Chapter 1: Strange little village

When the first rays of morning light shone on the small village, the school yard in the village was already shouting "Huh!" and "Ha!" shouts, and dozens of young children were seen following behind a young man in a short yellow coat, waving their young limbs with the movements of the young man.

The young man's fight was vigorous, his resolute face was full of seriousness, he inadvertently skimmed the children behind him with the corner of his eye, although these children were weak because of their young age, but everyone was extremely serious, the little blushing fluttered, and followed neatly, Wang Qing nodded with satisfaction, and then deliberately said with a straight face: "Continue to practice, do you want to be lazy! Everyone practice ten times by themselves!"

The children in the field immediately wailed, "Uncle Qing, I haven't remembered how to fight, how to fight ten times." Wang Qing immediately raised his eyebrows, "Don't remember, you've been practicing with me for five days, and if you don't remember, find a way for yourself!" After speaking, he sat cross-legged on a big stone and closed his eyes slightly.

At this time, three children in the room were boxing without saying a word, and the other children saw it and practiced after them. The three children are lined up in front, the height is also from high to low, the first is a nine-year-old or ten-year-old girl, the young back is straight, the head is combed with a double bun, the facial features have not yet opened, but it is very delicate; next to her is a head shorter than her is a six- or seven-year-old girl, although the punch is weak and weak but extremely skillful, the little girl rolls her eyes at the person on the big stone, the bun face is full of calm; The six-year-old boy, his mind was obviously no longer on practicing boxing, but he was forced by the coercion of his two sisters and could only follow the practice aggrievedly.

Wang Qing quietly observed this group of children, thinking that there are many good martial arts seedlings in this batch of children this year, when she saw Wang Wan, the little girl, rolling her eyes at herself, she couldn't help but laugh dumbly, thinking of the situation in the family of the three of their sisters and brothers, she sighed again.

Wang Wan is the only three children left in the family, their parents did not know where to go when they participated in the last martial arts conference, and Wang Rou, the eldest in the family, took on the responsibility of supporting the family, but fortunately, the village elders' house would send them food and clothing every month. In the first few years, the three children helped the families from time to time, but after a long time, some sour words still reached the ears of the children. Wang Rou was a stubborn and thoughtful child, and when she was eight or nine years old, she said that she could support her younger brothers and sisters, and asked the elders' house not to send any more clothes, and the village adults had no choice but to take care of them secretly.

This small village hidden in the depths of the woods is called Yangquan Village, there are Wang, Li, and Sun in the village, and the village elders' house is also composed of three respected elders, each villager regardless of gender, old and young are practicing martial arts, and every five years the martial arts conference will send people to participate, in the eyes of outsiders, this is both a village and like a sect, because everyone who goes to participate in the martial arts conference will swear not to tell their origin before leaving the village, so this small village has been unknown to everyone for so many years.

When the last child finished punching ten times, everyone sat down on the ground to rest, Wang Qingcai said with a straight face: "Today's morning exercise is over, and tomorrow we will still practice in the school field as today, do you hear?" ”

Everyone hurriedly replied, "Yes!"

"Let's disperse!" Wang Qing went to the village.

Wang Rou led her younger brothers and sisters in the direction of her house, along the way, Wang Wan and Wang Lin followed behind and jumped around energetically, Wang Rou turned her head to look at her younger brothers and sisters, and couldn't help laughing: "Two monkeys, don't be tired." ”

After arriving home, Wang Rou went straight to the kitchen, and Wang Lin and Wang Wan tacitly agreed to go to the edge of their yard. Wang Lin went to the chicken coop to release the chickens and drove them to the yard, and let the hens take the chickens to find food in the yard by themselves, while Wang Wan chopped the pigweed she had beaten last night with a kitchen knife and poured it into the trough of her pigsty, watching her three pigs humming and chirping, Wang Wan laughed: "It's really silly." Wang Lin turned his head and asked, "Second sister, who are you talking about?" Wang Wan smiled at her younger brother, "Of course whoever asks, haha." After finishing speaking, he ran to the house, Wang Lin chased and shouted behind him: "Eldest sister, second sister bullied me!" Wang Rou poked her head out of the kitchen and shouted outside, "Don't make trouble, hurry back to eat" Wang Wan "Oh" and hurriedly rushed into the kitchen, Wang Lin pouted and followed.

Breakfast was very simple, the wild vegetables were cut into small pieces and put into a paste made of miscellaneous grains, which was fast and delicious, and the three of them each sat on a small bench with a bowl in their hands and ate the meal. Wang Rou glanced at her younger brothers and sisters, and said to Wang Wan: "Second sister, you are a sister, you are not allowed to bully your younger brother in the future, you two are patronizing all day long, the most important thing for us now is to practice martial arts well, and only then will we have the ability to find our father and mother outside in the future......" "Well" Wang Wan responded absent-mindedly.

In fact, Wang Wan only has a vague impression of her father, after all, when her father and mother disappeared, she was only more than a year old, and her younger brother was only three months old. Although everyone says that Wang Wan is a precocious child, whether it is walking, speaking, or literacy, she is more than children of the same age, but she is still young after all, she has been brought to such a big age by her sister since she was a child, and her sister is a father-like existence, and she is very obedient to her sister's words.

After breakfast, the three siblings hurried to the village academy, which was located in the middle of the village and was specially built by the village for the benefit of future generations. When Wang Wan and Wang Lin came to the front yard house, everyone was already shaking their heads and reading books, while Wang Rou rushed to the backyard to read with the older children.

After a while, a middle-aged man wearing a Confucian costume and touching his beard walked in, and everyone immediately said in unison: "Hello Master!"

Master Sun nodded, turned around and sat down behind the bookcase in front of him, spread out the book unhurriedly, and then began today's lesson.

Master's classes are always boring, Wang Wan has already memorized all the books, she listlessly lay on the bookcase in front of her, and secretly yawned several times.

Sun Xiaomei in the back stabbed Wang Wan, "Did your sister go up the mountain today?"

Wang Wan glanced back at her lazily, "You should go, eh? You always ask what my sister is doing? Your brother Sun Xiaoqing won't go up the mountain today." ”

Xiaomei's face turned red all of a sudden, and she said, "What do you care about so much." ”

Wang Wan rolled her eyes speechlessly, "You asked first, okay!"

With a "snap", Sun Fuzi's ring ruler slammed into Wang Wan's bookcase, startling Wang Wan and Sun Xiaomei.

"Wang Wan, memorize the "Three Character Classic" from "Zi Buxue" to the place I just talked about, not a word is allowed to be wrong, a word is wrong!

Wang Wan stood up unhurriedly and put her hands behind her back, shook her head and carried it, and did not stop when she recited "Rong is four years old, and can make pears".

Sun Xiaomei was so anxious that she pulled Wang Wan's clothes behind her and reminded in a low voice, "It's back, don't carry it down." ”

Wang Wan didn't seem to notice it, and the more she carried it, the smoother it became. The master raised his eyes and looked at Sun Xiaomei, Xiaomei was shocked, lowered her head and didn't dare to make any more small movements.

When Wang Wan finished reciting in one go, Master Sun stroked his beard and said half-loudly: "Sit down, don't mess around in class in the future!"

Master Sun saw that the other children were all in no mood to study, so he cleared his throat and said, "Okay, sit up, put your hands behind your back, all of them are not energetic, let's go to class here for the time being, I'll tell you something else." All of a sudden they all sat up straight and looked at the Master with wide eyes.

Master Sun went out of the village when he was young, and I heard that he had been an official outside, but he returned to the village within a few years to teach in Mengxue. Some people in the village said that he was full of wealth but could not be reused outside, so he returned to the village when he was depressed. Wang Wan felt otherwise, there should be stories he didn't want to tell in the past few years.

"As the saying goes, there are mountains outside the mountains, and there are people outside the people, and you must be very curious about the places outside our village......"

It turns out that there are many countries in the outside world, Yangquan Village is located in the southeast of Qi country, and there are several countries around Qi country, these countries coexist with each other, and from time to time there are small-scale wars, but the overall situation is peaceful.

"Legend has it that hundreds of years ago, people admired martial arts, almost most of the people in every place were obsessed with practicing martial arts, people with superb martial arts, were worshiped by people crazy, at that time, not only in the martial arts, large and small, thousands of sects were numerous, and all kinds of masters emerged in endlessly, and every thirty years, there were hidden sects to recruit disciples to practice the art of immortality, and the entire martial arts heroes came out in large numbers, reaching the peak of prosperity. At that time, in addition to cultivating the immortal method to the extreme, we martial artists also had amazing talents who shattered the void. But three hundred years ago, there was an accident in the martial arts, and the hidden world sect no longer appeared in the martial arts, and all the martial arts masters in the martial arts were nowhere to be found, what happened, no one can say clearly, since then, the martial arts factions have restrained their own disciples not to walk easily, and many countries have slowly begun to emphasize literature and light martial arts, and the entire martial arts is no longer as prosperous as it was back then, in the past three hundred years, except for two hundred years ago, there were still people who broke the void, but no one has been able to reach that height, hey......" The master shook his head and sighed.

Wang Wan also sighed when she heard it, and then thought that according to what the master said, the world no longer advocates martial arts, why the people in the village are the same as the hundreds of years ago described by the master, almost everyone practices martial arts, although practicing martial arts is helpful for everyone's usual work, but it is not necessary to practice, Wang Wan was curious about the place where she grew up for the first time, and she vaguely felt that this seemed to be related to the disappearance of her father and mother.