"What's the matter?"
"It didn't take me long to carry you from Jiangning Mansion. This place should be not far from Jiangning. It's impossible not to see any trace of people."
"Mei Jian has children." Yun Kong suddenly seemed to notice something.
"so?"
"She couldn't have given birth to a pair of children on her own."
"But her children can have children again."
"This matter..." Yun Kong couldn't help but feel hot as he recalled the scene just now.
"Yunkong, I believe this is a closed space," Chichengzi said. "They have never seen outsiders since they were young. Their family is the whole world. This world needs people and the reproduction of descendants. This is the Tao ’.”
"Is this the Tao? What is the Tao?"
"The way of all things in heaven and earth." Chi Chengzi said seriously: "You know the sky, the earth, the female, the sky, the rain, the earth, the lake."
Yun Kong sighed greatly, lowered his head and said, "This world is really small."
"The world outside is not that big."
Suddenly, they both heard a growling sound from their stomachs, interrupting their thoughts.
Chi Chengzi showed a rare smile: "Oh, I am living under someone else's roof."
It's lunch time.
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When the five of them were sitting around on the ground eating, Yun Kong would occasionally glance at Feng Nian He Sheng from the corner of his eye.
To be honest, if Feng Nian was outside in the world, she would know how beautiful she is.
There is not a trace of artificiality in her whole body, but she is full of original simplicity and vitality.
As soon as Yun Kong saw her, he couldn't help but think of what he had just seen.
There didn't seem to be anything unnatural about the two of them, neither were they particularly close, nor did they look particularly avoidant.
"Yunkong," Yunkong told himself, "forget the rules you have learned, what you knew before does not apply here."
He finally convinced himself.
At the end of lunch, Chi Chengzi spoke: "Sister Jian, thank you very much for taking care of me these days."
"Huh?" Probably because she hadn't heard polite words for a long time, Sister Jian was a little at a loss for a moment, "What... what are these words."
"We want to leave."
"Leave?" Fengnian put down the plate curiously, "Where do you want to leave?"
"here."
"Can I leave here?"
Sheng's eyes shone with light: "Mom said, this is where we were born and where we died. Is there any other place here?"
"We don't know where this place is," Yun Kong said, "but we came from Jiangning Mansion, not far away."
Sister Jian was stunned for a moment and said, "Is there a place called Jiangning Mansion nearby?"
"Then..." Chi Chengzi paused deliberately, "What should the nearby place be called?"
"I..." Sister Jian's eyes evaded, "When I first settled here more than 20 years ago, I had never heard of Jiangning Mansion..."
Chi Chengzi's tone became even more meaningful: "It's probably almost two hundred years since Jiangning Mansion was founded."
"I...I don't know..." Sister Jian suddenly felt like a frightened insect, feeling uncomfortable all over and trying to find a place to hide herself.
"Sister Jian, what are you afraid of?"
Sister Jian was stunned.
Sheng He Fengnian hurriedly walked to her side. After comforting her for a while, Sheng looked at Chi Chengzi angrily and said, "We have never seen other people before, but you came and scared my mother like this."
"Why don't you ask your mother what she's afraid of?" Chi Chengzi said.
"Someone will come to kill everyone." Jian Mei said with a pale face.
"Well?"
Sister Jian calmed down and suppressed her trembling voice: "The king sent troops to kill the whole village. I escaped. If they knew there were survivors, they would definitely die."
"Who is escaping with you?"
"Their father, Nie Liang."
Just when Chi Chengzi was thinking that it was indeed true, Sheng immediately interrupted: "Dad has disappeared long ago."
Jian Mei glanced at her son and motioned for her to speak: "Nie Liang is the only one who goes outside. He sometimes exchanges some outside things... But the world outside has long been unknown, and the king seems to be dead. , every time he goes out, he hears that different people have become kings...Tell me, is there a war going on outside, is there a lot of chaos?"
After hearing this, Chi Chengzi and Yun Kong didn't know what to say.
"Come on, let's find out everything." Yun Kong said, "First of all, where did you and that Nie Liang live?"
"In East County."
"Dongjun?" Yun Kong turned to look at Chi Chengzi, who shook his head and said he hadn't heard of it.
"Okay," Yun Kong asked again, "What was the name of the king you said killed you?"
"King Qin..." Sister Jian seemed to have thought of something, and immediately changed her mind and said, "It seems that later he wanted others to call him the First Emperor."
Yunkong and Chi Chengzi finally felt that something was wrong.
Yun Kong began to feel excited: "You said that Nie Liang went out to exchange for something, can you show it to me?"
Sister Jian told Fengnian to get them, saying, "Those things are of no use, I put them away."
Fengnian took a bunch of things hung together by straw ropes. When they hit each other, they would make a loud metallic sound.
"It's copper coins." Yun Kong thought to himself, took it and took a look, and his heart suddenly felt cold to the bone.
The shapes of the money are somewhat different, and the words engraved on them are different.
Some Han Dynasty five-baht coins are round coins with square holes and two characters for "five" or the two characters for "five baht" on them.
There are also copper coins with the ancient seal script "一刀" written on them, which belong to Wang Mang.
"Chichengzi, do you read much about history books?"
"A little bit of dabbling."
"How old is Qin Shihuang?"
"A thousand years is indispensable."
"This is great."
"What are you busy with?"
"I have two important things. One is that I made an appointment with Master for ten years to go back and see him. Originally, there were still four years left..."
"I understand, where's the other one?"
"Zhang Tieqiao told me when he died that the Song Dynasty was brought down by a Taoist priest. I want to find out what happened."
"You're really busy."
Yun Kong walked up to Sister Jian and said sincerely: "I am very grateful to my wife for taking care of me these days. We want to leave, and we ask Sister Jian to show us a way out."
"Only Nie Liang knows the way out here. He has disappeared long ago." Jian Mei said.
"How did he disappear?"
"He said he was going out that day, and then he didn't come back."
"How long?"
"Sheng and Fengnian were still very young at that time...probably fifteen or sixteen years old, right?"
Chi Chengzi interrupted Yun Kong's question: "Are you still waiting for him?"
"Wait...?" Sister Jian said faintly, "I have been waiting for so long, and a voice told me that it seems he will not come back..." When she said this, the air in the room seemed to become thinner. .
"Who knows?" Chi Chengzi smiled and said, "But the king you are talking about should be called Qin Shihuang. You are right. There is chaos outside, with floods, droughts, military disasters, wind disasters, snow disasters, and plagues every year. We have I can’t escape even if I want to.”
Yun Kong looked at Chi Chengzi in surprise.
"So what if we have avoided all these fucking disasters?" Chi Chengzi said with a blush on his face. "Even if we have avoided natural disasters, there are still all kinds of man-made disasters! If someone accidentally kills someone, how can he still do it in front of the King of Hell? I don’t know who to sue!” He was talking about his own experience, and the more he talked about it, the more excited he became.
"What is the King of Hell?" Fengnian looked at Chi Chengzi with great interest and asked in confusion.
Yama is a name that only came into being after the introduction of Buddhism. In Jian Mei's era, there was only the concept of the underworld.
"Ignore him now. Although your place is suffocating, isn't it a paradise on earth? The Jade Emperor didn't enjoy such blessings either!"
"Here we go again, what is the Jade Emperor?"
Chi Chengzi suddenly seemed to be discouraged and sat down on the ground dejectedly.
Yun Kong didn't dare waste any more time.
Every second wasted here is terrible.
"Really none of you know the way out?" he asked nervously.
"I don't know, but I remember which way Nie Liang went." Jian Mei said.
Chi Chengzi seemed to have regained his energy and pointed in one direction: "Is it over there?"
"That's the direction."
"Yunkong, that's the direction we're coming from. Can I take you to look for it?"
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The following days are for "consuming".
People say that days are wasted, and it is indeed true. Every time a day is wasted here, the outside world does not know how many days it is.
Yun Kong became more and more anxious day by day, repeatedly calculating how much time he had spent every day.
