Chu Qing sat in the car, slowly closed her eyes, and then seemed to have a dream.
Sky, clouds, raindrops, shimmer.
The distant sky is like paper soaked in blue dye. From the edge of the clouds, which are randomly pruned by the wind, there are transparent raindrops falling from them. The heavy and moist part slowly blocks the sun.
Dark clouds and the woman's hair were entangled in front of her eyes, and the shimmer turned her long hair into a wheat color. She lay in the cradle and looked at her face, the shape of her gentle eyes and smile.
The pure white wild flowers blooming on the rock wall and the clear stream flowing continuously, the quiet things and the echoes of heaven are harmonious. It is the ideal land where he was born, the place where he returns after death, the promised land pointed out by the gods. , we can still see it one day in the long years.
"Mother."
The child murmured in a low voice, his swollen and frostbitten fingers covered with a layer of fresh snow, and the crows around him waited quietly for him to die. When he was about to die, he saw that the illusion had disappeared. He tried to move his body but found that it was in vain. He could only let his body temperature start to freeze.
"Who fell there!"
Who came through the snow? The dying child couldn't make a sound, but he thought in his heart, save me.
What's the point if he survived the cold winter.
"Do you have a name?"
In order to wait for the arrival of midsummer and meet the blue sky and light-transmitting clouds again.
"Pitiful."
Ah, finally the child saw her face clearly. She has the same eyes as her mother. In this way, he is not pitiful. The child thought to himself, please don't be sad about this.
"Mom..." He called the woman in front of him, imagining how he would leave her body and touch the cold world with his skin, choking helplessly because of fear.
"ah… "
Chu Qing opened her eyes, and there was no longer blue sea water outside the window. The clouds were thin, and halos were rising from the horizon.
The northern plains, known as the Snow Country in the past, have ushered in the early spring. Red-leaf trees are dotted with endless lush forests, and flocks of crows are gathering and circling in the sky, ready to bite the lone turtle dove.
"It's so noisy."
the man complained.
He was wearing a tight-fitting uniform with white background and black edges, and the palace crest on his back was clearly visible - the white-feathered crow standing in front of the gate of heaven. The beard and messy hair like weeds are slightly gray. The man in his forties has two swords on his waist. The standard long sword is obviously his most used weapon, and the other seems to be an imported product. People like to use this sword as a weapon. A sword that is not a long sword but has a blade wider than a short sword is called a heterogeneous sword.
"The sad turtle dove was chased away by the crow, just because of the different color of its fur?" The young man followed behind the man, looking past the red leaf trees and sighing at the sky.
"It's not worth mourning. Birds jump into battle and kill each other in the sky. That's their nature." The man fixed the scabbard in his left hand without looking back. "People who keep birds in cages will never understand why they want to be buried in the sky."
Nowadays, Chu Qing has established a position in the Gong family. He was admitted to the university as the top scholar in Jinmen and helped the Gong family reach its peak. The strength of the family can be seen from the uniforms worn by the men around Chu Qing. His debauched appearance The older man seemed to be an excellent swordsman, and the young man carrying a breech-loading gun behind him seemed to have just returned from hunting.
"Does Mr. Shi think he is a caged bird?" Chu Qing asked.
"I have been pursuing freedom all my life, far away from home, fighting everywhere, confronting villains with swords in the alleys of towns, rescuing slaves from the barbarians in the Far East Peninsula, overlooking the capital city from the Taiyan Mountains, and the dancing postures of South Island girls Let me linger in confusion, and finally, I came to Jinmen to serve the Gong family."