The stars are moving, day and night alternate, and in a blink of an eye, the winter vacation has come. In this year, Long Yifeng felt that he was very happy, because with Xiao Jing in life, he enjoyed another kind of love in the world. Although this kind of love for others came too early and was not suitable for them at a young age, it was happy for Long Yifeng and Xiao Jing. Maybe this is the multifaceted nature of love, willing to be so, cold and warm self-aware, others have no right to judge or criticize.

At the end of the final exam of the second year of junior high school, Long Yifeng and Xiao Jing's results were as good as ever. Their performance made the class teacher feel that his education was successful, that the nature of the two children was excellent, that they were excellent teenagers who completely listened to the teachers and parents, and that they were excellent representatives of the Communist Youth League members. Therefore, since the first semester of the third year of junior high school, the supervision of the two has been relaxed, and they can basically stand on the front of Long Yifeng and refute the rumors for them to the teachers at the school. Although there are constantly people who find the scene of two children going in and out together, even sometimes the teacher encounters it. But the relationship between classmates is there, no one can prohibit classmates from coming and going, men and women are not beasts.

Besides, for teachers, academic performance is the standard of students' merits, as long as students can ensure their learning standards, the rest of the teachers are too lazy to interfere too much. It can be said that the reason why they have not been hindered by too many schools and teachers is mainly due to their excellent grades and good daily performance. In the circle of classmates, Su Ling has already recognized Long Yifeng, regarded him as one of them, and often created a solitary environment for the two of them.

People are like this, when things are biased in the direction of their own interests, they are prone to be unobjective in judgment. Just imagine, if Long Yifeng was from the perspective of any parent or teacher on both sides, he would stop their behavior no matter what. It is undeniable that many parents at present regard early love as a flood beast.

Anyway, after this semester, Long Yifeng was very happy. The school-level "Blue Wave Bay" without suspense did not attract too much attention and excitement to him, and the only thing that made him nostalgic was Xiao Jing, because the arrival of the holiday meant that there would be a period of separation. During the winter break, unless he went to town to catch the market, they couldn't meet as easily as they did at school.

In the 90s, the first-tier cities were not too developed, and only two major cities in China were recognized as international cities by other countries, and the conditions in the countryside were often more difficult. Even if there are communication tools, they are only simple landlines, and the phone bill is extremely expensive, and basically only installed in larger villages. In a remote village like Long Yifeng, it is impossible for them to have a telephone, and they don't even have electricity.

Fortunately, with the efforts of all the villagers, electricity was finally installed in every household in Yumatang in the second semester of Longyifeng's first year of junior high school. Long Yifeng still remembers the days when the electricity was about to be turned on, and the whole village was full of energy, carrying telephone poles by themselves, crossing mountains and mountains, and was very excited.

That's a benefit that our ancestors haven't enjoyed for generations!

In the first few days of electricity, the whole village was happy, and every household did not turn off the lights at night to celebrate the hard-won electricity. Some homes also set off firecrackers, and the jubilant appearance of adults and children is beyond the imagination of those who do not pass by. However, when the electricity bill was collected at the end of the month, many villagers were dumbfounded, and they even felt that it was more cost-effective to use kerosene lamps when they looked at the large electricity bills.

As a result, the function of the electric light after that was finally no longer decorative, but changed to a normal lighting function. Some of the elderly people who are thrifty are constantly changing the light bulbs, and the power is lower than the other, from 100 watts to 40 watts or even 5 watts, and some villagers joke that the brightness of the bulbs they use is not as bright as the fireflies in summer. Nagarjuna, who collects electricity bills, often makes a joke about the situation of electricity in various households, saying that the grandmother next door who does not want to live with her children lights a five-watt light bulb to live, and one of them spends 2 kilowatts of electricity, which once really consumes electricity, and the other is the electricity bill. The grandmother felt that it was too expensive and not cost-effective, so she asked Shusheng to move the line and light the kerosene lamp by himself. Later, other neighbors persuaded her not to dismantle it, after all, sometimes the family needed to run errands, and they still needed electricity, so she gave up. However, when she paid the electricity bill twice a month, she always chattered non-stop.

Later, Nagarjunu simply gave her electricity bill directly to her children and asked them to pay, and the grandmother who didn't know the truth wondered why Shusheng didn't come to collect the electricity bill, and thought that her family's electricity meter was gone, so she secretly told a bunch of old ladies who had a good time with this top-secret good news. The news came and went, and it became a little joke after dinner. Of course, for Nagarjuna, it also saves his ears from nagging.

There is also the old man Wang who lives in the highest house in the village, when Shusheng goes to their house to collect the electricity bill, he always says that his house is so high, and it is a little steep, and there is no strength when the electricity climbs up, so it can be seen that the light bulbs in their house are not very bright, why do they charge such a high electricity bill? Look at the following several houses are so bright, unfair, unfair, but I don't know that my wife secretly changed his electric light to 15 watts.

This winter vacation, Long Yifeng has been looking forward to it for a long time.

Because according to the requirements of the village rules, he finally met the age standard for entering the forbidden land in the back mountain. People are like this, the more forbidden things are, the more curious they are, and they always want to find out, so there is a saying that "curiosity kills cats".

Regarding the back mountain, Long Yifeng has been fascinated since he heard all kinds of legends about it. When I was a child, I secretly wanted to get in with my friends, but I was always banned after being discovered by adults. Many friends were beaten up because of this, if it weren't for Grandpa Long, Long Yifeng would have avoided his father's several meals.

Long Yifeng has heard a lot of legends about the back mountain, some say that the back mountain is the sacred mountain that blesses Yumatang, a long, long time ago, there were officers and soldiers of the feudal government to attack Yumatang, to capture the men here to be soldiers, female soldiers to be maids. When something big happened in the village, the sorcerer in the village led the people of the village to run into the back mountain, kill pigs and sheep, and worship the mountain god. Finally, the mountain god descended thousands of troops, the sky was covered with dark clouds, when the officers and soldiers arrived at the entrance of Yumatang Village, they saw that on the flat dam in front of the village, all the lanes in the village were full of soldiers, like thousands of troops and horses waiting for the enemy who came to invade. The enemy attacked, the entire Yumatang military flag fluttered and the sound of killing shook the sky, before the battle began, the enemy soldiers were already frightened and fled.

In short, it was a bloodless war. Later, there were several friction incidents with the next village, and the small people of Yumatang Village were weak and weak, and it was impossible to defeat the enemy soldiers without the help of the forces of the mountain gods in the back mountains. Thanks to the blessing of the mountain god, the landscape, people, and property of Yumatang can be preserved, otherwise it would have been plundered long ago, and there would not be a hundred miles of mountains like today's primeval forest.

Among the various versions that emerge one after another, Long Yifeng yearns for a story told by his grandfather the most.

Legend has it that during the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty government implemented the system of changing the "soil" to the "stream" in Guizhou, which probably meant that all the Tusi were abolished and replaced by the rule of the Ming Dynasty government. After these officials arrived in the localities, they cooperated with the wealthy businessmen and landlords who came to do business to plunder the land and occupy the property of the Miao people in Guizhou, enclosing the good land that the Miao people had cultivated for generations, classifying it as state-owned, and then selling it to the rich merchants or landlords to run it.

During this period, a large number of Miao people were killed and chased. In order to survive, many Miao people are forced to go deep into the unexplored mountains and seek shelter in the rampant and miasma-ridden primeval forests. But the marauders did not stop depriving them, but always settled down in one place, reclaimed fertile land, planted crops, and then plundered and drove them away when the crops were ripe, and the Miao people were forced to move and retreat continuously. In the end, when the limited forest resources were about to be exhausted, and there was no way back, they were finally forced to pick up the knife and axe and resist desperately. After a long struggle, the Miao people formed a group and formed their own army. With the continuous growth of the army, it finally had a certain strength, relying on the dangerous terrain and complex terrain to confront the Ming Dynasty government army for hundreds of years.

In order to prevent the Miao people from counterattacking the land that had been plundered, the Ming army built a defensive wall along the entire mountain, a total of more than 380 miles long, called the "Miao Xinjiang Border Wall", and later some scholars called it the Great Wall of the South, which is a later story. During the confrontation that lasted for hundreds of years until the Qing Dynasty, a great hero emerged from among the Miao people who rebelled against the government, his name was Long Xibo, a native of Longtang not far from Yumatang. This person was born with divine powers when he was a child, and when he grew up, he made a living by fishing in the Longtang area.

One day, when Long Xibo was fishing, he inadvertently fished a sword from the water of Longtang, and the sword body was like a swimming dragon, and the whole body glowed with golden light. He drew his sword, and was wounded by all his thoughts, and his head fell to the ground. After mastering that peerless sword, Long Xibo threw himself into the Miao uprising, and single-handedly defeated thousands of armies, unstoppable. In order to prevent accidental injury by the sword, in every battle, Long Xibo always let Miao Min stay away, not allowed to participate in the battle, and all enemies were solved by him alone. But the battles he participated in were always full of blood and mourning.

However, because the sword is too lethal, it consumes its life and physical strength. He inadvertently found a treasure map in the hilt of the sword, and according to the map, he came to the back mountain of Yumatang Village, and found a peerless cultivation method in a top secret area in the valley, and finally was able to control the sword. Long Xibo, who had overcome the problem of physical exhaustion, led the Miao people all the way north, hoping to seize the opportunity to seize a wider land. At the same time, in the Longtang area, choose a treasure land with excellent feng shui, prepare to build buildings and city walls for military defense, and build the Jinluan Palace in Miao Wang City, planning to proclaim himself emperor, hoping to give the Miao people a peaceful soil.

However, due to the limited number of Miao people and the scarcity of skilled craftsmen, craftsmen were sought out from the captives, and the others were used as ordinary manual laborers to carry stones and wood. Of course, the Miao people would not be polite to their captives to their enemies, and always gave them the most tiring work (nonsense, there were no regulations and international conventions for the good treatment of captives at that time). After a long time, some captive carpenters secretly wrote limerick poems asking for help letters on small wooden boards or scraps when they were working-"Shanglongtang, Xialongtang, Longtang has a king of grass seedlings, only two meals a day, and he wants to be the king if he doesn't kill or cut it." ”

The small planks flowed down the Longtang to the downstream Tongren Mansion, Mayang Mansion and other areas, and reached Dongting Lake, which attracted the great attention of the Ming Dynasty government, so a large army was sent to suppress it. Helpless, Miaojiang mountains are high and water is urgent, green mountains and deep forests, plus there are no three miles of flat land in Guizhou, the road is not one meter wide, no matter how many troops are in vain, the army sent by the feudal dynasty was killed by Long Xibo alone.

In the end, the officers and men who were good at using tactics finally came up with a way -- to plot rebellion internally. They found a lot of Miao people and promised to give high-ranking officials Houlu, silver beauties, etc. But no one was willing to resist Long Xibo, and finally inadvertently learned that Long Xibo had a stepmother, who had not been treated much since he was a child, so he quietly sent someone to persuade and separate, and threatened her to resist the court is to behead the whole family, Zhulian Nine Clans, you hurry up to stop the son Don't do this stupid thing, the son of heaven is the destiny of heaven, you resist him only for a while, it is impossible to resist a lifetime, let alone succeed, or listen to us, so so. In short, a series of plans were made for the ignorant old woman to follow their arrangement. And promises:

If they succeed in stopping Long Xibo from rebelling against the government according to their plan, not only will they not kill their entire family, but they will also give Long Xibo a wife and a son, a high-ranking official, and glory for generations. Under the coercion and temptation of the lobbyists, the old woman finally agreed to their request.

After receiving the plan of the Ming Dynasty government, Long Xibo's stepmother actively persuaded Long Xibo to rest the army, and brought a large number of cattle and sheep to reward the three armies. Seeing that he was usually not very good to himself in the coming year, Long Xibo was very moved. Thinking that the stepmother wanted to repair the relationship between the two, she was defenseless and ordered the troops to rest in place, kill pigs and sheep, and drink and have fun. On that day, Long Xibo was happily drunk and could not take care of himself. And his stepmother took advantage of Long Xibo's sleep, sent away all the entourage, and finally took Long Xibo's sword to receive the reward.

The feudal officer got the sword and tried to pull it out, but the sword did not move, and his heart was impressive. So, casually sent Long Xibo's old mother home and told him that he would give Long Xibo an official later. On the other hand, they gathered troops and surrounded the Miao army that was drunk in their sleep, and all of them were captured, and none of them were spared.

Strangely, when he woke up the next morning, the military commander found that the sword he had strickened from Long Xibo's stepmother last night was gone, and he was almost scared. Fortunately, Long Xibo is still tied up in a big cell. The commander of the matter escorted Long Xibo to the school grounds, intending to behead him immediately. Long Xibo, who came to his senses at the sound of the enemy's bells and drums, finally understood that something was wrong, but he was righteous and fearless. The official military commander was afraid of the long nights and dreams, so he ordered his men to cut off Long Xibo's head with swords. Although the strange dragon Xibo's head fell to the ground, he did not bleed and could still stand and speak. The commander felt strange and thought to himself: Last night the sword was gone, and today this man's head fell to the ground and did not die, is it the destiny of heaven?

So, he got up and picked up Long Xibo, told him to let him go back today, and told him to set off from the militia camp and return home, and asked each person he met a question: "Can you take it back after the head is broken?" If everyone said that they could take him back, it was his chance, and the military commander would exempt him from accountability.

Long Xibo held the severed head and rushed all the way home. On the road, he met a farmer who was mowing cow grass, and he asked others:

"Do you think you can grow it up if you have a broken head?"

"Yes, you can see the grass I cut, and it will grow again after I cut it. ”

Continuing on, he met a child herding cattle and asked:

"You said your head is broken, can it still grow?"

"Yes, you can see that the weeds that my cows have eaten will grow again in a few days. ”

He met the spinning maiden, and he asked:

"You said your head is broken, can it still grow?"

"Yes, surely, you can see that the end of my spinning yarn is broken, and it can still be connected. ”

Along the way, he met shepherd boys, hawkers, farmers who cultivated the land, talented scholars who were reading, young girls who spun yarn, and so on, and all of them told him that a broken head could be grafted or grown. Finally, he finally arrived at home and asked his stepmother:

"You said your head is broken, can it still grow?"

When his stepmother saw Long Xibo who had been beheaded, she was so frightened that she almost lost her soul, and told him tremblingly: "Son, where is there a reason why a broken head can grow back?"

Hearing the stepmother's answer, blood finally broke out of Long Xibo's neck. With a sigh, he walked to the hillside not far from his house, took a branch and stuck it in the ground, and said:

If this maple tree can survive and grow, its branches must face downward. When its branches touch the ground, it will be when I return, and I will lead you to kill all the brutal exploiters and overthrow the rule of the feudal dynasty. ”

With that, close your eyes and die.

After hearing this story, Long Yifeng kept thinking about what was in the back mountain, when would the branches and leaves on the maple tree in Longtang touch the ground. Of course, what haunts him the most is the mysterious back mountain. Now, when the time finally comes, he has reached the age of entering the forbidden land of the back mountain, and no one can understand that feeling.

When he returned home from the holiday, Long Yifeng began to prepare to enter the back mountain.