The story of the caged man is very long, and it is a long time to tell it. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The man in the cage claimed to be Fang Lian. He was a homeless street child as a child. Later, when he was hungry and cold, and he was about to freeze to death and starve to death, a Taoist from the wandering side rescued him and took him as an apprentice.

Fang Lian still doesn't know his master's name. It wasn't until after Master's death that he didn't know about Master's experience. His master came from a very famous secret family in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and over the past few hundred years, this secret family has also produced many secret people. In his master's generation, the family is even more prosperous. Among them, his master is the eldest son, who has enjoyed a high status in the family since he was a child and is favored by his elders.

This secret family has a secret technique passed down from the ancestors, and it can absorb the soul of the secret beast to strengthen its secret knowledge. Although there are many drawbacks to this secret art, it does not prevent it from being powerful. There are also many people in this family, so they can maintain their prestige for hundreds of years.

Of course, not all clansmen can practice this secret art, and their own physique must be in line with this secret art. The higher the degree of fit, the more convenient it will be to cultivate the secret arts, the easier it will be to absorb the soul of the secret beast, and the fewer drawbacks will be left. Whether or not you can practice this secret art will not be revealed until the child reaches the age of six. Unfortunately, when his master was six years old, the clan was surprised to find that the eldest son, who had high hopes from the entire family, was unable to practice this secret art at all.

Master Fang Lian's father, who was the patriarch at the time, a nine-star secret priest, was even more difficult to accept this result, and then turned from shock to suspicion. After all, his family could cultivate this ancestral secret art for several generations in a row, and the compatibility was extremely high. Amid the gossip about who the child's father really was, he became more and more irritable.

When the child was a little older, his brothers and sisters all condensed the secret whirl, and he didn't even make a move. In the gossip, Master Fang Lian's father finally turned from suspicion to anger, and directly executed his wife, and at the same time drove his son out of the house. Afterwards, Fang Lian's master analyzed that the reason why his father did this was not because he was convinced that he was not his son, but because he could not accept the reality that his son was a wreck, and could only comfort himself with the excuse that the child was not his own at all.

From then on, Fang Lian's master began to wander into the rivers and lakes and fell into recklessness. But in his heart, what he never forgets is his mother's unwillingness when she was dying and his father's anger and disappointment.

From the moment he left the family, he had the greatest expectation in his heart, that is, to become a powerful secret, to correct his name and clear his mother's wrongs. However, since he was born in such a secret family, he also clearly knew that without a secret whirlwind, his cultivation would be hopeless.

But compared with survival, the dream of becoming a secret is still far away after all, after being kicked out of the house alone, he is penniless, and survival has become his biggest problem at the age of ten.

Luckily, a kind old farmer saved him. The old peasant had no wife and no children, and treated him as if he were his own child. After pulling him into his teens, the old peasant died of overwork and overwork. The old peasant had been a tenant all his life, had no land of his own, and after his death, he left him nothing but a thatched hut, so he began to wander in the rivers and lakes again.

However, the rivers and lakes are stormy, and it is more difficult than anything for a young man who has nothing to rely on to find a place to settle down. In desperation, he joined the Taoist Gate and became a little Taoist priest who chopped wood and cooked, chatting for a living.

The Taoist temple he devoted himself to was very small, just him and the master. When he had nothing to do, the old Taoist taught him some precepts, fasting rituals, Jiao and other means. Later, when the master died of old age, he left the entire Taoist temple to him. As Taoism gradually became valued by the rulers, the incense in his Taoist temple became better and better, and his life became richer and richer. But after counting the money and lying down every night, he always remembered the scene when his mother was executed and he was kicked out of the house. He knew that he still had a knot in his heart, a dream of becoming a secret.

When he saved enough money, he finally packed his bags, with his dreams, left the small Taoist temple where he had lived for more than ten years, and came to the rivers and lakes again, this year, he was already thirty years old.

What is different from the past is that there are many large and small gangs in the rivers and lakes, and the forces of the entire rivers and lakes have been re-divided and effectively divided, so the rivers and lakes have also settled down a lot. Fang Lian's master had been traveling in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and there were no accidents. Of course, his identity as a poor Taoist priest has played a successful cover, first, to see that he has no money, and secondly, there has always been a saying in the rivers and lakes that he does not provoke Taoist priests, monks and women, so no bandit likes to do anything to him.

During his travels, he had returned to his family once, but of course he had only walked around the family, and no one recognized him.

After inquiry, he knew that his tyrannical father had already died in a battle because he had offended the gate of a secret realm, and his younger brother had now become the patriarch, but he had no intention of taking revenge, but he was constantly squandering what little money he had left, and the power of the family was not as good as before, and he had become a vassal of a small gate of the secret realm. However, such a family is now even more domineering, and it is absolutely impossible to tolerate him, a so-called wasted person. So, after walking around in front of his ancestral home and paying homage to his mother's lonely grave, he left in disgrace.

Ten years of night rain in the rivers and lakes, unconsciously, he is already in his forties. He has visited famous mountains and rivers, and has also encountered one or two half-hung people in the secret realm. But despite receiving his finances, these people couldn't do anything about the fact that he couldn't condense the secret whirl. The dream of becoming a secret person is like steaming water vapor on a sunny day, getting farther and farther away from him.

When he was fifty years old, he had been adrift in the rivers and lakes for twenty years, and he was already with two temples and stars, and his hair was pale. For such drifting, I still enjoy it. However, the focus of his travels has changed, and his obsession with the secret world has now changed to a simple appreciation of nature and a love for scenery. When he had no money, he made a living by telling hexagrams and selling words, but he was also happy.

What happened to him in his childhood created a compassionate heart for him. After the age of fifty, he adopted three lonely children one after another on the way to travel, and Fang Lian was the first. The second is also a boy, named Wu Zhen, and the third is a girl, named Shangguan Min. Although Fang Lian followed his master a little earlier, he was the same age as Wu Zhen, only two years older than Shangguan Min.

Fang Lian's master continued to wander the rivers and lakes with his three adopted children. Because of the addition of three mouths to eat, their lives were much more miserable. However, Fang Lian's master did not think it was bitter, but happy. After all, he had never enjoyed any family fun in his life except for the days before he was six years old, and now he felt very happy to have three children frolicking around him all day. Since the three children came together, they have also helped each other and loved each other, and have formed a deeper relationship than their brothers and sisters.

For the development of the three children, Fang Lian's master taught them to read and write, and he spent all his savings to ask someone to teach them martial arts. The three children also sincerely respect and appreciate the greatest benefactor in their lives, although they are called master and apprentice, they are actually like father and son, father and daughter.