Chapter 1: Odd Fate
In the land of Shuzhong, outstanding people and spirits, since ancient times, there are many strange people, and there are many legendary stories that are widely spread in the world, such as Shushan Wonder Heroes Flying Sword, Tang Dynasty's secret weapons dominate the world, etc., of course, those legendary stories are left by predecessors, whether they are true or false, no one knows, and no one has seen them with their own eyes. But in reality, there are no people with superb skills, and the characters in the fantasy are also evolved according to their stories, but they are only deified.
Qianlong Town. Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a dragon because of violating the rules of heaven, after being beaten down by the Emperor of Heaven in the mortal world, he turned into a person to come here to practice in the deep mountains, and did a lot of good things for mortals.
In the scorching summer, the sun is like fire, and the heat wave invades the earth one after another, and the dog hides in the dense shade and sticks out its tongue, knowing the high-pitched chirping attached to the branches, as if to remind people not to forget its existence, but its cry exposes its hidden sound. An old man walked under the shade of a tree, suddenly aware of the unusually loud chirping, picked up a small stone from the ground and threw it at the hiding place, and after a "squeak", it fell silent.
The streets of Qianlong Town are sparsely populated at this time, and people basically stay at home to escape the heat, except for a few small traders who still insist on selling their belongings to the occasional passer-by under the scorching sun. A little girl of about eleven or twelve years old wears a straw hat on her head, stands in front of a watermelon stall, wipes the sweat on her forehead with her sleeve from time to time, whenever someone passes by, the girl always asks her uncle and aunt sweetly if she wants to buy a watermelon? This little girl's name is Xu Fang, although she is not very old, but she is very well-behaved and sensible, and now it is the summer vacation, she uses her spare time to help her parents do some small business, and at this time she is to replace her parents and go home for lunch.
In the shade of a house directly opposite the watermelon stand, a thin and ragged little beggar was staring closely at the green watermelon, occasionally using his tongue to add his dry lips, his eyes full of longing for watermelon. How pleasant it would be to be able to eat a slice of sweet watermelon on such a hot day? But it could only be his fantasy, because he had no money, so he could only swallow his saliva incessantly.
Seeing the little beggar on the other side swallowing his saliva, Xu Fang suddenly felt that this little beggar of the same age as himself was very pitiful, and he could eat watermelon at any time when he wanted to, but he couldn't! Thinking of this, Xu Fang smiled sweetly at the little beggar, took a watermelon from the melon cart and split it in half with a knife, and then walked to the little beggar with a watermelon.
"I'll give you something to eat, little beggar. ”
The little beggar looked at Xu Fang with wide eyes and doubts, feeling a little incredulous, but in the end, the temptation of the watermelon overcame everything, and he took the watermelon and began to gobble it up.
"Hee-hee, you eat slowly. After Xu Fang finished speaking, he jumped back to his watermelon stall and sat on the small horse, and saw the little beggar who was eating watermelon opposite, she felt very happy, in the school, the teacher often taught the students to help others, and today he finally helped others once.
The little beggar is called Zeng Yi, his parents died when he was a child, some time before his parents died, some relatives and neighbors saw him pitiful and helped take care of him by the way, but slowly felt that he was a burden, so he no longer cared about his life or death, Zeng Yi, who lost his care, had to live on the street and became a beggar, fortunately, there are still a little good people in this world, and occasionally give him some old clothes and leftover meals for the children at home, so that he was not starved to death or froze to death.
"Little girl, how do you sell this watermelon?"
"Big brother, 3 cents a pound, it's very sweet!"
Seeing that someone came to buy his own watermelon, Xu Fang quickly stood up from the maza and said sweetly to the person in front of him.
"I'll eat one first, and if it's sweet, I'll buy it." ”
Standing in front of Xu Fang was a man in his twenties, with black hair dyed colorful, several pierced ears, and long thief eyebrows. At this time, he was standing in front of the watermelon stall, one foot was shaking like a convulsion, and the thief's little eyes were spinning around on the full car of watermelon ISO9001 s.
He is a gangster in this town, and he has just returned from drinking in a restaurant with a few fox friends, and when he feels thirsty on the way, he finds a little girl selling watermelons, so he walks over and prepares to make some money.
"Okay, here you go!" Xu Fang took a watermelon from the car and split it and handed it to him. Xu Fang is quite confident in his watermelons, because they are all grown by his own family, and they are just picked from the ground, from germination to fruit, they are completely natural fertilizer cultivation, pure green fruits, and the watermelons cultivated with hard sweat are not sweet.
After eating the watermelon, the man still couldn't get enough of his mouth, and suddenly his face changed to a fierce attitude, and he smashed the watermelon skin in his hand on the ground, and said viciously: "MD, what broken watermelon? It's not sweet at all! Don't buy it!" After finishing speaking, he was ready to leave.
Xu Fang was anxious, because she still had to rely on the money from selling watermelons to pay for the tuition for half a year, and now he eats it but doesn't buy it, and says that his watermelon is not sweet, which is completely to deceive himself into eating watermelon. She ran up and grabbed the young man's sleeve and said, "Big brother, you haven't paid the money yet?"
"Money, what money, I didn't buy your watermelon!" the man looked vicious. Xu Fang was young and didn't know what to do, and suddenly tears rolled in his eyes by what he said, but he still clung to his sleeve and refused to let go.
"If you don't let go, I'm going to beat you!" After the man finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and made a gesture to hit Xu Fang, Xu Fang was so frightened by him that he finally cried.
Hearing Xu Fang's cry, Zeng Yi, who was eating watermelon, hurriedly got down the watermelon in his hand and ran over.
"If you eat watermelon, you should give people money, and you still have to beat people, it's shameless!"
The man heard Zeng Yi's voice and hurriedly looked back, only to see a little beggar in ragged clothes standing behind him, his eyes staring at him tightly.
"Ouch! You still want to learn from others to be a hero? A little beggar dares to take care of Lao Tzu's affairs?"
The man directly ignored Zeng Yi, a stinky little beggar still came to learn how to practice chivalry and righteousness, he really didn't know how to die! When he turned around, he began to pull Xu Fang's hands that were grabbing his sleeves, wanting to leave.
Hearing the man's laughter and scolding, Zeng Yi's eyebrows jumped a few times, he clenched his fists and took a few steps forward, and stretched out his hand to pull Xu Fang behind him to protect him.
"I'm a beggar, but I'm better than you, I know how to have a face, but you're not even as good as a beggar!"
Although Zeng Yi is a child, he has no fear in the face of a man who is more than ten years older than him, and his childish face is full of fortitude.
"MD, look for death!" The man was obviously told by Zeng Yi that he was in the sore spot, and he stretched out his hand and slapped Zeng Yi hard. Zeng Yi has been lacking nutrition for a long time and has lost weight, and the power of this slap under the man's anger is quite large, Zeng Yi was slapped to the ground by him, blood overflowed from the corners of his mouth, and five bright red finger prints immediately appeared on his face.
"Little beggar, are you alright?"
Xu Fang saw that Zeng Yi was knocked to the ground by the man, and immediately squatted down and stretched out his hand to help Zeng Yi, crying and asking.
"It's okay, don't cry!" Zeng Yi wiped Xu Fang's eyes with his dirty little hands after speaking, Xu Fang didn't avoid it, and stopped crying obediently.
Zeng Yi slowly stood up, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his hand, walked a few steps towards the man, and said, "If you don't kill me today, I swear that sooner or later I will seek revenge on you!"
"You're still hard-mouthed!" The man slapped Zeng Yi again, Zeng Yi was slapped to the ground again, but Zeng Yi stood up again stubbornly and walked to the man's side, looking at the man coldly with a pair of black eyes.
"It's such a cheap bone!" The man stretched out his hand to Zeng Yi again, but this time the hand waved in the air and was stopped by a loud shout.
"Stop! It's hateful to bully a child like this!"
The man turned his head and saw an old man standing behind him, and the loud shout just now obviously came from the old man's mouth. The old man has kind eyebrows and kind eyes, a ruddy complexion, although his hair and beard are white, he is still full of energy, he does not show the color of old age at all, and his eyes are bright, flashing a sharp light from time to time. At this time, the old man was glaring at the man, and it could be seen that he was very angry with the man's behavior.
The man looked back at Zeng Yi and then at the old man, it was so dark that it was strange, which evil sect did I bump into today? First a little beggar made trouble for me, and now there is an old man, do you think I am easy to bully or something? Thinking of this, the man said to the old man viciously: "Old man, it doesn't matter what you do! You leave quickly! Otherwise, don't blame me for being unkind to you!"
The old man ignored him, walked straight up to Zeng Yi, stroked his red and swollen face with his hand, and asked kindly, "Child, does it hurt?"
Zeng Yi nodded, looking at the strange old man in front of him with a pair of childish eyes. The old man wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth for him, and then touched Zeng Yi's face with his hand, and Zeng Yi immediately felt that his face was no longer as hot and painful as just now.
The man saw that the old man didn't care about himself, and the threat just now seemed to be ineffective against the old man, so he suddenly became angry, clenched his fist and hit the old man's back, seeing that the fist was about to fall on the old man's back, but the old man just slightly flicked his hand back to resolve the man's attack, the man took a few steps back, the old man's body was like electricity, and appeared in front of him in a blink of an eye, clamping the man's wrist with two fingers.
"Bullying young children first, and then treating me disrespectfully, I really deserve to be beaten!" The old man pinched the two fingers of the man's wrist with a slight force, only to hear a click, the man's wrist was already broken, the man snorted in pain, and then his whole body trembled.
"Cutting off your hand today is a small punishment, if he sees you doing evil again, I will take your dog's life! Get out!" The old man let go of his two fingers and returned to Zeng Yi.
The man lost his previous arrogance, the cold sweat on his forehead kept falling, he held his broken hand and looked at the old man with his back to him, knowing that he had met a master today, he glared at the old man viciously and fled in embarrassment.
"Child, what's your name, why are you going to help her?" the old man asked lovingly touching Zeng Yi's head.
"Grandpa, my name is Zeng Yi. Because she gave me watermelon to eat, and I hate that person, people work so hard to sell watermelon, and he doesn't pay after eating it. After Zeng Yi finished speaking, he pointed at the man who fled with a little finger, and then looked at the strange old man in front of him.
Zeng Yi! Justice! Good name! Kindness and retribution, with great righteousness in his heart. The old man immediately had a definition of Zeng Yi who was thin in front of him, and there was also a trace of appreciation in his eyes when he looked at Zeng Yi.
"Child, if you want to be chivalrous, the premise must be that you have super skills, are you willing to go with me? I will teach you a good skill. After the old man finished speaking, he looked at Zeng Yi in front of him, and there was a slight expectation in his eyes.
Zeng Yi thought about it after hearing his words. I have been begging in society, living a full meal and hungry days, and often looking at people's eyes, if it continues like this, I can only be a beggar in this life, but I don't want to do this, I want to be like a normal person, I want to go to school, live the kind of hungry food, cold clothes to wear. Thinking of this, Zeng Yi made a decision in his heart.
"Grandpa, can I go to school? can I not go hungry and cold?"
"Yes, yes!"
The old man showed a trace of excitement after hearing Zeng Yi's words, Zeng Yi can ask this way to show that he is willing to go with him, and his own kung fu has a successor, it seems that God still favors me, and finally found his successor in his twilight years.
"Okay, then I'll go with you!" Zeng Yi clenched his little fist as he spoke, as if he had made a difficult decision.
"Okay, good boy, let's go!"
The old man took his little hand and was about to leave, but Zeng Yi suddenly stopped after taking two steps, looked back, the old man looked at his eyes, and found that he was looking at Xu Fang, and immediately understood in his heart that he wanted to say goodbye to Xu Fang.
"Let's go!" the old man nodded slightly to Zeng Yi.
Zeng Yi walked quickly in front of Xu Fang and bowed deeply to Xu Fang. "Thank you for giving me watermelon to eat, my name is Zeng Yi. I'll come back to you when I've learned my skills. ”
"Zeng Yi, are you leaving, don't forget to come to me in the future!" Xu Fang felt a little sad when he saw that he was going to leave with the old man, but this has nothing to do with love, because they are just children who are not disgraceful in the world, this is purely a friendship between friends, although they do not have a real relationship.
"Well, I'm leaving, goodbye!" Zeng Yi turned around and walked to the old man's side, and then the old man took his hand and left.
Xu Fang waved at Zeng Yi's back, muttering to herself: "Goodbye, Zeng Yi!"
The old man led Zeng Yi out of town and into the mountains, and walked for more than three hours before appearing in front of a small wooden house. The cabin is built on the mountain, directly opposite is a cliff, under the cliff there is a clear pool, at this time there are many unknown small animals playing in the water by the pool to escape the heat. Three hours away, so that Zeng Yi's pair of little feet have come out of the blood blister, but from beginning to end he did not shout a tired cry and a pain, seeing this situation, the old man has a more intuitive understanding and understanding of Zeng Yi, strong and resilient.
Entering the cabin, the old man first gave Zeng Yi a bath, and then found a dress for Zeng Yi, although it was relatively large and did not fit, but it was much better than his ragged clothes. The dirty Zeng Yi returned to his original appearance after taking a bath, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, although he was not very handsome, but he was not worse than the so-called handsome guys, but due to the long-term lack of nutrition, his face was yellow and thin. Seeing all this, the old man thought silently in his heart, it seems that he must first let this child recover well before he can teach martial arts, and what he has to do now is to let him sleep well.
The old man took Zeng Yi to his bedside and told Zeng Yi to sleep first and then walked to the courtyard himself. Zeng Yi is young, simple in nature, and doesn't know much about the sinister nature of society, besides, this old man is kind and kind, first helped him beat away the bad guys, and then promised that he could go to school, have something to eat and clothes to wear, and he didn't worry about anything in his heart, and fell asleep on the bed.
The old man walked back and forth in the courtyard, looking very excited. After walking for a while, he sat on the steps in front of the house and sighed, and then burst into tears.
The old man's name is Fu Qinglong, and he has been living here alone for more than 30 years, and even this small wooden house was built by himself after he came here. This place is sparsely populated, only accompanied by birds and animals, and there is not even anyone to speak, but the old man insisted on it for thirty years. In the past thirty years, the old man has spent most of his time in the cabin and has not been able to go out, but he has a habit of going out for a few days every month, and no one knows what he is doing when he goes out, and no one can know it, because he is the only one living here.