Atkin

Chapter 2 The Dreamland of Fenghua City

During the day, the various courtyards of the Tao Mansion perform their respective duties and operate in an orderly manner. In the evening, there are occasional family banquets or visitors.Mrs. Tao, Mrs. Tao, occasionally encounters some more complicated matters, and will come to discuss with Grandma Feng.

After observing for so many days, A Jing marveled in his heart that such a large mansion was managed in an orderly manner by these masters, and the days were peaceful.She was so comfortable and leisurely that she almost forgot about the painful and chaotic life in the city of Chuqiao.

To be honest, Grandma Feng has nothing to do with the little girl A Jing. There are several big girls on the left and right, and there are also many officers who can do things. No matter how they are called, they are rich.

In the past, when she was out of Qiaocheng, she was driven to work by food and clothing, and she was scolded and scolded for not taking care of it at all. She was used to being cautious.As far back as she can remember, A Jing has never been so idle, making her feel like she is superfluous.Grandma Feng could see her thoughts and called her up wherever she went. She took her everywhere to recognize people, and she also walked around more.

There was no major event all day, but it was taken by Grandma Feng, and the soldiers left in a chaotic manner. When I came back, I was half-dead tired, and my thoughts were much less, and I fell asleep as soon as I fell.

At this time, Ah Jing was only 14 years old.In the mind of a young man, especially at this youthful age, a short period of time will be magnified infinitely long.This kind of long and ordinary life has washed away the pain in Ah Jing's heart, and instead nurtured the innocence of a young man in her heart.

The memories before coming here seem to be from a previous life.The name Jiao Yi became very unfamiliar.Including the few slaves she knew and knew well, if they met again, they might not be able to name them, and they dared not recognize each other.

That part of the past was really painful and boring. Every day was endless work, not moving small stones, or washing clothes, not dyeing cloth, or feeding pigs.They don't care if they are exposed to the sun every day, or in a dark and closed room, one more slave or one less.Everyone met so indifferently, like one machine met another machine.I don't know whether it is salty or not, and I don't know how to eat. I just feel that I can live if I eat enough.Looking back, it seemed like a vacuum during that time, and no one wanted to talk, because if you didn’t talk, you wouldn’t waste your energy.

Every word Jiao Yi said, A Jingu remembered in his mind.Because he can laugh, he is not a slave, he does not have the numbness of a slave.Uncle Jiao and Aunt Jiao seem to be going out of Qiaocheng for small business, and they have been there for a few years, and they happened to meet A Jing.A Jingwei loses a foot or falls ill, Aunt Jiao will come to care, and Jiao Yi will also come to visit together, and they will become acquainted with each other over time.

At that time, there was an official who was in charge of slaves, and everyone secretly called him salad oil.Salad oil is an old steward with glasses. He can't remember anything at ordinary times. These little slaves always bully him and don't remember anything. But whatever he manages, everyone steals and plays tricks, and he doesn't either. Know.

Ah Jing also forgot why he called him this nickname.I just remember that at that time, there was a boy who liked to play like crazy. It seemed that his name was Ayan. He was the most skinny. He took the lead in screaming. They all bullied him.

Jiao Yi is very different. He likes to read books in the slave heap.Every time A Jing was working, he could always see Jiao Yi reading a book in a cool place with a pot of tea and sometimes a watermelon or two.

This can envy those little slaves, and when A Jing sees it, his heart is also very unbalanced.The difference between people is that you are digging stones in the sun, and someone is eating watermelon next to you.At that time, A Jing was thinking, why should I be a slave when I was born, why can't I be like him?

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The bitterness is a little bitter, as long as Jiao Yi can live, A Jing is willing to return to that kind of life.She also wanted to be able to see Jiao Yi reading a book in a heap of slaves, and when everyone was working in the sun, he was eating melons and drinking tea to make hatred...

"I'm such a coward," A-kyung thought.She didn't dare to think about the truth of the fire, and she was afraid to recall everything in Qiaocheng alone.

Now Tao Sheng is 15 years old, according to his age, he is going to go out to learn a teacher.Master Tao and his wife also intentionally let their son go out to practice and practice. After all, to achieve great things, one must first toil his muscles and bones, starve his body and skin, and be tempted to endure, so that he can achieve what others cannot achieve.

In the past, several sage scholars and chivalrous men were invited to the family, and they spared no effort to teach Tao Sheng what they had learned all their lives.He learned quickly, and now he has nothing to learn, so he can only go outside the house to open his eyes.

Coincidentally, Grandma Feng's little granddaughter gave birth to a second boy, and the grandson-in-law was also filial.How could Master and Madam Tao be willing to let go?But no matter how much glory and wealth you give to Feng's mother, there is no more happiness than the filial piety of her own son and daughter.So he granted permission, and gave him a generous gift, ordering someone to escort him home and provide proper assistance and resettlement.

Before she left, Grandma Feng had a long talk with Master Tao. It was both a reminiscence and a farewell. During the two or three sentences, they talked about A Jing.

"I have a plan, A Jing and Xiao Sheng are of the same age, this girl was rescued by Tao Sheng, and there must be some kind of good fate, and A Jing is a child who repays her kindness. This time Tao Sheng went out to study. , you can go with A Jing, if necessary, A Jing may be able to save Tao Sheng's life." Grandma Feng said.

When Master Tao heard it, he was a little surprised. He never thought of putting two people who were unrelated to each other.But this is what Feng's mother proposed, and there should be a reason for it. Feng's mother was a person who escaped after a big family was in distress. A Jing and Tao Sheng went to learn arts together.

To talk about this place for apprenticeship, if you look at the entire Hague, the place where you know the destiny the most is the Xiuyan Ruins.From there, talented people and different people go to various confidential locations in The Hague. The royal courts of all dynasties have been replaced, and the Xiuyan Ruins have always been there. Respect there.

The Tao family naturally had high hopes for their son, so Xiuyan Market was the best choice.Half a month later, Tao Sheng and A Jing set off.The two were carrying simple luggage.

Originally, Mrs. Tao had prepared enough boxes of things, but Tao Sheng refused.After thanking her mother, she said that she was here to study art, and she didn't need this.Master Tao also wanted to order a samurai entourage, but Tao Sheng also refused, saying that his current ability was enough to protect himself.

In the end, Tao Sheng did not refuse to take A Jing with him. Tao Sheng said that slaves are not slaves in nature, and as long as they are given correct guidance, they can grow into good trees.These words made Mr. Tao secretly think that what Grandma Feng said might have a big truth. It is unknown whether the two of them hit a chance, or it can only be explained by time.

The two of them rode two donkeys all the way. Hongqi and Luluo were not ordinary donkeys. They were treasured donkeys that had been raised in the Tao Mansion for many years, with excellent legs.

A Jing wore a veil and a hat, for fear that others would recognize him as a slave, and seemed to hide along the way.Next to him was Tao Sheng, the son of the city lord Tao Jiang. When Tao Jiang walked in the city, no one questioned A Jing's slave status.After leaving Taojiang City, Ajing felt relieved and took off her veil and hat. It was a thousand miles away from Qiaocheng, and those who hunted down fugitive slaves could no longer find her.

Now A Jing's stature and temperament have faded away from the traces of slaves.

"Do you know what the next city we are going to be like?" Tao Sheng asked A Jing.

"Fenghua City?" Before coming, Ajing looked at the map.I just looked at the map superficially, who knows what it looks like.

"Yes." Tao Sheng glanced at Ajing and said with a smile: "You have to be prepared, there are illusions everywhere in Fenghua City, don't lose your life." A Jing is alone, but she wants to bluff her.

"I haven't learned it before," A Jing didn't know what illusion was, so he only replied, "Will it be difficult to deal with?" His brows were almost frowning together.

"It's not difficult, just be honest, you can always survive." Tao Sheng said lightly.However, Tao Sheng did not say the second half of the sentence: There are not many honest people in Fenghua City.

Is there anything rare to live a slave life out of Qiaocheng?Akin can't imagine.Anyway, there is Tao Sheng, he is such a capable person, he is young, he has learned the skills of his masters, and he is the one who bears the sky.Who would embarrass a little slave?No knowledge, no family background.

A Jing unconsciously reached out to explore the small book in his arms. It doesn't matter, I have the secrets that Jiao Yi left me.This is a treasure. When it is dangerous, it will definitely be useful, A Jing thought to himself.

Subconsciously, A Jing always felt that Jiao Yi was not dead and that he had been protecting himself.It is by this belief.Only then did A Jing have the strength to persist until he escaped from Qiaocheng.

I have seen the boundary monument of Fenghua City, and next to the boundary monument are those bright phoenix flowers.

Here is the boundary of Fenghua City, and I can see the lights under the mountain are like daytime, singing and dancing are peaceful.

A Jing had also seen it when he was out of Qiaocheng, but it was all the feast of slave owners.For the slaves, every feast was but another form of slaughter.

Thinking of this, A Jing shook his head, as if throwing off something bad.

Walking into this brightly lit city, there is a diffuse smell, and you can smell many, many things in this rich smell.

You can smell things in this city, hate and desire, rain and wind, fragrance... But, there is nothing that A Jing wants.

"This is a place to store greedy humanity," Tao Sheng said. "We have to be careful."

Akin nodded.She couldn't agree anymore, Tao Sheng really spoke to his heart.

"Look at this man!" A Jing said, pointing to a lump of things.

"You can still recognize this as a person, with a good eye."

"I'm afraid this is the only person in the city who is so dirty."

"You have to believe, it's a coincidence." Tao Sheng said lightly with a smile.

"It feels like walking here, if you don't dress better, you will be kicked out."

"The external thing is indeed an invisible pressure." He began to reason again.

"Look!" A Jing pointed to the other end of an alley.

Tao Sheng followed his line of sight and saw that several people were carrying a car.It was the smell of corpses.

Tao Sheng's sense of smell is very sensitive.The two donkeys took two steps back.

A young man who was carrying the corpse was spitting in the distance.

Another older man cursed him: "You worthless little bastard, this Fenghua City doesn't die one car after another, and vomits every day, why didn't you vomit to death!"

A Jing's mind flashed out of Qiaocheng.Leaving Qiaocheng is also a dead person every day.

Starvation, poverty, exhaustion, sickness... The ones who die more often are...

"Let's go. Don't look." Tao Sheng said softly.

A Jing shook his head, thinking about it.

Tao Sheng and A Jing stayed at Zhaoxing Pavilion in Fenghua City.

The residents here are all dressed in very gorgeous clothes, and they seem to have lived here for a long time.

Everyone looked at A Jing with a surprised look.

Tao Sheng also noticed this. A Jing was a little unclear, so he suddenly thought about whether it was because of the small book in his arms. After all, there was nothing special about himself that deserved the attention of so many people.

After eating at the same table, A Jing discovered that Tao Sheng did not eat animal blood, such as duck blood.

I used to love duck blood vermicelli soup, but seeing Tao Sheng's polite and holy appearance, he learned his eating habits and stopped eating animal blood.

When I used to be a slave, almost all of them had to be forced. It was good to have a stutter. The slaves were always hungry.

Some of the slave owners and slaves who came out of Qiaocheng ate people.

A Jing and Tao Sheng lived in a room with a huge screen in the middle.A Jing slept in the inner room, Tao Sheng slept in the outer room.

This is because Tao Sheng said: "You have no martial arts skills, you are weak, you are still a woman, and I have no reason to sleep.

I'm outside, and I can stop me if something goes wrong. "His demeanor is really fascinating, but A Jing doesn't know what "fascinated" is.

He regarded himself as a bodyguard.Tao Sheng will be stubborn once he decides something, A Jing is absolutely unable to resist him, and he never thought of having to do it the other way around.

One is that A Jing will not tease or polite, the second is that she does not have the ability and courage to protect and defend herself, and the third is that she has hardly received care from this world, and she is reluctant to refuse.

So it went smoothly.

Before going to bed, A Jing opened the little book by candlelight.At that time, she had been reciting the name of "Jiao Yi", her childhood friend, in her heart.

On the first page of the book it was written: "I am not Jiao Yi, my name is 'Er Liang Shi'."

surprise!Was this written by Jiao Yi?But looking at the handwriting that is not Jiao Yi, Jiao Yi's handwriting is very ugly and strange, but this handwriting is extremely beautiful.

A Jing can understand the characters, and Aunt Jiao took A Jing and Jiao Yi to learn the characters together, and taught them all the characters they could meet to their two children.

"If you are in trouble and perplexity, call on my name, and I will save you." Does the name refer to "Irrian"?A Jing read it several times and finally remembered it.

So, Erlians, I wonder what dangers we will encounter in Fenghua City?Akin asked.

Across the screen, A Jing saw the figure of Tao Sheng who was about to fall asleep shaking, Tao Sheng said, "A Jing, you have to be careful, after you fall asleep tonight, you should have a dream, and there will be some strange things in your dream. People and things, you have to follow your heart and don't listen to those messy voices, you should be able to save yourself from danger."

"Okay. What about you?" A Jing didn't think much about it.

"I will dream tonight too." Tao Sheng didn't elaborate and turned off the lights.

A Jing turned off the lights and thought: Was this the answer Erliang Shi gave me through Tao Sheng just now?I meditated on Erliang's name.fell asleep.

This is!Out of the streets of Qiaocheng!She is back!This is hell on earth.That is the same little slave girl who was exiled!She saw 'Dragon Eye', another little slave girl.

There are longan, and ... made of mud, red beads, sea urchins, and purple rain.They were tied together and sold in the street market.Wear consistent slave clothing.A few dirty kids.

No one can save them.nobody.Suddenly, the next few of them were chased and scattered in the crowd. She and Longan fled into a crowded alley.

As she walked, she suddenly became what she is now, with a clean appearance and simple and bright clothes.She is no longer the dirty six or seven-year-old slave Ajing wearing a slave uniform in Chuqiao City, but has become a glamorous and simple 14-year-old girl Ajing.

She turned around and saw Longan next to her, and it was no longer a six-year-old dirty little slave Longan, but a 13-year-old girl dressed up enchantingly, with a hint of melancholy in her big eyes.

Suddenly, A Jing felt that she was very far away from this little slave who had been close to her, and she couldn't touch the real longan.

At the end of this alley, it turned out to be a slave shop!

There were a group of young slaves, all standing or lying down.The enchanting longan saw these little slaves, and the big eyes carried more melancholy, and the face became gloomy and became a bit terrifying.

When Ajing saw these little slaves, he instinctively avoided, as if he was unwilling to face the "old self", and subconsciously wanted to escape.

But don't recognize me as a slave!Akin thought.So his face turned away, A Jing turned to leave.

Suddenly, the name "Er Liangshi" came to mind.So Ajing said silently: Erliangshi, save me, I am so afraid of being recognized.

A Jing wanted to run away after reading it in his mind.Suddenly I found that there was a little man trapped in the gap between the two shops on the left.

God, this little man is only the size of A Jing's palm, and his proportions are thin and tall. A Jing can only see his face when he is squatting.His face was calm and hopeless.

The shop owner next to him looked at A Jing and joked: "No one can save him. He will die one day here. Don't waste your energy, little girl." Shrinking little by little, the slave clothes on his body didn't seem to give him any temperature, he seemed to be cold.

The two street shops have semi-transparent panels, which seal the straight gap from top to bottom.

He was trembling like a standing mouse.There was nothing A Jing could do, and she said in her heart: "Er Liangshi, help me save him."

A Jing subconsciously stretched out his hands to the ground and held up the two transparent boards.Unexpectedly, she lifted it up, and she was ecstatic.

"Hey! Come out quickly." Ajing called him, he glanced at Ajing and walked out.A Jing slowly put the board down.Hold the little man in the palm of your hand.

A Jing felt that the life of this little man in his palm was fading away, he was very cold, and he was about to freeze to death.Quick, give him clothes!Good man, please give him clothes!A Jing screamed in his heart.

Unexpectedly, the shop opposite is a tailor shop. The tailor shop owner naturally tailors a small piece of clothing that fits him. One person brings it to him, and another sewing girl comes to put on a small piece of clothing for him...

The whole street kept coming to dress him... He gradually warmed up.He wept, and so did everyone who dressed him.

A Jing felt that he was drowning in tears, and felt that the street was warmed up, not as ferocious and terrifying as before.

Longan also burst into tears.This villain looks a bit like Longan, but Longan is a girl, and this villain is a man.

This little man is alive.He disappeared from A Jing's palm.

He looked very young, probably only in his teens.

The street where Ajing and Longan followed the crowd as they prepared to walk out.

Along the way, I saw the life of this boy, the clothes of this man's life, the clothes that people just gave him, different clothes at different stages of life.

He was poor, his youth was extremely down-to-earth, he fell in love with a woman, he pursued that woman, and then he was rejected, he begged for food, was beaten, he was high-spirited, he was old, and then he died Yes, the dead look very peaceful.

Fortunately, at least he didn't let life stop at that time.He has at least his whole life.

Although it was in a hurry and full of misfortune and regret, at least he had gone through the world once, and he did not harm anyone.Akin thinks so.

When Ajing and Longan walked out of this alley, it was already dark.A Jing saw a hunter-like person eating something in the middle of the road. The hunter was squatting beside a big stone in the middle of the road.

When he saw Ajing, he said, "I'm going! I didn't think that this time, Bi Ling was sent to be such a weak woman!" He stood up in horror and shouted: "Children! I'm going to catch the little mango. !" I noticed that there were still many little hunters on the street, all of them looked like children. "

"Run!" the hunter yelled at A-King.Longan obviously reacted, she glanced at A Jing and ran away.

A Jing also ran, and there was a fork in front of her. She left A Jing and picked up a path and ran away, as if she knew that the target of those "mangoes" was A Jing.

A Jing looked back, God!A group of big dogs like black panthers and black lions ran after her, and they could catch me in three or two steps.

The hunter and the group of little hunters rushed to fight Black Mango.There was a bloody mess behind him.

Atkin was terrified.Shouting: Erliang save me!

Then she woke up.

(End of this chapter)