Yan Niang didn't answer her right ear, she looked at the sky, and the old but firm voice appeared in her mind again.
"Close the gates."
"My lord, the people have already run out, isn't it inappropriate to close the city gate now, the arrow array has been arranged, you better hide first."
"Didn't you see the token in my hand?"
"But it's the emperor's."
"Before the new emperor is established, won't the things of the first emperor be counted?"
"But adults" "I'll tell you to close the gates."
The city gate finally closed behind him, and tens of thousands of arrows flew through the turbid air, smashing into the two huge stone gates, making a thunderous sound.
He glanced back, his gaze piercing the wall and landing on the towering figure, then he turned and rode forward like arrows.
The dark and dreary night seemed to be smeared heavily on the sky, and the cold stars that were still twinkling just now seemed to have finally become sleepy, and one after another hid their brilliance.
Granny Zhong lay on the bed and listened for a long time, until the window was completely quiet, and there was not even a single bird call or cicada chirping, she got up slowly, lit a small oil lamp, and walked to the dining table with it.
She squatted down, put the oil lamp on the ground, fumbled under the table for a while, tore open a piece of ground with a "bang", took out a wooden box from the dark hole under the ground, and laboriously picked it up and put it on the table.
She smashed her mouth, rubbing her two dry hands back and forth a dozen times, and then slowly opened the box.
As soon as the lid was opened, golden light poured out of it, illuminating the room as if it were daylight.
Granny Zhong looked out of the window like a thief, closed the box again with a "bang", she walked to the cupboard, and with great effort, moved it to the front of the window, and tightly covered the house of the Zhang family opposite, and then returned to the table and opened the box again.
Inside the box were neatly stacked stacks of gold bars, and the golden light shimmered, stinging her eyes.
Granny Zhong wiped the corners of her eyes with the corners of her clothes, took out two gold bars with trembling hands, and knocked lightly, the gold hit a crisp "dong dong" sound, and dragged a "hum" end note, this sound drilled into Granny Zhong's heart, making her laugh unconsciously, "Hey, I didn't expect my old woman to suffer all her life, and at this age, she made a windfall, but yes, it's still too little, if only it could fill a box."
Her smile grew deeper and darker, until it reached her face, and seemed very permeable in the light of the oil lamp.
She put the gold bars back and fumbled in the box for a long time, carefully touching each one, and then she closed the lid and stuffed it back into the dark hole.
Just as she was about to close the cover, she pulled the corner of her eye and swept to a cloth bag under the box, her eyes only lingered on the cloth bag for a moment, and then she slipped out, and with a force of both hands, she quickly covered the hole with the earth.
After doing all this, Granny Zhong lay back on the bed contentedly, she sniffed her fingers, as if there was still a residual smell of gold on them, she closed her eyes in the imaginary scent, and fell into a deep sleep in a short time.
I don't know how long it took, Granny Zhong suddenly woke up from her sleep, she sat up straight as if reflexively, rushed out of bed and ran towards the dining table.
Fortunately, the floor under the table was still well covered, and the box inside was also unharmed, she wiped the cold sweat from her head, and then began to remember what voice had woken her up from her sleep.
In the dream, she was swimming in a cave full of gold, laughing so hard that her mouth was sour.
However, there seemed to be a loud noise outside the cave, which pulled her out of her dream, and she thought that a thief had broken down the door to steal her treasure, but there was no one in the room, and the box was well placed, just as before going to bed.
So what exactly is the sound of waking yourself up?
Granny Zhong grabbed her gray hair and slowly stood up from the ground.
There was a sudden sound of "fluttering" in her ears, and then, a hairy and cold thing flew over against the back of her hand, this contact made her body float a layer of goosebumps, Granny Zhong was a rough person, she worked in the field since she was a child, and she saw a lot of insects or something, but the feeling on the back of her hand made her feel that insects were so disgusting for the first time, and even the hairs on her back stood up.
"As long as the gold is fine, then anything is fine."
She muttered and staggered towards the bed, a sudden gust of wind blew behind her, blowing her sweat-soaked clothes extremely cold, and Granny Zhong turned around and saw a flickering black figure standing next to the table.
She was shocked, thinking that there was really a thief in the house, and she rushed towards the figure without thinking about anything, but when she came to her, the shadow was gone, leaving only a broken cry in the damp and cold air.
Granny Zhong stood there, her mind seemed to explode, she remembered why that person looked so familiar, and after a sour feeling in her heart, the lines on the corners of her mouth became more ruthless, "Don't blame me, it's you who are not filial to the first, and you end up like this, but you are not wronged." ” The sound of chickens crowing sounded outside the window, she heard the sound of Zhang's family opening the door, and after a while, a "bang" hoeing sound came in from outside, that is, Zhang Rui got up early to work.
"Hmph, what a filial child," Granny Zhong twisted into a smile on her lips, "Your mother should have hurt you to death, but if you are not there one day, will she die of depression?"
” After saying this viciously, she opened the door and shouted outside, "Zhang Rui, help me fetch a bucket of water for a while, my wife didn't sleep well at night, and her back hurt to death." ” "Hey, you can rest and go, just leave everything inside and outside the house to me today, and I'll bring you a few pairs of plasters for a while, and keep your waist after you have pasted it."
Liu Xujiao got up early in the morning, he hadn't slept so deeply for a long time, a few days ago in Qingcheng, he always had to wake up several times a night, every time he was awakened by the screams in the dream, those people in the dream were either missing heads or arms, and the rest of the body was also burned like black charcoal, and every time he took a step, the flesh skin fell down and turned into a pile of ashes on the ground.
They always walked towards him with their bent arms outstretched, twisting their legs and shouting "Help, help," and walked up to him, and their bodies slammed down, turning into a strange character.