A crow in the desert

Turned around and went upstairs.The crow stood at the top of the stairs, and the two passed by.Agou said, "You have no money, and you have nothing to eat."

Blue Beibei smiled unabashedly.

The crow was honest: "I won't eat." After a pause, he said: "Should I go?"

Ah Gou cut the meat without raising his head: "You will be dead if you leave now, you can leave after tonight." He raised his head and stayed for a while, then said: "Forget about the rent."

The crow also knew that thanking him was unnecessary, so he helped him carry water and cook.The Northwest is poor in supplies, and the meals prepared for the gentlemen in the front yard almost exhausted the property of Agou Inn.When it was his turn to cook for himself, only half a bowl of rice was put in a large pot of clear water.It was cold and windy outside, A Gou squatted by the stove to fan the wind, and Crow squatted beside him to sort out the firewood.The red flames reflected the cheeks of the two of them.

Fighting began outside in the evening. Two groups of people occupied the storefronts on both sides of the street. Longbows and short arrows were erected at the windows, and a row of tables were placed at the door. Three layers of quilts were piled on the tables, temporarily serving as trenches.Stones and daggers were thrown ping-pong-pong, and the bodies of the war dead were piled up in the lobby.

Listening to the screaming and fighting in the front yard, the crow said softly, "Is this a fight?"

Agou concentrates on turning the fire on with the tongs, with a sad and numb expression: "There are always fights, either the king of the west defeats the east, or the king of the east kills the west. Once they fight, we have done nothing in the past few years." Yes. Originally, my father planned to buy me a daughter-in-law, but now I have to wait a few more years."

The crow said bitterly: "Buy?"

"Good women don't want to marry here. There is a widow in the village on the west side. She is almost forty, but she can still bear children. Buy her back and give birth to a son. When my father and I die, they can go to our graves."

The crow was silent for a while: "Agou, what's your last name?"

"My surname is Li, Muzi Li. My father's poor life is worse than that of an animal, so he named me Agou."

The crow turned to look at him, and suddenly realized that he was actually very handsome, such a person should not live like an animal.

"Agou, it doesn't matter that someone like you should be there. You are young and hardworking. If you go to a place that suits you, as long as you work hard, you will have your own house, and there will be women who like you and are willing to give you money." You have children. You are happy to see them while you are alive, not to go to your grave when you are dead."

Agou stared blankly at him for a while, then asked, "Do you have a house and a woman?"

The crow smiled bitterly: "No."

"You don't have any, and I don't have any." A Gou lowered his head gloomily: "I was born in the northwest, and I can only stay in this place."

The crow was dumb, and finally left in silence.

I'm Li Yue

The territory of the Qin Dynasty went west to Yumen Pass, but in fact, a large piece of land from Xi'an to the west had been in a state of anarchy for a long time.In the early years of Emperor Xihe, King Loulan unified the Northwest, and the order was stable for more than ten years, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment.

King Loulan died of illness in his middle age, and his two sons fought for the throne year after year, so they had no intention of managing political affairs.As a result, bandits and bandits are rampant everywhere, and the people are in dire straits.

In the Agou Inn, the two biggest groups of bandits in the area are fighting against each other - the Tianxing Gang and the Double Gun Club.The war lasted from the evening to the early morning of the next day. The crow lay on the bed and heard the sound of jingling, which was the sound of arrows hitting the eaves, and occasionally there was the sound of a weapon piercing into the skin.He was a little confused, there is such a place in the world that is good for killing.

Agou walked alone in the corridor carrying a kerosene lamp, checking the damage of the entire inn.

The Mongols are sleeping.They don't like it here either, they are as tall and tame as horses on the prairie.Lan Beibei pushed open the window and looked out with folded arms. When he was quiet, his face showed a gloomy and stunning beauty.

The room of the temperamental man was lit with extravagant oil lamps. He stood in front of the window and meditated, staring at Lan Beibei for a long time.

The yellow sand is long, it is a sad night.

The next morning, the sky was bright, and the Tianxing gang wiped out the Double Gun Club at the cost of [-] yuan.The bows, arrows and machetes at the entrance of the inn were covered like snow.The bodies of the Two Guns were brought out from the opposite room and piled up on the road like straw.

The head of the Tianxing gang's eyes were red, but it wasn't because of staying up late, but because of bloodthirsty excitement.He rode a fierce horse across the unattended streets, and shouted in a rough voice: "From now on, this is my territory, so you have to fucking come out and meet your new master."

The doors of every house were tightly shut.The leader Hengdao immediately, pondered for a moment, waved and said: "Burn."

Immediately, a minion came over with a kerosene barrel and threw it on the roof of a house. The crow was watching from the window, but at this moment, he came out, snatched the fire from the bandit's hand, and bowed to the leader: " Your Majesty, the people have no grievances against you, please forgive them."

The leader said: "I don't ask for grievances when I kill people, I just want to be refreshing."

That leaves nothing to say.The crow stepped forward, grabbed his saddle, exerted force with both feet, and dragged a horse backwards for more than a dozen steps. The leader rolled off the saddle and went mad with anger: "Kill him."

Hundreds of bandits immediately surrounded the crow in a top-like shape.

Several people in Agou Inn were dumbfounded.The monster opened its mouth and said after a while, "Is he stupid?"

Lan Beibei frowned, pointed to his own head, and said, "There is a string missing in his brain."

The temperamental man looked at it without squinting, and suddenly asked: "Is he your friend?"

There was no subject in these words, and others were a little puzzled, but Lan Beibei replied, "No."

The temperamental man nodded: "Like attracts like, I don't think you can make such friends."

Lan Beibei gritted her teeth and ignored him.

The scuffle on the long street didn't last long. The crow's swordsmanship was excellent, and he had the ability to fight one against a hundred. However, the bandits were not afraid of death and surrounded them layer by layer. , was stabbed in the leg.

The leader became even more excited when he saw the blood, and stood on the firewood pile waving a big knife: "Whoever took his head, I will make him the second king..." The end of this sentence should have been followed by a strange cry, but now But it stopped abruptly.Everyone looked back and saw the leader standing stiffly with the end of an arrow sticking out between his brows.

Everyone was stunned by this sudden scene.It wasn't until the leader fell down suddenly that the crowd began to scream: "There are monsters." "The demon king has appeared" like birds and beasts.

The crow was knocked to one side by the crowd. He looked at where the arrow came from, and saw the end of the long street, with rolling yellow sand, and a man in a gray cloak on a fast horse.The man was very fast, rushed to the crow in an instant, and reined in tightly.The horse neighed, and the man stood up. The man on the horse was wearing a veil and the brim of his hat drooped, revealing only a pair of eagle-like eyes.

He skillfully took out three long arrows from his back, drew the bow to the full, swished three times, the arrows shot into the backs of the three fleeing bandits, and the three vomited blood and fell to the ground.He continued to draw the bow methodically, with the precision of a killing machine.

Seeing that this street was about to become a Shura field again, the crow couldn't help shouting: "Hey, it's enough for you to kill the leader, the others are accomplices, and they don't deserve death." The crow reached out and grabbed the three guns and was about to fly. The sharp arrow that went out had a sharp tip, with a cold texture of metal.

The masked man lowered his eyes slightly, looked straight at him, lost his strength for a while, and retracted the long arrow.He tore off his mask, put down the brim of his hat, and smiled kindly at the crow: "My name is Li Yue, who are you?"

The crow was a little dazed, this was a young and handsome man, and the crow wondered where he had seen him before.

"I am a crow."

Li Yue nodded, he didn't even get off his horse, he just galloped on the unintentional streets, he said loudly to everyone in every household: "I am Li Yue."

The window was opened a crack, the door panel was pushed open, and several elderly people looked out tremblingly.People came out in twos and threes, and finally everyone ran out, knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty."

Li Yue nodded, he doesn't look like a bandit, in fact he looks very educated.Among the kneeling crowd, he saw a few strangers. He reined in his horse and looked around for a moment, then said, "Mongolians? What are you selling?"

Noah nodded and bowed, almost kneeling, he had never dealt with civilized people in his life, he said: "Master, it's spices."

Li Yue laughed loudly: "You guys stink like livestock, can you sell them?"

He took a serious look at Lan Beibei, and then said: "People from the Central Plains, they are really dazzling." Then he went to look at the temperamental man and the servants, and after a while he frowned: "I can't see the number of you, this is my jurisdiction , A few of you should report yourself."

The temperamental man said lightly: "Just an idle rich man."

Li Yue stared at him: "What are you doing in the northwest?"

The temperamental man was silent for a while, and replied calmly: "Look for my wife."

Li Yue: "..."

Blue Beibei spit on the ground.

Li Yue laughed loudly, turned the horse's head, and said: "You have feelings." He returned to the crow again, got off the horse, looked at the crow, and said with a smile: "You are not bad, follow me."

The crow looked at him suspiciously, and finally said, "Which mountain are you from?"

Li Yue was taken aback, then smiled and said, "You don't know me?"

Crow looked around at the kneeling people, and said cautiously: "You seem to be very famous, but it's my first time in Northwest China, so I don't know much about local customs and customs."

Li Yue looked at him playfully, and finally waved his hands: "It's just a false name, I'm just an ordinary person."

Just as he was speaking, billowing yellow sand rolled up from the direction of Li Yuelai, covering the sky and the sun, and there was a faint sound of galloping and whistling.A row of black shadows emerged from the yellow sand, dozens of iron