It is a slightly dimly lit canyon with mountains spreading on both sides, and the canyon is a mystery that has never dared to be explored by the suffering people who have lived here for generations. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

A black loach crawled out of a mine, and if it weren't for the scorching sun hanging on the opposite side, I believe no one would have noticed him. His real name is Zhao Xuan, a native of Zhaojia Village, near the mountain in the canyon, and he just turned 12 years old this year and is an orphan.

When Zhao Xuan was eight years old, when his father came out of the mine in his own mine, he collected two pieces of Chenxing iron, and hurriedly ran to the mine to prepare to hand it over to the village chief in exchange for grain and wine, but he unintentionally slipped and fell to the ground.

What kind of thing is Xingchen Iron, what it can do, and how much it is worth is not important to the villagers, the important thing is that it can be exchanged for food! More grain than iron and stone is enough for half a year for 100 people in the village.

The village boss was quite kind, and Xiao Zhao Xuan got his own rations for a year, as well as two pieces of dried meat of four or five catties. The eight-year-old little guy didn't have much strength to mine, but he relied on these and the help of the villagers for more than a year, until he was nearly ten years old, and he was barely able to collect enough iron and stone to get by.

Zhao Xuan thus inherited the family business and became the only young head of the family in the village. Of course, this head of the family is also the only living person in the family. The reason why he is the only living person in the family is because when he was seven years old, his grandparents passed away one after another, and his happy and sad father became the third grave in the family, but he was the only one left.

Oh oh, what about his mother, you say? This can't be said about his father. Zhao Xuan's father has eaten more and cooked less all his life, and he loves wine, and he has been a bachelor all his life. Once, after my dad was drunk, I didn't know where to pick up Zhao Xuan, so I really don't know who the is!

Zhao Xuan's name was still written on a strip of cloth wrapped around his left arm when he was picked up by his father. There are not many people in the village who are literate, and his father still asked the people in the town to recognize him, but few people in the village call him "Zhao Xuan".

Because his body color is darker than that of other villagers, and he can run and run exceptionally slippery, he is nicknamed "black loach" by the villagers. What kind of dog, second dog and so on, are all too common names in the village.

Every time he crawled out of the mine, Zhao Xuan would look up at the sky for a long time, what was it like outside? This is a difficult but difficult question, and I have not been able to find the answer.

When I am alone at home, some strange ideas pop up in my mind from time to time, and some people can even fly into the sky. This made Zhao Xuan want to go outside and see what the world was like in his mind.

Zhao Xuan also asked the elders of the village, but most of them couldn't get any answers except for being laughed at and scolded. After a long time, I don't ask anymore, and I am often in a daze alone.

"Hey, you little loach has a lot of harvest today. Why, are you thinking about life again? As soon as he walked out of the mine, Zhao Xuan, who looked up and squinted at the sky for a while, heard a loud laugh next door, but there was no big reaction, and he was already used to it.

"Fourth uncle, you said that you are so old and don't stay at home, and you are not tired and panicked when you enter the mine all day? Your god legs have to be cultivated well" The man next door is named Zhao Si, and he doesn't have a serious name according to their family ranking. When I was young, I was smashed in the mine and injured a leg, leaving a semi-disabled, and there is nothing wrong with it, just a few times from time to time.

"I said loach, why don't you understand, I've been dealing with this mine all my life, and I don't look at it every day. My dog has taken out more than a meter in the past year, but he got a lot of black iron, and some fine iron, and he was happy to look at that thing...... In a few years, the dog will have the food for his daughter-in-law, it's not that the uncle said you, what are you doing if you don't save money to tinker with those herbs, and you can't eat enough! ”

"I said, Fourth Uncle, don't you learn from the nagging of those aunts and aunts in the village, right? You don't understand, hey...... I'll go home to eat and sleep," and without waiting for the man to say anything more, he went directly to the house at the entrance of the village......

Looking at Zhao Xuan's figure, Zhao Si also sighed in his heart, thinking that he would help him find a daughter-in-law in a few years. This child is pitiful enough, but he is a little unlucky, and it is estimated that there will be a housekeeper who will change it back when the time comes.

You said that you are a miner, and you don't want to mine all day long to exchange money for food and marry a daughter-in-law, what are you doing with those medicinal stones and herbs, and you can't eat or drink those things, hey......

"Brother Loach, give me the iron and stone, and I'll let my father remember it for you. When you exchange grain, I will give you a piece, the old rule, half the grain and half the money" As soon as Zhao Xuan entered the village, he met his playmate, Zhao Daxiong, who was also mining.

"Big bear, then it's for you, in the past two days, someone has come from above, you can help me ask, is there any soil ginseng and grain and wine, my house is almost gone, and the village won't change with me, hey...... You have a snack about this, don't let others know about it" For this, Zhao Xuan was also quite helpless.

"Okay, okay, got it, I'm going home!"

Seeing that Da Xiong was going home, that is, to the village chief's house, Zhao Xuan also hurriedly ran home. However, as soon as he took two steps, he heard the village accountkeeper, and the second uncle of Da Xiong said, "Loach, don't think about changing the wine, I won't give it to you this time."

"Don't, I'm the head of the family now! There is still a right to freedom, right? ”

"Hey, head of the family? Oh, then why did you change to brown sugar? ”

"Look, I'm only twelve years old, it's normal to eat candy, okay? Besides, your son is still following my ass and asking for candy," Zhao Xuan spread his hands and said very innocently.

"Okay, okay, I can't talk about you, when the time comes, ask the village chief" Second Uncle Da Xiong turned his head and went home, and he didn't say anything.

Such a conversation has happened more than once, and Zhao Xuan is noncommittal. Although he is the only young head of the family in the village, he is also the head of the family! Shaking his head and walking home, he opened the rice bowl, looked at the little grain left, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that it was okay that it was about to come to the day of changing food, or he would have to borrow grain to live......

Washing rice, adding a few wild vegetables occasionally found from the mountains, and cooking the fire, this is Zhao Xuan's Chinese food, of course, it is also lunch.

After eating a little rice porridge, Zhao Xuan was the happiest. Ma Yu cleaned several common herbs, carefully put them in a pot with two pieces of soil ginseng, boiled and boiled, and waited for it to cool down automatically until it was not too hot.

During this period, Zhao Xuan took off his clothes three times and divided them by two, in fact, he also wore a dog skin apron on his lower body, quickly cleaned off the filth on his body, took a large wooden barrel, raised the potion in the pot into the wooden barrel, and when he touched it, he entered the wooden barrel naked, leaving only one head outside.

The edge of the barrel was made into an arc by Zhao Xuan, so that you could rest your head on it, and even if you fell asleep, you didn't have to worry about drowning in water. Close your eyes and look blissfully intoxicated.

This is the method that came out of my head when I went home and saw a few common herbs in my head after my arm was sore and swollen in the mine last year, and I tried it a few times, not only my arm was no longer swollen, but also my whole body was no longer tired, and I faintly felt that my body was full of energy, so I fell in love with this feeling.

Since then, it has been out of control, and he usually exchanges the dug iron and stone with the villagers for some surplus herbs, and also exchanges some soil ginseng with the steward who came down to exchange grain. Some herbs can be found in the back mountains.

Once when I was chatting with the village chief, I saw the village chief's small wine jug and tried it, which was called a full body comfort, and since then there has been another expense of exchanging iron and stone for wine.

The hot potion moisturized the black body of the loach, eliminating the fatigue of several hours of hard work. Every time I finish the medicinal bath, I wake up at night and feel full of energy, I will eat a lot more rice than at noon, and I will not be tired to go into the cave to mine at night.

After the water was cool, our little loach jumped out of the wooden barrel comfortably, took out the boiled soil ginseng and herbs from the pot and threw them into the clay pot containing grain and wine, shook the boss for a while, and squinted his little eyes and took a sip. Half lying on the bed, I drank one sip after another, and slowly fell asleep......

Life in Zhaojia Village is very regular, rarely changes, and at noon, when the sun is the strongest, go home to eat and sleep. Those who have surplus food get up for an afternoon meal, and do some other work in exchange for money and food, such as wooden arrows used in the army. Wait until the sun sets and the moon rises to have dinner, and then go into his own mine to mine.

Normally, there are only two meals, which is normal in Zhao Village, just like the village chief said, "Two meals are enough, and the village chief's family has no surplus food these days."

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On this day, as soon as Zhao Xuan came out of the mine, he heard a commotion outside the entrance of the village, frowned and ran to the house, picked up a woodcutter made of iron and stone, and rushed to the entrance of the village.

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"There is no farming in your village, and you don't raise livestock, how can you say there are chicken feathers in your village?"

"We don't have a single chicken missing in our village, and we can't find it everywhere. Hey, we really found chicken feathers in your village, and one of you must have stolen the chicken and plucked it. ”

"you, no one in our village will touch your chickens, who will eat them? Just eat chicken by yourself, who is rare! ”

"Don't admit it? Conclusive! Otherwise, go to the military master in the city to complain, there will always be justice."

"Bullying people, the soldier in your village said last time, he won't care about the bad things in your village, I think you can do it"

"Hmph, I don't believe you try it, see what you eat if the food exchange is not enough this time! Don't try to go to us and buy food. Don't talk about it, hurry up and lose money, a silver coin, just act as if it never happened"

"Bah, what kind of chicken is worth a silver coin? Doesn't this make it clear that the pit people are pitted? ”

"It's not worth it, but who let you steal it? If you don't give money, we won't leave here, and you don't want to mine with peace of mind."

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