the Northern Manzi because he refused to write an appeal against the imperial court, and hung his corpse at the gate of the camp for several days, telling all the captured Dasheng people, Those who follow me live, those who oppose me perish.

On the way back to his hometown, Ye Donglan heard that Beimanzi had captured his parents. He didn't believe it. His parents had always been aloof from the world, so how could they offend Beimanzi? Look, without thinking far away, I saw my father's dead body hanging high.His father's talent actually caused him to be killed.

After a long time, Ye Donglan got up, the complicated emotions faded away, only the determination remained, "My child bids farewell to father."

Ye Donglan got up, his knees were already numb, and he staggered a little. He stabilized his figure, turned his head and took a deep look at the mound without the tombstone, then turned around, leaving only a straight back.

He wants to join the army.

This was Ye Donglan's decision after sitting in front of his father's grave for a day. His father would rather die than write an essay for the northern barbarians. Ye Donglan had never protected his father, so he inherited his father's will and used this passion Defend the homeland.

The starry sky in the desert is extraordinarily vast, the stars twinkle little by little, Ye Donglan has no intention of seeing the scenery, he looks deeply at Dasheng's tent, and sees the bonfire in the camp from a distance, he suddenly thinks of Ah Zhe.

I don't know what happened to him. Jiang Shu said that if he released the white pigeons, someone would take Ah Zhe back to the capital. He was determined to enter the northern barbarian camp. He didn't know what was going on, so he simply released the white pigeons to send Ah Zhe away. It's better to be in the capital than the frontier fortress Much more, in the future when he joins the army, he will fight against those who have no eyes with swords and swords. If Ah Zhe doesn't know about it, he won't worry about it.