Moth

The weather at the end of the year was extremely cold. After collecting the junk stall of "Turn a stone into gold", Lu Hanzhang went back to the yamen to count the excess silver in the vassal, and entrusted the tailor shop to make a batch for the border. Thick clothes to keep out the cold, and by the way, Liu Changzhou made a big thick cloak that looks like a bear and keeps warm like a hand stove.

The end of the new year is approaching, and it is a good time for a year of leisure. Every house is decorated with lanterns and festoons. Needless to say, what a scene it is at the border.He gave a short vacation to the officials who had been busy in the yamen for a year, and sent Liu Changzhou his last letter from home a year ago, and then found Zhu Dianyi.

Since the entire yamen has been empty, the big heater in the flower hall has been extinguished, and the surroundings are so cold that there is a refreshing feeling that "sitting on a stool can freeze a person's butt off".Lu Hanzhang didn't feel ashamed and put a futon on the chair before sitting down with his trousers.The very arrogant poison in his body forced him to freeze himself, but in fact he couldn't stand the cold, and after sitting for a while, the underside of his fingernails were bruised and purple.

Zhu Dianyi was not surprised, and said without any reaction: "It is not appropriate for you to ask me to change your marrow at this juncture, isn't it? It has already been spread in the market that the war between Beidi and Daqing is imminent, and the fate of Liu Changzhou is uncertain... ..." When she said this, she didn't know how to express it properly, so she imitated Du Heng's stupidity and said flatly: "It's not written in the script, you should at least wait for him to come back."

Lu Hanzhang supported his chin with one hand, stared at the bluestone ground under his feet, and said unhurriedly: "Could it be that Miss Zhu didn't believe in her medical skills, so she just said excuses?" He thought about what Zhu Dianyi said, but ... If Liu Changzhou was experiencing a narrow escape on the front line, he thought, why not just accompany him and walk through the narrow escape together?Besides, isn't it a matter of time for him?

Zhu Dianyi hates others to question her ability, and Lu Hanzhang's words undoubtedly stepped on the hag's tail.She stomped on his shadow as if to vent her anger, and said, "Fuck your mother! Do you think changing the pith is really that simple? Change the pith, change the pith, who are you going to change? Who will change it to you?"

Lu Hanzhang was taken aback for a moment, then smiled, and said indifferently, "Damn it, is it possible to find someone to exchange?"

Zhu Dianyi: "..."

Lu Hanzhang pointed to himself, said with a smile, "Do you want me to make any preparations? For example, bathing and burning incense, praying to the gods and so on?" He had just finished speaking, and a clear line fell out of the corner of his left eye without warning. Tears, and then the tears seemed to be free of money, pouring out of the eyes one after another, bypassing the chin and smashing them all on the ground.He was stunned, and said in disbelief as if frightened: "Hiss... what's going on?"

Zhu Dianyi clasped his wrist and took his pulse for a while, expressionless and logical: "It should be out of control, which means that you probably won't be able to control your tears and saliva in the future, and your muscles won't listen to you."

Lu Hanzhang raised his sleeve and wiped it, but it didn't help, the tears still flowed out desperately.He didn't care about it at all, and after thinking for a while, he asked worriedly: "It won't be reduced to the point of incontinence, right?"

Zhu Dianyi frowned: "It's hard to say, the lesions all progress gradually. Today is tears. When will the unevenness gradually develop from the head and face to the body and limbs. Well, you don't need to do any preparations. You just lie flat No matter how much it hurts, don't make a sound, it will disturb me."

Lu Hanzhang said "hmm", took out the official seal from his sleeve pocket and handed it to Zhu Dianyi, got up and walked inside, and said in a very grand manner: "You will buy the pig, give me some time to do some mental work. Prepare, after all, I am a person who will kill eight generations of ancestors if I am bitten by a mosquito."

Zhu Dianyi stared at the too thin back for a long time without saying a word, and stepped over in a few quick steps, knocking Lu Hanzhang unconscious.Lu Hanzhang said "you", and passed out very cowardly and simply.

She turned her head and shouted in the direction of the door: "Thank you shopkeeper, come out."

The loyal and honest Xie Qingyun flashed out from behind the clump of ten thousand year old branches behind the yamen.He took Lu Hanzhang, dragged him half-supported and half-carrying him to the couch, and laid him flat on the couch. Then he came back to his senses, bowed in a proper manner, and said, "Thank you, Miss Zhu, for your fulfillment."

Zhu Dianyi has always been very puzzled, why the people around him would rather give up themselves for the person on the bed.At first, it was Liu Jiang, who spent decades of testing medicines and pharmaceuticals, and at the end of the day, he took his own life, changing Lu Hanzhang's life span of at most ten years.

She didn't know much about the grievances and resentments between them, it was nothing more than one life for another.

But she was very puzzled by Xie Qingyun's move.

In the eyes of doctors, a good life is a bad life, and there is no reason to exchange a good life for a bad life.

That day, she helped Lu Hanzhang back home, and was stopped by Xie Qingyun when she left. , begged her for a long time.

She had just tentatively asked Lu Hanzhang what he would exchange for it, but she did not expect him to answer her with a beast like a "pig". Somehow, the desire to survive was too strong, so powerful that it would eliminate the gap between humans and beasts. It doesn't matter if there is an insurmountable gap, or simply because you can't bear to hurt anyone.

This man, who usually seemed to regard everything as passing, had no choice but to make her look sideways. He called her to the yamen instead of his home, because he wanted to hide it from Xie Qingyun and Xie Yitong.In fact, the method of exchanging animal bone marrow for a human is unprecedented, and she doesn't mind giving it a try, but if the premise is that so many people are sacrificing themselves for this person, then she is forced to succeed, not so Many sacrifices were in vain.

She took a deep breath before raising her eyes to look at Xie Qingyun, and said, "Can you tell me why?"

Xie Qingyun held Lu Hanzhang's cold hand and rubbed it back and forth persistently, trying to keep Lu Hanzhang warm in this futile way.After hearing this sentence, the upright butler smiled cautiously.A radiance called happiness suddenly appeared on his face, and his whole person suddenly became very vivid.

He said softly: "Our boss is different from me. He still has many things in the world that he has not let go of. For me, I don't need to watch him and close my eyes before me. This life will be complete. I hope that one day, I will be in Huangquan Road. When it came to him, he was more free than he is now."

Zhu Dianyi turned his head to one side, and said in a low voice: "I see. Let me say it again, only one person can survive the marrow replacement surgery, because there is only one me, and I cannot heal the bones of two people at the same time to stop the bleeding. So... I probably wouldn't have kept you alive in the first place."

At this moment, the person on the couch struggled a bit and opened his eyes——Zhu Dianyi's knife was too ineffective, and he could only manage it for so long.She didn't wait for Lu Hanzhang's reaction, and directly took off several major joints of Lu Hanzhang's body with two or three strokes, causing Lu Hanzhang to sweat coldly in pain.

Lu Hanzhang couldn't exert any strength, he just looked at Zhu Dianyi coldly: "How dare you!" He just heard some words in a daze, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Xie Qingyun guarding the head of the bed, slightly Think about it all.But the most damning thing is that no matter how many threats there are in his words, they are just bluffs and nothing to be afraid of - he doesn't even have the most basic ability to resist.

This feeling of helplessness instantly reminded him of many years ago, when he first entered the scholarly forest but was picked off by Lu Fuzhi.At that time, in addition to being powerless, he also had monstrous hatred.

It seems that there is a very unwelcome hand in the dark, throwing him back to the starting point of life time and time again when he is about to fade.There is also a very annoying voice all around, that voice is mocking him, his practice in the first half of his life has become a waste, a futile.

why?

Why is the way these people love and respect him so hysterical?

Zhu Dianyi didn't do anything, and simply sent the Buddha to the west, and immediately broke Lu Hanzhang's mandible out of place, to prevent him from being in extreme pain and say something unspeakable, and to prevent him from biting his tongue and committing suicide , said simply and rudely: "I dare to show you!"

Lu Hanzhang has lived half his life, and he has never been in such a mess as he is now.

He watched Zhu Dianyi pick up the knife and cut open Xie Qingyun's thigh. Like a butcher cutting an ox, he went around the gap between the bones and took out Xie Qingyun's thigh bone very skillfully. Next In the same way, all the marrow and bone in Xie Qingyun's body were hollowed out with the same method.

He struggled to turn his head to look at Xie Qingyun, who was no longer in human form. The body that had been severed beyond recognition was floating feebly in the bloody water, and blood kept gushing out from the cut, staining the side room of the flower hall. Almost all bluestone slabs.

Xie Qingyun, who was sweating profusely in pain, took one last look at him, bit his lower lip, and left only two words: "Xuancheng."

Zhu Dianyi became ruthless, took out an unknown powder from his bosom, and threw it on it all at once.The people on the ground showed their last smiles, and suddenly turned into a gust of wind.

The gust of wind blew across the bead curtain all the way, and crashed into the white plum outside the window without hesitation, arousing a lingering fragrance, reminding Lu Hanzhang of the plain bamboo bone umbrella with a white plum pattern blooming on the umbrella surface when it meets water.

A huge sadness suddenly rose from his heart, and the heart-piercing pain surged up unexpectedly, and a mouthful of fishy sweetness escaped from the corner of his mouth uncontrollably. Lu Hanzhang looked back at the bloody scene that had been frozen, and suddenly felt... Many years.

It turned out that he stopped and stopped all the way, and Feng Shui has gone through many cycles in turn.

A person's rebirth is always built together and followed by continuous death.

First, the sudden death of his parents taught him what it meant to say, "The scorching one dies, and the booming one dies." It taught him how to keep things secret when he first entered the scholarly forest.

Furthermore, the disappearance of Liu Jiang, whom he had never met before, made him know that in this world, the most amazing thing about a person is never the shrewd way of dealing with the world, but the most simple and unpretentious sincerity.

This time, Xie Qingyun, who had accompanied him through so many springs, summers, autumns and winters, walked away without looking back in front of him, but he suddenly felt that he could not understand this chaotic and complicated world, as if he had been there for many years. Chai, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are all for nothing, all the years of ups and downs are all for nothing, all the years of joy, anger, sorrow, and joy are all for nothing——

Those poisons that grew wildly on him unscrupulously ended up framing others by accident.

He just laughed, closing the uncontrollable tears that flowed from the corners of his eyes, looking very embarrassed.

Then it was his turn.

Perhaps because he no longer had any strength to control the expression on his face, he remained expressionless the whole time.But the feeling is not numbness, pain, unbearable pain, unimaginable pain for ordinary people.

Every time when he was about to pass out from the pain, Zhu Dianyi would mercilessly pinch the other person, and I don't know if it was intentional to make him remember his marrow change this time.

The pain of the sharp blade constantly cutting the flesh, and the pain of the sharp awl piercing the bone, are both a veritable bone-piercing pain.He felt that a quarter of an hour seemed to be infinitely stretched thousands of times by someone, and then he heard Zhu Dianyi say: "That's enough."

Then he passed out, it turns out...the so-called "reborn" is like this.

The sixth year of Yuanxian was destined to be an unsettled year.

When Beidi's million-strong army came from all directions of Hanshi Mountain like ghosts, Liu Changzhou received the ninth imperial edict from the imperial court: stand by and wait for help.

There was also a letter that had just arrived, with only one line on it.

Lu Hanzhang asked him this in the letter——

When will the Hulu be defeated, and the beloved stop the expedition?

Without reinforcements, 9 people against a million-strong army is tantamount to fighting against a mantis.

He kissed the letter cautiously, then tore the letter into pieces, raised his hand and scattered the debris in the air, raised his knife to the ground and wiped out his last tenderness, said in a deep voice: "I Jiangbei Haoerlang, see death as home, and go to the national calamity together!"

At the foot of Hanshi Mountain, swords were already on the verge of breaking out, and there was only a sound of drums beating, and they were about to fight hand-to-hand.

The north wind whipped snowflakes down on the head and face, and the dark clouds crossed the cold stone mountain in the north. Then, there was a very violent movement from the ground.

Almost instantly, a burst of thick black smoke suddenly erupted from the top of Hanshi Mountain.The black smoke continuously came out from the top of Hanshi Mountain, forming a huge mushroom cloud around the top of the mountain.In less than a few blinks of an eye, Hanshi Mountain suddenly cracked several long and narrow gaps from the top to the foot of the mountain, and countless transparent flowers sprang out from the gaps, covering the entire Hanshi Mountain in an instant. Strictly.

Afterwards, Hanshi Mountain was like a huge beast that had just finished its long and boring hibernation, woke up, and wanted to stretch its waist to refresh itself. The high and low mountains began to drop strangely shaped stones.Those boulders rolled down continuously, stumbled and stumbled with the immobile mountain all the way, and the deafening sound echoed around, giving people an illusion that people will be destroyed together with nature.

Just when everyone thought that this strange accident ended in a landslide, a horizontal and narrow seam suddenly opened in the open space between Daqing and Beidi's army. The palm-width split formed an insurmountable gap.

And the earthquake lasted until now, and it actually stopped in a very human way, and retreated obediently, as if its mission this time was to protect Daqing.

Liu Changzhou squinted his eyes and looked around for a while, calmed down, and raised his hand to signal the soldiers behind him who had no hope of surviving to stand still—he didn't think it was God secretly helping Daqing, helping him, they seemed to be just stepping on shit luck , encountered a once-in-a-century earthquake.

A louder sound came suddenly, and the sky and the earth began to tremble violently. The thick smoke on the Hanshi Mountain finally disappeared, and what followed...

magma.

The hot magma is wrapped in countless gravels, flowing down from the high place without any hindrance, little by little, the cold stone mountain that has been snowed for many years is dyed in the color of flames, turning the whole cold stone mountain into a cluster of flowing clouds. bonfire.As the magma rolled down all the way, the red halo flowing on the transparent flowers suddenly deepened at first, and then they joined the team of magma without hesitation, seamlessly softening with the flame flow.

There is a strong smell of sulfur in the north wind.

Beidi's well-arranged team began to panic, and the consciousness of survival forced everyone to move to the south side at the same time.The team was too huge, the people at the end of the team continued to compress backwards, and the people at the head of the team fell into the gap as expected. In the blink of an eye, [-]% of the team of millions of people had been cut off.

Human life is so cheap in front of natural disasters.

The magma flowed extremely slowly, advancing inch by inch, as ruthless as a murderous executioner, and finally trekked to the border with the crowd.For a moment, the tragic wailing sound joined the non-stop sound of the surrounding stones colliding, which made people feel sorry for each other.

The entire Beidi phalanx is like meat placed on a cutting board, swallowed by magma in the back, bullied by the chasm in the front, and the shrinking speed is visible to the naked eye.

Liu Changzhou, dressed in military uniform, took a deep breath and only inhaled a puff of thick smoke mixed with the smell of sulfur.He slowly raised his right hand and turned over the ladder placed on one side.The ladder fell down and just stood on the gap, giving the Beidi enemies a way to survive.

Sha Xing slapped the city wall angrily, hating iron for being weak and said: "A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Little general, don't be soft-hearted and hesitant, is it true that you really sit and watch this group of ill-intentioned enemies step on the threshold of our own house?!"

Liu Changzhou lowered his eyelids, raised his hand very casually, pointed to the cloudy sky, and said calmly: "Old man, don't you understand at this age? When people fight with each other, the loser is always a human being. What's more ... In the face of natural disasters, how can there be any distinction between the enemy and us? In other words, if my soldiers encounter the same situation, I hope that they can die under the sword of the enemy with dignity, instead of... dying by good luck."

Afterwards, a sentence that Lu Hanzhang once said popped into his mind very appropriately, he pulled the corner of his mouth, his eyes softened, and he said softly: "... good fortune can make friends but not enemies."

These words seemed to strengthen his hesitant mind. He swung his sword back and forth three times, and a row of soldiers along the line immediately put down a row of ladders and put them on the gap.The Beidi soldiers had an extra way of life, and they escaped like wolves and tigers along the ladders. However, the number of ladders was limited, and everyone wanted to squeeze up, so some ladders were overwhelmed and broke in the middle.

Liu Changzhou was stunned for a moment, and smiled sarcastically—it seemed that it was not just good fortune that was not dominated by human consciousness, but also the desire to survive dormant in his heart that could kill a person.

The magma finally pushed its battle line to the chasm, and fell obediently along the section on the other side, forming a spectacular fire curtain.The scorching tide rolled towards the face, forcing the soldiers on the other side to retreat.

The sky full of black clouds suddenly cleared up, a light-colored sun hung high in the sky, the wind and snow stopped suddenly, and the surroundings were completely silent for a while.At some point, the flowing magma was instantly shaped by the freezing weather in the extreme north, and it was shaped into the current appearance——

Looking around, from the chasm all the way to the foot of Hanshi Mountain, the high and low bumps can still distinguish the shape of the unmelted human body, with five fingers stretched out in vain, half of the head, half of the body, all kinds of people, And so on.

The hot magma and the cold ice and snow vividly fixed the despair and struggle of people before death on the ground, forming a huge purgatory on earth.

Countless tiny white spots of light flashed out from the ground that had lost its fire color and gradually turned black and hardened. Almost instantly, countless unknown flowers were pulled out of those white spots and bloomed into bloom recklessly. one slice.The purgatory on earth, which was originally silent, erupted with the sound of flowers blooming, which was deafening.

Liu Changzhou suddenly realized——

This is the flower of hell.

A piece of debris floated down on his shoulder, and he stretched out his hand to take it, and there were three words that were torn to pieces——

Stop the expedition.

The author has something to say:

Those who are flaming will be destroyed, and those who are booming will be destroyed. ——Yang Xiong's "Resolving Mocking"

When will the Hulu be flattened, and the beloved will stop the expedition. —— Li Bai "Midnight Wu Song"

Many years have been added to my heart - "I feel reborn, and suddenly, many years have been added to my heart." Bai Xianyong "Suddenly Looking Back"

Bone marrow is a spongy tissue that exists in the marrow cavity of long bones (such as humerus, femur), the cancellous interosseous mesh of flat bones (such as sternum, ribs) and irregular bones (ilium, vertebrae, etc.). --Baidu Encyclopedia