Chapter 24 Pasture Changes
In many cases, it is not that things are mysterious and complicated, but that we don't know the true appearance of things! Just like the current Cangwolf Ridge, in front of the world, suddenly became mysterious.
In recent years, for some reason, the strength of the wolf pack in the blue wolf ridge has increased like a head, and it turns out that there are very few high-level strengths in the wolf pack, and almost all of them act in groups. In the past, passing by here, occasionally killing one or two wolves that acted alone, as long as they did not meet the wolves, there would be no trouble at all, and they could still pass safely; I don't know when they would not dare to provoke even in the face of lone wolves, because people found that the wolves that are now acting alone in the Blue Wolf Ridge are getting stronger and stronger, and if they encounter a wolf at will, they are at least at the level of martial arts! Not to mention killing wolves, if they are not eaten by wolves, there will be green smoke on the ancestral grave, so hurry up and burn high incense! Lone wolves can't afford to provoke them, who would dare to touch them with wolves? Gradually, even if there are people who go to the Dayang Mountain Range to do errands or practice, they all walk around the Blue Wolf Ridge, this has obviously become a new forbidden place for human practitioners, it's not that you won't be allowed to come, but you are here, and the chance of getting out alive is very small!
However, the small chance does not mean that there is no chance, and occasionally those who have excellent courage or outstanding martial arts will still haunt the Blue Wolf Ridge.
In the howling north wind, there was a figure walking against the wind and slowly walking out of the Blue Wolf Ridge. The man had long and messy hair, held a long knife in his hand, and was dressed in blue, but the clothes were extremely ill-fitting, half of his arms and legs were exposed, and the clothes that wrapped his body were tightened, and it looked like they would tear at any time, this dress was too small for his figure, and it looked particularly funny.
This is his clothes three years ago, he has grown a lot taller in the past three years, at the age of twelve, he is already one meter six tall, in order not to walk on the road suddenly gone, he had to put on a tiger skin outside, although the tiger skin is a little eye-catching, you can't just put on a rabbit skin because of the eye, right? At least the tiger skin is big enough, and it reveals a bit of wildness.
There were seven teenagers outside the Blue Wolf Ridge who had just worked together to kill a martial arts rank wasteland grizzly bear, and they were sitting next to the body of the grizzly bear resting at this time, and one of them occasionally looked up, and just saw a figure coming from the direction of the Blue Wolf Ridge. With an exclamation, the others immediately looked at it vigilantly.
Although the clothes of the people who came were ridiculous and they looked very embarrassed, no one could laugh out, but felt chills on their bodies! No one who could come out of the Blue Wolf Ridge alive was easy to mess with, and those who were not strong enough died inside! As long as they could come out alive, even if they only had one arm and one leg left, they could easily solve all seven of them!
The eyes of the people who came were very calm, revealing endless arrogance and loneliness, looking at each other from afar, the seven people couldn't help but breathe a little short, everyone's hands couldn't help but stretch out to the portable weapon, the moment they held the weapon, it was exposed!
Ye Heng looked at the seven people who were cautious and vigilant, and couldn't help but feel a little funny, is he so terrible? Besides, he didn't have any malicious intentions, he was just passing by, as for being so nervous? He thought so, others didn't think so.
Although the Blue Wolf Ridge is located on the periphery of the Great Yang Mountain Range, its danger is no less than that of breaking into the depths of the Great Yang Mountain Range! And Ye Heng walked out of the Blue Wolf Ridge alone, although he did not exude a trace of killing intent, but the three years of living in the mountains made him exude a strange aura in every move, and this kind of breath can always make people smell dangerous. Although he didn't do anything, in the eyes of the seven fledgling young people, the other side was like a dangerous wolf!
Ye Heng slowly passed by the seven people, and slowly disappeared from their sight, all the way to the direction of Fenghe Ranch. It wasn't until Ye Heng completely disappeared that the seven of them all relaxed their vigilance and began to calm the heart that was about to jump out of their throats, and then they remembered to wipe their foreheads full of cold sweat, only to stretch out their palms and find that their palms were already covered with sweat.
Ye Heng walked all the way back to Fenghe Ranch, and was stunned to find that the current ranch was much more deserted than three years ago. In the past, the martial arts training ground was in full swing, but at this time there were only a few scattered people practicing, and there were many fewer cattle, horses and sheep in the pasture, and some miscellaneous servants had nothing to do, gathering in groups to gamble, chat or bask in the sun. Ye Heng walked all the way, he had already arrived inside the ranch, and no one stepped forward to inquire, this situation was unimaginable before, could it be that something had happened to the ranch? With questions, Ye Heng continued to walk inside.
The houses on the ranch have not changed, but many of them are somewhat dilapidated, and apparently no one has taken care of them for a long time. Soon, Ye Heng came to the old stone house. There was no one in the house, everything in it had not changed, and his room was still the same as when he left three years ago, and it was spotless, apparently someone was cleaning it every day. Looking at all this, Ye Heng was finally relieved, and at the same time, his heart was warm.
After carefully cleaning the whole house, seeing that it was still early, Ye Heng planned to go to the stable, he guessed that the old stone might be there. Thinking that he was about to see the old stone grandfather who had been separated for three years, and he could also see the horses he had fed for a year, Ye Heng couldn't help but speed up his feet. When he entered the stable, Ye Heng's face changed, the inside of the stables was empty, and there were even a lot of bead nets and dust hanging in the corners, obviously this place had been abandoned for a long time!
Coming out of the stable, he searched every place in Fenghe Ranch, but still didn't find the old stone, "Could it be that Grandpa Shi left the ranch?" returned to the old stone house with a heavy heart, but saw a scene that surprised him: an old man sat alone at the dining table, drinking old wine, silently in a daze, it was the old stone. The old man looked much older, with more gray hair on his head and deeper wrinkles on his face.
"Grandpa Shi, I'm back!" Ye Heng shouted and pounced on the old stone. A teenager, no matter how calm and strong he is outside, but in front of his relatives, he will always be the child who does not grow up, put aside all the pretenses, lose the strength of the strong support, can laugh, can be coquettish, and can show the most innocent and true side without fear. In the Dayang Mountain Range, Ye Heng was strong, even a little cold-blooded, but when he returned to Grandpa Shi, he was a twelve-year-old boy, and in front of his relatives, he could wantonly vent the thoughts that had been held in the depths of his soul for the past three years.
"It's good to come back, it's good to come back!" The old stone stroked Ye Heng's head, and his voice was a little choked. Although it was Lao Shishi's decision to send Ye Heng to the Red Flame Wolf King for training, when this little guy who was like his own grandson suddenly disappeared from his familiar life, the old man's heart was inevitably lost, and he was even a little sad. Seeing Ye Heng again, Lao Shi's heart was also very excited!
Soon, Lao Shi controlled his emotions, looked at Ye Heng at first, and then said with satisfaction: "Well, yes, I am not too tall, and my body is strong!" After praising twice, he frowned, and then said: "It's just, how did you become a wild man? Look at it, what has become of your hair? And this clothes, can you still wear this? And the smell on your body, how long has it been since you bathed? Take off your clothes and take a shower, I'll pick up a few suitable clothes for you." ”
"Okay, I'll go boil water!" Ye Heng agreed and ran out.
Everything is as if it went back to three years ago, Ye Heng was busy lighting the fire and carrying water, and the old stone found his own clothes and modified them for Ye Heng under the light, he was busy in his hands, thinking in his heart: How good it would be if he lived a peaceful and quiet life like this in this life! But he also knew that this was just the good wish of his old man, and this wish could only be a constraint for Ye Heng, an eagle who was about to spread his wings. But many things are often like this, knowing that you can't, you still can't stop the countless expectations in your heart!
For the first time in three years, he took a hot bath comfortably and happily, and soaked in the hot water, Ye Heng almost cried out with happiness. In the past three years, the so-called bathing is to soak in the quagmire of the wolf clan, and it is possible to treat the wounds, but it is unknown whether it can be washed away. The first two years were better, I went out to find a river and lake and could wash it, the year of the Broken Soul Cliff was really a big sin, a whole year, I didn't take a bath! Now lying in the hot water and thinking back to his previous experience, Ye Heng is a little hard to believe how he has survived the past three years!
After changing his clothes, the old stone helped Ye Heng tidy up his hair, and sure enough, it was a person who relied on clothes and horses to rely on saddles, and this time he cleaned up, and the sloppy savage became a handsome young man.
Ye Heng took out the tiger bone wine given to him by the Red Flame Wolf King, honored the old stone, the grandfather and grandson talked at night, while drinking, Ye Heng talked about the experience of the past few years in detail, and the old stone who listened directly sighed, when he learned that Ye Heng was already an intermediate martial artist, the old stone was so excited that he drank three bowls of tiger bone wine in a row, and only then did he suppress the strong shock in his heart!
After saying that, Ye Heng asked about Fenghe Ranch, and the old stone poured a cup of bowls and talked about it in detail.
Since three years ago, Xiangyunzhuang has entered a period of rapid development. Moreover, since taking over the industry of the original Wanma Gang, the focus of Xiangyunzhuang's animal husbandry has been on the Qingyang Ranch of the original Wanma Gang. Because the scale of Qingyang Ranch is larger, the water and grass are more abundant, and the transportation is convenient, the transportation is convenient, and the transportation of Fenghe Ranch has to detour through the Dayang Mountains, there is no intact road, not to mention, and there are many monsters and bandits along the way, there are many dangers, and the scale and output of Fenghe Ranch are also small, at present, the business of Xiangyunzhuang is getting bigger and bigger, and the output of Fenghe Ranch can not meet the needs of the market at all, so it has to retreat to the second, as a supplement to Qingyang Ranch, the good hands and most of the livestock on the original Fenghe Ranch have moved to Qingyang Ranch. Especially last year, Xiangyunzhuang opened up a larger Chaoyang Ranch in the adjacent Xingdu Prefecture, so that Fenghe Ranch has become a chicken-like existence for Xiangyunzhuang, and the glory of the past is gone!
"Grandpa Shi, what are your plans next?" Although in just three years, the ranch has undergone such great changes, and in addition to sighing, Ye Heng is still very concerned about the whereabouts of the old stone.
"Hehehe, I don't have any plans, so I'll retire here. When people get old, their once arrogant hearts have been smoothed out by the years. In the past 30 years, I have watched Fenghe Ranch grow up day by day, it is like my child, even if it is now in decline, but who in the world can bear to abandon his child?" Old Stone took a big sip of wine, and his tone was full of vicissitudes and sadness.
"Grandpa Shi, when will the selection of the four generations of disciples in the village start, this time I want to enter the escort team and go to the outside world to have a look. Now that he knew where the old stone was going, Ye Heng said his plan.
"Child, Xiangyunzhuang issued an order two years ago, and the selection of disciples in the future will be carried out in Ningfeng City, and the registration fee will be paid ten taels of silver per person!
Ye Heng helped the old stone to the bed, took off his shoes and socks, covered the quilt, and tiptoed back to his hut.
After living in Fenghe Ranch for a few days, in addition to cultivating every day, Ye Heng spent the rest of his time by the old stone's side, grazing, mowing grass, cleaning the barn, and living a peaceful life, no one wanted to break this peace.
However, what should come will eventually come, and what should go will still go.
"Grandpa Shi, I want to go to Ningfeng City tomorrow. "At dinner in the evening, Ye Heng told Lao Shi his decision. Since Ye Heng came back, the grandfather and grandson have all cooked their own meals, and tonight Ye Heng specially made a very hearty dinner.
"Go, there is no eagle in this world that will always hide under the mother's wings, and there will never be a wolf king hiding in the cave!" Obviously, for Ye Heng's decision, the old stone already knew in his heart, since Ye Heng had made up his mind, then the old stone would only fully support it, so he agreed very happily.
"Then take care! I'll toast you!" Ye Heng's voice was a little choked.
"Here, do it!" the sound of clinking glasses was high and crisp!
The two of them drank it all!
"Grandpa Shi, there's something I haven't understood, and I don't know whether to ask or not. After three rounds of wine, Ye Heng said hesitantly.
"Ask!"
"Listen to Brother Chiyan, you used to be a strong martial artist, why do you only have the strength of a martial king now?" Ye Heng finally asked this question that had been hidden in his heart for several years.
The old stone was silent for a long time, his expression couldn't help changing, and finally he sighed deeply and said, "Thirty years ago, I accidentally discovered a secret, so I was affected. In order to prevent the secret from leaking, the other party vowed to get rid of me. And the other party is a mysterious and unpredictable organization, and the strength is extremely terrifying! In the pursuit of that organization, I was seriously injured, damaged the meridians, and the operation of spiritual power was blocked, and the martial rank fell. Because the damage to the meridians is so serious that he can't use his spiritual power, if he forcibly works hard, he can only support a quarter of an hour at most, and he will have to recover for at least two months afterwards, and the martial rank will continue to decline after recovery. ”
"Grandpa Shi, can that still be cured?" Ye Heng hurriedly asked.
"Maybe the legendary Nine Turns Continuation Soul Pill can, but it's just a legendary elixir, and no one has ever seen it at all. The old stone laughed self-deprecatingly, and then instructed Ye Heng: "Ye Heng, you don't have to worry about grandpa." It's you, go out this time, be careful!"
"Well, I will. Ye Heng nodded in agreement, but secretly decided in his heart: as long as there is a glimmer of hope, he will help Grandpa Shi restore his meridians. Whether it is going up to the Sword Mountain or going down to the Sea of Fire, you must find the Nine Turns Continuation Soul Pill!