Chapter 1 Small Mountain Village
Xiaoshi Village is a small village belonging to Zhenshan Town, Youyuan County, Zuoxiang Kingdom. The people of the village have lived in this small village surrounded by mountains for generations. The only person who has been to a distant place may be Li Er, the picker in the village. And the farthest place Li Er has ever been to is only Zhenshan Town. It's not that the mountain road is rugged and difficult, nor is it that wild beasts are rampant, on the contrary, an adult man can reach it on foot in three or five hours.
Why are the people in the village reluctant to go out? Because the older generation often says, "There are man-eating monsters in this town, and since ancient times, many people who have gone out of the village have never seen them come back." In fact, the people in the village have never seen anyone who came here from the town except Li Er. Until an old man with a baby and an old dog came to settle in this village.
This old man is an amazing fairy. At the beginning, as soon as I arrived in the small village, I was surrounded by the villagers, but wasn't it? Looking at the old man's clothes, it was an unknown material that the village had never seen in several lifetimes, but it was indescribably gorgeous just by looking at it, and compared with the coarse linen clothes in the village, it was really a world of difference.
The villagers surrounded the old man and had no other meaning...... Rob. The villages and townships are out of the people, and they are even more bullying!
But the old man saw that these thirty young men were holding hoes, dung forks, and big hammers, and there was no trace of expression fluctuation in their cloudy eyes that had been full of vicissitudes, but he just looked at a boulder standing at the entrance of the village, which was two meters long, about three meters wide, and five meters high. This boulder is also the origin of the name of the village. The small village was originally just a temporary valley for a small family to pass through on the way to migration, surrounded by mountains on three sides, but one night, this boulder fell from the sky, so the family simply stopped and took root here, thus evolving into a small village of about 200 people. As for why it is called Little Stone Village instead of Sky Wolf Village, the old man said, he is afraid of colliding with the true spirit in the stone, as for the name of the small stone is not much meaning, rushing! The wolf is ruthless and bloodthirsty, and the name of the small stone village is born to win, and it is rumored that the ancestor who took the name was quite proud of the prefix of the word "small" in the village, which was cited as a happy event in his life.
The old man stared at the boulder for a while, and sighed as if it was a memory and sighed with emotion, and slowly approached the boulder, and the old dog next to him was lying not far away, sticking out his tongue half-dead, not caring that the owner was surrounded by dozens of strong men.
A few young men had already stepped forward to talk, meaning nothing more than that the village could not accept outsiders and asked them to leave quickly, but they also collided with the feng shui in the village and demanded compensation, not much, at least the clothes on their bodies had to be left. The people in the village are generations of mountain people, the smaller the place, the bigger the rules, the more concerned about face, even the robbery has a high-sounding reason, where is like the outside, shouting "Oh, this mountain is opened by me, this tree is ......planted by me"
But these old men didn't hear of it, just holding the baby in one hand and staring at the boulder blankly. The old dog lay lifelessly, occasionally glancing at the owner, and more staring at the flock of chickens wandering around the village.
Several young men looked at each other, this old man was afraid that he was not stupid. Several young men grew up wearing open crotch pants, peeing and mud, and they could communicate with each other with one look. What should I do, what should I do with the baby in his arms? Who will I send to my house? Li Erwa's house? Zhang Goudan's house? Li Erwa shook her head and glared angrily, how can I raise my cub when I am still worried, why don't I send it to your house. Zhang Goudao also took half a step back, and also looked at each other angrily, what's the matter, your rice can't support people, send it to my house, my mother-in-law can't grasp the Tianling cover? It's all Liu Da, he is the son of the village chief, and he proposed it first, I want to take a piece of cloth to make a belly pocket for my mother-in-law, and the material is soft at first glance......
The old man didn't know anything about the silent communication of several men, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care about it.
He just stroked the boulder with one hand and was silent for a long time. Then bend down and insert your free right hand underneath the boulder. Unbelievable, the manager's hundreds of years of continuous pressure on the soil was like a piece of tofu, and the old man's hand was inserted straight under the boulder, and then, I saw that the boulder began to rise smoothly into the air.
A few young men were already dumbfounded. What should I do, isn't this a legendary fairy? Who doesn't think about how heavy that boulder is? Since childhood, I have been playing on the boulder, and if it weren't for the old man beating with a stick, he would have been able to pee. With such a big stone, even the men in front of me can't make it shake it.
What should I do? When I meet the immortals? I blame you? I have to ask for other people's clothes, but now that I have met the immortals, what should I do if the immortals condemn the gods? I heard Li Er say that the immortals outside kill people at every turn, what should I do, I don't want to die. Run, but two tremors, where is the strength. Zhang Quandan, who was the most timid, had already collapsed to the ground, crying loudly. Fortunately, the young and strong man on the periphery saw that the situation was not good, ran away, and went to the village chief.
The old man didn't pay attention to the farce in front of him at all, but just raised the boulder above his head, only to see two words faintly visible at the bottom - Chengyin. That's it. Although the handwriting was blurred by the dirt, the old man was still extremely sure that I was finally back.
When the old man put down the boulder, the village chief had already taken the village elders to wait for the register, just hoping that the old fairy was a good talker and made some compensation, otherwise the old and young in this village would really be called every day.
Fortunately, the old man just glanced at them and didn't look at them anymore. I carried the baby into the village, found a house that had been abandoned for a long time and lived in, and since then, there has been an old man, a baby and an old dog in this mountain village.
The people in the village gradually became familiar with this old man who occasionally went out of the village to buy things, but was withdrawn and didn't like to communicate with people, and gradually found that as long as he didn't deliberately provoke him, he would never do anything with people. The only time he shot was when Zhang Quandan tried to save the face he had lost when he was in pain at the entrance of the village, lying on the wall of the old man's yard to peek at what the old man was doing, but he was grabbed by the old man's neck with one hand and thrown into the paddy field next to the road. Zhang Quandan once again became the joke of the villagers at dinner.
Later, Li Erdan's mother was seriously ill, and Langzhong, a family heirloom in the village who knew how to point out the art of Qi Huang, was helpless. Li Er, who has been dependent on his mother since he was a child, knelt outside the old man's door. After all, in the village, if there is no one who can't be saved by the old man, then he can only prepare for the future.
Li Erdan knelt outside the door and cried and begged the old fairy to make a move. At first, I only heard the crying of babies in the hospital, but later, after an hour, the courtyard door opened, and the expressionless old man stood in front of Li Erdan. I don't know if I was moved by Li Erdan's filial piety or upset by Li Erdan's crying, or I was disturbed by the rest of the baby inside. The old man came out. Standing in front of Li Erdan, he didn't throw Li Erdan away, the meaning was obvious, lead the way.
Li Erdan was ecstatic and led the way in front. It's really an old fairy, and if he can save his mother, it will be even more godly.
When the old man arrived at Li Erdan's house, he just glanced at the old woman on the hospital bed, wrote down a prescription casually and went out. Fortunately, there are still Lao Langzhong and the village chief and others in the house, after all, the village is so big, and the east of the village shouts a word from the west of the village, and the ears hurt from the ear. Whoever is seriously ill is the top priority, not to mention, the village is basically related to the family, and whoever has something will of course help the two, after all, everyone has a hurdle to over. So almost all the prestigious older generation in the village are in Li Erdan's house. Lao Lang grabbed the medicine according to the prescription, but fortunately, the medicine is common and not difficult to find. After taking the medicine, the old woman's condition improved, and she was able to go to the ground later. The village worshipped the old man as a god, and the initial fear turned into awe. The old village chief even brought the gift to the door and was willing to give up the position of the village chief to the old fairy, but the old man did not agree. Li Erdan even worshiped the old man as his own father, and when he came back from hunting in the mountains, he would pack up the best half of the prey and send it to the old man's house, and the old man never refused.
Later, Li Erdan went out with the old man, and when he arrived in Zhenshan Town, the old man bought some children's supplies and daily necessities. Li Erdan: It turned out that the cloth also has many colors, not only black, white and reddish-brown in the village. It turns out that there are still colorful cloths, and there are so many things that smell fragrant to eat. But these are all money, and Li Erdan doesn't know what money is. Fortunately, the old fairy casually threw Li Erdan a piece of silver, and I am afraid that it was also a shame to see Li Erdan enter the city with a face of a dirt bun and come together with himself.
Li Erdan has seen it with his own eyes, and this ingot of silver can buy a lot of those colorful cloths. Li Erdan is also a shrewd person, otherwise it would be impossible to follow the old fairy out of the mountain village. He didn't spend money recklessly, but bought some in-demand items that were not available in the village, and things that were not too expensive. In the end, I bought a scallion pancake and a sugar gourd and carefully carried it in my arms, thinking that it was for the old mother and her little cub.
After Li Erdan came back, he exchanged the things he bought for things that could be exchanged for money in the town, and then, Li Erdan became a merchant in the village, and his family was better off.
The most worth mentioning is that Li Er slowly came into contact with people outside and felt that his name was ugly, so he changed his name to Li Erdan, not Li Erdan, and his name was also inherited by his son and called Li Erdan. The older generation may have changed for a while, so there was a strange scene in the village, as soon as Li Erdan was called, Li Er turned around, and Li Erdan was Li Er's son and said loudly. There are also good things jokingly called this the Li family's double yolk egg.
It's been two years in the blink of an eye, and the baby that the old man brought back has also grown up, and has become a little kid who is full of joy in the village, and runs around in the village with Li Erdan, the son of Li Er's family. There were few people in the village, and the teenagers and girls were seven or eight years old as early as the age of seven, and even earlier at the age of five or six they accompanied their adults to work in the fields, so there were only five children of the same age. Although there are only five, they are also divided into camps.
The baby brought back by the old man was only a little over two years old, named Li Yuanzhi, and Li Erdan also had a big name named Zhang Quandan, and a little crying bag named Ergou. Li Erdan is one year older than Li Yuanzhi, but the two are about the same size, not that Li Erdan is not well developed, but that Li Yuanzhi is too well developed. As for Zhang Quandan, he was the cub of the former Zhang Quandan's family. As for the name, it was all started by Li Erdan's father, and almost all the young and strong men in the village have changed their names, and they are no longer called good names, but they are all passed on to the next generation. Anyway, I'll change it when I grow up. When a milk name is called, it is easy to scream, it is easy to feed, and I don't see their fathers who are as strong as calves. The name change was a joke at first, but it soon calmed down.
Li Yuanzhi and Li Erdan, as well as the second dog, Zhang Quandan, are in the same camp, and there are two older children, one named Liu Dabao and the other named He Dali, who are the grandson of the village chief and the grandson of Lao Langzhong. One is three and a half years old and the other is four-year-old, much older than Li Yuanzhi and their camp, so they feel that they can't play with children, they are adults. However, the two camps often fight, either you have crossed the border today, or they have occupied our mountain, but in fact it is just a small sandbag and a small river dividing the north and the south.
The three young ones are not scared, Li Yuanzhi has been trained by the old man since he was a child, and Li Erdan is often affected by the food brought by Li Er from outside, and there is no shortage of oil and water at home, and he is also strong. But Liu Dabao and He Dali's family is not short of nutrition, after all, one has the village chief's grandfather, the other has Langzhong's grandfather, and they can't go there, in fact, the level of the whole village is also average, every family has a few acres of paddy fields, and the men in the family go up the mountain to hunt, but after having Li Er, the merchant, everyone knows that the weeds that can be seen everywhere in the mountains are actually good medicine that can change things, and every household has a better life.
Therefore, the two camps in an evenly matched position are often based on the crying of the little crying bag and the second dog, each going back to his own home, each looking for his own mother, Zhang Quandan has been reprimanded a lot, and he has been scolded for not being able to do anything, will you cry if you can't beat it? If you are bullied, then don't play with them. But what should I play the next day, Hao will not delay, I should cry and cry, and I will not delay.