Ban Chengzi is usually half and half.
Today I probably used up half of what I had accumulated on weekdays.
He knocked down the two of them at once, and couldn't help but gasp in disbelief. He looked at the seriously injured Yun Kong, thought about the unconscious Chi Chengzi, and finally looked at his own hands.
He looked around in panic, picked up a large bag of books, and hurried to the city gate.
He was afraid that Chi Chengzi would wake up, catch up with him and kill him.
None of my senior brothers are nice to me. he thinks.
Even Master wants to kill me.
He blended into the merchants and pedestrians gathered at the city gate, and once the city gate opened, he hurriedly left Jiangning Mansion.
ah! Breeze!
He took a deep breath of cool air and felt infinite joy in his heart.
Although erysipelas was still deposited in his body, hindering his breathing and thinking, he felt more at ease than ever before!
He was so excited that he wanted to scream.
He stopped looking back and had no intention of looking at Jiangning Mansion again.
There is a view of Liuhe that he hates in Jiangning Mansion.
Fuck Liuheguan.
【Guiji】
Life is so ordinary, day after day, unchanged.
It once had such a comfortable time, nestled in its mother's arms, and sucked its mother's milk when it was hungry.
But these good times did not last long.
But when it grew a little, a wooden plow was mounted on its shoulders, dragging an iron rake to loosen the soil.
Occasionally, it is taken to mate with other people's cows, and the owner charges a fee.
That's it.
In just a few words, he has finished telling his experience from his birth to the present.
As it gets older, it feels that its strength is getting weaker and weaker, and it is gradually unable to carry the heavy plow, and the working hours are getting shorter and shorter.
Finally one day, it was taken to a strange place.
This is a place that he only comes to once in his life.
The owner chatted with a stout man for a few words, then took the money and left.
It doesn't understand that it has never been abandoned like this by its owner.
It cried: "Moo──"
The master did not look back.
It moved its steps, trying to catch up with its owner.
"Hey, what are you doing?!" the sturdy man shouted, startling it.
Soon, several people appeared with ropes. Before it could react, it fell to the ground and its limbs were tied up tightly.
It was still wondering: "Moo──moo──" It was old and forgot to defend itself, but it knew that today would be very different from the past.
It lay helplessly on the ground, looking forward to and worrying about its fate.
When the man came over with a bright butcher knife, it suddenly realized and let out a "moo" sound.
It couldn't help but burst into tears, but it didn't make any struggle.
It suddenly became attached to many, many things.
Although every day is the same, it can still taste the grass, smell the flowers, take a nap in the shade of a tree, or roll in the mud.
These good days passed quietly without realizing it.
The cold blade scratched its neck, and it felt unprecedented pain.
The kind of pain tore through the heart and liver, and surged to all parts of the body, tightening all the muscles in pain.
The hot blood covered the blade, stirring up a small amount of heat on the cold blade.
It wanted to breathe, but every time it tried to take a breath, it heard a strange fluting sound coming from its throat.
For a moment, it thought the shepherd boy who had taken care of it had arrived.
Its senses gradually became numb, and its ears were filled with noisy and messy noises.
It finds itself disappearing.
Disappearance enveloped the limbs.
The emptiness spreads to the abdomen and gently flows to the head.
It wanted to scream again.
"Moo──"
But the sound only echoed in its head.
Soon, nothingness wrapped around its neck and covered its head.
Somewhere along the way, it realized that it had forgotten one thing.
It has no fear.
Confused.
Just confused.
In a daze, it was grabbed by a force and thrown into the void in an instant.
That force was so powerful that it almost dug into its heart, trying to completely erase all its memories, feelings, and personality.
It finally had the intention to resist.
When the knife cut into the neck, it did not resist.
When it struggled to get rid of that power, its whole body suddenly lost its support and was wandering in the void.
There is nothing in the void.
It’s hard to imagine what “nothing” means.
Even a blind man can see darkness and have occasional flashes of light in his mind.
It wandered around in the nothingness for a while, and then was grabbed again.
This time it was too late to resist.
It was pulled out of the void, bursts of pungent smell surged up, its limbs could not move, and its whole body was wrapped in a membrane.
A long mouth came over and bit off the membrane.
It felt uncomfortable all over.
My eyes couldn't see clearly, and I was confused by the bright light that came in unceremoniously.
It struggled to get up and stumbled in a random direction.
There was a very uneasy voice behind it: "Woof, woof──"
It ignores.
But after taking only a few steps, he came up empty.
It barked reflexively, and was surprised to find that the cry was different from before.
"Woof──"
That's what it's called.
"Pfft--" The cold water trapped it tightly and rudely penetrated into the nostrils, mouth and ears.
Soon, there was a harsh sound in the ears.
It lost consciousness again.
When it returned to nothingness again, the force that attempted to shatter its memory appeared again.
This time it avoided it without hesitation.
It was very, very awake, more awake than it had ever been in its life.
The powerful attraction was like a whirlpool, pulling it in.
Surrounded by strange things that were soft and twitching, pushing hard against his body, he felt that his whole body was surrounded by warm liquid, and only the top of his head was cool.
So cold!
He was pushed out.
The fresh and cool air caressed his face.
He was hung upside down, and a big, wrinkled hand slapped his butt.
He yelled "Wow", and suddenly a cold air rushed into his nose, and his whole body felt blood rushing, and his lungs began to gradually expand and contract.
"It's a man!" There was an old and steady voice, "Congratulations, madam! Congratulations, madam!"
"Go and inform the young master quickly!"
He cried without emotion and moved his limbs wildly, but he couldn't break free from the big warm hands.
He was tired of crying, so he had to rest and listen to his breathing quietly.
The sound of breathing is like a faint wave.
His life began in the sound of waves and began to count down to the end.
After an unknown amount of time, he heard a voice.
"Zhang Guiji, this is your name."
"Guiji... call Aji, Aji." A huge finger stretched out to tease his nose, making him very uncomfortable.
"Aji, Ji..."
He realized that this was calling him.
He is Zhang Guiji.
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This place was the backyard that few people in the Zhang family set foot on, so even if he made a noise for many days, only the person delivering tea would hear it.
Whenever he heard someone's voice, he would bang on the door as hard as he could, hoping that someone would listen to him.
But in fact, from the time he could speak, people were afraid to hear him speak.
To be clear, I was afraid of hearing what he said.
When he was seven years old, his father went out on business and was killed by bandits on the way.
People will never forget what his father said that day when he went out.
He said: "Dad stinks."
His father had starched and incense his clothes before setting off.
He said: "Dad, it stinks so much. There are a lot of flies flying and a lot of white bugs crawling around."
When his father was found, he was already highly decomposed and his body was covered with water.
That year, his uncle was determined by the clan members to inherit the title of head of the family and imprisoned him in the woodshed.
The reason for being imprisoned was that he was an unlucky child and killed his father in one sentence.
In fact, he killed many people.
Just to count, there are his wet nurse's son, his private school teacher, his aunt, his grandfather...
But others forget that there are times when he is invincible.
He predicted the date when his mother would recover from illness, he revealed who the thief in the family was, and he prevented a servant girl from hanging herself.
All in all, he could see the future.
Ever since he refused to have his memory emptied out in that void, he could see the future.
He speaks of a future that people long to know, but are very afraid of.
Therefore, he was locked in the woodshed.
He was also literate and read enlightening books, so studying in the woodshed relieved the sadness of life.
When he was ten years old, he finally wanted to escape.
Because of that night.
That night, he woke up with a fright.
Darkness and coldness came from all directions, coming from nowhere.
