"But if these mothers don't say it today, I'm afraid they won't have a chance to say it in the future. In the future, if my mother is gone, knowing this, your brothers and sisters may be able to find a place to settle down. Chen continued, "That year was also the second day of the first lunar month, your father and I went to Qingshan to see the excitement, passing by the forest, we heard a woman's painful moaning sound, your father and I followed the sound to find, and saw a woman with a big belly about seventeen or eighteen years old lying on a blanket, in childbirth. There is no one else around her, and she is born in this wilderness by herself in the cold winter. When we saw that she was pitiful, we wanted to go and help. The woman was so tight that she took out a sword from under her and threw it over. It's a pity that she didn't have the strength to throw the sword far. I told your father to avoid it, so I walked over by myself. In this way, I helped the woman give birth to the child, a boy with very good facial features. When the woman saw the child, she was a little reluctant to look at it, and she didn't hug it, but I hugged it. She rested for a while, then sucked the sword on the ground into her hand through the air, and then, without saying a word, threw the child down, and suddenly flew away out of thin air. Your father and I called out to her on the ground, but the woman seemed to be unable to hear, and kept going in the direction of the green mountain. The child was just born and cried to feed, I had no choice but to give him my own, thinking that it would be good to comfort him. But I didn't expect this child to suck out of milk, I thought it was God's will to let me be a mother, in fact, I didn't know, at that time I was already pregnant with Chen Yu for four or five months, but I have been relatively thin, and I have long died of heart, so I didn't think about it. ”

Chen paused, rested for a while, and continued: "Later, your father and I were still thinking about whether to return the child to the woman, maybe she was anxious about something else, or perhaps, she was a new mother, and she was young, and she might forget the child. Your father and I rushed to Qingshan, and when we arrived at the foot of Qingshan, the Qingshan faction was already choosing a doorman. At that time, the selection of the Qingshan faction was very simple, that is, to send some powerful doormen, like picking persimmons, to select children in the crowd, and take them away if they took a fancy to them. Your father and I looked left and right, and finally, we saw the woman in the crowd. Her face was no longer bloody, but she was still forced to walk through the crowd and pick children. Obviously, she is also a member of the Qingshan faction. Your father and I took the baby in our arms and walked towards her, but when she came to her, she looked alarmed and pretended not to see us. We grabbed her and tried to hand her baby. But she kept avoiding it, trying to walk away quickly. At this time, a middle-aged Qingshanmen man came over and asked what was wrong. The woman said, "Your father and I want to send our children to the Qingshan Sect, but the children are too young and not suitable." Your father and I were stunned, and when we saw the woman's pleading look at us, we understood that she didn't want this child. Your father and I were happy because we had always wanted a child, so we took the child home. As you guessed, that kid was you. ”

Chen Shi stroked Chen Shi's face, as if he was afraid that he would be sad, and said, "I think your biological mother doesn't really want you, she must have something unspeakable." You can go to the Qingshan faction to look for her in the future, she is extremely beautiful, her skin is very white, and there is a tear mole in the corner of her right eye, she should be twenty-three or four years old this year. ”

"The person you're talking about is not my mother, and has nothing to do with me. You are my mother. I'm not going anywhere, I'm just with you and my sister. Chen Shi hugged his mother's body and said firmly.

"Mother knows, you will always be Mother's son. Chen Shi hugged Chen Shi in his arms and shed tears.

"Actually, my mother doesn't mean anything else, it's just that my mother's time is running out, and I should let you know the truth. Tatsushi said again. It was as if she was going to finish all her words in one night.

At this time, it was already the middle of the moon, and the bright moon was clear, and the hut where the mother and son were located was clear and transparent.

When Chen Shi heard that his mother stopped talking, he raised his head to look at his mother, and saw that she was already asleep, but there was still a relieved smile on the corner of her mouth.

And after this day, Chen's body became weaker and weaker day by day. A few days later, Tatsu fell asleep forever.

This heaven and earth are big, and only the three Chenshi brothers are left.

In the first few months after leaving his mother, Chen also cried for his mother morning and night, which made Chen Shi very big. In this small courtyard, Chen Shi is both a father and a mother, he has no time to think about how to make himself stronger, for him, nothing is more important than him and his sister to live well.

In his spare time, Chen Shi will also sit on the steps in front of the door with his sister in his arms, looking at the green mountains in the distance, thinking about how Chen Yu practiced on the mountain, whether he was homesick. Of course, he will also think of the lively little girl Yan Zhi and the big brother Nanmen Weisheng who laughed warmly like jade, and Wu Youfeng, the sub-head who helped him repeatedly.

And with the alternation of spring and autumn, the cold and the summer come, Chen Shi slowly feels that he is getting farther and farther away from these people. Except for his younger brother Chen Yu, the appearance of the others is becoming more and more blurred.

The day in Qingshan, now that I think about it, it seems like an unattainable dream.

Time flies, and four years later. In the past four years, Chen Ye has changed from a little girl who walks and stumbles to a big girl who runs around the village.

Chen Shi has also grown into a lifelike young man, with a tall posture and more handsome eyebrows and eyes. He was taller, thinner, and bigger than his peers.

After all, Chen Shi took care of this family alone at the age of five, and his maturity and courage and thinking and wisdom were incomparable to even the teenagers in the village.

Since two years ago, when his sister seemed to have grown up suddenly, Tatsushi finally had time to do his own things - such as exercising, making bows and swords, and he never forgot to avenge his parents. One day, he will slash that man-eating monster.

Strange to say, since the family encountered the monster in the forest four years ago, the people of Shili and Eight Villages have never seen any trace of the monster, and other small beasts in the forest have gradually flourished.

On this day, there was an old man in the next village who sold chickens in the village where he came.

Chen Shi also thought about taking the radishes he planted and replacing them with one or two, and when the chicks grew up, his sister would be able to eat eggs.

When I walked to the old man who was selling in the middle of the village, I saw that the people in the village were all around the old man, and the old man was muttering something to them mysteriously.

When he saw Chen, he came over with a handful of turnips, and the others looked embarrassed, stopped talking, and pretended to buy and sell chickens.

Chen Shi smiled slightly: "What are you talking about, is there anything new, it's okay, tell me about it." ”

The old man's face was embarrassed, and after a moment of hesitation, he said, "We're talking about that man-eating monster...... Actually, it's good for you to listen to it. ”

Chen Shi's heart trembled, could it be that the monster came out to harm people again?

The old man said: "A few days ago, my 100-year-old father passed away, and before he died, he told me a big secret, which is related to the lives of many people, and I feel that I must tell it." ”

The old man swallowed, as if this secret was extremely terrifying, and continued: "My father told me that since he was three years old, he had heard rumors of man-eating monsters. After that, every few years, he could hear about monsters eating people. When he was twenty-eight years old, he had seen the monster once, but fortunately he escaped. Since that day, my father has not been out of the village. But he was careful, and every year, he would ask passers-by for news of the monster. Sure enough, every time there was a rumor of a monster eating people, it was five years apart, and in the hundred years that my father was alive, it was every five years, and it never stopped. Moreover, monsters all appear on the same day and eat people on the same day. ”

The old man suddenly raised his head and said with a slight tremble: "This day is the second day of the second month of the first lunar month, that is, the day when the Qingshan faction, the largest faction in the world, chooses the sect. ”

After the old man finished speaking, the audience was as quiet as death.

Although it was a scorching summer, the old man's words were like a basin of ice water, drenching everyone in cold sweat.

Chen Shi stayed where he was, only to feel that the old man's words were strange and inexplicable, but he couldn't tell where it was strange for a while.

Slowly, the crowd dispersed, and the old man was ready to carry the burden home. Chen Shi hurriedly ran over, put the radish in his hand in the old man's basket, and said, "Grandpa, can you exchange your two chickens?"

When the old man saw that there were still three chickens in the basket, he took them out, handed them to Yunqi, and said with a smile: "Give it all to you, you are a teenager, it is not easy to support your own family." ”

When the old man turned back to Chenshi, he whispered: "My father also said that there is far more than one monster, and on the day when the Qingshan Sect chooses the door, you must not go up the mountain." ”