Lingxi Mountain, a border place at the junction of the two countries, is the land of Chen, and the neighboring country is the Yan country. The mountains and forests here are dense, so few outsiders set foot here.

The people who live in Lingxi Mountain can be said to be isolated from the world, and even more so, it can be regarded as a paradise. Even so, at the foot of Lingxi Mountain, there is only one village of 100 households, called Lingshou Village, also known as Changshou Village.

The reason why it is called Changshou Village is because the whole village is built on the mountain and surrounded by mountains on three sides. As the saying goes, the mountain eats the mountain and the water comes by the water. Since there are mountains, there are animals indispensable. All the people in the village have the experience of hunting in the mountains, and running between the mountains all day will naturally improve their physique, and their longevity is just because of this.

The so-called rivers and lakes, where there are people, are called rivers and lakes, the rivers and lakes are big, the rivers and lakes are wide, and the people in the rivers and lakes talk about the affairs of the rivers and lakes. But Lingshou Village does not have the legend of the rivers and lakes, and there is no Lingshou Village in the rivers and lakes, until his appearance, Lingshou Village appeared in the rivers and lakes.

The snow had already covered Lingxi Mountain, and the entire mountain fell into silence, and in the silver-covered mountain forest, there were only traces left by wild beasts, and there was no trace of people. The traces left by the beast made the silent Lingxi Mountain look a little more vibrant.

Although it was already winter, it was supposed to be a time when everything was depressed, but at the foot of Lingxi Mountain, the bustle of Lingshou Village was in stark contrast. Bright red couplets are pasted in front of the doors of each house, lanterns on both sides of the door beams are raised high, and people greet each other from time to time in the courtyard of the street, and more are the sound of children laughing and playing.

In a house at the entrance of Lingshou Village, although the Spring Festival couplets were pasted on the door and lanterns were hung, there was a man pacing anxiously in the yard. Thirty-four or five years old, wearing a coarse linen coat, with a simple face. His hands kept rubbing his fists and grinding his palms, his eyebrows were locked, his eyes looked into the room from time to time, and a woman's shouting came from time to time in the house.

I don't know how long I waited, but I heard a baby crying in the house, and the woman's pain ** came to an abrupt end. The man in the courtyard hurriedly leaned on the window, looked inside with wide eyes, and shouted, "Mother, what did you give birth to?"

"Raw, born. There was a sound of joy in the house, and then the door was opened, and a man in his forties and fifties came out, his hands were slightly clenched into fists, and he said with a smile: "Lao Chen, congratulations, your daughter-in-law gave birth to a big fat son for you, the mother and son are safe, hurry up and take a look." ”

"Rejoice and rejoice, Dr. Zhang, you are tired, you didn't let you live in peace on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and you are causing trouble. Lao Chen fell to his knees with a puff and kowtowed to the midwife.

"Oh, I can't help it, I can't help it, Lao Chen, what's the matter with you kowtowing to me on the first day of the new year, hurry up and go into the house to take a look. Dr. Zhang hurriedly lifted Lao Chen up from the ground and continued: "I am the only doctor in this village, and this should be my responsibility. ”

Time flies, and the years are quiet. The babies born in the past became adults in a blink of an eye, just because they were born on the first day of the Lunar New Year, not to mention that the people in the whole village were rarely educated, so they simply took a name called Chen Yichen. Chen Yichen is free and sickly, not to mention going up the mountain to hunt and go down to the river to catch fish like other children, and he has no worries about the memories of his childhood only what happened in Lingxi Mountain, and even in his eyes, Lingshou Village is the world.

The sky is gradually darkening, the smoke is rising, groups of men are sitting at the door chatting and teasing, women are busy between kitchen robes, and there will be bursts of meat smell from time to time when walking on the street. Chen Yichen, who had been running in the mountains for three days, returned from hunting with his partners, which was also the first time he followed his father up the mountain in more than ten years.

"Chen'er, you're back! Mother has a good life, today I specially made some of your favorite meals, how about it, are you tired?" The woman who had just set up the meal turned around and saw the father and son who had just stepped into the courtyard door, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet her, and continued with a kind face: "I didn't hurt myself when I went out this time!"

"Mother, I'm fine, I'm fifteen years old, I'm an adult now, don't always worry about me, not to mention that my father follows. Chen Yichen threw the sika deer on his shoulder to the ground, carefully took out a cloth bag from his arms, and grinned: "Mother, this is a ginseng plant I dug up to replenish your body." ”

"Chen Er has really grown up, and she knows that she is distressed as a mother, and it seems that she will ask my Chen Er for a wife in a few days. The woman took the cloth bag, her eyes were full of love, for her, Chen Yichen is the flesh of her heart, I am afraid this is a kind of love that every loving mother understands.

"Oh, I don't want it, I want to be by my mother's side forever. ”

"It's really time to ask for a daughter-in-law, your mother and I are still waiting to hold our grandson as soon as possible. A smile crossed the corner of Lao Chen's mouth, seeing that his son had indeed grown up, and it was time to get married and start a family. You must know that Chen Yichen is their only son, and the only wish of the old couple now is to add Ding as soon as possible. I can't wait to let my son marry a few more, and it would be good to have a dozen fat grandsons, otherwise how could I make the Chen family prosperous.

"Here we go again, mother, I'm going to starve to death. ”

"Good, good. My Chen'er is hungry, so let's eat first. ”

At the end of summer, it is slightly cool. People who have been busy all day gradually fall asleep, and Chen Yichen is no exception. I was exhausted from three days of running in the mountains, and I fell asleep after dinner.

Faintly, Yi Chen seemed to fly into the air, floating above the clouds. The scenery is stunning, and there is a valley surrounded by mountains, full of life, like a paradise, and I am afraid that fairyland is nothing more than that.

There was a neighing of horses in the distance, and a dozen fast horses entered the valley in the blink of an eye. The leader was a man in a white robe, who looked like he was twenty-seven or eighteen years old, and his facial features were not exquisite, but he felt that this person was very familiar from the bottom of his heart, and as the distance increased, the feeling of déjà vu became stronger and stronger.

"Kill. ”

Deafening shouts poured in from all directions, echoing through the valley. Thousands of people flocked to the middle of the valley, surrounding a dozen fast horses, shouts, fights, sword lights, sword shadows, filled Yi Chen's ears, and could not be calmed down for a long time.

Sword light, sword light, blood light. The quiet valley with the original singing of birds and flowers was completely disrupted. More than a dozen men in white are powerful, and the corpses are all over the field, piling up like a mountain. Seeing that his companions around him kept falling, the man in white was already red-eyed, and his white clothes were soaked with blood. A long sword in his hand shuttled through the crowd, and everywhere he went, there was blood flowing in the city.

Xu is tired, Xu is tired. Just when there were only a few dozen people left in the valley, the man in white suddenly fell in a pool of blood, and in the blink of an eye, a thunder and lightning flashed in the sky, as if it hit Yi Chen's body.

"Ahh

Chen Yichen suddenly opened his eyes, but it was pitch black in front of him, his mouth was panting heavily, and he waved his hand to wipe the sweat droplets on his forehead, only to find that the clothes on his body had already been soaked with sweat gushing out of his body.

"Chen'er, Chen'er, are you having a nightmare again?"

The dim candlelight came from outside the door, and the moment the door was pushed open, the room was much brighter. The woman looked at Yi Chen with a worried face.

"Mother, I haven't rested yet, I'm fine. Yi Chen took the water from the woman's hand, drank it all, and said slowly: "Mother, don't worry about me, go and rest." ”

"Chen'er, how can you rest assured that you are like this, tomorrow I will go to Dr. Zhang's prescription to prescribe you some soothing prescriptions. ”

"It's not in the way, maybe it's a little tiring to go hunting with my father these days, my mother doesn't have to worry about the child, let's go and rest early." ”

Watching his mother leave, Chen Yichen half-leaned against the wall, and the moonlight shining through the window gave the room a little light. Seeing that the lights in his mother's room went out, Yi Chen crept into the courtyard.

The bright moonlight sprinkled lightly on the mountain village, and the cool breeze blew slowly. The big yellow dog in the corner had already heard a Chen's exclamation, according to the usual practice, he had come to the door and waited quietly for his little master, one person and one dog did not know when there was such a tacit understanding. Yichen squatted on the ground, touched the neck of the big yellow dog with his hand, made a shushing gesture, and walked slowly through the yard with one person and one dog.

"Rhubarb, I'm having nightmares again, it's still that nightmare. Yi Chen himself didn't know what this nightmare represented, and it seemed that he would often dream about it after he could remember. The same dream is always repeated, and each time I don't know what happened behind it. And who is the man in white in the dream, and why does he feel so familiar?

Of course, Chen Yichen did not tell anyone the specific content of the nightmare, perhaps in his opinion, the nightmare was just a dream.

"Hey, isn't this a Chen? Why don't you sleep at night? Beware of the tiger taking you away. ”

"General Li, I'm not a child anymore, don't scare me with tigers anymore, you're still patrolling the night!" Chen Yichen didn't need to look to know that there was only one person in the village who could be idle at night and not sleep.

The person in front of him is called Li Liang, with a three-inch-long scar on his face, he once served as a soldier when he was young, and spent more than ten years in the barracks. It is said that he still has a bit of military exploits and has become a small boss. Later, he was injured in battle, so he simply resigned and went home, and he was the only person in the village who had seen the world. Just because he carried the armor with him when he returned to his hometown, he was simply called a general by the people in the village.

"Haha, I've really grown up, yes, I've become a man. ”

"By the way, General Li, everyone says that you are very good at martial arts, so why don't you teach me kung fu. Yi Chen's mind still responded to the situation of the man in white lying in a pool of blood, and every time he thought of this, he always felt a little unbearable in his heart.

"Hey, you can't do it, it's not suitable for martial arts, it's better to stay at home, hurry up and marry a daughter-in-law, and live the life you should live." When Li Liang heard Yi Chen's request, he waved his hand again and again, and he usually taught some kung fu to the children in the village. The reason why Chen Yichen was rejected was that this kid was different, and freedom and weakness were things that the whole village knew, not to mention that practicing martial arts was something that could be done with just one lip service.

"General Li, do you also think I'm too stupid and stupid to be unwilling to teach me?" Chen Yichen still has self-knowledge about his own appearance and other people's comments on him.

"No, no, no, son, you must not think like that. Martial arts training is about a long-lasting perseverance, and it will be very hard and tiring, you see so many people in the village have learned from me, and in the end, you see that a few people have persevered. What's more, if you live here all your life, what's the use of practicing martial arts. Although Li Liang said this, he had his own thoughts in his heart, people who practice martial arts do pay attention to talent, and the kung fu in their hands is really limited, there is not much to teach, and the main thing is that Chen Yichen is already fifteen or sixteen years old, and his body is much thinner than his peers, even if he wants to teach him, it is too late.

"General Li, I'm not afraid of hardship or tiredness, just teach me. ”

"Kid, it's really not good. ”

"General Li, please teach him, I'll kowtow to you. ”

The sudden sound made both of them stunned, and they watched in unison. I saw a woman kneeling on the ground, her body fell to the ground completely, and she muttered: "General Li, Chen Er has never had a wish, I, a mother, have never given her anything, it is rare for him to have his own ideas, please fulfill him!"

"Mother!"

"Sister-in-law Chen, I can't help it, I can't help it. Li Liang strode forward, hurriedly blocked with both hands, looked embarrassed, sighed, and said, "Hey, it's okay." If he wants to learn, I will teach him. ”

"General Lee, thank you, thank you. Sister-in-law Chen cried with joy, shook her hands again and again, and said to Yi Chen: "Chen'er, don't you hurry up and kowtow to your master." ”

"Don't don't, don't be, this is free, we don't have any master-apprentice status, if you want to practice martial arts, learn from me the kung fu of this three-legged cat, if you don't want to learn it one day, you can stop it at any time, wouldn't it be better." ”

Li Liang seems to have some concerns, since he returned to the village, he has taught many children, but he has never accepted apprentices, as for what the reason is, no one has ever asked, maybe no one cares about these.