Volume 1 The Mist of the Green Mountains Chapter 10 The Lovely Old Man

After Xiao Li Qing took Huo Zhanpeng to carefully touch the reef, he poked out half of his face and watched secretly. Here is only a few feet away from the shore, and I saw the two dogs and three people half-squatting on the ground, not knowing what they were busy with.

The water surface is lower than the shore, only the backs of the three can be seen, Xiao Li Qing secretly climbed to the reef, this reef is immersed in water all the year round, full of turquoise moss, and is invaded by water vapor, extremely slippery, although Xiao Li Qing carries water and chops wood every day this year, and has some strength, but it is completely useless on this reef, and he has tried several times to no avail.

After some tossing, he had already been discovered by the people on the shore, and Xiao Li Qing was about to try again, but saw the two dogs standing there waving to the two.

Xiao Li Qing hesitated for a moment, and saw that the two dogs and the three of them had no intention of attacking, so he put his mind at ease, couldn't help the curiosity in his heart, and swam ashore with the big tiger.

When he got closer, Xiao Li Qing saw clearly that an old man was sitting in the middle of the three of them, and his coarse cloth clothes were torn in many places, and he was draped on his body indiscriminately. He was fiddling with a few stones on the ground, and his mouth was talking, and the two children beside him were listening with relish.

When the two of them approached, the two dogs hurriedly dragged them and motioned for the two to listen together. When the old man saw two more children coming, his expression was even more excited, and his mouth frothed at the mouth. After listening to it for a long time, Xiao Li Qing realized that the old man's feelings were teaching the method of marching and fighting, and he couldn't help but be interested and listened carefully.

After a long time, the old man finished speaking, glanced at a few people, asked for their names, and reached out to take the stones on the ground. I saw that the old man took a branch and wrote and drew on the stones, and after a while he distributed the stones to the people.

Xiao Li Qing looked down, and couldn't help but be surprised, these stones are pebbles washed by the water flow in the river all the year round, extremely hard, this old man only used branches to engrave the names and surnames of several people on it, such a skill, Xiao Li Qing has never heard of it, and he can't help but have doubts in his heart.

The old man seemed to be completely unaware of this, and commanded five children to stand in a procession, each of which was a long way apart, and the old man somehow got a broken gong.

"Bang-" The gong sounded. Some of the teenagers walked, some retreated, and some stood still. The old man was furious when he saw this, and walked over and led them to the correct position one by one and stood still. He took a few steps back and struck the gong again, and this time all the children were moving around, but they were still wrong, and they were corrected by the old man. After going back and forth several times, several children finally had some appearance in their queues and behaviors.

The old man divided several people into two teams, using branches as guns, and each attacked and killed each other according to the queue, and the old and the young had a lot of fun.

Look at the sky, the day is already three, Xiao Li Qing is worried about the big snot and Erya, and the excuse is that he is tired and wants to go home first. Although the two dogs and the three of them are still unsatisfied, the children in the mountains are already considered laborers at the age of eight or nine, and they have to go back to help the family do some work at this time.

When the old man saw that everyone was leaving, he was a little sullen, lowered his head and thought for a while, and suddenly he was overjoyed, and hurried to the river, his hands dancing in the water, and after a while, more than a dozen yellow eels were thrown ashore. Several children were dumbfounded on the side, on weekdays they are bait, and they are under the set, sometimes tossing a day may not be able to catch one, this old man has made a lot of effort in a moment, and the children are a little unable to take a step for a while.

The old man saw the thoughts of several children, but he waved his hand, and told everyone to take the yellow eel away, and when they wanted to come, they would come here to look for him, only one thing, they could not tell outsiders about seeing him.

The children were trained by the old man, and when they saw him show a few hands, their hearts were already obedient, thinking that there would be such interesting games to play in the future, and fish to eat, but they just wanted to come soon tomorrow.

Xiao Li Qing found Erya and Big Snot, separated the yellow eel with everyone, and the four of them went home happily.

In the afternoon, Xiao Li Qing finally finished his homework, and when he saw that his father had not returned, he greeted his mother and disappeared.

Little Li Qing is different from the children in the village, Li Dali and Zhen Yulan not only teach him to read and write, but also often tell him some interesting stories outside the mountains. When he saw the old man today, Xiao Li Qing felt very much like the martial artist that his father usually said. From the beginning of the child, Xiao Li Qing was full of yearning and curiosity about martial artists, and in his opinion, only Uncle Changfeng could be called a martial artist in the entire Huojia Village. Now that I see the old man, where can I still be patient. Xiao Li Qing thought about it, in the morning, it was training, fighting, and catching fish, and he didn't pay attention to the old man's appearance and figure. Just now to take a look, such a person is near the village, if he is a bad person, he can ask Uncle Changfeng to be prepared. The little boy didn't call them steamed buns and Erya. Hurried out of the village and climbed up the hillside beside the Yanshui River. The hillside is not high, but it happens to pass by the python to turn back. Just after Shen Shi, the little boy was already lying on an old tree on the top of the mountain, looking down.

A burst of snoring came, Xiao Li Qing looked around and saw no one, and another burst of snoring came, this time Xiao Li Qing heard it clearly, as if it was coming from the middle of the mountain. Xiao Li Qing was wondering in his heart, he was most familiar with this place, although this small hillside was close to the big river, it was bare, and there were few trees. Standing on a high place, with an unobstructed view of all directions, how come he only heard the sound of snoring, but did not see half of the figure? The little boy was a little drumming in his heart. He was hesitating to go back, but the snoring sounded in his ears. Xiao Li Qing was so frightened that he almost didn't fall off the old tree, but fortunately, a hand reached out next to him, grabbed it, lifted it up, and put the little boy on the tree safely.

Xiao Li Qing looked back and saw that it was the old man before, with tattered clothes, snow-white eyebrows, snow-white beard, and snow-white messy hair, blown by the riverside breeze, and fluttering in front of him. The old man looked at the frightened expression of the little boy and couldn't help laughing.

Seeing that the old man was smiling happily, Xiao Li Qing was very embarrassed in his heart, and turned around and climbed under the tree with a pout. When he arrived at the foot of the tree, he saw that the old man was already standing aside and waiting, and he was even more annoyed, so he turned around and walked to the side, but there was still an old man in front of him. I've tried this a few times, but I still can't get rid of it.

Xiao Li Qing gradually calmed down, and suddenly turned around quickly as he ran. Pretending that there was someone behind the old man, he suddenly accelerated while the old man was unprepared. Pretend not to run, make the old man relax, and then run away suddenly. Almost all the tricks used in playing with the young people in the village and fighting on weekdays have been used, but he still can't get rid of the old man.

The little boy sat down on the ground, this time he really couldn't run. The old man was having a lot of fun, and suddenly saw Xiao Li Qing sitting on the ground and not moving, feeling bored. He grabbed his hair and thought for a while, with a smug look on his face.

Stretched out his hand and touched the young man, seeing that Xiao Li Qing didn't pay attention to it, he hurriedly ran to the other side and poked his head in front of the little boy, making all kinds of grimaces, seeing Xiao Li Qing smiling, then he said mysteriously: "Hey, why don't I teach you how not to be caught, and when you learn, let's play again?"

When Xiao Li Qing heard this, he was also interested, thinking that if he learned this, the next time he fought with the two dogs, he wouldn't make them look for teeth all over the ground?

This old and young, one earnestly teaches, the other earnestly learns, gradually, Xiao Li Qing occasionally escapes from the old man's encirclement, and his heart is very happy. Xiao Li Qing hurriedly said goodbye to the old man, seeing that the old man looked a little lonely, and the little boy felt uncomfortable, so he deliberately asked the old man to fight again tomorrow.

Xiao Li Qing returned home, Zhen Yulan was busy in the kitchen, and there was a big pig in the yard, which was more than two meters long, with two fangs sticking out more than a foot, and her body was full of spikes. Although he was dead at this time, the fierce aura was still rushing to his face.

The figure of the little boy running to the door froze, and walked around the big pig towards the house with his head down.

"Boy, come here, see what Lao Tzu brought you back?" Before Xiao Li Qing arrived at the door, he heard his father's voice. It seems that Daddy is not angry today, and the little boy cheers and runs in. I saw Li Dali sitting at the table, smiling at himself, with a pair of fist gloves on the table.

When the children in the village reach the age of eight or nine, they will go to practice martial arts with Huo Changfeng, Huojia Village originally had no martial arts inheritance, and now the boxing method taught is said to be realized by Huo Changfeng observing the wild beasts in the mountains, and the name is Wild Cow Boxing. But eight or nine-year-old children have delicate skin and flesh, so they have to wear boxing gloves to withstand the usual training, otherwise in two days, one by one will open their skin and flesh, and if they don't do it well, they will hurt their muscles and bones.

It's just that Xiao Li Qing's boxing gloves are a little different from other children, the whole boxing gloves look more like gloves, not like other children stuffed with cotton wool and other things, this boxing gloves are very light, shining with a jet-black luster, I don't know what it is made of.

Xiao Li Qing grabbed the boxing gloves, looked left and right, and couldn't put it down. Li Dali saw that his son was happy, and his heart was also happy. The family had dinner with laughter and laughter, and Xiao Li Qing wanted to talk about the afternoon several times, but he was afraid that Daddy would blame him, so he swallowed it back after thinking about it.

After two days in this way, the young men still went to the old man every day to play the game of marching and fighting, and Big Snot and Erya also joined in. In the afternoon, Xiao Li Qing went to learn the kung fu of hiding from people. The old and the young gradually got acquainted, every time they went, the old man would catch fish and give it to the teenagers, the children of these mountain villages were very simple, seeing that the old people were good to themselves, and they were very poor in dressing, these teenagers brought some food from home, and sometimes they set up a bonfire directly on the river bay, roasted the fish and crabs to eat, and only the old man ate the eyebrows and danced, and the young people saw the old man laughing and scolding completely at will, without the slightest adult shelf, and taught themselves all kinds of fun games, only felt that the old man was really the loveliest old man in the world.