There are 50 or 60 families in our Mujia village, nearly 300 people, and everyone knows a little martial arts, regardless of men, women, old and young. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info even the pig aunt in the village can use a few powerful moves, but as time goes by, more and more people choose to abandon martial arts and follow literature, and the practice of martial arts is slowly forgotten in people's sight.

"Look at those weak scholars now, they are weak and sickly, skinny, and they can't even protect themselves when they encounter danger, so they can only beg others with their eyes. But the only one who can be relied on in this world is yourself, and you really have to wait until the hero who saved you appears, and it is estimated that the grass on the grave is already very deep! It's really sad and lamentable, and it's no wonder that today's medical schools are so popular! My father used to say that.

What my father said is not unreasonable, like I have been practicing martial arts since I was a child, and I have never had a single illness.

But this atmosphere is intolerable in my father's eyes, so I have been practicing martial arts since I was a child, and learning literature is also used to pass the time in leisure after practicing martial arts.

But I don't really agree with my father's idea, the same principle as practicing martial arts, this is like the mental method is sometimes more important than martial arts, so if you want to learn better martial arts, then you must have a certain amount of literary accomplishment, so in addition to insisting on practicing martial arts every day since I was a child, I must insist on reading every day.

The books I read are very complex, up to the "Four Books", "Five Classics", "The Art of War", "Zizhi Tongjian", "Historical Records", Qinqi, calligraphy and painting, etc., down to the field history and foreign talks, Qimen Dunjia, fortune-telling, five elements of feng shui, etc. And I myself like mysterious things like wild history talks, fortune telling, and five elements feng shui, which I think are both mysterious and interesting.

After a casual discussion with my father about martial arts moves after dinner, nothing happened, when a person suddenly appeared in my mind. He was the old man who lived alone on the back hillside. It's been more than half a month since the last time I went to him, and I wonder what he's doing now? Thinking about it, he went straight out and walked through the village to the back mountain to find the old man.

The old man lives on a platform halfway up the loess slope in the back mountain, the soil slope platform is backed by the loess slope behind, the front has a width of more than 100 feet, most of it is naturally formed, a small part is artificially excavated, and a dense old elm tree on it looks more than 100 years old!

There are five caves and three thatched huts built on the platform, the old man usually makes a living by seeing a doctor, and the villagers have any minor illnesses and pains to go to him for treatment, but unfortunately the old man's temper is strange, he is cold and cold to the sick, and the number of doctors in the village is gradually increasing, and there are fewer and fewer people who go to the old man to see a doctor, and the old man has to pick some medicinal materials to sell some loose silver in the market, which is barely surviving.

I have known the old man for a long time, I remember when I was a child, my partner and I often went to the elm tree in front of the old man's house to steal mulberry elm to eat, almost every time I was bombarded by the old man's stick, but the more so, the more I like to steal food. As the saying goes, stolen things are always good, and maybe it's not the mulberry that I like, but the hide-and-seek process between children and the elderly.

Once he was really greedy, so he quietly went to steal food alone, but accidentally fell from the tree, and screamed "wow" in front of the old man's house in pain.

Seeing this, I continued to cry and make a fuss, and after a while, the old man kicked the door open angrily and shouted: "Don't scream, the old man is going to be annoyed to death!" ”

"I've fallen like this, and you don't save me, what kind of doctor is saving lives?" I said angrily.

"I'm not a doctor in the first place!" The old man smiled contemptuously.

"You're a liar, you don't know how to see a doctor at all, liar, liar, liar, liar......" I was anxious and immediately shouted loudly.

The old man had already walked into the house, but when I said this, he rushed out angrily.

"Little doll, I won't see a doctor? Don't talk nonsense, I have to cure your disease today, and you still say that I can't see a doctor! The old man said loudly.

Then he picked me up in one hand and went to his house.

The first time I entered his room, it was full of all kinds of medicinal herbs and a lot of dried animal carcasses, it looked terrifying, in addition to these, there were some extremely simple furniture, as soon as I entered the room, it was the smell of medicine.

I frowned and held my breath, and the old man noticed it and said with a smile: "You little doll, it smells bad, you have to smell it every day, and make sure you are not sick in your life!" ”

He casually pinched my arm a few times with his hand, and then popped out a sentence: "Fractured!" ”

I'm still wondering if I'm going to wrap up my bones. Suddenly, I only heard two "clicks", I screamed in pain, and was about to scold, but I didn't expect my hand to move, and I swallowed the words back into my stomach!

I looked at the old man with a strange face, and the old man took advantage of the situation to touch my arms and legs again with his hands, and said in surprise: "Little doll, the bones are good, and it is a good material for martial arts!" ”

When I saw the old man's horrible haunted house and his smiling face, I was nervous for a moment, and hurriedly got rid of the old man and ran back to the house.

Since then, the old man's attitude towards me has changed greatly, every time I go to steal mulberry elm, he will happily take the initiative to help me pick it, and then simply pick it himself and put it on the stone table in the yard for me to eat. The old man also often took some of the rare herbs he picked for me to "taste", saying that these herbs are not encountered in a hundred years, and they are priceless treasures for those who practice, and the reason why I practice faster than ordinary people learn, I think it has something to do with those magical herbs of the old man!

The old man's life is very poor, my family's life is quite solid, my father runs an antique shop and is the patriarch of the village, so I take the initiative to help the old man every time, and the old man is also silently remembered for my goodness.

As the days go by, the relationship between me and the old man is getting better and better, and we have become veritable old friends.

I don't dare to say that the old man's medical skills are unparalleled in the world, but it is also a five-body cast that I, a person who has read countless medical classics, admires. The old man is not only skilled in medicine, but also good at detoxification, according to the old man, there is no poison in the world that he can't detoxify, once drank a bottle of Heding red in front of me, and then it was unharmed, which shocked me very much.

Everyone knows that Heding Red is a highly poisonous thing, and even the gods are helpless if they drink it, but the old man in front of him has nothing to do. The old man often said that something like Heding Red was pediatric to him, and you can imagine how strong the old man's resistance to poison would be!

Before I knew it, I had come to this familiar earthen platform, or the dim candlelight, or the stone table. Looking at the chessboard on the stone table, I really miss the days when I remembered playing chess with the old man carefree. Lao Weng's chess skills are really difficult to meet opponents, even I, a person who knows all the chess games in the world, have never won a single Lao Weng, I really don't know what kind of state Lao Weng's chess skills have reached.

The old man often said, when you don't come, I will go down to myself, a person's biggest enemy is not others but himself, if you can defeat yourself, then what else can you stop you from moving forward? Playing chess with the old man has also made my chess skills more and more sophisticated, although it is far less than the old man, but it is already a great improvement compared to the previous time on paper.

The old man often boasted and said: "The so-called chess saints and chess gods in the world today are not in my eyes at all, they are not as good as you, a fledgling boy!"

Thinking that Mencius in Jiangnan was known as "Jiangnan has not met opponents for ten years", and put the endgame in Hangzhou West Lake Pavilion for half a year, writing a notice saying that if he wins, he will give away his own restaurant, and finally I will die within seven steps, which can be said to make his family bankrupt, but unfortunately the old man I am not good at business, and I don't want his restaurant, only charge ten taels of silver as a coil and go! ”

Every time the old man talks about these past events of the rivers and lakes, I listen to them with relish, because I like the rivers and lakes in my bones, and I like the anecdotes of the rivers and lakes even more.

The old man could see my thoughts, and often warned me: "The rivers and lakes are sinister, you are not deeply involved in the world, you don't know what is powerful, you must be more careful when you go out in the future, and you must not be careless!" ”

Oh, yes! I have only been to Wubao County since I was a child, and I have never been to other places, let alone the rivers and lakes, the rivers and lakes are so strange to me, and they are so far away!

"Is Tiancheng coming?"

The old man heard my footsteps in the middle of the house and suddenly asked.

"Yes, old man, I've come to see you!"

"Come in!"

The old man said weakly.

Suddenly, a sense of foreboding came over me.

I followed the sound of pushing the door in, and the old man was lying on his dilapidated wooden bed, his face pale, and the corners of his mouth blackened, and I was very surprised to see this!

"What's wrong with you, old man?" I hurriedly ran over and asked.

This is the first time I've seen an old man sick, and for a doctor, it's a very humiliating thing to be sick, let alone a master of medical skills.

"Old man, I'm not sick, I'm just poisoned!" The old man said with a slight smile.

I am even more puzzled when I say this, the old man is a well-known detoxification saint, what powerful poison can make him so unbearable? What the hell is going on?

"Tiancheng, don't worry, listen to me slowly. Now that you're an adult, we're as close as grandparents and grandchildren, and some things have been hidden in my heart for decades, it's time to find someone to talk to! Go and move a stool and sit next to my bed! He said with a smile.

I walked over and moved a wooden chair and sat down, and the old man sighed and said, "Speaking of this, we have to start from forty years ago." At that time, I was young and vigorous, and I had the privilege of following a hermit god at that time to learn a little bit of healing, and I thought I was very good, so I didn't take anyone seriously. At that time, the master accepted three disciples, my senior brother is upright, his medical skills are amazing, and he is the so-called righteous path of medical skills in the world, known as "living immortals", since 30 years ago, now life and death are unknown! ”

Speaking of this, the old man's eyes showed a little sadness, and it could be seen that the old man respected his senior brother very much.

The old man straightened out his emotions and continued: "I am the second in line, I like to get some so-called side doors, incurable diseases, good at detoxification, known as "immortal". I also have a junior brother, he is the same as me, extremely talented, and he also likes to get some sideways medical skills, but he is good at the treatment of poison with poison, and he is even more extreme in practicing poison, it is no exaggeration to say that almost half of the poison in the world today is refined by my junior brother, and people call him "Lord Yama".

I looked at the old man in amazement, and I didn't even know what the old man said.

The old man smiled and said, "Maybe you will think that my third junior brother is a bad person, specializing in refining poison and harming people. In fact, things in the world are so wonderful, you also know the phrase 'medicine is three poisons', many diseases need to be poisoned to be cured! ”

I believe the reason that the old man said! But for the old man's mysterious life experience, I have had countless guesses, but what the old man said today made me dumbfounded, I didn't expect the old man to have such a mysterious past, I don't know what the old man said next?