Mucun, located on the north bank of Xihu Lake, is lush and vibrant, and the whole village is green and endless from a distance. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the early morning, the dew drops hang on the verdant branches and leaves, the sunlight refracts, the green dewdrops are crystal clear, beautiful as green jade, and the pastoral village with slight dew in the morning light is beautiful.

"Whew........."

A creature more than two meters tall, with the head of a bull and a horse, with a triangular body on its head, raised its head and howled, breaking the silence of the village, and on its back, sat a boy about fourteen or fifteen years old.

The young man wore black hair swaying with the breeze, his body was slightly thin, his sword eyebrows and starry eyes, his facial features were exquisite, and his complexion was yellow.

"If you don't eat your grass well, you will die......"

The young man's face was annoyed, and he waved the whip in his hand and slapped the sitting creature, and then the monster with the head and horse body obediently lowered its head and gnawed grass to eat.

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As the name suggests, the pastoral village is a village that raises domestic animals for a living, here, almost every household has a few domestic beasts, the pastoral village where the grass grows everywhere, the animal husbandry is simply the best choice, although there are many domestic animals, but the grass here seems to be inexhaustible, and it will always be evergreen in all seasons.

Horned ox, one of the species of domestic beasts, has a huge physique, the head is like a cow but has an extra horn, like a rhinoceros, and the body is no different from a horse.

The cowherd boy who sat on the back of the cow was named Wu Qin, fourteen years old, and herding the only horned cow in the family was one of the things he had to do every day.

Wu Qin is an orphan, different from the rest of the herding village, he is not a native of the herding village, and there are generally no outsiders in the poor and remote places, so Wu Qin is also the only one here.

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"Fang Tianmen, sooner or later, one day, I will let you pay for your blood debts." Sitting on the back of the cow, Wu Qin seemed to remember something, his eyes suddenly became bloodshot, his teeth were clenched, and he was full of hatred.

"Brother Qin......" At this moment, a little fat man about the same age as Wu Qin ran from a distance, and a shout interrupted Wu Qin's thoughts.

"What?" The anger on Wu Qin's face instantly subsided, returned to normal, and seemed to be very calm and asked.

"Didn't you ask my third uncle if he wanted to buy horned cows some time ago! Just now I met the third uncle and asked, and he said to buy it. The little fat man looked at the horned cow in front of him, and then said, "Your horned cow hasn't grown up yet, so what are you doing in a hurry to sell it?" ”

Wu Qin didn't answer immediately, his expression froze for a few seconds, then he sighed lightly and said, "Fat cow, I'm leaving, there are too many things waiting for me to do outside, I plan to sell the horned ox, replace it with a side entanglement, and then leave the pastoral village." ”

"Leaving the village? Why? In recent years, Wu Qin is his only friend, it can also be said that he is the eldest brother, although he has grown a body of flesh, he looks very strong, but he is usually too honest and weak, so he is often bullied by other children in the village, however, until Wu Qin appeared and the two got acquainted, Wu Qin has been covering him, so he will call Wu Qin Brother Qin.

"Go home......" Wu Qin looked in the eastern direction of Xihu and said firmly.

"Brother Qin, I heard the adults say that you drifted down from the east side of Xihu Lake four years ago, could it be that the east side of Xihu Lake is your home?"

"Yes." Wu Qin nodded!

"But on the east shore of the lake, the water is so strong that the boats can't go up the river at all, so how can you go home?"

"Since I can't take a boat, then I'll walk along the coast to the east, and I'll be able to reach it one day." Wu Qin's resolute expression did not change, this idea was already very mature in his heart.

"Okay, let's not talk about it, quickly lead the cow and take me to your third uncle."

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Four years ago, when Wu Qin was only ten years old, he drifted from a stream and lake to a secluded pastoral village in a small broken boat, and no one knew where he came from, how long he had been drifting, and no one knew his family history.

When the small broken boat drifted to the pastoral village, Wu Qin had already fainted, but fortunately, the residents of the pastoral village found it in time to pick up a small life, and fortunately, the people in the village were all kind-hearted people, and with the enthusiastic help of the villagers, Wu Qin, who was only ten years old, did not starve to death.

In the village, there has never been an outsider, and it is a miracle that a child can float here in the rapids, and the local villagers regard it as a kind of fate.

Many enthusiastic villagers were willing to adopt this child, who seemed to have been abandoned by his parents, but they were stubbornly rejected by Wu Qin, who was only ten years old, and there was no way, so the village had to place him in a small grass hut that no one lived in, and every once in a while, someone would bring him some food to eat.

The days of surviving on the help of others did not last long, and Wu Qin began to become self-reliant, began to help the villagers herd their cattle, and then received a certain amount of payment.

Grazing is not a simple matter, in the village, herding is a job that belongs to adult men, if you want to tame a domestic beast with hundreds of catties and two meters high, it takes a certain amount of strength, this job is not done by women and children except for men with great strength, Wu Qin is an exception.

After he offered to help people herd, the adults didn't take what he said to heart, because they felt that a child was not sensible and didn't know the difficulty of the matter, which was normal, after all, it was just a child, and they just smiled and replied, "Let's talk about it when you grow up!" ”

But Wu Qin refused to give up, every time an adult grazes, he would follow him, and his next performance made everyone stunned.

A tall adult horned ox with a hut suddenly ran away, broke away from the shackles of people, fled in all directions, four or five men were helpless, and at this moment, a thin body like a monkey jumped into the air in the eyes of many wrong jaws, jumped on the back of the horned ox, and grabbed the left and right horns of the horned ox with both hands.

It didn't take long for the rampaging horned ox to stop its violent body as if it had exhausted its strength, and it was obvious that the rampaging horned ox had been subdued by Wu Qin.

Several strong men chasing behind the horned bull stopped, all of them with wide eyes, in disbelief.

Since then, no one in the village has questioned Wu Qin's ability to herd, and in the eyes of many villagers, Wu Qin is no longer a child, but an adult, and even surpasses the adults in the village in some aspects.

Maturity beyond age, strength beyond age, perseverance beyond age, he is more like an adult than he looks like a teenager on the outside.

Because of this, many villagers think that Wu Qin is an adult who does not grow up, and some people think that maybe the people in Wu Qin's hometown have matured earlier!

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"Wu Qin, your horned cow is still developing, and it will take another month to grow to the maximum, and you can't sell it at the best price if you sell it now, or you can wait another month to sell it."

The little fat man led the horned ox to a pasture, the wooden stake used for the fence of the ranch was more than two meters high, outside the fence door, a middle-aged black-faced strong man after learning that Wu Qin was here to sell horned oxen, looked at the horned ox under Wu Qin, and then kindly reminded.

"Don't wait, I'm going to sell it now, you can give a price!" Wu Qin did not hesitate, but decided to sell.

"Since you insist on selling, then thirty silver coins! That's the highest price I can offer. The black-faced man said after a moment of contemplation.

Wu Qin nodded in agreement!

"I heard the fat man say that you are leaving the pastoral village, and you still have to go from the east?" The black-faced strong man's expression suddenly changed to seriousness and asked.

"Yes!" Wu Qin nodded again.

"I advise you to dispel this thought! In case you don't know, in addition to the waterway not working, even the land walking in the eastward direction of the stream and lake is not feasible. ”

"Why?" The little fat man holding the shepherd rope asked.

"The east of the village is a deep mountain that I don't know how big, the wild beasts are rampant in the deep mountains, many years ago, someone in the village organized a group of people to explore, want to find a way out from the deep mountains, but in the end no one went back to the village, since then, no one dares to go to the deep mountains in the east, so how big the mountain is, no one knows, the only thing we know is that the deep mountain is very dangerous, if you go alone, it is no different from sending to death, if you have to leave the village, You can choose to leave from Yangjia Town in the west, why do you have to go to the east. ”

After hearing this, Wu Qin frowned, this was the first time he had heard someone talk about the mountains in the east, and he didn't expect that there was still a danger of death in the mountains.

Wu Qin nodded again at the black-faced strong man, as if accepting the suggestion, said thank you, and then took the thirty silver coins he got from selling the horned ox and left the ranch alone.

Back to the small thatched hut where he had lived for four years, it was very simple, with only a small wooden bed in shabby, a wooden table with a broken foot, and an earthen stove without sparks.

This scene in the room is a description of Wu Qin's usual life.

After Wu Qin sat on the bed, he took out a black ring from his arms, and after touching the black ring for a while, Wu Qin's hand had an extra quaint book and a plain stone for no reason.

"All that's left at home is a storage ring, a witch recipe, and a broken stone that I don't know what it is."

"I've been stuck in the bottleneck of the first layer of the Witch Secret for two years, and my realm hasn't improved in the slightest in the past two years, I can't wait any longer, I have to go back!" Wu Qin sat on the bed and muttered to himself, first looking at the book with the witch secret written on the cover, and then putting down the book and picking up the bland stone.

The stone is round and edgeless, like a pebble, but other than that, there is nothing special about it, and if you throw it in the pile of stones, it is difficult to tell which one it is.

It was such a prosaic stone that made Wu Qin's heart rise with a thick hatred and anger.

"It's because of your useless waste stone that my family was ruined, and I originally hoped that you could help me avenge my hatred, but who knew that you would have no effect at all."

Images of blood, destruction, betrayal, and the death of loved ones reappeared in his mind, and Wu Qin's memories of four years ago were like a nightmare, lingering.

And the culprit of all this comes from this useless stone.

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