In a few days it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival, Taiyuan City is full of lanterns, lively, a joyful atmosphere, the faces of the people who have passed endlessly, are filled with a kind of homesickness.

But on such a day, who would have known that in the back alley of a restaurant, there were two thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys looking for food in the cold and cold of the scraps here.

"Ah Jun, this festival is good! He ***, there are so many delicious dishes, they haven't been eaten for almost a month, if you don't eat it this time, I'm really sorry for my stomach." The shorter boy said excitedly as he grabbed his meal.

The tall young man raised his eyebrows, held a piece of meat and bone in his hand, and said proudly: "Lao Tzu is right, this Taiyuan is a rich land, as long as we can raise enough money to learn from the teacher, one day we will be famous in the world." ”

"Eun!" the short boy nodded desperately, his eyes shining.

The two teenagers were emaciated, unkempt, and dirty, scruffier than beggars.

The tall boy is called Long Jun, and the short boy is named Ding Yi. Both were orphans, and their relatives died in the famine, and they walked together because of the stench. They have lived together for three years, lived and died together, shared hardships, and their feelings are closer than their own brothers.

Long Jun and Ding Yi yearn for the pleasure of the rivers and lakes, and in the past few years, they have traveled south and north, and they know a little about the affairs of the rivers and lakes. In order to learn from the teacher, the two went all the way north, looking for mountains everywhere to apprentice, hoping to learn peerless martial arts and sword battles.

However, everything is unpredictable, because Ding Yi's qualifications are poor, and other sects will naturally not accept such people who eat and drink for nothing, so they are turned away. But Long Jun didn't want his brothers to be separated, and finally chose to leave together.

I heard that the land of Taiyuan is relatively rich, so Long Jun and the others came here more than a month ago. But......

"It's the two of them, dare to go to Lao Tzu's territory to grab food, brothers give it to me. A lame beggar led a dozen or so beggars together and rushed towards Long Jun and the others.

That's right, after Long Jun and the others came to Taiyuan, they all ran out, and they didn't want others to give them charity, because they were weak and couldn't make a living, so they could only rely on turning over garbage for food. In this way, he offended the beggar leader here.

Ding Yi hurriedly shouted: "Ah Jun, they are here again, let's run." ”

"Damn, isn't it just to find something to eat, so that you can chase Lao Tzu every day? Wait for Lao Tzu to learn kung fu well, and see who dares to bully Lao Tzu. Long Jun scolded as he ran.

......

"Stinky boy, stop!" In the blink of an eye, a group of people chased them down the street. Long Jun and the others pushed away the crowd and desperately drilled forward.

"Whoa!" a lantern stall was knocked down by the two, causing a burst of scolding.

"Run!" shouted Ryujun.

"Bump!", as soon as Long Jun turned around, he bumped into someone, but he was bounced out and pressed straight towards Ding Yi.

Ding Yi immediately flashed to the side, and stroked his chest and said, "Fortunately, I flashed fast enough!"

"Ouch-" Long Jun fell to the ground and screamed in pain, his mouth still ......

kept scolding: "Damn, who doesn't have long eyes...... Ding Shorty, you remember Lao Tzu, you dare not catch Lao Tzu. Ouch-"

"Quick, they're in front, catch them. The beggar just now chased after him.

Ding Yi immediately helped Long Jun up and said, "They're here, hurry!"

"Let's go, where are you going?" the crowd dispersed, and a dozen or so beggars chased after them in two or three steps, surrounding Long Jun and the others.

Long Jun got up from the ground and said angrily: "Damn, which guy who didn't open his eyes just now blocked Lao Tzu, ***." ”

"It's me, but I didn't stand in your way, you bumped into it yourself. "The person who spoke was none other than Zhou Bo. After three days of traveling, I finally arrived in Taiyuan City, and I just saw the noise in the city, but I encountered a farce again.

Long Jun saw the white-haired Zhou Bo, and all the dirty words in his stomach were choked in his throat, and he couldn't say half a sentence.

The beggar said, "Don't talk nonsense, you ran away last time, and I have to break your legs this time." ”

Ding Yi was unconvinced: "Didn't you just grab a bowl of rice, do you need to chase us like this?"

The beggar said loudly in a broken voice: "The beggars here are all under the control of the beggars, you two don't know the rules, of course you have to teach a lesson." The brothers drove them out of Taiyuan City and beat me hard. ”

"Hey!"......

"Ahh......h

"Oh I kick ......."

"Oh! my little man's waist ......"

"Haha-" This kind of fuss caused the people around him to laugh.

......

"Run......" made a fuss, Long Jun took advantage of the chaos to touch a fat man's money bag, and then scattered on the ground, shouting: "Haha - the God of Wealth has given away money, everyone come quickly." ”

"Don't pick it up, it's mine, it's mine......" The fat man didn't have time to get angry, and hurriedly ran to pick up the money.

It doesn't matter who he is, as long as it falls to the ground, it belongs to everyone. Those beggars no longer paid attention to Long Jun and the others, and hugged them together, picking up as much as they could.

"Stop those two stinky boys. By the time the bitter master came back to his senses, Long Jun and the others had already fled.

......

Zhou Bo saw right and wrong again, and felt irritable in his heart, and said to Xie Xiaoqing in a deep voice: "Since you have arrived in Taiyuan, then I will go on my own road." ”

Xie Xiaoqing was immersed in the joy of the festival, and the whole person was excited, but when he heard Zhou Bo's words, his heart felt like he had been splashed with cold water.

Gently pulled Zhou Bo's sleeve to: "Big brother is leaving, why don't you go to my house to rest first! You see that the weather is so hot now." ”

"No, I'm going back early, there's still someone waiting for me at home. Zhou Bo said lightly, but no one could hear the thoughts in his heart.

"I miss my family every festive season. Xie Xiaoqing is also a sensible child, seeing Zhou Bo in such a mood, he was not reluctant, and said with a smile: "Will the big brother still come to see me?"

"Yes!"

"Thank you big brother for taking care of you these days. In fact, I already knew that you would go the same way to protect Xiaoqing, I ......"

Zhou Bo interrupted: "Don't thank me, we are indeed on the same road." ”

Xie Xiaoqing said: "Big brother, you wait first, I'll buy you something." So saying, he jumped and ran forward.

......

In a dilapidated house outside the east of the city, Long Jun and Ding Yi were lying on the ground gasping, their faces blue and purple. ......

Ding Yi said: "Ah Jun, what should we do in the future?"

Long Jun thought for a while, his eyes narrowed and said: "It's okay, let's go to Kyoto, I heard that it is even richer than here, and you can pick up silver on the ground, maybe our brothers will get ahead there." ”

"But before we go, we've got to get to that guy. ”

"Who is that guy?" Ding Yi said blankly.

Long Jun said hatefully: "Hmph, it's the one who is blocking me, damn, if he hadn't blocked Lao Tzu, those lame beggars would have been able to catch up with us?"

"That's a good word, but how can we take revenge?"

"Hey, hey, I've been keeping an eye on him, he's going to pass by us, and we'll ...... when the time comes."

Xie Xiaoqing bought large bags of goods from various stores, including local specialties, dry food, living utensils, etc., all of which were stuffed into Zhou Bo's body, and if he couldn't take it, he put it on horseback and carried it, more than he bought when he went home for the New Year, and he couldn't see a few dart masters crying and laughing.

Zhou Bo really couldn't bear to be angry with the little girl's enthusiasm, so he could only accept it all, but it was bitter that the horse was carrying so many things in vain.

With his things, Zhou Bo led the horse to the east gate of Taiyuan, and finally embarked on the road home......

......

After Zhou Bo left the city, he rode a horse, and suddenly felt alert in his heart, just like returning to the feeling when he was hunting before. Stop immediately and use your mental energy to observe your surroundings......

With Zhou Bo's powerful spiritual power, everything around him is reflected in his mind. With a cold snort of disdain, Zhou Bo drove the horse and continued to move forward.

......

"Up—"

When passing a big tree, there was a loud shout from above, and then a tattered fishing net fell from the sky and went straight to Zhou Bo's body.

"Drive!" Zhou Bo clamped his legs, and the horse's degree suddenly mentioned, and he ran forward like the wind, just avoiding the range covered by the fishing net.

Long Jun and the others have been hiding in the tree, just to entangle Zhou Bo with a fishing net and teach him a lesson, expecting that such a plan will definitely come true, but who knew that the horse suddenly ran through the trap as if he had eaten a strong pill.

I was feeling discouraged in my heart, but I saw Zhou Bo jumping down and running back.

"Good opportunity! Throw him quickly......" Long Jun and Ding Yi hurriedly picked up the stones beside them and were about to throw them down, but they were suddenly stunned and said secretly: "What is he going to do?"

Zhou Bodu ran to the bottom of the tree in three or four steps, and the strength of the strength was against the big tree, "Bang!", "Bang!" After two sounds, there was no movement, and then he left, jumped back on the horse, and stomped away.

In the blink of an eye, Zhou Bo ran back and forth like this, and the remaining two people on the tree looked at me and I looked at you, I don't know why.

Ding Yi said with a puzzled face: "Ah Jun, what was he doing just now?"

"Damn, how do I know...... Ahh

"Ahh

"Jump! The tree is falling......"

"Boom!" the tree suddenly broke into several pieces, and was shattered in the middle.

"Ouch, my ** ......" Ding Yi screamed, but he was crushed by the trunk.

......

Long Jun pushed away the tree trunk that was pressing on his body, quickly got up, pulled Ding Yi up and chased after Zhou Bo.

"Ah Jun, why are we going here?"

"***! That person just now is so powerful, better than anyone I have ever seen, he must be a legendary master, such a rare opportunity, let's catch up and apprentice. ”

Ding Yi was a little frightened and said, "Ah?!Then what if he wants to kill us?"

"If he had killed us, he wouldn't have beaten the tree. If those two blows had fallen on us, we would have been like the tree just now. ”

"Then we're not going to Kyoto. ”

"it!" Long Jun said as he ran, "When we learn peerless martial arts, we don't want anything." ”

"Well, that's right, let's chase after it. ”

"Quick, trail chase, this ......

There is only one official road. ”

......

......

Four years have passed, and the county town of Ningxian is still as lively as before, full of endless crowds of people and businessmen.

The Mid-Autumn Festival carries distant thoughts and blessings from relatives, and in this hot weather, it seems to give people a cool comfort.

Zhou Bo, dressed in white and covered with dust, led the horse to walk slowly on the street.

At this time, he was very conflicted. I was full of longing to go home, but I was also a little nervous, and I didn't know how to face it. finally decided to go to Su Fanghao first.

Along the way, Zhou Bo's white hair attracted people's attention, but looking at the familiar and unfamiliar streets and buildings around him, he didn't have any mood, and he was indifferent like an isolated person.

......

Su Ji Tea House is now empty, the signboard of "Su Ji Tea House" on the lintel has long been dilapidated, the doors and windows on all sides are closed, and the seal of the government is also pasted on it.

"The cold moon of the eleventh year of Chongzhen......" Zhou Bo looked at the time on the seal, it was four years ago.

"What the hell is going on?" A sense of unease touched Zhou Bo's heart. Grabbing a pedestrian casually, he said in a deep voice: "May I ask what is going on? How could this teahouse be seized by the government." ”

The man saw that Zhou Bo had a knife on his waist, and his tone was not good, so he hurriedly said: "The boss here committed a crime four years ago, and then he escaped, and the government sealed this place." ”

"What happened?"

"I heard that the boss here is an accomplice of the rebels. ”

Zhou Bo's heart sank, his hand gradually loosened, and the passer-by left as quickly as if he had been released.

"Is something going on? Let's go home first. After paying attention, Zhou Bo mounted his horse and galloped out of the city.

......

The peaceful, calm and simple Liushui Village in the past is now in ruins. The charred charcoal fell to the ground, covered with moss, and the grange and backyard were overgrown with weeds, and it was clear that no one had been here for a long time.

Zhou Bo ran wildly from the entrance of the village to the end of the village, and when he saw such a scene, the uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger. came to the small thatched cottage where Mr. Wan lived, and it also became a piece of ashes.

Rushing into the ruins, turning over the stubble, but nothing was seen.

"What's going on?what's going on?Can anyone tell me what's going on?!—" Zhou Bo roared wildly, venting the uneasiness in his heart.

"Go home!" Zhou Bo mounted his horse again and ran to the hillside outside the village.

......

Seeing the thatched hut that was also burned to ashes, Zhou Bo's heart was numb, and he fell to his knees, speechless and without tears.

This is the place where I lived and grew up since I was a child, and there seems to be the breath left by my father in it, but now there is nothing left, only a bunch of restoration.

......

It was quiet all around, and you could hear the sound of heartbreak. Years of hope turned to disappointment, years of hope and nothing remained.

Looking back on the past, Zhou Bo was stupid, stunned, and regretted.

If you don't learn martial arts, if you don't fight, if you are desperate, if you ...... If you can still never......

Time passed little by little, and a dark cloud drifted in the distance in the sky......

"Wow... "The rain fell like beans and slapped on Zhou Bo's body, as if it was comforting Zhou Bo's heart. But he remained motionless......

of kneeling in place.

"Tianxingjian, men should strive for self-improvement...... his father's words seemed to ring in his ears, Zhou Bo raised his head suddenly, the cold light flashed in his eyes, as if he wanted to swallow all the darkness.

"I'll know. "Years of life and death have long made Zhou Bo's heart like a rock, even if he is confused for a while, he can recover quickly, and then think with a calm heart, this is the wisdom of a hunter.

After calming down, Zhou Bo suddenly remembered what Mo Zheng said before leaving.

In this way, Mo Yi was speechless at the time, and he must have known my affairs for a long time. It seems that it takes a trip to the yamen to understand the whole thing. ”

Thinking of doing it, Zhou Bo immediately went down the mountain and rode to the city......

"Oh no! no!" ......

Cai leaned in, and a subordinate rushed to the hall shouting as he ran. Such a shout is particularly harsh in this quiet summer day.

It was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Cai family, as the rich of Ning County, was naturally full of guests.