lying down

The night was dark, and the early winter moon covered Jinyang City with a layer of silver frost.The cold wind swept across the fallen leaves on the street recklessly, whirling into the air.

The waiter of the restaurant on the street poked his head out, glanced at the young man under the wall across the street, closed the door doubtfully, shrunk his neck and went to sleep.

The boy across the street didn't seem to be aware of all this. He had been sitting under the wall for three or four hours without moving.The slanted hands pressed on the knees were already a little stiff and whitish, and a few yellow and withered leaves were attached to his clothes, rising and falling with slight breathing. This might be the only sign that proved that he was still alive.

The boy's sword eyes lost focus, as if he was thinking about something.

Clouds come and go, the moon hides and the moon appears, under the moonlight, a few yellow and shiny copper coins are scattered in front of the young man, and for a flash, it is when some old women passed by in the evening and mistakenly thought he was a boy. alms given by beggars.The young man seemed to be dazzled by the bright light, raised his head and curled his lips into a smile, was he laughing at himself?Still helpless?

As the moonlight fell, the boy's face gradually became clear, it was Ouyang Yu.

For several hours, he didn't move, and he kept thinking about a question: at the end of his life, did history change him, or did he use history as a canvas and change the color?

From the shock, doubts, touches, confusions and aspirations since traveling to the Tang Dynasty, he is like an actor, babbling and singing non-stop in a small corner of this historical stage in a costume, but he is always acting with his body and mind no play.

"Shangpinwuhanmen!" He murmured, but his face was confused.Recalling Di Xue's unintentional words in his heart, how he admired this prosperous age of shining history in his previous life, how he admired the country where "water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn a boat", but Di Xue's words hurt deeply His heart, the idea of ​​the door is so deeply ingrained in the eyes of the people of Tang Dynasty, it seems to be integrated into their bone marrow so naturally.In the eyes of their aristocratic families, these grassroots civilians are so unbearable.

He got up and patted his clothes a few times, took a few deep breaths of cold air, and let out all the depression in his chest.

He raised his right hand violently, and pointed his middle finger at the sky: "If I am a grass root, then let me be a grass root. I will definitely become the toughest grass root in this so-called prosperous age, and I will poke your eyes out, you goddamn god!" !"

A roar pierced the night sky until it was unheard.

He flew forward suddenly, as if he wanted to vent all the remaining suffocation in his heart in this thunderous dash.The night is silent, the wind is cool, and there is a short and powerful "click" sound on the empty street...

"Brother Ouyang, what are you running for? You're sweating all over, is there someone behind you?" At the main entrance of Di Mansion, a servant was closing the door. Hearing the running in the middle of the night, he looked into the distance suspiciously, He rushed like thunder, and he was taken aback.

After finishing speaking, he pulled out the short stick used for night watch from his waist and looked around.

Ouyang Yu was already sweating profusely, he didn't care to answer the servant's words, and reminisced about the feeling of running for half an hour just now.It's different, it's completely different from the previous life, and all the running that I just traveled to Datang.Until now, I don't feel tired, and I don't even have shortness of breath. I only feel that my body is much lighter during the running, and I feel like I am about to take off after running to the extreme.A ray of heat from the Qihai acupoint travels through the limbs along with the meridians, making it extremely comfortable.

Pulling his chest and jacket to the sides fiercely, he raised his head and said with a smile: "Where are there so many villains in Jinyang City, I'm just getting bored, run away!"

The servant was taken aback for a moment, wondering what kind of way to run wildly in the middle of the night to dissipate his suffocation?With contempt in his heart, he forced a smile on his face and said, "Brother Ouyang, are you on duty today? The butler went to your room to look for you four or five times, and just now he came to guard the gate again. You go back quickly."

Ouyang Yu nodded his thanks, but he was thinking in his heart that this was probably because the housekeeper was upset at seeing the limelight of his birthday banquet today, and wanted to "educate" himself in a disguised form.

Changing clothes and carrying sticks, two steps and three steps patrolled the night in this Di mansion.

After walking for about an hour, I went to the back door of Di's mansion. Thinking of the secret conversation between the housekeeper Di Yong and the mysterious man that night, I couldn't help worrying about the situation in Jinyang City.While thinking about it, the cold wind blew through the thin hospital uniform, and his body gradually became cold. Ouyang Yu sat down in a leeward corner, put one shoe under his buttocks, and hung the other shoe to dry aside.In a short while, he quickly covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves. The smell of the shoes that had been worn for a day was so strong that he hurriedly put them on his feet in disgust.

Just as he was about to continue his night patrol, suddenly there was a knock on the back door of Di's mansion, one long, two short, and another long knocks. The sound gradually faded away.

The knock on the door was so weird, it was midnight, and there was a specific rhythm. The reaction of Ouyang Yu, who was a special soldier, was purely the instinct of long-term training. He couldn't help thinking to himself: "Could it be that the mysterious man came to meet Di Yong again?" ?” He looked back slowly, but there was no figure of Di Yong, only a few owl hoots, which were desolate.

The knock on the door repeated every once in a while, as if waiting.

Ouyang Yu crouched there, waiting for the opportunity like a cheetah looking for food.In the night, a figure came out from the corner of the room, clutching the hem of the heavy coat and gown in small steps, looking around like a thief from time to time, when he heard the knock on the door, he suddenly stopped, and after a while, he stopped again. After listening twice, I walked more carefully to the back door.

Ouyang Yu took a closer look, and found that this person was Di Yong, the chief housekeeper.

Seeing Di Yong sticking to the back door, he heard the knock on the door again before asking in a subdued voice, "Why are you?"

"Third Master, Master Xu was in an emergency and couldn't come because of an emergency, so the younger one came here to get the letter." The person outside the door was not the one with the low hoarse voice last time, he sounded much younger.

"Shut up! Don't call out your name indiscriminately! You don't even understand this rule after working for several years!" Di Yong hurriedly shouted.

After calming down a little, Di Yong said again: "In the next few days, there will be a chance to make a move, take this."

Di Yong opened the back door a little, looked with his head, then quickly took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it out, enjoining: "Send this news to the Lord quickly." After saying that, he gently closed the door On, hurried back.

When Ouyang Yu heard the words "there will be a chance to do it in the next few days", the scene of the civilians gathered in front of the rice shop begging for a bucket of rice appeared in his mind a few days ago, and the blood of the soldiers in his bones couldn't help but boil: " Damn, don't worry about your knives and fires, and let me go and find out!"

Ouyang Yu didn't open the back door either, he stuck his stick under the wall, took a few steps back, quickly jumped to the ground and fell on the top of the wall about ten feet high!