Gucheng

The lonely smoke in the desert, the sunset on the long river.

The desert in the poems will always be a sacred place that hot-blooded men yearn for. One day, they wish they could go to the front line and fight the enemy in person.Jun Moxiao, who is drunk on the battlefield, is simply a coquettish and heroic spirit, how can it not be desirable.

I used to be a bit passionate, and I had no ambition to serve the country. I just wanted to kill all the barbarians who violated our borders. However, I have been studying Chinese since I was a child.

Although I imitate a man's dress, hair and crown, the world can learn from it, I am a real woman.

Just because there was an old Taoist fortune teller who cheated on food and drink for half a month at my house, and made a divination for me. I can’t remember the specific divination. .My obedient and obedient parents really let me go to school in men's clothing, until they gave me a weak crown, and then even married me a beautiful wife, it's really nonsense.

So I escaped from marriage and followed the words in the book to Mobei.

Mobei is a desolate place, with endless yellow sand, and occasionally you can meet a few withered yellow and tough weeds near the sand dunes. The scenery in front of you is completely enveloped in the wind and sand. The place where the moon looks like a hook is not the same place at all.

I came out from the depths of the desert on a camel. There was no shelter on the desolate Gobi Desert, and there was no living thing in sight.The last sip of water in the water bag was also drunk, and I found a village when I was hungry and thirsty.

People in Mobei make a living by grazing animals and live in heavy felt bags.There are more than a dozen families in this village, and the yurts of each household are very close together, which is quite different from what I have seen elsewhere.

I tidied up my appearance in front of one of the felt bags, and raised my voice and said, "Is there anyone at home?"

There was clearly a candle burning inside, but my question made the weak candle light go out immediately.I asked a few more households, but all the households heard the sound and went out.

The people from Mobei were too unenthusiastic.

I sighed, led the camel and continued on.I'm afraid I'm going to sleep in the wilderness again tonight. At least there is a water source near the village. I quickly took off the water bladders on the camel's back and filled them up. I don't have to worry about water in the next few days.

Two or three miles north of the village, an isolated city stands in the Gobi desert.

The city wall is about three feet high, and has been ravaged by wind and sand all year round. The wall is dim and mottled. When the strong wind blows, occasionally two pieces of bricks and tiles can be blown off, and the whole city is crumbling.The banners erected on the city tower had rotted away long ago, leaving only an iron rod standing alone, and the rusted city gate was crookedly half-opened, behind it was a full moon that had just risen, and the cold moonlight shone On the ancient city tower, it is eerie and terrifying.Even though I never believed in ghosts and gods, I couldn't help shivering.

This place is very cloudy, and it is an ominous place, so it is not suitable to stay for a long time.

I hurriedly led the camel and walked back, but the camel's stubborn temper wanted to go into the city gate to find out. When the stalemate came, singing suddenly came from the city.

The woman's singing pours out from the wind and sand, and the ancient and bright Mobei singing is actually the lyrics of Jiangnan, with the melody and sadness of the sons and daughters of Jiangnan in the vastness.

I am familiar with this song. Since I can remember, it has appeared in my dreams countless times. It is also such a broad and melodious tune. The desert and the water village that are completely different from each other blend strangely and harmoniously through this minor tune.I just thought it was a little tune hummed by my nanny when I was a child to lull me to sleep, and I kept it in my mind when I hummed too much, but I didn't think this scattered tune originally came from here.

As if bewitched, I pushed open the rusty gate of the old city and stepped into this isolated city standing out of thin air in the desert.

The city has long been dilapidated, and the ruins of the walls are buried in the yellow sand, and they will be shattered into sand and stones at the slightest touch.The only intact building is a tall tower, which stands in the center of the city. The top of the tower is almost shoulder-to-shoulder with the huge full moon. On the top of the tower, there is only a man in white sitting upright. The melody of the dream.

I only felt that the air I exhaled was full of dust, but the woman's white clothes were fluttering high above, not polluted by any dust, like Chang'e who lived in the Toad Palace in the storytellers.I'm crazy about it.

Xu Shi found me as an uninvited guest, and the singing suddenly stopped. The woman stood on the top of the tower, and asked from a long distance: "What is the name of this young man, why did you come to this poor place like a young lady?"

Her words were as cold and sad as she sang. I seemed to have been waiting for this voice all my life. For some reason, tears fell down my face.

She joked: "Master, it's really interesting. I just asked you a question, and it made you cry?"

Cried?I stretched out my hand to touch my eye sockets, the cold water stains showed that I was crying.

How many years have not shed tears, why are you crying now?

I hurriedly wiped away my tears and cupped my hands to her: "Xiaosheng's surname is Bai and his name is Anxun. He is originally from the south of the Yangtze River. He strayed into the girl's treasure land and disturbed the girl's cleanliness. I hope the girl is not to blame."

"Bai Anxun, Bai Anxun..." She chanted my name, floated down from the ten-foot-high tower, fell in front of me along the moonlight, and looked at me strangely.

Her black hair almost hangs down to the ground, only tied behind her head with a white ribbon, her face is as white as paper, with no makeup applied on her face, the plain white skirt is swaying and dragging on the ground, her body is not stained with any vulgarity.

Isn't it really a fairy in the sky?

She sized me up, then pursed her lips and snickered, "My surname is Bai, why are you wearing black clothes? It's really interesting." With such a smile, the expression on that sad face became vivid, and under the faint moonlight, It looks as good as coming out of a painting.

This Mobei is covered with nothing but sand and soil, black clothes are durable, if I wear white clothes like her, I am afraid that it will be dyed khaki in less than half a day.

"Miss laughing." I took half a step back in embarrassment and made a bow, "I don't know the girl's name?"

She folded her hands and pondered for a while, wondering: "I've been alone in this poor place for a long time, and I've forgotten my name long ago. It's fine for Mr. Bai to call me Agui. Mr. Bai, how about I also call you An Xun?"

"As long as the girl doesn't dislike it."

Ghost, ghost.

Why is there such a strange name in this world.

This girl is really weird, living alone in this deserted city, as if she has experienced all the vicissitudes of life in the world, she is as miserable as she is, but she is not at all wary of people, just like any little girl who has not experienced much in the world.

Ah Gui asked me to follow her to find a place to live. On the way, she asked me again: "An Xun is from the south of the Yangtze River. Why did he come to this desert where birds don't lay eggs?"

"This..." I hesitated for a moment, but after thinking about it, I still told the truth, "Miss, you are laughing, Xiaosheng came here to... escape marriage."

"Escape from marriage?" I don't know if it was my illusion, but Ah Gui's expression turned dark in an instant, "My son is not old, I don't want to be married, it's a pity."

"Ghost girl, don't get me wrong!" I don't know why I had to explain so hastily, and the words just blurted out, "Xiaosheng didn't want to marry a woman he had never met before, so he escaped! My parents haven't had time yet. Going to that girl's house to hire a job is not counting... not counting as marrying a wife!"

That face changed so quickly, before I could react, she had a peach-like smile on her face again, "Let me tell you, An Xun is such a heartless person."

I just feel wronged, I escaped before the three matchmakers and six hires were hired, how can I be considered worthy of that fiancée whom I have never met before, how could I become a person with a bad heart?She is a pure and innocent girl with yellow flowers, if she really follows me, she will be in misfortune for a lifetime.

The more I walked into the city, the more cloudy air became. My clothes were thin and I was shivering from the cold. I couldn't help but ask, "Miss A Gui, how long will it be until I arrive? Xiaosheng is not that particular, just find a place to shelter from the wind and rain." It's enough to be late."

A Gui turned around delicately on tiptoe, smiled slyly and said, "An Xun, we are here."

It's finally here.

I sneezed from the cold and looked up.

It turns out that there are still such magnificent and majestic buildings hidden in this isolated city. Even after being eroded by the desert wind for many years, it can still be seen that it used to be majestic and majestic.There is a plaque hanging on the gate tower, with two large characters written on it, the writing on the plaque has fallen off due to the wind and sun, and it is difficult to see what is written on it.

It is a beautiful thing to find such a unique place to rest in this desolate place. Besides, I pretended to glance at A Gui casually, and there was a beauty by my side. Not bad.

But as soon as I stepped into the door and saw the furnishings inside, my legs went limp.

What was placed there was nothing but a wooden coffin.

"Ah, girl ghost... Could it be that you live here?" My calves were trembling.

It's not that I'm timid, the deserted city in the middle of the night, the woman and the coffin that fell out of the blue, the more I think about it, the more I think it looks like those mountain spirits and ghosts in the legendary storybooks that specialize in seducing men and absorbing yang energy.Although I am not a man, I am afraid of death, because I am afraid that this monster who does not know what it is will become angry and eat me alive.

A Gui never paid attention to me. From the moment she came in, she was only on the coffin in the middle of the hall.She lay down on the coffin and sighed contentedly, "Yu Lan, when you abandoned me, it has been 200 years."

"Yeah." Ah Gui's expression was no longer charming, she turned her head to look at me, with blood and tears in her eyes, that pretty face fell off into naked bones, and her white teeth appeared in the night Han Guang: "I live here, Ke Yulan, I have been waiting for you here for 200 years."

"You are so cruel, you have trapped me in this lonely city for 200 years before you came to see me."

What else she said later, I don't know, because at that time I fainted from fright and lost consciousness.

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