3: Deep in the mountains

One old and one young lived at the foot of Taibai Mountain. Ten miles south of the cabin where they lived, there was a small county town called Fushan County, and the locals called it Fushan County with a slight accent outside the Guanwai. This was originally a gathering place for those medicine pickers and hunters who haunt the mountains and forests all year round. Later, merchants from the south often came from the south to directly buy cheap medicinal herbs and furs for profit, so a conventional market was formed, and the market gradually developed into a county seat. The successor Shaman, Granny Lin, also went to the county seat every few days to buy some daily necessities.

On this day, the baby boy, who happened to be one year old, received his own name and a birthday present.

"I've picked a few books that you might use, and I'll check them out when you're free. You don't have strong muscles and bones yet, and you can't walk on the ground. Also, you should have a name, too? Granny Lin was talking to him while tidying up the newly bought books.

The little baby was flipping through a copy of "Huayu Landscape Sutra", which was laid flat in front of him. A pair of small hands rubbed the ribbed paper in front of them, and there was a slight rustling sound. "It doesn't matter what I used to be here. I can't tell you what to call it now. He flipped through the book and chatted casually.

"That's not what I said, your mother's family name is Shan, but she went with her sister that day. Although it is a royal family in the north, it seems that there is no need to follow the mother's surname for this. After speaking, he turned his head to look at the little baby who was kneeling in front of the book. After waiting for a while, I didn't see him reply, and then I continued to get busy with the work at hand: "I know your father, but I can't tell you everything now." What I can say, though, is, first of all, that he loves your mother very much; Secondly; His family is the Shen family, a big family in the south of the Yangtze River, so you should have the surname Shen. ”

"Otherwise, it's your surname Lin." The little baby looked at Granny Lin and smiled and said. Granny Lin's face changed: "The surname can be anything, but Lin can't do it." Then your surname is Shen. "But I still want to go back, and I have taken a new name here, and it seems that I have something to do with this place, and I may never go back." The little baby was still smiling, but his eyes were gloomy. Such an expression appears on the face of a small baby, and I don't know if it is more cute or pitiful. Granny Lin was actually a little happy to see it, crawled over at the end of the bed, pinched the baby's face and said, "Then be it." Don't you really want to go home? After that, it will be called Shen Gui. ”

"Although the turtle has a long life, there is still an end of time. There is a treasure turtle in the palace, and the name is immortal. The strange things of the turtle, the nature of the body. Ever since he got his name, Shen Gui was always muttering these poems in his mouth that he didn't know where he heard them, and Granny Lin asked him, "Where did you hear these poems you chanted?" I shouldn't have it in the book I bought you. Although my mother-in-law doesn't read much, I will always remember such magnificent poems after hearing them. Shen Gui pursed his lips and replied: "Because I am the reincarnation of Fan Zhongni under Wenqu." Then he started muttering headless things like 'Turtle steals watermelon - roll and crawl, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sewers' and so on.

It is much easier to raise a baby like Shen Gui to grow up. The grandfather and grandson lived at the foot of Taibai Mountain and gradually had some familiar neighbors. There is a pair of hunters who often go into the mountains to hunt, and people who are familiar with them call them Qijia Erniu. These two people are natives of Fuzhou County, and their hunting skills are among the best in ten miles and eight towns. The harvest of one winter season alone is enough for the family's living expenses for the whole year. Historically, all furriers who had been waiting for the goods to come down would wait for the Qi brothers to come down the mountain, and if they had finished their skins, other hunters would not even want to open their doors. The two brothers of the Qi family heard from the people in Fushan County that the great shaman had recently settled at the foot of Taibai Mountain, and hurriedly took firewood, rice, oil, salt and half a fan of mountain boar before entering the mountain, and came to the small wooden house. The two brothers stood at the door of the small fence courtyard, knelt on the ground respectfully and kowtowed three times, and then put the gifts aside and began to clean the courtyard. Shen Gui, who was reading a book on the kang in the house, saw it, and reached out and poked Granny Lin, who was sewing clothes. Granny Lin looked out the window along his upturned chin, and found that it was two men dressed as hunters, and lowered her head to continue the work in hand: "Come in, there are no outsiders in the house." When the Qi brothers heard Granny Lin's words, they went into the kitchen to fill the bucket and put the firewood, rice, oil and salt back to their places, before they opened the curtain and walked in, kneeling down in front of Granny Lin's kang.

"Wake up, these two children. Immediately into the winter of the ground is heavy, it is easy to beat the knee out of the paralysis, and every winter in the future will be a pain in the heart, how to enter the mountain? The brothers of the Qi family respectfully buckled their heads again: "Second old lady, your bodhisattva heart, my father's name is Qi Baohu, he was originally a clansman of the king of Qi in the previous generation, and my father also served as the commander of Dongyou Road, and the commander of the army and horses under the account of the general manager's office." Fifteen years ago, he followed the king of Qi to lead his troops to the south and marched to the East Customs. In the first battle, 150,000 troops were lost. My father was bedridden with a sudden recurrence of an old injury before the war, but he was charged with desertion on the battlefield. After the war, he was removed from the hereditary military household status of Meng'an, and my father couldn't afford to get sick after hearing about the old injury. On the way back to his hometown for burial with his dying father, the fellow villagers passed by outside Fengjing City and met you and the Great Shaman. You just stretched out your hand lightly......" Speaking of this, Qi Da Niu raised his hand and wiped it in the void: "Just like that, my father sat up in a flash." And then it only took three days, and it was like no one. After that, my father took the whole family to Taibai Mountain to make a living, relying on the skill of digging a trap under the trap that he practiced when he was a soldier, coupled with his good archery skills. At the beginning of spring the year before last, one day at noon, I ate two bowls of rice and punched again, and then I didn't get up again after falling asleep, walking steadily and peacefully. My father always said before his death, he was a guilty old man who lived for 20 more years, which was rewarded by the second old lady, so that we will remember your great kindness for the rest of our lives. Since you came to live in Taibai Mountain this time, you have to let our brothers serve you well and repay this great kindness. After speaking, the Qi family brothers, whose faces were full of tears, began to kowtow again, and their heads slammed on the ground, raising all the ashes on the ground.

Granny Lin glared at Shen Gui, who was eavesdropping on the corner of the kang, and Shen Gui immediately grinned and began to gnaw on the quilt, babbling in his mouth. Granny Lin got off the kang and helped up the Qi family brothers: "What is good about the two of you, your father was just an old injury and a fire in his heart back then, and he was not in the way, and he could be relieved for a few days." Now I'm ...... with my little grandson" After saying that, he turned around and saw Shen Gui on the bed holding the quilt and biting it. "Well, I'll live here with my little grandchild for a while, and I'll always need your brother's help in the future. You're going into the mountains to hunt this time, right? If you are a hunter, you must keep the rules of the hunter, do not fight the pregnant female beast, and do not fight the young beast that has not grown up. The brothers of the Qi family nodded again and again: "What the second old lady said is that when we go out of the mountain this time, we will send you and Young Master Sun some game to taste." After speaking, seeing that Granny Lin had no other instructions, she bowed and retired.

As soon as the Qi brothers left the courtyard with their front feet, Shen Gui, who was pretending to be an ordinary baby, immediately dropped the quilt in his hand: "Just make such a fuss?" As he spoke, his little hand opened, and he waved it in the void like Qi Da Niu. yes, didn't I tell you that I'm a doctor? Granny Lin looked at him with a smile. Doesn't the doctor diagnose the pulse and prescribe prescriptions? Healed with a 'whoop' with your hands? Don't you have an incense burner ash charm or something? "Incense burner ashes and charms, but I heard that some wild ways and rattle bells are used by You Fang Langzhong, and some cults are also using this method to cheat people out of money." "What, why did you make a fuss??" Shen Gui broke the casserole posture and looked at Granny Lin, who looked at him with a surprised expression, got up and grabbed a Luhua chicken from the courtyard, and brought a kitchen knife from the kitchen. With a "bang", Granny Lin grabbed a chicken leg that had just been chopped off and was still hairy with one hand, and carried the poor lame chicken with the other. "Look at it." Then touch the wound on the chicken leg with your hand. After only a few breaths, as soon as the hand was released, the one-legged lame chicken jumped from the house to the yard, and if it did not take into account the several falls on the way, the chicken could not have been healthier. "Well, I'll cook you chicken thighs for the night." After speaking, Granny Lin walked to the kitchen with fresh chicken legs dripping with hair and blood, leaving a stunned little Shen Gui on the bed.

"Why do you just make a fuss? How does this work? It's not scientific. Shen Gui mechanically ate the shredded chicken thighs and meat fed to his mouth, while looking suspiciously at Granny Lin, who was feeding herself with a kind face. Actually, don't be surprised, after all, there are only a few people like us. Most of the people outside are as ordinary as the Qi brothers you see, eating whole grains and being born, old, sick and dying. "People like us?" Shen Gui deliberately accentuated the word 'we'. "Of course, although my mother-in-law can cure diseases, she is only a little better than ordinary Langzhong. I can't do anything about some serious injuries, so I can just think of me as a doctor with better skills. But you're different, how many babies have you seen born to speak?" What a technical problem you have! It's a problem with magic, right? Shen Gui's face collapsed. If you open a museum with your medical skills, wouldn't you have to rinse your mouth with shark fin? Granny Lin said with a serious face: "If you eat too much shark fin, it will be very angry." ”

"Actually, the world is still very fair on the whole." Granny Lin held Shen Gui's small body in her arms, like an ordinary peasant woman coaxing her grandson, and patted it gently. "The Qi brothers just said that the Eastern Customs was defeated, and the Youbei army should have swept by. At that time, Xu Wanzhou, the guard of the North Yandong Customs, was a money-greedy and lustful general. Although he is a little courageous, he can be very good at the top and at the bottom, and the 40,000 defenders of the East China Sea also have many insatiable people. At that time, Shi Zhanguang, the head of the soldiers and horses of the Youbei Three Roads, the pioneer general, had secretly rebelled against many defenders of the East Customs, and even the city gate guards agreed on the time to open the city gate. I didn't expect ......" Speaking of this, Granny Lin groaned slightly, and looked at the starry sky through the window: "Just when the Youbei Iron Horse was about to rush into the city pass, just when the Beiyan Gate was about to be opened, and at the moment when the guard Xu Wanzhou was nailed to death on the city tower by Shi Zhanguang's arrow, Yue Haishan appeared. With a three-foot green mang in his hand, the two sword formations slashed the three thousand elite armor guards of the king, and then cut off the head of the vanguard general Shi Zhanguang with another sword. In this case, how can King Qi not retreat? Speaking of this, Granny Lin sighed and lowered her head. It was the head of Shi Zhanguang that made Yue Haishan famous, and Zhou Youxiao, Emperor Wen of Northern Yan, gave the name of 'Three Swords Town Beiyan', and gave Sichuan Shu Zhuhai Town to establish a sect. The Qingmang Sword God has been famous all over the world since then."

"A member of the Zhenguo general, three thousand elite armor clan guards, were cut off by three swords, people like you and Yue Haishan are really against the sky, where is the balance?" Granny Lin touched Shen Gui's head: "If you go against the sky, there will be heavenly punishment." Otherwise, throughout the ages, such as Yue Haishan, a god-like figure, although rare, has never been broken. This kind of person is born to be a governor of the second vein, eating grains and grains without staining the dust, according to my inference, at least 140 years of life, but no one has lived past the age of 60. ”

"The great shaman who brought me is so old, why hasn't he been over sixty years old?"

"Your mother-in-law is only fifty-eight years old, child."

"What? You're only fifty-eight years old? Treat me like a child. ”

"Otherwise, how do you think the three-foot green Mangyue Haishan in the prime of life died?"